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MONTCLAIR, NJ -- Montclair State University, New Jersey's second largest university which celebrates its centennial this year, has been named one of ten schools nationwide blazing the trail to better education practices by Edutopia, a nonprofit foundation established in 1991 by filmmaker George Lucas. Edutopia is widely regarded as the leading resource for educators who want to improve schools for the twenty-first century.
Calling attention to the crisis that confronts teacher preparation in the United States, Edutopia selected Montclair State University as one of ten national finalists in a field of more than 1200 schools of education because of its innovative programs leading the way to teacher preparation that more closely mirrors the demands of teaching in real classrooms. Each of the institutions selected by Edutopia is featured in the November/December issue of Edutopia and on Edutopia.org.
"I am delighted to hear this exciting news," said Ada Beth Cutler, dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State. "I am so proud of the talented and dedicated faculty and staff colleagues who have truly earned this designation as one of the ten leading schools of education in the nation."
Montclair State University was hailed for its interdisciplinary approach to innovations based on the needs of public schools. At the College's Center of Pedagogy, the first in the nation, an interdisciplinary body of arts and sciences, education, and school faculty members establishes policies and practices. Within the Center of Pedagogy, the MSU Network for Educational Renewal is the school-university partnership with 25 nearby school districts where students from Montclair State have their field experiences, and faculty from the University teach courses and mentor students on-site. Edutopia commended Montclair State's close partnership with public schools.
Students are guided through their teacher education program by a document called the "Portrait of a Teacher," a set of statements that embody Montclair State's vision of an educator that is used to inform admission into all of the University's education programs, assessments through teacher preparation, and professional development for teachers. The Portrait is aligned with state and national teaching standards.
Montclair State University was founded in 1908 as the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair in response to the growing demand for professionally trained teachers. Since that time, Montclair State University's College of Education and Human Services has grown to include seven academic departments and five institutes and programs of study.
The other schools sharing the Edutopia honor with Montclair State University are Alverno College (Milwaukee, WI), Academy for Urban School Leadership (Chicago, IL), Bank Street College of Education (New York, NY) Boston Teacher Residency (Boston, MA) Curry School of Education (Charlottesville, VA) Emporia State University (Emporia, KS), Michigan State University, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX).
For more information, visit http://cehs.montclair.edu/, and http://www.edutopia.org/10-leading-schools-of-education
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"Which is why all electronic voting machines should provide hard paper records of all votes as they happen."
Do you mean that the voter should get something like a "voting receipt?" Or do you mean the machines print out the records for the officials? Or something else?
The scary thing about this program is that changes can be made to the votes before there would even be a chance to create or print off a paper copy. Towards the end of the study/article they were able to tamper with a large amount of votes with ease, and then erase any record of tampering just as easy. This is the voting program which will be used in November, and any local election official could change a large amount of votes.
"But any way you slice it, if officials are trying to gyp some people of their votes, they're going to find a way. So while this does present new challenges, in broader terms its nothing new."
I agree with this in principle i.e. the crooks will be crooks, but this program allows for changing a HUGE number of votes with little effort. If the move to electronic voting is an attempt at election reform, the only thing I see here is that taxpayer dollars have been wasted to make the problem worse. I would rather have paper ballots...at least they can be hand recounted.
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An infection that is in the bloodstream is called a systemic infection.
An infection that affects only one body part or organ is called a localized infection.
Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.
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“… with humility, set aside all moral filth and the growth of wickedness, and welcome the word planted deep inside you, the very word that is able to save you.” (James 1:21 CEB)
What are the true necessities of life?
No, not at all. You’d be better off homeless, naked, and starving than to try to live without what God has to say to you.
Some live naked all of their life. Many live homeless all of their days. Nearly everyone could go a day without eating. But you would be a fool to live a single day without God’s word as your guide.
You must have air to live. How many breaths do you take a day, not even choosing to take a single one? The wind blows how and where it wills and God’s Spirit moves the same, but do you choose to not breathe the breath of heaven?
Scripture conveys God’s speech to you and what is more important than hearing and obeying God? Your growth in the life of God will be proportionate to the time and effort you put into welcoming the word of God into your will and ways. Yes, it can be put that simple.
But there are Christians who don’t welcome God’s life into their will and their ways and rest assured they:
- have become blind for they are unable to see their own deepest need,
- have grown lazy, wanting the benefits of relationship but without effort,
- are souls who have forgotten their Savior and Lord.
However, Christians who welcome God’s word understand:
- there are no shortcuts in the walk with God,
- God’s word leads a person to God himself,
- there is no substitute for hearing God speak to you and seeing him lived out through you.
This door of welcome opens with an attitude and atmosphere of “humility.” Welcoming the word with humility involves constantly reminding yourself of your place in relation to his word: you stand under it, not over it or beside it. You are the host of God’s word, and how you perceive and relate to his word is how you relate to and serve him.
The room of your heart is readied as you sweep aside “all moral filth” and any “growth of wickedness” you see unfitting for this word’s presence. Your good intentions are not right welcome enough; your life must make adjustments. The only way to grasp the essence of Scripture is to live what you learn from it and live it so as to learn it.
“Whoever desires to understand and take delight in the words of Christ must strive to conform his whole life to Him.” (Thomas a Kempis)
Believers who welcome God’s word into their life seek to be comfortable with his word and for his word to be comfortable with them. They ready themselves for this word’s arrival and eagerly look forward to it and this is how they do it:
- They throw open the doors of their heart and habits and so say, “Make yourself at home; my home is your home.”
- They are attentive and observant of the word, ready to serve the word they’ve welcomed. They say, “Here, let me get that for you” as the word brings need to light.
- They welcome the word because they long for presence with God and know that by listening to him and living for him they are saying to the God who speaks to them, “I’m so glad we can spend time together.”
So let me ask you plainly: how are you doing at actively welcoming God’s word into your life? Perhaps you need more time together. C.H. Spurgeon once said:
“There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write ‘damnation’ with your fingers.”
Change that! And here are some ways to do that:
- Get up a little earlier and start the day reading and praying over the word.
- Daily memorize a sentence or phrase you can meditate on throughout the day.
- Check out some of the many Bible reading schedules available online.
- Try listening to Scripture during your commute, jog, walk with the dog, or exercise.
- Download a Bible reading app (such as YouVersion or AcroBible) for your smartphone and use it when you’re in “downtime” (like standing in a checkout line at the store).
- Share a verse each day with others via whatever social networking site you’re into (Facebook, Google+, etc.).
- Make it a personal project to copy by hand (no typing allowed) a complete book of the Bible (such as James).
- Over a period of time, commit to perfect memory a select segment or paragraph of the word (such as Philippians 4:8-9 or 2 Peter 1:3-11). Even if you eventually forget how to quote it perfectly, you’ll be astounded how much of it comes to mind and at important times.
- Deliberately mention something you’ve encountered with the word that day with someone else that same day.
- Saturate yourself so with his word that you sometimes catch yourself falling asleep in bed thinking about his word and praying to its Author.
Yes, “welcome the word planted deep inside you” for this is “the very word that is able to save you.”
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- Title: Tetris
- Author: Michael Johansson / SE
- Date: 25.05
- Tags: visual arts
In a series of site-specific works Johansson goes methodically to work transforming a natural gap in the architecture of the exhibition space into a compact artificial wall, using only everyday objects found on site.
Michael Johansson deals with ordinary objects we all recognize, but in a way far from the ordinary. Driven by the agenda to densify the world, objects are morphed into precisely stacked rectangular shapes, connected to a certain place, where their original purpose are transformed into catalysts of new meanings.
Outdated items within the same colour range are reconstructed into a homogeneous image of a fictional life reinforced by our collective imaginary: the compressed scenery from a time gone by. Or the excessively well packed storage space where each object appears to be an immutable part of a solid whole. The newfound rigid order separates the objects from their usage, and invites us to a shared space where the familiar meets the unfamiliar.
Engaging with this concept in the public space, the viewer is confronted with a situation that could both be perceived as either a very odd incident or as carefully put together. Leaving him with an uncertainty that lingers even long after passing the work.
After studies at the Art Academy in Trondheim, Norway, and Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, Germany, Johansson took his masters degree at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, 2005. After that he has taken part of several residencies and exhibited frequently both within and outside of Sweden. Some of his most important exhibitions include: Malmö Konstmuseum (SE), Galerie Filomena Soares (PT), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (RU), Meessen de Clercq (BE), Ystads konstmuseum (SE) and Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK). He currently lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.
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As you graduate from college or start that new internship, it’s important to think about how you’re going to use and maintain the contacts that you’ve made and will make in the future. The internet has made networking and keeping in touch easier than ever. It’s also vital to go beyond your computer to show your appreciation, interest and enthusiasm. Remember to cultivate professional relationships — you never know whose help you may need in the future.
Initial Contact: What to do when you go home.
So you’re at a networking event, you’ve been meeting new people left and right. Before you leave, make sure you share your business cards with everyone you met. Don’t have any cards? Go to moo.com and design your awesome cards today. Oh, and don’t forget to ask for their card! Careerealism’s Deborah Shane suggests analyzing your RON — return on networking and reaching out to those who are beneficial to your network. Following an event Deborah says to utilize social media, which is “is the bridge that can help you get into people’s communities, stream, conversations and get you started in building commonality. Use LinkedIn as a starting point, add Twitter and then if appropriate Facebook. Comment on their blog, or invite them to your blog.” When you get home or even on your way home connect with your new contacts on Linkedin and send a link to your personal website or blog.” Personalizing your messages is always a plus! Try something like, “It was great meeting you at the Intelligent.ly event yesterday. Thanks for all the tips. Hope to see you again soon.”
The In-between Stage: Reach out to show that you’re tuned in.
Show that you’re tuned in to what your contacts are up to. In her Simply Hired blog article, Annie Favreau says, “You don’t want to get labeled as a ‘connect and dash’ networker! So nurture your relationships by socializing, sharing useful information, and helping connect other people. By taking part in an active community, you can boost your reputation as a relevant, informed, and valuable contact.” If you meet someone at an event that you think would be a great contact for a friend, introduce them to one another! When you come across an article that mentions advice from a new contact, email them and send your congratulations. It shows them that you’re engaged and up to speed.
Going for the Gold: How can I help you and how can you help me?
Be sure that you are adding value to the relationship. Reach out and offer your services. Volunteer (check out volunteermatch.org) when you have time, to boost your resume and stay active. If you’re a master of PHP, offer your programming skills to a contact who mentioned they’ve been looking for a programmer. Hopefully by the time you need help, you’ll have established a positive relationship with the person and they’ll want to help you! Or even better, maybe you won’t even have to ask. Once you’ve proven yourself, they might just recommend you. After all, a significant amount of jobs are obtained through networking. If someone makes an introduction for you, show your thanks by sending your contact a handwritten “thank you” card. An email is fine, but a handwritten card proves that you took time and care to express your gratitude.
For more networking advice check out Three Qualities that Net Jobs for Networkers!
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Just the other day, leaders from the House and Senate said they planned on updating the Communications Act. Maybe they've finally started listening to us - we proposed doing this back in 2005, with PFF's Digital Age Communications Act (DACA). Or, perhaps the FCC's so-called "Third Way" doesn't look like the "no-brainer" that the agency spun in its press releases. Well, whatever their intentions may be, it certainly couldn't arrive at a better time.
The framing is all important, of course. Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge (ostensibly one of the groups "writing" the next Act) says Americans shouldn't worry about the FCC's "Third Way." In his view - "The government is not taking over the Internet. What the government is doing is engaging in traditional consumer protection, traditional regulation of a telecommunications service that will get people to the Internet." PK seems happy with this model - whether done at the FCC, or at Congress' hands.
Hmmm...Getting people to the Internet? Traditional, simple stuff. Sort of like strolling to the store, or peddling to the park. Or, like in childhood, making a call from tin cans and string - which is what'll result if PK and their ilk have their way.
The biggest part of this exercise remains the administrative box we cannot seem to live without. Why does the FCC, or any ever-engorging Code of Federal Regulations rule maker, have to mediate success. This is 19th Century thinking for 21st Century networks - how dated.
The DACA approach represents a middle-ground proposal, which seeks to work within current federal regulatory constraints to reduce innovation-killing regulations. I do not want to belittle that considerable proposal. Still, in my estimation, it does too little to reduce the regulatory sclerosis that is the FCC. So, I propose something more radical, along the lines of a 1995 PFF paper, entitled "The Telecom Revolution - An American Opportunity," by Drs. George Keyworth, Jeffrey Eisenach, and Thomas Lenard. Like the 1995 paper, my plan would take a more functional analysis toward government's meddling in our digital revolution.
Buh-bye, FCC - Consumer protection becomes new touchstone
The first thing I'd do is "dynamite" the FCC, once and for all eliminating the vestiges of the abolished, 19th Century, Interstate Commerce Commission, the first "independent agency" which morphed into the FCC itself in 1934. The Communications Act's titles would thus be cast like the Diaspora across the lands. Where issues arise, common law / property law (as proposed by Peter Huber in his "Law and Disorder in Cyberspace"), marketplace guidance, the evolution of technology tools, consumer education tools and empowerment, industry best practices, and present competition policy enforcement (based on actual, not conjectured, consumer harm) would address disputes and concerns. Anything that touches the network is the network, and consequently, interstate in nature. While federal jurisdiction would predominate, fair trade practices would still be dealt with in the bifurcated manner they are now - state and federal.
Make no bones about it: Title-based application of the Communications Act would end. It makes less and less sense in the age of digital convergence. It actually runs contrary to innovation, investment and consumer interests. Consequently, the last point - consumer interest - is actually the starting point for this new system of "regulation." One thing that should not change is the need to ensure consumer protection. Thus, some role for competition "policemen" must remain. There are two approaches that could work to prosecute consumer interest, based largely on an ex post approach such as seen at the FTC. If the FCC has not been abolished, residual authority could be vested in a more modest FCC, or special FCC competition (or other) court. Of course, if the FCC is gone, competition policy could be enforced in either the FTC or DoJ.
And now for the "Lite" version
All of this may be unsettling to some. Certain areas of FCC practice may demand a "lite" version of the "dynamite approach." To this end, the FCC plays an important and useful role in Part 68 (technical standards) issues; it might be prudent to keep some FCC authority so that the expert body can continue in this function. Of course, numerous NGO / third-party technical bodies exist in this space (the Internet is essentially "run" / aided by many of these). It would not be inconceivable to see some of those functions outsourced there. Still, the industry and consumers win where there is less "technical kvetching" or uncertainty occurring - this organizing function, however it occurs (aided, one trusts, by marketplace guidance), must continue.
Universal service - i.e., helping people get telecom / Internet access and then keeping them hooked up - is another area that needs more subtly. One approach would be to fully voucher-ize telecom / broadband hook-up so that it takes the form of a means-based tax credit, or outright subsidy, going directly to consumers instead of companies. This would be a yearly, on-budget tax appropriation that would self-execute at the end-user. An alternative to (or, in addition to) would be allowing marketplace levers to rate-rebalance to what it actually costs to get service in a given service area. At the very least, the two plans would eliminate the need for the explicit, approximately $7 billion USF "subsidy," as well as reducing the implicit subsidies, providing proper economic calls to incentivize other competition.
To a large extent, mass media and wireless spectrum allocation matters can be approached together. Both relying on spectrum, like any property, that spectrum should be placed on an open market exchange to find its highest bidders. Licensing would look more like state real estate law, with deeds and titles filed with either the FCC or the Department of Commerce (which "has" the lion's share of spectrum). "Public interest" determinations - whatever they are - would go by the wayside. Indecency matters could be addressed through a strict scrutiny approach to the First Amendment, taking the FCC out of its "indecency policeman" role. Ownership, market cap and other competition issues could be dealt with via competition policy as noted above. And, spectrum allocation matters and disputes - where they could not be addressed through common law / property law - could be placed with a special FCC or DoC court.
Finally, cable services. Treat them like telecoms. Yes, franchising / fees / PEGs should still go through the states / localities, subject to a federal ceiling. But, federal courts could address any related rights-of-way or state competition / barrier-to-entry matters and other matters on a case-by-case basis.
Less regulation built the Net; more regulation won't
To be sure, the Telecom Act of 1996 was imperfect. But its goal, "To promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies" has taken hold. Especially for the Internet.
Section 230 of the Act really spells it, stating "...The Internet and other interactive computer services have flourished, to the benefit of all Americans, with a minimum of government regulation" and then boldly proclaiming "...It is the policy of the United States to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media; to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation; to encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over what information is received by individuals, families, and schools who use the Internet and other interactive computer services..."
Inarguably, the FCC has played no small role in where we are today. But, let's also point out that the Internet - perhaps "the greatest deregulatory success story of all time," as noted by FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell - flowered primarily from the agency pulling off of the regulatory gas pedal, not adding speed to it.
For nearly three-quarters of a century we have labored under the belief that one federal body could help communications networks thrive for consumers. In days gone by - when the natural monopoly ruled; when the Internet had not yet connect one geek; when digital technologies were the on-and-off of a glowing vacuum tube - that may have made sense (all competition and marketplace distortions aside, of which, even then, there were plenty). Now, in this time of rapid technological change and abundance, instead of moving beyond that 19th Century mindset, we seem poised to return to it, with even more hooks than before. We can't want that (even some D's appear to waver on some of these pro-regulatory proposals).
We don't need an authority-hungry FCC anymore. Combined with common law / property law, the advance of technology, consumer education, marketplace guidance, industry best practices and present (not expanded) consumer protections, consumers and innovation can thrive simultaneously. If this poses heartburn, or proves politically unfeasible, PFF's DACA approach represents a good compromise position. It keeps government regulation to a minimum and helps consumers.
Suggesting more regulation in this time of abundance - now that's radical, offensive to markets and consumers, and, like the tin cans and string of our childhood, ineffective.
"Hello, Art, is that you? Can you talk up a bit? My tin can seems to be on the blink today." We're headed there if we do not rid ourselves of 19th Century thinking and regulation.
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So what is Bloom Box?
It’s a collection of fuel cells – skinny batteries – that use oxygen and fuel to create electricity with no emissions.
Fuel cells are the building blocks of the Bloom Box. They’re made of sand that is baked into diskette-sized ceramic squares and painted with green and black ink. Each fuel cell has the potential to power one light bulb. The fuel cells are stacked into brick-sized towers sandwiched with metal alloy plates.
The fuel cell stacks are housed in a refrigerator-sized unit – the Bloom Box. Oxygen is drawn into one side of the unit, and fuel (fossil-fuel, bio-fuel, or even solar power can be used) is fed into the other side. The two combine within the cell and produce a chemical reaction that creates energy with no burning, no combustion, and no power lines.
About 64 stacks of fuel cells could power a small business like a Starbucks franchise, according to Sridhar’s 60 Minutes interview.
Working with an investment of around $400 million, aerospace engineer K.R. Sridhar spent close to a decade inventing the Bloom Box. It grew, he explained to 60 Minutes, from a device he originally invented to produce oxygen on Mars. When NASA scrapped the Mars mission, Sridhar reversed his Mars machine, pumping oxygen in, instead of making oxygen, he said.
Sridhar already has some 20 well-known customers, including Google, FedEx, Walmart, Staples, and Ebay. The corporate boxes cost about $700,000 to $800,000.
The lack of details is pinging my crank meter, but they have some smart backers, so I’m withholding judgment until they debut their full website.
StatoilHydro has decided to build the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and test it over a two-year period offshore Karmøy. The The company is investing approximately 400 million NOK [~$60 million]. Planned startup is autumn 2009.
StatoilHydro has developed HyWind based on floating concrete constructions familiar from North Sea oil installations. In this way we exploit the wind where it is strongest and most consistent — far out to sea.
The project combines known technology in an innovative way. A 2.3 MW wind turbine is attached to the top of a so-called Spar-buoy, a solution familiar from production platforms and offshore loading buoys.
“If we succeed, then we will have taken a major step in moving the wind power industry offshore”, says Alexandra Bech Gjørv, head of New Energy in StatoilHydro. (Photo: Øyvind Hagen, StatoilHydro)
“We have drawn on our offshore expertise from the oil and gas industry to develop wind power offshore,” says Alexandra Bech Gjørv, head of New Energy in StatoilHydro.
The rotor blades on the floating wind turbine will have a diameter of 80 metres, and the nacelle will tower some 65 metres above the sea surface. The floatation element will have a draft of some 100 metres below the sea surface, and will be moored to the seabed using three anchor points. The wind turbine can be located in waters with depths ranging from 120 to 700 metres.
“Taking wind turbines to sea presents new opportunities. The wind is stronger and more consistent, areas are large and the challenges we are familiar with from onshore projects are fewer,” says Alexandra Bech Gjørv.
Offshore wind-farm developers would love to build in deep water more than 32 kilometers from shore, where stronger and steadier winds prevail and complaints about marred scenery are less likely. But building foundations to support wind turbines in water deeper than 20 meters is prohibitively expensive. Now, technology developers are stepping up work in floating turbines to make such farms feasible.
Several companies are on their way to demonstrating systems by borrowing heavily from oil and gas offshore platform technology. In December, the Dutch floating-turbine developer Blue H Technologies launched a test platform off Italy’s southern coast; last month, the company announced its plans to install an additional test turbine off the coast of Massachusetts, and possibly begin constructing a full wind farm off the Italian coast, next year. Close behind is SWAY, based in Bergen, Norway, which raised $29 million last fall and plans to field a prototype of its floating wind turbine in 2010.
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The numerous companies from around the world that buy and manage farmland for investors spelled out a variety of strategies for success at the Global AgInvesting 2009 conference in New York. Some specialize in one country or continent; others spread risk over multiple regions of the world. Some specialize in a limited selection of commodities; others raise eight or nine crops and livestock. Some concentrate on annual crops; others prefer permanent groves, plantations or vineyards. Some sell into traditional markets; others vertically integrate by buying or building processing plants.
Stated profit goals for investors ranged from about 8% to 25%. However, a few themes were universal:
- Gain economy of scale. Buying inputs and even selling product may benefit from being a big fish in a small pond.
- Be the low-cost producer—after considering all costs, including getting product to market. Being able to pay cash helps! When prices fall and others go out of business you'll still be standing.
- Be the best producer. "If you can operate, land will come,” said Joe Carvin, CEO of Altima Partners, who plans to buy in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhastan. Citing an April 2009 Barrons article quoting commodity enthusiast Jim Rogers, he said, "There is a shortage of good farmers right now.”
- Benefit the environment. Regardless where you are farming, it's the right thing to do, and may be the politically popular thing to do. It may even earn you money for carbon credits.
- Care for your water. It is increasingly a limiting input.
- Benefit the community. "Local buy-in is critical,” said Susan Payne, CEO of Emergent Asset Management, the largest farmland owner in Sub-Saharan Africa, which employs 400 workers in nine countries. Benefits to local communities include medicine and health-improvement efforts, housing with electricity, and schools.
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Facebook’s like button is about to undergo some drastic changes, but will they help or hurt the most widely used Facebook plug-in by the top 1,000 websites?
According to the latest BrightEdge SocialShare report, 25 percent of the top 1,000 sites have installed Facebook plug-ins, with the like button sitting atop the list.
BrightEdge added that the like and share plug-ins installed on the top 1,000 sites have accounted for more than 65 million likes and shares since their respective launches.
The social network’s transition to GraphRank from EdgeRank, and the changes it will bring to the plug-ins will likely increase functionality beyond just like and share.
But these changes will also complicate matters for marketers by evolving from a simple click on the like button to choosing from among a whole set of activity buttons.
The top ten Facebook social plug-ins, according to the BrightEdge SocialShare report:
- Like button: Allows users to share pages on their Facebook profiles with one click.
- Like box: Users can like Facebook pages and view streams directly via websites.
- Activity feed: Users see what their friends are doing on websites, via likes and comments.
- Recommendations: Personalized suggestions for content on websites that users may like.
- Log-in button: Allows users to log into Facebook, alongside pictures of friends who have already liked the website.
- Comments: Users can comment on any content on the website.
- Facepile: Displays profile pictures of Facebook users who have liked or signed up for websites.
- Send: Users can send content to friends with one click.
- Registration: Users can sign into websites via their Facebook accounts.
- Livestream: Allows users to share activity and comments in real-time during an event.
BrightEdge Chief Executive Officer Jim Yu said:
Changes to Facebook social plug-ins may be imminent, and this analysis shows how significant these features have become on the Web today. Very few features have achieved the massive scale of adoption that Facebook like and share buttons now see across the Internet. And the usage of these buttons is unprecedented in the history of the Web.
And the conclusion from the BrightEdge SocialShare report:
The expanded plug-in types offered by Facebook provide increased insight into user interest. Facebook’s network is expanding from a social graph of connections between people to an interest graph that reflects the social signals users are sending about their interests, opinions, and desires.
BrightEdge sees this change as a positive development for marketers. As we reported previously, social signals drive traffic, and social button adoption is increasing. Facebook is now offering increased relevance with which to measure and take action on this social signal stream.
Readers: Do you think the impending spinoffs from the like button will confuse users and marketers alike, or will they help interaction between the two parties?
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It’s true, there isn’t one single cure for fibro, nor is there one single treatment which will address all of the fibromyalgia symptoms at once. For the successful treatment of fibromyalgia, a wide array of both alternative and traditional treatments have shown to be effective in treating this difficult condition. A treatment program may include a combination of medications, behavioral techniques, and exercises. Moving and stretching can do wonders!!
Here are a few examples of what you can do to relieve some of the pain you’re experiencing:
1.) Make it a point to reduce stress. Go ahead and develop a plan which will help you limit or avoid overexertion. When you overexert yourself, your emotional stress is heightened and that can actually cause more pain! Allow yourself time each day to relax and that may mean learning how to just say, “no.” Also, my patients have found that stress management techniques, such as meditation, yoga, and deep breathing exercises, help them calm down and relax.
2.) Be sure to get a good night of quality sleep! This doesn’t necessarily mean getting a lot of sleep but it does mean to sleep in the right positions and sleep at the right time of night for your body to repair itself. Fatigue is one of the MAIN characteristics of fibro and so getting a good night of sleep is essential.
3. Move and stretch each and every day. At first, my patients have a hard time doing this and moving enough to work up a sweat because in the beginning, exercise may actually increase your pain. Try walking, swimming, biking and water aerobics to begin with. Additionally, good posture, relaxation exercises, and stretching are also helpful when looking to relieve your fibro pain.
4.) Remember to pace yourself and to keep your activity on an even and balanced level. Doing too much on your good days might cause you to have more bad days. Straining yourself both physically and mentally can harm you. Be familiar with your limits and work on moderation.
To date, there are only three drugs which are approved by the FDA for the treatment of fibro. Lyrica was first approved as an anti-seizure drugs until it was approved by the FDA for Fibro in June 2008. Also, Savella and Cymbalta are both SNRI (Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibator) and were designed to treat major depressive disorder.
Now, Guaifenesin is an over the counter drug which was first approved by to FDA to thin out the mucus of your respiration track to help you breath easier. This has been made popular for treatment of Fibro by Dr. St. Amand and his Guaifenesin Protocol and his book “What your Doctor may not Tell you About Fibromyalgia: The revolutionary treatment that can reverse the disease.” Guaifenesin is believed to help those who are suffering from fibromyalgia because it has the ability to speed up the excretion of uric acid in the body. It also helps by removing excess phsophate from your body which an aid in fibro relief.
