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Kansas Army Ammunition Plant Washwater Sumps
Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, Kansas
Background on Installation
The Kansas Army Ammunition Plant is a 13,727-acre facility located in rural Kansas and has always been utilized for “pack and load” production rather than manufacturing of explosives. This mission required large Quantity Distance Arcs (distance required for safety and protection from exposure), which were far greater than the actual production areas. The majority of the acreage (88 percent) is free of contamination. Nearly 100 percent of the non-ammunition producing plant grounds are under agricultural leases for hay production, pasture, and cropland.
Property Reuse - Disposal
The Master Redevelopment Plan was completed and provided to the Army in August 2007. The recommended key land uses are conservation and agriculture, commercial energetics and munitions storage, industrial/manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, energy parks, public education and training, office/business parks, housing, and hazardous materials treatment. In addition, a comprehensive infrastructure study was completed to modernize the WW II era infrastructure systems.
The Master Redevelopment Plan provides for 4,000 acres to be acquired by the current munitions manufacturer. In this downsized footprint, the company will continue to seek contracts at competitive bid and through third-party companies. It also plans to diversify its operations.
The plant has long provided a protective habitat for white-tail deer—it is ranked the seventh best location in the country for hunting opportunities. The protective habitat and the many riparian corridors and wetlands unique to Kansas have resulted in strong interest from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). To capitalize on the hunting and tourism opportunities, 3,000 acres will be sold to KDWP through an Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) transfer directly from the Army as well as an indirect sale through the GPDA (Great Plains Development Authority). The 6,737 acres of remaining land will be developed into heavy and light industrial parcels, agribusiness and agritourism sites, office space, and residential property.
For more information on the challenges that the community faced, click here. | <urn:uuid:146406a1-a0f2-4b22-a30e-d19a6bbdb613> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oea.gov/index.php/component/content/article/118-kansas-army-ammunition-plant-kansas?template=modal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930116 | 439 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Waterloo Region Record
It is no small thing to uproot a Canadian citizen and member of this community from his home and send him to another country far from family and friends to stand trial.
But that’s exactly what American authorities asked Canada to do more than six years ago when they applied to have a former Waterloo man, Suresh Srikandarajah, extradited to their country for allegedly supporting terrorists.
The charges are serious and include accusations that this young man was the leader of four suspects with ties to the University of Waterloo, laundered money and used students to smuggle goods into northern Sri Lanka under the code name Waterloo Suresh. The potential penalty he faces if convicted is serious, too: up to 25 years in prison.
Under these circumstances, Srikandarajah had every right to challenge this extradition request in Canadian courts. Meanwhile, Canadian citizens had a huge interest in knowing that he be treated fairly and according to the laws of this land.
What made this case even more concerning was that before he could be turned over to the Americans, the Canadian justice system had to rule on the constitutionality of Canada’s controversial anti-terror laws. That’s because Canada could not legally extradite Srikandarajah to the U.S. unless we had a law similar to the American one he was accused of breaking.
Almost exactly two years ago, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed those laws and ruled the extradition of Srikandarajah and another suspect, Piratheepan Nadarajah, could proceed.
Yesterday, the highest arbiter in the land, the Supreme Court of Canada, upheld that ruling.
We do not know what Srikandarajah will face in the U.S. We can say, however, that his individual case, as well as the Canadian anti-terror laws passed after and in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, have been thoroughly reviewed by the finest legal minds in this country.
A citizen will be given over to another state, but according to our laws. And Canada’s anti-terror laws, which came into being so quickly and without full understanding of their implications, did not violate his vital and inalienable rights. There is reassurance here and the Supreme Court deserves thanks for providing it. | <urn:uuid:5cd72c4c-e2ed-4013-8dd0-a2f3e57dd142> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/2621121-our-fight-against-terror-is-legal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976147 | 485 | 1.820313 | 2 |
DSM, partners receive U.S. grant for biofuels study
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch chemicals group DSM NV said on Wednesday it and partners have received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research on the production of bio-based products, including biofuels.
DSM said in a statement the project will run for four years and its partners for the project include Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies, Los Alamos Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory.
The U.S. department had not yet determined the amount of the grant, a DSM spokeswoman said.
DSM said it will be the lead partner in the project, which is an enzyme development program focusing on finding applications in cellulose-based biorefineries for the production of bio-based products.
The project is part of DSM's biotechnology strategy to offer solutions to biorefineries which use feedstocks that are not in conflict with food and feed supplies, DSM's biotechnology Vice President Volkert Claassen said in the statement.
Biofuels based on crops such as grains and vegetable oils -- that had become popular as a way of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases -- have raised concerns that they are driving up food prices and could lead to shortages.
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Professor Ian Hargreaves has made 10 major recommendations to free-up restrictive intellectual property and copyright laws that "obstruct innovation and economic growth in the UK".
Hargreaves, who has today published the conclusions of a five-month review in a 123-page report, found that businesses aiming to take advantage of opportunities in areas such as the internet are being held back by often archaic laws.
"Could it be true that laws designed more than three centuries ago, with the express purpose of creating economic incentives for innovation by protecting creators' rights, are today obstructing innovation and economic growth?" said Hargreaves. "The short answer is: yes."
Hargreaves said that the single biggest failing in the current system relates to copyright – "once the exclusive concern of authors and their publishers" – for which the current laws are "falling behind what are needed".
"The UK cannot afford to let a legal framework designed around artists impede vigorous participation in these emerging business sectors," he said. "This does not mean, however, that we must put our hugely important creative industries at risk".
The recommendations include the formation of a Digital Copyright Exchange by the end of 2012 to act as a "one-stop shop" to make it easier to get clearance for the use of copyrighted content.
"This will make it easier for rights owners, small and large, to sell licences for their work and for others to buy them," argues the report. "It will make market transactions faster, more automated and cheaper."
The new body, to be run by rights holders, would be part of the solution to the long-running issue of IP rights relating to "orphan works" – where the original musicians, writers, heirs or other copyright owners cannot be traced. The report refers to this content as a "vast treasure trove" of work that is "effectively unavailable" for use.
Other recommendations aim to clear up anachronistic regulations, including getting rid of the law that makes it illegal to download a CD on to an MP3 player, known as "format shifting".
Intellectual property laws around parody, which are considerably more stringent than in countries such as the US, should be relaxed to allow comedians, broadcasters and other content creators more scope – ensuring that spoofs such as the YouTube hit Newport State of Mind are no longer removed.
The Hargreaves report also pointed out that the UK "does not allow its great libraries to archive all digital copyright material, with the result that much of it is rotting away".
It argued that "taking advantage of these EU-sanctioned exceptions [to free up regulation] will bring important cultural as well as economic benefits to the UK".
"The UK should give a lead at EU level to develop a further copyright exception designed to build into the EU framework adaptability to new technologies," the report said. "This would be designed to allow uses enabled by technology of works in ways which do not directly trade on the underlying creative and expressive purpose of the work."
While the report admitted that the creative industries need to be protected from illegal activities – such as the downloading of pirated music, film and TV material – it also said that "reliable data about scale and trends is surprisingly scarce".
The report went further, criticising industry estimates on illegal downloads in the UK and arguing that a "detailed survey of UK and international data finds that very little of it is supported by transparent research criteria". It noted that one submission put the level of illegal downloads at 13% of the total, while another suggested it was 65%.
"Meanwhile, sales and profitability levels in most creative business sectors appear to be holding up reasonably," the report said. "We conclude that many creative businesses are experiencing turbulence from digital copyright infringement, but that at the level of the whole economy, measurable impacts are not as stark as is sometimes suggested."
The Hargreaves report rejected calls for the adoption of US-style "fair use" rules on copyrighted material. Companies such as Google and YouTube exploited US fair use law to build their digital aggregation websites without fear of prosecution for using copyrighted content.
"We concluded that importing fair use wholesale was unlikely to be legally feasible in Europe," said the report. "The approach advocated here stops short of advocating the big once and for all fix of the UK promoting a fair use copyright exception to the EU, as recommended by Google and under examination by the Irish government."
The report estimated, albeit with a "high degree of uncertainty in such projections", that if the government adopted its recommendations this would add between 0.3% to 0.6% to annual GDP growth. | <urn:uuid:9457f266-f33c-4c09-b974-6d196b243c75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/may/18/hargreaves-report-recommends-overhaul-of-copyright-laws | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964687 | 950 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Data center operators should prepare to cope with a massive increase in the heat output of their computer, networking and storage equipment, according to a host of experts speaking at an Emerson Network Power seminar in Canberra today.
"Most data centers must last ten years," Intel Solution Services" Barry Williams told the event. "Most are also ten or twenty years old," and are therefore ill equipped to cope with the power requirements of newer equipment such as blade servers.
This translates into a situation where the drive towards consolidation and virtualisation brings large numbers of densely-packed computers into data centers that struggle to deliver them the electricity they need to operate reliably. The move to VoIP is also increasing power requirements, by bringing more equipment into network racks and working routers and other communications devices harder.
The businesses that operate the data centers will therefore soon find that power bills become a significant financial irritant.
Williams said users should therefore increasingly turn to equipment with lower power requirements and will need to plan data centre implementations to take advantage of this technology.
"Users will need a roadmap and an understanding of this technology to build the data center of the future," he said.
Users will also, said Mark Deguara, Emerson Network Power"s National Product Manager for Cooling Products, need to prepare to deal with the
"Today most data centers are coping with blades by spreading them around the data centre to spread the heat load," Deguara says. "Either that or they lower the temperature of the room."
The latter practice, he said, is particularly wasteful. "Lowering the temperature of the data centre to 18 or 19 degrees is a huge waste of energy ," he says. "Why cool the space instead of cooling the source of the heat?"
Deguara therefore advocates "extreme density cooling" that sees equipment cooled at the source with "closed" architectures that cool local devices rather than trying to cool a whole room.
The move to extreme density cooling, he says, will also help with overall power management issues as it can consume less electricity than other strategies.
Citing Emerson data, he stated that extreme density cooling can consume 9% less power than other strategies.
"That means 9% of the available power returned to the data center to use on IT equipment," he said, expressing the hope that this will assist the trend of consolidated data centers housing more and more of an enterprise"s IT. | <urn:uuid:142d2aca-d9e3-445c-a149-0070b9442ab0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://searchcio.techtarget.com.au/news/2240100116/Its-cool-to-think-about-heat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949836 | 487 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Storify: Planes of Fame Air Museum features P51-D Mustang
CHINO -- It was a special Saturday afternoon for Robert Grant at the Planes of Fame Air Museum.
Grant unveiled a P-51D Mustang dubbed 'Dolly' - a replica of the plane his father, Army Air Corps Capt. John Joseph "JJ" Grant, flew near the end of World War II.
"The plane was named after his daughter, my sister, who was about 4 months old when JJ was in Iwo Jima, and Dolly looked likea little doll, so that's how that story went," Grant said.
JJ Grant was in the 462nd squadron in the 506 Fighter Group during the war.
Saturday's event also included guest speakers William Ebersole and Ed Linfante, who respectively were fighter pilots as a first lieutenant and second lieutenant in the 462nd Squadron.
Each spoke about the long-range escort missions and the role of the P-51 Mustang in protecting bombers. JJ Grant died in 2003 at age 89.
Ebersole accompanied JJ Grant on some "very long range" missions in the closing months of the war.
Robert Grant described the 1,500-mile roundtrip missions his father took from Iwo Jima to mainland Japan on the single-engine fighter plane as long, tiring and bone-and-ear shattering.
"This story was kind of lost in history because it was the end of the war and everyone wanted to go home and forget about it," he said. "They didn't get much recognition up until recently."
The flying Mustang -- which also took a short flight for the hundreds who attended -- runs on a Rolls-Royce Merlin 1,500 horse-powered engine, built by Packard.
"I enjoyed this so much -- it connected me to my late husband and the stories he told,"
Henningfeld's husband, 1st Lt. John Henningfeld, was with the 504th Bomb Group and flew B-29's.
Henningfeld said she doesn't believe Grant or the other men escorted the plane her husband flew.
"I honestly didn't know how they were escorted and the stories they told, how dangerous their flights were," she said. "Well, you never stop learning." | <urn:uuid:17f83310-f304-41ec-bcf5-1f7c07dcf2db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailybulletin.com/pomona/ci_21027086/living-history-flying-day-event-today-chino | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98462 | 471 | 1.617188 | 2 |
of main Festivals in
Ma Anandamayi's Ashram (Kankhal)
including other Hindu festivals
(Dates revised 30th November 2012)
10th March - Shivarathri
Ma's BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS ***
(between the solar and lunar date)
Solar date - in the Night between 30th April and 1st May, but celebrated 2nd May.
Lunar date (Tithi Puja) 28th May 2013
22nd July, Guru Purnima. ( The full-moon day where disciples honour their Guru)
20th August, Raksha bandhan ( the day of the year where the sisters ask "protection" of their brothers by knotting a thread around their wrist. Ma, with childlike simplicity, used to tie it to her disciples' wrists.) Also Sri Ma's self-diksha day.
-13th October, NAVARATHRI,
Celebration of the GODDESS, the main festival for Bengali. Nine days of festivities culminating in Vijaya Dashami,the last day of VICTORY (13th October)
KALI PUJA ( for Bengal, Lakshmi Puja for other Hindus),corresponding to 3rd November , Diwali, the Festival of Lights.
Samyam Saptah (annual week of retreat) 10th-17th November- (Kankhal) 31st January-7th February (Bhimpura)
Other Hindu festivals
27th March, - Holi
19th April, - Ram Navami
25th April, - Hanuman Jayanthi
28th August - Janmastami
9th September, - Ganesh Chaturthi
VISITING MA's ASHRAMS
by Jacques Vigne
International centre has been built in Kankhal ( 4 km
south of Hardwar, on the Ganga), which is also 200 km north of
DELHI in Uttar Pradesh.
It is not meant for tourists, but for advanced spiritual seekers who are preferably acquainted with Ma's literature as presented on this WEB SITE and publications. The Centre follows the rules of Ma's ashrams, except those of caste purity. Visitors should be able to meditate and study by themselves, since no formal classes, hatha-yoga and meditation groups are organised.
However, it is possible to meet Ma's senior Swamis who speak English.
Alcohol, tobacco, meat, eggs are prohibited,
Unmarried couples are advised to stay in separate rooms for the time of their retreat, to be in better harmony with the Hindu environment which is quite traditional there. Attendance to the daily ritual at Ma's samadhi is advised, although not compulsory.
To book in the Centre, the best is to contact Dr S.K. Ghosh at the International Centre (mob 08954 777747)
or Mrs Dhamija, address:
c/o Sumant Dhamija, B28 Pushpanjali Farms,
Bijwasan, New Delhi 110 061
Ph : 00 91 9810 931221
For direct booking contact:
Shree Shree Ma International Centre,
Kankhal, 249 408,
Hardwar, U.P., INDIA
Phone/Fax 00 91 1334 246345.
The duration of stay is ten days but is extendable. There is also also other accomodation around Ma's ashram , so staying in the area should not be a problem.
Ma's other ashrams do not usually easily take Westerners.There is a small ashram higher up in the mountains 35 km from Almora in the North West on the road to Berinag:Daulchina, 263 881, Almora U.P. (phone 00 91 5962 262013).
According to Ma's request women alone are not allowed to stay in Daulchina Ashram, which indeed is more like a hermitage.
by Jacques Vigne
and printing of the documents from this
Shree Shree Anandamayee WEB SITE
are allowed for private use and limited circulation (less then 20 copies)
in Shree Shree Anandamayee Ma's Fellowships and Centres.
publication in English or any other languages on the WEST
please, contact the Sangha:
To: Br Gitadi, Managing Editor
Shree Ma Anandamayi Ashram, Bhadaini,
Varanasi, 221001, UP, INDIA. | <urn:uuid:29bf1bf0-772e-4ef7-a44f-237ccdd19e65> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.anandamayi.org/ashram/adverts1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915971 | 961 | 2.015625 | 2 |
BANGOR, Maine — My mother was 9 when her parents gave her the newly published “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” and it was that copy that I read as child. My son read the book in third grade at Newburgh School, and now I buy it for the grandchildren in Maine and Minnesota.
Once you’ve caught the fascination with 12-year-old Donn Fendler — who was lost on Mount Katahdin for nine days in 1939 — it never wears off.
We still turn out to meet the subject of “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” to shake his hand and get his autograph for ourselves, or for our daughter or grandson.
An autograph session with Donn Fendler has become such a popular activity at Cole Land Transportation Museum that the facility does it every year.
This year, it will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at the museum at 405 Perry Road.
The program will start off with a showing of a 10-minute film made in 2006 when Fendler for the first time flew by helicopter over that part of Maine where he was lost. With him were Conservation Commissioner Patrick McGowan, who shot the film, and Galen Cole, founder of the Cole Museum.
The museum will have “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” books for sale for $6 on Sept. 20, or bring your own to get an autograph.
Fendler will stay all afternoon, if necessary, Cole said, “until he has personalized every book.”
On July 26, 1939, the Bangor Daily News ran a front-page headline that would give you the chills:
It was accompanied by three photos, including one of the scrawny 12-year-old putting in a telephone call to his mother to let her know that he was OK after nine days in the dense woods around Mount Katahdin.
“Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” the book the youngster co-wrote with Joseph Egan, but never made a penny from, is still in print 69 years later, thanks to teachers who continue to use it in the classroom.
Of course, Fendler’s not 12 anymore. The Tennessee resident is 82, with many Maine summers under his belt and countless visits to schools from here to Wallagrass. He’s spoken to other groups as well, including a class of adults working on their own writing at what is now Dorothea Dix Institute.
Fendler’s tale of “faith and determination” is mesmerizing, whether the reader is a youngster or someone who, like Cole, remembers the story as it played out. He’ll never forget finding out Fendler was alive.
“I remember reading about it in the Bangor Daily News. Wow,” Cole recalled.
Donn Fendler went on to a career in the U.S. Army, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
A year ago, Gov. John Baldacci gave him the free fishing license that Gov. Lewis Barrows had promised him all those years ago.
Three hundred fifty people turned out to help search for a young boy lost in Maine nearly seven decades ago.
Donn Fendler is still saying thank you.
Donn Fendler, who as a boy was lost on Mount Katahdin for nine days in 1939, will sign books during a program at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Cole Land Transportation Museum, 405 Perry Road, Bangor. (Bangor Daily News File Photo) | <urn:uuid:c6ac4cc0-d68b-4a30-bb71-8df39e9be1b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bangordailynews.com/2008/09/17/news/bangor/fendler-to-sign-books-at-museum/?ref=relatedBox | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976489 | 755 | 1.851563 | 2 |
From Portland Afoot
Union Station is Portland's Amtrak passenger rail station, using Amtrak code PDX. It sits near the heart of the city at 800 NW 6th Ave., just east of the Pearl District and north of downtown Portland. It is, as of 2009, the most-used Amtrak station in the Pacific Northwest.
The station's clock tower displays the iconic message "GO BY TRAIN" on the northeast and southwest sides, and "UNION STATION" on the northwest and southeast. The neon signs were added to the tower in 1948.
The station's initial design, in 1882, called for what would have been the largest rail station in the world. A smaller plan was approved in 1885, with construction beginning in 1890 and opening day on Feb. 14, 1896.
The station served 601,582 arrivals and departures in 2009, an all-time high and a 28 percent jump over three years. Its average fare was $48. The most common links were, in order, to Seattle, Tacoma, Eugene, Salem, Olympia/Lacey, Tukwila, Albany and Los Angeles. About 75 percent of trips were less than 200 miles, which includes all those cities except the last.
In 2009, the Portland station's traffic exceeded Seattle's King Street Station to become the Northwest's busiest.
- Union Station ridership statistics from the National Association of Railroad Passengers (see page 327)
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News and Events
Center for the Arts Presents "Rock the Presidents" Musical Revue
In the genre of the musical history lessons of Schoolhouse Rock!, the hits keep coming as the Arizona-based children's theatre company, Childsplay, brings all 44 U.S. presidents to life in the Rock the Presidents musical revue at Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 11 a.m. The show is recommended for ages 7 and up.
From the rockin' "The Sons of Washington" to the groovy/psychedelic "I'm Not All Bad" to the twangy, country-western style of "Ronald Reagan," Rock the Presidents highlights the history of our top executive office in a high-energy, multimedia extravaganza. Celebrated throughout are the legacies, the one-termers, the mistakes, the triumphs, the generals, the first ladies, even the presidential pets!
Set against a presidential backdrop framed by stars and stripes and crowned with a bald eagle, the innovative scenic design from Holly Windingstad features a large screen that showcases the multimedia aspects of the production. Phoenix-based Limitrophe Films created the video aspects to bring a high-voltage, interactive element to the show. Presidential portraits, paintings, and historical footage stream throughout the "concert."
During the performance the cast interacts with the video screen in such engaging segments as a video game battle, a game show called "The Presi-Tron," a '60s psychedelic lava lamp technique for "I'm Not All Bad," and the neon sign of "The Lonely Presidents Lounge."
At the conclusion of the show, the cast uses "The Future Presi-Cam" camera to scan the crowd and find our future aspiring presidents as they rock out to "Are You a President-to-Be?"
Rock the Presidents was created by Dwayne Hartford (book and lyrics) and composer Sarah Roberts (music) and is directed by Anthony Runfola. It was a smash hit at its February 2012 premiere in Tempe, Arizona, performing to capacity crowds. Public demand was so great for the show that Childsplay extended the performances for two additional weekends and pledged to audiences that it would bring the show back to kick off its next season.
Patrons of Rock the Presidents are invited to attend Family Art Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, in the Gregg G. Juarez Palm Courtyard next to Smothers Theatre. It will include special art projects and Weisman Museum tours. Family Art Day is free of admission charge and open to the public.
Pepperdine will also present Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia's Treasured Stories by Eric Carle on February 9 and ArtsPower National Touring Theatre's The Little Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle on March 2. | <urn:uuid:a33f5d46-9c5b-4d05-842a-f43bc756b6bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pepperdine.edu/pr/events/2012/september/cfa-presents-rock-the-presidents.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946516 | 591 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Professor Doug Vander Griend is all about creating chemistry in the classroom—in more ways than just the obvious one.
He’s a prof you might have as soon as your first semester at Calvin if “General Chemistry” is part of your academic program (think pre-med, engineering or chemistry). And because his classes have quite a few first-year students in them, he tries to create an atmosphere where people get to know each other—and him.
“The more time you spend with a class, the more the internal culture and chemistry tends to improve. Students get more comfortable with everything,” said Prof. Vander Griend.
Why you got a "C" on that quiz
Why should you get to know your profs and classmates in college?
Prof. Vander Griend thinks it might help you do better in class—particularly in a subject that’s as challenging as chemistry. By encouraging discussion and feedback, he hopes students will feel comfortable enough to talk to him if they’re not doing well.
“A lot of students think, ‘Oh, I got a bad grade? I just have to try harder.’ But there about 10 ways to try harder and seven of them might not be very effective for you.”
Professors, if you talk to them, can help you figure out what really went wrong with a test or assignment, he says.
“We’re used to reading test results more like a fingerprint rather than just a number at the top.”
Job #1: helping students succeed
“At large universities, you might be in a first-semester chemistry course with 300 or more people. You’ll have a midterm and a final. You’ll enter your number code at the top and then you’ll get your report card at the end. That’s it.”
At Calvin, where the average class size is 22 students and no class is larger than 50–60 students, you’ll have alot of opportunities to impact your final grade—and talk to your prof about it.
To Prof. Vander Griend, it’s more than just the class size that makes it easy to interact with your professors at Calvin. The faith commitment of Calvin profs makes for a completely different learning environment.
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End-to-End Performance Initatives Performance Environment System
NOTE: The piPEs work was merged into an International effort, called perfSONAR, in mid-2005. Continuing development of the framework has occurred since that time. For more information, please see: www.perfsonar.net
The E2E piPEs framework is the basis for much of the work
of the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative in the
coming year. In its final form, piPEs will be able to indicate performance
capabilities and locate performance problems along the path
between two computers connected by the Internet2 Abilene network,
participating campuses, regional networks, and gigaPoPs. In
turn, this will significantly improve the likelihood that
advanced Internet applications can operate at peak performance
and thereby advance the productivity of academic researchers.
At this time, E2E piPEs has four goals:
- Enable end-users and network operators to determine E2E performance capabilities, locate E2E problems, and contact the right person to get an E2E problem resolved.
- Enable remote initiation of partial path performance tests.
- Make partial path performance data publicly available.
- Be interoperable with other performance measurement frameworks.
The goal of the architecture of the piPEs framework (shown in the figure below) is to determine the performance characteristics of the complete path by aggregating information about the segments that make up the path; problematic partial paths can be identified and reported, with supporting data, to the appropriate network administrator.
A battery of regularly scheduled active tests provides information on loss, jitter, throughput, and one-way latency data. If the necessary data is not included in the database, a test can be scheduled on demand. For example:
- The end user is experiencing problems; he requests information, specifying end points and type of application.
- The request is scrutinized to determine whether the requestor has the authority to make such requests and whether the two end-points share the same tool. If the answer to either of these is “no”, the request is rejected.
- If the answers are “yes”, piPEs checks the database to determine if the request can be met by regularly scheduled tests. If not, a test is scheduled on-demand.
- The test results are gathered and stored in a distributed centralized database. Then, piPEs analyzes the data and provides the user: a) the likely place to start looking for failure, b) contact information for the individual responsible for that administrative domain, and c) data to provide to the contact with sufficient cause to investigate the complaint.
The aim of this system is to reduce the “signal to noise ratio.” NOTE: piPEs, as described above, is the final product; at this time, work on the project is focusing on the database, web-based display engine, the analysis engine, and performance measurement points. The regularly scheduled tests include latency (OWAMP), bandwidth (BWCTL), and routing information (traceroute).
The initial deployment, which includes the Abilene backbone network and a few campuses, has been demonstrated at several workshops, including: TIP 2004, GNEW 2004, the Transatlantic Performance Monitoring Workshop, and the CANARIE-GEANT-Internet2 Lightpath Workshop. These demonstrations have included transcontinental, transpacific, and transatlantic paths; they have also demonstrated the ability of other tools to consume the data provided by piPEs – both NLANR’s The Performance Advisor and the HENP-funded MonALISA project are able to display data collected by piPEs.
Preliminary steps to deploy piPEs at the NC-ITEC (NC-State) and ITEC-Ohio (OSU) have begun. The CENIC network is deploying a similar backbone network infrastructure to the AMI (step 1 in the piPEs framework); when the infrastructure is complete, they will be ready to implement piPEs both in their own network and linked to the Abilene network.
Current deployment efforts are shown below:
A group of collaborators, known as piPEfitters, are working
on various aspects of the project. Send your comments or questions to email@example.com.
or subscribe to our
Note: The development of piPEs has benefited from extensive conversations
with colleagues from the Internet2 E2Epi TAG team, the DAST/NLANR team, SLAC researchers, the NLM Visible Human Project, HENP and VLBI researchers, the
Merit team, the Internet2 ITECs, DANTE, the University College of London, and many others. Their invaluable
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Re: Why validate?
Thinking about "why validate", why did HTML become so wide-spread so fast? I think that a big part of the reason is that almost anyone could learn how to write usable pages quickly and with no formal training or programming experience. If validation or even DTDs without validation had been required, most of those sites would never have sprouted up. You looked at the source for a page, and you could see the whole scheme behind HTML in a few glances. I had never heard of markup languages, and I remember thinking "what an interesting way to do things". And then the browsers were somewhat tolerant of mistakes, too. I remember writing quite a few HTML pages or fragments, which I did by copying ideas from other pages. And they worked! The first few times I looked at the HTML standard, I was revolted and couldn't get anyting useful out of it. The same thing has been happening with css, although it's harder to pick up on the fly. Now, it's true you probably can't design a big e-commerce site these days by just winging it this way. Nor complex document managment systems. But this ease-of-use, fault-tolerant aspect is likely to be of major importance in building wide usage and acceptance of XML (or "SML"). And this aspect does not include validation and probably not DTDs either. If we have developed a truly good system in XML, it will be able to adapt well to both ends of the spectrum. HTML wasn't up to this. XML, I think, has the possiblity of being up to it. Tom Passin From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@c...> > Maybe I was overly influenced by the fact that my first exposure to > pointy brackets was in the context of SGML, but I think validation is > pretty fundamental. A DTD is like a contract, it helps both > clients and service providers to maintain a satisfactory working > relationship. > > 1) As a client, I validate to save wasted round-trips when service providers > bounce my submissions for syntactic errors; > > 2) As a service provider, I validate to save resources, at two levels: > > 2a) During application development, the earlier phases of system > structure are much simpler and clearer because they don't mix > (syntactic) error detection and basic structure construction; > > 2b) During application operation, syntactic errors are detected and > reported in a standard way likely to be familiar to clients, > reducing handholding requirements. > > In my own development work, I find (2a) particularly pertinent, > whether the applications involved are programs OR stylesheets. > > ht > -- xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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As far as we know, students who have experience in writing reaction papers like this assignment very much. The thing is that this kind of essays seems to be not as formal as other types. You do not have to make up something – just introduce your reaction on a subject matter.
Sounds exciting, right? Then, you definitely need more details on how to write reaction essays.
What is the gist of reaction essays?
You have flicked through sample reaction papers but still cannot get what they are all about. Well, to put it into simple words, you will have to prepare a reaction paper on a specific event, piece of writing, etc. that presents your feelings and reaction.
What are you not supposed to do when writing reaction essays?
Introducing your reaction means that you are not supposed to convince the reader of something, insist on your opinion, or defend it. You can introduce any ideas and points of view in the reaction essay even if you do not agree with author’s ideas.
For instance, you watched a video, which states that universal health care would be a great option. If you do not agree, do not be shy to write in the reaction essay that you are for private health care.
