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Most importantly, many voters said they were looking for "clean" candidates. What was seen as the acute, structured corruption of the regime of Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali -- and the social injustice that resulted from it -- was a key impetus driving Tunisians into the streets in 2011. In the subsequent vote, many voters explained that they trusted Ennahda's candidates because a number of them had served long prison terms and so could not be accused of collusion with the former dictator's regime.
But with Ennahda's rise to power, the debate over the political and public role of religion has overshadowed the economic issues that gave rise the revolution.
In two years the government has made negligible headway in devising a systematic transitional justice procedure, in assessing the level and nature of past economic crimes, and in obtaining restitution for the population. The government's failure to address these problems, and its apparent unwillingness to disturb longstanding practices, including public corruption, is fueling popular frustration. And if these issues of political economy are not addressed, it is likely that Tunisians will continue to radicalize.
Still, Tunisia's window of opportunity is not yet shut. Westerners should recall the extraordinary racial, cultural, economic, and intellectual homogeneity of our own revolutionary generations. And even so, it took decades for stable western democracies to emerge from our revolutions.
The task that the Arab Spring countries have set for themselves is monumental. And they are tackling it without the benefit of an intellectual elite that has spent years considering different models of political and economic organization, as had early American or French revolutionary activists, or many Eastern European dissidents in the 1970s and '80s. In that perspective, two years is nothing -- and every crisis is still an opportunity.
The current one offers Ennahda a second chance to rise above its partisan instinct to try to lock in its control over Tunisia, and to serve instead as an honest broker for all Tunisians.
To do so, it should accept Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali's proposal to appoint a non-partisan cabinet to enforce neutral rules of political discourse until the next parliamentary election. Such a reshuffle has been in the works for months, and the shock of last week's assassination provides the perfect opening to implement it.
The new cabinet must launch a serious and structured process of transitional justice, which would address issues of systematic economic crime as well as more traditional human rights violations. And, if Ben Ali-era functionaries are removed from their positions during this process, they should be replaced via merit-based recruitment to the civil service.
As a religious movement, Ennahda (which seems currently like a slow-motion version of more radical Salafi movements) is missing an extraordinary opportunity. Given the country's symbolic role in sparking the Arab Awakenings, the party could turn Tunis into an influential magnet for innovative faith-based thinking about how Islam should best interface with the modern world. Such a project would secure its place in history. | <urn:uuid:bd828a38-3897-44c2-994e-9cbfcfcc6da0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wcvb.com/news/national/Tunisia-s-leaders-must-resist-power-grab-urge/-/9848944/18526792/-/item/1/-/f8r0ixz/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965682 | 602 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Suspicious of Alzheimer's Diagnosis
I am troubled that your physician had you tested for Alzheimer's because there is no valid test that can be done on a living patient. The diagnosis can only be made with certainty in a postmortem examination. Perhaps your doctor arranged to test for a genetic variation called APOE-4, or double 4. This test checks whether a person has a gene that makes him or her susceptible to developing Alzheimer's, but testing positive is neither diagnostic nor predictive. It only indicates some susceptibility. I do not believe that tests of this sort should be done in practice, because we do not have effective treatments and the tests principally promote anxiety. Such a test has a place in research, to evaluate new medications and other interventions. Ask your doctor what tests she did and what, specifically, they revealed.
It may also be useful to do other tests to rule out other possibilities. Certain metabolic disorders — for example, thyroid disease, depression, and nutritional deficiencies — can mimic the signs of dementia. You want to be sure that you are in good physical condition and that all other possibilities have been ruled out. If, however, the diagnosis of Alzheimer's is confirmed, there are cholinesterase inhibitors that do slow the disease and reduce its intensity somewhat. (Cholinesterase inhibitors are drugs that block the activity of an enzyme in the brain called cholinesterase, which breaks apart the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a vital substance for the transmission of nerve impulses. It is the destruction and decline of acetylcholine that leads to memory loss and problems with other brain and body functions.) Razadyne, which your doctor has prescribed, falls into this category.
Learn more in the Everyday Health Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Last Updated: 03/05/2007
An expert in Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Robert N. Butler
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Constable viewed this scene at Bowleaze Cove in Weymouth Bay as expressive of his own feelings and personal associations. He connected the tempestuous weather with the death of Captain John Wordsworth, the poet’s brother and his friend Mary Fisher’s cousin, who drowned near this cove with all two hundred of his crew in 1805. C.R. Leslie’s wife saw the mezzotint at Constable’s home in Charlotte Street, London, and asked if she could have it. Constable sent it to her the following day suggesting that she should
apply to it the lines of Wordsworth – ‘that sea in anger/ and that dismal shoar’. I think of ‘Wordsworth’ for on that spot, perished his brother in the wreck of the Abergavenny (Beckett III, pp. 28–29).
In the list of contents for English Landscape this mezzotint was called Weymouth Bay, Dorset. – Tempestuous Evening.
Lucas had begun work on this plate by January 1830 – as an impression in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is dated ‘30 January 1830’ (Tate 1991, p. 349), – basing it on the large oil painting Weymouth Bay c.1819/1830 . He made at least five progress proof variations before the published state, of which this is the third. During the proofing, highlights on the waves and boat were added and the sky lightened above the cliff and on the left. This proof was printed before three gulls were added on the left.
Heysen wrote: ‘The news of the two prints – … Weymouth Bay – excited me and you may be sure I shall await their arrival with impatience’ (Heysen, 1948?, NLA MS 5073/1/7190); and
now for the Weymouth Bay which is an extremely fine & rich early proof – I like it immensely & am glad to have it. Looks as if its just come off the press – later on I must have a complete proof with its final … with the driving rain which completes the compos & so [relieves?] the large dark space to the left – and the big space of dark dividing the composition in two is somewhat relieved by the introduction of more forms & yet this would also – lessen the dramatic moment (ibid., 23 February 1948, NLA MS 5073/1/5594). | <urn:uuid:15a13ec8-1e48-4bdc-b27a-8f8b4bc9858b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/CONSTABLE/Detail.cfm?IRN=145021&BioArtistIRN=14140&Audio=32k&ViewID=1&MnuID=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977403 | 515 | 2.25 | 2 |
Government spends $61,194 on welfare for each household below the poverty line – the government is wildly inefficient and ineffective in solving problems like this.
Whistleblower Cases Show Planned Parenthood Engages in Massive Fraud – Don’t expect to hear about this in the mainstream media. This is why Planned Parenthood’s CEO campaigned full-time for Obama for a while and why they “donated” millions of the tax dollars they received to the Obama campaign.
Planned Parenthood insists it is a necessary and trusted healthcare provider that must be supported by taxpayer dollars. Recently unsealed “whistleblower” lawsuits[i] tell a starkly different story. Former Planned Parenthood employees allege improper and illegal corporate policies were implemented by Planned Parenthood to increase profits, to the detriment of both the taxpayers and the women and families government programs seek to serve.
In the most recently unsealed suit, Thayer v. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland,[ii] Sue Thayer, former manager for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPH), alleges that PPH filed nearly one-half million false claims with Medicaid. According to Ms. Thayer’s complaint, PPH fraudulently received and retained nearly $28 million in taxpayer funding through abusive billing practices.
Ms. Thayer alleges that to enhance revenues, PPH implemented a “C-Mail” program that effectively mailed thousands of unrequested birth control pills to women, and then billed the government for these pills. According to her complaint, PPH also solicited funds from patients for services fully covered by government programs while continuing to bill the government program for full reimbursement.
But wait, there’s more: Planned Parenthood caught lying about its botched abortions. Apparently and organization that kills unwanted human beings and perverts the minds of kids for a living doesn’t mind lying to help their business.
Our investigation exposes not only how unsafe Planned Parenthood clinics can be for women, but also how dishonest and untrustworthy Planned Parenthood is to the very women it claims to defend,” says Rose. “How shameful that two months after their clinic botched an abortion that took the life of 24-year old Tonya Reaves and her pre-born baby, Planned Parenthood lies to the public and pretends nothing happened. When it comes to the lethal dangers of its billion-dollar abortion business, no lie is too audacious for Planned Parenthood.
And one more on PP — they are using $12m of your tax dollars to ask for more tax dollars. Their CEO is taking a break from running the abortion machine to campaign full-time for Obama. She knows where her money comes from! One more reason to vote Romney.
Obama administration will pay companies to violate law governing layoff notices – shouldn’t this be front page news? They are borrowing even more money from China for your kids to pay back, and just to further their personal political goals.
The Obama Administration’s disregard for the law has struck again—and this time, it’s encouraging others to violate the law at taxpayer expense.
That’s worth saying again: The Obama Administration is encouraging people to violate a law, and promising that it will use taxpayer money to cover fines incurred from this action.
The law: The law in question is called the WARN Act, and it requires that federal contractors send employees layoff notices 60 days before a plant closing or mass layoff.
The inconvenience: Massive defense spending cuts under sequestration are scheduled to hit on January 2, 2013. Defense contractors affected by the budget cuts would have to issue notice letters to employees by November 2 (four days before the election) to meet the January 2 start date for the spending cuts.
The penalty taxpayers would pay: Employers who violate the WARN Act are liable to their former employees for “back pay for each day of a violation” and “benefits under an employee benefit plan,” as well as a penalty of $500 for each day that notice has not been sent to the local government where the layoffs will occur.
Obama Campaign Illegally Rakes in Foreign Donations – again. And the media ignores it.
From the “I am not making this up category” – Democrat of the Year Steals From Partially Blind, Developmentally Disabled Wheelchair-Bound Old Lady
The woman named “Democrat of The Year” this year by the Jefferson County Democratic Party has been convicted of felony theft by a Jefferson County jury for stealing from a developmentally disabled 71-year-old woman. …
On Thursday, a jury convicted 66-year-old Estelle Carson of felony identify theft and felony theft from an at risk adult for stealing checks from the woman and using them to pay her own cable, cell phone and internet bills.
The victim is partially blind, developmentally disabled, has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. She is on a fixed income of $596 per month according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Nearly as bothersome as the theft itself … is the fact the Jefferson County Democratic Party was made aware of the ongoing criminal investigation and honored Carson anyway.
The most important fact of history ever: Jesus really rose from the dead. And we have lots of evidence for our belief! Don’t leave this life without carefully examining the evidence yourself.
Yes, Benghazi is worse than Watergate. Sadly, the media is covering up the cover-up. From John McCain:
You know, this administration is very good at touting and giving all the details like when they got Bin Laden. But now, we know that there were tapes, recordings inside the consulate during this fight, and they’ve gotten—they came—the F.B.I. finally got in and took those, and now they’re classified as “top secret.” Why would they be top secret? So the president went on various shows, despite what he said he said in the Rose Garden, about terrorist acts, he went on several programs, including “The View” including “Letterman” including before the U.N., where he continued to refer, days later, many days later, to this as a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. We know that is patently false. What did the president know? When did he know it? And what did he do about it?
Like Alfred Kinsey, Obama HHS “Grooming” Children for Sex – these people should be in jail.
Kinsey, though married to a woman who took part in his many filmed “scientific” orgies, was a promiscuous homosexual and sadomasochist. He managed to completely upend and twist the world’s perception of human sexuality in the 1950s and ’60s with his world famous “Kinsey Reports.”
Even today, most are completely unaware that during his tenure at Indiana University, Kinsey facilitated, with stopwatches and ledgers, the systematic sexual abuse of hundreds, if not thousands, of children and infants – all in the name of science.
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According to the FBI, child molesters:
- Demonstrate sex acts to children. Offenders commonly use pornography to teach or give instructions to naïve children about how to masturbate, perform oral sex and/or engage in sexual intercourse.
- Lower the sexual inhibitions of children. Some children naturally fear sexual activities. Some offenders show pictures of other children engaging in sexual activities to overcome these fears, indicating to their intended victims that it is all right to have sex with an adult because lots of other boys and girls do the same thing.
- Desensitize children to sex. Offenders commonly show child pornography to their intended victims to expose them to sexual acts before they are naturally curious about such activities.
- Sexually arouse children. Offenders commonly use pornographic images of other children to arouse victims, particularly those in adolescence.
During her lecture, Dr. Reisman shocked the 50-plus in attendance by illustrating that today’s Kinseyan-based sex education – as promoted by Obama’s HHS – does much of what the FBI describes above.
As I alluded to in response to a comment made on my post reporting on the recent pro-life rally in Melbourne, there are a couple of things that I felt would have been beneficial to exclude from the event. I mention what those are in the below paragraphs.
One of the more interesting points I noted with regards to the pro-abortion protesters in my previous article was the tactical angle of their messages:
- Shame, bigots, shame! Shame, bigots, shame!
- We won, you lost! We won, you lost!
- God raped Mary. She should have aborted
- Black, white, queer, straight! Women will control our fate!
- F*ck off, bigots, f*ck off! F*ck off, bigots, f*ck off!
- Jesus was a gay sheila who was pro-choice!
- You have 99 problems. They are all misogyny
- I had an abortion because I chose life
- Pro-choice is pro-life
- Not every ejaculation needs a name
- If the foetus you save is gay, will you still fight for it’s rights?
- My vagina has nothing to do with your God
- Jesus was not a fascist like these clowns
Contrast the above with these pro-life slogans espoused at the same event:
- Its easy to be ‘pro-choice’ when you’re not the one being killed
- Cruelty to animals is called ‘evil’. Torture to babies is called ‘choice’
- Lots of people want to adopt [but there's] no babies!
- We kill an AFL Grand Final crowd each year
- Everyone deserves a birth-day
- Mums need support, not pressure to abort
- Every life is valuable
- Change the law. Save the babies. Help the mothers
- aDoPtion not aBoRtion
- Each life is unique from conception
- Pretend I’m a tree and save me
- Take my hand, not my life
- Pray to end abortion*
Throwing more money at education will not fix it. More commentary here. They should take a tiny portion of the budget and visit one-on-one with parents and caregivers and let them know that they are the key to the child’s success. No amount of spending or government bureaucracy will overcome slacker parents.
I’m not getting it. If we’re spending so very much on education, why aren’t we the top? Why aren’t we the best educated people on the planet? Why do we keep trying to throw more money at it as if that will fix it? If throwing more money at it has not improved education, why do we continue to think that’s the answer? Or is that a learning problem, too? | <urn:uuid:263a3c95-7a53-432b-8fed-496274978b40> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://4simpsons.wordpress.com/tag/federal-bureau-of-investigation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96068 | 2,303 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Rewind almost 60 years and the government had a similar problem: how to persuade the public to support its ambition to become a nuclear nation only nine years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
According to one Japanese university professor, that ambition was achieved with help from an unlikely source: the CIA.
Tetsuo Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in jumpstarting Japan’s nascent nuclear industry.
Mr. Shoriki was many things: a Class A war criminal, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan’s biggest-selling and most influential newspaper) and the founder of both the country’s first commercial broadcaster and the Tokyo Giants baseball team. Less well known, according to Mr. Arima, was that the media mogul worked with the CIA to promote nuclear power. | <urn:uuid:686299b0-8701-4eac-a9ff-611f64772c96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/energy/24021-japans-nuclear-industry-the-cia-link.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958636 | 214 | 2.40625 | 2 |
After 1,500 years as a ruin, gladiators' stadium to be restored
It still bears its thrilling ancient name, and the antique ruins on the Palatine Hill, the heart of ancient Rome and home of the Caesars, still gaze down upon it. But now it takes a feat of the imagination to see Circus Maximus as it must have been in its pomp.
Today it is little more than a long, narrow park, 340 metres in length, with a small archeological dig fitfully in progress at its south-eastern end. It can still hold a crowd: Genesis played a free concert here last year, and Bob Geldof persuaded Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni, to let him use it for the Italian leg of the Live-8 spectacular in 2005. The rest of the time it is the haunt of dog-walkers, joggers and the occasional conceptual artist.
But 2,000 years ago this was the most exciting spot in the city. Long before the building of the Colosseum, crowds in their hundreds of thousands packed the stands to watch 12 teams of charioteers scorch the earth. Gladiators and wild animals fought in mortal combat, and the central arena was often flooded so miniature triremes could battle it out for the Romans' delight. If a particularly large number of people had to be crucified, Circus Maximus was the obvious place to do it.
The strip's last big show was in AD549. Then the Barbarians arrived and laid it to waste, and for the next millenium and a half it was no more than a very large allotment with a fancy name.
But now, after the centuries of neglect and years of debate and campaigning, Circus Maximus is finally to get some attention. Beginning on 20 June, the city's archeological authorities are to begin a careful and respectful restoration.
Eugenio La Rocca, Superintendent of Rome and lecturere in archeology at Rome's Sapienza University, said: "We are trying to realise the old dreams that Rome has maintained from the 19th century up to the present. We will do our best to restore this site, which was of the utmost importance in our history.
"[Emperor] Tarquin drained the site 2,500 years ago, but it was Julius Caesar in 46 BC who erected the first buildings here, which were consumed by fire in AD64. With the Emperor Trajan, the performances began to assume the wondrous proportions that we only know today from films."
Professor La Rocca stressed that he will not be attempting to restore the Circus to its former glory. "We will clean up the whole site to make it practicable and legible, and give it a simple curved enclosure," he said. During chariot races the long track was divided by a raised spine of beaten earth, and this is one element the authorities plan to recreate.
They will also continue excavating, with greater urgency. Despite the fame of the Circus, Professor La Rocca told La Repubblica newspaper, "Paradoxically we have little information about it. Pliny claimed it could hold 250,000 spectators but others said 150,000, which seems much more likely." Treasures recovered from the Circus and other sites will eventually find a home in a new Museum of the City of Rome, to be built a few steps away.
Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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- 1 Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
- 2 Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
- 3 Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
- 4 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 5 We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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UNODC's First Talk Series in 2010
Jakarta (Indonesia), 17 February 2010 - "You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusion and take concrete action." Were the words of Mr. Yunus Husein, the first speaker of 2010 in UNODC talk series on fighting corruption in Indonesia.
Since 2009, UNODC has been organizing its "Talk Series on Indonesia's Fight against Corruption". This monthly talk series was aimed at analyzing the current status of the laws, institutions, and public participation in the fight against corruption. Since corruption is extensive in scope, each of the talks during the year covered different areas related to the fight against corruption. A total of ten talks have been held in 2009, which were delivered by eminent individuals involved in the forefront of the fight against corruption in Indonesia.
The first talk series of 2010 was held on 8 February 2010 at the United Nations office in Jakarta. The topic for this talk was "Combating Judicial Mafia in Indonesia" and the first prestigious keynote speaker was Mr. Yunus Husein, head of
PPATK (Indonesian FIU). Mr. Yunus also recently joined the new Indonesian anti-judicial mafia Task Force Team, a team formed to combat mafia and corruption in the judicial system.
"The practice of judicial mafia in Indonesia leads to collusion and corruption that significantly weakens the authority of the justice sector such as the police, prosecutors, court and the society. It hinders people's access to substantive justice and it also fuels widespread public suspicion and cynicism concerning the enforcement agency's role and function which in turn decreases the public trust. Even worst, it destroys the investment and business's climate", said Mr. Yunus.
Fifty people attended actively this event, including representatives from local and foreign government institutions, civil societies, donor communities, universities and the media. The talk was followed by a lively question and answer session for over one hour. Several participants expressed their opinions on the topic and also posed questions to Mr. Yunus. | <urn:uuid:09ae665b-b333-4213-b1ce-5482bfde5210> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unodc.org/indonesia/2010/02/first-talk-series/eng/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962579 | 433 | 1.648438 | 2 |
From June 20-22, a United Nations conference, called Rio+20, will be held in Rio de Janeiro with the goal of getting the world’s countries to adopt stricter environmental protocols, particularly concerning greenhouse gas emissions. The conference comes amid growing calls from scientists and green activists that global CO2 levels are reaching a “tipping point.” However, these warnings have been overwhelmingly drowned out by the pressures of the continuing economic crisis. As the European Union’s financial stability grows increasingly uncertain and the American recovery faces a slowdown, environmental efforts have been given the cold shoulder.
In the United States, the green industry has gotten quite a bit of bad publicity recently, mostly surrounding the infamous Solyndra loan scandal where the Obama administration gave the go-ahead for a $535 million loan guarantee to the solar panel company, which proceeded to go bankrupt. Accusations of the green industry being the beneficiary of crony capitalism are particularly stinging during these tough economic times. When most businesses are struggling to grow and hire new workers, many people see it as nonsensical for the government to dote on green companies. As such, the potential advances of the Rio +20 conference are preemptively restrained by the focus on fiscal growth in many developed countries.
Proponents of the conference hope for agreements for significant carbon reduction and environmental conservation efforts, but this is medicine that much of the world’s economy simply will not take. The predominant characteristic of the global economy is currently uncertainty, and imposing new environmental regulations on corporations only adds to this problem. Government regulations can find popular support in times of fiscal crisis if they support job growth and/or protect consumers, but regulations that are designed to reduce carbon emissions are unlikely to receive much support simply because they make products more expensive. For example, right now the United States would never impose new gasoline taxes (say, in an attempt to push people away from automobiles and towards mass transit) because gasoline prices are already very high and a significant burden on consumers. The only way that green technology will be able to take the place of fossil fuels is if they become marketable and significantly more efficient, and such developments take much time and research. The green industries need to be able to survive without being propped up by the government through persistent subsidies or stifling penalties on their competition. Therefore, pursuing an “all of the above” energy policy, where both the renewable and non-renewable energy industries are treated equally by the government and where the market decides who wins, is the best bet for the US and can hopefully serve as a model for other developed nations.
However, that still leaves the matter of developing and emerging economies that do not have the infrastructural base for green energy. At Rio+20, any mention of carbon taxes or UN-mandated “cap and trade” will send the developed nations running for the doors. The uncertainty associated with the creation of such international protocols will not be desired by a European Union that does not even know if it can survive and a United States that is starving for jobs, and if the EU and the US (the two largest economies in the world) are not enthusiastically onboard, then the entire conference will be hopelessly hamstrung. | <urn:uuid:8eb60e0a-5340-4832-9389-34dfe90b05a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cpreview.org/2012/06/little-hope-for-rio-20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95204 | 658 | 2.921875 | 3 |
After four consecutive years of record farm incomes, many in the agricultural industry are asking: How long will the good times last? They'll get a clearer picture of what lies ahead by attending a Purdue University workshop.
Financial Health of Farming and Land Values takes place March 27 from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Beck Agricultural Center on the grounds of Purdue's Agronomy Center for Research and Education, near Montmorenci.
Registration is $150 per person and includes breakfast and lunch. The workshop is an outreach program of the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture.
"The focus of this workshop will be on trying to obtain insights on whether the current prosperity of agriculture is sustainable, what will shape the financial future of farming and if this boom will be followed by a bust or a soft landing," said Mike Boehlje, a Purdue agricultural economist and workshop coordinator.
"We'll be focusing on the next 3-5 years, not a 50-year perspective. While almost everyone in agriculture is optimistic about the long-term potential for farm incomes, in our program we'll be looking at the kind of bumps in the road we might see in the next several years."
The workshop's keynote speaker will discuss agriculture's historical booms and busts, and what lessons can be applied today. Jason Henderson, branch executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, will examine the factors behind the current boom period and what changes could be forthcoming.
Other speakers are Boehlje and fellow Purdue agricultural economists Tim Baker, Craig Dobbins, Brent Gloy, Mike Gunderson, Chris Hurt, Michael Langemeier and Nicole Olynk Widmar.
The day will begin and end with a simulated sealed bid auction.
"We'll show some slides of a real farm and provide information about the farm to those in attendance, and ask them to put in a bid for the property like they would at a farm auction," Boehlje said. "Then after they've heard about the financial health of the agricultural industry during the day we'll come back and have them put in a second sealed bid to see if anything they've heard has changed their thinking.
"We hope they'll see that the farm economy isn't just about farmland values. Farmland is a part of it, but it's much broader than that."
For more information about Financial Health of Farming and Land Values, a complete workshop agenda and links to registration and hotel/travel pages, visit the Center for Commercial Agriculture's website at http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/commercialag/ and click on the workshop link.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change,(MDC) was detained at the Haare airport and prevented from leaving to attend a meeting of the Southern African
Development Community(SADC) where President Mbeki of South Africa was to inform the group of progress being made to resolve issues in Zimbawe. “They have taken our passports,” said Tsvangirai, “this is a reflection of their(MUgabe) insincerity. They want to talk to us, yet they behave like hooligans.” The incident occurred as reports were circulating in Haare that President Mugabe was trying to get around African demands he share power with Tsvangirai by making a separate agreement with a small faction that has broken away from the MDC. Tsvangirai said he would continue talks with Mugabe despite the provocation created by denying him the right to attend an important African meeting.
President Mbeki is under pressure from the SADC which wants results of an agreement. There is widespread concern at failure on the part of Mbeki to be even-handed in dealing with the conflict because many believe he has been protecting President Mugabe. Many believe if Mbeki had been more forceful in denouncing the Mugabe instigated violence in Zimbabwe there might have been greater effort on the part of the Zimbabwean leader to come to the negotiating table in a more concerned manner. | <urn:uuid:ba102ef4-27ea-4075-bb84-323644f524b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theimpudentobserver.com/tag/sadc/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981793 | 295 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Other factors, not budget, result in slight changes to graduation rate in Northern Valley area
While school districts throughout the county have had to make changes to meet the state's two-percent budget cap, officials said for the most part those changes have not had a substantial effect on high school graduation rates.
In the graduation rates released by the New Jersey Department of Education last week, most high schools in the region had minimal changes in graduation rates, with most increasing or decreasing by one or two percent from last year.
The graduation rates are subject to a new formula introduced for the class of 2011, which tracks graduation rates by following students from their freshman year to graduation, rather than only accounting for the senior class alone.
In Leonia, which saw its rate decrease slightly from 88.9 percent in 2011 to 87.8 percent last year, Superintendent Joanne Megargee said the rate takes a lot into play. In Leonia in particular, some students take longer than the normal four years.
"We're proponents that we want to see our kids graduate, so it's important to give them time," she said.
Megargee said the district did not have to make changes to education to get under the budget, instead they were able to make the cap by privatizing the custodial staff and tightening their belts.
"When it comes to the two-percent cap, it hasn't really affected high school programs," Fort Lee Business Administrator Cheryl Balletto said. "What hit us hard was the loss of state aid money a couple years ago."
Balletto said the one impact from the budget might have been smaller class sizes, but with the district's graduation rate rising from 95.1 percent to 96.5 percent from 2011 to 2012, he said he did not feel the budget has negatively affected the rates.
"Where the two-percent more affects programs is if you're thinking of expanding programs, it's harder to do," he said.
"With the two-percent cap, there's not much wiggle room in the budget to try and put in new programs."
The Northern Valley Regional High Schools had mixed results, with the Demarest school's graduation rate climbing to 99.7 percent last year from 97.3 percent in 2011, while the Old Tappan campus saw its rate drop from 97.1 percent in 2011 to 96.4 percent this year.
Superintendent Christopher Nagy said the new formula doesn't account for those students that go beyond four years, such as students with special needs.
"Our district has done a phenomenal job of servicing students of all abilities," he said. "This measure does not account for those districts serving special populations. In terms of the actual dynamic we have year to year, our numbers have been pretty constant."
He said he did not see the two-percent cap having an effect, as the district has been under the cap for a number of years, and the reason for Old Tappan's drop is that it has more students in the extra-time programs than Demarest does.
In Cresskill, where the graduation rate went up from 96.6 percent to 97.9 percent, high school Principal Michael Burke said the district has the benefit of being a smaller school, which allows for more direct, one-on-one attention for students who need it.
