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We’ll start out with scheduled updates. Jesuits have to be reminded to
update documents. The period between updates varies per person (age
bracket and custom). It may be a good idea to support different kinds
of documents, too.
They need something to last years, so we can’t turn it over to the
students. Pair programming might be a good idea – forces my code to be
Actually, if it’s Java, it can run on their own computers, and then
just send the data to a central server every so often. (version
2… =) ) We need to make this as painless to run as possible, which
means no external database. It also needs to be as paranoid as heck
when it comes to saving.
Data associated with each Jesuit:
id (surrogate primary key)
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SDSU is partner in new study that asks: Is your neighborhood
making you lazy?
Is your neighborhood making you lazy? San Diego State University researchers will take the question to both coasts to learn what role neighborhoods are playing in the lifestyles of older residents of Baltimore and Seattle.
“This study involves two issues of universal interest: everybody’s interested in their health, and everyone is interested in their neighborhood,” said psychologist James Sallis, a psychology professor and director of the Active Living Research Program at San Diego State.
Sallis is co-principal investigator for the Neighborhood Quality of Life Study for Seniors, which will focus on volunteers ages 66 and older. “It’s a growing population that accounts for a huge proportion of health care dollars, so it’s in the best interest of the whole of society for seniors to be as happy and healthy as possible,” Sallis said.
Questions will range from whether neighborhoods are walk-able to whether the neighbors are likeable for the study, which involves researchers at San Diego State, Stanford University, the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and University of British Columbia in Canada.
Researchers will count parks, sidewalks, trees, measure spaces between houses and study street and traffic patterns in urban and suburban neighborhoods, first in Seattle and later in Baltimore. The study’s volunteers also will wear compact activity monitors to measure their movements. About 500 people are expected to participate in each city in the four-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“Once we learn more about how the built environment relates to people’s health, we can feed that information to policy makers who decide how to lay out streets and sidewalks,” Sallis said.
“We’re also interested in whether there may be different issues for older and younger adults in people getting out and walking around for their social, mental and physical health,” Sallis said. “If you’re younger, you may be more likely to go to a park if there are ball fields or jogging tracks. Maybe older adults want to be sure the park has water fountains and benches in the shade.”
The new project is an outgrowth of an earlier four-year Neighborhood Quality of Life Study now nearing completion, which focused on younger adults in the same regions. For the earlier project, Sallis was principal investigator with the University of British Columbia’s Lawrence Frank and University of Cincinnati’s Brian Saelens serving as co-principal investigators.
Results of the earlier study likely won’t be published until 2006, but Sallis expects those findings to be of interest not only to the public, city planners and policy makers, “but also to the real estate industry.”
For the new project, Abby King, a professor of medicine, health research and policy at Stanford University, is principal investigator, with Sallis, Saelens and Frank serving as co-principal investigators.
What San Diego State researchers who have recruited volunteers for both projects already know is that interest has been keen in the subject from younger and older participants, Sallis said. “People find it a novel idea to look at their connections with their neighborhood, and they can see this benefiting other people,” he said.
Outside the United States, other countries are paying attention. Sallis
said. A similar project is under way in Australia, and studies are on
the drawing boards in Japan, Belgium, Brazil and other countries to
examine how people’s neighborhoods impact their physical activity,
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Earlier this month, just one day after Denver's first cold snap of the season, I woke up and saw a new text message from my downstairs neighbor. She was writing to let me know no one in our small, six-unit condo building had water.
Immediately I feared the worst: The pipes froze overnight and burst, damaging the building and causing thousands of dollars in repair work.
After throwing on some warm clothes, I surveyed the basement and outside where the water enters our building. No burst was visible.
Relieved, we called a plumber, who for a hefty service fee was able to come out the same day and thaw our pipes. He also confirmed our pipes hadn't burst, and water was again flowing from our faucets.
Yet, with sub-zero temperatures forecast throughout the upcoming week, we knew we had to quickly act. Upon closer examination, we discovered that the insulation—which used to protect the space where the water enters our building—was gone. No wonder our pipes had frozen; nothing was protecting the pipes from the extreme cold!
The next few days provided a real test. The temperature hovered in the single digits, and the nights were bone-chilling cold. About a week later, Denver warmed to its usual wintery 30 degrees, and our insulating strategies proved successful...and cost-effective. By doing it ourselves, we saved the home owners association nearly $450—and the inconvenience of waking up another morning without water. | <urn:uuid:c5ac8fc8-9f8e-447d-866f-e9772bc3582e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/insulation-saves-energy-and-money-homeand-hoa-disaster | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963714 | 303 | 1.96875 | 2 |
I've had some interest in how I make our hanging hand-painted easter eggs, so I thought I'd put together a quick tutorial for you. This is something I learned how to do when I was growing up in Norway, and I think it's pretty traditional in all the Scandinavian countries. I remember always looking forward to painting eggs as part of our Easter celebration. As a grown up I like that this method allows you to use the eggs to cook with, but also to keep the painted eggs for future use. I just store ours in an old egg carton.
You will need:
- As many raw eggs as you want to paint.
- A bowl to blow the egg yolks into.
- A needle or pin for making holes.
- Thread for hanging the eggs.
- Toothpicks or matches for hanging.
- Paints or markers for decorating.
- Bonus points: an egg cup. This helps to hold the egg steady and limits the odds of plunging needles into your fingertips. You could also use a shot glass or an egg carton. I'll be using an eggcup, because I am taking my own pictures and don't have enough hands.
1. Find the top center of the raw egg, and push straight down with a needle or pin to make a hole. You will need to push quite hard, at the same time being careful to not break the egg.
2. Once you have a hole, use the needle to make it big enough to fit the toothpick through.
3. Flip the egg over and repeat on the bottom.
4. And now the tricky part: place your lips around the hole on the top side of the egg and blow until the egg yolk and whites come out of the hole in the bottom. Sore cheeks from blowing is just part of the charm! Make it easier on yourself by poking a hole in the membrane surrounding the egg and in the yolk with a toothpick. It helps to make the bottom hole slightly bigger than the top. You can also shake the egg a bit to move things along, but please don't flip the egg over and try blowing from the bottom. Salmonella from accidentally ingesting raw egg is not part of the charm. Refrigerate the raw eggs to cook with. Omelettes, anyone?
5. Tadah! You now have one empty egg shell with holes on the top and the bottom. Rinse it well with water (you can blow it out like you did with the yolk) and set the egg to dry. Bust out the hair dryer if you're feeling impatient, or just move on to the next egg.
6. Decorate your egg! I like to use water color paints, but markers work well too. I haven't tried myself, but these eggs would also be good for decoupaging. I recommend painting your egg in stages or layers, and letting the paint dry completely before moving on. Fortunately, water color wipes off very easily if you mess up.
7. Now that your egg is all painted and pretty, it's time to hang it! Cut the ends off your toothpick, and tie some thread around it in a loop, so it looks like the photo above. You could use ribbon instead of thread, but that requires a bigger hole in the top of the egg, so it's kind of a prettiness tradeoff.
8. Make sure that the hole on top is big enough to fit the toothpick and the knot. Feed the toothpick inside, being careful to not slide the thread off the pick. Once the tooth pick is completely inside the egg, pull on the looped thread and...
9. Tadah - your egg now hangs! You are done.
10. Repeat again and again!
In Norway it is traditional to bring in some cut branches to hang your decorated eggs on. Even if your trees don't have leaves yet, you can always bring some branches in and force them. In a place with winters like they have in Norway, you could see why they might want to bring some spring green inside. I always thought it looked so pretty and fresh. Here is mine:
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A cruise ship has returned from the Xisha Islands after investigating possible routes for developing tourism among islands in the South China Sea, the cruise operator said Tuesday.
The Yexiang Gongzhu cruise ship. [File photo]
The Japan-imported Yexiang Gongzhu, or Scent of Princess Coconut, docked at a port in Sanya, a city in south China's island province of Hainan, on Monday after a three-day voyage to the northern shoals of the Xisha Islands, said Zhou Naijun, an official with Hainan Strait Shipping Co.,Ltd, the cruise operator.
Zhou said the company would fine-tune Xisha cruise tourism plans based on information collected during the trial sail. But he said there is still no timetable for officially launching the cruise plans.
Officials with the Hainan provincial government said they are drafting plans to develop tourism on the Xisha Islands, a chain of islands scattered along the western part of the South China Sea. Hainan Strait Shipping has been issued a license to operate the Haikou-Sanya-North Xisha route.
Huang Peng, an official with the provincial transportation bureau, said that in the initial stage of tourism development, cruise ships will be allowed to sail to Yongxing Island but tourists will have to stay on board.
"They will tour around the northern shoals of Xisha, enjoying the awesome views and the blue sea, before returning to Hainan," Huang said. "For the next stage, we will build bigger ships and make other improvements to meet the demands of high-end customers."
The Scent of Princess Coconut, measuring 140 meters long and 20 meters wide, has been serving as a deluxe passenger and cargo ferry between south China ports since 1999. In order to operate the Xisha cruise route, it has been refitted with enhanced capabilities for withstanding high winds on the rough South China Sea.
The Xisha route spans a distance of about 180 sea miles, or about a 12-hour boat ride, and a round-trip cruise takes about two days, Zhou said.
Over the years, China has repeatedly reiterated its indisputable sovereignty over the Xisha Islands and adjacent waters. China's State Council said in a regulation issued in late 2009 that the government would work to "actively, prudently and neatly" open the Xisha Islands to tourism.
Huang said Xisha tourism development is "very important" because it is a declaration of sovereignty over the islands on the South China Sea that have been a part of Chinese territory since ancient times.
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Unemployment Threatens ‘Entire Community,’ German Church Leaders Say
BY Jim Cosgrove
March 8-14, 1998 Issue | Posted 3/8/98 at 2:00 PM
HANOVER, Germany—The leaders of Germany's main Protestant and Catholic Churches have made a joint appeal for urgent action to tackle the issue of unemployment, warning that unemployment poses “a serious threat for the entire community.”
In a statement released Feb. 25, Manfred Kock, leader of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), and Bishop Karl Lehmann, president of the German (Catholic) Bishops' Conference, said that the current high level of unemployment in Germany was “unacceptable.”
Earlier this month, unemployed people staged protests throughout Germany after the release of figures showing that unemployment in the country had reached a post-war high of 4.8 million.
The two Church leaders made their appeal to mark the first anniversary, Feb. 28, of a major joint statement by the EKD and the Catholic Church in Germany on the “economic and social situation of Germany.”
They said that the publication of this statement a year ago had stimulated a “broad discussion” in politics, economics, and society. However, “the consensus that is necessary to take common steps to overcome high rates of unemployment in Germany” had not been achieved.
Last year's statement had been issued because of the existence of “high unemployment, increasing poverty, and the difficulties and problems in consolidating the welfare state,” the Church leaders said. Since then, the problems facing Germany had worsened. “Unemployment has reached an alarmingly high level. The situation of many young people has deteriorated further, and their position in society remains difficult,” the Church leaders said.
They also warned that “competition and globalization” were weakening the “internal coherence” of society and its “ethical rules.” Last year's joint statement, they said, was a call for a “social and ecological” economy in which human beings were the measure and “not simply the market.”
This week's statement comes at a sensitive time in Germany, which faces a general election later this year, when Chancellor Helmut Kohl will defend his record after 16 years in power.
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This paper studies the effects of labor-regulation reform using data for 10,396 firms from 14 Latin American countries. Firms are asked both how many permanent workers they would have hired and how many they would have terminated if labor regulations were made more flexible. I find that making labor regulations more flexible would lead to an average net increase of 2.08 percent in total employment. Firms with fewer than 20 employees would benefit the most, with average gains in net employment of 4.27 percent. Countries with more regulated labor markets would experience larger gains in total employment. These larger gains in total employment, however, would be achieved through higher rates of hiring and higher rates of termination. These results may explain why there is substantial opposition to labor reforms despite the predicted gains in efficiency and total employment. | <urn:uuid:9b7f4d71-ee02-4088-8410-accbcdb34b6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/wbkwbrwps/4708.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980271 | 158 | 1.59375 | 2 |
So you finally got that interactive whiteboard... here&'s how to make the most of it in your classroom.
Educators now have a bevy of options when it comes to interactive whiteboards. Here are some of our favorites, in no particular order!
The eno uses a unique technology embedded into their boards. There are no wires to worry about and magnets stick to it.
Hitachi has been a pioneer in the use of Duo software, which allows more than one user to work at the whiteboard at the same time.
SMART classrooms go beyond the board to connect other interactive hardware with their Notebook software. The interactive whiteboard began with SMART.
It’s not a board, but portable technology that makes a regular classroom whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard. The price is less than that of other technologies as well.
The Activboard and other Activ technologies have an army of teacher pioneers pushing the interactive envelope at Promethean Planet.
eInstruction Interwrite DualBoard
eInstruction combines its DualBoard with assessment tools, and its Mobi pad and Workspace teaching program.
Panasonic is taking its boards out of the boardrooms and putting them into classrooms. It is one of the newest options.
Do you have an interactive whiteboard in your classroom? If you are an American teacher, chances are one in five that you do. For British classroom teachers, it’s seven in ten. Interactive whiteboards have been called engaging, even revolutionary. And if you don’t have one now, it’s likely you will soon. Over half a million were sold last year alone.
But what does that mean for your classroom instruction? Will it really change the way your students learn?
“It’s not just about the technology—it’s about learning how to use the technology in an effective and meaningful way,” says Cathleen A. Norris, professor of learning technologies at the University of North Texas. Interactive whiteboards certainly aren’t a one-stop solution for raising achievement in your classroom. But under the right conditions, they can help promote student engagement and foster content area learning in a constructivist, learner-centered classroom.
How Whiteboards Work
Over the past decade, interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have become increasingly commonplace, but even teachers who have them may not fully understand how they work. Essentially, interactive whiteboards are large, touch-sensitive displays that connect to a computer and a projector. This allows users to combine the features of traditional whiteboards, flip charts, TV/DVD players, and LCD projectors into one piece of technology.
In addition to the boards themselves, there are a number of accessories that can be used in the classroom. Wireless slates allow teachers to move freely about the room while having access to the board, for instance. And classroom response systems function as handheld clickers that can allow for instant assessment. Basic clickers offer options for polls and multiple-choice answers, and more advanced clickers allow students to respond with text and numbers.
“I use the clickers to get instant feedback on my students’ understanding of a concept,” says Melissa Gosche, a third-grade teacher in Schiller Park, Illinois. “The kids enjoy the game aspect, and it helps get a quick sense of which students need additional review.”
While starting out with a new whiteboard will require creating new lessons, the software allows you to easily save projects or lessons for reuse or to share with other teachers. Some models even allow you to record your entire lesson as a digital video. “At our school, every class has its own website, so it’s easy for teachers to post units and resources online,” says Tom De Craene, director of technology for Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. “Students can easily review in-class material and teachers can share lessons and collaborate.”
The Effect on the Classroom
Jamie Stoeckly is a fifth-grade teacher in Sparta, Wisconsin. He has had the same group of students for two years, but this is his first year using an interactive whiteboard. “The response from my students has been incredible—with our whiteboard, the kids are engaged, they’re on task the entire time, they want to participate in class more,” he says. During a recent geometry lesson, the interactive whiteboard allowed them to gain hands-on understanding of the material. “They were able to draw and then manipulate shapes right on the board,” Stoeckly explains. “It’s a whole other level of excitement.”
Almost across the board, teachers report that their students are highly engaged in activities with interactive whiteboards. The question is, why?
First, they appeal to kids’ multiple intelligences, providing opportunities for visual-spatial and bodily-kinesthetic learners that can be hard to accommodate in the print-based classroom.
Second, interactive whiteboards allow you to reach your students through a variety of mediums. For example, if you are studying Kenya, your students might use Google Earth to project the country on the whiteboard, zooming in and out to see the terrain, and clicking on photos that show details, daily life, flora, and fauna. They can take a virtual safari to Lake Nakuru National Park, courtesy of National Geographic. Then, when students dive into the reading, they have a variety of background knowledge and increased motivation. Given the chance, many students will readily accept the invitation to engage with interactive whiteboards—which creates a space for new and exciting learning to take place.
Interactive whiteboards can be a helpful tool for differentiating learning, especially for students who may struggle in a more traditional classroom. “Our research found that when teachers used an interactive whiteboard, it helped students to attend to stimuli,” says Philip Nordness, a professor of special education at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. “It’s large, easy to see, and interactive. For students who struggle with vision issues or fine motor skills, the interactive whiteboard allows them to more fully engage with the lesson.”
In his research in an early childhood special education classroom, he found that students with an interactive whiteboard were on task 81 percent of the time—compared to 58 percent for students in a regular classroom. Nordness also points out that students with disabilities often get less time with technology compared to their non-disabled peers. “If they’re pulled out of the classroom for individual instruction, it often happens during the time when other kids are on the computer,” he says.
“The beauty of interactive whiteboards is that they appeal to both higher -level learners and lower-level learners,” maintains Deborah Rudenko, a special education teacher in the South Side Area School District in Hookstown, Pennsylvania, and a certified SMART whiteboard trainer. “For what you can do with them, they are really the best educational and economical value.”
In his experience at Cranbrook schools over the past decade, De Craene has found that some teachers elect to be early adopters, and others need more time to acclimate. “It takes three to five years before most teachers fully integrate whiteboards into their teaching.”
For that reason, De Craene is adamant that whiteboards need to be installed in individual classrooms rather than in shared computer rooms to allow for daily, consistent use. Craig Steszewski, a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher in Thomasville, North Carolina, heartily agrees. “Using an interactive whiteboard has changed how I teach,” he says. “I structure and deliver my lessons differently, and I can readily access the Internet, graphic organizers, and do assessment. I really can’t imagine teaching without it now.”
Time and space to experiment and collaborate is crucial to making a whiteboard a valuable tool in your classroom. Your school can help by having an openly accessible server for teachers to post and share lessons, as well as by hosting dynamic training sessions. But in a digital world, you can also look for whiteboard support outside of school walls. Thousands of teachers worldwide use the resources, tools, and community knowledge available at the Promethean Planet and SMART Exchange websites. Still, there is no question that getting up to speed can be a challenge. “In some ways, introducing an interactive whiteboard into your classroom can feel like your first year of teaching all over again,” explains Kim Trendel, a middle school cross-categorical teacher in Franklin, Wisconsin. “But remember that your fellow teachers are excellent resources, and they’re all around you.”
Good teaching will still be good teaching, with or without technology. But new and veteran teachers alike will have the opportunity to introduce a highly interactive and visual medium to their students—a medium that has the power to transform learning. “In the end, we need to remember that this is a tool—and how we teach is just as important as what we teach,” says Illinois teacher Melissa Gosche. “This kind of technology is not replacing the teacher in the classroom—instead, it is just a way to enhance your teaching even more.” | <urn:uuid:747f2dca-7ae8-4b90-a30a-1c922f025e48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/amazing-whiteboards | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949237 | 1,943 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Greater Oklahoma City is in the geographic center of North America equidistant from the east and west coasts and major trade partners of Canada and Mexico. The ten county region is at the crossroads of the U.S., sitting at the heart of three major national highways on the NAFTA corridor.
There's a reason Greater Oklahoma City is such a great place for business: Location. The ten county region is positioned within a day's drive of the rapidly-growing south-central region (OK, TX, AR, LA) projected to grow more than 44% during the next 25 years.
Oklahoma City ranked 19th in Forbes.com's Best Cities for Jobs list. Forbes used five equally weighted data points to rank cities: the state's unemployment rate, job growth, income growth, median household income and cost of living.
(January 10, 2008)
Oklahoma City experienced the pain of losing a General Motors production plant three years ago, in a healthier economy when there was a more optimistic job outlook.
Many cities face that situation today, after Monday's announcement that GM will permanently close nine more plants and idle three others to trim expenses under the company's bankruptcy protection plan.
GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday as part of the Obama administration's plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and hand over a majority ownership stake to the federal government.
Some here theorize it was better to lose the plant in 2006, when the state's economy had more of a chance to rebound.
"It certainly was a good thing that it happened when it did," said Roy Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber. "If that would happen today, it would have a much more significant impact because we don't have the job growth."
Closing Oklahoma City's GM plant in 2006 created a ripple effect beyond the 2,400 employees who lost their jobs, said Robert Dauffenbach, associate dean of the University of Oklahoma's Price Business College.
The job losses were equivalent to a year's worth of growth, he said.
Nationwide, GM's plant closures will displace 18,000 to 20,000 employees, the company said.
'Lemons into lemonade'
Here, cooperation between the city and county ensured the vacant Oklahoma City GM plant did not sit idle for long.
The 3.8 million-square-foot production facility in south Oklahoma City was purchased by Oklahoma County and leased to Tinker Air Force Base for the price of $1 a year.
Oklahoma County voters approved a $55 million bond issue in May 2008 that allowed the county to purchase the shuttered plant from GM.
Purchasing the building, now called Tinker Aerospace Complex, helped to ensure that Tinker Air Force Base will continue to call Oklahoma City home.
Tinker employees are busy transitioning the facility from an automobile production plant to an aerospace maintenance and repair center, Williams said.
"We turned lemons into lemonade," he said.
"We had the opportunity to create nearly 3,000 jobs in that facility, even more than were there with GM," Williams said.
Mayor Mick Cornett said he visited the Pentagon a few months ago and the reactions he received were encouraging.
"The military is thrilled to have the opportunity to expand and build inside that facility," he said.
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Human Resources Management
Performance Appraisal and Management
This guide was created as an additional resource featuring links to appropriate Internet based resources specifically chosen by Catherwood Library staff to support the following eCornell courses:
"Performance Appraisal and Management"
"Assessing, Designing & Implementing Performance Management Systems"
"Achieving Year-Round Performance Management and Appraisals"
"Performance Appraisals Objective Setting Employee Development" Useful General Resource Links
360 Degree Feedback
This commercial site has much information on the 360 Degree Feedback method of appraisal. Included are a description of a 360 Degree appraisal process, useful FAQ, links to useful articles and an "Ask the 360 Coach" sections.
Everyone is a Critic
This article from BusinessFinanceMag.com offers tips to make performance appraisals more positive for both employer and employee.
Resources on People Management
Prepared by Saul Carliner, Ph.D, Information Architect and Consultant, this website is described as a resource to "assist you in managing the projects, people, and business of information design and development." The section on "Guidance in Setting Expectations about Performance" is particularly useful.
Goal and Objective Setting
Links to a variety of articles on objective settings from the Peter Venn website.
Management by Objectives Starting With Yourself
One of a series of "How To" guides from the Business E Coach on the Ten3 website. There is also a section on Measuring Performance in the "Art of Management" section.
Seven Steps to Successful Objective Setting
PlanOnline.org, from the Center for Strategic Planning offers this article and others on the topic of objective settings and other management planning activities. These articles may be downloaded as Word documents.
The Ultimate Education & Training Portal for Career Development
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The Catherwood Library is the most comprehensive resource of its type in North America. Its collection of 200,000 books, journals, pamphlets and related materials — now complemented by extensive access to electronic resources from around the world — supports education and research in nearly every aspect of the workplace. The Library also houses the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives. Founded in 1949, the center is the most venerable archives of its kind in an academic institution
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Web site from Cornell University and Human Resource Executive magazine. This index to other Internet resources is divided by subject area and is also searchable by keyword. Workindex is designed to provide gateway to the best workplace-oriented web sites on the Internet. Broad range of subjects covered. Provides links to'What's New' and lists the 'Editor's Choice' for best sites. | <urn:uuid:d37a980f-f312-4f35-8aa8-2fa84dd208b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/eCornellGuides/humanResourcesManagement/performanceManagement.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915172 | 710 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Three years after the recession has officially ended, the economy is struggling with an unchanging 8.2 percent unemployment rate. Weak hiring practices by U.S. employers at only 80,000 jobs during the month of June proves that the U.S. is, as the New York Times reports, “far from the booming job growth that prevailed only a few months ago.”
Although June unemployment numbers look better for veterans, dropping to 9.5 percent from 12.7 percent during May, the Army Times notes that the change could be a “statistical fluke” because the DOL’s report is “based on a survey of about 200,000 people, of whom just 22,000 are veterans.”
The House of Representatives passed the Veterans Skills to Jobs Act late last night which will require the federal government to qualify military training for purposes of civilian licenses and certifications which are issued and controlled by the federal government. This is a critical step in ensuring that veterans successfully transition and utilize the important skills they’ve learned from the military in the civilian workforce. Under provisions of the bill, veterans would qualify for more than 70 positions that require licenses or certifications, such as energy, maritime, and aerospace sectors. The bill will now move on to the Senate, which has a similar version of the bill.
The switch from military to civilian workforce can be challenging. Veterans can be unsure about how to apply for and how to interview for a job, and employers are often wary of seeing a lack of civilian work experience. Employers and veterans both are unclear on how skills utilized in the military can translate into a different work environment. The Veterans Skills to Jobs Act is a critical step in easing this transition and opening up doors for veterans to access civilian jobs. It also serves to aid employers in understanding the employability of veterans.
Swords to Plowshares supports the Veterans Skills to Jobs Act and applauds the efforts of all those who support veterans entering the labor market.
Megan Klein Zottarelli, Policy Analyst
Megan performs research and analysis of legislation, data, and issues related to veterans such as criminal justice, housing, employment, women’s health, etc. Megan helps to create formal summaries and recommendations to lawmakers and key stakeholders to increase access to services and support for veterans and their families. She is especially interested in criminal justice issues among veterans as well as treatment alternatives to incarceration. | <urn:uuid:3abf0b8b-6986-41e0-9658-abaeee07498f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.swords-to-plowshares.org/2012/07/10/veterans-skills-to-jobs-act-passes-through-congress-while-veteran-unemployment-remains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955756 | 500 | 2.09375 | 2 |
This week we focused on gluing and collage. In addition to gluing on paper, I brought out the children's dried clay work from the previous class for them to re-visit. I offered them colored glue and trays of collage material such as buttons, beads, sequins, pasta shells, and cotton balls.
Some of the kids experimented with the glue, rubbing it over their hands like finger paint. Although it may look like paint, they soon found out that it didn't quite feel like paint!
Before heading outside for the second half of class, some of the children found time to make prints and check out the shelf for more materials.