What steps should you take to prepare reaction essays?
Take the following steps to complete your paper:
- Read or watch something that your essay will be based on;
- While reading or watching, write down your first impressions and reaction;
- After you finish reading or watching, write down more details about how you felt, what exactly you read or saw, your opinion about that;
- Finally, you may get down to writing the reaction essay based on your notes.
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US Military Telescope to Track Space Junk Down Under
DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope may head to Australia to search the skies for space junk that threatens U.S. military satellites.
A U.S. telescope will hunt for space junk in the skies above Australia under a new defense agreement. The Space Surveillance Telescope is capable of scanning an area of space the size of the United States in seconds as it searches for small space debris that may threaten military satellites in orbit.
"We value the partnership with Australia that allows us to widen our space situational awareness and share some of our revolutionary technology advances in space surveillance," said Travis Blake, program manager for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which built the telescope. "This technology development effort could benefit both nations as we catalogue and detect entire sets of currently uncharted objects that are in geosynchronous orbit above Australia."
DARPA's agreement with Australia's Department of Defense will allow the 180,000-pound telescope — weighing as much as 41 mid-size SUVs — to be transported Down Under to discover and catalog previously unseen space debris. It is the latest in a series of U.S.-Australian agreements to keep watch on dangers in space.
The telescope has tracked small objects in geosynchronous orbits about 22,000 miles high since being completed in 2011. Its sensitive gaze could detect a small laser pointer shining on top of New York City's Empire State Building from as far away as Miami.
Data from the Space Surveillance Telescope will feed into the U.S. Air Force's Space Surveillance Network — a network consisting of 29 space surveillance radar, telescopes and sensors designed to track possible near-term collisions with satellites or spacecraft. NASA will also get a chance to examine the telescope's data for signs of small asteroids.
But the Air Force network can track only 30,000 of the 500,000 space objects orbiting the Earth. The huge challenge has compelled DARPA to enlist a worldwide network of amateur astronomers in its new SpaceView program as part of the hunt for space junk.
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McDonald’s helped to brighten the Monday morning of hungry breakfast-goers with a giveaway of 121,000 free Egg McMuffins.
At 5am on the dot at the Tampines Mall outlet, McDonald’s employees quickly handed out McMuffins to a small crowd of people who had gathered outside. To ensure a smooth flow of collection, queue poles and security officers were stationed outside the restaurant, and members of the public had to collect coupons outside before going into the restaurant to claim their free breakfast.
The crowd was mainly made up by students, working professionals and elderly folk. Some had even stayed up through the night so that they would not oversleep and miss out on the free breakfast.
The free meals were part of National Breakfast Day where the fast-food chain gave away 5 million Egg McMuffins across its 5,000 restaurants in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. By 11am, all McMuffins in Singapore were fully redeemed across 115 stores around the island.
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Tunisia: Left group holds first legal congress in 25 years
The Tunisian Communist Workers’ Party (PCOT) held the first session of its first party congress as a legal organisation on July 22. The congress was held over July 22-24 in Tunis.
It featured foreign delegates and guests from Europe, Latin America and the Arab world. Estimates of attendees ranged from 1700 to 2000 people.
PCOT leader Hamma Hammami gave a speech in which he defended the party from accusations of involvement in violence.
He lobbed indirect attacks against “the forces of regression”, which can be seen as the Islamist party an-Nahda as well as the transitional regime formed after the January 14 overthrow of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The transitional authorities have accused the PCOT of being “extremists” stoking recent unrest.
Hammami urged party members and supporters to register to vote in the October constituent assembly elections and stressed the need for ongoing efforts to reach the “objectives of the revolution”.
He described the overthrow of Ben Ali as “a revolution of the people not by a coup”. Hammami praised the role of Tunisian women in the January uprising and said the Tunisian people deserved full political equality.
The congress began with a moment of silence for Tunisians who died in the uprising. Musicians playing the socialist anthem “The International” and other songs were sung by Rym al-Banna, draped in Tunisian and Palestinian flags.
Chants from attendees (which rhyme in Arabic) included: “Bread! Freedom! National Dignity!”, “The people want a new revolution!” and “The people want the liberation of Palestine!”.
During one of the sessions, the party’s leaders (Hammami and others) considered changing the party’s name to leave out the word “Communist”.
Various Tunisian commentators have noted that although the party has a strong core support and enjoys relatively strong credibility with certain parts of the public, it nevertheless suffers from its identification with communism.
Many Tunisians associate communism with obsolescence, authoritarianism and atheism. The “atheism” association is particularly relevant because it exposes the party to attacks from Islamist groups and is seen as a disadvantage compared with other leftist parties not identified with the same label and not seen as being hostile to religion.
Tunisian news reports said no decision was reached as to whether to change the party’s name.
This points to something noted by blogger and commentator on the Arab world Issandr El Amrani in a recent interview: most Arab societies are relatively conservative in religious and cultural terms.
Even in a place such as Tunisia, where many people consider themselves secular, there is a stigma attached to atheism.
On the other hand, many Tunisians are left-leaning. Of those Tunisians who have made up their minds, a relatively large proportion have told pollsters they intend to vote for left of centre parties in the constituent assembly elections.
The PCOT polls relatively well, but usually comes in after more moderate democratic socialist parties, who themselves are outdone by an-Nahda (whose share of the vote is usually between 25% and 30%).
The PCOT’s website and literature describes its attitude to religion and the relationship between religion and politics in great detail. It explicitly spells out its views on secularism, national and Arabic identiy, the hijab (hijab-wearing women are often found at PCOT rallies), women’s rights and a variety of other topics.
Many of them are combative polemics, engaging with the arguments of prominent Tunisian Islamists. The party’s position on religion is well known it fits into the same broad category as most other leftist parties in Tunisia that are hoping to protect secular principles in the drafting of the new constitution.
Many Tunisians are sympathetic on this front, but there are also many people who might otherwise be sympathetic to their platform that are put off by the PCOT’s stance on this issue.
The party’s recent communiques have tried to remind people that the PCOT respects religious freedom and that as communists they are not against religion per se.
Elements of the Tunisian middle class are also less excited about the PCOT’s call for “continuing revolution” and are more interested in re-establishing “normalcy”.
The PCOT has been active in recent protests that have turned violent. The PCOT and its allies blame forces associated with the Ben Ali regime and the security forces for the violence. But many Tunisians are put off by the PCOT’s radicalism.
The stigma attached to the PCOT simply for calling themselves “communists” may be as strong if not stronger than their reputation related to secularism. An Al Jazeera Arabic report on the party convention reflected this, quoting journalists who seemed to mock the party’s communist identification.
These supposed handicaps aside, the party benefits from the reputation of its leaders, many of who were detained and tortured under Ben Ali. It is also respected for its active and well-known participation in the January uprising.
The PCOT also has a straightforward and popular stance on Palestine and the Arab uprisings. Like most Tunisian parties, the PCOT is relatively small. But it has built a relatively strong organisational infrastructure, with branches spread out across the country.
It has an efficient propaganda and communications network, using Facebook and other social media. It also has a vibrant youth and student component and older networks built over its many years of clandestine activism.
The PCOT’s political acumen will be put to the test in the October elections.
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Walmart is the king of all retail, with revenues that are six times greater than its nearest competitor. Amazon has a comparable stranglehold on the e-commerce industry. And while it may have once seemed that each of these mega-merchants were lords of their own separate castles, it is becoming increasingly clear — as e-commerce sales continue to grow its share of total retail sales — that these two behemoths will battle it out to determine the future of the retail industry.
Amazon knows that e-commerce sales won’t just inexorably rise forever. Traditional retailing has advantages, like the ability to offer customers the chance to see and touch a product before buying. Another key strength of traditional retail is instant gratification. A customer can go out and get a product right now at his nearest retailer if he so chooses. But recently, Amazon has been trying to neutralize that advantage by offering same-day delivery for some products in a limited number of areas. And while expanding that service to more places and products may be a ways off, it is clear that Amazon is intent on cutting down traditional retail’s “instant gratification” advantage as much as is economically possible.
Walmart isn’t taking it lying down. The big-box giant announced this week that it too would be offering same-day delivery, using its extensive network of superstores as distribution centers, and shipping products to consumers via UPS. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the service will initially be available in the Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Jose, and San Francisco areas. The service will cost $10 per delivery, with no minimum order. Amazon’s own same-day delivery service costs $8.99, with a $0.99 per-item shipping charge.
How big of a deal is same-day delivery? The jury is still out. As evidenced by the high shipping costs, this is not a cheap thing to do. With a ten-dollar-per-order shipping charge, it’s unlikely that many customers will regularly take advantage of the service, unless they are really in a bind, need a product immediately and don’t have time to go to the store themselves to pick it up. Of course, as with any service, the more demand for it there is, the more cheaply a retailer can provide it.
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More importantly, however, the move is a signal of Walmart’s desire to make a big play for ecommerce business. It comes on the heels of the big-box retailer’s decision to stop selling Amazon’s Kindle e-readers and tablets, as these devices have become a main facilitator for consumers to purchase products through Amazon.com. In a presentation to investors yesterday, Walmart made its global ecommerce efforts a central theme of its pitch.
According to the trade publication, Internet Retailer, Walmart’s ecommerce sales were $4.9 billion, which is roughly 1% of its total revenue, and well shy of Amazon’s online sales of $48 billion. But Walmart is known for its ability to adapt to the times and to continue to grow revenue after many other mature companies would have rested on their laurels and enjoyed the fruits of being an established player. And while ecommerce sales are just a sliver of the firm’s overall revenues, the distinction between online and offline shopping is becoming more and more blurred. For instance, Walmart has claimed that half of its online sales come in the form of in-store pickups, where customers purchase the item online and then travel to the store to get it.
With the retail landscape changing so rapidly, it makes sense for the firm to engage in low-risk experiments like same day delivery. Ultimately, it may not be economically feasible, as customers may prefer to swing by a nearby store instead of paying huge shipping fees. But it doesn’t hurt to give customers that option. By showing a willingness to experiment and change, Walmart gives itself more than a fighting chance to dominate the future of retail, just as it has the past. | <urn:uuid:c900894c-e1f6-460d-bd12-b80559a5c4e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://business.time.com/2012/10/11/walmart-announces-same-day-delivery-tries-to-beat-amazon-at-its-own-game/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96478 | 854 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Could be Worst in History
– Far Surpassing the Exxon-Valdez Disaster
As 200,000+ gallons of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico per day, tens of thousands of birds and other wildlife are being displaced from their natural homes and habitats.
Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, has declared a state of emergency for Louisiana and has asked the federal government for 6,000+ National Guard troops. With thousands of animals and wildlife affected, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality), US Navy, US Coast Guard, and other environmental agencies are being called in for the clean-up.
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Even before construction was complete, the Stump House was turning heads. When its green-minded future owners learned of its shining environmental résumé, they knew they’d found a place to call home.
Perhaps it was Jess and Jered Bogli’s colossal-but-cordial rottweiler, Oliver, who spearheaded their move to a highly sustainable home in Portland, Oregon’s Alberta Arts District. While walking Oliver one day, the couple spotted a contemporary-looking house under construction and got to talking with the builder, Darryl Erlandson, about its green features. They passed by the house frequently after that. “It was on my running route,” Jess recalls, “and eventually one of the builders yelled to me, ‘Come in!’ Another day one of them even said, ‘Throw out an offer.’ And we did.’”
Proud do-it-yourselfers who first met during high school in Connecticut as hardcore-punk aficionados, Jess and Jered originally sought an alternative space such as a warehouse or even an old church to fix up. “But it seemed pretty overwhelming,” Jered recalls.
The couple quickly became attracted to the home’s bold design, which was fashioned by architect Brian White of Architecture W. Renovated from a 1940s ranch-style home, with many of the original materials used in the reconstruction, the boxy form provides a stark contrast to the faux-Victorian homes across the street—–actually built around the same time. Yet the house’s scale and texture integrate well into the broader neighborhood of historic Craftsman bungalows. The design also packs a green punch. A well-sealed building envelope containing insulation made from recycled blue jeans means interior temperatures stay mild year-round. It also has a solar heating system that provides hot water and warms the radiant floor, using a set of roof-mounted tubes rather than the more common flat panels. “Compared to photovoltaic panels, solar thermal achieves around 70 percent efficiency,” Erlandson notes. “It’s not giving you electricity, but you get more bang for your buck because it’s already what you want it to be: heat. If you generate electricity and turn it back into heat, there’s some loss there in the transition.”
Jered, a graphic designer, and Jess, a school-health-education consultant, are active volunteers in their community and passionate about living sustainably. Avid gardeners who grow much of what they eat, they have eagerly taken advantage of the large backyard by planting an array of fruits and vegetables, leaving plenty of lawn left over for tossing a ball with Oliver or entertaining in the summer months. The couple plans to reserve a portion of their garden for neighbors to pick from freely.
To capitalize on connections with the ample backyard, White’s design moved the kitchen from the front of the house to the rear, where glass doors fold back (without mullions) to reveal a huge unfettered opening onto the yard and garden. “Everybody hangs out in the kitchen anyway,” Jered says, noting a recent meal they cooked for 21 people, “but here you can be talking to somebody standing under the tree while you’re chopping food at the counter.”
Topping the kitchen counter is simple polished concrete that Erlandson assembled in the garage using crushed rock from a local quarry. This and other industrial materials complement the architecture’s clean lines. The front door and front-yard planters, for example, are made from raw reclaimed steel.
The adjacent living and dining areas, which share a large open space off the kitchen, are situated to the north, where most of the windows have been placed for optimum diffusion of daylight. The interior is decorated with kitschy vintage diagrams and charts. One displays the nutritional value of cheese pizza; another is an educational illustration of the heart. An old library card catalog in the corner once belonged to Jered’s father, a teacher, but could have come from the set of a Wes Anderson movie. Its drawers are filled not with library cards but with oddball items such as skeet-shooting medals and Pez dispensers.
Nearby, a light box displays Jered’s shadowy, film noiresque photo of Portland’s Broadway Bridge and Union Station, taken with his pocket-size Holga camera while cycling to work one morning. “I always keep it with me just in case,” he says. “And that day it felt as blue and foggy as it looks. It was enough to stop me in my tracks.”
Though the clouds and rain can often make days a little dreary in Portland, the Boglis’ house stays bright most of the time. Erlandson removed two fireplaces in the original house, so to create a similar sense of a hearth he replaced them with a light well extending from a rooftop skylight through the second floor down to the ground. The well is clad in handmade ceramic tiles that make it resemble a chimney. “It really is kind of like our fireplace,” Jess says, laughing. “I asked Jered, ‘Where do we hang the stockings?’”
Downstairs, the built-out basement houses Jess’s office and a conference room, but it could also become a separate apartment or in-law quarters. Upstairs, the master bedroom includes a balcony extending the length of the space; it also shades the west-facing kitchen and deck below. A sloping green roof tops the house with sod and native plants. There’s space for barbecuing above the garage, but they may choose to plant more crops. After all, Jered and Jess have learned Oliver has a taste for fresh produce.
“He ate all the raspberries the other day,” Jered says, rolling his eyes. “But he actually just picks the fruit that’s ripe. You end up finding all these green tomatoes with vampire marks on them. He can tell when they aren’t ready.”
Though not every dog in town has such a taste for seasonal produce, Portland’s residents are certainly aware that their city is a national beacon for sustainable living. The Boglis’ house was dubbed the Stump House by the architect—–perhaps as a nod to Portland’s nickname, Stumptown—– but it might be more fitting to compare it to a sapling. The polished new home represents the beginning of another life cycle for the previously used materials that went into its creation, and the solar-powered heating system is a constant reminder of renewal. | <urn:uuid:a8ecdc83-e35e-4cf5-ac36-fe05188ac185> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dwell.com/comment/11021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955727 | 1,417 | 2.125 | 2 |
We evaluated the average 7-year survivorship and clinical results of a newer primary posterior stabilized total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The modifications in this design included a deeper patellar sulcus aimed at reducing contact stresses, improving patellar tracking, and achieving greater maximum flexion. A consecutive group of 137 patients (171 knees) who underwent TKAs using the Optetrak PS knee prosthesis between October 1997 and March 2004 were followed for an average of 6.8 years (range 4.0–11.5 years). Preoperative range of motion (ROM) and Knee Society scores were obtained and compared to that of the patients’ most recent follow-up. Manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) and revision of the implant for any reason were considered endpoints for Kaplan–Meier survival analysis of all knees. Twenty-one knees (12.3%) underwent MUA. Three knees (1.8%) underwent revision, resulting in a 97.2% survival at a mean 10 years follow-up. Pain scores and ROM significantly improved after surgery (from preoperative average of 5.3 and 105° respectively to 44.6 and 120° postoperatively). These findings suggest that this posterior stabilized knee design is both a safe and effective option for patients undergoing primary TKA.
This article appears in HSS Journal: Volume 7, Number 2.
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The shrimp here are served in a molcajete, a large bowl carved out of lava rock and sent to the table bubbling hot and furious.
The dish is called Camarón Azteca, and the volcanic container keeps the fresh-from-the-oven meal wickedly warm. It's a good thing, too, because it takes us a long time to work our way through the Vesuvius-size mound of Guaymas shrimp; in any other dish, the shrimp would get cold.
Much of the magic in the bowl comes from its voluptuous sauce, essentially chunky, chile-rich salsa blended with Mexican white cheese. We're told there's no butter involved, but it sure tastes of it -- a reaction of the milky cheese melted at such high temperature, we suppose. | <urn:uuid:a864d305-4123-4010-96ce-77db93d42e48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2000-09-21/best-of-phoenix/best-camar-oacute-n/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949756 | 168 | 1.5 | 2 |
This is like a short essay about what I think about cyber bullying.
What is Cyber Bullying? Cyber bullying is bullying or harassing someone through the internet. Cyber Bullying is very dangerous, it can hurt people mentally and physically. Cyber bullying is not funny, and it is a serious matter. I think it is worse than bullying someone physically. You can stop the bully or tell someone that the bully is physically bullying you. But when someone bullies you through the internet, you can not stop it immediately. You can not tell who the person is that is bullying you, because you will not know who that person is. You can get emotionally depressed from the bullying, in some cases you might commit suicide. You can get tricked through the internet, the other person that is talking to you through the internet may not be telling the truth about her age or who he or she is. In some cases you might get stalked or raped through the internet. I know that cyber bullying is dangerous and hurtful because my friend got cyber bullied. He was so sad all the time. He didn’t know who the person was. Soon he told someone they tracked the cyber bullies, the bullies got suspended for more than a week. Cyber bullying is not good for either sides, from being bullied to being the one bullying. | <urn:uuid:2584c85d-def7-4bcf-a8e0-5b5e87ada151> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://webupon.com/web-talk/cyber-bullying-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978441 | 265 | 2.671875 | 3 |
|Assemby [als Ball] Rooms The Pantiles [als The Parade, The Walks] Tunbridge Wells|
Books and other documents
|Published||Title, author and references|
|1840||New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen ⇒ p. 120|
|1687||History||assembly-room||Burr's Tunbridge Wells|
In 1687, a fire broke out in the house …. at the bottom of the walk, by which the life of one poor child was lost, and all the shops, and other buildings, so lately erected on the green bank, were entirely consumed
It rose more glorious from its ashes, the buildings being afterwards more regularly planned, and better contrived .... an assembly-room, coffee-houses, shops, and dwelling-houses have been erected in one continued line, and a convenient portico placed in front, and carried on from the upper end of the parade quite down to the well.
|1726 to 1740||History||assembly-room||Burr's Tunbridge Wells|
About 1726, the lord of the manor's building lease expired, and …. this occasioned a tedious law-suit between the lord and the tenants, which …. was finally determined in favour of the latter, who were adjudged to have a just claim to a third part of the buildings, .... all the shops and houses on this estate were divided into three equal lots .... and they happened to draw the middle lot, which included the assembly-room on the walk
After this the landlord and tenants entered into a long agreement to restrain and prevent the increase of buildings on the manor, which was confirmed and established by an act of parliament, that passed royal assent on 29th April 1740.
|3rd Jul 1728||History||Assemby [als Ball] Rooms||Colbran's Tunbridge Wells|
Register of the Chapel of Ease: "July 3, 1728-- Lower walk levelled and repaired, and gates made to keep horses from coming upon the Lower walk." A much respected nobleman now living has often " tripped it featly here and there," in the open air on the Upper parade, and within forty years it was by no means an uncommon occurrence on ball nights for the windows of the Assembly-rooms to be opened to their full extent, and the tradespeople of both sexes to dance on the Parade to the enlivening strains that were animating their more aristocratic neighbours within.
|1735||History||The first "King" or Arbiter Elegantiarum of Tunbridge Wells||Assemby [als Ball] Rooms|
Beau Nash, born in 1674 in Swansea in Wales. He served as an army officer and was then called to the bar but made little of either career. In 1704 he became Master of Ceremonies at the rising spa town of Bath, and he retained that position until his death in 1762. He is buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
|1761 to 1836||History||Assemby [als Ball] Rooms||Colbran's Tunbridge Wells|
After the celebrated Beau Nash had ceased to reign, the following gentlemen presided in succession as Masters of the Ceremonies : - Messrs. Collet, Derrick, Blake, Tyson, Fotheringham, Amsinck, Roberts, Captain Merryweather, and Lieut. Madden, R. M. The latter gentleman held his office for eleven years and resigned at the end of the season of 1836. Since then the office has been dispensed with, and when public balls are now given, certain gentlemen act as stewards for the evening.
|1766||History||Assemby [als Ball] Rooms||Colbran's Tunbridge Wells|
In 1766, the following were the prescribed amusements :- " The company usually appear on the parade between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, to drink the water, and practice the necessary exercise of walking, which is very sufficient amusement for an hour or two. They then return to their lodgings to breakfast, or else assemble together in parties at the tea-rooms, where it is customary for gentlemen to treat the ladies, and their male acquaintance, every one in their turn, and frequently to give a public breakfast to the whole company without exception; which, in fine weather, is often given under the trees upon the open walk, and attended with music the whole time. After breakfast it is usual to attend morning service in the chapel, to take an airing in coaches or on horseback, to assemble together in the bookseller's shop, or else to saunter upon the parade. When prayers are ended, the music, which had only ceased during the time of divine service, strikes up afresh, and the company thickening upon the walks, divert themselves with conversations as various as their different ranks and circumstances, till the important call of dinner obliges the different parties to disperse. Dinner finished, the band of music again ascends the orchestra, and you once more behold the company returning in crowds to the walks; but now the morning dress is laid aside, and all appear in full and splendid attire. The general desire of all is to see and be seen, till the hour of tea-drinking, when they assemble together, as in the morning, commonly at the expense of the gentlemen. This over, cards and all sorts of lawful gaming succeed in the great rooms, which are supplied with a proper number of tables and all necessary accommodations. Twice in the week, that is, on Tuesdays and Fridays, there are public balls in the great assembly rooms, where all ranks are mingled together without any distinction. The nobility and the merchants, the gentry and the traders, are all upon an equal footing, so long as you behave with that decorum which is ever necessary in genteel company."
|1776||History||a very elegant assembly-room||Burr's Tunbridge Wells|
The Wells, properly so called, is the center of business and pleasure, because there the markets, the medicinal water, the chapel, the assembly-room and the public parades are situated
These parades are usually called the upper walk and the lower walk; the first being neatly paved with square brick, raised about four steps above the other, and particularily appropriated to the company; the second remains unpaved, and is chiefly used by country people and servants.
On the right hand of the paved walk in the way from the well is the assembly-room, the coffee-houses, and the shops for silver-smiths, jewellers, milleners, booksellers, Tunbridgeware, &c. From thence a portico is extended the whole length of the parade, supported by Tuscan pillars, for the company to walk under occasionally. This walk is shaded by a long row of large and flourishing trees planted on the left hand of it, in the midst of which is erected a gallery for musick; and the whole is properly separated from the lower walk by a range of neat palisades, opposite to which are the taverns, a few decent lodging-houses, and a very elegant assembly-room, with a coffe-house, and all needful conveniences for the entertainment of company.
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Jenner Explains the Section 1603 Grant Program in Biomass Magazine
Stoel Rives attorney Greg Jenner discussed the U.S. Department of Treasury's Section 1603 grant program with Rona Johnson of Biomass Magazine. The program, created as part of the Stimulus Bill, gives renewable energy project developers the ability to offset costs through a 30 percent grant, and is expected to provide about $5 billion for the development of renewable energy projects around the country.
"There are a lot of deals that are getting done based on 1603," Jenner said. "It really has been a game changer. In fact, I think it has kept the renewable energy industry alive for the past two years."
Jenner noted the program will sunset at the end of this year, meaning that projects must have begun construction before the end of 2010 to qualify. He said there are two ways to meet the beginning construction requirement and benefit from the program. "One of them requires that you pay or incur more than 5 percent of the total project costs. When you think pay or incur, most laymen or nontax people think, 'Oh well, if I just pay it that's enough,' but it isn't. Pay or incur has a very specific meaning in the tax world and it's gotten a lot of people in trouble when they think the rule goes one way and it goes another."
The Treasury Department has also deemed that physical activity that occurs before the end of the year can meet the beginning construction test but the activity must be continuous. That means that a developer can't go out on New Year's Eve and start digging around and then cease activity for a year, he said. "On the other hand, it doesn't have to be the developer itself that begins construction," he added. "Beginning construction can be met by work off-site, and so there are different ways that you can meet that requirement as well."
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Discovery of Earth-like planet "thrilling"
Scientists looking for life on other planets like to talk about the "Goldilocks Zone" -- not too hot, not too cold, but just right.
Now, researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., have found a planet -- Kepler-22b -- that's right in that zone.
But don't pack your bags just yet. If you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 600 years to get there.However the news is still exciting stuff for experts such as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American Museum of Natural History.
The discovery, Tyson said on "The Early Show," is thrilling because of the potential for life on the planet. He explained, "In the catalogs of planets that we now have, this is the first time we've had an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone with a star. ... We're kind of biased: We're looking for life as we know it. You can imagine, I suppose, that there is life on something other than water, but that's kind of -- we don't know how to get a handle on that. We do have a handle on life -- every place there's water on Earth, there's life -- even the Dead Sea. They called it the Dead Sea because they didn't see fish. But you pull out your microscope and there's microbes everywhere on Earth."
However, it isn't likely humans are going to be guests on Kepler-22b anytime soon, particularly because our current technology has its limitations. "It's not close," Tyson said. "(With) our fastest spacecraft today, it would take something like 300,000 years to get there. ... Probably even longer."
What's the next realistic step for researchers, now that the planet's been found?
"You build the catalog of these planets that could have life," Tyson said. "Now you have a second round of observations to try to see the atmosphere, to see if the atmosphere has bio-markers for thriving life on its surface. Then you say, 'Well, if you ever have the chance to go somewhere or to target telescopes to listen for intelligent life, those will be at the top of the list."'
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9/11 Explosive Connections
A Compelling Alternative to The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How?
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Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth now number over 1,500 technical and building professionals, speaking out about the deep flaws in the official story.
Thomas Kean Runs From 9/11 Questions… Again
WeAreChange tries to give another meaning to relentless, as they yet again confront the chair of the 9/11 commission report Thomas Kean.
Remember Building 7.org
Tenth Anniversary Campaign. Remember Building 7 is a non-partisan campaign led by 9/11 family members to raise awareness of the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7
If The Official Report Isn’t True, What about 9/11 Is?
The Cause For Questions. Nearly 10 years later it takes little discernment to learn that the Official Report of 9/11 is not true. How is it that so much first hand knowledge, experience and evidence are a night and day contrast to, or omitted from, the Official Report?
Following a yearlong campaign by the Family Steering Committee for its formation, The 9/11 Commission, from its formation in 2002, and increasingly since the release of the Official Report in 2004 have distanced themselves from the process, noting its conflicts of interest and the report itself, critcizing the reports accuracy and the process of information it was able to attain.
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Too often, we rely on doctors to tell us what's happening in our bodies. But the best health care is prevention. We need to take responsibility for knowing our own bodies and their needs, and use that information to change bad habits and become better patients. The goal is not self-diagnosis, but rather, self-knowledge.
The act of recording physical discomfort, marks and health events teaches us to pay closer attention to our bodies. And the resulting records are valuable tools for helping us visualize, externalize and validate problems that can often be hard to describe—both to ourselves and to our doctors. | <urn:uuid:53d3ff2b-c410-4aba-9915-a49e531c884a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://designigniteschange.org/projects/431-tabula-personal-health-notebook | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962849 | 123 | 2.140625 | 2 |
'Flashback' trojan estimated to have infected 600K Macs worldwide
Russian antivirus company Dr. Web issued a report on Wednesday noting that hundreds of thousands of Macs are infected with the Flashback Trojan, with more than half of them in the U.S. alone. The attack takes advantage of an old Java vulnerability that Apple just patched this week. The malware self-installs after you visit a compromised or malicious webpage.
Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday—first in Russian and later in English—about the growing Mac botnet, first claiming 550,000 infected Macs. Later in the day, however, Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted to Twitter that the count had gone up to 600,000, with 274 bots even checking in from Cupertino, CA, where Apple’s headquarters are located.
According to a map released by the firm, 56.6 percent of infected computers are located in the United States. Canada was second with 19.8 percent, followed by the U.K. with 12.8 percent of cases.
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various makeshifts were used on the horses' backs, and the troopers were even drilled bareback.
This probationary period was a wearisome one for the cavalry recruit.
A trooper must perforce learn much of what his comrade of the infantry knows, and in addition must be taught all that pertains to horses and horsemanship.
Those who had been fascinated by the glamour and dash of the cavalry life doubtless wished many times, during those laborious days, that they had the more frequent hours of recreation granted their neighbors of the infantry.