While the two-percent cap has an affect on the district, he said, Cresskill has not let it affect the classroom instruction.
"It has had us prioritize, and put a greater emphasis on our higher priority, which is the students in the classroom," he said. "When students leave after senior year, we want them to be career and college ready."
"I think we're just continuing to do the best that we can do four our students," Lynn Trager, superintendent of the Tenafly School District, which saw its graduation rate rise from 97.4 percent in 2011 to 98.2 percent last year. "We're not doing anything differently, we're doing what we always do for our kids."
She said while the loss of state aid in 2009 forced the district to cut 60 positions, they haven't had to make additional cuts since then to account for the two-percent cap.
"Now we're just trying to maintain what we had with the two percent," she said. "We're certainly doing things differently, but we haven't done any further cuts. We hope to not make other cuts."
"I think we did a pretty good job at working with our students in making sure they met the graduation requirements," said Noel Gordon, director of guidance, curriculum, and instruction in the Englewood Public School District, which saw its graduation rate go from 81.5 percent in 2011 to 86.4 percent.
"Our superintendent's focus is on student success, and the culture that's occurring within our school district, both in terms of teaching and learning and in terms of the school climate," he said.
While the two-percent cap hasn't had an impact on graduation rates, he said, it has forced the district to put more of a demand on its human resources.
"We tried to be more efficient. We tried to do more with what we have," Gordon said. "We didn't allow fiscal limitations to negatively impact teaching and learning. That speaks to the commitment of both our staff and administration, and the commitment of the Board of Education to support us in our initiatives to move the district forward."In Hackensack, which saw its rate go from 88.1 percent in 2011 to 82.8 percent in 2012, Assistant Superintendent Rosemary Marks said much of the reason for the district's lower numbers is the number of students who leave Hackensack High School to pursue other programs, such as the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center at the Bergen Community College to receive their GEDs, and these students are not accounted for in the new numbers.
If those students were taken into account, she said, the graduation rate would have been 95 percent in 2011 and 94 percent in 2012.
The two-percent cap, she said, has had an impact on the district's education programs.
"There's always an effect where there's cuts," she said. "When you're decreasing the number of teachers and student numbers go up, class size goes up. Smaller classes allow teachers to provide more personalized learning environments, but our student body is growing, and the number of teachers has gone down. That kind of speaks for itself." | <urn:uuid:75bb4869-9440-435b-bb50-63705b0f8f8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northjersey.com/news/184952331_Other_factors__not_budget__result_in_slight_changes_to_graduation_rate_in_Northern_Valley_area.html?page=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981866 | 1,334 | 1.921875 | 2 |
[William Blum and] Al-Qaeda's Leftist Brigade
by Daniel Pipes
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[The NY Sun text differs in many small ways from the following.]
Asked if he was queasy about bin Laden's urging listeners to read his book, Blum replied: "I'm not repulsed, and I'm not going to pretend I am." Quite the contrary, he said: "I'm glad. … It's good publicity for my book." And, indeed, it was: Thanks to bin Laden's promotion, Rogue State ascended from 205,763 to 26 on Amazon.com's ranking of most-ordered books.
Blum explained his response by saying he found bin Laden no worse than the U.S. government: "I would not say that bin Laden has been any less moral than Washington has been." He even refused to distance himself from bin Laden's views: "If he shares with me a deep dislike for certain aspects of U.S. foreign policy, then I'm not going to spurn any endorsement of the book by him. I think it's good that he shares those views."
Blum describes his life mission as "slowing down the American Empire, … injuring the beast." Not surprisingly, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Gore Vidal, and their ilk have lavished praise on his work.
What attracted bin Laden to Blum? This passage (which actually comes from another of Blum's books, titled Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire): "If I were the [U.S.] president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize—very publicly and very sincerely—to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism."
Until his sudden catapult into the public eye, Blum, 72, had lived the quiet life of a second-string America-hater. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Brooklyn, studied accounting in college, and, as an anti-communist with aspirations to become a foreign service officer, he went to work at a computer-related position in the U.S. Department of State in the mid-1960s. The Vietnam War radicalized him and he resigned from State in 1967 to pursue a career of far-left advocacy and sabotage (he claims to have revealed the names and addresses of over two hundred CIA operatives). For nearly forty years, Blum has written op-eds after articles after books pursuing his hobbyhorse to prove the alleged evil of the U.S. government officials, whom he has compared to "chainsaw baby killers."
He goes so far as to state the existence of an American-sponsored "holocaust" since 1945 that has caused the death of a few million people and condemned many more millions to "lives of misery and torture." David Horowitz, a foremost analyst of the left, sums up this line of thought in his excellent study, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Regnery): for Blum, "America is worse than Nazi Germany." Horowitz also notes that "there is no discernible difference" between Blum's view of the U.S. role in the Cold War and the crudest Communist caricature manufactured in the Kremlin.
Although Blum was childishly delighted by his sudden celebrity and riches, his comrades on the far left reacted more warily to bin Laden's endorsement, aware how it reveals that, as Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media puts it, "bin Laden is counting on a [leftist] fifth column in the U.S. to undermine the war on terrorism and hand him a victory on the battlefield."
Such exposure so worries some on the far left that they have gone so far as to portray the bin Laden audiotape to be "an obvious fake" concocted by neo-conservatives in the U.S. government. But elaborate conspiracy theories cannot undo the fact that the Islamist-leftist alliance, burgeoning for years, has now reached the point that the far left constitutes Al-Qaeda's new mujahideen.
After having failed to mount a massive terrorist operation in the United States in over four years, bin Laden's early but very public Valentine to the far left suggests that he sees it as a critical ally. And he is entirely correct to do so.
Sep. 17, 2009 update: Gabriel Schoenfeld updates this analysis at "Osama's American Yes-Men," reporting on the mutual admiration society that exists between bin Laden, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Jimmy Carter, and Michael Scheuer.
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Where did the English Bedow family come from? What is the English Bedow family crest and coat of arms? When did the Bedow family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Bedow family history?It was among those Anglo-Saxon tribes that once ruled over Britain that the name Bedow was formed. The name was derived from the Welsh name ap-Eddow. Over time, this has changed to be known as Bedow.
Until the dictionary, an invention of only the last few hundred years, the English language lacked any comprehensive system of spelling rules. Consequently, spelling variations in names are frequently found in early Anglo-Saxon and later Anglo-Norman documents. One person's name was often spelled several different ways over a lifetime. The recorded variations of Bedow include Beddow, Beddoe, Bedoe, Bedow, Bedows, Bedlow and many more.
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Thousands of English families boarded ships sailing to the New World in the hope of escaping the unrest found in England at this time. Although the search for opportunity and freedom from persecution abroad took the lives of many because of the cramped conditions and unsanitary nature of the vessels, the opportunity perceived in the growing colonies of North America beckoned. Many of the settlers who survived the journey went on to make important contributions to the transplanted cultures of their adopted countries. The Bedow were among these contributors, for they have been located in early North American records:
Bedow Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
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Professor Dr Tom Stout is an expert on embryo transfer. As such he gave an exciting clinic at the 2012 KFPS Stallion Show, that was food for lots of afterthought. “With sport mares embryo transfer is an ideal way to avoid maternity leave.”
When asked where his fascination for fertility and reproduction in horses comes from, Tom says: “I grew up in England, where I rode for years just like many other Englishmen. Working at a stud farm as a student my attention was drawn to reproduction in horses. After my degree in Veterinary Medicine I wanted to do “something” with reproduction. Although I’m also into other animals a lot, I decided to focus on horses. As far as reproduction is concerned horses offer a lot more possibilities. Cows, pigs and sheep are slaughtered when they fail to reproduce and a dog owner will think it a pity if it doesn’t work, but that’s it. People usually don’t breed dogs and cats but they do horses. That’s why the veterinarian has more freedom when it comes to horses and that what’s makes it interesting.”
Embryo transfer for dummies
In embryo transfer, an embryo is taken from the donor mare, being the biological mother of the foal to come. A flush tube is inserted into the mare’s uterus. Several litres of warm liquid literally flush the embryo from the mare’s uterus. The liquid is collected and filtered, so the embryo can be retrieved. Next, the embryo is transferred into a so-called recipient mare, that carries, brings forth and nurtures the foal. It’s important for an embryo transfer program to have ample potential recipient mares (at least two per donor mare) as the recipient mare’s cycle must coincide with the donor mare’s.
Embryo 7 days
One of the big pros of embryo transfer is that you can breed several foals a year with one good mare. Tom: “This way, a sport mare can produce foals without having tot take “maternity leave”. Also, when a mare has reproductive organs issues, embryo transfer may be a solution. Say a mare has a damaged cervix and is not able to carry the foals to full term. You might consider taking flushing the mare and transferring the embryos into recipient mares. Thanks to embryo transfer you can breed several foals with your best mares. If all goes well, you can try and flush the mare during the breeding season every two to three weeks. For most mares this is not a problem, so you could “create” a foal about seven times a year. Some mares aren’t particularly fond of the process though. Some riders notice their mares respond differently because of the hormone changes and witness behavioural changes. You could opt for a less frequent flushing in such cases.”
Are there any risks associated with flushing donor mares? Tom: “The flushing itself is safe. We do feel it’s good for a mare to have her own foal at least once. Flushing a mare over a period of years tightens the cervix, which might induce fertility problems. This goes for every mare, also mares that are never flushed. Like I said, some mares react strongly to the interference in their cycle, but that will settle if you give it a rest for a period of time. An embryo is very rarely damaged in the flushing process, but it happens. Once the foal is born, it has a different dam, but if the recipient mare is suitable, is does not pose any risks.
A flushed embryo is transferred into the recipient mare. This mare has the responsible task of carrying, bringing forth and nurturing a foal. Naturally, the demands are high. Tom explains: “At our clinic there are fifteen recipient mares. They are healthy and in good shape and are of ample height. We prefer them having had a foal before. Of course the recipient mare’s height should match the donor mare’s height. It’s not a good idea to transfer a Friesian horse embryo in a pony mare. We know that a maiden mare’s first foal is often small. An experienced dam knows how to deal with foals. We are really happy with harness horse mares, in this respect, especially when combined with Friesian horses. Harness horse mares are relatively inexpensive, big and they usually have broad bellies. We avoid mares with behavioural issues. We want them to be friendly and easy to handle. Before they’re introduced into the group, they go into quarantine for a while. If all goes well, the chance of gestation after the transfer is 80%.
Not just the recipient mares, the embryos also are carefully monitored. Tom: “Luckily horses score a 90% average on good-quality embryos. We usually flush on the eighth day. The embryo is then between a quarter of a millimetre and half a millimetre in size. A normal embryo looks like a light-coloured, tight, transparent little ball. It’s sometimes surrounded by darker dead cells, which are often bigger than healthy cells. It goes without saying that many dead cells and delayed development of the embryo are not good signs.”
The average costs for producing an embryo transfer foal are 5,000 euros, excluding service fee.
In cows you can induce “super ovulation” by administering hormones. This means that instead of one to two embryos per flush, you can get to six to as much as thirty embryos per flush per cow. “We’d like that in horses as well. However, they are less sensitive to the hormones than other species are. The hormone involved is extracted from the brains of slaughtered horses. It is not available in the Netherlands. A US lab is working on a synthetic equivalent that might be available in the near future.” But for now, the super ovulation is out of reach for horses.
Frozen versus fresh semen
Research shows there is a much bigger chance of an embryo developing with fresh semen than there is with cooled or frozen semen, a 70% versus a 35 to 50% chance. Tom: “It’s not like I advise against frozen semen, but it’s important as a breeder to be aware of the difference in success rates. It also varies enormously from stallion to stallion. Some stallions show very low frozen semen conception rates, others have a 70% success rate. In the Netherlands frozen Friesian horse semen is hardly used yet, but colleagues abroad have lots of difficulty inseminating mares with frozen semen from Friesian stallions. This might be the stallion, or the accuracy with which the semen is frozen. It’s very important to choose a diluent that fits the stallion. All stallions are different and sometimes the diluent does not match the stallion’s semen. It’s essential to try different diluents beforehand. Not everyone does, so unfortunately a lot of low-quality semen is being sold. It’s bad for a country’s reputation and for a breed’s reputation and that’s a real shame.
Like semen embryos can also be frozen. “But it is much harder to freeze an embryo than it is semen,” Tom explains. For freezing, an embryo is best flushed the sixth day. As soon as it gets any bigger, the chance of success decreases rapidly. You should check on the mare several times a day to make sure she’s flushed at exactly the right moment. Good results call for lots of experience. There are many advantages, especially for Friesian horses. You could flush the embryos of a two-year-old mare that is subsequently started and prepared for competitions. If she turns out to be successful, the embryo is there to use. There are no clear rules for bringing embryos outside Europe yet, so it’s not easy. But who knows, perhaps we can sell embryos to far away foreign countries in the future.”
Tom Stout reflects on an option in the near future: performing a biopsy on a flushed embryo without compromising its viability and having it tested for genetic disorders. Such a procedure could be of use for the Friesian horse. It will also be possible to determine the embryo’s sex. Tom: “We’re working on mapping out genetic anomalies, common also in Friesian horses. We do not know exactly which gene causes what problem nor where it is located. We have however pinpointed several genetic disorders in Quarter Horses as well as Arabians. Once you know which genes are responsible for the disorders, you can have the embryos tested for their presence. This way, you can rule out breed-related anomalies prenatally by embryo selection. Utrecht and Wageningen Universities, among others, are working on this closely together with universities outside the Netherlands. We know now in which chromosome area we’re supposed to look, but I reckon it’ll take another three to four years before we’ve located the genes and their exact location.”
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Credit cards, interest rates, the magic of compounding: Learning to manage money can be confusing for any teen.
That's why the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has decided to help in a straightforward, simple way, with a new money guide on its website aimed at teens, young adults and their parents.
The FDIC primer, "For young adults and teens: Quick tips for managing your money," is found at FDIC.gov. You'll find the tips under "Consumer News." The idea behind the special online content is to help young people and parents buy into the need for taking responsibility for developing sound money handing practices at a young age.
There's no question that many 18- to 20-somethings face financial challenges. Not only does this generation have plenty of disposable income, but many already are burdened by a mountain of student loan debt that could derail their hopes and career dreams for the future.
The FDIC's money manual is the latest effort by the federal government to develop financial education resources that can be tapped online for free. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the new federal watchdog agency, has plenty of easy-to-understand information on its website about banking, credit cards and other products. Both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Labor have information to help young people avoid identity theft and land a job, and the U.S. Mint has an expansive kids section devoted to the history of money.
So there's really no shortage of good information available to help young people learn the financial ABCs.
The FDIC tips and suggestions cover more than a dozen key topics, including how to get a good deal on an auto loan, choosing the best bank account, using credit cards wisely, saving money, and obtaining and repaying student loans.
There's a short quiz to test your money IQ, and there's content for parents, including how to save for college.
Among the tips:
Put at least 10 percent of any gift money, allowances or earnings into savings. Parents, consider making matching contributions as an incentive.
Protect your personal information from identity thieves. Young people are frequent victims of scams and rip-offs and need to develop a healthy skepticism of unsolicited offers and inquiries.
If you have a credit card, review your credit reports annually for errors. For a free copy of your credit report, go to www.annualcreditreport.com or call 877-322-8228.
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A year ago, Michael and I were gearing up to start our 100 days of real food challenge, where we would eat nothing but real, local, organic food for the next 100 days. I had actually spent a couple of months thinking, researching, and reading Lisa’s blog before we took the plunge. We successfully completed that challenge (you can read about it here: week 1, week 2, week 3, and our results) and have since then stuck to the basic real-food principles.
Here we are a year later, and I can say that we have completely changed the way we eat. Yes, we still eat non-real foods (usually just the occasional dessert or eating out), but 80-90% of what we eat is good, whole, healthy, and natural.
If you’ve considered trying to eat more natural, now is the time to do it! The farmers markets are opening back up, you still have time to plant a garden, and you’ll have tons of variety in the summer.
One of the biggest hurdles I hear people talk about is the cost. I’ve heard many people say that they’d like to eat more natural and organic, but that it is way too expensive. Yes, it can be more expensive but it doesn’t have to break the bank. Personally, I think that we put so much money into gyms and insurance and doctors, and not nearly enough on eating nourishing food.
Now don’t get me wrong, I realize there are many family who have a very small grocery budget and absolutely have no wiggle room. I’m not trying to make those people feel bad. But if you do have some extra money (or could cut back elsewhere) and focus more on the food you buy, I highly suggest giving it a try.
Anyway, here are some tips I’ve found for eating healthy without spending a fortune
- Grow a garden – You’ll have the start-up cost (plants or seeds, dirt, water, wood if you decide to do raised beds, etc.), but once you’ve paid that then you get virtually free veggies with the bonus of knowing exactly where they came from. Even if you don’t want to grow a full-on garden, you could do a small container garden like we did last year when we lived in our apartment. Even if you just grow some herbs, you’ve saved quite a bit of money there – fresh herbs at the grocery are outrageous! You could also choose one or two items that you know you eat a ton of, and just plant those so you don’t have to keep buying them week after week.
- Shop at the farmers market…but also compare prices with the grocery – I really do prefer to buy food from the famers market. Our farmers market only allows people who grow organically, plus I like knowing where my food comes from and supporting local farmers. Also, you can often find great prices on items at the farmers market. That being said, sometimes there are things at the farmers market I just can’t bring myself to pay for. For example, at the farmers market potatoes may be $3.50 per pound and I need 2 and 1/2 pounds for my potato soup. However, I can get a 3 pound bag of organic potatoes at Kroger for just a little over $2.00. In that instance, I choose to buy the Kroger potatoes. That’s just my personal preference.
- Ask about “seconds” at the farmers market – A friend of mine who sells at the farmers market gave me this tip when she learned I was planning to can tomatoes. I was able to buy a huge box of tomatoes for about $10.00 (way, way less than the usual price of tomatoes per pound) because they were “seconds” – not very attractive, and some with bad spots. But since I was using them to make sauce or to can, I didn’t care about how they looked and just cut out the bad parts. This saved me a ton of money. It might be worth asking about to see if anyone at your farmers market does the same thing.
- Use coupons where you can – You will rarely get coupons for produce. Kroger occasionally gives a $5.00 off your total order coupon or a $1.00 off $6.00 of organic produce, but other than that I can rarely use coupons on the food we buy at Kroger (and of course, not when we buy at the farmers market). However, I can still try to use coupons and shop sales for our paper goods and toiletries, then use the money I saved from that to buy more expensive organic food.
- Learn the “dirty dozen” – If you can’t afford to but all organic, try to figure out what foods are most likely to contain pesticides (and thus, the ones you are going to definitely want to buy organic) and which ones aren’t so bad (and you could just buy the conventional ones). I’ve seen lists of the “dirty dozen” all over Pinterest; the 12 items you should definitely buy organic and the 12 items that aren’t so critical.
- Eat less meat – Meat is expensive. Organic, local meat is really expensive. Try eating a few meatless meals a week or reducing the amount of meat you use in your recipes to save a little money. Some of our favorite meatless meals are homemade refried beans with homemade tortillas, potato soup, pancakes, and pizza.
- Stretch the meat that you do use – Gone are the days of buying boneless, skinless chicken breast and canned chicken broth. Now we buy a whole chicken at the farmers market, which is quite expensive at about $17.00 per chicken, but we stretch it farther. We cook the whole thing in our crock pot and then pick as much of the meat as we can off the bones. We usually have one meal with the chicken as our main dish, and then use the rest of the meat that we de-bone either for sandwiches (Michael likes chicken sandwiches for lunch) or in another dish (like chicken and dumplings, cheesy chicken and rice, chicken quesadillas, or white chili). After we de-bone the chicken, we throw the bones and skin back into the crockpot overnight and make chicken stock. It is easy peasy, makes 10-12 cups, and is way better than the store-bought, watered down stuff. I use it in soups and such, and if I’m not going to use it right away I freeze it in ice cube trays for later.
- Preserve food while it is in season – Not only is eating in season food much better for you, it is also usually cheaper. Freeze or can extra in the summer to eat on all winter so you can have the most nutritious produce and save some money. We were brand new to canning last summer, but we gave it a try, canned quite a bit of food (more than we needed…it’s almost summer again and we still have a lot left!), and so far have been pleased with the results. We also froze some stuff (not much since we had very little freezer space at the time) and intend to freeze even more this year.
- Trade with a friend or see if they have extras they want to get rid of - If you have an abundance of tomatoes and your friend has way too much squash, maybe you could trade. Or if you’re really lucky, someone might be bursting at the seams with food and just wanting to give it away so it doesn’t spoil. We were very fortunate that for a while I worked with a professor whose chickens laid way more eggs than she could eat and she gave me free, fresh eggs nearly every week. My in-laws had an abundance of apples on their apple trees this year that they gave us and I turned into homemade apple butter.
- Reduce waste – Letting food go bad and having to throw it away is just throwing money in the trash. Try to be mindful of what is about to go bad and eat it before it does. An Eat First box is a good way to do this. Or try to salvage things that have started to go bad (use wilted spinach in a green smoothie, freeze too-brown bananas to use later in banana bread of banana pancakes).
How do you eat healthy without breaking the bank?
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|Aviation Archaeology in Maine|
|Aerial photo of the crash site of B-52D 55-0093 on July 29, 1958 at the Harry Moore Farm, Noyes Road, Limestone. The aircraft entered an uncontrolled dive after a simulated missed approach at Loring AFB due to an elevator trim excursion. One crew member ejected successfully. 8 others dies in the crash.|
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|Between 1919 and 1989, there were 741 military aircraft involved in accidents in the State of Maine. There have been 245 American, Canadian and British Commonwealth aircrew that lost their lives in Maine forests, fields, and waters. Several hundred more were injured.
A small group of New England amateur Aviation Archaeologists,, affectionately known to our peers as wreckchasers, are working to preserve these stories for future generations.
This involves collecting written and photographic records of the incidents, interviewing witnesses, and working with landowners to preserve historic crash sites. Modern logging practices have made many remotes sites accessible and souveneir hunters have taken their toll on them.
Visiting the crash site, for us, is just an important part of recording and telling the story.
History that is forgotten is not history at all. We find that many incidents have been largely forgotten by traditional historians and local historical societies. Our hope is to increase awareness of the stories of the men who died training, ferrying, and defending in the skies over our state...
|Kip Keener at the site of his fathers's 1944 crash near the Church Road in Bangor during the fall of 2008. Helping family members get answers and visit their loved ones' crash sites has become a common and rewarding part of what we do. 2Lt Albert Keener and 1Lt Jack Williams were killed in the crash of A-26B 41-39247 on September 17, 1944. The plane suffered double engine failure just after take off due to problems with the bomb bay mounted ferry fuel tank, which lead to air lock in the fuel lines.|
|In September 2009, a Forester working south of Millinocket found this unopened parachute and bones. This caused a lot of concern until the Medical Examiner confirmed the bones were from a moose and unrelated to the chute. We were able to assist authorities in identifying the chute as one of 5 jettisoned from C-45G 51-11680 which crashed in Millinocket on December 20, 1956 during a failed attempt at emergency landing after losing a prop. Still out there, undiscovered, are 4 more chutes, a prop, and numerous aircraft parts thrown out of the aircraft between Medford and Millinocket. The parachute is now part of the collection at the Maine Air Museum.|
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U.N. Draft Resolution Against Extrajudicial Executions Includes Gender Identity
BY Julie Bolcer
November 23 2012 6:00 PM ET UPDATED: November 23 2012 9:38 PM ET
A United Nations committee overseeing human rights issues approved a draft resolution Tuesday that for the first time acknowledges the need to protect individuals from extrajudicial executions on the basis of their gender identity.
The Third Committee of the General Assembly passed the resolution by a vote of 108 to 1, with 65 abstentions and 18 absences. Iran was the only country to oppose the resolution, which was approved after “rigorous debate” over the language, according to a United Nations news release.
Sweden introduced the resolution co-sponsored by 34 states. The text reiterates states’ obligation to conduct prompt, comprehensive, and fair investigations into all suspected extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions, and urges states to investigate all killings, including those of people targeted for their sexual orientation, gender identity and other reasons.
The resolution on extrajudicial executions comes up for a vote in the committee every two years. Language to protect individuals on the basis of “sexual orientation” has been included for the past 12 years, but this year marked the first time the resolution has mentioned “gender identity.”
Two years ago, the reference to “sexual orientation” was removed from the draft resolution following an effort led by a group of African states. The language was later restored in a vote in the General Assembly after a last-minute push coordinated by the United States.
Blocks of countries challenged the concept of rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity again this year. The United Arab Emirates sponsored an amendment on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation that would have removed the language about sexual orientation and gender identity, but it was defeated by a vote of 86 to 44, with 31 abstentions and 32 absences. In a separate track, the Holy See led an effort that would have stripped references to all vulnerable groups, but the proposal was never formally introduced.
“In the debate during action on the texts, delegates voiced concerns about including concepts in resolutions that had no legal basis in international conventions,” the U.N. reported. “Egypt’s delegate said he was alarmed at attempts to create new rights or standards which seriously jeopardized the entire human rights framework. He therefore abstained in the vote.”
The passage of the draft resolution mentioning gender identity caps two years of historic developments for LGBT human rights advocates at the United Nations. Last year, the UN Human Rights Council passed the first resolution endorsing the rights of LGBT people, inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the vote on the draft resolution on extrajudicial killings aligned with her country's efforts to ensure that "human rights protections continue to be extended to all, regardless of who they are or whom they love." Rice, a top candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, led the effort to reinsert the language on sexual orientation into the resolution in 2010.
“It is fitting, on National Transgender Day of Remembrance, that the Third Committee agreed to acknowledge protections from extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions on the basis of gender identity for the very first time,” she said in a statement.
“Two years ago, the General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to reinsert language on sexual orientation to this very resolution, and, since that time, the U.N. Human Rights Council has affirmed that all human rights apply to everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” added Rice. “The United States will fight to ensure that the remarkable progress the U.N. has made on LGBT issues in the last four years is not rolled back. Today’s vote on gender identity is evidence that we are, in fact, expanding international support and moving forward.”
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Potential windfall for the war-torn country still depends on mining resources and security
Afghanistan is gearing up to award contracts to mine one the world’s largest iron ore deposits buried in a peaceful province of the nation that has at least $3 trillion in untapped minerals, the country’s top mining official said Thursday.
Geologists have known for decades about Afghanistan’s vast deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and other prized minerals, but a U.S. Department of Defense briefing earlier this week put a startling, nearly $1 trillion price tag on the reserves.
Afghanistan’s Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani called that a conservative estimate. He said he’s seen geological assessments and industry reports estimating the nation’s mineral wealth at $3 trillion or more.
For Afghanistan, a war-torn, landlocked country with virtually no exports, it is a potential windfall, although formidable obstacles remain including lack of investment, infrastructure and adequate security in most of the nation.
“The ministry has been working closely with the international organizations, including the World Bank, the U.S. Geological Survey and the international mining and finance community for some time to ensure all of the Afghan people benefit from our rich natural resources for decades to come,” he said.
Shahrani plans to travel to Britain next week to present 200 foreign businessmen with information about the estimated 2 billion tons of iron ore at Hajigak in Bamiyan province, where the Taliban and other insurgents have no significant presence. The project is to be bid on this fall with contracts awarded late this year or early next year, he said.
Critics of the war in Afghanistan have been skeptical that the dollar amount of the country’s untapped minerals was being promoted at a time when violence is on the upswing and the international community is hungry for positive developments in the nearly 9-year-old war.
