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Baby's arrival was very hard for his older brother. Everybody fussed about Baby, but big brother felt very sad and very lonely. He kept wondering, "What about me?"It got worse and worse, until he couldn't take it any more.But poor big brother had one good thing on his side - a wise, kind mother. She knew just what to do. Ages 3-7.
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Hope you were able to afford a few animals such as some goats, pigs, ducks, cows, and geese. Animals were one of the most important things about farming. Animals helped you with jobs like trampling in the seeds, pulling your plow, eating unwanted grain or wheat and providing you with food and drink. But having these animals may have caused misfortune like if your donkey nibbled on someone else's crops the farmer could threaten to take you to court. Also if your animals were sick you had to do all the work that they did. If your animals were not marked they may have been stolen. Along with misfortunes came care. You had to take great care of your animals. You had to give them food, drink and you had to count your cattle. The herdsman drove the cattle past the overseer who counted them and wrote down the size of each cattle.
The pharaoh got the rich peasants to do the farm work on the rich lands. The peasants worked as either reapers or gleaners. The reapers went through the fields first and they did work such as plowing the field to loosen the dirt for the seeds to go in or they would winnow.Winnowing means to get the debris off of grain.
Egyptians grew some foods such as fig trees and wheat and barley. There were two seasons that affected farming: growing season and harvest season. In the harvest season you may not have been able to harvest the wheat you wanted because your landlord may have made you cut his first.
June is the flooding season, during floods Egyptians would mend tolls or make new ones. People would go fishing for food or extra money. Egyptians would go around in boats because every thing else would be under water.
In the growing season all the crops were planted.
Harvest season is the last season. In this season Egyptians were repairing
their canals for the next flood.
The soil in Egypt was very fertile and easy to dig with your tools. There was only one soil that the Egyptians used. Well they reused the soil. Every year when the flood came the water went over the fields and it saturated the soil. When the floods went down there would be a fresh bunch of mud which was excellent soil to plant seeds in after it had been plowed. Ancient Egyptian farmers used the same soil for every field.
Ancient Egyptians had simple farming tools such as winnowing scoops, mattocks, flint-bladed sickles and plows. The Egyptian plow had a small blade on it that didn't cut very deep which was fine because the soil was fertile.
To water your crops you would need to have a canal connected to a river. To lift the water from the canal you would have a shaduf. A shaduf is a large pole balanced on a crossbeam, a rope and bucket on one end and a heavy counter weight at the other. By pulling the rope it lowered the bucket into the Nile. The counterweight would raise the bucket. The farmer would then carry the bucket to the field and water it.
Farmers would also go hunting for antelope in the desert beyond the hills.
The physical environment is different in other countries then Egypt because of hot weather. Egyptians can grow different things then some other people in other countries can because of the physical environment. Another thing that effects the type of farming in Ancient Egypt where it doesn't always effect in other places is the flood. Because of the flood Egyptians have to stop farming. | <urn:uuid:342b93c2-4bac-49ea-bae3-e1c78b05c0b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dragonstrike.com/egypt/farm.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987632 | 715 | 3.625 | 4 |
State Police or Police State?
By Michael G. Winston
Executive Vice President and Chief Leadership Officer
6mpn5b4 View the video link to see if it does not beg the question; are we watching a Police State? Are we seeing a repeat of aggression now against our children and grandchildren. Have we learned nothing over the past forty years? While I am not a fan of all Occupy Wall Street tactics, I was shocked to see the flagrant police misconduct in trying to suppress a peaceful demonstration of college students at University of California, Davis. These are our youth, exercising their right to peaceful assembly and free speech. In a college town, on the campus, where they belong. Students brutalized, in a sacred place where we trust they will be completely safe.
The United States Constitution explicitly provides for ‘the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’ Brutality, intimidation and excessive use of force is an outrageous violation of civil liberties.
Note segments of the article:
“The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist.”
“At one point, one of the riot cops ambles over to the seated line and asks one of the students a question. The student replies, “We’re sitting here.”
“The police officer then returns to his position with the other officers. He also turns his back on the seated students, as does at least one other officer. They show no fear that the students might turn violent or threatening. The first cop talks on his radio for a while.”
“Roughly a minute later, the officer can be seen shaking the pepper spray canister as the gathered students start shouting, “Don’t shoot your children!”
“As the officer began spraying the group of students, onlookers screamed, “Don’t do it! Don’t you do it!” ”
This police action deeply worries me. This looks like police brutality and excessive use of force. What’s next…the National Guard? I fear we could experience another Kent State type massacre. This would again be a tragic situation. I was a freshman, going to Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) when the Kent State killings occurred. The National Guard came on our campus as well. They raided our bucolic, Midwestern friendly campus. It looked like a war zone with tear glass canisters flying everywhere.
I have a vivid recollection of the scene. Wearing gas masks, the National Guard used tear gas to exert control over the growing crowds. After some time with a lot of maneuvering the Guardsmen turned in unison and took aim upon the student population. A frightening memory. Their behavior was so egregious that the school was ordered shut. It never reopened to finish the year. We had to evacuate the campus quickly. My freshman year was shortened by several weeks. Graduating students were denied a formal graduation.
Over the past three years, tens of trillions of dollars have been sucked out of the global economy. Few have been held accountable. After witnessing the economic genocide perpetrated upon an unsuspecting public, who can blame our youth for demonstrating. The University administration and police actions are reprehensible. We who have not forgotten Kent State will not allow it to happen again on our watch. Therefore, Whistlewatch.org, a California, not for profit, public benefit corporation, calls for an investigation to learn who gave the order to pepper spray young people at UC Davis. | <urn:uuid:af566632-cd60-440a-8a6a-60c7b96a0a2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whistlewatch.org/2011/11/police-state-who-gave-the-order-to-pepper-spray-uc-davis-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955498 | 764 | 1.601563 | 2 |
PARIS – CMOS technology scaling will go on for the foreseeable future but, as we enter the 10nm node, process complexity reduction and variability control will become crucial and drive technology decisions, said An Steegen, senior vice president process technology at Imec, at the annual IMEC Technology Forum last week at the Square meeting center in Brussels, Belgium.
Tomorrow’s smart systems will require more computing power and storage capacity, exceeding what today’s processors and memories can deliver. This drives the need for technology scaling.
In her keynote, Steegen explained how Imec is helping to enable chip scaling beyond 10 nm. Moore’s Law through 19 nm can be lithography-enabled but, after that, it is necessary to look at materials and new design architectures.
Steegen’s message was that CMOS scaling is still possible. It’s just harder. Driving to sub-15nm dimensions requires EUV lithography and advanced patterning. It also implies a migration towards 3D device architectures such as FinFET and calls for material innovation with high-mobility channel materials.
Moore’s law continues but, Steegen specified, it increases complexity, cost and variability. New technology and design solutions together with co-optimization are required.
“The good news is that CMOS still scales, from planar Si device architectures (20 nm) to FinFET device architectures (14 nm) to better control short channel effects. But when you scale, when you introduce new materials, variability increases,” she stated.
In a post-conference discussion with EE Times
, Steegen provided more details on the variability issue as we move beyond 10 nm.
“Moving to fully-depleted channel devices like FinFET, allowing us to minimize doping in the channel, we have alleviated some of the variability issues associated with random dopants,” Steegen explained. “This is reflected in the reduced device mismatch. However, with non-planar devices, new variability emerges. With sidewall conduction and increase surface-to-volume ratio, trap and defect induced variation (eg. Low-Freq Noise, BTI reliability, etc.) become more important.
She continued: “Some of these new factors carry into 10nm technology. Beyond this, we expect new variability influences due to new material in the channel and advanced gate-stack modules introduced to boost device performance. New random defects may arise from the challenging integration (eg. Selective epitaxial growth of the heterostructure). Moreover, this material alters the interaction between the channel carriers and the traps/defects giving rise to changes in reliability, and noise.”
When asked what needs to be done to ease the variability issue, Steegen explained that Imec is looking into engineering the material to improve on quality.
There is also fundamental study on how to engineer the energy bands of the channel material to optimize reliability and performance. For instance, she noted, “we have looked into the engineering of implant-free quantum well SiGe channel devices to improved NBTI reliability. Work is ongoing to study the approach for FinFET devices for beyond 14nm applications.”
Steegen explained that, as part of the program, Imec is working to identify paradigm shifts in design. The research institute explores potential solutions, some of which require support by EDA tools. For that purpose, Imec collaborates with EDA vendors in such diverse domains as 3D Design-For-Test, TCAD, impact of litho options on P&R, OPC, 3D system design exploration, etc.
Her last words at the conference were encouraging. “Variability and cost must be considered as from the beginning. We have been reinventing ourselves many many times in the semiconductor industry. We will do it again and again,” she concluded.Read also:ARM CTO looks at architecture scaling for 2020 solutions | <urn:uuid:39c1853f-39b9-4940-9211-fe8ac5438f2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4374306/Imec-looks-at-variability-issue-beyond-10nm-?Ecosystem=microcontroller-mcu | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923162 | 822 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Students of Pride discussed how to become an ally to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students and members within the La Verne community at an event called Building Bridges.
During the Oct. 18 meeting, members of the Doctoral Psychology Program club and undergraduate students talked about how they can create a safer and more inclusive campus for the LGBT community.
“It’s about mobilizing individuals and getting them off the sidelines and bringing out the allies.” said Adam Wiswell, co-chairman of Students of Pride.
At the beginning of the meeting, participants were given a quiz to test their knowledge of LGBT issues such as bullying and suicide. During introductions, students were instructed to give their preferred gender pronouns in addition to their names and reasons for attending.
The first topic of discussion was how society views the LGBT community and what consequences might result, such as discrimination and hate crimes. Shannon Garcia, senior speech communication and sociology major, spoke about the problems she has seen on the La Verne campus.
“Sometimes the harassment is subtle,” Garcia said. “It’s more institutional, the whole place should be a safe zone, not just one little section.”
Garcia said that La Verne does not have any gender-neutral bathrooms that suit the needs of those who do not fit into the gender binary or an LGBT resource center for students to utilize.
Throughout the meeting participants were encouraged to share their stories of discrimination that they or their friends encountered. They discussed ways in which being an ally could help these issues. Some of these steps included pledging to not use anti-LGBT slurs.
As an ally, it is important to be visible, active and available to help. Kellie Ashby, a member of Students of Pride, said. This meeting created a connection between the LGBT and allies in attendance and provided the LGBT students a new safe and open person to talk to in times of need.
At the end of event, the participants were given the same quiz they had taken at the beginning of the discussion to assess how their knowledge increased. The new allies learned how to recognize when others might be in need of help and what resources they should direct peers in need to, such as The Trevor Project or the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
They also received contact information to reach Rep. David Dreier and California State Sen. Bob Huff, both of whom represent La Verne, to voice their support for LGBT equality.
Junior psychology major Karina Tamayo came with her boyfriend and her friend to the meeting to offer her support as a straight ally. After the event, Tamayo said she was happy she came and she felt inspired to become more involved.
“The campus needs to be more open because there are people who feel oppressed,” Tamayo said, “My goal is to be more politically active and really fight for equal rights.”
The members of the meeting came to a consensus that while many students and faculty members are accepting and tolerant, policies for LGBT students need to be more inclusive.
“Talk is cheap. We’re going to start causing a ruckus to get these needs met,” Wiswell said.
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The Royal Navy's new multibillion pound hunter-killer submarine, HMS Astute, has been beset by design and construction flaws that have raised doubts about its performance and potential safety.
The Guardian can reveal that Astute, the first of seven new submarines costing £9.75bn, has been unable to reach its intended top speed.
At the moment, the boat, heralded as the most sophisticated submarine ever built for the navy, cannot sprint to emergencies or away from an attack – an essential requirement for a hunter-killer boat.
It would also be incapable of keeping pace with the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers, which will be able to travel at more than 30 knots and need the submarines to protect them. One source told the Guardian the boat had a "V8 engine with a Morris Minor gearbox".
Other problems that have affected the boat in recent months include:
• Flooding during a routine dive that led to Astute performing an emergency surfacing.
• Corrosion even though the boat is essentially new.
• The replacement or moving of computer circuit boards because they did not meet safety standards.
• Concern over the instruments monitoring the nuclear reactor because the wrong type of lead was used.
• Questions being raised about the quality and installation of other pieces of equipment.
• Concern reported among some crew members about the Astute's pioneering periscope, that does not allow officers to look at the surface "live".
The MoD confirmed Astute had suffered some "teething problems" during sea trials. "It is normal for first of class trials to identify areas where modifications are required and these are then incorporated into later vessels of the class," a spokesman said.
Though the MoD said it cannot discuss the speed of submarines, the spokesman said Astute would "provide an outstanding capability for decades to come".
However, if the propulsion problems persist, they would represent one of the biggest procurement disasters the MoD has ever had to deal with, and potentially leave the Astute fleet struggling to perform all the duties it was built for.
John Large, an independent nuclear safety analyst and specialist engineer, said: "These problems are much more significant than the niggles and glitches expected to arise during working up of a new class of nuclear-powered submarine. Particularly disturbing is the apparent mismatch between the nuclear reactor plant and the steam turbine sets, putting the submarine speed below par and making her susceptible in the anti-submarine warfare theatre."
The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said ministers "must be clear over the impact of any problems with this essential programme on timing and cost".
Even though the boat has yet to start formal service, Astute – four years overdue and £2bn over budget – has been surrounded by controversy since it was first commissioned 15 years ago. In 2010, it was marooned off Skye, a calamity that led to its commander being removed from post. Last year a senior officer was shot dead by a junior member of the crew.
The Guardian has learned that during exercises off the east coast of the United States, a cap on one of the pipes that takes seawater from the back of the submarine to the reactor sprang a leak. A compartment began flooding with seawater, forcing the commander to surface immediately. Though nobody was hurt, an investigation revealed a cap was made from the wrong metal, even though construction records said the right metal had been installed.
The cap was supposed to have been "level one quality assurance". This means that BAE, which is responsible for building the boat, is supposed to give it the highest scrutiny.
"The fact the cap failed is bad enough, but the most worrying thing is that there is no way of knowing whether the submarine has other pieces of equipment like this on board," said a source. "The quality assurance tests are there to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen, but it did. So what else has been installed that we don't know about? It is impossible to know. They fitted the wrong cap but it was still signed off."
The MoD confirmed that the incident had taken place. "During trials last year HMS Astute experienced a leak which was immediately isolated and the submarine returned safely to the surface," a spokesman said. "An investigation found one small part which had not been made of the correct material had corroded. A replacement was fitted at sea and the submarine continued with her programme. BAE Systems have carried out a full assessment which concluded all similar parts were fitted correctly."
Neither the MoD nor BAE was prepared to discuss how a cap made from the wrong metal had been fitted. BAE also declined to explain how it could be sure other parts were installed correctly when the quality assurance inventory system was proved to be flawed.
Some of the instruments which tell commanders about the state of the nuclear reactor were also feared compromised, the Guardian can reveal. The detectors which measure the power coming from the reactor are in a lead-lined water jacket that surrounds the reactor core.
The lead has to be "virgin" metal, mined from great depth, so that it does not carry any electrical charge of its own that could generate a false reading.
However, the lead used in Astute was not of the right quality, which means instruments gave incorrect readings. Using impure lead can also have a knock-on effect during maintenance – the charged metal can create increased and persistent radioactivity within the reactor compartment.
A source said this oversight was "unforgivable". Initially the MoD denied there was a problem with the reactor instruments. However, it then conceded the wrong lead had been used – but insisted tests showed the accuracy of the readings had not been affected. In addition, some of the small computer switchboards on Astute should have been placed six inches apart, but they were only one inch apart.
They did not conform to either naval or Lloyds civilian safety standards and are now having to be moved or replaced. The MoD says this work has been completed.
Of all the difficulties, it is the problems with propulsion which are the most sensitive. The MoD stated Astute would be able to make 29 knots, but the Guardian has been told it cannot do this.
Rather than building a new power plant for Astute, the MoD chose to use the Pressurised Water Reactor 2 (PWR2) from the much bigger Vanguard-class Trident submarines. It was linked to a steam turbine system based on the model used in the aged Trafalgar Class attack submarines.
"This was always likely to be a big problem, and so it has proved," said a source. "The PWR2 was meant for a much bigger boat, and Astute had to be designed around it. That may have cut costs, but it has caused problems. The power from the reactor does not translate into forward movement."
Large added: "So much promise was held out for the Astute class of nuclear powered submarine but these faults occurring during its commissioning into active/service, particularly in the propulsion system and its under-performance, suggest that the whole has been cobbled together from some ill-fitting parts – the real concern here is that these or similar mismatches will compromise nuclear safety at risk to crews and the public generally."
BAE Systems, which is responsible for building the Astute fleet, said: "Safety is of paramount importance to every stage of the design, build, test and trials of a submarine and is at the heart of everything we do. Before entering full service, every submarine is required to complete an exhaustive period of sea trials, which are designed to prove the vessel's capabilities. These trials also present an opportunity to improve performance by resolving any issues that may come to light during this time, which is not uncommon on a first-of-class submarine." | <urn:uuid:f7200b91-eedd-47fc-9588-2faa2b9d37ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/15/hms-astute-submarine-slow-leaky-rusty?commentpage=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982478 | 1,603 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Stammham power plant dams up the River Inn upstream of the Alz estuary and Mittlinger Bach. Due to the partial diversion into the Alz canal towards Holzfeld, the inflow from the Alz to the Salzach normally only lies at 10 m3/s. In the case of flood events, substantial amounts of gravel are deposited on the bed of the River Inn.
The bank opposite the estuary, which accommodates the railway line to Simbach, therefore had to be protected with breakwaters. Dredging work was necessary to retain the water level.
In the north, the valley is confined by the Dachleite, the old undercut slope of the Inn with almost vertical crumbling walls that rise to a height of over 100 metres. The high tertiary hills with the erosion fronts Dachlwand and Innhorn extend down to the river.
"Dachln" are jackdaws that nest in the cliffs.
Dams were necessary upstream near Holzhausen and to provide flood protection for Marktl. Braunau power plant, which is located downriver, dams the downstream water.
Stammham power plant, a flat construction building, has three machine units. The Kaplan turbines are directly coupled with umbrella-type alternators with an output of 10 MVA at power factor cos=0.8. Two transformers, each with 16 MVA, transform electricity from 6.3 to 110 kV in the switchyard. The power plant feeds into the Neuötting-Braunau line on the left bank of the Inn. | <urn:uuid:c3c221f5-33d2-4b1e-bc25-66597b07d9bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.verbund.com/pp/en/run-of-river-power-plant/stammham | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932127 | 323 | 2.65625 | 3 |
A new religious movement or NRM appears as a religious, ethical or spiritual grouping that has not (yet) become recognised as a standard denomination, church, or body, especially when it has a novel belief system and when it is not a sect.
Some scholars prefer this neutral term to the pejorative term of "cult", but anti-cult activists still continue to use it. Debates among academics on acceptablity of the word "cult" in scholarly research papers continue.
Eileen Barker, who is influential in this field, uses the adjective new in this context when the movement started after World War II and new for a certain culture. For example, ISKCON/ the Hare Krishnas is generally considered an NRM in the west because it is new to western culture and because it is a separate organization. In India it is unlikely that it will be considered an NRM because the Gaudiya Vaishnavism sect of Hinduism that formed the basis for ISKCON's organization has existed since the 16th century.
NRMs are very diverse both in its beliefs, practices, the way they are organized, and the degree of acceptance by society. Except for Japan, only a small or very small part of the population is or has been involved in an NRM.
Examples of new religious movements might include:
- Neo-Paganism, in which followers seek to revert back to the pre-Christian earth and nature worship of Western Europe.
- Eclectic combinatory movements, such as Celestialism and Theosophy, which posit concordant elements to all religions.
- New-World African hybrid religions, such as Rastafarianism, Voodoo or Vodun, and Santerķa, which combine African naturalistic religions with Judeo-Christian traditions.
- Subud, which has no specific religious beliefs, many members of which actively practice various traditional religions or no religion at all.
- Unification Church
NRMs and their critics
Advocates who regard certain fringe religious organizations, new religious movements or (controversially) "cults" as spurious and condemn their methods, also call them "hate groups". For example, the prominent counter cult activist Anton Hein considers Scientology a hate group because that religious movement has, in his opinion, a long, documented history of hate and harassment activities, which—along with lying and deception—are condoned and encouraged in Scientology's own 'scriptures.' (See, for example, Scientology's Fair Game policy.)
In turn, a number of new religious movements have used the term "hate group" to label certain former members of these groups. Disaffected former members of these organizations have worked to expose what they believe is the "truth" about the groups in question, though the methods used by some of these former members have been known to be polemic, hostile and verbally abusive. Alleged cults and new religions have seized upon the hostile acts of their former members and cited them as examples of persecution and bigotry by these former members. Supporters of these groups have waged campaigns of their own to label former members as hate groups, even to the point where they publish literature and Web sites dedicated to attacking these disaffected persons.
CESNUR’s president Massimo Introvigne, writes in his article "So many evil things: Anti-cult terrorism via the Internet", that fringe and extreme anti-cult activism resort to tactics that may create a background favorable to extreme manifestations of discrimination and hate against individuals that belong to new religious movements. Critics of CESNUR, however, call Introvigne a cult apologist who defends harmful religious groups and cults. Somewhat in concurrence with Introvigne, professor Eileen Barker asserts in an interview that the controvery surrounding certain new religious movements can turn violent by a process called deviancy amplification spiral.
Elan Vital, an NRM and an organization that supports the work of Prem Rawat, accuse its vocal critics that call themselves "Ex-Premies", to harbor the hatred and ill-will typical of a hate group, such as hate speech and harrasment. The ex-premies reject these accusations asserting that the evidence for these allegations is uncorroborated, and assert that they are performing a public service by providing information not disclosed by Elan Vital. See Criticism of Prem Rawat.
In a paper by Anson Shupe and Susan Darnell presented at the 2000 meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, they affirm that although the International Cultic Studies Association ( ICSA, formerly known as AFF or American Family Foundation) has presented "slanted, stereotypical images and language that has inflamed persons to perform extreme actions", the extent to which the ICSA and other anti-cultist organizations are hate groups as defined by law or racial/ethnic criteria in sociology, is open for debate. See also Verbal violence in hate groups.
The Foundation against Intolerance of Religious Minorities, associated with the Adidam NRM, sees the use of terms "cult" and "cult leader" to suggest that these are to be detested, avoided at all costs and see this as the exercise of prejudice and discrimination against them in the same manner as "nigger" and "commie" were used in the past to denigrate blacks and Communists.
Sometimes a non-existent religion or spiritual practice described in a work of fiction attracts converts, who then re-create it in reality.
One example is the Church of All Worlds, inspired by the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Also warranting reference is the Jedi census movement, in which participants recorded their religion as "Jedi" on the national censuses of a few English-speaking countries. While there is little to no evidence that the movement constituted a bona fide new religious movement, it did serve to raise new questions about religion and fiction, especially in light of rumors that high numbers of registered Jedi would cause "Jedi" to be listed as an official religion.
Critics sometimes question whether claiming belief in a given Fiction-based NRM indicates sincerely-held faith or occurs for baser motives, such as attention seeking, or to claim a religious exemption for otherwise-illegal drug use.
- Barker, Eileen New religious movements: a practical introduction London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office. (1989)
- Kranenborg, Reender (Dutch language) Een nieuw licht op de kerk?: Bijdragen van nieuwe religieuze bewegingen voor de kerk van vandaag/A new perspective on the church: Contributions by NRMs for today's church Published by het Boekencentrum, (a Christian publishing house), the Hague, (1984). ISBN 90-239-0809-0 | <urn:uuid:06adcf4b-c750-435c-a02d-aa6314e336f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/New_religious_movement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947671 | 1,407 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Rachel Levy, a guest author of Alison Doyle’s About.com Job Searching site, wrote an informative article on "How to Use Social media in Your Job Search".
Not using social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter in a job search is similar to using only 4 out of your 5 senses. Learning the basics of each of the social networking sites and how they can be used in the job search is well worth the effort and will add significantly to the types of job opportunities that you will find.
- Developing a professional presence online.
LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals and should strictly be used when keeping the professional world in mind. By using the Advance search button at the top right of your LinkedIn Profile you can do a search based on keywords, organization, college, and location. You can easily use Advance Search to find alumni from your college working in specific career fields, companies, and locations. The Group section at the top of the page let's you find and join groups based on your personal and career interests.
When creating a professional presence online be sure to first do a Google search of your name. If any pictures or derogatory information comes up, be sure to delete it immediately. You'll want to do this on a regular basis to ensure that you haven't been mentioned or tagged on someone's Facebook page in a compromising photo.
- Add as many keywords and phrases as possible to your profile.
You will want to include keywords and phrases in your profile to ensure that your profile will come up when employers are searching for candidates to fill a specific position. You can find these words and phrases by looking at job ads and LinkedIn profiles of professionals working in a specific career field.
- Using LinkedIn to explore career options.
LinkedIn is an excellent place to explore career options and find people based on job title, company, and more. When a specific person comes up on LinkedIn you can also see the career path they have taken from college to their current career. This information can help when deciding what types of entry-level jobs lead to specific job titles and careers that you may be interested in pursuing in the future.
- Establish yourself as an expert by creating a blog.
Feel free to create your own blog where you can keep friends and family apprised of what you’re doing and currently involved in. You may include information on college life or your involvement in the job search. By maintaining a blog you will also be gaining valuable computer skills and demonstrating your creative abilities by illustrating your writing and design capabilities. Be sure to also load your blog with keywords and phrases and the appropriate job lingo that is spoken in a specific career field. Don’t feel creative, you can also make an attempt at getting your name out there by posting on other people's blogs on specific topics related to your career of interest.
Keeping your social media sites updated is another way of putting your name in front of employers. You can even include recent interviews and job search efforts on your site that will keep people reading your site apprised of your current job search.
- Use social networking sites to prepare for an interview.
Checking out company websites and finding professionals with similar titles who are already working at a company is a great way to help prepare yourself for an interview with the company. You will want to gain as much information as possible about the company by reading its website and by thoroughly understanding it’s overall mission and goals; and by checking out a company’s social media profile you will gain a wealth of information that be asked during a company interview.
Tweeting can be a great way to check out employers recruiting needs and see what's being posted.
The opinion on Twitter is often contradictory. I hear people say they hate it while others say it's a good part of their overall job search strategy. There are also many companies today that include job postings on their Twitter sites in order to get more candidates. Twitter in combination with LinkedIn and Facebook can provide additional information to be followed up on in the job search. | <urn:uuid:8523c076-cde9-4666-b321-e61c892e75dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://internships.about.com/od/findinganinternship/a/Tips-And-Strategies-For-Using-Social-Media-In-The-Internship-And-Job-Search.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957383 | 826 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Friday, May 24, 2013
I come from a village in Africa (Kenya) and I have a question. My cousins grandparent died of depression or so we thought, and there has been cases of `madness`s from their maternal side because even their uncle died of the same, they all exhibits peculiar traits likes being overly shy and always laughing, now my cousin and his younger brother have gone mad in that they have lost sense with reality though they fully understand their surrounding too well, the older brother has attempted suicide twice, now here comes my big question...could this be madness or is it a genetic disease like depression sort of or viral because to add salt to injury once they become sick jiggers manifest themselves in all parts of their bodies and no one else in the family is affected by the jiggers and eventually as history has it, they all die from the jigger manifestation. Dr. is there a disease out there viral or otherwise that apes the symptoms of a mentally ill person, because why else would the jiggers only attack those ill and leave all the family members? could it be something in their blood? I am quite confused coz this has now left us in dilemma and we are thinking it could be a curse! your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
You ask many interesting questions, but unfortunately, I am unable to answer many of them in an Internet situation. As is true in most medicine, culture, history, and language are an integral part of how physicians and patients make their stories known to each other. The Internet does not allow me to interact with you in a way that helps me really understand how you, your family, and your village perceive and experience mental illness. For example, I do not know if what you call "madness," might be what a doctor might call schizophrenia or depression or anxiety or some other mental disorder.
There are types of schizophrenia and severe anxieties where people feel they are infested with bugs or germs. Some mental illness "runs in families," and many people in a family, due to their genetics, may become ill with the illness. Some serious brain infections or injuries may also lead a person to act "crazy," or to be delirious, as a doctor would say.
I am sorry I cannot answer your specific questions. Because you have Internet access, you might look at some of the weblinks and see if they have any information you can use.
Nancy Elder, MD
College of Medicine
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It’s true that we cover a good number of wind power stories from South Dakota. But the University of South Dakota (USD) is looking beyond those big turbines turning on the horizon to a future featuring a broad-spectrum mix of renewable energy industries for the state, and an accompanying rise in the green job market. That’s what it has in mind with its new bachelor’s degree program that will focus on hydroelectric power, geothermal energy technologies, biofuels and “green” construction practices – as well as wind energy.
The university announced that beginning in fall 2012, it will offer a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability. The programs are designed to train students in job skills in demand across the country and – strategically – those identified as crucial to the future of South Dakota by the governor’s Office of Economic Development. The university said it believes students majoring in sustainability will have the opportunity to pursue careers in both the private sector and government, including the areas of sustainable practices, renewable energy, community planning, non-governmental organizations focused on sustainable development and education.
To graduate from the new program, students must complete 36 credit hours, with 18 in the required common core and 18 to be selected as electives from courses available in the selected specialization. In addition to the training in administrative aspects of sustainability, this will give graduates a background in more than one area of renewable energy, in contrast to existing certification programs (increasingly available through community colleges) that offer courses only in one area of specialization.
The program works in consort with established sustainability initiatives at USD, including the Missouri River Institute and the University of South Dakota Department of Biology’s specialization in conservation and biodiversity. | <urn:uuid:62566227-d6cf-48ff-a36a-e53fb0056df9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/12/on-campus-sustainability-a-matter-of-degrees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943955 | 356 | 2.25 | 2 |
The Pennsylvania CHIP provides insurance coverage for children birth to age 19 years who are not eligible for Medicaid and have access to no other health insurance coverage. Funding for CHIP is through Federal and State funds. In 2007, CHIP expanded to offer coverage to all children. Depending on the family income – children are eligible for free coverage or coverage based on a sliding scale payment. In 2008, approximately 168,000 children are enrolled in CHIP.