Because of the hot weather, I decided to bring the kids outside for the second half of class. We began with a bleeding tissue and water collage where the kids placed pieces of tissue onto a large paper and sprayed the whole thing with water. When it dries, the tissue falls off, but the color remains.
The rest of class was spent playing with water, making mud pies, and painting on the easels.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. Although the term "World Literature" is widely used today, there is little agreement on what it means and even less awareness of its evolution. In this wide-ranging work, John Pizer traces the concept of Weltliteratur in Germany beginning with Goethe and continuing through Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels to the present as he explores its importation into the United States in the 1830s and the teaching of World Literature in U.S. classrooms since the early twentieth century. Pizer demonstrates the concept's ongoing viability through an in-depth reading of the contemporary Syrian-German transnational novelist Rafik Schami. He also provides a clear methodology for World Literature courses in the twenty-first century.
Pizer argues persuasively that Weltliteratur can provide cohesion to the study of World Literature today. In his view, traditional "World Lit" classes are limited by their focus on the universal elements of literature. A course based on Weltliteratur, however, promotes a more thorough understanding of literature as a dialectic between the universal and the particular. In a practical guide to teaching World Literature by employing Goethe's paradigm, he explains how to help students navigate between the extremes of homogenization on the one hand and exoticism on the other, learning both what cultures share and what distinguishes them.
Everyone who teaches World Literature will want to read this stimulating book. In addition, anyone interested in the development of the concept from its German roots to its American fruition will find The Idea of World Literature immensely rewarding
A professor of German and comparative literature at Louisiana State University, John Pizer is the author of three previous books on German literary theory, including Ego-Alter Ego: Double and / as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism.
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Shares: Hi-tech produces a virtual certainty for 1994: Leading-edge technologies offer fledgling companies the prospect of huge and recurring returns
The UK stock market has an increasingly rich crop of such 'concept' investments, which are being floated against a backdrop of momentous technological developments that are probably going to change all our lives between now and the end of the century.
Three presently loss-making stocks should enjoy dramatic activity this year in fields where the sky is the limit, and they should appeal to investors who like to be with the action.
The classic investment of this type is the just-floated Virtuality, which at 331p against a 170p flotation price is already valued at nearly pounds 80m. This company is the brainchild of a 33-year-old Indiana Jones look- alike and not-so-mad boffin, Dr Jonathan Waldern, who realised a decade ago that there was huge potential for low-cost applications born of the space-age technology that enables pilots to see instrument readings on special visors.
Based on its success in bringing costs down, the group has generated pounds 10m in recent years from selling 350 integrated virtual reality systems for use in arcades. In the process, it has created the hardware, the operating software (analogous to MS-DOS and Windows on computers) and software applications such as games to make itself an - albeit embryonic - virtual reality version of the computer software giant, Microsoft. Both IBM and Motorola have stakes in the company.
But the real potential comes not from expanding sales of integrated systems but from licensing the technology to large partners with the financial muscle and presence to develop mass markets. The resulting royalties, combined with a modest cost structure, would generate spectacular profits growth. For example, the group is in partnership with the Japanese games giant Sega, which is planning to build a chain of 50 small theme parks making extensive use of 3D touch-and-feel virtual reality. The theory is that it is cheaper, to simulate a 'white- knuckle' ride than to actually build one, but just as exciting.
The group's stockbroker, Beeson Gregory, is forecasting profits of pounds 1.1m for 1994, after a loss for 1993, to put the shares on a price-earnings ratio of 75. Optimists may reflect that the other games giant, Nintendo, made profits of pounds 750m last year although it has just 879 employees, with manufacturing, hardware and software development contracted out - exactly the game-plan of Virtuality. What is certain is that Dr Waldern's company is an early player with proprietary technology in what promises to become a vast market. That justifies a high valuation.
Another new market at the dawn of what could be a phase of spectacular growth is on-line information, whereby computers become terminals to access information networks and databases via telephone, cable and satellite links. City folk are already familiar with such networks for share and stock market data. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Two quoted companies with great ambitions in this field are PhoneLink, at 364p for a market capitalisation approaching pounds 120m, and the even more recently floated On Demand Information, at 113p for a valuation of pounds 56.1m. Part of the excitement in both cases is that if the companies are successful they will generate large and recurring profit streams.
The key to prospects at PhoneLink is its on-line data service, Tel-Me, which is to be launched early this year. The company is already generating revenue from its automated phone-number accessing system for large companies, and its technology is at the heart of British Telecom's recently launched TeleDirectory service, which gives users low-cost access to phone numbers via computers. But the serious money is intended to be made by Tel-Me, which will enable subscribers (paying pounds 300 a year to be linked up to the system) to access data quickly and cheaply from a range of sources (10 initially) including as the AA, British Rail and Ordnance Survey. For instance, small business users will be able, in seconds, to look up hotels, weather reports and detailed maps and, as the user base builds up, use the system interactively to make reservations. The company is arguing, with some justification, that Tel-Me provides the 'killer application' that is going to bring on-line computer services to every small business, if not eventually every home. Tel-Me works in the increasingly familiar Windows environment. From early 1994, all new IBM PCs will be available with Tel-Me and Windows. The service can be installed on any IBM-compatible PC.
On Demand Information is the brainchild of Graham Poulter, who believes there is huge scope for specialised on-line database services, having already built Poulter Communications, founded in 1969, into a substantial marketing services company. The group has just launched its first product, a service for surveyors, builders and architects developed jointly with the Building Centre.
Information will appear on- screen exactly as it does on the page, ready for a hard-copy printout if required. The convenience and ease of updating is obvious, suggesting the product could be a huge success, with many further applications to follow. The ultimate scope is suggested by a recent report that the European market for electronic information could reach pounds 16bn by 2000. (Photograph omitted)
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Previous Committee Assignments
House Energy and Commerce Committee (1981-1982)
House Budget Committee (1987-1992)
Congressional Caucus Membership
A congressional caucus is a group of members interested in the pursuit of common legislative goals and ideals. Rogers is proud to serve on the following caucuses:
Congressional Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse, Co-Founder and Co-Chair
As a long-time advocate for multi-tiered solutions to the ever-growing epidemic that has wrought havoc on communities large and small, Rogers co-founded the Congressional Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse with Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. This caucus aims to unite like-minded policy-makers in raising awareness of abuse, while working towards innovative and effective policy solutions incorporating treatment, prevention, law enforcement and research.
Congressional Coal Caucus
This bi-partisan caucus was created to promote awareness of the country’s most abundant and affordable supply of energy, the hundreds of thousands of American jobs dependent on the industry, and the new technologies on the horizon to make coal use cleaner and safer. Rogers has long supported the responsible, safe and efficient mining and use of coal, as nearly one-third of all the coal mines in the country are in Kentucky, more than in any other State, making coal a vital component of southern and eastern Kentucky’s economy. Today, the Fifth Congressional District is home to nearly 500 mining operations and over 17,000 mine operators and contractors. Thousands of additional jobs are directly tied to the industry in the region. The Commonwealth gets over 90% of its electricity from coal, keeping rates affordable for families and industry.
Congressional Sportsmen Caucus
Founded in 1989, this bi-partisan caucus aims to maintain and increase the public’s engagement and participation in outdoor activities, particularly hunting, fishing, and shooting sports. The caucus promotes policies and legislative initiatives that protect the rights of hunters, trappers and anglers (particularly those guaranteed under the Second Amendment).
Congressional Pro-Life Caucus
Rogers has been unwavering in his protection of the rights of the unborn. This caucus provides Members with timely information about pro-life issues in pending legislation and coordinates with pro-life groups around the country.
Congressional Rural Caucus and Congressional Rural Health Caucus
The bi-partisan Congressional Rural Caucus keeps members informed about issues and legislation affecting rural districts, with a particular emphasis on rural healthcare, education, and agriculture. Given the recent attention paid to health care policy, the Congressional Rural Health Caucus focuses more narrowly on developments pertinent to rural hospitals and health care providers.
National Guard and Reserve Caucus
Our nation is a safer place because of the sacrifices our brave men and women in uniform have made. As a former member of the Kentucky National Guard, Rogers has always supported programs that serve their best interests. The National Guard and Reserve Caucus places a particular emphasis on issues facing our men and women serving in this capacity.
Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Meth
The bi-partisan Congressional Caucus works to educate Members of Congress, their staff and the American public about the growing lethal threat that meth abuse and production poses to all facets of our communities. Rogers is committed to stopping meth use and production by directing congressional attention to the growing meth epidemic. | <urn:uuid:372de855-9172-47ea-b860-d3e7bff72167> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://halrogers.house.gov/biography/committeeassignments.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933528 | 673 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Sullivan County Pennsylvania
Sullivan County government offices are located at Main & Muncy Streets, Laporte PA 18626; phone: 570-946-5201.
Formed March 15, 1847, named for General John Sullivan; is noted for picturesque scenery, mountains, valleys, lakes, streams and waterfalls, forests, and distant views. Either the scenic Williamsport and North Branch Railroad or the state highway, that parallel each other and enter the county near Muncy Valley, lead to beautiful Eaglesmere, 1900 feet above sea; on Lewis Lake, one and a half miles long, one-half mile wide; depth never definitely determined, fed by subterranean waters. About the shore, tree bound, with luxuriant growth of rhododendron and laurel, and rock faced to deep water, there are lovely nooks, and a bathing beach of white sand at the northern end. Passing from Eaglesmere through "Celestia," where the lands were deeded in 1864, by Peter E. Armstrong and wife, to "Almighty God"-the deed may be seen at the county courthouse one comes to LaPorte, population 175; highest and smallest county seat in Pennsylvania, 2000 feet above sea level, with its natural beauties, including "Lake Mokoma," is also an attractive summer resort. It was laid out in 1850, by Michael Meylert, who owned the land and built the first courthouse; present building, facing the park, is Romanesque; brick; beautiful Lombardy poplar trees are in the yard. Within the last twelve years advanced civilization has penetrated into Sullivan County in good state highways, rural mail routes, telephones, and several borough and township high schools. The streets of LaPorte are wide and well kept, and the park is in care of the Ladies' Village Improvement Society.
At the top of the mountain, on the road toward Sonestown, is "Fiester's View," where the deep valley of Muncy Creek, walled on the east by the towering North Mountain, 3000 feet above tide, near Nordmont, is beautiful beyond description. At the junction of the Big and Little Loyalsock Creeks is the pretty little town of Forksville. Dr. Priestly purchased a large tract of land about here, laid out roads, and made many improvements. Four miles distant, on the state highway toward Hillsgrove, on Kings Creek, is Lincoln Falls, a waterfall about 30 feet in height at the head of a gorge with perpendicular walls of rock, varying from 50 to 80 feet in height. A few deer, quite a number of bear, foxes, rabbits, and squirrels are in this county; a state game preserve is in the southeast near Jamison City. There are some good trout streams, and the lakes are well stocked with fish. The most valuable industry is coal from the Bernice coal fields in the east. The production of hemlock tanned sole leather is important. Farm products and dairying are general. | <urn:uuid:6c9932e9-5d84-4dd8-a773-8768b3b48635> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Sullivan_County.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956177 | 624 | 1.921875 | 2 |
A binding judgment from a court defining the legal relationship between parties and their rights in the matter before the court. A declaratory judgment does not provide for any enforcement, however. In other words, it states the court's authoritative opinion regarding the exact nature of the legal matter without requiring the parties to do anything.
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Rule 57) and Title 28 of the U.S. Code govern declaratory judgments in federal court. For an example from case law, see Roe v. Wade 410 US 113 (1973).
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
A court decision in a civil case that tells the parties what their rights and responsibilities are, without awarding damages or ordering them to do anything. Courts are usually reluctant to hear declaratory judgment cases, preferring to wait until there has been a measurable loss. But especially in cases involving important constitutional rights, courts will step in to clarify the legal landscape. For example, many cities regulate the right to assemble by requiring permits to hold a parade. A disappointed applicant who thinks the decision-making process is unconstitutional might hold his parade anyway and challenge the ordinance after hes cited; or he might ask a court beforehand to rule on the constitutionality of the law. By going to court, the applicant may avoid a messy confrontation with the city -- and perhaps a citation, as well.
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Infrastructure solutions using nature
28 April 2011 | News story
Water security is vital for economic growth and poverty reduction, yet investments in water infrastructure are often contested by many stakeholders.
With grant funding from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, the University of Nairobi hosted a project design workshop in November 2010 for the WISE-UP proposal recently submitted. Water Infrastructure Solutions from Ecosystem services that Underpin Poverty reduction (WISE-UP) is a multi-institutional and multi-discipline proposal designed to optimize the benefits from water infrastructure development, using portfolios of both built and natural infrastructure to support ecosystem services for poverty reduction.
Navigating through competing interests, power relations and politics surrounding water is not easy, highlighting the complex socio-ecological world in which we have to make decisions. Ecosystem services are integral to outcomes from water infrastructure development, and they need to be linked more clearly into water infrastructure planning and investment as part of broader development options.
"River basins themselves are natural infrastructure", said Professor Eric Odada from the University of Nairobi, "the challenge we have is how to ensure we do not loose or impact heavily on the regulating, provisioning, supporting, and cultural ecosystem services river basins provide, whilst maintaining the need to provide energy, food, water supply, and landscapes and habitats which work for people and nature".
The workshop provided the opportunity to work with stakeholders for three case study basins; the Volta in West Africa, the Tana in East Africa and the Vaigai in Tamil Nadu State in India. The aim was to identify a shared vision for the project and case studies, to identify project outcomes and pathways to achieving them, as well as a workplan for developing the full proposal.
The proposal was submitted to the ESPA programme in January 2011. ESPA aims to deliver high quality research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. ESPA research will provide the evidence and tools to enable decision makers and end-users to manage ecosystems sustainably and in a way that contributes to poverty reduction.
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Organization sends students to Israel
Shalom – a word in Hebrew that means hello, goodbye and peace, is shared between fellow members of Hillel, who spend several nights a week together socializing while learning about Jewish culture.
Pierce and Valley Chapter Hillel member David Chernobylsky, who has been president for a year and a half, has noticed an increase of members from last semester to this semester.
“It’s a gradual process of accumulating new members,” he said. Not only do we see new members at the beginning of the semester, especially during Club Rush, but throughout the whole semester.”
With close to 20 members of Hillel just at Pierce College alone, the club recently merged with the Hillel at California State University Northridge, to become a bigger community.
“It’s important to strengthen the Jewish bond especially in the San Fernando Valley, where Hillel at Pierce and Valley has now become Hillel 818 after merging with CSUN.” said Chernobylsky.
Throughout the year, Hillel offers many programs to strengthen the Jewish identity of college students consisting of holiday celebrations, arts and culture programs and guest speakers.
This past semester, Hillel had a holocaust survivor speak to a full house of new and returning members.
“It’s still so important to learn about the holocaust,” said Chernobylsky. “I had several people come up to me and tell me how happy they were to have attended the event.”
The club also hosts events learning about culture, tradition and Torah.
Their last thought provoking event was a discussion about how tattoos are becoming more and more culturally acceptable in Judaism. Whereas from past conservative generation, if a Jewish person had a tattoo, they couldn’t be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
Friday nights are for Hillel students to partake in Sabbath dinners of food, festivities, prayers and meeting new people.
Sponsored by Taglit-Birthright Israel, this organization gives Jewish students between the ages of 18 to 25 the opportunity to go to Israel for free for 10 days who have never been there before.
“It’s a great way to become more connected to the Jewish community and more involved with Hillel.” said Chernobylsky after returning from Israel and wanting to become more involved with the club.”
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From barracks to nursing home
No. 24 Thorsgade in Randers is an impressive brick building erected in 1880-1881 as a barracks for new recruits to the Danish 5th Dragoon Regiment. The listed barracks was designed by a local architect, J.P. Jensen-Wærum. The dragoons left the barracks in 1945 in…
The Prince and Randers
In winter 1891-1892, Randers had anything but an ordinary inhabitant. Prince Christian, who was to become King Christian X, followed in his father's footsteps to train with the dragoons. He enrolled at the officer-training academy in Randers, and stayed in a flat on Torvegade from 31 October 1891 until 24 May 1892. The Prince became a popular and valued guest in many local homes, and frequently joined audiences at the local theatre. Throughout his life, he took great interest in the life of the town, and later recalled his soldiering days in Randers as some of the best years of his youth.
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Payroll employment in 2009
January 12, 2010
In 2009, payroll employment declined by 4.2 million. Over the course of the year, job losses moderated substantially. In the first quarter of 2009, job declines averaged 691,000 per month, compared with 69,000 per month in the last quarter.
Total nonfarm payroll employment edged down in December 2009 (-85,000). Job losses continued in construction, manufacturing, and wholesale trade, while temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs.
These employment data are from the Current Employment Statistics program and are seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent two months are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation – December 2009" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-09-1583.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Payroll employment in 2009 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100112.htm (visited May 23, 2013).
Spotlight on Statistics: Productivity
This edition of Spotlight on Statistics examines labor productivity trends from 2000 through 2010 for selected industries and sectors within the nonfarm business sector of the U.S. economy. Read more » | <urn:uuid:c2c7b484-4706-4fdb-b598-234995a9100d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stats.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100112.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901585 | 266 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Our long wait for jacketed softnose
bullets of proper diameter and profile suitable for .38-55 and .38-56 Winchester - and
most recently Marlin - tubular magazine rifles appears to be over.
Mr. William Baden Powell of the Boer
Bullet Co. (516 Park Ave., Medford OR 97501) forwarded test samples of his new 220-grain
.38-55 bullets. Following is my report on them.
My micrometer (machine shop tested
for accuracy) shows their diameter to be .378 inch.
Quite as important, they are of full
diameter .378 inch for the entire length of the shank from base to crimping cannelure.
This makes a big difference in how accurately they shoot. Tapering bullets lose accuracy
in these rifles.
Their bases are flat and even, also
helpful of accuracy. Weight uniformity is remarkable! I picked a dozen bullets at random
and found a variation of only 0.4 grain. That’s .0018 percent - amazing, especially
in bullets as heavy as this.
With all this going for them, it’s
no wonder they shoot so well. The fact they weigh 220 grains rather than the usual 250
grains will help keep pressures down, raise velocities a bit and is certainly plenty of
bullet for deer and black bear.
In a Winchester High Wall .38-55,
35.0 grains of IMR-3031, or 37.0 grains of H-4895, produced around 1,800 fps in a 30-inch
In a Winchester Model 1894 .38-55,
32.0 grains of Reloder 7 generated just under 1,800 fps in a 26-inch barrel.
In a Winchester Model 1886 .38-56,
38.0 grains of H-335 registered just over 1,900 fps in a 26-inch barrel.
Accuracy will, of course, vary depending upon
whether iron sights or a scope is used, also upon the condition of a rifle’s bore. My
.38-55 and .38-56 test rifles have only iron sights but are still capable of grouping in 2
inches at 100 yards with the better loads. A new rifle with scope sight should be able to
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Making the decision to attend college is probably one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make, and your performance on college entrance exams is instrumental in determining your college choice. Universities and colleges throughout the U.S. require applicants to take the SAT or ACT as part of their evaluation package. This course will prepare you for both tests.
Both the ACT and the SAT contain verbal and math question types. SAT/ACT Preparation Part 2 will give you all the information you need to do well on the math questions of the ACT and the SAT. The ACT math tests your knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic statistics. This course provides you with a complete math review of all these subjects. We‘ll also show you how to use your time wisely so that you finish as many math questions as possible in the 60 minutes the ACT gives you for the math test.
Beginning with the March 2005 exam, the SAT math questions have changed a bit. They eliminated the quantitative comparison questions and added questions on functions and graphing functions. The lessons in this course are designed to prepare you for those changes. In addition to reviewing arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and basic statistics, we'll cover functions and other algebra II subjects now tested on the SAT.
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Union representation in British workplaces has continued to decline since 1998, though the rate of decline has slowed compared with recent decades. There has also been a substantial increase in the availability of flexible working arrangements including home-working, term-time only working, flexi-time and job sharing.
These conclusions are based on a wealth of evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey (2004), which is co-sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry, Economic and Social Research Council, Policy Studies Institute and ACAS. They appear today in a first findings booklet, Inside the Workplace.
The survey is the largest and most up to date of its kind in Britain. The results are based on face-to-face interviews with around 3,200 managers and nearly 1,000 worker representatives across Britain. Over 20,000 employees in those same workplaces returned completed questionnaires. The large sample size and high response rate gives a clear indication of the reliability of the findings.
Compared with 1998, employees were less likely to be union members, workplaces were less likely to recognise unions for bargaining over pay and conditions, and fewer workers had their pay set by collective bargaining. Even so, the rate of decline appeared to have slowed compared with the 1980s and 1990s and the joint regulation of terms and conditions remains a reality for many employees in Britain. In 2004, one-half of employees were employed in workplaces with a recognised trade union; one-third were union members; and 40 per cent had their pay set through collective bargaining. Nonetheless, the picture differed markedly across sectors of the economy and by workplace size. Union involvement in pay setting and the joint regulation of the workplace were very much the exception in the private sector and in smaller workplaces. In the public sector collective bargaining coverage actually rose between 1998 and 2004.
The survey also records a substantial increase in the availability of flexible working arrangements, including home-working, term-time only working, flexi-time and job-sharing. Taken together with other findings from the survey such as the increased incidence of paid paternity leave and special paid leave, and increased managerial understanding of employees' responsibilities outside work, it seems that employers are taking on board the need to help employees effect a balance between their working and family lives. However, employees did not perceive such a change in employer attitudes, and were often unsure whether or not flexible working arrangements would be available to them.
Source: Eurekalert & othersLast reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009
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It's not having been in the dark house, but having left it, that counts.
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Along with motivation and dedication to the sport, an athlete also engages in the culture of the sport. Tuning skis, attending practice and fueling the fire to compete takes initiative and get-up-and-go. Up the proverbial mountain to slide down again, after all "repetition is the mother of learning" which is all part of our journey.
Only 8 weeks ago he had an emergency appendectomy and here he is back in the fast lane of life. He made history for his High school team, the first ever to make it to States for skiing. I have a strong feeling that what he has learned from this experience has added to his character and to his drive to succeed at whatever lies ahead. The dedication, the routine, sportsmanship is no doubt due to his desire to achieve.
As a Mother, witnessing motivation is a beautiful thing. We try so hard to hold on but we know that at one point they will just get-up-and-go. Motivation is one part just an innate philospy, originating from one's own mind and passion is another part to keep one coming back for more.
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|Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Care|
Treatment for breast cancer patients involves many different doctors and health care professionals. Evidence indicates that a team approach to cancer care, in which health care professionals collaborate to develop an individual treatment plan for each patient, can improve outcomes and quality of life for the patient. This integrated approach to cancer care is known as multidisciplinary care (MDC), and begins at the time of your diagnosis, before any surgery has taken place.
Importance of Breast Cancer MDC
The MDC service also provides you with several other benefits – it saves you time by eliminating multiple uncoordinated visits to various specialists, allows your appointments to be scheduled more rapidly, and provides greater access to support services.
Breast Cancer MDC Care Team
Because communication between these team members is vital, individual cases are reviewed by the Breast Cancer MDC team twice a month. At these meetings, team members review new breast cancer cases, sharing insights from their own patient care and research. This collaborative approach leads to the most appropriate and well-rounded treatment plan for each patient.
Breast Cancer MDC team members include:
Medical Oncology: Dr. Ryan Ramaekers, Dr. M. Sitki Copur, Dr. Melhem Jabbour
Radiation Oncology: Dr. Mark Bolton
Surgery: Dr. Brant Luebbe, Dr. Dan Cronk, Dr. Steven Schneider, Dr. John Goering
Radiology: Dr. Daniel Novinski, Dr. George Antaki, Dr. Bill Marsh
Pathology: Dr. Scott Frankforter, Dr. Brent Keenportz, Dr. Suzette Woodward, Dr. Kris Mleczko
Breast Cancer Nurse Navigator
The nurse navigator is an experienced oncology nurse, and will serve as your personal guide during your cancer journey, from abnormal biopsy through survivorship. Because cancer is such a stressful time, this extra support is necessary to allow you to focus your energy on your care and treatment.
The navigator will work with our entire team of cancer professionals to provide you with all the services you need to fight your cancer. She will work to remove any barriers that stand between you and effective, comprehensive cancer care, as well as help you adhere to your treatment plan and any lifestyle changes it requires.
The one-on-one care provided by the nurse navigator also helps to accomplish the following:
• Step-by step guidance through your treatment, helping you and your family understand all of your treatment options
• Coordination of your initial consultations, all within a week
• Accompaniment to your initial consultations
• Coordination of referrals to other support services
• Follow-up and continuity of care
• Education and support regarding survivorship
There is no charge for breast cancer MDC coordination, and the service is available to all Saint Francis Cancer Treatment Center breast patients. For more information on the program, please contact Jacque Langford, nurse navigator, at (308) 398-3218.
Surgical Care for Breast Cancer Patients
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Veteran teen adventure camp outfitter offers new programs abroad in Spanish and French language.
Jackson, Wyo (PRWEB) January 23, 2013
Wilderness Ventures, the oldest and most experienced adventure travel program offering teen summer camps, is announcing four new teen language immersion trips focusing on Spanish and French to their catalogue for 2013.
An important aspect of global citizenship is language. Parents, students and universities are recognizing the importance of completing a language learning experience that stems beyond the high school classroom. Wilderness Ventures unique and exciting language learning programs blend the continuity of the classroom, applied practice in the country and meaningful cultural experience to bring a language to life.
For students who want to see significant academic and applied gains to their language skills, Wilderness Ventures’ Spain Language and France Language adventures each incorporate three to four hours of substantive, daily classroom instruction with the rest of the student’s journey. Because the Language Adventures take place on-site, Wilderness Ventures is able to steep its students in the everyday conversations and interactions that take place in that country. When students step out of the classroom they remain immersed in the daily use of the language.
To complement the directed classroom instruction and daily outings, the language immersion programs travel to the most inspiring places in the country where students participate in a mix of culture and adventure components that help them connect with the fabric of their environment and the language being spoken there.
Beyond these new trips to intensive language schools, Wilderness Ventures offers a myriad of language learning opportunities on their other Grand Earth Adventures, traveling to destinations like Costa Rica, Kenya and Thailand. These teen adventure camps focus on elements of service learning or leadership, but also provide the setting and instruction to familiarize students with exotic languages from around the globe.