They argue that if impoverished Afghanistan is seen as having a bright economic future, it could help foreign governments persuade their war-fatigued publics that securing the country is worth the fight and loss of troops.
But Shahrani insisted that the release of the information, first reported earlier this week by The New York Times, followed months of work to assess the mineral deposits, sometimes with the aid of data compiled by the former Soviet Union when it was fighting in Afghanistan.
A. Rahman Ashraf, senior adviser to the minister of mines, said that during decades of conflict, an Afghan geologist safeguarded data about the mineral reserves at home. He said the geologist, who has died, gave the information back to the government in 2002 and that since then, it has been used to help make modern assessments of the deposits.
Shahrani said the Ministry of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey had been sharing information for months.
“We were just waiting for the exchange of information from Washington to Kabul,” Shahrani said.
Shahrani added that the ministry recently completed a business plan to restructure, reform and modernize the ministry and improve oversight to international standards. He said those efforts coupled with new minerals and hydrocarbon laws will work to improve the transparency and efficiency of mining in the nation.
Still, without increased security and massive investment to mine and transport the minerals, it could take years for Afghanistan to bank the rewards. A rail line, for instance, is needed before any iron ore could be transported from Bamiyan. And there’s always the potential that such a discovery could bring unintended consequences, such as corruption and competition among nations for access to the resources.
In November, two U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports alleged that Afghanistan’s former minister of mines, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel, accepted $20 million after a $3 billion contract to mine copper was awarded in late 2007 to China Metallurgical Group Corp. The former minister has denied having taken any bribes and said the contract went through all legal channels.
Aynak, a former al-Qaida stronghold 21 miles (35 kilometers) southeast of Kabul, is thought to hold one of the world’s largest unexploited copper reserves. Mining the copper could produce 4,000 to 5,000 Afghan jobs in the next five years and hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the government treasury, Shahrani said.
Craig Andrews, a lead mining specialist for the World Bank, said Aynak was expected to start producing copper within two to three years. Production of iron ore at Hajigak could begin in five to seven years, and possibly sooner, he said.
Andrews noted that studies show that every mining job creates five to 10 other jobs.
“Clearly, these mines will have a huge economic stimulus effect on not only the national economy, but the region in which they are located in,” Andrews said. “I think when people have jobs and they have an income, they have a stake in the future and the future does not include insecurity. I think once the communities are anchored in an economy that gives them jobs money and income they would be less inclined to support the Taliban or other insurgent groups.”
He said the government, however, must guard against raising the expectations of the Afghan public.
Otherwise, “people are going to go off and pick up a rock and think that they can go to the bank,” he said. “Unfortunately the business doesn’t operate that way. It takes a lot longer.”
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He discusses both history and recent changes in BoE post 2008 crisis.
In the light of the financial crisis, there is much to explain. Doing so is not just important for reasons of accountability to the public. Explaining and understanding errors of the past is absolutely essential if policymakers are to learn lessons for the future. To misquote someone none of you have ever heard of, those who forget the errors of the past are doomed to repeat them.
During the course of its 318-year history, the Bank of England has had plenty of crisis experience. And encouragingly, on my reading of history, there is evidence of it having learnt from this experience. In response, radical reform of the Bank’s policymaking framework has been commonplace. There are few better examples than the radical reform of the Bank’s transparency and accountability practices over the past twenty-five years.
Those reforms are continuing to the present day. A wholly new framework for financial stability policy is being put in place in the UK, perhaps the most radical in the Bank’s history. I will discuss that framework later on. This framework can be seen as an evolutionary response to crisis experience, not just this crisis but a great many previous ones. It is impossible to know if this framework will proof us against future crises. But in remembering those errors of the past, it gives us a fighting chance of not repeating them.
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Talk to any passenger at the airport,and the price of their ticket is bound to come up...
"You expect to pay like a thousand dollars going out of the country anywhere," says Gardner-Webb University student Chelsea Price. That's about what she spent for a ticket to London for her study abroad this semester. She says domestic fares are high too.
Airline industry expert and UNC Charlotte professor Dr. Peter Schwarz says, in 2013, prepare to dig even deeper into your pocket. He says airline mergers are largely to blame. "In order for the airlines to become financially sound," he says, "there has to be consolidation, there have to be fewer seats available and that means there have to be higher prices."
While that appears to be bad for travelers, he says, you have to look at the bigger picture: "It also is likely to give consumers less concerns that the airline is trying to cut maintenance costs." Bankrupt American Airlines and Charlotte-hubbed U.S. Airways are the latest major carriers talking about joining forces. "All signs are pointing towards a merger," adds Schwarz.
U.S. Airways spokesperson Davien Robinson declined to talk about that, but was quick to point out, "One of the most exciting things we have to offer our customers coming up in 2013 is our new service to Sao Paulo in Brazil from Charlotte."
More destinations? Experts say that's generally a by-product of airline consolidation. But back to the bottom line, both for airlines and you... "80 to 85 percent of the seats are taken," says Schwarz, "so they really are at the point where they don't have to concern themselves too much with price as far as giving people a bargain."
Which is disconcerting for Chelsea Price, but not a deal breaker. "I'll think about traveling a little less," she says, "but I'll still want to. I don't think it'll deter me from going places I want to go." And she likely won't be alone.
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New Bill Aims to Help Florida Insurance Companies and Customers
Florida State Representative Bill Proctor (R-St. Augustine) and Florida State Senator Bill Bennett (R-Bradenton) recently revived their efforts at deregulating property insurance rates in the Sunshine State.
Last year the two legislators' “Consumer Choice” bill received overwhelming approval from Florida legislators (85 percent favored it), but it was vetoed by Gov. Charlie Crist (R).
While last year’s bill would have deregulated rates for larger, well-capitalized companies, the bill recently filed by Proctor and Bennett aims to deregulate rates for any private insurer—large or small—that chooses to participate.
The bill retains all the consumer protections and disclosure requirements of its predecessor, including mandates that companies educate consumers about their ability to choose between policies and companies whose rates are regulated versus those that are not.
Private Market Eroding
“What we have done in past years is put the state in the possibility of bankruptcy” by involving the state in backing property insurance, said Proctor. “This [bill] is to revitalize the private insurance market in Florida, which we know is eroding.”
“What we really wanted to do is trust the consumers, “added Bennett. “Anybody should be able to shop with any company they want.”
The state’s Office of Insurance Regulation would maintain nearly all its existing regulatory oversight, except its ability to deny a rate filing for excessiveness. This would allow property insurance rates for those new types of deregulated policies created by this bill to be based on the market and consumer buying habits, rather than government bureaucrats.
The state would still retain its ability to regulate for solvency to ensure premiums are sufficient so insurers are financially sound enough to pay claims.
Though vetoed, last year’s legislative passage of the “Consumer Choice Bill,” as well as another sweeping, market-freeing insurance reform package that was signed into law, signaled a major property insurance policy reorientation.
In 2007 Gov. Crist passed a series of reforms through the Republican-controlled legislature that drastically expanded the government’s intrusion into Florida’s property insurance market. The state-run insurer of “last resort”—Citizens Property Insurance Corporation—was unleashed to compete with private carriers; price controls were established; rates were artificially reduced and frozen; and massive amounts of reinsurance risk were transferred from private companies to taxpayers.
Those changes had noticeable effects on the market. Most large insurers have either cut back on writing insurance policies or have left the state altogether; the state-run insurer is now Florida's largest property insurance provider; and half of the state’s remaining private insurance companies are losing money—without a hurricane having hit the state.
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HOUSTON—Each day, HISD’s Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy (YWCPA) starts with a daily affirmation and the school creed. In unison, the girls state they are R.O.S.E.S.—responsible, organized and part of a sisterhood that is exceptional.
The Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy is a magnet school.
"We’re Houston Independent School District’s separate and unique magnet," said school principal Delesa O’Dell-Thomas. "We focus on stem: science, technology, engineering, and math. "
The academy offers a high-level private school education, although it’s a public school. There’s no tuition. The girls have to apply to get in and not everyone’s guaranteed acceptance.
Students readily admitted, "It’s a little bit challenging, the math and the science."
Another girl added, "We’re all taking pre-AP classes and AP classes."
"The work does get harder but it really does push you," said a freshman.
The school is for grades 6 through 10. Classes are intentionally tough.
One newcomer said, "It’s a lot more than I expected. All these electives and the classes are more advanced than I’m used to."
Do they miss having boys in the classroom? A seventh-grader said, "I think when it’s all girls we can all study better."
Most of the girls share the same sentiment.
The girls apparently feel more motivated.
"In this particular environment, our young ladies feel very comfortable in answering questions, being participants and not just sitting back and allowing the boys to take the forefront as that would be in a co-ed setting," said Principal Thomas.
The academy opened just last year, but already students are showing signs of success. Sixth-grade girls who took the 7th-grade math portion of the STAAR test outscored all 7th graders in HISD.
"We have some of the smartest, brilliant young ladies that you could ever dream of having in one school," said Thomas.
And for the most part they all get along. Many students express there’s a strong sense of sisterhood. It’s the beauty of their budding school. | <urn:uuid:12c8d0a2-defc-4d3f-a141-063630ec91ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.khou.com/news/morning-show/mia-gradney/Young-women-feeling-benefits-of-all-girl-education-through-high-test-scores-acceptance-172305021.html?ref=prev | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951996 | 490 | 1.671875 | 2 |
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Possible interpretation: When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."Note: the going (noun): the situation; the ground; the environment | tough (adj.): difficult, hard | the tough (noun): tough people; hard, strong people | to get going (verb): start; go
Origin: This saying is attributed both to Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969), father of the USA President John F. Kennedy, and to Norwegian-born American football player and coach Knute Rockne (1888-1931).
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How I Work
At one time every major port would have had a ships carver to provide the decorative work, which by the end of the 1600's constituted a considerable proportion of the ships building costs. Such work requires close co-operation with the ship builder, necessitating a good knowledge of construction techniques and an awareness of the pressures imposed by the elements on sculptural work when at sea.
In 1990 I established Maritima in an effort to keep alive this almost lost art. Over the years I have built up an extensive library of reference material relating to ship decoration and worked with many experts in the field of historic ships. Practical experience has also been gained not only in sailing such ships, but also in evaluating what effect the passage of time has had on carvings that have spent many years at sea and how they may impede the practicality of sailing such ships.
From a simple nameboard to a museum piece restoration, all my work is carved by hand using traditional tools, to create work of the highest quality and to replicate work for period pieces with a true feel of authenticity.
In designing my own work, I feel it is important to create a form that compliments the lines and beauty of a vessel and try to avoid over shadowing the underlying form with excessive gilding of the lily. This is particularly important when adding decorative work to an existing yacht, it is all too easy for such work to appear as if it has been stuck on as an after thought if the underlying concept of the design has not been appreciated. | <urn:uuid:a2d4fe75-b0ed-40a4-b883-a35ccc3c886e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.maritimawoodcarving.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&id=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973047 | 312 | 1.617188 | 2 |
by Brian Jackson, MD and Brian Shirts, MD, PhD
We’ve heard a lot of talk lately about personalized medicine (i.e., using advanced diagnostics to guide customized therapy).
A great deal of research is going into creating new molecular and genetic tests. But whether the health care system is prepared to actually generate value from these advanced diagnostics remains an open question. Our group’s research, presented in a new study published in the Journal of Pathology Informatics, finds that one relatively new test is widely misused in ways that drive up costs without benefiting patients.
Cervical cancer screening with annual Pap smears has been a bedrock component of women’s health care for decades. It’s so engrained in the medical culture that many women continue to receive annual Paps even after total hysterectomy (see JAMA article). The personalized medicine philosophy would suggest that screening frequency (and, potentially, modality) should be customized to a patient’s individual risk of cancer rather than following a cookbook formula. And the most important component of that risk turns out to be persistent infection with certain HPV genotypes.
The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) has developed a detailed set of recommendations for personalized cervical cancer screening using HPV testing together with Pap smears. Our study, which analyzed more than 450,000 HPV tests performed at ARUP Laboratories between 2003 and 2009, was designed to assess whether doctors are following those recommendations.
Briefly, the ASCCP recommendations state:
- HPV testing is contraindicated in women under 21.
- In women 21 to 29, HPV testing should not be used as a first-line test but may be used for stratifying patients with certain Pap smear findings (e.g., patients with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance).
- For women 30 and older, HPV testing may be used either for primary screening or for stratifying patients with those Pap smear findings.
- In evaluation of HPV-positive, colonoscopy-negative cervical lesions, repeat HPV testing is recommended after one year; shorter intervals are not indicated given the natural history of HPV infections.
- In women older than 30, negative-screening HPV and cytology allow the follow-up interval to be safely extended to three years, and annual screening is not necessary.
Although we did find HPV-ordering patterns are starting to trend toward the testing guidelines, overall, we found that nearly a quarter of all HPV tests ordered were unnecessary. Here are our key findings in the study:
- The proportion of HPV tests performed on women under 21 declined over the six-year study period from 20 to 5 percent. Teenage girls and young women under 21 generally do not benefit from HPV testing. In some cases, testing these patients may lead to unnecessary follow-up care, including colposcopy and cervical biopsy.
- One-third of tests on women between ages 21 and 29 arrived at our laboratory five or fewer days after collection, suggesting that these tests were ordered before the Pap smear result was known.
- For women 30 and older who were HPV positive, the test was often repeated three to six months later, which is too short a time interval to provide useful information. According to the guidelines, decisions about follow-up actions, such as colposcopy, do not require a repeat HPV test. Thus, a more rational interval before a subsequent HPV test (in conjunction with a Pap test) would be 12 months.
- For women older than 30 with a negative HPV test result, the most common time interval before the next test was 12 months, suggesting that annual screening is predominant in this group. For low-risk women with negative Pap and HPV results, however, screening every three years is safe and appropriate. Only 6 percent of follow-up tests after a negative HPV results had an interval of three years or more.
These findings aren’t too surprising given the large body of previous research showing that medical practice often doesn’t follow published recommendations. But regardless, the findings show that our health care system has not sufficiently figured out how to optimize and customize treatment based on test results. To achieve the promise of personalized medicine, we need more than new high-tech tests. We need to fundamentally change how we deliver care.
Brian Jackson is Medical Director of Informatics at ARUP Laboratories and Brian Shirts is a Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellow at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Assistant Medical Director of Informatics at ARUP Laboratories.
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French give up on surcharge
Apr 2, 2003 - Bowing to pressure from the European Union Commission, the French Finance Ministry said Wednesday it has scrapped a special tax on strong beer. The French had suspended the tax in February.
The French government introduced the tax of 2 euros ($2.19) per liter (2.1 pints) of beer with an alcohol content of 8.5% or more in its 2003 budget, saying it would help protect public health. The European Commission, however, had backed a Belgian complaint that the tax discriminated against its exports, since most of the specialty beers affected came from Belgium.
The dispute over the beer tax had made headlines in Belgium, a country where strong beers form a crucial part of culinary culture and are an important export.
Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders met his French counterpart Francis Mer in Paris in February to make the case for a repeal of the tax. | <urn:uuid:68a7a269-66a3-4929-8f64-26cba49fb62c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.probrewer.com/news/news-001875.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973085 | 189 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Pat Conroy fans, this one is for you. Longtime readers of Conroy’s fiction have often wondered why so many years pass between new books, how much truth is really contained in his novels, how his family reacts about seeing themselves in his novels, and whether Conroy’s abuse at the hands of his father has had a long term impact on his head. In My Reading Life, Conroy answers all of those questions – and many more.
According to Conroy, reading saved his life. Books were his escape from the harsh realities of growing up in a family headed by the kind of brute his father was. They kept him sane by showing him what was possible. The first reader in his life was his mother, a woman who very literally educated herself with books from the public library topped off by her son’s schoolbooks. She did the reading – and the study assignments – because she wanted to master what she had been forced to miss as a young woman
The first time Mrs. Conroy read Gone to the Wind to Pat, he was only five years old. She read it to him so many times (yearly) that it became an intimate part of their mother-son relationship and Conroy credits the experience with making him the novelist he is today.
“I became a novelist because of Gone with the Wind, or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern,’ because Gone with the Wind set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl in Atlanta, and it was the one fire of her bruised, fragmented youth that never went out.”
Conroy’s mother was his first influence, but she would not be the only mentor in his life. Pat, knowing that he did not want to become a man that even remotely resembled the man his father was, searched for an alternative role model. To his great relief, he finally found that man in a Beaufort High School classroom. English teacher Gene Norris would become such a positive force in Pat Conroy’s life that their relationship would last for decades.
“Though Gene couldn’t have survived a fistfight with any of the marines I had met, I knew I was in the presence of the exceptional and scrupulous man I’d been searching for my whole life. The certainty of his gentleness was like a clear shot of sunshine to me. I had met a great man, at last.”
Gene Norris would encourage and challenge Pat Conroy in ways that would make him a better writer – and, more importantly, a better man – than he might have been if the two had never crossed paths.
My Reading Life is filled with Pat Conroy’s memories. It is a clearly marked roadmap of the life path taken by one of America’s most beloved writers. It is both personal and frank in its approach, and it will certainly please those readers already familiar with Conroy’s novels and nonfiction work. And readers for whom My Reading Life is their first exposure to Pat Conroy, will almost certainly want to see what they have been missing for the past few decades.
Personally I will remember My Reading Life best because of all the wonderful, bookish quotes it encompasses. This is one of my favorites:
“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next ten years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.”
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Three years ago Friday Flash was created to inspire the new Instructional Technology Specialist in my district. This is the 100th and final post of Friday Flash at irewired. It is time to move on and explore new creative ways to share with others. Sharing has been a passion. From my beginning newsletter posts in 1999 and 2000, I began sharing resources for the educators in my school. Learning to post on the web was a passion but in the early days I am not sure the amount of time to learn and share made an impact on my small audience so I kept evolving. In 2002, Munch and Learn was created and professional development was supported with snacking and recipe sharing. The following years e-link shared information and was pushed out as html in Outlook. It was great to learn and make things pretty but time was limited and in the years that followed simple emails delivered information. After retirement and becoming rewired, Friday Flash grew from those push emails and passion to keep learning led me to Word Press. Now it is time to move on from these posts and share my passion in other formats. Remember to evolve and keep learning everyday to make a difference for all learners. Don’t let the grass grow under your feet! You can continue to follow my journey @kathyadkins.
Four for Friday – Ways to Share Your Passion
Snapguide is a another easy approach to make guides for learning. There is a free IOS Snapguide app to view and share guides. Lisa Johnson shares iSnap 2 Learn: Snapguides 4 the Classroom on Pinterest.
Edcanvas is an online canvas where teachers and students can share knowledge. Richard Byrne recently shared Use Edcanvas to Organize and Share Classroom Materials at Free Technology For Teachers.
Flipsnack lets you take your pdf files and create a flash page flip digital publication. The books work great on mobile screens of different sizes.
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If we do not suppress physical evidence in situations of intentional violations of Miranda, we, in essence, undermine the deterrent effect upon which such a decision was based.
The rule argued for by the State would minimize the seriousness of the police misconduct producing the evidentiary fruits, breed contempt for the law, and encourage the type of conduct that Miranda was designed to prevent, especially where the police conduct is intentional, as it was here.
— 25% pro-criminal Justice N. Patrick Crooks
The Court of Appeals surveyed Miranda and its progeny to determine the constitutional status of the Miranda decision.
. . . The Court of Appeals concluded that the protections announced in Miranda are not constitutionally required.
We disagree with the Court of Appeals' conclusion . . .
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The subject is timely, the question is timeless and the options are the same as they ever were:
What can one person do?
For those who answered D, Ken Marten's Friesen, political science and history faculty at Fresno Pacific University, presents a series of practical suggestions and a touch of historical context in this week's Scholars Speak.
Cell phones - they call, we answer. It's like living with a cat. Annoying and indispensable, do they say something about us beyond what each of us think is the best ringtone we can buy commercially to most capture our unique personality? Jay Pope thinks so, and shares it with the rest of us this week in Scholars Speak. Pope is a professor of psychology at Fresno Pacific University; a user of cell phones and an observer of the culture they define and encourage.
Milk, cream, ice cream, cheese—what's not to love about the bounty from dairy cows? Unfortunately, cows produce other products not sold in stores. Those creations circulate freely through the air, however, and can damage lungs if not contained and controlled. Fresno County needs to find ways to do just that, says Cynthia Ovando-Knutson in this week's Scholars Speak, and the time to speak out is now.
IM in MySpace, but you Digg YouTube? Del.icio.us! Let's Sykpe over to eBay. Don't get it? Ask your local teenager to find out just how bad those puns are. If all the multitasking going on around you is giving you a headache, you're not alone. Ken Martens Friesen sees it all every day in his classroom at Fresno Pacific University and gives us his take in this week's Scholars Speak.
So students don't read—so what? If anyone is hurt, it's just them, right? Wrong, according to this week's Scholars Speak. Richard Rawls, director of Fresno Pacific University's Hiebert Library and member of the history and philosophy faculty, has a whole list of people who suffer when students slack off in their reading, from classmates to taxpayers.
Air is the ultimate natural resource. Gender, class, age, skin color, political party have no bearing on who needs it or how much they need. So it just seems fair that everyone who breathes air has a role in making it and keeping it clean. Scott Key, FPU faculty member, explores what each of us can do in this week's Scholars Speak.
When it comes to education, plenty of people have questions, arguments and accusations. One thing all the critics have in common—all the problems in education are clearly someone else's fault! But what if we all have a role to play in educating our children? What if their success is our success, and their failure is our failure? Jo Ellen Misakian, interim dean of the Fresno Pacific University School of Education and veteran Valley educator, examines that unsettling thought in the week's Scholars Speak.
Valentine's Day. St. Valentine himself might scratch his head over all the romantic hoopla—roses, chocolate and diamonds, diamonds, diamonds—associated with his name, but this third-century Christian martyr would pull his beard to think of the modern-day cruelty involved in mining, cultivating and harvesting these symbols of love.
Scott Key illuminates the lesser-known heartlessness behind the heartfelt gifts and offers some alternatives this week in Scholars Speak. | <urn:uuid:2d8da45a-db40-4c55-9002-ce3cc5d9cbc1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fresno.edu/tag/scholars-speak?page=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956974 | 702 | 2.078125 | 2 |
February 24, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
There were a fair number of Yale Daily News stories last semester about various incidents of news-worthy intolerance; this sad trend seems to have continued this term with the "We Love Yale Sluts" debacle where, for those unfamiliar, a group of Zeta Psi fraternity pledges posted photos on Facebook of themselves holding a sign with that moniker outside the Yale Women's Center, causing quite a few problems for themselves and quite a lot of talk on campus.
I received an e-mail this evening from one of the Yale mailing lists I'm on with this disturbing message:
I am writing to let you know that, on Friday night, some of my close friends discovered a swastika and the "SS" symbol written in packed snow on a tree on Old Campus. The Yale Police were notified and the graffiti was removed, but I think it behooves us all to not let this disturbing event go unnoticed. It is shocking for these kinds of hateful images to appear anywhere, but it is even more disturbing when it is within the locked gates of Old Campus. I don't think anyone can even speculate as to who did this, but we should be loud and insistent that it is completely intolerable.
Pictures of the tree were taken as evidence, and I've attached them below. May this be the last hateful image we have to see on our campus.
I will try to write more about this and the other sad events sometime soon--it's an issue that I have really wanted to address, and has really been on my mind in the last couple of days in general. For now I just wanted to get the word out about what happened, to initiate discussions about it.
Update: the Dean sent out an email, it is attached below.
Dear Yale College Students:
Over the weekend students and others forwarded to the Yale College Dean's Office photographs of trees on the Old Campus on which a swastika and other Nazi symbols appeared. This disturbing incident is not the first aimed at specific groups of students on our campus this academic year. As you are well aware, in recent months students have discovered racist and homophobic graffiti spray-painted on University walls, and a group of individuals held a sign containing a sexist slogan in front of the Women's Center.
Even on a campus committed to freedom of expression, acts such as these are offensive and corrode the spirit of community so cherished at Yale. We do not know who is responsible for some of these offensive acts, but I implore all members of our community to consider the impact of words and actions on others and to treat each other with dignity and respect.
If you become aware of incidents such as those described above, report them to the Yale University Police, who will investigate whether a crime has been committed and, if so, will attempt to identify the perpetrator. You should also contact your college master or dean and Marichal Gentry, the Dean of Student Affairs, who convened a committee last semester that developed a protocol guiding our response to such incidents.
My colleagues and I join with others on campus in condemning these deplorable acts.
Dean of Yale College
Update: Hillel also sent out an email, also attached:
Dear Yale Hillel Community,
Many of you no doubt already know that several Nazi symbols were pasted in snow on Old Campus trees this past Friday evening. We condemn in the strongest possible terms both this act and the ideology it stands for. This isolated incident is not representative of any wider anti-Semitic trends or overtones within the Yale community. That said, there are also other groups at Yale who have been and continue to be hurt and marginalized both by hate speech and other types of unacceptable behavior. We are unequivocally opposed to all such acts of hatred. Students wishing to talk about these recent events or with any questions or concerns should not hesitate to contact either board or staff members.
The Yale Hillel Board
Photos are attached after the break.
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FOR a few years now, astronomers have been quietly confident that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, give or take a hundred million years. They are about to learn that the size and age of the universe are not a done deal.
Norbert Przybilla of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and his colleagues used the 10-metre Keck-II telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and other telescopes to measure the distance to a so-called eclipsing binary star system in the Triangulum galaxy, also known as M33. The team measured light, velocity and temperature to find the true luminosity of the two stars, which eclipse one another on every orbit. Comparing this luminosity with their observed brightness gave a distance to the galaxy of 3.14 million light years - half a million light years further away than anyone thought (www.arxiv.org/astro-ph/0606279).
"This is the farthest distance that anyone has been able ...
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Thanks to a number of extracurricular clubs, elementary school kids in the Kingston City School District are getting the chance to engage in some of their favorite activities with fellow students.
An hour before the beginning of school on Friday mornings, a loose collective of young chess enthusiasts make their way into the library at Chambers Elementary School. They aren’t there for extra credit, or to fulfill a course requirement. They’re there because they enjoy the complexities of chess, spending time with friends and exercising their minds before the first bell rings.
“It’s fun,” said Justin Hasbrouck, an 8-year-old third-grader at Chambers playing chess for the first time this year. “Sometimes you can play for a long time. And you don’t have to pay.”
Eight tables of boards are set up at Chambers, just one of four elementary schools and two middle schools in the district that have recreational chess clubs spearheaded by retired physics teacher Ken Evans.
Evans, who also helps with chess clubs in the Pine Plains School District and is the interim coach of the Marist Chess Team, said exposure to the game at such an early age is a good thing. He added that he didn’t come to chess himself until much later.
“They’re still learning the basics,” Evans said. “And there are still more girls playing at this level than when they move on.”
Evans said that the clubs are good for kids socially, and that chess in particular will help with the students’ deductive reasoning in other areas of life.
“By the time they get to high school, they’re learning the tactics of the game,” he said. “Here, they’re just making moves. But it starts them early, and some of them will continue to play as they get older.”
Evans sat across from different students during the club’s most recent meeting, playing the game with them while offering advice on how to look at the board, or the way the game is unfolding. For some, like an Edson student who plays for the Kingston High team, chess comes naturally. For others, it takes time to navigate. At Chambers, none of that matters, as the students look intently at the board between moves, plotting their next turn toward victory.
Cole Elmendorf, an 8-year-old third-grader at Chambers, said the game took some time to sink in. But now that it has, he’s grown to love it.
“It was a little hard learning, but I got used to it,” he said. “You can face off with your friends. It’s a lot of fun.”