PA AAP EFFORTS FOR YOU AND YOUR PATIENTS
The PA Chapter has long been a supporter of PA CHIP. From the early 1990’s when CHIP legislation was first passed in PA under Governor Bob Casey through the recent CHIP expansion to “Cover All Kids” under Governor Ed Rendell, the PA AAP has been actively involved. A primary goal of the PA AAP is for every Pennsylvania child to have access to health insurance coverage. PA AAP was also instrumental in exempting children under 2 years of age from a 6 month waiting period before CHIP benefits are activated. All new applicants who are found eligible for low cost or full cost CHIP (but not free CHIP) must show that their child has been uninsured for six months unless: the child is under age two; the child has lost health benefits because a parent lost their job; or the child is moving from another public health insurance program.
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|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary|
17:24-27 Peter felt sure that his Master was ready to do what was right. Christ spoke first to give him proof that no thought can be withholden from him. We must never decline our duty for fear of giving offence; but we must sometimes deny ourselves in our worldly interests, rather than give offence. However the money was lodged in the fish, He who knows all things alone could know it, and only almighty power could bring it to Peter's hook. The power and the poverty of Christ should be mentioned together. If called by providence to be poor, like our Lord, let us trust in his power, and our God shall supply all our need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. In the way of obedience, in the course, perhaps, of our usual calling, as he helped Peter, so he will help us. And if any sudden call should occur, which we are not prepared to meet, let us not apply to others, till we first seek Christ.
Verse 26. - Of strangers. Peter is brought to the desired point. He answers, as any one would, that in earthly kingdoms the children of the ruling monarch are exempt from taxes, which are exacted from all other subjects. Then are the children free. The comparison required the use of the plural, though the reference is properly confined to himself. The deduction leads naturally to the lesson of Christ's immunity, he virtually implies (though the inference is not developed in words), "I am the Son of God, as you, Peter, have acknowledged; this tax is levied for the house and service of God, whose Son I am; therefore I am free from the obligation of paying it; it cannot be required that I should pay tribute to my Father." Looked at in its original nature, the impost could not with propriety be demanded from him. It was an offering of atonement, a ransom of souls. How could he give money in expiation of himself - he who had come to give his life a ransom for others? Why should he ransom himself from sin and death, who had come to take away sin and destroy death and open everlasting life to all men? There was need to make the point clear now that Christ had openly asserted his Messiahship and his Divine nature. To pay the demamt without explanation, after the statement of his Divinity, might occasion serious misapprehension in the minds of his followers. So he gently but convincingly shows that his claim of Sonship exempted him from all liability of the impost.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Peter saith unto him,.... The Vulgate Latin reads, "and he said": and so the Ethiopic, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel; but without doubt Peter is meant, and rightly expressed; whose answer to Christ's question is,
of strangers: meaning not foreigners, or such who formerly belonged to other nations, but were now taken captive, and brought into subjection; but their own native subjects, so called, in distinction from their domestics, their children, and those of their own family:
Jesus saith unto him, then are the children free; from paying custom, tribute, and taxes, and leaves Peter to make the application; and which he suggested might be made, either thus: supposing it was a civil tax, that since he was the son of David, king of Israel, was of his house and family, and heir apparent to his throne and kingdom; according to this rule, he must be exempt from such tribute: or, thus; taking it to have respect to the half shekel, paid on a religious account, for the service of the temple worship; that since he was the Son of the King of kings, for the support of whose worship and service that money was collected; and was also the Lord and proprietor of the temple, and greater than that, he might well be excused the payment of it.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
26. Peter saith unto him, Of strangers—"of those not their children."
Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free—By "the children" our Lord cannot here mean Himself and the Twelve together, in some loose sense of their near relationship to God as their common Father. For besides that our Lord never once mixes Himself up with His disciples in speaking of their relation to God, but ever studiously keeps His relation and theirs apart (see, for example, on the last words of this chapter)—this would be to teach the right of believers to exemption from the dues required for sacred services, in the teeth of all that Paul teaches and that He Himself indicates throughout. He can refer here, then, only to Himself; using the word "children" evidently in order to express the general principle observed by sovereigns, who do not draw taxes from their own children, and thus convey the truth respecting His own exemption the more strikingly:—namely, "If the sovereign's own family be exempt, you know the inference in My case"; or to express it more nakedly than Jesus thought needful and fitting: "This is a tax for upholding My Father's House. As His Son, then, that tax is not due by Me—I AM FREE."
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The report finds that while the recession has touched Americans of all ages, it has been espeically hard on young adults. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 46.1 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds are currently employed -- the smallest share ever recorded since the government began collecting such data in 1948.
The report, producted by the Pew Research Center, finds that the hard economic times are particularly affecting the family patterns of young adults. Approximately 15 percent of adults younger than 35 say they have postponed getting married because of the recession, and an additional 14 percent say they have delayed having a baby. According to studies conducted by Pew, 13 percent of parents with grown children say one of their adult sons or daughters has moved back home in the past year. Data also suggests that proportionately fewer young singles are living solo now than before the recession, with particularly steep declines among young women.
Data is based on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, conducted each March by the Census Bureau, and a nationally representative survey of 1,028 adults conducted in October 2009 by the Pew Research Center. Results from the survey are used to produce estimates of changes in living arrangements and other actions taken by individuals in response to the recession.
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The Boy Scouts have just lost their largest corporate donor over their unrelenting insistence to exclude — and even expel — from all levels any gay, bisexual, or transgender man, teen, or boy. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the $54 billion multinational semiconductor chip maker that powers most computers, has announced they recently ceased funding the century-old Scouting organization, to which it donated $700,000 annually.
GLAAD announced that on Wednesday, Eagle Scout Zach Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, launched a campaign on Change.org supported by GLAAD and signed by more than 30,000 Americans urging Intel to pull funding from the Boy Scouts of America after an American Independent report revealed that the company gave nearly $700,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2010.”
According to the American Independent, the Intel Foundation has a policy that it will not fund “organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status.”
Intel made their announcement yesterday.
“Intel joins current Boy Scouts of America Board Members, President Obama, Mitt Romney and hundreds of thousands of Americans in speaking out against the BSA’s practice of unfairly kicking out gay scouts and scout leaders simply because of who they are,” GLAAD President Herndon Graddick said in a statement. ”All of the great work that the BSA does to help young people will continue to be overshadowed by their blatant discrimination until they join other inclusive national organizations like the Girl Scouts of the USA and the 4-H Club. The time is now for the BSA to side with fairness, otherwise they will continue to see sponsors and scouting families drop their support.”
Additionally, Intel’s Chief Diversity Officer, Rosalind Hudnell, told Think Progress:
“Intel has not provided funding to the National Boy Scouts of America organization. The $700,000 in funding from the Intel Foundation was donated to local Boy Scout troops or councils where our employees volunteer their time, through our volunteer matching grants program . . . Due to significant growth in the number of organizations funded, earlier this year we revisited our policies associated with the program, and applied new rigor that requires any organization to confirm that it adheres to Intel’s anti-discrimination policy in order to receive funding.”
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 530 - 20 February, 2001
Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.
Dr. Upton Dr. Upton
236. Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will review the blind welfare allowance, his views on whether this payment is becoming irrelevant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4697/01]
Mr. Martin Mr. Martin
Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin): The Department of Health and Children is participating on a working group which is reviewing illness/disability schemes and is chaired by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs. This review is being undertaken as part of the programme of expenditure reviews agreed between line Departments and the Department of Finance as a means of ensuring the efficient use of the resources at their disposal. The blind welfare allowance is being considered in this context. My Department is also undertaking an examination of disability related allowances which come under its aegis and are administered by the health boards, including blind welfare allowance.
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This is the real deal in modern wild design. This is the “Plug-In” affordable youth mobility project by Ramesh Gound. According to Gound, there is a big “buy 1 get 1 free” shopping attitude in the market around the Ahmedabad area of India. This simple concept gave Gound the idea to take two motorcycles and attach them in the middle. Each motorcycle is owned by its respective party, a young person with a big appetite for sports vehicles but a small pocketbook, then they attach. Once two motos attach in the middle, they become that fantastic sports car from heaven.
Two drive-by-wire bikes are owned by separate people. They wanna attach them for a longer drive or some sort of trip that’s not great for motorcycle, or hey, if they just wanna cruuuze… they attach in the center of the two.
The hood is made of D3O, which when the bikes are not attached, stows away in the bike configuration. This whole concept is aimed to take on congested cities such as Mumbai.
NOTE: some info from Gound — This project is my final year Diploma project at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad India sponsored by Renault Design India.
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Finding a home for lease is a daunting task.
If you be in possession of any type of property, be it housing or commercial one, you will always need someone proficient who can manage it for you. The issue that comes to your mind would be how professional management can assist you?
Property management is the process of handling, managing, operating, or control of the real estate property by a third party or someone else other than the owner. Often, it is handled by a management firm which will handle either one client’s property or several clients. This is one method of handling the property and taking care of it. Conjointly, there is another method which has fallen out of favor recent days as it is found quite expensive and intricate and that would be; hiring someone to live on site and take care of tenants requirements, as a building supervisor or other building administrator.
Appointing a property management company is very essential and there are several advantages in hiring them and some of them are listed below:
• They will make sure that your property doesn’t gets vandalized
• At the same time they will take care of tenant’s problems as well.
• It includes eviction
• Authoritative tasks
• Conjointly acts as arbitrators between tenants when any problem arises
• This avoids unnecessary problems which may spoil the reputation of the building
Management designates a necessity to be cared for, scrutinized and responsibility specified for its functional existence and circumstance. This is much of the same kind to the task of management in any business.
Only a professional and practiced person will know about its ins and outs and the specific knowledge required for the efficient and effective management of the property. Furthermore they will know as of what are the imperative techniques, metrics and process for a property’s financial and market practicality. Hence, it is essential to take up the services of the best management firm who will help you come out with the best possibilities and how to make the most from the investment structures.
By entering the phrase Houston property management you can find in several companies that are offering management services related to properties.
When it comes to property investment all that is expected would be a decent return on the hard-earned money put in! Some tips on what to look at:
• contemplate on long-term analysis
• have a keen look at the Status of the real estate market
• sometimes it may be Declining and sometimes it may be demanding so observe it closely
• Do a wide-ranging line of investigation sooner than investing in the property
• Plan out your financial statement
• decide on the right property to be invested
• know the property type that you need
• commercial or residential purpose
• credentials process
• finally look out for the best professional advice or real estate agents
On the whole when it is done well, property management is the response to a lot of concerns that real estate investors might face. The management team can do the hands on work while the depositors reap the profits.
There are several websites online sharing details about property management as well as helping you find a home for sale use them wisely.
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Their plan appears to be working.
Powerball tickets doubled in price in January to $2, and while the number of tickets sold initially dropped, sales revenue has increased by about 35 percent over 2011.
Sales for Powerball reached a record $3.96 billion in fiscal 2012 and are expected to reach $5 billion this year, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Des Moines, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, the group that runs the Powerball game.
There has been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot already has reached a record level for the game. It was first posted at $425 million but revised upward to $500 million when brisk sales increased the payout. It’s the second highest jackpot in lottery history, behind only the $656 million Mega Millions prize in March.
It took nine weeks for the Mega Millions jackpot to get that high, before three winners — from Kansas, Illinois and Maryland — hit the right numbers, each collecting $218.6 million for their share of the split.
With soaring jackpots come soaring sales, and for the states playing the game, that means higher revenue.
“The purpose for the lottery is to generate revenue for the respective states and their beneficiary programs,” said Norm Lingle, chairman of the Powerball Game Group. “High jackpots certainly help the lottery achieve those goals.”
Of the $2 cost of a Powerball ticket, $1 goes to the prizes and the other dollar is kept by the state lottery organization, said Lingle, who also is executive director of the South Dakota Lottery. After administrative overhead is paid, the remaining amount goes to that state’s beneficiary programs.
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What is Healthy Carolina?
Healthy Carolina is…. a way of life. It is the pursuit of health and wellness in mind, body, and spirit. It is the individual person, the environment and the community creating a culture and atmosphere that encourages healthy choices, healthy behaviors and a healthy place to live. It is a mission and vision born out of the desire to see USC as a healthy community to help our faculty, staff and students learn to thrive in life.
Healthy Carolina Vision
A healthy campus environment in which to live, learn, work and play.
Healthy Carolina Mission
To create a healthy campus environment that promotes the development and maintenance of a healthy body, mind and spirit through the collaborative development, promotion and assessment of policies, programs, services and initiatives that address all dimensions of wellness for the members of the University of South Carolina campus community.
Healthy Carolina Philosophy Wellness can mean different things to different people, but at the University of South Carolina, wellness is defined as a holistic, well-balanced approach to living that involves the mind, body and spirit. The University of South Carolina supports personal wellness because of its documented, direct impact on work, academic success and quality of life. Wellness is more than being free of illness or disease. There are actually seven dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, environmental, and spiritual. This is depicted in the wellness wheel below. If one component of this wheel is not developed, you may feel unbalanced in life. The wellness wheel provides information and resources that can help you develop a balanced and healthy life.
Click on the Wellness Wheel below to find out more about the Seven Dimensions of Wellness as well as resources in the USC community you can use to help develop a balanced and healthy life!
Wheel design created for Western Carolina University's Student Affairs/Campus
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Thanks y'all. I spent a long time researching the geography and mythology of anicent Iraq (where the fictional story was written) while designing it. I took some liberties to restrict access to areas. The Sumerians were surrounded by the Tigres and Euphrates river, so being 5,000 years ago and having no knowledge of the rest of the world, they assumed that everything beyond their land was just endless water. Having a real place to base it on made designing a world map a heck of a lot easier.
@kayden: thanks for the feedback about Uruk and Nippur. I'm bad with colors - what colors would you recommend to fit better with the map? Uruk is supposed to be the capital and the giant wall is pretty central to the story, so I can't really remove it all together.
QUOTE (Titanhex @ Apr 5 2012, 03:38 PM)
I can't offer critique unfortunately. Perhaps it's cause I can't see it as well as I'd like.
What I do want to say though is that the map itself looks fantastic, very nice shape and topography placement.
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Synthetic Biology Project
Interestingly, the open access model appears to be establishing itself in the synthetic biology paradigm. Rai and Boyle (2007) recently discuss the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts-an open initiative to place parts into the public domain that makes parts not only unpatentable, but will also prevent the patenting of trivial improvements. Such open initiatives may be just as effective for managing the complexities of this synthetic biology paradigm as they appear to be for the current paradigm, particularly in the early stages of knowledge development (Rai and Boyle, 2007). Many of the issues of the genomics and systems paradigm will have even more serious consequence as firms seek patents over biological materials that may be placed into synthetic devices and as genomic information is manipulated to develop new organisms. This project will follow the development of the synthetic biology paradigm and the associated knowledge dissemination and appropriation strategies used by stakeholders.
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Testing for X-Ray Vision
Some time ago, we received a letter from a woman, R.G., who claimed she can peer inside sealed boxes with some sort of X-ray vision and describe what is inside with a 60 to 70 percent rate of success.
At CICAP, the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, every year we receive a few dozen requests from people claiming to possess some kind of psychic power. Many disappear after we ask for more details. Of those who remain, we almost always find that they are sincere and honest people who really believe they possess the powers they claim. Very rarely does someone try to deceive or cheat us.
Some time ago, we received a letter from a woman, R.G., who claimed she can peer inside sealed boxes with some sort of X-ray vision and describe what is inside with a 60 to 70 percent rate of success. She wanted us to test and verify her powers. In letters and phone calls she explained that we could use any kind of box and any object we liked.
We gladly accepted her proposal and invited her to the University of Pavia, where, with the help of colleagues such as chemist Luigi Garlaschelli and physicist Adalberto Piazzoli, we have often tested psychics.
Once in Pavia, she agreed that the testing situation was ideal, that the people there were not hostile, and that she was confident she would succeed. It is very important to establish this beforehand to prevent excuses if the test fails. She read the protocol for the experiment that we had prepared in advance according to her claims, and she signed it.
No ‘Fitting’ Allowed
We had previously selected twelve objects, each one different from the others in shape, color, and material. These objects were taken to a different room from the one where the test was taking place and randomly numbered from 1 to 12. An experimenter then chose a random number, picked up the corresponding object, wrapped it in paper in order to avoid any clues from sound (the psychic confirmed beforehand that paper didn’t block her visions), put it in a wooden box kept firm by two rubber bands, and finally brought the box within view of R.G. (The experimenter who placed the objects inside the box had to stay away from R.G. in order to avoid any involuntary nonverbal communication.) This procedure took place for each object, and each object was chosen only once.
When R.G. saw the box for the first time, she asked us to remove the rubber bands around it because they could confuse her images. We agreed on the condition that nobody could touch or get close to the box after it was placed on a table.
We then gave R.G. a list of the twelve objects in order to help her decide. She had to concentrate on the box and then indicate on the list the object that best matched her visions. This was done to avoid “fitting” a general description to more than one object; her vision could match one, and only one, object on the list. If she wished, she could switch one guess for another before the end of the test.
The correct answers would be given only at the end of the session. As usual, we videotaped the whole test.
‘I See Something Square....’
Sitting six feet away from the box with her husband beside her, R.G. concentrated for a few seconds and then described her perceptions: “I see something square... a bit thick... something dark... straight...” She then pointed to the rubber stamp on the list.
The test went on until she reached the last object: “It’s something rigid,” she said. “Straight but... not a cube. It has only one color... looks like a pen, a tube... could be the key.”
At the end of the test, we compared R.G.’s guesses to a list of the objects in the order in which they were presented. Out of twelve objects, she got only one match—exactly what one would expect by chance.
R.G. tried to justify her unsuccessful performance by saying that the conditions (to which she had previously agreed) were not the ones she was accustomed to. She then tried to accommodate her descriptions to the objects actually presented. For example, the object that she had indicated was a key turned out to be a mirror. “Well, I was right after all,” she said. “It was something straight, not a cube and only had one color.” The lady seemed to have forgotten that she also had said the object looked “like a pen, a tube.”
There’s No Place Like Home
We had designed our protocol on the basis of what R.G. said she could do (and in conditions under which she said she could succeed). We had tried to accommodate her needs. However, the failure bothered her, and she insisted that this was not the procedure she used at home. Usually, she said, she needed two series of objects: one for the test, the other to be kept in front of her so that she could compare her visions with a replica of the actual object and not with a word on a list. This was the first time she said something of the kind to us.
So, even though the official test was over, we agreed to perform an informal trial. We looked for twelve double objects in the laboratory and proceeded as before. Again, the result was quite clear: one hit in twelve trials.
Still, R.G. was unconvinced and repeated that, at home, she would usually get six or seven objects out of ten and proceeded to indicate two more differences with our test. At home, her husband could use the same object more than once, and this gave her more freedom of choice. Furthermore, she needed some encouragement; she needed to know if she was right or wrong immediately after her guess.
Some of us were against the idea of performing a new test and changing the protocol again. However, after clearly stating on camera that the test was not to be considered a proper, scientific test and that it was done only as another informal trial, in view of future tests, we decided to try.
Since this demonstration proved to be very quick to prepare, we did twenty-eight trials with a choice of the same seven objects for each trial. R.G. was right on six cases. Even this demonstration was not considered significant (in order to have a minimum of significance, p=0.02, with seven objects and twenty-eight trials, nine to ten hits are required).
At the end of our meeting, we suggested that R.G. repeat the test as we had performed it that day at home. This way, we thought, maybe she would realize that once the possibility of adapting one’s “visions” to the correct object in the box is ruled out, the results can be only random (unless she really possessed psychic powers, obviously). We said that we would invite her back if, following this procedure, she could still obtain a 60 to 70 percent success rate.
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The grey seal, or Halichoerus grypus, is large and robust. It's coloring can range from from grey to tan or to brown. It's top is darker than its bottom. When they molt, their fur becomes paler and duller, but newborns are creamy white.
The striped dolphin is a highly gregarious animal. They are very active swimmers, performing leaps and breaching frequently. They may associate in schools of 100 to 500 individuals of the same age. The communicate by clicking and whistles. The feed opportunistically and the females have a single calf and stays with them for 16 months.
The harbor seal is a good swimmer. They are highly adapted to speed because of their torpedo like shape. The usually swim 10 meters beneath the surface of the water. The feed on benthic fish like cod, but the need to be able to have a large variety of choices like mussels, crabs, and cephalopods. Their babies are usually born on tide-sandbanks from the end of June to mid July and need to learn to swim almost immediately.
The Leatherback Turtle is a reptile that can maintain its body temperature elevated unlike some other turtles. They can dive greater than 1,000 meters. Adults mainly feed on jellyfish and roughly lay 100 eggs. The sex of the hatchling is influenced by the incubation. The hotter nests create females and the cooler nests produce males. These turtles like to make their nests on the beach and burry them so we all have to try our best to protect them.
The saddled-backed dolphin is highly energetic and likes to leap out of the water. They travel in groups of 10 to 500. Their squeaks can be heard from above the water. The saddle-backed dolphin mainly feeds on small fish or squids. The calves nurse for as long as two years.
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May 19, 2009 The recent findings by a team of Northeastern University ecologists studying plant life on the Boston Harbor Islands may advance societal efforts to stem the damage caused by invading exotic species.
When these non-native species of plants gain a toehold and start colonizing, they can cause tremendous economic and environmental harm. In 2005, damages resulting from these exotic colonies cost an estimated $120 billion. For that reason, scientists continue to try to identify what factors influence the establishment of exotic species in order to help prevent them from colonizing.
The Northeastern study, published in the journal Ecology, found that, contrary to prior research, exotic plant species are more capable of colonizing islands further away from the mainland than their native counterparts.
“Our study shows how the predictions of island biogeography can provide insight into the broad-scale factors driving the colonization and establishment of exotic species on islands,” said Associate Professor of Biology Geoffrey C. Trussell, one of the lead researchers, and director of Northeastern’s Marine Science Center.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation, this study is unique because it overcame issues that have limited the conclusions of previous studies on the distribution and abundance of exotic and native species on islands. Trussell, Marine Science Center postdoctoral research associate Jeremy Long, and Ted Elliman of the New England Wild Flower Society, focused their study on a group of islands that were ideal in terms of their location and the number of exotic and native species colonizing on them.
Trussell noted that, according to classical island biogeography theory, larger islands should have more species than smaller islands and islands located closer to the mainland should have more species than islands further away from the mainland.
The Northeastern study found that, consistent with theory, the larger harbor islands closer to the mainland have more native and exotic species than the smaller islands further away from the mainland.
However, the greater relative abundance of exotic species on the islands further away from the mainland suggests that native and exotic species are responding differently to island isolation and potentially other factors.
“We hope that similar approaches by future researchers will provide a better understanding of exotic and native plant communities and the mechanisms driving their dynamics,” added Trussell.
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Fieldwork is an important component of your Occupational Therapy education at Elizabethtown College because:
- Clinical exposure provides the best context for applying information and skills gained in the classroom “real world” situations can’t be successfully simulated in the classroom
- Students gain insights into the myriad of facets that play into the OT process including professional behaviors
- The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) requires that level I and level II experiences be incorporated into all OT educational programs
Elizabethtown College provides a hand-crafted education. Fieldwork selection and placement is no exception. Students’ previous clinical and life experiences are considered in the assigning of level I placements which typically is at one site for 10 weeks or two sites for 5 visits each during the semester.
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New Delhi: Though some large electronics brands such as Nokia and Dell offer to take back old mobile phones and computers as part of an effort to restrict electronic waste, experts say a majority of the smaller firms are hardly prepared to meet an approaching government deadline on e-waste collection and management.
Small and medium-size companies are either unaware of the deadline, just a month away, or are not serious about it because of the lack of an effective enforcement mechanism, according to the experts.
Under the e-waste management rules released last year by the ministry of environment and forests, manufacturers have to collect discarded personal computers, handsets and white goods such as washing machines and refrigerators for recycling.
Few takers: A pile of discarded computers for recycling in the outskirts of Delhi. Manoj Patil/HT
The rules were notified in May last year to give companies time to set up collection centres. The rules will become effective this May.
However, according to experts, even though the rules are a step in the right direction, barring a few large electronics manufacturers, most of the companies are not taking it seriously.
India produces 400,000 tonnes of electronic waste every year, and this is expected to grow by 10-15% annually, according to industry estimates.
Though all electronic companies have to set up reverse collection and financing mechanisms to eliminate e-waste, many are converting existing service or brand centres and “claiming to be law complaint,” said Nitin Gupta, chief executive of Attero Recycling, which collects electronic waste from companies and individuals for recycling.
That approach will not work, he said. “Collection will be negligible as it is easy for consumers to just give it (e-waste) to their garbage collector, who will also give them some incentive for discarding the product.”
In India, the informal chain of garbage collectors dominates e-waste collection. However, a lack of training in breaking down e-waste poses health problems and throws up environmental concerns.
But the fact that this informal chain has the advantage of direct access to consumers’ homes makes them the first choice while discarding e-waste.
Gupta said his firm is working toward creating a collection model in partnership with the World Bank to use this informal sector to run take-back programmes. The World Bank is an investor in his company.
“The financial economics has to be at play if this has to work,” he said, adding the project may cost $10-20 million.
Attero is trying to reach manufacturers to participate in the programme but the response has not been encouraging, he said. “Most of the companies are doing lip-service to this,” he added. “It is important to get electronic manufacturers on board, as for breaking down some of the e-waste, their producer companies have to pay the recyclers.”
Though the e-waste management rules require companies to send regular updates to state pollution control boards or the pollution control committees about the e-waste generated by them, experts say no targets have been set and no monitoring mechanism is in place.
“Even after these rules are imposed, there will be negligible recycling through the formal sector. The law just said there has to be a take-back collection system, but how much of take back it should lead to, there are no targets set,” said Gupta.
Many companies and consumers too are not yet aware of the rules.
Sabyasachi Patra, executive director of the electronics hardware lobby, the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology, said the large companies are trying hard to prepare for the deadline, but smaller firms are not aware of the rules.
“On the other side, awareness at the consumer level is also very low,” he added. “Unless consumers understand the importance of disposing e-waste in the right way, they will keep giving off stuff to the kabadiwallas (local garbage collector), even if companies set up their own collection centres.”
Mobile phone maker Nokia India said it has more than 1,400 centres for collection of end-of-life products. Dell has introduced a coupon system of Rs500 and Rs1,000 for old batteries and computers, respectively.
Patra says that despite these efforts, there is a greater likelihood of people disposing their products through the local garbage collector as that may yield a better price. “That will always remain a challenge; education has to come into place (for the consumer). These things can’t be mandated,” he said. | <urn:uuid:d7108695-a288-4a3d-8718-d26573cbb258> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.livemint.com/Companies/rGdkEXLQctkeEJCnuchQSM/Indian-firms-still-to-warm-up-to-waste.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957873 | 960 | 2.25 | 2 |
Those of you who have been wallowing in children’s lit purgatory since the publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, the last Harry Potter book, can now rest easy. On Tuesday morning, Scholastic is expected to officially announce the publishing of their newest series, which they hope will become the next Harry Potter. “The 39 Clues” will be a multi-author series spanning 10 books. There will also be web, video game, trading cards, and other merchandising tie-ins. The series is aimed at the same middle grade age group that embraced Harry Potter a decade ago. The mysteries will tell the story of the Cahill’s, a centuries-old family who are also the world’s most powerful family. Famous historical figures, including Ben Franklin and Mozart, will be labeled as members of the Cahill family tree, with the plots centering on two young protagonists, Amy (14) and Dan (11). Amy and Dan will race against other branches of their family tree to be the first to find 39 clues that will lead to ultimate power. The first book will be penned Rick Riordan, author of the best-selling Percy Jackson series (which I love). Riordan has also outlined the story arc for the remaining 9 novels, which will be penned by authors such as Gordon Korman, Jude Watson, and Peter Lerangis.
This is quite a coup for Scholastic, as they will retain all rights to this series, unlike Harry Potter- JK Rowling retained the rights to Harry Potter, allowing her to search out and control her own movie and licensing deals. Scholastic is crossing their fingers that this series will be the next Harry Potter while also lining their pockets even more than Harry Potter did.
I am not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I do love Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, and Gordon Korman is also popular with my students (I am not familiar with the other two authors mentioned). On the other hand, and I am leaning more towards this one, I have never been a fan of multi-author series. I find that it is hard to keep story elements consistent when you have a different author penning each volume of the series. Or the books become too simplified, like The Babysitters Club. A series like this feels too manufactured for my tastes. I will say that I am a bit intrigued by the plot summary. It sounds like a middle grade version of “The Da Vinci Code”/National Treasure. But I can easily see it moving into the boring, preachy, historical fiction that my students can’t stand. I will probably read the first volume and make a decision from there. But I will be interested in seeing the final product when it is released in September.
Do I think this will be the next Harry Potter? No, I don’t. I don’t think you can predict that kind of success. Kids know what they love, and it can be almost impossible to predict what that is from day to day. Also, Harry Potter built up an incredible YA and adult fan base, who grew up with the books. With these books being published multiple times a year, Scholastic will lose that very important aspect of the fan base- fans won’t have time to grow with the series. Yet, there is something to be said for instant gratification, and most kids these days are used to that instant result when they ask for something. Plus, the online and gaming tie-ins will add a new twist to the marketing scheme, one that Harry Potter had to do without when the first few books were published.
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The human community is an element of the Earth community, not the other way around. All human endeavors are situated within the dynamics of the biosphere. If we wish to have sustainable institutions and enterprises, they must fit well with the processes of the Earth.
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
the Bruntland Report, ‘Our Common Future’, 1987
Replacing a piece of equipment with a more power efficient equivalent, for example, might seem like an obvious way to help the environment. But will the energy savings over the lifetime of the kit outweigh the environmental cost of its manufacture and the disposal of the equipment being replaced?
We know humans have been polluting the planet and consuming its natural resources as a consequence of their production, consumption, and disposal of desirable goods and services. It’s not a new problem, but governments, businesses and other institutions seem finally to have woken up to the realities of the situation. What’s needed is a return to a more sustainable way of life in which we continue to enjoy nature’s bounty but without depriving future generations of their inheritance.
Let’s make things really simple: in a truly sustainable world, waste is food.
It means that, after use, materials are re-used at an equal or higher level in the production cycle. This requires careful thought at the design stage and in the choice of materials used. It also requires discipline at the end of life to ensure that materials are easily recovered in a reusable form. The end result is a virtuous cycle, more like nature than the earth-plundering, environment-polluting mechanisms of our recent industrial age.
The average PC that is being discarded at the moment required 1.7 tonnes of raw materials in its manufacture.
Some would say that we’re beyond the point of no return. It’s already too late, we’re hooked on a consumer lifestyle and globalization has ensured its future spread to the massive populations of developing countries.
If these people are childless or don’t care about their grandchildren, then who’s to say they’re wrong? They will continue to plunder and to hell with the consequences. But they’re probably a tiny minority.
