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The most common chip to power Mobile phones and other small form devices like iPods and iPads are ARM based CPU designs. ARM CPUs are designed in a different fashion then the X86 CPUs that are one of Intel's largest products. The company that designs the ARM CPU, ARM Holdings, doesn't manufacture its own CPUs but instead licenses the intellectual property to numerous other companies who produce the physical CPU.
ARM CPUs have a clear advantage over many of Intel's products, as while they aren't as powerful they consume less energy, a key consideration for portable devices. Due to this, this high growth area of CPUs (mobile phones, tablets... ect) is one in which Intel has very little presence and this looks unlikely to change in the near future. Instead ARM designed CPUs are making advances into more powerful devices, with Microsoft recently announcing that Windows 8 will run not just on X86 CPUs but also for the first time on ARM based CPU's.
On the positive side, there is nothing greatly technologically superior about ARM designed CPUs, the power efficiency gains compared to Intel X86 products come directly from having lower performance. As ARM tries to increase the performance of their designs there is very little reason to believe they will be able to match the performance of Intel designed CPUs while retaining the better power efficiency.
Due to the significant fixed costs in the industry and the somewhat volatile demand for their products (due to product cycles and general market swings) Intel may see periods, in both the short- and long-run, of significant revenue decreases. This may result from quick changes in the market demand and the difficulty that comes with reducing fixed costs in the short-run.
Being the largest player in the chip market, Intel is bound to run into anti-trust issues. Recently the European Commission found the company guilty of anti-trust abuse on May 15th 2009 and fined the company over $1.4 billion. Intel has filed an appeal to this fine, but with Japan and Korea also following suit with anti-trust violation rulings, Intel has a long road ahead of clearing its name and reputation.
The projects just got lower, and lower, and lower. From 10.1-10.9 billion, to 8.7-9.3 billion, and now with the world's largest chipmaker saying that their 4Q revenue was a mere 8.2 billion, down 23% from the latest projections. The cause? Sluggish PC growth has PC makers burning through their current chip inventories rather than buying more.
"In the newest MacBooks, Nvidia not only seized graphics turf from Intel, but it also took the chipset socket. Intel was relegated to supplying only the processor. That's analogous to Nvidia snagging a piece of prime Manhattan real estate right from under Intel's nose. While Intel holds on to Times Square, Nvidia walks off with Rockefeller Center."
With the rise of netbooks, can NVIDIA take more ground away from rival Intel?
The pricing war that began with AMD is not over. Despite cooling from a heated battle in 2006 and part of 2007, margins still suffer from competition. Intel's performance in the 90s was strongly related to the lack of competition it faced. Since AMD released its K6 processors in the late 90s, Intel has had pressure applied to its market share.
Intel is currently the leader in performance for microprocessors, but because of AMD recent history of successful R&D, this leadership is subject to Intel's own continued successful R&D efforts. Until the Core design, Intel slipped in relative performance and was bleeding market share. With AMD's ambitious Fusion platform (2009) in development, Intel's Nehalem project (2008) must be a success in order to maintain that performance lead.
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There are many aids to help you with the cravings and withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting. They are:
Nicotine replacement therapies, which contain the nicotine cigarettes have but without all of the toxins of cigarette smoke; or, non-nicotine replacement therapies, products that contain medication other than nicotine.
Some nicotine replacement aids, such as the patch, gum and lozenges, are available over-the-counter without a prescription. However, consult with your doctor before using them and follow the directions carefully.
Don’t smoke while using these products. They are to be used when you are not smoking. There is a risk to your health if you continue to smoke while using these products.
"It wasn't an aid as much as a deterrent, because you know you are not supposed to have a cigarette with the nicotine patch."
If you haven't been successful using these aids in the past you have other choices. Your doctor might prescribe a nicotine inhaler and/or nasal spray, or a non-nicotine replacement therapy.
Depending on which aid you use, it either eases cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms, or blocks the stimulation of the pleasure center in your brain.
Some aids mentioned can be taken in combination, under the guidance of a health professional. The dosages vary for each type of product and sometimes depend on your smoking history. Side effects can vary. You may need to try several aids before finding the one that works for you.