Most schools in the district offer a wide array of club options for kids, including foreign languages, arts & crafts, nature and music. At Chambers, students can join the service learning club, where they pick different focuses and work within the community.
Chambers also has the Bluebird Nature Club, which maintains the school’s gardens, its composting area and its rain barrel, which is used to water the plants. Students take leftover fruits and vegetables out to the composting bin after lunch periods and join with parents to water the school’s plants on a weekly basis. The club also recently held a fried green tomato party.
Chambers Principal Stacia Felicello said clubs are a vital part of what makes the school such a special place for its students.
“They find community and they really enjoy it,” she said. “One boy was upset about trees being torn down for a development, and he got in touch with (Ulster Town Supervisor) Nick Woerner to do something about it. It shows them that they can do anything.”
As with most clubs in the district, whether they focus on gardening or Legos, the participation is often a healthy mix of boys and girls, and sees kids making friends with others outside of their grade. According to Superintendent Gerard Gretzinger, that’s a very good thing.
“I think it’s extremely important,” he said. “What we need to do is offer as many opportunities for kids as possible to take part in activities before or after school where they get to enjoy different opportunities with other students, not only their own age, but other kids in the school.”
Gretzinger said it was important not only to reach students who already have an interest in a particular club-based activity, but also those who might not yet have exposure to those interests.
“If it’s something that we can offer them that they could become interested in, that’s a good thing,” he said. “Maybe we can spark their interest in something they’ll enjoy for the rest of their lives.” | <urn:uuid:16063ffe-10d1-4fb3-8afe-d483377316ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ulsterpublishing.com/view/full_story/4340751/article--Elementary-enhancements- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976627 | 1,033 | 2 | 2 |
Last year, over 18,000 of the 21,000 homeless pets in the Midlands were euthanized. These are staggering statistics, but one local non-profit has a new year's resolution for this problem. Pawmetto Lifeline just announced that their new no-kill pet center will open on Jan 25 in Lexington County. The 27,000 square foot, 4 million dollar facility is being built on land donated by Lexington County with funds provided by both Lexington and Richland counties as well as generous individual contributions. According to CEO Denise Wilkinson, they will be able to provide about 2,000 adoptions a year while spaying and neutering 17,000 animals. With the assistance of other organizations throughout the Midlands, they can place even more unwanted animals, reducing the burden on county shelters and taxpayers alike.
One of the real solutions to the problem of unwanted and abandoned animals is educating the public about the need for spaying and neutering and providing those services at low cost or for free. The fewer unwanted animals brought into the world, the less need there is for adoption or euthanization. Pawmetto Lifeline's new center will focus on these important functions as well as offering low-cost or free medical services for pets of low income families. The new facility will be named the Meyer Finlay Pet Adoption Center in honor of private donations made by the Meyer family of Forest Acres in honor of Claudia Finlay, a devoted advocate for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
This is one new year's resolution which promises to be a real solution. That's my perspective, what's yours?
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The Premier, John Brumby, presented an iconic Australian artwork, Sidney Nolans Kelly with Horse to the National Gallery of Victoria
to mark next years 150th birthday celebrations.
Mr Brumby said Sidney Nolans Ned Kelly paintings were a significant part of Australias cultural history.
They are also arguably some of the most sought-after paintings by Australian galleries, Mr Brumby said.
The NGV does not currently own any Ned Kelly paintings by Nolan, and Kelly with Horse will be a spectacular and important addition to our stunning collection.
Our government has gifted this painting to the people of Victoria to mark the 150th anniversary of the NGV, a significant milestone in the states cultural history.
At the Gallery, it can be enjoyed by thousands of Victorians and visitors. Last year over 765,000 people walked through NGV Australias doors.
Mr Brumby said Kelly with Horse will undoubtedly become a major draw-card and a highlight of the NGVs collection of 20th Century Australian art.
Minister for the Arts Peter Batchelor said the acquisition was a major boost for the Gallerys Masterpieces for Melbourne campaign.
The gift supports the NGVs major fundraising campaign to acquire great artworks, and celebrates next years significant 150th anniversary of the Gallery, Mr Batchelor said.
This iconic work will now take pride of place in the NGV so Victorians and visitors to our state will be able to enjoy it.
It is wonderful we have been able to secure this work for Victoria so it can hang alongside other well-loved Australian works such as Tom Roberts Shearing the rams, Frederick McCubbins The Pioneer and John Bracks Collins St 5p.m.
NGV Director Dr Gerard Vaughan said the painting, which came from a private collector, was from Nolans second Ned Kelly series of 1955, when the definitive, iconic image of the black-helmeted Kelly emerged.
Sidney Nolan occupies a crucial place in the history of 20th century painting and it could be argued that his image of Ned Kelly is the one of best known subjects in the history of Australian art, Dr Vaughan said.
We are very grateful to the Victorian Government for purchasing this important work for the NGV, which will instantly become a major highlight of the NGVs Australian Collection.
Kelly with Horse will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and admission is free.
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Cigarette plain packaging, has it worked on illicit drugs?
Today Big Prohibition is celebrating its High Court victory over ‘Big Tobacco’ on the issue of plain packaging of cigarettes. Tobacco companies had challenged the legislation to have all cigarettes sold in drab green packs without logos or company identification on the basis of denial of intellectual and other property rights.
In retrospect, this may have been a mistake as property rights are not a widely respected concept in Australia. Rural landholders have largely borne the brunt of the assault on private property until now with a myriad of laws restricting their rights to carry out activities, from building right through to weed control. A quick check with them would have let Phillip Morris know, it was flogging a dead horse on the issue.
But nonetheless, big government is crowing:
At a later media conference Ms Roxon said: “Many other countries around the world… will take heart from the success of this decision today.” “Governments can take on big tobacco and win and it’s worth countries looking again at what the next appropriate step is for them.”
The big tobacco companies had argued the plain packaging laws amounted to an acquisition of their valuable trademarks without proper compensation. The laws mandate that cigarettes be sold in drab olive-green packs and ban all commercial logos. Packs will be distinguishable only by printed brand names in a standard font and size.
In a statement this morning the court said: “At least a majority of the Court is of the opinion that the (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Act is not contrary to s 51(xxxi) (of the Constitution).” …
… Ms Roxon said the plain packaging laws were a vital preventative public health measure, which removed the last way for tobacco companies to promote their products. “This decision is a relief for every parent who worries about their child picking up this deadly and addictive habit,” she said.
Curiously, only the manufacturers seem to note the fact that the legislation will probably be counterproductive with BATC spokesman Scott McIntire stating, ”… The illegal cigarette black market will grow further when all packs look the same and are easier to copy.”
The legislation is in fact an exercise in cognitive dissonance. Illicit drugs such as marijuana, coke, heroin, speed, and the rest are, and always have been, sold in plain packaging. Manufacturers and distributors of these products seem to studiously avoid the use of identifying logos; in fact they avoid anything that can be used to identify them. Even with increasingly draconian measures being used to stamp out their activities, sales of their products seem to be increasing.
Big wowser, big prohibition, and their ally, big government have never learned the lessons of history in relation to attempts to ban popular products. In their jaded view of society it seems that, “A ten thousand year old record of failure proves nothing; this time, doing the same thing; it’s going to work.”
That seems to be the definition of something I can’t quite put my finger on.
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Nordita is an interesting place. The building is located right next to the Department of Physics, at Stockholm University that I had visited before. Nordita was founded in 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was relocated to Stockholm in January 2007. Their building is shown in the photo above. If you have been there before, the entry to the AlbaNova University Center is to the left. You can find some more photos of the building here.
Nordita's main mission is to strengthen the collaboration in theoretical physics between the five nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In their logo, shown to the left, each triangle stands for one of these countries. Nordita's research areas cover quite a quite diverse range of topics in theoretical physics: astrophysics and astrobiology, condensed matter, statistical and biological physics and high energy and nuclear physics. Compared to Perimeter Institute, it is a somewhat smaller institution. Though the faculty is of similar size, they have considerably fewer postdocs and students. Nordita further has a very active scientific program which brings together groups of leading experts to work on specific topics for extended periods, similarly eg to the programs at the KITP.
If you have not visited Stockholm before, let me add it is on my list with the most beautiful cities I've been to (together with Cape Town, Vienna and San Francisco). I don't speak Swedish but it is remarkable that literally everybody in Stockholm seems to speak English (and isn't funny about using it either as eg the French are). If you know German and English you can guess a lot of Swedish words though. Altogether a very interesting and enjoyable stay. Minus the snow. | <urn:uuid:57d89ef0-e21b-432a-bd96-7c0ae0c2df6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/visit-at-nordita-in-stockholm.html?showComment=1238380800000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967058 | 345 | 1.539063 | 2 |
So maybe Gurdjieff worked in his own way – it may have been spontaneous to him – people are different and unique; or, he was working in conditions which were very strange. He was working with western minds, in a western climate, and he was the first to bring eastern methods to them. It was difficult: it has to be translated to their understanding.
Zen masters hit their students – beat, throw them out of their houses and windows, jump on them sometimes. But one thing you should remember: they are not angry; that too is part of their compassion. They are not angry at all…because if they are angry then the whole point is lost. Then how can you transform the other? – you are also in the same boat. Then you have come down. No, that will not be helpful.
That too is compassion, but it is possible only in Japan. In no other country is it possible, because a certain tradition is needed. For almost one thousand years this has been a tradition. So when a Zen master jumps and beats his disciple, the disciple understands the language.
If I beat you, you will not understand it. You will be simply angry and you will go away and report to the police! And that is not going to help anybody. You won’t understand it.
In Japan it is understood: when a Zen master beats the disciple, he accepts it in deep gratitude. In fact, you may be surprised that once a Zen master beats his disciple, that disciple becomes the chief disciple. He has attained to something, that’s why the master was so loving and compassionate towards him, that’s why the master blessed him with a beating.
Zen disciples deep down hanker for the day to come when the master will beat them. They wait, they pray for it, they compete with each other. But that is possible only because a long tradition exists. A strange tradition, but when it goes deep-rooted into the unconscious of a country, race, it functions. But that’s not my way.
I know that there is no other medicine than love. Other medicines cannot be so deep-reaching. If love fails, then nothing can succeed.
So I know that you deserve…please don’t deserve it!
The third question:
Even while repeating your jokes to others, we ourselves burst into loud laughter. But you tell us the funniest of stories, and while the audience roars, not even a faint smile crosses your face. What is the secret?
The secret is simple: I know how to tell a joke…and you don’t know!
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Today I finished reading Herb Cohen’s You Can Negotiate Anything:
How to Get What You Want. Its main points were:
- Almost everything is negotiable.
- Recognize negotiating tactics and deal with them.
- Be personal.
I liked how the book listed common negotiation ploys. If I recognize
the trick someone’s trying to pull on me, I can laugh it off and turn
the situation to my advantage. I can also try to avoid the bad
negotiation habits I might’ve picked up as a kid. The book had a lot
of good advice.
I think negotiation is a very useful skill that is well worth learning
even for techies. I was never keen on negotiating because I didn’t
like the idea of haggling, but now I see how the process of
negotiation can bring out other win-win scenarios that might not have
been considered in a straight deal. Negotiation isn’t just for project
costs or schedule commitments; it’s for relationships and day-to-day
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Smaller Learning Communities
In schools around the country many children are getting a better education. This is because in January of 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This act ensures that Smaller Learning Communities will continue to assist the large public high schools. Today, Smaller Learning Communities will become a very successful program because of teacher to student relationships, student achievement and the programs general funding.
Smaller Learning Communities have been developing teacher advisory systems to make relationships between teachers and students more connected. Smaller schools usually make students feel more at home, safe, and nurtured. Teachers also get to know and support their students because the teacher to student ratio is much smaller.
"School size has positive effects on student outcomes as evidenced by students' attendance rates, frequency of disciplinary actions, school loyalty, use of alcohol or drugs, satisfaction with school and self esteem" (ED. Gov).
Usually in Smaller Learning Communities, student achievement has increased. There are now many more enrollments of poor and minority students. Many feel less alienated and are more cared for.
"Research ultimately confirms what parent intuitively believe: that smaller schools are safer and more productive because students feel less alienated, more nurtured and more connected to caring adults, and teachers feel that they have more opportunity to get to know and support their students" (ED.Gov).
The federal Government is providing 142 million dollars in grant money to assist large high schools in developing or expanding Smaller Learning Communities in their schools. In the years 2000-2001 alone, the Federal Government awarded 139 million dollars or more to 744 schools. This benefited over 13 million students and faculty. This money is all being put to good use, being divided into the planning and implementation... [continues]
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Animal & Veterinary
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT
by Gregg Claycamp, Ph.D.
FDA Veterinarian Newsletter 2002 Volume XVI, No V
The First International Conference on Microbial Risk Assessment was held in College Park, MD, July 23-25. The meeting drew about 200 risk assessors and food safety professionals from a wide variety of governmental and non-governmental agencies concerned with food protection, industry and academia. FDA's Acting Commissioner, Dr. Lester Crawford, gave the opening address in which he not only welcomed the participants to the U.S., but also outlined the future of FDA participation in food safety counter-terrorism. Counter-terrorism relies on principles of risk analysis to identify hazards, characterize potential exposures from the hazards, and estimate human health risks.
The first day's plenary session included speakers on microbial risk assessment (MRA). Several of the discussions highlighted the rapid growth in the number of "farm-to-fork" risk assessments for food safety assessments and suggested ways in which the process of risk assessment might be improved. A common theme emerging from the talks focused on the tension between the need to perform risk assessments as the basis of public health policy, and the substantial gaps in quantitative information needed to estimate risks.
The remaining two days of the meeting included talks on various phases of risk assessment, including the types of data, data quality, the interfaces between risk assessors and risk managers, risk assessment tools, and case studies of governmental and industry-based risk assessments. Ample time for networking was available during the breaks, reception and the lunches provided on site. Dr. Jean-Louis Jouve, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, and Dr. Jørgen Schlundt, World Health Organization, presented stimulating lunchtime addresses.
Members of CVM participated in organizing the meeting and in presentations. In particular, Dr. Mary Bartholomew participated on the meeting planning and Dr. Gregg Claycamp presented a plenary talk on antimicrobial resistance risk assessment. Other members of CVM's Risk Analysis Team were in attendance as were CVM staff from a variety of divisions in the Center.
The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for discussions of novel approaches to microbial risk analysis, the gaps in data needed for high-quality risk assessments, and the challenges faced in translating quantitative risk assessments to plain English for risk managers, stakeholders and the public at large. More information about the meeting can be found at the Risk Assessment Clearinghouse web site.
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Individual differences |
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The Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, South London is unique as a psychiatric hospital in that it was always intended to be a centre of treatment and research rather than confinement and "asylum".
Now part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) the hospital derives its origins from 1907, when Dr Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (subsequently increased to £40,000) to help found a new mental hospital that would:
- be exclusively for early and acute cases,
- have an out-patients' clinic,
- provide for teaching and research.
World War I intervened and the Hospital was not actually opened until 1923, but it is notable that a specific Act of Parliament had to be obtained (1915) to allow the institution to accept voluntary patients.
The Maudsley today continues to offer in-patient and community mental health care to local people in Southwark and Lambeth and nationally across the UK. Sharing a site with the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London it is also a major contributor to both psychiatric research and the training of nursing, medical and psychology staff in psychiatry. As part of SLaM it also enjoys close links with Bethlem Royal Hospital - the original "Bedlam".
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Private First Class William Henry Hogan no longer lies in an unmarked grave.
Thanks to Hogan’s hero — Congressmember Bob Turner, who took the reins in hunting down lost records of the World War I veteran — the family is now at peace.
“It became an emotional thing,” said grandson Michael Hogan of Glendale. “Here is a World War I veteran buried in an unmarked grave with no recognition. That shouldn’t happen to anybody that serves.”
Before his father, William John — also a war vet — died in 1987, Michael inherited the desire to track down and confirm his grandfather’s military history.
“Right before my dad died, we were talking about how there was no marker on my grandfather’s gravesite in New Hampshire. My dad said, ‘We need to fix that.’”
But the military records were lost, and Michael said his attempts to unearth the documents were unsuccessful.
“I thought this would never come to. I pretty much had written it off,” he said.
First, Michael said he contacted the Department of Veterans Affairs National Personnel Records Center (VA). He said they informed him that a fire in 1973 at a St. Louis storage facility destroyed 80 percent of all records and that they could not find anything on his grandfather.
He then contacted the VA Hospital in the Bronx where his grandfather resided upon his passing. The hospital told him that those records would be in storage “somewhere in New Jersey.”
Finally, Michael called Turner, who dug up the records. Turner then contacted the VA to confirm Michael’s grandfather’s service and secured him a military headstone. Michael discovered his grandfather had in fact served in France around 1917.
“When Congressmember Turner personally broke the news to me, I got all choked up. It was a very emotional moment for me,” Michael said. “It was a moment of happiness, joy and tears because I thought this would not come about — especially when I was told by the National Public Records that they couldn’t find anything. I knew my grandfather would finally be getting recognition.”
The icing on the cake, Michael said, was that his and his father’s birthday had just passed.
“Congressmember Turner gave us both a great birthday gift,” Michael said.
Right around the holidays, Turner presented Michael with a folded American flag from the VA — usually given to families of deceased service members at military funerals — and a certificate of honor for his late grandfather.
“William Hogan deserves proper acknowledgement for his service to our country,” Turner said. “Michael’s commitment to his grandfather is a testament to all veterans that their service will never be forgotten.”
The new and officially acquired military headstone was installed at St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford, New Hampshire at the end of December — granting the long-time wish of three generations of Hogans.
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|Tangent of our Love
Author: Chandra-Moon PM
poem I wrote during geometryRated: Fiction K - English - Words: 93 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 01-31-05 - id: 1822353
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How can it be that you love me?
Sitting here in geometry
For no one to ever really know.
One to two to square root three.
Is our love a tangent found
By opposite and adjacent hearts abound?
An angle bisected by circumstance,
A circle whose curve is never round?
Because any number divided by one
Same number as when it was begun
And us divided by the value of zero
An unexisting number, an error of sum
Did you know that I love you?
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A Weatherization Program Evaluation Story
How do you get 51 state offices and 904 local weatherization agencies to complete detailed surveys during the largest production push the weatherization community has ever seen?
The Energy Center tackled that question through our role in the national evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program. In 2009 the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funneled $5 billion into the Weatherization Assistance Program, increasing production from roughly 100,000 homes a year to more than 600,000 homes over a three-year period. ARRA also funded a national evaluation to measure energy savings, cost effectiveness and non-energy benefits produced by the program.
At the same time that state and local agencies were gearing up to meet aggressive new production targets, our evaluation team was fielding a series of time-intensive surveys and other requests to collect the information needed to measure program performance. With a focus on relationship-building, patience, persistence and some flexibility, we managed to achieve a 100% response rate to data requests fielded at the state level and response rates above 90% for requests made of local weatherization agencies.
The key to the success of this truly massive data collection effort was building relationships at the state and local levels. Oak Ridge National Laboratory laid the foundation by soliciting input on the evaluation plan from a formal Network Committee of weatherization thought leaders from around the country. Before fielding any data requests, the Energy Center established relationships with two national organizations that play an important role in the weatherization community: National Association for State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) and National Community Action Foundation (NCAF). The Energy Center hired five case managers to serve as the front line for state and agency outreach and communication efforts. Each case manager was assigned a portfolio of states and served as a designated point of contact for the state weatherization office and all local agencies in each state. The case manager team fielded data requests, answered questions from respondents, and gently but persistently encouraged survey completion in the timeframe necessary to meet evaluation needs.
Data collection for the first stage of the evaluation wrapped up in 2011, with 51 state offices and 878 weatherization agencies completing 2,800 surveys. These surveys contained more than 3,600 unique variables and 9.2 million data points ranging from high-level information about program administration at the state and local levels to detailed records on the treatment of individual weatherized homes.
The national evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program is led by ORNL, with project management oversight by APPRISE, a Princeton-based nonprofit research firm. Since its inception in 1976, the Weatherization Assistance Program has supported the weatherization of more than 6.4 million low income households.
The Energy Center is coordinating the collection of data from state offices and local weatherization agencies, and leading technical studies that measure weatherization impacts on use of delivered fuels (fuel oil and propane), indoor air quality, air conditioning electricity use, as well as the persistence of energy savings from weatherization measures over time.
The Energy Center will repeat these data collection activities in 2012 as the second phase of the evaluation will measure program performance under ARRA. Although the ARRA-period production push of 2009 - 2011 is winding down, the weatherization network faces new challenges in the significant cutbacks in funding that have impacted state offices and local weatherization agencies. The relationships developed during the first phase will be key to collecting the data necessary to ensure robust results on program accomplishments during the ARRA period.
Evaluation reports will be published on the ORNL website.
Claire Cowan is a senior project manager at the Energy Center of Wisconsin. She came to the Energy Center with a background in energy efficiency program design, demand-side management planning and clean energy policy analysis for government and utility clients. As project manager, Claire conducts research and analysis to support a variety of energy efficiency policy and planning projects.
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Character education, it is absolutely necessary not only at school, but at home and in the social environment. Even now, the participants are no longer character education early childhood to adolescence, but also in adulthood. Absolutely necessary for the survival of this nation.
Imagine what kind of competition that appeared in 2021? What is clear is that we will become a burden, and parents today. At that time, the children of today will face competition from his colleagues from around the country in the World. In fact we are still going to work year will be feeling the same. The demands of human resources in 2021 would require good character.
However, the character is the key to individual success. From a study in the United States, 90 percent of cases are caused by the dismissal of bad behavior as irresponsible, dishonest, and poor interpersonal relationships. In addition, there are other studies that indicate that 80 percent of a person’s success in society is determined by the emotional quotient. | <urn:uuid:9d3e8a3e-7b0f-4543-be7e-8626082fe8d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drhesabischools.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975076 | 196 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Not all medical ideas based on evolutionary premises are for the good.
For example, it used to be believed that the body was replete with vestigial organs, relics of some prehistoric existence. The list ran to over 150 organs, including the caudal musculature, the thymus, tonsils, external ear muscles, third molar, coccyx, recurrent laryngeal nerve, knee menisci, appendix, pituitary etc. On the basis of this, many millions of unnecessary tonsillectomies were performed. The pituitary was only saved by dint of its inaccessibility. The appendix is now known to be part of the GALT (Gut Associated Lymphoidal Tissue), with important immunological functions, and is not to be removed lightly. 'He would be a rash man indeed who would now assert that any part of the human body is useless' (Professor Goodrich, Oxford).
The Williams Flexion Exercises relied on evolutionary ideas and caused even more back pain. On the other hand, the ...
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Sitting in science class one afternoon, you feel your nose begin to run. As you wonder if you're catching a cold, you swipe your nose with a tissue and are shocked to see blood! You have a nosebleed, and if you're like most teens, you may be embarrassed. You might hope no one will notice, and you might be a little scared, too.
Although nosebleeds are usually harmless and easily controlled, it may look like a quart of blood is coming from your nose! Try not to worry — nosebleeds are almost always easy to stop.
Stopping the Gush
Try these simple tips to stop your nosebleed:
Get some tissues or a damp cloth to catch the blood.
Sit or stand so your head is above your heart.
Tilt your head forward and pinch the soft part of your nose (the nostrils) together just below the bony center part of your nose. Applying pressure helps stop the blood flow and the nosebleed will usually stop with 10 minutes of steady pressure — don't keep checking to see if the bleeding has stopped.
If you get a nosebleed, don't blow your nose. Doing so can cause additional nosebleeds. Also, don't tilt your head back. This common practice will cause blood to run into your throat. This can make you cough or choke, and if you swallow a lot of blood, you might begin vomiting.
If you've tried the steps above twice and the bleeding continues after the second attempt, you'll need to see your school nurse or a doctor.
Once you've stopped the initial nosebleed, don't lift heavy objects or do other activities that cause you to strain, and try not to blow your nose for 24 hours.
Now that your nosebleed is over, let's take a look at what a nosebleed is and what can cause it.
The most common kind of nosebleed is an anterior nosebleed, which comes from the front of the nose. Capillaries, or very small blood vessels, that are inside the nose may break and bleed, causing this type of nosebleed.
Another kind of nosebleed is a posterior nosebleed, which comes from the deepest part of the nose. Blood from a posterior nosebleed flows down the back of the throat even if the person is sitting or standing. Teens rarely have posterior nosebleeds, which occur most often in older people, people who have high blood pressure, and people who have had nose or face injuries.
Causes and Remedies
The most common cause of anterior nosebleeds is dry air. A dry climate or heated indoor air irritates and dries out nasal membranes, causing crusts that may itch and then bleed when scratched or picked. Colds may also irritate the lining of the nose. Bleeding may occur after repeated blowing. When you combine a cold with dry winter air, you have the perfect formula for nosebleeds.
Allergies can also cause problems, and a doctor may prescribe medications such as antihistamines or decongestants to control an itchy, runny, or stuffy nose. This can also dry out the nasal membranes and contribute to nosebleeds.
An injury or blow to the nose may cause bleeding and isn't usually cause for alarm. If you ever have a facial injury, use the tips outlined earlier to stop the nosebleed. If you can't stop the bleeding after 10 minutes or you are concerned about other facial injuries, see a medical professional right away.
Nosebleeds are rarely cause for alarm, but frequent nosebleeds might indicate a more serious problem. If you get nosebleeds more than once a week, you should see your doctor. Most cases of frequent nosebleeds are easily treated. Sometimes tiny blood vessels inside the nose become irritated and don't heal. This happens more frequently in teens who have ongoing allergies or frequent colds. A doctor may have a solution if you have this problem.
If your doctor rules out a sinus infection, allergies, or irritated blood vessels, he or she may order other tests to see why you're getting frequent nosebleeds. Rarely, a bleeding disorder or abnormally formed blood vessels could be a possibility.
Cocaine (or other drugs that are snorted through the nose) can also cause nosebleeds. If you suspect a friend is using cocaine, try talking about it and get help from a trusted adult.
Whenever you blow your nose (especially when you have a cold), you should blow gently into a soft tissue. Don't blow forcefully or pick your nose.
Your doctor may recommend a humidifier to moisten your indoor air. You can also prevent your nasal passages from becoming too dry in winter months by using lubricants such as an antibiotic ointment before going to bed at night. Apply a pea-sized dab to a cotton swab and gently rub just the cotton tip up inside each nostril, especially on the middle part of the nose (called the nasal septum). Some doctors prescribe saline (salt water) drops for the same purpose.
Wear protective athletic equipment when participating in sports that could cause injury to the nose.
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Following the recent malware attacks in OS X, Microsoft has been exploring the 3-year-old flaw which has been exploited by several different malware attempts in recent months. Microsoft Malware Protection Center analyst Jeong Wook Oh has found that the exploit does not affect OS X Lion systems but can succeed on those running OS X Snow Leopard.
In the exploit in question, a maliciously crafted Office file takes advantage of a vulnerability addressed by the MS09-027 update for Office, and as such this latest exploit is referred to as MacOS_X/MS09-027.A by Microsoft. This exploit is the same one being used by other recent malware that uses Office documents as a means to attack Macs.
In essence, the exploit involves causing a stack-based buffer overflow that results in corrupted variables being returned to the main stack. In this instance the malware is able to load a variable in the problematic function with malicious content, and then by exploiting the function's flaw cause this content be returned to the main program stack, where it can be run. Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are common bugs in programs, and are regularly patched in security updates (here's an explanation of what a buffer overflow is and how it can be used in an attack).