The reward of the Federal
cavalry came in those later days when, after painstaking and unremitting instruction covering many months and enlightening experiences in the field, they gained that confidence in themselves and their leaders, which resulted in the ultimate destruction of the opposing cavalry, and the decisive triumph of the Federal
But good cavalry cannot be made in a month, or even in a year.
The first year of the war saw the Confederate cavalry plainly superior in every way, and there were humiliating instances of the capture by the corps daelite
of the South
, of whole squadrons of Northern horsemen.
The second year of the tremendous struggle passed with much improvement in the Federal
cavalry, but with a still marked lack of confidence in itself.
It was not until the third year of its organization and training that the Union
cavalry really found itself, and was able to vindicate its reputation in the eyes of those who in the preceding period were wont to sneeringly remark that “no one ever sees a dead cavalryman!”
The drill regulations of the period, called tactics in those days, were the “‘41 Tactics” or “Poinsett
tactics,” authorized for dragoon regiments in the year 1841, by the Honorable J. R. Poinsett
, Secretary of War
These drill regulations were in the main a translation from the French
, and although occasional attempts were made to improve them, they continued in use by the Eastern
cavalry of the Union
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From time to time on this blog I've complained about journalistic stories trumpeting scientific researches into how music works and how it "makes us feel." These stories tend to draw simplistic conclusions from scholarly studies whose results are often quite a bit more nuanced and complex. Also, they tend to ignore centuries of prior speculation on the same issues. For example, back in 2004 I flagged a report claiming that "while many classical scores have a distinctly national feel, no one [emphasis added] had put forward a good explanation for why that should be." If you're reading about the emotional power of dissonant tones, you're not likely to see citations of Rameau's Treatise on Harmony, which went viral in 1722, and if you're reading about the interrelationship of music and language you will seldom encounter the name Leoš Janáček. I should make clear — as I haven't always made clear in the past — that the problem is very often not the work itself but the media summary of it. Although I do have serious questions about the methodology of that study finding that Beethoven avoided high notes in his middle period.
In a NewMusicBox piece, Isaac Schankler scrutinizes recent articles on the topic of music and emotion, these focused on alleged appoggiaturas in the songs of Adele. Because Schankler is a composer and musician associated with the field of music perception and cognition, in large measure his aim is to give a more accurate picture of the study by the psychologist John Sloboda that was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and on NPR. But a more general protest emerges. Schankler resists "the implication that music is like a science of emotional manipulation through sound, and that it’s as simple as applying a 'formula' to achieve commercial and artistic success." So many of these how-does-music-work articles and books seem to view music as one thing, as a standardized mechanical apparatus whose tricks can be figured out. And music is peculiarly prey to trivializing questions. Perhaps I'm overlooking stories in other fields, but I don't seem to see headlines along the lines of "How do paintings make us feel?" or "Why do movies with unhappy endings make us cry?" or "What about thrillers makes us tense?" Music emerges from these reports as a reliable servant of everyday emotion, not as a medium of individual creativity. They dovetail a little too nicely with the corporate methodology of focus-group testing. Only the mean counts; outliers are discarded. I love the comment that Schankler found in a Metafilter discussion: “I’d like some scientific explanation of why that song does nothing for me.”
February 29, 2012 | Permalink
The idea of an opera based on Ann Patchett's novel Bel Canto, a story of opera and terrorism intermingled, is hardly new. Aaron Jay Kernis was commissioned to write such a work for the Santa Fe Opera's 2006 season, but was unable to complete it because of personal losses he suffered at that time. (Kernis still hopes to write an opera.) Renée Fleming, who resembles the opera-singer character in Patchett's book, continued to pursue the material, and in the 2015-16 season a Bel Canto opera will be presented at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Fleming is a creative consultant. The name of the composer may be refreshing for those who have grown tired of seeing the same names attached to such announcements. Jimmy López, a gifted Peruvian-born composer with Finnish training, will undertake the task, working alongside the Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz. Stephen Wadsworth is to direct, Andrew Davis to conduct; Danielle de Niese will portray the Flemingesque lead. Andrew Patner has more.
February 28, 2012 | Permalink
In the spring, as part of a WQXR residency, The Knights will perform John Adams's 1973 string-ensemble piece Christian Zeal and Activity, which calls for the incorporation of "sonic found objects," along the lines of Gavin Bryars's classic 1971 work Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Most listeners are familiar with the version on the Nonesuch recording, which uses a sermon by a Southern evangelical preacher ("Now what's wrong with a withered hand?"). An earlier recording, issued on Brian Eno's Obscure Records label, employs a religious debate from a late-night radio show. (There, Christian Zeal appears as part of the three-movement piece American Standard — the earliest, and undoubtedly the strangest, item in the Adams discography.) For their rendition, The Knights are asking listeners to submit found objects for consideration — five to seven minutes in length, "using any equipment or techniques (analog or digital), edited and processed however you see fit." Entries are due on March 16, and will be reviewed by trumpter-composer Joshua Frank and a panel from The Knights and WQXR. I should note that circa 1988 my former WHRB colleague Michael Pahre, with whom I perpetrated an Ecstatic Radio Fantasia on Robert Ashley's "She Was a Visitor," prepared a version of Christian Zeal using the beloved voice of Milton Babbitt, talking about his studies with Roger Sessions. To this day, when those hymnal chords begin unfolding, I expect to hear, "But he had just returned from Europe when I went to study with him in 1935...."
From Ecstatic Radio Fantasia, June 2, 1989.
February 28, 2012 | Permalink
In a pair of posts on the New Yorker website, Sasha Frere-Jones and I attempt to make sense of the nominations for Best Original Score in this year's Oscars. In particular, we address the disqualifying of Cliff Martinez's music for Drive. We both want to know: if Martinez did not qualify, why was a nomination given to The Artist, whose climactic scene is driven by Bernard Herrmann's celebrated score for Vertigo? It seems to us that the rules are being applied in a blatantly inconsistent manner.
February 25, 2012 | Permalink
The other night on The Colbert Report, Plácido Domingo and the host sang "La donna è mobile." Colbert has something of an operatic past, having been associated in his youth with the Spoleto festivals, both in Charleston and in Italy. If I am not mistaken, he is the "Steven Colbert" who is here reported playing several bit roles in Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra in 1983, not to mention a "nude brothel customer" in Madama Butterfly. Tell us more, Maestro!
February 24, 2012 | Permalink
The Metropolitan Opera's 2012-13 season contains only two works composed after the death of Puccini: Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites and Thomas Adès's The Tempest. The two operas receive a total of eleven performances. Still, I'm happy to see Adès's powerful score making its way to New York; I covered the premiere in 2004.
February 24, 2012 | Permalink
The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2012-13 season; Christopher Rouse will be composer in residence.... Fiona Maddocks likes the choice of Sakari Oramo to lead the BBC Symphony.... On the occasion of The Death of Klinghoffer at English National Opera, the usual controversies have flared up. Tom Service ponders being called a "complacent Gentile" by Richard Taruskin.... Andrew Patner interviews the restlessly inventive Anna Clyne on WFMT, on the occasion of the Chicago premiere and West Coast tour of her Schubert-inspired piece Night Ferry; the composer has a debut CD, Blue Moth, from Tzadik.... The New York edition of the UNSOUND festival has started a Kickstarter campaign, raising funds for its Unsound Labs initiative.... In a program in Philadelphia on March 10, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra gives a rare outing to music of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George.... In customary fashion, Other Minds in San Francisco avoids predictable choices for its annual festival, March 1-3: the composers are Harold Budd, Gloria Coates, John Kennedy, Ikue Mori, Tyshawn Sorey, Simon Steen-Andersen, Øyvind Torvund, Ken Ueno, and Lotta Wennäkoski.... Good stuff seems in the offing at the Brooklyn Heights new-music series Music at First.... Stephen Drury plays Cage's In a Landscape and selections from his Etudes Astrales at ISSUE Project Room on Feb. 24. The S.E.M. Ensemble occupies the same venue on March 1, and the following night ISSUE pays homage to Cage with a series of new pieces around four and a half minutes long.... Tomorrow night the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the famous salon of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, with works of Stravinsky, Falla, Fauré, Debussy, Françaix, and Dowland. Sylvia Kahan, the Princess's superb biographer, speaks beforehand.... What to do next Monday? Red Light New Music presents a Feldman-centric program, the Met revives the awesomeness that is Khovanshchina, Gerald Finley sings at Tully, the Luigi Nono electronic fest continues, the NYU Symphony plays David Byrne's The Forest alongside student pieces by Tim Hansen and Ian Ng, and Juilliard presents its annual student-composer orchestra concert, with works of Michael Lee, Stefan Cwik, Michael Ippolito, and Jared Miller.
February 23, 2012 | Permalink
Allan Kozinn has a fairly rave review of Eric Owens's recital at Zankel Hall on Tuesday night. I agree in most particulars — this was a formidable outing from a singer who has become one of the most riveting artists on the operatic scene. What I like most about Owens is that he is incautious, testing the capabilities of his voice rather than following a safe route. (He explained his philosophy in an excellent interview with Steve Smith in the Times.) His choice to sing an all-French second half was the adventure here, and it wasn't entirely persuasive; the Debussy and Ravel songs were lacking in lighter-than-air lyricism, and the diction wasn't as crisp as in the German first half. (I had a hard time forgetting Gerald Finley's gossamer Ravel at Zankel in 2010.) Yet Owens's intellectual engagement with the music was clear, and he certainly had the right voice for Duparc's somewhat heavier "L'Invitation au voyage" and "La vague et la cloche," not to mention Wagner's early "Les deux grenadiers." And the German songs — Wolf's Michelangelo Gedichte, four Schumann Lieder, and Schubert's "Prometheus," "Fahrt zum Hades," and "Gruppe aus dem Tartarus" — were tremendous: fully inhabited, at times operatically potent, rich in subtlety. Wolf's "Alles endet, was entstehet" was flat-out extraordinary, giving an oblique preview of the Wotan that Owens is likely to sing in a few years' time. For the reprise of the opening phrase ("Everything ends which comes to be"), he adopted a shiveringly hushed, whispery timbre, as if staring into the abyss; I could hear him singing "Das Ende!" in Act II of Die Walküre. Then, no less movingly, he gave a rounded tone to the very last phrase, "rings vergehet," evoking a yet deeper realm. There were similarly striking touches in the Schubert set: the imperious octave descent of "Ewigkeit!" in "Gruppe aus dem Tartarus," also very Wotanlike, will be ringing in my ears for a while.
Owens, who comes across as an immensely likable guy, bantered with the audience in the second half, expressing surprise that we hadn't left the hall. Setting up his second encore, Copland's arrangement of "Shall We Gather at the River," he joked, "This is my answer to the Schumann set." That such a buoyant personality can take us into such dark regions of the human spirit suggests that Owens is essentially capable of anything.
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February 22, 2012 | Permalink
The beginning of "More Reluctant," a John Ashbery poem in this week's New Yorker:
It's time for a little chamber music
of Arensky or Borodin, something minor
and enduring, as we imagine ourselves
to be, let that be a wake-up call,
as the man said . . . .
I've had the good fortune to meet Ashbery on a few occasions, and am always eager to hear of his musical discoveries. While his knowledge of the repertory is fairly comprehensive, he has a particular love for lesser-known composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On one occasion he mentioned to me that he was very absorbed in the music of Tristan Klingsor, and another time he extolled the piano pieces of Georgy Catoire. He writes about Ernest Chausson's Le Roi Arthus in the liner notes to Leon Botstein's recording of that work; Botstein has said that Ashbery got him interested in the opera. (If the Bard Festival ever stages Déodat de Séverac's Héliogabale, there will be no great mystery about the true culprit.) Earlier this month, Ashbery received a National Humanities Medal from President Obama. I watched the ceremony on the Internet; it was somehow very moving to see so intransigently fine an artist honored in such fashion.
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, I have two shorter pieces: a Talk of the Town item about Björk's Biophilia education project — "I want the kids to feel like they're superheroes of sound," she told me — and a Critic's Notebook about the San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks project. Both pieces are available only to subscribers. (I talked to this information, and it does not want to be free.) Above, a photo of the fabulous Queens middle-schoolers with the singing Tesla coil; below, a picture of the kids with their science/music teachers and the excellent musician-artist Curver, who runs the program. Curver plays with Einar Örn in the band Ghostigital.
February 20, 2012 | Permalink
"America is a pathetic place where something stupefying must always happen for fear we wake up.”
— William Carlos Williams, "The Venus"
Here is video of Gustavo Dudamel conducting "Mambo" from West Side Story at a rally celebrating the bicentennial of Venezuela last summer. When it's over, at 3:20, you see an image of Hugo Chávez accompanied by the slogan "¡Pa'lante Comandante!" — "Forward, Commander!" Dan Wakin examines the controversy over Chávez's relationship with El Sistema and Dudamel in the New York Times.
In other music-and-politics news, Anna Netrebko and Valery Gergiev appear on a list of 499 supporters of Vladimir Putin.
Image: Library of Congress.
From Daniel Cavicchi's new book Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum:
Touring European virtuosos outdid everyone else in creating concert spectacle. Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt, among others, had been performing mind-bending displays of technique and showmanship for European audiences throughout the early decades of the nineteenth century; this approach found great success in the music market of the United States . . . At one poorly attended performance by The Havana Opera Troupe in Boston, in 1846, Giovanni Bottesini, the troupe's orchestra leader, and known as the "Paganini of the double bass," "astonished the musicians by his converting a three stringed double bass into a violin, and the prodigies of execution he brought from an instrument so unwieldy to others." Henri Kowalski noted that "Leopold de Meyer played fantasies for the left hand while he ate vanilla ice-cream with his right; Wehli played a military piece; when he wished to imitate the cannons, he sat down on the keys in the lowest bass." Joseph Gungl, the German conductor, reported that "J. L. Hatton, the pianist and composer, at a concert appear[ed] with sleigh bells fastened to his right leg. When he came to the proper place in the piece he was playing, something about a sleigh ride, he shook this leg violently while an assistant made a noise like the cracking of whip."
I looked at a couple of James Wehli pieces in a military mode; alas, I could find no notation of what might be termed a "butt cluster."
February 17, 2012 | Permalink
The first public staged performance of Parsifal outside Bayreuth took place, famously and scandalously, at the Met on Christmas Eve, 1903. Here are some glimpses of the event from the pages of the New York Times. The scene in the boxes, with particular attention paid to the hats, or lack thereof:
Up in the galleries:
The Bayreuth hush is enforced:
February 16, 2012 | Permalink
I've never had a strong interest in attending the Verbier Festival, which strikes me as a gathering-together of well-known classical names to no particular purpose. Since most of these musicians travel through New York on a regular basis, I don't need to cross the ocean in order to see them play more or less the same pieces in more or less the same configuration. Last year, Gidon Kremer denounced the festival's "misguided fixation with glamour and sex appeal," and the brochure for the 2012 edition suggests no change of heart: one sees many ostensibly good-looking stars from so-called major labels, vast quantities of standard nineteenth-century repertory, and an almost total lack of post-World War II or contemporary fare. There are, in fact, two living composers listed in some fifty programs: Charlotte Bray and Vasco Mendonça. The latter's name is misspelled.
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Lights Out At Big Game Offers Compelling Demonstration To Counter Those Who Envision World Without Coal
by PR Newswire
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4, 2013/PRNewswire/ -- Peabody Energy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gregory H. Boyce commented this evening that the disruption in New Orleans offered a convincing visual demonstration to counter those who have envisioned a world without coal.
"Coal is the world's fastest growing major fuel and provides more electricity than any other energy source," said Boyce. "Without coal, you might as well turn off half the lights not just for our favorite games but also for our cities, shops, factories and homes."
While some have unrealistically called for a phasing out of coal-fueled electricity, Boyce noted that such projections ignore the fact that coal fuels the world's best economies and is projected to become the world's largest energy source as early as this year.
Boyce has advanced The Peabody Plan, which would:
- Eliminate energy poverty by ensuring that half of all new generation is fueled by coal;
- Replace older coal plants with advanced new technologies;
- Develop at least 100 major carbon capture, use and sequestration projects around the world;
- Develop significant coal-to-gas, coal-to-chemicals and coal-to-liquids projects globally in the next decade; and
- Commercialize the next generation of technologies to achieve near-zero emissions.
The power outage in New Orleans is an echo of an award-winning advertising campaign Peabody Energy has implemented at sporting events, where the power temporarily goes out on stadium scoreboards before fans are reminded that coal fuels more power than any other fuel.
Peabody Energy is the world's largest private-sector coal company and a global leader in sustainable mining and clean coal solutions. The company serves metallurgical and thermal coal customers in more than 25 countries on six continents. For further information, go to PeabodyEnergy.com and CoalCanDoThat.com.
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HOUSTON — A strong storm system that moved across Texas on Christmas Day spawned at least three tornados, severe thunderstorms and brisk winds that knocked down trees, killing one person near Houston.
More than 60,000 customers in the Houston area were without power — down from a previous estimate of more than 70,000 — as the National Weather Service's tornado and thunderstorm warnings continued through Tuesday the storms moved west to east, gaining strength as they approached Louisiana.
Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Thomas Gilliland said a 25-year-old man died after winds knocked a tree onto his Ford F-150 pickup truck around 9:40 a.m. The incident occurred in northwest Harris County, he said.
At least two tornados touched down in East Texas in Trinity and Houston counties, said Greg Carbin, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. Initial reports said no one had been injured, but at least one building in Crockett had been damaged.
"They don't look like they were all that significant, but there's already some reports of tornado activity," Carbin said.
Later Tuesday, Beaumont police said a citizen reported seeing a tornado touch down in the north end of the southeast Texas city. The twister did not cause any damage.
Carbin said 21 counties, including the city of Houston, were under a tornado watch until 4 p.m. as the storms moved east into Louisiana, where they could get stronger.
"Right now, it looks like most of the storms are occurring to the north of Houston," Carbin said. "I imagine that activity will begin to pick up through the Houston area."
Centerpoint Energy listed on its website that more than 60,000 customers remained without power around 1 p.m. as thunderstorms pounded the Houston area.
The National Weather Service received reports of downed trees and small hail in Tyler and Hardin counties and quarter-sized hail north of Lufkin, according to meteorologists.
The storms developed as a cold front collided with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico.
"That's what it takes is that contrast between the cold very dry air and the warm moist air that is readily available or at least never far away from the Texas Gulf Coast," Carbin said.
Snow was possible later Tuesday in parts of North Texas, including Dallas and Fort Worth, as temperatures drop below freezing.
Associated Press writer Janet McConnaughey contributed to this report from New Orleans.
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Walish Gooshe, a small women’s clothing storefront created by D.C. native and clothing designer Greg Gaten Taylor, sits on Georgia Avenue, past the former home of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and just south of the Shepherd Park Library. On the inside, visitors are in the full element of women’s clothing, from strapless patterned summer dresses to multi-pocket denim and crisp white button-down shirts, juxtaposed with suits and full-length gowns. Taylor’s talent runs heavily through the store, starting with the floor-length yellow strapless gown that greets guests. “I get so many people looking at that dress right there in the window,” he says of his creation, which has draw comparison to the types of clothes that first lady Michelle Obama might wear. “[They say] ‘I can see her in it.’ ”
Opening a storefront last fall during a down economy was an ambitious move on Taylor’s part, but he wanted his customers to be able to touch and feel his clothing — something he couldn’t always do when he sold clothes online in 2009.
“I thought it was important for the customer to actually see the lifestyle around my clothes,” he says. Being in Washington doesn’t hurt, either. “I’d definitely rather [be] here than New York,” says Taylor. “You can make an impact here.”
Born in Northeast, Taylor, 27, grew up attending school in Hyattsville. “I was always into fashion,” says Taylor, who gained an early exposure from the wardrobe of his sister, who died in 2003. “She always made me want to step out of the box and design something for her.”
He began sketching in elementary school but became serious about his talent when he chose to attend the Art Institute of Philadelphia for college. There, he was able to learn the technical skills of piecing together clothing, expanding upon his small-time knowledge of using bleach and safety pins for enhancement. He switched from design to marketing after four months.”I saved a lot of money and cut a lot of corners learning that marketing aspect,” he says of his classes, which taught him the ins and outs of running a business. He modeled his first clothing business after an idea for a pet store he created for his senior project. He opened an office and later a showroom space once he graduated from the three-year program in 2005.
He began creating designs for local Philadelphia media personalities such as Sheinelle Jones from Fox 29 News and Angela Russell, formerly of CBS 3, and selling his clothes to small boutiques in the area. But when the recession hit, a lot of stores suffered and, in turn, couldn’t afford to buy from Taylor. “[I thought], ‘Before I fold, like everybody else did, let me save my money and wait.’ ” He sold the rest of his units online and decided to put his focus toward building a brand back home. “I always envisioned having a store in D.C.,” he says. “I thought it was important for the customer to actually see the lifestyle around my clothes,” he says of his self-described “classic aesthetic with a modern twist.”
Ellen Shepp, co-proprietor of the boutique Joan Shepp in Philadelphia, where Taylor used to retail his clothing, remembers the universal appeal behind Taylor and his designs.”I think he fills a void in his own way, because his designs don’t look like anybody else,” she says “I think he’s very in tune with what’s going on but not trendy. He has a wonderful personality, and it comes out in his clothes. There’s definitely kind of a happiness to them.” Taylor’s talent has taken him far beyond the showroom — his designs have been worn by stars such as singer Gladys Knight and boxing royalty Laila Ali, whom he created a red-carpet gown for on the TLC show “Who Are You Wearing?” in 2009. “We didn’t even know she was pregnant until we got there,” Taylor remembers. “I had never done a maternity dress before!”
Now that he’s arrived, he wants customers to know that you don’t have to head down Wisconsin Avenue to find a great look. “Everybody thinks that you have to go to Georgetown to find a really nice, well-put-together look, or to get that atmosphere. You can get that not far away from Silver Spring,” he says.
He moved into a space formerly occupied by Annie’s Boutique, which still stands next door, and opened with a ribbon cutting by Ward 4 councilwoman Muriel Bowser. “That was a great introduction,” he says. “I’m happy to be here.”
For now, Taylor, who offers personal styling and custom tailoring and design, is focusing on launching a trendier, lower-priced line (his other clothing runs between $150 and $350 ), “WG for Walish Gooshe,” in the fall. He would also like to get his clothes on the back of one woman in particular. “I think she’s a very fashion-forward woman, and there’s a lot of fashion-forward women in D.C.,” he says of the first lady. As the landscape of the Washington fashion scene continues to evolve, Taylor feels that his store, currently open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. and by appointment, is perfect for all Washington women. “I want the customer to know that they can get a full look within a reasonable price,” he says. “There’s a lot of personal style here now. I don’t think people are going by any type of code [any] more.”
“Consumers are wearing whatever they want to wear now, which is a good thing.”
As he continues to move forward with his business, Taylor continues to hold the memory and words of his sister close to everything he chooses to pursue. “I always hear her in my head when things get tough — she’s always telling me, ‘If it was that easy, everybody’d be doing it.’ That always keeps me going.” | <urn:uuid:73ef259b-b537-4ad8-8d5f-05acf6663123> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/dc-storefront-walish-gooshe-gives-local-women-new-sophisticated-shopping-options/2012/06/26/gJQAAFeq4V_blog.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98323 | 1,389 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Cornell Chronicle: Leaf gene changes increase corn yield
A study published in Nature Genetics has identified the genes related to leaf angle in corn (maize) - a key trait for planting crops closer together, which has led to an eight-fold increase in yield since the early 1900s. The study, led by researchers from Cornell and the U.S. Departmen ... more
Sequencing of cacao genome will help US chocolate industry, subsistence farmers
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners have announced the preliminary release of the sequenced genome of the cacao tree, an achievement that will help sustain the supply of high-quality cocoa to the $17 billion U.S. chocolate industry and protect the livelihoods ... more
A new way to use herbicides: To sterilize, not kill weeds
Using herbicides to sterilize rather than to kill weedy grasses might be a more economical and environmentally sound weed control strategy, according to a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and a cooperator.
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The U.S. House of Representatives is now debating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—the counterpart to the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act. If passed, the bill will expand criminal penalties for copyright infringement and give the government (and private parties) new powers to block access to websites accused of facilitating infringement.
The bill is the latest in a series of efforts to strengthen copyright enforcement online. Earlier this year, Internet Service Providers and the film and record industries reached an agreement to expand the private policing of online infringement. Search engines, social networking platforms, cloud storage providers, universities, and other institutions face growing pressure to monitor and filter Internet activity.
This research note is an effort to bring American public opinion to bear on this vital conversation. The note excerpts a forthcoming survey-based study called Copy Culture in the U.S. and Germany. Drawing on results from the U.S. portion of the survey, it explores what Americans do with digital media, what they want to do, and how they reconcile their attitudes and values with different policies and proposals to enforce copyright online.
The Copy Culture survey was sponsored by The American Assembly, with support from a research award from Google. The content of the survey and its findings are solely the responsibility of the researchers. The U.S. survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The results are based on interviews on landline and cellular telephones conducted in English with 2,303 adults age 18 or older living in the continental United States from August 1-31, 2011. For results based on the entire sample, the margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Full results and data will be available in early 2012.
- ‘Piracy’ is common. Some 46% of adults have bought, copied, or downloaded unauthorized music, TV shows or movies.* These practices correlate strongly with youth and moderately with higher incomes. Among 18-29 year olds, 70% have acquired music or video files this way.
- Large-scale digital piracy is rare, limited to 2% of adults for music (>1000 music files in collection and most or all copied or downloaded for free) and 1% for film (>100 files, most or all from copying or downloading).
- Console-based video game piracy is very rare, limited (on any scale) to 1-2% of the population.
- Legal media services can displace piracy. Of the 30% of Americans who have ‘pirated’ digital music files, 46% indicated that they now do so less because of the emergence of low-cost legal streaming services. Among TV/movie pirates, 40%.
- Copyright infringement among family and friends is widely accepted (75% and 56%, respectively, for music; 70% and 54% for film). In contrast, activities that imply dissemination of copyrighted goods to larger networks receive very low levels of support.
- Only a slim majority of Americans (52%) support penalties for downloading copyrighted music and movies—and limit this support to warnings and fines. Other penalties, such as bandwidth throttling and disconnection, receive much lower levels of support.
- Disconnection from the Internet, in particular, is very unpopular, with only 16% in favor and 72% of Americans opposed.
- Among those who support fines, 75% support amounts under $100 per song or movie infringed—hugely undershooting the current statutory penalties.
- For a majority of Americans (54%), due process in such matters requires a court—not adjudication by private companies.
- Solid majorities of American Internet users oppose copyright enforcement when it is perceived to intrude on personal rights and freedoms. 69% oppose monitoring of their Internet activity for the purposes of enforcement. 57% oppose blocking or filtering if those measures also block some legal content or activity.
- Comparable majorities (56%) oppose government involvement in “blocking” access to infringing material. This number increases to 64% when the term “censor” is used.
- Blocking and filtering by commercial intermediaries such as ISPs, social media sites, and search engines receive majority support—until the questions include likely consequences. Majorities of Internet users support requirements that ISPs and search engines “block” infringing material (58% for ISPs; 53% for search engines). This support runs as high as 61% for a soft requirement that user-content driven sites like Facebook “try to screen all material and reject pirated copies of music and videos.” But this majority disappears when blocking by ISPs is characterized as censorship (46% support), falls further when associated with the blocking of legal content (36% support), and still further when it implies surveillance of Internet use (26% support).
- Which scenario best approximates the Stop Online Piracy Act? In our view, ISP blocking that also blocks some legal content. In this case, Internet users oppose blocking: 57% to 36%.
What People Say They Do
“Piracy” is common. Roughly 46% of American adults have bought pirated DVDs, copied files or discs from friends or family, or downloaded music, TV shows or movies for free.* These practices correlate strongly with youth and moderately with higher incomes.
- Among those 18-29: 70% have done so.
- About 40% of American adults have copied CDs, music files, or downloaded music for free. 20% have done so for TV and movies.
- Gender doesn’t matter. In most questions related to copying, men outpoll women by 2% or less.
- Copying has a modest partisan divide: 24% of Republicans, 31% of independents and 35% of Democrats have copied or downloaded music for free.
Large-scale digital piracy is rare. Roughly 2% of Americans are heavy music pirates (for our purposes, those who have collections of more than 1,000 files and who indicated that they downloaded or copied most or all of them.) Only 1% acquired these files primarily or exclusively through downloading.
Only 1% of Americans are heavy pirates of TV/movie content (i.e. possess more than 100 movies or TV shows and copied or downloaded most or all of them)
TV/movie piracy remains a marginal practice on any scale. Only 14% of Americans have any TV/movie files on a computer or other device. Only 22% of this group (3% overall) get most or all of these files from file sharing. Among 18-29 year olds, 7% do. Only 2% of Americans possess more than 100 TV show or movie files. Among 18-29 year olds: 4% do.
Only 3% of Americans possess very large digital music collections (over 5,000 music files). Among those 18-29, 7% do.
Console-based video game piracy on any scale is rare. 48% of households surveyed owned game consoles (Xbox, Playstation). Of these, roughly 3% (1.5% overall) have consoles that have been modified to play pirated games. Of this 3%, 55% were modified at time of purchase and 33% by the owners. We did not inquire about PC or mobile games.
Piracy and legal acquisition are complementary practices. Less than a third of those who “pirate” music and video (14% of Americans) said that they had copied or downloaded for free most or all of their collections. Among those 18-29, slightly over a third have done so (27%).
Legal streaming services show signs of displacing some piracy. Of the 30% of Americans who have copied or downloaded digital music files for free, 46% indicated that they now do so less because of the emergence of these services. (The survey was conducted prior to the US launch of Spotify). The comparable figure for video–the so-called “Netflix effect”–is 40%.