The rest of us can see the sense of doing what we can to slow, possibly halt, maybe even reverse our negative impact on
Sustainability and cooperation are overshadowed by economic orthodoxy
While initiatives in sustainability and co-operation remain voluntary, the socially responsible and virtuous will be at a huge competitive disadvantage against the exploitative and dishonest. Some tightening and active application of corporate law will be essential for their support. But that will require a government that is prepared to take bold action, rather than just engage in sweet talk and sound bites, while adopting a permissive approach to all sorts of financial abuse. | <urn:uuid:b0fe037d-e471-48d5-83fe-ea580c82d188> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gpde.us/2012/07/sustainability-and-co-operation-are-overshadowed-by-economic-orthodoxy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944234 | 598 | 2.609375 | 3 |
According to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), there were 1,500 home structure fires involving cooking equipment last year, which is more than three times the daily average.
Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries. Each year, hundreds of people in the United States are killed in fires that involve cooking equipment and thousands more are injured. Annually, these fires result in more than half a billion dollars in direct property damage to homes and their contents.
Cooking fires can easily be prevented by following a few simple precautions, such as staying in the kitchen when preparing a meal because fires often start when items cooking are left unattended. As much as unexpected guests are sometimes a part of the holidays, you don't want the fire department arriving because your feast is going up in flames.
*Stand by your pan.
Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, or broiling food. If you must leave the kitchen for even a short period of time, turn off the stove.
If you are simmering, baking, boiling or roasting food, check it regularly, remain in the home while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that the stove or oven is on. Keep in mind that you should avoid wearing loose clothing or dangling sleeves while cooking. Loose clothing can catch fire if it comes in contact with a gas flame or electric burner.
*No kids allowed.
Keep kids away from cooking areas by enforcing a "kid-free zone" of 3 feet (1 meter) around the stove. If you have young children, use the stove's back burners whenever possible, and turn pot handles inward to reduce the risk that pots with hot contents will be knocked over. Never hold a small child while cooking.
*Keep it clean.
Keep anything that can catch fire--pot holders, oven mitts, wooden utensils, paper or plastic bags, food packaging, towels or curtains--away from your stove top. Clean up food and grease from burners and the stove top.
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The philanthropic billionaire releases a letter every year covering all the action the Gates Foundation has taken and what it sees as the way forward in its quest to improve education in the United States and the health and lives of people in the developing world. You can read this year’s letter here.
This year, Gates focuses on the impending deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (fast approaching in 2015) and what it will mean when we don’t hit them all. He also focuses on the possible end of polio, which is tantalizingly close, but will still take a massive effort:
Last January, after years of battling the disease, India celebrated a full year without a single case of polio. Most people expected India to be the most difficult place to eliminate polio because of its densely crowded urban areas, huge rural areas in the North, poor sanitation, large mobile populations, and over 27 million children born every year-more than in all of sub-Saharan Africa -that need to be vaccinated. Stopping the circulation of the virus everywhere in the country was the eradication initiative’s biggest accomplishment in the past decade.
He also discusses the Gates Foundation’s efforts to measure what makes a good teacher. He doesn’t mention, however, our favorite project the foundation has funded recently: the attempts to reinvent the toilet for the developing world.
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The co-op is to become the first chain of shops to stop using the Mosquito, the controversial anti-teenager device - on the grounds it may be having serious effects on people with autism.
The decision, which is likely to be studied closely by other retailers, follows a campaign by an autistic teenager who said the device at his local Co-op store in Longridge, near Preston, Lancashire, was causing him pain by emitting ultrasonic sounds.
'As a teenager I was always going to hear it,' said Paul Brookfield, 19. 'But as I had autism it was heightened. It was a high-pitched whizzing, whirring. I've heard of cases involving some people with autism who can't go anywhere near a store because it actually makes them sick.'
The Co-op's decision to abandon using the Mosquito device has been welcomed by the National Autistic Society (NAS). 'We are extremely concerned about the possible harmful effects of such devices for people with autism,' said a spokeswoman for the society.
'The NAS helpline has received calls from people who have been adversely affected by the Mosquito system and who are worried by the distress it may cause to people with the condition. Many people with autism have very sensitive hearing and may become alarmed and anxious if a high-pitched tone or buzz is suddenly used in their vicinity.'
There are now more than 3,500 of the devices in the United Kingdom, each emitting a high-decibel squeal which can normally be heard only by people under the age of 25. The Mosquito has been sold to shops, the police and local authorities. Marketed as the 'ultrasonic teenage deterrent', the £500 devices are designed to stop teenagers congregating in public areas.
A spokeswoman for the Co-op confirmed it was withdrawing the devices from its stores, although some teenagers may not be overly keen on its replacement. 'The Co-operative Group is removing all Mosquito devices and will replace these with its classical music system where appropriate,' she said. 'The device at Longridge has already been removed and a classical music system is being installed.'
Brookfield's campaign was supported by the civil rights group Liberty, which said it was preparing to launch legal action before the Co-op took the decision to stop using the device. 'Exposing the young to Mozart or Manilow is imminently more sensible than this blanket sonic weapon,' said Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti. 'How many more vulnerable people must endure this callous treatment before the government remembers that every child is supposed to matter?'
Earlier this year the children's commissioner, Al Aynsley-Green, appointed by the government to champion the rights of minors, said the Mosquito infringed the human rights of young people. Aynsley-Green launched the 'Buzz Off' campaign calling on businesses to stop using the devices and encouraged children to report instances when it was used against them.
The Mosquito device, a black box that emits a pulsing noise several times a second over a 15-metre radius, was invented by a former British Aerospace engineer, Howard Stapleton, after his daughter was intimidated by a gang of boys. It is marketed to stores on the grounds that unruly teenagers might discourage 'genuine shoppers' prepared to spend money.
Brookfield said he hoped that the Co-op's decision would now prompt other stores to follow its lead. 'As time goes on, more and more people will say this sort of thing is objectionable,' he said. 'Police stations and town centres will come under increasing pressure to stop using them.' | <urn:uuid:58ccbd53-cf66-4855-9baf-475fd722a5fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/04/supermarkets.retail1?INTCMP=SRCH | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980617 | 755 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Attendees at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday hold… (Spencer Platt / Getty Images )
It's too much to ask, I know, but the speeches Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention left me hungering for a real exploration of the role government plays in helping U.S. businesses.
The unifying theme of the speeches, at least in theory, was "We Built It" -- a declaration of solidarity with the entrepreneurs who create businesses without the government's assistance. To underline that point, the giant screen inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum showed the occasional video featuring a selectively edited version of one of President Obama's stump speeches. "Let me tell you something," Obama is heard to say, "if you've got a business -- you didn't build that."
By "that," the president appeared to have been referring to the infrastructure, schools and other elements of the "unbelievable American system" that supports commerce and the economy -- antecedents that were excised from the recording. But the GOP doesn't need to resort to hyperbole to point out real differences between its position and Obama's on the relationship between Washington and "job creators."
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Presidential Election 2012
Underlying Obama's "you didn't build that" comment was his argument that the federal government shouldn't curtail spending on infrastructure, education and other priorities he likes to refer to as "investments." This ties into the debate over how to fix the fiscal mess in Washington. Obama's plan includes tax increases not for their own sake, but for the sake of keeping federal spending at a higher level than his GOP opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, favors. The difference is roughly $6 trillion over a decade.
Granted, only a portion of that gap represents the amount Obama would spend on highways, Pell Grants, clean energy and other pursuits that Republicans have proposed to cut back. Nevertheless, the split over budgets reflects a profound disagreement -- rhetorically, at least -- over the value of public-sector spending. Obama argues that these sorts of investments promote economic growth; Romney contends that a more straightforward route to a healthy economy is to shrink the federal government and reduce the tax burden.
A second area of sharp disagreement is federal regulation. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have used Washington's regulatory power to reduce the number of people with insufficient or nonexistent health insurance, deter the sort of dice-rolling that caused Wall Street to collapse in 2008, reduce air and water pollution and curb the demand for fossil fuels. Republicans, by contrast, focus more on the costs of these policies in the short term than the projected benefits over the long term. They also favor market-based mechanisms over prescriptive rules, arguing that the former are less costly and more effective.
A good example is the debate over "too big to fail" financial institutions. The law that then-Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) steered through Congress in 2010 includes elaborate rules for banks' investments, the "living wills" they must prepare, the financial reserves they must hold and numerous other provisions designed to avert more bailouts. Republicans want to scrap Dodd-Frank in favor of, err, they haven't said what, exactly. But some of the ideas floated include a simpler set of tough capital requirements that make it too expensive for a bank to be too big to fail, or a return to the structural separations that once barred depository institutions from engaging in Wall Street trading.
Those two areas of disagreement are real and fundamental, unlike the faux controversy and manufactured outrage that "We Built It" relies upon. And here's a third, potentially: whether the government should aid businesses directly through tax preferences and subsidies.
I say "potentially" because both Obama and Romney have talked about the need to simplify the tax code by eliminating some "tax expenditures," which is budget-speak for deductions, exemptions, credits and other forms of tax breaks. And yet neither one seems truly committed to the idea; Romney, for example, favors a permanent credit for research and development and a lower rate for capital gains, and Obama has called for targeted credits for a variety of industries and employers.
By the way, the billions of dollars worth of tax subsidies and other direct aid to businesses undermines the GOP's "We Built It" meme. Ironically, at least three of the speakers at the GOP convention Tuesday had received significant amounts of direct help. One, in fact, took the stage to complain that the Obama administration had made it harder for him to draw from the federal trough.
A partial fix for California's pension mess
Morrison: Villaraigosa's goals for L.A. and beyond
Goldberg: After Romney's birth certificate joke, Dems play the race card
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The Dutch photobook is internationally celebrated for its particularly close collaboration between photographer, printer and designer. The current photobook publishing boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that precedes World War II, but the postwar years inaugurated a period of particularly close collaboration between photographers and designers, producing such unique photography books as Ed van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank (1956) and Koen Wessing’s Chili September 1973 (1973). Innovations such as the photo novel and the company photobook blossomed in the 1950s and 60s; later, other genres emerged to characterize the publishing landscape in Holland, including conceptual and documentary photobooks, books on youth culture, urbanism photobooks and landscape photobooks and travelogues.
Examining each of these genres across six themed chapters, The Dutch Photobook features
selections from more than 100 historical, contemporary and self-published photobook projects.
It includes landmark publications such as Hollandse taferelen by Hans Aarsman (1989), The Table
of Power by Jacqueline Hassink (1996), Why Mister Why by Geert van Kesteren (2006) and Empty
Bottles by WassinkLundgren (2007). Dutch photo historians Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt
contribute several essays on the history of the genre, the collaborative efforts between
photographers and designers and their inspiration and influences, complementing the high-
quality reproductions of photobooks throughout. Award-winning designer Joost Grootens
contributes unique charts and diagrams that consolidate all of these elements, in a visually
unique map of the Dutch photobook.
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New book celebrates life of late Mass. radio host
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Middlesex Community College is unveiling a new book celebrating the life of the late WBZ radio talk show host Paul Sullivan.
Sullivan, a business professor at the college and a political editor and columnist at the Lowell Sun, died of cancer in 2007.
The book, titled "Sully: The Words, Wit and Wisdom of Paul Sullivan," was written by Patrick Cook, a former colleague and friend who is director of public affairs at the college.
Middlesex Community College Foundation published the book, which includes a selection of Sullivan's columns, photos and remembrances from family, friends and co-workers.
Book proceeds will support a new scholarship in Sullivan's name.
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Psychological Explanations of Anxiety Disorders
Simply having a biological predisposition, or a heightened sensitivity to stress, is not enough to develop an anxiety disorder. As previously mentioned, a person is more likely to develop an anxiety disorder if they are biologically predisposed to anxiety, in conjunction with a psychological vulnerability. Research has identified four important psychological variables that predict a psychological vulnerability to anxiety: 1) perceived control, 2) cognitive appraisals, 3) cognitive beliefs, and 4) cognitive distortions. Let's examine each of these variables in greater detail.
One of the world's leading experts on anxiety disorders is David Barlow, Ph.D.. According to Barlow (2002), people may develop psychological vulnerabilities to anxiety as a result of early life experiences. One such vulnerability is the lack of "perceived control" over stressful life circumstances. While the presence of environmental stressors may set the stage for the development of an anxiety disorder, researchers have found it is not only the actual presence of environmental stressors that create anxiety; but rather, anxiety is greatly determined by a person's perceived ability to control a potentially stressful event. It is important to realize that this lack of control may, or may not be accurate; rather, it is the person's perception about their degree of control that is important.
It is believed that people's perceptions of control are heavily influenced by childhood experiences. When children repeatedly experience a "lack of control," or a sense of unpredictability over the events in their lives, they may come to view the world as unpredictable and dangerous. This world view may lead to feelings of helplessness, and a tendency to expect negative outcomes, no matter how they may try to prevent them. Examples of early life experiences that may influence a person's perception of control include: 1) family dynamics such as parenting style (i.e., overprotective parenting style, and its opposite, under-protective, low-care style), 2) significant life stressors such as loss of, or separation from, primary caregivers, and 3) traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse (physical, emotional, and/or sexual). This is not to say that our psychological trajectory is fixed in childhood and that nothing can be done to change it. Instead, it simply means that early experiences may have contributed to this psychological vulnerability and explains, in part, why some people are more prone to experience anxiety than others
The perceived lack of control extends to a person's experience of their anxiety disorder. People with anxiety disorders often report they have no control over their symptoms and this lack of control is highly distressing to them. This fact may explain why the often good-intentioned attempts by loved ones, to offer reassurance, are often met with doubt by the person with an anxiety disorder.
The term "cognitive appraisal" simply means the way we evaluate and assess a particular environmental event or situation. Cognitive appraisal is a key concept in understanding one's susceptibility to stress and anxiety. According to Lazarus and Folkman (1984), cognitive appraisal is traditionally broken down into two separate types of beliefs. These beliefs are referred to as "primary" and "secondary" appraisals. Primary appraisal refers to an individual's subjective evaluation of a situation in terms of whether or not the situation has any direct relevance to the individual's well-being. Secondary appraisal refers to an individual's evaluation of their ability to cope with that situation.
Primary appraisal can be further broken down into three separate categories including "irrelevant," "benign-positive," and "stressful." An event is considered an irrelevant appraisal when its occurrence does not in any way affect a person's well-being. For example, suppose you are interviewing for a job and have been asked to sit in a waiting room. You look around the room and notice most people are sloppily dressed while you are meticulously groomed in preparation for this important day. You conclude the other people must not be waiting for a job interview; but rather, are in the waiting area for some other reason. This is an irrelevant appraisal; i.e., the other people in the waiting room do not impact your well-being in any way.
A benign-positive appraisal refers to an instance where one's appraisal of an event leads to positive beliefs which actually enhance positive feelings and/or functioning. Returning to our prior example, suppose you are interviewing for a job, but this time when you observe the other sloppily dressed people in the waiting room, you conclude they are job candidates for the same job, and are also waiting to be interviewed. This appraisal might cause you to believe you have a significant advantage over the other job candidates. Your appraisal of this event would be considered benign positive if you thought to yourself, "No problem, I've got this job!" and this extra confidence enabled you to perform well during the interview.
In contrast, a stress appraisal refers to an instance where the occurrence of an event leads to beliefs that forecast harm: either harm in the present, or threat of harm (in the future). Such beliefs will lead to an experience of anxiety. For instance, imagine you are a job candidate again, but this time when you look around the waiting room, and compare your attire to the other candidates, you decide you are the one who is sloppily dressed, while the other candidates appear neat and prepared. This would be considered a stress appraisal if you believed that your sloppiness will likely hurt your chances of getting the job; and as a result, you performed poorly during the interview, because you were highly anxious. From these three examples of a job interview situation, it becomes clear that our primary appraisals about a circumstance will influence whether we experience any anxiety.
Secondary appraisal refers to an individual's appraisal of their ability to cope with the circumstance, which is in part determined by their perceived ability to control, or to influence, the situation. To illustrate, let's consider a child who experiences abuse. Abuse is certainly a childhood stressor. But, not all abused children develop anxiety disorders. Why might this be? It is possible, that one abused child may come to believe that she can control (prevent) the abuse by being a "good girl." This appraisal may serve to protect the child from anxiety as it provides her a perception of control over her environment, and thus may serve as a buffer against developing an anxiety disorder. In contrast, another abused child may appraise her ability to cope with the abuse, and conclude there is nothing she can do to prevent the abuse. Ironically, while her perception about her lack of control is perhaps more accurate, it also puts her at greater risk for developing an anxiety disorder later in life. Therefore, secondary appraisals include people's assessment of their coping skills and abilities (coping resources); i.e., whether or not they have what it takes to successfully rise to the challenge, or to overcome the stressor. | <urn:uuid:77305207-4800-4ec5-8161-0ce84c1ef64c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vbhcs.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=38474&cn=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961699 | 1,401 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Separatists in Vojvodina and the EU prepare to divide Serbia. Other countries are in the line
|Anna FILIMONOVA | 10.12.2010 | 09:18|
In late October 2010 the European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin expressed Brussels` will concerning Serbia’s integration in Europe and “the Vojvodina issue”. He said that Serbia should be ready for ‘difficult home tasks’ from the European Commission- such as reform of the legislation system, more freedom to mass media and settlement of the Vojvodina problem.
Brussels puts forward two key requirements to accept Serbia in the EU: to hand over Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic for trial and- what is seen as a key requirement- to divide Serbia into several districts.
Those who back the separatist idea rely on the results of the International Conference on Yugoslavia, which took place in London in August 1992. Violating Serbia`s constitutional norms, the London Conference concluded that Kosovo and Vojvodina, as well the other six republics of Yugoslavia, were constituent parts of Yugoslavia.
Later the six aforementioned republics became independent states, with Kosovo enjoying overall western support and seeking independence, and Vojvodina and Sandjak.
The Vojvodina issue was announced ‘unsettled’, with three variants remaining for the situation to unfold: to grant more autonomy to the area; to annex the Hungarian-inhabited northern part of Vojvodina to Hungary, or to separate the whole Vojvodina to make the collapse of Yugoslavia complete. All these variants suggest protecting minority rights.
According to separatists in Vojvodina, Serbia has failed to fulfill the ‘key agreements’ outlined in the 1918 resolution “On Vojvodina`s Annexation to the Kingdom of Serbia” which guaranteed this Serbian province “freedom, equality and progress”. Serbia allegedly violated its obligations under Slobodan Milosevic (in 1988 he cancelled Vojvodina`s autonomy), and in 2006, when Vojvodina was proclaimed a ‘subordinate subject’ under a new Constitution. Separatists approve neither the statute of Vojvodina adopted in 2009 nor a possibility to get back to the 1974 law. They want more and are fully backed by the EU. In the second part of 2011 it is expected to set up a representation office of Vojvodina in Brussels, and empower members of the European Parliament to control how the area is being granted autonomy.
The 2006 Constitution is viewed as a major obstacle to the division of Serbia into several districts. The document, which is likely to be abolished after snap elections, contains a vague point which sounds like “support of the Serbian citizens who face many hardships in their everyday life since the existing Constitution prevents them from managing their lives”. A center-right government is said to be a major barrier on the way to a “better life”. A recipe offered by separatists suggests establishing an alternative power.
To make people protest against plans to unite Serbia’s regions (the idea suggested by M. Dinkic) they need to launch a new round of debates on the issue. The project suggests dividing Serbia into seven regions, creating an assembly of 35 members, reducing the number of seats up to 200 in the National Assembly of Serbia (Narodna Skupština) and shifting to mixed electoral system like in Vojvodina. The party led by Dinkic is supported by the official Belgrade. On 26 March 2009 an assembly of the national council was established to deal with decentralization of power in Serbia. The council is due to adopt a strategic plan of decentralization (in other words, to separate the country- A.F.). The council is led by N. Chanak, known for having a taste for sensations.
Hungarian separatists in Vojvodina can boast an overall support of Budapest, their only ally. They however receive support from Brussels as well - through “The European Issues” foundation, which provides financial assistance as part of the $12 million program for trans-border cooperation between Serbia and Hungary. There is also another program, the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, aimed at developing a macro-region of Danube.
In May 2010 Hungary adopted a bill on double citizenship for Hungarians living in neighboring countries. It is due to take effect on 1 January, 2011, and affect 3,5 million Hungarians citizens residing in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine and Austria. Groups of political activists have been formed in Vojvodina ready to carry out a campaign resulting in the district’s exit from Serbia.
However, chances are very low for the project to be a success. It is enough to have a look at how disproportional countries are developing inside the European Union (Wallonia and Flandria, the north and the south of Italy, e.t.c). In case of Serbia, an artificially created ‘European region’ will mean nothing more but handing over power to subnational institutions in Brussels. | <urn:uuid:6ded4e66-02e0-40af-b2e3-e4c65a4d3f6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slobodnavojvodina.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=49&Itemid=62&limitstart=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953462 | 1,081 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Drugs charity’s helpline bids to boost its service
Published at 01:00, Friday, 29 April 2005
THE RISING Sun Trust is spreading its light on more drug addicts and their families than ever before.
The charity, born out of the tragedy of a child’s death, is desperate for new volunteers, especially for its helpline, Signpost.
The charity has moved from its Washington Street, Workington, premises to new, larger offices at the corner of Gordon and Fisher Street.
Last week, it also opened a new outreach centre in Whitehaven and still runs one in Maryport.
Dave Smith, of Greysouthen, set up the Rising Sun Trust after his teenage son Ryan became addicted to drugs and eventually died in a Liverpool hostel in 1999.
Ironically, at the time of his death Ryan was clean. No traces of drugs of alcohol were found in his body and his death was found to be due to the fact that he had choked on his own vomit.
Mr Smith said setting up the trust was his way of coping. He wanted to ensure that nobody else went through the pain that Ryan’s family had gone through.
The Rising Sun charity’s main concern is dealing with the families and friends of addicts as well as the addicts themselves.
Mr Smith, who spends much of his time speaking to schools and young people about his family’s own experiences, said the family was sometimes overlooked.
It is dealing with its own issues, its helplessness in the face of addiction, guilt about how or why a family member had become addicted and the mixture of love and anger that they can feel towards the addict.
He said: “There are ripples that go out from the drug addict, the parents, partners, siblings, the grandparents, they all suffer to some degree.”
He said nothing could ever fill the gap that Ryan’s death had left in his family but the trust had helped him to deal with it.
The Rising Sun Trust was named because of a glass picture Ryan did for his father just before his death, because Rising Sun has the same initials as Ryan Smith, and because the rising sun symbolises the beginning of a new day.
The trust attempts to work without an appointment system and when someone rings it tries to ensure there is someone to give answers and help straight away.
Last year, it was revealed that West Cumbria had one of the worst drug-death records in the county.
With 7.73 deaths per 100,000 population, it is up there with inner-cities like Manchester and sections of London.
Since the closure of the Turning Point day-care centre in June last year, the Rising Sun Trust had been even busier, Mr Smith said.
What started off as a charity operating from the bedroom of his Greysouthen home is now a project which has offered help and hope to hundreds over the years. The trust employs Janette Harrop, also of Greysouthen, as volunteer co-ordinator, helpline manager and administrator and Val Fearon as manager of the outreach groups.
But Mr Smith said volunteers were desperately needed now to enable the trust to meet its growing commitments.
Anyone interested in helping or making a donation can contact the trust on 01900 870034 or by visiting its Fisher Street office.
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Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commission has said.
Their actions cost EU healthcare providers 3bn euros ($3.9bn; £2.5bn) in savings between 2000 and 2007, it said.
But how were they doing that?
Drug firms use "perfectly lawful practices - such as patent portfolios, patent litigation and the release of improved medicines," the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) said.
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The University of Northern Iowa's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) will sponsor the traveling exhibit "Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose," at the Toledo Public Library. The exhibit, co-hosted by the Toledo Public Library and South Tama County Middle School, is free and open to the public and can be viewed during the library's normal operation hours from Tuesday, Jan. 31, through Tuesday, Feb. 14.
"Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose" tells the compelling true story of young Jehovah's Witnesses who were quickly thrust into a political firestorm of Nazi propaganda. Against the tide of coercion and terror, these youths took a firm stand of conscience, oftentimes facing severe reprisals, despite their age. The exhibit, designed by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, is an effective tool to assist educators on how to address contemporary student issues, such as bullying, gang prevention and prejudice.
"We are proud to be sponsoring this exhibit and are confident it will have the same positive effects that other schools have seen in helping young people to understand and respond to challenges facing their generation," said Stephen J. Gaies, director of the CHGE. "We anticipate that students will be inspired by these accounts, that they will view as positive role models the young Jehovah's Witnesses who resisted the persecution of the Nazi regime, and that most of all, they will see the value of standing up for what they believe."
The exhibit is located at the Toledo Public Library, 206 E. High St., Toledo, Iowa and will continue traveling to other Iowa schools from February through April 2012. For more information about the exhibit or the UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, contact Stephen Gaies, director of the CHGE, at 319-273-3870 or email@example.com. Information is also available at www.uni.edu/chge.
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation, based in Karben, Germany, began in 2002 and is dedicated to the history and story of Jehovah's Witnesses during World War II, who also suffered intense persecution and reprisals by the Nazis because of their religious stand. The foundation fosters understanding and education worldwide of the experience of Jehovah's Witnesses during that time, and highlights how their strong faith helped them to endure, even though they had the ability to seek relief by signing a declaration recanting their beliefs. For more information, visit www.alst.org. | <urn:uuid:0bce2c7a-4864-407b-b847-c0fe0572c92f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uni.edu/newsroom/uni-center-for-holocaust-and-genocide-education-to-sponsor-traveling-exhibit-in-toledo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967087 | 516 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Salzburg Research is working on a number of technologies that specifically benefit the various task forces – because every second counts!
New technology for rescue forces in Salzburg
The spatial data platform “BlaulichtGIS” improves emergency management and the cooperation of the Red Cross in Salzburg, and Salzburg mountain and water rescue. The technology is in action in all control centers of the Red Cross.
In daily use, rescue and emergency services often face inaccurate addresses or descriptions and therefore problems finding the emergency locations. BlaulichtGIS is a web-based platform for spatial data, where Salzburg emergency services can both create and retrieve local information. After several months of testing this new interactive platform for spatial data is now in use since March 2011.
Advantages of the new spatial platform are: the employees of all organizations can use new and current information – for example relocation of hospital wards, starting points for boats on the river Salzach, etc. In addition, GPS coordinates can be converted into a variety of common coordinate systems, which is especially important when rescue helicopters are deployed, as they use a different coordinate system than other vehicles.
In addition, location and operational status of all vehicles will be displayed in real time. Upon failure of the navigation device in a vehicle, dispatchers are able to pilot the vehicle by radio.
International disaster assistance
In large disasters/emergency situations, personnel from different nations are called for – a challenge for efficient coordination of relief efforts across organizational, national and cultural boundaries. Salzburg Research is working on crisis-grade communications technologies that support information exchange, resource planning and workflow.
After large earthquakes, avalanches, pandemics, chemical spills or radioactive clouds different forces have to work together smoothly. Aid agencies use different technical systems, do not have the same background knowledge, and arrive at different times on the site. In international cooperation also language and cultural barriers apply. the European Union is currently missing processes, systems and tools in disaster management, taking into account the specific characteristics and requirements of international cooperation in emergency situations. To date, international aid agencies will be contacted individually – that takes time and resources.
The EU project IDIRA will support multinational disaster relief resources for planning and operations. Flexible interoperable services for data integration, exchange of information, resources planning, and decision processes are developed: the sharing of information, for example, is facilitated by text blocks in different languages and made crisis-proof through the integration of commercially available smart phones.
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The discouraging thing about the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is not that they have gone into the eleventh hour, or that they may go into the new year, or even that they won’t resolve the long-term budget deficit. It’s that President Obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes. In the months before the election, and in the weeks after his victory, Obama had a clear position: The Bush tax cuts for income over $250,000 were ending. He would not sign any extension, and if Republicans refused to extend tax cuts for income below that level, he would hold them responsible for it until they did.
Now, by all accounts, Obama is prepared to extend the Bush tax cuts up to $400,000 a year. Or maybe more. As of Friday, Obama had told Republicans they could have the tax cuts extended on income up to $400,000 if they would accept the estate tax rising from its Bush-set rates. As of last night, Democrats were conceding the estate tax plus the higher exemption on tax rates, which had risen to $450,000. And Republicans still hadn't agreed to it! Why would they, when Democrats keep hurling money at them? By midnight, Republicans might be getting the Saturday Night Live version of Obama's offer ("a 1% raise on the top two Americans — just two people").
The erosion signals not only a major substantive problem in its own right, but it also raises disturbing questions about Obama’s ability to handle his entire second term agenda.
To begin with, the $250,000 a year threshold was too high to begin with. Obama may have needed to make the promise in order to insulate himself against suspicions of raising taxes on the middle class, but confining all future revenue to the richest 2% of the population left made it difficult to fund the government at an adequate level. Ending the tax cuts over that level would raise about $800 billion over a decade. Preserving all income under $400,000 a year would give back a quarter of that revenue.
The odd thing about the retreat is that Republicans had all but conceded eventual defeat on the issue. For a month after the election, Republicans gloomily debated amongst themselves whether to strike some kind of deal with Obama to secure spending cuts in exchange for the tax hikes that were certain to occur, or whether to simply wait until January to extend the tax cuts on income under $250,000. Obama insisted not only publicly but privately that he would not bend on taxes, reportedly telling John Boehner that the $800 billion from the expiration of tax cuts on income over $250,000 was his, “for free,” and not something he had to negotiate for.
Republicans moaned and wailed about Obama’s irrational hatred of the rich or desire to humiliate them, but none of them questioned his determination to end the Bush tax cuts over his proscribed level. The House was preparing elaborate tactics, such as voting for two different bills, to prepare the groundwork for surrender on the Bush tax cuts over Obama’s line. The notion that Republicans might push the line higher seemed utterly fanciful. Now it is simply a fact that all sides take for granted.
What happened? The administration’s line seems to be that Senate Democrats undercut, or were going to undercut, Obama’s position. “They worry that if we go over the fiscal cliff, skittish Senate Democrats will quickly fold before some House-passed plan that raises taxes on income over $750,000, does nothing on stimulus, and sets up a debt-ceiling fight for early next year,” wrote Ezra Klein, reporting the administration’s thinking. "The White House thinks it’ll be very difficult for them to veto anything Senate Democrats agree to, and so they would prefer to strike the deal themselves rather than getting into a situation where vulnerable Senate Democrats could strike a deal on their behalf.”