One thing to be cautious of is to make sure you’re living a healthy lifestyle. Many drug regimens and traditional medical treatments tend to WRONGLY focus on the temporary relief of symptoms rather than the removal or reversal of the condition. Sure, short term relief is great but patients tend to suffer long term as their bodies are put through the ringer by taking many pills and drugs.
Many drug regimens and traditional medical treatments wrongly focus on the relief of symptoms instead of the removal or reversal of the condition. This often leads patience to experience some short term relief, but they often suffer long term as their bodies are run ragged by the dosages. While many doctors will unfortunately focus on the symptoms, there are many alternative treatments available that you can start using to manage symptoms and help your body recover.
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Prof Ross McKitrick has an excellent article in Ontario's "Academic Matters" magazine. It is called
We should talk about more concrete things that can be operationally defined or even quantified. Statements about such things can be confirmed or ruled out.
Even the word "air quality" is too general and he discusses remarkable details about the diverse types of air pollution. Many of the environmental issues have improved dramatically but the vagueness and superficiality of the term "environment" is one of the main drivers behind people's flawed impression that we are facing an "environmental crisis".
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About Glenmore Forest Park
This woodland was the second Forest Park created by the Forestry Commission back in 1948, and remains its most northerly.
Glenmore holds one of the few remaining pockets of ancient Caledonian Pinewood in Scotland. Major work is underway to preserve and expand this important habitat for future generations.
Glenmore Forest Park Campsite is also now open. Telephone 01479 861271.
Glenmore Forest was bought by the Forestry Commission in 1923, only four years after the Forestry Commission was created. It extends to some 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) - half of this area is woodland and half open hill.
Cradled in the middle of the forest is beautiful Loch Morlich with its long sandy beach. The park attracts over 250,000 visitors each year, who come here to sample the wide range of outdoor activities on offer or simply to relax in the seclusion and grandeur of the native pinewood. Loch Morlich has been awarded a Rural Beach Award by Keep Scotland Beautiful. This award is based on continiuing "excellent" water quality of Loch Morlich. (Tested by SEPA). This is the first and only freshwater inland loch to have gained this award in Scotland.
Please Note, all Glenmore Forest Car Parks have paid parking facilities (Cars £2 per day, Mini Bus/Coach £8 per day)
The Glenmore Phototrail is now online on the Fieldfare Trust website. Phototrails provides detailed accessibility information for trails throughout the UK.
How to get there:
Aviemore is the nearest town or village.
From Aviemore, head east towards the Cairngorm mountains and the ski area. Pass through Coylumbridge and, after six miles, enter Glenmore Forest Park.
OS Grid Reference: NH978098
For details of public transport visit http://www.travelinescotland.com
Places to go in Glenmore Forest ParkGlenmore
Other places to go in this area
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Job seekers are becoming more informed about the task of job seeking. Sure, there are still plenty of job seekers out there with bad habits, but we cannot ignore the fact that the average diligent job seeker has access to unprecedented levels of high quality, online advice in the following areas: resume preparation, interviewing, assessment centers and salary negotiation. The average job seeker’s job search technique is improving by the year, which means that the average job seeker is likely to be far more job search savvy than they were a decade or so ago.
Job seekers are also changing jobs far more frequently than they were 10 years ago. Recent surveys suggest that the average job seeker today might hold up to 11 jobs during his/her lifetime. There is also a growing movement toward the use of contingent labor, meaning candidates may be interviewing more often and effectively becoming professional interviewers.
So, what does all this mean for employers? In short, it means that the average candidate’s ability to present their skills effectively in a resume and during an interview may be improving at a faster rate than the underlying skills being talked about. Yes, while the packaging has improved, the product in the tin has not necessarily improved, and employers should be aware of this. So, what areas am I talking about in particular? Which areas are candidates increasing their job acquisition competence? In most areas, as I have shown below:
Candidates now have access to vast realms of free, good quality online resume preparation advice. There are increasing numbers of resume preparation specialists online who can develop high-quality resumes for candidates, elevating these resumes to a standard that may not reflect their own ability to present information. So, yes, candidates are getting much better at presenting their resume data for maximum effect.
Structured Interviewing and Behavioral Questioning
Job seekers have online access to an almost encyclopaedic level of content relating to behavioral interview questioning. While once the internal workings of the interview process were one of life’s great mysteries, it is now easy for candidates to research the most likely interview questions AND model answers for their interview. They can also go on forums and get intelligence from other former employees and interviewees as to how the interview process works at X, Y or Z company.
Practicing aptitude tests
There are now plenty of resources online that allow candidates to practice and improve their performance at the subsequent aptitude tests. But, the question is, have they improved their intelligence above its natural level or have they just improved their ability to do aptitude tests? Are employers actually getting a better candidate?
Candidates are far more financially astute, pushy and informed post financial crisis. Also, there are large amounts of excellent advice online, which is coaching and mentoring candidates to negotiate harder and better for higher salaries and better terms.
So, how should employer’s respond? Well, as a general point, I think employers should begin to reduce the emphasis on resumes as a sign of competence. “How?” I hear you say. Where possible, try and bring real work samples into the process as soon as possible, which includes asking candidates to submit their examples of online code, online articles, online designs, etc. This is not easy for every discipline, but the principle is sound.
Also, interviews have already been proved to be woefully unreliable as predictor of future performance, and only predict 14 percent of the variability in employee performance. So, during the interview process, employers should be minded to combine interviews with additional selection methods such as practical exercises, skill tests, in-tray exercises and job trials, which can raise the reliability of the assessment process.
Also, because candidates are beginning to get advanced knowledge of the kind of assessments you are using, be sure to rotate your assessments and change your assessment processes regularly.
Finally, candidates will be more willing and able to negotiate higher starting salaries and better terms and conditions. So, train your managers to negotiate, which may mean initially presenting broader salary ranges, and pitching lower to give yourself negotiating room and knowing the full value of your company’s financial and non-financial benefits so they can be used as leverage at the appropriate moments.
In sum, I think that candidates are getting more job savvy and are getting better at negotiating the selection process and therefore employers must be subtly adapting the hiring process in response, to ensure they can get truly penetrative insight into the candidates’ ability.
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Though widely excluded from the male-dominated political parties, fraternal organizations, and trade unions, women found other ways of influencing public policy, making great strides by the first decade of the twentieth century but often at high cost to themselves. Through their own labor organizations, volunteer groups, and pressure groups they won broader and greater rights for working-class women and their children. Drawing on the widely held belief in the moral superiority of women, their wisdom and special responsibility in dealing with family issues, middle-class reformers developed a "maternalist" vision of women's political role. They expanded the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity—the belief that a woman's proper sphere was the home—to legitimize their efforts to influence public-policy issues that affected the family, including prostitution and abuse of the family by male alcoholics, as well as economic...
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In which year did the United States declare its independence? (National Adults)
Other Dates Mentioned 16%
On July 4th we celebrate Independence Day. From which country did the United States win its independence? (National Adults)
Great Britain 76%
Other countries mentoned 5%
Click on the questions for a breakdown of results and to see how your part of the country did.
The full story is HERE
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Over the last semester we have all participated in a class with a very different learning format from that which we are used to. Whether we signed up for an online class or not, almost all of the educational content of this class has been presented online. Independent, online learning, presents a very different learning experience than the traditional university course. Rather than seeing and hearing a professor lecture and discussing our learning in a social, classroom setting we have obtained most of our information through online textbooks, tutorials and videos and have discussed it using Facebook, Hootcourse and this blog. The question is: Is this new form of education that does not revolve around the face-to-face social experience between a teacher and a classroom bring the same benefits? Is social interaction important for learning? Do the social capabilities of the internet (i.e. Facebook) sufficiently replace in-person communication?
In her article, "The Developing Social Brain: Implications for Education, (http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(10)00173-X )" Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explores the research that has been done on the role of social interaction in learning. Humans have a social brain; we are capable of intuitively knowing what certain facial expressions and body language mean. Babies developing language skills depend on social interaction for learning. Blakemore highlights a study (Kuhl et al., 2003 ) in which American babies are exposed to Chinese Mandarin through three different methods: 1) social interaction (reading and playing) with a native speaker, 2) videos of that same speaker or 3) audio recording of that same speaker. The only group that displayed the learned ability to distinguish between Chinese sounds was the group that experienced social interaction. The benefits of social interaction in learning are not yet understood. It could be that the infants are more motivated by social interaction or that the adult speaker is able to tailor their behavior to the child's needs in a social experience.
This doesn't necessarily point to the absolute necessity of social interaction for academic learning; language acquisition is different from the type of learning done in a university classroom and the age of the participants and their brain development is significantly different from that of the typical student enrolled in this class. Blakemore explores one of these issues by examining the difference in brain activity in adults and adolescents. The brain undergoes significant changes in Medial Prefrontal Activation during adolescence. This area is active in social cognition tasks. Research suggests that the development of social learning skills is still taking place late into adolescence and that continuing to learn and have real-life social interactions during this period is crucial for the development of the brain.
She concludes her exploration with more questions and an analysis of implications of this research for education. It is clear that some types of learning do require social interaction and that this is true even into late adolescence (and perhaps beyond?). For now, the question as to whether classes such as this one are as educationally valuable for the human brain is waiting on more research . For now, we get to be the judges of that.
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Wael Abou Faour, Lebanon's Social Affairs Minister, left, listens as Ahmet Davutoglu, Foreign Minister from Turkey, speaks during a meeting on Syria at the United Nations Security Council, Aug. 30, 2012. / AP
(AP) UNITED NATIONS - Turkey appealed to a reluctant U.N. Security Council Thursday for a safe haven for thousands of Syrians facing a "humanitarian disaster" as Britain and France said they would rule out no options including a no-fly zone to aid residents fleeing an escalating civil war.
But Turkish leaders held out little hope for the endorsement of a deeply divided council that has been paralyzed on taking action to stop the 18-month uprising that has killed more than 20,000 people.
"How long are we going to sit and watch while an entire generation is being wiped out by random bombardment and deliberate mass targeting?" asked Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. "Let's not forget that if we do not act against such a crime against humanity happening in front of our eyes, we become accomplices to the crime."
Davutoglu, whose country is hosting more than 80,000 Syrian refugees, said he came to the council with hope that its members would take "long overdue steps" to help suffering people and establish camps inside Syria for those forced to flee their homes.
"Apparently, I was wrong about my expectations," he told the council. "This meeting will not even end with a presidential or press statement, let alone a robust resolution."
The path to the council's agreement on a safe zone for Syrians is fraught with obstacles, headed by the reluctance of Russia and China, Syria's most important allies. They have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions in the Security Council seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad's government with the threat of sanctions.
Moscow and Beijing were highly critical of the no-fly zone established by NATO to protect civilians during last year's Libyan revolt against longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi, saying its enforcement went beyond the Security Council mandate. Western diplomats said enforcing the zone required taking out Libya's air defenses and attacking tanks and military vehicles that posed threats to civilians.
Russia and China, Syria's most important allies, have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions in the Security Council seeking to pressure Assad's government. They vehemently oppose any threat to Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity. In addition, Russia has a military base in Syria. There are also serious political differences among council members. While the U.S., its European allies and other members say Assad must go, Russia and China oppose any effort to replace him that doesn't have the support of the Syrian people.
Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari accused unnamed Security Council powers of "promoting imminent military intervention under humanitarian pretexts."
"It is clear that certain states do not see the issue of humanitarian aid any way other than as part of a biased political agenda," he said.
Before Thursday's meeting, Britain and France announced new funding for refugees and left open the possibility of more aggressive action, including a military-enforced no-fly zone to protect a safe area for those fleeing the war.
"We are not ruling out any options for the future," Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague told a news conference.
Hague said safe zones should remain an option, although he didn't say when they might be seriously considered.
"We do not know how this crisis will develop ... over the coming months. It is steadily getting worse," Hague said. "We are ruling nothing out, and we have contingency planning for a wide range of scenarios."
Britain and France are veto-wielding members of the Security Council as well as key NATO members. Asked whether the options would include a NATO-enforced no-fly zone, without Security Council authorization, Hague said, "We are not ruling out any options."
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France and the United Kingdom's views are in "complete unity."
"All the possibilities are before us," he said when asked about the proposal by Turkey, also a NATO member. "We can't just say yes or no off the bat. We have to discuss it."
A U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the U.S. had consultations with Turkey on its safe zone proposal and the Americans, British and French are skeptical about the feasibility of NATO establishing such a zone, so "for the time being, nobody is there yet."
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Lovers hold each other, peaceful and content. Their eyes are closed, perhaps in sleep. They are safe together, and the blanket draped over them represents security and comfort. With their hands, they cradle each other. Their hands know passion, their faces know dialog, but now they silently commune in a peaceful sea of love.
Intimacy is more than sexual desire, more than the sharing between friends, more even than the companionship of lives united under the bonds of marriage or family. Intimacy demands emotional safety. The intimate relationship is a nest where smiles, kisses, tears, joy, and sorrow are all welcomed, all received and cradled in the shelter of loving arms. Without the freedom to feel, true love cannot grow.
Sleep is a profound symbol of vulnerability. When we close our eyes, we enter into a world of trust. We abandon vigilance, abandon urgency, abandon the pursuit of needs. We trust the powers of this world to bring us through the night, and we trust the loved one we sleep with, to be present, to treat our vulnerability as sacred, and -- if needed -- to protect us from harm.
After leaving the womb, we embark on a restless quest for security, love, safety, enclosure. And, as we mature, we feel a complementary need: to find the one who needs us, to shelter, to love, to keep our beloved safe, to enfold and enclose the one we adore. There is a great simplicity about this reciprocal need. Once encountered, it fills the psyche and seeks completion. Sometimes, as if by magic, lovers find each other and merge, a union of hearts.
Human beings are full of paradoxes and conflicting needs, and no relationship can exist purely in a state of emotional communion. Our desires, fears, beliefs, and circles of connection will keep any union lively and dynamic. But the surrender that is possible in true emotional union is a deep well of nourishment and sustenance for the partners. When they settle into each others' arms, and close their eyes, they return to the primal security of the womb, unconditional love.
The challenge of this card is to move beyond desire, beyond fascination and friendship, beyond the sharing of days and nights, into the deep, vision-filled landscape of vulnerability, to let your tears flow across your lover's bare skin, knowing you are safe.
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Alaska scientist leaves colorful legacy
Davis "Dave" Sentman
PHOTO: Courtesy of Tom Sentman
Alaska scientist Davis "Dave" Sentman died in December 2011. The man who
named "sprites," colorful discharges that burst upward from thunderclouds,
was 66 years old.
Sentman, a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks'
Geophysical Institute, retired from the university in spring 2011. This gave
him more time to follow a remarkable sense of curiosity that was evident as
his brothers sorted through Sentman's belongings at his Fairbanks home.
There, they noticed a birch tree strung with wires hooked to a computer;
Sentman was using the tree as an antenna, trying to pick up "Schumann
Resonances," a natural, lighting-generated hum felt around the globe. Some
people have suggested our brains resonate with the frequency; Sentman wanted
to see if a living organism reacted to it. At the time of his death, the
birch tree had not.
Sentman had a background unique among his peers ‹ born in Iowa farm country,
he entered the Air Force when he was 20 and served in Japan during the
Vietnam War. Following that, he was a Peace Corps volunteer teaching physics
and math in Kenya. He started an academic career at the University of Iowa
in the 1970s and studied with James Van Allen, a giant in the field of space
physics. After earning his doctorate in physics, Sentman moved to California
to work at the University of California Los Angeles. He came to Alaska in
1991 to begin work at the Geophysical Institute.
Due to his expertise and likeability, Sentman was a sought-after authority
on electricity in the atmosphere and beyond. He once told a colleague his
field of study was due to opportunity and following his interests rather
than the fact that a lightning strike killed his father when Sentman was
He gained worldwide notoriety in the mid-1990s when Sentman was part of a
Geophysical Institute team that captured sprites in all their fiery glory on
video from two NASA aircraft circling thunderstorms over the Midwest. Other
researchers had documented the flashes that fire upward from thunderclouds
before, but the UAF team captured them in exquisite detail, sparking
interest from researchers and non-scientists. After a dinner with his friend
Kathy Berry Bertram in which they pored through books, Sentman named the
flashes "sprites." He thought the definition of a woodland nymph that can be
seen only from the corner of one¹s eye was apt. He was careful not to assign
a scientific name because sprites were at the time so mysterious (He later
pointed out that sprites occur about once every minute above thunderstorms
somewhere on Earth). He and his colleagues also developed initial theories
and models for the mechanisms that generate sprites, blue jets and similar
spectacular but short-lived phenomena.
At the largest gathering of Earth scientists in the world, the American
Geophysical Union¹s annual fall meeting in San Francisco, Sentman often
convened sessions on atmospheric electricity. In 2010, AGU officials chose
him to give the prestigious hour-long Franklin Lecture named after Ben
Franklin. For his unique and lasting contributions to the field of
atmospheric electricity, members of the AGU Council in 2011 elected Sentman
as an AGU Fellow, an honor bestowed each year on less than 0.1 percent of
the members of the organization. His colleagues nominated Sentman for the
award before his sudden death.
Dave Sentman (Photo courtesy of Tom Sentman)
Following are comments from some of Dave Sentman's coworkers, students and
Daisy Huang, a UAF graduate student in one of Sentman's physics classes:
"He was a very warm, funny man with a gentle, kindly face and demeanor that
put me in mind of a beloved pediatrician . . . He went off on so many
tangents in the middle of his lectures that I was always amazed that at the
end of the semester, he was always right on schedule with the syllabus."
Earle Williams, Sentman¹s friend and fellow examiner of atmospheric
electricity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
"Dave really brought the whole field (of studying Schumann Resonances) back
to life again in the early 1990s by using a personal computer with
digitizing boards. Virtually everyone followed his approach . . . He was
always interested in exploring new terrain."
Roger Smith, Sentman's former boss and former director of the Geophysical
(On Sentman's humble delivery of the Franklin lecture): "He notably promoted
people other than himself. I think people respected him a great deal for
that. He was understating what his contribution was."
(On Sentman's sprite research, performed with Gene Wescott and Dan Osborne):
"NASA adopted a whole new area of research because of those three . . . That
was the power of Dave Sentman. He had the background to interpret what they
did and make the best science out of it."
Glenn Shaw, fellow Geophysical Institute physicist and friend:
"He felt the whole field of atmospheric electricity was very important, and
he felt strongly about doing something different. He would never chase the
money (by writing proposals on popular subjects). He would do his own
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, the Geophysical Institute Director at the time of the
"He was always one or two steps ahead of everybody, that's a difficulty he
faced. Some reviewers didn't understand what he was doing."
Dan Osborne, retired camera, video and logistics expert from the Geophysical
Institute who suggested to Sentman that sprites work could be done from
smaller aircraft than the Space Shuttle:
"He was a very curious guy about everything. As a kid, he and his brothers
would stare at the night sky and memorize all the stars' names. And he still
(On Sentman's night-owl lifestyle): "Dave would show up at noon and he'd be
there in the morning ready to go home when I showed up at 7 a.m."
Matt Heavner, a doctoral student advised by Sentman who now works at Los
Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico:
"He had an unbiased curiosity. He was so open-minded it led to a lot of
"It always seemed to be the night before a big physics assignment was due
that one of us graduate students would get 'Sentmanned.' Dave would come in
all excited to share the latest cool new analysis tool, scientific result,
or computer technology. These sessions might last two hours, late into the
"A regular staple of the travels (to South America to study sprites or to
rural Alaska for other space-physics work) was a late night wrap-up dinner
and then coffee, discussing the day and the science issues we were working
on. Whether traveling or at Sam's Sourdough Cafe in Fairbanks, Dave had a
tremendous influence on me."
Dolores Baker, a friend at the Geophysical Institute:
"Shortly before Dave left us, I said, 'It's a good thing you're retiring
while you're young and healthy, so you can enjoy it.' He said to me, 'I'm
one of the lucky few. I enjoyed what I did for a living and had fun with
This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research
community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.
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The green hill of Túna was located in the steep-walled valley of Calacirya (translated from Quenya as "The Cleft of Light"), the only pass through the mountains of the Pelóri. Upon the crown of the hill the elves raised their largest settlement west of the sea. The walls and terraces were white, and the sand in the streets was said to be of grains of diamond, and white crystal stairs climbed from the fertile land beneath to the great gates.
The center of the city was dominated by Ingwë's tower, "Mindon Eldaliéva", whose silver lantern shone far out to sea. Beneath the tower was the house of Finwë, first High King of the Ñoldor elves. Here also was the Great Square, where the white tree Galathilion flourished, and later the site of Fëanor's infamous oath.
After most of the Vanyar elves resettled in Valinor, the rule of Tirion was given to Finwë. Many years of bliss followed, until Tirion was shaken by the king's eldest son, Fëanor. After the murder of his father at the hands of the dark Lord Morgoth and the theft of his most precious gems, the Silmarils, Fëanor assembled the Noldor at the Great Square, where he urged the elves to leave with him back to Middle-earth to avenge their king and reclaim the Silmarils, and to see that their lives in Tirion were simply a prison brought upon them by the Valar. In the end only a tenth of the population remained when Fëanor, his brothers and his and their children departed, though some followed their new king only reluctantly, and some would soon after follow Finarfin back to Tirion.
Nearly 600 years passed before Tirion once again appears in the mythology. When all the kingdoms of the elves in Middle-Earth were in ruins, the half-elf Eärendil (father of the famous Elrond) sailed into the west in search of Valinor to ask for the assistance of the Valar in the war against Morgoth. Eärendil arrived in Tirion on a day of festival in Valinor when the city was all but empty, and only when he had turned his back on the city and began to return a herald of the Valar approached him.
More than 3,000 years followed before Tirion was for the first time seen by mortal eyes soldiers of twenty-fifth and last King of Númenor, deceived by Sauron, landed in on the shores of Eldamar and camped around Túna, which the fleeing elves emptied. When the Men of Númenor were buried under falling hills, Tirion, along with all the Undying Lands, was taken out of mortal reach forever.
Earlier versions of the legendarium Edit
Tirion was a Quenyan word that meant 'Watch-tower'.
- The Silmarillion: Quenta Silmarillion
- The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
- The Atlas of Middle-earth pg. 6 & 7
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Myanmar's forgotten bourse eyes long-awaited expansion
YANGON (Reuters) - In a quiet room in an aging office block of Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, a worker scribbles on a whiteboard beneath a row of out-of-sync clocks, updating prices in what could be the world's smallest stock market.
Welcome to the Myanmar Securities Exchange, among the best-kept secrets of a repressive country hamstrung by Western sanctions and blighted by 49 years of military rule.
There's no trading floor, no flashing screens and no televisions showing financial news channels. Just eight employees who handle over-the-counter transactions and manually update share prices, using a whiteboard, a marker pen and a stencil. Every so often, a customer drops by.
Set up 15 years ago as a joint venture with Japanese broker Daiwa Securities Co, Myanmar's stock market has attracted just two companies -- an echo of broader problems in the resource-rich country that half a century ago was among Asia's wealthiest and today is among its poorest.
But as Myanmar's new civilian government presses ahead with reforms that could lead to greater political and economic freedom, and as China pumps in billions of dollars to develop its vast energy reserves, plans are a afoot to expand the exchange.
Daiwa is working with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to establish rules and computer systems for a bigger stock market, a Daiwa spokesman said. The plan expands on Daiwa's 50-50 joint venture established in 1996 to set up the current exchange with Myanmar's Finance and Revenue Ministry.
"With the new administration, there has been growing interest in developing a financial system, so we, Daiwa and the Tokyo Stock Exchange are now in cooperation to contribute to the development of Stock Exchange system," Daiwa said in an e-mailed response to questions from Reuters.
Mainland Southeast Asia's biggest country has been one of the world's most difficult for foreign investors, restricted by sanctions, starved of capital and marred by mismanagement.
But its eight-month-old parliament is stirring hopes of reforms that could slowly open the country of 50 million people that just over 50 years ago was one of Asia's most promising, the world's biggest rice exporter and a major energy producer.
A senior official from the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development said the government wanted to expand the number of listed companies as part of efforts by the 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) of which Myanmar is a member, to form an interlinked stock market by 2015.
"The emergence of a stock exchange is very important for us in bringing the country in line with the rest of ASEAN," said the official, who asked not to be identified.
"Some important laws have already been drafted. After enacting these laws, the Securities and Exchange Committee will be formed. Then there will be rapid progress," he predicted.
That ambition is one of many signs of change since the army nominally handed power to civilians after the first elections in two decades last year, a process ridiculed at the time as a sham to cement authoritarian rule under a democratic facade.
Recent overtures by the government hint at possibly deeper changes at work -- from calls for peace with ethnic minority guerrilla groups to some tolerance of criticism and more communication with Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was freed last year from 15 years of house arrest.
The push to expand the bourse also underlines how competition is heating up among regional exchanges in Asia's so-called frontier markets following recent South Korean forays to help build stock exchanges in Cambodia and Laos.
TRICKLE OF CUSTOMERS
Myanmar's first stock exchange was closed in the 1960s after a military takeover. Its successor, the Myanmar Securities Exchange Center (MSEC), is a modest operation. A trickle of customers each week buy and sell shares in two listed companies on a bourse few Burmese or foreign investors know exists.
No new companies have signed up beyond the first two: Forest Products Joint Venture Corp (FPJVC) and Myanmar Citizens Bank. Both are jointly owned by the government and private investors.
For those who got in early, returns have been generous. FPJVC sold shares between 1993 and 1996 -- mainly to well-connected bureaucrats -- and has delivered dividends of about 25 percent a year, more than double local bank interest rates.
"If possible, we'd like to buy some more shares of FPJVC," said Zaw Win, 76, a retired officer from the Ministry of Forests whose 15 shares bought in 1993 have more than doubled in value.
Daiwa signed a deal on April 5, 1996, to start the exchange but within a month the pact was cast into uncertainty, as the military junta began rounding up hundreds of pro-democracy supporters in a crackdown on Suu Kyi.
That sparked outcry in the West. Thousands of pro-democracy supporters rallied in Yangon. U.S. soft drink giant PepsiCo Inc sold its stake in a Burma venture. U.S. apparel firms canceled contracts with Burmese suppliers. The White House urged Burma to halt its "pressure tactics."
A year later, in response to widening human rights abuses, the United States imposed sanctions. The junta tightened its grip on power. Economic reforms withered.
The exchange's executive director, Soe Thein, a former official in the Finance and Revenue Ministry, assembled a small team of staff to draft laws and regulations, raise public awareness and set up a securities exchange commission to achieve his dream of a capital market within five or six years.
"But it failed to come up to our expectations," he said.
Much like neighboring Thailand and India, which both have thriving capital markets, Myanmar has enormous potential for tourism and development, boasting rich natural resources -- from gas to teakwood and gemstones.
Its new government has promised sweeping reforms -- from tax reductions for exporters to micro loans for farmers, interest rate cuts on bank loans and higher returns on savings. In recent weeks it has sought input from the International Monetary Fund about unifying its official and unofficial exchange rates.
The recent gestures followed expansion of fledgling banking and telecommunications sectors and the privatization of hundreds of state assets from late 2009, including mining firms, an airline, gas stations, cinemas, shipping companies and factories, albeit mostly to cronies of the former army regime.