Copyright infringement among family and friends is widely accepted. Substantial majorities of Americans say it is “reasonable” to share music files with family members (75%) and friends (56%). For movie/TV files: 70% and 54% respectively
In contrast, dissemination of copyrighted goods through larger networks receives low levels of support. Very few think it is reasonable to upload copies to websites where anyone can download them (16%), post links to illegal copies on websites such as Facebook (8%) or sell illegal copies (6%).
An expansive view of what’s reasonable correlates strongly with youth. ‘Share with Friends,’ in particular, is an elastic category that for many young people includes infringement over the Internet.
What are Appropriate Penalties for Infringement?
Only a slim majority of Americans (52%) say “people should face punishment if they download an unauthorized copy of a song or movie from a website or file-sharing service.” 34% are opposed to penalties altogether; 7% say it depends on the circumstances; 7% did not answer.
This support is limited to warnings and fines. Among those who support penalties, the use of warnings (86%) and fines (87%) attracts high rates of approval. There is much less support, however, for imposing limitations on the speed or functionality of Internet service (47%), and little support for disconnecting users from the internet (26%). Jail time attracts support from 20% of this group—relevant because the (rarely-applied) criminal statute has a low threshold that encompasses consumer-level file sharing.
Viewed in terms of the general population, support for specific penalties drops sharply. Among all Americans, there is only narrow majority support for warnings (51%) or fines (51%) of any kind. Support for limits on Internet speed or functionality falls to 28%.
Disconnection, in particular, is very unpopular, with only 16% in favor and 72% of Americans opposed. Among that 16%, most (58%) would drop their support if it meant disconnecting households rather than individuals—which it does. Informed support for disconnection, accordingly, is under 10%.
Further, among the 16% who say that disconnection is an appropriate penalty for downloading pirated songs or movies, 25% say that the disconnection period should be less than one month. An additional 34% say that the disconnection period should fall between a month and a year.
Even among those who support fines, 75% support amounts under $100 for downloading a song or movie. “Less than $10” attracted 32% support; “$11 to $100” attracted 43%. This contrasts sharply with U.S. copyright law, where the statutory penalty for willful infringement runs to $150,000 per act. Fines in this range were supported by less than 1% of Americans.
Americans have relatively clear views about what constitutes due process in such matters, and it involves courts (54%) rather than adjudication by private companies. A majority (54%) say a court should make the determination of whether a person is guilty or innocent of copyright infringement. Only 18% percent say the music companies and movie studios should make that decision; 15% percent propose that Internet Service Providers play that role. (The rest responded that “it depends on the situation” or did not answer.)
The recent “six-strikes” agreement between U.S. music and film companies and ISPs to deter and punish infringers does not provide for judicial review.
Should Intermediaries Block Infringing Material?
ISPs, search engine, video hosting and social networking companies, cloud storage providers and other intermediaries have come under pressure to block copyright infringement that utilizes their networks and services. Because such proposals raise a mix of relatively new political and technical issues, public opinion on these matters is soft—highly susceptible to word choice and the way questions are framed. Accordingly, we tested responses to several functionally equivalent terms, including ‘screening’ ‘blocking,’ and ‘censoring’ infringing materials. We asked whether people support the monitoring of their Internet use—a precondition of most filtering measures—as well as their views toward the different organizations that would do the blocking.
Because of the relatively high degree of Internet literacy required to address this set of questions, we posed them to home Internet users (72% of the population) or to all Internet users (79%). We believe that the results are reflective to a large degree of those of the wider population.
American Internet users (79%) have strong views about whether corporations or the government should monitor their Internet use “in order to prevent copyright infringement.” A large majority (69%) said no. 27% responded yes or sometimes. 3% did not know.
Attitudes are softer when asking whether ISPs should “block access to sites that provide access to pirated songs and videos.” A 58% majority responded yes to this question, with 36% opposed. When asked if the government should block access, that majority vanishes (40% yes; 56% no).
When we use the stronger word “censor” for “block,” support drops significantly. When asked if ISPs should censor such sites, users are split: 46% say yes; 49% say no. When asked if the government should censor those sites, the results are strongly negative: 33% say yes; 64% say no.
What about search engines? Should they “be required to block links to pirated music and videos online?” Based on all American Internet users, 53% favor such a requirement while 42% are opposed. Here, views correlate strongly with age: only 39% of 18-29 year olds support such a requirement while 59% oppose it). Those 65 and older supported it by 59% to 31%.
What about websites such as Facebook, Dropbox and others that allow links or files to be uploaded by users? Here, we tested softer language that asked whether such sites should “try to screen all material and try to reject pirated music and video?” 61% said yes; 32% no.
What if efforts to block infringing files and links to infringing content also result in the blocking of some legal content (as has been the case with all large-scale efforts to filter content to date)? In this case, support for blocking infringing materials drops sharply. Overall, 57% oppose blocking in this case; 36% support it.
About 18% of Internet users deliberately encrypt their Internet traffic. About 4% use IP-masking tools such as TOR. This is the leading edge of a privacy vs. surveillance arms race.
Solid majorities of Americans Internet users oppose copyright enforcement when it is perceived to intrude on personal rights and freedoms. 69% oppose monitoring of their Internet activity for the purposes of enforcement. 57% oppose blocking or filtering if those measures also block some legal content or activity.
Comparable majorities (56%) oppose government involvement in “blocking” access to infringing material. This number increases to 64% when the term “censor” is used. Government intervention in this area is unpopular.
Results are much more volatile for commercial intermediaries such as ISPs, social media sites, and search engines. A majority of American internet users supports requirements that ISPs and search engines “block” infringing material (58% for ISPs; 53% for search engines). This support runs as high as 61% for a soft requirement that user-content-driven sites like Facebook “try to screen all material and reject pirated copies of music and videos.” But that majority disappears when blocking by ISPs is characterized as censorship (46% support) and falls further when associated with the blocking of legal content or activity (36% support).
The favorable (61%) response to whether social media and cloud storage sites should “try to screen” and remove infringing content is counterbalanced by the 69% opposed to monitoring for the purpose of preventing copyright infringement. Since screening requires monitoring in such contexts, these responses can be read as reflecting a low information / high information divide.
Volatile Opinions on Blocking**
What explains these differences? We think they track underlying assumptions in the questions. Questions that imply that blocking infringing material is practical and easy return relatively positive results. Questions that imply that blocking or screening is messy—i.e. likely to sweep in (“censor”) legal content or require surveillance of users—generate strong opposition. Given the controversial history of efforts to blacklist infringing sites and automatically discriminate infringing from non-infringing content, we view the latter assumption as much more realistic.
* Piracy has no clear definition and involves a difficult set of practices to survey. Our composite definition likely captures some non-infringing downloading as well as underreporting of copying. We treat these as minimal and countervailing.
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On August 1, 1996, County Executive Douglas Duncan signed into law a bill creating the Department of Permitting Services (DPS). The mission of DPS is to provide the highest quality of public service while insuring compliance with Montgomery County development and construction standards.
Simply put, anyone who wants to develop land or build something on it in the County has to obtain a permit from DPS to do so. In essence, DPS enforces standards that control what goes on before, during and after construction. Also, zoning matters, such as whether or not a business activity is being conducted in a residential area, whether or not someone has built something too close to a property line, or whether or not someone may sell flowers in a public street are regulated by DPS. DPS does not get involved in disputes between business owners and their customers, between tenants and landlords, or between homeowners and their neighborhood associations. Other County departments may be of assistance in matters like these.
Some of the specific services provided by DPS can be found at HERE. DPS is a coordinating agency for approvals from other agencies (such as Fire and Rescue, WSSC, MNCPPC, State Highway Administration) for permits that we issue.
DPS consists of the Office of the Director and three Divisions. The organization chart is located at HERE.
The Customer Service Division is responsible for ensuring that customer service and satisfaction is measured and successfully achieved through communication and outreach to the public. The division is responsible for the intake of complaints and processing information. The division proactively educates residents and the development community about the permitting process by maintaining and improving the DPS web site, publishing the DPS newsletter, coordinating outreach events, organizing educational seminars for residents, civic organizations and professionals and providing information to applicants via telephone regarding the intake and issuance of permits. The division is also responsible for facilitating “green tape” projects such as affordable housing projects and those in the Silver Spring, Wheaton, and Long Branch enterprise zones by working with other DPS team members to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, an expedited, seamless permitting and inspection process. The division is responsible for developing customer service surveys for the department, analyzing the results, reporting findings, and recommending a course of action for improvement.
The Building Construction Division is responsible for ensuring public safety through the effective enforcement of construction and zoning codes and standards. This is accomplished through engineering plan review and construction inspection related to the administration and enforcement of building, structural, electrical, mechanical, fire-safety, energy conservation, and accessibility codes and standards. In addition, the division is charged with the plan review and inspection of Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission site plans and enforcement of the County’s Zoning Ordinance. Zoning enforcement is carried out by reviewing building applications for zoning compliance and investigating zoning complaints. This division is also responsible for conducting damage assessments during natural and other disasters and incidents and provides assistance in disaster recovery efforts.
The Land Development Division is responsible for ensuring the protection of the County’s water resources and the safety of residents through its engineering and inspection functions related to storm water management, sediment control, floodplain management, well-and-septic systems approval, storm drain design, and work in the public right-of-way. | <urn:uuid:1c1d6f73-0bb2-4913-8aa0-f5c9c1376e19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://permittingservices.montgomerycountymd.gov/DPS/general/AboutDPS.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950574 | 658 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Platforum Playground was the result of intense workshops with the students and staff at Villiers High School which explored their dreams, needs and aspirations in terms of communal space at the school. The playground was deemed a phenomenal success by pupils and staff alike by reducing incidents of violence at the school.
Platforum Playground statistics: 1,300 students; 35 nationalities; 1,750 sqm; £15 budget per sqm; 12 days to build; 300 sqm of green paint; 40m of climbing wall; 16 builders; 3 teachers; 1 crane.
Design Council case study article
“There are no more broken noses” – Futurelab article
Photos by Adrian Westaway.
Constant Stream was a digital exhibition of contemporary Chinese art. Clara Gaggero designed show space and organised the build.Exhibit article
The new BBC Media City in Salford, has given the chance to reinterpret and update the current creative learning spaces, using the latest developments in social science, education, technology and architecture.22CC is a futuristic environment that inspires and supports learning by enabling the students to interact both with nature and technology.
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Can we really predict children's success by their ability NOT to eat a marshmallow? Experts say yes.
It's a very simple test: a child is given a marshmallow and told if they don't eat it, they'll get another one. Then the tempted child is observed and made to wait an excruciating (for a child) 15 or 20 minutes. If, during that time, the kid doesn't succumb to temptation, he's awarded his 2nd puffy treat.
According to the data from Mischel's research, 100% of the children who didn't give into their sugar craving ended up doing well in school, and scored an average of 210 points higher on SAT tests. On the flip side, 80% of the children who couldn't wait had problems in school, often had trouble paying attention, and found it difficult to maintain friendships.
To be fair, I don't even know if some moms could pass the test -- that is, if wine were substituted for marshmallows.
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This Thursday was definitely fun. We started with all the basic geometry stuff- points, lines, and planes. The kids were getting bored of definitions so I needed something good to sneak in some extra practice that they needed.
The game I came up with is possibly one of my new favorites. The game was pretty simple. One person had to describe a figure and the other person had to draw it based solely on their partner's description.
I drew out ten different little sketches using points, lines and planes making them increasingly more complicated as I went along. Each pair of students had a set of 10 cards that I had sorted into two different piles- five cards for each person that they had to keep secret. Each pair also got 10 blank index cards.
|Four of the ten different cards (ignore the wobbly lines in the bottom left one- copier did that)|
Students sat across from each other with two books standing up acting as a divider, so that they couldn't see the other person's side. One person had to describe their sketch and the other person had to draw. Once they thought that they were done, they compared. They got a point if the two matched. Then they switched roles and did the next card.
|The figure card|
|This one not so good. They got a laugh out of it and realized |
they had to communicate a lot better.
The part I liked the best (other than the fact that it was hilarious to listen to them) was that I didn't give them any instruction on using technical geometry terms. They realized really quickly that saying things like "draw a line straight across" wasn't clear at all and that "draw a horizontal line" was much better. If they tried to give directions that were vague or not clear, their partner told them so and they had to try to describe it better.
They absolutely loved it and keep asking if we can play again. The things they were saying were hilarious. Some of my favorites:
- "And then there's a slanted line going through them..but not like slanted slanted, like crooked slanted"
- "It's a shape like a trapezoid, but not a trapezoid...you know"
- I also loved the hand gestures. I said they had to describe everything in words, but it was so funny to watch the kids that didn't even realize that they kept gesturing with their hands as they talked.
This would also be easy to differentiate. You could make two/three different sets of cards that vary in difficulty. Choose pairings strategically and give each pair a set of cards that is appropriate for them.
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Ukraine's apex court has voided changes to the Constitution adopted during the pro-Western “orange revolution” six years ago in a move that strengthens the power of the Moscow-friendly President, Viktor Yanukovych.
The Constitutional Court on Friday invalidated the controversial political reform of 2004 that deprived the President of the right to appoint the Prime Minister and the Cabinet and passed this authority to Parliament. The reform prompted a paralysing tug-of-war between the “orange revolution” leaders — President Victor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, which eventually led to the defeat of both in the presidential election in February.
The Court ruling restores in Ukraine a presidential system similar to that in Russia and many other former Soviet republics.
Since taking office, Mr. Yanukovych has re-oriented Ukraine's foreign policy back to Russia and renounced his predecessor's bid to join NATO.
Russian leaders Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin have repeatedly said the presidential system was the best for ex-Soviet states and criticised Kyrgyzstan's decision earlier this year to shift to a parliamentary democracy. | <urn:uuid:7adc0d5c-db7a-453e-b4c4-c9099d51f43a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/a-boost-for-yanukovych/article809310.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958756 | 224 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Wilujeng, Rahayu (2007) Resiliensi Pada Remaja Yang Mengalami Cacat Fisik Akibat Kecelakaan. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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This study originated from the increasing cases of accidents that occur during this. This accident resulted in no less a physical disability on the victim. Physical defect acquired in youth lead to a change and give a different reaction. Adolescent physical handicap will be more difficult to accept than young people who have congenital physical disabilities. Teenagers are able to bounce back and live their lives with a rigid after this accident that has resilience. That's why researchers took the title of Resilience in Adolescents Who Have Physical Disabilities Accidental. The purpose of this research, is to know how to resilience in adolescents who experienced physical disabilities due to accidents. This research is a qualitative, descriptive method. In this study subjects were involved as much as two people, the teenagers who experienced physical disabilities due to accidents. In collecting data, researchers used the interview method. Which researchers make a list of questions from the subject as deep as possible in order to obtain the data required by researchers. From the data already collected is then performed analysis per subject and conducted discussions to arrive at a conclusion. From this research, it was found that the first subject is less resilient and subject to the two resilient. Subjects first lacked self-confidence and ability to cope with pressure or problems. In addition, a subject I also lack the power of self so that the subject is less excited and tend to easily give up when faced with issues that hit. Subject II Resilient, where in less than one year subject II had been able to rise and generate trust himself again to generate alternative solutions to problems that it faces. Subject II has a spirit and trying to hard to be able to do all things. Subjects II assume that any pressure that there is strength to be able to do more and do not want to be looked down upon by others.
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We begin with the worldwide reaction today to a dangerous move in syria. Chemicals, dead ly gas loaded onto weapons near an airfield there. One drop could kill within minutes. So, world leaders are... See More
We begin with the worldwide reaction today to a dangerous move in syria. Chemicals, dead ly gas loaded onto weapons near an airfield there. One drop could kill within minutes. So, world leaders are mobilizing tonight, deciding what they're going to do. And abc's senior foreign affairs correspondent martha raddatz takes us inside that story. Reporter: Today, hillary clinton, overseas, trying to tind some dip mroep matic way to end this increasingly dangerous conflict. 20 months of fighting, 40,000 lives lost. And now the chilling possibility of an air attack with deadly nerve agents. There is no question that we remain very concerned that the regime might very well consider the use of chemical weapons. Reporter: A senior u.S. Official saying that over the weekend, the syrian military loaded components of the nerve gas sarin into bombs on or near syrian airfields. They have not loaded the bombs onto aircraft, but the threat remains. Once these chemicals are poured into weapons, artillery shells, bombs that can be dropped from airplanes, they can be good up to almost two months. Reporter: The syrian government claims it will not use chemical weapons. But president assad is feeling the pressure from opposition forces who have gained strength and are now moving on the capital, damascus. Jeremy bowen, with our bbc partners, is there tonight and reports assad's forces are waging a fierce defense. Throughout the day and after dark, when I'm speaking to you, there are quite steady explosions of shell fire, outgoing artillery fire, going into the suburbs around the center of the city, where I am. Reporter: Residents are caught in a worsening cross fire. People who came from areas that are being shelled, they are on the streets, many children, sometimes you see them crying, old people are sleeping on the ground. Reporter: But nothing is this horrific war has gotten the attention of u.S. Officials more than this chemical weapons threat. These reports may mean that the united states and our allies are facing the prospect of an imminent use of weapons of mass destruction in syria. This may be the last warning we get. Reporter: I can tell you ning for all sorts of con tin jen sips is already well under way. But military action would not be easy. It could take upwards of 75,000 troops to secure those chemical weapons, which no one is eager to provide. But president obama, diane, has warned that using those weapons is a red line.
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Joint NASA/ESA report on the TandEM/TSSM mission now available
20 Jan 2009A joint report describing the main results and current baseline of the TSSM mission has been issued by ESA and NASA.
The Titan and Enceladus Mission (TandEM), an ambitious scientific mission to study the Saturnian system with particular emphasis on the moons Titan and Enceladus, was selected in October 2007 as a candidate mission within the ESA Cosmic Vision plan. An internal assessment study of TandEM was initiated and completed by ESA in 2008.
In 2007 NASA performed a series of studies for flagship missions, including among others, missions to the Saturnian moons Titan (the Titan Explorer Flagship Mission) and Enceladus (the Enceladus Flagship Mission).
From the early stages of the ESA study process it was agreed with NASA that a joint mission to the Saturnian system should be studied. Joint Science Definition Teams (JSDTs) were formed with U.S. and European membership to guide study activities that were conducted collaboratively by engineering teams working on both sides of the Atlantic. This joint mission represents a merger of the mission proposals that were originally proposed, separately, to the two space agencies. The combined mission is currently referred to as the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM).
The main results and the current baseline of the TSSM mission study are summarized in a joint report, describing all mission elements. This joint report is now publicly available and can be downloaded from this web site (see link on right-hand menu). | <urn:uuid:47e396cb-46cf-477a-82d9-c67084516709> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=44036 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954293 | 320 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Who remembers the episode of "Seinfeld" where Jerry bought an electric toothbrush that was so good it changed his life and he wanted everyone to have one? He raved about it to his friends and family because he cared and wanted them to better their lives with this toothbrush. He even bought one for Elaine when she did not buy one immediately and share his excitement. That is how I have been, telling my friends and family about something that can literally save their lives, but like the characters on Seinfeld, my excitement is often met with less than a jubilant response and a placating smile. So I thought I would pass on this advice instead to my fellow Maniacs, who share my passion for MMA and for some, for nutrition and health. So I give to you, Cayenne Pepper.
more after the jump
This past summer, I did a cleanse to remove all the waste and toxins from my body. I did not eat for 22 days. Instead of food, I drank a mixture of water, lemon juice, pure maple syrup and cayenne pepper powder 6 times a day. This is not about the cleanse and it's benefits however, it is about one of the ingredients. Cayenne pepper is a red, hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes and for medicinal purposes. I will hit you with the big one-two to get your attention: Cayenne has been known to stop a heart attack within 30 seconds... and cayenne pepper, through the instrumentality of its secondary metabolite capsaicin (pronounced cap-say-sin), is scientifically proven to kill prostate cancer cells. Yeah, I know.
It improves circulation, rebuilds blood cells, lowers cholesterol, emulsifies triglycerides, removes toxins from the bloodstream and improves overall heart health. It can also heal ulcers, which seems contradictory considering its native calidity or heat. It immediately equalizes blood pressure in your system, shrinks hemorrhoids, and heals the gall bladder too.
Cayenne pepper is high in vitamin A. It also contains vitamin B6 , vitamin E, vitamin C , riboflavin , potassium and manganese. Cayenne pepper is also known as a male aphrodisiac because it contains capsaicin which can increase blood flow to all parts of the human body. It is known in many cultures to be a potent libido enhancing aid that increases euphoric endorphins in the blood stream.
So if you want to feel like a man, forget taking a shot of tequila after work, 1/8 of a teaspoon in warm water in a shot glass is all you need.
As a general rule, athletes try to consume about 1.5 to 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Cayenne can rebuild the tissue in the stomach and the peristaltic action in the intestines. It aids elimination and assimilation, and helps the body to create hydrochloric acid, which is so necessary for good digestion and assimilation, especially of proteins.
Much more can be said about cayenne pepper, but hopefully this is enough to get you to at least take a daily shot, just in case the ol' closer is telling you the truth. It's inexpensive, take it in a shot with warm water and cook with this magic miracle spice when the occasion arises. Here are some of the many sources available on the subject, or just google it. | <urn:uuid:b210e943-684d-4d6d-a7c1-78ebe8b341e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mmamania.com/2011/12/22/2655724/to-your-health-maniacs-magic-pepper | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961984 | 700 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Ceres, formal designation 1 Ceres, is the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the asteroid belt. It was discovered on January 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi, and is named after the Roman goddess Ceres the goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love.
With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the largest and most massive body in the asteroid belt, and contains a third (32%) of the belt's total mass. Recent observations have revealed that it is spherical, unlike the irregular shapes of smaller bodies with lower gravity. The surface of Ceres is probably made of a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals like carbonates and clays.
Ceres appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and ice mantle. It may harbour an ocean of liquid water underneath its surface, which makes it a potential target in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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mmver wrote:On Earth every creature adapts to the environment. Like birds gets wings to fly in sky so if an other planet has a smoke blanket then the aliens can't see with eyes probably somthing else like smell, then the smell the shape of somthing so can they see to.
Pepsi132 wrote:Correction: OUR sense of smell is bad. We don't use it enough to make perfect use of it. Certain animals such as dogs or cats can use their sense of smell much more effectively than we can. Cats only recognise people through smell. Certain dogs can sniff out something from far far away. Smell is very powerful. And you don't nessecerally need sight with smell. In fact without sight the ability from blind people to smell is much greater.
Pepsi132 wrote:I never said you could survive on one sense by the way, nothing can survive on one sense.
But just to say something about this topic, the theory of whether aliens exist or not is unfalsifiable , you CANNOT proove it right OR wrong. So we could go on for thousands of pages of posts, and never ever get to a reasonable answer...
Pepsi132 wrote:Out of interest, do you think seeing a UFO in the sky prooves inteligent alien life travelled billions of miles to come here unseen? A UFO sighting is absolute without a doubt NO proof of the existance of alien life...
DarkGricer wrote:Like in the middle ages and after.
Yes, it's reliable.
No. But they usually involved flashes, just like alien sightings.
If it wasn't, we probably wouldn't know about these sightings.
Pepsi132 wrote:There was always that theory that we created ourselves, and other creatures, and that at some point, we will need to go back in time, to place samples of ourselves and other animals to ensure the balance of space and time -_-
Unfortunalty, time traveling backwards is not possible,
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Lou Ella Godwin Otten (1882-1947), Part III
In Part I of my series, “Who was Louella Otten?” I presented 3 sets of documents that outlined the history of my 2nd great grandmother, Louella Otten.
1. Marriage record from Sharp Co., AR: Ella DAVIS married Alvin GODWIN, 1899
2. 1900 Sharp Co., AR census report: Lou A CARPENTER, daughter of Wm CARPENTER (step-sister Osieola DAVIS, daughter of Wm CARPENTER’s second wife, Dora NIX DAVIS, was also enumerated)
3. Obituary of Ella Otten: survivors included 3 CARPENTER brothers – Marlin, Ernest, and Willie; one half-sister, Nellie CARPENTER ECKERT, and one sister, Osieola DAVIS CLARK.
These sources put together indicate that Lou Ella was either a DAVIS or a CARPENTER. At first I thought she was a Carpenter because that is what the census report indicated and I have a bad habit of putting lots of stock in what census reports say. I learned my lesson this time.
I received a copy of Ella Otten’s death certificated obtained from the OK Department of Health this week. It clearly states that Ella’s father was Bill DAVIS and her mother was Dora NIX.
So lessons learned: Don’t believe everything you read!
Lou Ella Davis was the daughter of Dora Nix who married first Bill Davis and second William Carpenter in Sharp Co., AR in 1890. Dora Nix Davis Carpenter was enumerated with her daughters, Lou Ella Davis and Oseola Davis in her new husband, William Carpenter's household in the 1900 Highland Township, Sharp Co., AR census report (Lou Ella was actually already married and enumerated with husband Alvin Godwin by this time as well). The Carpenter boys also listed on the census report were Lou Ella and Osceola's half-brothers. I believe the obituary was incorrect - the brothers were actually half brothers. | <urn:uuid:ac7acb17-9ffe-4d57-8457-262296a8181d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2008/09/lou-ella-godwin-otten-1882-1947-part.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958526 | 465 | 1.65625 | 2 |
By Andrew Liszewski
Here’s a unique piece that explores the idea of how artwork would respond if it knew we were looking at it. The Opto-Isolator sculpture is a black box with a robotic, human-sized blinking eye in the dead center. It responds to the gaze of whoever’s staring at it with a series of “psychosocial eye-contact behaviors” like looking the viewer directly in the eye, studying the viewers face, looking away coyly if it’s stared at for too long and even blinking exactly one second after you do.
While the photos themselves are pretty creepy, you’ll want to check out the YouTube video showing the Opto-Isolator in motion. At times it can be frighteningly realistic, even if the blinking action sounds louder than a clapboard.
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Cancer is a group of over 100 diseases that cause the cells in your body to grow to an uncontrollable level, as their normal growth regulating mechanism experiences an imbalance due to numerous external and internal factors. Many of the reasons for this scenario to occur are still unknown to medical science.
However, though the cells in your body are exposed to so many Cancer causing agents, in most cases this does not lead to Cancer in anyway.
Causes of Cancer
Genetic and external aspects are the most commonly known causes of Cancer, but many other unknown factors are allied with it as well. According to medical science, the onset of Cancer takes place when the body's natural immune system ceases to function normally, because of various inconsistencies in its inner surroundings. It has also been determined that one of the principal reasons for this to occur, is closely related to the types of food the potential victim consumes, and the accompanying lifestyle that goes with it.
Hereditary factors should be taken into consideration as well, but this is of course beyond one's control.
Human Health History
Have you ever wondered as to why the body’s cells develop into Cancer, only in certain individuals, and not in the entire human population?
The answer is ridiculously simple: Habits of Unhealthy Lifestyle!
The various illnesses that ravage the World today, such as Cancer, heart disease, soaring cholesterol or diabetes, were essentially never heard of during the last few centuries.
When human beings cultivate routines of existence that are contrary to what it should be, the outcome it generates leads to far reaching and destructive consequences. The professed fast-food or fashionable lifestyles of today, which eventually results in untold suffering and miserably painful deaths, could merely be avoided by proper and healthy living.
By providing the body with appropriate natural resources, such as organic foods and an active lifestyle, it can defend and cure itself of most diseases with the least effort. The primary objective is to fortify its immune defense system so that it could ward off any disease, including Cancer. Thus, the most commendable natural nutrients that could be provided to the body are basically fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless, a compelling anti Cancer Diet formula will ideally consist of medicinal herbs, roots, therapeutic plants, high fiber rice and cereals.
Anti Cancer Diet
Ample consumption of organic fruits and vegetables, as mentioned below could reinforce the body’s immune system and produce satisfactory outcomes. For example; fruits that contain moderately high volumes of Vitamin C have extremely potent antioxidant agents, which could assist in boosting the natural defense system significantly.
Precise fruits having remarkably distinctive Cancer fighting properties are:
Avocado, Apples, Apricots, Blueberries, Cherries, Figs, Grapefruit, Kiwi, Lemons, Mangosteen, Oranges, Pomegranate, Peaches, Papaya, Pineapple, Red Grapes, Raspberries, Sour Sop and Strawberries.
Specific Cancer fighting vegetables can be named as:
Asparagus, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cantaloupe, Celery, Broccoli, Brussels Sprout, Bell & Chili Pepper, Egg Plant, Kale, Parsnip, Manioc or Cassava, Tomatoes, Zucchini and the following varieties of Mushrooms; Agaricus-blazei, Coriolus-versicolor, Maitake, Shiitake and Reishi.
Natural Cancer Treatment
By utilizing a credible natural Cancer Treatment the individual's immune defense system is expansively nursed back to good health; predominantly achieved by providing the body with such rich sources of natural nutrition.
What the structure of such a natural Cancer Treatment routine strives to accomplish is that; it pursues discreetly and destroys solitary Cancerous cells or any other disease for that matter, with unrelenting zeal until the threat has been vanquished completely. Thereafter, it proceeds to engineer the natural defense system to turn extremely hostile to any Cancerous remnants within its interior surroundings. Finally, healing and building up the body to be sturdy and dynamic that is entirely free of the ailment. Additionally, it makes certain that there is little or no possibility of a recurrence of this predicament taking place, within the remaining course of the person's life. The body succeeds in completing all these tasks with exceptionally gentle persuasion, resulting in absolutely no hazardous side effects whatsoever.