Visit Wilderness Ventures media kit for a complete fact sheet and online videos, as well as up to date story ideas and press trip opportunities. For more information on Wilderness Ventures’ language programs, please contact Hailey McDonald at hailey(at)adventuremedianews(dot)com or visit http://www.wildernessventures.com/grand-earth-adventures/france-language-adventure-beginner/
About Wilderness Adventures:
With more than 21,000 student alumni, Wilderness Ventures has pioneered outdoor adventures for young adults and has paved the way for youth travel around the world. Their 40 years of experience, unwavering values of community, inter-personal growth, wholesome environments, safety, wilderness education, discovery, conservation, and exploration have led to their unmatched and trusted reputation. Wilderness Ventures currently holds special permits to operate their teen adventure camps in 20 National Parks and 17 designated wilderness areas with special permits.
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|yes, it does make a good pokemon character|
Before I start explaining, let it be known that I am not saying the brain proper doesn't contribute to the 'food-smells-better-when-you're-hungry' phenomenon, in fact I would be very surprised if it didn't involve modulation of the ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens, and hypothalamus.
Mousley et al. (2006) use a technique called electro-olfactogram (EOG) to record the signals from smell receptors. When the cells are excited by an odor, the size of the response can be recorded. They are using this technique in Axolotls, but it can be used in humans too:
|EOG recording in humans (source)|
So what did they find? The found that this peptide (NPY) could modulate the size of the EOG response in hungry axolotls. They applied the same amount of odor molecule and the same amount of NPY for each recording, so the increase in response is not due to more odor molecules or more NPY being present. They suggest that it might be due to mory NPY receptors on the smell cells themselves, indicating that when hungry, the smell cells change in these animals.
|Mousley et al., 2006 Fig4|
So what does that mean? It means that when the animal is hungry, the brain proper has the ability to change the excitability of the smell receptors by dropping some NPY on them (through the terminal nerve).
This study showed the one specific peptide had an effect, but the principle that the brain can actually change the way the peripheral receptors sense things really struck me. I had always thought that the receptors were pretty much stable, and pretty much always sent the same signal to the brain, but that the way the brain interpreted that signal could be different. It fundamentally changed my view of sensory cells to learn that the smell receptors don't always send the same signals to the brain.
However, now I give these wine tasters more credit. Perhaps the untrustworthy smell cells were actually altered by the brain's expectation. I haven't seen any study testing this idea with EOGs on humans, but I think it would make a great experiment.
Mousley A, Polese G, Marks NJ, & Eisthen HL (2006). Terminal nerve-derived neuropeptide y modulates physiological responses in the olfactory epithelium of hungry axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum). The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 26 (29), 7707-17 PMID: 16855098 | <urn:uuid:58cc3195-732e-4341-8a68-57057723681c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cellularscale.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-cant-trust-your-receptors-smell.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944274 | 559 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Composing, even electronica, is also "live" unless you're doing it in a MOD editor from the 90s.
When I'm playing my electronic drum kit using Hydrogen to provide the samples, BELIEVE ME, there is a very very noticeable difference between hearing your snare strike 10 ms after your stick hits the pad and 50 ms after your stick hits the pad. 50 ms is still playable if it's consistent, and if you practice at it a bit - some people use Windows, after all, so it obviously works, even if it's not ideal. :)
But 100 ms is not usable at all. A tenth-second gap means there is no relation whatsoever between the part of the phrase in your head (that is currently being conveyed through your hands to the equipment) and the part of the phrase coming into your ears and being interpreted by your brain as "what I'm playing right now." You can't force half of your brain to work 1/16 note in the past at the same time as you play what you need to for the present. It just won't work. | <urn:uuid:a2496ce0-d4f7-4fc0-b03a-188f49430f0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lwn.net/Articles/420694/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978074 | 225 | 1.960938 | 2 |
It’s time to rise to the occasion!
This update involves two topics. One is about common sense and turf health. The other is about good people and the future health for the game of golf.
Rising to the occasion for turf health is simply raising the height of cut (HOC) of your putting greens prior to the winter season that is falling upon us throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Although this seems like a no brainer, there are still many courses that don’t do this, or put it off too late to make it happen. And there is really no excuse for not raising the height of your greens. While some courses in the higher elevations may already have snow cover, superintendents in these locations figured out some time ago that bringing up their mowing heights on greens can help them have a more healthy turf going into winter. Most raised their HOC starting in mid-September.
But other courses that don’t have the early onset of winter snow, often put off this simple protocol too late to be of any good. It is especially important for courses that do not get season-long snow cover. Short-mowed turf that is exposed to long winters with winds, sun and no precipitation really need to do whatever possible to give the turf the best chance to make it thru the winter. Weather prognosticators are once again calling for a La Nina winter for our part of the world like last year. And maybe there will be banner snows for the resorts in most of the mountain areas. But then, it may bring another extremely dry winter to many other areas.
Plan now to bring up your HOC for your greens. Many spring trips to golf courses have been showing a trend that the greens don’t fare nearly as well as tees, fairways and roughs when it comes to winter survival. HOC of the turf seems to have a direct correlation. With the extremely short shoot length of putting green turf, it’s almost no wonder. And, with all the current research about the benefits of rolling greens, it is no time to delay! Adding to the shoot length of greens turf will help it become more efficient, preparing itself for winter dormancy, fixing carbohydrates, and storing nutrients to help survive the long winter.
Secondly, I’d like you all to Rise to the Occasion and recognize one of our volunteer committee persons, Mr. Terry Nelson, of the Whitefish Lake Golf Course, Whitefish, MT. Terry has been a member of the Green Section Committee since 2000 and has played an active role in the game of golf long before he joined the committee. Terry recently received the National High School Coaches Hall of Fame Award for his many years of coaching young golfers! His years teaching the game of golf, and his volunteer activities with the Green Section, demonstrate his passion for the game and all it has to offer. Please visit this link to read more about Terry’s accomplishments and recognition. Congratulations, Terry, on a well deserved award!
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Barnholdt Family History
Barnholdt Surname History
This Barnholdt history and genealogy page contains the contributed history of the Barnholdt surname made up of user-submitted content from users like you. Barnholdt family history has rich origins whose details are beginning to be understood by Barnholdt family researchers. The Barnholdt family is an old family line that has spread all across the world over the centuries, and as the Barnholdt family has spread, it has changed making its origin a challenge to piece together.
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The evolution of Barnholdt starts with the origins of thelast name. Even in the earliest days of a name there are changes in that name simply because surnames were infrequently written down at that stage in history.
It was not unusual for a last name to change as it enters a new country or language. As these families moved between countries and languages, the Barnholdt name may have changed with them. Barnholdt families have travelled around the world all throughout history.
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- Gilda Barnholdt 1899 - 1977
- Pouline Maria Maria Barnholdt 1797 - ?
- Christiane Augusta Augusta Barnholdt 1745 - 1815
- Christiana Barnholdt 1787 - ?
- Leona Barnholdt 1897 - 1978
- Susanne Anne Anne Barnholdt 1753 - 1753
- Friderich Christian Barnholdt 1747 - ?
- Christian Fredrich Barnholdt 1792 - ?
- Lars Roholdt Barnholdt 1783 - ?
- Marcus Barnholdt 1789 - 1807
- Carl Barnholdt 1923 - 1986
- Lars Barnholdt 1750 - 1828
- Shirley J Barnholdt 1926 - 2009
- Frances Barnholdt 1893 - 1977
- Elisabeth Dorothea Dorothea Barnholdt 1785 - ?
- Christen Lund Barnholdt 1793 - 1797
- J G Barnholdt 1951 - 1988
- Christen Lund Barnholdt 1801 - 1802
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Originally Posted by AsianBob
Ok, so in that case all iPods (essentially iPhones minus the phone app) running the same OS don't count either, even though they're part of the whole ecosystem. Nor the rumored "Tablet" device.
It may be a steep road to climb, but I believe that with Android having a starting base around the world (instead of in the US and then outwards months or even years later). Seeing as the non-US manufacturers release 3 or 4 models apiece yearly, it isn't an impossible road to climb. Of course, this assumes that Android catches on very well, which it seems to be doing.
The only iPod to run the same OS is the Touch. The touch doesn't count as an embedded device any more than does the iPhone itself. Neither would the tablet.
An embedded device is like my microwave, or my Tv. Both use microprocessors with embedded OS's. The one in the microwave is very simple, while the one in my Tv is a Linux distro.
Neither allows me to add programs, or to accomplish any function that isn't already programmed in the hardware. I had film and paper processors in my company that also used embedded OS's. They wouldn't count either.
But, neither the Touch, nor the tablet, from what we know of it, would be classified as phones, unless the use of Skype or Vonage, which works on the Touch through WiFi, would qualify them. The same thing would be true for any devices based on Android (or the upcoming Chrome).
I don't doubt that Android devices will prove popular, but their initial momentum will be to limit Win Mobile. RIM will also be heavily affected. Also from Symbian. It will take from the iPhone as well. But the question is which of those will be most heavily affected.
The iPhone has a pretty big lead, and it's not as though Apple won't be coming up with an improved OS and hardware the middle of next year. At some point, it's likely they will offer effective third party multitasking. The didn't rule it out. Actually, they pretty much said it would happen when they thought they had it ready. For those who are making the biggest deal about not wanting the iPhone because of that, once it comes, they will succumb. This is essentially what happened with C/paste and MMS.
Right now the major disadvantages to both the Pre and Android is the lack of local, computer based, backup, storage, OS updating, and purchasing of all kinds, apps, music, etc. I know that both Palm and Google are trying to make people conform to their own way of doing things, but it's too early for that. I prefer Apple's open way of using a Mac or PC for that. Ever try to buy a big program from your phone? Or search the store on an Android or Pre device? Forget it. Even on the iPhone or touch, which is much better at searching the store, as well as actually buying something, it's a poor reflection of the way it's done from a computer. | <urn:uuid:ff745992-b660-49c8-a6bd-d9eb42c8fe85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/104509/review-roundup-motorola-droid-verizons-first-android-handset/120 | 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 | 0.975247 | 638 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The database is the engine of business IT. Databases lie at the heart of both custom and off-the-shelf enterprise applications. And whilst databases are sometimes viewed mostly as a tool for storing information, they provide the underlying functionality for tasks from customer relationship management to finance.
But this broad functionality presents a challenge for IT leaders when it comes to streamlining or modernising database infrastructure in order to subserve business agilty. Databases are so critical but also so tightly bound to business applications -- and by extension, business processes -- that changing the database risks disrupting the business.
Nor is it always simple to identify which databases support which applications or to decouple the database and application layers within an application "stack."
As databases are bought as standalone systems or separate components of higher-level applications or embedded in applications or even business services, companies can easily find they are running a plethora of different database platforms, supporting a wide range of applications and processes.
One single database instance might power several applications or application instances; but an application might also draw data from multiple databases. Sometimes these connections are not always clear.
As the chief information officer of one UK government agency explained, when the agency audited its IT infrastructure as part of a wider IT management project, it found applications belonging to other agencies running on top of its databases. These "guest" applications were not affecting database performance, but they had created dependencies and points of failure, unknown to the agency’s IT managers, said the CIO, who cannot be identified for reasons of confidentiality.
Changing database strategy
Nonetheless, pressure is growing for businesses to look again at their database infrastructures in order to promote business agility, especially in cases where the business is a heavy user of data and analytics. A requirement to store larger volumes of data is putting strain on some business database architectures, especially older systems (early versions of SQL Server, for example) that were not designed to handle large data sets. "People may switch ... because they want to move beyond historical analysis and move to predictive analysis or real-time analytics and to high-speed search," said Steve Gallagher, a technology specialist at PA Consulting Group. "Databases need to be faster and to deal with more complex data types."
The CIO of one UK government agency has said that, when it audited its IT infrastructure as part of a wider IT management project, it found applications belonging to other agencies running on top of its databases.
IT leaders are also looking more closely at basic database performance. But where in the past companies might have tackled performance bottlenecks through hardware upgrades, constraints around budgets, data centre space and even available power make that harder.
Often, however, the main motivation for switching databases is neither capacity nor performance, but cost. "Apart from speed, businesses switch because they are looking to do more with less: to have a lower TCO [total cost of ownership]," Gallagher said.
With IT budgets under continued pressure, analysts expect CIOs to look again at their database strategies to see whether it is possible to consolidate to fewer database instances, and perhaps to fewer vendors. In addition, many companies will be looking not only at licence costs and maintenance fees, but also at the staff costs of their database administration teams. "Left unchecked, database costs can become a significant part of the IT budget," cautioned Forrester Research analyst Noel Yuhanna.
Another factor is the shelf life of the database technology itself. Where businesses are running older databases and vendors have either announced the end of support for the software or its future is uncertain, CIOs might prefer to upgrade sooner rather than later. Hardware costs could also be a consideration. "Vendors argue that you need less hardware [with newer databases] because they perform better," said Philip Howard, an analyst at Bloor Research.
A change of database strategy might also be forced on the IT department, through other changes in the business. Mergers, acquisitions and the sale of business units can prompt either the consolidation or splitting up of database resources. But upgrades or changes to business applications can also force a change to their underlying databases, and this can be a trigger to look at other database instances the business is running.
In some cases, hardware changes too can be a reason to change databases -- either because of a move between platforms, typically either to Linux or Windows to take advantage of lower-cost server hardware, or to support server consolidation and virtualisation. And more forward-looking CIOs are, with reference to increased business agility, looking at how cloud computing will affect their business applications, and so their underlying database strategy.
The barriers to database switching
Switching databases is not a risk-free task, though. Because businesses depend so much on their data, a database change is not just a simple software update; it goes to the heart of an organisation's IT strategy. So the reasons for switching must be compelling.
Even database vendors concede that a database platform switch -- rather than a version upgrade with the same vendor -- is still the exception rather than the rule.
"Only a couple of clients have moved databases without upgrading something else, and that has been down to performance," said Ian West, UK information management leader at IBM. "We've seen big bottlenecks in data warehousing environments where there was nothing wrong with the hardware."
Chris Glynn, a senior consultant at IT integrator 2e2, said, in a similar vein: "There's not always a need to change -- look at how you are using what you have got. ... Sometimes clients recognise themselves that the issue is with the database layer. Databases are often designed for transactions, not reporting systems or analysis."
The ability to either switch or consolidate databases is also limited by several factors. Applications running on top of the database, or drawing data from it, may need to be updated in order to continue functioning. And some applications -- including human resources and accounting packages -- use embedded database instances. These databases usually cannot be uncoupled from the application, so database consolidations or conversions could mean switching to a new application as well.
Then there is the business risk. Moving to new databases likely will disrupt business processes, at least in the short term. For that reason alone, CIOs often find it easier to migrate databases at the same time as other technology upgrades. Doing so also spreads the cost of contingency planning. "Businesses today are more dependent on IT than ever; the ability of IT infrastructure to drive and enable the business is intrinsic," noted David Rajan, a technology director for Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel.
In the slightly longer term, however, database migration is on a path to becoming easier. As well as greater compatibility between proprietary SQL extensions and data types and technologies for exchanging data, such as XML, some vendors are developing database compatibility layers (DCLs) that will allow one database to emulate the tool set of another.
Currently, IBM is the main vendor offering a DCL. Forrester predicts, though, that others will follow with their own products.
But IT departments that are planning to move to a new database should test the technology carefully before committing critical systems to it, cautions Bloor Research's Howard.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has long recognized the link between health and universal human dignity. Its constitution says: "The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition".
A WHO review in 2000 of 191 countries for the quality of their health care services placed France first and Sierra Leone last. Many Canadians were probably surprised to see that we placed only 30th, not far ahead of the United States at 37. Canada ranked 21 in availability of CAT-scan machines, 19 in availability of MRIs, and sixth in the availability of cancer radiation units.
WHO believes that governments should develop explicit health policies that set benchmarks, outline parameters, delineate the expected roles of health care professionals, and build public consensus. In my view, so should our provincial/federal/territorial governments and the various health professions as the providers of health care across Canada.
TWO MAJOR HEALTH/HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES:
Female Genital Mutilation
Everyone knows that health is vital to quality of life and can also be used as a tool of oppression. In too many parts of the world, girls still undergo the dangerous experience of female genital mutilation (FGM). The appalling practice leaves them with severe health complications. Gender discrimination in it is clear in that it targets only women and girls – both of whom need particular protection in the assertion of human rights and gender equality.
It is also a tool of oppression. Even though other women often assist in carrying out FGM, it is an attempt to control a woman’s sexuality and body and assumes that they have somehow been created in a way that needs to be drastically altered in order to make them acceptable. FGM continues as a major health and dignity issue in the 21st century. It is even carried out sometimes by health care practitioners, leading many to question what human rights standards are in place in such jurisdictions.
Today, I encourage you never to see health issues as being independent from human rights. I am inspired by your interest in governance. Your interest in global issues is vital because the stature of Canada as a country is largely determined by how it chooses to act on issues of international importance.
Please remember that every time a violent form of oppression leaves someone hospitalized, or when a woman in a developing country does not carry a child to term because she did not have access to pre-natal care, it is not only an issue for the local medical community but one for everyone concerned with the spread and maintenance of human dignity on the planet.
Permit me now to turn to a second major international human rights-health issue, which relates to the theme of this conference in various ways. One is the nexus between how the demand for human organs affects the lives of many nationals in the important country of China. I've spent a good deal of volunteer time on this issue during the past four years, including travel to perhaps forty national capitals, seeking to raise the awareness of legislators, governments, media, civil societies, health professionals, international bodies and the public internationally generally to persuade each of them to pressure the government in Beijing to end its inhuman commerce in human organs.
David Matas, the renowned Winnipeg lawyer, and I came to the dismaying conclusion that Falun Gong practitioners across China have been and are being killed often without any form of trial for their organs on a large scale. We wrote an independent report that came to this conclusion, which came out in July 2006. There was an updated version in 2007 you can access in 19 languages from www.david-kilgour.com. A book was published late last year titled Bloody Harvest, which was launched at a meeting of the all-party Canadian Parliamentary Friends of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline with principles for living, meditation and exercises, which was introduced first across China in 1992. Outside China, it is now practised in about 114 countries. Initially, the party-state of China encouraged the practice initially as beneficial for public health. By 1999, it had grown so popular that the Communist party became afraid that its own supremacy might be threatened. The numbers across China had grown from virtually none in 1992, according to a government estimate, to 70-100 million citizens. The practice was accordingly banned and practitioners have been demonized in party media with virtually all manner of untruth and vilification continuously since 1999.
Practitioners were asked to recant. Those who refused and continued the practice and those who protested the banning were arrested. If they recanted after arrest, they were released. If they did not, they were tortured. If they recanted after torture, they were then released. If they did not recant after torture, many disappeared into the detention and forced labour gulag.
Our conclusion is that many of the disappeared were killed for their organs, which were trafficked to transplant tourists. It would take too much time to set out all the reasons we came to that conclusion. We invite you to read our report or our book. Briefly, two of the 52 evidential trails we followed which led to our conclusion are these:
1) Only Falun Gong practitioners in work camps and prisons are systematically blood tested and physically examined. This testing cannot be motivated by concerns over the health of practitioners because they are also systematically tortured. Testing is necessary for organ transplants because of the need for blood type compatibility between the organ source and the recipient.
2) Traditional sources of transplants--prisoners sentenced to death and then executed, voluntary donors, the brain dead/cardiac alive--come nowhere near to explaining the total number of transplants done across China since 1999. There is no organized system of organ donations. There is a cultural aversion to organ donation. There is no national organ matching or distribution system. The only significant source in China of organs for transplants before the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners began in 1999 was prisoners sentenced to death and then executed. The volume of organ transplants in China went up dramatically shortly after the banning of Falun Gong, yet the numbers of persons sentenced to death and then executed did not increase.
We estimate that about 41,500 organs transplanted over the period of persecution up to 2005 came from Falun Gong practitioners. How we reached this conclusion is explained in our book and in our report. We deducted from the 90,000 transplants, which a government spokesman said were done over the period examined, those which came from executed criminals and other explained sources. The difference was 41,500 up until 2005 alone. Consider how much blood money the party-state and its agents, including medical professionals, are making from organ trafficking and forced labour provided by Falun Gong practitioners.
Forced Labour Camps
Matas and I visited about a dozen countries to interview Falun Gong practitioners sent to forced labour camps, who managed later to leave the camps and the country itself. They told us of working in appalling conditions for up to sixteen hours daily with no pay, little food, being cramped together on the floor for sleeping, and being tortured. They made export products, ranging from clothing to chopsticks to Christmas decorations from all indications often as subcontractors to grossly unethical multinational companies.
The camps were created in the Mao era and allow the Party to send anyone to them for up to four years without any form of hearing or appeal. One estimate of their number across China as of 2005 was 340, having a capacity of about 300,000 inmates. In 2007, a US government report estimated that at least half of the inmates in the camps were Falun Gong. It is the combination of totalitarian governance and 'anything is permitted' or 'carnivore' economics that allows such inhuman practices to persist.
Since our report came out, laws and practices in China have changed. A law on transplants in May 2007 required that transplants be performed only in registered hospitals. The Ministry of Health announced that from June 26, 2007 Chinese patients would be given priority access to organ transplants over foreigners. The announcement also banned all medical institutions from transplanting organs into foreign transplant tourists. The government announced in August 2009 that it was launching an organ donation system as a pilot project.
With these changes, however, the crimes against humanity continue. The recipients have changed from mostly foreign to local, but the sources remain substantially the same. The government denies that organs are being sourced from prisoners who are Falun Gong practitioners. Yet it accepts that organs for transplants are being sourced from prisoners. The only debate we have with the Government is which group of prisoners is the source of organs.
"Non consenting parties"
Sourcing of organs from prisoners is done without their consent. Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu in Guangzhou in November 2006 said in a speech, "too often organs come from non consenting parties". At the time of the announcement of an organ donor pilot project, Huang indicated that executed prisoners “are definitely not a proper source for organ transplants". This principle, that prisoners are not an acceptable source for organs, is followed by the Transplantation Society and the World Medical Association. So what is the rule of law world going to do about the party-state’s abuse of global transplant ethics? Our report and book have a long list of recommendations, but, given the shortness of time, I’ll mention here only two.
One is extraterritorial legislation. The 2007 policy giving priority to Chinese patients has cut down on transplant tourism to China, but such legislation would be a useful statement of universal principle. The sorts of transplants in which the Chinese medical system engages are illegal everywhere else in the world. But it is not illegal for a foreigner from any country to go to China, obtain a transplant which would be illegal at home, and then return home. Foreign transplant legislation everywhere is territorial; it has no extraterritorial reach. Many other laws are global in their sweep. For instance, child sex tourists can be prosecuted not just in the country where they abuse children, but often at home as well. This sort of legislative sanction does not exist for transplant tourists who pay for organ transplants without bothering to determine whether the organ donor has consented.
A second recommendation is that any person known to be involved in trafficking in the organs of prisoners in China should be barred entry by all foreign countries.
The Chinese people want the same things as Commonwealth residents everywhere, including, respect for all, education, to be safe and secure, good jobs, the rule of law, good governance and a sustainable natural environment. Living standards have improved on the coast and in other urban areas in China, but there is a huge cost. Most Chinese continue to be exploited by the party-state and firms, often owned by or contracted for manufacturing to multinationals, which operate today across their country like 19th century robber barons. This explains partly why the prices of consumer products 'made in China' seem so low—the externalities are borne by workers, their families and the natural environment.
The attempted crushing of Falun Gong, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and other independent faith groups, human rights lawyers, such as Gao Zhisheng, and other civil society communities and in recent years indicates that China's party-state must be engaged with great caution by all of our governments despite the severe ongoing world economic problems. If it ends the systematic and gross abuses of human dignity and takes major steps to indicate that it wishes to treat its trade partners in a mutually-beneficial way, the new century can bring harmony for China and its trading partners. The Chinese people for whom, like you, I have the strongest admiration have the numbers, perseverance, self-discipline, intelligence and other qualities to help make this new century better and more peaceful for the entire human family if given the opportunity. | <urn:uuid:a9ae3de0-341c-4b27-9fc2-5e35f53a8c8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.david-kilgour.com/2010/May_09_2010_01.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967909 | 2,424 | 2.875 | 3 |
1916, 9 February
General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.
1927, 9 February
Spain and France begin talks on their respective 'sphere of influence' in Morocco.
1992, 9 February
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As this story goes to press, just a few days remain in eWeek's OpenHack 4 security test.
As this story goes to press, just a few days remain in eWeeks OpenHack 4 security test. No one has accomplished any of the four remaining hack challenges, but a vulnerability has been spotted in site code.
The number of attacks on the www.openhack.com site has dropped off significantly from the beginning days of the test: Only about 5,000 new attacks were recorded in the past week by the IntruVert Networks Inc. intrusion detection system monitoring the test site.
Only one OpenHack challengea cross-site scripting attackhas been successfully accomplished so far. The person who levied that attackJeremy Poteet, chief technology officer at IT consultancy Technology Partners Inc.has since discovered on the Oracle Corp. OpenHack application a very clever, though as yet unproven, way to hijack session information in a rare combination of circumstances. (For OpenHack test methodology, go to www.eweek.com/openhack.)
Using a modification of his cross-site scripting attack, Poteet was able to log in as himself and then submit a hand-crafted URL string that modified the user identification parameter to replace his user ID with a different ID string. The vulnerability gave him an idea for how a more complex attack might be carried out.
Oracle application security checks prevent this switch from happening when the replacement user ID already exists in the database. However, if the user ID doesnt exist, an attacker could set his or her user ID session variable to the new user ID.
This user ID switch is blocked from reaching the database and so is nonpersistent and affects only the current session variables. This session information automatically expires after a few minutes. To get around that, Poteet proposed writing a custom program to maintain the session by refreshing a Web page every few minutes.
All this effort is in the hope that a user will come along and create a new account on the server, using the same user ID Poteet had chosen.
With the right software, luck and timing, we think this attack could work. If so, an attacker using Poteets hack would be logged in as that subsequent user and could view that users records, including any credit card data entered.
The application vulnerability Poteet spotted was the result of a bug in the original reference application code we developed. However, the bug appears not to have survived the application rewrite Microsoft Corp. did to convert the eWeek Labs-written reference code into Active Server Pages .Net.