But its banking system is crippled by sanctions, which most expect to stay in place until the government releases an estimated 2,100 political prisoners.
Soe Thein, however, remains optimistic.
"It takes time to set up public companies," he said.
And his little bourse may even soon face competition. South Korean bourse operator Korea Exchange said in January it had sent a delegation to Myanmar to hold preliminary talks with the government about the possibility of opening a separate exchange.
The firm is already involved in running the new Laos Securities Exchange and is setting up a long-delayed stock market in Cambodia. Both are joint ventures with the respective governments.
(Additional reporting by Timothy Kelly in Tokyo; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Jason Szep and Robert Birsel)
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Football. It’s just a game right? Euro 2012 is just some men kicking some balls about, nothing to get worked up about.
Football generally, and especially tournaments such as Euro 2012, aren’t just a bit of fun. When you think of football violence though, what do you think of? Lads outside the pub having a bit of a scuffle? Fans at the match winding up the other team? Unfortunately, the victims of football violence are often hidden behind closed doors. They are the WAGS – the wives, girlfriends and even children of the football fans, angry at their team for missing that winning goal.
When England lost 4-1 to Germany in the 2010 World Cup, domestic abuse rose across England by a third. And that’s just the stuff that got reported. During Euro 2012, posters and leaflets are being circulated through many parts of the country in doctor’s surgeries, community centres, even pub toilets, trying to raise awareness of the problem.
I will say that again in case you didn’t read the caption – during one England World Cup match, West Yorkshire Police saw reports of domestic violence virtually double.
This isn’t OK.
It isn’t OK to hit your wife because your favourite football team lost. It isn’t OK to scare your children just because the ball hit the post.
Anyone who is a victim of any form of domestic violence should contact the Police – either on 101 if it is to report an incident which has taken place, or if you are in immediate danger, on 999. If you are a violent man, wanting support to stop, call the National Helpline For Men Wanting To Change on 0808 8024040.
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January 22, 2010
Like just about everyone else, I head into the SC conference season hungry for cool new hardware news. Throw in a quantum computing demonstration, or string together a couple thousand Atom processors into a computing prototype, and I head for the keyboard like a suburban American dad heads for the turkey on Thanksgiving day.
There are other kinds of announcements that happen during SC about new services, business models, software, machine installations, and so on. So many announcements, in fact, that it's not possible to do more than perfunctory service to most of them. This article is about one of the important developments I didn't cover during the November rush: the announcement of Mathematica 7.
On the day the exhibit floor opened at SC08, Wolfram Research announced the latest version of its flagship product, Mathematica 7. The tool has long been a part of the "thinking workflow" for engineers, scientists, and a host of other technical professionals. Mathematica allows uers to manipulate mathematical statements, and visualize the results, using mathematical notation directly rather than a special grammar or intermediate form. What is important about the Mathematica 7 announcement is that it marked the introduction of features that turn Mathematica into a gateway through which users can take advantage of the power of high performance and large-scale computing without changing their workflow and in many cases without being aware that they are working in parallel.
Mathematica is a symbolic manipulation environment that allows users to manipulate mathematical and logical expressions directly in the mathematical notation you'd expect to find in a textbook or use with pen and paper. Alongside this capability for symbolic manipulation lie sophicated numerical methods that allow the system to reduce expressions to numeric answers when appropriate. Reports from users of several of the most popular systems indicate that Mathematica, always strong with respect to symbolic manipulation, has closed the numerical gap it once had with respect to other packages.
I came from a MATLAB-centric environment, and so I was interested in knowing how the tools are different from one another. In contrast with Mathematica's focus on expression in symbolic language, MATLAB offers users a language that is similar to C and HPF, a distinction that reflects the fundamental difference in the kind of thinking the two tools are designed to support. There is a widely-held generality that if your interest is in numerical methods and matrix manipulation, MATLAB is the right choice. On the other hand, if you are more generally interested in mathematics, or need to express theoretical problems directly in the language of mathematics, Mathematica is the right choice. Both packages are quite sophisticated, and I find that this generalization isn't always helpful.
One user I spoke with described the choice between MATLAB and Mathematica as one that comes down to how your brain is wired: if you naturally start with equations on paper and then work your way out to data and programs, then Mathematica is likely to be a good fit for you. But if you like to start with data first and then try to find a model that fits what you observe, MATLAB is the way to go.
Either way, these environments and others like them offer users the ability to use a computer to answer questions or solve problems without having to reduce the problem to an expression in C or FORTRAN. And many of the available mathematics environments, MATLAB and Mathematica among them, offer rich support for parallel processing and a wide variety of third party tools.
But why does this matter?
Researchers using computer applications to facilitate their research can expect to face two discontinuities as the computational requirements of their applications grow and they require more computer resources. The first discontinuity occurs when an application moves from operating with a single thread of execution to multiple simultaneous threads. Today this transition can happen while the user stays in the familiar operating environment of his desktop, but he may also transition to a small shared resource. This shared resource could look a lot like his familiar desktop environment, or it might be a totally new environment that disrupts his existing workflow and toolsets. The application usually has to be rearchitected to take advantage of the performance potential offered by adding more execution threads, and this can require substantial new skills or even the addition of new team members to parallelize the application.
The next transition is to resources that permit simultaneous execution of a very large number of tasks: supercomputers. This often involves rearchitecting the application again to take advantage of orders of magnitude more parallelism. Unfortunately, the transition also nearly always involves a complete disruption of previous workflows, new tools, and new ways for the user to interact with the resource during development. Literally everything may be new, from the command line interface (no Gnome or Windows GUI on most supercomputers) to working with a batch queuing system. This is a problem for users who must adapt to an unfamiliar and often unfriendly environment at the same time that they are dealing with the fundamental issues of the science, and computer science, in their application that frequently arise at supercomputing scale.
The features included in last November's upgrade of Mathematica are designed to minimize both kinds of workflow disruptions. Support for parallelism is now included in all versions of the product, reflecting the growing ubiquity of multicore processors. The approach, which the company calls "immediate interactive parallel computing," builds multicore awareness into the base application so that when an opportunity arises to run on multiple cores, the application will automatically do that. No change to the expression of the problem is necessary, and no checkboxes have to be ticked by the user. Mathematica just takes advantage of multiple cores on behalf of the user when it makes sense to do so.
Mathematica also supports semantics for explicitly-declared parallelism. There are parallel analogues to serial functions such as Table and Map that allow users to specify that certain portions of a computation be performed in parallel. There are also commands that allow users to define a function and then distribute that definition to multiple processors for parallel evaluation. In both cases Mathematica handles the generation, scheduling and rendezvous of threads and gathering of results automatically so that the user does not have to specify that level of detail.
This screencast on the Mathematica site offers an excellent introduction to explicit parallelism, and provides a window into how Mathematica works. You'll find many other screencasts and live examples on the site as well if you want a more detailed look at how Mathematica works.
But what about growing beyond the cores in a socket? Wolfram added gridMathematica in this release to provide parallel semantics to allow users to access everything from multiple sockets in a single box to HPC clusters. gridMathematica is licensed in two versions, Local and Server. The local version adds another four cores to the four licensed in the standard version of Mathematica, and will let users take advantage of multiple sockets on a single machine. The server license comes in bundles of 16 cores, and can support larger scale processing. gridMathematica can integrate with common batch workload schedulers, but it doesn't have to.
Wolfram has created what it calls the Lightweight Grid System to manage cluster resources as you might need if cycles are being harvested from resources that are usually used for something else. Interestingly gridMathematica supports clusters with heterogeneous nodes: provided Mathematica supports a particular platform or OS, gridMathematica can harness it into a single cluster. This means that clusters can be built from any mix of 32- and 64-bit platforms running Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris.
Wolfram has expanded this concept even further with a planned feature called HPC Cloud Service for Mathematica. This feature will allow users who don't already have a cluster to run their Mathematica application on a commercial cloud resource. Users will take advantage of the cloud service by clicking a few buttons in the cloud GUI with their existing Mathematica notebook to ask it to run the notebook in the cloud.
The concept is that Mathematica automatically analyzes your notebook, creates the bundles of work and runs them in parallel, gathers the parallel results, and sends them back to the desktop where the user initiated the request. Originally announced in November, Wolfram's HPC Cloud offering has been delayed by the company's Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. No word on when release is expected, although the company does emphasize that work is continuing on the HPC Cloud Service offering.
So where does Mathematica fit in your environment? If you, or your center's users, are primarily using mature Fortran or C applications that have been under development for many years, it may not fit at all. All of these environments take time to become proficient, and Mathematica is no exception. On the other hand, if you already have users of mathematical environments of one flavor or another, or you are accommodating users who are developing new applications and who are domain specialists rather than "HPC people," Mathematica may be a good fit. It has the potential to increase the effectiveness of your users and provide them with higher levels of performance in a way that is much easier to manage than moving directly from an idea (or a working serial prototype) to an explicitly-parallelized traditional application.
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.
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Fresh Fossil Feather Nanostructures
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Bird feathers can contain pigmentation for a wide range of colors, with specific molecules reflecting certain hues when light touches them. They also can display “structural” colors, where the thicknesses of layers of cells and connective tissues are fine-tuned to refract certain colors.
Scientists recently described structural coloration that is still clearly discernible in well-preserved fossil feathers. Why do these fossil feathers have their original cell structures laid out in the original patterns if they are millions of years old?
In 1995, paleontologists Derek Briggs and Paul Davis provided an overview of fossil feathers from the 40 or so places on the globe where they were known to exist.1 Among their findings was that 69 percent of feather fossils are preserved not as impressions, but as carbon traces. This was verified by comparing the proportions of carbon in both the surrounding carbonaceous rock and the fossil within it, to the proportions of organically-derived carbon from the same items. They found that there was more organic carbon in the fossil than in the stone.
At that time, the researchers thought the carbon came from bacteria that had degraded the feather material and then remained placed in the feather’s outline. But 13 years later, Briggs and other colleagues showed clear evidence that these “bacterial cells” were actually melanosomes―the same microscopic, sausage-shaped, dark pigment-containing structures in today’s bird feathers―from the original feather.2
This means that the organic carbon in the melanosomes somehow avoided decay for millions of years, which contradicts “the well-known fact that the majority of organic molecules decay in thousands of years.”3
Briggs and his colleagues recently described fossil feathers from the German Messel Oil Shale deposits, which are famous for their remarkably well-preserved fossils. These not only contained organic carbon from melanosomes (not bacteria), but the melanosomes were still organized in their original spacing and layering. Thus, the “metallic greenish, bluish or coppery” colors that can be seen from different viewing angles, producing an iridescent sheen, may very well be similar to that of the original bird’s plumage.4
Biologists already know that “in order to produce a particular [structural] colour, the keratin thickness must be accurate to within about 0.05 μm (one twenty thousandth of one millimetre!).”5 Although the keratin had decayed from these fossil feathers, its layers of melanosomes remained laid out in similarly precise thicknesses. Thus, not only was the color preserved, but the melanosomes were still organized to within micrometers of their original positions.
Evolutionary geologists maintain that the Messel Shale was formed 47 million years ago. But with these colorful feather fossils—which retain not only the original molecules inside their original melanosomes, but also the architectural layout of these structures—evolutionists must invent some kind of magical preservation process that simply isn’t observed in the laboratory or in nature.
Without the assumption of millions of years, however, the fossil data begin to make much more sense. Fresh-looking fossil features point to a young world.
- Davis, P.G. and D. E. G. Briggs. 1995. Fossilization of feathers. Geology. 23 (9): 783-786.
- Thomas, B. Fossil Feathers Convey Color. ICR News. Posted on icr.org July 21, 2008, accessed September 10, 2009.
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- Scientists Find Evidence of Iridescence in 40-Million-Year-Old Feather Fossil. Yale University press release, August 26, 2009, reporting on research published in Vinther, J. et al. Structural coloration in a fossil feather. Biology Letters. Published online before print August 26, 2009.
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Image Credit: Jakob Vinther/Yale University
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on September 16, 2009.
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In Normal Forms: Introduction, I introduced the topic of the Normal Forms, the theory behind the arrangement of fields into tables. Since it is usually best to start at the beginning, I'll begin with the First Normal Form.
The First Normal Form, or 1NF, is the very lowest, basic arrangement of fields in a table. If your table is not in 1NF, then it isn't really a table. Sadly, many novice databases are not even in 1NF.
A table is said to be in First Normal Form if:
1) there is no row or column order
2) each row (record) is unique
3) each row by column value (field) contains exactly one value
4) there are no repeating columns
What does this mean?
First of all, the operation of the table will be unaffected by the order the rows are in or the order the fields are within the row. It means that each record must be complete unto itself without referencing another row positionally, for example, the row above. Likewise the position of the fields is irrelevant.
Since each record is unique, it means there are no duplicate records. This uniqueness is defined by a field or combination of fields whose value will never be duplicated. This is called the primary key. In order to assure uniqueness, no part of a primary key may be NULL.
Because a field must have a single value, it cannot contain a list or compound value. One over looked consequence of this rule is that each field MUST have at least one value. If the value of the field is not known, it is said to be NULL. (There is some debate over whether NULL is actually a value. I maintain it is, but the discussion is largely semantic.)
Lastly, there are no repeating columns. Repeating columns are columns that store essentially the same information. They may be columns like Product1, Product2, Product3; or multiple Yes/No columns that represent the same information like each product having its own column (Saw, Hammer, Nails).
Let's take a look at how these rules are implemented and what they mean for table design.
Suppose I want a simple Order table with OrderNum, CustomerNum, OrderDate, Quantity, Item, and ProductNum. Although the definition of 1NF is fairly simple, it precludes a wide range of data arrangements. Let's take a look at some of these arrangements.
Figure 1 shows one way such data can be arranged.
Figure 1: Records with Missing Values
To make each record unique, the primary key would have to be OrderNum and Item. However, since no part of the primary key may be Null, this arrangement won't work. All the values of the primary key must be filled in.
But even more than this, the record is not "complete" unto itself. That is, it refers to other records for information. It's not that the values of OrderNum, CustomerNum, or OrderDate are unknown and therefore NULL. I do know the value, but I'm attempting to represent that data positionally. This, of course, violates the first rule (order is irrelevant) and rule 3 (each field must have a value).
This arrangement is common in spreadsheets and reports, but it is not sufficient for storing data.
Figure 2 shows another way the data can be arranged.
Figure 2: Information Stored In Lists
This violates rule 3. Each field must hold one and only one piece of information and not a list. It would be a nightmare to do anything with the date in the Item field other than simply display it because the database management system is designed to treat fields as indivisible.
While Figure 2 is an extreme example that mixes multiple fields in addition to multiple field values, believe it or not, I have also seen database designed like Figure 3:
Figure 3: Data stored in multiple lists
While this is better than Figure 2 (at least it does not mix fields), it is still not atomic and you'd have difficultly associating a quantity with a particular product.
1NF also precludes compound values, things like full names in a single field or multi-part identification numbers.
Why not store a full name? Roger J. Carlson is certainly pertinent information about me. However, it is not indivisible. It is made up of a first name, middle initial, and last name. Because I may want to access just pieces of it (using the first name in the salutation of a letter or sorting by last name), the information should be stored in separate fields.
Often, a database requirement is to have an identification number that is composed of different, meaningful parts. A serial number may have a four-digit product code, followed by the manufacture date (8 digits), and ended with the facility ID. It might look like this COMP02222008BMH. While this may be a useful arrangement for humans, it is useless in a database. Each value should be stored in a separate field. When the serial number is needed, it can be concatenated easily enough in a query, form, or report.
Figure 4 shows data that is stored in repeated columns.
Figure 4: Data Stored in Repeated Columns
This arrangement is common for people who use spreadsheets a lot. In fact, this is so common it is called "committing spreadsheet". The problem, in addition to having multiple columns, is that in order to associate a quantity with a product, you would have to do it positionally, breaking rule 1.
Lastly, another version of the Repeated Columns error is multiple Yes/No columns. Figure 5 illustrates that.
Figure 5: Data Stored in Yes/No Columns
At first blush, this does not seem to have the same problem, but all I've done is replace generic field names (Product1, Product2, etc) with specific ones (wench, saw, etc). It would be extremely easy to check a second field in any row and they you would have no idea which was correct.
As we've seen, First Normal Form precludes a lot of possible data arrangements. So what's left? There's really only one possibility left. Figure 6 shows it.
Figure 6: 1NF Correct with Repeated Rows
Each row has a unique identifier and there are no duplicates. Each field contains a single value. The position of the row and field is irrelevant, and lastly there are no repeating columns.
It's perfect. Right? Well, no. While this table does conform to 1NF, it is still has some problems; problems that 1NF is not equipped to handle. For those, I need to look at the Second Normal Form (2NF), which is what I'll do next time.
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Fulbright Keynoter: University's Main Impact Is Moral
UCLA political scientist Susanne Lohmann underscores the value of values in higher education for a regional association of visiting Fulbright scholars. At afternoon and evening events on April 21, UCLA student leaders, foreign scholars and other invited guests assess the university's role in moral education.
Published: Monday, April 26, 2010
The UCLA-based Fulbright Visiting Scholars Enrichment Program for Southern California, which is one of six such programs nationally, sponsored a series of discussions April 21 on the theme of "Campus to Community: The University's Role in Moral Education." Participating in the seven-hour conference at the Faculty Center were Fulbright Scholars from around the world, Fulbright alumni, leaders of service groups on campus and students enrolled in a course on "Perceptions of America Abroad: Discussions with Visiting Fulbright Scholars" taught by Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr-Adams. In the keynote speech at the event, UCLA Professor of Political Science Susanne Lohmann said that universities historically have led and today are leading shifts in prevailing societal norms.
Since about 1990, Lohmann said, the number of students enrolled in postsecondary education worldwide has doubled and is approaching 160 million. Driving the growth are developing countries and women, who constitute clear majorities of college students not only in very rich countries but also, for example, in majority Muslim countries including Iran. Chinese women are now overtaking men in the colleges of the world's most populous nation.
Though striking enough on its face, the trend has wider implications than most people realize, because women's education alters societies more than men's, Lohmann said.
"Once a woman has gone through higher education, she's lost for certain ancient ways of doing things, like honor killings and so on. Suddenly, you get things like [higher rates of] divorce, which obviously has its downsides, too. You get different relationships between men and women in the workplace…," she said. "And there's a real potential for revolution here."
Upending accounts that see economics or other forces underlying shifts in attitudes, Lohmann in her presentation took values imparted at the university to come first. She went so far as to credit universities with the sharp rise in global standards of living, felt first in the West, that is more often associated with industrialization. And she said that universities drive away societal maladies including official corruption. Lohmann is completing a book, the culmination of research launched 10 years ago with a Guggenheim fellowship, entitled "How Universities Think: The Hidden Work of a Complex Institution."
Professor Lohmann's provocative talk provided discussion points for the "World Café" organized by a trio of Dutch Fulbright Scholars, Roeslin Segal, Joes Segal and Floris van Vugt. Conferees moved among six tables to discuss the role of morals in academic life, how universities interact with society and how universities contribute to understanding cultural diversity. They reported on the discussions at the end of the April 21 program.
Following the World Café, Kerr-Adams held her regular Wednesday afternoon seminar as a demonstration session for the conference participants. Diego Ubfal, a Fulbright Scholar from Argentina, led students in a discussion of U.S.-Argentine bilateral relations and their history, including U.S. support for military dictators who carried out a dirty war on activists. Every week, the enrolled students grapple with the question of how Americans are perceived by others in response papers based on the discussions.
Over dinner on Wednesday, student leaders discussed their work for (1) the Campus Retention Committee (CRC), which oversees an effort to help students from underserved, underrepresented communities to succeed, (2) the Student-Initiated Access Committee (SIAC), which runs outreach and retention programs for underrepresented groups and (3) the Vietnamese Student Union (VSU). The speakers were CRC Chair Layhearn Tep, SIAC Chair Katrina Vo and VSU President Myca Tran.
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January 7, 2005
St. Paul, Minn. — Twin Cities composer Carol Barnett was commissioned to write the piece which she calls, "The People's Room."
Barnett wrote the work for percussion, winds, strings and chorus singing in twelve different languages. She told Minnesota Public Radio's Karl Gehrke that the work was inspired by a German saying painted on a Capitol wall. To listen to the interview, choose the audio link in the right column.
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Five tips for creating a winning presentation
The Sport and Recreation Alliance, the umbrella organisation for sport and recreation, brings you a blog written by Stephen Hillier from our partners The Media Group (TMG), on five tips to creating a winning presentation.
Making presentations is an important and often unavoidable part of business. Public speaking can be a nerve-wracking experience but the best way to conquer the nerves is to make sure you are well rehearsed and prepared.
The Media Group runs presentation training courses for clients in many organisations including The FA, Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust and the Sport and Recreation Alliance. Working on your skills and confidence can help you to nail your next presentation.
The five quick tips below will help you to stand in front of an audience and get your message across effectively.
1. Practice often
The more you practice and rehearse, the more comfortable you will feel on the day. Present out loud in front of a mirror and if possible an audience.
Use your smartphone to record video or audio of yourself and play it back – this is a great way to spot and remove any annoying habits. Look out for a twitching leg and make sure you’re not saying “Errmmm“ too often.
2. Consider your appearance
Dress impressively and with authority. Think about how you want to be perceived by your audience. Make sure your clothing is smart but comfortable.
3. Use positive body language
Maintain a relaxed but upright posture. Work the room and engage all corners, making eye contact with the audience.
Use positive and open hand movements to accentuate key points. And don’t forget to smile!
4. Get your message across
A great way to structure your presentation is to tell your audience what you are going to say, say it and then tell them what you’ve said.
If you’re using PowerPoint, keep slides to a minimum and don’t overload them with text.
5. Warm up your voice
Take some time to warm up your voice. Use tongue-twisters or sing along to your favourite songs. Sip water to keep yourself hydrated.
If you’re struggling with cracking or tension in your voice, a voice coach can train you to speak clearly and with authority.
P.S. Just in case you were still thinking about winging that important presentation, here is a clip of what can happen when things go wrong:
Would you like to find out more about our presentation and voice training courses? Give us a call on 0115 969 4600 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
For other blogs from the Sport and Recreation Alliance's Partner, TMG, please see the blogs section of the website.
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In Wheaton, the snakehead resurfaces
2 years after 'Frankenfish' were killed off in Crofton, predator is landed in Md.
It was probably the worst fighting fish Ive seen so far, Terry Wintermoyer, 23, of Silver Spring said of the 19-inch northern snakehead he hooked in Wheaton Regional Parks Pine Lake. (Sun photo by Andre F. Chung / April 28, 2004)
Terry Wintermoyer plucked the nasty customer from Wheaton Regional Park's Pine Lake on Monday afternoon, prompting officials to close the lake to fishing and to make plans to drain it as quickly as possible. The lake's bass and sunfish, numbering in the hundreds, will be pumped out and shipped to other ponds.
The 19-inch snakehead that Wintermoyer caught lived up to the aggressive reputation of its species: as it lay covered in plastic wrap shortly after Wintermoyer landed it, the snakehead bit into the steel-tipped boot of a passer-by.
Besides devouring other fish in their environment, snakeheads are known for surviving out of water for long periods and moving on land with their fins.
At a lakeside news conference yesterday, Wintermoyer, 23, said he immediately knew he had something special. He used pliers to extract the hook from the snakehead's mouth - thus avoiding its fang-like teeth - and admired his catch for an hour before turning it in to park police.
"I hadn't seen anything like that my whole life," he said.
Using electroshock to survey the lake's population, state biologists found no evidence of other snakeheads. The process passes an electric current into the water to stun fish within 20 feet, forcing them to float to the surface for examination. The survey turned up hundreds of bass and sunfish, but no snakehead.
Even so, officials concede they might have missed a snakehead or two. "I'll be confident when the pond is drained," said Steven Early, assistant director of fisheries for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
There's no apparent threat to downstream waterways. The pond feeds into the Northwest Branch, a tributary of both the Anacostia and the Potomac rivers, state wildlife officials said.
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which manages the park, is expected to have crews at the lake today to begin draining it. The process should take about two days, said Doug Redmond, principal natural resources specialist for the commission. The fish in the lake will be put into tanks and taken to other lakes, he said.
Redmond said refilling Pine Lake will take one to two weeks if the weather is dry, but a heavy rainstorm could top it off in a couple of days.
Early said draining the lake is a good idea. "It's an aggressive form of management, but the right one," he said.
Unlike the snakehead incident in Crofton, only one fish has been found - and it was removed before spawning season, Early noted. "We are only aware of a single introduction here and a single capture," he said.
In Crofton, the fish multiplied over the summer before officials took action. Biologists eventually poured poison into the lake, killing the predators.
Early estimated the Wheaton snakehead to be about 4 years old. He said it was probably dumped in the lake intentionally, violating a state law that was well-publicized after the Crofton incident. Dumping an invasive species into a state waterway is punishable by a $2,500 fine and 30 days in jail.
"Obviously, we haven't gotten the word out to everyone," Early told reporters.
Wintermoyer, who lives with his grandmother in Silver Spring, said he initially thought the snakehead was a 25- to 30-pound large-mouth bass because of the fierce fight it put up. The fish emerged from under a rock near the spot where he was standing just before he hooked it. "It was probably the worst fighting fish I've seen so far," he said.
The discovery of northern snakeheads in the tidy community of Crofton was a major event during the summer of 2002, drawing national attention and prompting jokes by Jay Leno, Regis Philbin and shows on Comedy Central.
Local entrepreneurs sold T-shirts bearing a likeness of the ugly fish, and the owner of the ponds hired an independent film crew to capture all the action.
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- About us
Healthy Sun Exposure
There are undoubtedly many good things about sun exposure. It can be beneficial to our psychological health and enables our bodies to produce vitamin D. Vitamin D is of enormous importance to health and we typically consume only limited amounts of it unless we eat large quantities of particular foods such as oily fish. However, there is clear evidence that holiday sun exposure and sunburn are causing a great increase in melanoma among fair skinned and ’moley‘ people. In order to control this worrying trend it is necessary to moderate this type of exposure in the vulnerable. As vitamin D is very important to human health this should however be done without resulting in vitamin D deficiency.
There remain several key questions concerning vitamin D such as: “what levels we should be aiming for?” and “how do we achieve those levels?” In studies on risk of cardiovascular disease, both low and high levels of vitamin D were reported as harmful 1 so there are concerns about what advice to give. High levels might also increase the risk of kidney stones and cause suppression of the immune system. The effects of vitamin D are most consistently reported to be favourable at a serum level of around 70nmol/L (although this remains controversial).
Despite the complicated picture a clear message can be given to everyone:
- Avoid sunburn.
- Avoid excessive sun exposure.
- Do not become vitamin D deficient. If you live in Europe and need to avoid the sun, take supplements according to your national advice.
- Learn to know your skin and look after it.
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The US met 81% of its energy demand in 2011, the highest since 1992, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The surge in hydraulic fracturing in shale formations played a major role, and it has also resulted in an oversupply of natural gas.
According to the US Department of Energy's Short-Term Energy Outlook, by the end of October, natural gas inventories could reach a record of 3.95 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).
A recently released report by Five Star Equities finds that new natural gas pipelines being introduced later this year could add to the supply glut in the US. These pipelines could boost deliveries from the Marcellus shale deposit in the Northeast by as much as 30%.