It’s surely true that the historical desire of many Senate Democrats to position themselves in the center of any debate, irrespective of substance, and associated desire not to upset their rich fundraising base posed a strategic problem for Obama. But if Obama fears trying to hold a line that Senate Democrats have abandoned, it’s just as likely they fear the same about him. Obama’s history of foolish negotiating with the Republican Congress gave Democrats every reason to fear he might fail to hold firm on his own line — the burden lay with Obama to prove otherwise. And two weeks ago, when Obama made a concession to Boehner that he would let the Bush tax rates stay in place on income up to $400,000, he gave them every reason to doubt him.
Now, the Obama offer to Boehner was not a full extension of tax cuts under $400,000. The plan was to get higher revenue on income below that level by reducing tax deductions rather than raising rates. But the news reporting cast the offer as simply moving up the threshold, and Obama did nothing to correct that impression. And so the effect of Obama’s concession to Boehner — which of course went unrequited — was to reset the tax debate at a new, more GOP-friendly level.
Worse, exposing Obama’s willingness to move his seemingly unmovable demand emboldened Republicans to demand even more. If they could push the line to $400,000, why not $500,000? Maybe cut Social Security too?
In 2011, in the wake of the debt ceiling debacle, Ross Douthat persuasively explained why Republicans felt no need to strike a grand bargain with Democrats — the ones he spoke with believed they would never have to face higher taxes. (“Much of the Republican 'intransigence' and 'hostage-taking' and 'terrorism' that they deplore is a direct consequence of the fact that Republicans assume that Democrats will always, always, cave on taxes.”)
The negotiating style Obama has displayed in these instances is what poker players call “tight-weak.” A tight-strong player avoids throwing in his chips, saving them for a big hand, which he plays aggressively in hopes of a huge win. A loose-weak player plays lots of hands, bluffing frequently. Tight-weak is the worst of all worlds — when you have a weak hand, you lose, and when you have a strong hand, you fail to maximize your position.
Obama is surely going to have to accept a lot of bad policies in his negotiations with Republicans (a fact I’ve argued to some of my harder-line liberal friends in several columns). But the tax cuts are the one area where he enjoys overwhelming leverage over the Republicans. Their only threat is to block extension of tax cuts on income under $250,000, a wildly unpopular stance countless Republicans have acknowledged they could not sustain for long without courting an enormous public backlash. This is the hand where Obama needed to collect all the chips.
Instead he is allowing Republicans to whittle down the sum by essentially threatening to shoot themselves in the head. And this is the most ominous thing about it. The big meta question looming over Obama’s term is whether he has learned to grapple with Republican political hostage-taking. Hostage-taking is not simply aggressive or even irrational negotiating. It is the specific tactic of extracting concessions by threatening to withhold support for policies you yourself endorse, simply because your opponent cares more about the damage. Republicans agree that the debt ceiling must be lifted, but forced Obama to offer them policies he opposed because they believed he cared more about damage to the country than they did.
Their refusal to extend the middle class tax cuts is the same thing — they support the tax cuts on income under $250,000, but demand that Obama give them other tax cuts he opposes in order to pass them.
Obama claims, and seems to genuinely believe, that he won’t let Republicans jack him up over the debt ceiling again. But if Republicans could hold the middle class tax cuts hostage, they’ll try to hold the debt ceiling hostage. Indeed, they will probably discover other areas of traditionally routine policy agreement that can be turned into extortion opportunities.
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An implement is a tool, utensil, or instrument for doing a task. The best implements are those inspired by — and created specifically for — the professional manicurist and pedicurist to perform special tasks.
Nail technicians have to rely on implements for delicate procedures and precision work. The better the implement is designed and produced, the easier to use and the higher the satisfaction of the user. Nail technicians need implements that are highly functional and specifically crafted for each aspect of a nail service.
Wide selections of precision manicure and pedicure implements in a variety of models make it possible to accommodate the individual needs and preferences of the user. Implements should foster optimum control and comfortable handling. An ergonomically shaped body brings perfect balance and smooth performance.
Highly regarded implements are manufactured from the highest-quality materials, expertly crafted, and individually examined for quality and performance. Hand filing and rigorous quality control are signs of a quality implement that must be dependable and reliable. The implement should be resistant to wear and be sterilizable to meet the highest standards for safety and sanitation.
October 1, 2010
What implement can you not live without? Nail techs answer this question by describing the tools that get them through the workday. Plus, be sure to save the experts’ advice for implement purchasing, and the convenient buyers’ guide for the next time you’re shopping for new implements.
October 1, 2008
Multitasking is a way of life in today’s high-speed world, and nail implements are no exception. From double-sided nail art brushes to triple-tasking pterygium removers, the ingenuity behind these inventions makes you wonder what they’ll think of next. Here’s a sampling of some of the latest multitask implements to help you speed through your workday.
May 1, 1996
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Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that it would be "very bad" for the UK if the eurozone was to break up.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15141423
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said the debt crisis in the eurozone was "a threat not just to itself, but also a threat to the UK economy, and a threat to the world economy".
He reiterated that eurozone leaders had to take quick and decisive action.
Mr Cameron said that, as 40% of UK exports went to the eurozone, it could not shield itself from the problem.
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A Liberal’s Creed: Seeking to Narrow the Gaps
By Jerome Grossman
Liberalism in the United States is different from classical liberalism, American as apple pie. It draws its inspiration from the Declaration of Independence: “that all men are created equal.” Equality is the master idea, in race, wealth, and gender. Yet liberalism does not advocate the absolute economic equality implied in socialist systems, because liberalism is restrained by its advocacy of the freedom of the individual and unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor. Liberals do not believe it is possible to create a perfect society but that we should try to reach the ideal.
Rooted in Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive movement, liberalism accepts with typical American pragmatism the dominance of business interests while seeking to modify the imbalances of political, social, and economic institutions. Big government is the instrument of modification for, as Theodore Roosevelt said, “There was a time when the limitation of governmental power meant increasing liberty for the people. In the present day, the limitation of governmental power, of governmental action, means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations.”
However, liberals are also wary of big government, unwilling even for the goals of equality to sacrifice the protection of individual rights, the rule of law, and personal freedoms. It is this tension between two objectives that makes it so demanding to be an American liberal: eternal vigilance is required.
Liberals know that absolute equality can never be achieved. But, optimistic believers in the essential goodness of humanity and in human rationality, they promote change that will allow the aggressive and the talented to benefit from their efforts while promoting reforms that will minimize the differences in benefits, thereby cutting the equality gap.
The motivations are moral and pragmatic: moral in that equality reflects our communitarian heritage and love for all human beings; pragmatic in the sense that inequality spawns revolution and crime.
While conservatives are by definition the party of the status quo, they demonstrate by their actions a realization of the moral and pragmatic problems. Their answer is private charity to relieve the pressures generated by economic inequality, and political tokenism to make up for the differences in power.
For liberals, the conservative answer is insufficient. Only the government, as the instrument of the entire nation, should be responsible for providing the minimum conditions necessary for a decent existence. These conditions include not only adequate food, clothing, and shelter, but also education and employment.
The growth of industrial society has produced great inequalities of wealth and power. Liberalism insists that it is in the interests of all parties to narrow the gaps. This is American pragmatic idealism at its best: right and practical at the same time. | <urn:uuid:f5c73d59-ee7c-4419-83fa-9b6766c5f1bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://relentlessliberal.blogspot.com/2007_04_22_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943988 | 555 | 2.765625 | 3 |
News About Your Nose
Your nose is the most important resource for your lungs. Your nose helps filter out any dust or other small particles that should not be in your lungs. Your nose also adds humidity for your lungs. This is important because your lungs need moisture to help keep them clear and keep the secretions from being so thick. | <urn:uuid:879b0988-e9e2-4701-893b-5dc9bb4a32a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112205/news_about_your_nose.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940408 | 67 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Astringents are remedies that have a 'binding' action on tissue, usually due to a group of complex chemicals called tannins. The name tannin derives from their use in the tanning industry, and they share the property of precipitating, or curdling, protein molecules. As saliva and other body fluids contain proteins that are in solution, tannin containing astringents cause them to become insoluble and precipitate. This produces a coating on the surface of tissue composed of the body's own protein, thus there is not problem with allergic reaction and as the precipitate is readily metabolized, the effect is short-lived. This leads to the important inference that astringents are effective mainly on tissue that the tannin content can physically reach.
Similar precipitation also happens with alkaloids and salts of heavy metals. One of the few incompatibilities in herbal medicine making is that astringent remedies will cause a precipitate with alkaloid rich herbs.
Therapeutically useful effects include:
- A reduction of irritation on the surface of tissues due to a form of numbing.
- A reduction in surface inflammation.
- A barrier against infection is created which is of great help in wounds and burns.
Astringents may be indicated in a wide range of problems but especially in wound healing and conditions of the digestive system. Along the whole length of the digestive system they reduce inflammation and inhibit diarrhoea. Long-term use as medicine can be deleterious to health as there may be an eventual inhibition of proper food absorption across the gut wall.
Representative Herbal Astringents
Astringents that are also Anti-Catarrhal: Bearberry, Bistort, Cranesbill, Elecampane, Eyebright, Golden Rod, Ground Ivy, Mullein, Red Sage, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Anti-Inflammatory: Bistort, Cranesbill, Eyebright, Golden Rod, Meadowsweet, Oak Bark, Plantain, Witch Hazel
Astringents that are also Anti-Microbial: Bearberry, Elecampane, Golden Rod, Oak Bark, Red Sage, Rosemary, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Anti-Spasmodic: Bugleweed, , Red Sage, Rosemary, Wild Cherry
Astringents that are also Bitter: Agrimony, Wild Cherry, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Demulcent: Bearberry, Comfrey Root, Lungwort, Mullein, Plantain
Astringents that are also Diaphoretic: Bayberry, Elecampane, GoldenRod, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Diuretic: Agrimony, Bearberry, Bugleweed, Golden Rod, Ground Ivy, Kola Nut, Mullein, Plantain, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Emmenagogue: Raspberry, Yarrow
Astringents that are also Expectorant: Comfrey Root, Elecampane, Ground Ivy, Lungwort, Mullein, Plantain, Wild Cherry
Astringents that are also Hepatic: Agrimony Astringents that are also Hypotensive : Yarrow
Astringents that are also Nervine: KolaNut, Rosemary, Wild Cherry
Astringents that are also Tonic: Agrimony, Mullein, Raspberry, Yarrow
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Dexter Filkins writes about Pakistan in New Duranty:
ONE SWELTERING AFTERNOON in July, I ventured into the elegant home of a former Pakistani official who recently retired after several years of serving in senior government posts. We sat in his book-lined study. A servant brought us tea and biscuits.
Was it the obsession with India that led the Pakistani military to support the Taliban? I asked him.
“Yes,” he said.
Or is it the anti-Americanism and pro-Islamic feelings in the army?
“Yes,” he said, that too.
And then the retired Pakistani official offered another explanation — one that he said could never be discussed in public. The reason the Pakistani security services support the Taliban, he said, is for money: after the 9/11 attacks, the Pakistani military concluded that keeping the Taliban alive was the surest way to win billions of dollars in aid that Pakistan needed to survive. The military’s complicated relationship with the Taliban is part of what the official called the Pakistani military’s “strategic games.” Like other Pakistanis, this former senior official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of what he was telling me.
“Pakistan is dependent on the American money that these games with the Taliban generate,” the official told me. “The Pakistani economy would collapse without it. This is how the game works.”
As an example, he cited the Pakistan Army’s first invasion of the tribal areas — of South Waziristan in 2004. Called Operation Shakai, the offensive was ostensibly aimed at ridding the area of Taliban militants. From an American perspective, the operation was a total failure. The army invaded, fought and then made a deal with one of the militant commanders, Nek Mohammed. The agreement was capped by a dramatic meeting between Mohammed and Safdar Hussein, one of the most senior officers in the Pakistan Army.
“The corps commander was flown in on a helicopter,” the former official said. “They had this big ceremony, and they embraced. They called each other mujahids. ”
“Mujahid” is the Arabic word for “holy warrior.” The ceremony, in fact, was captured on videotape, and the tape has been widely distributed.
“The army agreed to compensate the locals for collateral damage,” the official said. “Where do you think that money went? It went to the Taliban. Who do you think paid the bill? The Americans. This is the way the game works. The Taliban is attacked, but it is never destroyed.
“It’s a game,” the official said, wrapping up our conversation. “The U.S. is being taken for a ride.” | <urn:uuid:220036d6-de59-403f-a5b1-d8e74952cbe9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/16928 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973701 | 592 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Brookfield Engineering celebrates its 75th anniversary with the introduction of the Falling Ball Viscometer, an instrument to assess the dynamic viscosity of transparent Newtonian fluids.
According to the company, the viscometer utilizes the Hoppler principle to measure viscosity—the basic concept to measure the elapsed time required for the ball to fall under gravity through a sample-filled tube inclined at an angle. The tube is mounted on a pivot bearing, which allows a 180-degree rotation of the tube, thereby allowing the repeat test to run immediately. Three measurements are taken and the average time is converted into a final viscosity value in centipoise.
The viscometer can be used for quality control in various industries as well as academic institutions to illustrate scientific methods. It can also be used with a circulating bath for rapid sample temperature control, to provide more accurate and repeatable results.
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With a cyber budget of $1.54 billion from 2013 to 2017, the agency will focus increasingly on cyber-offense to meet military needs, officials say.
DARPA’s research is designed to foster long-shot successes. In addition to helping create the Internet, the agency’s work gave rise to stealth jet technology and portable global-positioning devices.
“Even if 90 percent of their ideas don’t pan out,” said Martin Libicki, a cyberwar expert at Rand Corp., “the 10 percent that are worthwhile more than pay back the difference.”
A digital battlefield map, as DARPA envisions it, would plot nodes on the Internet, drawing from a variety of sources and changing as cyberspace changes.
“In a split microsecond you could have a completely different flow of information and set of nodes,” Gabriel said. “The challenge and the opportunity is to create a capability where you’re always getting a rapid, high-order look of what the Internet looks like — of what the cyberspace looks like at any one point in time.”
The ideal map would show network connections, analyze how much capacity a particular route has for carrying a cyberweapon and suggest alternative routes according to traffic flows, among other things.
The goal would be a visual representation of cyberspace that could help commanders make decisions on what to attack and how, while seeing any attacks coming from an enemy.
Achieving this will require an enormous amount of upfront intelligence work, experts say.
Michael V. Hayden, a former NSA director and a former CIA director, said he can imagine a map with red dots representing enemy computers and blue dots representing American ones.
When the enemy upgrades his operating system, the red dots would blink yellow, meaning the target is out of reach until cyber operators can determine what the new operating system is.
“I can picture that,” Hayden said. “But this really is bigger than all outdoors.”
Plan X also envisions the development of technology that enables a commander to plan, launch and control cyberattacks.
A commander wanting to hit a computer that controls a target — a strategically important drawbridge in enemy territory, for example — should be able to predict and quantify battle damage while considering the timing or other constraints on a possible attack, said Dan Roelker, Plan X program manager.
Cyberwar experts worry about unintended consequences of attacks that might damage the flow of electricity to civilian homes or hospitals. A targeting system also should allow operators to stop a strike or reroute it before it damages systems that are not targeted — a fail-safe mechanism that experts say would be very difficult to engineer.
DARPA will not prescribe what should be represented on the digital map.
Some experts say they would expect to see power and transportation systems that support military objectives.
Daniel Kuehl, an information warfare professor at the National Defense University’s iCollege, said the Air Force built its history around attacks on infrastructure — in Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and Iraq.
“In all of those conflicts,” he said, “we went after the other side’s electricity with bombs.”
Today, he said, cyberweapons could be more humane than pulverizing power grids with bombs.
If a cyberwarrior can disrupt a computer system controlling an enemy’s electric power, the system theoretically can also be turned back on, minimizing the impact on civilians.
But retired Gen. James E. Cartwright, who as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until August pushed to develop military cyber-offense capabilities, said the military is focused less on power grids than on “tanks and planes and ships and anything that carries a weapon.”
“The goal is not the single beautiful target that ends the war in one shot. That doesn’t exist,” said Cartwright, who is now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The military needs more of a brute-force approach that allows it to get at a thousand targets as quickly as possible. ” | <urn:uuid:e1745df4-0e1f-4ec5-922c-0731ee5caef9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-plan-x-pentagon-seeks-to-spread-us-military-might-to-cyberspace/2012/05/30/gJQAEca71U_story_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949284 | 862 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix
12 January 2013
|Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.|
A province-by-province life cycle analysis of natural gas and electric vehicles by a team from Tsinghua University concludes that while, from the perspective of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) and criteria pollutant emissions, natural gas vehicles (CNGVs) are “an option with no obvious merits or demerits”, electric vehicles (EVs) are “an option with significant merits and demerits in this regard” due to China’s heavily coal-based electricity generation (national average of about 77%).
In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. However, the fuel-cycle PM10, PM2.5, SO2, and NOx emissions of EVs could be up to five times higher than those of ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) and CNGVs. While the increases in PM10 and PM2.5 emissions are less important because of the low contribution of light duty vehicles to national PM10 and PM2.5 emissions, the NOx and SO2 increases are significant enough to notably change total national emissions, they conclude.
...China has made a firm commitment to improve its air quality. In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM2.5, which will come into effect by the end of 2015. Since substantial coal use (equivalent to 50% of global coal consumption) is the primary reason for the poor air quality, China is considering setting a cap on its use. According to the 12th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011−2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010).
Setting a cap on coal use while maintaining economic growth at a high level means that China must resort to other energy sources, such as natural gas (NG) and renewable fuels, to fill the energy supply gap. Since coal-use control is a near-term goal, NG appears more adequate than other energies to replace coal in the short term, because of its greater availability and technological maturity. Under such circumstances, there will be a battle between coal and NG in many sectors, particularly the on-road transport sector, which is exclusively petroleum-dependent but currently facing a worldwide oil shortage.
The enormous growth in vehicle population in China (from 5 million in 1990 to 100 million in 2011) has raised serious concerns about energy supply security...Many fuel-substitute measures have been taken, both coal-based and NG-based, with electric vehicles (EVs) and compressed natural gas vehicles (CNGVs) as their representatives. China recently launched several EV demonstration programs (e.g., the Ten Cities, Thousand Vehicles Program) and issued numerous economic policies favoring the purchase of EVs. In April 2012, the State Council approved the “Development Plan of Energy-Efficient and New-Energy Vehicles (2012−2020),” which plans to achieve accumulated sales of 500,000 new-energy vehicles (including hybrids and EVs) by 2015, and 5 million by 2020. [Earlier post.] Since EVs use electricity as fuel and Chinese electricity is primarily generated from coal-fired power plants (national average about 77% in 2010), EVs can be regarded as a coal-based option.
...The tremendous vehicle growth and the oil shortage portend competition between coal and NG for vehicle fuel. The preferred fuel path(s) will depend to a great extent on their climate and environmental performance, which is of national concern. The fuel paths may perform differently by region because energy-use characteristics differ significantly by region.—Huo et al.
The Tsinghua study examines fuel-cycle (well-to-wheels, WTW) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs, including CO2, CH4, and N2O) and criteria pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, SO2, and NOx of conventional gasoline internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs), gasoline hybrid vehicles (HEVs), EVs, and CNGVs in present-day China (2010) and projected in the future (2030). It also assesses the strengths and weaknesses of EVs and CNGVs from a perspective of climate change and environmental impact.
The team chose to conduct the study at the provincial level because using national average data might severely underestimate or overestimate results for technologies that primarily operate in designated cities—i.e., EVs and CNGVs in China—because energy-use characteristics differ significantly by region.
Fuel-cycle emissions of EVs are generated mainly from power generation processes, while those of CNGVs are from NG recovery and processing, NG transportation (via pipelines), NG compression (using electricity), and vehicle operation (NG combusted in engines). Fuel-cycle emissions of both EVs and CNGVs in China are highly subject to a variety of regional factors.
For the study, they applied the GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) model from Argonne National Laboratory, adjusted with Chinese energy and emission data.
Among the findings were:
GHG emissions of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs are generally the same across provinces, since the emissions occur mainly during vehicle operation. EVs and CNGVs show “remarkable” variations in such emissions across provinces. Although EVs have slightly higher GHG emissions than ICEVs and CNGVs in the North and Northeast regions where the share of coal-based electricity is large, EVs can achieve a greater GHG reduction benefit than HEVs in the Central and South regions, owing to their large hydropower shares.
Compared to EVs, CNGVs have very limited benefit in the reduction of GHG emissions, no more than 10% in most provinces; CNGVs might even increase such emission in eastern provinces that obtain NG from thousands of miles away. On a national average, EVs and CNGVs can reduce fuel-cycle GHG emissions per kilometer traveled by 20% and 6%, relative to ICEVs. In the future (the year 2030), improving vehicle fuel economy will reduce GHG emissions of ICEVs, CNGVs, and EVs.
If China decreases the share of coal-based electricity in the mix from 75% to 65% and increases combustion efficiencies of coal-fired power plants from 35% to 40%, EVs are expected to have a 27% lower fuel-cycle GHG emission level than ICEVs.
Although EVs have a greater GHG reduction benefit than CNGVs, they may increase life-cycle emissions of criteria pollutants, simply because coal is heavily involved. Improving the fuel efficiency of EVs from 20 kWh/100km to 14 kWh/100km, decreasing the share of coal-based electricity from 75% to 65%, increasing combustion efficiency of coal-fired power plants from 35% to 40%, and the new emission standard for new-build power plants will help reduce the PM emission of EVs. Nonetheless, EVs still have 2−3 times higher PM10 emissions than ICEVs, and coal mining will be the dominant source, contributing more than 70% of the fuel-cycle PM10 emissions.
On a national average, CNGVs can reduce NOx and SO2 emissions by 18% and 22% compared to ICEVs, respectively, but EVs will increase NOx and SO2 emissions by 120% and 370%. EVs have lower NOx fuel-cycle emissions where hydropower accounts for a large share. Similar to the PM results, EVs in provinces importing a large percentage of coal and electricity (e.g., Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong) could have local NOx and SO2 emissions comparable to ICEVs.
|Fuel-cycle GHG emissions of EVs, CNGVs, gasoline ICEVs and HEVs. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.|
|Fuel-cycle NOx and SO2 emissions of EVs, CNGVs, gasoline ICEVs, and HEVs. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.|
The original reason for developing EVs and CNGVs is to substitute oil, not to reduce emissions of GHGs or any pollutant. Both EVs and CNGVs will clearly achieve this goal by saving over 98% of oil use. Any additional benefits will help these vehicles to earn more credits, but any negative environmental influences caused could make them lose in competition, especially at the present time when China is working very hard to clean its air.
...fuel-cycle NOx and SOx emissions of EVs are expected to substantially decline in the near future. Until then, however, these NOx and SO2 emissions are a disadvantage of EVs in comparison with CNGVs. One current solution is to develop EVs in accord with the cleanness levels of regional power plants, first in places where electricity is cleaner, e.g., with ample non-coal electricity or more emission control equipment installed in coal-fired power plants.
Ranking provinces by emission levels of their power plants is helpful in formulating the EV promotion plan. In this way, EVs are competitive with CNGVs. Further, using EVs in the large coal or electricity-importing provinces (e.g., Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou) may not exacerbate local air quality because the majority of emissions originate in other provinces.
The competition between CNGVs and EVs will continue. In addition to their potential impact on the climate and ambient environment, it is important to compare the potential impacts of developing CNGVs and EVs on the energy supply system. Assuming LDGVs travel 18000 km per year, replacing all LDGVs with CNGVs will increase national NG demand by 70%, but EVs will only increase electricity demand by 5% and coal demand by 2%. Obviously, EVs have much smaller impacts on national energy supply. However, CNGVs may have a much lower cost than EVs, which requires further study.—Huo et al.
Hong Huo, Qiang Zhang, Fei Liu, and Kebin He (2012) Climate and Environmental Effects of Electric Vehicles versus Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles in China: A Life-Cycle Analysis at Provincial Level. Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/es303352x
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Iron Age and Saxon site at Sawston, Cambridgeshire
AS’ Post-Excavation team have now concluded analysis of an Iron Age and Saxon site at Sawston, Cambridgeshire.
A silted-up former channel of the river Cam was identified running through the south-eastern part of the site and post-excavation work has demonstrated that the river is likely to have played an important role in the lives of the site’s inhabitants.
A concentration of pottery in a ditch dating to the approximate period of the Roman invasion of Britain suggests that some kind of trading activity may have occurred at the site. The ditch forms part of an enclosed area of river bank which may have been used for landing shallow-bottomed river boats and unloading their cargo. The large concentration of pottery may represent cargo damaged in transit. The river would have linked the site with several other important Iron Age sites in the area and may have been an important communication link.
Environmental analysis has provided important information about the former river channel and about the economies of the Iron Age and Saxon settlements.
Analysis has also provided important information about the Anglo-Saxon buildings that were present at the site. There were seven of these in total but they may not have all been standing at the same time. They are of a type typical of the period, known as grubenhäuser, which comprised a wooden superstructure built over a flat-bottomed pit. Detailed analysis of the soils filling the remains of these buildings has demonstrated that they had suspended floors constructed over the pits.
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An excellent piece by David Warlick on his favorite session of Educon. I love this thought of how to use monopoly and to make a point of how we need to learn to change the rules of the game and think creatively. Interesting piece.
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Chicago-based Boeing Company has said that a new round of talks last weekend with union representatives of 27,000 machinists, who walked out on their jobs on 6 September, has failed. The five-week-old strike has paralysed commercial aircraft production at the plants of one of the world's two biggest aircraft makers.
"We worked very hard to find solutions, and we are extremely disappointed that the talks broke off," Doug Kight, Boeing's lead negotiator, said in a statement on Monday. "We want to resolve this strike so employees can return to work, but we cannot sacrifice our ability to continuously improve productivity and our long-term competitiveness for an agreement."
Boeing had been in discussions with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents about 27,000 hourly production workers. Talks between the union and Boeing broke off on 5 September and the company closed its assembly lines in Washington state, Oregon and Kansas the next day.
The company and workers are debating issues such as higher pay, use of outside contractors and Boeing's demand that workers pay more for health care. Boeing's offer for an 11 per cent raise in pay over three years is also not acceptable to the unions especially as the company has been booking record orders from customers.
The strike is estimated to have cost the company about $3.5 billion so far in lost revenue. It is also likely to result in a further delay in the delivery schedule for the 787 Dreamliner, the futuristic medium-sized passenger jet, which is already running at least 14 months behind schedule.
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I have a piece that is in two flats and has a glissando that starts on G and ends on a B quarter note two octaves higher. Am I supposed to glissando on the white keys through A and then hit and hold the B flat at the end?
The glissando symbol, by default, means a white-key gliss, regardless of key signature.
There is a common piano technique by which you play a gliss with one hand and then strike the final note with the other. This has the added benefit of the final note being accented, which will also allow it to sustain more. Without any other contextual information being given, I would assume that that is what is being indicated by the music you have.
As jdarnel27 mentioned, black-key glisses are possible (pentatonic) as are chromatic glisses (using one finger on the white keys and the other on the black ones), but I would expect both of these to be explicitly notated as such.
I'm not a piano theory expert, but I would say yes.
Performing the glissando across the white keys gives you a major scale (more or less); this is the "sound" I typically associate with a glissando in music.
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Question: What is anarchism and how did anarchists find themselves at May Day in Seattle?
Kerry: Anarchism is a political philosophy centered on the idea that a society without domination is better suited to foster the wellbeing of its members. Anarchists are necessarily anti-capitalists because capitalism hinges on exploitation and economic division in society. We also oppose the concentration of power that we refer to as the state. These various bodies of law, force, and control seek to contain the possibilities for society and compel us all to perpetuate capitalism. There are many other forms of social domination that anarchists will fight to abolish, such as racism and patriarchy, that are also deeply entwined with capitalism.
As for May Day, it is, among other things, an anarchist holiday. It is a day that commemorates the militant labor struggle for the eight hour work day and the anarchists who were killed or imprisoned by the state for participating in this struggle. In Chicago, where the labor struggle was particularly militant, the police opened fire on a picket, killing and wounding picketers. The next day a demonstration was called and a bomb was thrown at the police line, killing an officer and wounding others. The state tried eight anarchists for the murder, and regardless of whether they were at the demonstration or not, all eight were sentenced to death or life in prison. We take May Day as a chance to remember these militant struggles and to inspire us to keep fighting against the state that wants us submissive or dead. Every year there are demonstrations and other events in cities all over. In the Pacific Northwest, Seattle was calling out to anarchists to come together and have a really massive anti-capitalist march. Many anarchists answered the call and showed up in Seattle that day.
Question: What was May 1, Seattle all about? Were there progressive groups involved? What was your involvement? Were you arrested or investigated? If so, how were you treated?
Kerry: There were a lot of events and marches scheduled for May Day in Seattle this past year. A lot of them were related to occupy. I can’t say much about the organizing of Seattle’s May Day because I don’t live there and was not part of the organizing. I can say that May Day demonstrations have in many places become somewhat placid, not resembling the spirit of resistance to state control. They often get city permits, and designate peace police to make sure the march is whatever the organizers want it to be. The anti- capitalist march in Seattle was organized to be different. This march was meant to be a disruption of capital. It was unpermitted and there was no leadership in the march or expectation of abiding laws.
I was in Seattle at the anti-capitalist march on May Day. It was a glorious day for anarchists, in my opinion. We effectively disrupted the goings on of downtown Seattle. I was not arrested or anything, but clearly I have become involved in the investigation somehow. But, with secret investigations it is difficult to glean much information.
Question: Some people are appalled when property damage and injury occur in these kinds of events. What can you say regarding that?
Kerry: I would say that property destruction is an important tactic in the fight against capitalism. I think property destruction does a number of things that further the struggle against domination. For one, it solidifies for us and reminds us that the powers we fight are not abstract and insurrmountable. They are vulnerable to attack. I think also that when an institution which forcibly maintains power over us is targeted by property destruction, this will often resonate with others who experience the violence of that institution. It makes us feel less alone and less like victims. I think that property destruction has a good effect on those who carry it out as well. I think most people need to unlearn submission and show themselves that they have the capacity to act for their own liberation. I think that when people burn cop cars, break bank windows, or blockade a road (thwarting the transfer of goods and or law enforcement) they are also demonstrating to themself some of the magnitude of their ability to resist. I think too that in some cases the economic damage of property destruction can be effective against the state and capital. It is not as though breaking windows is an end goal, but it is a tactic that people shouldn’t thoughtlessly cast aside as if it were the introduction of violence into the fight against the state, instead of the response to endless state sponsored violence.