The OpenHack site was scheduled to go offline at midnight PST on Nov. 8. This week, well be posting at www.eweek.com/openhack intrusion detection reports, system logs and, most important, OpenHack application source code from Microsoft and Oracle. In addition, look for a complete wrap-up of OpenHack 4and an analysis of what the results mean for enterprise securityin the Dec. 2 issue of eWeek.
West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck is at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Timothy Dyck is a Senior Analyst with eWEEK Labs. He has been testing and reviewing application server, database and middleware products and technologies for eWEEK since 1996. Prior to joining eWEEK, he worked at the LAN and WAN network operations center for a large telecommunications firm, in operating systems and development tools technical marketing for a large software company and in the IT department at a government agency. He has an honors bachelors degree of mathematics in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and a masters of arts degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. | <urn:uuid:2a31dfb1-dc90-4648-9c34-1bf5dbe084bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/As-OpenHack-Test-Nears-End-Vulnerability-Comes-to-Light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94183 | 773 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The story is the same no matter which small town or rural area in this region: fewer minor hockey players, students at desks and dance rehearsals.
Numbers contained in detailed census data released Tuesday by Stats Canada show the number of children declined in every village, town and city in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, save Kamloops.
While the youth population in Kamloops remained unchanged between 2006 and 2011, there were declines in all surrounding towns ranging from -1.4 in Chase to -36 per cent in Wells Gray country.
One of the largest was in Cache Creek, which saw nearly a 14 per cent decrease in the number of kids.
Mayor John Ranta said his community is suffering the same decline in children as other rural communities, compounded by a drop in tonnage, and jobs, going to Cache Creek landfill.
"The type of person who generally gets a job at the landfill is child-bearing age. When you have a child, you want a decent job. (But) people with children need to move to support their family."
The number of people directly employed by the landfill has fallen by two-thirds from about 120 at its peak.
The city of Merritt continues to be home to a high percentage of children, 17.4 per cent, compared to the rest of its population. The number in Kamloops is 15.6 per cent.
But that number shrank by more than seven per cent in the region's second largest community for reasons unknown to Mayor Susan Roline.
"We have a lot of young families here. I see it each year in our community Christmas parade — they're lining the streets."
But Roline acknowledged classrooms are emptying. The local district recently scrapped a middle school.
Ranta said his community continues to emphasize facilities and programs for children. It developed a cover for its outdoor court several years ago, has an outdoor pool set amid a park in a desert landscape and hired a program co-ordinator on contract.
"In a lot of rural communities, people 20-25 years want to see the bright lights of the city. Lots of times they move. Sometimes they don't come back."
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Thanksgiving can sometimes seem gluttonous and maybe you don’t want to spend your day overeating and drinking. Never fret, however there are great and charitable events you could attend instead. In case you want a break from the loud family chatter, the mounds of food, and the holiday shopping sales, you might want to take look at this list. There other ways to celebrate the holiday that reminds us of our gratitude for all we have.
Turkey Trots: All over the country, in most cities there are marathons on Thanksgiving Day and many of them are to raise awareness or money for a charitable causes. For instance Boston has its annual 5K Road Race to benefit the Central New England Chapter of the MS Society. There are hundreds of these Trots all over the country. Find one near you on this helpful Turkey Trot website, which lists local races as well as helpful running tips.
Turkey Day Rides: If running is just not your style, there are also hundreds of Turkey Day Bike Rides. Before feasting upon a meal, burn some extra calories while promoting alternative transportation and raising money! For example, Milwaukee hosts its annual 2 hour ride which is free to the public. Sacramento, CA also hosts a huge Turkey Day Ride, it is in its 23rd year. It’s a family event and people of all ages are welcome and is followed by a feast. The ride is really underground and grassroots and proceeds go to local and national charities. Guaranteed your town has a local ride as well and you can find many on your local bicycle associations.
Charity Yoga: Maybe runs and bike rides have a little too much cardio action. If you are looking for a little something more relaxing and soul soothing way to spend your holiday check out charity Yoga. Tacoma, WA hosts such an event. The yoga classes are free Thanksgiving Day with a suggested donation of $25 and all proceeds go to the Tacoma Rescue Mission. Other cities have similar events and check your local listings for Thanksgiving yoga.
We want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and no matter how you spend it. And it makes total sense to kick back and enjoy your family or to get involved in charity events. Either way use the holiday as a time for reflection and to give thanks to those who came before us and for what we have today. | <urn:uuid:6a9ada73-47f4-41bf-a164-863e76251df0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://autonomieproject.wordpress.com/tag/charity-yoga/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958685 | 474 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Their Disney Princess Dig 'n Dips Valentine card packets (think Fun Dip) shows a fair-skinned Sleeping Beauty smiling on the vanilla side and Princess Tiana peddling watermelon.
The watermelon trope has historically been used to identify African Americans in a pejorative way. According to David Pilgrim, curator of the Jim Crow Museum, "These images on postcards, sheet music, ashtrays, and souvenirs are visual expressions of the stereotype of Blacks as ignorant, mindless buffoons. Why worry about persistent patterns of institutional racism and racial economic and health disparities when you can just eat a watermelon?"
Disney has an unfortunate history with racial stereotypes, from the "Red Man" Indian chief in Peter Pan, to the Siamese cats in The Aristocats, to Disney's evolving portrayal of black characters as crows (Dumbo) to a monkey (The Jungle Book). The company has all but disowned 1946's The Song of the South due to its racist content.
When Disney first began working on The Princess and the Frog in 2009, critics scrutinized the company's production choices to make sure that it didn't perpetuate racially charged stereotypes. (Princess Tiana was the subject of unsourced internet rumors that she had been originally conceived as a chambermaid named Maddy, before her change of name and occupation, to a chef, according to The New York Times.)
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As our long winter begins up north, my coaching buddies and I where talking about youth baseball pitchers along with some tips we all have used in baseball. I hope you may find some help in the following article.
Every kid wants to pitch in baseball it seems. Pitchers are learning how to throw pitches and are the center of the game. Young pitchers set the pace of the little league game. Young pitchers feel great when they strike out the No. 3 hitter in the lineup. They float to the dugout when after a one, two, three inning. They don't have to run off the field like everybody else. The baseball pitcher gets walk off after the third out. It is a rewarding position to play in baseball. It can also be very humbling when you lose the strike zone, start getting hit, or your defense has trouble helping you out. The worst part is when you have to be taken out of the game or off the pitcher's mound.
Pitching is much more than just throwing the baseball past hitters. The top three rules for baseball pitchers are as old as baseball itself. Location, location location. At eight or nine years old you can get away most of time with just throwing heat past hitters. As you get older however, off unless you learn how to change speeds, and change location, hitters will begin to hit your fastball.
Young pitchers who are top youth baseball pitchers at 8 years old sometimes aren't even pitching at 11 years old for of a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons we will cover in later articles. The sooner the young baseball pitcher learns the necessity of changing speeds and location the sooner they will improve as a pitcher. Baseball pitchers 8-11 will have a wide variety of throwing motions. As a coach you need to present options to your young pitchers. Little league coaches should stress a compact wind up with as little unneeded movement as possible.You are not reinventing the wheel here. Please stress balance first to your pitchers. Arm position, rotation of the hips and balanced controlled follow-through are also recommended.
Pitch counts and no breaking balls of any kind are also strong recommendations. Youth baseball pitchers can begin to be introduced to breaking pitches around puberty is the view of some baseball coaches. Change ups will more than suffice until then. You can do a great deal of long term damage to your young athlete's arms by number one, not getting into a warm-up routine early in the career. Learning how to throw baseball pitches is a process, not an event. It's the habit that needs to be instilled early on by baseball coaches. At 8 years old they may not physically need to have a half-hour warm up routine. At 13 they do, so if it is not ingrained by then, all it takes is one incident to hurt the young pitcher's arm.
Pitch counts. Please abide by the recommended youth pitch counts per age group. We're talking long term here. It is your responsibility as a baseball coach to protect your players. It also teaches young pitchers a lesson or two. It teaches them to use pitches wisely if you want to go deep into the game. Young pitchers should learn get batters out by using location not just heat. Seven pitch innings using your fielders, keeps everybody in the game. It also keeps the pitch count lower and pitchers stay in the game longer. I know the younger age groups may have inning limits, it is still never too early to instill these basics. Youth baseball is too great of a sport not to give our young players the right instruction.
Thanks for your time,
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Well-read and artistic, with a keen intellect and interest in national events, Mary Lee was steadfast in her faith and unshakeable in her commitments-all in her own very personal style.
Her husband teased about her "forgetfulness in her housekeeping"-but her generous nature balanced his strict sense of order and responsibility. Often on her own, Mrs. Robert E. Lee became a capable military wife, the manager of a growing family. She was also an avid gardener, painter, writer, and seamstress, as well as a children's teacher. Despite crippling arthritis, she constantly gave of herself-nursing her family and friends, tirelessly knitting socks for soldiers, and turning out mementos to support charitable causes.
Until the end of her life at the age of 66, Mary Lee was, according to those who knew and loved her, "bright, sunny-tempered, and uncomplaining, constantly occupied with her books, letters, knitting, and painting..."
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Education forms the backdrop for nearly every moment of the Harry Potter series. Even though war is at hand and the world is in turmoil, there is still learning taking place, there is still a sense of innocence. However, in this story, we learn that even Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is not safe. In fact, a school is perhaps the most powerful and, therefore, the most dangerous place when war afflicts the Wizarding community. By virtue of being a place of knowledge and learning that has existed for hundreds of years, Hogwarts contains information and ancient magic so powerful and so complex that even Voldemort would do anything to get a piece of the pie. | <urn:uuid:033b8984-13cf-413e-8387-c3bad1cc6740> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shmoop.com/harry-potter-half-blood-prince/education-theme.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970061 | 134 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Of guns and governments
Diolinda de Souza of the Movement for Landless Workers in Brazil has lost a husband - but not her courage to continue, as David Ransom found out.
'If you talk of human rights in Brazil,' says Diolinda de Souza, 'we say we have no human rights.'
But soothing noises are one thing, the daily lives of rural Brazilians quite another. Nowhere else on earth are such vast tracts of land still owned by such a tiny oligarchy of landowners - fazendeiros -with quite such deeply entrenched powers; nowhere else are so many millions of rural people left landless and destitute in a country of such fabulous natural wealth. The last serious attempt at land reform in Brazil was, precisely, in 1964, providing an immediate motive for the military coup. Very little has changed since - except in the mood of rural Brazilians.
'For one thing there's a lot more popular mobilization today,' says Diolinda. 'Also, we live under a "democratic" regime and the Government would not want to threaten the appearance, at least, of democracy. But what the Government does is to try to weaken popular mobilization by persecuting and even killing members of the MST.'
The MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) was founded in 1985, though peasant and rural workers' organizations have been around in one form or another for just about as long as the demand for land reform. But in recent years it has gathered fresh momentum, staging land invasions, marches and demonstrations and attracting literally hundreds of thousands of rural Brazilians into its ranks.
'My family is from a background of small farmers,' explains Diolinda, whose striking face, in its maturity, reflects a youthful charm. 'My father is a small farmer in the South East. I first became aware of the MST in 1985, when I was 15 years old. My family stopped working for the fazendeiros and began to occupy land. In 1986 we settled on land set aside for "research". Having the land meant that I was able to go to school and I studied for the first grade until 1988, when I began to work as a volunteer for the MST.
'Now I live in a settlement in the western region of São Paulo state. I support the MST because of the history of my family. We were so jubilant after we occupied that land. So I felt a responsibility for the other millions of landless people in Brazil who face hunger every day.'
Injustice does not walk alone - one abuse follows another. And so the fazendeiros of Brazil have always employed - and still employ today - the most brutal forms of intimidation against local activists. Such is their power that they are generally able to count on the local police and legal system to do their bidding. Diolinda's partner José Rainha, a local MST leader, discovered this to his cost in 1989, when he was charged with complicity in the murder of a farmer and a military police officer during a land occupation. He had already survived two attempts on his life. The guilty verdict and the sentence appear to have been based more on his membership of the MST than on any convincing proof related to the murder charge. Amnesty International believes that the charge was politically motivated, that there is no credible evidence against him, and that the trial did not meet international standards of fairness.
'He was sentenced to 26-and-a-half years' imprisonment for a murder which he did not commit,' says Diolinda. 'He was brought to trial and sentenced by the fazendeiros. The main prosecution witness said he saw Rainha at the scene of the murders, but his description of Rainha was completely different from what he actually looks like. Prosecution witnesses did not give their testimony before the jury. Of the 21 jurors, 17 owed some kind of allegiance to local landowners. The crime took place in the state of Espirito Santo, but Rainha was in the northern state of Ceará, 1,500 kilometres away; at the time of the murder he was actually in a meeting with the State Governor.'
Rainha has not yet been imprisoned but awaits a second trial - automatic if the sentence is more than 20 years. On March 1996 Diolinda herself was detained in a thinly veiled attempt to end her campaign for his release. She was adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and subsequently freed. With the continuing and regular assassination of activists by hired guns, the threat to Diolinda was real enough. The effect, however, was not exactly what the fazendeiros must have intended.
'We are afraid of hunger, yes,' says Diolinda, 'but not of hired guns or governments - or the fazendeiros. '
David Ransom is an NI co-editor.
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Location: From I-94, US 20 or US 12, head north on SR 49, about halfway between Gary and Michigan City. The road runs right into the park.
Description: Indiana Dunes State Park fits the description of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; lots of sand, lots of beach. It serves a very urban area and can be very crowded during the summer; if you are interested in the unique ecology of the area, go during spring or fall or even winter, if the snow permits. If you just want to build sandcastles or loll in the sun, summer is good but noisy. The trails are good exercise; climbing a sand dune is like three steps forward, two steps back. The eastern two thirds of the park is the Indiana Dunes Nature Preserve.
Nearby Points of Interest: The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana's only National Park; Little Calumet-Langeluttig Marsh; Deep River Nature Preserve
Cautions: The Beach is sometimes closed for swimming due to contamination of the water. Bear this in mind.
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The good news this morning is that by reading this editorial, you survived the "end of the world."
The bad news, well, there is none if this appears in print.
While some Northeast Michigan residents were reacting to reports of "this year's Snowstorm of the Year" like it was the end of the world, even it fell well below projections and warnings Thursday.
Instead, the Winter Solstice arrived today just as it always does on Dec. 21, and the only really unusual thing about today should be that it officially will be the shortest day of daylight all year long.
While the Mayan calendar finished off one of its great cycles today, conspiracy theorists jumped at the opportunity to create all kinds of doomsday prophesies. The most popular seemed to include a Star Wars galactic alignment of the planets.
True, water levels in Lake Huron are really, really low - perhaps lending some to blame gravitational pull as a culprit.
However we, like you, still went about our business of planning for tomorrow. Christmas presents have been purchased, cookies baked and stockings hung by the fireplace.
In the words of that adorable red head Little Orphan Annie: "The sun'll come out tomorrow."
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Whistleblower findings document how ALEC is used by corporations to hurt families, communities
On Wednesday, August 3, a teacher, a small business owner, a reverend and a disenfranchised voter will speak out at a press conference to unveil the real human toll of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s "model bills." ALEC is a vehicle by which corporations and politicians collaborate on blueprints for pro-corporate legislation to bring back to the states.
WHAT: A Press Conference to Give Voice to the Victims of the ALEC Agenda
WHEN: Wednesday, August 3, 10:00 AM CDT
- Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy (Moderator)
- Jim Randels, a New Orleans area English teacher, will discuss attacks on public education
- Nicole Schulte will discuss her experience with new Voter-ID laws in Wisconsin
- Todd Landfried, Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, will discuss the damage caused by draconian anti-immigrant measures
- Rev. Dr. Willie Gable Sr. will discuss the injustice of Louisiana’s new bill against health-care reform
WHERE: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
Bayside B, 4th Floor
500 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
LIVE STREAM: The press conference will be live-streamed for remote viewers.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a vehicle through which global corporations and state politicians collaborate and vote behind closed doors to design legislation that benefits the huge corporations funding ALEC. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life, and carry serious consequences for the American people by imposing voting restrictions , undermining environmental protections , scapegoating immigrants to profit from the private prison industry and defunding public education . Learn more here .
In addition, Common Cause will release a report, “Legislating Under the Influence: Money, power and the American Legislative Exchange Council,” which examines how nearly $400 million in campaign contributions to state legislative candidates has helped ALEC secure champions for pro-business bills in Capitols from coast to coast.
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Cigna is a global company—our 35,000 people represent different cultures, beliefs and values. We take an active, affirmative approach to making sure every one of our people develops an appreciation for individual and collective experiences, different ways of thinking and diverse communication styles. This approach is also more than a cultural diversity program; it's part of Cigna's corporate culture.
We believe this type of environment encourages a truly healthy workplace that improves the well-being of everyone whose life we touch around the globe, including:
We're committed to strengthening the demographic composition of our team and enhancing job satisfaction at all levels.
We're committed to meeting the specific individual and cultural needs of everyone we serve.
We're committed to broadening the cultural scope of the suppliers, physicians and health care professionals we engage.
We're committed to targeting our investments, philanthropy, volunteerism and professional associations to benefit entire communities, including the previously underserved.
We have four teams to help develop a healthy workplace so we continue to meet these commitments:
- Enterprise Leadership Council—Senior executives meet quarterly to ensure workplace programs reflect global, cultural and business goals.
- Advisory Steering Committee—Leaders from Cigna's global and HR teams meet bi-monthly to advise on global policies and business integration.
- Business Leadership Councils—A balanced team of employees, managers and senior leaders meet bi-monthly to set workplace diversity objectives for functional units and business segments.
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Mobile information devices like PDAs and MP3 players occupy the bags and pockets of tens of millions of Americans. These devices can be pricey, often costing hundreds of dollars. The cost to obtain the information programmed on these gizmos can be exponentially more. If your portable device is damaged or stolen, will these costs be covered by your insurance?
Consider the iPod. Their owners span every demographic. For some, the iPod is as important to getting through the day as morning coffee or sunshine.
This pervasive product ranges in cost—usually a few hundred bucks or less depending on bells and whistles—and that’s just for the hardware. Downloading music can cost a dollar a song, videos and “podcasts” even more. Add in time spent collecting this information and you’ve got thousands of dollars invested in this thing. The same is true for other portable devices.
The good news is that most homeowners policies cover personal property while it is anywhere in the world—a positive considering the nature of these devices. The bad news is that coverage is limited—meaning the check you receive after the loss may not be what you expect.
While many believe their iPod is “worth” thousands of dollars, a homeowners insurance policy is designed to cover “direct physical loss” to property. Therefore, a typical policy will cover the cost of the device itself but not the cost of the information stored on the device. Some homeowner policies include coverage for loss to “personal records,” which may include information stored on a portable device. However, not all will do so and those that do likely limit coverage to a relatively small amount. If you have questions, let us know.
More and more people are using PDAs, such as BlackBerrys and iPhones, to conduct business on the fly. These devices keep them wirelessly connected to their work through email, Internet and phone.
If you own the device personally and use it for business, coverage under your homeowners insurance policy is less generous. Personal property used for business may not be covered worldwide and is subject to an amount of insurance that is lower than other personal property. A further restriction is that any limited coverage available for “personal records” does not apply to business records.
If the device is owned by your employer, it’s likely covered under a business insurance policy. Such policies contain similar limitations for loss of information. Business owners can call us for information about electronic data coverage.
Back it Up
Whether used for business, personal, or both, cost to replace the device itself is likely the extent your insurance will pay if it is damaged or stolen. The best way to protect the information contained in the device is to back-up data periodically. Then, even if you have to replace the device, you won’t have to start from scratch.
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Excretory urography; IVP
An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is a special x-ray examination of the kidneys, bladder, and ureters (the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder).
An IVP is done in a hospital radiology department or a health care provider' s office by an x-ray technician.
You will need to empty your bladder immediately before the procedure starts.
The health care provider will inject an iodine-based contrast (dye) into a vein in your arm. A series of x-ray images are taken at different times to see how the kidneys remove the dye and how it collects in your urine.
A compression device (a wide belt containing two balloons that can be inflated) may be used to keep the contrast material in the kidneys.
You will need to remain still during the procedure, which may take up to an hour.
Before the final image is taken, you will be asked to urinate again, to see how well the bladder has emptied.
You can resume your normal diet and medications after the procedure. You should drink plenty of fluids to help remove all the contrast dye from your body.
As with all x-ray procedures, tell your health care provider if you:
Your health care provider will tell you whether you can eat or drink before this test. You may be given a laxative to take the afternoon before the procedure to clear the intestines so your kidneys can be clearly seen.
You must sign a consent form. You will be asked to wear a hospital gown and to remove all jewelry.
You may feel a burning or flushing sensation in your arm and body as the contrast dye is injected. You may also have a metallic taste in your mouth. This is normal and will quickly disappear.
Some people develop a headache, nausea, or vomiting after the dye is injected.
The belt across the kidneys may feel tight over your belly area.
Bhayani SB, Siegel CL. Urinary tract imaging: Basic principles. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 4.
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Physical conditioning and mental stress reduction - a randomised trial in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
1 Cardiac Surgical Research Unit, Alfred Hospital, Department of Surgery, Monash University, Baker IDI Institute Melbourne, Australia
2 Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
3 Department of Physiotherapy, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
4 Occupational Therapy Services, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011, 11:20 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-20Published: 9 March 2011
Preoperative anxiety and physical unfitness have been shown to have adverse effects on recovery from cardiac surgery. This study involving cardiac surgery patients was primarily aimed at assessing the feasibility of delivering physical conditioning and stress reduction programs within the public hospital setting. Secondary aims were to evaluate the effect of these programs on quality of life (QOL), rates of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) and length of stay (LOS) in hospital.
Elective patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass graft and/or valve surgery at a public hospital in Melbourne, Australia were enrolled. Patients were randomized to receive either holistic therapy (HT) or usual care (UC). HT consisted of a series of light physical exercise sessions together with a mental stress reduction program administered in an outpatient setting for the first two weeks after placement on the waiting list for surgery. A self-administered SF-36 questionnaire was used to measure QOL and hospital records to collect data on LOS and rate of postoperative AF.
The study population comprised 117 patients of whom 60 received HT and 57 received UC. Both programs were able to be delivered within the hospital setting but ongoing therapy beyond the two week duration of the program was not carried out due to long waiting periods and insufficient resources. HT, as delivered in this study, compared to UC did not result in significant changes in QOL, LOS or AF incidence.
Preoperative holistic therapy can be delivered in the hospital setting, although two weeks is insufficient to provide benefits beyond usual care on QOL, LOS or postoperative AF. Further research is now required to determine whether a similar program of longer duration, or targeted to high risk patients can provide measurable benefits.
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The Apps for the Environment challenge (“Challenge”) is an EPA contest aimed at encouraging private sector software developers, students, and others to create innovative applications (“apps”) that use EPA data to promote protection of human health and the environment. EPA publishes a wide variety of environmental data, in multiple formats, as do other parts of the federal government. EPA believes that innovative synthesis and presentation of these various data could foster public understanding of environmental conditions, inform decision-making, and produce a range of other positive outcomes that protect human health and the environment.
The app submission period runs from June 9 to September 16, 2011. EPA will select a winner and runner up in two (2) categories, Best Overall App and Best Student App, and the public will select a Popular Choice App winner. Winners and runners up will be invited to Washington, D.C., in November 2011 to be honored at a recognition event and to demonstrate their apps for EPA experts and managers. EPA will also feature the apps of the winners and runners up on the EPA website.
Submission Period Begins:
12:01am ET, June 9, 2011
Submission Period Ends:
8:00 pm ET, September 16, 2011
Judging Panel and Public Voting Period Begins:
8:00am ET, September 21, 2011
Judging Panel and Public Voting Period Ends:
11:59pm ET, October 7, 2011
Recognition Event & Apps Demo
November 8, 2011
How to Enter
Interested persons should read these Official Rules and register at the Challenge website – http://appsfortheenvironment.challenge.gov. Registration is free and can be done during the Challenge’s Submission Period, June 9 – September 16, 2011. After you register you must verify your email address via the registration email sent to the address entered in the registration form. You will then be able to enter a submission. Fill out the submission form on the application submission tab, including your submission title, a text description of the submission, a link to the app, a list of data used, instructions on how to install the app, and a video that show the app in use. Be sure to read the terms and conditions and, if you agree, check off the box and submit!
Five (5) prizes are available:
- Best Overall App (Winner & Runner Up)
- Best Student App (Winner & Runner Up)
- Popular Choice App
The winners of these five (5) prizes (collectively, “Winners”) will be invited to Washington, D.C., in late October or early November 2011 to be honored at a recognition event and to demonstrate their apps to EPA experts and managers. EPA will also feature the Winners’ apps on the EPA website. Additionally, EPA may provide travel reimbursement, consistent with Federal regulations, to travel to the recognition event. Recipients of travel reimbursement will need to provide receipts to document travel expenses.
To be eligible to win Best Student Application, all members of the developing team must be enrolled in one or more courses at the high school, undergraduate, or graduate level during the summer or fall of 2011.
EPA may also, in its discretion, award Honorable Mentions to other notable apps.
Submissions will be judged by an expert judging panel as well as the public. The Best Overall App and Best Student App will be determined by the expert judging panel, and the Popular Choice App will be determined by public vote.
Best Overall App & Best Student App: The judging panel will consist of program experts and managers at EPA and will select the Best Overall App and Best Student App based upon the following criteria:
- Usefulness: Each submission will be rated on the strength of its potential to help individuals and/or communities make informed decisions about the environment and/or human health.
- Innovativeness: Each submission will be rated for the degree of new thinking it brings to applications for the environment and/or human health, and the creativity shown in designing for impact.
- Usability: Each submission will be rated on its user-friendliness and interactive capabilities. Preference will be given to applications that are easily accessible to a range of consumers, including those with disabilities.
Each judge will score every app on a scale of 1-5 (five being the highest) in all the above criteria. The average score in each category will be computed, and the average scores will be combined to compute a total score for every app. The app with the highest total score overall will receive the Best Overall App prize, and the app with the highest total score among student developers will receive the Best Student app prize. Judges may be named after commencement of the challenge.