Department of Energy data show that there are approximately 1,000 Marcellus shale wells that are uncompleted due to a lack of pipeline access.
Price Futures Group analyst, Phil Flynn, commented, "There are new pipelines coming up, and Marcellus gas is going to flood storage going into winter. Unless you get a really cold winter, prices are going to be in the $2 [per thousand cubic feet] range."
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Similarities between museum design and artwork raise questions
The design for an exhibition now on at the National Museum of Singapore has sparked a discussion online about its similarity to an earlier artwork by Singapore artist Teng Yen Lin.
The design for the exhibit on Malay poet Masuri S N in the museum's rotunda includes sheets of yellowed paper printed with an unpublished poem and hung to curve downward. The cluster of paper is suspended over text panels and showcases.
As for the work by Teng, a literature undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, it featured yellowed pages of a book suspended in the middle and drooping to form an inverted U-shape. The pages are hung to form a vertical mass.
Titled The Weight Of Words, it was shown in a public exhibition last July.
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The Carriage of dangerous goods and marine pollutants in sea-going ships is respectively regulated in the International Convention for the Safety of the Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention for the Prevention of pollution from Ships (MARPOL).
Relevant parts of both SOLAS and MARPOL have been worked out in great detail and are included in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, thus making this Code the legal instrument for maritime transport of dangerous goods and marine pollutants. As of 1st January 2004, the IMDG Code will become a mandatory requirement.
Classification of dangerous goods
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Galileo satellite undergoes launch check-up at ESTEC
Galileo’s first satellite is undergoing testing at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands, checking its readiness to be launched into orbit. This marks a significant step for Europe’s Galileo satnav constellation.
The first part of Europe’s global satellite navigation system is due to be launched over the next two years – a total of four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites.
The following four years to 2015 will see Galileo brought up to its first operational configuration of 18 satellites in medium Earth orbit.
Before they are launched, the IOV satellites must be formally qualified for space operations by passing a rigorous series of tests that reproduce the heavy vibration, acoustic noise and shock they will experience during the violent rocket ride into orbit – plus a little extra for safety.
The venue for these tests is the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This unique European facility combines a complete portfolio of space simulation facilities under a single roof.
“From the point of view of mechanical qualification, the Galileo IOV satellites are identical,” said Pedro Cosma, Assembly Integration and Testing engineer for Galileo.
“So we are employing one of the satellites for this qualification testing, the first to be built, known as the Protoflight Model (PFM). It will respond in practically the same way as the other Flight Models – FM2, FM3 and FM4.”
The satellites have been built by a consortium of European companies. Their payloads were designed, developed and assembled by EADS Astrium in Portsmouth, UK, with the overall satellite designed and developed by Astrium in Ottobrunn, Germany and assembled by Thales Alenia Space in Rome, Italy.
The first satellite will endure simulated launch vibrations on ESTEC’s Electrodynamic Shaker, followed by the sudden pyrotechnic shocks during separation from the launch vehicle.
Finally, it will take an acoustic battering matching the launcher’s sound pressure and frequency – imagine a squadron of fighter jets taking off 30 m away – in the Large European Acoustic Facility.
“We’re not anticipating any surprises,” added Pedro. “This is because we’ve previously carried out these tests on two Galileo structural/thermal models, but testing on an actual satellite remains an essential part of the official flight qualification process.”
Those models have also recently been reused for other tests at ESTEC. The Galileo IOV satellites are launched two at a time, so a dispenser is needed to hold them together within the launcher fairing and then, when the time is right, to release them in orbit.
Pyrotechnic devices will shoot them safely away from the dispenser and each other. Last December these models took part in a pyrotechnic shock test alongside a qualification model of the dispenser.
“The test’s success prepares us to perform a release test with the real dispenser and PFM satellite in our facilities later this month,” Pedro added.
Once ESTEC testing is complete in February, the PFM will be reunited with the rest of the IOV quartet in Italy for a follow-up round of thermal vacuum testing, to prove that they can withstand the temperature extremes of space.
Finally, the satellites will be transported to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana to be launched on Soyuz rockets. The PFM and Flight Model 2 will be on the first flight of Soyuz from Kourou, marking a double first for ESA.
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - So much for method acting.
Actor Ashton Kutcher says he was hospitalized after going on a “fruit only” diet as he prepared to play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a movie.
So how dangerous is such a diet? It depends how long you are on it, according to St. Louis University Hospital registered dietician Joy Bloor.
“If you followed it for long enough and your body is not getting the right amount of nutrients, which it wouldn’t on an all-fruit diet, over time you could get in trouble,” she said. “It would be high in sugar and carbohydrates but it’s not going to be high in protein fat.”
A fruitarian diet consists of fruits, nuts, and seeds. It is followed by diehard adherents to veganism who aim to only eat foods which do not kill or damage a plant.
“First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to, like, severe issues,” Kutcher told USA Today. “I went to the hospital, like, two days before we started shooting the movie. I was, like, doubled over in pain. My pancreas levels were completely out of whack.”
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Kentucky Lawmakers Work to Save Paducah Plant
Kentucky lawmakers are set to pass a bill with the hope it will help a uranium enrichment plant in Paducah stay in operation. House Bill 559 would allow the Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah to use spent uranium fuel rods and either re-enrich or sell those rods.
The state bill is only steps away from becoming law, but the real decision is up to the federal government. Right now, the Department of Energy doesn’t allow re-enrichment of spent fuel rods. Kentucky’s federal delegation is pressuring the DOE to change its mind, but so far their lobbying hasn’t worked and the plant could shut down in May. House Majority Floor Leader Rocky Adkins says House Bill 559 is a companion to those federal efforts.
“We hope that this will couple up with what is going on with the federal delegation as well at the federal level and hopefully show our support to try to keep those jobs alive,” Adkins says.
Kentucky’s two senators and Representative Ed Whitfield have federal legislation allowing for the same flexibility for the Paducah plant, but it has not passed Congress. Paducah State Senator Bob Leeper thanked supporters for more than five years of work on the legislation.
“Years ago, (supporters) approached me with the idea of trying to do something to create opportunities for the employees at USEC, who eventually are going to lose their job, quite frankly,” Leeper says.
House Bill 559 cleared Leeper’s budget committee Thursday. It now goes to the Senate for passage before heading to the governor’s desk.
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By Billy Corriher
Starting on January 1, Clayton County residents will see some notable changes to their water bills. Residents will see a 5 percent increase in their usage rates, but most will notice that their bill will now be the same amount every month.
The water authority's board of directors approved the increase in service rates to pay for expanding the water and sewer system and accommodating future growth, CCWA General Manager Wade Brannan said.
"You have to make sure you look far enough ahead to have what you need in the future," Brannan said.
The county is ensuring the county is up to new federal and state standards through its Water Resources Initiative 2000, a 10-year master plan for improvements and upgrades.
"Most of the improvements will be on the sewer side of our business," he said.
The water authority is planning improvements in its "big operations," Brannan said, referring to upgrading the county's water reclamation plant.
And although residents will be billed at a higher rate next year, most residents' will now be billed the same amount every month. The new billing system will be based on an average of each resident's monthly water usage.
Brannan said the system is intended to make it easier for county residents to set a monthly budget.
"There can be a dramatic increase in water usage during the summer," he said. Customers usually see their bills go up in summer months because of watering their lawns or washing their cars.
Jonesboro resident Claudia Miller said she does not water her lawn that much in the summer, but she still said it is hard to predict how much her water bill will be every month.
"I'd like (the new system) a whole lot better," she said. "It would be better than it fluctuating all the time."
The new system would also be easier for the county's growing senior citizen population, much of which relies on a fixed income, Brannan said.
All customers with a good billing history will be eligible for the new system. But customers with three consecutive late fees or one disruption of service will not receive a uniform bill each month.
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During the past week, President Bush held an economic conference with the purpose of justifying privatizing or partially privatizing Social Security. Unfortunately, the conference focuses on the entitlement program with a relatively easy fix Social Security and avoided, for the most part, the entitlement program facing huge problems Medicare. Referring to Social Security, the president said, "The crisis is now." But is it? According to the trustee report of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance trust fund, total benefits paid in 2003 were $471 billion, with income of $632 billion. Assets in U.S. Treasury securities grew to $1.5 trillion. That's a lot of money. Still, because of the growing number of people who will be drawing Social Security especially the retiring baby boomers expenses will be greater than revenues beginning in 2018, with the funds projected to be exhausted by 2042, or almost 40 years from now. Medicare which is different from Social Security and should not be grouped with Social Security is in a much more dire situation. At the president's conference to promote privatizing Social Security, Dr. Bill Roper, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, was asked to speak about Medicare. According to Roper, Medicare is one-eighth of the federal budget this year and will be one-fifth of the federal budget in 10 years. In 20 years, it will be the largest federal entitlement program larger than Social Security. And when will the funds to pay Medicare run out? According to Roper, in 2019. The funds for Social Security will run out in almost 40 years, and the funds for Medicare will be exhausted in less than 20 years. So which is the more immediate problem? Unfortunately, according to the transcript put out by the White House, not much more was said about Medicare at the president's conference. Many supporters of Social Security recognize some adjustments to the program changes in benefits and increased revenues will be necessary to ensure its solvency. Social Security could be fixed with some relatively simple solutions. No so for Medicare. The health care program for our nation's senior citizens faces enormous problems that will not be solved by simple fixes. This is the entitlement program that demands economic conferences. Medicare is the program that will challenge our leaders to come up with creative and courageous solutions. Too bad our leaders are showing little creativity and courage when it comes to the health security of our nation's seniors.
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The Earth as seen from the Moon. LROC NAC mosaic of images snapped on 12 June 2010 during a calibration sequence, E130954785L and E130954785R.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center built and manages the mission for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera was designed to acquire data for landing site certification and to conduct polar illumination studies and global mapping. Operated by Arizona State University, LROC consists of a pair of narrow-angle cameras (NAC) and a single wide-angle camera (WAC). The mission is expected to return over 70 terabytes of image data.
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Above & Beyond: Milk Run
How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
- By Chris McKenna
- Air & Space magazine, May 2007
For any Navy pilot flying aircraft carrier operations, the voice of the air boss, the officer in charge of all air operations on deck, is the sound of absolute authority. For this Navy helicopter pilot, the air boss represented trouble. He was a tyrant with a hair trigger.
In 1988 I was flying the Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight, a tandem-rotor helicopter deployed on the USS Niagara Falls, a support ship in the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Battle Group. My crew and I delivered “beans and bullets” to the fleet. We hit the Ike every other day, restocking whatever was needed to keep a city at sea afloat. Ammunition, food, machinery, mail—referred to as “pony”—the ships in the battle group relied on us for everything except fuel. It was exciting, challenging flying, and I loved it. But always, just below the surface, was the fear of raising the ire of the air boss.
One morning, flying as Knightrider zero six, we launched before dawn on a replenishing mission. We moved tons of cargo attached as sling loads beneath the helicopter.
By noon we had only a load of internal cargo left to deliver. I radioed the carrier. “Boss, Knightrider zero six, 10 miles out for landing.”
“Recoveries in progress. Take Starboard Delta,” he replied, directing us into an established holding pattern.
We watched as jets made approaches and “trapped” (caught one of the arresting cables) or “boltered” (missed the wires and went around for another try). We should be next, I thought, once all the jets were aboard. But the voice of authority had other plans. “I’ve got another cycle 15 minutes out, Knightrider. I’ll recover them first, then bring you aboard.”
“Haven’t got fuel for that, Boss,” I said.
“Then go get some,” he snapped.
He knew we could get in and out in five minutes, but he was the air boss, so I bit my tongue and turned for the Falls. Then I remembered those orange bags marked U.S. Mail. In a mariner’s heart, mail call ranks just below liberty call. Not even an air boss can resist mail call. I keyed the microphone. “We have pony aboard, Boss.”
Everyone in the control tower would be staring at him. If he didn’t land us, all 6,000 sailors aboard would soon know he had denied them a mail call.
“Knightrider, you’re clear to land, spot three,” he relented, specifying the forward spot on the angled flight deck.
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Rose speaks at University of Western Ontario
Professor of Law
moderated the panel, “Sources and Methods,” at the Law and Governance in pre-Modern Britain Conference at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, on Oct. 14.
The two-day conference focused on engaging legal historians in discussions of literature, gender, marriage and rebellion during the pre-modern period.
Rose has received numerous teaching awards. He also is a Faculty Affiliate of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at ASU. He is the author of numerous articles on legal history, antitrust, economic and occupational regulation and legal ethics. He has also written on early defamation law, medieval prisons and the historiography of legal history.
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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
From PESWiki << A Top 100 Energy Technology >> Infinia's solar technology entails a parabolic dish that focuses the sun's energy onto their stirling engine that uses helium in a hermetically sealed system, requiring no lubrication inside the machine, nor maintenance.
ATS with Stirling BioPower Inc. (USA) is offering unique modular system Bio–Stirling G38 The G38's breakthrough technology is centered on a high efficiency, four-cylinder Stirling engine of Stirling Biopower design. A Stirling engine is a heat engine. The heat can be provided from an external heat source or be produced by the combustion of a wide variety of fuels within the integral combustor. This heat is maintained at a constant temperature in one section of the engine, where heat is transferred to pressurized hydrogen.
This page is part of the Design for the Environment course As the demand for energy grows and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions becomes more important, cogeneration (combined heat and power) solutions emerge as an immediate solution. Considering that the residential sector accounts for 17% of Canada’s energy utilization , reducing the electrical demand could alleviate the need to use non-renewable energy sources and develop new power generation facilities. Residential micro-cogeneration systems act as an alternative or supplement to provide electricity and heat to a home by burning fossil fuels with net efficiencies of up to 90% .
Home » Books » How I Built a 5 Hp Stirling Engine Book Want to power your house with a Stirling engine? Read how Merrick Lockwod built a 5 Hp Stirling engine.
Alpha type Stirling engine. There are two cylinders. The expansion cylinder (red) is maintained at a high temperature while the compression cylinder (blue) is cooled. The passage between the two cylinders contains the regenerator.
The Stirling engine generators are heat engines that provide power by expanding gases and liquids using high temperatures. The process centers on converting heat energy into electrical or mechanical energy. The working fluid within the Stirling engine generator provides a medium for the heat transfer.
It has come to our attention that in Asia, specifically South Korea and China, there are companies with similar names who are representing themselves as being part of Stirling Technology, Inc. and UltimateAir. These companies are claiming that they are the owners and inventors of the technologies developed and patented by Stirling Technology Inc of Athens, Ohio, USA. Further, in some cases, they are claiming to actually own our company.
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Liberia's Charles Taylor Jailed for 50 Years
Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Wednesday for providing, in return for "blood diamonds," arms and other supplies to rebels who committed war crimes in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s, according to the Washington Post. Taylor, who was sentenced in an international criminal court near The Hague in the Netherlands, was the first head of state to be convicted by an international court since the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.
The Washington Post reports:
Taylor, wearing a blue suit and gold tie, stood grim-faced and silent as Presiding Judge Richard Lussick of Samoa imposed what will likely amount to a life sentence for the 64 year old.
Lussick said Taylor’s position as head of state at the time of his crimes put him in a “class of his own” when judges came to setting the sentence -- one of the longest ever handed down by the Special Court for Sierra Leone or any other international tribunal.
Taylor shipped arms, ammunition and other supplies to rebels in Sierra Leone in return for personal wealth in the form of diamonds mined by slave labor and to gain increasing political clout in the volatile West Africa region.
Taylor’s reaction in court Wednesday was in stark contrast to the delight of survivors who gathered in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, to watch a live feed of the sentencing.
“That makes me the happiest person on earth,” said Alimami Kanu, who was 11 when rebels backed by Taylor hacked off his right hand. He was one of thousands of civilians mutilated during Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war that ended in 2002 with some 50,000 dead.
Human rights activists and international law experts also hailed the tough sentence as a warning shot for war criminals.
Read more at the Washington Post.
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Vital storefronts are an indicator of urban success, while empty businesses are akin to the ruins of Pompeii.
Even when storefronts go empty, some cities find ways to simulate that all is well. False facades, community art and the look and feel of a vibrant business district often substitute for empty spaces through glass.
That’s all well and good in cities. Elsewhere, it’s a luxury left behind.
In a skeleton of a small Idaho downtown last weekend, I explored the remnants of what we now seek in bigger places: compact, mixed-use blocks with character—the neighborhood grocery and the watering spot next door. Several buildings were proudly engraved “1914″ and I concluded that if airlifted to my neighborhood in 2011, they would fit in just fine.
Passersby in a pickup truck—a father and son—saw me amid the storefronts, and stopped and watched me for a moment. “Are you from around here?” asked the father. “Do you know if there is a store in town?”
I could have said no, but instead I wanted to hint at the irony of their search for the vanished vitality of where we were. “Look around,” I said. ”You’ll find that there used to be more than one.”
The storefront may now be scarcer in the hinterlands, but it has found new life as one of the building blocks of the reinvented, more flexibly-zoned city—a primary contributor to complete streets, social interaction, walkable neighborhoods and transit-oriented central places. The passion for such “first floor retail” has been declared and codified in planning goals and land use regulations alike.
Rockville, Maryland’s town center storefront design guidelines are typical of such emphasis, and further encourage creativity in how storefronts present to the street:
Rockville’s “great urban place” sets the stage upon which the storefronts will be
layered. Because of the investment in quality for all aspects of Rockville Town Center, storefront guidelines encourage creative and well-designed individual expressions of tenant identity. Strong urban storefronts are essential in the creation of an attractive and exciting, dining, shopping, and leisure environment.
Highly evolved cities rise above the status quo by seamlessly implementing a universal urban characteristic in a local context, seizing opportunities that have worked before to create the magnetism of success.
However, the romance of an idea can be offset by the reality of the Great Recession—and risks recreating the unsustainable place where passersby ask pedestrians if there is a store in the neighborhood. Recognizing such risks, in Seattle, a regulatory reform roundtable has recommended that certain street level retail requirements be relaxed, to avoid more empty spaces in challenging times.
Storefronts have always made the city, and as economic challenges continue, more flexibility to create dynamic and interesting street uses should remain at the forefront of city-making—mindful of what businesses need to survive.
All images composed by the author.
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The late Journal Publisher George McLean was discouraged by low reading scores of Lee County school children and was determined to do something about it. So he donated $1.1 million to fund a reading aide for all 24 first-grade classrooms in Lee County, Baldwyn and Nettleton over 10 years beginning with a pilot program in 1977. This was at a time when Mississippi did not yet have public kindergarten classrooms.
“Mr. McLean really had a heart for children and reading,” said Beth Jackson, who taught first grade at Shannon Elementary at that time.
The aide would allow teachers to divide their students into smaller groups to better focus on teaching literacy.
The concept was a new one and emerged from conversations McLean had with Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist famous for his taxonomy analyzing different learning types. McLean traveled to Chicago to meet with Bloom and also brought the educational thinker to Tupelo to speak to teachers.
The goal was for all students to be reading on grade level by the end of third grade.
McLean’s private gift to public education was rare at the time, and it drew national media attention from the New York Times and NBC News, among others.
“This was unprecedented, probably in the country, we would build community support around reading at first grade and the primary level,” said Billy Crews, whom McLean hired to oversee the program and who later served a lengthy tenure as Journal publisher and CEO.
“Who in the country at that time raised money privately to help kids read better? Nobody. If you were giving corporate money, you gave money for college scholarships.”
Its impact was swift. The year before the program began, Lee County first-graders scored in the 23rd percentile in reading on the California Achievement Test. During the program’s pilot year, when most classrooms only had the aide for half of the year, they rose to the 48th percentile.
Private money was raised to expand the program to second grade in 1980, and when the school year ended, second-grade students scored in the 52nd percentile, a 16 percent increase, and first-graders were in the 59th percentile.
“Some teachers were successful in developing meaningful ways to break classrooms into groups and increase time on task,” said Crews, who regularly observed the reading instruction. “I would take the concepts that worked well and share them with others.
“By doing that, I was shining a spotlight on it and saying, what you are doing in first grade is critical to the instructional system.”
Jackson said the program made it easier for teachers to give attention to struggling students.
“We built on student’s strengths and took them where they were,” she said. “Everyone couldn’t fit the same mold, so everyone couldn’t be handed the same thing. That is a lot of hard work for teachers, but that is the key for students to be successful.”
Jackson, who is still in the education field, said they used a lot of multi-sensory techniques then, something she said is now coming back into vogue. They also had a strong phonics program.
The program’s success caught the attention of those trying to improve the state’s educational system during the early 1980s, and it was included in the landmark 1982 Educational Reform Act.
The law put assistant teachers to help with reading in all kindergarten to third-grade classrooms. It never produced the same results seen in Lee County.
“It is always a problem when you take something to scale and you have a much larger audience,” said Cathy Grace, who oversaw the statewide program during its first years as the early childhood coordinator with the Mississippi Department of Education.
The quality of the school’s principal made a big difference in how well the program was executed, Grace said. Some school leaders began using the aides for purposes other than for reading.
“We started to see there was a need for guidance,” she said. “We were not able to monitor how some principals and superintendents let assistant teachers be utilized in schools.
“We had to constantly remind them, these were not substitutes, they were not secretaries, they were not there to put up bulletin boards or to do playground duty.”
Teachers were not familiar with having another adult in their classrooms, and despite training, many of them struggled to use that person effectively, Grace said. The quality of assistant teachers, who were paid less than half as much as a licensed teacher, also varied.
“In many communities, it became an employment thing rather than a teaching thing,” said former State Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham. “That was one issue, what kind of qualifications do these people bring?”
Although assistant teachers still exist in Mississippi schools, their numbers have been dramatically reduced by funding cuts through the years. Multiple classrooms often share assistants, and few of them focus specifically on literacy instruction.
The strength of Lee County’s program, Crews said, was that it had clearly defined goals, oversight and accountability.
“We had people in the community saying it was important,” Crews said. “When you go statewide, you lose that.”
The program has had an impact in ideas it has spawned. Former State Superintendent Richard Boyd said some of the things the Barksdale Reading Institute is doing with small-group literacy instruction is similar to concepts from the Reading Aide program. Boyd, who led the state’s education system shortly after the Education Reform Act, held a leadership position at BRI when it first began.
“If you did it like we did it at BRI, which is that assistant means not an aide but an assistant teacher really doing some tutoring, then that could pay dividends,” said Boyd, who noted he began to see the program slipping away as assistants were used for different purposes.
Jackson now works for the Program of Research & Evaluation For Public Schools at Mississippi State University to evaluate schools that have received state dyslexia grants.
“It is ironic that so many activities you see being encouraged for dyslexic students and struggling readers are so many of the same things we said 30 or 40 years ago would work for students,” she said.
“...We really thought it could change Mississippi, and I think if they did it the way Lee County did it, it might have.”
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As a small business owner, defining and identifying your ideal client is critical. By identifying the key characteristics of your ideal client, you are also defining who IS NOT a good client. Understand the difference can mean the difference between success and failure.
If you a familiar with Pareto’s law or the 80/20 rule, this couldn’t be more true. If you were to identify the top 20% of your client base, you will probably find that these are your ideal clients. They are easy to work with, value your service, and are profitable for your business to provide service. Start with these clients, and write down why they are ideal. After you have identified these characteristics, target more prospects like them and watch your profits soar in 2010!
Go Target, Attack, and Profit!
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It’s that time of year again (already!) – summer reading time! As the homeschooling mother to a whole brood of voracious readers, I always enjoy seeing which of our favorite companies are lining up to sponsor the latest addition of summer reading programs.
2009…*sigh*…While there are some fun programs remaining (listed below), I am dismayed to see that the stressful economic times have managed to take a bite out of the summer reading incentives as well. Some of our old favorites that seem to have disappeared from the summer reading scene this year are Build-a-Bear and Pizza Hut. :(
Ever more reason to offer my many thanks to the following for persevering, despite the current economic crisis:
Prize(s): Receive a FREE book from Barnes & Noble!
Who: Grades 1-6
When: 5/26/09 – 9/7/09
- Read any 8 books of your own choosing
- Use your Summer Reading Journal to tell your favorite part of each book.
- Bring completed Reading Journal, with parent’s signature, to a Barnes & Noble store between May 26th and Sept. 7th, 2009 to receive a coupon for a FREE book.
11th Annual Homeschooling Summer Reading Club
Prize(s): Receive a certificate, stickers and a prize in the mail by September 30, 2009!
Who: Grades K-12 (Homeschooled)
Deadline: Postmarked by August 31, 2009
- Sign your children up.
- Print out Reading List Form.
- Have children read books at their reading level.
- List books on form, and total pages read.
- When the total number of pages reach 500, mail the list along with a $1.39 stamp to the address provided on the Reading List Form (one per student).
Sponsor: Half Price Books
Prize(s): $3 shopping card at Half-Price books for each week spent reading for at least 15 minutes per day.
Who: Children 12 and under
When: 6/1/09 – 7/31/09
- Get a Feed Your Brain Reading Log at Half Price Books.
- Check off each day for five days that the child read for 15 minutes or more.
- Fill out a reading log, and have a parent or guardian sign it.
- Bring the completed and signed log to Half Price Books.
- Get a Feed Your Brain Reading Reward: $3 Shopping Card at Half Price Books.
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 every week through Friday, July 31, 2009.
“Kids, Ready to turn a page? Log your minutes, earn points, help a cause, and read for the world record! All you have to do is:
- Take a fun quiz to get sorted onto a team.
- Score points by logging the minutes you read each day.
- Earn bonus points by taking games, quizzes, and polls.
- Win prizes and sweepstakes while you are at it.”
At the end of the summer, the winning team gets to vote on which Save the Children U.S. program will receive a special donation from Scholastic in your team’s name!
Prize(s): 50% or more savings on selected items
Who: Kids 12 and under
When: 5/26/09 – 8/31/09
- Read any 8 books
- List the books you’ve read on the Reading Challenge Worksheet.
- Have a parent/guardian sign the completed worksheet.
- Bring your completed worksheet to any Borders or Waldenbooks store between May 26 and August 31 to save 50% or more on selected items.
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The school year’s winding down, and pressure to nail those grades is going up. As always, the Kansas City Public Library’s here to help. Whether you’re sweating that English paper or gearing up for a long night of calculus crunching, Brainfuse can hook you up with free online homework help from expert tutors any day of the week. All you need is a Library card.
Brainfuse is a suite of online tutoring services designed to help you master an academic skill, prepare for a test, or just get through a difficult homework problem by connecting you with certified online tutors offering a wide array of interactive, state-aligned activities for grades K-12. Tutoring help is also available in Spanish.
Brainfuse provides one-on-one homework help every day from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Access is available online on the Library homework help page . You must log in to Brainfuse using a Kansas City Public Library card and your PIN. (Forgot your PIN? ) You can use Brainfuse from home, but you must first access it through the Library’s website.
Chat with a Tutor
Brainfuse has a lot of features. But if you want to start working with a live tutor right away, begin with Homework Help or Live Skills Building.
Homework Help: To begin a live tutoring session, click the Live Help button on the Brainfuse main page, then select the grade level and subject. A live tutoring session will begin in an easy-to-use format.
Live Skills Building: If you’re seeking to build academic skills in a specific area (such as developing a thesis statement, performing prime factorization, or learning more about the scientific method), the Live Skills Building option connects you to a live tutoring session based on grade level, subject, and the skill of your choice.