Once the exploit happens, the malware runs and installs the following three files on the system along with some launcher files in the user's LaunchAgents folder:
These three files work together to launch the main malware file (suspected to be "launch-hse"), which as with much recent malware is a command-and-control client and will run commands and otherwise communicate with remote servers.
If you have Office on your system, to check for and remove this malware open the OS X Terminal (located in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder) and run the following commands:
sudo rm /tmp/launch-hs
sudo rm /tmp/launch-hse
sudo rm /tmp/file.doc
sudo rm /Applications/Automator.app/Contents/MacOS/DockLight
sudo rm /Library/launched
sudo rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActionsxl.plist
sudo rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.DockActions.plist
Even though the vulnerability that makes this attack possible is present in all unpatched Office installations regardless of the OS they are running, Oh's analysis shows it does not affect all versions of OS X. The target memory address used by the malware to exploit Office is handled differently by different versions of OS X, making it a problem in Snow Leopard, but not Lion. As described by Oh:
This corrupted variable is later used for a target address and is where the stage 1 shellcode is copied. The corrupted return address points to this target address as well. This target address is important, as, with Snow Leopard, we could confirm that it was used to exploit a specific location on the heap that is writable and also executable. The point is, that with Lion, that specific memory address can't be written, so the exploit fails.
Because of such details, Oh speculates that the malware must be specifically targeting Snow Leopard users with this attack, and first-hand knowledge of the operating systems' differences was needed in order to pull this attack off.
While this specific attack is relatively new, like other recent attacks it is making use of an old vulnerability that has been discussed for a while and for which a patch has been available for years. This serves as another reminder to always apply software updates, regardless of how irrelevant they may sound.
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Modeled after the People's Liberation Army, which is the military force in ... yes, China, which has ditched Mao. The Red Army is the role model for this group, which is not good news at all ... It is awful that the poor are being left behind, and awful that their advocates are these guerillas. And awful that the Indian government can't seem to recognize the underlying poverty and disenfranchisement as the issue, but responds with guns.When Naxalites announced the formation of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) a decade ago, security agencies dismissed it as an attempt by the rebels to regroup their cadres and propaganda to boost their perceived military strength....Now, the security forces are bracing themselves for intensified attacks in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal as the Maoists have announced month-long celebrations coinciding with the 10th anniversary of PLGA formation. All these years, the celebrations were only week-long. “This means bigger strikes can be expected in Maoist-affected States,” authorities concede.
IEDs!!! If that does not make it clear that this is a war inside India. And then there is a war in another of India's fronts: Kashmir.Since its inception, the PLGA has waged a relentless war against the security forces, and in the last decade, the rebels killed 2,000 security personnel, injured as many, and snatched nearly 2,500 weapons and one lakh rounds of ammunition, a Maoist document says.A clear hierarchy has helped the Maoist military wing improve its strike capabilities. ...On the organisational level, the PLGA has developed from a force of one or two platoons to having companies and a battalion now. ...Another achievement of the PLGA has been transfer of technology. The technology for making and planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) has been successfully imparted to the large 30,000 base force. “The making and use of IEDs has now taken a mass form,” another Maoist document discloses. | <urn:uuid:ec798c8b-6695-4c99-a460-a25bd92a08d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sriramkhe.blogspot.jp/2010_11_28_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966455 | 431 | 1.617188 | 2 |
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - If you've ever wondered whether a convicted sex offender might be living in your neighborhood, now there's an improved tool at your disposal and all you need is an Internet connection.
Richland Representative Joan Brady recently pushed legislation imposing residency restrictions that prohibit sex offenders from living within a thousand feet of schools, day care centers and other places where children congregate. The legislation also required more comprehensive online information. The State Law Enforcement Division has been posting sex offender information online for years, but now their enhanced database of names, addresses, photos and background is featured on a Web site called "Offender Watch".
This new generation of SLED's sex offender registry makes it easier for users to pinpoint where offenders live in relation to schools and child care facilities and even includes safety tips for parents. OffenderWatch also features automatic email alerts when a sex criminal moves into a neighborhood.
As parents, we must remain vigilant and educate our children about potential dangers out there, but this new sex offender legislation and database registry go a long way towards keeping us more informed and secure.
That's my perspective. What's yours?
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Diverticulitis is small, bulging sacs or pouches of the inner lining of the intestine (diverticulosis) that become inflamed or infected. Most often, these pouches are in the large intestine (colon).
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
No one knows exactly what causes the sacs, or pouches of diverticulosis to form. Eating a low-fiber diet is one of the most likely causes.
People who eat mostly processed food, as many Americans eat, do not get enough fiber in their diet. Processed foods include white rice, white bread, most breakfast cereals, crackers, and pretzels.
As a result, constipation and hard stools are more likely to occur - causing people to strain when passing stools. This increases the pressure in the colon or intestines and may cause these pouches to form.
Diverticulosis is very common. It is found in more than half of Americans over age 60.
Diverticulitis is caused by small pieces of stool (feces) that become trapped in these pouches, causing infection or inflammation.
People with diverticulosis often have no symptoms, but they may have bloating and cramping in the lower part of the belly. Rarely, they may notice blood in their stool or on toilet paper.
Symptoms of diverticulitis are more severe and often start suddenly, but they may become worse over a few days. They include:
Tenderness, usually in the left lower side of the abdomen
The treatment of diverticulitis depends on the severity of your symptoms. Some people may need to be in the hospital, but usually you can treat this problem at home.
To help with the pain, your doctor may suggest that you:
Rest in bed and possibly use a heating pad on your belly
Take pain medicines (ask your doctor which ones you should use).
Drink only fluids for a day or two, and then slowly begin drinking thicker liquids and then eating foods.
The doctor may treat you with antibiotics.
After you are better, your doctor will suggest that you add more fiber to your diet and avoid certain foods. Eating more fiber can help prevent future attacks. If you have bloating or gas, reduce the amount of fiber you eat for a few days.
Once these pouches have formed, you will have them for life. If you make a few simple changes in your lifestyle, you may not have diverticulitis again.
Usually, this is a mild condition that responds well to treatment. Some people will have more than one attack of diverticulitis.
More serious problems that may develop are:
Abnormal connections that form between different parts of the colon or between the colon and another body area (fistula)
Call your health care provider if symptoms of diverticulitis occur.
Also call if you have diverticulitis and:
Blood in your stools
Fever above 100.4 °F that dos not go away
Nausea, vomiting, or chills
Sudden belly or back pain that gets worse or is very severe
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If you’ve been to Guilford Gardens in the summertime, you have no doubt noticed the large, red stalks dotting the farm. This, my friend, is amaranth. By summer’s end most stalks were 6 feet tall. Amaranth adds gorgeous, low-maintenance color to the garden and it’s edible to boot. Look for it this summer; maybe Kamala will start tucking some amaranth greens in our CSA baskets.
August 10, 2009
Just as quinoa was a staple of the Incan diet, amaranth was that of the Aztecs. The grain can be cooked, ground, or popped. According to Gary Paul Nabhan, the Aztecs mixed amaranth grain with wild honey and sacrificial human blood. They shaped the sticky mix into statues of the gods, calling them candies of happiness, or alegrias. People still enjoy alegrias, sans blood.
Cooked amaranth grain has a slightly gelatinous quality and can be used to thicken soups. You could also use it as a breakfast cereal (see recipe below) or pilaf. Amaranth contains more of the essential amino acids than almost any other plant food, is quite high in calcium, and is second only to quinoa in iron.
The grain is also milled into flour. In Coming Home to Eat, Nabhan describes his efforts to find amaranth (as well as mesquite) tortillas: “I recalled the root meaning of amaranth, ‘the flower that does not fade,’ and only wished it had meant, ‘the flour that did not fade away from use.’” Amaranth flour is gluten free and can usually be found in health food stores.
But that’s not all! The greens are also edible. They can be eaten raw or cooked. Wouldn’t the red leaves add a nice diversion to your typical lettuce salad? You cook them just as you would any other green (see recipe below).
from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
1 1/2 c water
1/2 c amaranth
Since amaranth is a tiny grain, it cooks quickly. Combine water, amaranth, and a pinch of salt in a small saucepan, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cover and cook over low heat for 25 minutes or until the water is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Top with whatever you like: honey, brown sugar, dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts, milk, yum!
Amaranth Greens with Brandied Orange Sauce
from Wild Foods Field Guide and Cookbook by Billy Joe Tatum
3 cups cooked amaranth greens
3 oz. frozen orange-juice concentrate, thawed
1/4 c water
1/4 c brown sugar, packed
1/4 c fruit-flavored brandy, preferably apricot or peach
1 t fresh ginger, grated or chopped (1/2 t if dried)
freshly cooked hot rice or egg noodles to serve 8
1. Combine greens, orange-juice concentrate, and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower heat to medium.
2. Add brown sugar, brandy, and ginger root.
3. Simmer 10 minutes. Serve hot over rice or egg noodles.
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Young women also at risk for breast cancer
About 10,000 women under age of 40 diagnosed each year
YouBreast cancer rates rise as people -- especially women -- get older.
But about 10,000 women under age 40 get diagnosed with breast cancer each year according to YoungSurvival.org..
Some survivors and the families of those who have been through a diagnosis early in life find that doctors sometimes doubt what their patients are seeing. Sometimes good comes from the early doubt, such as a young California woman who tries to keep a positive attitude as she goes through treatment and a Virginia man who became an awareness activist after he lost his sister.
Cathy White found out that she had breast cancer early this year before her 23rd birthday.
Though some groups advocate that women of any age examine their breasts regularly for changes, White says she never had. But before getting in the shower one day in February, she noticed a lump on the right side of her breast, near her arm pit.
"I don't know why I did it," she says. "I just did it."
Her mother felt the lump, too, and decided she should go to a doctor.
White was at first told it was probably related to her period, since she was so young.
Still, the doctor did a needle biopsy and said that it looked benign.
"She left me with nothing but a bruise," White says.
A month later, though, she went to a breast care center for an ultrasound, which found a second lump. Three days later, she was told she had cancer.
"My world just kind of stopped," she says. Though she knew the doctor was talking to her, she couldn't really understand the words, and could only ask if she was going to die.
Doctors told her to come back the next day when she was more under control.
"At first, I didn't believe her. I was waiting for her to say, 'We were wrong.' That call never came," White says.
When she started to hear about all the tests, scans and appointments she needed, "That solidified that 'this is real.'"
Then she was able to get a grip and realize she had to be strong. After agonizing about whether to get a double mastectomy -- as one doctor suggested -- White had a lumpectomy and started a course of six chemotherapy treatments over six months. "Chemo really makes you feel like a cancer patient," she says, because it can leave her weak and tired and makes her feel like she's not in control of her body.
"It's hard (but) I've always been really positive and try not to let the little things get me down," she says, adding that she tries to stay upbeat so others around her can, as well.
She has days where she wants to break down, but "it's just not worth it."
But cancer did allow White to think a bit more about what she wants to do with her life.
Before she got sick, she was working 40 hours a week in for a company that sells auto parts and had taken some college-level accounting courses.
But the illness has led her to think more about going to school with a particular goal in mind.
"I don't want my life to be, 'Oh, I worked in an office.'"
She says she would now like to change majors to something that would help her learn how to help others, possibly by opening a breast cancer clinic in the Philippines.
Finding Missing In Cancer
Shawn Gardner, a 41-year-old teacher from Washington, D.C., was also pushed to do something for others by breast cancer. He became a vocal fighter after his sister died when she was 26 years old.
His sister, Heather Gardner Starcher, had complained many times about pain under her arm. But doctors could not find a cause.
One day as she rolled over in bed, "the tumor popped out of her breast," Gardner says. Still, the doctor she had been seeing told her that women her age could not have breast cancer and sent her home.
She quickly got a second opinion, and the next day was diagnosed with breast cancer. Doctors said that from the size of the tumor, she could have had it for 10 years.
Still, Heather did not like that her doctor dismissed her concerns. Gardner says she wrote a letter to the doctor saying that she hoped she would never send another young woman home without checking things out thoroughly.
The doctor tried to reach Heather, but "Heather was a little stubborn" and did not want to have any more contact, Gardner says.
Watching his sister battle, Gardner formed a team in her honor for the National Race for the Cure. Initially, the goal was just to support her, not raise money.
However, the effort grew year by year, even after Heather died and their parents decided not to participate. In 2003, Team Heather raised $5,500. Now, the team raises more than $50,000 a year.
Gardner has also become a local spokesman for Susan G. Komen for the cure. The group got interested in the story, and Gardner has taped some public service announcements and testified in front of Congress.
His advocacy efforts highlight young women, but he hopes to raise broader awareness.
"I want people to just be aware of your body, of the women in your life," he says.
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Preparing to teach in the lifelong sector
Learning Styles- V A K
VAK theory is widely recognised by teachers - particularly those who recommend accelerated learning techniques - but the idea that we receive information via different modes has been around considerably longer than that and can be traced back to the work of Grace Fernald ("Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects") who promoted kinaesthetic learning techniques; Samuel Orton’s work on dyslexia; Anna Gillingham’s subsequent work on developing multisensory approaches; and the holistic educational philosophy of Maria Montessori. (WWW.brainboxx .co.uk)
We all learn in different styles it’s just a case of finding out what style suits the individual learner to get the best results out of them, for example if you were to teach a learner that is best suited to Kinaesthetic learning, by giving them just handouts and talking, they will lose concentration much quicker and wont absorb any of the information you are giving them, whereas if you keep them engaged by maybe doing something as simple as giving out the handouts or give a little demonstration of what their learning they will keep engaged therefore absorbing the information for longer.
There are three types of learning styles, Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic.
Someone that requires a Visual learning style would prefer to learn using drawing, sketches, handouts, charts etc.
An Auditory learner would prefer to learn with the aid of listening and then answering questions about what they have just heard, stories (maybe of past experiences), anecdotes, puns etc.
Whereas someone that learns in a Kinaesthetic way would learn in a much more hands on way by building things, taking something apart and re-building to see how it works, using their hands, being able to move around etc.
When setting up your lesson plan you will have to cater for all three learning types and maybe you could already have an idea on how to get the best out of... [continues]
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War and Peace Volume 3, Part 2, Chapter 34 Summary
Every time the French generals send their troops into battle, they come running back out all disordered and broken. The French generals are confused.
Finally, they send word to Napoleon that they need reinforcements. Then it’s his turn to be all, huh? Because this hasn’t happened in any other battle, you see.
Napoleon says no about the reinforcements for some reason, again and again, telling his officers that they are just not getting how the battle is going. Right, that must be it.
Finally, Napoleon relents and lets the reinforcements come.
He sits, having deep thoughts about how even though everything is the same – same armies, same strategies, same preparations – the roll of the dice has suddenly fallen against him. That’s gambling talk. Again, here we go with the everything-is-random-chance motif.
And even though there are sometimes reports of good news, Napoleon is experienced enough to know when things aren’t going his way. Like now, say.
He rides out to look at the battle more closely. It’s the most horrible carnage, mutilation, and destruction anyone has ever seen. A small space, ten hours’ worth of guns firing, and heaps and heaps of dead and wounded. It’s really just the worst thing ever, impossible to describe. | <urn:uuid:2992d2ea-802c-4d6a-9ba1-50ba81db7184> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shmoop.com/war-and-peace/volume-3-part-2-chapter-34-summary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951405 | 294 | 2.421875 | 2 |
This book is not a fantasy story where the author just dreams up what would have been if the Confederacy had been able to win the Civil War. No; this is fantasy based more on very factual possibilities that really could have happened if things had gone the other way, like if a certain Confederate general such as Albert Sidney Johnston had not died at the Battle of Shiloh. Roger Ransom and others look at what-if situations and determine if there are facts suppporting things having been different if just a certain event had occurred in a different way. This is called counterfactual analysis, which is not science fiction or fantasy but an academic analysis of what could have been.
Ransom examines the history of the United States before the Civil War by looking at the Northern and Southern societies and how these two distinct cultures came to blows and war. Of the issues that brought these two regions of the U.S. to civil war, the issue of slavery is the most well-known. Other issues included states’ rights, the theory is that the Federal government did not have ultimate power. Another issue was economics.
Ransom reviews the Civil War and how the Confederacy could have won the war, or at least forced the North into allowing the South to be an independent country. How could the South could have done this? If situations were altered, such as General Albert S. Johnston surviving Shiloh, or the North making major mistakes and being unable to move forward by losing at Shiloh or other critical engagements like Antietam. If the South could have defeated Union armies and further discouraged the North, maybe Abraham Lincoln would not have been re-elected in November of 1864. Also considered: is it really realistic that European powers like Great Britain and France would have recognized the Confederacy, or would they have intervened in the war?
If the South had been able to gain independence, he argues that slavery eventually would have ended in the South regardless due to a new economic situation. He suspects that John C. Breckinridge most likely would have succeeded Jefferson Davis in 1867 as the second Confederate president, based on the fact that in the 1860 election Breckinridge had carried the South and was still popular. Other successors might have been General Wade Hampton or General James Longstreet.
Several maps and charts throughout illustrate how things would have changed and battles might have been different. Appendix three is the Confederate Constitution, and there are endnotes, a bibliography, and an index, but no illustrations. This book is highly recommended to those interested in the Civil War and in what could have been.
Roger L. Ransom is the author of Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and the American Civil War (1989) and Coping with Capitalism: The Economic Transformation of the United States, 1776-1980 (1981), and co-author of One Kind of Freedom (2001). He has also authored articles and co-authored other books. | <urn:uuid:40006622-91e5-4396-b3a3-598fcccee8a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://curledup.com/confamer.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980029 | 606 | 3.421875 | 3 |
No ignition at the U.S. National Ignition Facility, home to the world’s largest laser.
When it comes to nuclear reactions, you’ve got your fission and your fusion. Both garner energy from mass according to Einstein’s famous E=mc2, but in a different way. Fission — the process at work in an atomic bomb or a nuclear power plant — gets the energy by splitting a relatively heavy atom* (heavier than iron) into lighter atoms and particles. Fusion, by contrast, combines two atoms lighter than iron into a larger atom and a whole lot of energy.
And in our world, fusion is the real deal. The fusion reactions on the sun provide virtually all of the energy that drives our world — photosynthesis, weather, pretty much life as we know it. And with the exception of just four elements — hydrogen, helium, lithium, and beryllium — all of the elements in our world are byproducts of stars and their fusion-filled lives.
Imagine a World with Virtually Boundless Clean Energy
If there were a choice between fission and fusion, it’d be a no-brainer. Fusion is the holy grail of humanity’s quest for energy security.
Two downsides to fission: it requires fuels like uranium and plutonium that are in finite supply and it produces radioactive waste. Fusion produces zero waste and requires only hydrogen — the most abundant element in the universe.
Talk about a game changer. Scientists have been thinking about how to bring this game changer into the energy game for decades. (See fusion/fission timeline.) As far back as 1946, two British scientists — Sir George Paget Thomson and Moses Blackman — filed the first patent for a fusion power plant.
But there have been a couple of hold-ups. To get a fusion reaction started, you need to slam the hydrogen atoms together really, really hard and that requires a lot of energy. (In a hydrogen bomb, the fusion reaction gets ignited by an atomic bomb, using fission. Not exactly the preferred method for your local fusion power plant.)
Even trickier is controlling the fusion reaction. It’s one thing to make a fusion bomb, it’s a lot harder to get the reaction going and keep it under control in a way that the amount of energy extracted is larger than that expended to initiate and manage the reaction.
Over the almost 70-year pursuit of the fusionary holy grail, it’s been fairly common for scientists working on the problem to say that they’re about 30 years away from achieving a power plant based on fusion. (See here and here.) The problem has been that while time has marched on, the 30-year horizon has remained fixed. Suffice it to say it has proven to be a very tough problem.
The Big Fusion Ten
Currently there are about 10 major projects underway around the world trying to get a net-energy producing reaction. Several basic approaches are being tried to compress and heat the fuel to get ignition: lasers, magnets, X-rays and sound waves.
In recent years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has generally been viewed as the most promising: “Completed in March 2009, the $3.5 billion [NIF] machine is the size of three football fields and has 192 laser beams. The now-operational facility is capable of directing nearly two million joules of ultraviolet laser energy in billionth-of-a-second pulses to the target chamber center.”
With the facility’s lasers up and running and breaking temperature records, hopes were running high for NIF over the past year or two. Bold statements and predictions peppered in its literature [pdf] also made a breakthrough look promising, such as “NIF will be the first fusion facility to demonstrate ignition and self-sustaining burn, as required for a power station,” “Demonstration of net energy gain from fusion fuel (On target, by end of 2012),” and (my favorite) “LIFE was the holy cow game changer.” NIF also indicated [pdf] that the timeline for the first commercial fusion power plant had shrunk — instead of 30 years, it was now a mere 20 years away.
In February 2012, Mike Dunne, the director for energy laser fusion, explained the progress in some detail and included a qualified time line: “Overall our anticipation is that the prospects of getting to energy break-even look like roundabout six to 18 months away. … It’s impossible to predict in detail exactly what will happen and what the surprises will or won’t be. But it feels around that time scale.”
In March the journal Nature reported “Laser fusion nears crucial milestone,” and quoted Lawrence Livermore National Lab director Ed Moses saying that, as far as the lab’s efforts on ignition were concerned: “We have all the capability to make it happen in fiscal year 2012.”
But by July 19, 2012, the fusion bubble was burst. An external review [pdf] of NIF by the National Nuclear Security Administration presented a mixed bag of praise — “NIF has demonstrated an ‘unprecedented level of quality and accomplishment’”— and circumspection — “considerable hurdles must be overcome to reach ignition … [G]iven the unknowns with the present …approach, the probability of ignition before the end of December is extremely low.”
Just so happens that LIFE’s funding was to run out at the end of this fiscal year, which fell on September 30. Perhaps that’s why the fusion researchers were so publicly sanguine about having results by the end of 2012. So now the scientists hand off this energy holy grail to the politicians, transforming, at least for the time being, a scientific quest into a political football, or, you might say fusing the scientific and the political. What should Congress do? Scrap the project or double down? Just another spending issue poised on the fiscal cliff our folks on the Hill will have to wrestle with.
* A common fuel is the uranium isotope, U-235.
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Top Ten "Green" Thanksgiving Tips
Thanksgiving is one of the easiest holidays to green up. With the focus on giving thanks rather than gifts, we honor not only our family and friends but Nature's bounty, too.
1. Simplify the day. Celebrate being with those you love. Don't overdo the cooking - and savor whatever you make. Linger over dessert, play games, watch football or a favorite movie, take a walk. Revive special traditions from the past and create new ones you can turn to next Thanksgiving, and the holiday after that.
2. Decorate with boughs and berries. There's no need to buy fancy Thanksgiving decorations. Head out to your yard with a pair of shears and find tree branches, bush stems loaded with berries, flowers whose seed heads have dried on the stem, and flowering grasses to fill tall vases, hollowed out pumpkins, and autumnal baskets.
3. Let there be light. Illuminate your table with candles of varying heights and widths. Use votives in small glasses or carved sugar pumpkins.
4. Serve locally grown food. Even in colder, northern climates, farmers markets are still selling locally grown greens, potatoes, apples, pears, spices, breads, and cheeses. You'll find lots of good recipes for salads, side dishes and vegetarian entrees here, as well as heritage turkeys.
5. Offer organic beverages. From apple cider to wine and beer, you have plenty of organic drinks to choose from.
6. Eat all the food you make. Send guests home with leftovers in glass jars rather than wrapped in plastic or aluminum foil. Freeze leftovers in easily re-heatable portions.
7. Use reuseables. Serve your meal on cloth tablecloths and napkins, accompanied by "real" silverware and plates. Worried about cleaning up after a large crowd? Let everyone pitch in - that's half the fun!
8. Simmer cinnamon. Roasting vegetables and baking pies should infuse your home with delicious holiday aromas. For even more fragrant smells, simmer a few sticks of cinnamon and a few cloves of allspice on the stove. Dab a few drops of pine oil or other favorite fragrance on stones or pinecones that are part of your centerpiece.
9. Turn down the heat. If all your holiday cooking doesn't heat up your house, your guests will. Turn your thermostat down 3-5 degrees - no one will notice the difference.
10. Recycle and compost. Keep a bin handy for glass, plastic and paper trash you can recycle rather than toss. Make soup from vegetable peelings, leftover meat and bones. Picked-over vegetables can be composted, though remaining meat and bones will need to be thrown away. | <urn:uuid:af8c1dae-ad5d-43e3-a4d6-2b8abe8a560f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greenwoman.typepad.com/biggreenpurse/2008/11/top-ten-green-thanksgiving-tips.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92434 | 581 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Apple is about to start selling its products directly in Russia, and will look into opening retail stores at some point in the future, according to a report in today’s Moscow News.
In order to expand into Russian territory, Apple as registered a company called Apple Rus and assigned Vitaly Morozk, the company’s local legal advisor as its director general.
It is alleged that Apple executives travelled to Moscow in 2011 to find premises for an Apple store but did not find anything suitable. Apple opened the iTunes Store online in 2009.
According to Moscow News Apple could begin selling products directly in 2013, but it is unclear if and when any Apple stores could open.
Apple’s products in Russia are distributed via an array of third-party companies that work with Apple. The iPhone is distributed by Vimpelcom and MTS, while computers are largely distributed via diHouse, Marvel and OSC. Prior to 2009, however, most iPhones were imported into Russia via the grey market.
The new company, Apple Rus, is likely to begin by concentrating on distribution in Moscow and St Petersburg with the other companies working in other regions.
“You can often hear the opinion that as soon as Apple Store comes, the prices will fall,” said spokeswoman for Re:Store Retail Group, Lyudmila Semushina. “The prices will not fall. For the majority of Apple products, apart from iPhone, we have practically the same prices as in European countries, and they will remain. The products for Russia are not bought in via the U.S.A., but via Europe.”
“The only thing that can change for the better for the consumer is that there will be a smaller delay between announcing a new Apple gadget, and its appearance on the Russian market. But we are not the first place in this market. For Apple there are three major markets: U.S.A., Europe, China, who buy many times more than Russia,” Semushina told RIA Novosti. | <urn:uuid:83fe54b3-94a7-415c-951d-4f7ef26f04b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macworld.co.uk/apple-business/news/?newsid=3377054&pagtype=allchandate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962031 | 420 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
The following pronouns do not refer to specific people. They are indefinite.
Remember to use singular personal pronouns when referring to any of these words, as in the following example sentences.
Someone dropped his/her wallet in the cafeteria.
Everybody has his/her share of problems.
Anyone can succeed if he/she tries hard.
Note: In informal spoken English, plural personal pronouns are commonly used to refer to indefinite pronouns, as in these examples.
Someone dropped their wallet in the cafeteria.
Everybody has their share of problems.
Anyone can succeed if they try hard.
Some indefinite pronouns, such as both, few, many, others, and several, are considered to be plural. Study the following examples.
Both of them are here.
Few were at the meeting.
Although the weather was bad, many attended the performance.
Some people enjoyed the speech, but others weren't impressed.
Hardly anyone liked the food. In fact, several refused to eat it.
Some indefinite pronouns can take either singular or plural verbs, depending on their context. Compare the pairs of sentences below.
|Indefinite Pronoun||Singular Example||Plural Example|
|all||All is not lost.||All are here now.|
|any||I'd like more soup. Is any left in the pot?||I told several people about the meeting, but I don't know if any are coming.|
|more||If you are still hungry, there is more in the kitchen. Just help yourself.||The restaurant is already crowded, and more are waiting at the door.|
|most||Most disappeared.||A few people couldn't attend the ceremony, but most were able to come.|
|some||If you like orange juice, there is some in the refrigerator.||Some were disappointed with the judges' decision, but the majority of people thought it was fair.| | <urn:uuid:55096e7f-295d-4801-8a08-a317a721d05d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/410-indefinite-pronouns-agreement.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962848 | 409 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The following is Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman's response to recent criticisms about the new farm law.