Popular Choice App: The public will have the opportunity to select a Popular Choice App winner, which will be determined by public vote on the Challenge website during the Public Voting Period (September 21, 2011 at 8:00am ET toOctober 7, 2011 at 11:59pm ET). Each registered visitor will be limited in the amount of votes he or she may submit as part of the voting process. EPA may disqualify the votes and/or submissions of any users or Contestants seeking to defraud the voting process. The app with the most valid votes will be deemed the Popular Choice App winner.
This Challenge is open to U.S. residents of the 50 States (plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa) who are 13 years and over, groups of such residents, and businesses and organizations domiciled in the U.S. Individuals submitting on behalf of corporations, nonprofits, or groups of individuals (such as an academic class or other team) must meet the eligibility requirements for individual Contestants; however, each individual team member need not meet every criterion. An individual may join more than one team and/or submit entries for more than one corporation or nonprofit organization. Eligibility for a prize award is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. Individuals or entities submitting are referred to herein as Contestants.
As a matter of policy, EPA will not select as Winners any Contestant that is in the Federal Excluded Parties List System established under 2 CFR 180.500 or that fail environmental compliance screening. Environmental compliance screening will be conducted in accordance with the High-Level Recognition provisions of the Compliance Screening for EPA Partnership Programs guidance http://www.epa.gov/partners/resource/ppsguide.pdf
A federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of his or her employment is not eligible to participate. Federal employees acting outside the scope of their employment should consult their ethics official before participating in the Challenge.
NOTE: Federal employees (including EPA employees) interested in participating in the Challenge should first consult their ethics official, but will typically be deemed ineligible if they meet any of the following criteria:
- The employee used government resources in the development or submission of his/her app (e.g. developing or submitting any part of the app on government time).
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- The employee fails to meet any other eligibility requirement outlined in these Official Rules.
For additional information regarding eligibility of contractors and international entities, please see Frequently Asked Questions 4 and 5, respectively, available on the Apps for the Environment website, at http://www.epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment/#faq
To be eligible to win Best Student Application, all members of the Contestant team must be enrolled in one or more courses at the high school, undergraduate, or graduate level during the summer or fall of 2011.
Participation constitutes Contestant's full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules.
In order for Submissions to be eligible to win this Challenge, they must meet the following requirements:
- General – Contestants must provide access to the app, a detailed description of the app, instructions on how to install and operate the app, and system requirements required to run the app (collectively, “Submission”).
- Acceptable platforms – The app must be designed for the Web, a personal computer, a mobile handheld device, console, or any platform broadly accessible on the open Internet.
- Data used – The app must utilize EPA data from any publically available EPA data set, though they need not include all data fields available in a particular resource. A non-exhaustive list of EPA databases and resources is available at: http://www.epa.gov/developer, or on EPA’s website, http://www.epa.gov. The use of data from other sources in conjunction with EPA data is encouraged.
- Environmental focus – Each submission must address at least one of the seven priorities highlighted by the U.S. EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. A list of the Administrator’s priorities is available at – http://blog.epa.gov/administrator/2010/01/12/seven-priorities-for-epas-future/
- Accessibility – The app must, to the extent practicable, be accessible to a wide range of users, including users with disabilities (see EPA’s Section 508 webpage regarding Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for more information on making information technology accessible to users with disabilities: http://www.epa.gov/ accessibility/standards/index.htm
- Deadline – The Submission must be available for evaluation by September 16, 2011 at 11:59 PM ET for judging purposes.
- Intellectual Property – The Submission must not infringe any copyright or any other rights of any third party.
- No EPA logo – The app must not use EPA’s logo or official seal in the Submission, and must not claim EPA endorsement.
- Functionality/Accuracy – A Submission may be disqualified if the software application fails to function as expressed in the description provided by the user, or if the software application provides inaccurate information.
- Security – Submissions must be free of malware. Contestant agrees that EPA may conduct testing on the app to determine whether malware or other security threats may be present. EPA may disqualify the app if, in EPA’s judgment, the app may damage government or others’ equipment or operating environment.
EPA will also screen submissions for Contestant eligibility, IT security, and compliance with Challenge.gov's Standards of Conduct, Submissions appearing to satisfy these criteria will be posted on the Challenge website www.epa.gov/appsfortheenvironment on a rolling basis. Once a Submission is made, the Contestant cannot make any changes or alterations to any part of the Submission. Submissions from Contestants who are under the age of eighteen (18) will be deemed ineligible and will not be posted until and unless a completed Parent / Legal Guardian Consent Form is received. Apps failing to meet Submission Requirements or other submission screenings will be deemed ineligible to win a prize. Posting an app to the Challenge website does not constitute EPA’s final determination of Contestant of the app’ eligibility.
Original Work: By making a Submission under this Challenge, each Contestant warrants that he or she is the sole author and owner of the Submission, that the Submission is wholly original with the Contestant (or is an improved version of an existing app that the Contestant has sufficient rights to use – including the substantial improvement of existing open-source apps), and that it does not infringe any copyright or any other rights of any third party of which Contestant is aware. Each Contestant also warrants that the app is free of malware.
Submission Rights: Each Contestant grants to the EPA an irrevocable, paid-up, royalty-free non-exclusive worldwide license to post, link to, and display publically the app on the Web, for the purpose of the Challenge, during the duration of the Challenge and for a period of one year following announcement of the Winners. All Contestants will retain all other intellectual property rights over their Submissions, except that Winners agree that their Submissions will be available on the EPA website for free use and download by the public for a period of one year following announcement of the Winners.
Verification of Winners
Winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements contained herein. The Winners will be notified by email, telephone, or mail after the date of the judging. The Winners (or Winners’ parent/guardian if under 18 years of age), will be required to sign and return to EPA, within ten (10) days of the date notice being sent, an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (except where prohibited) in order to claim any recognition. Winners must provide information to EPA consistent with Federal travel regulations to allow for reimbursement to the recognition event and app demonstrations in Washington, D.C. In the event that a potential Winner is disqualified for any reason, EPA may award the applicable recognition to an alternate Contestant who had the highest score remaining of the eligible entries.
Except where prohibited, participation in the Challenge constitutes consent to EPA's and its agents' use of Winners' name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration. Winners are permitted to cite that they won this contest.
The Contestant shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Government against, all actions or claims, including but not limited to those for loss of or damage to property (such as damage that may result from a virus, malware, etc. to EPA computer systems or those of the end-users of the software and/or applications), resulting from the fault, negligence, or wrongful act or omission of the Contestant.
The EPA and its contractors are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Contestants, printing errors, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Challenge; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Challenge; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Challenge or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from Contestant's participation in the Challenge or receipt, use, or misuse of any prize. If for any reason a Contestant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, Contestant's sole remedy is another entry in the Challenge. The award of a prize in this Challenge does not constitute an endorsement of a specific product by the EPA.
The EPA reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the Competition, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, or any other factor beyond the EPA’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Challenge, as determined by the EPA in its sole discretion. The EPA is not responsible for, nor is it required to count, incomplete, late, misdirected, damaged, unlawful, or illicit votes, including those secured through payment or achieved through automated means.
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9 Ball Pool
The game can be traced back to the 1920’s in the USA.
Historically it was associated with “money” and betting. However the major tournaments for 9 ball pool have helped to ensure that this game is now one for all the family.
It is typically played at a fast pace and trick shots are very common.
Object of the Game
How to Play
9 ball is played with 9 object balls numbered 1 through 9 and a cue ball.
On each shot, the first ball the cue ball contacts must be the lowest numbered ball on the table, but the balls need not be pocketed in order.*
If a player pockets any ball on a legal shot, he remains at the table for another shot, and continues until missing, committing a foul, or winning the game by pocketing the 9 ball.
After a miss, the incoming player must shoot from the position left by the previous player, but after any foul the incoming player may start with the cue ball anywhere on the table.
Players are not required to call any shot.
A match ends when one of the players has won the required number of games.
* Example 1
Ideally, if the balls were suitably spread out, a player would strike the cue ball and hit the 1 ball first and the 1 ball would go into a pocket. Then they would strike the cue ball and hit the 2 ball next with the 2 ball going into a pocket and so on right through to finally the 9 ball.
* Example 2
Sometimes the balls are not spread out very well - e.g. the 5 ball is sitting right over a pocket and blocking the path of the 1 ball (or lowest ball on the table at that time). As long as a player strikes the cue ball and hits the 1 ball (or lowest numbered ball on the table) first, and if that 1 ball (or lowest numbered ball) or indeed the cue ball then hits the 5 ball and it goes into the pocket, then it's a legal shot.
Effectively, any ball on the table may be knocked into a pocket as long as a player strikes the cue ball and hits the lowest numbered ball first.
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Visit Sainte-Suzanne (Pays de la Loire, France)
Sainte-Suzanne is a village in the south-east of the Mayenne department of France, and south-east of Evron.
Classified as one of the 'most beautiful villages in France' and also as a 'city of character', Sainte-Suzanne is a small fortified town in a very picturesque location on a rocky outcrop above the river Erve.
The castle and medieval village are largely surrounded by the original defensive ramparts, still almost intact. The main parts of the castle are the keep, from the 11th century, and the more recent (living accommodation of the logis, dating from the 17th century, along with a medieval bakery).
Apart from the castle in Sainte-Suzanne, it is a pleasure to simply stroll around looking at the buildings, enjoying the views across the countryside of the Coevrons, soaking up the atmosphere, and of course stopping in a cafe or restaurant to better prolong the visit...
History of Sainte Suzanne
Sainte Suzanne has had a checkered history, begining, recent archeological evidence suggests, with an iron age settlement in the 6th century BC. Sitting 60m above the Erve river on a rocky outcrop this naturally defensive position has meant it has been settled throughout the ages.
A medieval fortress was built in the 10/11th centuries and the stone keep was built in the 11 th century. At the end of this century the Norman forces of William the Conqueror was sweeping through the area increasing his territories. The surrounding towns quickly fell under the onslaught but Sainte Suzanne managed to resist the Norman invadors for 3 years. Close to the road to Assé le Bérenger you can still see some of the remains of the camp set up by the Normans during this period. Finally after 3 years a negotiated peace was settled between the two sides.
In the 15th century during the Hundred Years war between the French and the English, Sainte Suzanne fell and was occupied by the English for 14 years. It was retaken by the French following the treachery of one of the English soldiers.
Another wave of fighting followed in the 16th century with the Wars of Religion. During these periods of war the town's defences continued to be improved and strengthened.
The Musée d' Auditoire contains a lot of information about Sainte Suzanne's past and you can also see the oldest body armour in France - it dates back to the early 15th century
Exploring Sainte Suzanne
The 11 th century keep and the remains of the remparts are in the heart of the village. Close up the size of the keep really is impressive.
The 17th century logis is home to an exhibition of architecture and heritage and includes models and audio-visual displays.
The Musée d' Auditoire is well worth a visit if you are interested in history and it focuses particularly on the Siege of Sainte Suzanne by the forces of William the Conqueror from 1083-1086.
When walking round the town don't miss the 'Porte de Trois Clefs', door of three keys. This triple lock is on the 18th century Salt Store and because of the value of salt in those days three magistrates each had a different key and to open the door each must open their lock!
Follow the Promenade de la Poterne which follows the double defensive walls and offers some great views of the surrounding countryside.
Wandering round the village there are lots of beautiful houses to see.
A good time to see Sainte Suzanne is during the fete medieval which occurs in August every other year (odd years). During this medieval festival many of the locals dress up in medieval costume and many medieval activities are demonstrated.
Places to Visit near to Sainte Suzanne
On the edge of town be sure to visit the remains of the Norman camp made during the three year siege. This is called the 'Campe des Anglais'.
Also nearby is the Dolmen des Erves which dates from the 4th or 5th century BC showing very early signs of human occupation in this area.
La Ferté Clairbois is a medieval centre with copies of a donjon, draw bridge, medieval garden and lots of activities showing the activities of a knight in medieval times - including jousting demonstations.
From just across the valley, the views back across to Sainte-Suzanne are also highly recommended, while a stroll along the river banks to see the watermills is also very pleasant.
Photos taken within 10 km
Tourist classifications for Sainte-Suzanne
Sainte-Suzanne has received the following tourist classifications: one of the most beautiful village in France (plus beau villages); listed town of Art and History
Address: Sainte-Suzanne, Laval, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, 53270 || GPS: latitude 48.0983, longitude -0.3516
Map of Sainte-Suzanne & places nearby
Highlights close by
Suggested tourist attractions to visit near Sainte-Suzanne, France
- Evron - town of art and history (7km)
- Saulges - town of art and history (13km)
- La Cropte - ville fleurie 4* (19km)
- Jublains - town of art and history (21km)
- Jardins de la Massonnière - remarkable garden (21km)
- Jardins du Mirail - remarkable garden (26km)
- Mayenne - town of art and history (31km)
- Laval - town of art and history (31km)
- Jardin du château de Vilaines - remarkable garden (34km)
- Saint-Loup-du-Gast - ville fleurie 4* (36km)
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From Health Affairs:
A team of RAND Corporation researchers projected in 2005 that rapid adoption of health information technology (IT) could save the United States more than $81 billion annually. Seven years later the empirical data on the technology’s impact on health care efficiency and safety are mixed, and annual health care expenditures in the United States have grown by $800 billion. In our view, the disappointing performance of health IT to date can be largely attributed to several factors: sluggish adoption of health IT systems, coupled with the choice of systems that are neither interoperable nor easy to use; and the failure of health care providers and institutions to reengineer care processes to reap the full benefits of health IT. We believe that the original promise of health IT can be met if the systems are redesigned to address these flaws by creating more-standardized systems that are easier to use, are truly interoperable, and afford patients more access to and control over their health data. Providers must do their part by reengineering care processes to take full advantage of efficiencies offered by health IT, in the context of redesigned payment models that favor value over volume.
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Birdlife International has launched the Neotropical Mangrove Conservation Alliance, also known simply as the Mangrove Alliance, as an online resource to foster the preservation of endangered mangrove habitats. Supported by MacArthur, the Alliance will help to coordinate mangrove conservation activities at priority sites in the Caribbean islands. Since 1980, mangroves like those in the Caribbean have shrunk to just 23 percent of their former range and 11 different species of mangroves are considered threatened. The Mangrove Alliance will help build opportunities for collaboration in preservation by allowing for experience sharing, networking, capacity building, and further partnership development between Birdlife and other organizations. Birdlife is the world’s largest partnership of conservation organizations and strives to conserve birds, their habitats like mangroves, and global biodiversity. | <urn:uuid:8f61ba64-07dc-49d7-9552-30e662daa716> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/mangrove-alliance-website-launched-resource-preservation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943486 | 161 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Google Lesson Plan Search - easily find great lessons
Google, one of my favorite resources (in addition to Evernote) has lots of great things for education, including free apps and services. They also have a great library of lesson plans for educators. There are thousands of lesson plans available and all are searchable and sortable. Sorting can be done by type of Google product used, subject, or age group. The search and sorting is almost immediate and there are some great resources here.
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Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has these taken
dramatic images of a titanic and violent storm that's been
surging across Saturn for the last seven months.
storm has churned through the planet's atmosphere and is now
covering about 1.5 billion square miles of Saturn. It's 500 times
larger than the biggest storm that Cassini has seen and measures
eight times the surface area of Earth.
It's also epically intense. Lightning has been flashing at
ten times the rate of
previous storms seen by Cassini, and at times the storm can
generate more than ten lightning flashes per second. Even with its
millisecond resolution, Cassini's radio and plasma wave instrument
has struggled to separate the individual signals.
Cassini shows us that Saturn is bipolar," said study author and
Cassini imaging team member Andrew Ingersoll. "Saturn is not like
Earth and Jupiter, where storms are fairly frequent. Weather on
Saturn appears to hum along placidly for years and then erupt
But it's not entirely unpredictable, and Nasa kicked off a
Storm Watch" campaign to make sure that Cassini had the front row
seat to any new weather outbreaks. Between its scheduled
observations, the probe -- which launched in 1997 and reached the
planet in 2004 -- will look at likely storm locations.
So on 5 December 2010, when Cassini's radio and plasma wave
instrument detected this storm's first lightning strikes, the
spacecraft was ready and waiting to point its cameras at the
small cloud and the burgeoning storm.
The image could not be analysed immediately, so Georg
Fischer -- the paper's lead author and a radio and plasma wave
science team member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz --
put out the call to the amateur astronomy community.
A flood of armchair astronomers analysed images of the storm
Nasa and affiliated researchers track the weather event as it
grew, expanded and wrapped around the planet until late January
2011. You can see natural colour images of the storm, as a toddler
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Miguel Sánchez (PhD, Computer Science) is Valencia, Spain-based computer scientist, embedded tech enthusiast, and professor who regularly challenges himself to design innovative microcontroller-based systems. Since 2005, Circuit Cellar has published six of his articles about projects such as a digital video recorder (Circuit Cellar 174) and a creative DIY image-processing system (Circuit Cellar 263).
In the September issue of Circuit Cellar, Sánchez tells us about his background, his work at the Universitat Politècnica de València, his current interests, and his innovative designs. An abridged version of the interview follows.
NAN PRICE: How long have you been designing microcontroller-based systems?
MIGUEL SANCHEZ: I started using computers in 1978. I built my first microcontroller project in 1984 during my first year at Universitat Politècnica de València. I haven’t stopped designing embedded systems since then.
NAN: Tell us about the first microcontroller you worked with. Where were you at the time?
MIGUEL: Our university’s lab had Intel SDK-85 boards you could program in Hex using the built-in keyboard. I guess it wasn’t built well. You sometimes lost all your work while typing your code. I learned that schematics were available and a terminal monitor was built in too. So, I built my first microcontroller-based board around an Intel 8085 using the same software that was on the original ROM. But, I changed the serial port delay value so I could use 9,600 bps instead of the original 110 bps on the terminal port. This way, I could do the same labs as my mates, but I could do my work in 8080 Assembler, which was available in Control Program/Monitor (CP/M) computers. At the time, I had an Atari 1040 ST that could run CP/M on top of a Z-80 emulator. Assembly code could be uploaded to my board’s RAM memory and later executed using SDK-85 serial monitor code.
I used the 8085’s Wait signal to build an additional EEPROM socket in this same board that, with the aid of a 555 timer, was my first EEPROM programmer. I used the Wait signal to delay write operations. In fact, I used this programmer to change the original baud rate to the new one, as I originally did not know that was something I’d want to change later.
My teacher, who is now one of my colleagues, was quite amused with my development and he gave me an A+. I learned a lot about microcontrollers, serial communications, Assembly language, monitor programs, and EEPROM programming algorithms. And, I learned it was not fun to design PCBs with system buses on only one copper layer. …
NAN: You designed a system to simulate strokes on a keypad to trigger modes on an alarm system (“Reverse-Engineered ECP Bus,” Circuit Cellar 201, 2007). Why did you design it and how have you used it?
MIGUEL: A local company wanted to give new life to old Ademco alarm units. These boards could only be programmed by a serial port socket once a certain service code was typed at the keyboard. I was asked whether an add-on board could be created to make these old boards Internet-enabled so they could be remotely managed and reconfigured over the ’Net.
The first thing I needed to do was to figure out how to simulate the required keystrokes. But I couldn’t find any information about the way that bus worked, so I figured that out myself. Later, I thought both the information itself and the way I figured it out might be useful to others, so I approached Circuit Cellar editors with a proposal to write an article.
That project ended up as a Rabbit-core powered board that connected the alarm board and the remote access to its serial port. Combined with a virtual serial port on the PC, it fooled the original management software into thinking the PC was directly connected to the alarm board, although it was all happening over the Internet. But the project never made it to the market for reasons unknown.
NAN: In “Three-Axis Stepper Controller” (Circuit Cellar 234, 2010), you describe how you built an Arduino-based, platform-independent driver board. Tell us about the design.
MIGUEL: When I discovered the Arduino platform, I was surprised by a few things. First, this development system was not designed by a chip vendor. Second, it was not intended for engineers but for artists! Third, I was shocked because it was multiplatform (which was possible because it was based on Java and GCC) and because none of the other development systems I was aware of were so easy to use. The price was low too, which was a plus for hobbyists and students.
The aim of that project was to show all that to the readers. The idea was also not only to show how to build a stepper controller and to explain the difference between the drive modes and the bipolar and unipolar designs, but to demonstrate how easy it was to work with Arduino.
NAN: Your most recent Circuit Cellar article, “Image Processing System Development: Use an MCU to Unleash the Power of Depth Cameras” (263, 2012), describes how you used Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing device for an interactive art project. Tell us about the project and how you came to be involved.
MIGUEL: My university offers a master’s degree in fine arts. I met a professor from the drawing department who had seen a video of my vertical plotter on YouTube and was interested in contacting me, as we worked on the same campus. We became friends and he asked me to help him out with an idea for an installation.
The first approach used an RGB camera, but then Kinect was launched. From what I read on the ’Net, I was convinced it would be a better mousetrap. So, I bought one unit and started learning how to use it, thanks to the hack that had been made available.
The project required gathering visitors’ silhouettes and later drawing them on a big wall. The drawing was performed with a properly scaled-up version of my vertical plotter, which, by the way, was controlled by an Arduino board.
I have found working with artists is a lot of fun too, as they usually have a totally different vision than engineers.
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Breugelmans, R. FAC ET SPERA. JOANNES MAIRE, PUBLISHER, PRINTER AND BOOKSELLER IN LEIDEN, 1603-1657. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS PUBLICATIONS.
One volume with a CD-rom containing the images of the title-pages `t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2003 6.5 x 9.5 inches cloth 792 pages During the seventeenth century, Holland`s Golden Age, printing and publishing became a flourishing industry. In Leiden, where the presence of a university contributed to that success, Joannes Maire built up, in the course of more than fifty years, a list of at least 527 titles, especially in the fields of medicine, theology and classical philology. Although he is nowadays chiefly remembered as the original publisher of René Descartes's Discours de la methode (1637), his contemporaries knew him better from his numerous editions of works of Desiderius Erasmus. Maire's cooperation in his earlier years as a publisher with the Raphelengii and Thomas Erpenius, professor of Oriental languages in Leiden, and the availability of his books at the fairs of Frankfurt and Leipzig spread his name rapidly in academic circles. Dr Breugelmans's book has several interesting elements. It is the first one to pay attention to a single Leiden printer/publisher on such a large scale. Extensive bibliographical descriptions of Maire's books form the greater part of this publication and the inclusion of their title-pages on a CD-rom is a novelty too. An introduction, giving substantial information on Maire and his authors and on other aspects of his list, such as the phenomenon of 'parallel editions,' supplies valuable further information on the working methods of a printer of that period. The inventory of Maire's estate proved to be an important source for his contacts with his colleagues, among them the Officina Plantiniana in Antwerp. Illustrated.
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By JEFF MEYERS
---- — CHAZY — Abraham Lincoln’s legacy has enjoyed renewed focus, thanks in part to the recently released Steven Spielberg film “Lincoln,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
But the nation’s 16th and perhaps most popular president has always played a prominent role in the Alice T. Miner Museum collection.
“Of course, Alice Miner’s husband, William, was a big fan of Lincoln,” said Amanda Palmer, director and curator of the museum. “Anything she could get her hands on about Abraham Lincoln, she pretty much jumped on.”
One of those Alice Miner purchases now sitting in the museum’s Lincoln Library is a simple note the president wrote several days after he was elected to his second term in office on Nov. 8, 1864. The note, penned on a piece of paper the size of a business card, was a job recommendation for an unnamed woman: “I shall be glad if any Department or Bureau can give this woman employment. A. Lincoln. Nov. 14, 1864.”
“Alice purchased it for the collection, but we don’t have a receipt for it,” Palmer said. “We do not know which year she bought it nor from where.
“Imagining him taking the time to write that for someone is amazing,” she added.
A second example of Lincoln’s signature can be found hanging in a wall display of a military rank certificate for Capt. George E. Gouraud, who was promoted to major following the Battle of Honey Hill in South Carolina on Nov. 30, 1864.
The certificate is dated March 22, 1865, and is also signed by Secretary of War E.M. Stanton.
Of interest, the certificate dates the battle as occurring on Dec. 31, 1864, but with subsequent research on the document, Palmer found that date was in error.
Again, the museum has no record of when or where Alice Miner purchased the certificate.
INKWELL, FOOT BATH
“There are a lot of engravings of Lincoln and other items related to Lincoln and the Civil War,” Palmer said of the Lincoln Library collection.
One item purchased from cousins of Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, is an inkwell with quill pen. Alice Miner’s friend Frank Gonzales acted as an agent for her and purchased such items during his travels across the country, Palmer noted.
Another item is a ceramic foot bath that for a long time was thought to have been a wine cask.
“Doing research, we found that it was part of a 12-piece toilet set Mary Lincoln purchased to use privately,” Palmer said. “We like to believe that at one time President Lincoln used this foot bath. We don’t know for sure.”
The item is attractively designed and includes an engraving of an eagle, shield and arrow with the words “E Pluribus Unum” beneath.
The collection also includes a photo album of Lincoln, with images taken from 1848 to the president’s funeral procession.
The Civil War exhibit also features several letters from local soldiers who served during the war.
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The Alice T. Miner Museum, located on Route 9 in Chazy, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, except for Christmas Day, until the end of December. Guided tours are held at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. and last about an hour. For more information, call the museum at 846-7336 or email firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:c2a01c8d-c0ed-4f34-b837-468ddaf430f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pressrepublican.com/0501_history/x1839360644/Lincoln-artifacts-on-display-at-Miner-Museum/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958279 | 798 | 2.5 | 2 |
There is more evidence that India’s foreign direct investment policy for the retail sector is on slippery-slope.
According to a report in the Economic Times, four months into allowing FDI in the sector the government has not yet got a single proposal from any of the global corporations.
This is in stark contrast to the earlier perception that the multinational retail chains are just waiting for the government to formulate the policy to enter the country.
Apparently, the government authorities are desperate to show that the policy, which had put the United Progressive Alliance in a life-and-death situation when it was introduced, is actually paying off for the country and itself, the ET report said.
According to the report, the government has started going after various companies asking the details of their plans.
One can’t blame the government for the desperation, for the country’s current account deficit is in difficult situation. And the quick-fix solutions, like curbs on gold imports, are not working.
One can’t blame the companies either, for the delay in finalising their plans, given the kinds of restrictions they are facing.
As per the policy, the minimum investment foreign retailers need to make is $100 million. Of this, $50 million has to be in the back-end infrastructure over three years. Further, 30 percent of the value of the products being sold has to be sourced from local small-scale industries.