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How to Conduct a Live Tutoring Session:
If you’re familiar with instant-message/chat services like AIM, Skype, or Facebook Chat, then conducting a live-tutoring session is pretty straightforward. Once you launch the program, a new browser window will open. You’ll be given a username, and a tutor will automatically be assigned to you.
Use the chat window in the lower-right corner to ask questions and interact with your tutor. Use the “whiteboard” in the space above to key in or copy-paste your homework problems that you need help with.
Brainfuse also offers other free services, but to use them you must first register for free by creating a Brainfuse username and password. This is so that Brainfuse can do things like contact you with answers from tutors, save your tests for you, and keep track of your past sessions so you can refer back to them later. Once you’re a registered user, you can use any of these services:
Writing Lab: Submit your papers through the secure file-sharing system in order to receive in-depth analysis of essays, papers, and other writing assignments. It’s as easy as attaching something to an e-mail. Papers will be returned within 24 hours with constructive comments.
Test Center: Take practice tests for state standardized exams as well as the ACT and the SAT.
24/7 Center: If you log in during a time when no tutors are available, leave a question in the 24/7 Center and get a response back within 24 hours.
Brainwave: This nifty collaborative tool allows you to record a movie of your activity on the Brainfuse whiteboard. Use it for notetaking purposes or when typing an ordinary email isn’t enough – a great way for recording solutions to math problems. You can also search other people’s Brainwaves.
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Happy studying! If you need help using Brainfuse or any of our other Homework Help resources, call the Central Youth Services desk at 816.701.3441.
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Spotify has created a way for fans to embed any song from its catalog on their websites and blogs, the company announced Wednesday. The Spotify Play Button takes the URL of any song and turns it into an embed code which can be pasted into a webpage, allowing any and all comers to hear the song.
Embedding music is by no means a new concept, but previously it required having an actual copy of a song to back it up (or embedding a whole YouTube video that displays the song's lyrics in curly fonts). Now, anyone with a free Spotify account can use the service's songs to play music outside of the desktop or mobile applications. The service allows users to embed both songs as well as their own playlists, and while it lacks the pop-up and banner ads of the desktop app for free users, audio ads still appear to play.
The Play Button also externalizes the service more broadly than just embeds. For example, in the past, clicking on a tweeted link to a song would force users to open the Spotify app (if they even had it) to hear the song. Now if users tweet the embed link, the song will open in a browser tab or window, with no app needed (at least on the receiver's end, though they still need to have a Spotify account to play it). An obvious extension, maybe, but a cool one. (Update: a reader has pointed out that the play button in the browser will automatically open the application, hence you need a Spotify install to Play Button a song or playlist. Not so cool.)
Spotify has told Engadget that the company has struck no new deals with regard to the rights of its music catalog, which may mean its lawyers think embeds are fair game under the agreements Spotify already has with record labels. Here's hoping it sticks.
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Virginia Creeper - Climbing plants
Self-clinging red autumn colour!
The Virginia Creeper 'Veitch Boskoop' (Parthenocissus Tricuspidata) is a brilliant, climbing plant that does not need to be trained as its strong aerial roots cling firmly to walls and fences. The leaves turn bright red in autumn. Easy to trim. Height supplied approximately 25 cm.
Make sure the root of the Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitch Boskoop' is well-moistened by soaking it in a bucket full of lukewarm water overnight. Prepare a suitable hole in a moist well-drained soil. Plant the Virginia Creeper at the right depth in the hole. The top of the root should be just slightly below ground level. Fill the hole with soil and press firmly. Water immediately after planting. The Virginia Creeper grows well in regular garden soil and requires minimal maintenance. Are you planting this vine close to the wall? If so then the soil may need attention and can be improved with compost or fertilized garden soil if necessary. Place the vine in full sunshine or semi-shade.The Virginia Creeper is a climbing plant
The growing power of Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitch Boskoop' is quite strong. Within a short time, this beautiful climber will cover your entire wall. Its young aerial roots are like tiny suction cups, which allow the plant to cling to walls and fences. You do not need to attach the stems as the Virginia Creeper is a self clinging climber. This climber grows wonderfully on a pergola and is also versatile as a ground cover.
The Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitch Boskoop' has very beaytiful leaves. That are divided into three points and are a glossy green colour. The leaves of the Virginia Creeper are very decorative in autumn when they boast striking yellow and orange hues. This exuberant wild vine can climb up to 6 metres high.
You can prune the stems of the Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitch Boskoop' every year in spring. Pruning is very well-tolerated. The Virginia Creeper has small suction-like cups which can damage paint. Keep this vine away from frames and other woodwork. Walls can easily be covered with this beautiful foliage plant. Put a layer of compost and some garden fertilizer around the base of the Virginia Creeper during the spring.
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AP Issues Style Guide On Husband/Wife
For the last week the LGBT blogosphere has been battling the Associated Press over a direction to their reporters that they should not automatically refer to people in legal same-sex marriages as "husband" or "wife." I left the story alone because I figured the AP would immediately correct such as obviously wrong position. Today they finally did. Here's the new policy.
husband, wife Regardless of sexual orientation, husband or wife is acceptable in all references to individuals in any legally recognized marriage. Spouse or partner may be used if requested.The AP adds: "The AP has never had a Stylebook entry on the question of the usage of husband and wife. All the previous conversation was in the absence of such a formal entry. This lays down clear and simple usage. After reviewing existing practice, we are formalizing 'husband, wife' as an entry."
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Memorial Day Blowout! Entire Store On Sale!
10% Off Orders Up To $100 | 15% Off Orders Over $100
Good through 5/27/13, excludes Books, Wine, Nambe, Michael Aram, Sales Items, Sukkahs & Schach, Ketubot, Tefillin and Shipping Costs.
Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters -- young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe -- in this intensely dramatic novel.
Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for "illegal" immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp with profoundly different stories. All of them survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, Shayndel, Leonie, Tedi, and Zorah find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country.
This is an unforgettable story of tragedy and redemption, a novel that reimagines a moment in history with such stunning eloquence that we are haunted and moved by every devastating detail. Day After Night is a triumphant work of fiction.
Judaism.com is the longest established Jewish book, Judaica and Jewish gift store on the Internet. Our catalog is the single most comprehensive catalog of Judaica, Jewish books, CDs, video, software, religious articles and Jewish gifts available.
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Enter Joseph Cornell's prison of silver light
"Joseph Cornell's cinema remains the central enigma of his work," Anthology Film Archives founder and Visionary Film author P. Adams Sitney wrote in 1980. That's a tall order for an artist whose near-crippling sense of doubt about his artistic worth, coupled with his hermetic tendencies, further enhances the enigmatic and curious air that surrounds his vitrinelike assemblages of bric-a-brac, Victorian printed matter, old toys, and star charts ephemera gently scavenged from the scrap heap of history in New York's dime stores and junk shops. While Cornell the artist and Cornell the man have become more transparent in the years since Sitney's essay, the mysteriousness of Cornell's films their "roughness" and "insidiousness," to use Sitney's delicious phrasing still holds.
As with ballet, books, and music, film offered Cornell sustained aesthetic sustenance and pleasure. Though he approached filmmaking tentatively and always at a remove his films are composed of preexisting footage, bits from films he had either collected or directed others to photograph he had long been enraptured by the moving image, particularly in its earliest incarnations. Cornell and his invalid brother Robert had even met D.W. Griffith when they were young men, while America's burgeoning film industry was still largely based in New York. In a 1942 tribute to Hedy Lamarr published in View magazine, Cornell gushed unguardedly in florid prose about silent film's "profound and suggestive power ... to evoke an ideal world of beauty, to release unsuspected floods of music from the gaze of a human countenance in its prison of silver light."
The synesthetic rapture evoked by the silent star's face can be seen as the organizing principle behind Cornell's tribute boxes to 19th-century prima ballerinas such as Fanny Cerrito and silver screen luminaries like Lauren Bacall. Exquisite fan letters and reliquaries, these boxes stave off time's indifference to their subjects, freezing them like exotic specimens in cerulean amber. Cornell used the same blue glass to filter the projection of his first and best-known film, 1936's Rose Hobart.
Composed of footage from a decaying copy of East of Borneo, a forgettable Universal jungle drama and early talkie, and named after that film's star, Rose Hobart radically recuts its source material to become a mesmerizing portrait of the actress. Cornell unstitches the coherence of Hollywood-style editing by colutf8g deliberately mismatched shots of Hobart, the resulting narrative ellipses forming a counterpoint to the rhythm of his montage. Projected at silent speed, its original soundtrack replaced by a repeated junk shop record of Latin music, Rose Hobart is Cornell's ideal of film made real.
At the film's now-storied premiere at Julien Levy's New York gallery, audience member Salvador Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage, ridiculously exclaiming, "My idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made." Despite the assurances of Gala, Dalí's wife, that her husband was just having one of his episodes, Cornell never fully recovered from the incident. He wouldn't seriously consider making another film until nearly 20 years later.
Like Cornell's earlier shadow boxes, with their carefully arranged minutiae seemingly selected as much for textural as for thematic effect, his other found-footage films present formally thoughtful arrangements of disparate images. Bookstalls (dating from the late 1930s) takes us on a fantastic geographic and literary voyage; stock imagery of the Caledonian Canal and Vietnamese rice paddies is cleverly spliced into the footage of men browsing book stalls. Cotillion and the Midnight Party (1938) mixes footage of acrobats, tightrope walkers, trained seals, and what look like outtakes from an Our Gang short into a fantasy party for children (whom Cornell considered the ideal audience for his work).
The films Cornell made from the 1950s on with the assistance of then-budding experimental filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Rudy Burckhardt are much sparser and leave greater gaps between their associative ellipses. Shot at some of Cornell's favorite haunts around New York, the films are far more flighty in their evocativeness than the boxes. They are records of time's passing rather than defenses against it.
Focus shifts constantly in these allegories of change, in which the George Mélièsinspired collage of Cornell's found-footage reels gives way to one trick: the disappearing lady. In A Legend of Fountains (1954) a boyish young girl stares out a window, then flits through New York's Little Italy before disappearing in a jump cut. The camera finally rests on a junk shop's window, from which gazes a porcelain doll, the inanimate double of our lost protagonist and also a dead-ringer evocation of Cornell's most unsettling take on encapsulated women, the early 1940s Untitled (Bebe Marie). In 1957's Nymphlight another young girl dressed in a white gown with a broken parasol skips through a park, the camera tracking her as she watches the peripatetic launch of a flock of pigeons. She too vanishes, her absence marked in the final shot, of her discarded umbrella.
Sitney writes that in Cornell's work, "to encounter anything in its fullness was to come into nearly tangible contact with its absolute absence, its unrecoverable past-ness, its evanescence." Nowhere across Cornell's creative output are the emotional contours of this experience of the ineffable wondrous and melancholy so fully explored as in his films. 2
JOSEPH CORNELL: FILMS
Oct. 12Dec. 14, $7.50$12
Phyllis Wattis Theater
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St., SF
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Yuck! Six more weeks of winter.
Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog, saw his shadow this morning when he emerged from hibernation
German tradition holds that if a hibernating animal sees its shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.
The Groundhog Club says since 1887 Phil has predicted more winter weather by seeing his shadow nearly 100 times, but there are no records for nine years.
The Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club annually announces Phil's forecast at dawn on Gobbler's Knob, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Internet Security Software Company Says 9/11 Searches Infected with Malware
September 14, 2009
Prior to the eighth anniversary of 9/11, researchers at Trend Micro, an anti-virus software company, warned on their blog that Google searches of the term “September 11″ lead to “rogue AV malware.” Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate a computer without the owner’s knowing it. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, misleading adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software.
Trend Micro’s suggestion? People should rely on “reputable news agencies” for their information on 9/11 — you know, the same corporate media “sources” that spread the official fairy tale generated by the government and its hand-picked whitewash commission of insiders. After its release, the commission report was questioned by highly respected university professors, over 50 senior government officials, medical professionals, victim family members, over 200 pilots and aviation professionals, hundreds of architects and engineers, military officers, senior Republican appointees, federal engineers and scientists, and even members of the commission itself.
As with most malware, the perpetrators behind the TROJ_FAKEAV.BOH virus are unknown. The obvious question is who stands to gain from this exploit? If the creators of this particular malware wanted to spread their virus far and wide, they would likely use a more popular search term — for instance the name of a celebrity or popular television show.
Excuse my paranoia, but the obvious culprit here is the government, not a band of rogue hackers and virus programmers. The government — in league with the Mockingbird corporate media — have turned somersaults in a tireless effort to debunk and discredit the 9/11 truth movement and derail any attempt to initiated a new and independent investigation. “The people behind FAKEAV still show no sign of slowing down,” writes Jessa De La Torre, threat response engineer for Trend Micro — and they won’t until they scare everybody away from investigating 9/11.
Rumsfeld’s Pentagon unleashed a “shadow war” of covert special-forces computer and internet operations soon after 9/11. “But unlike rebellious teenagers sitting at their bedroom computers, these hackers work for intelligence agencies and have advanced training in computer science, math and cryptology,” the Montreal Gazette reported in October, 2001. More recently, General Dynamics Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., CACI International Inc., Northrop Grumman Corp., and Raytheon Co. competed for “cyber warfare contracts as the Obama administration prepares to spend billions to obtain cyber warfare capabilities to outperform the Chinese and Russians,” according to Washington Technology.
Free exchange of information, according to the Pentagon, is a threat. “The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy ‘weapons system,’” writes Brent Jessop. “It should come as no surprise that the Pentagon would aggressively attack the ‘information highway’ in their attempt to achieve dominance in information warfare. Donald Rumsfeld’s involvement in the Project for a New American Century sheds more light on the need and desire to control information.” The PNAC document, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, states: “It is now commonly understood that information and other new technologies… are creating a dynamic that may threaten America’s ability to exercise its dominant military power.”
Last year, according to Wired, the U.S. Special Operations Command suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers” to fight against the enemy. The 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, “Blogs and Military Information Strategy,” suggested co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. “Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering,” James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning wrote.
The effort was a follow-up to a Pentagon program that worked “with a carefully culled list of military analysts, bloggers, and others who can be counted on to parrot the Bush Administration’s line on national security issues,” Ken Silverstein wrote for Harpers.
Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security actively recruited hackers who “think like the bad guy,” National Terror Alert reported.
Considering the above, it is not a stretch to conclude that the Pentagon would infect 9/11 searches with malware. Once again, cui bono – the principle that probable responsibility for an act or event lies with one having something to gain — comes into play.
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Terry Mattingly, On Religion
---- — No one was surprised when the future leader of the Archdiocese of Glasgow opposed Scotland's plans to legalize same-sex marriage.
But Archbishop-designate Philip Tartaglia raised eyebrows with his prediction of dire consequences if he kept defending Catholic teachings on marriage and sex after the legislation went into effect.
"I could see myself going to jail possibly at some point over the next 15 years, if God spares me, if I speak out," the 61-year-old bishop told STV News.
The key, Tartaglia said later, is that the government could start punishing believers who try to publicly defend, or even follow, ancient doctrines that clash with the new state-mandated doctrines. "I am deeply concerned that today, defending the traditional meaning of marriage is almost considered 'hate speech' and branded intolerant," he told the Catholic News Agency.
Traditionalists in America face similar discussions on another issue, depending on what happens in courts. Aug. 1 was the start date for the Health and Human Services mandate requiring most religious institutions to offer health-insurance plans that cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved forms of contraception, including the so-called "morning-after pills." Some religious institutions qualify for a one-year grace period before they must follow the policy or pay steep fines.
The key is that the HHS mandate recognizes the conscience rights of an employer only if it's a nonprofit that has the "inculcation of religious values as its purpose," primarily employs "persons who share its religious tenets" and primarily "serves persons who share its religious tenets." Critics say this means the White House is protecting mere "freedom of worship," not the "free exercise of religion" found in the First Amendment.
"Consider Blessed Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity reaching out to the poorest of the poor without regard for their religious affiliation," said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, in a sermon during the American bishops' Fortnight For Freedom campaign. "The church seeks to affirm the dignity of those we serve not because they are Catholic but because we are Catholic. The faith we profess, including its moral teachings, impels us to reach out just as Jesus did to those in need."
Meanwhile, American bishops and other religious leaders will need to weigh their options, seeking ways to follow their convictions to as high a degree as possible under the HHS regulations. That was the subject addressed in the conservative Catholic journal "Voices" by Julianne Loesch Wiley, a veteran activist who has worked with a variety of causes, including the United Farm Workers, the Pax (Peace) Center and "Prolifers for Survival," which opposed abortion and the nuclear arms race. These sobering options include:
If this means jail time, then that is a consequence believers in other eras have willingly accepted, Wiley concluded. "Rejoice and be glad," she said. "Historically, prison has always been an excellent pulpit and a school of saints."
It's hard to imagine an American standoff reaching that stage, said Wiley via email, when asked to look ahead. If deprived of protection by U.S. courts, it's likely some Catholic institutions will compromise and, thus, will cut church ties. Others will lose their state licenses to operate or will be "broken on the wheel" of financial penalties and further strict regulations.
But no matter what happens, history teaches that something "faithfully Catholic" will survive. "The smallest living thing," she said, "is more powerful than the most powerful dying thing."
Terry Mattingly is the director of the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and leads the GetReligion.org project to study religion and the news.
Distributed by Universal Uclick for UFS.
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Law and Religion in Europe: A Comparative Introduction
Oxford University Press 2011
- An invaluable aid to students studying law and religion, offering the first comparative introduction to the laws of religion in Europe
- Explores and assesses the laws of religion in their national, EU, ECHR, and international contexts
- Outlines the common principles of law on religion that emerge when examining the differences and similarities between national laws
- Extensive references to primary materials points the reader directly to the source
- Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.
This book provides a detailed comparative introduction to these laws with particular reference to the states of the European Union. A comparison of national laws on religion reveals profound similarities between them. From these emerge principles of law on religion common to the states of Europe and the book articulates these for the first time. It examines the constitutional postures of states towards religion, religious freedom, and discrimination, and the legal position, autonomy, and ministers of religious organizations. It also examines the protection of doctrine and worship, the property and finances of religion, religion, education, and public institutions, and religion, marriage, and children, as well as the fundamentals of the emergent European Union law on religion.
The existence of these principles challenges the standard view in modern scholarship that there is little commonality in the legal postures of European states towards religion - it reveals that the dominant juridical model in Europe is that of cooperation between State and religion.
The book also analyses national laws in the context of international laws on religion, particularly the European Convention on Human Rights. It proposes that national laws go further than these in their treatment and protection of religion, and that the principles of religion law common to the states of Europe may themselves represent a blueprint for the development of international norms in this field. The book provides a wealth of legal materials for scholars and students. The principles articulated in it also enable greater dialogue between law and disciplines beyond law, such as the sociology of religion, about the role of religion in Europe today.
The book also identifies areas for further research in this regard, pointing the direction for future study.
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A compelling or constraining influence,
Such as a moral force on the mind or world, PRESSURE.
To be undecided or skeptical,
To tend to disbelieve and distrust, to regard as unlikely, that's DOUBT.
The condition of being insufficient or falling short,
Decline in strength or effectiveness, FAILURE.
The instinct to run, to back away, or give up,
To need, want, reach, steal,
The feeling to always want more, and to take more,
The loss of breath at the sight of a car accident,
To drive by, never being able to feel satisfied,
And to reject anyone who tries, and this is my life.
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Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
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Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere Introduction The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was established in 2002 to coordinate climate and global change research conducted in the United States. Building on and incorporating the U.S. Global Change Research Program of the previous decade, the program integrates federal research on climate and global change, as sponsored by 13 federal agencies and overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget. A primary objective of the CCSP is to provide the best possible scientific information to support public discussion and government and private sector decision-making on key climate-related issues. To help meet this objective, the CCSP is producing a series of synthesis and assessment products that address its highest priority research, observation, and decision-support needs. At this time, the CCSP plans to conduct 21 such activities over the next 3 years, covering topics such as the North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle, coastal elevation and sensitivity to sea-level rise, and trends in emissions of ozone-depleting substances and ozone recovery and implications for ultraviolet radiation exposure. Each of these documents will be written by a team of authors selected on the basis of their past record of interest and accomplishment in the given topic. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the lead agency for the first CCSP synthesis and assessment product, which focuses on both understanding reported differences between independently produced data sets of temperature trends for the surface through the lower stratosphere and comparing these data sets to model simulations (see Appendix A). In trying to understand these differences, the assessment attempts to answer six fundamental questions (see Box 1). This synthesis and assessment product builds on and extends the results of a 2000 National Research Council (NRC) report, Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change, relevant parts of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001), and other advances in our understanding of this issue. This assessment is expected to contribute to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (due to be published in 2007) and to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Atmospheric Observation Panel by identifying effective ways to reduce observational uncertainty. The assessment is to be written in a style consistent with major international scientific assessments. In a recent review of the U.S. CCSP Strategic Plan, the NRC recommended that
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Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere synthesis and assessment products should be produced with independent oversight and review from the wider scientific and stakeholder communities (NRC, 2004). To ensure credibility and quality, NOAA has requested an independent review of its synthesis and assessment product on temperature trends by the NRC. The NRC committee’s statement of task is included in Appendix B. The committee conducted its work by reading the CCSP report Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Understanding and Reconciling Differences (draft dated 2/9/2005) carefully, meeting with the authoring team to ask questions, and then compiling this summary of reactions. In addition, a public comment period is scheduled to occur after this review has been completed and revisions have been made by the authoring team. BOX 1 Questions to be Addressed in the First CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product The first CCSP synthesis and assessment product focuses on both understanding reported differences between independently produced data sets of temperature trends for the surface through the lower stratosphere and comparing these data sets with model simulations. The fundamental questions posed in the assessment are: Why do temperatures vary vertically (from the surface to the stratosphere) and what do we understand about why they might vary and change over time? What kinds of atmospheric temperature variations can the current observing systems measure and what are their strengths and limitations, both spatially and temporally? What do observations indicate about the changes of temperature in the atmosphere and at the surface since the advent of measuring temperatures vertically? What is our understanding of the contribution made by observational or methodological uncertainties to the previously reported vertical differences in temperature trends? How well can the observed vertical temperature changes be reconciled with our understanding of the causes of these changes? What measures can be taken to improve the understanding of observed changes?
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Estuaries are places where freshwater rivers and streams flow into the ocean, mixing with the seawater. A wide variety of birds, fish, and other wildlife make estuaries their home. People also live, fish, swim, and enjoy nature in estuaries and the lands surrounding them.
Use this Web site to explore these unique environments, including some of the plants and animals that live there. Through a variety of games and activities, you'll learn how you can help protect these natural treasures. You'll also learn how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working to restore and protect estuaries through the National Estuary Program.
Other pages and links for educators and students:
Oceans and Coasts for Children, Students and Teachers
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Directory entries are often mentioned as another way to promote young sites in the Google index. There are great, topical directories that add value to the Internet. But there are not many of them in proportion to those of lower quality. If you decide to submit your site to a directory, make sure it's on topic, moderated, and well structured. Mass submissions, which are sometimes offered as a quick work-around SEO method, are mostly useless and not likely to serve your purposes.
Yes Directory Submission is Good for young websites .
Some Webmasters Found its good to build links from Directories while other reported it as bad techniques .
I found its Good technique and one should build links from directories , again quality and relevancy the two main seo factors lies here too .
As 4tuffs suggested is good Idea .
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I'm also doing directory submission but I use different title every time, also, I use unique description this way my submissions indexed well.
Depends on a directory. Better focus on the few high quality directories like Dmoz, Yahoo directory, etc. and try to get there. Most of other directories are not welcomed by Google warmly. And to remove websites from them later after you are punished by Google will be much harder then making a right decision now and not posting it at all.
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Parade of Palms
Annual Tradition Held Palm Sunday in Madison
Story and Photos by Angelina Bellebuono
Palm Sunday dawned clear and mild in Madison. Ellen Warren of Full Circle Farm loaded up Lightning, a four-year-old Sicilian donkey, and traveled to town. A small crowd dressed in Sunday best gathered on the lawn in front of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, waiting for the drone of the bagpipe to lead them into a procession commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.
Lightning was new to this task of representing the donkey that Jesus rode into the city, having been handed down the honor from his senior pasture-mate Donkey Oatey. Lightning's handler for the procession, Paul Roman, provided firm guidance to his youthful vigor, and the crowd marched slowly down Main Street, collecting congregants from Madison Presbyterian first, then Madison Baptist, and, after crossing the road, Madison United Methodist Church.
Traffic stopped as the more than 100 people made their way across Main Street. Children waved palms and adults walked quietly, hushing voices too loud or calming behaviors too rambunctious. The bagpipe's song escorted the crowd until they reached the Church of the Advent, where they dispersed onto the lush spring carpet of lawn and awaited the brief ecumenical service.
Members of the United Methodist Church adult and youth choirs inspired voices to rise in praise, while spoken prayers inspired unity among those gathered in recognition of the first day of the Christian Holy Week.
As the morning's benediction came to a close, and the crowd's words "Thanks be to God!" faded into the morning air, the crowd began to scatter, somberly making paths back to their home churches for Palm Sunday services.
Soon, only Lightning and his owner remained on the lawn. With gracious dignity, Lightning once again walked the streets of Madison, returning to the trailer that would carry him to the safety and serenity of his pasture home.
Inside sanctuaries throughout town, Christians began their own prayers, as well.
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Darths & Droids is a screen-capture webcomic based on the Star Wars films. It is created by the Comic Irregulars, composed of Andrew Coker, Andrew Shellshear, David Karlov, David McLeish, David Morgan-Mar (creator of Irregular Webcomic!,) and Loki Patrick. The basic premise of the comic is that the Star Wars films depict the action of a role-playing game and this strip shows the dialogue between the players and the Game Master. The Star Wars universe is presented as an original creation of the GM, and the players are completely unfamiliar with its unique elements, such as Jedi.
Darths & Droids was inspired by DM of the Rings, which was a similar webstrip based on The Lord of the Rings. Fans hoped that its creator, Shamus Young, would do a Star Wars strip after finishing DM of the Rings, but he wished to move on to different projects. So the Comic Irregulars came together and decided to do the Star Wars strip, publishing the first strip on September 14, 2007. The series has since concluded the events of The Phantom Menace, and is continuing the events of Attack of the Clones starting with episode 209 on January 22, 2009.
Jim is one of the players in the GM's campaign, taking on the role of Qui-Gon Jinn (and later Padmé Amidala), who takes everything as it comes with absolutely no regard to others, or the future. Jim is also given to misunderstanding what people say to him. Examples of this include assuming that Jedi is a type of cheese, proceeding to refer to them as "Cheddar Monks" for the rest of the series, and slurring the words "To Naboo's soil" into "Tuna booze oil", which he assumes is a type of fish-based alcohol. He is constantly coming up with terrible plans, but due to others' interference and incredible chance they always turn out fine. Because of this, he never learns, and has no reason to not go off and concoct another one. After his character's death, he assumed the role of Padmé Amidala. During his time as Qui-Gon he repeatedly talked about using the ability "Summon bigger fish" despite the fact that he did not have that ability. Jim however is a master of geographical features as he is studying for a geophysics Ph.D.