May 23, 2002
Since passage of the farm bill earlier this month, there has been a full-court press to discredit the legislation. I felt the need to set the record straight on several key points that have not been accurately reflected in editorials and commentary on the farm bill.
Yes, it's true that this new farm bill provides stability and certainty to U.S. producers on whom Americans rely to ensure a productive, reliable and inexpensive food supply.
However, the farm bill does not include the massive increases in spending critics like to suggest. In fact, spending is increased in a manner consistent with U.S. farm policy since passage of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act. Opponents of the 2002 farm bill say it increases farm spending by 60 or 70 percent. That might technically be correct if you disregard supplemental appropriations passed by Congress in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 that added $30.5 billion in farm spending.
If you look at the whole picture, the increase in annual farm spending is roughly the same as it has been over the past four years - about $7.5 billion per year. The only difference is that farmers and ranchers now have stability and don't have to fight the supplemental appropriation battle in Congress each year. This is responsible from both a farm and a fiscal policy perspective.
When someone alleges that the farm bill violates U.S. commitments under the World Trade Organization, they are just plain wrong. One of the landmark measures in the farm bill is that it requires U.S. farm spending to be in compliance with our existing trade agreements.
Our international competitors are the ones leading the charge against the farm bill. To say foreign criticism is the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black" is an understatement. It is more like the pot calling the kettle gray.
While our competitors complain about our level of farm spending under WTO rules, these countries are able to spend much, much more to support their farmers - and they do. The United States is limited to spending $19.1 billion in farm subsidies under the WTO. The European Community's limit is $60 billion. Japan's spending cap is $30 billion.
But the farm bill does much more to help Americans and unfortunately those positive aspects have received very little attention. The farm bill provides record-level support for new conservation and environmental program - an 80% increase - to preserve America's wetlands and improve soil and water quality. It also helps low-income Americans by increasing assistance for food stamp and important nutrition programs for children. This farm bill contains strong energy provisions, looking to agriculture for renewable energy sources and solutions. And, the farm bill invests more for critical research, food safety, animal and plant disease protections, trade development and rural communities.
When President Bush signed the farm bill into law, he said it wasn't a perfect bill - none ever is. But the American people need to know all the facts about the farm bill rather than just the latest spin from those who look at farm policy from a very narrow perspective.
Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
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Material ConneXion Stimulates Creativity and Innovation
Christina Karadsheh fingered and stroked some of the samples on display at the opening event for the installation of a Material ConneXion Library at Kendall. Clearly she couldn't wait to get her hands on the cutting edge materials now available to Kendall students. Christina, a senior in the interior design program, is working on a health care project that is required to be LEED certified. She is hoping to find textiles and other materials in the library for her project. Another student, Jacob Kapusta, a freshman in digital illustration, says he plans to get inspiration from the resource library for his schoolwork. He, too, fingered a sample, tracing the intersecting lines of a woven, webbed material. "I'm interested in how the lines intersect and whether it has an organic quality," he mused, carefully analyzing it from several angles.
The New York-based Material ConneXion, the brainchild of George M. Beylerian, has showrooms in five cities around the world and libraries like this one in other venues. For example, Haworth in Holland has a large Innovation Library. When the Federal building is renovated the Kendall library will be housed there.
Innovation is what Material ConneXion is all about, says Tara McCrackin, Coordinator of the Material ConneXion Resource Center. "Students will use the collection to find materials for their projects or they will be inspired to be creative."
"They have access to lots of materials but these are the ones with the 'Wow' factor," she says. Material ConneXion is the largest library of innovative and sustainable materials and processes in the world. Each month between 40 and 60 new materials are added to the library, keeping it current and forward-looking.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Is Your Face Too Clean?
So the added cost for these products are usually not worth it. If you have rosacea or acne that causes the skin to redden, then it's probably best to avoid soaps with built-in scrubbers, beads or exfoliators, as they can redden skin further. Another irritant is what you use to clean - fingertips can usually do the job without irritating skin, like a loofah or rough washcloth might. Take note of how your skin feels after you clean it. If it feels dry and tight, then you should consider a gentler cleaner. Using a moisturizer after cleaning your face is usually necessary, and it's a great idea to invest in one that contains SPF to protect skin from the sun. During this step, it's OK to look for a moisturizer that contains anti-aging or anti-acne ingredients, since this layer will stay on your face longer than a cleanser. | <urn:uuid:1fdaa356-7d72-450c-a67f-822dd8cee777> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mydailymoment.com/style_and_beauty/beauty_tips/is_your_face_too_clean_.php?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947267 | 205 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Editor’s NOTE: The following op-ed, penned by me, was published in Daily Times in two parts. The first part was published on June, 26, 2012 and the second part was published on June 27, 2012. For convenience of the readers I’m pleased to cross-post both the parts together on my blog from Daily Times without any editing. (Ali Salman Alvi)
Peace is fast becoming a distant dream amidst the aberrant state of affairs in Pakistan; almost everyday people are killed in the name of religion, ethnicity, enmity and honor. The state institutions have shown little or no interest in putting an end to these killings, especially the ones being committed in the name of religion. Instead of persecuting the militants carrying out these terrorist activities, government is found pandering to the militants behind such killings, hence emboldening the killers and instilling terror and insecurity in all religious minorities. On the other hand, the superior judiciary of the country that, otherwise, sounds keen to nip every evil in the bud, remains apathetic to the carnage that poses an imminent threat of inflicting a civil war in the country. Shia populace, by far, has been the most affected community at the hands of these incessant killings in a bid to establish shari’ah in the region. Despite several protests against the relentless Shia killings and countless appeals, the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan who is otherwise, known for his judicial activism and the knack of taking suo motu notices fervently, has apparently refused to move. This is despite the gravity of the deteriorating situation of law and order pertaining to the minorities’ persecution in general and Shia killings in particular. This shows apathy from the superior judiciary, which has strengthened the exceedingly growing perception among the Shia community that the state institutions, including the superior judiciary, are shielding the militants who have had pyromania against the belief and community of Shias in Pakistan. The negative reactions of those who have been silent upon the genocide of the innocuous community of Shias in Pakistan have vandalised the ethos of national integrity. Terming the ongoing Shia killings as a ‘sensitive’ issue, thus impermissible to be discussed, the mainstream electronic and print media have also turned a blind eye to the frequency and ferocity of these events. In the latest episode of Shia genocide, five more Shia students have been killed and another 70 are injured, as unknown yet ‘well-known’ terrorists detonated a remote-controlled bomb, planted in a jeep parked along a road, when a bus carrying 75 Shia students, from Hazara community, of Balochistan Information Technology University drove past.
Plagued by the aforementioned mayhem of law and order, members of Shia community have been inexorably massacred in Pakistan since the late 1980s by a group of terrorists, now known as Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat. It is the latest incarnation of the outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) that was established in 1985 by Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, another explosive product of the Islamic seminaries functioning in Pakistan, on the behest of the then President of Pakistan Ziaul Haq. That was for the sake of spearheading Zia’s strategy ‘to teach Pakistani Shias a lesson’ after they had refused to pay zakat to his regime. Assisted by the perusal assiduity of a similar school of thought in Pakistan’s security infrastructure, the militant organisation manifestly targeted high profile Shias, holding important offices, aside from indiscriminate bloodshed of common peole belonging to the Shia community in Pakistan. From 1987 to 2011, as many as 5,000 Shias are estimated to have been killed in order to establish ‘real’ shari’ah in the land of pure by the hotheaded Islamists. The terrorist outfit Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat, currently led by Ahmad Ludhianvi, epitomises the self-righteous mentality of the hardcore religious fanatics who are on a mission to enforce their version of Islam on others at gunpoint. To top it all, this mindset has been incessantly nurtured by a number of seminaries fanatically working in different parts of the country, bereft of any regulation by the authorities whatsoever. It is an indoctrination of vulnerable minds with hatred and ‘holy’ violence, thus perpetrating a fresh breed of militants, intoxicated by absolute intolerance for those who dare to differ with their ideology. Heaps of decrees released by radical clerics at different times, declaring Shias as ‘infidels’ and thus liable to be killed, have only added fuel to flames. Forlorn, there is either no political will to eliminate militancy or the will is preposterously bemused and fragmented. Plausible deniability of the existence of a number of sanctuaries for terrorists in Southern Punjab has played its own role to facilitate the religious fanaticism penetrating deeper in our society.
A couple of months ago, the media cell of the SSP/LeJ released a video footage of the Balochistan’s Mastung massacre in which 27 Shia pilgrims, hailing from the Hazara tribe, were forced off a bus and subsequently shot dead in cold blood by LeJ’s militants in September 2011. The video, posted on internet, puts on show some incredibly horrific scenes of the callous carnage, inculcating the real terror, in the minds of the audience, emanating from the unperturbed and unhurried comportment of the killers. The helpless pilgrims are hauled off a bus by ruthless terrorists and forced to assemble on the ground. As a jihadi anthem, extolling the militants’ inalienable commitment to the mission of exterminating ‘infidels’, blares in the backdrop of the footage, the militants open indiscriminate fire on the besieged pilgrims with automatic firearms at a point blank range. The video then goes on to show a young boy, most likely a teenager, clasping his hands in despair and pleading for some mercy. One of the terrorists responds to the boy by gunning him down. Another terrorist is then seen walking around the bullet-riddled bodies of the slain pilgrims, unhurriedly but deliberately firing into them, to guarantee that no one gets away alive. After graphically recording all the carnage, the camera points to the ground, showing the shadow of a terrorist pumping his fist in the air in delight.
Just like the massacre itself, the released video of the carnage managed to evade successfully the attention of the law enforcing agencies as well as the free and the hyperactive judiciary. Albeit the Chief Justice of Baluchistan High Court (BHC), Qazi Faez Isa, in an unprecedented move took a suo motu notice of the Mastung massacre, but without disturbing the militants or their ‘mentors’. For that matter, the case seems to have already passed into oblivion, thanks to the ‘memogate’ commission headed by BHC’s Chief Justice Isa snubbing any chance of the Mastung incident to be heard in the court, thus incarnating the legal maxim of ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. The memogate commission consumed almost six months in an attempt to resolve the ‘mystery; surrounding a piece of paper that apparently has no locus standi. The nihility of any efficacious action by the state has inevitably encouraged terrorist groups to continue wrecking havoc on the Shia community.
One cannot and should not see any incident involving Shia killings in isolation. It has to be analysed in line with all such attacks resulting in scores of Shias being killed throughout the length and breadth of Pakistan. Be it Karachi, Quetta, Lahore, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu, Parachinar, Gilgit, southern Punjab, Kohistan or Chilas, Shia killings have turned into a well-thought out genocide of the Shia community in Pakistan. As per the official data released in 2010, more than 12,500 seminaries (almost 65 percent of the total seminaries running in Pakistan) are located in Punjab. A breakdown of those located in Punjab clearly ascertains a preponderant cluster of more than 7,000 seminaries operating in southern Punjab, providing the felicitous recruiting grounds for the terrorist and militant organisations. It took more than four long years for the Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to accept the reality that the volatile southern belt of his province is a ‘breeding ground’ for militants. Nevertheless, whether the chief minister, who is also Punjab’s home minister, is ready to take on the sectarian and jihadist outfits concentrated in and operating from southern Punjab as well as other quarters of the province remains a big question. Whilst sitting on the top of a volcano that is very much alive, we are hoping against hope that it will never erupt, hoodwinking nobody but ourselves. Living in a delusional world at the cost of your life is never a good idea.
Apart from massacring members of the Shia community and other religious minorities, these self- righteous militant groups have been actively involved in publishing and distributing literature spewing venom against any group or individual who dares to challenge their ideology. Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Shaheed Salmaan Taseer and the slain federal minister for minorities’ affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti are the prominent public figures to fall prey to the same mindset that is dealing some serious blows to the integrity and solidarity of Pakistan. The road to peace in Pakistan, unquestionably, does not offer a smooth drive. With our tribal areas falling to the militants and our society, at large, having the perilous proclivity of favouring the militancy by using a variety of lame excuses, the dream of seeing peace prevailing in Pakistan sounds like a distant one. In dire straits, Pakistan needs to harmonise its political response originating from a productive stratagem of showing zero tolerance to miscreants and their sanctuaries. The state institutions need to come out of their coma and should formulate an efficacious strategy to go all out in order to combat the fierce menace of terrorism. Our security infrastructure desperately necessitates an unprecedented purge to get rid of the personnel and policies facilitating the militants in any way using any cover. Eliminating seminaries that provide the recruiting grounds for the terrorist and militant organisations is indeed indispensable for any chance of eradicating the cancer of extremism from Pakistan.
Pakistan direly needs a democratic system with the basic principles of having laws for minorities and an attitude of tolerance towards the oppressed. Laws originate from the ‘constitutional’ tenets of a democratic country and tolerance comes from the psychological mindset of its inhabitants. To reinstate democracy to its fullest authority and governance, one has to separate state-related affairs from religious ones. The state should have no business in deciding the credibility of one’s religion as long as one is not imperilling the lives of fellow citizens in the name of one’s beliefs. The amalgamation of political ideologies with religious ideologies has already made a nexus of chaotic perceptions in Pakistan in particular and worldwide in general. Any elected government has to follow denominations of ‘constitutional democracy’, ‘human rights’ and ‘law and order’ at any cost. On the other hand, the army should be in the defence wing of the country and not in the administrative parameters. Regimes like General Zia’s catapulted political and religious matters, making them akin, but in return, made them ever so abysmal, consequently increasing the wedge between radical elements and the moderate population of Pakistan. Home affairs (law and order, minority rights, justice) should come first rather than religious/vote bank appeasement of a few minds who flout peace of the entire nation. Mainstream political parties, specially the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf should shun them rather than give them a pedestal. Being a democratic country, Pakistan must stop all kinds of intervention in its internal matters keeping its sovereignty in mind. The religious persecution of Shias and their relentless killings at a rampant rate by declaring them as infidels, has come from Saudi Arabia and the likeminded states in the Gulf. Pakistan will have to realise that religious introspection is more vital than religious intervention. The bottom line is that the current frenzied situation demands something huge to be done on an emergency basis, and that too now. It has already become a matter of now or never. | <urn:uuid:6a6191a6-37bf-4048-8eb2-57ac06e9c9a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alisalmanalvi.wordpress.com/tag/hazara/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946714 | 2,582 | 1.609375 | 2 |
I originally wrote this as a paper for a class on Old Testament Law in its Ancient Near East context. For the last several months I’ve been trying to put it into words that would make sense for people who haven’t read a lot on Old Testament Law or Ancient Near East Law. Let me know how I did.
The inequity in the Old Testament laws between the value of women and the value of men has always troubled me. An example of this is Exodus 21:2-11. This is the beginning of the Covenant Code. It was given to Israel in the same stretch that they receive the 10 commandments. It is written as case law. This means that a case is presented, “If this thing happens…” followed by how that case should be dealt with, “Then do this…” Typically a few modifications of the case will be explored before moving on to the next case.
Here, we are given the case of the man sold into debt slavery (like an indentured servant) and the female sold into debt slavery. In the case of the man, we see that he is set free after six years unless he choose to remain with his master permanently. Limits on how long a person could serve to work off his debt were common in Ancient Near East laws. This was to protect the poor from being exploited and enslaved indefinitely.
2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. (NIV)
But in verse 7 we see, quite clearly, that the daughter sold into slavery is not to be released after six years like the man. Instead she is to remain with her master indefinitely unless certain requirements are met (or not met).
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. 9 If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. 10 If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. 11 If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money. (NIV)
I originally thought this was simply because of her gender, but it’s more nuanced than that.
The first hint that something is different is is that she is referred to as a daughter, not a woman, not a wife. Her primary identity is in relationship to her father. She is unmarried.
Then we she that she is “designated” for her master or for his son. Either way, she is given the rights of a daughter while in this designated state. She had been designated to marry him (either the master or the son). Until they are married, she is to be treated like a daughter. As a daughter her sexuality is protected.
If, she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself (v8) he must let her be redeemed. He cannot sell her to foreign people. Because he took her with the intention of marrying her, but chooses not to marry her, he cannot put her in a situation where she might be taken advantage of by another family or master. He cannot sell her to people who might not honor the intent of her original contract and either treat her like a slave or a prostitute. Instead, he must let her be redeemed. This means he has to give her family the option to take her back. It’s a little more complicated than that and money would probably have to change hands at this point but let’s keep it simple for now.
Verse 10 is a pretty strong indication that she was designated as a wife. It says that if he takes another wife, indicating that he already has a wife, the woman we’re talking about here. If he takes another wife he cannot diminish the first wive’s food clothing or marital rights. He must continue to provide for her as his wife, even if he gets another wife. If he fails to provide for her, she can go out without payment of money. This protects her as a servant/wife from being downgraded to servant if a better wife option comes along. It also means that she doesn’t have to pay off any debt or anything he might think that she owes him.
This is where it all ties together.
Back in the day when a couple married, the woman would bring a dowry (money or goods) into the marriage; this would contribute to the new family’s household. The husband would pay a brideprice to the woman’s family. The brideprice compensated the family for the economic loss of a daughter in the household. The bigger a woman’s dowry, the better her chances of marriage. This dowry was also her safety net. If her husband sent her away, he sent her dowry with her.
The woman in question, in verse 7 was too poor to provide a dowry. Instead, she went to go live with and work for/with the family she would marry into until she was married. They took on the financial burden of providing for her and got the financial blessing of an extra set of hands as she lived with them in anticipation of getting old enough to get married. If she leaves, they loose the extra set of hands. To some extent, they paid for her and could argue that if she were to leave they should be reimbursed for their financial investment. This passage says that isn’t the case. She must be treated well and if she’s not, she can leave and she owes them nothing.
As awful as this situation may sound to my 21st century North American sensibilities, it was a way for a father to provide for and protect his daughter. It was a way for her dad to find a husband for her if he didn’t have enough money to provide an attractive dowry. She gets married. He must treat her well and provide for her. This prevents her from being single her whole life (a worse proposition in ancient times than we would consider it today for too many reasons to go into) and it prevents her from needing to provide for herself (prostitution). She is legitimately a wife and is legally protected.
This law is designed to protect a very vulnerable member of ancient society the poor, single woman.
*Compare to Deuteronomy 15:12-18 where both the woman and the man serve for six years. This is another reason why I think Exodus 21:7-11 is a unique marriage situation, because a woman who serves as a normal indentured servant can go free after six years, like the man. | <urn:uuid:83414bac-9f57-4ec5-992a-aadec2a10789> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://womanwifemomtheologian.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/because-you-woke-up-this-morning-wondering-why-the-slave-girl-was-a-slave-for-life-when-the-man-was-set-free-after-six-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989081 | 1,565 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Pathe have rights to clips in Time to Remember programmes but not to commentary or whole programme as screened.
01:00:12 British troops walking through muddy and water filled trench. L/S troops in trenches.
01:00:46 Opening Titles - "Time to remember - a programme...
The Dutch demonstrate some new innovations in camping equipment.
A meteorological office in the desert helps flying squadrons keep track of the elements.
Soldier of 4th Combat Camera Unit steps out of his tent with his camera.
Women Red Cross workers posing in front of tent.
Good shots of British Naval Reserves in a camp.
Girls in swimsuits put up a tent in the studio - dupe of PSP 893.
People rescue possessions from bomb damaged buildings - possibly Spain.
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Tamed creatures are those that are trained to coexist with people. They are, normally, non-volatile and capable of being handled by those who have them. These creatures have varying levels of strength, but tend to be weaker than most of the higher classes of Feral. Feral
A Feral creature is a creature that is completely untamed. They live almost exclusively in the Lyusian Fields, where they roam freely. All Feral that come within 20 miles of the school are immediately captured and/or terminated on sight, so as to prevent them from attacking students. They usually range from different levels of volatility, but they're all dangerous in their own ways. Feral are never to be brought into the school without the consent of the Animal and Wildlife Research Department of Vanguard Academia. The strength and danger of a Feral is labelled by its energy signature, which can be seen by use of special tracking magic. Only those who wish to gain this magic can see energy levels.
- Blue Feral - Lowest level. They are non-volatile, weak creatures.
- Green Feral - Second lowest level. They tend to be passive-aggressive creatures, only attacking once they are disturbed.
- Gold Feral - The middle level. They begin to be volatile around this level, only attacking once their territory is invaded.
- Red Feral - Second highest level. They are fairly volatile by this point. They attack normally once their territories are invaded or if they have become hungry.
- White Feral - The highest level. These are extremely powerful creatures that tend to be extensively violent. They are very prone to attacking upon seeing a target, and are sometimes relentless in their pursuit. They are rare only to the farthest parts of the Lyusian Fields, going towards the Ring of Fire.
Special creatures that reside in the Vanguard Campus and the Lyusian Fields. They are powerful White Feral-level creatures with links to the coalitions, themselves. These creatures are the Black Dragon, Volcano Lion, Forest Basilisk, and Cloud Hawk. Currently having no names, they watch over the student body and work to make sure none of them are harmed. Though there can be some that take the creatures with them, this is a highly unlikely event. Sentinels
The sentinels are man-made creatures that watch over the students along with the Guardians. They are 30 foot tall, animated marble statues that attack with various weapons. The different sentinels range from the Archer, Knight, and Blaster Sentinels. The first of which uses bows and arrows, the second uses a sword and shield, while the final utilizes cannons. These sentinels are incredibly tough to destroy with magic, due to being powered by magic-resistant runes. The only known way to defeat them is through the use of forbidden magic. Hellbeasts
A special breed of creature, which are wrought from Hell itself. They are many times more powerful than a Feral, and are always volatile and quite deadly. They range in many sizes, which denotes their power. The smallest have been recorded to being under one foot, while the tallest have been shown as towering over 150 feet in height. However, there is proof of many existing that are much taller. They are the rarest form of creature, and are not capable of being in existence without a Hell Gate being opened. | <urn:uuid:0d81fd3f-0ccb-4180-9474-94dae853053e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/f425/vanguard-academia-140171-print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972703 | 690 | 2.625 | 3 |
Nanotech has taken a major step along the road to molecular electronics with the demonstration that one molecule of benzene can form a highly conductive junction between two platinum electrodes. From an article on nanotechweb.org, written by Belle Dumé (requires free registration) “Ballistic breakthrough could lead to molecular logic gates“:
The first highly-conductive connection between a single organic molecule and a metal electrode has been made by an international team of physicists. This achievement could lead to the development of ‘molecular electronics’ devices with the potential to be smaller and faster than conventional transistors and logic gates.
The majority of electronic devices are made from just a handful of semiconductor materials — the most common being silicon. However, some organic molecules such as DNA appear to have electronic properties similar to traditional semiconductors and some researchers believe that some types of molecules could be used to make electronic devices.
A potential benefit of such devices is that molecules are extremely small compared to semiconductor structures, which could help manufacturers pack more and more circuits onto a chip.
However, it has proven very difficult to connect single molecules to a metal electrode such that electrons are conducted easily between the two. These junctions are essential for making real-world devices like transistors and logic gates.
…Now, Jan van Ruitenbeek of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands along with colleagues in Australia, Germany and Spain may have solved this problem by making the first highly conductive molecular junctions. This involved binding benzene molecules directly to platinum metal electrodes, and the team found that the conductance of these devices reaches the maximum value possible for a single electron channel.
…”What makes this work stand out is that [the scientists] have presented a new way to attach organic molecules to metal electrodes, by forming a direct metal-carbon bond, and have proven conclusively that their devices have a strong metal-molecule link,” commented Latha Venkataraman of Columbia University in an American Physical Society Viewpoint article on the research. “This enables them to overcome a major barrier in molecular based devices,” she said.
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The West of yore must have been a miserable, filthy place, with lonesome settlers teetering precariously atop a stack of long odds. Or so you might conclude after surfing the U.S. Geological Survey's database of place and landform names. The region certainly has a corner on Disappointments, with 46 of the nation's 53 references falling in the 11 Western states and Alaska. And we have just a third of the 903 places dubbed Happy, despite all the Sheep we possess - over 1,500 out of the total 1,943. Unfortunately, counting sheep helps insomnia, not low spirits, and this land is harsh: Over 2,800 Western place names contain the word Dry, while 1,343 others are Lost. And Death lies around every corner, literally, with 122 of 159 falling here (Starve to Death, Froze to Death, Death Valley). Skulls and Bones are rampant (193 out of 293 and 212 out of 577 respectively), as are Rifles (61 of 135) and Knifes (72 of 136; 22 of the Butcher variety). Not surprising then, that we also have all five Cannibals (plenty of company for Hinsdale County, Colo.'s infamous Alferd Packer). Or that Devils (969 of 1,856) haunt the landscape as though this were Hell itself (571 of 987). To top it off, the West is pretty Dirty, with 60 of 88 so-named spots, perhaps explaining our unusual preoccupation with Bathtubs (39 of 46). Amid all this gloom, where does one turn for solace? To lecherous thoughts, of course (86 of 99 Nipples can be found here, often attached to a Molly or Nellie or Clara), and also, even more enthusiastically, to Whiskey (339 of 476). But such comforts are fleeting when you're at the mercy of Chance (with 359 of 558 references), and though sometimes it's First Chance or Lucky Chance or Fighting Chance, usually it's Last Chance. Maybe it's no coincidence that Oregon and Washington have six features named Jump Off Joe.
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Lex wrote: Pleasurable sensations, e.g. the taste of food, would then be the positive feedback counterpart that encourages organisms to do things that are good for them.
Bert wrote:You mean, eat chocolate and ice cream instead of liver and onions
Jung He Fah Toy wrote:The nerves don't interpret anything at all, the brain does. So why doesn't pain go to the brain?
Jung He Fah Toy wrote:But why does your back feel it not your brain. Your brain understnads where the signal is coming from, but does that really make a difference? Is pain something triggered by the brain? "Hey elbow, hurt!" Again its for every physical feeling.
threewood14 wrote:If this is true, and if I have some mental illness, then if somebody struck me in the back, I could feel it in my shoulder. My brain would tell the wrong body part to feel pain.
Supposedly, some people on LSD report that they can hear colors and see flavors, etc.
Apotheosis wrote:The dentist then went to the next tooth, and all of a sudden the synesthete saw a bright orange and said that's the one! That's the tooth that hurts!
The more you study the more you know. The more you know the more you forget. The more you forget the less you know. So why study?
The less you study the less you know. The less you know the less you forget. The less you forget the more you know. So why study?
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AT&T Study: One in Five U.S. Businesses Does Not Have a Business Continuity Plan in Place
IT Execs: 'Hacking' Will Be Most Significant Threat to Cybersecurity in the Next Five Years
San Antonio, Texas, June 2, 2008
Despite the man-made and natural disasters that are a reality today, many businesses are not fully prepared to maintain their business operations in the event of an emergency, according to an annual AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) study on business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness for U.S. businesses in the private sector.
According to the report, one in five businesses does not have a business continuity plan developed. Additionally, for the third year in a row, the national survey finds that nearly 30 percent of U.S. businesses do not consider business continuity planning a priority.
For the seventh consecutive year, AT&T's Business Continuity Study surveyed IT executives from companies throughout the United States that have at least $25 million in annual revenue to get their views on disaster planning and business continuity trends.