How can they afford to comply with these rules, asks Kishore Biyani, CEO of the Future group, in the ET report. According to him, “fashion or electronics does not need that kind of investment in the backend”.
Above all is the power the state governments enjoy to not allow foreign multi-brand retailers to set up shop.
According to a Times of India report, Wal-Mart and the US government have expressed their concerns over this policy. As of now, only 10 states and Union Territories are in favour of the policy.
Wal-Mart is worried that policy reversals at the state-level are likely once a new political party comes to power there. It has also asked the government whether investment in real estate will be calculated as investment in back-end.
The concerns expressed by the retail giant are valid. Only two days ago had Rajnath Singh, national president of the main opposition BJP, reiterated that the party would reverse the retail FDI policy if voted to power in the general elections in 2014.
Singh’s statement is just adding to the criticisms the policy has attracted from various quarters.
Nobel laureate American economist Joseph Stiglitz recently warned the policy would promote instability in India due to exploitative and corrupt practices adopted by multi-national companies to monopolise the retail markets in any country.
He also pointed out that Wal-Mart bribed officials at various levels in Mexico to monopolise the retail market there.
“May be, you want to learn bribery. But I don’t understand what India is trying to get out by allowing FDI in multi-band retail,” a PTI report quoted him as saying.
His comments assumes significance as Wal-Mart is already being probed in India after the company disclosed in the US that it had spent $25 million over four years to lobby American lawmakers to help gain access to overseas markets, including India.
The disclosure had kicked up a storm in India and the government recently constituted a single member panel to investigate the matter.
Prior to this, there were allegations that Wal-Mart’s Rs 456 crore investment in Cedar Support Services, which owned Bharti Retail, in March 2010 was illegal.
However, both Bharti and Wal-Mart have denied any wrong doing.
The Enforcement Directorate is probing the issue.
Adding to the worries is a recent rap the government received from the Supreme Court over the policy.
Is FDI in retail a “political gimmick”, the apex court had asked the government and sought to know how it intends to safeguard the interest of small traders after opening up the retail sector.
“Has the policy brought some investment in the country or is it just a political gimmick. Has the policy brought some fruits?” the bench hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) questioning the policy had asked on 22 January.
It also asked what were the checks “to ensure that free trade is not affected, particularly the interest of small traders”.
The court has adjourned the matter for five weeks.
On the whole, the policy has failed to ring in anything positive for the government or the country. Moreover, there are chances that the government may get into trouble later on.
For instance, if there is a policy reversal after the 2014 elections, for which chances are not remote, the matter is likely to assume legal proportions, if the companies approach the World Trade Organisation.
Moreover, the government’s desperation for foreign investment can turn out to be a breeding ground of kick-backs and other such allegations.
With the critics of the retail FDI policy gaining in strength, the lack of consensus on the issue is becoming clearer.
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Witold Gombrowicz is probably the most important twentieth-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of, which is to say that he is the kind of writer whose following consists largely of other writers, whose faith in Gombrowicz's under-recognized genius has led them to shower him with superlatives. Susan Sontag, in her introduction to the recent English translation of Ferdydurke, his ironic masterpiece, calls him brilliant. John Updike takes this praise one step further, noting that Gombrowicz is "one of the profoundest of late moderns." Milan Kundera ranks him among Joyce and Proust as one of the seminal figures in modern literature. His writings are beloved in France, where they have long been available in competent translations, and where Gombrowicz himself spent the last years of his life. And in his native Poland, Gombrowicz remains something of a cultural legend almost thirty-five years after his death; in a publishing market that frequently casts its best literature out of print, all Gombrowicz's books are easily available, as are any number of volumes about his life and work. The official website of Radom, a lackluster city in central Poland near the small town where Gombrowicz was born, proudly proclaims him alongside Jan Kochanowski (an excellent Renaissance poet) and director Andrzej Wajda as having lived there (or at least as having had some association with the area, which is important enough for the local cultural imagination). And the Polish Ministry of Culture has officially proclaimed 2004 "The Year of Gombrowicz," which will include a plethora of conferences and cultural events marking the one hundredth anniversary of the author's birth.
It's just the sort of thing that Gombrowicz-or a certain side of him-would abhor. From his very first book, a collection of short stories called Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity (1933; later entitled Bakakaj, and including the story "The Rat"), Gombrowicz raged against what he saw as the aristocratic conservatism of Polish culture, the formality of men bowing and kissing ladies' hands in greeting, the general insistence on how Poland's grand destiny had been sidetracked by a century of partition and occupation, and perhaps most of all the uncritical reverence for such cultural heroes as Copernicus (of questionable nationality), Mickiewicz (the national poet, actually born in Lithuania), and Chopin (half-Polish, who spent most of his life in France). Early in his three-volume Diary, itself an extraordinary record of an author at play, Gombrowicz asks, "What does Mrs. Smith have in common with Chopin?" Next to nothing, but that's not even the worst of it. What Gombrowicz found truly frustrating-even dangerous-is how his country's inferiority complex, its need to remind the world time and again how Polish culture is just as great-nay, greater-than that of the West, cripples the individual, forces him to memorize verses and dates and to behave in a manner befitting the great civilization that is Poland. Or at least this is the attitude represented in the preponderance of Gombrowicz's work, any treatment of which is obliged to bear the disclaimer that you can never fully trust an author so fond of irony and masks. Indeed, writing about Gombrowicz's attitude toward Polish culture is kind of like writing an obituary for someone who didn't believe in death.
That said, the individual's battle against the strictures of culture remained a lifelong obsession for Gombrowicz. In his early work in particular, this theme manifests itself as a battle between maturity-that is, the social expectation that the individual will behave according to a given code, a superego imposed from above-and "immaturity," the freedom to do as one will and, in general, not to give a damn. This is the central conflict in "The Rat": a retired judge captures a troublesome vagabond and does his best to rein in his "particularly massive nature," which offends the judge's sense of order and propriety. In "The Honorable Kraykowski's Dancer," the story that opens the same collection, the protagonist becomes so obsessed with the regal manners of an attorney and his wife that he does everything he can to subvert the lawyer's individuality, for example, by paying for his daily pastries in advance. "Imagine this," he addresses the reader conspiratorially. "A lawyer comes out of a public restroom, reaches for his fifteen cents, and learns that the bill has already been settled. How does he feel then?" And famously, in Ferdydurke (1937), a thirty-year-old man is enslaved by his old schoolmaster and thrown back into the classroom, where he finds it impossible to gain freedom without first enduring endless humiliations. In each of these instances, no one really needs to bother about the totalitarianism that will later occupy Poland and preoccupy so much of its literature. For Gombrowicz, culture itself, with its insistence on acceptable norms, is plenty totalitarian as it is, thank you very much.
Which brings us to the curious irony of the author's fate. In 1939, following the publication of Memoirs from a Time of Immaturity, a play called Ivona, Princess of Burgundy, and Ferdydurke (plus, truth be told, a second novel, The Possessed, which appeared under a pseudonym and wasn't acknowledged by its author for thirty years), Gombrowicz was invited to enjoy the maiden voyage of a cruise ship across the Atlantic. He set sail and arrived in Buenos Aires. Then the Nazis invaded Poland, followed by the Soviets, and that was that: Gombrowicz was in Argentina with no money and no Spanish. He remained there for over two decades, utterly impoverished, relying for his survival on a contingent of Polish expatriates who were, like most communities in emigration, more conservative than his critics back in Poland. This is the subject of his hilarious 1953 novel Trans-Atlantyk, which features a protagonist named Witold Gombrowicz and is written in a specialized narrative style of the old Polish nobility, a wholly appropriate medium for the stuffy circumstances in which the author found himself.
Yes, appropriate. In fact, Gombrowicz's prose has never been as absurd as journalistic reductions would have it, since it is always-both thematically and linguistically-a consistent, even systematic response to a set of cultural, philosophical, and psychological problems. "The Rat" provides an excellent case-in-point: it is the language of obsession and fetish, with its concatenated synonyms and spontaneous singing, its repetition and play. The writing is at once extremely poetic and anti-conventional, a stylistically "mature" prose expressing the lushness and buoyancy of immaturity. Gombrowicz's early critics attacked his lack of restraint, his sometimes childlike delight in language, his flirtation with excess and arbitrariness. (The collection's second title, Bakakaj, is itself arbitrarily chosen; Gombrowicz took the name from one of his streets in Buenos Aires, as he later explained, "the way we name dogs, simply in order to tell one from another.")
Gombrowicz's opponents took such games as an affront, an attack against all that was right and proper in Polish culture, as an assertion of the individual against his context, and perhaps a few of them still do. Just the other day in Kraków, I was enjoying a late dinner of beer and kielbasa when a Polish acquaintance (he actually grew up in Canada, but he's a hell of a lot more Polish than I'll ever be, as he kept reminding me) suggested that Czechs have no culture of their own. "Certainly they do," I insisted, and went on to praise their extraordinary literature, their rich heritage of music and language. "No," he said, "it's all Austro-Hungarian." I pointed out how the Austro-Hungarian Empire had occupied all of southern Poland, including Kraków, for well over a century, occasionally inciting the peasants to saw their Polish landlords in half. This, I suppose, is how a situation escalates. He started rattling off the standard roster of Polish cultural heroes, and that's when I began to channel Witold Gombrowicz. "What does Mrs. Smith have in common with Chopin?" I asked. My interlocutor bristled, became very solemn, and told me in no uncertain terms that making such remarks on the street would give me an opportunity to use my health insurance, which he hoped was comprehensive. And it is. And he's probably right.
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If sunlight clubbed with pollution can hamper your skin, imagine what it does to your hair. Harsh sunlight can suck dry the nutrients from your hair and scalp.
Then what do you do? How do you sunscreen your hair? Dr. Nipun Jain, Dermatologist with Shri Balaji Action Medical Institute shares some vital tips in hair protection that anyone can follow.
Sun rays are made up of two kinds of rays that ruin the texture of your hair. Dr. Nipun says, "UVA and UVB rays have the power to damage the hair from the outer to the inner structure of the hair. Sunlight can cause bleaching of the hair turning them white, dry, brittle or frizzy hair."
Can regular shampoos and conditioners protect your hair from the sun?
"The idea of shampoos and conditioners with SPF and lots of vitamins and minerals and other ingredients is really great, but they just aren't the best option. Anything that you rinse off your hair can not leave behind enough SPF to protect your hair from the sun." explains the doctor. Quite unfortunate since most of us depend on shampoos and conditioners for silky bouncy hair.
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1. Wear a wide brim hat or carry an umbrella. This covers your head and acts as a barrier from direct sunlight. If you are heading out to a ball game or other activity where you will be in the sun for a long period of time, wear a hat.
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4. Remember to apply sunscreen on you scalp where you part your hair to protect it from sun damage.
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'I worry incessantly that I might be too clear," Alan Greenspan once claimed. He intended the remark to be crowd-pleasing, but it served as an acknowledgment of the necessary ambiguity of professional economics. To be clear is to leave oneself open to attack; there is safety in obscurity. In many quarters clarity is interpreted as oversimplification, and the cryptic utterance is regarded as a mark of expertise. Yet the murkiness of public discourse often results not from willful indistinctness but simply from a blithe, untutored lack of rhetorical know-how.
In "Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric," Ward Farnsworth sets out to remedy this. A professor at the Boston University School of Law, Mr. Farnsworth has previously published "The Legal Analyst," which he described as "a collection of tools for thinking about legal questions," and a guide to chess tactics. This book manifests his familiar pragmatism and distaste for rarefied theory; billed as "a lively set of lessons," it is in fact more akin to a well- curated exhibition of rhetorical accessories.
"Everyone speaks and writes in patterns," Mr. Farnsworth states. We have absorbed models of expression, which we reproduce "without thinking much about it." Yet we can study the patterns and learn to make our utterances more effective. To this end he maps the rhetorical figures that are, as he puts it, "practical ways of working with large aesthetic principles." Selecting passages from favorite authors and orators, and providing judicious remarks about them, he offers "help to those who wish to be on better terms with such techniques."
In its popular use, the adjective "rhetorical" has become a slur, conveying images of bombast and bloatedness. We are apt to associate it with the prolix statements of policy makers and the aureate pomposity of evangelists. Mr. Farnsworth wants to reclaim the word and the principles it truly betokens.
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
By Ward Farnsworth
Godine, 254 pages, $26.95
He is the inheritor of a substantial tradition. The ancient literature on rhetoric includes works by Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. The subject was treated extensively by Renaissance scholars such as Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives, George Puttenham and Thomas Wilson. Its modern apostles, on the whole less eminent, are numerous. Mr. Farnsworth, however, is unusual in focusing on techniques rather than articulating a general plea for expressive poise.
Although the bulk of the book consists of examples, Mr. Farnsworth's interleaved commentary is valuable. He explains, for instance, polysyndeton: It is the repeated use of a conjunction, as in Mark Twain's "a German daily is the slowest and saddest and dreariest of the inventions of man." In addition, Mr. Farnsworth gives us six reasons to use it, including a certain artless effect, which "may enhance the speaker's credibility." When it comes to asyndeton—the omission of conjunctions, as in Twain's "Munich did seem the horriblest place, the most desolate place, the most unendurable place"—he offers seven such reasons. This is done with modest brevity rather than in a labored and didactic fashion.
An incidental effect of Mr. Farnsworth's selection of examples is a kind of covert literary criticism. We are alerted to G.K. Chesterton's love of chiasmus—the ABBA pattern in which repetition involves reversal. Chesterton writes that "we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws" and that "an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." According to Mr. Farnsworth, the device suited the author because "he believed that modern thought constantly had things backward."
One gets the impression that, a century on from Chesterton, Mr. Farnsworth finds our own modernity topsy-turvy. He notes the decline of rhetoric in our times and his chosen examples come from authors and orators between the age of Shakespeare and the 1950s. The modern politician is for him "a creature of very modest literacy and wit," who strains for grandiloquence and "spoils what he touches." Instead of rhetoric, the politician favors figures of another kind: Today's infatuation with statistics is a bid for scientific exactness but tends to crowd out finesse.
Having taken Latin and Greek at school, I knew a little bit about rhetoric before settling down with Mr. Farnsworth. But while chiasmus and ellipsis were familiar, many of his terms were new to me. Most are not words to slip into casual conversation—"Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George!"—but they usefully label forms of ingenuity, and a familiarity with them sharpens our sensitivity to the range of ways in which language can be mobilized to influence and excite us.
The most immediate pleasure of this book is that it heightens one's appreciation of the craft of great writers and speakers. Mr. Farnsworth includes numerous examples from Shakespeare and Dickens, Thoreau and Emerson, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln. He also seems keen to rehabilitate writers and speakers whose rhetorical artistry is undervalued; besides his liking for Chesterton, he shows deep admiration for the Irish statesman Henry Grattan (1746-1820), whose studied repetition of a word ("No lawyer can say so; because no lawyer could say so without forfeiting his character as a lawyer") is an instance, we are told, of conduplicatio. But more than anything Mr. Farnsworth wants to restore the reputation of rhetorical artistry per se, and the result is a handsome work of reference.
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Its grandiose landscapes, wild nature and magnificent walking routes have made its name, but Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean to the east of ...
Geography: French overseas territories
The French overseas territories make up a total surface area of 559,000 km2, which is almost the same area as the mainland itself.
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I was both surprised and saddened to learn that Kevin Jarre, a talented screenwriter and dedicated history buff, has died. His screenplays included two notable historical projects, Glory and Tombstone.
In my opinion, Glory is not only the finest Civil War movie ever made but also one of the ten best movies of any sort ever made. (Jarre himself had a cameo as a Union soldier.) The first time I saw it was in a classroom when I was in the eighth grade. This was long before I’d developed a serious interest in the past, but even then it made quite an impression. A few years later, for a high school history project, we all had to give a presentation on any American historical figure, so I picked Robert Gould Shaw.
Jarre had been a self-described “Civil War freak” since childhood, when he received toy soldiers from the era for Christmas.
His interest in the 54th Massachusetts, a regiment that was one of first black units during the Civil War, was piqued when a friend, Lincoln Kirstein, observed that a photograph of Jarre on horseback resembled a statue of Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment’s white leader.
Moved to research the 54th, Jarre read the colonel’s letters and two books, Kirstein’s “Lay This Laurel” and Peter Burchard’s “One Gallant Rush,” which became source material for the 1989 film “Glory.”
“I never thought I could interest anybody in it,” Jarre told The Times in 1990. “A Civil War epic, about black people? But I’d got really attached to the story…. I’d end up in tears when I got through writing.”
My family met a friend of Jarre’s at a western history conference in Arizona back in the nineties. He told us Jarre was writing a screenplay about the Lincoln assassination. I don’t know if he finished it, but a tale like that in the hands of a master storyteller like Jarre would’ve been a movie worth seeing. The man had an intuitive sense of the past’s dramatic possibilities and a gift for bringing it to life in a way that was both authentic and immediate. Hollywood could use more like him. | <urn:uuid:27f07ff4-72c0-4981-8e5b-855e91165358> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pastinthepresent.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/glory-writer-passes-away/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=019c5482d9 | 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 | 0.975195 | 495 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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Please Doctor BOB My anxiety its Killing Me. When i went to take my test for my past interocuorse the nurse use a vacutainer System. As you know The Vacutainer System consists of a pointed needle, a plastic holder or adapter and a series of vacuum tubes with rubber stoppers of various . The Vacutainer needle has a sharp point at both ends, and usually is covered by a rubber sheath, with one end being shorter than the other. The Vacutainer holder is a plastic sleeve into which the phlebotomist screws the pointed Vacutainer needle.Vacutainer tubes are glass tubes sealed with a vacuum inside by rubber stoppers. The air inside the tube is negative, less than the environment. Ok this is the situation, the needle of course was NEW, the tube of course was New but the HOLDER was resuable. I saw a very small dried blood exactly on the the part that you screw the the double pointed Vacutainer needle. in theory there vas no risk because the needle is new but y need to hear your advice.
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The plastic holders are indeed reusable and pose absolutely no threat of transmission of blood-borne pathogens, such as HIV or hepatitis. The way that the disposable needles are placed into the plastic holder precludes any chance of contamination. The needles are sheathed (covered) when they are loaded into the plastic holder. Your fears are completely unwarranted. If indeed your "anxiety is killing (you)", you should get treatment for that condition! Anti-anxiety medication and/or psychotherapy (counseling) can be very helpful.
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Pools are getting a workout throughout Australia this summer. A new variable-speed swimming pool pump by Speck Pumps could help you save on energy costs.
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Sunday, February 10, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PST)
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Government managers in this unit group plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the development and administration of elementary, secondary and post-secondary education policies and programs. They are employed by government departments and agencies.
director, education curriculum development, director, education policy analysis and research, director, school inspection, education director, manager, education program administration.
- Participate in the development of education policy by providing advice to senior government managers
- Organize departmental unit and establish procedures to meet departmental objectives set by senior management
- Direct and advise policy researchers or program officers conducting research, preparing documents or administering programs for elementary and secondary school systems
- Plan, administer and control budgets for projects, programs, support services and equipment
- Organize and direct committees and working groups to plan, manage or evaluate education projects and programs
- Interview, hire and provide training for staff.
Outlook & Prospects for Government Managers – Education Policy Development and Program Administration in Edmonton Region
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National Outlook – 10-Year Projection (2011-2020)
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The data in the following table are derived from HRSDC’s Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS). COPS uses a variety of models to produce a detailed 10-year labour market projection per broad skill level and per occupation at the national level, which focuses on the trends of labour supply and labour demand over the next ten years.
This occupation (Government Managers – Education Policy Development and Program Administration) is part of a larger occupational group called Managers in Public Administration (NOC 041).
|Occupations in this group||
Government Managers – Health and Social Policy Development and Program Administration (0411)
Government Managers – Economic Analysis, Policy Development and Program Administration (0412)
Government Managers – Education Policy Development and Program Administration (0413)
Other Managers in Public Administration (0414)
|Employment (non-student) in 2010||33,479|
|Median Age of workers in 2010||48|
|Average Retirement Age in 2010||60|
Occupation Projection for Canada
Over the 2008-2010 period, employment in this occupation grew more quickly than the average for all occupations, while the unemployment rate dropped to 0.6% in 2010. The average hourly wage increased more quickly than the average for all occupations and is among the highest for all occupations. According to key labour market indicators, the number of job seekers was insufficient to fill the job openings in this occupation.
Over the 2011-2020 period, an occupation will be in excess demand (a shortage of workers) if the projected number of job openings is significantly greater than the projected number of job seekers. An occupation will be in excess supply (a surplus of workers) if the projected number of job openings is smaller than the projected number of job seekers. For Managers In Public Administration, over the 2011-2020 period, job openings (arising from expansion demand and replacement demand) are expected to total 17,992 and 19,109 job seekers (arising from school leavers, immigration and mobility) are expected to be available to fill the job openings.
Based on projections and considering that this occupation displayed signs of shortage, it is expected that the number of job seekers will remain insufficient to fill job openings over the 2010-2020 period. Retirements will be the primary source of job openings. The retirement rate will be higher than the average for all occupations because workers in this occupation are generally much older and retire slightly earlier than those in other occupations. Over the projection period, the retirement rate in this occupation will be one of the highest among all the occupations. Job openings resulting from expansion demand will be relatively few and fewer in number than over the 2001-2010 period. In fact, after seeing fairly rapid employment growth in recent years due to an increase in government spending, employment will be limited by budget constraints by various orders of government in the coming years. With regard to labour supply, given that many years of experience are required to obtain a senior management position, it is not surprising that a large number of job seekers will come from other occupations. Less than 20% of job seekers will come from the school system.
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What percentage of people in this occupation are members of a union?
This occupation (Government Managers - Education Policy Development and Program Administration) is part of a larger group called Managers in Public Administration (NOC 041). According to the Labour Force Survey (2009), the unionization rate for this group was 54%, while the unionization rate for all occupations was 31%.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa—In geology, old is gold.
According to the local mining lore here, senior geologists tend to do their work the old-fashioned way. They avoid radar technology, preferring instead to examine termite and ant mounds; they study vegetation and carry divining rods. They're famous in the often cutthroat industry for their efficiency—also for wearing neckties in the blistering heat.
"I only hire old geologists," says Norman Slater, managing director of Slater Coal, a South African coal company. People such as Kevin Petzer, a 65-year-old Zimbabwean who still roams South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia from his base in the KwaZulu-Natal province in eastern South Africa.
Mr. Petzer, who emphasizes that he also has mastered conventional scientific methods, studies ant heaps, fossilized worm-burrows and flowers. The Becium homblei, a white and purple flower, grows best on copper-rich soils. So that's a good place to look for the metal. Mr. Petzer says fossilized burrows from certain prehistoric slugs "mean there's no coal below, because those creatures existed before coal formations, and the coal would have covered them up if it was there." Gold and other metals close to the surface sometimes can be found thanks to samples dug out by ants, Mr. Petzer says.
"If an ant heap is a meter high over ground, which is to say, about 3 feet, it's probably digging up material from three to four meters below, so you can collect samples from those ant heaps," said Mr. Petzer, who says that is a constant ratio. In addition to scouting for minerals, he also helps mining companies find water, since they need lots of it to run their mines. For that, he favors the forked branch of a peach tree.
Mr. Petzer "is the best coal geologist I've known," says Mr. Slater, who is currently using him to look for bituminous coal in the Orange Free State.
Mining executives say that while they chuckle about the quirks of older geologists, they recognize the business value of their memory of previous exploratory work, their grasp of complex rock formations and their discipline in knowing how to meticulously chart new territory.
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop. Since commodity prices are higher than they were several decades ago, deposits once not worth digging up can now be mined at a profit. An older geologist might very well know where they are.
Experience helps in other ways. Martin Hirsch, a relative youngster at 56, has been developing a uranium deposit for Toronto-listed Forsys Metals Corp. in Namibia and warns younger colleagues about snakes. The Puff adder, jokes the German geologist, always bites the third geologist. "The first guy wakes him up, and the second guy makes him mad."
Hugh Jenner-Clarke, an 83-year-old Englishman, recently found a major deposit of 950,000 tons of rare earths, a group of 17 elements prized for distinct properties of conductivity, magnetism and flexibility. "Retire? What for?" asks Mr. Jenner-Clarke, who made the discovery in western South Africa, at a site called Zandkopsdrift, for a Toronto-listed company called Frontier Rare Earths Ltd. "I'm not one to linger reading the paper after breakfast."
The white-haired bushy browed geologist, who immigrated to South Africa more than 50 years ago, packs a pickax, a few other tools, and some tea when he heads out to rocky bush country. He always wears a necktie. "People wonder why I bother with the tie," he says. "I tell them, it protects my neck from the sun." He never takes it off. "If it's very hot, I'll remove my jacket," he says.
Mr. Jenner-Clarke, whose first assignment was hunting diamonds for De Beers, never uses a computer. He does however rely on microscopes to study samples and has been known to carry an L-shaped divining rod, which he holds over his head until it points him toward water. "It's about the Earth's magnetism," he says.
Others reject that practice. Divining rods are "mystical voodoo bull—," scoffs John Borshoff, a 67-year-old geologist and CEO of Western Australia-based Paladin Energy Ltd., who developed a major uranium mine in Namibia. His formula: painstaking field work. "In the old days, you'd spend eight weeks in the field, just eating meat," he said. "Young geologists want to get home to Mommy."
Exploration geology "is science and religion," Mark Cutifani, the incoming CEO of Anglo American PLC, the world's fifth- biggest mining company, says, endorsing the virtues of seniority. "You have to be able to recognize patterns in the rocks."
Or termites, says Stuart Smith, a 64-year-old from Zimbabwe. They grind up the earth and bring samples to the surface. "I look for their piles," says Mr. Smith. He says such methods don't generally appeal to young geologists. "They would rather sit in front of a computer with their remote sensing," he said. His wife and four children don't understand it, either. "They find it very odd that I go looking for rocks."
Neither the best technology, nor hard-working ants, can map very far underground, and rock formations differ. Drilling holes every few dozen yards and pulling up pipe-shaped samples still leaves acres of mystery. "Age and experience help your imagination paint a picture of what's in between," says Scott McLean, the CEO of Toronto-listed Transition Metals Corp.