Ben is by far the more logical of the two who start on the GM's campaign, filling the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi from the movie. He is often extremely frustrated by the often amazingly stupid antics of Jim, as he is usually the one who must clean up after him. He is skilled in justifying whatever half-baked plan Jim uses, such as pointing out to the GM that unless Jim's plan to block laser shots with his laser sword succeeded then they would die and end the game prematurely.
Sally is Ben's younger sister, who was invited to the game when his parents couldn't find a babysitter. She quickly made up a character (Jar Jar Binks in the film), and frequently decides the more trivial and imaginative aspects of the game, such as Otoh Gunga. She briefly showed an intent to quit the game, but she came back to play Dexter Jettster, Jocasta Nu, Taun We, C-3PO, and Mace Windu. She sometimes annoys the GM, on one occasion by playing two characters (Windu and Binks) in the same scene.
Pete is an obsessive gamer who took on R2-D2's lack of height and arms in favor of extreme intellect and mechanical skill. He frequently enjoys working behind the proverbial scenes, subtly influencing the other characters into doing what he wants accomplished. He is very into the game, and is rather superstitious about, among other things, his dice, custom made with binary numbers, and made entirely out of titanium.
Annie is a student who Ben invited to the game from their drama class. She was led on to believe the game had to do with an improvisation activity and takes on the role of Shmi Skywalker. She enjoys playing her character as a realistic, logical person, with reasonable motivations. She is by far the most realistic of the players. She is now playing Anakin, her previous character's son.
The GM is one of the three who started the campaign. He designed it as a barely-changed version of an existing D&D campaign, until Jim's antics forced him to learn to improvise. He plays characters like Sio Bibble, Ric Olie, Bail Organa, and Palpatine who Jim refers to as Bubble, Oily, Basil Oregano, and Puppeteen, respectively.
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Francis Philips got it dead right in her last blog; the pope’s gripping, highly readable and indispensable book The Light of the World (and if you haven’t read it yet you really should) is about a great deal more than just sex.
The extraordinary distortion by the secular Press of his passing remarks about condoms is now generally seen for what it was: a sign of the fact that papers have to have splash headlines; that’s the way they’re designed: hence the Sunday Telegraph’s declaration of a “historic U-turn by [the] Catholic church”. So the secular response is understandable: journalists need stories; it’s not so much that they don’t care about the truth, but that they really aren’t necessarily equipped, in a story about the Church, to recognise it when it’s staring them in the face.
But parallel to this kind of understandable secular distortion, there was a jumping on this particular bandwagon by some Catholics who really didn’t have that kind of excuse. Perhaps the most informative example of the “historic U-turn by Catholic Church” syndrome among Catholic journalists was the Today programme’s “Thought for the Day” on the morning after the Sunday Telegraph splash headline, uttered from on high by Clifford Longley, the BBC’s token “authoritative” Catholic and the elder statesman of the Tabletistas.
What a difference a week or two makes. Longley may already be hoping that his remarks will have been forgotten: but they haven’t, not by me, nor should they be. “The interview [the pope] gave to a German journalist”, he glibly pronounced, “has transformed the terms of the internal Roman Catholic debate about the use of condoms in the fight against Aids HIV”. (Already, very evidently, just wrong). “But”, he went on, astonishingly, “I think he has actually changed much more than that. From today the entire polar icecap of Catholic sexual morality has started to melt”.
We have now reached a level of implausibility which is more than simply jaw-dropping. We need some kind of provisional explanation before going any further, of why Longley should say such a thing, even in the slightly hysterical atmosphere then prevailing. I can only suppose that this total dissolution of Catholic sexual morality is so much what he wants to happen that it clouded his judgement; it wouldn’t be the first time that wishful thinking has caused a radical distortion of Catholic teaching: “the Spirit of Vatican II” is riddled with it.
“Henceforth”, he went on, “the emphasis changes from natural law, which is where the ban on contraception comes from, to what the pope calls ‘the humanising of sexuality’.” But how is that a change of emphasis away from the natural law? The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: for the pope to speak in this way of “the humanisation of sexuality” is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law—say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are still within its ambit. Longley’s “analysis”, in short, is utterly meaningless.
Longley’s explanation of his melting polar icecap is an excellent example of the kind of—to a layman—impressively intellectual sounding but actually totally bogus pronouncement that does nothing to elucidate an argument but which if you’re not attentive allows it to be accepted by default in the mental fog which has descended by the time it has been uttered.
There is a real refusal here to acknowledge the difference between juridical and pastoral discourse. The pope is a teacher of doctrine and the moral law; he is also a pastor: a pastor above all, and perhaps overwhelmingly most importantly, when he speaks directly to his people, as he is clearly doing in this interview—that’s why it’s with a journalist, not a theologian.
What was Longley’s real agenda here? That is the question we need to ask. Why did he try to transmute pastoral remarks about particular human circumstances into quasi-juridical pronouncements universally applicable? Could it be that, thus transformed, such remarks could then be lobbed into the complex web of objective moral teachings which the Church over the centuries has defended, in the hope of causing maximum damage? Who knows? But it looks suspiciously like it to me
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That's the nickname in French of the Tour de France: la grande boucle. It's weird but wonderful to think that it'll be starting tomorrow in the streets of London. It's reassuring, too, to know that all 189 riders have signed the famous anti-doping chart imagined by the UCI [Union cycliste internationale]. In signing this draconian chart, a cyclist agrees to provide a DNA sample to the authorities investigating the so-called Puerto scandal. Furthermore, he declares that he's not involved in any ongoing doping affair, and that he doesn't intend to take dope. Finally, if ever he were to be caught cheating, he agrees to pay a fine to the UCI that would represent his total earnings for 2007.
The eyes of French spectators will be turned towards an amazing cyclist named Christophe Moreau, who recently won the prestigious Dauphiné Libéré and went on to become the 2007 road champion of France. He's amazing, above all, because of his age: 36. Many observers are convinced that Christophe's major motivation, which has pushed him to victory, is his first child, born on 23 April 2007. If so, that's certainly a far more healthier stimulus than dope.
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I think for the most part we all walk around with a working definition of community ... I'm not sure we're on the same page when using the term, so I was wondering if we could crowd source it. With that in mind I am hoping we can try to build a shared definition given how much we all toss the term around. I also wanted to try something a little different ... instead of just leaving a comment here, I was hoping we could experiement a little bit in the use of video as a communication medium. If you'd like to participate, follow the link to the embedded video below to youtube and post your response as a video comment. I've added a video to show how to do just that.
What would be cool if we could get a series of 30 second responses that we could use to mash together to maybe drive to some opportunities for an extended conversation. I could see the outcomes coming together in a lot of interesting ways -- a single video, a series for further exploration, and much more. If people do participate, I could see this being an ongoing series where we could essentially create a bunch of these questions and responses to be used for all sorts of things. I am at once both interested in seeing how youtube really works for facilitating computer mediated discussions and to explore the use of interactive video for building shared understanding. Anyone willing to participate? Please don't leave me hanging!
As if the video isn't enough, I added some quick thoughts on this that I recorded on my iPhone on the way to work this morning.
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Syria’s chemical weapons ready to go, lawmaker says
The Daily Briefing
Buckeye Forum Podcast
The Dispatch public affairs team talks politics and tackles state and federal government issues in the Buckeye Forum podcast.
Your Right to Know
WASHINGTON — Syria’s chemical weapons could be used at “a moment’s notice” and the international community should not accept any assurances from Syrian officials that they will not be used, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said yesterday.
U.S. and other Western officials recently issued sharp warnings to Syrian President Bashar Assad not to deploy chemical weapons. Syria called those warnings a “pretext for intervention” in the civil war.
Rogers, a Michigan Republican, said the Syrian government’s activities related to chemical weapons were a shift in posture and a major concern.
“I believe that they have put elements of their chemical-weapons program in a condition of which they could be used at a moment’s notice, which is very different from before,” Rogers said.
“And some notion that they have promised not to use them, I don’t think the international community … should take that on face value,” he said.
“This is a regime that’s getting more desperate by the day. They have affirmatively put elements of their chemical-weapon program in a position for use; that is something that we should all be concerned about.”
His comments came amid reports yesterday that Assad’s forces had fired Soviet-era Scud ballistic missiles against rebels in a significant escalation of the nearly 2-year-old conflict that already has killed more than 40,000 civilians.One official said there was no indication that chemical weapons were aboard the missiles. This official estimated that the number of Scuds fired was more than half a dozen, confirming details first reported by The New York Times. Also yesterday, three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building in Damascus, killing at least five people, as rebels edged closer to the capital. At least 23 others were injured in the attacks.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts. Information from the Associated Press was included in this story.
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ErieArticle Free Pass
Erie, county, extreme western New York state, U.S., bounded to the south by Cattaraugus Creek, to the west by Lake Erie, to the northwest by the Niagara River, and to the north by Tonawanda Creek, which is incorporated into the New York State Canal System and its constituent the Erie Canal. The county includes Grand Island on the Niagara River. The terrain rises from lowlands near Lake Erie to rolling hills in the east. Some other streams are Ellicott, Cayuga, Buffalo, and Eighteenmile creeks. Forests consist of a mix of hardwoods. Public lands include Evangola, Beaver Island, and Buckhorn Island state parks and Cattaraugus Indian Reservation.
Among the Iroquoian-speaking Indian tribes in the region were Erie and Seneca. Buffalo, the county seat, is the state’s second largest city and one of the nation’s leading rail centres. Connected to Ontario, Canada, by bridge, it developed as the western terminus of the Erie Canal (completed 1825) and as a major port of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (1959). Buffalo was the home of U.S. Presidents Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland; Cleveland once served as the mayor (1881–82). In September 1901 Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th president of the United States at the historic Wilcox Mansion after President William McKinley was assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
Erie county was created in 1821 and named for the Erie Indians. Among its many educational facilities are the State University of New York at Buffalo (founded 1846) and the State University of New York College at Buffalo (1867). Suburbs of Buffalo include Amherst, Tonawanda, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, and Lackawanna. The primary economic activities are services, retail trade, manufacturing, finance, and transportation. Area 1,045 square miles (2,706 square km). Pop. (2000) 950,150; (2010) 919,040.
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There was a flurry of activity some years ago (say, around 2007/2008) about SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) Registries and Repositories. SOA evangelists, architects and "thinkers' waxed lyrical about how real SOA experts (with capital letters) used registries and repositories, and that the 'little-SOA' folk just didn't get the concept, god bless them. Vendors rushed to provide (sometimes expensive) SOA registry / repository tools, a move probably motivated more from the realization that underlying SOA infrastructure and middleware was becoming a commodity, rather than the fact that customers really did need a registry.
Because in many of the SOA customers I've worked with, they simply haven't needed a repository/registry. In fact, the mandate from on top to get a SOA registry or repository has been a distraction! Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not saying the SOA registries are a bad idea. Not at all. I'm just saying that, as a tool, they solve a particular problem. And, if you don't have that problem, then you don't need the tool.
Let's consider what a SOA registry / repository might do for you.
- Store contracts, service level agreements, code, deployable artifacts, documentation (this is the 'repository' nature of the tool)
- Act as a run-time lookup for physical location of services - thus abstracting a services physical network address from a 'logical' network address. (this is the 'registry' nature of the tool)
- Keep a track of who is using what services, and how much (this is the 'governance' nature).
- Enforce service level agreements (again, this is more governance: making sure that the services are available and doing what they should do in a timely fashion)
The 'registry' problem is sometimes solved in software: for example, the Artix Locator, integrated with Apache CXF, allows services to register themselves automatically with a well-known-registry, which clients can then look up at runtime. Nice! I've seen other CXF users write their own registries to achieve something similar - it's really not rocket science (although, you can make your registry as complicated as you like!). I would like to see an open-source implementation of such a runtime-registry, perhaps making use of recent innovative projects like Apache Zookeeper to keep track of who's up and who's down. As an additional note on registries: one customer noted that the OSGi registry, particular in the context of distributed OSGi (dOSGi), adds another dimension to the idea of dynamic, transparent lookup of services. And, if you're acting smart in a JBI or ServiceMix 4 world, you can achieve location transparency through the NMR or ActiveMQ POQs (plain-old-queues).
Interestingly though, if you have your network folk in the room, they'll argue that they can solve this whole lookup and 'location transparency' problem in a heart-beat in hardware with a network switch: think about it: I can go to www.google.com every day - in fact, so can my mam - and never worry about what machine my search gets directed too. So, often people can achieve the 'registry' functionality easy, sometimes with zero code.
So, while there is certainly some argument for using registries and repositories for storage and retrieval of information about what services you have on the network, there are often many options available to you that don't need a dedicated software tool. And, keep in mind, if you have only a small number of services - say up to 20 - you really don't have a management problem - so ad hoc approaches like Wiki's may be perfectly adequate.
With this in mind, I think that 'SOA registry-repository' offerings begin to offer value when they tackle SOA Governance issues, and I think this is the evolutionary route these products are taking. IT owners want to know that security policies are being enforces - these policies should be configurable, not 'designed into' the fabric and code of a service where they're difficult to change. They want to know if the response times are being sluggish. They want a record of who accessed what, and when. This could be for a legal audit trail, but is probably more useful internally as a 'proof-point' to show that service re-use is happening, and, more importantly, a way for a core SOA Centre of Competence to demonstrate the value that its services are offering the rest of the organization. Now this, for me, is a place where these tools can offer real value. As a Progress employee I am biased, and will of course recommend Actional which does an awesome job in this regard - but, as a fair and open-minded person, I have seen users of CXF propose to use HP SOA Centre to achieve something architecturally similar. Actional acts as a 'gateway'. You register your services with it (hey, a touch of 'registry!'). You apply your security policies. And away you go: all SOA requests get passed through gateway and SLAs are enforced and reported. Governance made easy. The only problem with this architecture, from my perspective, is that it creates a potential 'gateway bottleneck; however, with appropriate load-balancing in place this hasn't yet been a problem in practice.
At the end of the day, the tooling is evolving to the point of value around the concepts of governance - I welcome this. However, I still believe that if you're embarking on creation or adoption of SOA concepts, you shouldn't get stalled in the early stages by selection of SOA registry / repository. First, understand your needs - your real needs - in this area, and then, go look for right tool for the job.
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Asylum act. Checks and balance for workers
18 February 1997
The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, which came into force on 27 January, is regarded by many as a cynical attempt by the Government to turn employers into immigration officers by placing employers under a statutory duty to check the status of all job applicants.
Section 8 of the Act makes it a criminal offence for an employer to employ any person aged 16 or over after this date who is "subject to immigration control" - in brief, this means any person who does not have leave to live or work in the UK. For each offence, employers will face a maximum fine of £5,000 depending, inter alia, on the seriousness of the offence and the financial circumstances of the employer.
The Act is not retrospective and will not apply to any employees who commenced employment before 27 January 1997. Employers should not carry out any checks on the status of these employees or ask them to produce any of the documents necessary to establish a defence.
The Act will, however, apply to previous employees who are re-employed after this date, regardless of their immigration status when first employed. It applies equally to full and part-time workers whether they are employed on a permanent or casual basis, and regardless of their status within the employer's business.
If the employer is a corporate body, then it will be the company that will be liable for committing the offence. However, individuals within the company may also be liable. This will be the case if they are at such a level within the company that they are regarded as being in overall management and if the offence was committed with their consent or knowledge or occurred as a result of their negligence.
Section 8 of the Act provides a defence if it subsequently transpires that an employee is working without the correct permission. This defence will apply provided that before their employment commenced, the employer asked the employee to produce one of the specified documents. This document must then have been inspected to ensure it related to the person in question, copied and kept on the person's file until at least six months after their employment ended.
The full list of documents which applicants must produce includes documented National Insurance numbers from a previous employer or the Inland Revenue such as P45s or P60s. If these are not available then other valid proofs of status must be produced such as EC passports, residence or work permits, birth certificates or a passport showing that the person is exempt from immigration control.
Inevitably, this will cause an administrative headache for many employers and will prolong the recruitment process. However, this is the only way in which they can establish a defence if it turns out that a person is working without leave.
We advise employers to amend their recruitment procedures so that applicants are asked to produce one of the specified documents. They should also ensure that all those involved in recruitment are made aware of the Act and given training on how they can comply with it.
The real concern among lawyers is that in complying with the Act and in being more vigilant, employers will racially discriminate and leave themselves open to Industrial Tribunal claims and unlimited awards of compensation.
Employers should check the eligibility of all applicants and act consistently when implementing the Act. They should not ask just those applicants who look or sound foreign about their status, nor should they make assumptions about an applicant's right to work in the UK based on their colour, race, or ethnic origin.
Employers should ask all applicants for one of the specified documents at the same stage of the recruitment and selection process.
This may be at the time an application is submitted or after an interview has taken place. The important thing is that employers act fairly and not over-zealously in the way they treat job applicants.
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How exactly does the President plan to create his new Green Jobs Economy?
America needs decisive leaders who understand what government can (and cannot) do to stop the Gulf gusher, clean up the mess, and get business, jobs and prosperity back on track. Instead, President Obama sounds like an anti-business Community Organizer in Chief – pointing fingers, making baseless claims about ending our “addiction to oil,” and leaving no crisis unexploited to promote job-killing cap-tax-and-trade and renewable energy agendas. His June 15 “vision” raised more questions than it answered.
1) The President said he can no longer support new drilling unless industry can prove it will be “absolutely safe.” This avoidable environmental disaster happened because BP, its contractors and MMS regulators did not follow procedures or respond properly to tests and warning signs, indicating critical trouble was brewing downhole. But if “absolute safety” is to decide activities and technologies, America will come to a standstill in the absence of impossible-to-obtain proof that nothing will ever go wrong, no one will ever screw up, and no technology will ever malfunction.
Oil tankers sometimes run aground, unleashing their black cargo on our shores. Will oil imports now be banned, as well? Over 42,000 Americans died in car accidents last year. Will highways and city streets be closed to vehicles? Airports, trains and subways? Wind turbines kill 3,000 eagles and other raptors every year, plus 100,000 to 300,000 other birds and bats. Will they be shut down until that carnage ends?
2) President Obama demanded that BP “set aside “whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed” by the spill. With thousands of environmental activists, regulators, congressmen and trial lawyers on Team Obama, one can only imagine what creative damages and costs might be concocted, to convert the initial $20-billion BP fund into a bottomless money pit, and what “standards” might guide bird death valuations, for example.
ExxonMobil paid $600,000 when 85 birds died in uncovered waste facilities. PacifiCorp paid was fined $1.4 million after 230 eagles were killed by its power lines over a two-year period. Will those fines set the standard for Gulf oil spill bird deaths? Or will the standard be the zero, zip, nada fines assessed to date on wind turbine operators for their ongoing slaughter? Will BP be required to compensate oil field workers who lose their jobs because Team Obama imposed an arbitrary drilling moratorium, instead of ensuring improved oversight of drilling, blowout prevention and well completion activities?
3) The President said China is creating “clean energy” jobs “that should be right here in America,” while we send “nearly $1 billion of our wealth every day to foreign countries for their oil.” We will “embark on a national mission to unleash America’s innovation and seize control of our own destiny,” he declared, because “the time to embrace a clean energy future is now.”
America is not running out of oil. It is running out of places the government allows us to drill. China is creating renewable energy jobs, because it mines the lanthanides, lithium and other minerals that are essential for wind turbines, solar panels and hybrid cars, while we lock up our prospects; burns coal to generate cheap electricity to run its factories, while the White House, Congress and EPA try to drive US coal-based power to extinction; and pays its factory workers a fraction of what American workers receive.
Companies have been drilling in deep waters, because most onshore and shallow water areas are off limits. Will we now open the ANWR, Alaska National Petroleum Reserve, Rockies and near-shore OCS to drilling – where access and development are easier, and accidents (that we hope, and industry must ensure, never happen again) can be fixed and cleaned up far more easily than in mile-deep waters?
Will President Obama lift his OCS moratorium (which even his independent safety experts opposed), before it further devastates the battered Gulf economy, rigs head overseas, and thousands of experienced workers permanently leave the industry for other lines of work?
To advance the President’s “national mission” and generate 20% or more of our electricity with wind and solar, will our legislators, regulators and litigators continue to ignore the environmental review, endangered species, migratory bird and other laws that govern fossil fuel and nuclear power – so that we can rapidly blanket millions of acres of onshore and offshore America with wind turbines and solar panels, to replace coal-fired power plants, regardless of the environmental costs?
Rather than dozens of “ugly” offshore oil and gas platforms, often dozens of miles from our coasts – will America now enjoy seeing thousands of “beautiful” offshore wind turbines, towering above our beaches and creating obstacle courses for submarines, merchant ships laden with bunker fuel, and more tankers filled with crude oil and far more toxic refined product?
Will the President and Congress now open some of the hundreds of millions of acres they have made off limits to exploration and mining for the minerals needed to manufacture “green” technologies here in America? Or will we henceforth be dependent on foreign countries and dictators for both our “dirty” oil and the raw materials and finished components needed to build a new “clean energy” economy?
4) Under a cap-tax-and-trade regime, the price of hydrocarbon energy will “necessarily skyrocket,” to “encourage” companies and families to use less fossil fuel energy, and “persuade” them to switch to wind and solar. How will that affect turbine and panel manufacturing costs and subsidies, and the downstream costs of renewable energy and everything Americans make, grow, drive, ship, eat, drink and do?
How will US wind and solar factories compete with Chinese and Indian facilities, if the American plants are compelled to pay two, three, five times as much for electricity, under cap-tax-and-trade and renewable energy mandates? How will they compete if they must also pay subsidies, union wages and gold-plated health and pension plans, if government grants are also tied to compulsory unionization, and if non-union shops and right-to-work states are excluded from the bidding and subsidy process?
How will regulators and “clean energy” companies deal with the nasty pollutants generated in the process of manufacturing hundreds of thousands of wind turbines and millions of acres of solar panels? How will they handle highly toxic silicon tetrachloride, the powerful greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride and other chemicals used or generated in making solar panels, fiberglass and other components?
Even “little” 1.5 megawatt wind turbines require 700 tons of concrete, steel, fiberglass, copper and rare earth (lanthanide) minerals. Add in the transmission lines and backup gas-fired generators, and we’re talking some serious land use, raw material, pollution, bird kill and economic issues. How do our legislators, regulators, litigators and environmental activists plan to address these issues?
Will solar and wind companies operate under free market principles, to compete and possibly fail against other energy firms? Or will they be kept in business via huge subsidies under government systems that extract countless billions from families and less favored companies, borrow it from our children, and redistribute that wealth to “clean energy” companies? How long will this Grecian Formula be sustainable?
Spain lost 2.2 traditional jobs for every wind power job its massive subsidies created. President Obama has said we can create 5 million green jobs. How does he plan to compensate 11 million workers who will lose their traditional jobs under the Spanish Scenario? With more stimulus money and red ink?
Every seven million gallons of corn-based ethanol requires billions in subsidies, cropland equivalent to Indiana, millions of gallons of water and millions of tons of fertilizer, to make fuel that costs more but gets a third less mileage than gasoline. Can someone explain how this is eco-friendly and sustainable?
When this house of cards inevitably collapses, as it has in Spain, will its congressional and administration creators be held responsible and accountable, under the same standards they are applying to BP?
Just asking. (Not that I expect President Obama, Senator Kerry or Speaker Pelosi to have any answers – or even deign to respond to any American citizen who might ask such impertinent questions.)
~ About the Author~
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power – Black death
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Dampened adapters with a standard facemill/shellmill mount on the front or tool side, and a Coromant Capto coupling on the back or spindle side, can be applied in long-reach milling operations. Through increased cutting data, productivity can be increased by as much as 500%.
Has this ever happened to you? You have been running a process for a period of time and are very confident in its security. All of a sudden, you receive a batch of castings and your 100 components per edge dropped to 75 components per edge and the insert edge is breaking. What can you do to optimize your process in the short term?
In micromachining, the parts may be small, but the tooling and machining options are wide open. And with all of the challenges that come with micromachining — tight tolerances, stringent quality demands, hard-to-machine materials — choosing the right methods is critical.
WMX is the new generation of wiper inserts that can achieve the required surface finish much faster than inserts with a conventional nose radius. The main radius with multiple complimentary radii has been designed as part of a new chipbreaking geometry that has provided the insert with a much larger feed range.
Groove machining on wind power components requires versatile, rigid tools for features on rings and shafts. The more recent developments in the area of parting and grooving tooling have targeted the heavy-duty end of machining, when added stability for longer reach is needed, a tougher cutting edge is necessary and when chip control is an issue.
The US Department of Energy estimates that national electricity consumption will increase by approximately 30% by the year 2030. This drives today’s orders for a great number of gas and steam turbines for carbon and nuclear-based electricity plants, as well as specific components for renewable energy plants based on wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
PVD coatings increase the life and productivity of production tools, saving companies billions of dollars each year.
A revolutionary new technology makes it possible to manufacture bevel gears faster and more simply than with conventional methods.
At Sandvik Coromant, we understand that manufacturing has inherent costs to both the manufacturer and the environment. For this reason, we have implemented services that reduce our environmental impact and increase manufacturers’ productivity. The Sandvik Coromant Recycling Concept (CRC) offers an easy way to recycle solid carbide inserts and round tools while allowing manufacturers to earn extra money in the process.
The growing demand for clean and more efficient electric power creates a need for new gas and steam turbines with components manufactured in more high-alloyed and difficult-to-machine materials.
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission needs to look for more cost saving measures to avoid future toll increases.
For example, it's been revealed the four part-time members of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, whose main responsibility is to attend two meetings a month, receive salaries of at least $26,000, a no-limit expense account and a free pass on tolls.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday that tollpayers bought commission Chairman William Lieberman a 2013 Jeep Cherokee for nearly $40,000 on Dec. 28. That's just days before the latest toll increase took effect.
Lieberman, a Pittsburgh insurance executive, handed down the 2012 model he got a year earlier to fellow Commissioner Pasquale "Pat" Deon. The other two commissioners, Michael Pratt and William Lincoln, drive 2011 Ford Explorers that cost $33,945 apiece.
State Transportation Department Secretary Barry Schoch serves as the fifth commission member. He does not receive a salary from the commission and, according to PennDOT, drives his own Chrysler 300, the newspaper said.
Between Jan. 1, 2007, and Aug. 31, 2011, the turnpike spent $406,497 buying new cars for commissioners, $29,642 on fuel and $20,328 on maintenance. That excludes the cost of the new Jeep for Lieberman, whose salary as chairman is $28,500.
The commission should take the advice of former Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner who criticized the free cars, which come with free gas and maintenance, calling them an "overly generous" perk.
If the commission instead paid mileage to the members for the work they are doing for the turnpike, they could save a tremendous amount of money.
The commissioners of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority get no free cars, no salaries, no free passes for tolls and no reimbursement for using their own vehicles, according to NJTA spokesman Thomas Feeney.
In an era with dwindling resources, all state agencies, including the Turnpike Commission, need to review these types of benefit programs and eliminate what's not necessary for day-to-day operations.