There are many flawed arguments against property destruction, but without a specific one to debunk, I would only extrapolate on this point that in general people are accustomed to experiencing and absorbing state violence as normal. There is a desensitization and sometimes a blame shifting that goes on to justify state violence against people. But, when people fight back against these concentrated powers it is sensationalized and often viewed as unprovoked or illegitimate. In the case of a demonstration in the streets, it is really awful to hear someone criticize the breaking of windows as they gloss over the acute violence at the hands of the state. Demonstrations are often brutally repressed, people are beaten, pepper sprayed, arrested and imprisoned and this is expected and often accepted by witnesses and people in general. How can a rational person deny efforts of resistance the use of violence against those who hold it in a monopoly? We want to win, we really mean to destroy capital, and for that we will need to be open to the idea of property destruction. We have to strip capital of its power over society. This is not an easy or voluntary occurrence but one that is achieved by force. Property after all, is a farce.
Question: Kerry, you, Maddy, Matt & Kteeo are currently refusing to cooperate with a Grand Jury in Seattle which is investigating events which occurred during May Day protests last year. First, why do you think the government has subpoenaed you and has decided to pressure you to testify? And why are all of you refusing to appear?
Kerry: I don’t know why I was subpoenaed to the grand jury. I am an Anarchist, I am known to have been in Seattle on May Day and the Feds are grasping at straws trying to make a case against Anarchists in whatever way they can. I doubt they have any idea who broke the courthouse windows nor do they care. I think they are using the attack on the courthouse as a pretext to bring down a heavy hand and try to scare Anarchists away from militant resistance. It isn’t working and I am glad to think that this is frustrating to the state.
I refuse to appear because I despise the state. They are working to undo everything that Anarchists stand for. I refuse to help them on the principle that prisons should be abolished. I refuse them because I am in complete support of the crimes they are investigating. I refuse them with a visceral hatred for the law and all of the lives they ruin. I am glad for the little bit of resistance I can provide in denying them information. I respect and admire Matt, Kteeo and Maddy for making the sacrifice that is involved in sitting for and undetermined jail sentence. I just am not personally willing to take a step in the direction of my own jail cell.
Question: Clearly the government is attempting to intimidate you and anarchists and activists in general. First by calling you to testify in a Grand Jury setting thereby trying to force you give up your right to remain silent which exists in standard judicial courts, and then by jailing some of you to wear you down. Can they legally keep any of you in jail indefinitely until you testify, and just how long do all of you think this can last? Can you talk about what legal actions are being taken on your behalf?
Kerry: The state has the power to do lots of things, legal or not. Legally though, people can be held in civil contempt for not testifying for a period up to 18 months or whenever the grand jury ends, whichever comes first. The grand jury is slated to end by March of 2014 so there could be a lot of people in jail for a long time over this. There are currently no legal actions being taken on my behalf that I know of. I am not in need of any legal help unless I am arrested. There doesn’t seem to be much that lawyers can do to help people who are subpoenaed. All of the attempts to get the subpoenas thrown out have been laughed out of the courts. They are going to do all they can to turn people against their principles. I don’t see it working with most Anarchists though.
Question: Kerry, where can listeners find out more about all this, and what can they do to get involved and help?
Kerry: So, the support group for the subpoenaed folks has a website. It is nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com. That is where you can go for news and updates about the grand jury in the Pacific Northwest. It is also where you can donate some much needed money which will help us fill the commissary of the folks in jail so they can continue to write letters, eat and such things. We also need money for lawyers fees and in case of indictments coming from the grand jury. There is a support site for the 5 people recently indicted for alleged crimes during the various marches of May Day in Seattle. The site is seattleantirepression.wordpress.com. There is also a site, saynothing.info which is cataloging the numerous actions of property destruction which are being carried out in solidarity with those resisting the grand jury and its targets.
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Reflecting on the Blog
I started my education blog around the same time as I had my students begin a blog for the classroom--Pre-College. Now that the year is starting to come to a close, 14 days for the Pre-College students, I am in search of an answer for the question, "How do I do it better?"
Here are my reflections and questions on classroom blogging:
The Blogging Goal--the classroom blog is a place where students react to the literature we read in class. The blog gives them a place to wrestle with theme, plot, characters, and self-to-text connections. The blog allows them to interact with each other outside the typical classroom setting, while giving every student the opportunity to be heard (read). How do I introduce blogging to incoming students next year in a way that decreases the attitude that this assignment is just like any other assingment?
Blogging Success--I've noticed that in the semester I've had students blogging, some of the quietest students in class often have tremendous contributions through the blogging medium. The students who have regularly attended to this assignment have subsequently written, at the very least, one paragraph per week. The students have been provided with the opportunity to interact with literature and each other outside of the classroom setting. With multiple classes, is it best to have one blog site for all classes, or separate blog sites? I would have to encourage students to look beyond their class blog if we had separate sites, adding to the blogging experience.
Blogging Failures--students too often just punched something out at the last minute or just to get it done. Posts were a summary of pages read and not an interaction. Students just didn't do the blog. Comments on other posts were often too brief or lacking in content. Grammatical mistakes were abundant. Should blogging in the classroom be held to the same standards as essay writing, or should we give into the text-message culture?(I might not be ready for that)
How do I introduce blogging, and encourage blogging, in a way that prompts students to want to post? Students posted, did their comment, and forgot about it until the next week. How do I encourage students to go beyond just the assignment and use blogging as forum for discussion?
1. Should the teacher post on the classroom blog?
2. Should the teacher interact, through comments, on the classroom blog?
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Donald J. Ortner, Ph.D., D.Sc.
The Department of Anthropology is deeply saddened at the loss of a long-time colleague who began his career in the department in the early 1960s. Articles about Don’s contributions to the museum and to his field can be read in the department newsletter, Anthropolog.
Division: Physical Anthropology
Area of Specialization: Calcified tissue
biology and the effect of disease on
Honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom
Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas
Acting director of the National Museum of Natural History (1994-1996)
Chairman of the Department of Anthropology (1988-1992)
Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford, Bradford, England
He has served on several boards and review panels most recently as vice-chairman of the Bioarchaeology Panel, The Wellcome Trust, London. From (1999 to 2001), he was president of the Paleopathology Association, an international scientific society of more than 600 members that promotes the study of ancient disease. He is currently on the editorial boards of three scientific journals.
He has done field work in Jordan and has conducted research projects in the United States, Europe, and Australia. His major research interest is in human adaptation but he has a specific interest in calcified tissue biology and the effect of disease on human evolution during the Holocene. The latter interest includes a focus on the impact of major developments in human society, such as sedentism, urbanism and the development of agriculture, on human health. He has been conducting research on disease in archeological human skeletal remains for more than forty years. He is currently conducting research on the antiquity of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and brucellosis, for which domestic animals are an intermediate host.
Dr. Ortner is the author of more than 125 scientific papers many of which are on the subject of human disease. He is the coauthor of Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (1981) a second edition of which was published by Academic Press in January 2003. He organized and edited the proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution's Seventh International Symposium on How Humans Adapt: A Biocultural Odyssey (1983) and co-edited Human Paleopathology (1991). His most recent book is The Early Bronze Age I Tombs and Burials of Bâb edh-Dhrâ‘, Jordan (2008) coauthored with Bruno Frohlich and published by AltaMira Press. The next major book project will be a comprehensive review of the bioarchaeological evidence of disease and an exploration of how disease has affected human societies during the Holocene.
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HIV IN THE NEWS
Swiss Court Overturns HIV Exposure Conviction, Saying HIV Meds Virtually Eliminated Risk
HIV IN THE AGE OF OBAMA
Could we have just reached a major turning point in the legal battle over HIV exposure laws? The Geneva Court of Justice in Switzerland has wiped out an 18-month prison sentence for an HIV-positive man who was convicted of exposing a woman to HIV during unprotected sex without disclosing his status. The sentence was overturned, however, after top HIV researcher Bernard Hirschel, M.D., testified that because the man was on "successful" HIV treatment, the risk of him transmitting HIV to the woman was 1 in 100,000. (Article from aidsmap.com)
HIV Advocates Across the U.S. Hail Choice for New AIDS Czar
HIV TRANSMISSION & TESTING
There's a new HIV sheriff in town, and U.S. HIV advocates couldn't be happier. Many advocates across the United States are applauding U.S. President Barack Obama's appointment of Jeffrey Crowley as director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, a position more commonly known as "AIDS Czar." Crowley is an openly gay man with a proven record of working effectively with communities that are most vulnerable to HIV. He previously worked as the deputy executive director of the National Association of People with AIDS. (Article from Housing Works)
In addition to Housing Works, other major HIV organizations in the U.S. were pleased to hear of Crowley's selection. "Finally the new leadership in Washington indicates support for slowing the HIV epidemic in the United States," says Marjorie Hill of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York City. The Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute also expressed optimism at Crowley's appointment while urging him specifically to join forces with African-American leaders and communities. "America simply cannot win the fight against AIDS unless it wins it in Black America," reads the Black AIDS Institute's statement. You can also read the official White House statement about Crowley's appointment here.
Strange But True: HIV-Positive Man Mails His Blood to Obama
Every now and then, an HIV news story comes through the wire that just leaves your mouth hanging open. Take, for instance, the story of Saad Bedrie Hussein, an HIV-positive Ethiopian man living in the United States. In December 2008, Hussein apparently wrote letters to then U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and others asking for government help. But he went a little overboard in his enthusiasm: He allegedly used a razor to slice open his finger and bleed on the letter. Hussein is now in custody, although the criminal complaint filed against him is a little odd: It says that he "knowingly mailed" the letters containing HIV-infected blood "with the intent to kill or injure another." Whether or not that was actually his intent, it'd be an awfully futile way to attempt to transmit HIV. (Article from CNN)
HIV Vaccine Development in 2009: Looking Back (and Forward)
In many ways, last year was a disaster for HIV vaccine research. Headline-grabbing failures led some to begin wondering if we would ever find a vaccine that works. So where are we now -- and were the failures of last year really as disastrous as some claimed? We sat down with Mitchell Warren, the top dog at the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, to talk about the current state of vaccine development. He explains why, in his opinion, hope on the vaccine front is far from lost. (Article and podcast from The Body PRO)
Our interview with Mitchell Warren is just one of dozens from the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2009), a major HIV medical conference that took place in February. Visit our CROI 2009 home page for the latest coverage of this important meeting, including articles, podcasts and summaries of key developments in HIV. More coverage is being added daily!
Q & A: What's Up With the New U.S. HIV Estimates?
A new U.S. government report shows that HIV diagnoses went up 15 percent between 2004 and 2007, although the number of people living with advanced HIV (or dying from it) is dropping. But where do these numbers come from, and what do they really mean? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a series of questions and detailed answers to help make sense of the latest report -- and to explain where HIV statistics come from in general. (Article from the CDC)
Click here to view the full report (in PDF format). The report begins with an account of what HIV surveillance data is and why the CDC started gathering it in the first place, as well as the ways the information is flawed.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Volunteer at a Summer Camp!
Great, rewarding volunteer opportunities are available at summer and weekend camps for HIV-affected children and families across the country. Browse through our extensive list of camps in the U.S. Not only are volunteers needed, but many camps have a camp supply wish list. In these difficult economic times, you can do your part to help improve the lives of kids affected by or living with HIV!
After Two Weeks of Uncertainty, I'm Positive -- and Scared|
(A recent post from the "I Just Tested Positive" board)
I just found out last Tuesday that I tested positive for HIV, after having to wait an additional two weeks for the results from my second test (first test was ELISA pos, Western Blot neg). I'm pretty sure it was a New Year's gift because I got flu-like symptoms about two weeks after.
In those two weeks between tests I went through all the emotions, basically everything except happiness. When I got the final results, I cried a little, but then just dealt with it. Now I'm not sure how I'm feeling.
I went to our local HIV/AIDS support center and they're setting me up with a primary care and infectious disease doc. What should I be expecting? They've already drawn blood so my CD4 and VL results will be coming back. I'm just a little confused and scared.
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U.S. Updates Guidelines on HIV Treatment for Children (PDF)
The U.S. health department has updated its treatment guidelines for HIV-positive children for the first time since July 2008. Included in the revised document is a caution against treating children with Prezista (darunavir), since the drug isn't currently available in an easy-to-take dose for kids. Also featured in the new guidelines is a revamped section on what to do when an HIV-positive child's treatment regimen stops working. (Guidelines from AIDSInfo) | <urn:uuid:7d1a2fdc-743f-4bba-9afe-8e74d6ef4463> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thebody.com/content/art50728.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962484 | 1,552 | 1.679688 | 2 |
During my childhood, I used to be interested in assembling small objects like aircrafts, made out of plastic. And now I thought I wouldn’t be able to find a substitute for the joy of those days. But one of my friends showed me an app, ‘PLapp’ by SEMS International Co., Ltd, in which you can do the same assembling of virtual parts on your iPad itself.
Using PLapp iPad app, you can assemble anything from classic gliders to modern fighter jets, cars and robots. As you open the app you will find that you can select any of your favorite objects that you want to assemble. On selecting an object, you will be taken to another page where you will find a stamp-sized image of the object and technical info about it. You will also find various views of the object and diagrams illustrating how to assemble it. Below that, you will find various trays that contain related parts of that object.
After you choose the model you would like to construct, you have to tap on the right parts tray. On doing so, you will be shown a full size image of it and you have to select the objects that you need to assemble the model and drop them into another tray. Once you are done with it, you can see the object in full 3D and you can also rotate and zoom into it at all angles. You will be shown connecting points in each object, so that you can join them correctly. If you join two points incorrectly, it will be pointed out in red.
Once you join a pair of parts successfully, it will get on to another tray and you have to join all the parts in the same way. Then you have to put them together and form the shape of the model. Then you can start coloring the objects and putting up the logos. After you are done with one object, you can go ahead with the others in the same manner.
Even though I assembled on my iPad, I had control over it just like assembling a plamodel object. You can also share the photos of the models you have assembled, on Twitter and Facebook. I feel that the models could have been made to look more realistic. Also they could have added other interesting objects like HumVee. Other than that everything is awesome in this app and I recommend it to people of all ages.
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Why Join SIFE?
Many of us students live in an undergraduate bubble we call “college.” What a wonderful bubble it is. We own and operate our own secluded fantasy society, often forgetting about the world around us and the obstacles awaiting us after graduation. I hate to let the secret out, but things change after graduation. Good-bye waking up at noon, hello real-world. Will you be ready when the world’s ready for you?
What if I told you it’s not too late to prepare yourself for what lies ahead? What if I introduced you to an organization dedicated to preparing its members for a successful career after college. Would you be interested? I was. So were fifty other students this year at Washington College.
The organization is commonly referred to as SIFE, or for those us who are “acronymically” challenged, Students in Free Enterprise. SIFE gives students the ability to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills necessary to become socially responsible business leaders. It intimately combines the satisfaction of helping others with a sense of self-achievement and growth.
SIFE students first learn, and then apply business concepts to develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need. The WC SIFE team is currently working on various projects, including “Shoes For Ghana,” the Charles Sumner Post #25 hall restoration project, the Career Expo, and many more. Students in SIFE are given a great deal of freedom in creating, preparing, and executing projects and business plans.
WC SIFE vice president junior Josh Tex described SIFE as “ a great developmental tool for understanding how projects work and how to go about planning and executing them.” The most valuable quality SIFE offers is undoubtedly its ability to train students in the art of business.
The current president of the Washington College SIFE team, junior Alketa Tanushi, described her experience by saying, “SIFE has helped me grow personally and professionally. I have gained confidence and knowledge, expanded my network, and learned more about what it takes to become a real professional.”
SIFE is a unique organization because of its resoundingly positive perception shared by employers around the world. To sum it up, Tanushi was once told by an anonymous SIFE speaker, “There are so many other organizations on campus that you might interested in, but SIFE is the only one that will get you that job.” Dozens of WC students have taken the first step to ensure their successful post-graduate careers. Don’t you think it’s time you should too? Join the real world. Join SIFE.
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Cuts in welfare spending look inevitable whoever wins the next Election. Neither Government nor Opposition, however, has spelt out a vision of what comes after the ‘Welfare State’. A ‘welfare society’ – in which public agencies act more often as catalysts and enablers rather than, automatically, as providers of state dole – might be an alternative. But who’s going to have the courage to commit?
Last month we published the welfare dependency map of the West Midlands showing the percentage of families dependent on out of work benefits (including incapacity benefit) in each parliamentary constituency. Here’s the equivalent map for parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester:
RED more than 25% of adults dependent on out of work benefits including incapacity benefit
DARK PINK more than 20% dependent
MID PINK more than 15% dependent
PINK more than 10% dependent
These figures are constituency wide, ie they are the average level across a population of about 100,000 people. Within each constituency there may be very marked variations in the level of welfare dependency between neighbourhoods and within communities that share neighbourhoods. | <urn:uuid:8f6b3d11-072d-4f81-8773-6cf176d1d13d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chamberlainforum.org/?p=768 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943498 | 234 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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The Pro Arte Piano Quartet was made up of leading London-based instrumentalists, many of whom also played in the Melos Ensemble of London. Pianist Lamar Crowson was, and remains, one of the great chamber music pianists of all time (and a soloist in his own right). Kenneth Sillito led, for several years, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Terence Weil was principal cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra and, like viola player Cecil Aronowitz, a founding member of the Melos Ensemble. Together they made three records for L’Oiseau-Lyre, the Decca subsidiary and they are all now issued on Decca Eloquence from Australia.
Mozart’s two piano quartets constitute two of the most important works in this genre. The first, in G minor, is full of anguish and passion, while the second, in E flat, conjures up the gentler, more romantic side of the composer’s nature – dreaminess, but with more than a touch of nobility.
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Literacy consultants at
the California State Library (CSL) have found strong evidence showing that
radio can help adults to learn to speak, read, and write English. This was the
conclusion of a two-year program that encouraged Spanish-speaking adults in a
rural area to listen to special radio programming designed to help them
acquire language skills in English.
County Free Library and the San
Rafael Public Library set up the program, Radio Works!, in rural
Marin County in 1999, working with 57 Spanish-speaking adults who wanted to
improve their skills in English. Specifically, Radio Works! was designed to
help them in dealing with situations requiring communication in English:
calling 911, taking a job interview, reading aloud to children, meeting a
child’s teacher, purchasing a car, describing symptoms to a doctor, and
other situations in which clear communication is vital. The program operated
on funds provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), federal
legislation that provides funding for testing and establishing library
programs and services.
Almost four years after
the program in Marin County ended, consultants at the CSL decided to evaluate
its long-term results. What they found, according to Carla Lehn, a CSL
consultant, was that Radio Works! had changed people’s lives in
measurable ways. In fact, the results astounded many in the literacy field.
returned to Marin County to survey participants in the bilingual program, they
found that 33 of the original 57 participants were still living in the area.
They were able to conduct interviews with 21 of these with the following
- 100 percent have
enrolled in library literacy programs.
- 95 percent have
checked out books for themselves from the library.
- 70 percent said that
the program had helped them to communicate with their employers.
- 85 percent engage in
pre-literacy activities with their children.
- 70 percent attend
Story Time at the library with their small children.
- Two are studying for
- Two have been
employed in their first jobs.
- Two have found better
- Three are taking
- Two purchased homes
for the first time.
These findings are
powerful evidence that Radio Works! was an effective program for
delivering literacy services to people in rural areas. During the two-year
program, from 1999 through 2001, KWMR FM in
Marin County made regular weekly broadcasts in Spanish and English.
Participants were given workbooks in which they could follow the dialog on the
radio. Each segment offered a dramatized “novella” about a situation that
could prove difficult for a person who could not speak or read English, such
as purchasing a car or talking to a doctor or interviewing for a job.
Radio Works! was
the first LSTA-sponsored program in California that was designated an Outcomes
Measures project, designed to provide data on measurable changes in
behavior resulting from a government-funded program. In the case of Radio
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Skip to comments.Meteor streaks across the (Midwest)region's sky (Video too!)
Posted on 04/15/2010 8:44:12 AM PDT by MplsSteve
A meteor (as far as anyone knows) provided a brilliant and entertaining light show across the Upper Midwest Wednesday night.
Just after 10 p.m., 911 call centers began to light up across at least six states, including Minnesota, as a bright light flashed across the sky from west to east.
The National Weather Service confirmed countless anecdotal accounts of the meteor late Wednesday, reporting that "a fireball or very bright meteor was observed streaking across the sky. The fireball was seen over the northern sky, moving from west to east. Well before it reached the horizon, it broke up into smaller pieces and was lost from sight."
In Davenport, Iowa, Weather service meteorologist Mike Zenner said staff members "could see it from the office and saw the explosion as it came down. You could see the smoke trail over by Dubuque.
"The sonic boom was really loud, lasted at least 30 seconds. It looked like it was coming out of southern Minnesota, heading to the east or southeast."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
There is a brief vide clip on this link. Please do not watch the entire clip - unless you're deeply interested in what Twin Cities weather will be like today.
Are there any Freepers out there who saw this? Comments or opinions - anyone?
Wow! Now thats a BFM!
WHY do people call 911 when they see a ‘bright streak’? WHAT is their emergency?
Call the radio station perhaps; but emergency services?
Video of the big light taken in downtown Milwaukee.
Looking at the video from Milwaukee, they may have thought it was an aircraft crashing
Because it’s been proven that 50% of the people in this country are idiots.
I believe it was closer to 52% about 18 months ago...
Have you seen this video? It was much more than a “bright streak”. Looked like a gigantic ball of fire.
To provide data on the extent of the view area?
A lot can be derived from the pattern of reporting, it might help emergency services arrive at a crash site earlier, by getting them headed in the general direction before the location is pinpointed.
Personal example, I knew with a fair degree of accuracy the epicenter of the Northridge quake before it was even reported.
An in-law called and let us know there had been a major quake, 10 seconds. I called several relatives in the area, maybe 10-15 seconds each, found that the phone system was down in a donut hole surrounding relatives that live a mile from the epicenter.
Just as the ‘quake was being reported, I already knew where emergency responders needed to focus. I’m sure they did too, but...
In a few minute we knew who was OK and who to worry about.
(Side note, their kid slept through the quake. In the top bunk. Go figure!)
Yeah, what looks like a crashing plane is no where near the emergency that cold french fires are.
I saw something that looked like a crashing plane when I was a kid. It was at dusk, and there was a fireball just like in the video. We ran and told our folks. Found out later that it was a meteor just like this, and it was 2 states away from us!
-here near Platteville, Wisconsin, it rattled the windows and indeed the sound lasted for at least thirty seconds—10:08 pm when I looked at my watch-—
The Meteor Men gotta head there to look for it. That show is so much fun.
The next time I see a flaming ball of fire streak across the night sky, I’m gonna call the Police ASAP.
Maybe there will still be time to get those people out of that flaming airplane.
Yeah. No one on the ground has ever been injured by a plane crash.
No plane crash has ever started a fire, either.
I agree and they’ve found enough to buy some excellent equipment. Reminds me of the impact site I found when bird hunting but have not been able to find since.
I think most people are smart enough to discern the difference between a plane going down and a ball of fire streaking across the atmosphere at 45 miles per second.
But then again, over 50% of them voted for Obama, so there goes that theory ....
That sure appeared to be slow moving for a meteor.
Not if they’re texting, drinking, smoking and driving on the way home.
Nor are people inside their houses going to be able to discern.
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“I’m so proud of this (facility),” said St. Clair County Commission Chairman Stan Batemon. “This is a shining star, not only for St. Clair County, but for the region. Our next focus is selling the water to help make this plant run the most efficient.”
Officials said the surface water treatment plant, which opened about one year ago, is producing up to about 3 mgd (millions of gallons of water per day) of water, but the plant is capable of producing double that amount, 6 million gallons per day. Officials said once the plant is producing 6 mgd, the cost of the reliable source of water would be cut in half and more economically feasible for all users.
“It is a state-of-the-art plant,” said Rick Ailiff, president of ClearWater Solutions, which handles the day-to-day operation of the plant. “This plant probably has the best water quality I’ve seen in my entire career.”
The plant was a joint venture between the St. Clair County Commission, Pell City, Springville and Odenville.
Officials want other water authorities and municipalities in St. Clair County to purchase water from the Coosa Valley Water Supply District, to help drive the cost of quality surface water for all users down.
“This facility is yours,” said St. Clair County Commissioner Paul Manning. “This facility is for the future and for today. Something we all have to have is water.”
Officials said unlike underground wells, the surface water treatment facility provides a reliable source of water.
Officials said wells can become contaminated overnight or dry up, and the need for water is especially high when there is a drought, which actually sparked the construction of the facility.
“We’ve seen so many dry holes and droughts,” Manning said.
Batemon said he hopes local water authorities will quit digging costly, unreliable wells, and tap onto the new, reliable source of water that the Coosa Valley Water Supply District plant can provide.
“The longer this plant runs, the more valuable it will become,” Batemon said.
He said the water produced at the plant could not only supply water for those inside St. Clair County, but outside the county as well.
Tommy Bowers, chairman of the St. Clair County Economic Development Council, said the water treatment plant is good for business and the local economy.
“This plant will be big, as far as economic development,” Bowers said. “It will help us make the cut on a lot of projects.”
Batemon said officials hope to sell ever drop of water that the plant can produce, and officials have already secured permits to withdraw up to 12 mgd of water from the Coosa River.
“This plant is here, and it will be here when we’re all dead and gone,” Batemon said.
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
My, how you've changed, Big Brother. What happened to the sourpuss in "1984," George Orwell's grim novel about a thought-controlled future? Gone are the piercing eyes and the perennial threat: "Big Brother is Watching."
You've had quite the fashion update. I like how you dress in T-shirts and sweats, just like the proles. I like your boyish grin. No longer a tyrant without a name, you're now Facebook's founder and supreme leader, Mark Zuckerberg.
The old Big Brother sought to conquer and oppress. You exude benevolence as you explain in perfect Facespeak: "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission -- to make the world more open and connected."
Stock analysts are valuing Facebook as high as $100 billion. That would make your social media company worth more than Caterpillar, Ford or Kraft Foods. The interesting part is that you have absolutely nothing to sell except information about your members.
To justify such a lofty price, Facebook will have to rake in a lot more than the $1 a member it now collects. How will you do that, Big Brother? By finding new ways to extract information from members and sell their digital rap sheets to marketers and other interested parties.
But how will you ramp up the surveillance level? You already know our Facebook conversations, our friends' identities, links we share and the things we "like." If we should change our relationship status to "engaged," you sell that information to wedding photographers who beam ads at us. If we use your service to visit other sites on the web, you know what we did there. Naturally, you know where we live. You know our age, gender, diseases and perhaps fascination with certain porn stars.
The danger for the empire is a mass uprising against being watched. A competing enterprise could offer users shelter from your gaze. Of course, only the oldest among us recall the misty past when personal information was stored in metal cabinets with locks on them. And many may enjoy hitting the "like" button on a post about Kanye West, then having an ad for an upcoming Kanye West concert appear on their page.
The rumblings of resistance, however, are unmistakable.
Facebook recently settled with the Federal Trade Commission over changes it made to its privacy settings without obtaining users' consent. They would have put our pictures, hometown, friends list and other information in the public eye. This upset some of us. But you patiently explained that the changes offered a "simpler model for privacy control."
Variations on the word "simple" can be Facespeak for compromising one's privacy in return for convenience. As Google recently wrote to users, "We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read."
Members of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee looked into this simplification and didn't quite enjoy the vibe. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, complained that Google "danced" around the details while going on and on about its efforts to "enhance the user experience."
Collectors of our data like talking about "people," "power" and "sharing." As Big Brother Zuckerberg wrote, "By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
But while transparency might be a plus in corporate financial statements and government programs -- and reports on what's really happening on the streets of Damascus -- must it be applied to bra size?
Friends, time for full disclosure. Yes, I'm on Facebook. And yes, I'm this
far from deleting my account. Big Brother, I know you're watching and hope you'd let me.
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BuildOffsite Delegation Answers the Call
BuildOffsite (www.buildoffsite.com), the leading global organization of allied professionals for modern methods of construction, was recently asked to visit India on a knowledge sharing expedition. The reason for the trip was to meet with academic, industry and government leaders to assist in finding solutions to the challenge of housing the world’s second largest and fast growing population.
James B. Guthrie, AIA, President of Miletus Group, Inc. was asked to join the small and prestigious problem solving delegation which also included allied professionals from India, New Zealand and Great Britain.
Pressure is Building
India is challenged by both the current size of its population, now over 1.2 billon, and its substantial projected population growth. 65% of India’s population is under 35 years old. While China is currently the largest country in terms of population, India is a close second and growing at a faster pace than China. Projections indicate that India’s population will surpass China by 2030. In addition to the overall growth of the population, the country is also rapidly changing from rural to urban based. While India is already the densest country in the world, currently only 31% of the population live in urban areas. As this shift continues there will be greater and greater pressure on building and supporting infrastructure in urban areas. Massive amounts of green field sites are being consumed to accommodate expanding urban lands.
Current estimates indicate that India has an existing housing shortage of over 18 million dwelling units at every income level. With the upcoming population growth and urban migration, this number is expected to become even more staggering over the coming years. India is in the midst of a very real housing and building crisis of unimaginable proportions and stands in a unique place in the world.
Population and Growth Rates 2012 – Three Largest Countries
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What this all means is that India needs a lot of new buildings and they need them quickly. Along with homes, other buildings like schools, hospitals, police stations, and stores are also needed to support the growing population. This huge demand has been creating substantial pressure on the existing construction supply chain, which still uses fairly traditional building methods. As a result, there is simply not enough skilled labor or production facilities to keep up with the demand.
BuildOffsite Called to Help
Fortunately, India’s leaders understand the dilemma and are seeking solutions to it. Thanks to forward thinkers and organizations like BuildOffsite, word has been spreading around the world that offsite methods of construction can deliver buildings more efficiently and of greater quality than traditional building methods. India sees prefabrication as a major way forward in their construction industry. Miletus Group was there to join in the solution based conversations and to promote the idea of not just fast building, but quality building including achieving social, architectural and sustainability goals.