"I would like to try the lozenges, because I don’t mind the idea of that, because I always have a cough drop or a mint in my mouth anyway."
Talk to your healthcare provider if you have any medical conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, or are currently taking any other medication. They will help find the right stop smoking aid for you.
Also, quitting aids by themselves are not as effective as using them in combination with changing your behaviors.
There are many support resources available to help you when you’re ready to quit. Take advantage of the written materials, Internet and phone support provided by many of the manufacturers of these products.
If you’re concerned about the cost of these products, don’t let that prevent you from trying them.
Most cost less over time than if you continue to smoke.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist. You may qualify for prescription assistance from drug manufacturers or other resources.
What type of quitting smoking aid will help you out the most?
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TAU Inaugurates Historian Bernard Lewis' Personal Collection of Middle Eastern Scholarship Thursday, January 31, 2013
Unmatched archive from an illustrious career finds a permanent home at TAU
Prof. Joseph Klafter (left) and Prof. Bernard Lewis inaugurate the Lewis Collection at TAU
Friends, family, and scholars gathered on January 20 on the Tel Aviv University campus to celebrate the inauguration of the Professor Bernard Lewis Collection, housed at the Sourasky Central Library. Comprised of approximately 18,000 items, including rare books in multiple languages, journals, documents, and letters, the archive holds the personal collections of preeminent Middle East historian Prof. Bernard Lewis, acquired over the course of his distinguished career.
The ceremony reflected the close relationship between Prof. Lewis and TAU, which has flourished for the past four decades. TAU President Prof. Joseph Klafter thanked Prof. Lewis for the magnificent gift, noting that it would continue his legacy for many generations of scholars and students. "Through it, your name and your immense influence on the field and on Tel Aviv University will live on for many more generations," he told the historian.
Left to right: Sourasky library head Na'ama Sheftelowitz, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Prof. Joseph Klafter, Prof. Bernard Lewis, and Buntzie Ellis-Churchill
Beyond its contribution to the stature of TAU's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies as a leader in Middle Eastern scholarship, Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch, former Ambassador of Israel to the United States and former President of TAU, said that the importance of the collection lies in offering students access to specialized materials, encouraging them to engage with print in this digital age. Dana Raz, the MA student who is working to catalogue and process the collection, expressed her admiration for the richness of the archives, saying that her daily involvement with the materials has served to increase her curiosity and hunger for knowledge.
Quoting from his recently published memoir Notes on a Century, Prof. Lewis reflected warmly on his "rewarding and interesting career," filled by his prolific writings, stimulating debates, and cherished friends and family. "I have been particularly fortunate in the way that you have honored me today," he thanked the crowd.
Celebrating a teacher, mentor, and friend
Left to right: Prof. Asher Susser, Prof. Uzi Rabi, Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Prof. Bernard Lewis, Prof. Eyal Zisser, and Prof. Shimon Shamir
The intimate gathering spoke of the influence of Bernard Lewis on the TAU campus, said Prof. Klafter, "the teacher and friend who the University welcomed for more than 30 years." Since traveling to TAU for a conference in 1971, Prof. Lewis has visited the Dayan Center annually, offering popular lecture series, mentoring students, and connecting with colleagues. In 1989, he established the Jenny and Harry Lewis Program in the Humanities, named in memory of his parents.
American Friends of Tel Aviv University President & CEO Gail Reiss also attended the ceremony. "The academic importance of this gift is obvious," she said, "but the inauguration had the wonderful feeling of a family affair. The admiration, respect, and friendship that the Dayan Center's professors and students feel for Bernard Lewis was unmistakable." Prof. Lewis was recently the guest of honor at a gala dinner in New York held by American Friends of Tel Aviv University, at which former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other dignitaries lauded the historian's career.
According to Prof. Rabinovitch, TAU has been like a second home to Prof. Lewis, who remained at the University even as Israel was being attacked by Saddam Hussein's missiles in 1991 — a show of deep commitment to the country and school.