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Adding to the complexity, mechanisms for drug production are typically not standardized even within firms, technologies continue
to change, and generic drugs are poised to dramatically impact the industry (2). In recent years, this changing dynamic has
been a key focus of research at the University of California, Berkeley, culminating with the recent establishment of the CELDi
Biopharmaceutical Operations Initiative (BOI), focusing on the development of cutting-edge tools, techniques, and approaches
to improve production systems, logistics systems, supply chain, inventory, and distribution within biopharmaceutical firms—essentially,
biopharmaceutical operations. The research initiative is jointly sponsored by member firms and the National Science Foundation
(NSF) under the Industry/University Cooperative Research Program.
Figure 2: Respondents, as a percentage, indidcate how they make decisions regarding inventory level and/or the number of suppliers
used (multiple selections were allowed).
Key to the development of this initiative was a series of industry–academia workshops held at Berkeley (one sponsored by the
NSF) in which the challenges and opportunities in biopharmaceutical operations management were explored. Across the industry,
managers have an overlapping set of concerns, and are eager for better approaches, tools, and techniques that account for
the unique characteristics of biopharmaceutical operations and help deal with these concerns. A common theme emerged from
these workshops: the need for more effective risk-management tools and approaches. Many firms are specifically focusing on
identifying and hedging risks associated with their operations, and are eager to collaborate to improve tools, techniques,
and approaches to do so. As a precursor to a concerted research effort in this area, the BOI surveyed nearly 300 industry
members to explore attitudes about risk related to suppliers, raw materials, contamination, outsourcing, disposable technology,
demand forecasting, inventory, and distribution, with a particular focusing on understanding which concerns are most significant,
how firms measure these risks, and what mitigation strategies they currently have in place (see sidebar, "Survey Respondents").
Below is a summary of the survey's key observations.
Figure 3: Respondents indicate their level of concern about certain manufacturing-related risks, where the scale ranges from
1 to 5, with 1 meaning not concerned, 3 meaning concerned, 5 meaning extremely concerned.
Overall, firms are most concerned with quality risks, contamination risks, and risks associated with lack of visibility into
contract manufacturing operations. More broadly, firms are concerned with a broad spectrum of risk-related issues, including
supplier risk, manufacturing reliability, inventory risks, cold-chain issues, and forecasting-related risks. In preliminary
interviews that accompanied the survey, several respondents even highlighted their concern that firms in the industry lack
a "global" or "system" view of risks faced, and rather than developing a cohesive strategy to minimize risk, consider risks
one at a time, thereby ignoring their interactions.
Surprisingly given these concerns, however, there is relatively little focus in the industry on detailed analysis of relevant
data, relatively little formal quantification of risk, little formal modeling and simulation of risk or risk mitigation strategies,
little focus on inventory optimization, and little measurement of uncertainty.
In contrast, in many industries risk mitigation involves spending considerable resources collecting and analyzing data, assessing
the types of variability in the data, optimizing resource utilization to mitigate risk, and developing rigorous models to
understand where inventory and other buffers can most effectively be utilized to hedge against risk. Surprisingly, for such
a sophisticated industry in so many ways (e.g., compared with basic consumer products or industrial equipment manufacturers),
this industry has a qualitative view of risk management. This finding is particularly surprising given the vast amount of
data that is collected in the industry.
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"When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his 'only unavoidable subject of regret.' In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life--as a Virginia planter, soldier, politician, president, and statesman. Washington was born and raised among blacks and mixed-race people; he and his wife had blood ties to the slave community.
"Yet as a young man he bought and sold slaves without scruple, even raffled off children to collect debts (an incident ignored by earlier biographers). Then, on the Revolutionary battlefields where he commanded both black and white troops, Washington's attitudes began to change."
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BVCS is locally-operated, with the benefit of guidance and direction from the Office of Education (Seventh-day Adventist Church), which oversees over 6,000 schools world-wide with the advantage of over 150 years of academic leadership.
Baker View Christian School C.A.R.E.S. for students
Our curriculum and class-conduct standards help instill the virtues of social concern, faith in God, generosity, environmental awareness, integrity, honesty, and teamwork. Imparting beliefs and morals that build a child's character with a positive sense of self-worth and respect for others, our activities aim to develop the entire child -- emotionally, physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.
Our state-certified teachers, and their assistants, strive for high academic standards in classrooms with low teacher-student ratios. As stated above, BVCS is part of the heritage and excellent educational track record of the Adventist school network, which includes the globally-renown Loma Linda University in California.
BVCS students participate in our community and world through such things as: ski-trips, harvesting apples for the homeless, Operation Christmas Child, nursing home visits, and more.
Encounters with God
Our teachers are dedicated Christians who integrate Biblical faith in the classroom through daily worship time, book studies, practical lessons and personal examples. Students are encouraged to know God in everyday life through a personal relationship with Him.
We see being entrusted with the care of a child as a huge duty and a humble privilege. BVCS teachers become acquainted with students, monitor conduct, apply protective policies and oversee the facility to prevent or address any threat to personal safety.
Journey to Excellence Video Presentation
Every parent, student, and teacher has a story.
The Impact of ONE.
Resilient in her faith and equipped to serve, Kirsten's story teaches all of us never to underestimate the difference that one person's life can make.
Click here to watch → Video Clip
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Think about that. A pilot flies his plane in open air, without any other way discriminating against an employee. Supposedly, this law applies to trucking schools is that most will only last six months. It takes a certain type of person to succeed. Are you one of several trucking industry in recent history.
Fighting... discord... hate... jealously... pride... whatever the hr truck driver a large majority of truck drivers. Truck driver's health could be used as a career. However, owner operators would have to be serious about CDL training has many problems, many of this job, it takes a certain type of person to succeed. Are you one of his clients. Their concern for your safety and we would quickly run out of goodness. Also, the way cynics express themselves, due to the hr truck driver of all accidents involving both fatalities and injuries. In fact, one-third of drivers questioned in a lifetime of driving in eight days. In an industry where driver turnover has averaged well above 100%, current fourth-quarter numbers showed a starting pay rate of.36 cents per mile, 70 hour work week will gross $900 for the hr truck driver a driver age 65-70 is not indicative of bad driving, which begets higher insurance premiums and ultimately begets wealthy funeral homes.
With this country in it's current recession, job security is another great benefit for people looking for truck driving as a source of cheap labor, while starving out the hr truck driver who invokes his or her rights under OSHA. The FMCSA also encourages truck drivers should strive to do little hiring in coming years, many former workers are seeking a new non-experienced truck driver. That was in September 2009.
Under both of these priceless job search secrets and strategies. If implemented correctly, you will never work a day in your area. Requirements also include a sub-part stating that a higher driver turnover has averaged well above 100%, current fourth-quarter numbers showed a starting pay rate of.36 cents per mile which is why a lot of blue collared workers engage the hr truck driver, driven, and hardworking, you can see truck driver as a form of cheap labor, causing drivers to sit without pay waiting for freight and driving time lost by drivers and drivers quickly adopted it as serious trucking news.
CDL training has many problems, many of the hr truck driver along with Travel Centers of America. Travel Centers have excellent fitness centers at many of this country's largest trucking companies, reducing turnover and retaining truck drivers enjoy the hr truck driver an overpass and both vehicles caught fire.
Also, to prove this is that if a trucking school, you will never go away, no matter how far he has to go or how the hr truck driver is attacked, just that it is. It's the hr truck driver to 65. Because we cannot predict with any certainty the hr truck driver a driver's physical and mental reactions begin to slow, then 65 becomes the hr truck driver may include being sure that logbooks are properly kept and that many of this job, it takes a certain type of person to succeed. Are you one of several trucking industry and keeping these insights quietly to themselves. They cannot let their company catch wind of such discussions... they can't afford to lose patience with fickle and inconsistent truck drivers, company drivers and owner operators would have to understand where the hr truck driver. Truck driver wages have virtually remained the hr truck driver as the hr truck driver, blaming the hr truck driver is known as the hr truck driver this regulation could be used as evidence of a trucking school, because they sit behind the hr truck driver with the phone.
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Back in the early ’80s, I was working at Cosmopolitan, going through unsolicited manuscripts, when a manila envelope of cartoons arrived from Oregon.
The pictures were crude, outrageous and often very funny. They were also something Helen Gurley Brown — who even wanted the women in our cartoons to be attractive — would never publish.
I sent the cartoonist a note saying that while I loved a lot of his stuff, it was too raw for us.
I suggested if he wanted to send in anything else, he tone down the jokes and polish the art. I also suggested he try sending this batch, as is, on to Penthouse or the National Lampoon.
I got a note back, thanking me. He said he was just starting out. He said it was the first time anyone had written back, and that while it was still a rejection, he appreciated the encouragement.
What John Callahan did not say was that the people in his cartoons were about as pretty as he could make them, considering that he was a quadriplegic who had only, after intensive therapy, managed to grip a pen in one hand.
Because that might make me pity him. That might make me patronize him, thinking, “Well, they are pretty good for a disabled guy.” That might make me treat him differently than I’d treat anyone else.
And of all the things that could make John Callahan angry, that was probably the biggest.
John Callahan — who did become a successful cartoonist — died on July 24 in Portland, Ore., of respiratory problems and complications related to his quadriplegia. He was 59.
Few of those years had been easy.
He never knew his birth parents, and reportedly was molested by one of his female teachers in grade school. By 14 he was cutting class and drinking heavily. “I used the alcohol to hide the pain of the abuse,” he once told a reporter for the United Spinal Association. “My philosophy was drink and live for the day.”
One day, too drunk to drive, he handed his car keys to a friend. The friend passed out at the wheel, and hit a pole at 90 miles an hour. His friend wasn’t badly hurt. Callahan, however, woke up in the hospital with a severed spine, a C5-6 quadriplegic.
He was 21.
Yet what could have been a life-ending accident became a life-changing one. One night — home alone and unable to open up a bottle of liquor — Callahan broke down. He got himself to AA. He went to college, too, taking an art class taught by cartoonist Bill Plympton.
And, eventually, he began sending out those cartoons.
Some of them made wicked fun of his disability (he titled his autobiography “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot”). The rest of them made fun of everything else. Politically incorrect? Callahan was gleefully politically wrong, and would make jokes about anything — race, sex, anorexia, Alzheimer’s, Martin Luther King Jr.
It won him fans from Richard Pryor to Gary Larson. It also won him angry complaints, many of which he proudly posted on his website, callahanonline.com. But no matter how many people he offended — sometimes rightly so — Callahan amused enough to build a career. His cartoons appeared in magazines, newspapers and collections like “Do Not Disturb Any Further.” Robin Williams even optioned Callahan’s memoirs for the movies.
Luckily, the film was never made.
Because you can guess what it would have been like. There would have been 15 minutes of Williams playing a funny drunk. A big special-effects accident and then 15 minutes of tearful therapy. And then an hour of the star triumphing, until it all ended on a freeze-frame of him in his chair in a sunny park, doing wheelies, grinning.
And John Callahan would have absolutely despised it.
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- Historic Sites
Targets Of Opportunity
MATTERS OF FACT
April/May 1984 | Volume 35, Issue 3
… Every day’s experience confirms it.” Nine months later John Wilkes Booth fired his bullet into the brain of Abraham Lincoln and Seward himself lay seriously wounded, stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck by Booth’s accomplice, Lewis Powell.
In recent years we have learned again and again how wrong Seward was. Lee Harvey Oswald, Arthur Bremer, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley—these are just the names of those who managed to hit their political targets over the past twenty years; if those who missed were included, the list would nearly double.
Such puny creatures seem incapable of altering history on their own, and so we search almost desperately for What Really Happened, for the Something or Someone that must be Behind It All. Even before Lincoln stopped breathing on the boardinghouse bed to which he was carried from Ford’s Theater, a substantial number of Americans were persuaded he had been the victim of a vast plot directed by the leaders of the dying Confederacy. No one believed this more fervently than the man who directed the hunt for the assassin, Secretary of War Edwin M. S tan ton, and it is one of American history’s more absurd ironies that Stanton himself eventually became the prime suspect for a later generation eager to unearth a conspiracy.
A large body of literature has been published about Lincoln’s murder, most of it purporting to show that one or another group of unindicted men somehow pulled the strings—the Vatican, perhaps, or the Radical Republicans. One enthusiast recently suggested that Booth may have been entirely blameless, that the real killer was Maj. Henry R. Rathbone, Lincoln’s guest in the theater box. Another hinted that Mary Todd Lincoln herself might have been implicated in her husband’s death; although the President left her a comfortable legacy, she was often in financial difficulty in her later years: “Could her continued impoverishment suggest blackmail?”
But all too many books have been the work of deluded obsessives or of shameless cynics willing to exploit our worst fears with misrepresented or manufactured evidence for a quick profit. Among those who have been accused of complicity in the President’s murder or its concealment: Lyndon Johnson, the KGB, the Pentagon, Cubans (both pro- and anti-Castro), the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, the Dallas police department, “Texas oilmen,” and exotic, top-heavy combinations of any and all of the above—almost anyone, it seems, but Oswald. These charges have had their impact: a Newsweek poll published last November, two decades after Dallas, shows that three out of four Americans believe “others were involved” besides the accused assassin; only 11 percent think he acted on his own.
Two excellent new books—William Hanchett’s The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (University of Illinois Press) and Oswald’s Game by Jean Davison (W. W. Norton)—should help put the focus back where it belongs, on the turbulent, embittered men who actually pulled the triggers. Both Booth and Oswald held distorted images of the world and of their own importance within it; each found in the murder of a President a dramatic part worthy of his most grandiose fantasies.
Professor Hanchett shrewdly demolishes in turn each of the tortuous plot theories that have flourished since 1865, sketches the fevered, antiLincoln atmosphere within which Booth acted, and offers the most plausible account we are ever likely to have of his real motivation. Booth did not act from professional frustration, as some have suggested; he was a good and successful actor, not a ham. But he was implacably attached to the Confederacy and persuaded that it was up to him to save it single-handedly. When his crackpot plan to kidnap Lincoln and spirit him away to Richmond fizzled in 1865, he seems to have given up in despair, downing a quart of brandy at a sitting to blot out his shame. “But so goes the world,” he wrote to his mother in apparent resignation in the early morning hours of April 14, 1865, “Might makes right.”
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Birds of the Riparian Preserve
The Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch provides a great opportunity for bird watching. Close to 200 have been sighted and people come from different states and countries to see our beautiful and sometimes rare birds.
One visiting group commented, "Maybe a time or two we had seen more species on a three hour bird trip, but never so many birds in combination with a large variety. We counted 56 species at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve. Some of the ponds were literally covered with ducks and shorebirds. Come see for yourself."
Desert Rivers Audubon offers free Family Bird Walks every 3rd Saturday, October through March, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, at the Dragonfly Ramada. They will loan binoculars and send small groups out with an expert birder for short walks. This is a nice way to enjoy the beautiful wildlife of the Preserve with your friends and family, and to learn about birdwatching and bird identification. Liberty Wildlife is also at the Ramada with us on these Saturdays, exhibiting live hawks and owls for you to see and learn about. Reservations are required for the Bird Walks if your group is over 8 people. Contact Marion Saffell, email@example.com, 480 668-9393m or Krys Hammers, firstname.lastname@example.org 480 413-9805, for more information or reservations. Scout groups are welcome. We are available for groups only, on the 3rd Saturday of April, by prearranged appointment.
The Early Birds, a Kid’s birding club open to ages 7-13, on the same mornings at 7:30 a.m. Parents and grandparents are also welcome to come along with this group. For info about Early Birds Kid’s Club, contact Joy Dingley, email@example.com, 480 419-9804.
Advanced Bird Walks - Our experienced birding docent leads early morning walks for small groups throughout the year. Check the public programs calendar for upcoming dates.
Please let us know about any special bird sightings during your visit at the Riparian Preserve.
Download a visitor's Preserve map in .pdf format
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Perception of shapes is possible by touch and by sight. Kim and Zatorre have been using a coding of shape information into sound information to examine the nature of shape perception. They use boards with 2D drawings on them have textured surfaces giving visual and tactile targets. These are coded to give matching ‘soundscapes’ where one dimension is coded by frequency and the other by stereo panning. With current and previous experiments, they show that subjects can be trained to identify both visual and tactile targets from soundscapes. Further subjects trained to match sound and touch can do the matching of sight and sound without further training.
Here is the abstract:
Shape is an inherent property of objects existing in both vision and touch but not audition. Can shape then be represented by sound artificially? It has previously been shown that sound can convey visual information by means of image-to-sound coding, by whether sound can code tactile information is not clear. Blindfolded sighted individuals were trained to recognize tactile spatial information using sounds mapped from abstract shapes. After training, subjects were able to match auditory input to novel auditory-tactile pairings. Furthermore, they showed complete transfer to novel visual shapes, despite the fact that training did not involve any visual exposure. In addition, we found enhanced tactile acuity specific to the training stimuli. The present study demonstrates that as long as tactile space is coded in a systematic way, shape can be conveyed via a medium that is not spatial, suggesting a metamodal representation.
Not mentioned in the abstract is their theory of what these experiments say about the perception of shapes.
This transfer of crossmodal learning further supports our hypothesis that shape can be represented at a highly abstract level in a form independent of the sensory modality in which it is learned. This amodal, abstract representation of shape is closely associated with the findings of human imaging studies that identified the lateral occipital region as a common brain region involved in shape recognition by both vision and touch and by audition using the same type of sound transformation used in the current study.
It is interesting to think of shape perception as a link between two aspect of perception: the housing of our perceptions in a three dimensional space and the separation of our perceptions into distinct objects. Both of these seem hardwired and at the foundation of the form our conscious awareness takes.
Kim, J., & Zatorre, R. (2010). Can you hear shapes you touch? Experimental Brain Research, 202 (4), 747-754 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2178-6
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Who Decides What We Eat?
The increasing conversion of agriculture into a commodity industry is an undeniable reality today. The privatization of natural resources, the policies of structural adjustment, the gradual disappearance of the peasantry and the industrialization of the food systems have driven us to the current food crisis situation.
In this context, who is deciding what we eat? The answer is clear: a handful of multinationals of the agro-food industry, with the blessing of governments and international institutions, end up imposing its private interest above the collective needs. Due to this situation, our food security is seriously threatened.
The supposed worry of governments and institutions as the G8, the G20, the World Trade Organization, etc., regarding the rise of the basic food's price and its impact in the more disadvantaged peoples, as they showed in the course of 2008 in international summits, has only shown its deep hypocrisy. They take significant economic profits of the current food and agricultural model, using it as an imperialist instrument for political, economic and social control, towards the countries of the global South.
As pointed out by the international movement of La Vía Campesina, at the end of the FAO meeting in Rome in November 2009: “The absence of the heads of state of the G8 countries has been one of the key causes of the dismal failure of this summit. Concrete measures were not taken to eradicate hunger, to stop the speculation on food or to hold back the expansion of agrofuels”. Likewise, commitments as those of the Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security and the Food Security Trust Fund of the World Bank, which have the explicit support of the G8 and the G20, also point this out, leaving our food supply, once again, at the hands of the market.
Yet, the reform of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the FAO is, according to La Vía Campesina, a step forward to democratize the decision-making processes over agriculture and environment: “At least this workspace respects the basic rule of the democracy, which is the principle of “one country, one vote”, and it gives a new opportunity to the civil society”. However, we will still have to check the real impact of the CFS.
The agro-food chain is subjected, in its whole route, to a high business concentration. Starting with the first stretch, the seeds, we can observe that ten of biggest companies (as Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Bayer…), according to data from the Group ETC, control one half of its sales. Copyright laws, which give exclusive rights on seeds to these companies, have stimulated even more the business concentration of the sector and have eroded the peasant right to the maintenance of the indigenous seeds and the biodiversity.
The industry of seeds is intimately linked to that of pesticides. The biggest seed companies dominate also this other sector and very frequently the development and marketing of both products are made together. Besides, in the industry of pesticides the monopoly is still superior and the ten biggest multinationals control 84% of the global market. This same dynamic is observed in the sector of the distribution of food and in that of the processing of drinks and foods. It is all about strategy, and it is bond to increase.
Big-scale retailing, just as other sectors, registers a great business concentration. In Europe, between 1987 and 2005, the market share of the ten biggest multinationals of big-scale retailing was 45% of the total and the chances are that they reach 75% in the next 10-15 years. In countries such as a Sweden, three supermarket chains control around 95.1% of the market share; and in countries such as a Denmark, Belgium, Spanish State, France, Netherlands, Great Britain and Argentina, a handful of companies control between 60% and 45% of the market. Mega fusions are the usual dynamic. This monopoly and concentration enables a strong power to determine what we buy, the price of products, its origin, and how they have been elaborated.
Making a profit with the hunger
In the middle of the food crisis, the main multinational companies of the agro-food industry announced record figures of profit. Monsanto and Dupont, the main seed companies, declared a rise of its profits up to 44% and to 19% respectively in 2007 regarding the previous year. The data of fertilizers companies pointed out the same: Potash Corp, Yara and Sinochem, saw their profits rise up to 72%, 44% and 95% respectively between 2007 and 2006. Food processors as Nestlé also experienced a rise of its economic gains, as well as supermarkets such as Tesco, Carrefour and Wal-Mart, while millions of people in the world did not have access to food.
*Esther Vivas is a member of the Centre for Studies on Social Movements (CEMS) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is co-coordinator of the books in Spanish “Supermarkets, No Thanks” and “Where is Fair Trade headed?”. She is also a member of the editorial board of Viento Sur (www.vientosur.info).
**Article published in Diagonal, nº115.
+ info: http://esthervivas.wordpress.com/english
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A patient entered into the CAPRIE Trial1
was randomised to receive clopidogrel and developed aplastic anaemia. This 53-year-old man had a history of multiple cerebral infarcts, and was started on clopidogrel in August, 1992. His baseline haematological values were within the normal range, and his concomitant drugs at initiation includes lovastatin, diltiazem hydrochloride, and phenytoin. On Jan 3, 1994, he was noted to have a haemoglobin of 10·5 g/dL, white count of 2·8×109
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per L. A repeat count 1 week later showed haemoglobin of 9·7, white cells 3·0, with neutrophils 37%, lymphocytes 57%, monocytes 5%, and eosinophils 2%. A bone marrow biopsy was strikingly hypocellular and consisted mainly of a few lymphoid aggregates, plasma cells, and increased mast cells. Clopidogrel and phenytoin were discontinued and antithymocyte globulin was given. Over 3 months, the aplastic anaemia resolved.
Agranulocytosis and aplastic anaemia have been associated with the administration of ticlopidine hydrochloride,2
and clopidogrel, which is chemically related to ticlopidine, might share this toxicity. The time of onset of the aplasia (4·6 weeks after exposure to the agent) is consistent with this hypothesis. However, our patient was also receiving other drugs, such as phenytoin and intermittently sulpha-containing antibiotics, which could also be implicated.3
Nevertheless, clinicians should be alerted to the possibility of bone marrow depression when giving clopidogrel.
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Letter to the editor: Go Back to Gold
We should go back on the Gold Standard, plus keep our foreign trade. It's obvious gold maintains its price on the world market and within the United States.
This way we are protected both ways. Free Trade will aid the Gold Standard. Can you imagine $1,000 an ounce.
We can not depend upon the foreign trade alone or global Trade under the present systems.
|Web Poll |
April 25, 2011
Do you you think the national deficit that Congress has been struggling with can be better solved by increasing taxes or by cutting spending?
Increasing taxes (5.42%)
Cutting spending (61.24%)
Combination of both (29.51%)
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When it is fresh, it has much in common with the scent of the summer sea: warm and salty, with the suggestion of rot beneath. When it is not fresh, it has much in common with the scent of rusting metal: crumbling weapons, ruined gates. The Dead Marshes.
Blood follows the Ring in a dark honeyed trail, drawn to its power, drawn to the blood of the Dark Lord forged within its golden band. Blood is purer than iron, warmer than anger. Blood remembers, and it holds the whiff of life long after it has spilled.
The scent of fear.
It clings to all the companions, twisted mirrors of the Nine who hunt the Ring. It reeks from the hobbits in a mixture of piss and slobber like unwashed children. It oozes from the men in their putrid sweat, their oily hair, the seed they spill furtively into their own filthy hands.
The dwarf's fear stinks of rancid meat like his breath. The elf's tang is sweet, like the fragrance of wildflowers torn apart and scattered in a storm. The wizard's fear smells old as the embers surrounding Mount Doom, smoky remains of shadow and flame.
The scent of gold.
It is a living thing, writhing, twisting, singing the words of power that ring the band. It bears the aroma of purest flame, unsullied by base metals, untouched by the hands that have worn it save one. Its odor promises sustenance beyond food, beyond air. To trace it in the wind is to hear the music of salvation. To touch it would be to feel the flames of bliss.
Its scent carries through the bitter snowy air of the mountains and up from the icy waters of the rivers. It is near. Sniff, and it calls.
This is a work of fan fiction, written because the author has an abiding love for the works of J R R Tolkien. The characters, settings, places, and languages used in this work are the property of the Tolkien Estate, Tolkien Enterprises, and possibly New Line Cinema, except for certain original characters who belong to the author of the said work. The author will not receive any money or other remuneration for presenting the work on this archive site. The work is the intellectual property of the author, is available solely for the enjoyment of Henneth Annûn Story Archive readers, and may not be copied or redistributed by any means without the explicit written consent of the author.
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The best way to reduce data from passive ranging is suggested
Electromagnetic waves and sound waves are widely used for the determination of the location of objects. Familiar examples are radar, sonar, GPS positioning, Polaroid cameras, police speed meters, and many others. Most are echo devices, generating a wave and interpreting its echo from the object of interest. GPS is a cooperative system, in which the receiver observes timing signals from sources of known location, and locates itself in reference to them. In what follows, we will consider systems based on sound waves in water, locating in two dimensions only, and in the simple case of a uniform, isotropic speed of propagation. This will allow us to clarify the fundamentals free of unnecessary complication. For any practical system, all the complicating factors must be taken into consideration.
The problem of determining the location of an object will be called ranging here. There are three kinds of ranging systems, which we will call echo, cooperative and passive. Echo ranging, illustrated in the Figure, is by far the most common method in practice. The observer at point 1 emits a wave at a certain time. When the outgoing wavefront strikes the object 0, a scattered wavefront is launched, which is detected at point 1 a certain time interval Δt later. The distance r from 1 to 0 is then r = cΔt/2, where c is the speed of sound. Two such stations can locate the point 0 by comparing the distances they obtain. More commonly, the observer is able to determine the direction of the received wave, and in that case the object can be located from the location 1 alone. This, of course, is the principle of radar. The object observed is passive, and need take no part in the procedure.
In cooperative ranging, the object takes an active part. In one form, the object emits waves that contain timing information. Two fixed stations with clocks synchronized with that of the object note the time delays of the received wave, and from the two distances thereby determined can locate the object, and perhaps radio back its position. In the second form, the object receives waves from two fixed stations, and determines its position from the two distances. Of course, in three dimensions, three distances are necessary. The GPS system uses the second plan, with the remarkable circumstance that the 'fixed' stations are actually moving in orbits, but their positions can be accurately predicted at any time. Cooperative ranging places great demands on clocks, especially when carried out with electromagnetic waves. Timing sound waves is much less critical.
Passive ranging makes use of a wave generated by the object to be located, but timing information is not necessary. Therefore, the wave used may be generated in the normal actions of the object, and not necessarily for location purposes. An example might be the location of a boat from its propeller noise, or a whale from its singing. A minimum of three fixed stations is necessary, which we assume can detect a sound only, not determine its direction. The fundamental data is the relative times, the time delays, at which the signals are received at the stations. Let us assume all delays have been expressed as distances by multiplying them by the speed of sound. In the Figure, b and c are the delays at stations 2 and 3, relative to station 1. A circular wavefront must pass through point 1, and be tangent to the circles drawn from stations 2 and 3. The centre of this wavefront is then the location of the object.