Unlike conventional medication, Alternative Cancer Treatments not only assists in the curing of the immediate malady but also goes way beyond that. It does not stop at just controlling the symptoms or even slaughtering off the disease altogether. Exploring further and digging much deeper; it goes onto discover the actual finer elements that were either in absence or excess, which caused the initial crisis to surface. Once this has been determined, it then gradually proceeds to rectify whatever imbalance that may still be present within its system.
Other exceptional features of Alternative Cancer Treatments are that, the immune defense system is made comparatively stronger than what it was before the Cancer invasion. Moreover; the internal day to day workings of the body are also crafted to be as meticulously perfect as possible, so that it will become more resistant to destructive internal or outer forces. This prepares it to combat any future intimidation efficiently and with battle like precision.
As a result of not drawing on the usual traditional Cancer Treatment methods, which entails the use of poisonous chemotherapy and the severely invasive radiation therapy, the benefits that could be derived from Alternative Cancer Treatments are limitless. The outdated mainstream Cancer Treatments are obviously technologically driven medication and therefore prohibitively costly, not to mention the accompanying horrific side effects it fabricates. Hence, undergoing a proven natural Cancer Treatment is the most sensible option that one could take advantage of, without the least reservation.
Optimistic Future Awareness
Since these are the perceptible stark realities of exploiting Alternative Cancer Treatments to its fullest potential, the march towards a more vigorous awareness campaign should be robustly pursued. This agenda must be carried forward from the lowest to the highest levels of authority, so that it will soon be widely accepted and acknowledged as a feasible solution for a comprehensive Natural Cancer Cure.
Such a noble assignment needs to be undertaken immediately without the slightest hindrance or procrastination from any quarter. Failing to do so, would only see the continuous and needless loss of numerous innocent lives to Cancer, which otherwise could have easily been preserved for many more years of cherished existence.
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a meaningful holiday season and that your personal family dramas were not too overwhelming.
As many of you know, the suicide rate increases over the holiday season. Most suicide victims are depressed. A few have other mental health diagnoses, such as panic attacks or substance abuse disorders. I feel somewhat qualified to comment on mental health issues. Family physicians diagnose and treat more cases of depression than psychiatrists.
There was a lot of well-meaning, but ultimately misguided, commentary following the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy. I thought I’d try to amalgamate several lines of thinking I’ve been saving for a few months. This post is about mental health. I won’t discuss the gun issue, pro or con.
The first item for consideration is an article from the May 2012 issue of the Atlantic magazine, which contained a story about the irony of Americans feeling more lonely in the social media era than before (“Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”). It stated that “In 1985, only 10 percent of Americans had no one with whom to discuss important matters. By 2004, 25 percent had nobody to talk to.” It goes on to report that in the 1940s the U.S. had 2,500 clinical psychologists, 30,000 social workers, and fewer than 500 marriage and family therapists. As of 2010, the U.S. had 77,000 clinical psychologists, 192,000 clinical social workers, and 50,000 marriage and family therapists, 105,000 mental health counselors, 220,000 substance abuse counselors, 17,000 nurse psychotherapists, and 30,000 life coaches. The author of the article summed up this reality as “This raft of psychic servants is helping us through what used to be called regular problems. We have outsourced the work of everyday caring.”
The second item is a statement from the Dutch College of General Practitioners calling for fewer antidepressant prescriptions. It recommends that patients with depressive symptoms should at first be given information and, if necessary, help to structure their daily life, together with a short course of psychological treatment. Antidepressant treatment should only be prescribed from the outset if the depression “is accompanied by severe suffering or social dysfunctioning or serious psychiatric comorbidity” such as addiction or anxiety.
Finally, I read commentaries from the Brits about one of the proposed changes from the American psychiatrists in their updated diagnostic bible, DSM-5 (the one that wants to get rid of the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome). Another proposed change in DSM-5 is to classify the grief of bereavement — such as when your spouse dies — as a disease that requires treatments. Many Brits believe it is normal life to feel lousy while you grieve, and such a feeling and experience is not a disease.
Putting this all together, my problem with many of the commentaries following Sandy Hook included (and I don’t know any more about the details of this tragedy than what’s been written and said in the mainstream media):
1) Many U.S. commentators thought that the killer’s condition could have been caught early and treated by the the healthcare industry. I seriously doubt this, at least medically. Best I could tell, there was no severe depression or similar condition in the killer. Unfortunately, there is no pill for angry asshole. And I can’t write a prescription for a person to obtain a meaningful friendship.
2) Many U.S. commentators talked about our frayed mental health system. Never did I hear one of them utter the phrase “family physicians”. The figures from the Atlantic article imply counseling help is out there, though funding for counseling could easily have gotten in the way. If there was a prayer for some physician to possibly have done anything about this in a preventive sense, knowing the child and parent(s) for years and helping them deal with the myriad of issues they surely felt overwhelmed by through parental divorce and the stage of adolescence would be the best hope, the kind of hope that is only fully deliverable by a family physician (Though I think the primary work of mental health counseling should be done by counselors. Family physicians can help with focused moments to complement the counselor’s work.)
3) I heard no U.S. commentator suggest that perhaps a more appropriate solution to prevent this kind of tragedy in the future is for neighbors to get to know one another and support one another. No commentator suggested our increasingly narcissistic culture — I want it my way and I want it now — might have as much to do with the growth of mass killings as anything else. This silence isn’t surprising, since the other content on their networks and the other 500 cable channels has contributed to this cultural shift.
The similar mass killing in Norway in 2011 shows that the Europeans are not immune from senseless violence either, and they are wrestling with the same technological and cultural shifts as we are. However, they continue to demonstrate an underlying belief that all emotional pain is not a disease. They refuse to medicalize normal life.
Many Sandy Hook commentators believed that the solution to the Sandy Hook tragedy is another federal program, another mandated health insurance benefit, or one more societal responsibility put on the shoulders of teachers and schools. The real solution is kindness, mutual support within communities, and friendships. Unfortunately, this is a solution that can’t be mandated or legislated. It is a solution of the soul. | <urn:uuid:de81d39d-43ec-489f-a016-b9adc9b0a284> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthscareonline.com/http:/www.healthscareonline.com/blog/medicalizing-normal-life-mental-health-and-the-sandy-hook-shooting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961531 | 1,120 | 2.015625 | 2 |
This is the second segment of the videotaped interview with Dr. Jimmie Holland, the first of two segments of which is above. The interview was conducted by the Public Relations Task Force (PRTF) of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) in 2007 at the APM Annual Meeting on Amelia Island. You can view it at the APM website as well or hear the audio only at the website of Dr. Michael Blumenfield at http://www.shrinkpod.com/.
Dr. Holland is the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She was interviewed by John Blamphin, former Director of Communications of the American Psychiatric Association and now consultant to the PRTF. She chaired the Institute of Medicine (IOM) symposium on psychosocial services for cancer patients at the 2007 Annual Meeting.
The whole idea of making hospitals accountable for evaluating and managing psychosocial distress associated with many chronic medical illnesses, not just cancer, seemed to gain new ground with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. Dr. Holland was clearly hopeful that practical and measurable change would come of it. It’s very clear that addressing psychosocial distress of the medically ill is a mandate for health care systems, not just doctors. Now more than ever, a team-based collaborative approach is being emphasized which makes many stakeholders accountable for keeping body, mind, and spirit the focus of high quality health care.
Dr. Holland was frank about the mandate not yet being carried out and what I hear her saying is that the culture of medicine that drills down on the biological side of patient care only and the overemphasis on dollar costs are the barriers. Education is not the only tool in implementation of the integrating of assessment of psychosocial concerns into cancer treatment. “Real world studies”, not just efficacy research, is what Dr. Holland emphasized.
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Beginning in 1995, Foodlink, in partnership with the California State Department of Social Services, founded the state wide gleaning program Donate Don’t Dump (DDD). DDD collects 10 to 12 million pounds of food each year from growers and packing houses throughout California.
The donated food is delivered by Foodlink to distribution agencies alongside the standard USDA commodities. The majority of Donate Don’t Dump food is fresh fruit and vegetables which significantly increases the nutritional value of a typical food bag for recipients. Foodlink has collected over 250 million pounds of food for distribution through its Donate Don’t Dump program. | <urn:uuid:982582ee-9631-4f39-b31b-85aa486bb4bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cafoodlink.org/statewide-programs/donate-dont-dump | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926483 | 130 | 2.34375 | 2 |
There’s some great homes across the country being finished with the first i-House design. This one, for instance, was built on a lot in Green Bridge Farm, an eco-friendly development of 25 lots in Effingham County, Georgia. Owner Charles Davis won’t have an electric bill with this net-zero energy home. His butterfly roof has solar PV that generates electricity and powers a brand new Chevrolet Volt (pictured below).
Lots in Green Bridge Farm run between $50,000 – $55,000 and include about 1.2-1.6 acres each. In the center of the project is an organic farm. In fact, Green Bridge has a four-acre space with vegetable gardens and fruit orchards set aside for the community.
The farm is located near Savannah, Georgia. The i-House will be open for tours August 12-13, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, with a Chevy Volt on site as well. Clayton Homes has more information about the tour on their i-House website.
Last we checked, Clayton Homes is still working on i-House 2.0. The company’s putting a lot of work into the details of this new design, and we’ll be excited to share more about it when we find out.
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As 2013 approaches, producers of computer memory are engaging in strategic planning for next year, however, nobody is sure how much to spend on new process technologies as well as manufacturing equipment as demand for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is getting lower. As a result, it is likely that memory makers will likely reduce output using different methods.
Memory Market Faces Changes
In past years, due to PC upgrade cycles, DRAM suppliers had no choice but to continually advance technology and optimize cost. From the mainstream 60nm process in 2009 to the current 30nm process, every year manufacturers cycled through 1 to 1.5 generations. However, as a result of both a weak global economy and declining PC shipments, and more recently, cannibalization from smartphones and tablet PCs (which has extended the average PC upgrade cycle from 2 to 3 years to 4 to 5 years), DRAM makers have been unable to significantly improve sales.
As for DRAM supply, technology migration has resulted in greater output, which in turn has created a continual oversupply situation on the market these last few years. DRAM industry value continues to shrink, the majority of manufacturers have suffered heavy losses, and capex figures are decreasing every year. Looking ahead into 2013, TrendForce believes that after the storm gradually settles, only the strongest suppliers will remain, which will help bit output closer to the levels of PC+ era demand.
DRAM Makers to Slowdown Transition to New Technologies, Decelerate Bit Growth
Market research company TrendForce indicates that even industry leader Samsung is highly conservative towards next year’s capital expenditures and bit growth figures. In addition to slowing technology migration plans to the 28nm process, Samsung will only migrate to the 25nm process prior to the advancement to EUV technology. Priority will be placed on profit margins, and advanced process technology will be used primarily for mobile DRAM production.
The 30nm process is currently the mainstream technology for market share dominators Samsung and SK Hynix, while the 20nm process is not expected to see over 50% output until after the second quarter of 2013 due to design difficulties. As Samsung’s 20nm technology is being used mostly for the production of server and mobile memory, commodity DRAM output on the 40nm and 30nm processes will continue. Thus, next year’s bit supply growth forecast is a mere 19%, significantly lower than it has been in recent years. Micron and Elpida are currently migrating to the 30nm process; Elpida has finished client testing, and will gradually ramp up production in the coming months.
Taiwanese manufacturers, who have experienced the greatest losses, are slowing technology migration and decreasing PC DRAM production. Nanya plans to phase out commodity DRAM, turning instead to specialty DRAM production and foundry business. Powerchip’s commodity DRAM shipments have decreased significantly as well; capacity is currently down to 20K wafers per month. If manufacturers all slow output, TrendForce forecasts 2013 yearly bit supply growth will hit a low of 22.2%.
Despite of bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions, the DRAM industry is still a perfectly competitive market. With acute oversupply, buyers have the upper hand in price negotiations. Both contract and spot prices for 4GB modules have fallen to historical lows, but neither market has picked up. There is a limit to how much lower price can fall, hence capacity cuts must be made to shrink supply. In the long term, manufacturers must all make capacity adjustments and lower capex if the DRAM industry is to return to a healthy state in 2013 | <urn:uuid:18b1918a-e613-4f8e-b1de-062c3d6026d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20121018053310_Memory_Makers_to_Slowdown_Migration_to_New_Process_Technologies_Bit_Growth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949117 | 732 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Big Bear, Ca, November 21, 2010, 12:00pm - With winter returning KBHR and Caltrans would like to remind you of some Winter Driving Tips, to make traveling in the mountains a safe and comfortable experience for everyone. Allow enough time when traveling, as it may take longer to get to your destination because of snow or ice. Keep your fuel tank full, as it may be necessary to turn around in certain situations, or you may experience long delays if bad weather forces a highway closure. Slow down and use your seat belt. Most winter accidents are the result of driving too fast in snow or icy conditions. Don’t panic. If you begin to slide while driving on snow or ice, slowly take your foot off the gas pedal, do not use your breaks, and steer your vehicle in the direction you wish to travel. If you must use brakes, gently pump the brake pedal and do not allow them to lock up. If your vehicle has anti-lock brakes, apply firm, steady pressure without pumping. Be aware of black ice. The temperature does not have to be below freezing in order for ice to form on road surfaces. Ice can form anytime the air temperature drops below 40 degrees, especially when its windy, or in a shady area with water run off. Black ice Is nearly invisible, so drive cautiously. Be observant as visibility is limited during poor weather. Slow down and keep a constant watch for other vehicles. If you happen to get stuck in the snow, stay with your stalled vehicle, put on the flashers, and be aware of possible exhaust or carbon monoxide problems if your tail pipe is covered with snow. As always make sure you have chains or cables in your vehicle when driving in the mountains in the winter months. | <urn:uuid:8f715338-3167-4485-a58b-f7cf5089e15a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kbhr933.com/current-news/winter-driving-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94447 | 358 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The New Hierormartyr. Tikhon's Date
St. Tikhon was martyred on this date... but he was on the Old Calendar, and so the date he reposed was the feast of the annunciation.
I can understand putting him on this date for those on the new calendar, but this was not done for the Royal Martyrs (July 4th, o.s. not July 17th), the New Martyr Elizabeth (July 5th, not July 18th), the HM Vladimir of Kiev (January 25th o.s., not February 7th), or St. Jonah (October 7th, not October 20th)... all of whom died in this century, and are listed in the Orthodox Wiki calendar on the date of their repose on the Old Calendar.
So it would seem that for consistencies sake, St. Tikhon should be listed on March 25th.
Frjohnwhiteford 04:34, April 7, 2007 (PDT)
- I'm not sure which calendar this item was taken from. The calendar we have on OrthodoxWiki represents several different jurisdictions' calendars brought together, which often means seeing the same saint for multiple days. I'm not sure how much this might make for OC/NC pairings. Anyway, St. Tikhon is already listed on March 25 in addition to his listing here, which I presume represents the date some jurisdiction celebrates him. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 04:51, April 7, 2007 (PDT) | <urn:uuid:0a9a4e58-36b1-43d5-88db-8a29281d6b33> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://orthodoxwiki.org/Talk:April_7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988167 | 313 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence (1776)
In 1776, soon after the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, the leaders of the war got together to write a letter to the King of England. They wanted to explain why they were fighting to be their own country, independent of England. This is what they had to say (but in easier words):
Sometimes one group of people decide to split off from another group, and to become an independent country, as the laws of Nature and of God say that they can. But when this happens, if they want other people to respect them, they should explain why they are splitting off.
We think these things are obviously true:
- That all men are created equal
- That all men have some rights given to them by God
- That among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So whenever any government is getting in the way of these rights, people
have the right to change it or get rid of it, and to make a new government,
in whatever way seems most likely to make them safe and happy.
People should not change their government without a good reason, so people usually suffer as long as they can under the government they have, rather than change it. But when there have been a lot of problems for a long time, it is their right and their duty to throw off that government, and to set up a better government.
BILL OF RIGHTS
WHAT IS BC OR AD?
We here in America have suffered for a very long time, and now we should change our government. The king of England has done many bad things to us - here is a list:
- He won't let us pass laws we need for everybody's good.
- Even when we do pass laws, he won't sign them so they can go into effect.
- He tried to force men to give up their right to make laws.
- He calls men together to make laws in the most inconvenient times and places, so that they won't be able to go discuss the new laws.
- He won't let new settlers come to America, and he won't let the settlers take over new land from the Native Americans.
- He won't let us choose our own judges, and instead he chooses them all himself, so they're all on his side.
- He sends lots of new government officials that we don't want, and he makes us pay for them.
- He sends lots of English soldiers here when there isn't even a war, and makes us let them live in our own houses.
- He tells us these soldiers can do whatever they want and don't have to obey the law.
- He won't let us buy and sell things from wherever we want. We can only buy things from England.
- He makes us pay all kinds of taxes without asking us about it.
- He won't let us have a jury for our trials, only a judge.
- He sends people accused of crimes far away to England for their trials.
- He tries to get people to revolt and tries to get the "Indian Savages" to attack us.
When we ask him to stop, he just keeps on doing more bad things. We have tried to talk to the other people who live in England. We asked them to stop these crimes against us, but they have acted as though they were deaf. So we have to separate from England, and they will be our enemies during the war, though we hope they'll be our friends when there is peace.
So we think that God will see that we are doing the right thing when we declare that the United States are now completely independent of the King of England. We have no more political connection to England at all. And as independent states, we say that each state has the right to make war, to make peace, to make alliances with other countries, trade with other countries, and do everything else that countries do. And we promise that we will fight for our independence with the help of God - we promise by our lives, our property, and our sacred honor.
Among the men who signed this declaration of independence were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. This Declaration of Independence was an exciting letter to write - it laid out a lot of new ideas about the rights that all people should have. On the other hand, all of the people involved in writing the Declaration were rich white men. Even though they thought they themselves should have these rights, they were pretty vague about whether the same rights should apply to poor people, women, black people, or Native Americans - most of the people living in the United States at this time. Representatives of all these groups asked to be included, but in 1776, only rich white Christian men signed the Declaration of Independence. But even though the Declaration of Independence only applied to some people, it was a very important statement of the idea that everybody has rights.
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In the last, oh, about two and a half million years, the human brain exploded in size and we became big old smartypants. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
A new study says that it might have to do with temperature. Brains, as you know, are busy all the time, cells constantly buzzing and electrical signals flying. As they work, brains get really hot! And it's hard to cool off, especially since they are encased in bone.
Before the last Ice Age, when temperatures were higher than today, humans had brains about half our size. That was about as big as they could get in the warm temperatures without overheating and frying themselves to a crisp. But as the Ice Age came along and temperatures fell, the problem of overheating brains eased up. Now brains could get bigger without getting too dang hot. Bigger brains came with all kinds of benefits, like outsmarting the neighbors, figuring out how to keep warm, and generally surviving better.
If bigger brained people survived better and had bigger brained kids, and then if those kids went on to have bigger-brained kids, and so on, then a couple of million years later -- voila! -- your huge brain! | <urn:uuid:68f8cc87-c1fb-421e-ad63-11c77ed49db7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://charliesplayhouse.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984226 | 254 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Investing in properties that generate an income has many advantages for investors seeking to start creating wealth through real estate. More specifically, purchasing small muti-unit income properties (typically ranging from 2-4 apartment units each) is an excellent way to begin building an investment real estate portfolio. Especially with the right property management company in place this investment strategy can be one of the strongest strategies for wealth creation and hands-off income generation. Because it allows you to leverage your time so well, this strategy works particularly well for those who are currently working full time.
Many real estate investors get started with a focus on single family homes. This is often because this is the type of housing that they are most familiar with. When you take a look at the distinct advantages to an investor that small multi-unit income properties represents, you will understand why smart investors know this is one of the safest and best approaches to getting started in real estate.
Cash flow is the key component in any beginning business venture. You must make sure that from the beginning, your business can generate cash flow to keep you sustained. Cash flow is often non-existent or negative with single family homes, but due to the economies of scale with a small multi-unit property, you will be able to find cash flow opportunities very easily. The main reason is because you are only buying one plot of land and one building, but the building is subdivided and generates multiple rental streams. In addition, your cash flow has less risk since you will not run the risk of losing 100% of your income for part of the year if your tenant moves out.
Your time is valuable and searching for investment properties and going through the mortgage financing and property closing efforts can stretch out for months. By gaining from the economies of scale with a small multi-unit building, you get a more efficient investment regarding the time involved, per rental income generated. You will also find that there is much less competition for these types of buildings and no home-owners will be driving up the prices of the properties.
Since you have more units under one roof, the management of your properties is more efficient. You can focus on making sure that one building is well-maintained instead of your attention being spread across three or four different houses. Also because of the bigger cash flows, you can more easily hire a property management company to handle all the management aspects. Because property managers seek the efficiency that goes with multiple apartment units under one roof, there are much more professional property managers that will manage these types of properties versus single family homes.
You can generate significant increases in property price just by improving the management operations of the building. Income property is valued with a lot of emphasis on the income it generates. Therefore if you purchase a property could use some cosmetic improvements, could be marketed to tenants better, or has stale, low rents from long term renters, you will find that your creative ideas and fresh approach can greatly increase the rents of the apartments and thereby significantly increase the property value.
Right Approach for the Current Real Estate Market
Due to the major downturn in the real estate market, the purchase prices for property is down very low. Rents have stayed stable, which means that this creates an excellent scenario for generating income and cash flow. The market is now stabilizing at the bottom and is poised for future increases. Establishing a portfolio of income producing multi-family properties is an excellent way to establish a sustainable and growing portfolio that will allow you to ride the wave as property prices begin to rise.
After reading dozens of books and courses I made my start in real estate investing with multi-unit income properties and have never looked back. My investments have allowed me to weather the perfect storm in the real estate market and the economy and I am very excited about the great investment opportunities that the current market conditions now provide for.
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Scholars often divide the eras of U.S. antitrust law into those of “populism” and “economics” and posit a fundamental conflict between the two concepts. Generally, the decisions of the current antitrust era are described as economic, and the mid-twentieth century period is labeled as populist. A review of Supreme Court decisions on antitrust reveals a more complex picture. From the enactment of the Sherman Act in 1890, the Court’s antitrust rulings have spoken of populist goals and aimed to advance these objectives through economically informed rules. Populism versus economics is thus a false dichotomy.
The populism and economics of antitrust jurisprudence have changed over time. In the decades following the passage of the Sherman Act, the Supreme Court often spoke of protecting small producers and displayed only secondary concern for consumers. The Court in the early era proscribed certain horizontal and vertical restraints but viewed many forms of dominant firm and horizontal conduct more favorably. Starting in the late 1930s, the Court adopted consumer protection as a principal aim of the antitrust laws but continued to champion the cause of small businesses as well. Its economics took a marked shift away from faith in the market and treated many forms of horizontal and vertical conduct as inherently problematic. The Court has since the 1970s held that the antitrust laws exist only to protect consumers and also adopted the view that most forms of business conduct can benefit consumers.
Although some scholars argue that antitrust law should seek to maximize “economic efficiency” and ignore distributional consequences, antitrust enforcers and the courts should continue to apply the antitrust laws as a consumer protection regime. First and foremost, Congress, as revealed in the legislative histories of the antitrust laws, showed an interest in preventing large firms from using their market power to raise prices and transfer wealth from consumers. Second, consumer-oriented antitrust enforcement can be one important policy tool to contain growing economic inequality by preventing wealth transfers from consumers to producers. Third, given how consumers often cannot organize politically on account of their vast numbers, antitrust enforcers can serve as trustees for this group and protect its interests from better-organized producer groups. Last, just as antitrust can help consumers, consumers can provide needed political support for antitrust enforcement.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Vaneesan on the Evolving Populisms of Antitrust
Posted by Dan Ernst
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FOG offers SNAP recipients (formerly food stamps) the opportunity use their benefits to purchase food at two farmers markets in Alachua County; the Saturday Alachua County Farmers Market, and the Wednesday Union Street Farmers Market. Debit/Credit capabilities also available.
WHO CAN USE THIS SERVICE?
EBT technology allows those with SNAP benefits (food stamps) to use their EBT cards at the farmers markets to purchase acceptable items.
Those who wish to use debit or credit cards will also be able to use their cards at the market, for a $2 convenience charge, much like an ATM, that will assist in funding the continuing availability of the project’s continuation.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The project uses a token system to enable customers with EBT, Debit or Credit Cards to shop at the farmers markets. Here’s how it works:
1. A customer swipes the EBT, Debit or Credit card at the central POS terminal and enters the PIN.
2. The FOG staff enters the amount of tokens requested into the terminal.
3. Once the transaction is approved, the customer is given a transaction receipt and tokens.
4. The customer then uses the tokens at any participating vendor’s stand.
HOW DO I GET THERE?
The Union Street Farmers Market is highly accessible in downtown Gainesville at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. It is in close proximity to the Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station servicing numerous bus routes, and to social service agencies and meal sites. The Alachua County Farmers Market at the SE corner of the intersection of State Road 121 (NW 34th Street), and U.S. 441 (NW 13th Street), 3.2 miles north of University Avenue, is also easily accessible from areas of the urban Gainesville and rural Alachua County community, and by bus routes from Gainesville.
WHY SHOULD I SHOP AT THE FARMERS MARKET?
A diet consisting of at least five servings (2 to 3 cups) of fruits and vegetables daily decreases the risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes and certain cancers. Those who consume eight or more servings are 22 percent less likely to die from heart disease than those who consume three or fewer servings a day. Buying from a farmers market means you’re able to purchase food often picked within a couple days of the market date, so its nutritional quality is still high, and it oftentimes hasn’t traveled across the country using valuable fuel resources. It also means your dollar is going back into the local economy, helping the farmers and other business owners in the community.
WHAT ELSE WILL BE OFFERED?
The on-site market booth will be an informational and education hub, with community resources on gardening, cooking, community events and opportunities. It will also provide a place where people can enroll in SNAP on a laptop or paper application. | <urn:uuid:5cdced9c-036e-42e1-a085-1dca4a201bcf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foginfo.org/snap/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926361 | 598 | 1.726563 | 2 |
- Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 17:50
Everybody wants to tone lower abs. Lower abdominal exercises should be included in any exercise program, because they are important for spinal constancy and injury prevention (especially for the low back). There are essentially two lower abdominal muscles, the lower portion of the Rectus Abdominus and the slanting Abdominus. The Rectus Abdominus runs vertically and is responsible for pulling the front of the pelvis up towards the belly button. The Transverse Abdominus runs flat under the Rectus Abdominus and is responsible for pulling the belly button inward (towards the spine). Full story
- Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 5:57
- Fitness, Weight Loss
Wouldn't it be astonishing if the fastest way to build muscle fell into your lap today?
Can you imagine getting started with ease and enjoy results within the next 30 days?
With each word you read you feel more and more astonished at how quickly you can understand and implements these phenomenal ways to construct muscle fast.
Here are all the disadvantage of NOT trying to build muscle fast: Full story
- Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:40
- Fitness, Weight Loss
1. Always take the stairs, keep away from elevators and escalators.
2. Park further away from your purpose than usual.
3. Try to be lively while watching TV, even if it's just doing housework
4. Stand and let an important person else have your seat when riding the bus or subway. Full story
- Thursday, September 10, 2009, 10:39
- Fitness, How to get
How to get a flat stomach
Are you stressed with belly fat? Would you like to have a flat stomach? Have you tried doing stomach exercises and saw no results? If you answer yes, this website is for you.
Learn how to get a flat stomach. disconnect the truth from the myths. Learn how to do stomach exercises correctly, what foods lend a hand you burn fat as you eat and the remuneration of cardio exercises. Full story
- Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 18:34
- Fitness, How to gain
How to gain height
is a prime anxiety in many people's minds today. They aspire to gain height to look great, be sure and have greater self-esteem.
Human growth hormone is the only answer to the problem of how to gain height. Human growth hormone is shaped in the anterior portion of the pituitary gland deep inside the brain. Production peaks at adolescence when accelerated enlargement occurs. But growth hormone levels fall steadily on reaching adulthood, and the body stop to gain height. Full story
- Friday, July 31, 2009, 18:23
- Fitness, How to get, lifestyle
Strengthen your abdominal muscles and misplace body fat. The idea is simple, but putting it into act is not. It will take dedication, willpower, patience and time to get a six pack but in the end, the effort is well worth it. Remember, abs is made mostly in the kitchen! You can have the most toned and defined abs but they won't show through if there's a layer of fat in excess of them. Full story
- Sunday, May 31, 2009, 11:49
Exercises are essential for maintaining a well toned body, good health and fitness levels for improving the immunity system of the body. Exercises are very similar to the regular cleansing involved for keeping your face clean and healthy. There are various exercises which provide health benefits for you and keep your weight well balanced. With the help of these exercises the body flushes out some of the harmful toxins and energies. Hence our internal system is able to work much better and blood is pumped to the heart and other organs.
- Sunday, May 31, 2009, 11:37
There are various forms and versions of aerobics available these days and all of them have been known for their weight loss benefits. Basically aerobics is good for health, helps you to lose weight and tones your body. Some of the common forms of aerobics include hot aerobics, which has been devised on the concept of hot yoga. Here the room temperature of the aerobics room is increased to enhance perspiration and faster loss of weight. Thus using these old and new methods, aerobics is one of the best options for losing weight.