While rapid population growth can tend to focus discussions on expediency, cost and logistics, this can spell social disaster if cultural history and social norms are forgotten in the process. India, especially, has a long and impressive cultural tradition of building magnificent buildings, most notably displayed in the elegant Taj Mahal. Over 350 years old, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful now as the day it was completed. This is due to the obsession with quality that its builders had, and is a good lesson that should not be forgotten in today’s climate of need. Architecture feeds the soul of a nation and provides future inspiration through generations of thoughtful predecessors. Factory made ‘ticky-tacky little boxes’ may provide a temporary fix, but good design, no matter how humble, will add permanency and pride to an enduring built environment. Architects must be a part of the solution and the transformation from traditional to modern methods of construction.
The Future is Now
India is a place of action. Changes to the building industry are occurring right now. Prefabricated techniques are being used in the way of precast concrete buildings. The systems are however, still a bit rough and rely on traditional onsite skills used in an offsite location. Coming soon, though are more modern offsite factories and methods that use lighter and faster framing and more sustainable building practices.
The positive energy expressed by the Indian hosts of the BuildOffsite delegation was palatable. They are ready to implement big ideas at big scales. It is not too big a stretch to imagine India, in just a few years, as the world leader in offsite construction. Miletus Group is proud and excited to have been a part of these early talks. We also look forward to being a part of the growth that is India’s present and future life.
* Demographic information from various governmental websites.
Below is the next post, number 4, in the continuing series of prefab/modular Q&A asked by Norman Gray, a graduate student at the New School of Architecture and Design in San Diego, CA and answered by James B. Guthrie, AIA, President of Miletus Group, Inc.
How do you think increasing populations and decreasing jobs will effect construction and what role will prefab play in this environment? World Populations: 1938 2 Billion, 2006 6.5 Billion, 2030 8.3 Billion.
This is an interesting question. I think that if you look at China and India right now you will see two countries that are experiencing a great deal of population growth pressure. In these countries, you can already see some of the answers that occur in these kinds of resource stressing situations. Because of the prefab benefit of speed to occupancy, both China and India are becoming bigger and bigger proponents of prefab construction. They are already implementing these methods at a greater pace than most other countries. They have learned that when the complete supply chain is in place, prefabrication can be used to turn out a great deal of building square footage very fast.
While quick building does move toward ‘solving’ the problem of housing shortages, it is typically being done with generic buildings, not architecture. Unfortunately, just creating housing rapidly means there will be a lack of consideration for how people live and how that housing works within a cultural context. This will naturally lead to significant social problems down the road. This is, though, not a problem caused by prefabrication, but prefab may wind up taking the blame. The problem, at its root, is caused by societies reacting to the past and not planning or designing for the future. This is one reason I am such an advocate for architects becoming more knowledgeable about prefabrication. If architects do not, good design will be ignored for speed. In the end, nothing good will come from that.
Where is the architecture?
- Video of 15 story Chinese hotel built in 6 days:
- Video of 30 story Chinese hotel built in 15 days:
Related link: http://www.newschoolarch.edu
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Below is the next post, number 3, in the continuing series of prefab/modular Q&A asked by Norman Gray, a graduate student at the New School of Architecture and Design in San Diego, CA and answered by James B. Guthrie, AIA, President of Miletus Group, Inc.
Is there a minimum size for a project to make prefab economically viable?
No. Prefab is a generic concept that has been used to make buildings as small as garden sheds (1 small module) and as large as a 24 story apartment building (500+ large modules). Viability is determined by all the factors that go into making the building, including understanding the supply chain that produces the factory made components and the efficiencies inherent in that chain.
In the case of the garden shed, the sheds are standard designs produced by the hundreds, if not thousands. In the case of the 24 story building, the resulting building is a single architectural structure. One commonality that lead to the economic success in both examples is the use of repetition where repetition made sense. In the case of the garden shed, repetition is probably obvious as each shed is a copy of a singular design. In the example of the 25 story building, the architect cleverly exploited repetition in the layout of the apartments so that very few unique modules were used yet an overall creative architectural solution was achieved.
The fundamental lesson of economic viability here is that if you want to use prefab for a small building, make many replicas of the same building. If you want to use prefab for a large building, make it from many similar components.
Related link: http://www.newschoolarch.edu
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We return to our feature, “Architectural Blogs of Note.” If you have an architectural blog you feel is noteworthy – please feel free to share the link by adding it to the comments area below. These blogs are selected for their quality and contribution to the online architectural knowledge base. As architects and bloggers we have a responsibility to continuously evolve our profession through smart and vibrant discussions, education, and involvement. We hope you enjoy our blog selections.
A456 offers postings about architecture and design-based ideas across a variety of disciplines. Author Enrique Ramirez is a PhD candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, and is a 2007 graduate of the Master of Environmental Design program at the Yale School of Architecture.
Urban Planning Blog
Pratik Mhatre (Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science, Masters Degree in Public Policy and an undergraduate degree in Architecture) provides his thoughts on urban planning and design. He is deeply interested in the relationship of public policy and the built environment; especially the intersection of public health policies and their impact on socio-economic characteristics of the neighborhood/community.
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, author of the Digital Urban Blog with 5200 daily readers, has been at the forefront of developing digital geographical technologies that support design professionals working in the built environment. He is the Director and Deputy Chair of CASA, Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet Journal, an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Course Founder and Director of the MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization at University College London.
New to our blog this week is a feature that we will return to on a regular basis called, “Architectural Blogs of Note.” If you have an architectural blog you feel is noteworthy – please feel free to share the link by adding it to the comments area below. These blogs are selected for their quality and contribution to the online architectural knowledge base. As architects and bloggers we have a responsibility to continuously evolve our profession through smart and vibrant discussions, education, and involvement. We hope you enjoy our blog selections.
ARCHITECTURE BUZZ offers select architecture works from around the globe. Tanakorn Koomrampai, CEO of Ergo Architect in Thailand is Managing Editor of the site and provides detailed photography, facts, and thoughtful overviews of architectural sites, award winning designs, and technology.
iModernHome features beautiful photography of contemporary homes, furniture, toys, and more. The site is clean and easy to navigate with succinct overviews of the featured designs.
+Mood is an online resource for all things relating to contemporary architecture and design. The site reviews a wide variety of projects and products well organized by category and industry served.
Inhabitat.com is devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices, and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Founded by NYC designer Jill Fehrenbacher as a forum for investigating emerging trends in product, interior, and architectural design.
BLDG BLOG is devoted to “architectural conjecture, urban speculation, and landscape futures.” Essayist Geoff Manaugh explores design, art, and culture with an intellectual edge.
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Finland building professionals are on the leading edge in advancing integrated building processes and teams.
The Finnish software company Tekla is pushing the limits on their BIM (building information modeling) software. Tekla’s software was originally intended for engineers so that they could improve their structural analysis, but as it developed it became a full-fledged BIM. Today contractors are also using it with the objective of planning and implementing efficient building processes. In Finland, though, they have taken yet another big step in bringing BIM into the complete integrated building process, which now includes the building materials supply chain.
James Guthrie, President of Miletus Group, Inc., was recently invited to Finland by BuildOffSite (UK) and Tekla to attend a series of seminars and field trips focusing on BIM and offsite construction there. The seminars were designed to show the state of the art in moving from BIM to BIM + Management (BIMM) and BIMM + Production (BIMMP). Tekla has been working closely with some of Finland’s principle engineers, contractors and the building material suppliers to advance greater accuracy and quality in construction through integrated approaches in design, engineering, building product development, on site construction and, soon to come, subsequent facility management.
Neither Tekla’s software nor the Finnish building teams have reached that full ideal yet, but the advances witnessed are impressive and very hopeful. The days of full implementation are not very far away.
Many architects and contractors are becoming familiar with the usefulness of BIM for providing sophisticated pre-building design and analysis, which leads to a more efficient and error free construction process. That, however, is just the beginning of where modern methods of construction are going.
During the seminars and tours, Finnish building teams demonstrated how they are integrating the total building process. Of particular note was the principle structural supplier Peikko. Peikko is supplying all of the vertical and horizontal structural components of a new 300,000 square foot shopping center now being built in Lahti, Finland.
Piekko has developed a clever integrated (steel & concrete) construction system that allows for a high degree of consistency in cross section sizing, and thus simple design consideration for length with a wide variant in strength capacity. Working with Tekla, they have also developed modeling components for the BIM environment. This means that they have essentially developed a building structural system that is virtually and actually prefabricated and componentized. This system ties the entire building process together, from first design idea through to construction. Using their system, the Tekla BIM model is easy to apply, production and construction are fast and accurate, and the end result quality is very high.
The progress being made in Finland is the promise of future efficiencies in modular and other prefabricated building systems. When a designer has flexible building systems built into their processes, and can be assured that the final building outcome will be as designed and of a high quality, prefabrication will truly become a critical part of the architectural tool kit. After generations of inefficient site built methods, this new comprehensive offsite thinking and full team integration is huge.
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Built as an apartment complex for students at the University of Wolverhampton, Victoria Hall consists of four buildings, and is a substantial architectural solution to urban housing and tight building sites in this historic English town, about 110 miles northwest of London. The tallest building of the group is of particular note because, at 25 stories, it now holds the record for overall height and number of stories in a building constructed principally off-site. The ground floor is site-built, but the other 24 stories are assembled from 383 individual modules built several hundred miles away across land and sea in Cork, Ireland.
Challenged with the multiple pressures of speed, quality, and scale, the project team investigated alternative methods of project delivery. Vision Modular Structures, a division of The Fleming Group, entered the picture. The Fleming Group is a general contractor, Vision is their modular building division. Fleming/Vision, which has completed several other modular projects in their native Ireland, was contracted to build both the modules and the site-built components. Fleming also provided general construction management.
Considering that the demands of this project in general were substantial and that this project is the first time many on the project team had worked with modular methods, it is interesting to know that when asked if they would do it again, the common response is “absolutely.”
“In spite of this being a new method for most team members, the project went smoothly, quickly, stayed on budget, maintained our quality objectives and architectural integrity, and will actually be done ahead of our originally aggressive schedule, ” says Jenny Hayes, RIBA, O’Connell East’s project architect on Victoria Hall.
It is hard to argue with that.
For the full article, click here.
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On Nov. 14th, Israel embarked on Operation Pillar of Defense. The main purpose of the operation has been to restore security to the civilian population in Israel by putting an end to the terror attacks it has withstood.
For many months, nearly 1.5 million Israelis in the southern part of the country have endured daily missile attacks from Gaza. Families have been conducting their day-to-day lives either in a bomb shelter, or 15 seconds away from one (15 seconds is the time it takes for a missile fired from Gaza to hit an urban center in Israel). My own parents, who live in Tel Aviv, have spent long hours in bomb shelters since mid November. In the first five days since the conflict intensified, nearly 1,000 rockets have landed in Israel, an average of 14 per hour. Beyond the southern parts of Israel, the country’s largest metropolitan areas also have been targeted, including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheva and Ashkelon, placing over half of Israel’s population at risk.
The equivalent of rockets raining down on Tel Aviv would be attacks on a city the size of Philadelphia. Imagine a daily routine of air raid sirens driving the population of Center City to bomb shelters.
No country would tolerate such an unbearable situation for more than five minutes. Bu Israel has — ever since it evacuated Gaza in 2005. Israel has shown unusual restraint, affording Hamas every opportunity to back down and cease its hostility. It chose not to. Instead, Hamas deliberately escalated the situation to the point where Israel was left with no other choice but to exercise its right to defend itself.
During the operation, Israel has continued exercising restraint, taking extraordinary measures to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties in Gaza.
More often than not the Israel Defense Forces chose to abort a mission to take out rocket launchers and missile stockpiles if there was even a slight chance of uninvolved civilians.
In addition, Israel has been making every effort to maintain the fabric of civilian life in Gaza: Crossings to Gaza are open for passage of food, medical supplies and other goods from Israel, despite previous attacks of Hamas on the crossings themselves. Israel continues to supply 5 million cubic meters of water into Gaza, as well as 125 megawatts of electricity from the power station in the city of Ashkelon. That’s right — the same Ashkelon which is under constant attack from Gaza. As a result of these efforts, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency recently reported that “there hasn’t been any need to provide emergency humanitarian assistance” to Gaza.
The situation that Hamas has created is unfortunate not only for Israelis, but also for civilians in Gaza. Hamas, which controls Gaza, is a terrorist organization according to U.S and European standards. It is more interested in terrorizing Israel than directing its resources and energies toward improving the lives of its own population.
Fortunately, in the United States, this reality is recognized and understood for what it is. During this operation, my colleagues and I have been approached by elected officials, community leaders and religious leaders. We have heard nothing but staunch support for Israel’s right to defend itself and condemnation of the terror emanating from Gaza.
The support Israel receives from the United States is not only in words but also in kind. The Iron Dome missile defense system, which has had a success rate of over 85 percent in intercepting incoming missiles from Gaza, is largely funded by America, thanks to the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration.
This vast support illustrates the deep friendship and unshakable bond between our two nations. It is also a great source of strength and encouragement for Israel’s population.
It is important that the broad support for Israel is sustained. I thank you for your dedication, for your commitment and for raising your voice in support of the state of Israel and the Israel-U.S. relationship during these challenging times.
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COLUMN: Let's invest in "OUR Oklahoma"
There are many ways for Oklahomans to influence policy. Here’s a way to do so in about 15 minutes.
X-Out Exclusion! Inc., a Tulsa non-profit organization working to stimulate economic advantage through change and diversity, seeks to encourage economic and social stability through inclusion and multiculturalism. A new survey facilitated by the OUR Oklahoma campaign — X-Out Exclusion's flagship project — seeks to gauge Oklahoman's views and perceptions on diversity and inclusion within the state.
The anonymous survey asks questions pertaining to equal opportunity employment and diversity in the form of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and disability.
The survey, which began April 1 and will end December 31, will be a template for a plan of action that will increase awareness about diversity and inclusion as a strategy to further the economy, according to X-Out Exclusion's website.
To date, about 600 respondents have taken the OUR Oklahoma survey. According to Alaina Jones, public outreach director for X-Out Exclusion, college students are important respondents because of their fresh perspective. “We really want to make sure schools are involved in the survey — that’s where the future really is in Oklahoma,” Jones said.
Jones said students have a key role in addressing diversity because they are the incoming work force and voters.
The survey and non-profit is backed by an impressive board of advisors, including but not limited to former Governor Brad Henry, Jari Askins, former lieutenant governor and the associate provost of external relations for OU, Secretary of Veteran Affairs Rita Aragon, OSU-OKC President Natalie Shirley and Sheryl Lovelady, CEO of Lovelady and Associates and former director of Women's Leadership Initiative.
Quite simply, diversity has begun to pervade our culture: the Hispanic population is now the largest minority in the U.S., numbering 52 million and Latinos are now the largest minority on college campuses.
Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities accounted for 50.4 percent of births in 2011, according to the Census Bureau. Further, census data project that by 2030, four of every 10 Americans will identify themselves as a member of a racial or ethnic minority group. Clearly, employers need to be cognizant of the changing demographics and administer their workplace accordingly.
Though the U.S. is a statistically heterogeneous and diverse "tossed salad," Oklahoma can do better. The 2011 University of Oklahoma student population was more than 62 percent white, according to the OU Factbook. Just ten years ago, though, OU's student population was more than 71 percent white. Oklahoma is making gains, but to continue to succeed, the university and the state cannot loose sight of the larger picture: minorities are quickly becoming the majority and equal representation is vital on all fronts.
OU should most accurately represent an innovative community. With access to top-notch professors, scholars, programs and research, let’s create a top-notch community.
Becoming engaged in policy and communicating with decisionmakers is one way to craft such a community.
Multicultural associations should not be novelties and the majority of the student population should not have to study abroad to experience various cultures. For example, is it fair to boast of a Hispanic American Student Association when only five percent of OU is listed as Hispanic?
Invest in Oklahoma's future — and your own — by taking the OUR Oklahoma survey.
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Usually, Close of Business is our video series, which delivers you the day's top news in two quick minutes. With Alexis off for the day and in New York, though, I'm going to quickly summarize the biggest stories of the day using the old-fashioned method.
-- Today marks the 20th anniversary of the day that Tim Berners-Lee proposed the web. A British engineer and computer scientist, Berners-Lee still serves as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which is charged with overseeing the continued development of the web. You can read his complete "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project" here. The Abstract:
HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. Potentially, HyperText provides a single user-interface to many large classes of stored information such as reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line systems help. We propose the implementation of a simple scheme to incorporate several different servers of machine-stored information already available at CERN, including an analysis of the requirements for information access needs by experiments.
-- On Monday, Facebook is holding a press event on their San Francisco campus. It's expected that the social networking site will announce a new mail service integrated into the site that has been called, repeatedly, a "Gmail Killer." "Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client," according to TechCrunch. Nicknamed "Project Titan," the Facebook team has been working on the new roll-out for months. In related news, it was announced that Paul Buchheit, the man credited with coining Google's "Don't be evil" motto and the father of Gmail, is leaving Facebook, where he has worked for the past year, to join Y Combinator.
-- Every minute of every day, YouTube users upload an average of 35 hours of new content to the streaming video site. The YouTube team is aiming to bump that rate up to 48 hours every minute, which would mark 100% growth since March 2010. Read the full story at InformationWeek.
And that's your Close of Business. We'll be back with more on Monday.
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Winchester, Benjamin. "The Location of Zion or The New Jerusalem." The Gospel Reflector (Philadelphia) 1, no. 8 (15 April 1841): 213-17.
THE LOCATION OF ZION OR THE NEW JERUSALEM.
THE location of Zion or the New Jerusalem, is certainly a subject of importance, and well worth a candid investigation: for it is one that interested the prophets, and much the more it ought to interest every true believer of this remote age of the world; for according to the prophets it will be a place of refuge, and deliverance for the people of God when destruction comes upon the nations. Again, the Lord not only intends to gather all his people together in the last days, but he intends to prepare places for them to gather to. The city of Zion is said to be one of these places of gathering; therefore, it is of all importance that we should know where it will be located or established. That there will be a city called Zion or the New Jerusalem, built, beautified, and prepared for the millennium is evident from all the prophets that have mentioned the work of God of the last days. We have in a brief manner touched upon this subject before; but the magnitude and importance of it is such, that we think that justice to it, requires us to give it a more extensive investigation. That there was a Zion established at Jerusalem we do not wish to deny; but that has nothing to do with the one for the millennium. However, because some are unable to separate, or distinguish it from the one for the Millennium, we will first show the difference between the two, and then proceed to examine the prophets with respect to the place of the location of the latter. This Zion at Jerusalem was sometimes called the upper city, and it was detached from Jerusalem proper by a wall. Historians say that Jerusalem was founded by Melchizedeck, then called Salem. Paul says Melchizedek was king of Salem. (See Heb. vii. 2.) Subsequently it was called Jerusalem; but whether or not Zion was founded by Melchizedek is not easy for us to determine; but one thing is certain, it was in existence in the days of David; for when he took Jerusalem from the Jebusites, it is said that he "took a strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David."--2 Sam. v. 7. Many places in the inspired writings where Zion is mentioned, refer to this Zion at Jerusalem. Isaiah speaking of this Zion says: "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem.".Isa. xxx. 19. Now if Isaiah had no idea of any other Zion; than the one at Jerusalem, why did he use the preposition at, as though there was another city called by the same name? Indeed, he knew that the Lord would cause to be built another city of Zion, which should be a place of deliverance in the last days, which he saw in the vision established upon this land [America]; therefore, he used the preposition, "Zion at Jerusalem," to designate the difference between it and the one of the last days upon another land. But says one, if the ancients knew that God would establish another Zion for the Millennium, why did they call the one at Jerusalem by that name? This is a thing that the scriptures in a measure leave in the dark; however, there is a foundation for an opinion, which we will give whether it is correct or not. Zion is a very ancient name, and signifies the pure in heart, or the place where the pure in heart dwell; and according to recent revelations which the Lord has given to his people, there was a Zion established in the days of Enoch wherein the church of the first-born dwelt: and perhaps, Paul alludes to this Zion of Enoch when he says: "But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and into the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and the church of the first-born."--Heb. xii. 22, 23. The saints of the Antediluvian world, are the only ones that we can with propriety call the church of the first-born; but they and their Zion are in heaven; and Paul calls their Zion the city of God, and them the church of the first-born. Now it is possible that when Melchizedek, or whoever founded Zion; when arranging the various districts, and suburbs of Jerusalem, called that district, or the upper city, which was so beautiful and elevated, "Mount Zion," out of respect to a former Zion, and because of the pureness of the name; the same as many name their children after eminent men, and those whom they in a particular manner respect. After David it was called "the city of David." When Jerusalem is rebuilt, it is probable that this city of David, will also be built again; but not in fulfillment of the predictions of the prophets concerning the establishment of the latter-day Zion or the New Jerusalem; but in fulfillment of prophecy relating to the rebuilding of Jerusalem: for when it is built of course all its districts and suburbs will also be built. But we have said enough upon this part of the subject, and we hope that the reader will be able to designate the difference between the Zion which was at Jerusalem, and the one that the Lord shall cause to be built for the saints to gather to, and be a place of refuge and deliverance at the time that God will trouble the nations with his wrath. This Zion of the last days, we believe will be located on the land of America; and indeed, the prophets have said enough to establish this idea. David says: "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the North, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge." "As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever."--Ps. xlviii. 2.8. David evidently saw the situation of Zion, which he says is beautiful, at some other place besides Jerusalem, or he would not have said that it was on the sides of the North. Match this saying with what Isaiah says in the xviii,. of his prophecy, concerning a land [America] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, and we learn: first, as Isaiah says, that this is the land where the Lord's ensign of the last days was to be reared, and from whence the ambassadors of the Lord are to be sent to all nations, and where "the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion" shall be established, to which the servants of God, or swift messengers to the nations shall bring a present unto the Lord of a people terrible from their beginning. This proves that Zion is to be located in America. Second, that, according to David, it is to be on the sides of the North; consequently, on North America. David says in another place: "I will not give sleep to my eyes nor slumber to mine eyelids until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. Lo, we heard of it at Ephrata; we found it in the fields of the wood." "For the Lord hath chosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation."--Ps. cxxxii. 4.13. It cannot be said in truth that Jerusalem was in the fields of the wood in David's time; therefore, we conclude that he had reference to some other place besides Jerusalem. Indeed, the interior of North America is interspersed with the fields of the woods, or in other words fields in the midst of the wilderness. Isaiah says: "Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation." . We have before entered into a full investigation of this chapter; therefore, we do not deem it necessary to make any more comment upon it. (See page 182.) We have before proved the Book of Mormon to be true; therefore, whatever it says upon this subject we consider as valid testimony. Moroni writing the words of Ether says, page 550. "Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land; and he spake also concerning the House of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come; after it be destroyed, it should be built up again a holy city unto the Lord; wherefore it could not be a New Jerusalem, for it had been in a time of old, but it should be built up again and become a holy city of the Lord: and should be built up unto the House of Israel; and that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph, for which things there has been a type: for as Joseph brought his father down into the land of Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem that he mtght be merciful unto the seed of Joseph, that they should perish not, even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph, that he should perish not; wherefore the remnant of the House of Joseph shall be built upon this land; and it shall be a land of their inheritance; and they shall build up a holy city unto the Lord, like unto the Jerusalem of old; and they shall no more be confounded, until the end come, when the earth shall pass away." As we have before mentioned the prophets have declared that there shall be deliverance for the saints in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; therefore, when we take all things into consideration, we discover that it is perfectly consistent with reason and the scriptures, for Zion to be built upon this continent: for this is a promised land to the tribe of Joseph, as much so as Canaan to the House of Israel. For instance, the Lord will establish a place of gathering upon this land, near the centre of the North division of the continent, which will be convenient for the House of Joseph that is upon this land to gather to, and also, for many of the saints that are now scattered among the Gentile nations. And also he will cause the old city of Jerusalem to be rebuilt, and the Jews to gather there. Thus there will be two central places of gathering, and deliverance. Zion, and Jerusalem, when spoken of as being the two great places of deliverance, are not synonymous: for Jerusalem and its suburbs when spoken of at a distance are all ranked under the one head; but the prophets speak of Zion as being established, and having stakes, or auxiliary cities. The city of David or Zion at Jerusalem was merely an auxiliary and not the principal. Isaiah places this matter beyond doubt, that Zion and Jerusalem are not synonymous; but on two separate lands. "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof, as a lamp that burneth. And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken: neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Bulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married." It is said, Gen. x. 25, that in the days of Peleg the earth (not nations) was divided; it is also said, Gen. i. 9, that the waters were gathered together unto one place at the time of the creation; and of course the land was in one place; but it is manifest that there has been a great division, so much so that the earth has been divided into continents, which the bible says was done in the days of Peleg; but according to the prophet Isaiah, when the time of restoration comes, then this continent upon which Zion shall be built, shall re-unite with the eastern, and thus fulfill the saying, "thy land shall be married," or Joined. But says the objector, how can there be two places of gathering if Ezekiel's words are true? "And I will make them one nation upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all." We have before proved that the land of America is a promised land to the House of Joseph;. therefore, the "mountains of Israel" are here as much so as in the land of Canaan. The idea is that the whole earth will be subjected to one form of government, and to one code of laws, and one king shall rule over them whether in America or in Asia. But the two continents are to be united, and then it will be an easy thing for them to become one nation upon the mountains (not mountain) of Israel, and at the same time the tribe of Joseph and others dwell in Zion, and its vicinity upon this land, and the Jews in the land of Canaan, and one king rule over them all. Having dropped the foregoing hints upon the location of the Zion for the Millennium, to aid the reader to designate the difference between the Zion at Jerusalem, and the one of the Latter-days:--we will now quote a few of the sayings of the prophets concerning the utility of this Zion, the materials of which it shall be built, its glory, and magnificence, &c., &c., and let that suffice for the present. . See Page 112.
|Author||Winchester, Benjamin, 1817-1901|
|Title||The Location of Zion or the New Jerusalem.|
|Abstract||Discussion of the Latter-day Saint teachings about the nature and location of the New Jerusalem.|
|Digital Publisher||Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University|
|Owning Institution||Brigham Young University|
|Subject||Book of Mormon--History;|
|Geographic Place Name||Philadelphia (Pa.);|
|Keywords||Jerusalem; Zion; New Jerusalem; millennium; Book of Mormon; Melchizedek; Mount Zion;|
|Source||The Gospel Reflector (Philadelphia) 1, no. 8 (15 April 1841) : 213-17.|
|Related Works||See HBLL Digital Collections, http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/NCMP1820-1846,6013.|
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WASHGINTON, DC – As part of the ongoing response and recovery from Hurricane Sandy, President Obama has directed the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to purchase up to 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and up to 10 million gallons of diesel fuel for distribution in areas impacted by the storm to supplement ongoing private sector efforts. This purchase will be transported by tanker trucks and distributed throughout New York, New Jersey and other communities impacted by the storm.
“FEMA is just one part of the emergency management team, a team that includes the full federal government, state, tribal, and local officials, faith-based and non-profit organizations, the private sector, and especially the public,” said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. “The entire team will continue to lean forward as we work together to respond to and recover from this disaster.”
This purchase is in addition to the emergency diesel fuel loan from the Energy Department’s Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
Follow FEMA online at www.fema.gov/blog, www.twitter.com/fema, www.facebook.com/fema, and www.youtube.com/fema. Also, follow Administrator Craig Fugate's activities at www.twitter.com/craigatfema.The social media links are provided for reference only. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies or applications.
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Math Munchers Deluxe is a simulated TV game show of math problems. The user plays the game through a creature called a Muncher. The Muncher runs across a colorful, tilted checkerboard filled with numbers, simple equations, or shapes, each of which represents a right or wrong answer to a simple question posed at the top of the board. The user must direct the Muncher to pick all of the correct answers to the question from the items on the board. Examples range from "find the factors of 3," to "find the proper fractions," or "select the prime numbers."
Not tough enough for you? The default setting of the game also allows an array of bad critters to interfere with the Muncher's work, trying to eat him! The user is given four Munchers and loses a Muncher each time a wrong answer is selected or whenever the Muncher runs into a Troggle.
Ease of Install / Use
Installation of Math Munchers on both a PC and a Mac was straightforward. Initial use of the program -- without opening the manual -- was problem-free for all of our testers.
At the beginning of the game, the user is required to pick a grade level (3-6), and a subject area (fractions, geometry, etc.) The program then provides 17+ levels of problems within each of these areas. One drawback of Math Munchers is that the user cannot switch difficulty levels within a game. Alteration of either the level or subject can only be accomplished at the start of a game. The good news? There are a lot of math problems to be solved. (Although they are all visual, rather than word problems). The really good news? Our adult reviewers could handle all of the hardest problems without embarassing themselves!
Proxy Parent Value
Math Munchers provides valuable math skills practice, and many children will want to play it because it is highly entertaining. This title scored well as an independent activity because of its simplicity, and because of parents' and teachers' belief that their kids would practice their math as they play. Unlike some other programs where the educational components are optional, solving math problems is the objective of this program.
Math Munchers covers basic math skills that kids learn from third grade to sixth grade. For at home use, Math Munchers appealed to our kid reviewers because they thought of it as a game, not homework. It will be especially appealing to children who like challenges, and are quick thinkers. For classroom use, Math Munchers is best suited for individual, or very small (2-3) group use. “Most of the kids in my class groaned when we stopped playing Math Munchers,” wrote a teacher reviewer. One important drawback to classroom use, however, is the lack of incorporated classroom management tools: it does not keep records of each student user to see how the student improves.
Math Munchers is an educational program that our kid reviewers loved to use. It makes learning basic math terms and concepts fun.
Reviews of other Math software programs.
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Carbon Management Canada CMC-NCE is a national network of academic researchers working with experts in the fossil energy industry, government, and the not-for-profit sector. Together, we are developing the technologies, the knowledge and the human capacity to radically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the fossil energy industry and other large stationary emitters.
Carbon emissions and the growing global concern about its effects present a unique opportunity for innovation and collaboration, especially in the fossil energy industry. Rapidly increasing global complexity demands robust, responsive innovation that can only develop in a highly collaborative context involving industry, scientists, policy makers, politicians and industry leaders in concert with an informed, supportive public.
Carbon Management Canada is the national body charged with harnessing the collective energy of this diverse group in order to push forward an ambitious agenda of innovation and commercialization to bring research from the lab into the world of practice.
Funding for CMC was provided through the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence ($25 million) and the Province of Alberta through Alberta Environment ($25 million). Industry has also provided $5.7 million in contributions.
The Network has over 160 investigators at 27 Canadian academic institutions and close to 300 graduate and postdoctoral students working on research projects. CMC currently has invested $22 million in 44 research projects.