Young geologists respect their elders, up to a point. "I relish the opportunity to work with older geologists," says Steve Flank, a 29-year-old from Thunder Bay, Canada. "At the same time, every field camp needs a computer to manage large databases."
Tony Gesualdo, a 30-year-old geologist exploring for gold in North Carolina, says he often works for an older man whose method "seems to be to get lost and follow his nose." The man has trouble with the GPS and radio, often pressing the wrong buttons, so he has taken to wearing bright orange, "so we don't lose him," says Mr. Gesualdo. "But he seems to always stumble on the 'right' rocks. I've stopped questioning him."
Robert Milici, an 81-year-old geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, didn't bother with orange vests. Instead, as a "gentleman scientist," as he describes himself and his contemporaries, he always wore a suit and tie while kicking rocks in the woods. It made him stand out from the locals. "Nowadays, you try to blend in," says Mr. Milici, who assesses oil and gas resources at headquarters in Northern Virginia.
Mr. Petzer, the 65-year-old coal geologist in KwaZulu-Natal, is a relative youngster, and sees a productive future ahead. While others consider him old, he doesn't think he is and plans to work well into his 80s. "I am never going to retire," he said. "I'm going to fossilize on the side of a mountain into salt or limestone."
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A nervous but excited Alice Foulds, Passchendaele Akeroa Hurricane Bristow and Ruben Ross took their places alongside members of the official party in the World War I Hall of Memories at Auckland War Memorial Museum on Friday to honour their ancestors and all who fought at the Battle of Passchendaele.
The three students were the winners of Suburban Newspapers' Passchendaele commemorative competition (East & Bays Courier, October 10). They were asked to attend the event and place poppies to remember the fallen.
Alice, 13, says she was surprised to be chosen.
"I couldn't believe it. I felt really honoured because it's a special occasion. It's not as well recognised as Anzac Day but it should be."
Her great-grandfather David George Fullerton fought at the battle. He was seriously injured but survived against the odds, although he was left with a lasting momento.
Alice writes: "When the doctors were removing shrapnel from David's body, there was one piece, in David's head, that they couldn't get out. It remained there for the rest of his life."
Passchendaele, 11, carries the same name as the battle his great-great-uncle Private John Balero died fighting in.
He writes: "My grandfather and I are named Passchendaele so that he will always be remembered."
Passchendaele's aunt Lulu Bristow-Brown accompanied him and says: "For Passchendaele growing up with such a big name, it was difficult for him to understand how important it was. Today I think he has a greater understanding of the significance of the event."
Young Passchendaele's poppy was sprayed with his late mother's perfume. She died last year.
Ten-year-old Ruben Ross had three great-great uncles who died in World War I. One of the brothers, John Crockett was killed in action in Ypres, Belgium, in 1917.
In his essay Ruben writes: "When my great-grandmother saw the photos of her grandson Bruce, my Dad, and my Mum Eveline visiting John's grave for the first time in 1997, she cried. She could still remember the day he left."
Ruben says the commemoration was very important because a lot of New Zealanders had to go to war and the battle was the deadliest day in our military history.
The 95th anniversary commemoration honoured the 2700 casualties of the battle which took place on the Western Front on October 12, 1917.
The students were in the company of military, council and government representatives as well as the public.
Massey University professor of War Studies Glyn Harper says it is a battle which should never have gone ahead.
"War is the destroyer of families and the Battle of Passchendaele destroyed more families than any other action in our military history."
Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer's great uncle was killed at the Battle of Messines leading up to the Battle of Passchendaele.
"I think it goes to show just how close the connection still is. The fact that even someone relatively young like me can have a great uncle that was killed in Belgium demonstrates that the wounds are still there."
Former Labour leader Phil Goff was asked to lay a wreath. He says the day should be about remembering the sacrifices people made without glorifying their deaths.
"I lost two great uncles in the war. They made an enormous sacrifice for our country. Gallipoli was a tragedy but Passchendaele was even worse. For all New Zealanders it's a day to remember," he says.
Three other winners of the competition, Jessica Malloy, Joseph Malloy and Sam Malloy, were unable to attend.
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Yesterday afternoon concluded the 2nd day of the FlowFighting®®® for the Stand-Up Martial Artist seminar. As with all FlowFighting®®® seminars, Coach Wilson and Coach Jones provided detailed explanations to provide a comfortable format for beginner-level martial artists to develop the necessary skills. At the same time, their in depth knowledge of Martial art enabled them to provide pearls of wisdom that more seasoned martial athletes would be able to integrate into their personal game and see stellar improvements in performance.
Day 1 covered incrementally developing good mechanics in simple (but not easy) drills to develop good structure as well as work on biomechanics to take us all the way from standing into the Clinch.
Day 2 we went deeper into Clinch work, throws, and groundfighting. The structure and biomechanics we developed on Saturday were now pressure-tested in progressions of static-to fluid- to dynamic drills.
A few examples of mini-modules covered within this seminar were:
- The importance of GPP
- Developing good structure firstly from a boxing-based approach – incorporating more and more elements to develop effective and efficient structure for all elements of the stand up game.
- Detailed exploration of biomechanics for basic strikes, kicks, and throws.
- How to utilize good use of structure to make every defensive maneuver into an offensive maneuver.
- How to minimize fear-reactivity in receiving strikes and being thrown
- The proper mind and emotional state for effective and efficient fighting.
As always, it was a pleasure working with Coach Wilson and Coach Jones as well as training with familiar and new faces alike.
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These days, the sight of drivers with phones pressed to their ears is all too familiar. Unfortunately, though, the problems posed by such behavior are mounting. Some call it an epidemic, others say it's worse than drunken driving.
One solution to the dilemma would be to outlaw use of distracting technologies in the vehicle. But the question is, which technologies would you outlaw? Phones? Music players? Navigation systems?
In truth, consumers will have none of it. When the National Traffic Safety Board called for the "first-ever nationwide ban on portable electronic devices" earlier this year, the proposal was greeted with nationwide derision.
That's why automakers and suppliers are taking it upon themselves to improve the safety of devices that they're building and putting into vehicles.
Click on the photo below to see 14 examples of how car companies are studying the problem of driver distraction and how they propose to solve it.
The Ford Escape employs Integrated Blind Spot Mirrors to make it easier for users to see "blind spot drivers" while keeping their eyes on the road. (Source: Ford Motor Co.)
They say HUD cuts the time required to shift your eyesight from the road to the instrument panel by about 0.4 seconds, naperlou. If you're going 60 mph, that translates to about 35 feet. So, yes, I agree, HUD has value.
The "innovation" in the first slide has been around for a couple of decades, at least in the stick-on version. I'm surprised it's taken so long to integrate these blind spot mirrors into the side-view mirrors.
It's obvious, driverless cars is the only way to go. To truly remove the issues with distracted drivers, we must remove the drivers.
But in the meantime, I am liking the head-up display and voice recognition options. The only free HMI in voice in these cases. However, an intuitive interface is needed first. Otherwise, it's just another device to learn all the shortcuts on.
I've got to agree with Nadine about distractions for drivers. It was a lot easier to focus on the road, the other drivers and various external moving objects like kids and dogs--or deer and pedestrians where I live--before all those beeping and flashing devices inhabited the car's interior. I basically don't have any in my car for that reason.
Great slideshow, Chuck. I recently rode with my daughter's boyfriend to see my daughter's dance recital. He was driving a 2011 truck (can't remember what make). His entertainment system was run entirely by voice. He could announce a radio station or call for a specific song from a specific band from his digital music collection. He could also make a phone call initiated by voice. At all times he had both hands on the wheel and his eyes on the road. Very impressive, very safe.
Chuck, if we are going to allow all these personal devices to be used in cars then the only real solution will lie with technologies, including those you have in the slide show. Two of the most promising to me are haptics and HUD. The layout of insgtruments in cars is not very optimal. A study of aircraft and race cars may be useful in this regard.
Many of the solutions are very distracting themsleves. HUDs are very cool but the driver is still looking at the display, not the car in front. It's likely that an accident will be mitigated but not avoided altogether.
Anecdotally, I spent yesterday media free--as I do during every majour election. No radio, no tv, etc. It was the best driving experience I've had in a long time. Instead of being isolated in my media box and separated from everyone around me, I paid attention. No near misses. I was never cut off. And, I avoided traffic jams and hazards like a ninja.
Paying attention is the best solution. It's interesting how we use technology to solve the problems that our mis-use of technology creates. Ford's approach (Driving Skills for Life) is definitely a good model.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is | <urn:uuid:53b6402e-829a-4a6f-8dae-f9437318a1ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1366&doc_id=253287&piddl_msgid=837451 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966091 | 974 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Election 2012 Presidential Debates: Romney Comes Out Strong
10/04/2012 - 13:05 ||
The pressure was on Mitt Romney to deliver a strong performance at the first presidential debate before the millions of Americans who tuned in. He showed up with his “A” game. President Obama, some would say, did not.
The Denver debate focused on domestic issues – taxes, the economy, jobs, education, federal spending and the deficit, Medicare, the President’s health care law also known as “Obamacare,” as well as the role of government. Notably absent: immigration and women’s rights.
In each instance, Romney’s answers were aggressive, sharp, and in numerical order, a sign that the nearly two dozens GOP primary debates he survived sharpened his skill and delivery. He smiled, looked at the camera, and even wrested control from debate moderator PBS’ Jim Lehrer to get the last word in.
Romney argued that he would not engage in wasteful spending that would make us more indebted to China (from which we’ve borrowed billions), even if it means cutting funding for PBS, including the moderator’s newscast and Sesame Street’s Big Bird.
"I'm sorry Jim. I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I like Big Bird. I actually like you too," declared Romney in one of the most memorable lines of a bland debate (ABC News’s Rick Klein tweeted: “per Sesame Street, Big Bird has no comment b/c he is 6 and does not understand why he's in the news. I'm actually not making this up.”).
In contrast, President Obama slipped into what must have been his demeanor when he taught constitutional law. The incumbent gave lengthy policy explanations and missed opportunities to call Romney out on his inconsistencies. For example, on taxes, the Republican stated he would not cut taxes on the very rich despite wanting to restore the Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year.
Romney vowed to repeal the President’s financial regulation and health care laws that while controversial, aim through regulations to make the system more transparent and helpful for consumers. But Obama didn’t press the GOP nominee each time to spell out policy specifics, instead choosing a larger argument that was hard for average voters to grasp on a night heavy on statistics better suited for policy wonks.
“Are we going to double down on the top-down economic policies that helped to get us into this mess,” the President asked, “or do we embrace a new economic patriotism that says, ‘America does best when the middle class does best?’”
The President also didn’t demand Romney explain the now notorious “47 percent” comment describing Obama supporters as freeloaders to Republican donors at a Florida fundraiser.
Mr. Romney went into the debate the underdog, trailing the President in varying degrees in the polls, among coveted voters like women and Latinos. But in Denver, President Obama had the harder job. Even addressing the economy alone, he inherited the worst scenario since the Great Depression. But the recovery has been slow on his watch.
The President has to defend his record if he expects a win, especially to undecided voters. Yet with last night’s lukewarm performance, he may now be behind on making the convincing case for four more years for his agenda to get the country back on track.
Tell Us: Who “won” last night’s debate?
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Category: Business, Panorama
Posted: June 29, 2010 10:25 AM
In the wake of a new federal law that aims to make credit card issuers more accountable, companies continue to seek ways to squeeze higher profits from their borrowers, warn experts interviewed by The Denver Post
, which points to a looming deadline that will prohibit banks from automatically charging overdraft fees to customers.
Take the case of borrowers who have two or more interest rates for loans under one account. Under new federal rules, card issuers apply payments in excess of the monthly minimum to balances with the highest interest rate first.
But what about consumers who pay only the minimum? In some cases, the minimum payment goes to the lower rate balance, which experts say is a bad deal for consumers.
"That could be a difference of paying off a balance in 12 years instead of three or four," says Ken Lin, chief executive of CreditKarma.com.
Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Mark Udall (pictured) is asking his colleagues to give final approval to the Wall Street Accountability bill, which contains his provision to allow consumers free access to their credit scores. Under the proposal, consumers who are turned down for a loan or purchase, receive a higher interest rate on a loan, or are given unfavorable terms on a credit card would receive automatic disclosure of their credit score free of charge, writes The Denver Daily News | <urn:uuid:bbac257c-fb44-4428-80f7-660af3c6eefb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.5280.com/blogs/2010/06/29/new-credit-card-fees-watch-out | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956236 | 284 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The angina is easily detected and characterized by because chest pains, nausea and sweating. By identifying this condition quickly and effectively, we are helping to better understand its patterns and more about its causes.
The chest pain may be caused by various conditions, some of which may require immediate medical attention, others to surgery and other just a little time and patience. That is why today Makeufits we give you everything you need to know about angina and their causes.
What is angina?
The etymologies of the word angina tell us much about this condition. The word comes from Latin and means something like "chest tightness" or "tightness". The term is used primarily to describe chest pain in particular that occurs in the central area. When angina spot feels pressure and constriction press and press the chest, as if something was crushing sometimes more intensely than others.
The pain and tightness begin to feel in the center and behind the breastbone or in the front left chest. You can also expand into some other sectors such as upper arms and stomach.
Causes and indications
Angina is caused by a decrease in the smooth flow of blood to the heart and what is often indicating the presence of underlying coronary artery disease or other hazardous conditions in the heart as a possible heart attack.
Diseases in the heart of this type are often caused by the atherosclerosis, where they accumulate in fatty plaques within the arteries, and these become narrower and rigid. The flow of blood is so affected and blood contain oxygen must reach the heart for this work, the heart muscles do not work properly and produce pain, pressure and cramps in the chest.
The most common causes for this to occur are:
- Stress and high levels of stress
- Exposure to intense cold
- The food intake of a heavy and calorie
Angina usually occurs after some of these cases and about 10 minutes then fades naturally.
Types of angina pectoris
There are two types of angina pectoris and a basic variant, these depend on their stability:
Stable angina: Stable angina occurs after the causes mentioned recently and is characterized by disappear in a short period of time. Usually appears as a consequence of exposure to stressors and stressful situations and the person can be controlled by a relaxation exercise or reassuring.
Unstable Angina: When any of the symptoms mentioned above continue for larger periods, increase in frequency or become more intense, it is considered that we are dealing with unstable angina and should take the situation more carefully as it can mean greater risk.
Variant angina: Variant angina is chest pain caused by a sudden artery spasm and occurs usually in the morning, because the heart is at rest and light activity for a long time.
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The last two evenings/nights Susanne and I have watched migrating birds against the face of the moon. The weather has been clear and with moderate winds aloft. We recorded the position of entry and exit on the moon's surface, imaging the moon is a clock. On Wednesday we observed 62 birds during one hour, and yesterday (Thursday) we noted 28 birds/hour. The directions were quite consistent towards the SW, and the observations suggest there was quite heavy migration traffic. We could hear scattered calls from redwings (Turdus lilacus) and robins (Erithacus rubecula), and last night also a flock of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) was heard migrating. The moon will still be bright for a few more nights, and we challenge everybody to beat our current record of seeing 62 birds during one hour! | <urn:uuid:bba15398-b765-464a-a214-a1bfdec2a81a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://animalmovement-canmove.blogspot.com/2011/10/moonwatching-high.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949586 | 185 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Franklin County, Virginia
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The county was formed in 1785 from parts of Bedford County and Henry County. It was named for Benjamin Franklin. This county was home to Booker T. Washington, a slave who became one of the main civil rights activitist of his era. During Prohibition, local wits named Franklin County the "Moonshine Capital of the World," a name trumpeted today by the local chamber of commerce.
The county is divided into seven supervisor districts: Blackwater, Blue Ridge, Boone, Gills Creek, Rocky Mount, Snow Creek, and Union Hall.
- Bedford County, Virginia – northeast
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia – southeast
- Henry County, Virginia – south
- Patrick County, Virginia – southwest
- Floyd County, Virginia – west
- Roanoke County, Virginia – northwest
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 47,286 people, 18,963 households, and 13,918 families residing in the county. The population density is 26/km² (68/mi²). There are 22,717 housing units at an average density of 13/km² (33/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 88.95% White, 9.35% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.42% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. 1.21% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 18,963 households out of which 29.10% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.10% are married couples living together, 9.40% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.60% are non-families. 22.60% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.90% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.44 and the average family size is 2.84.
In the county, the population is spread out with 22.20% under the age of 18, 8.10% from 18 to 24, 28.20% from 25 to 44, 27.20% from 45 to 64, and 14.30% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 97.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.30 males.
The median income for a household in the county is $38,056, and the median income for a family is $45,163. Males have a median income of $29,807 versus $22,215 for females. The per capita income for the county is $19,605. 9.70% of the population and 7.30% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 12.70% of those under the age of 18 and 9.80% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
- Franklin County government official website
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The Colorado House of Representatives opened the 2013 legislative session with its first gay speaker, Democrats back in power and 27 new members.
Newly sworn-in House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, noted his historic moment in history as the state's first gay House speaker, but he lamented that two of his family members, older brother Michael and grandfather, Teddy D'Amore, were not present.
The speaker also discussed his philosophy of governing and outlined plans for a bipartisan session after receiving the gavel from outgoing speaker, Republican Frank McNulty.
"They are the more conservative members of the family, and my arguments with them have prepared me for the coming discussions with Minority (Mark) Leader Waller," Ferrandino said in his speech.
The new speaker said a debate on the size and scope of government was good, "But to blindly and cynically condemn government is to willfully ignore the many ways it makes our lives more secure and contributes to our shared prosperity. Likewise, to blindly defend government is to ignore the fact that, like any human institution, it can be improved."
He said an improving state budget will allow for the restoration of some programs like education, and said it also will allow for about 800 more people with developmental disabilities to finally start receiving state services.
"But we still face a structural budget crisis," Ferrandino said. "And we won't be able to climb all the way back — ever — unless we address its causes. So we'll continue to have unmet needs in our classrooms, our colleges, and in critical areas like developmental and mental health services. Ultimately, that should be unacceptable to all of us."
Ferrandino even quoted a conservative icon, the author of "Atlas Shrugged."
"One of my favorite authors, Ayn Rand, wrote: 'The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities.'
"In thatspirit," Ferrandino said, "we must acknowledge that all committed couples deserve equal protection under the law, forever end Colorado's 'hate state' nickname, and, with bipartisan cooperation, pass civil unions this year."
And Ferrandino bluntly said the House would discuss gun control legislation, a topic that is now in the national spotlight following mass shootings in Aurora and Connecticut. Gun rights activists planned to hold a rally outside the Capitol later in the day.
"The Second Amendment is sacrosanct," Ferrandino said. "But so is the First. It is our right — and the time is right — to speak openly and honestly about how we can curb the gun violence that costs our communities far too many sons and daughters.
"We have to seek consensus about how to prevent more horrors like the shootings in Aurora and Newtown. That conversation will include guns and mental health."
The speaker also called for making it easier for Colorado high school students who are illegal immigrants to attend college, referring to legislation to allow such students to pay less than out-of-state tuition.
"We have to implement major parts of the Affordable Care Act, fondly referred to by some as Obamacare," Ferrandino said. "Whatever you call it, it will enhance health care for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans and make the cost of care more affordable."
Waller, R-Colorado Springs, the new minority leader in the House, cited far fewer specific legislative initiatives in his speech and called for an end to "poltical grandstanding."
"I pledge to you that House Republicans will do everything in our power to build the coalitions we need to strengthen our state together," he said.
"I am under no illusion that our work this session will be easy, but I know that we have worked together in the past, and I know we can do it again this year."
Waller called broadly for funding "merit-based scholarships" for Colorado college students.
"We need to ensure that all students in Colorado, whether they live in an urban or rural area, have the opportunity to challenge themselves by taking advanced placement courses," he said. "And we need to ensure that every Colorado student in an English language learning program is given the tools and skill set they'll need to succeed in the future."
Waller said there needs to be an "all-of-the-above" energy policy that recognizes renewable energy but also remembers the importance of traditional energy sources like oil and gas.
And the minority leader reiterated his previous calls for cutting the state's prison budget and shifting those resources to other areas.
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A Look at XNA - Part One
- Posted: Nov 16, 2006 at 12:13 PM
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This is the first of a two part series in which we get a look at XNA - the technology that's going to make it significantly easier for devs to code games that run on Windows
and the Xbox 360.
In this first part, we chat with Boyd Multerer about his role in the XNA program. It's some pretty cool stuff, and what I learned tells me that XNA could really change the hobbyist game scene for the better.
Topics covered include the tech behind XNA, the story behind XNA, and some talk about XNA Studio - the IDE that devs will use to write their games.
If you've ever wanted to get into game development, or if you've wondered at all about what it's like, then you'll dig this stuff. It's a whole different world from coding your standard LOB apps.
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Some people like to go deep. I’m one of them. I’m not sure if it is the times or my reserve that keeps me from cultivating friends who also like to go deep. So, to get my deep fix, I read books. Sometimes it’s fiction, sometimes non-fiction. One of my recent non-fiction finds is Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis.
If there is controversy about Haidt’s ideas, I don’t know or care. What I do care about is his chapter on the meaning of life. It helped me understand what matters to me.
I’ve shed the idea that we have intrinsic meaning simply because we exist. We may have, but it isn’t the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. What matters to me is deep meaning. Pleasure isn’t what I’m after, though I don’t turn from it. What I want, what I need, is to create a sense in myself and others that calls forth a particular feeling, an emotion that might be called awe, or wonder, though these are not quite the right terms. No, this emotion– which is centred in the chest — pulls me, takes me, humbles me and includes me as part of a whole. It creates in me a sense of unity. In that moment, I am not outside or separate, I am part of it all—everything.
What sort of things do this? It may be different from one person to the next, but I think that there are instances when a majority of people given the same stimulus will experience this emotion. It is a form of communion, a recognition of ourselves in others who have overcome, who have grown, who have thrived and quietly marked our nobility. For I do believe despite all wretched evidence to the contrary that we have, within us, nobility.
Where do you find this wondrous thing? You hear it in great music, you see it in in Van Gogh’s trees, you feel it when your theorem solves elegantly, and you read it in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
This is the meaning of live and though I strive forever I want to create art that will stop the viewer or reader, fill their eyes with tears, and for a moment at least help them feel that they are a worthy and intrinsic part of the universal whole.
So good-bye postmodern cynicism and pop culture triviality. The world hasn’t ended yet. There is time still to go deeper, to mean more. | <urn:uuid:52ff30f4-f859-4266-9fc2-ed989f2a7e6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tagonist.net/blog/?m=200902 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959787 | 544 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Indian government seems to think so.
Anand Sharma, the commerce minister, told India Ink the government’s decision was prompted by the need for the “creation of an infrastructure, an integrated food chain, bringing in the newest technology.” Foreign retail giants would help rural farmers, he said, as well as salvage the huge amount of food that rots before getting to consumers. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised during an address on Friday that the move would “create millions of good quality new jobs,” and improve earnings for farmers.
Foreign multi-brand retail chains will be allowed to open stores in India and own a majority stake, the commerce ministry said September 14, but have to follow strict conditions.
Some analysts are just as optimistic about the Wal-Mart effect. Ernst & Young said in a Sept. 14 report that India’s changes will “improve the supply chain infrastructure, regulate food inflation, secure remunerative prices for farmers and generate employment opportunities.”
That’s a pretty tall order for a retail chain, even one as powerful as Wal-Mart. After all, many of the basics necessary to regulate inflation, or build infrastructure, are tasks traditionally done by the government, from building roads to setting feasible agriculture policy.
How realistic are current expectations about big foreign retailers?
There is a substantial body of research on the effects of foreign investment in emerging markets, looking at Central Europe (including this 2002 working paper on Hungary and this oft-cited 2004 report that includes data from Lithuania), Latin America and South East Asia. Unfortunately, the sum total of these studies is inconclusive – some show positive “spillovers” (academia’s preferred term for effects) from foreign investment, others find negative “spillovers.” This 2009 research report, co-written by professors at Rice University and Peking University, includes a good summary of other research.
One thing, though, is certain: There is no precedent for big retail chains like Wal-Mart, Britain’s Tesco or France’s Carrefour to enter an emerging market and building foundational infrastructure like roads, or improve railways, said Milos Ryba, senior retail analyst with Planet Retail in London, a global research company. Much of India’s rotting food problem is attributed to the country’s shambolic transportation network, which means produce takes much longer to travel from farm to consumer than it should. Trucks carrying cargo in India travel an average of 250 to 300 kilometers (150 to 186 miles) a day, compared to twice that in the developed world, according to a McKinsey report, and that is unlikely to change just because foreign investors come in.
Still, Wal-Mart and other big retail players may have a transformational effect on manufacturing and distribution in other ways, analysts say. Wal-Mart’s Mexico operations, its largest internationally, provide some good clues for what could change in India.
In 1997, Wal-Mart took full control of a joint venture in Mexico, now named Wal-Mart de Mexico, or Walmex. By 2003, it was Mexico’s largest private employer, “transforming not only the retail sector, but the consumer goods industries that supply it,” said a 2009 report sponsored by the World Bank, which involved the University of Oxford and University of Colorado.
Among other things, Walmex provided its affiliated manufacturers with a much larger national market, the report found, and the possibility to export. But that was accompanied by “continuous pressure to raise the quality of the product, lower one’s price, or a combination of the two.”
Ultimately, the nation’s manufacturers were bifurcated, with those who worked with Wal-Mart spending more on technology and research and development, and those who did not spending less than before Wal-Mart entered the market. In Mexico, Wal-Mart brought “massive changes to the manufacturing sector,” Mr. Ryba said. “Some manufacturers cooperated, and became larger, and some died.”
That’s because when Wal-Mart buys from local companies in the country, it expects them to innovate by changing their products every year, or it pays a discounted price for the products from the year before, Mr. Ryba said.
Wal-Mart also enacted some changes in the trucking industry in Mexico that might be welcome in India. The company introduced centralized warehouses, required delivery trucks to have appointments, carry standardized identification cards and deliver shipments on standard-sized pallets. Drivers that missed appointments would be fined, the World Bank report said, and deliveries subject to third-party audits.
But real comparisons between India and Mexico remain tough to make – Mexico’s proximity to the United States has made it a growing manufacturing destination for numerous foreign companies, despite a rise in violence attributed to the drug trade, an advantage India does not have. India’s complicated labor laws may discourage Wal-Mart and its peers from hiring permanent employees here, creating an entirely new generation of lower-paid contract workers without job security or medical insurance.