- Thursday, May 21, 2009, 5:59
Aerobics conditioning is the term used for helping people be trained this form of exercise, and use the similar regularly for losing weight and maintaining a fit and healthy body. These aerobic exercises include various forms of exercises, which can be completed through different gadgets and equipment. These forms of exercises are measured to be one of the most excellent options for losing weight fast. Aerobics works on the numerous muscle groups of the body and as well helps to burn calories quicker. Some of the other benefits of aerobics
include improving energy and mounting the metabolic rate of the body. Full story
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:44
A man with a well-built chest is usually considered strong and virile. Many consider a man's chest as one of the sexiest muscle groups of the body. The muscles in the chest consist of the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. The pectoralis major is the bigger muscle group and extends over most of the clavicle and sternum. It attaches the shoulder to the upper arm. Among its major functions are adduction towards the body, medial or inward rotation at the shoulder level and flexion. The pectoralis minor lies under the major and performs similar functions. It is formed in a thin triangular shape. Full story | <urn:uuid:a548135a-109d-4cb6-a99b-04ed7951f349> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.getallabout.com/category/health/fitness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948961 | 1,189 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Ct1AP. IV., MISHAPS. 65
wooded country long detours have to be made to avoid obstacles which ride- and pack-oxen go across without difficulty. Roads have to be explored, bushes cut down, and the great stones rolled out of the way. The waggon is a crushing, cumbrous affair, and according to my ideas totally unfitted for the use of an explorer, except in moderately level countries. I was never happier than when I left it behind, and took to the saddle.
The oxen were excessively wild, and seemed to have quite forgotten what they had learnt. It took us from an hour and a half to two hours to inspan the two waggons, notwithstanding we had so great a force of men, most of whom were acknowledged to be thoroughly acquainted with the management of oxen. We had a succession of mishaps the whole way to Barmen : it took us seven days to go the seventy miles; and my men had no light work of it. The rainy season was daily expected, and when it comes, violent torrents constantly sweep down the Swakop ; this was unpleasant, as its bed had to be crossed perpetually, and it was invariably in the midst of its deep sand that the oxen came to a halt, and resolutely refused more work for that day. On one occasion the sticking-point was a steep sand-pitch, of about six feet high, out of the river-bed. The oxen drew the waggon till its fore-wheels reached the top of the pitch, and there it stuck. We tried everything, but the pull was entirely beyond their power ; indeed, they were far too wild to exert themselves together. It really seemed as though we should remain fixed there, till the oxen had been thoroughly broken in by other means, or till the river swept us away; however, I recollected the manner in which our ancestors, in the times of the Druids, are said to have managed their large stones, and tried that plan on my waggon : that is to say, I lifted one wheel with the lifter, and had a flat stone put under it, then the other, and did the same to that, so I continued raising the hind-wheels alternately, until the back end of the waggon was lifted up some three feet on two piles of stones. I had of course to be careful in making my buildings very firm, and in scotching the fore-wheels, lest the waggon should run back. I now built a causeway from the piles up to the fore-wheels, and lastly, put smooth stones not only under these, but also for a few paces in advance of them. That completed the task, which only required two hours to execute for there were plenty of flat stones about, and I had ten or twelve men to carry them. I then inspanned a team, who trotted away with the waggon quite easily along my pavement. | <urn:uuid:59b0f7b1-4c2e-4db2-be02-7650d78cc43a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/galton/search/books/south-west-africa/pages/narrative_0084.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989874 | 624 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Department of Foreign Languages offers students an opportunity to gain practical working knowledge of one or more of 10 foreign languages.
The Department of Foreign Languages is committed to helping students develop an in-depth understanding of foreign languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and civilizations. The department prepares students to be engaged international citizens who enlist foreign language skills and knowledge to succeed in a variety of careers and intellectual disciplines in an increasingly globalized world.
The Department of Foreign Languages offers students an opportunity to gain practical working knowledge of one or more of 12 foreign languages:
Students may choose any of these 12 languages offered by the department unless otherwise advised by the requirements of their academic major. Students who are continuing the study of foreign languages at Bridgewater State University should do so at the earliest opportunity.
The department offers an undergraduate major and minor in Spanish, a Spanish major with a concentration in Secondary Education, and a minor in Portuguese.
The offices of the Foreign Languages Department are located in Tillinghast Hall.
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Lezyne believes that road and mountain pumps should not be the same; the two disciplines call for different tires and different pressures. As a result, they've optimized their road designs for high pressure and their mountain designs for high volume. Lezyne's mountain pumps have larger diameter barrels for more volume, larger connections to move the air, larger diameter hoses to put that air into the tire faster, and pressure gauges that read lower pressure more precisely. This moves double the air per stroke and makes it easier to seat tubeless tire beads. The CNC Dirt Floor Drive Pump has a barrel with a 37mm interior diameter to get more volume in fewer strikes and a 2.5in pressure gauge that reads up to 70psi.
The CNC Dirt is the top of their high volume pump line. It is comprised entirely of CNC-machined aluminum parts. The handle, the piston, the barrel, the base are all fabricated this way. It has a secondary benefit of being lighter than their other pumps.
Everything else in the pump is designed equally well. The rubber hose is 43 inches (130cm) long. At the end of the hose is a flip-thread chuck, a reversible head for both Schrader and Presta valves. It has a button for bleeding air, which is called the ABS (Air Bleed System). The pump comes with a Speed Chuck, a thread-on slip-fit Presta head with a 90-degree angle to easier set the chuck.
The Lezyne CNC Dirt Floor Dive Pump measures 7.9 x 9.8 x 26.2in (20 x 26 x 66.5 cm). The handle is 9.5in. The interior diameter of the barrel is 37mm, which means the pump has been optimized for high volume applications. It has a claimed weight of 3.4lbs (1.56kg). The color is High-Polish Silver. | <urn:uuid:3c47555d-be96-445d-a85c-b397e5dd120d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.competitivecyclist.com/za/CCY?PAGE=BUY_PRODUCT_STANDARD&PRODUCT.ID=11087&CATEGORY.ID=0&MODE=SPECIALS&TFC=&TOP_PARENT.ID=&BRAND.ID=575 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937262 | 394 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt/Le mepris” (1963) is the first part of his religious trilogy, followed by “Hail, Mary” (1985) and “Woe Is Me” (1993). While “Contempt” examines the psychological mechanism of relations between humans and gods of pagan “design” – the human humans (the people with psychology of god-worshippers) and the human gods (people with psychology of unconscious identification with gods), “Hail, Mary” analyzes the psychological roots of the Christian cult of Saint Mary, and “Woe is Me” – the return of pagan gods into post-Christian modernity in a form of technological constructions, tools and toys dominating people’s life in Western democracies.
In his analysis of religious psychology Godard separates people from religious (in a narrow sense) practices and metaphorizes these practices on personal and social relations between people in order to make their religious essence more articulate and vivid for the perception of the viewers. Religious psychology is not necessary creates loyalty to despotic dogmas (many atheists are very religious by psychology). In “Contempt” Godard shows how religious feelings show itself in private relations between Paul (Michel Piccoli), a modest writer of detective stories but educated and with an exceptional existentially spiritual taste person, and his wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot), a monumental beauty, and in social relations between Paul (identifying with Homer and Odyssey) and the mighty Hollywood producer Jeremiah Prokosch (the new incarnation of Poseidon/Neptune), played by Jack Polance in the only intellectually serious performance of his whole career. The both “gods” – Camille and Prokosch, are depicted with tender and subtle caricaturishness, while Paul’s destiny Godard generalizes as that of us all, the humanity. Godard deconstructs the relations between humans and gods as known in history - as metaphoric constructions of markedly sociomorphic relations between human beings as such (personified by Paul) and the human gods (personified by Camille and Prokosch). On the level of the plot the film describes the disagreements between Paul (the author of screenplay), Fritz Lang (the director) who plays himself, and Prokosch (the producer) – all trying together to make a film based on Homer’s Odyssey. But Godard’s scholarly intentions in the film are not limited to symbolizing a certain type of relations between human beings into relations between humans and gods. The second important scientific contribution of Godard in “Contempt” is his classification of the types of bonds human beings are prone to establish between themselves and our historical past, and themselves and any work of art they perceive and react on. Here Prokosch personifies the type of perception of the past which is based on our projection into the historical past of our self-aggrandizement (our megalomaniacal need). For him Ancient Greece is a kind of Olympus in comparison with today’s life. This is, essentially, a conservative position based on authoritarian/totalitarian behavioral habits including the proneness for religious or secular cult of ancestors. The second position is represented by Lang who tends to “objectively” study the human past without the need for any identification with it. This position is that of liberal scholars – it’s the accumulation of a kind of an archival knowledge about the past without any worshipful or critical emotions. The third position is represented by Paul who sees in people of the previous epochs our existential brothers. He learns from the past and from the art and understood that people who lived before us made their own attempts to resolve their problems with gods as idealized models (theologized, from Olympus, or living on the Olympus of the tops of the social hierarchy), as we today trying to with the human gods of our times. Existential identification with our ancient ancestors is simultaneously brotherly and critical. The same three positions – projection of self-aggrandizement (or its negative reflection – the dismissal: “I love-I hate” approach), “objective” position of “neutral/truthful” representation, and existential identification Godard discerns in our relations with works of art.
“Contempt” occupies not only a unique place in history of cinema and Western culture in general, but a distinguished place of an exemplary work of art.
Please, visit: www.actingoutpolitics.com to read an essay about the film (with analysis of stills from it) – “Psychology of Human Obsession with Super-human (Human Need for Association with Gods as a Result of Problems in Relations between People)”.
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By Arjun Makhijani
Presented April 26, 2010
(These comments are also available on the National Academies Website)
Chairman Meserve and members of the Board, I appreciate this opportunity to present some perspectives on the study and make some recommendations regarding the approaches you might take in addressing the task before you. There is intense interest in this study and I am glad that you are seeking public input and engaging in a broader public discussion at the outset. I hope that you will be able to chart a course for more thorough and scientifically sound – and potentially less controversial – studies of the health risks to neighbors of industrial facilities, including nuclear power facilities.
I use the phrase “chart a course” advisedly, since I do not think that a single study that seeks to provide a reliable “yes” or “no” answer to the general question of cancer risk of living near nuclear power plants is scientifically feasible at the present time. Given the state of the data and the confounding factors there will be ample legitimate basis for parties that do not like either answer to throw the answer into substantial doubt.
It will be therefore be more helpful if the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board addressed the data requirements and analytical approaches to understanding cancer risks (and more generally health risks) of living near nuclear power facilities and, more generally, industrial facilities.
A. The terms “near” and “nuclear power facilities”
The very title of the study invites questions about the implicit assumptions and the framework of the study. For instance, if the term “near” means drawing a circle around a nuclear power plant, much of the battle for a sound study is already lost. The problem is made even worse if, as was done in the 1990 National Cancer Institute study, the term “near” means the “counties that encompass or are near nuclear facilities.” For instance, for air emissions of radionuclides, such definitions ignore prevailing wind patterns. For discharges to the water, for instance, of tritium, they ignore the difference between downstream and upstream populations. Meteorological factors are also important for tritium, since tritiated water vapor is emitted by nuclear power reactors. Rainouts of radioactive water are highly weather dependent. In other words, if the term “near” is not carefully defined, the connection between radiation dose – the presumed causative factor – and cancer – the presumed outcome – is already lost or so obscured as to be irretrievable. Defining “near” to take such factors into account is an essential first step to a credible effort.
The term “nuclear power facilities” might at first sight seem less problematic than the term “near.” But it is not. At the present time, it is not scientifically sensible to try to come up with a general answer to a general question about the risk of living near nuclear power plants for a host of reasons, including the following:
- Routine emissions and discharges of radionuclides from nuclear power plants vary a great deal. For instance, the liquid discharges of tritium from Davis Besse in 2005 were 0.46 curies per megawatt, while the discharges from Beaver Valley 1 and 2 were more than three times as large in the same year 1.48 curies per megawatt. All three reactors are PWRs. Moreover, there is a difference between pressurized water and boiling water reactor tritium discharges.
- Many reactors have tritium leaks. The amounts of such leaks vary and the implications for radiation dose to the surrounding population are not well understood. Indeed, systematic measurements of tritium and other radionuclides in private wells are not required.
- Reactors routinely discharge tritiated water vapor to the air. These releases vary even more. For instance, in 2004, the Byron 1 and Byron 2 units released 1 and 2 curies of tritium to the air. In contrast, the Palo Verde 1, 2, and 3 units released 672, 479, and 972 curies respectively. Hence, the air discharges of tritium were 700 times greater from the Palo Verde nuclear power plant than from the Byron nuclear power plant. The lowest releases reported were zero (below the detection limit) for Turkey Point 4. All reactors in these examples are PWRs. The variation among BWRs is just as great. The emissions also vary a great deal from year to year and even from one quarter to the next. There are few measurements of the tritium content of rainwater and there is little understanding of the effect of tritium releases for contamination of private wells. As you know, non-public drinking water sources are not covered by safe drinking water regulations for radionuclides. Further, the NRC does not require measurements of tritium in private water wells, which could be an important data gap, particularly for nuclear plants in rural areas.
- The cumulative impact of routine discharges and emissions of tritium on drinking and irrigation water sources is not well understood and in many cases unknown. The data for developing such an understanding are scant. This is especially so in rural areas, where private wells are often used for drinking and irrigation water and there a few if any data available. In the case of irrigation, organically bound tritium, with its higher dose conversion factor per unit of intake, might become important.
- The sources of drinking water vary from one nuclear power plant vicinity to another. For instance, communities downstream from the Braidwood, Illinois, plant use the surface water into which the plant discharges tritium for their drinking water supply. This is also the case with plant Vogtle, where the problem is compounded by significant tritium discharges from the Savannah River Site (SRS). In fact, the Savannah River is measurably contaminated with tritium all the way to the Atlantic Ocean more than 100 miles downstream. There is documented contamination of groundwater wells with tritium in the vicinity of Plant Vogtle and SRS.
I will not go into the reliability of the measurements of tritium at this stage except to say that routine tritium discharges are periodic. Their effect on drinking water therefore depends on the precise times of the discharges in relation to the intakes into public water systems downstream. At the present time, the state of knowledge of the source terms in drinking water related to nuclear power plants leaves a lot to be desired.
While some of the problems of variation among nuclear plants are overcome by studying the effect of single plants over time, this does not address issues related to the variations of radiation releases over time and changes in pathways, such as sources of drinking water. Moreover, given the data gaps created by a lack of thorough monitoring requirements, it is difficult to see how such a longitudinal study could be reliably done.
B. Confounding factors
Studies that attempt to assess the link between one type of facility and a health outcome such as cancer are implicitly oriented towards a regulatory point of view. Regulations on emissions and exposures from industrial facilities attempt to limit such emissions and hence exposures of their neighbors to specific pollutants. But they do not address the public health issue that is implicitly sought to be addressed: what is the health impact of such facilities? One of the central differences between the regulatory and public health approaches is that individuals are subject to a variety of environmental exposures. For instance, the Braidwood, Illinois, plant also has a refinery near it. Refineries emit carcinogens, such as benzene and formaldehyde, as well as other chemical pollutants. The combined effects of chemicals and radiation are ill understood.
In studying the variation in cancers at a particular location over time, it is not only necessary to know what other facilities existed prior to and after commissioning of nuclear facilities, but also the emissions of carcinogens over time from other facilities, which also vary over time. Exposure pathways may also vary over time. It is at least necessary to know those pathways and how hazardous materials may or may not interact with radiation exposures over time to change the risk of certain health outcomes, including cancer.
In this context, it is especially important to consider fetal and childhood exposures. Fetal exposures to strontium-90 in the first trimester, for instance, may have a deleterious effect on the initial stages of the formation of the immune system. This may be compounded by exposures to chemicals that disrupt hormonal systems. In other words, there are a variety of potential synergistic effects that could be at play that may vary over time at a single location as well as from one plant to another.
Differences can also be expected between plants in rural, non-industrial areas, those in rural industrial areas, and those in urban or semi-urban areas. In the first instance, exposure assessments are complicated by the likely presence of large diffuse sources of exposure. Such exposures may not only be environmental. Some are likely to be occupational. A farmer using pesticides, a worker in a chemical factory or refinery is not just any neighbor of a nuclear power plant, but one who has had specific occupational exposures. These exposures vary over time. Some may have cumulative effects. Some chemicals may affect family members of the workers, via contamination of clothes and vehicles, while others may not.
The admitted difficulty of taking such factors into account cannot be occasion for ignoring them. Some problems with longitudinal studies over an appropriate period of time can be overcome by comparative studies between nuclear power plants – Vermont Yankee, Braidwood, Plant Vogtle, and Indian Point might present interesting contrasts. But the extraction of factors attributable to nuclear power plants alone must first take into account the presence of these other complicating factors. Race and diet are among such factors. I once heard a scientist cite the lower cancer rate in Denver to the higher cancer rate in Washington, D.C., which has a lower background radiation rate as evidence that a few tens of millirem of radiation per year do not cause an increase in cancer. He completely ignored the fact that, in contrast to Denver, Washington, D.C., has a majority African American population, which generally has a higher mortality rate from cancer relative to Whites and Hispanics (who together constitute a huge majority in Denver) quite apart from radiation exposure and independent of location.
I might cite a couple of other issues that need addressing. The changes in the rates of occurrence of chronic hepatitis B and C as well as the incidence of HIV-positive populations change the susceptibility to cancer and to environmental carcinogens. Similarly, racial and class disparities in smoking have changed over time. In comparing nuclear power plants in different areas, it will also be essential to address underlying differences in radon exposure.
I would also add that it is very important to know the movement of populations in and out of an area in relation to times and amounts of exposure to the carcinogens in areas with nuclear power plants. This especially applies to children and pregnant women.
The state of the knowledge regarding the various exposure and risk factors in the vicinity of nuclear power plants is too poor to conduct a general study of the subject that would yield a reliable conclusion. I therefore strongly recommend that you not do a study that would attempt study with a yes” or “no” answer to the question of whether there is an increased cancer risk of living near a nuclear power facility. At this stage, it is much more important to set forth the framework in which the risk of living near a nuclear facility can be scientifically addressed. In this context, the panel might examine examples of nuclear facilities to illustrate how such a framework might be used in a specific instance.
It will be important to address the following factors in creating the framework:
- Definition of “near”: Clarity about this point is central to a reliable study. For air emissions, the predominant downwind direction is more important than radius. For water associated pathways, the downstream direction, which may extend a hundred miles or more, as is the case with Plant Vogtle in Georgia, is critical for surface water. Rainfall patterns are especially important in rural areas, since they may be associated with groundwater contamination, as I have mentioned already. Detailed illustrations using, say, ten nuclear power plants would provide a basis from structuring a future study that could provide a sounder basis for conclusions.
- Exposure to other carcinogens and presence of factors enabling cancer: It is essential to consider exposures over time to chemical carcinogens and to other factors that change over time and from one plant to another prior to drawing any general conclusions about the cancer risk of living near nuclear facilities. That risk may vary greatly from one plant to the next depending on such factors. The variety of factors that contribute to the risk and how they may be sorted out in comparative studies between plants and in longitudinal studies at particular locations should be laid out in some detail. Again, illustrating these factors using specific examples is very important. In this regard, I would recommend including the Braidwood plant in the list.
- Focus on the vulnerable who are at risk: There are specific populations near nuclear power plants who are at risk of greater doses for a given level of releases of radioactivity and at greater risk per unit of dose. Generally (though not always) those at greatest risk are children, especially female children. Fetal exposure creating later vulnerability to cancer as well as non-cancer diseases after birth, for instance via compromise of the immune system during the time of its development, should be explicitly considered. I strongly recommend that the panel examine issues such as tritium dose during the first several weeks of pregnancy, where the ICRP model of equating uterine wall dose to fetal dose is clearly wrong. A recognition of the problem and how it ought to be addressed would be very helpful in getting some progress on the science with regard to the most ubiquitous radionuclide associated with nuclear power plant releases to the environment.
- Identify the data gaps: The monitoring of the emissions and discharges from nuclear power plants leaves a lot to be desired. I have already noted gaps relating to monitoring of rainwater and private wells. Equally important, there is little independent verification of the data and of the times of discharges. The latter is important because sampling is not continuous but rather batch sampling. How can the public be confident that water samples were taken when tritiated water is periodically discharged or if the samples were taken before the time of discharge? NRC inspections do not routinely physically confirm the time and representativeness of sampling. In an industry that has rightly been buffeted by controversies, such as those related to tritium leaks and the failure to disclose them to the affected public in a timely fashion, a much more rigorous and independent system of confirmatory monitoring is needed. I have long advocated that affected communities have funds put in escrow by their industrial neighbors so that they can carry out their own monitoring in a fully transparent fashion. This should extend not only to nuclear power plants but to all industrial nuclear facilities and to other industries that have toxic discharges in the same areas. There is a lack of systematic data from which a public environmental health picture, rather than a picture of pollution due to single facilities, can be derived. The panel should make detailed recommendations as to the sets of data that would be needed and identify a few nuclear power facilities that would exemplify the various situations and types of data that should be collected.
- Environmental Justice: Plants are not randomly located. Water is a major consideration for nuclear power plants, but it is also a major factor for many other industries and for agriculture, both of which are often major pollution sources. In this regard, I would highly recommend that you address issues downstream of the Plant Vogtle, where food sources, surface water and groundwater have been affected by a variety of sources, including the Savannah River Site. The contaminants not only include radionuclides discharges from SRS and Plant Vogtle, but also other sources of exposure such as mercury in the fish (possibly associated with SRS). Issues of subsistence fishing and diets are very important in the African American as well as some portions of the White communities along the river. The issue of specific subsistence diets and their potential contamination should be explored.
- Create a framework for future work: This panel should create a framework for future work on this issue, including data requirements (as noted above) as well as scientific research requirements. It should also identify frameworks, such as the one adopted in the 1990 study, that are not useful for studies of health effects in neighboring communities. The panel should specify how baseline information should be created as well as a process for future longitudinal studies. It should also address how other factors such as exposure to chemicals, variations in dietary and smoking patterns, and demographics of populations near nuclear power plants might affect the structure of the studies and data requirements.
- Arjun Makhijani did not read these notes at the meeting. Rather these notes form much, but not all, of the basis for what he said. Hence, the oral presentation and these notes are partially complementary. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. Website: www.ieer.org ↩ Return
- Seymour Jablon, Zdenek Hrubec, John D. Boice, and B. J. Stone, Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities, (NIH Publication No. 90-874), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, July 1990, page xi. ↩ Return
- See the compilation of routine liquid tritium releases from all U.S. nuclear power reactors for 2005 (from SDA Vol. 16 No. 1) ↩ Return
- See the compilation of routine gaseous tritium releases from all U.S. nuclear power reactors for 2004 (from SDA Vol. 16 No. 1) ↩ Return
- Arjun Makhijani and Michele Boyd, Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, 2004. This study only deals with SRS. The gaseous releases of tritium, which could affect groundwater via rainfall, from Vogtle 1 and 2 in 2004 were 61 and 4 curies respectively. It is unknown whether Vogtle releases have affected groundwater downwind, since the NRC does not require measurements of tritium in private offsite wells. ↩ Return | <urn:uuid:6944bffa-0152-4c02-97fd-6867d8099dc1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ieer.org/resource/testimony/perspectives-on-the-nas-studying-cancer-risk-in-populations-living-near-nuclear-power-facilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955296 | 3,798 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Children's FLYP Event: SingleVision Animals
Thursday, August 2 @ 2:30 pm and a repeat show at 3:30 pm
Join us as SingleVision Animals brings to the library endangered animals and teaches us how we can protect them! Extinction is forever and you can help! Visit with our animal guests and learn how you can protect rare wildlife: http://www.singlevisioninc.org/
The whole family is welcome; please be aware, however, that FLYP Programs are geared toward the school-age child. We look forward to seeing you at the library! Contact the library at 827-6950 for additional information. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library. | <urn:uuid:152665be-b8b3-46d2-8b11-c19d7b57f0af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sjcpls.org/content/childrens-flyp-event-single-vision-animals?mini=calendar%2F2013-01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912748 | 149 | 1.96875 | 2 |
LARGE HOLES, LARGER SAVINGS
Big holes don’t mean big bottlenecks anymore, even though some shops still don’t believe a hole can be milled right through solid steel. But this small fabricator of large parts proves it by producing big holes faster than twist drilling and with much better tolerances than flame or plasma cutting – and making sure there is an independent way to expel the chips.
R&R Machine (Talladega, AL) is a six-man job shop that doesn’t take retooling casually and can’t afford to be wrong. Most of their jobs are in the 150-piece range with some, but not necessarily all, expected to repeat. “We have to get it right – and make our margins – on the job at hand,” notes Chris Barnes, the lead machinist in the shop. “We can’t necessarily ‘invest’ in tooling based on a return with the third reorder. We need versatility as well as productivity. For a tool to get in here, we have to believe it will pay off both immediately and in the long run.”
They typically handle a variety of machining work where large-scale holemaking is a big part of the diet on hefty parts that go into chemical processing and off-road equipment. This work taught Barnes something about better ways to open big holes with a light-duty CNC machine. “We are talking about corkscrew milling two-inch holes in thick steel plate on a Fadal 40 taper vertical machining center,” he says. “Twist drilling holes like these could easily stall the spindle or warp the frame.”
By using this vertical corkscrew milling technique, R&R has cut its cycle times on some holes from days to hours and dramatically reduced its tooling costs when compared with either twist drilling or orbital milling of pre-opened holes with a solid carbide endmill.
Before this, the standard shop practice had been to corkscrew mill with a three-flute indexable cutter from Ingersoll Cutting Tools (Rockford, IL). “It was working fine as far as I was concerned,” recalls Barnes. Then, thanks to a drop-in retooling, holemaking that once took ten minutes apiece are now done in just one minute.
Triggering this change was Ingersoll field engineer James Wilson who, during a plant walk-through, believed the shop could do better with a later-generation High Feed Mini Mill. Barnes was already sold on corkscrew milling, but the question was how to do it better.
Side-by-side trials on mild steel proved to him how a High Feed Mini Mill could reduce the cycle time to open a 2 in x 2 in hole from nearly 6 minutes down to 90 seconds. Wilson and Jimmy Roszell of local distributor Industrial Tooling & Supply (Anniston, AL) ran the trials and optimized the settings. Feed rates increased to 220 ipm from 50 ipm and feed per revolution rose to 0.072 in from 0.019 in.
In another trial the tool reduced the cycle time for large holes by ten to one – and did it with the same absolutely reliable chip clearance and insert life that R&R had gotten with the previous cutter. When Wilson and Roszell were done, the operation proved totally stable at 800 sfm with a 0.025 in depth of cut. The shop quickly adopted the new cutter with these parameters for all holes 1½ in diameter and larger.
From that point forward cycle time savings have averaged 10 to 1 on a wide mix of work and insert edge life has averaged 50 holes, with predictable edge wear the only failure mode, never anything like catastrophic chipping or rupture.
What physical differences between the two indexable mills accounted for R&R’s big gain? “The main difference is insert geometry,” explains Wilson. The new inserts are curved with a large radius, are seated with a backtaper, and have a helical cutting edge. This combination enables higher feed rates, creates a gentler entry and adds more axial cutting forces. The tool can plow ahead with virtually no risk of lateral deflection.” He adds that the insert’s fourth flute (vs. the previous three-flute design on the other insert) spreads the cutting forces more widely, permitting higher material removal rates without raising chip loads.
“One caution, especially in a vertical setup, is to be certain of a very high flow of coolant or compressed air,” advises Wilson. “The cutter geometry itself may cut fast and reduce cutting forces, but it does nothing about chip clearance.”
Unlike orbital milling, corkscrew milling involves simultaneously feeding on all three axes: advance on the Z-axis while simultaneously interpolating on the X- and Y-axes to enlarge the hole. This requires a machine with interpolating capability. By contrast, orbital milling uses a step-and-orbit cycle.
Since there is only a small contact area between the tool and the workpiece at any instant, cutting forces with corkscrew milling are much lower than in twist drilling. Completely absent is the friction between drill flutes, chips and sidewall of the hole.
R&R estimates that retooling the corkscrew milling operation will save approximately $49,000 a year. Not a week goes by that this process isn’t running on some job. Accordingly, the High Feed Mini has a permanent place in the Fadal tool magazine on the shop floor. “We’ve stayed pretty close to Ingersoll’s recommended machine settings,” adds Barnes. “We practice continuous improvement, but as a small shop we have to rely on the experience of trusted vendors. We’re just too small and too busy to experiment a lot on our own.”
R&R Machine, 1221 Cochran Avenue, Talladega, AL 35160-3650, 256-375-9845.
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Investigations by The Express have revealed a potential raft of problems associated with Armidale’s incoming electronic parking system.
The complaints include allegedly unwarranted fines, a sensor that exploded in a Melbourne suburb and an ongoing patent infringement suit, The Express has found.
The company tendered to provide the parking sensors, Database Consultants Australia (DCA), has been plagued with complaints about its sensors in Melbourne and has been involved in four court matters relating to their sensors.
The Express made numerous attempts to contact DCA for comment, but our phone calls were not returned.
Armidale’s new system, due for installation in October, will see Council install 860 underground parking sensors programmed with the relevant data for the individual parking bay, with information relayed to council rangers via hand-held electronic devices.
DCA was contracted to deliver the parking technology after a Council meeting held on March 26.
In Melbourne, where the sensors were rolled out last July, there have been several questions raised about the potential for interference with the devices’ magnetic fields.
According to The Herald Sun on March 5, a report to Melbourne City Council by DCA revealed that the magnetic fields were subject to interference from passing cars and shopping trolleys.
Armidale Dumaresq Council yesterday defended the system, stating there is no proof that the sensors are subject to interference.
In May, the sensors were subject to further scrutiny after one exploded in Templestowe when a worker accidentally hit it with a jackhammer.
The workman was attempting to access a water pipe when he hit the device, rupturing the lithium
battery and causing the sensor to explode. The man’s clothing caught on fire and he was hospitalised with superficial burns and scratches.
Industry sources have also revealed that the company is
battling a patent infringement suit in relation to the technology lodged by another company in the industry, Vehicle Monitoring Systems. The suit was brought before the Sydney Federal Court last June when Vehicle Monitoring Systems accused DCA of infringing its innovative patent for similar technology.