CMC is an interdisciplinary network with scientists working in fields that range from engineering to nanotechnology to geoscience to business to political science and communications. These investigators work in 4 themes: Recovery, Processing and Capture; Enabling and Emerging Technologies; Secure Carbon Storage; and Accelerating Appropriate Deployment of Low Carbon Emission Technologies. | <urn:uuid:fb002390-f00a-4ae7-bf96-67130b71602e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.carbonmanagement.ca/about-cmc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917664 | 334 | 2.234375 | 2 |
From what I can see, you've posted a perfectly valid example of the Factory Method pattern:
- Both Device1 and Device2 inherit/implement the Device class/interface - polymorphism is still a key aspect of this example.
- You're using the Factory Method to encapsulate the logic to determine which concrete class to instantiate and return.
- The caller of the factory method remains nicely ignorant of the concrete classes involved - he just knows he gets back a Device. Which is exactly what you want a Factory Method to do for you.
It's true, the internal implementation is a little heavy-handed (switch-case). However, that doesn't make it any less of a true Factory Method pattern.
I don't really see where your example "isn't based on polymorphism" nor where it "breaks the open/closed principle". If I've missed the point entirely, feel free to update your post, to help us zero in on your question.
Now if the Factory method was taking the passed deviceName, and using it to find an exact match of the concrete class to instantiate (using reflection), that would absolutely break the Factory Method pattern, because the caller would have to have intimate knowledge of the different concrete classes. But as currently written, the passed deviceName is just a piece of data used in the decision-making process - it doesn't break the encapsulation of the factory pattern. | <urn:uuid:2e57da1f-aa7f-4760-a73a-6d0849e1e05c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397887/factory-which-breaks-open-closed-principle/6447572 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922158 | 291 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Blabbb Pyramid is an on-going collection of observations and discussions about techno communication etiquette. Blabbb Pyramid posts are not rules, per se, but rather recommendations for a “healthier” life on the Internet and beyond. Like the USDA did with its (now defunct) Food Pyramid (since replaced by the official Nutrition Plate in 2011), we at Blabbb are simply offering some advice to the blabbbing public. How you blabbb (and what food groups you eat) is entirely up to “you” (not “u”) …
After recently posting about President Obama’s “first Presidential tweet
,” we consider how politics and communication converge in our techno world. Obviously, politicians will always blabbb; after all, part (if not all) of politicians’ jobs is to talk and talk and talk some more. But what about us, the blabbbing public?
There has always been a Cardinal rule: never discuss politics and religion in casual social settings, such as “at the dinner table” or “at a cocktail party.” Well, now with social networking sites, it’s easier than ever to communicate, and we’re practically living our daily lives “at the dinner table” or “at a cocktail party.” Do our open, modern means of communication permit us to, all of a sudden, break such a Cardinal rule and blabbb about such touchy topics as politics and religion?
For example, during voting season every year, our Facebook News Feeds are saturated with friends’ personal opinions about politics and religion (as the two topics often conflict with each other). Next thing you know, we’re either (a) arguing online with one another in an uncivilized, frenzied manner, (b) hiding opinionated ”friends” from our News Feeds, or (c) making jokes about our friends blabbing about politics and religion.
So, we ask the question: Why do we blabbb online about religion and politics? We live in a diverse world, and we’re sure to be “friends” online with those that disagree with us, who are equally entitled to their own opinions. Politics and religion are two topics that people never ever universally agree on. Instead, such matters most often lead to ugly, uncivilized arguments and even violence and war. Why do we shove our opinions down each others’ Internet throats?
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In light of One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean's musical adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters being nominated for seven Tony Awards, my editor at The Arts Fuse Bill Marx has elected to repost my review of the broadcast presentation of the original run at the National Theatre:
English comedy has never shied from its roots in the Italian commedia dell’arte: Shakespeare set most of his comedies in Italy, the Mister Punch who beats the devil, the hangman, and Judy was once a Neapolitan known as Pulcinella, while the popular English form of the Harlequinade is unmistakably a nineteenth-century permutation of commedia. England’s continued preoccupation with class and the long history of southern English cities receiving groups of migrant workers from other parts of Britain, each bringing with them their own distinct dialects and culture, nurture an appetite for commedia-inspired comedy of class and ethnic stereotypes. Consequently, it is natural for playwright Richard Bean to adapt the plot of Carlo Goldoni’s classic The Servant of Two Masters from seventeenth-century Venice to the 1963 Brighton, England of One Man, Two Guvnors[....]
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blue 1 noun, adjective; blue·er, blue·est
1. a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet.
Something old, new, and borrowed? Sure. But why blue? According to the longstanding tradition, so many brides have walked down the aisle carrying tokens of blue because the color represents fidelity. And there certainly is a steadfast, unwavering quality to the shade. Blue is dependable, and eternal. Blue has been blue as long as there has been an ocean or sky.
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Nevsky Prospekt is bisected by Sadovaya (Garden) Street about halfway between the Griboedov Canal and the Fontanka River, Sadovaya traverses the whole of Savior’s Island and, since the late 18th century, has been a vital means of cross-city communication. Italian architect Carlo Rossi formed the two main architectural ensembles that give the areas around the Nevsky/Sadovaya axis their definition.
Start at (1) Michael’s (Engineers’) Castle, a uniquely mysterious palace and former college of engineering, where Dostoyevsky studied for a time. The castle was built by Tsar Paul (who was murdered shortly after construction was completed in 1801) and is now part of the Russian Museum (www.rusmuseum.ru).
Head south along tree-lined Klenovaya Street, stopping first at Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli’s baroque triumphal (2) equestrian monument to Peter the Great, which makes the tsar appear as a severe Roman emperor.
Cross the wedge-shaped Manezh Square at its thinner end and stop on the corner of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. On the left is the oversize and showy (3) Merchants’ Club House (27 Italianskaya), now the studios of the popular Channel Five TV station. On the right is (4) Count Shuvalov’s Palace, now home to the curious Museum of Hygiene (25 Italianskaya).
From the palace, head down (5) Malaya Sadovaya Street, which, with its benches, streetlamps, fountains, lilacs, and occasional buskers, has turned into a pleasant haven from the hurly-burly of Nevsky.
At this point cross over (or under) Nevsky and take a look around Ostrovsky Square, at the center of which is St. Petersburg’s only (6) monument to Catherine the Great. Behind the haughty-looking empress rises the recently reconstructed neo-classic (7) Alexandra’s Theater. To the east is the garden of the Anichkov Palace, now with fashion boutiques in its pavilions. To the west of the empress is the multicolumn Russian National Library. Around the curved corner of the Russian National Library, head south along Sadovaya Street. Glance past the railings at (8) Rastrelli’s Vorontsov Palace, now the Suvorov Military Academy (Sadovaya 26).
Cross the road and enter (9) Gostinyi Dvor (Trading Rows) at 35 Nevsky, which began life in the 1750s as a merchants’ inn and which is surrounded by four remarkably long, unadorned strings of two-tier arcades. Since the 19th century this has been St. Petersburg’s most important mall, where people promenade as much as shop.
Cross Nevsky via the underpass and on the sunny side you can visit two neoclassic churches dedicated to St Catherine: the (10) Armenian Church at no. 40 and (12) St. Catherine Church at no. 32. Between the two churches is the (11) Grand Hotel Europe. Enter through the Mikhailovskaya Street entrance to see the hotel’s art nouveau interiors.
The last building on the right down Mikhailovskaya Street at no. 2 is the former (13) Nobles’ Club, since 1921 the home of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia. Its white-column hall has superb acoustics.
Enter Arts Square (Ploshchad Iskusstv), the core of architect Carlo Rossi’s plan for this part of the city. In the center is a Soviet (14) monument to Alexander Pushkin. Beyond is the dominating (15) Mikhailovsky Palace (the Russian Museum), the greatest single collection of Russian art in the world. To the right is the (16) Russian Ethnographic Museum (Inzhenernaya 4), worthy of viewing for its insight into the peoples of Eurasian Russia.
Finish your walk with an amble through the (17) Mikhailovsky Palace Gardens located around the back of the museums. Laid out in the early 1820s you can enter from Sadovaya Street, close to where the tour began.
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This collection contains the correspondence, photographs, project files, and drawings of architect Carleton Winslow, Sr.,
who is known for his work on the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, the Los Angeles Public Library headquarters
building, as well as churches and residences in Southern California and Santa Barbara.
Carleton Monroe Winslow, Sr. was born in Damariscotta, Maine, on December 27, 1876, the son of Edwin and Clara Winslow. He
studied architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and did additional coursework at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He
married Helen Hume in New York in 1910. They had a son, Carleton Winslow, Jr., in 1919.
2 boxes, 1 flat file
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The US Government, through the Solicitor General, is participating as amicus curiae, not uncommon when a Supreme Court case involves a question of statutory interpretation. During arguments, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart started by saying:
I would like to discuss — begin by discussing our Bobbs-Merrill argument, because it’s a part of our brief that’s different from both the parties’ submissions, and I do think it’s very important to understanding the practical implications of the Court’s decision.
The Bobbs-Merrill argument that the US advanced has been described as a “middle-ground” between Kirtsaeng and Wiley’s positions, though at least a few observers have characterized it as “odd.” Many have also commented that this argument did not seem to land during arguments, being greeted by skepticism from the Justices.
The actual argument made by the US is a relatively minor one, discussed in just three paragraphs in its 31 page brief. However, I think it deserves some attention, because it may have some merit.
The Government’s Argument
Kirtsaeng involves nonpiratical copyrighted works — as opposed to infringing works — manufactured overseas. Section 602(a)(1) of the Copyright Act prohibits the “[i]mportation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside the United States.”
Petitioner Supap Kirtsaeng was sued by John Wiley & Sons under this section but argued in the lower court that the first sale doctrine, codified in 17 USC § 109, allows such conduct. Section 109(a) provides that “the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.”
The issue in front of the Supreme Court is primarily focused on the meaning of the phrase “lawfully made under this title” — Kirtsaeng argues that this means any copy that would be lawful had US law been applied (thus allowing importation of nonpiratical works manufactured overseas) while John Wiley & Sons argues that it only includes works manufactured in the US.
Virtually every court in the past 30 years has held that the first sale doctrine is not available as a defense when works manufactured overseas are imported into the US without authorization. However, Kirtsaeng has raised several concerns with this interpretation on appeal.
In its brief, the US addressed one such concern: that, if you interpret the Copyright Act to say the first sale doctrine does not allow importation of nonpiratical copies, it would also mean the first sale doctrine never applies to copies made outside the US, allowing copyright owners to control resale markets and all downstream sales.
Petitioner’s argument assumes that, if Section 109(a) is inapplicable, a copyright owner could make copies abroad, import them into the United States and sell them subject to onerous restrictions on resale, and then obtain copyright remedies from buyers who disregard those restrictions.
The US argues that this conclusion does not follow its (and John Wiley’s) interpretation of the statutes. Section 109 explicitly only applies to copies lawfully made within the US, allowing copyright owners to prohibit the importation of copies lawfully acquired overseas. But, says the US, this interpretation does not expand a copyright owner’s distribution right in other respects.
Thus, when a copyright holder has authorized goods to be imported into the United States and/or sold within this country, applying a “first sale” or “exhaustion” principle as an implicit limitation on the copyright holder’s exclusive right to “distribute” would be consistent with the current text of the Copyright Act and faithful to the doctrine’s historical underpinnings. (Emphasis added.)
To get to this point, the US relies on the 1908 Bobbs-Merrill case, one of the earliest applications of the “first sale doctrine.” Though Bobbs-Merrill was framed as an interpretation of the Copyright Act as it existed then, the US argues that it relied on common-law principles to reach its result. Foremost among these principles is the deep suspicion of restraints on alienability of property.
At the time, the Copyright Act gave a copyright owner the sole right to “vend” a work and did not explicitly contain a first sale doctrine. The Bobbs-Merrill Court nevertheless held that the right to “vend” a work did not extend past the first sale of a work.
True, the statute also secures, to make this right of multiplication effectual, the sole right to vend copies of the book, the production of the author’s thought and conception. The owner of the copyright in this case did sell copies of the book in quantities and at a price satisfactory to it. It has exercised the right to vend. What the complainant contends for embraces not only the right to sell the copies, but to qualify the title of a future purchaser by the reservation of the right to have the remedies of the statute against an infringer because of the printed notice of its purpose so to do unless the purchaser sells at a price fixed in the notice. To add to the right of exclusive sale the authority to control all future retail sales, by a notice that such sales must be made at a fixed sum, would give a right not included in the terms of the statute, and, in our view, extend its operation, by construction, beyond its meaning, when interpreted with a view to ascertaining the legislative intent in its enactment.
This is the implicit limitation that the US argues survives today. Using the same reasoning as Bobbs-Merrill, to add to the right of importation the authority to control all future retail sales “would give a right not included in the terms of the statute.”
Deputy Solicitor General Stewart made clear the import of this argument last Monday:
JUSTICE KAGAN: So Mr. Stewart, if I understand your argument, both here and in Quality King you want the copyright holder to have some control over importation, but at the same time you don’t want the copyright holder to have control over all downstream sales.
MR. STEWART: That’s correct.
JUSTICE KAGAN: And that’s what your Bobbs-Merrill argument is designed to do. It’s designed to prevent that.
MR. STEWART: That’s correct.
However, Justice Alito first expressed skepticism of this argument, followed by Chief Justice Roberts.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: That’s an awfully difficult maze for somebody to — to get through. You have to start with the difficulty of the language here, and then you have to proceed and put the Quality King gloss over it; and, when you finally get to that point, you say, well, now you’ve got to read Bobbs-Merrill and figure out how the common law governs all that.
Justice Roberts is correct in noting the awfully difficult maze here (I would place the blame mostly on the Quality King decision), but most of the difficulty would arise in crafting an opinion that incorporates the Government’s argument. Actual application would be fairly straight-forward.
Under the US approach, copyright owners could engage in the type of market segmentation that § 602 permits and block unauthorized importation of nonpiratical goods manufactured overseas. However, if a copyright owner were to try to extend its right under § 602 to control downstream uses and resales of works once they were in the US, Bobbs-Merrill would kick in.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A "bug specialist" (read exterminator) recently told me we would see less of the Asian lady beetles and more stink bugs in our future here in the Kanawha Valley.
I immediately contacted Berry Crutchfield, plant and pest biologist with the West Virginia Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Division, to get the scoop.
"He was referring to the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys). This Asian insect was first reported in Pennsylvania in 1996. It was first found in West Virginia in 2004. It continues to spread throughout the Eastern United States. It feeds on a wide range of fruit trees, small fruits, vegetables, field crops and ornamentals during the growing season. Like the Asian lady beetle, it has the habit of entering homes and other protected locations in the fall to overwinter.
"Control of overwintering stink bugs involves sealing logical entry points to the home with caulking, weather-stripping, screens, etc., during the summer. In addition, consider treating around logical entry points, on the outside of the home, with a perimeter insecticide (example: Ortho Home Defense) in mid-September and mid-October. Stink bugs found on the inside of the home should be removed by vacuum."
Well, isn't that lovely. We get these shield-shaped insects along a sunny wall of our home, and we've tried sealing/spackling/stripping the windows and doors, but they still get in. I guess I'll be vacuuming a lot this fall!
To keep the public up to date on the fight against stink bugs, a research website has been created at http://www.stopbmsb.org.
Ask the Bugman!
Identifying bugs is a labor of love for Daniel Marlos, aka the Bugman. His website, www.whatsthatbug.com, answers questions about bugs from all over the world.
The site has an extensive number of photos, making it possible to do your own sleuthing in categories such as beetles, flies and mites. If you can't find your specimen there, you can submit a photo of the bug in question along with a description, and Marlos and his team may respond (they receive so many questions they can't get to them all).
Ten quintillion insects
According to Deanna Caswell and Daisy Siskin, authors of the popular blog www.littlehouseinthesuburbs.com, there are almost 10 quintillion insects in the world. That's not a made-up number, like "gazillion."
It's a real quantity, all 19 zeroes of it.
The article's authors discuss integrated pest management (or, as they call it, real-life gardening). Here are their tips.
Advanced organic prevention
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Dec 23, 2011 | Sapa-AP
TRIPOLI - Athletes and sports programmes in Libya were woefully neglected during Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade rule. With Gadhafi's regime toppled last month, Libya's athletes and sports officials are hoping for a better future.
Oil-rich Libya has never won an Olympic medal and ranks near the bottom in sports competition with other Mediterranean countries that had far fewer resources, including neighboring Tunisia and Egypt.
"Sport, as a social activity, must be for the masses," Gadhafi said in his treatise, The Green Book. "It is mere stupidity to leave its benefits to certain individuals and teams who monopolise them while the masses provide the facilities and pay the expenses for the establishment of public sports."
Nabil Eleman, president of Libya's Olympic committee, said he's expecting the country's new leaders, among them National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, a former football player, to invest heavily in sports.
"Sports was not a priority for Gadhafi," Eleman said. "We are very optimistic now."
Eleman is setting his sights on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There's little chance Libyans will win medals in the 2012 Games in London, in part because of the eight-month civil war that ended with Gadhafi's death on October 20.
On a recent sunny afternoon, several Olympic hopefuls met for the first time in months at Libya's main track at a rundown sports centre in the capital Tripoli.
Mohamed Khawaja was stretching on the sidelines. The 400m runner won gold at the 2009 Mediterranean Games and the 2010 African Championships, but said Libya's war and lack of funding prevented him from participating in the 2011 world championships in South Korea.
Still, the 24-year-old's personal best of 44.98 seconds is well within the 45.25 qualifying threshold for London. Asked whether he believes he has a shot at a medal, he said: "Nothing is impossible."
Like other Libyans, he was bitter about the old regime.
"There was nothing called sports in the days of Gadhafi," he said. "They tried to kill sports. They had a committee to fight stars, not to let them shine."
Khawaja said he hopes Libya's new leaders will be different.
"At the same time, they need to start (making changes) as quickly as possible because we have a lot to catch up on," he said.
Discus thrower Ali Khalifa's spot on a Libyan Olympic team is less secure. He threw 57m in training in Tunisia at the beginning of the year. However, his personal best in competition was 55.19m last year, way off the 63m Olympic minimum.
The burly 28-year-old said he trained only sporadically during the war.
"I was hiding from Nato," Khalifa said of the alliance's bombing raids against regime-linked targets during the civil war.
His part-time coach, cafe owner Abdullah Jarhour, said Khalifa would now train twice a day for next month's Pan Arab Games in the United Arab Emirates.
Other Libyans hoping to qualify for the London Games have gone abroad to train, in part because the country lacks facilities. The ongoing political turmoil and the social obligations of a close-knit tribal society also tend to be distractions.
Those training abroad include a half-marathon runner in Morocco, three judo athletes in Algeria, a taekwondo competitor in the US and a 50m freestyle swimmer in South Africa, Eleman said.
Despite Gadhafi's apparent disdain for champions, two of the dictator's seven sons were closely involved in sports, as part of the ruling clan's policy of controlling Libya's key institutions.
Gadhafi's playboy son al-Saadi headed the Libyan Football Federation for much of the past decade and owned Tripoli's Al Ahli club. His terror-filled reign, including the trashing of rival Al Ahli Benghazi's clubhouse and arrest of dozens of the team's fans and players in 2000, helped earn him a spot on Interpol's most wanted list for "armed intimidation".
Al-Saadi, who escaped to Niger during the civil war, also had ambitions as a player, using his money and influence to play in Libya and even, briefly, for Italian league team Perugia.
Like other dictatorships in the Middle East, the Gadhafi regime tried to control football because of its popularity and potential as an anti-regime rallying point, said blogger James M Dorsey.
"What made Libya different from others in the region was the fear that the players could become more popular than the Gadhafis, and al-Saadi's involvement and ambition," said Dorsey, who does research at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
For example, Libyan broadcasters could only refer to players by their numbers, with the exception of al-Saadi, to ensure a degree of anonymity, Dorsey said. Still, Libyan football has survived the regime and last month, the national team beat long odds to qualify for next year's Africa Cup of Nations.
Gadhafi's eldest son, Mohammed, preceded Eleman as Olympic chief and fled to Algeria earlier this year with his stepmother, Gadhafi's second wife, Safiya, as well as siblings Hannibal and Aisha.
Mohammed was less reviled than his notorious brothers and in recent years tried to get money for sports, Eleman said. Still, as a Gadhafi son, he instilled fear and insisted on special treatment.
In 2007, Libya built a National Olympic Academy to evaluate top athletes and support their training, though its director, Haffed Gritly, now says he had to be careful at the time not to promote the Olympic idea too vigorously because the regime suppressed any movement seen as a potential rival. This also applied to teams.
"Any team work might be dangerous. People might start to think in the same manner," Eleman said of the regime's thinking.
That's why individual sports, such as judo, bodybuilding and horseback riding have generally fared better in Libya.
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As the summit began, the heads of state and government remained deeply divided on some of the key issues they need to solve or risk renewed turbulence on financial markets across the globe.
The fear is that more delays and half-baked solutions could push not only Europe, but also much of the rest of the developed world back into recession, eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs and even spell the failure of the euro, the common currency that is at the heart of Europe’s postwar unity.
“Our challenge today is not simply to save the euro. It’s to safeguard the ideals we cherish so much in Europe: peaceful cooperation amongst our nations, social cohesion and solidarity without prejudice amongst our people,” said George Papandreou, the prime minister of Greece, whose country kicked off the continent’s debt drama almost two years ago.
Whether Wednesday’s summit — which was expected to last deep into the night — would indeed turn out to be the grand solution the markets are expecting and the eurozone has been promising was unclear Wednesday evening.
In particular, there was still no agreement on how to cut Greece’s debt, which is set to top 180 percent of economic output next year. On this issue the 17-country eurozone remained locked in discussions with banks and other private holders of Greek bonds, who have been resisting a demand from the eurozone to take significant losses.
At the same time, the eurozone itself was divided over how far a restructuring of Greece’s debt should go.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers in Berlin that the goal was to bring Greece’s debt down to 120 percent of economic output by 2020. That would imply a cut of more than 50 percent to the face value of Greek bonds and may be more than private investors would be willing to accept voluntarily.
Merkel’s Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann told reporters that a cut of “40 to 50 percent is part of the debate.”
Germany has threatened to force losses on Greek debt holders if they don’t accept sufficient losses voluntarily, while France, the European Commission and the European Central Banks insist that any debt relief had to remain voluntary.
Doubts remained also over the second key issue on the table: How to give the eurozone’s bailout fund, the $612 billion European Financial Stability Facility, the firepower it needs to stop the crisis from engulfing large economies such as Italy and Spain and help prevent big banks from collapsing amid the worsening market turmoil.
“I think that effectively, it has to be able to intervene a good deal beyond ($1.4 trillion),” Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said of the bailout fund, also known as the EFSF.
Since states have ruled out boosting their financial commitments to the fund, the eurozone was working on two complex schemes that would allow the EFSF to act as an insurer for new bonds from wobbly countries as Italy and Spain.
If the fund promised to compensate investors against the first 20 percent or 30 percent of losses in the case of a default, that would make those bonds a much safer investments. Spending some $347 billion on guarantees, could under that scheme attract new lending of up to $1.39 trillion.
However, before rich countries like Germany, France or the Netherlands are willing to sign up for such a scheme, they want assurances that countries that benefit from the fund’s protection will get their economies back on track.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in particular was facing pressure to convince his eurozone colleagues of his reliability at Wednesday’s summit.
“Our Italian friends know exactly that we have to insist that tonight they tell us that we get important structural consolidation measures in Italy,” said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. “That is a must.”
More progress was in sight for a plan to force banks across Europe to significantly increase their capital buffers to ensure they can withstand growing market pressures and large losses on Greek debt. But the new bank rules affect the 27-country European Union, not just the 17-state eurozone, and the non-euro countries do not want to reveal details of the plan before the other main issues have been resolved. | <urn:uuid:2a45af9e-d037-4476-9e64-4f88cdc36f11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cherokeetribune.com/view/full_story/16185688/article-Europe-faces-key-test-in-debt-crisis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962369 | 870 | 2.0625 | 2 |
“ … Every difference is a Likeness too. There are associations, groups, clubs, alliances, milieus for every one of them. And each milieu is a small world, a subculture with a slightly other set of rules for the game. Not to ignore them, not to lump them all together, but to watch them, to take notice, to pay attention …”
— D. A.
To coincide with a major Diane Arbus exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin this summer, Timothy Taylor Gallery is proud to announce Diane Arbus: Affinities, an exhibition of thirty-two photographs made over the course of the artist’s career. Several of the photographs have never been exhibited before in the UK.
Arbus explored the notion of affinities – the elements that humans share, as well as those they don’t – throughout much of her mature work (1956-71). A deep interest in likenesses, disguises, in bonds, alliances and allegiances is a recurring theme. Arbus’s carefully considered titles – all for works to be included in the present exhibition – eloquently convey the depth and variety of her interests:
A naked man being a woman, N.Y.C. 1968
A blind couple in their bedroom, Queens, N.Y. 1971
Russian midget friends in a living room on 100th Street, N.Y.C. 1963
Four English children, Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962
Triplets in their bedroom, N.J. 1963
Two girls in matching bathing suits, Coney Island, N.Y.C. 1967
Winston Churchill look-alike, London, England 1969
Elizabeth Taylor look-alike reclining on a bed, London, England 1969
Wax Museum: Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret, London 1969
As the last titles indicate, Arbus came to London in 1969 and began work on a magazine story she had proposed to Nova: “People Who Think They Look Like Other People.” The magazine placed the following ad in The Times and The Evening Standard, generating a tremendous response from prospective candidates: “Have you ever been told you look the double of someone famous? Like Elizabeth Taylor … Twiggy, The Queen, Mick Jagger, Sir Winston Churchill? If you think you are the double of someone famous you could be famous too.” In connection with what might be considered a related theme—people or things that appear to be what they are not—Arbus gained access to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum on behalf of the magazine. “I got permission to go there at night when it was empty. I touched some of them,” she wrote in a letter to her daughter, Amy.
Diane Arbus, born Diane Nemerov in New York City in 1923, started taking pictures in the early 1940s and went on to study photography with Berenice Abbott, Alexey Brodovitch and later Lisette Model. Her first published photographs appeared in Esquire in 1960. In both 1963 and 1966 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1967, she was one of three photographers to be included in the landmark exhibition, New Documents, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. A year after her death her work was selected for inclusion at the Venice Biennale – the first work of an American photographer to be so honoured.
The Museum of Modern Art hosted a major retrospective that travelled through the United States and Canada from 1972 to 1975 and, in 2003, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organised Revelations, a full-scale retrospective that then toured to museums in the United States and Europe, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2005-2006. A major touring exhibition is currently underway travelling from Jeu de Paume, Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam through 2012. | <urn:uuid:766158d2-a5bb-42ce-85d2-14aad2004179> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artslant.com/lon/events/show/219413-diane-arbus-affinities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942648 | 835 | 1.726563 | 2 |
›[T]to move someone or something from one place to another: transfer sb/sth to sthThe company is to transfer 1500 jobs to India by the end of the year.Anyone transferring a pension from one company to another could be hit by early exit penalties.The idea is to transfer all the firm's operational business to the web.
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›[T]BANKING, FINANCEto move money from one account to another: transfer sth to/into sthThe money will be transferred into your bank account.He opened an instant access account and transferred his savings.
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›[T]LAWto make something the legal property of another person: transfer sth to sbMarried couples do not have to pay this tax if property is transferred from one to the other after death.
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You can see the WHOLE FILM intact below. It is over 1 hour long (not a clip), and can be viewed full screen. Perhaps in times like this we don't need to be reminded how soul destroying it is to be unemployed. How do people keep going? Kuhle Wampe was made in Berlin in the summer of 1932, several years into the last Depression. It's an amazing film, so even though the first part is desolate, it "needs" to be seen again, especially now in difficult times. The full title is Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt, "Who owns the world". Think about that. Do politicians and crooked bankers own the world or can ordinary people do anything?
Bertolt Brecht wrote the text and Hanns Eisler the music (and a lot of the political rigour). Eisler's music is wonderfully atmospheric. He's completely underrated as a writer of music other than agitprop. This film was made only 5 years after the movies became "talkies", so Eisler's music really is cutting edge invention for its time. Movie music does not have to be sentimental drivel, it can be art. Notice how little dialogue there is : so much is expressed through subtle gesture. No need for translation. This speaks whether you're German, Russian, Spanish. That's the socialist ideal, but it's also profoundly sensitive to how real people function. It's cinéma vérité by instinct, long before the concept was formulated. No wonder Eisler wasn't impressed when he worked in Hollywood.
Even more exceptional is the cinematography. It's outstanding. The first part of the film is a masterpiece, an overwhelmingly moving study, like an elegaic poem told in visual images and music. A young man searches for work. But everyone is unemployed, men everywhere on their bikes, searching for any glimmer of hope. The film shows the bicycle wheels turning endlessly, all that hard work leading nowhere. Long shots of cobbled streets, the tall, forbidding tenement where the man lives. For a moment he pauses to watch street musicians play an eerie mournful melody. We don't know yet but it's his last contact with the world.
Up he trudges to the cramped apartment he shares with his sister, his brutal father and downtrodden mother. Every frame is poignant, even the homily painted over the kitchen stove. The young man looks out of the window, where a shrivelled pot plant struggles to survive. He looks at his watch, his only possession of value, and carefully puts it aside......his mother walks up the endless flights of stairs. The window is open, the flimsy curtain blowing in the breeze. A crowd gathers round the young man's broken body. When I first saw this film as a teenager it was devastating. Now, when the situation has become real to so many, it is physically painful to watch, but steel yourself. It's important. Politicans, bankers and those who think unemployment is a lark should be tied and forced to watch.
The second part of the film focuses on the young man's sister. The family become destitute and get no help. So they move to Kuhle Wampe, a tent city for the homeless on the banks of a lake outside town. Surprisingly, life is not so bad. People stick together, sort of. Real life squatter camps are not much fun. The girl then starts hanging out with socialist idealists. There's a long sequence shot at a real life rally, with sports and music. Helene Weigel, Brecht's wife, appears with her theatre troupe, singing through megaphones. She's the short dumpy brunette. The girl's boyfriend is played by Ernst Busch (who sings the Jesus Revolutionary song in an earlier post). This is historic documentary not simply "film".
Interesting how the golden Aryan physiques on display presage other kinds of party rallies to come in later years, but that was the fashion at the time, nothing sinister.
At the end of this lovely day out, everyone goes back to town. They pour back into the world singing the Solidaritätslied, the now famous "Solidarity Song". Vorwärts und nicht's Vergessen! Forwards, don't forget! Heiner Goebbels (see posts below) has been a huge Eisler fan since his youth. In fact it was Goebbels who introduced Eisler to me ! A few years back Goebbels created a work called Eislermaterial, a composite of Eisler pieces against a wider background.