And any long-term impacts of Wal-Mart’s Mexico business have been overshadowed this year by the company’s involvement in a bribery scandal there. The company paid “bribes to obtain permits in virtually every corner of the country,” amounting to some $24 million, and then hushed up its own investigation into the bribes, The New York Times reported in April.
Wal-Mart is sure to find similar demands for bribes in India – especially now that ample evidence exists that the company has paid them elsewhere.
In June 2010, Wal-Mart’s chief executive, Michael T. Duke, promised an Arkansas shareholders meeting that Wal-Mart was becoming a “a truly global company,” one that would add 500,000 jobs worldwide in the next five years. The glitzy meeting featured performances Mariah Carey and Enrique Iglesias and included delegations from Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Argentina, India and Britain, among other countries.
In August, Wal-Mart said it would slow down the opening of stores in China, Brazil and Mexico, after growth in those markets eased, Reuters reported — leaving India one of the few big emerging markets it could look to for growth. Perhaps those nation-building skills will be put to the test shortly. | <urn:uuid:e2605970-afc7-4961-949e-fabbf3b5b9a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/can-wal-mart-build-a-nation/?ref=asia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955302 | 1,333 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The Ground Zero cross doesn’t violate anyone’s constitutional rights.
American Atheists claims that showing the artifact violates the separation of church and state. The cross’ very existence has caused “symptoms of depression, headaches, anxiety, and mental pain and anguish” in members, the group gripes.
The suit has forced a whole lot of lawyering by attorneys representing the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation and the Port Authority, along with defendants who have been dropped from the case, including the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and Father Brian Jordan, a Catholic priest who had prayed before the icon.
The Port Authority and museum have asked Judge Deborah Batts to dismiss this lunacy, pointing out, for one thing, that the steel is part of the historical record, as is the emotion it engendered.
Nothing more need be said, except thank you to the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which waived its normally high fees for the museum foundation. Batts should end this frivolous waste of time, money and energy forthwith. | <urn:uuid:6c56897e-98e1-40ff-9165-3e2b580cd630> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://clashdaily.com/2012/08/fed-judge-atheists-law-suit-banning-cross-at-groundzero-a-waste-of-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953965 | 224 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A great series in the NY Times this week written by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris trying to find out if his late brother Noel had been an inventor of electronic mail. Driven by a desire to learn more about his family, Morris began his journey by telephoning Tom Van Vleck, a colleague of Noel’s at MIT, which immediately bore fruit. Van Vleck, as it turned out, was himself a twig on an illustrious and accomplished family tree, which he had also researched.
Along the way, Morris obtained historical documents and photos that backed up Van Vleck’s claims that Noel was there with him at the beginning. A fascinating series about one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of high tech and the brilliant people who were responsible. There’s even an interactive feature in this article where you can write your own code and send an email from 1965. | <urn:uuid:1c986616-cc38-43a2-ba06-ba2530c8ff09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hightechhistory.com/category/e-mail/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988041 | 181 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Message from the Vice President for Marine Facilities & Operations
Robert S.C. Munier
WHOI’s tradition of seagoing oceanographic research stretches back more than 80 years. Operating alongside the world’s best ocean scientists and engineers, the Institution’s marine operations professionals have enabled some of the most iconic accomplishments in ocean exploration and research. In many respects, however, this history, and the credibility it gives us in the oceanographic community, is just a beginning for WHOI Marine Operations.
The quality and scope of service we provide remains unrivaled, extending across ship operations, diving, scientific sensor and sampler deployment, remotely operated and autonomous vehicle operation, project management, and new instrument development. Our record of success in all of these activities speaks to the experience we have compiled over years of testing and deploying precision instruments and complex systems in one of the most hostile environments on Earth.
It also underscores our commitment to reliability and safety, as well as to our steadfast determination not to become a variable in the scientific experiments we enable. Our efforts to develop new tools and methods to study the ocean and our commitment to push the limits of what scientists can study also make us an active, equal partner in oceangoing scientific research.
The ocean is a complex and difficult place to work. By combining our unmatched expertise with our unique capabilities and a willingness to solve new, difficult problems in creative ways, we play an integral role in advancing human knowledge about the ocean. | <urn:uuid:e39ef82c-403e-4da9-a574-245a34026b35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=50240&cid=127989&tid=3622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930063 | 302 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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The €204,000 ($250,920) Ferrari 458 Italia has never been a common sight, even on the autostrade of its native Italy. Today it’s becoming even rarer as austerity measures spur owners to export supercars by the truckload. A tax crackdown on luxury goods, combined with budget cuts that have pushed Italy deeper into its fourth recession since 2001, is souring demand for sporty cars and other symbols of the country’s fashionable lifestyle. The number of secondhand high-performance cars exported from Italy nearly tripled to 13,633 in the first five months of 2012, from 4,923 a year earlier, according to auto industry group Unrae.
“Italy is one of the strongholds of supercars, and those vehicles are now disappearing from the streets,” says Giuliano Noci, associate dean of Milan Polytechnic’s business school. “This has a huge symbolic value and shows how deep the crisis is.”
The exodus reflects weaker overall demand for high-end autos in the home of Ferrari and Maserati, Fiat’s (FI) most profitable brands. Sales of super-luxury cars in Italy are forecast to plunge 47 percent to 593 vehicles this year from 1,116 in 2008, according to IHS Automotive (IHS), which predicts that sales won’t return to pre-crisis levels before 2016.
Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government is implementing €20 billion in austerity measures as the country grapples with its €1.9 trillion debt. The economy has contracted for four straight quarters, and unemployment has surged to a near-13-year high as consumer spending and industrial output slump.
The downturn prompted Fiat, Italy’s biggest manufacturer, to temporarily halt investments in the country. Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne may close another factory after shuttering a plant in Sicily last year. Weaker demand for supercars could further sour Fiat on Italy and accelerate a shift to stronger markets such as the U.S. and China.
Italy has become a declining source of supercar profits ever since Monti raised ownership levies on high-performance vehicles as part of his budget reforms. After the changes, owners of the €316,000 Lamborghini Aventador pay about €8,400 a year in taxes, an increase of €6,600.
Since December 2011, Italian authorities have conducted dozens of raids in wealthy areas, including the ski resort Cortina d’Ampezzo and Portofino on the Riviera, in search of tax evaders. Officials stop high-priced vehicles to check whether their owners declared sufficient income—and paid enough taxes—to support their lifestyles.
Near Venice last month, the financial police, a separate force from regular cops, arrested a 44-year-old man driving a Ferrari F40 for not paying €8 million in taxes since 2006. In a July sweep in Bergamo, police found that the driver of a €200,000 Ferrari F131 had evaded €3 million in taxes since 2007. “Many Ferrari owners want to get rid of their supercars after the financial police came to one of our events near Rome and checked every driver,” says Fabio Barone, who heads the Ferrari owners’ club Passione Rossa. One of the members put a Ferrari 458 up for sale for €143,000 after buying it for €224,000 last year, he says.
Photograph by Joker/Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/The Image Works
Barone says he has received calls from dealers in France, Germany, and Eastern Europe inquiring about vehicles that might be available. Some owners looking to unload their cars are simply listing them on automotive websites. Others sell them via Ferrari’s pre-owned car program. The number of secondhand Ferraris and Maseratis leaving Italy jumped to 424 cars from 142 through the first five months of the year, according to Unrae.
It’s not just Ferraris. Every week about 200 secondhand Porsches leave Italy for other European countries, according to Loris Casadei, head of Porsche in Italy. Exports of used Porsche Cayennes more than tripled to 1,134 vehicles in the first five months of 2012. “The high-end car market is one of the more resilient to the crisis, and Italy is punishing it—not a wise decision,” says Romano Valente, general manager of Unrae, which represents foreign automakers in Italy. “The luxury tax has created a perverse mechanism.”
While Ferrari’s sales in Italy were hurt by an “anti-rich” political campaign, demand abroad for cars such as the four-seat FF will help the automaker increase sales to more than 7,000 vehicles this year, Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Although Montezemolo supports the fight against tax evasion, he disagrees with the “demagogic spectacularization” of those efforts.
The global expansion by Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini won’t help Italians like those in the Passione Rossa club. In June more than 40 members were checked by police who were waiting when a ferry carrying them docked at the port of Palermo for a driving event in Sicily. “The situation is dramatic,” says the club’s president, Barone. The Dolce Vita era “is far behind us.”
The bottom line: Prime Minister Mario Monti hopes to raise €168 million by boosting taxes on luxury cars. He may get less as Italians sell them off. | <urn:uuid:7199a8b3-62ad-4bb0-946d-d324eadbd278> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-23/italys-austerity-leads-to-ferrari-sell-off | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956426 | 1,201 | 1.617188 | 2 |
[N] 2003 Antetonitrus ingenipes gen. et sp. nov.
Yates, A.M. & J. W. Kitching. 2003. The earliest known sauropod dinosaur and the first steps towards sauropod locomotion. Proceedings: Biological Sciences DOI 10.1098/rspb.2003.2417.
Abstract: A partial dinosaur skeleton from the Upper Triassic (Norian) sediments of South Africa is described and named Antetonitrus ingenipes . It provides the first informative look at a basal sauropod that was beginning to show adaptations towards graviportal quadrupedalism such as an elongated forelimb, a modified femoral architecture, a shortened metatarsus and a changed distribution of weight across the foot. These adaptations allowed the clade to produce the largest-ever terrestrial animals. However, A.ingenipes lacked specializations of the hand found in more derived sauropods that indicate it retained the ability to grasp. Antetonitrus is older than the recently described Isanosaurus from Thailand and is the oldest known definitive sauropod. | <urn:uuid:0aea7a8c-2294-429a-a6b5-bfadc93c664d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dinodata.org/index.php/dinonews/news/4839-2003-antetonitrus-ingenipes-gen-et-sp-nov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901539 | 230 | 2.53125 | 3 |
- Peter Emer
- North Brunswick, NJ
- United States
Is God Real?
Its human nature to seek superiority and its human nature to seek an authoritative entity to take responsibility and control of one's life. So i often wonder if God is just that idea. The idea of a god that is all powerful and all knowing and just superior in everyday than any human being, is the very idea that makes me question the legitimacy of a God. We tend to subscribe to a divine command or an authoritative figure. The creator of the universe gets to set the rules and do anything it likes with its creations like sending them for eternal punishment.
And lastly, everyone that believes in a divine command gets the same satisfaction from believing in something that everyone else gets no matter what they believe in.
I am just interested in the TED community's input on this. I am a student of life, so i take no biases even if it sounds like it sometimes. :) | <urn:uuid:a230db10-5bdd-4319-b50e-716485836759> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ted.com/conversations/16563/is_god_real_1.html?c=610239 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943105 | 195 | 1.640625 | 2 |
FOR … Tai (right) with Chong.
WORK in male-dominated field is not simple and challenging endurance of a woman, especially if the demands of work regardless of the time and require the attention of more than 12 hours a day, including weekends.Likewise the woman who lives and breathes group of scientists in the research world that demands long working hours to have to sacrifice time with family, relatives and close friends.
But the spirit of strong women and not give up the fight for something they believe it should be praised because of the arrangement, only three percent of the scientists around the world are women. />
women scientists, Dr Lim Kue Peng, 36, said the research world is of a very busy and took over almost the entire time until there is no time for him to make another matter, especially recreational activities like most people.
He said the family sometimes feels strange to see it worked so hard and his lack of understanding uncertain time to have a voice feelings to him.
“The task of research is not easy and demands a strong commitment to my own as to ignore the other and completely focused on finding treatments for patients.
“In this career, support from my colleagues is very important to give the spirit to continue to find cures to diseases,” he said.
He said the tendency in the world of medical research to germinate because we want to help patients who desperately need the best treatment to heal their sickness.
He said, since 10 years ago, he spent much time in the laboratory to conduct a study on find a cure in the form of vaccine that can prevent and treat cancers of the mouth (oral).
He who works at Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation (Carif), said that oral cancer is common in people of this country, but unfortunately it does not get more exposure.
“With the discovery of these vaccines, it is hoped the patient will have a higher cure rate then their lives could be saved without having to undergo major surgery.
” If surgery performed for remove cancer of the mouth, a face will be involved and it mutilates them until forced to undergo cosmetic surgery to correct facial.
“This is very sad and I do not want it to happen to them,” he said, also recipients of the award UNESCO-National Fellowships from Loreal Loreal Malaysia.
Lim said, the studies conducted for each patient can take up almost a month for each case, he would bersengkang eyes or spend all day in the lab on weekends just want to get results faster.
He said, especially the chronic patients did not have much time and he was concerned that patients could not be treated, making it actively committed to conducting research to help them.
“I always wanted to conduct a study as soon as possible to save their lives. When I see the face of those who are in pain, I feel very sad, “he said.
He said the study is now in the final stages and he is currently in the process of discussing with oncologist at several hospitals for finding clinical trials medical patients to carry on the mouth.
He said the vaccine produced by the research could help ‘train’ the immune cells to detect and identify the cancer cells then eliminate them.
Meanwhile /> , a scientist at the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (UM), Chong Pan Pan, said the study began in 2007, he was concentrating more easily find solutions to the taking of cord nerve cells to repair damaged body parts.
Chong said, if before this, nerve cells taken from umbilical cord stem infant or by surgery in the spine but from his studies, cells can be obtained from a drop of blood in the finger.
He said, take some blood through small needle puncture in the finger not only painful, but it simplifies and reduces pain to be borne by the patient should undergo an operation on the bone marrow.
“These cells are taken from the patient’s own body, then it processed in the laboratory to increase the number of cells entered the spinal cord before returning to the damage in the patient’s body to the healing process.
“It is safe, simple, non-aggressive and more convenient treatment and accelerate patient rehabilitation period , “he said.
Chong who is also the recipient of the Unesco-Loreal Loreal National Fellowships 2010 from Malaysia, said the Tues. can be used to improve any part of the patient’s body is damaged or injured.
He said the research idea arose after a discussion with the supervisor at UM, since taking cord when nerve cells are very painful and burdensome patients to undergo surgery when the bone marrow. />
Meanwhile, the Director of Public Relations and Corporate Communications Loreal Malaysia, Tai Ai Leen, said the company supports the proliferation of women scientists around the world as providing the funds resulting from sales around the world to help those women scientists who want to carry out any research.
He said Malaysia’s own in the last seven years, Loreal allocate RM60, 000 each to three women scientists each year as financial assistance for them to realize the ideals of scientific research.
“We wants to give opportunities to women scientists achieve their research and encourage the addition of women scientists as this when there are only about three percent of women scientists in the world only.
“In addition to provide financial assistance, we also recognize the collaboration with Unesco their success in the field of scientific research through the ‘For Women in Science’, “he said.
The recognition is the International Special Fellowship ‘… in the footsteps of Marie Curie’, Unesco-Loreal International Fellowships , Loreal-UNESCO Laureates and Unesco-Loreal National Fellowships.
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It appears that the Senate, which shamed itself last week by refusing to take action on a jobs and tax fairness bill, will have an opportunity to redeem itself somewhat with a vote on extended unemployment benefits.
The House attempted to pass by voice vote this afternoon a bill by Reps. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash., that would restore the unemployment benefit program that died last week in a Republican-led filibuster in the Senate. House Republicans blocked voice-vote passage, and so House Democratic leaders are working to get the bill passed by a roll call vote Wednesday.
These benefits, which kick in after unemployed workers exhaust their standard 26 weeks of benefits, are a lifeline that 1.7 million workers will lose by the end of this week if Congress does not act. By the end of July, that number would exceed 3 million. And, again, it is the Senate, not the House, that’s the problem. The Hill reports:
Republicans in the Senate have repeatedly blocked such legislation in that chamber, arguing the nation’s budget deficit and debt demand all spending be offset with other spending cuts. … On Friday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said she would support an extension to unemployment benefits even if they are not offset. … Still, even if Snowe votes yes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will need at least one other Republican if Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nev.) continues to oppose the extension because it is not offset.
The showdown in the Senate comes on a week of action to hold obstructionists in the Senate accountable for their refusal to act responsibly on jobs. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees plans to bombard Senate offices with thousands of letters from unemployed workers. A sample letter says that the Senate’s “refusal to vote for funding to keep teachers, police officers and other workers on the job, and of protect elderly residents from being tossed out of nursing homes is outrageous. [The senators say] it’s the deficit. But the economists have all told them that the best thing they can do for the deficit is to protect jobs now and make sure we keep the economic recovery going.”
The insistence that for every dollar of stimulus that is placed into the economy, another dollar must be taken away—except when it comes to tax benefits for the wealthy or for the war in Afghanistan—is nonsensical, but Senate conservatives doggedly cling to this debilitating belief.
What the organizations working on the Jobs for America Now coalition would want is for the Senate to not just pass an unemployment extension bill but, at a minimum, the bill that was filibustered last week, which would also fund summer jobs programs and help prevent the layoffs of state and local employees. We say “at a minimum” because this legislation was severely weakened in a vain attempt to attract conservative Democratic and Republican votes.
The minimum of what’s really needed is the Local Jobs for America Act, which includes spending on actual job creation. We just take the offensive on job creation. That will become abundantly clear if the Labor Department’s monthly job report shows, as some economists expect, that the economy has begun to shed private sector jobs again after a short spurt of net job creation.
But the least the Senate can do, before it goes on recess, is to not cut what little ground is left out from under upwards of 2 million Americans who want to work—and face an economy that still has no room for them. | <urn:uuid:b3b317bf-db3c-4242-b11e-c7c18f46c1ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.ourfuture.org/20100629/senate-has-chance-for-partial-redemption-on-jobs?q=blog-entry/2010062629/senate-has-chance-partial-redemption-jobs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958471 | 729 | 1.609375 | 2 |
To develop and evaluate a new filter paper method to determine capillary blood lead levels accurately in children.
Paired comparison of lead levels determined in capillary whole blood dried on filter paper with lead levels in venous whole blood samples determined by a reference method.
Children's Hospital of Michigan clinics, Detroit.
One hundred children aged 9 months to 6 years.
Lead concentrations determined in capillary whole blood samples dried on filter paper were compared with concentrations measured in paired venous whole blood samples by a reference method.
Main Outcome Measures:
Comparability of the two lead assay methods was assessed with the concordance coefficient. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictivity of the capillary filter paper method relative to the reference method were determined at three intervention decision concentrations of blood lead defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There was high agreement between the two assay methods, with a concordance coefficient of 0.96. The capillary filter paper assay had a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 90% for differentiating blood lead levels of 0.48 μmol/L (10 μg/dL) or more. Blood lead levels of 0.72 μmol/L (15 μg/dL) or more and 0.96 μmol/L (20 μg/dL) or more were identified with 98% and 94% sensitivity and 98% and 99% specificity, respectively. Positive predictivity was 93%, 98%, and 97%, respectively, at the three blood lead concentration decision points.
The capillary filter paper method for blood lead analysis described herein provides a convenient, sensitive, accurate, and inexpensive method to examine children for elevated blood lead levels.(Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1996;150:498-502) | <urn:uuid:afd7a87a-d25f-44ff-a5e3-dd5fe23b8dc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=517940 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927878 | 356 | 2.96875 | 3 |
The students, faculty and parents of Warner Elementary School in Nicholasville are united in an effort to make a Christmas wish come true for one of their own.
Braden Petrucci, 7, asked Santa for several things, including a wheelchair van for his mother and little brother.
The school improvement committee had been looking at options for a mission for the school, then the letter to Santa was discovered, and raising enough money to get a wheelchair van for Braden and his family — about $30,000 — took the checkered flag, said Amber Bruner, Warner school psychologist.
"They rallied around it," Bruner said.
Why is a van so important for Braden? He was born 13 weeks early in 2006, shortly after his mother, Tenia Johnson, was honorably discharged from the Air Force. Her pregnancy had been diagnosed as problematic while she was in service, but there wasn't a hospital where she was stationed in Alaska.
"I was only home for a few weeks before he came," she said.
Braden spent nearly two months in the neonatal intensive care unit. At 14 days old, he experienced his first seizure and was later diagnosed with epilepsy. Also, he had a brain bleed, and while in the neonatal unit, he contracted bacterial meningitis.
A shunt inserted in his brain drains fluid because of hydroencephalitis, and he has spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy.
Braden cannot walk and has very limited verbal skills. Still he knows his surroundings, his mother said, and he is a fan of WWE, basketball and NASCAR.
His immobility, however, means Johnson, a single mother with a 3-year-old toddler named Darius and a job at Baptist Neurology Center, must lift her growing son from his manual wheelchair to the car and back again whenever they travel.
And, because she drives a Toyota Corolla, she has to partially dismantle the wheelchair each time in order for it to fit in the trunk of her compact car.
She has accepted that role, even though she is 5 feet tall and Braden is 31/2 feet tall and weighs 50 pounds.
"Braden is getting older and heavier," she said. "He is almost up to my chest."
When he undergoes total hip replacement surgery in April at Shriners Hospital, he will be in a body cast for about eight weeks. Regardless of how that surgery goes, he'll be in need of a larger wheelchair as he grows.
"That is very scary for me as a mom," Johnson said. "I don't know what I'm going to do then."
Braden is a first-grader at Warner and he attends Bethel Harvest Church Day Care Center after school.
The campaign, "Wheels for Braden," began in January and has raised about $3,500 through "pass the can" activities at the East and West Jessamine high schools basketball games, and through teachers selling soup for lunch and T-shirts, Bruner said.
Also, at a recent "dine to donate" held at Firehouse Subs in Nicholasville, the campaign raised $1,000. Several other events are scheduled at additional restaurants, and Warner students and staff have paid $1 a foot for duct tape to be used to tape principal Val Gallutia to a wall next week.
"I am so thankful for them," Johnson said of the school and the campaign. "Special-needs children deserve to be able to do what typical children do."
While the goal of the campaign is that van, Bruner said, there have been corollary benefits.
"The kids are asking questions that the adults won't ask, such as why does he laugh so loud," she said, adding his laughter is loud because he doesn't know it shouldn't be. The questions give his teachers and caretakers an opportunity to talk about his medical condition and differences, she added.
"We have become a stronger-knit community because of it," she said.
Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you seems to always have that side effect.
Want to Help?
The "Wheels for Braden" campaign to raise $30,000 for a wheelchair van has a few "dine to donate" fundraising events scheduled in Nicholasville, as well as a silent auction.
Dine to Donate: Sonny's BBQ, 5-8 p.m. March 19; Zaxby's, 5-8 p.m., April 8; CiCi's Pizza, 5-8 p.m., April 23.
Silent Auction/Raffle: 5:30-7 p.m. March 12, Warner Elementary School.
Write a check: Make checks payable to Walk in the Park Ministries Inc. and send to P.O. Box 93, Keene, Ky. 40339. Put "Wheels for Braden" on the memo line. Donations are tax deductible.
Information: Call Warner Elementary School, (859) 885-3085 or visit "Wheels for Braden" on Facebook.
Merlene Davis: (859) 231-3218. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @reportmerle. Blog: merlenedavis.bloginky.com. | <urn:uuid:089aef5b-3e0f-4869-9dbb-557a17a1b8d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kentucky.com/2013/03/02/2539489/merlene-davis-nicholasville-school.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985228 | 1,107 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Go on a journey into the human body. Make planes, parachutes, jets, windmills and spinners before "flying" into the fascinating world of the heart and lungs. Young scientists measure lung volume, make heart and lung models, and design a working stethoscope. The journey continues with the digestive system where the enzyme pepsin eats away gelatin, iodine colors starch, and fats make brown paper translucent. This kit is a sure winner with all Young Scientists that have aspirations in the health care profession! Comes with kid-safe supplies for tons of fun experiments.
Brand: Young Scientists Club
Material: Science Kit
For more than a decade, The Young Scientists Club has inspired and engaged children with hands-on games, activities, and experiments that make science fun and fascinating. Founded in 1999 by Esther Novis, a Harvard graduate and mother of five, The Young Scientists Club began as a summer science camp for her five-year-old son. When friends around the country wanted in, Novis packaged the experiments and mailed them off. The entrepreneur's fan base grew quickly — today, her team of scientists, educators, and parents mail the kits to thousands of children around the world, and sell them in thousands of specialty stores. | <urn:uuid:e19557ef-136a-4e15-99bf-0b14b313715d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gilt.com/brand/young-scientists-club/product/137214806-young-scientists-club-flight-heart-lungs-digestive-system-kit-br-set-6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923836 | 260 | 3.140625 | 3 |
The Roland S-10 is a very limited consumer-grade keyboard sampler. Its sampling specs are limited to a 12-bit, 30kHz sample-rate. With only 256k of internal memory spread over 4 banks (64k per bank) you get a maximum sample time of 4.4 seconds (1.1 seconds per bank). That's hardly enough for any serious music production. Samples can be stored and loaded on a built-in 2.8" floppy disk system called the Quick Disk drive (which isn't very quick by today's standards). Fortunately the 4 sample banks translate to 4-part multitimbrality in which the 4 banks can be played simultaneously, split and layered across the keyboard and so on.
Roland has created some nice libraries for the S-10 which are on disk. If you find yourself looking for a very cheap sampling keyboard for general fun and use, make sure you get these sample libraries with the S-10. To create your own samples, although the S-10 has its limits, sampling is pretty easy and was designed for any novice to intermediate player. 30kHz or 15kHz sampling is available, and the S-10 has a pretty good auto-loop feature. The 12-bit resolution and 30-15kHz sample-rates mean lo-fi quality (which you might find desirable). Further edit parameters include sample trimming, looping, reverse, tuning, envelope editing, filtering, velocity effects and hi-pass or low-pass filtering. All this editing is achieved by assigning the parameters to a dial or wheel just like the Alpha Juno series.
The MKS-100 is a rackmount version of the S-10, but the S-220 is an upgraded and enhanced rackmount version of the S-10 / MKS-100 that appeared in 1987. Both the S-10, MKS-100 and S-220 make ideal entry-level instruments for anyone interested in keyboard samplers. The S-10 has been used by D:ream.
- Demos & Media
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Polyphony - 8 voices
- Sampler - 12-bit, 30kHz
- Multitimbral - 4-parts
- Memory - 256k, 4.4 seconds total sample time
- Filter - Hi-pass, Low-pass filters
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator
- Keyboard - 49 Keys (w/ velocity)
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1986
- Resources & Credits
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