ADC director of sustainable planning and living Stephen Gow said Council had thoroughly investigated the system. Part of their investigation included a visit to Port Macquarie where the same system has been used without complaint.
“There’s been a lot of controversy that’s occured, but it seems that has been because of union activity where jobs were lost,” Mr Gow said.
Melbourne City Council told the media in March that two per cent of sensors were affected by electronic interference underground, while other reports suggested that some Council sources thought the system may only be 90 per cent effective.
Mr Gow said Council had been reassured by DCA that fines are not issued when “false positives” are recorded.
The company told Council that detection of infringing vehicles are 99.95 per cent accurate, with a
further review process allowing
customer support officers to review the sensor data and deal with disputes for a 100 per cent infringement accuracy rate.
ADC general manager Shane Burns also dismissed claims that the system was subject to interference.
“It’s basically just union scare-mongering,” he told The Express.
Mr Gow said although Council was not aware of the explosion of the parking sensor in Templestowe before this week, DCA had confirmed the incident.
“DCA have since engaged an independent expert to again assess the sensor battery, which concluded that the required battery is being used in accordance with the manufacturers’ guidelines and is safe and fit for purpose,” he said.
Mr Gow said he did not anticipate that Armidale would have any similar problems if safety protocols were followed.
“Council, which retains data on local utilities as the local water and sewer authority, will record the location of all sensors on its GPS system as they are installed,” he said.
Mr Gow said he was unable to provide formal comment on the matter of the patent infringement suit as the matter was still before the courts.
“However, this dispute is between two third-party private companies and Council’s contractual rights would not, as I understand it, be impaired,” he said.
Mr Gow said the introduction of the technology was intended to improve the turnover of cars and that it would prove much more
efficient and productive than the current chalking system.
According to Mr Gow, no jobs will be lost in Armidale due to the system’s installation.
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In February 2012, India selected a French jet, the Rafale, as the new mainstay fighter for its air force. A month earlier, the country had leased a nuclear submarine from Russia. The acquisition of the fighter aircraft and submarine is part of an ambitious military modernization that has made India the number one arms importer in the world.
This rearmament effort, riding on the nation’s unprecedented economic growth, has prompted some observers to wonder whether India has decided to balance Chinese power in Asia or is seeking to correct the anomaly of strategic parity with Pakistan, a country one fifth its size. Indians themselves want their country to act more assertively, and India’s primary rival, Pakistan, has never bought into neighborly restraint.
So, could we be witnessing the start of an India-China arms race in Asia that would become the defining global conflict of the twenty-first century— as the United States returns to its traditional role of offshore balancer, reduces its overseas presence, and husbands resources for domestic recovery? Could we also be standing on the precipice of a nuclear confrontation with Pakistan?
The answer is: Probably not. India’s rearmament efforts are unlikely to turn the nation into an aggressive power, seeking military balance with China and upending the existing balance with Pakistan. Indeed, not only have India’s political leaders traditionally hesitated to use force as an instrument of foreign policy even when the conditions were right for it, they have neglected to provide clear strategic guidance to the military. In a 2010 book, Stephen P. Cohen and I called this phenomenon “arming without aiming.” We found that the disconnect between strategic purpose and military planning is both shaped by and reinforces military-strategic restraint in India’s foreign policy.
Today, notwithstanding growing uncertainty in South Asia and the recently accelerated arms buildup, New Delhi appears unlikely to abandon this military restraint. Certainly, fears of American withdrawal from the region are making Indians jittery about a resurgence of terrorist threats. At the same time, New Delhi likely will strive to wield its growing economic and international influence in Afghanistan as U.S. troops pull out. Although India’s engagement probably will not rise to the level of military intervention, it might be sufficient to fuel another dangerous rivalry with the Pakistanis in Afghanistan.
Outside of an unlikely new war, however, India’s political leaders will not want to spend the political and monetary capital necessary to transform growing resources into military power and purpose sufficient for a reordering of their country’s strategic condition.
This is not a pessimistic view of India’s prospects in the world. To the contrary, military-strategic restraint has paid off handsomely despite the resulting inefficiencies in defense planning. Restraint has contributed to greater accommodation of India’s rise as a great power in the international community. The rise of China led Singapore, for example, to exhort India to become more engaged in Southeast Asia. Today, even the Russians hesitate to sell advanced weapons to China, but Western firms want to be part of India’s military revival. They are motivated by profit, of course, but also by the recognition that India is unlikely to become hostile to their own nations’ interests.
Most notably, the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, based on a framework agreed to by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then-US President George W. Bush in 2005, has legitimized India’s status as a nuclear weapons power, making it the only country to be accommodated this way since 1968, when the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) was concluded. Would a militarily aggressive India have received the same accommodation? | <urn:uuid:0ab5ec9c-bb58-4412-8aaa-b2ab021fa588> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2012/04/india-dasgupta?rssid=dasguptas&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BrookingsRSS%2Fexperts%2Fdasguptas+%28Brookings+Experts+-+Sunil+Dasgupta%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955644 | 759 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Campaign To Weaken And Starve Palestinians Succeeding Admirably
War on Gaza ghetto enters new phase - The Israeli campaign to deny the 1.5 million residents of Gaza their basic right to food has in recent days been showing signs of success.
"Israel has enforced a 20-month blockade on the Gaza Strip and has managed to cripple the economy with its recent war that inflicted over $1.6 billion of harm on the Gazans.
Abu Omar Abu Karsh, a chicken salesperson who now sits idly at once the busiest shop in the Remal neighborhood of Gaza City, said that the price of a living chicken had been 10 to 12 shekels (around 2.6 dollars) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) before the war. The military operations on Gaza, however, pushed chicken prices through the roof "and during the war we sold it for 55 shekels", he said.
Israel has bulldozed three of the eleven chicken hatcheries in the strip and severely damaged two of the others. With the lack of production power in the Palestinian ghetto, even relative calm has been unable to influence prices. Chicken meat is now sold at 35 shekels (9 dollars) a kilogram. "Chicken is the only meat that the poor can afford but the increase of the prices forced the people to turn away from buying and my sales decreased by 90 percent," Abu Karsh told Xinhua.
"Living in Gaza is really becoming so difficult, and day-by-day living is becoming so hard. We really don't know where to go and we really don't know how long this will last, and we really get very tired," said Mattar."
"While Tel Aviv has already hinted at its willingness to open another war on the densely-populated territory, Egyptian crackdowns on the entry of sheep into Gaza and Israeli attacks on fishing boats add to the suffering of the Palestinians." | <urn:uuid:fd737fb8-1b72-4b03-a96d-52e9a7fb53f2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/2009/03/campaign-to-weaken-and-starve.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967614 | 393 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The environmental activist group Greenpeace has called Apple to task time and again for the chemicals used in the companyis products, but now the group is praising the new MacBook Air. Greenpeace sees Appleis slim mercury free and arsenic free laptop as a major improvement in "green" computing.
Greenpeace said in a statement that the Cupertino company is "on the right path for a green Apple," noting that the MacBook Air lacks the levels of hazardous chemicals found in other computers.
"As a mercury and arsenic free laptop it exceeds European Standards (RoHS directive exemptions) and raises the bar for the rest of the industry," the group said, and added "The BFR and PVC free printed wiring on the motherboard is a big step forward," although eliminating those chemicals completely would be preferable.
Had Apple been able to produce its ultra portable laptop without BFR and PVC chemicals, the group claims Apple would have been an ecological leader.
Greenpeace previously called Apple to task for its use of Brominated Fire Retardants and Polyvinyl Chloride in its products. Later, it praised the company for publicly committing to eliminating the hazardous chemicals from its designs.
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Ghat or Gat (both: gät) [key], walled town, SW Libya, in an oasis in the Sahara, near the Algerian border. It formerly was an important caravan center. Ghat was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1875, by the Italians in 1930, and by the French in 1943, during World War II.
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View Full Version : 'Nice' Murderers. How 'Nice' People Kill.
03-30-2005, 02:58 AM
Evil comes so often, not in the form of the devil and beasts from hell, but from nice people doing horrible things.
The more resources of the State or private institutions at their disposal the worst the offences.
Hitler was described as 'charming' and a 'quietly spoken paternal figure' by most who knew him.
Robert McNamara took part in terrible activities such as firebombing 100,000 Japanese to death in one night.
Here we have the head of 'Royal Dutch Shell' explaining what a lovely fellow he is while in the Niger Delta, private armies, working for RDS, kill activists for protesting the gross human rights violations of the company as well as it's abysmal ecological record
03-30-2005, 05:16 AM
Helps if you put the site address in...whooopsss.
03-30-2005, 07:18 AM
The problem of anything written is that as soon as it's written it makes it possible to corrupt. "The map is not the territory", as some famous military leader once said. That means as soon as its written down you can twist it around, squeeze it until unrecognizable because the written word is not actually the thing it symbolizes - it's just a combination of letters. That's how bureaucrats get away with breaking every thinkable law you can imagine: if it's written down you can always find a loophole - in fact; the more laws written down, the more loopholes you get.
De Maistre defines the dilemma perfectly:
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/integral_tradition/divine.html">"THE DIVINE ORIGINS OF CONSTITUTIONS</a>
From Joseph de Maistre. Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions (1810)
The more we examine the influence of human agency in the formation of political constitutions, the greater will be our conviction that it enters there only in a manner infinitely subordinate, or as a simple instrument; and I do not believe there remains the least doubt of the incontestable truth of the following propositions: -
1. That the fundamental principles of political constitutions exist before all written law.
2. That a constitutional law is, and can only be, the development or sanction of an unwritten pre-existing right.
3. That which is most essential, most intrinsically constitutional, and truly fundamental, is never written, and could not be, without endangering the state.
4. That the weakness and fragility of a constitution are actually in direct proportion to the multiplicity of written constitutional articles."(My emphasis.)
This is the reason ORAL tradition is the STRONGER tradition compared to a WRITTEN tradition. As long as its oral it's a LIVING tradition; everyone whose tradition it is is LIVING it all the time - it's continuous. The moment you start WRITING it down it's a dead tradition and it starts stagnating, decaying and degenerating. A sure sign a tradition is doomed to fall apart is the need to write it down to save it. If people don't have it in their mind, heart, blood, soul; if people don't LIVE their tradition it's dead.
03-30-2005, 07:20 PM
Yes, good point. Language is so importent and they want to control all that as well.
Who talks about politics and current affairs?
Who talks about the latest wanker on American idol?
Until people get interested in who and how their lives are run their will be tyranny.
On the point of writing things down...'Butcher'/'Bomber' Harris was questioned about law and the terror bombing of civilian areas.
He replied Great Britain had followed the available law scrupously..."ban on dropping bombs from derigibles (airships) over civilian areas".
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With two 64-Bit Windows 7 installs on my test rig, I measured the time from selection in the Windows bootloader to a functional desktop. Using the SSD, this resulted in a boot 33 seconds faster - a 69 per cent reduction in boot time! Not only did boot time reduce, but shutdowns became near instantaneous with a 73 per cent time reduction.
The drive comes with all the accessories you need
As expected, the whole system feels snappier, and heavy duty applications load considerably faster.
As it would naturally be assumed, file transfers within the SSD are also blazingly fast. Those who repeatedly move large numbers of small files in the 2-10MB range should be expecting a time reduction in the region of 83 per cent.
HDD vs SSD
Windows Operation Time Results
Time in Seconds (s)
Shorter bars are better
Next page: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Results
All they have to do now
... is make it £1000 cheaper.
Are these real GB (gigabytes) or GiB (gibibytes)?
Not that it really matters. I can't afford one anyway.
Not only boot time
Did you not read the rest of the article?
WikiPedia Links in Articles?
While I get the purpose doesn't it fly in the face of El Reg's stance on the "Quality" of Wikipedia?
Citing it as a source reference points to a change of heart, lazy rporting or (horror!) falling standards in El Reg's reporting. In all three cases, say ain't so Joe!
On topic to the review, over there in the USA once again it's £/$ pricing. Forshame...
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In Part I, I asked how MOOCs (massive online open courses) are potentially poised to “disrupt” academia thanks to broader structural and economic shifts that need to be addressed independently, while still considering the value of online education. In this second half, I turn towards ways to rethink graduate education as a consequence of changes in academia and the academic job market.
While MOOCs have become a popular topic of discussion, less attention has been paid to those rethinking the structure of graduate education, to address related issues (including restructuring humanities dissertations and shortening the length of doctoral programs). Notably, Stanford has been moving forward with an initiative to cut the time-to-degree for humanities programs to five years, by soliciting concrete plans from individual departments in exchange for year-round grad student funding. I can’t speak to whether five years is a reasonable length for humanities Ph.D. programs, but it does seem that many additional years some spend in grad school don’t confer greater benefit. In anthropology, it’s hard to imagine completing a doctorate in under six years, assuming at least a year of field research, on top of course work, qualifying exams, and writing up (plus, of course, going on the job market). But according to Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik, the Stanford initiative is premised on numerous reasons that slow progress on the Ph.D. benefits neither students nor institutions, quoting the proposal request: “Extended time to degree can represent a significant drain on institutional resources as well as major costs to students, both in the form of indebtedness and postponed entry onto a career path. We ask programs to examine the current structure of degree requirements in order to determine what reforms might expedite degree completion.” As the RFP points out, long years in grad school often increase students’ debt burden while delaying their ability to begin post-Ph.D. careers (and earnings), in or out of academia.
This touches on a larger debate about graduate education, which I don’t want to get into here. Instead, I want to call attention to the link between critiques of graduate education and changes in the structure of academia more broadly, the same changes fueling much of the debate about how technology will “disrupt” higher education. One commenter on Jaschik’s piece, for example, points out that many doctoral students delay graduating precisely because of the abysmal job market, while in fields with greater job opportunities (both in and out of academia), students finish much more quickly owing to better incentives. In a similar vein, one professor at Stanford, Jennifer Summit, is quoted as saying that elite institutions often prepare their students insufficiently for teaching at inclusive public institutions, even though most faculty work in such settings: “She was thinking of assessment and digital teaching tools and using analytics. ‘At Research I’s, we like to think we invented online teaching and learning, but the comprehensive publics and community colleges have been doing this for a long time.’”
A more productive response to the changing landscape of education and the economy, then, entails considering what changes make sense and how we can re-imagine some aspects of graduate training and undergraduate teaching without conceding the inevitable decline of public education. What should be the role of faculty at “non-elite” (and elite) institutions with the advent of MOOCs? How can we benefit from online resources, to share syllabi and lectures and teach more effectively? Presumably, this requires better ways to evaluate teaching and learning, beyond the “audit culture” norms of surveying student satisfaction. I think Stanford is right to identify student funding as a crucial piece of reforming graduate education. At UC Irvine, for example, most anthropology grad students are funded by TAships, with limited internal fellowship support available (and nearly none for research abroad). On one hand, I found TA training and experience invaluable exposure to teaching, running sections, grading, and academic time management, but these benefits wane after the first few terms. After that, TAing mostly takes away from time spent studying or completing the dissertation and does not offer the same preparation as teaching as the instructor of record. Moreover, TAs provide relatively inexperienced teaching assistance to universities, often by grad students in the early stages of their careers.
What if doctoral programs reorganized grad student labor instead, shifting teaching obligations from TAships that delay graduation to short-term post-Ph.D. positions? In exchange for full fellowship funding and a shorter time to degree (with perhaps one or two terms of TAing for experience), doctoral students could agree to stay on for one to two years of full-time teaching at their degree-granting institution, for a modest salary (more than a TAship but perhaps less than many postdocs). This would benefit graduate students in numerous ways, including by completing their doctoral degrees more quickly and receiving better teaching preparation, while waiting to go on the job market until the dissertation is finished. Universities would benefit by replacing large lectures (around 400 students at my doctoral alma mater, UC Irvine), with smaller courses taught by their own recent Ph.D.s, instead of relying on grad student TAs as heavily — similar to how many schools already rely extensively on lecturers and adjuncts, but with the benefit of having students complete their degrees more quickly.
Of course, this proposal does not address the more fundamental problem of reduced budgets or neoliberal academic restructuring, but could still improve some aspects of graduate education. I offer this more as an illustration of ways we could begin rethinking the structure of academia broadly. Defunding education may not be inevitable as Shirky implies, but is linked to broader processes that are endemic to late liberalism. What are constructive ways we can reorganize higher education and research without succumbing to these shifts? | <urn:uuid:62241d79-5f2e-4d3f-8b1a-89f7efe261f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.castac.org/2013/01/moocs-in-the-machine-part-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964617 | 1,210 | 1.6875 | 2 |
While the rest of us enjoyed an extra hour of sleep as daylight saving time ended Sunday, the scientists and engineers working with the Mars rover Curiosity were just glad to be back on Earth time. The rover team has finally stopped working on Mars time, just as they planned.
The Mars day, which is called a sol, is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, so a Mars rover driver's schedule shifts by 40 minutes each day. After a few days of jumping ahead by 40 minutes, they would be working in the middle of the night. Life on Mars time totally disrupts their biological clocks, not to mention their personal routines. People hate it.
They do it because they can stay awake when the rover is asleep, so the team can assess its performance on the previous day and plan its next moves. But three months into the mission, the team is comfortable enough with the rover and with each other to plan farther ahead.
Researchers have studied how blue light and strict routines can help people adjust to the diurnal cycle of another planet, but it's definitely easier to just live on this one. Starting this week, the rover team will work between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific time, according to NASA.
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Canadian officials announced Thursday that a broader range of animals and animal products will be allowed into the country from the United States. That trade had been suspended with the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy found in the United States back in December 2003. Effective immediately, all classes of U.S. cattle, including those for breeding purposes born after 1999, are eligible for entry into Canada based on prescribed certification requirements.
Chuck Strahl, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister for Canada, remarked in a press statement that the country's import controls continue to provide the "highest levels of public and animal health protection. At the same time, Canada's new government is moving closer to re-integrating the North American cattle market, in accordance with international standards."
The scope of prohibitions to imports have been narrowed several times since 2003 based on safeguards put in place for both Canada and the United States. The countries maintain the restrictions remain science-based, but the effort continues to move both markets closer to normalized trade.
"This welcome announcement from Canada comes after some long and difficult trade negotiations between our two nations," says Mike John, National Cattlemen's Beef Producer and Missouri cattle producer in a press response to the Canadian announcement. "We are extremely pleased that this hard work has paid off, and we can further expand export market opportunities for U.S. cattle producers."
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President Obama’s inaugural address Monday touched lightly on the subject of deficit reduction, but it failed to convey the magnitude of the fiscal problems facing the country and the urgency with which they should be corrected.
On the positive side, Obama acknowledged that the country needs to “make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit.” As he indicated, this can be done without taking apart the social safety net.
Unfortunately, however, the President did not offer any real sense of what these “hard choices” should be. This was particularly noticeable on the large federal entitlement programs; he praised Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as strengthening the country, but he missed the opportunity to emphasize the need to put these important programs on sustainable paths.
The President called for revamping the tax code, an idea in which elected officials in both parties have expressed interest. But there are significant differences in Congress over what would constitute genuine tax reform, and Obama did not explain how he thought these differences might be bridged.
Comprehensive fiscal reform will require bipartisan compromise. On Monday Obama called for civil political discourse and cooperation, but some themes also emerged that indicated likely points of contention in the months ahead.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge said on Monday that she is inclined to deny a government request to delay her order that immediately stopped the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay service members.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said she would review the arguments from Justice Department lawyers and issue a ruling Monday.
If she rejects the request, the Justice Department could move to appeal at what experts say are likely to be more friendly venues: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco and, ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The further the decision gets from the presentation of evidence in the trial court, the more likely it is that courts will assume the military must have some critically important interest at stake," said Diane Mazur, a law professor who opposes the policy.
The military has promised to abide by the injunction against the "don't ask, don't tell" policy as long as her order remained in place.
Government attorneys had asked Phillips for the temporarily halt while they appealed, saying that forcing an abrupt change of policy could damage troop morale at a time of war.
Phillips issued her landmark ruling on Sept. 9, declaring the policy unconstitutional. She said the policy violated due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment.
At the time, she asked both sides to give her input about an injunction.
On Monday, Phillips called the government request "untimely," saying Justice Department lawyers had plenty of opportunity to modify her injunction before she ordered it last Tuesday.
Phillips also said the government did not present evidence at the trial to show how her order would cause irreparable harm to troops.
Justice Department attorney Paul Freeborne told her the government had no reason to respond until her order came down. He said her nationwide injunction was unrealistic.
"You're requiring the Department of Justice to implement a massive policy change, a policy change that may be reversed upon appeal," Freeborne told her.
Under the 1993 law, the military cannot inquire into service members' sexual orientation and punish them for it as long as they keep it to themselves. President Barack Obama has said he wants the law repealed in Congress.
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Being a teenager who doesn't conform to gender expectations can be really difficult here in the United States. It's significantly more difficult in the Malaysian state of Terenggan, where education-department officials just established a boot camp for effeminate boys. Sixty-six boys from local schools were rounded up and sent to a four-day camp in the town of Besut, where they'll undergo physical training and religious instruction designed to masculinize them.
In an article in the local English-language newspaper The New Straits Times, tastefully headlined "Besut boot camp for 66 sissies," education-department director Razali Daud explained that "as educators, we have to do something about it before the young ones misunderstand people and reach the point of no return... If left unchecked, [effeminate behavior] could become a problem later in life for them, their families and society." He added, "We understand that some people end up as mak nyah [transvestite] or a homosexual, but we will do our best to limit the number."
Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia; the country is 60% Muslim, and cultural norms are significantly influenced by fundamentalist Islam. (Above, Muslim students protest a 2010 concert by Adam Lambert.) But even the Malaysian government disapproved of the Terenggan education department's action, expressing "alarm and great concern"; according to Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Sharizat Abdul Jalil,
"...[B]eing singled out on the basis of perceived characteristics is an extremely traumatizing experience, in particular for adolescent teens. Such profiling has potentially serious psychological repercussions and could harm the development and mental health of the children, as it exposes them to prejudices among their peers and members of their family and community."
Amnesty International and the Human Rights Campaign have both also registered their protests. While this probably would never happen in the United States, remember that just this week, Fox News accused J. Crew of encouraging gender confusion in male children, after a J. Crew ad featured a boy and his mom painting his toenails pink, yet failed to depict the resultant sundering of the heavens and collapse of human civilization. This world can be an awfully mean-spirited place. | <urn:uuid:9407a895-423a-4a2e-94fa-e56e7891cb53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nerve.com/news/politics/malaysia-opens-boot-camp-for-effeminate-boys | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954533 | 476 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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The purpose of the AICUZ (Air Installation Compatible Use Zone) Program is to protect the health, safety and welfare from noise and hazards through compatible development in the airport environment. The program was instituted by the Department of Defense to address the problem of land development surrounding military air installations. It provides for the development and implementation of a plan to determine those land areas for which development should be significantly influenced by the operation of the airfield. These land areas are then designated as the AICUZ for that installation.
To provide for compatible development, the Navy acquired easements and fee simple ownership on certain lands in the noise and accident potential zones around NAS Oceana. While the specific terms of each easement vary, they generally prohibit all residential and people-intensive commercial development. In addition, the permitted industrial development cannot result in a high concentration of people.
Land within the AICUZ program has been classified according to its potential impact from noise and accident potential. The airport zoning program requires the following:
Noise Attenuation: Noise attenuation measures in accordance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC) are required for new residential construction, including additions, located within noise zones 65 Ldn or greater. Zones less than 65 Ldn are exempt from these requirements. The requirements apply to single family dwellings, duplex dwellings, semi-detached dwellings, townhouses, multiple family dwellings, condominiums, hotels, motels, dormitories and group homes. Non-residential uses requiring noise attenuation include assembly, business, business, education, institutional and mercantile uses.
Disclosure: Anyone selling or leasing residential property within any noise zone or Accident Potential Zone is required to provide written disclosure to all prospective purchasers or lessees. Written notification must also be placed in all sales contracts and leases. Additionally, the City requires disclosure notes on site plans and subdivision plats submitted after 1995.
Height regulations: Per Section 202 of the City Zoning Ordinance, the height of any structure may not exceed that permitted by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Regulations.
The City worked with the Navy and surrounding localities to create the Hampton Roads Joint Land Use Study (JLUS)
in 2005. This study explores opportunities to reduce noise impacts while balancing the communities' interest in economic growth and sustainability. In consideration of the JLUS Study's recommendations, the City adopted the APZ-1/Clear Zone Master Plan
in 2008, which provides land use policy guidance regarding the future use of property located in the APZ-1 and Clear Zones around NAS Oceana. Land use in the AICUZ and APZs is further regulated by Article 18 of the City Zoning Ordinance (AICUZ Overlay Ordinance). | <urn:uuid:89de9c4f-4ef8-431c-8a2f-d27f4ed80989> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/planning/areaplans/pages/aicuzinformation.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922916 | 572 | 1.929688 | 2 |
BROKER (so called, from a Teut. and Slay. root, brak or wrak, signifying refuse, blemish; as if the function had originally been to select good articles of merchandise and reject blemished ones: the German term is inakler, from Inctkel, blemish), an agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons, in meters of trade. commerce, and navigation, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. Where lie is employed to buy or sell goods, he is not intrusted with the custody or possession of them, and is not authorized to buy or sell them in his own name. In this lie differs from a factor, and be differs from an auctioneer in two particulars: a B. may buy as well as sell, but an auctioneer can only sell; a B. cannot sell personally at pub lic auction, for that is the appropriate function of an auctioneer, but he may sell at pri vate sales, which an auctioneer (as such) does not. A B. is strictly a middleman, or intermediate negotiator between the parties, and for some purposes, he is treated as the agent of both parties, but primarily he is deemed merely the agent of the party by whom lie is originally employed. There are several sorts of brokers, such as stock-brokers, share-brokers, ship-brokers (q.v. in Surr., Vol. X.), insurance-brokers, and bill
brokers (q.v.). Persons who appraise goods, sell or distrain furniture for rent, are also called brokers, although differing entirely in their occupations from the preced ing commercial agents. The business of a pawnbroker (q.v.) is also of a different nature.
Brokers, in London, must be admitted by the lord mayor and aldermen, paying on admission, and a like sum annually, under a penalty of £100; but they are no other wise subject to the control of the court of aldermen. A list is kept by the city of bro kers admitted, and of those who have been convicted of fraud or disqualified (:33 and 34 Vict. c. 60).
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An internal combustion engine needs three things to operate: gasoline and air (compressed), and a spark. Optimizing the combustion is the tricky part. The spark must occur at exactly the right moment, and the gasoline/air mixture must be in the correct proportions. The ignition system takes care of the spark and its timing, and the carburetor supplies the volume and mixture of the gasoline/oxygen.
But there is one other very important aspect of combustion: cooling. Although the exterior of the engine will be cooled by either air or water, the inside also needs cooling, and this is particularly true with a 2-stroke. 2-strokes create more heat as they burn the gasoline/air--twice as much as a 4-stroke.
Cooling From Gasoline
The 2-stroke engine is cooled on the inside by the fresh (cold) charge of gasoline/air as it enters the cylinder--the principal cooling effect coming from the gasoline. The amount of gasoline entering the engine is controlled predominantly by the main jet. The size of the hole in the main jet restricts the amount of gasoline flowing. The bigger the hole, the more gasoline will pass through it.
More Oil Equals Less Gasoline
Increasing the jet size increases the flow rate, and vice versa. However, on 2-strokes, the amount of gasoline flowing will vary with the amount of oil added at the pre-mix stage (the oil and gasoline both must pass through the main jet). More oil passing through equates to less gasoline, which equals less cooling.
For instance, an engine running cool with say a pre-mix ratio of 32:1 will run hotter (greater chance of seizure) if more oil is added, by changing to 20:1. Therefore, it is correct to say that adding more oil to a pre-mix fueled 2-stroke will make the engine run in a leaner condition.
No Extra Oil for Posi-Lubrication Systems
Under no circumstances should pre-mix oil be added to the fuel tank of a positive lubrication system 2-stroke. For the reasons stated above, adding oil in this way will make the engine run hotter (leaner), which can lead to seizures. | <urn:uuid:300aa7f6-95a4-4a85-b6c9-f9fb0121a437> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://classicmotorcycles.about.com/od/technicaltips/a/MotorcycleCarburationRichAndLeanMixtures.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944939 | 455 | 3.46875 | 3 |
UK will share passenger data with US in Euro deal
Home Office: 'Sensitive stuff will be filtered'
The UK has opted in to the EU passenger name record (PNR) agreement with the United States, Home Office minister Damien Green has confirmed.
"The UK, in common with many other EU member states and third countries, places considerable value on the collection and analysis of PNR data (that data collected by carriers in the exercise of their business) for the purpose of preventing terrorism and serious crime," Green said in a written ministerial statement.
PNR data is mainly used as a criminal intelligence tool to identify potential passenger risks and to provide law enforcement authorities with data prior to the arrival or departure of a flight.
"We fully recognise the importance of working with partners outside the EU given that the threats we face are global in nature and, in common with other EU member states, we view the US as a key partner," the minister added.
Outlining the plans, Green said the agreement:
- restricts the purposes for which data can be processed to the prevention of and combating of terrorist offences and serious trans-national crime;
- requires data to be masked after six months and transferred to a dormant database after five years. Data may be retained in the dormant database for a period of up to 10 years, during which additional controls will apply, including a more restricted number of personnel authorised to access it as well as a higher level of supervisory approval required; and
- provides that masked data can only be re-personalised in connection with an identifiable case, threat or risk. After five years in the dormant database – 10 years in total – data can only be re-personalised for the purpose of preventing and combating terrorist offences.