Other key findings from the 2008 AT&T Business Continuity Study include:
- Security continues to be key. Even though organizations have learned how to better recognize and even deal with worms, viruses and other threats, there's no question that security remains a critical concern. Two-thirds of IT executives predict that hacking will emerge as the most significant threat to cybersecurity in the next five years. The next most frequently mentioned threats are internal, including accidents (56 percent), sabotage (47 percent) and remote workers (44 percent).
- Organizations may evolve, but business continuity plans are left untouched. Six out of 10 companies have made some type of business change in the past year that would warrant updating their business continuity plans. However, only 28 percent updated the plans because of any of the changes. Business changes cited by respondents include initiated new or expanded marketing efforts, expanded office space or a moved office, initiated new or expanded online or digital customer service or ordering capabilities, or the company made an acquisition or merged.
- Simplicity is important with hosted solutions. Even though a hosted environment can provide a company with the resources it needs to continue its business operations, businesses have concerns. Sixty percent of IT executives view security, reliability and cost as their top concerns when thinking about using a hosted environment, and 37 percent are concerned about complexity.
- Too much information, not enough space to store it. More than one-fourth (28 percent) of IT executives have experienced problems in the past year with insufficient storage space on their company's computers or servers for virtual records.
- Employee communication is critical. The vast majority (79 percent) of companies surveyed have special arrangements for communicating with key executives during a natural disaster. Although 80 percent of companies have automated text messaging or e-mail capabilities to reach employees outside of work, only 39 percent of companies have automated calling systems to reach those employees by telephone or mobile phone.
"Businesses of all sizes need to be vigilant about business continuity planning, especially in light of the fact that day-to-day demands of running a business are mounting," said Bill Archer, chief marketing officer-AT&T Business. "However, a business continuity plan is not enough and in fact, not all companies have one in place. Organizations must regularly test and update their plans to reflect changes in their business so that, in the event of disaster or major security breach, they can be best-prepared to restore and maintain key processes and operations."
AT&T brings its own business continuity and disaster recovery expertise in running and managing some of the world's largest and most complex networks — including its own — to businesses worldwide.
AT&T offers a wide array of business continuity services, encompassing disaster planning, risk management, recovery preparedness and communications readiness. AT&T Business Continuity Services are comprehensive, providing enterprises with business-impact analysis, risk assessments, a full continuum of storage solutions, high-availability network solutions and network and IT security solutions.
The company also conducts Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) exercises several times a year. These are designed to test, refine and strengthen AT&T's business continuity and disaster recovery services in order to minimize network downtime. By simulating large-scale disasters and network service disruptions, AT&T can apply and refine best practices for rapidly restoring communications to government and business customers.
Throughout the past 10 years, AT&T has invested more than $500 million in its NDR program, which includes specially trained managers, engineers and technicians from across the United States, as well as a fleet of more than 150 self-contained equipment trailers and support vehicles that house the same equipment and components as an AT&T data-routing or voice-switching center.
For more information on the AT&T 2008 Business Continuity Study, visit http://www.att.com/biz_continuity_study.
The 2008 AT&T Business Continuity Study is based on results from a telephone survey of 500 Information Technology (IT) executives in five U.S. metropolitan/regional areas, including Chicago, New York, North Carolina (Charlotte/Raleigh/Greensboro), Seattle/Portland and South-Central Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston). The sample of participating companies was drawn from Dun and Bradstreet's business list of companies with at least $25 million in revenue located in each of the five areas. The metropolitan areas are based on DMAs (Designated Market Areas). Interviewing was conducted between April 2 and April 17, 2008, and the interviews averaged 10 minutes in length.
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The Parish and the Apostolic Formation of the Laity: 1 hour. Originally given at the theological symposium, Can You Tell Me What a Parish Is?, Loyola University, Chicago. What is at stake in the evangelization and formation of our own at the parish level? Salvation, transformation, vocation and mission, apostolic creativity, and the fulfillment of the pastoral office.
The Parish: Mission or Maintenance? Based upon presentations that Sherry Weddell and Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP gave in Rome in 2000. The theology behind the Called & Gifted workshop.
Making Disciples, Equipping Apostles: One day. Drawn from the Institute’s national seminar, Making Disciples, Equipping Apostles. The vision and building blocks necessary to make your parish a center of evangelization and formation for the laity.
Building Christian Community: We were meant to seek God and we were meant to find Him together. How nurturing a community of disciples in our parishes changes everything. | <urn:uuid:d9812108-eb19-48c2-8dfa-43e2555a13b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.siena.org/What-We-Offer-Article/faith-formation/Print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922099 | 203 | 1.710938 | 2 |
| Global Times | 2012-7-3 1:10:05
By Global Times
Shark fin soup will likely be banned from official banquets in about three years, according to the Government Offices Administration of the State Council, reported the China Network Television yesterday.
The administration said the ban on shark fins at State functions is likely to take three years to implement but could be done in one or two years if proper conditions prevail.
The administration was responding to a proposal by 30 National People's Congress deputies who called for shark fin to be taken off the menu at official banquets during this year's "two sessions."
The deputies said in their proposal that some 70 to 100 million sharks are killed for only their fins every year, and 44 species of shark have been listed in China as endangered or facing extinction.
The administration said it will continue to hammer out details clarifying the ban on shark fin consumption at official receptions in coordination with other government bodies.
Over 95 percent of the annual harvest of shark fin worldwide is consumed on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to a news report by people.com.cn.
In an apparent attempt to limit lavish banquets that often feature expensive shark fin, the administration also said the cost of official receptions should be reduced, and funds allocated to official banquets needs to be cut.
Discipline inspection and supervision departments will also have to do their job and punishing those who organize lavish official banquets.
NPC delegate, Ding Liguo, also proposed at last year's meeting that the country should outlaw the trading of shark fin in an effort to maintain the ecological balance of the world's oceans.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on the other hand has ruled that publically funded official banquets "must not include exorbitant food materials and endangered species such as shark fin," Tsang Tak-sing, secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong, said in May last year.
Since ancient times shark fin has been considered a delicacy that also perks up one's health, especially when consumed prior to the onset of winter.
Guo Guangchang, a NPC deputy who wants shark fin banned from banquets believes it may actually harm human health.
"It's difficult for the human body to absorb the nutrient in shark fin, plus there are excessive levels of lead and mercury in it," said Guo.
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last updated: November 03, 2010 06:05:51 PM
WASHINGTON — With Republicans in control of the House of Representatives next year, Obama administration officials are likely to be grilled often on environmental decisions such from the deepwater drilling moratorium to restrictions on protected Western lands.
A special House panel on global warming probably will be axed. Efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency from reducing air and carbon pollution are likely. There's no chance for a grand scheme to require cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases, something President Barack Obama acknowledged in a press conference on Wednesday.
Still, polls have shown that Americans by a large majority favor clean energy to produce jobs and reduce pollution. While the likely new chairmen haven't given many specifics yet about their plans, Obama and others see possibilities for some action on clean energy.
For example, there's some Republican support for ideas like a renewable electricity standard, which would require a percentage of electricity to be generated from renewable sources such as solar and wind. There also could be support for electric vehicles as a way to boost energy independence, or for efficiency measures that reduce costly energy waste.
Republicans in their energy plan supported making tax credits permanent for solar, wind and other renewable energy, something that renewable energy developers say is crucial for building up these energy sources.
Anna Aurelio of Environment America, an advocacy group, said Congress is likely to protect federal subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy. At a news conference, she brought out a pair of green plastic scissors and said that's where the budget cuts should be.
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., is expected to become the new chairman of the Natural Resources Committee. The League of Conservation Voters gives him a lifetime score of 2 percent.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership could go to Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, or to Fred Upton of Michigan or Cliff Stearns of Florida.
Barton has said he wants the EPA to reconsider its plans to reduce mercury, smog and other pollution from power plants and other sources.
Congress could also see bipartisan efforts to block the EPA, at least temporarily, from reducing carbon emissions from large sources.
President Barack Obama would be able to veto such legislation, and it's not expected that there'd be enough votes to override him. Obama Wednesday indicated he continued to support EPA climate action.
"The EPA is under a court order that says greenhouse gases are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction," he said. "And I think one of the things that's very important for me is not to have us ignore the science, but rather to find ways that we can solve these problems that don't hurt the economy (and) that encourage the development of clean energy" in a way that creates jobs.
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STEVE an experienced and enthusiastic wildlife photographer enjoys helping others to avoid and overcome some of the pitfalls and mistakes that are easily fallen into while trying to photograph wildlife. As a qualified teacher of adult education Steve has set up and runs a series of practical workshops.
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Help participants to enjoy, improve and succeed with their photography.
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There are a number of different workshops on offer, using a variety of subjects in different locations, covering all the seasons of the year. Habitats included are rocky out crops with heather and bilberry cover, a church yard, parkland, farmland and buildings, bluebell covered woodland and open heath land, with each site offering its own unique features. During the day birds may also be flown and one on each workshop will be set onto prey.
Workshops usually run from 10.30am until 4.30pm with a break for lunch. Participants will be limited, and each workshop will be tailored to them, and run in a relaxed and informative way. As much time as possible will be spent out in the field with the subjects. Tuition and guidance will be given to each individual member as the day progresses. Trained, skilled and very knowledgeable handlers will be on hand to control the subjects and answer any questions you may have regarding them.
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Steve can also arrange half day workshops with a particular bird in mind, whilst he also offers one to one tuition.
NEW for 2013 Steve now offers a mentoring service which allows you to receive coaching from me to help and support you with your photography. All photographic standards are welcome and you can be assured of individual tuition. Please contact Steve for more details on any of the above.
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Welcome to Handwriting Analyst©! With this program, you will gain deep insight into the personalities of others - whether you've met them or not. The world is filled with fascinating strangers, celebrities, historical figures, potential business associates or employees, and many others. Handwriting Analyst© gives you access to these people as well as to your family, friends and acquaintances. All you need is a person's signature, and accurate personality assessment reports can be produced. Handwriting Analyst© makes it possible for you to do the analysis yourself, without formal training in graphology!
There are other software programs which analyze personality in different ways. Some use colors or adjective checklists to produce personality assessment reports. Unfortunately, these programs either require the cooperation of the subject or careful observation of the individual, so they can only be used for assessing people who the user has met. Further, if the software user must check a list of adjectives after barely meeting an individual, it is easy to pick the wrong adjectives and generate an inaccurate report since some adjectives require in-depth knowledge of the person before they can be accurately checked.
When people have their handwriting analyzed, they receive revealing information about themselves from an analyst who may examine nothing more than their signature or a few sentences scribbled on a piece of paper. To the superstitious, it is as if Handwriting Analyst© has mysterious occultic powers. Handwriting analysis has nothing to do with the occult and does not attempt to foretell the future. It does, however, reveal an individual's personality through handwriting at a particular point in time.
Handwriting can be viewed as a social activity, as finger and hand movements which result in strokes, and as letter shape formations. Writing a letter or note to someone is a social activity involving interpersonal communication. An image in the writer's mind of the person to whom the letter is being written influences the writer's behavior in ways which vary according to the writer's personality.
Writers habitually form letter shapes in characteristic ways. The formations of different writers vary in respect to the type of the letter form as well as in respect to size, width, height and style. Specific characteristics of the handwriting indicate the presence of correspondingly distinct personality traits. The written document thereby provides a foundation for drawing psychological conclusions about the writer. Finger and hand movements involved in writing result in strokes which can be fast, slow, straight, round, long, short, heavy, powerful, lively, fiery, thin, soft, sleepy and/or clumsy. The psychological meanings of these strokes are often implied by the words used to describe them.
Writers deviate in varying degrees from the standard handwriting patterns they were taught in school. Most people develop their own handwriting style after a few years of practice and change it during their life span, as their personality changes. In Handwriting Analyst©, Copybook writing based on the Zaner-Bloser method of penmanship, which is typically taught in grammar school, is used as a standard basis for comparison.
The strokes examined in the Signature Analyst© program are notable for specific reasons and have a meaning about which most graphologists agree. There are many other ways to form letters which are not represented in this program, either because graphologists do not agree on their meaning, they are a simple variation of a type of letter formation which has already been identified, or their evaluation takes us beyond the scope of this program.
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is a town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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Greetings from Cairo! At the invitation of the Ashoka Foundation, am privileged to be a part of the 2009 Ashoka Fellows induction. As you know, Ashoka awards three-year stipends to "changemakers/social entrepreneurs" around the world to encourage their ground-breaking and innovative ideas for social change and enterprise.
While there, I was asked to be a panelist for a discussion on social change philanthropy. My comments challenged the assumption that governments had no responsibility for social change and infrastructure; pointing out that the current system of global capitalism was failing to address the critical challenges of our time in any kind of sustainable fashion. In fact, the system needs to be overhauled in the most fundamental form, if not laid to permanent rest.
While in Cairo I met with some of our grantee partners. One group, the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECW), a courageous advocacy and legal support human rights association, hosted a meeting in English and Arabic the groups ranged from those working on women's political participation, to those serving rural Bedouin communities in the Sinai desert. What a diverse group we were! Age-wise – 20s to 60s; there were men, proud to call themselves feminists who were mobilizing against Female Genital Mutilation, and women raising awareness on issues like sexual harassment. Some of the women wore the hijab (head scarves) others did not.
There was much admiration of Zeina Zaatari, our program officer for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); her ability to communicate in Arabic, French as well as English was greatly appreciated. We had a long discussion about the role of movement building. They wanted to know if the Global Fund could be more active in helping to strengthen and build movements and they had some great ideas like bringing groups together more often to share information other about what other women's movements are doing in other parts of the world; support their participation in meetings like the 2008 Association for Women’s Rights In Development (AWID), the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) convenings, or the upcoming Encuentro Feminista in Latin America. They feel very strongly that the women from the MENA region are under-represented in world forums. They also feel that we must be open to proposals that include men as allies - urging us to fund coalition work. To do so effectively, they said, would require us larger grants. Not surprisingly, support that enables better access to new technologies was also near the top of their lists.
The global financial crisis was on their minds, with lots of questions about our revenues and donations. They were particularly inspired by stories of grantees who have become GFW donors and that we are talking the dominant role of militarism and the ways we might support women's groups working to counter that ideology. We also touched on controversial issues surrounding sexuality and sexual minorities and why the Global Fund supports human rights work in this arena.
Cairo also afforded the opportunities to reconnect with old friends like our advisor, Hibaaq Osman, founder of the Karama Project on ending violence in the MENA regions and a founder of the Arab Women's Fund, and former staff member, Sarah Vaill, who is currently a senior staff member of the Karama Project. I learned a great deal about how they are working with women in 8 countries in the region with the goal of partnering with allies in the women's movement. It is my hope that the Global Fund can find wonderful ways to collaborate with them in the future.
Finally after visiting children enrolled in a program on art, music and theater in a poor redevelopment zone outside the city of Cairo, I was reminded of the critical importance of the work our grantees do and buoyed by the immense sense of dedication, grit and hope they hold out for positive change. One quoted a young girl who had acted in a street play performance about divorce and custody issues, "I need to know about these issues, they are a part of my life. I have the right to know." Well said!
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Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California: Implications for Magma Rheology
P.J. Jugo, and M.R. Frank
Department of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
This is a preliminary progress report of a field study, started in the summer of 1995, examining the relationship among textures in high level granites. We mapped two dike complexes in detail in the equigranular Half Dome (HDE) and megacrystic Cathedral Peak (CP) granodiorites of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite (Map 1). Maps were prepared for the Cathedral Peak on Lembert Dome (LD; Upper and Lower Map Regions), and for the HDE next to Tenaya Lake (TL: Tenaya Map Region). Dikes from both regions exhibit internal textural variability; the dikes of Lembert Dome differ in texture and intrusion behavior from those of Tenaya Lake. Many of the dikes are aplites, pegmatites, or related textural variants, and are mineralogically simple, containing >95% quartz + K-feldspar + plagioclase, with minor biotite, magnetite, titanite, zircon and apatite, and in rare cases, tourmaline, garnet, and secondary epidote and chlorite. Field relations suggest that the dikes at Lembert Dome are locally derived, with diking occurring within a partly molten crystallization interval. We suggest that changes in dikes along strike are a function of changes in host crystallinity and temperature during diking. The locus of dike magma generation at Tenaya Lake is unclear, and the source of melt appears distal rather than proximal.
Oriented grids of 80' by 80' to 180' by 180', were laid out on near horizontal (<18o slope) outcrop surfaces. Dikes were mapped by tape measure/tape and compass, and descriptions were recorded of host rock texture and mineralogy, dike texture and mineralogy, and nature of the contacts.
Lembert Dome Sites
Dikes at these sites commonly exhibit highly variable textures along their length. In some cases, individual dikes can be followed along strike (for 10's of meters) from areas where the dike is wider, has faint or undulose borders, and has textures similar to the groundmass of the host Cathedral Peak, to areas farther north along strike where the dike is thinner, contacts are sharp (more brittle in behavior during fracturing), and the dike texture does not resemble the host texture (Photo 7 and Photo 11). Where dike boundaries are diffuse, host rocks are sometimes marked by concentrations of megacrysts or mafic minerals; these may be sites of dike melt extraction. Where observable, dips are steep and to the east. Many dikes show a distinct asymmetry with a mafic selvage and aplite against the footwall side (Photo 11), and pegmatite concentrated towards the hanging wall side; however, exceptions can be found (Photo 6).
Tenaya Lake Site
Overall, dikes at Tenaya Lake are much more homogeneous along their length than those at Lembert Dome. Texture of HDE dikes is not similar to host rock texture, and dikes are mapped easily by their low color index compared to the HDE host. Contacts are nearly always sharp, and there is evidence for more brittle behavior during diking (e.g. straight borders, right angle bends, and "T" junctions).
In cases where dikes of different textures intersect (here at Tenaya Lake and at a related HDE site at Olmsted Point), the age relationships of the dikes suggest that the transition from normal granitic macrosaccharoidal pegmatitic aplitic texture occurs with increasing temperature difference (undercooling) between dike magma and host rock. The difference in intrusive behavior of dikes between the map areas suggests a difference in host rock (or host rock magma) rheology (e.g. crystallinity) between the Lembert Dome and Tenaya Lake host rocks. Overall, the temperature difference between the dike magma and host magma appears to be closer at Lembert Dome than at Tenaya Lake.
Overview of Dikes in the TIS
Piccoli (1992) estimated that approximately 80% of the dikes along Tioga Road (Yosemite National Park), within the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, are located within the Half Dome Equigranular and Half Dome Porphyry. This suggests that dikes in each of these units comprise approximately 40 % of the total aplite/pegmatite volume of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite. The smallest proportion of aplite and pegmatite was found in the Cathedral Peak (0.02%), the largest unit in the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite.
Pegmatitic material is present in three forms: 1) small pegmatites associated with aplitic dikes located throughout the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite; 2) rare pegmatitic segregations, generally less than 0.5 m in diameter, located dominantly within both the porphyritic and equigranular Half Dome; and 3) large pegmatitic segregations (up to 30 m in width) located primarily along the contact of the Kuna Crest with surrounding wall rocks in the May Lake region, and on Johnson Mountain along the contact of the Johnson Porphyry with the Cathedral Peak. The relative proportions of pegmatite to aplite over the entire Tuolumne Intrusive Suite is small.
Apatite in Aplites
Information regarding devolatilization history may be obtained when comparing the halogen content of aplitic apatites and the apatites crystallized from the host rock (the presumed source of the aplite melt). In the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, Cl/OH is consistently lower in aplitic apatite than host rock apatite. This is not true universally. We found no change in Cl/OH ratios in shallower systems in the Ritter Range. Assuming the aplites were intruded at temperatures lower than or equal to the rocks in which they intruded, it would be expected that Cl/OH would be elevated in the aplitic apatites if the variation in apatite composition was due primarily to a temperature effect. Calculated equilibrium constants indicate that the Cl/OH in apatite increases with decreasing temperature (assuming all other factors remaining constant) indicating that the trend of lower Cl/OH in aplitic apatite relative to host rock might best be explained by an alternative hypothesis, i.e. exsolution of a magmatic volatile phase upon or soon after intrusion of the aplites (Piccoli, 1992).
Estimation of Aplite Intrusion Temperatures
Estimating the temperature at which dikes are extracted or intruded is difficult. In an attempt to overcome these problems, we are exploring the use of apatite saturation temperatures (ASTs) as a proxy for aplite intrusion temperatures. If we make the assumptions that the aplite composition is representative of the melt from which it was derived, and there is no xenocrystic apatite present in these aplites, the temperature at which apatite begins to crystallize can be calculated (Piccoli and Candela, 1994). This second assumption is supported by petrographic analysis; there is no evidence of resorption of apatite, zoning with respect to halogens or major elements, etc., in the samples selected for this analysis,--features which may suggest that the apatite crystallized in some other environment. Several aplite dikes were analyzed for P2O5 and SiO2 so that model ASTs could be calculated. Calculated ASTs for the CP and HDE aplites range from 705-770oC. If these aplites represent residual melt from the apatite-saturated country rock magma, then these ASTs may represent the temperature of extraction of the aplite melt.
Miarolitic texture- Miarolitic cavities exhibit external nucleation of crystals, are spherical or some topological equivalent, and many crystals terminate and project into a void, or a mass of hydrothermally precipitated minerals (in which case the structure is called a miarole). We think that the bubbles of volatile phase that form during isobaric crystallization of a water-saturated melt are small compared to the overwhelming majority of bubbles in medium-grained granites; that's why most granites are not miarolitic. Miarolitic cavities are found in fine-grained rocks (where bubbles grew by decompression to sizes greater that the average grain size), or cases where crystals grow heterogeneously, as in a water-saturated pegmatite (where bubbles grow by coalescence - coalescence also occurs when the volatile proportion is high, as in a foam). Miarolitic cavities may interconnect to form permeability clusters, or elongate, fractal passages of high permeability. Miarolitic structures are the best evidence that a magmatic volatile phase has been exsolved from a magma.
Pegmatite- Externally nucleated; generally, but not exclusively, coarse-grained. This texture can be generated in the presence, or absence, of a magmatic volatile phase. There may be a gradation between pegmatitic and miarolitic texture.
Saccharoidal texture- Internally nucleated allotriomorphic texture (xenomorphic granular). We recognize two variations of this texture. When the rock is fine-grained, we refer to the texture as aplitic. When the rock is medium to coarse-grained, we refer to the texture as macrosaccharoidal. Macrosaccharoidal texture is most easily distinguished from granitic texture (hypidiomorphic granular) by the presence of quartz eyes with or without quartz beading (see Photo 8).
Mafic selvage- Higher concentration of ferromagnesian minerals (relative to the host rock), that occurs along the border of a felsic dike. When within host rock or a dike, this is referred to as schlieren. We have noticed a strong spatial relationship between mafic schlieren and the occurrence of pegmatitic pods. These may be nucleation-driven phenomena (Naney and Swanson, 1980).
Results of the preliminary mapping component of this project suggest:
at Lembert Dome, field relations suggest that dikes were intruded into a partially molten crystallization interval, and dike melts were locally derived;
dikes at Lembert Dome often exhibit extreme textural variability along strike, suggesting changes in intensive parameters (most likely temperature) of the host rock (or magma) that changed along dike length;
at Lembert Dome, diffuse dike boundaries are recognized by sharp changes in the concentration of megacrysts or mafic minerals, and are probable sites of dike melt extraction;
at Lembert Dome, dikes are asymmetric with a mafic selvage and aplite against the footwall side, and pegmatite concentrated towards the hanging wall side; however, exceptions can be found; and,
our working model, based on cross cutting dikes of different textures at Lembert Dome, Tenaya Lake and other areas within the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, is that the age relationship of the dikes suggests that the transition from normal granitic macrosaccharoidal pegmatitic aplitic texture, occurs with increasing temperature difference between dike magma and host rock.
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Debate over kids and farming
Are proposed farm regulations federal overreach?
- Duration 7:00
- Date Apr 26, 2012
Are proposed farm regulations federal overreach?
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And -- -- right now several senators are trying to put a stop to propose regulations on farm work.
The rules would restrict your children or grandchildren or neighbors from working on a farm or ranch in doing chores like.
Rounding up cattle on horseback or driving a tractor are using a battery -- screwdriver.
The Labor Department says it changes are necessary because current farm practices are really putting -- lives in danger.
Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas has introduced legislation to stop the Labor Department from implementing this regulation we're gonna talk to the senator in just a moment.
The first -- speak with -- Flores Lopez she's the director of the children in the feels campaign.
At the association of farm worker opportunity programs he's also.
Former child farm worker -- let's start there what kind of farmer can -- do -- -- -- As a -- got to do a number of different cops anything Brad asparagus fields to onion fields.
And even corn fields doing some -- plane.
My cabinet -- travel up north I'm doing it in different states like Indiana Michigan Iowa -- -- our kids have been working -- firms for decades and decades so why now why do you think these restrictions are necessary now.
What these rules have not been acting in over forty years just last year.
The Department of Labor update at the house it is orders for non agricultural work so is a natural progression for them to take a look at.
Defiance especially because there are so many -- -- getting hurt and even dying out there and those -- so many kids like how many.
Well at night -- and reports that between 2000 and between 1985 and 2002907.
Kids died on farms so that's a well over a hundred preventable deaths each year is do they compare that to other type of work that kids do you.
Well we do know that agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries it's right there with construction in nineteen that's for average buddy.
And yet we don't allow for children to be out there and those other two industries -- we continue to allow children to be out there in agriculture sense -- regulations like this are slippery slope because even with the best intentions some believe that this could be your real intrusion.
I'm family life what do you say if folks -- -- -- the government should be here or not not on my family farm.
What these rules actually do not -- fact the family farms these rules are meant for kids that are employed on.
Nonpartisan by other players are -- there have to be an employer employee relationship.
-- in order for these rules to apply.
Family farms there's going to be untouched.
Children will still be able to do any -- the Warrick at any time at any age on their parents -- interesting it's an hour wind farm worker who's now a college student Rosie -- was telling the daily caller that her main concern is that.
Four H clubs -- FFA projects.
Would not be the same because -- -- this restriction they would not get the safety training and certification as part of these programs that are really popular in so many states.
What would you say to someone like Rosie who has -- concerns.
We'll -- impact -- and mentioned there have to be an employer employee relationship.
So I would still be able to participate in four H and act that aid just to be able to do things like -- animals.
It's just really the concerning -- regularly -- when it comes to children.
Been employed on a farm.
There are four as Lopez nice -- happy today thank you so much and it's expected.
I never gonna live by the senator Moran who would get -- -- introduced some legislation here to stop the Labor Department from implementing this -- some interesting points -- Norma.
Products senator says it doesn't really -- -- and your your family farm and that some of these programs is still.
Was still happen so what's your issue with this this regulate.
At Norman I certainly disagree about the consequences of this regulation these proposed regulations and I would tell you that why you introduced me as someone who's introduced legislation that's true.
But we've been trying to engage the Department of Labor for a long time to have a conversation with me and others.
I've invited the secretary to have a a set down and have a conversation about how life really works on farms across the country.
Back in in Kansas and across the nation farming is a family.
Opportunity it's it's that it's the way were organized the norm.
And while -- indicates that it doesn't affect.
Family members that's simply not the case that the Department of Labor has said.
There were to narrow the exemption for family.
For kids who working on their own families farms.
And then because of kind of the pressure that we put on -- civil we're gonna we're gonna take a step back and -- proposed that rule.
Without those issues are still out there and so the department is interest and at least their initial regulations indicate they want to regulate the relationship.
Between -- parent and their child and also you need to know that many family farming operations are with uncles and aunts grandparents.
It's a neighboring farmer it's a way of life and -- more than parents.
Are interested in their own kids safety.