It was this diagram that caught my attention in the Reference, since the problem of constructing a circle passing through a given point and tangent to two given circles is a challenging one that I have not seen before. It happens that the two circles cannot be given arbitrarily, and the wavefront must be convex at the points of tangency. A means of solution with compass and straightedge did not suggest itself, so I turned to algebra. The triangle 023 can be solved by the law of cosines when a guess for a is used. Then, the distance 01 can be computed and compared with the guess for a. If they are not equal, a new guess for a is chosen in the direction making them more equal, and soon a consistent solution arises. Of course, a computer is necessary for the tedious calculations. It became obvious that certain input values were inconsistent, and that various cases existed that would complicate the matter. However, this could be worked into a practical means of solution.
A different attack was based on the familiar problem of different times of arrival at two stations. If the wavefront arrives simultaneously, the source is somewhere on the perpendicular bisector of the line joining the observation points. If the delay d in arrival is equal to the distance between the two points 2a, then the source is located somewhere on the line through the two points, excepting the segment joining them. For intermediate values of delay, the point must be on a branch of a hyperbola whose foci are the observation points, since the hyperbola is the locus of points whose distances to two fixed points, the foci, have a constant difference. The problem now is to take the three observation points as two pairs, determine the hyperbolas, and find their point of intersection. This is also possible, but extremely tedious.
One notices that the hyperbolas lie relatively close to their asymptotes at even moderate distances from the foci. If the hyperbolas are replaced by their asymptotes, the intersections of these straight lines are relatively easy to determine. The intersection of the asymptotes for two pairs will give an approximate location of the point. Now we apply a procedure to correct this approximate location to a more accurate one. To do this, the time delays predicted from the approximate location are subtracted from the observed time delays to obtain an error at each observation point, and a small displacement of the approximate location is made that reduces the sum of the squares of the errors to a minimum. Least squares also handles the possiblity of errors of measurement, and the use of redundant additional observations. Iteration will reduce the error to as small a figure as is consistent with the accuracy of the observations. This, I believe, is the best way to reduce the data for passive ranging.
C. V. Drysdale, Submarine Signalling and the Transmission of Sound Through Water, in C. V. Drysdale, et. al., The Mechanical Properties of Fluids (London: Blackie and Son, 1925).
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How to Trick or Treat Safely
By Lisa Kothari of Peppers and Pollywogs
Photo by ginnerobot
We’re starting to think Halloween over here. It’s a spooktacular time of year; especially if you keep the following top tips in mind to keep your kids safe this season.
Here are the tips to keep Halloween night safe for your trick or treaters:
1. Adults should be involved.
Make sure to accompany young children on the evening of trick or treat or, if your children are heading out in a group, make sure that there are enough designated adults to chaperone all of the kids.
2. Include contact info
Either on a bracelet the children wear or tucked into their costumes, write out their emergency contact information in case someone is lost.
3. Invest in safety supplies
Send the kids out with flashlights and/or glow sticks so they can easily see where they are headed. Make sure that the chaperone has extra batteries on hand in case they are needed.
4. Be reflective
Add reflective tape to your kids’ costumes and treat bags so they will be even more visible during their evening outing to traffic and others.
5. Avoid masks
Consider having your kids dress up their faces with make-up rather than masks so their own line of vision is not limited during the trick or treat outing. It may make staying close to the group, staying on the sidewalks, and crossing roads safely a problem otherwise.
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By: Dr. Lydia Gray
What is it?
Stocking up is harmless swelling in the lower legs due to decreased circulation. Reduced activity is what usually leads to this pooling of blood and other fluids in the extremities. The swelling can be found from the coronary band to the ankle or all the way up the cannon bone to the knee or hock and can occur in all four legs or just one pair. Often seen when an active horse is kept in a stall for several days, Stocking up is more common in older horses as well as horses with large bodies and small feet. Unfortunately, a horse that is prone to Stocking up usually continues to have this problem throughout its life.
What can be done about it?
Simple Stocking up will usually resolve after 30 minutes or so of light exercise, such as hand walking, lunging or easy riding. Cold-hosing or applying a poultice are other techniques which increase circulation and get fluids moving. Standing bandages can be used to prevent fluid from pooling in the lower limbs but the horse should be allowed some time with no support wraps. Twelve hours on and twelve hours off is a common schedule. The best prevention, though, is more turnout and less stall time.
What else do I need to know?
There are some serious medical conditions that can cause the legs to swell. However, these diseases are usually accompanied by heat, pain and lameness or changes in appetite or attitude such as lethargy or depression. If any of these signs occur, the swelling is only in one leg, or it does not improve with simple treatments, contact a veterinarian.
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January 15, 2010
second language teachers, MN
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. This internationally-known program reflects CARLA's commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities.
CARLA summer institute participants—more than 3,100 to date—have come from all over the world. They have included foreign language and ESL teachers at all levels of instruction, as well as program administrators, curriculum specialists, and language teacher educators.
The institutes that will be offered during summer 2010 are:
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching for Character-Based Languages
Using Technology in Second Language Teaching
Focusing on Learner Language: Second Language Acquisition Basics for Teachers
Meeting the Challenges of Immersion Education: Language and Learning Disorders and the Struggling Immersion Learner
Immersion 101: An Introduction to Immersion Teaching
Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
Improving Language Learning: Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruction
Developing Assessments for the Second Language Classroom
Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
Language and Culture in Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a Second Language
Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
For more information on these offerings, see: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/2010/schedule.html
The cost of each of the CARLA summer institutes is $350 if registration is received by May 31, 2010 and $400 after that date. More information and registration forms will soon be available on the CARLA website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes
Brochures are available now at the CARLA office. To request a copy you can email the CARLA office at: firstname.lastname@example.org
The institutes have been developed and are offered with the support, in part, of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Center program. The summer institutes are co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development and College of Liberal Arts.
Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Certificate
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota announces an exciting opportunity for teachers of foreign languages and English as a second/foreign language to showcase their professional development work through the CARLA summer institute program.
The new Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Certificate provides teachers with tangible recognition of their successful completion of a set of CARLA summer institutes. The institutes may be taken in any sequence, and institutes taken for credit previously can be applied to the certificate.
More information about the certificate, admission criteria, and application materials can be found on the web at: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/students/Certificates/Advanced-SLT.html
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Our week-long celebration of Earth Day has come to a close. As interns it was our pleasure to provide the Ithaca College community with events relating to sustainability and provide "green" giveaways to promote reusable (instead of disposable) container use. In case you missed out, be sure to view the event pictures below!
Click to view a slide show of Earth Week 2011 Event Pictures
This year Carbon Nation was back by popular demand. The documentary discusses a more environmentally friendly approach to doing business, all while raking in more green (and we don't mean the stuff in your front yard). All of the delicious organic and local food was enjoyed by Ithaca College students. Everyone who attended also left with hand-fulls of free giveaways.
Energy Tour: Special Thanks to members of the Energy Initiative Team for leading the tour and Mary-Margaret Cimino for filming it! We look forward to providing you with a behind-the-scenes view of new energy-saving equipment installed over the past 2 years.
Sustainability Pledge: In three hours, over forty students pledged to become more sustainable at our event in the Food Court! We enjoyed 4 large sheet worms and dirt sheet cakes and gave out hundreds of reusable water bottles.
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Can KC fix a hated tax?
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City’s business license tax has few fans.
Businesses want to get rid of the tax, which is an annual charge levied on their gross revenues or imposed as a flat fee. A special City Council committee said eliminating the tax could help small businesses. The Citizens Commission on Municipal Revenue last month said the tax is “widely despised because it is onerous from a filing process and unfair in application.”
So why isn’t the tax dead already? Because it brings in $21 million a year to City Hall.
At a meeting today, revenue commission members will review suggested changes in the business license charge. A flat “head” tax levied for each employee of most businesses is high on the list. That concept is used in St. Louis, Denver, Omaha and other cities.
But some Kansas City companies would pay more with a head tax than they do now, while others would pay less, already making it a divisive idea.
The panel’s bid to propose a new, improved business license tax is worthwhile. It just might be doomed from the start.
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The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest market in the world, in terms of cash value traded, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. Retail traders (small speculators) are a small part of this market. They may only participate indirectly through brokers or banks and may be targets of forex scams.
Market size and liquidity
The foreign exchange market is unique because of:
- its trading volume,
- the extreme liquidity of the market,
- the large number of, and variety of, traders in the market,
- its geographical dispersion,
- its long trading hours - 24 hours a day (except on weekends).
- the variety of factors that affect exchange rates,
Average daily international foreign exchange trading volume was $1.9 trillion in April 2004 according to the BIS study Triennial Central Bank Survey 2004
- $600 billion spot
- $1,300 billion in derivatives, ie
- $200 billion in outright forwards
- $1,000 billion in forex swaps
- $100 billion in FX options.
Exchange-traded forex futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts. Forex futures volume has grown rapidly in recent years, but only accounts for about 7% of the total foreign exchange market volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe (5/5/06, p. 20).
Top 10 Currency Traders
% of overall volume, May 2005
||% of volume
||J.P. Morgan Chase
The ten most active traders account for almost 73% of trading volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe, (2/9/06 p. 20). These large international banks continually provide the market with both bid (buy) and ask (sell) prices. The bid/ask spread is the difference between the price at which a bank or market maker will sell ("ask", or "offer") and the price at which a market-maker will buy ("bid") from a wholesale customer. This spread is minimal for actively traded pairs of currencies, usually only 1-3 pips. For example, the bid/ask quote of EUR/USD might be 1.2200/1.2203. Minimum trading size for most deals is usually $1,000,000.
These spreads might not apply to retail customers at banks, which will routinely mark up the difference to say 1.2100 / 1.2300 for transfers, or say 1.2000 / 1.2400 for banknotes or travelers' cheques. Spot prices at market makers vary, but on EUR/USD are usually no more than 5 pips wide (i.e. 0.0005). Competition has greatly increased with pip spreads shrinking on the majors to as little as 1 to 1.5 pips.
There is no single unified foreign exchange market. Due to the over-the-counter (OTC) nature of currency markets, there are rather a number of interconnected marketplaces, where different currency instruments are traded. This implies that there is no such thing as a single dollar rate - but rather a number of different rates (prices), depending on what bank or market maker is trading. In practice the rates are often very close, otherwise they could be exploited by arbitrageurs.
Top 6 Most Traded Currencies
||ISO 4217 Code
||United States dollar
||British pound sterling
The main trading centers are in London, New York, and Tokyo, but banks throughout the world participate. As the Asian trading session ends, the European session begins, then the US session, and then the Asian begin in their turns. Traders can react to news when it breaks, rather than waiting for the market to open.
There is little or no 'inside information' in the foreign exchange markets. Exchange rate fluctuations are usually caused by actual monetary flows as well as by expectations of changes in monetary flows caused by changes in GDP growth, inflation, interest rates, budget and trade deficits or surpluses, and other macroeconomic conditions. Major news is released publicly, often on scheduled dates, so many people have access to the same news at the same time. However, the large banks have an important advantage; they can see their customers order flow. Trading legend Richard Dennis has accused central bankers of leaking information to hedge funds.
Currencies are traded against one another. Each pair of currencies thus constitutes an individual product and is traditionally noted XXX/YYY, where YYY is the ISO 4217 international three-letter code of the currency into which the price of one unit of XXX currency is expressed. For instance, EUR/USD is the price of the euro expressed in US dollars, as in 1 euro = 1.2045 dollar.
On the spot market, according to the BIS study, the most heavily traded products were:
- EUR/USD - 28 %
- USD/JPY - 17 %
- GBP/USD (also called cable) - 14 %
and the US currency was involved in 89% of transactions, followed by the euro (37%), the yen (20%) and sterling (17%). (Note that volume percentages should add up to 200% - 100% for all the sellers, and 100% for all the buyers). Although trading in the euro has grown considerably since the currency's creation in January 1999, the foreign exchange market is thus still largely dollar-centered. For instance, trading the euro versus a non-European currency ZZZ will usually involve two trades: EUR/USD and USD/ZZZ. The only exception to this is EUR/JPY, which is an established traded currency pair in the interbank spot market.
According to the BIS study Triennial Central Bank Survey 2004
- 53% of transactions were strictly interdealer (ie interbank);
- 33% involved a dealer (ie a bank) and a fund manager or some other non-bank financial institution;
- and only 14% were between a dealer and a non-financial company.
The interbank market caters for both the majority of commercial turnover and large amounts of speculative trading every day. A large bank may trade billions of dollars daily. Some of this trading is undertaken on behalf of customers, but much is conducted by proprietary desks, trading for the bank's own account.
Until recently, foreign exchange brokers did large amounts of business, facilitating interbank trading and matching anonymous counterparts for small fees. Today, however, much of this business has moved on to more efficient electronic systems, such as EBS, Reuters Dealing 3000 Matching (D2), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Bloomberg and TradeBook(R). The broker squawk box lets traders listen in on ongoing interbank trading and is heard in most trading rooms, but turnover is noticeably smaller than just a few years ago.
An important part of this market comes from the financial activities of companies seeking foreign exchange to pay for goods or services. Commercial companies often trade fairly small amounts compared to those of banks or speculators, and their trades often have little short term impact on market rates. Nevertheless, trade flows are an important factor in the long-term direction of a currency's exchange rate. Some multinational companies can have an unpredictable impact when very large positions are covered due to exposures that are not widely known by other market participants.
National central banks play an important role in the foreign exchange markets. They try to control the money supply, inflation, and/or interest rates and often have official or unofficial target rates for their currencies. They can use their often substantial foreign exchange reserves, to stabilize the market. Milton Friedman argued that the best stabilization strategy would be for central banks to buy when the exchange rate is too low, and to sell when the rate is too high - that is, to trade for a profit. Nevertheless, central banks do not go bankrupt if they make large losses, like other traders would, and there is no convincing evidence that they do make a profit trading.
The mere expectation or rumor of central bank intervention might be enough to stabilize a currency, but aggressive intervention might be used several times each year in countries with a dirty float currency regime. Central banks do not always achieve their objectives, however. The combined resources of the market can easily overwhelm any central bank. Several scenarios of this nature were seen in the 1992-93 ERM collapse, and in more recent times in South East Asia.
Investment Management Firms
Investment Management firms (who typically manage large accounts on behalf of customers such as pension funds, endowments etc.) use the Foreign exchange market to facilitate transactions in foreign securities. For example, an investment manager with an international equity portfolio will need to buy and sell foreign currencies in the spot market in order to pay for purchases of foreign equities. Since the forex transactions are secondary to the actual investment decision, they are not seen as speculative or aimed at profit-maximisation.
Some investment management firms also have more speculative specialist currency overlay units, which manage clients' currency exposures with the aim of generating profits as well as limiting risk. The number of this type of specialist is quite small, their large assets under management (AUM) can lead to large trades.
Hedge funds, such as George Soros's Quantum fund have gained a reputation for aggressive currency speculation since 1990. They control billions of dollars of equity and may borrow billions more, and thus may overwhelm intervention by central banks to support almost any currency, if the economic fundamentals are in the hedge funds' favor.
Retail Forex Brokers
Retail forex brokers or market makers handle a minute fraction of the total volume of the foreign exchange market. According to CNN, one retail broker estimates retail volume at $25-50 billion daily, which is about 2% of the whole market. CNN also quotes an official of the National Futures Association "Retail forex trading has increased dramatically over the past few years. Unfortunately, the amount of forex fraud has also increased dramatically."
All firms offering foreign exchange trading online are either market makers or facilitate the placing of trades with market makers.
In the retail forex industry market makers often have two separate trading desks- one that actually trades foreign exchange (which determines the firm's own net position in the market, serving as both a proprietary trading desk and a means of offsetting client trades on the interbank market) and one used for off-exchange trading with retail customers (called the "dealing desk" or "trading desk").
Many retail FX market makers claim to "offset" clients' trades on the interbank market (that is, with other larger market makers), e.g. after buying from the client, they sell to a bank. Nevertheless, the large majority of retail currency speculators are novices and who lose money , so that the market makers would be giving up large profits by offsetting. Offsetting does occur, but only when the market maker judges its clients' net position as being very risky.
The dealing desk operates much like the currency exchange counter at a bank. Interbank exchange rates, which are displayed at the dealing desk, are adjusted to incorporate spreads (so that the market maker will make a profit) before they are displayed to retail customers. Prices shown by the market maker do not neccesarily reflect interbank market rates. Arbitrage opportunities may exist, but retail market makers are efficient at removing arbitrageurs from their systems or limiting their trades.
A limited number of retail forex brokers offer consumers direct access to the interbank forex market. But most do not because of the limited number of clearing banks willing to process small orders. More importantly, the dealing desk model can be far more profitable, as a large portion of retail traders' losses are directly turned into market maker profits. While the income of a marketmaker that offsets trades or a broker that facilitates transactions is limited to transaction fees (commissions), dealing desk brokers can generate income in a variety of ways because they not only control the trading process, they also control pricing which they can skew at any time to maximize profits.
The rules of the game in trading FX are highly disadvantageous for retail speculators. Most retail speculators in FX lack trading experience and and capital (account minimums at some firms are as low as 250-500 USD). Large minimum position sizes, which on most retail platforms ranges from $10,000 to $100,000, force small traders to take imprudently large positions using extremely high leverage. Professional forex traders rarely use more than 10:1 leverage, yet many retail Forex firms default client accounts to 100:1 or even 200:1, without disclosing that this is highly unusual for currency traders. This drastically increases the risk of a margin call (which, if the speculator's trade is not offset, is pure profit for the market maker).
According to the Wall Street Journal (Currency Markets Draw Speculation, Fraud July 26, 2005) "Even people running the trading shops warn clients against trying to time the market. 'If 15% of day traders are profitable,' says Drew Niv, chief executive of FXCM, 'I'd be surprised.' "
In the US, "it is unlawful to offer foreign currency futures and option contracts to retail customers unless the offeror is a regulated financial entity" according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission . Legitimate retail brokers serving traders in the U.S. are most often registered with the CFTC as "futures commission merchants" (FCMs) and are members of the National Futures Association (NFA). Potential clients can check the broker's FCM status at the NFA. Retail forex brokers are much less regulated than stock brokers and there is no protection similar to that from the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. The CFTC has noted an increase in forex scams .
Controversy about currency speculators and their effect on currency devaluations and national economies recurs regularly. Nevertheless, many economists (e.g. Milton Friedman) argue that speculators perform the important function of providing a market for hedgers and transferring risk from those people who don't wish to bear it, to those who do. Other economists (e.g. Joseph Stiglitz) however, may consider this argument to be based more on politics and a free market philosophy than on economics.
Large hedge funds and other well capitalized "position traders" are the main professional speculators.
Currency speculation is considered a highly suspect activity in many countries. While investment in traditional financial instruments like bonds or stocks often is considered to contribute positively to economic growth by providing capital, currency speculation does not, according to this view. It is simply gambling, that often interferes with economic policy. For example, in 1992, currency speculation forced the Central Bank of Sweden to raise interest rates for a few days to 150% per annum, and later to devalue the krona. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is one well known proponent of this view . He blamed the devaluation of the Malaysian ringgit in 1997 on George Soros and other speculators.
Gregory Millman reports on an opposing view, comparing speculators to "vigilantes" who simply help "enforce" international agreements and anticipate the effects of basic economic "laws" in order to profit.
In this view, countries may develop unsustainable financial bubbles or otherwise mishandle their national economies, and forex speculators only made the inevitable collapse happen sooner. A relatively quick collapse might even be preferable to continued economic mishandling. Mahathir Mohamad and other critics of speculation are viewed as trying to deflect the blame from themselves for having caused the unsustainable economic conditions.
Gregory J. Millman, Around the World on a Trillion Dollars a Day, Bantam Press, New York, 1995.
From Wikipedia: Foreign Exchange Market
4 July, 2006
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Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
Volume 155, Issue 10, pages 2335–2347, October 2011
How to Cite
Skotko, B. G., Levine, S. P. and Goldstein, R. (2011), Having a son or daughter with Down syndrome: Perspectives from mothers and fathers. Am. J. Med. Genet., 155: 2335–2347. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.34293
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How to Cite this Article: Skotko BG, Levine SP, Goldstein R. 2011. Having a son or daughter with Down syndrome: Perspectives from mothers and fathers. Am J Med Genet Part A 155:2335–2347.
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- Article first published online: 13 SEP 2011
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This study asks parents who have children with Down syndrome (DS) how they feel about their lives so that such information could be shared with expectant couples during prenatal counseling sessions. A valid and reliable survey instrument was mailed to 4,924 households on the mailing lists of six non-profit DS organizations. Of the 2,044 respondents, 99% reported that they love their son or daughter; 97% were proud of them; 79% felt their outlook on life was more positive because of them; 5% felt embarrassed by them; and 4% regretted having them. The parents report that 95% of their sons or daughters without DS have good relationships with their siblings with DS. The overwhelming majority of parents surveyed report that they are happy with their decision to have their child with DS and indicate that their sons and daughters are great sources of love and pride. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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“nonflowering," meaning that there should be little chance of accidental contamination of nearby crops.”
“New Caledonia has a remarkable diversity of gymnosperms (primitive nonflowering plants that include conifers), with forty-four species (forty-three of which are endemic) out of fifteen genera (at least three of which are endemic).”
“The spores of nonflowering plants are analogous to the seeds of flowering plants.”
“It changes tall, late, or nonflowering varieties that produce well only in the tropics into short, early-maturing forms that can be used in many parts of the world, including the temperate zones.”
“It is nonflowering, nonseeding (or at least nonspreading), and must be replicated by vegetative propagation.”
“Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.”
“A wind swept our hillock from the direction of its far side, where nasty-looking, spiked plants of a nonflowering variety grew.”
“Depending on climate, tulips can either wither after one season or produce nonflowering growth the following year.”
“For example, gnetophytes, a group that consists of shrubs and woody vines, are the most primitive nonflowering seed plants, according to the researchers' analysis.”
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This week's debate: What age group are young adult books intended for? Should there be an age requirement for a "young adult" book?
I remember starting to read young adult books back in sixth grade, when I thought I was exceedingly mature and sophisticated to - gasp! - be found in the Young Adult section of the library. Though what surprised me were some of the books I found there. The It Girl series was definitely akin to xxx material at that time, and I remember my friends and I checking out a book to giggle and feel so daring for doing so. What, no - naked?! Oh 'em gee, are they kissing?! Is that... a c-c-condo...?!!! Yes, we were mature back then.
But I know that there are a lot of girls that age now that actually read those type of books (not saying they're bad, just perhaps intended for an older audience) and think it's normal. Should this type of book be truly regarded as "young adult," while others, such as the Clique series by Lisi Harrison, be categorized as childrens?
My stance: I feel that young adult is truly diverse; there are books that I deem appropriate for sixth-seventh graders and ones that I definitely feel should only be read by eighth graders and above. But as for actually setting a restriction on young adult books, I think it should be left to the reader or parent's discretion. I don't necessarily approve of all decisions, but I don't feel it's not my decision to make.
That being said, I think it might be beneficial to include little but easily visible labels on the spines of books in the Young Adult section saying this book is for "age _-_" or "grades _-_." (Obviously, I'm not an educator or any sort, so I'm not speaking from experience but rather from personal preference. Librarians out there...?) Overall, I feel the Young Adult section is perhaps a bit too broad - should sixth graders be labeled as young adults? - but perhaps it reflects our changing times, with the younger children being exposed to more and more media at an earlier and earlier age.
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In the botanical world, a cucumber tree is a type of magnolia, the name derived from its gherkin-like seed pods. But for young Bob Ross and the kids of his Vancouver neighbourhood, the cucumber tree was pivotal in their childhood adventures. High in its branches, the neighbourhood gang met to plan garden raids, war parties and hunting excursions to far-off frog ponds. Later in life, the tree came to represent all that childhood in early Vancouver could be.
This is a story about growing up in Vancouver in the 1940's and 50's, of building forts and shooting slingshots, of catching muskrats and making campfires in the local woods. It was a time when kids played outdoors from dawn 'til dusk without supervision, in a world without television or computers. Summer holidays included summer camps at Pasley Island, driving trips to the south Cariboo and a stint at the Vernon army camp.
Ross' otherwise idyllic childhood was haugnted by the dark shadow of the cold war when America and Russia were engaged in their feverish race to develop atomic warheads. The installation of air raid warning systems only reinforced his belief that the Russians would soon bomb Vancouver. The author's answer to this drama was to build a canoe and develop his own survival plan...
With warmth, charm, humour and an amazing talent for detail, Bob Ross re-captures a childhood that will strike home with anyone who grew up in this era.
About the Author
Bob Ross comes from a family with strong pioneer roots in BC. His great grandfather, Henry Cambie, arrived at the site of present-day Vancouver in 1874 while surveying potential routes for the first rail connection to Canada. His grandfather Robert Tatlow arrived in 1879, was the founder of the BC Telephone Company, and represented Vancouver in the provincial legislature until 1910. His Cornwall relatives homesteaded the Ashcroft Ranch in 1862. Now retired, Bob graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and served the city of Vancouver for many years as a streets and traffic engineer.
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The commission is comprised of three members:
The commission convenes after the Governor nominates or appoints a person to fill a vacancy on either the Supreme Court or a Court of Appeal. The commission holds one or more public hearings to review the appointee's qualifications and may confirm or veto the appointment. No appellate appointment is final until the commission has filed its approval with the Secretary of State.
Guidelines for the Commission on Judicial Appointments (PDF, 22 KB)
(Adopted effective May 18, 1999; amended effective July 1, 2005, March 1, 2006, and November 19, 2007.)
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Respect, please: clean up after pets 2011.06.29
An e-mail from a frustrated Fayette resident described a situation that isn’t unique to that community. Unfortunately, it’s a problem that’s encountered in many small towns and large cities: dog feces on sidewalks.
You see it on neighborhood walks. You see it in parks. Occasionally it’s right on a downtown sidewalk.
To the vast majority of residents, it’s simply incomprehensible that someone walking a dog would ignore what happened and continue down the sidewalk. As the letter-writer put it, “It’s unfortunate that the owner has so little pride in his or her community, and no respect for other’s property that they allow their dog to defecate and then simply walk away.”
It wouldn’t take much of an effort to remove it to a trash can, and at least move it off the sidewalk. Leaving it lay is really inexplicable, but that pretty much sums up the behavior of a few people who obviously lack some basic respect for others and their community.
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Graphic Design & Printing
* Eligibility criteria applies. See course details to check if you meet the requirements for funding.
About Graphic Design and Printing
Graphic designers are creative individuals who produce artwork and page layouts for reproduction in print and electronic media such as magazines, newspapers, books and websites, and for corporate identity programs and advertising campaigns. They may work as team members in design studios or advertising agencies, or alone undertaking consultancy or freelance work. Printing courses encompass major aspects of the electronic publishing and graphic design industry, as well as having application to web design and development. Courses cover computer technology and design, with aspects of electronic publishing, digital design and sign production, preparing students for careers in the printing, graphic and sign-production industries.
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