The agreement, which replaces one applied provisionally from July 2007, also stipulates that sensitive personal data must be filtered out and may only be accessed in "exceptional circumstances" where the life of an individual may by imperilled or seriously impaired. The agreement would only permit onward data transmission to a third country on a case-by-case basis, Green said.
The transfer of PNR data has historically caused concern around civil liberties and privacy due to the collection and storage of individuals' personal data, which the minister sought to address.
"We are firmly committed to consistency in our approach to civil liberties and will seek to translate our domestic agenda to the EU level. This includes: purpose limitation; rigorous evidence based arguments; the principles of necessity and proportionality; stringent data protection safeguards, especially when handling sensitive personal data; independent data protection oversight; and, of course, full compliance with EU law and the EU treaties."
In November 2011 the government revealed it intentions to reach an arrangement with the US and said that discussions regarding a EU-US agreement on PNR had reached an advanced stage and a "political understanding had been reached".
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- Gold has been real money (medium of exchange and a store of value) for over 3,000 years. It is still real money.
- Gold has no counter-party risk. It is not someone else’s liability. It has intrinsic value that is recognized around the world.
- ALL paper money systems have eventually failed. The intrinsic value of paper money is effectively zero; and all paper money has, throughout history, eventually devalued to zero.
- Paper money is a liability of a central bank or a government that may be insolvent. The money issued by a central bank or government has value based NOT on its intrinsic value, but only upon people’s faith, trust, and confidence in that money. Occasionally that faith and confidence is misplaced. For example:
- The price of gold in US dollars since the year 2001 has been strongly correlated with the ever-increasing official national debt of the United States. Read $4,000 Gold! Yes, But When? Does anyone believe that the national debt will decrease or even remain constant over the next several years? NO! The national debt will increase even more rapidly over the next four years and so will the price of gold. Skeptical? Then look at the chart of national debt and the nearly parallel price of gold. Still skeptical? Do you remember gasoline selling for less than $.20 per gallon and gold selling for about $40? They have increased in price because there are currently many more dollars in circulation than in the 1960s – hence, it takes more dollars to buy an ounce of gold, a gallon of gasoline, a loaf of bread, a cup of coffee, or a fighter jet.
- Because governments and central banks issue paper money backed by nothing but faith and credit, they are in competition with gold which is real money. Should we be surprised when they discount the importance of gold and discourage ownership? Should we be surprised when the “Oracle of Omaha” denigrates gold ownership? (Berkshire Hathaway holds huge positions in banking stocks and Goldman Sachs stock.) Should we be surprised when news stories are heavily slanted against gold ownership?
- Groucho Marx once said, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” Who are you going to believe – the history of gold as valuable money while paper money failed, or the pronouncements of politicians, central banks, and the owners of bank stocks?
- Who and what do you believe? It will be important to your financial well-being if (when) paper money accelerates its journey toward an intrinsic value of zero.
- Are you going to believe history and current facts or less reliable information from politicians, central banks, and the owners of bank stocks?
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If you've ever seen ducks try to walk on the ice, you know why the owls are wearing skates.
I like how they carry lunch with them right out in front. We could do that with donuts or bagels...or spaghetti.
The phrase reads: "How well we suit each other"
Click on the picture to get a nice, clear enlargement.
If you click to the images on the left, you'll be treated to a riveting game of "Where's the owl?"Two images over, I thought, "Why is this tagged owls?" Then I found it. Fun! Well, time to start drinking.
Dead mice jewelry.
A new PBS Nature showed little owls crossing a river... it was cutest thing.The little family goes on the move in an effort to place themselves closer to the food source, closer to each meal the male flies back and forth to provide. Not yet able to fly, the owlets travel by foot, waddling across the tundra, taking tumbles as they go. The film crew is uprooted and must come up with a new, more mobile camouflaged camera hide to keep up with the action. Rainstorms arrive, as well as a plague of mosquitoes. For the crew, all this effort pays off in a big way. As the whole family of owls moves closer to the coast, the owlets are faced with an unusual challenge – they must cross a river. It’s easy enough to do if you can fly, but these owlets haven’t fledged yet. And the cameras are there to record four little owlets “swimming” across the water, something never recorded or filmed before.
Are you sure those are skates? They could be talons.
This could be a family portrait of Meadehouse done as owls. Two very wise birds planning ahead.
Reminds me of the wonderful Merrie Melodies cartoon, "I Love to Singa" with Owl Jolson, clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1FifK3bbg
Lem, That's amazing! How the hell did owls come to the decision and then communicate it to each other that they need to move to new ground. And then, one brave owlet makes the swim on his own without the parents showing him what to do. Incredible.
Very cool, thanks for that link. Really enjoying a browse around the Rijksmuseum collection. Some of my favorite works of art there.PS Agree with your remark re aesthetics to Ed @ Instapundit. It was a little ouchy, but it had to be said. What I'd say to Ed (or those who agree with his grand artistic generalization) is to look not at a Viola Frey, but much greater artists like a George Grosz or Otto Dix, or going back earlier to real greats, the darker works of Goya etc. Or to go in a very different direction/ genre, Grunewald's Crucifixion.Not very "pretty" stuff. But fucking great art. Put that next to the insipid kitsch of "California Venus" (such a feeble emulation of truly great classical and Renaissance sculpture).One of my pet peeves of simplistic art criticism (and a fault that too many conservatives are prey to) is conflating the content/ object of a work of art with the work of art itself. God save us from a tyranny of "beautiful" works of art, i.e. paintings of flowers and sunsets and nudes (i.e. representations of purportedly "beautiful" things). Cf. Hitler's exhibition of "degenerate art."
I like the owls very much too. They remind me of Grandville, a 19th century French cartoonist:http://www.printspast.com/selected-print-sc.asp?PrintID=21290044&Return=metamorphoses-prints-jean-grandville.htm
@yashu. thanks. I thought of the Hitler degenerate art issue but resisted putting that in.
Re the reference to Hitler’s exhibition of "degenerate art”: Interesting that the Soviet Union did basically the same kind of thing, only called it “decadent” art, and officially approved art had to be of the Socialist Realist school, but in this, as in so many other areas, seems to always get a pass.
Decadent / degenerate - whatever blows your skirt up.
I just bought Paglia's book about art for my wife after seeing the author chat with Glenn Reynolds. I hope she likes it.
I've always had a thing about ruffs; not sure why. If they ever bring them back as a fashion accessory I'll wear one, though it's likely I'll look ridiculous.
Shopenhauer on art is commentary (paraphrased):If you want to comment, write an essay.
I really like that image. Sometimes I think skating suggests a perhaps appropriate way to live life. Sometimes it's not feasible to point oneself exactly where one wants to go. When around one group of fanatics, point one's weight-bearing skate a little in their direction, and push off against the worst ideas of the other fanatics. Then, when around the opposite group of fanatics, use the other skate, pointed just a little in their direction, and push off against the worst ideas of the fanatics opposite to them. You'll end up going forward.Skating is very analogous to sailing. Just like a sideways wind can propel a sailing ship in the direction it is tacked much faster than the wind is blowing, a sideways push on the biting skate can propel one in the direction of the weight-bearing skate much faster than the skates are separating or than one's feet can move. The difference is that in skating the skater provides the force in the direction of choice, whereas in sailing, the force is external and from largely random direction. If blog commenting should be like skating, maybe a good conservative blog should be like a starboard tack forward toward those conservative principles that happen to be correct as opposed to scudding off exactly in the direction that right-wing forces tend to blow towards.Internally, it's a different matter. Lazily scudding along--Aye!--toward whatever direction the truth blows--arrghh, aye!--at any particular moment I'd say is the ideal.
I really don't know what's up with these ice-skating owls. I just like them.I should think it's obvious.They can't go sailing with the pussycats because the lake is frozen over.Sheesh.;)
I had exactly the same kind of wooden skates when I was a kid, in Holland in the 1970s. I'm sure my parents were happy that they didn't have to buy new skates each winter as my feet grew. But I hated these skates; it was impossible to get them strapped tight enough to your shoes, even with human feet.Now I'm wondering about the meaning of the engraving. It looks like a political cartoon. The owl on the viewer's right-hand is dressed like a Protestant minister, wile the owl on the left-hand side looks much more secular, maybe a soldier. And he's leading the minister on.The only info I could find is that the engraving was copied from a painting by Adriaen van de Venne. So it wouldn't have been very topical, but Van de Venne was known for satire about religious conflicts.
The bitchy-looking girl owl has an evil eye on the bewildered-looking boy owl...
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On the heels of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to the United States, Energy & Environment Program Associate Director Mihaela Carstei joins CTV to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project that would transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in the Gulf coast of Texas.
Experts from the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East are available to comment on recent events in the Middle East and what they mean for US foreign policy:
Dr. Karim Mezran, Senior Fellow – Expertise in North Africa with a special focus on Libya
Dr. Mezran is a distinguished Libyan-Italian scholar and currently an adjunct professor of Middle East studies at SAIS. For the last eight years he has been the director of the Center for American Studies in Rome. Dr. Mezran holds degrees from SAIS (PhD); Sapienza University of Rome (JD); The George Washington University (LLM); Georgetown University (MA); and Hiram College (BA).
Dr. Michele Dunne, Director – Expertise in US policies in the Middle East, Egypt
Dr. Dunne previously worked in the White House on the National Security Council staff, on the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in its Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and as a diplomat in Cairo and Jerusalem. She previously worked as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She holds a doctorate in Arabic language and linguistics from Georgetown University, where she has served as a visiting professor of Arabic and Arab Studies.
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Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix
Mortality, immortality, and the circle of life are explored in five stories, one set in prehistory, two in medieval Japan, and two on the dying Earth of the distant future.
I guess I'm one of the few anime fans who's been around long enough to (vaguely) remember the U.S. debut of Astroboy, the Osamu Tezuka creation that pretty much invented anime in the first place. Through the years Tezuka has made many other notable contributions to both manga and anime, including rogue doctor Black Jack and a rather odd (but frequently very good) re-conceptualization of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS.
Like fellow creative genius Miyazaki, Tezuka is at heart a moralist, and much of the title here reviewed is kind of an allegory to illustrate Tezuka�s views, which seem to be:
(1) The pursuit of personal immortality is vain and foolish, and
I think those are the main recurring points, most of which are already evident in the first story, �Dawn�. Set in prehistory, it is the story of the betrayal and slaughter of the more primitive Fire People by soldiers of the country of Yamatai, whose leader, Himiko, desires the Phoenix (of the title) that dwells in the Fire People�s land, to restore her own youth and beauty. The story gets more involved as the commanding general of Yamatai, Sarutahiko, adopts a Fire People boy, Nagi, and they both in turn end up trying to protect Yamatai against invaders even more advanced in the arts of war than they are (with cavalry rather than just infantry.) But it�s a parallel story- the fate of a little nuclear family- that is used to illustrate the above three principles. Personally, I find banishing your protagonists in a literal hole in the ground is a bit heavy-handed in the allegory department, and I wasn�t quite as impressed by the first story as I was by some of the subsequent ones.
(By the way, some incarnation of �Sarutahiko�- with the same warty, bulbous nose and some variant of the name �Saruta�- will show up in every one of the five stories. He appears as father figure, villain, or warrior- in this first story, actually as all three. He�s also a testament to Lamarckian rather than Darwinian inheritance- in the first story, set in the earliest time, he started out with a more or less normal-sized nose, until an unfortunate encounter with some really bad bugs.)
Some of the following stories are much better. Story Number Two, �Resurrection�, is set on a moon colony. A young man named Leona has a problem. He was in a tragic accident and part of his brain was replaced with a mechanical brain, with an unusual side effect: he sees human beings only as weirdly distorted shapes, while robots look human to him. Leona soon acquires what he finds to be an attractive female companion, and one of the delights of this segment is that the audience is allowed to see this companion both as he sees her, and how she REALLY looks. The story also stands another sci-fi convention on its head, because as Leona�s body becomes more mechanical, his soul becomes more �human� (sensitive, compassionate.)
The next one, �The Transformation�, is good too, very Twilight-Zone-ish. A female samurai gets stuck in a time loop due to some bad karma. This is the only one of the stories that really presents a well-developed female character- most of Tezuka�s females are sweet and supportive but not much else, and in �Dawn� a character utters the rather un-feminist line �A woman as a ruler will lead to disaster!� Tezuka was apparently able to escape the trap of male-chauvinist thinking in this particular segment; one only hopes that the protagonist in his story is equally successful in escaping the trap SHE�S in.
Story Four, �The Sun�, is also set in the Japanese Middle Ages, and involves the conflict that arose (both at the level of humans and at the level of the gods) when Buddhism began to replace nature worship. A ruler is forcing the issue here, and he is resisted by a young man named Karima, who now unfortunately sports a wolf�s head due to the actions of his enemies. (I�m still a little unclear about how that happened.) The storyline trips over its own complications a bit (a common problem with Tezuka�s plots), but it�s got a pretty spectacular battle as the centerpiece (worthy of those old Marvel Comics superhero melees), an actual fighting female in Marimo (though she�s still awfully deferential to Karima), and overall is probably the nearest thing to a fairy tale that this anthology has. It�s best described as a �qualified� feel-good story. (�Qualified� is the best Tezuka will give you.)
The last story, �The Future�, returns us to the dying-Earth future of �Resurrection�. Most of it is about a young man named Masato who ends up having to wait for Whatever Happens Next. I think it�s impossible to effectively capture the feeling of this kind of wait in any kind of objective portrayal, and so I�m not entirely sure that this story really works. The Phoenix herself, whose involvement in the stories grows with each succeeding one, finally has to lend a claw to the proceedings here.
PHOENIX certainly makes one think, but sometimes that means having a very different take on things than Tezuka�s. If people want to live forever, maybe it�s not just their selfishness or vanity; maybe it�s because conscious experience is such a precious thing that few are eager to give it up. When the Sergeant is ordering the troops over the hill and sneers, �Do you want to live forever?,� count me as the guy who would raise his hand and say, �Yes, sir, I�d like to VERY much!� I�m getting old these days, and personally feel that while the world and its people may indeed go on without me, later events will probably be of much less personal interest to me when I�m cold in my grave.
Recommended Audience: No sex, no fanservice, but lots of hewing and hacking, and many deaths (some characters die more than once.) Small kids won't be able to follow all the nuances of the stories anyway. Older teens and up.
Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD
Review Status: Partial (5/13)
Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix © 2004 Tezuka Productions
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Hurricanes! Earthquakes! Fires!
Severe weather and other natural disasters have been a big part of the news lately. From tornadoes, droughts, and hurricanes to wildfires and earthquakes, few regions of the country are untouched.
September is National Preparedness Month, and recent events remind us that it’s a good time to review how prepared we are for a disaster. It’s a time to not only prepare for your physical needs such as food, water, and clothing, but also to formulate a financial readiness plan in case of an emergency.
Consider the following tips when formulating a financial disaster plan:
Protect your financial documents
Keep family records, property deeds, birth certificates, wills, insurance policies, passports, social security cards, immunization records, credit card numbers, car titles, bank account numbers, and three years of tax returns in a safe deposit box. Place each document in a plastic bag that can be sealed to keep out moisture. In addition, consider a fireproof safe for storing your documents at a second site in your home.
Protect your identity
Notify the three credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) that you have been affected by a man-made or natural disaster. By placing a fraud alert on your accounts, creditors must contact you before opening any new accounts or making changes to existing accounts. This will help you avoid becoming a victim of identity theft, as crooks seem to thrive on distressed individuals.
Start an emergency fund
Regularly contribute to an emergency fund that can cover at least three to four months of living expenses. This fund should be separate from your savings or investment account. Also, keep extra cash with your emergency kit, which should include a three-day supply of water and food, first-aid kit, can opener, flashlights, radio, and extra batteries.
Make a plan for contact
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to develop a family emergency plan in advance — how you will contact one another, how you will get together, and what you will do in a different location. In addition, make a plan to take care of your pets, family members with a disability, and the elderly. Outline an evacuation route, a meet-up location, and alternative living arrangements while away from your home.
Have adequate insurance coverage
Proper insurance coverage will prove beneficial after an emergency happens. It will cover any property or personal damage. Some important insurance coverage includes: auto, home, life, medical, flood, fire, hurricane, and renters (if you live in an apartment or lease a home). In addition, it’s worth considering specialized medical insurance such as short-term and long-term disability in case you are hurt and cannot work for a specified amount of time.
The key message is don’t wait for an emergency to get prepared. Taking a few simple steps now can help ensure that your family is financially prepared to weather any storm.
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- What to Do When Disaster Strikes (everydayhealth.com)
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You may already be considering an electric vehicle or a plug-in hybrid vehicle. Both types of EVs are powered by a large battery pack that is re-fueled by a home-based charging system.
In some models, the charger is installed in the vehicle; in other brands, the charger might be found in a garage or in a weatherproof unit located outdoors, along the driveway. Regardless of placement, most garages and some older houses will need to be rewired to accommodate the charging equipment.
The EV charger should be on a “dedicated” circuit (so the circuit breaker doesn’t trip when someone uses the garage door opener or turns on the lights when the car is charging.) The National Electric Code specifies other safety requirements, including over-current trip, leakage current to ground protection, and an automatic shut-off when someone drives off with the cable still plugged into the car.
Because the charger operates for hours at a time, the electric service from the pole to your house must carry enough power to supply a constant charge to the vehicle. Consult a licensed electrician to ensure your electric system has sufficient capacity for an EV charger.
We’ll also be seeing three types of chargers:
A Level 1 charger runs on a 120-volt (AC), 20-amp circuit and plugs into a grounded outlet. This is not meant as the primary charging technique (which could take 8-24 hours), but rather for emergency or “top-off” charging. The Society of Automotive Engineers suggests EVs carry a portable Level 1 unit that can be plugged into any available 120 VAC grounded receptacle.
A Level 2 charger is to be used for everyday EV charging. It runs on a 240-volt, 30-amp circuit (similar to an electric dryer circuit). To fully charge the EV at this rate will generally take 4-10 hours.
A Level 3 charger is for “Fast Charging, using 480-volt, three-phase equipment that will supply a 50 percent charge in 10-15 minutes. A separate connector will supply DC from the charger directly to the battery.
Since the EV era is now with us, people who are considering electrical updates to their homes might wish to include sufficient capacity for charging EVs, even if the technology is still being developed. Your electrician can advise you.
Home Repair Resource Center is a Cleveland Heights nonprofit that helps homeowners purchase, repair, and retain their homes. Each week, HRRC will offer a seasonal home maintenance tip. For more information on HRRC’s services, call 216-381-6100 or check HRRC’s web site, hrrc-ch.org. | <urn:uuid:77f200f8-66b1-420a-8636-533dfdf9341d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heights/index.ssf/2013/01/cleveland_heights_home_repair_7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932117 | 550 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Art: The cubism is a unique style of painting. Here the artists look at the objects, and imagine the same only as geometrical forms, like circles, triangles, cylinder, cones. Thereafter he or she transfers the imagination on the canvass. In cubism the artists use both cool and bright colours.
In cubism, the objects are first broken up, then analysed, and finally re-assembled in a summarize form. The object, or the limbs of a figure, would not create a feel of logical depth. a cubist painting consists planes that might be semi-transparent and intertwined. The final output might look like as an abstract painting.
The Artist: The cubist painters like Pablo Picasso and Braque had added new impetus and qualities in the movement of cubism paintings. These painters, and many of their contemporaries and followers, concentrated mainly on the geometrical figure rather than the colours. Their palettes remain much narrowed in number; mainly using ochre, grey and blue making the painting a monochromatic one. However the beginning of the cubist painting is also accredited to Paul Cézanne. In the painting given here, Girl With Mandolin, Picasso had used such a palette with relatively subdued colours.
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This publication presents the results of an analysis on the economic impact and the potential of five of goods and services provisioned by conservation units for the Brazilian economy and society: forest products, public use, carbon, water and sharing of tax revenue.Resource Type: Tools / Applications
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Based on the Wilderness Index developed by the Australian Heritage Commission (R. Lesslie, in litt., 30 May 1998). The wilderness value of any given point is essentially a measure of remoteness from human influence and is assessed on the basis of: remoteness from settlement (settled land or points of permanent occupation), from access (constructed vehicle access routes), and apparent naturalness (remoteness from permanent manmade structures) (Lesslie and Maslen, 1995). The analysis is carried out on a grid, using data from the Digital Chart of the World (DCW), and remoteness is measured as a distance from each grid point to the nearest feature of each class within a given radius (generally 30 km). Wilderness value is the sum of standardised values for each indicator class.Resource Type: Spatial Data / Maps
The UNEP-WCMC Species Database contains comprehensive nomenclatural, distribution and legal data for species of conservation concern throughout the world.
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This database was created and is maintained by UNEP-WCMC with financial support from the European Commission and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee of the United Kingdom.
It contains nomenclatural, distribution and legal data on CITES-listed species.
This information resource is a result of long-term collaboration between countless individual scientists worldwide and many organizations whose contribution is gratefully acknowledged.Resource Type: Tools / Applications
The CITES Trade Database, managed by UNEP-WCMC on behalf of the CITES Secretariat, is a unique resource that holds over 11 million records of trade in wildlife and over 50,000 scientific names of taxa listed by CITES. Contracting Parties provide annual reports to the CITES Secretariat including full details of all export and import permits and certificates issued during the previous year. More than 850,000 records of trade in CITES-listed species of wildlife are reported annually.Resource Type: Tools / Applications
The CITES Trade Data Dashboards are a new, interactive and dynamic way of viewing the trade data submitted by CITES Parties in their annual reports to the Convention. The Global dashboard displays global trade trends (e.g. global trade in live reptiles), whereas the National dashboard shows information by country. The dashboards have been developed by UNEP-WCMC on behalf of the CITES Secretariat.Resource Type: Tools / Applications
UNEP-WCMC provides access to data, information documents and analytical tools relevant to the CITES community and other biodiversity related Conventions.Resource Type: Tools / Applications
In 2008 UNEP-WCMC produced a report with a consortium of Chinese and international partners on research needs for reducing poverty through better ecosystem management in China. This work was for DFID, NERC and ESRC of the UK government, as a contribution to their design of a proposed international research programme on ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/espa/) The China ESPA report identified that China’s great progress in poverty reduction has slowed, as the remaining poor tend to be found in environments of low productivity or high risk of ecosystem degradation, such as mountains, grasslands and deserts. The government of China is investing heavily in poverty reduction and environmental management, with opportunities for improving the synergies between these activities. Research needs include better understanding of ecosystem functioning for multiple services, and development of methods to analyse policies and projects for both poverty reduction and supply of ecosystem services.Resource Type: Reports
This report is a contribution to the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity and is a complement to the UNEP-hosted Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) which is bringing visibility to the wealth of the world’s natural capital. It documents over 30 successful case studies referencing thousands of restoration projects ranging from deserts and rainforests to rivers and coasts. The report confirms that restoration is not only possible but can prove highly proftable in terms of public savings; returns and the broad objectives of overcoming poverty and achieving sustainability. It also provides important recommendations on how to avoid pitfalls and how to minimize risks to ensure successful restoration.Resource Type: Reports
UNEP-WCMC produces regular outputs of net trade in wild-collected fauna and flora listed on CITES Appendix II as part of the CITES Review of Significant Trade process.
For the most recent Animals and Plants Committee meetings (AC25 and PC19), UNEP-WCMC also produced Reviews of Significant Trade for the species selected for review following CoP14.Resource Type: Reports
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Different countries, different cultures – and usually also a different basis for legal systems. The development of the European single market, the global integration of multinational business and commercial companies as well as the increasing internationalisation of our daily lives require that areas of private and commercial law provide solutions that cannot only be derived from the legal systems of individual countries. Academics at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg apply analysis of the differences and similarities between different legal systems to develop a foundation for an international understanding of law and its application to cross-border circumstances. This also includes addressing the methodological issues of comparative law and unification of law. The central research tool of the Institute is its library, which contains one of the world’s most extensive collections of literature on civil law.
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The Charter of the Generation IV Roadmap Fuel Cycle Crosscut Group (FCCG) is to (1) examine the fuel cycle implications for alternative nuclear power scenarios in terms of Generation IV goals and (2) identify key fuel cycle issues associated with Generation IV goals. This included examination of “fuel resource inputs and waste outputs for the range of potential Generation IV fuel cycles, consistent with projected energy demand scenarios.” This report summarizes the results of the studies.
The membership of the FCCG comprised 8 US members and 7 members from Generation IV International Forum (GIF) countries including members from the OECD-NEA, the IAEA and the European Commission observer organizations to the GIF. Members of the FCCG were, in general, drawn from the Technical Working Groups (TWG’s) and the Evaluation Methodology Group (EMG) of the Generation IV Roadmap organization. Five one-day working meetings were held between February 2001, and August 2001 – three of them in conjunction with Generation IV TWG quarterly meetings.
The FCCG reviewed energy projections and selected the authoritative IIASA/WEC projections of 1998 as the basis for performing a selected set of 100 year nuclear energy futures scenarios. We reviewed the uranium ore resource projections of the OECD-NEA, IAEA, and Uranium Institute, the thorium ore resource projections from multiple sources, and investigated independent models for prediction of new ore discoveries vs. cost of supply. A survey of Generation IV concept submittals was made to define the scope of proposed fuel cycles and fuel compositions. Fuel cycle infrastructure status was reviewed, and an extensive review was undertaken of fuel cycle R&D programs underway worldwide. A documentation of the status of institutional aspects providing the enabling legal basis and boundary conditions for worldwide fuel cycle deployment was made.
On the basis of these reviews, studies and evaluations, the FCCG has produced a set of principal findings and has generated a set of top level recommendations for Generation IV fuel cycle crosscutting R&D.
The FCCG’s principal findings are based on two primary sources. First are the results from dynamic scenario simulations of various potential nuclear futures – driven by the 100 year world energy demand projections (and nuclear’s share) provided by the 1998 IIASA/WEC. These nuclear futures scenarios were organized by generic fuel cycle type (once-through, partial recycle, full fissile recycle, and full transuranic recycle) and were constrained only by physically- achievable mass flows and lag times of potential Generation IV power plant and fuel cycle concepts. They modeled idealized transitions from current and near term deployments to Generation IV fuel cycles and power plants and potential symbiosis of mass flow exchanges among Generation IV power plant concept types. These scenarios provide cornerstone indicators for the Roadmap of physically-achievable performance against Generation IV goals.
The second principal input to the FCCG’s findings derived from an extensive and deep review of the technical status of fuel cycle technologies deployed and under development worldwide, and an evaluation of the underlying rationale for the choices of research focus that drive these development programs. While the technical approaches vary, it was found that the worldwide underlying motivations are closely aligned to the goals articulated for Generation IV in the areas of Sustainability, Safety and Reliability, and Economics. The fuel cycle plays a primary role in meeting the three elements of the Generation IV sustainability goals.
The principles of sustainability include meeting society’s needs for energy services while using the earth’s resources in an efficient and environmentally friendly way. Nuclear fission converts uranium and thorium resources to energy with fission products as the essential waste. The net production of long-lived transuranium isotopes is a characteristic of the specific reactor types and fuel recycling steps used. The goals of Generation IV include reduced waste generation and more efficient use of ore resources along with making the nuclear fuel cycle the least attractive route to proliferation of nuclear armaments.
Today the cost of uranium and thorium is not a major contributor to the cost of nuclear energy, and resources do not constrain the expansion of nuclear power. Within several decades the costs of fuel materials may become more significant as lower-grade resources are used. However, repository capacity is an increasingly expensive and politically divisive constraint on growth of nuclear power. The use of fuel cycles and reactors that minimize repository requirements is essential to increased use of nuclear energy. | <urn:uuid:af860096-9fdc-48e1-a0d1-941b06a2a1aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ne/downloads/generation-iv-roadmap-report-fuel-cycle-crosscut-group | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929869 | 892 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Norse Peak, the signature peak in the Norse Peak Wilderness area is a moderately popular peak near the Mount Rainier National Park. Located near the Crystal Mountain this mountain is well known for its great views of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Crystal Mountain, Nelson Ridge and many other classic mountains in the Mount Rainier area. Views here are classics, especially of Mount Rainier so a camera is a must if you are trying for this mountain. When we were up there we had direct views of Adams and Rainier, partial views of St. Helens, Glacier and Hood, and very distant views of Mount Baker.
Norse Peak is moderately in the rain shadow of Mount Rainier, which means that storms off the Pacific Ocean tend to be weaker on this side of Mount Rainier than on the other windward side. That being said, the rain shadow is not quite as strong as peak further east such as Mount Aix or the Teanaway Region. Still compared to many of I-90 peaks, the weather here is a little less extreme.
This peak is can be reach by the YDS Class 1 Norse Peak Trail (Trail no. 1191). The 11.2 roundtrip 2800 foot elevation gain trail ascends the mountain via a large amount of switchbacks at a moderate pitch. The trail gets a little more gradual as it continues to rise. There looks to be series of side trail here that branch of but stay on the main trail as it gradual rises through the thick forest. At about 5000 feet of elevation the trail rise into some openings. Soon you can see the top of Rainier rising in the distance. As you go higher Mount Rainier becomes far more dramatic. Pass first the trail leading to Goat Lake (junctions on the left) and then when you are in the saddle and hit the y intersection, take the trail on the right that head uphill toward the summit area of Norse Peak.
For a more dramatic feel take the Class 2 ridge walk and pick up the back the trail in the pass just before the summit. It maybe slightly airy but views here are dramatic not to mention the wonderful feeling of being on a ridge.
The best times to do this mountain is from June to early November. It can be done in winter but pack accordingly, which usually means an ice axe, snowshoes and crampons. | <urn:uuid:ff0a6d4b-596b-4031-94a4-216b131d3277> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.summitpost.org/norse-peak/467522 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96264 | 479 | 1.5 | 2 |