And when you talk about four H and FF -- I don't have any doubt that this regulation doesn't stand for H and FFA.
But those -- the programs that we are currently using to educate young people to get the training necessary.
To allow them to work on farms they and we're replacing that with the Department of Labor.
For -- and at that they know a lot more about family farming operations -- the US department late.
-- -- -- -- the Labor Department.
I had to get a little bit more information on that we're awaiting some of their responses.
To our questions -- think the real intent here is senator -- it seems like you have some doubts what we know.
At least superficially it is that this is just about keeping our children safe that you seem to have a doubt on that what do you think is the real the real intentional here.
Well only with one exception -- do I think it's something other than trying to keep our children safe I think it's that you know people sit down.
And said what can we do make children safer and this was the solution my point is this is not the solution.
We need to perhaps strengthen local high school agricultural programs.
And incidentally the studies indicate you you can find -- studies -- supposed to support whatever position you want.
But even the study that Norma mentioned.
Indicate -- covered a wider right people over 21 were included net study people who had committed suicide were included in the deaths.
Individuals that were harmed in that recreational activities not in employment settings are included.
So -- -- in my view those numbers don't indicate the magnitude of the problem we want every child to be safe.
And my again my point is who better than the local -- -- instructor the poor -- leader and especially mom and dad.
To help make those decisions and if we don't teach kids about safety now and give them some experience say at age fifteen.
When there under these rules -- it eligible to come to work a few years later.
They will not have had the experience is necessary to grow into the job the average age of a farmer in the United States is that nearly sixty.
I'm taking -- -- our opportunity.
We look for to have you back -- -- talk more about it against its proposed regulation at this time we found data out on injuries.
And -- for children only go back to their early 1990s so.
You're you're right in pointing out -- send.
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The lingua franca of the Tour du Mont Blanc is undoubtedly French.
French is spoken in France and Switzerland. Refuges in both countries will
also often speak a little English. In Italy, although Italian is the language
of choice, refuges will often additionally speak some English or French. As
refuges are used to hikers of many nationalities passing through they will
make every effort to accommodate you. The polite thing, however, is to
Language & Money on the Tour du Mont Blanc
attempt to communicate in the refuge's native tongue. So brush up on your French and Italian. To assist
you, we've highlighted a few useful phrases here . That said, we met some hikers who spoke only English
and were apparently managing to hike their way around the TMB, booking their accommodation en route, with little difficulty.
Most refuges will expect payments in cash and very few if any will accept debit or credit cards. You will consequently need to carry sufficient cash to get you to your next ATM stop.
Since the adoption of the euro by most member states of the EU, currency has become less of an issue when travelling in Europe. Both France and Italy use euro. Even though Switzerland is not part of the EU you will find that almost all Swiss
refuges, hotels and shops en route will quote prices in euro as well as Swiss francs and will accept euro payments. Be aware that when paying in a Swiss shop with euro the exchange rate is unlikely to be advantageous. Given that the shop is having the bear the currency risk this is probably reasonable. We have had reports from 2008 TMBers that there are no ATMs on the Swiss leg of the route so make sure you have plenty of cash with you.
We used to use Nationwide Building Society for banking, one of the reasons being that when drawing cash from ATM's abroad they gave a competitive exchange rate and didn't charge commission.
However, as of November 2010 Nationwide are charging commission on all non-sterling transactions just the same as everybody else so whereas once we would have advised that you draw the currency you want from a local ATM we'd now suggest that you work out the cost compared to alternatives such as a bureau de change.
On our arrival in France we took out 300 euro from an ATM. Although Les Houches had an ATM we waited until the next day and our hike to Contamines to take out another 300 euro. In Courmayeur (Italy) we took out an additional 250 euro to ensure we had plenty of cash. At two stops (Switzerland and Italy) we paid for our accommodation by credit card. En route we sometimes bought lunch, had beers/coffee, ate out (Courmayer). Once back in Les Houches, we still had some euro left.
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Glen Sees the World Through Rose Colored Glasses
01/06/2010: Laurali Noteman
Its true, Glen Grygla sees the world through rose colored glasses. I just don’t quite know how he does it. As Kane County Hospital’s Licensed Clinical Social Worker he sees the good, the bad and the traumatic and yet he smiles, meets the day and helps anyone who asks.
Glen was born in Leamington, Utah and attended Delta High School. After he graduated from highschool he spent 2 years in the army. After his military career he worked as a welder for a while and then moved on to become a carpenter. But what he really wanted to be was a coach. So he enrolled at Weber State and started his journey into becoming a Social Worker.
Somewhere along the course of his studies he learned the stress levels of coaching weren’t really something he wanted to deal with. He changed his studies working toward becoming a Social Worker and Church Educator.
Glen grew up as a foster sibling. One of his foster sisters was a Native American. Glen enjoyed her and what she brought to the family. It was that foster child that guided Glen’s decision to work with the Native American Youth program one summer in St. George. He then applied and was accepted at University of Utah, majoring in Social Work.
Grygla taught church education with the Navajo Nation in Many Farms, AZ. for six months. He was transferred to Joseph City in Holbrook, AZ. For the next two years he was able to work with Apache, Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo in family services. Glen with his wife Carolyn, and a line of kids in tow would paint street numbers to earn money. The team would then take trips to SLC, and Yellowstone National Park. What an outstanding opportunity for a youth group to be able to reach beyond their community.
Glen was transferred to Arlington, TX. for 7 years and then to Sacramento, CA for the next 6 years for LDS Family services. He also worked in Mesa and Snowflake AZ, next stop Page, AZ for an 11 year stint. He came to KCH in August, 2003.
Glen just seems to make lemonade. Whether its with our residents and their families and everyday situations or facing those end of life decisions Glen is there to help. Maybe his time is spent with a family dealing with a traumatic experience in the Emergency Depart. Glen helps us meet life’s challenges and helps us realize we can do it. What a great gift. He is a wonderful asset to Kane County Hospital. Thanks Glen, you make me smile.
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How To Buy A Camera
Things were simple back in the olden days of digital imaging. You could plunk down a few hundred bucks and get a nifty little snapshot brick, double that and walk away with an ergonomically molded superzoomer, or really break the bank and score a hefty chunk of DSLR. But these days the lines between categories have blurred, and there’s a lot more to decide on than small, medium or large.
Size no longer corresponds strictly to quality, and since camera phones came along and stole the snapshot camera’s thunder, run-of-the-mill compacts have largely lost their appeal. DSLRs have also gotten cheaper and come into their own as video cameras. The market’s rising star is the new breed of compact system cameras (CSCs), which feature interchangeable lenses and large sensors but are significantly smaller than DSLRs.
In every camera category, the same technological wave is washing in, carrying larger sensors for improved image quality, greater connectivity to the Web and other devices, and more extensive user customization through both software and hardware.
Touch screens are also becoming more commonplace on all camera types. Whether you opt for a compact camera, a DSLR or a CSC, those are the cutting-edge features you’ll pay a little more for. If you really want to ride the wave of the future, you can go with a compact camera running the same Android operating system that’s on smartphones and tablets, complete with Web access and all the apps.
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Nearly all digital cameras now come with HD video recording and speedy continuous shooting modes. Also increasingly common are built-in “computational photography” features, which merge several photos into high-dynamic-range (HDR) images, panoramas and even 3D shots.
For clear, clean images in low light at ISO settings of 6400 and even higher, look for a large sensor — so-called 1-inch type or bigger. For serious sports and action photography, and the most lens options, opt for a DSLR.
The CSC category is still relatively new and building out, so look for a reasonable range of lens choices and check autofocus performance, which has lagged behind DSLRs.
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$400 to $700: In this range, you’ve got a choice between a premium pocket camera with a big sensor and advanced controls, a low-end but still very capable DSLR, or a mid-range CSC. Higher prices bring more control customization, shooting and autofocus speed, as well as better accessory compatibility.
$700 to $1,000: If you’re willing to push four digits, you can get a basic DSLR with two-lens kit or an upper end CSC with speedier performance and more professional controls. Or one of a handful of compacts with luxury cachet. You’ll also find metal construction, retro-styling, and weather resistance in many models in this range. | <urn:uuid:8d3f8957-9a2d-47ba-a69b-af9b7c922f1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-buy-a-camera | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939849 | 633 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Upstate University Hospital received full accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers in December as an Accredited Chest Pain Center.
The society is an international not-for-profit that is focused on helping hospitals improve quality, cost and patient satisfaction in cardiovascular care.
Hospitals that are Accredited Chest Pain Centers have developed an expertise in dealing with patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack. Their staff emphasizes the importance of standardized diagnostic and treatment programs for chest pain and heart attack. They also evaluate and treat other medical problems and promote healthy lifestyles that can reduce the risk factors for heart attack.
To become accredited, Upstate had to:
- reduce the time from the patient’s onset of symptoms to the diagnosis and treatment;
- treat patients more quickly during the critical window of time when the integrity of the heart muscle can be preserved; and
- monitor patients when it is unclear whether they are having a heart attack, to make sure they are not sent home too soon.
“People tend to wait when they think they might be having a heart attack, and that’s a mistake,” says Gregory Fink MD, chief of cardiac surgery at Upstate. “The average patient arrives in the emergency department more than two hours after the onset of symptoms, but what they don’t realize is that the sooner a heart attack is treated, the less damage to the heart and the better the outcome for the patient.”
Accreditation through the society is more collaborative than other traditional certification models.
The accreditation process begins with a document that details key elements of optimal care. Its content is derived from peer-reviewed medical journals, professional society guidelines and the body of clinical acumen of participating clinicians. Specialists from the Society of Chest Pain Centers provide feedback, education and resources to help hospital staff improve the process of caring for acute coronary syndrome patients.
At Upstate, when someone arrives complaining of chest pain that may be signaling a heart attack, he or she goes directly to the Cath Lab for a cardiac catheterization. Doctors determine if any blockages in the arteries that feed the heart need to be stented, or if bypass surgery is required. This all happens within the first 60 to 90 minutes of arrival – by a hospital staff so skilled and knowledgeable about treating chest pain that it earned status as an Accredited Chest Pain Center. | <urn:uuid:f50cc71c-ecc8-4252-8afd-bf4ed13d11d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/international-organization-applauds-upstates-cardiac-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943675 | 485 | 1.75 | 2 |
Guy Young was just “getting by” on wages from painting houses and occasionally substitute teaching, but when the economy tanked in 2008, so did his income.
“My business dropped off and I couldn’t afford medical insurance,” said the 55-year-old Bethel Twp., Lebanon County, resident who has chronic medical issues.
Young said he "felt embarrassed and maybe even humiliated to have to ask for help" at the Lebanon Free Clinic, but “the staff was welcoming and kind and went out of their way to make me feel comfortable.”
Although business is slowly picking up, it’s not enough to cover the cost of medical insurance so Young continues to go to the clinic for free care and most of his medications are also provided free of charge.
“I don’t know where I’d be without the clinic. I know I would be very uncomfortable,” Young said.
The Lebanon Free Clinic, a ministry of the Lebanon Rescue Mission, opened in spring 2009 to provide non-urgent medical care and pharmaceutical services to uninsured residents of Lebanon County whose income level is 200 percent below poverty level. (That ranges from an income of $21,780 for one person to $44,700 for a family of four.)
To accomplish that, the clinic, which holds two three-hour clinics a week, calls upon 12 doctors, 16 nurses, two pharmacists and 19 other support staff – all of whom are volunteers.
“The generosity of this community is enormous,” said Susan Spahr, executive director of Lebanon Rescue Mission Ministries. “Aside from volunteer staff, people donate medications, funds, over-the-counter medications especially during cold season, paper products, you name it.”
Volunteers in Medicine, another free clinic in Lebanon that is celebrating its third anniversary this month, began with the mission of supporting the working, uninsured, but has widened services to include those who are unemployed, said Bob Phillips, president of the clinic’s board of directors.
“We also make exceptions for those who have insurance but have a very high deductible and are neglecting their health because of it,” said Phillips, who is also president of the Francis J. Dixon Foundation, which gave seed money for the clinic. The foundation supports medical and educational endeavors in Lebanon County.
The clinic, which provides non-acute primary care, is currently trying to involve the Lebanon community more heavily in supporting its services, especially businesses whose employees are enjoying healthier more productive lives because of the services it provides, Phillips said.
Volunteers in Medicine, located at 711 S. Eighth St., operates out of a leased space from Good Samaritan Hospital, which is a “great ally” in offering charitable lab and radiology testing for clinic patients each year, Phillips said. The clinic also includes pharmaceutical services.
“At any given time, we have eight to 10 doctors who are providing services to the clinic at varying degrees, some once a week and others once a month,” Phillips said.
The Lebanon Free Clinic is located 135 S. Ninth St., on the first floor of a building that was donated by Ed and Jeanne Arnold. Income from long-term tenants on the second and third floors provides the clinic with money toward tax and insurance costs, Spahr said.
The value of the care that’s extended at the Lebanon Free Clinic is somewhat staggering: From January through August of 2012, the clinic welcomed 1,669 patient visits at an estimated value of $105,959. In that same time period, the clinic filled 1,816 prescriptions valued at $133,366. The value of the 1,658 volunteer staff hours from January through August came in at $61,553, Spahr said.
The Volunteers in Medicine clinic doesn’t calculate value of services but sees 6,000 patient visits annually and has 2,100 active patients, Phillips said.
Volunteers routinely say they get as much out of giving their time as patients get from receiving their care.
“It’s such an honor to work with volunteers because they have a heart to serve and they want to be here. We try to show love and respect to our patients; so often they don’t get that in society,” said Margaret Brandt, nurse administrator at the Lebanon Free Clinic. “A lot of our clients come with more than just health issues; they also have social issues related to housing or other needs. We hook them up with the right community resources to help them.”
The response from patients has been humbling, Spahr said.
“Most people, when they decide to reach out for help, are truly mortified when they have to go to a free clinic. Then to be treated with such dignity and concern melts away all the humiliation. We’re not here to judge people’s situations or needs. We know that only by the grace of God go I.”
The Lebanon Free Clinic’s mission is the same as the rescue mission’s – to present and represent the gospel of Jesus Christ, Spahr said.
“No one is ever forced to hear prayer or to pray with someone, but it’s here as part of their care if they would like,” Spahr said. “We have pastors here each time we have clinic and many patients ask for prayer. It makes a huge difference when you are in a place of very little hope in your life.”
Both clinics ask clients to pre-register. Pre-registration at the Lebanon Free Clinic is open from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays. Patients must bring proof of a Lebanon County address and income from the past 30 days. Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. is the best time to register at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, which sees patients on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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ʻEwa Beach (in English) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in ʻEwa District and the City & County of Honolulu along the leeward coast of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi. As of the 2000 Census, the CDP had a total population of 14,650. The term "Ewa" means "Stray" in Hawaiian, it comes from the myth that one day the Gods were playing a game of ʻulu maika and while playing one of the "rolling stones" went astray. The Gods called the area where it landed Ewa for the stray ʻulu maika. Along much of the South Shore of Oʻahu, ʻEwa is a reference to the direction of ʻEwa Beach, roughly westwards along the shore. Related terms are mauka (towards the mountains, roughly northwards), makai (towards the ocean, roughly South), and Diamond Head or Koko Head, roughly eastwards along the shore. The U.S. postal code for ʻEwa Beach is 96706 . | <urn:uuid:1b363e63-9bbc-4a44-9fa1-71cfceae7022> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openjurist.org/law/collections-law/hawaii/ewa-beach | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966922 | 240 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will honor Janis Joplin in November as part of its annual American Music Masters Series.
The week-long program, which starts on November 9, is titled Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin. Events will take place around town, including lectures and concerts at the Rock Hall, Case Western Reserve University (a co-sponsor) and PlayhouseSquare.
In addition to the panels, films and exhibits (the Rock Hall recently opened a Joplin one), CWRU will host an all-day Rock and Roll Retrospective on Saturday, November 14, which will feature a bunch of talking heads running down why Joplin — a Rock Hall inductee — is so important.
The Texas-born singer was one of the Woodstock era's most popular artists. Her raspy, blues-howled voice gave her music — with both Big Brother & the Holding Company, the lumbering band that launched her career, and as a solo artist — a soulful thrust that eluded many of her contemporaries.
But like many of her peers, she died young — at age 27 in 1970 of a heroin overdose.
The Rock Hall bash — which has honored Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke and Lead Belly in the past — will culminate with a Saturday-night concert at the State Theatre. The lineup hasn't been announced yet, but past American Master Series performers have included Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Robert Plant. They've also included Richie Sambora, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Five Guys Named Moe. So keep that in mind before you shell out $50 for a ticket. —Michael Gallucci | <urn:uuid:49a414b0-cf42-4398-abae-346b13397967> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clevescene.com/c-notes/archives/2009/08/11/rock-hall-honors-janis-joplin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9649 | 350 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The Office of Secondary Education for Migrant Youth (SEMY) (pronounced sem' ee) serves middle school and high school migrant students and educators. The office administers programs to ensure that migrant youth have an opportunity to graduate. We publish a newsletter.
Statewide program.SEMY staff offer training for Migrant Graduation Specialists and advocates who work in middle or high schools to ensure that migrant students are engaged and graduate. An emphasis is on case management, parental involvement and individualized student support. See MGS tab for training plan.
Through the Student Leadership Program (SLP), SEMY staff provide direct service to secondary school-aged migrant youth. As a clearinghouse of select information which will help the migrant student graduate, leadership conferences and an online role model database, scholarships opportunities, career exploration and leadership activities are available to migrant students at this website.
Ensuring that mobile students in grades k-12 who travel across state or national boundaries gain access to education is a priority in the Migrant Education Program. SEMY staff support interstate and binational collaboration efforts. We offer the Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) Program and the Student Leadership Program (SLP), serving schools throughout the State of Washington.
Interstate coordination. SEMY provides support and technical assistance to educators in Washington and other states to help ensure that mobile interstate or intrastate students have the opportunity to graduate from high school. This includes troubleshooting credit accrual issues, coordinating Texas competency test schedules, and serving as liaison between sending schools and/or states.
Funded by: WA Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Randy Dorn, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Migrant and Bilingual Education Programs
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God’s love for us is astounding. Look at what humanity has done: we kill, slander, lie, lust, steal, hate, and are loveless towards our neighbors and especially towards God. We are the reason Christ died. In that through-death-way, however, God showed his love for us. He reconciled all men to himself. Christ dying for us is really what the Gospel is all about – Christ’s love shines forth through his outstretched arms on the cross. This Gospel is the power for salvation to all who believe:
How wide the love of Christ!
It knows not class or race
But holds our one humanity
Within its broad embrace. (LSB 535:1)
Christ’s love for us is longsuffering, and divinely kind. We daily sin much, but he still chose to die for us. Still chose to come into the flesh for us. He still chose to bear upon himself the punishment that brought us peace. “How long the love of Christ! Its patience will not cease (LSB 535:2)” it will be patient with us our whole lives, and will continue “until this broken world is bound In everlasting peace (LSB 535:2)” when he makes all things new and we live with him forever!
To bring us to heaven he was deeply moved by love to die for our sins – all of them. There aren’t any left, they’re obliterated, blown out the water. Death, Satan, our flesh, and our sins tell Jesus, “You sunk my battleship!” The Gospels often describe Jesus as having compassion on the people. Literally it means to be gut-wrenched, cut to the heart, feel-it-in-the-pit-of-the-stomach emotion. It pierced him deeply, it pierced his hands, feet, and side, and it pierced him to the point of death:
How deep the love of Christ,
Descending to a cross!
He bears within His wounded hands
All human pain and loss. (LSB 535:4)
We don’t have to wonder, “Well that’s nice, but what good does it do me?” Christ dying on the cross isn’t the Gospel, not even Christ rising from death. But that he did those things FOR YOU is. They don’t remain off somewhere to be sought out, or chosen – “as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death” (Romans 6:3). He chose us, washed us sinking our old Adam like a battleship, he Absolves us, and feeds us with himself at His Supper.
His love is so broad that he died to rescue the whole world from sin, death, and the devil. It’s so deep that he went into death, hell, and abandonment by God for us.
All praise to you, O Christ,
For love whose depth and height,
Whose length and breadth fill time and space
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Serialisation is very complex and new legislation for pharmaceutical production is demanding effective solutions. The aim of this new legislation is to decrease the number of counterfeit products in the pharmaceuticals market. Eli Lilly was looking for a precise and reliable serialisation solution that would enable the company to continue guaranteeing the traceability and thereby the safety of its pharmaceutical products.
Stringent quality standards require modern marking solutions to ensure that physicians and patients can rely on the effectiveness and safety of medicines. In their continuous battle against counterfeit products, Lilly Deutschland GmbH places particular emphasis on procedures to ensure this safety and quality.
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I had an interesting experience in one of my classes the other night.
I am currently finishing up my doctorate in Clinical Psychology, so this story very much highlights the influence that ID has on the minds of people. This is not some high school Biology teacher, this is a professor at a Doctoral level science program.
Now, before I begin, recognize that the professor subscribes to evolution and from my assessment is an atheist or agnostic at worst. I just think the story highlights how ID has moved it's way into people's awareness and dialogue. Grant it, as Psychology students we are taught to be respectful of the views, perspectives, cultures etc..... of others, but this class is a very scientific/hard science based class. So here goes.
We were discussing the development of a certain brain circuit. The pathway of this circuit is way off course if one wanted to get from point A to point B the fastest. In short, it is not very efficient. When talking about it the professor goes "How could this be designed?"
Later in the class he has to bring up evolution to illustrate a point. He was specifically discussing the development of the reptillian brain to the mammallian brain. He apologized to people if this offended their religion. Why? This is a science class?? Nobody seemed to care, but it seemed odd that people would have to apologize for scientific evidence. Everything I have learned in my studies of psychology fits, supports, and makes more sense with evolution.
Have we (we being the human race) become so PC about peoples beliefs? I mean they are beliefs. Beleifs can change.
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Ferring CE Primary School cut 22% in their carbon emissions
16 December 2011
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Energy is a theme we continually focus on throughout the school in a bid to make the children more environmentally aware and to save the school money.
Delivering the project and linking it to the curriculum
The energy saving initiatives have come through a variety of sources, pupils, staff, governors and the School’s Property Development Plan.
We had a monitor in Assembly which showed electricity usage. We took a reading with all the lights on in the school, and gradually switched them off, whilst checking the monitor. The children were amazed at the saving in energy this simple measure created.
The PDP and Governors have been crucial in the installation of new windows in some of the classrooms and in the main hall. Sensor lighting has also been installed in the hall, and is already in place along the corridors.
The computers in the ICT suite were upgraded to more efficient models. These take less time to turn on and off so they do not have to be switched on in advance of lessons and therefore be on much longer than necessary.
Staff are responsible for turning off the computer equipment at the end of the day, including the whiteboard and projector, and this is monitored by the Premises Officer. Previously, computer equipment may have been on all night, and even all weekend.
In addition the heating is now turned off at weekends as well as in the holidays.
Year 6 cover energy/carbon emissions/global warming in the curriculum.
Further pupil participation is listed below.
I feel we have changed the attitudes of people within the school and for switching off lights and electrical equipment to become the most acceptable practice, and for people to realise that it is a waste of precious resources and money.
Staff and pupils will consider their energy usage and whether it is necessary.
Getting the pupils involved
Pupils in the school’s eco-club – The Green and Friendlies – have chosen to focus their classes on the little things which can make a big difference. Each class has its own lights monitor and computer monitor who make sure that the lights are off when people aren’t in the classroom and that the computer equipment is turned off at the end of the day and monitors are off when the computers aren’t being used.
There are also ‘close the door’ and ‘close the window’ notices up in classrooms and other rooms around the school to encourage people to keep the heat in during the winter so that the thermostats can be reduced.
The Green and Friendlies chose where these posters went and we have monitors to make sure these are closed too,
The Green and Friendlies take regular meter readings to remind them that the school uses energy and they can see how much is being used throughout the year.
Benefits of being an Eco-School
We have reduced our carbon emissions. The new computers have meant that ICT lessons have been directly affected and children can be on the PCs much longer in a lesson.
Devolved Formula Capital Grant was used to pay for the new computers, windows and lighting in the hall.
Using the Pod’s resources
We used posters from the Pod, joined in with the Pod’s Switch-Off Fortnight campaign as a whole-school, and used their energy presentation in assembly.
Educational resources used
We encouraged people to take part in Earth Hour in 2010.
Measuring the impact
We were surprised that these measures had made such an impact and the 22% reduction in carbon emissions was our guide to achieving this. We are looking forward to receiving the energy monitor which is being distributed to schools.
That small measures make big differences!
We feel there are still further improvements to be made. Some of our radiators need thermostats and there are more windows that can be double glazed. These are longer term projects now that the DFCG has been cut so much.
The school investigated installing solar panels to take up the opportunity of the Governments Feed-In tariff, however, the set up costs and possible lack of grants combined with the potential budget cuts, meant that the project was too expensive for the time being.
Local Authority support
We had a grant to pay for a Willow Dome from West Sussex County Council.
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Privacy and security when streaming your media: frequently asked questions
If you have a private network, you can use Windows Media Player to stream the contents of your Player Library to other computers and devices in your home. Here are answers to some common questions about privacy and security when streaming your media on a network.
It's up to you. Your streaming settings determine what you stream from your Player Library and also which devices receive your streams. When you first turn on streaming, you will automatically stream any file in your Player Library to any media device or computer detected on your network. However, you can adjust your settings to filter streamed content and block devices and computers on your network from receiving streams. For more information about choosing streaming settings, see Change settings for streaming media in Windows Media Player.
No. The streaming feature only permits people to use their computers and devices to play the items in your Player Library. It doesn't permit them to add, remove, or modify items.
No. The streaming feature only streams the items in your Player Library. If the item isn't a media file used by your Player, it can't be streamed.
That depends on the security of your home network. Regardless of whether you turn on streaming, you should take steps to help secure your home network from intruders. For example:
If you use a cable modem or DSL modem to connect to the Internet, consider installing a router that isolates your area of the network from that of your neighbors.
If you use a wireless network in your home, you should turn on a secure authentication service, such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi‑Fi Protected Access (WPA).
For your protection, media streaming shouldn't be used when you're connected to a public network (such as a wireless network in an airport, coffee shop, or library).
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In early August, NASA internally released its latest marketing campaign, designed to show its relevance and value to the American people. Its new slogan? "NASA explores for answers that power our future." The campaign now seems to be aborted, but it did get me thinking, could we do any better? I am no marketing genius, but I think that we could. I mean North Face's has much more zing, "Never Stop Exploring." Even Dow Chemicals did better, "The Human Element."Link to the full text of Loretta's call to keyboards, and submissions should are due by Sept 28th. The Wired folks have created a new submissions tool, so go ahead and use that to plug in your ideas: Link
Now, I know that NASA does not have the massive budget that these companies do to hire super star advertising execs. I also know that a lot of people at NASA put a lot of time and thought into this new campaign and so I don't want to criticize it without offering up some constructive alternatives. Therefore, I am turning to cyberspace and the power of crowdsourcing to come up with some alternatives to offer them. One of the issues they cite in their market research is a challenge being relevant to people 18-24. Maybe we could help. I will even throw in prizes.
The writer of the best slogan will get a DVD of the space movie of their choice, From the Earth to the Moon, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc and will be interviewed for a follow up posting on what it takes to engage the public with space. Other noteworthy submission will get other small space swag.
Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:a3afd75a-dda0-452e-9720-472150dafa5f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boingboing.net/2007/09/07/nasa-could-use-a-bet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959975 | 407 | 1.796875 | 2 |