Nowadays we know about Stalin and Hitler, so we know the solution Brecht and his friends proposed is not quite that simple. But in those difficult times, the dream sustained people as a statement of faith and hope.
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New Delhi: The arrest of Ketan Desai, the man being touted as the don of the Medical Council of India, has thrown open a Pandora's box.
CNN-IBN has access to documents that show rules were changed and tweaked to allow students who studied humanities and even home science to practice medicine in the country.
In has been revealed that Dr Ramanender Singh, Registration Number 17878, registered as doctor in August 2003 had passed 10+2 from an unrecognised board. One Dr Shobit Singh became a doctor after higher secondary education in agriculture.
So who cares about the rule that only students who opt for the science stream from a recognised university are eligible to join a medical course.
Dr Thressia Kokattu was registered as a doctor by the MCI but she did not study science subjects like Biology in her 10+2. Dr Marena Francis did home science in class 12. Despite the Supreme Court order in April 2003, the MCI went ahead and registered all of them as doctors.
CNN-IBN has documents to show how medical registration was also granted to candidates who had failed in their class XII theory papers. Exceptional favours and exemptions were also granted by Desai and company.
According to the Graduate Medical Education Regulations a first year MBBS student has four chances to clear all subjects.
In March 2000 the Executive Committee of the MCI flouted this rule. Documents available with CNN-IBN show that Students of Government Medical College Nagpur; NKP Salve Institute of Medical Science, Nagpur; Jawaharlal Medical College, Meghe and Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University were given permission to take a sixth and even a seventh attempt.
Two years later the Executive Committee authorised the MCI President to deal with such requests. In 2003 the regulations were amended and the clause restricting the number of attempts to four was removed.
The Health Minister says the government needs more powers to ensure that regulators do not work like corrupt dictators.
From recognising and derecognising medical colleges to allowing home science and arts students to become doctors, Desai and friends used quick fix solutions for everything.
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|Concord grape vines in Virginia, Fall 2011. All photos courtesy Linda Lutz.|
|Concord grapes on the stem, 2011.|
Today I decided to buckle down and sort it all out. I was killing time by organizing photographs while eating toast with grape jelly that my mother brought me the last time she came to visit. As jelly dripped down my chin, I realized that I had no clue how to make this lovely stuff and if I ever wanted to figure it out I'd better get to work. Luckily, grapes are gone for this year so I don't actually have to make the stuff-- at least not until the next grape harvest.
|Grapes off the vine in my mother's kitchen, 2011.|
My mother based this recipe on the amount of grapes she had this year. When my mom weighed the grapes she had collected, it turned out to be 3 1/2 pounds of grapes taken off the stem equaled 2 quarts of grapes, which yielded about 5 cups of grape juice.
- My mom says it's ok to use some partially ripe grapes to make the juice. Just make sure that at least three-fourths of your grapes are really ripe. (Up to one-fourth of the total amount can be slightly green.)
- Do not double the recipe.
- Although my mother does not always use a hot water bath after filling the jars, USDA recommendations suggest that any canned product should always be processed in a hot water bath.
|Finished Grape Jelly, 2011.|
by Linda Lutz
Yields 8 cups of jelly.
- 3 1/2 pounds grapes off the stem (2 quarts), which equals 5 cups of juice
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1.75 ounce pectin (I use Sure-Jell. If you use another brand of pectin, you should consult package directions.)
- 1/2 teaspoon butter
- 7 cups sugar
- 8- 8 ounce jelly jars with lids and rings
- 1 large cooking pot (at least 16 quarts)
- Jelly strainer or a colander covered with several layers of cheese cloth
- Jar funnel
- 1 canner (for canning the jelly)
- 1 or 2 food-safe gloves
- Remove grapes from stem and place in a large pan of water.
- Quickly rinse grapes and place in colander to dry.
- Put 2 cups of grapes in a large stock pot and crush the berries with glove-covered hand. Keep adding 2 cups at a time until all the berries are crushed. As my mother says, "there's nothing like good old hands for crushing grapes."
- Add 1 1/2 cups of water to the stock pot and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes.
|Straining crushed grapes, 2011.|
- Pour grapes into dampened jelly strainer (or several layers of dampened cheese cloth). Be sure to put the jelly strainer over a bowl to collect juice. Obviously, the bowl needs to be large enough to collect 5 cups of juice.
- Let sit for several hours or up to half a day. The longer you let it set, the more juice you'll get out of it, but do not smash grapes or squeeze the bottom of the jelly bag.
- Run jelly jars through dishwasher so that they are hot when juice is ready to be used. If jars cool, place them in a 9x13 inch pan and warm them in a 175 degree oven.
- Measure 5 cups of juice in a large sauce pan (at least 6 quarts).
- Gradually stir in Sure-Jell.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of butter to reduce foaming.
- Bring mixture to a rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. (A "full rolling boil" is a boil that doesn't stop when you stir it.)
- Add 7 cups of sugar quickly, stirring to dissolve. Be sure to measure it first as it is easy to lose count of the number of cups you're measuring.
- Return mixture to a full rolling-boil and boil hard for exactly one minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove pan from heat and let sit for several minutes.
- Skim off foam with a metal spoon. (The metal spoon will almost act like a magnet.) Scrape foam all to one side and scoop it out of the stock pot.
|Skimming off foam from heated grape juice.|
- To prepare the lids, pour boiling water over lids in a small sauce pan, as recommended by the directions on the box that the lids come in. (My mother's friend Betty Sheetz always put her lids in the oven with the jars. My mother always uses the hot water bath instead.)
- Take the jars out of the oven and prepare to fill jars.
- Using the funnel and a one-cup measuring cup or ladle, pour jelly into jars, filling to within an 1/8 of an inch of the top.
- Wipe the jar rim clean with a clean dish cloth or wet paper towel.
- Take a lid out of the water and place it on top of the jar. (It's ok if the lid is still wet.)
- Screw on the metal ring tightly.
|Jars of grape jelly in the hot water bath.|
- Process in a hot water bath according to USDA recommendations. My mother's version is to put water in a canner and put the jars in the boiling water, covered with at least one inch of boiling water.
- Keep the water boiling and boil for 5 minutes. Lift jars out with tongs and let cool without touching or bumping them until they're really cool-- at least overnight.
- After the jars have cooled, be sure that you get a tight seal. The center of the lid should be slightly indented. You can check this by pressing the center with your finger. If the lid pops back up, it isn't sealed. If jar does not seal properly, keep it in the refrigerator and use within several weeks.
- Grape jelly is best eaten within a year to keep texture from changing. Note from Susan: In our house, it never lasts that long. | <urn:uuid:dc9a33ee-c1cc-4315-86e6-ed56fb2424e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eatsundaydinner.blogspot.com/2011/11/heirloom-foods-making-grape-jelly.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934196 | 1,301 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The boy did not want to talk, his mother, Dawn Daugherty, later said, but did so after the officer told him to confess or risk “doing time.” Fairfax school officials said there was no such threat. They said the boy was told what other students had said and about the importance of telling the truth.
Daugherty did not learn of the interrogation until afterward. “I was really shocked by the whole thing,” she said.
What happened that June day at Langston Hughes Middle School led to no criminal charges, only a disciplinary action for breaking the school system’s code of conduct. But the episode illustrates some of the questions raised as the police presence has grown in public schools over the past two decades: When should students be advised they have a right to remain silent? And when should parents be notified?
Wading into this fray, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that police must factor the age of young suspects they intend to question into their decisions about giving Miranda warnings. The split decision emphasized that children are more vulnerable to pressure than adults and stressed using common sense. But it did not give specific guidelines, leaving much open to interpretation.
The ruling came in a case, J.D.B. v. North Carolina, that focused on a seventh-grader interviewed by police and school officials about a residential break-in. The 13-year-old was not given a chance to phone home before he was taken to a closed-door school conference room for questioning or told at the outset that he was free to leave. There were no Miranda warnings about his right not to talk and to have a lawyer.
In the weeks since the ruling, lawyers, school leaders and advocates have begun to weigh how the ruling could reshape student questioning. Many experts expect more Miranda-style warnings from police — and more caution from educators.
The ruling also could prompt more police in schools to call parents before questioning, said lawyer Ken Schmetterer, who wrote a brief on the case for the American Bar Association. “It’s a very significant decision for kids,” he said, noting that the court recognized that children are more easily coerced and impulsive than adults, less likely to foresee the implications of their actions and more likely to make false confessions.
But some predict complications.
“I’m afraid it signals a sea change in what was, if not a perfect rule, an easy-to-understand rule,” said Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh. Many in law enforcement, he said, will now wonder: “Should we read every 13-year-old his rights?”
Only sworn police are required to give Miranda warnings — and only if a suspect is in police custody, which is defined as when a “reasonable person” would not feel free to leave police questioning. Under the ruling, age is now part of that custody determination. | <urn:uuid:44e05313-e655-4b68-85cc-c71d9b2758b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/supreme-court-ruling-rising-police-presence-in-schools-spur-miranda-questions/2011/06/21/gIQAYXgeKI_story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981544 | 613 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Manufactured Gas Plants
PG&E’s Manufactured Gas Plant Program
History of MGPs
In the mid 1800s and early 1900s, before natural gas was available as an energy source, manufactured gas plants (MGPs) existed throughout California and the United States. These plants used coal and oil to produce gas for lighting, heating and cooking. At that time, this technology was a major step forward, revolutionizing street lighting, enhancing public safety and enabling businesses to work into the night.
In addition to gas, MGPs produced a variety of byproducts, some of which were useful and marketable, such as coal tar and lampblack. The byproducts that could not be sold were removed for disposal or remained at the MGP site. Most of the sites in PG&E’s service area were closed and dismantled more than 75 years ago.
PG&E Manufactured Gas Plant Program
In the 1980’s, the United States Environmental Protection Agency conducted research that identified more than 1,500 former manufactured gas plants around the country. The research found that, in some cases, residues from these facilities may remain onsite.
Following the EPA study, PG&E established a program under the oversight of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to identify the location of MGP sites and began a process of testing water supplies and soil samples from sites in the service area.
According to toxicologists and health experts, exposure to MGP residues is not common because, in most cases, they are located below the ground surface.
As part of our commitment to environmental responsibility, PG&E works to ensure that any potential impacts to the environment from former MGPs are addressed in accordance with today’s regulatory standards. PG&E is in the process of investigating and remediating 41 MGP sites it formerly owned or operated. They are in various stages of remediation, from investigation to post remediation monitoring and project completion.
Where DTSC determines that remediation activities are necessary, we work closely with the agency, residents and local health and environmental departments to design the most effective remediation program for the site.
This is a voluntary effort that reflects PG&E’s environmental commitment and responsibility to address issues that may have resulted from our historic operations.
Commitment to our Customers
Because these gas plants were historically located near the center of commerce, many of our sites are located in downtown areas, and some in residential neighborhoods. PG&E works closely with those customers whose homes or businesses may be affected by our work to ensure that any associated impacts are lessened and everyone stays informed about the project throughout its duration.
Before site work begins, PG&E and DTSC meet with nearby residents, businesses, and community leaders to discuss work plans and address any concerns they may have. We continue this dialogue throughout the life of the project, and use work notices, emails, meetings, and the web to keep customers informed of progress at the site.
Measures are put in place during remediation to reduce impacts related to noise, dust, and traffic on nearby homes and businesses. This includes air monitoring, installing noise barriers to reduce construction noise, limiting work hours to certain days of the week or hours of the day and restricting the number of trucks that can drive to and from a work site during a given day.
When remediation is complete, we have conducted restoration activities like planting new landscaping, repairing sidewalks or constructing new parking spaces to improve the local community and promote public safety. | <urn:uuid:23453db1-b023-40e4-9de4-337e13ebac03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pge.com/about/environment/taking-responsibility/mgp/ | 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 | 0.973063 | 724 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Food hucksters sell nostalgia. See Michael Pollan on The Colbert Report for a fine example (video only works in the U.S.).
Biking home with Sorenne yesterday from school, a 20-something was walking a Brisbane sidewalk with pallets of strawberries and yelled out, “Want to buy some strawberries?”
He then sold a pallet to the owner of a shoe store.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that some 2,100 Utahns – people who live in Utah, I guess -- have been sickened with salmonella from homemade queso fresco.
The Salt Lake Valley Health Department has tracked down one source of the outbreak — an unnamed man dubbed "Mr. Cheese" who was making the product with raw milk and selling it to a Salt Lake City restaurant/deli.
The health department has confirmed that 73 people were sickened with the illness that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain. But they estimate that hundreds more were ill and never reported it to the health department.
"They should not be purchasing food products in shopping center parking lots, [from people] distributing it out of their trunks or door to door," said Royal DeLegge, director of environmental health at the health department. "When you go into a retail setting, a deli or a store, you’re looking for labeling on the products."
The cheese probe took three years, involved a criminal investigator and extended to a fast-food franchise where Mr. Cheese’s wife worked.
People began to get sick in 2009 with Salmonella Newport, and the health department warned people not to buy the Mexican-style soft cheese from unapproved sources. Another 22 Newport cases popped up in 2010. The health department couldn’t find a common cause but heard of a woman selling cheese in a parking lot.
By June this year, another 32 people were sick with the strain. They commonly identified four restaurants and a market, where the local and state health department took samples of their queso fresco and samples from preparation areas. It found a positive DNA match from the cheese in the restaurant/deli.
That’s when the police got involved.
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food had a name of a potential manufacturer of the cheese, who had a criminal past.
A criminal investigator for the county’s District Attorney’s Office put together a photo lineup for the restaurant owner, who identified his queso fresco source and called him "Mr. Cheese."
The health department later learned the man — whom they aren’t naming — made the cheese in his home using raw milk from a Midway dairy that is not authorized to sell raw milk. The man also is not licensed to manufacture cheese.
Food manufacturers are not allowed to produce products in their home because of the risk of contamination from sources such as pets and children.
Mr. Cheese’s wife may have contaminated her workplace with the queso fresco. Four customers and a food handler at four locations of a fast-food chain were sickened this year. | <urn:uuid:52fdf89a-cda2-49b2-bdcf-ef8f2020341b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bites.ksu.edu/blog/tag/utah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973418 | 638 | 1.617188 | 2 |
- THE MAGAZINE
- WEB EXCLUSIVES
Competition. It’s what John D. Rockefeller once called “a sin.” It is diametrically opposite of cooperation, something Franklin D. Roosevelt said “begins where competition leaves off.”
By its simplest definition, competition arises when there are limited resources and two or more groups rely on those resources for their survival. It’s only natural that these groups would compete for control of those resources.
However, for as many examples there are of competition in nature, there is the same number for cooperation. Take, for instance, the human body-the respiratory, circulatory and central nervous systems all work in harmony to sustain us.
The business world also provides us with examples of both competition and cooperation. Companies compete in the same marketplace for the same customers, while those same companies work together with other entities in the supply chain to reach those same customers.
In the study of the human condition, a very revealing exercise on the ongoing struggle between competition and cooperation exists in the form of game theory. It is called the “prisoners’ dilemma” and it attempts to explain why two people might not cooperate, even if it is in their best interest:
“Two men are arrested, but the police do not possess enough evidence for a conviction. The two alleged criminals are separated and the police offer both the same deal-testify against the other and go free while the other does a year in prison. If both remain silent, both are sentenced to only one month in jail for a minor charge. If each ‘rats out’ the other, each receives a three-month sentence. Each prisoner must choose either to betray or remain silent; the decision of each is kept quiet. What should they do?”
What results, and what the police count on, is that both will choose to protect themselves at the expense of the other. As a result of following a purely logical thought process to help oneself, both would find themselves in a worse state than if they had cooperated with each other.
Yes, it’s hard to imagine, but it is possible that those people we see on reality TV just might not be able to help themselves.
So if it is in our very nature to compete, what can we take away from it? One thing is a better opportunity for comparison. Economists and financial markets have developed analytical tools that are useful in comparing stocks, companies and markets to determine the long-term strength of a given industry and the companies that compete in that industry. As consumers, we do it all the time. We “shop” or compare what the marketplace has to offer. We rely on competition to provide us with the choice that best meets our criteria, whether it’s price, quality or convenience.
This month’s Quality Magazine provides the very means to make that choice, with our annual Selector Guides. So whatever your criteria, take away the best that a competitive Quality market has to offer.
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LeapPad Plus Writing: Interactive Learning Systemby Audrey DeZwirek
This is an interactive learning system aimed at teaching children, from the preschool age up to 8 years old. There are over 50 books in the LeapPad library which teach the fundamentals of reading, writing, and mathematics in a fun, entertaining way!
This system is wonderful and very versatile! Teachers, parents and children alike will enjoy using its many features and provide children the confidence they need to read, write and count! The range of teaching is endless from phonics, alphabet and number recognition in the younger ages up to mathematics, science, geography and writing for the older children.
LeapPad Plus Writing comes with 2 books and over 135 fun activities. The interactive learning system comes with a magic pen that can work in two ways. Your child can use it to actually write when in the writing mode or it can be used in a non-writing mode where it can sound out letters and words and read stories. The stylus can help children get the hang of holding a pen and, with the enclosed parental instructions, your kids will be writing letters and words in no time. The magic pen teaches children how to perfect their pencil grip, trace letters and numbers and develop their fine motor skills. There is also an eraser which allows a child to erase mistakes and keep on practicing.
There are many fun characters on the pages of the books who encourage your children and keep them excited about learning. These characters come to life when you touch them with the pen. Each page offers basic learning lessons but is also chock full of other interactive activities and games. Learning has never been this fun and children will be eager to move through each page until they reach the very end! | <urn:uuid:d4df8fc1-d292-4e1b-8fef-4e0a1f552855> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://entertainment.kaboose.com/leappad-plus-writing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946869 | 352 | 3 | 3 |
They compete in the marketplace, but now they’re also collaborating.
BMW and Toyota have announced they will collaborate in two areas: the companies will share costs and knowledge for electric car battery research, and BMW will supply diesel engines to Toyota. Toyota owns the luxury brand, Lexus, and therefore BMW and Toyota directly compete in the luxury car segment. Both companies have a significant collaboration track record.
In The Culture of Collaboration book, I describe how BMW and Toyota create value by collaborating internally and with business partners. The preface, which you can read here, reveals how my visit to the BMW design center in Munich some years ago sparked the book.
So why would two competitors collaborate? Collaborating makes sense within enterprises and with partners, but the marketplace requires pure competition. Right? Well, that depends.
Collaborating among competitors makes sense when the collaboration:
- Creates value for both parties
- Begins with structure and clarity
- Involves non-differentiating processes
Clearly, the BMW/Toyota collaboration nails number one. “We think that this collaboration will allow for development of next-generation batteries to be done faster and to a higher level,” Toyota Executive Vice President Takeshi Uchiyamada said at a news conference. Both companies will share the costs of battery development.
Toyota will reportedly use BMW’s 1.6 and 2-liter diesel engines for cars sold in Europe beginning in 2014. This is reportedly the first time Toyota has procured an engine from a competitor. According to a story by Yoshio Takahashi and Kenneth Maxwell in the December 2, 2011 edition of the Wall Street Journal, the collaboration will reduce BMW’s engine production costs per unit by increasing volume. So, value creation is at the heart of this collaboration.
What about #2, structure and clarity? Based on what I know of BMW and Toyota and their approaches to collaboration, chances are this effort involves much of both. In any collaboration among competitors, both parties must establish boundaries for collaboration at the outset. Most importantly, the competing collaborators must determine use and ownership of existing and jointly-created intellectual property. Far fewer problems arise when business unit people, engineers, marketing folks, lawyers and others from both companies hash out these concerns rather than simply handing off the issues to lawyers to hash out in a vacuum.
Regarding #3, I’ve found that collaboration among competitors works best when the effort involves eliminating redundancy in non-differentiating processes. These are typically under-the-hood processes that are not part of a company’s market or product perception. Two companies that each make hot sauce might use the same bottling equipment. Two newspapers in the same market might use the same printing presses. Entire industries participate in consortiums for purchasing, saving each competing company substantial money. These shared, non-differentiating processes are invisible to the customer.
Engines are invisible to all but the most die-hard car enthusiasts, so collaborating on this process arguably fits the bill as non-differentiating. Typically, car batteries have nothing to do with the vehicle perception in the marketplace. In the case of electric cars, though, the jury is still out whether the battery is invisible to the consumer. The technology is in its infancy, and therefore the market consists primarily of early adopters. These consumers are more techno-savvy, realize the lithium-ion battery is intrinsic to the product’s technology and performance, and therefore may place a heavier emphasis on the battery in their purchase decisions.
So, it remains to be seen whether battery research and development is non-differentiating for BMW and Toyota. Nevertheless, if both companies can save substantial money on development and bring vehicles to market sooner and customers perceive and actually get better electric vehicles, this collaboration will prove successful. | <urn:uuid:a0f00c31-5c57-436c-abc2-76865c259031> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://collaborationblog.typepad.com/collaboration/competition_and_collaboration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94199 | 779 | 1.734375 | 2 |
So, all this talk about UniCamp. What is it? And what makes it different (read: better) than your typical summer camp?
UniCamp is UCLA’s official charity (<—- not just pulling that out of my butt. It’s been around for over 75 years). We take nearly 1500 children from low-income families out of Los Angeles and up into the mountains. I can get into the nitty-gritty details of how it was developed over time. But I’ll spare you the details and explain why it continues to be successful year after year.
UniCamp offers its campers the typical summer camp experience – they’ve got swimming, recreation, archery, dance, drama, fishing (<– when I started camp, fishing was just a couple sticks, some wire, and a piece of cheese. We’ve upgraded since then). In the past few years, Unicamp has also invested in a ton of mountain bikes, a climbing tower, sailboats, canoes, etc. Clearly, I started camp in the dinosaur age.
But what makes it different – what makes it stand out above and beyond anything else I’ve been involved with – are the outcome-based programs that the volunteers create and implement during the week. With few and limited resources. Whether the focus of a program is on self-development, teamwork, or community – everything has been methodically planned out by the volunteers. Every activity, every debrief, every conversation has the overall outcome in mind.
Think: lesson planning…for camp. As teachers, we have a standard that we hope our students master by the end of the year. We develop lessons, objectives, and goals that allow students to grasp the content and to ultimately achieve mastery of the standard. Similarly, when developing programs for our campers, we are programming backwards. We have the session outcome in mind and branch off that to create our programs. I know you’re probably thinking that it sounds like work. That the kids already spend the entire school year working, collaborating, learning…..and that we should allow them a few weeks of simple, pure FUN…
But that’s the thing about camp. It’s kinda like a ninja. The kids are having fun. They are playing games, singing songs, participating in activities. And then we sneak up on them, when they don’t even expect it, and debrief the GAME in such a way that they learn something valuable. We play games. We have fun. Yet we still manage to walk away from each moment – a little smarter, a little wiser, a little more aware.
The thing I love most about UniCamp – the people you meet through the program (volunteers and campers alike) will remain in your heart forever. The lessons I’ve learned, the memories I’ve made, and the experiences shared are irreplaceable. There’s nothing quite like that Woodsey magic. That feeling of being completely yourself. That feeling of being so emotionally safe – knowing that no matter what shit is happening down the mountain, camp is your escape. But, in some sense, it’s reality. It’s what makes me come alive. I become the ideal version of myself. Freshman year, I joined this organization thinking that I would be a positive role model for my future campers…that I’d be a mentor, someone they can learn from. Little did I know how much they’d end up teaching me… | <urn:uuid:75f74bd0-9d5a-42e9-8b42-36ab1770d86a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eatteachblog.com/tag/unicamp-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961475 | 731 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Let’s face it: Saving money simply isn’t as much fun as spending it. Making a purchase (and having something to show for it) is a lot more exciting than merely putting money into a bank account. But, in the long run, saving money is a lot more satisfying than blowing it on a shopping spree. Whether you’re saving for a vacation or retirement, it’s important to learn how to save properly and, eventually, reach your goals.
The good news is that with the rapid growth of technology, saving money is now easier — and maybe even enjoyable — than ever before. To help you manage your expenses, you can use tools like SmartyPig and Manilla.com, a free service that lets you manage all of your bills and accounts in one place. SmartyPig lets you create and track savings goals, while Manilla lets you view them next to everything else. And by following a few simple tips, you can use these services together to reach your target.
Create a budget — and stick to it. This is rote advice, but it’s necessary, nonetheless. Creating a budget is absolutely essential in reaching your savings goals because you need to know where your money is going. Manilla can help you stick to your budget because it gives you one place to manage all of your accounts — your financial accounts, household accounts and utilities, travel rewards programs, Netflix and magazine subscriptions, daily deals, OpenTable reservations, and more. You can check the balance of your savings account right next to the balance of your credit card, keeping you aware of your expenditures and making sure you stay on budget.
Once you create a budget, you’ll be able to figure out what your financial savings goals are and track them on SmartyPig. With SmartyPig, all you have to do is figure out how much you want to save and SmartyPig does the rest. You can even set up automatic transfers so that you’re always hitting your savings target.
Stop paying late fees. Paying a late fee is like throwing money down the drain, and it can keep you from reaching your savings goals quickly. With Manilla, you can get reminders via email or text message so that you always know how much you owe and when your payments are due. You’ll even get reminders when your travel rewards points are about to expire and when it’s time to use your daily deals before they expire.
Track your SmartyPig savings account on Manilla. Use SmartyPig to set your financial goals, and use Manilla to track them next to everything else. When you add your SmartyPig account to Manilla, you can track all of your savings goals right next to your other accounts, putting everything in your life in one place. That way, you’ll be able to see the balances of your other bank accounts and know if your savings goals seem attainable. Manilla also gives you access to all of your account documents — such as bills and statements — which you can view, download or print whenever you want.
So, before you give up on the idea of creating a budget, sticking to it and, eventually, reaching your savings goals, sign up for Manilla and use it to manage your SmartyPig account. It will allow you to get a complete view of your savings goals, bank accounts, bills and more — all in one place, all for free.
Nilisa Crespo writes for the Manilla Blog and works at Manilla.com, a free service that lets consumers manage everything in their lives, all in one place. With Manilla, consumers can manage their financial accounts, household accounts and utilities, travel rewards, daily deals, Netflix and magazine subscriptions, and more. | <urn:uuid:d0158de4-e689-4b64-a911-446ba818ab32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.smartypig.com/read/use-manilla-and-smartypig-to-reach-your-savings-goals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942951 | 785 | 1.75 | 2 |
Stair Rover Skateboard Ready to Conquer Flights of Stairs
June 23rd, 2012
Grinding down flights of stairs isn’t always easy when you are on a skateboard, so Po-Chih Lai decided that skateboards could be improved so that they would have no problem going down steps.
The Stair Rover skateboard uses extra pivoting trucks with two wheels on each side to follow the contour of stairs, allowing the board to ride down smoothly. While the video shows a skateboarder using the Stair Rover successfully, I wonder if it has enough ground clearance for all kinds of stairs. Nevertheless, it looks like it works well on a variety of bumpy surfaces.
For now, the Stair Rover is just a working prototype. There’s no word if it will ever be mass produced, but I can think of people who wouldn’t mind having the extra wheels that they can thrash down stairs. | <urn:uuid:39999ab8-f5ed-4949-8ce9-1855425a54f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technabob.com/blog/2012/06/23/stair-rover-skateboard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918479 | 197 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Ancient Ideas Remain Today
The true nature and function of blood was once shrouded in mystery. The ancients believed blood to be the most important of the four body "humors" – the seat and source of the passions.
Some of our everyday expressions are the survivors of these ancient beliefs: a person is "hot blooded" if he is easily roused to anger, or "cold blooded" if she is ruthless and calculating. "Bad blood" is used to describe resentment and desire for revenge.
Bloodletting Still Common in Late 1700's
Even as late as the time of our country's birth, bloodletting was a universal medical practice. It was generally believed that excessive amounts of blood caused all sorts of bodily ills, particularly fevers. Overly enthusiastic applications of this "cure" no doubt hastened the untimely end of many victims. Herbal remedies were widely used to "thin the blood," especially in the spring. You may even have recollections of your grandmothers' herb tea, or the detested sulfur and molasses.
France, 1667: Human Blood Transfusion Documented
Using human blood to treat disease and trauma began in France, 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denis documented a direct human blood transfusion just 40 years after William Harvey discovered the circulatory system. These early direct donor-to-patient transfusions were often disastrous because it was not possible to predict donor-recipient blood type compatibility.
Germany, 1901: Discovery of Blood Groups
German scientist Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered that there were different blood groups. He categorized those groups as types A, B, and O. Since he found that all humans fall into one of these groups, the ABO system provided an answer to the puzzle of why some transfusions had worked and others failed.
Chicago, 1936: First U.S. Blood Bank
The first true blood bank was organized at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. Irwin Memorial Blood Bank – the first community-based blood center – was established in San Francisco in 1941. Others were founded in all parts of the country during the next decade. Blood banking began growing in earnest with the return of physicians who had seen the effectiveness of transfusion therapy on the front lines in World War II. They began to demand that blood be made available for treatment of their patients.
Dr. Charles Drew was a pioneer in blood plasma preservation. In addition, he was a major contributor to the advancement of blood banking in the United States. He helped supply thousands of units of plasma for World War II victims.
America Association of Blood Banks Founded, 1947
The American Association of Blood Banks [now AABB] was organized to support and encourage continued blood research, promote exchange of scientific information and develop standards of practice for blood banks. By 1948, the American National Red Cross began operating a full-scale blood program to collect and distribute blood to patients in need.
Plastic Blood Bag Invented, 1953
Blood banking gained a greater level of sophistication with the introduction of the plastic blood bag. Invented by the Fenwal Company, the plastic blood bag with its satellite bags made it more practical to treat specific problems by separating and using the blood's various components.
Scientific Advances Promote Blood Use, Donations
In 1915, Richard Lewishon found that sodium citrate added to freshly drawn blood prevents clotting (coagulation). This discovery allowed blood collected from a donor to be stored for later transfusion to a patient.
Progress toward a blood supply donated exclusively by volunteers, along with improvements in hepatitis testing, has significantly increased patient assurance that transfused blood and blood components are of the highest quality.
America's Blood Centers Founded
In 1962, seven community-based blood centers came together with the help of local hospitals, physicians and civic groups to establish America's Blood Centers. Medical expertise, customer service and a community-first blood banking philosophy are the founding principles of America's Blood Centers.
Learn more about the history of blood. Visit www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold
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