"I know he cherished the weeks at TAU and in Israel," Prof. Rabinovitch said at the ceremony. "Three generations of students have now benefitted from his wisdom, knowledge, warmth, and personal friendship." Though never a student of Prof. Lewis himself, he credited Prof. Lewis for teaching him much of what he knows, and reflected on their 40 year friendship, which included "long conversations on the Middle East, Israel, and any subject under the sun."
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(1) "Affected municipality", "affected county", "affected metro government" or "affected area", or the plural, mean municipalities, counties or metro governments in the territory encompassed by the proposed charter of a consolidated local government.
(2) "Consolidated local government", or the plural, means a type of government that encompasses municipal consolidation, county consolidation and metro consolidation.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Oakland County Health Division shares tips for staying safe, indoors and outdoors, in this week's extreme cold weather.
Wednesday, January 23
Oakland County Health Division advises residents to take precautions against extreme cold during winter months. As temperatures drop, heat can leave your body faster than normal resulting in hypothermia or frostbite. “While anyone can be affected by extreme cold, infants and elderly are particularly at risk, as are people with diabetes because of impaired circulation,” said Kathy Forzley, Health Division manager/ health officer. “Proper precautions need to be taken to avoid serious health problems caused by cold weather.” Dress properly to reduce the possibility of hypothermia and frostbite. The outer layer of your clothing should be tightly woven and wind resistant to help reduce the loss of body heat. When outside, adults and children …
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Snow will start falling in the afternoon and continue into the evening.
Last year's wimpy winter will not be a repeat for Michigan, if this week is any indication. Following Christmas Eve's traffic-clogging snowfall—which ranged from a dusting to several inches in Metro Detroit—residents of the Greater West Bloomfield area and surrounding areas can expect significant snow on Wednesday. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the area, and is predicting up to seven inches of snowfall on Wednesday. Flurries could begin overnight, turning into a steady snowfall by the afternoon. The chance of snow, according to NWS, is 100 percent. Temperatures will drop into the high 20s by 10 a.m., and winds will pick up throughout the day, gusting as high as 26 miles per hour. Two to four inches …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Around an inch of snow fell in Troy this morning; an additional 1-5 inches are predicted Friday and Saturday, the National Weather Service says.
Snow has returned to Michigan, and some areas could receive up to six inches of snowfall by Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac. Much of Metro Detroit saw measurable snowfall Thursday morning; Troy received about an inch before the snowfall tapered off just after noon. Friday, another cold front will make its way to the area, bringing with it another 1-5 inches of additional snowfall beginning Friday afternoon and continuing through Saturday morning. The National Weather Service predicts snowfall totals will be highest south of the Interstate-69 corridor, though "total accumulations are still a little uncertain." In a special weather statement, the weather service also warned that pockets of …
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I took this photo in about 1955 in Eugene, Oregon (USA). I think we got the set in late 1952 or early 1953. At first there was only a fuzzy UHF station 100 miles away (in Portland); later there was a local VHF station. The cables in the wall are for the UHF and VHF antennas which were on the same 40-foot mast on the roof.
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Knowledge, Representation and Reasoning (Hardback)
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Short Description for Knowledge, Representation and Reasoning Examines the central concepts of knowledge representation. This book presents the various styles of representation and explains the basics of reasoning with that representation. It is suitable for researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence.
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Knowledge representation is at the very core of a radical idea for understanding intelligence. Instead of trying to understand or build brains from the bottom up, its goal is to understand and build intelligent behavior from the top down, putting the focus on what an agent needs to know in order to behave intelligently, how this knowledge can be represented symbolically, and how automated reasoning procedures can make this knowledge available as needed. This landmark text takes the central concepts of knowledge representation developed over the last 50 years and illustrates them in a lucid and compelling way. Each of the various styles of representation is presented in a simple and intuitive form, and the basics of reasoning with that representation are explained in detail. This approach gives readers a solid foundation for understanding the more advanced work found in the research literature. The presentation is clear enough to be accessible to a broad audience, including researchers and practitioners in database management, information retrieval, and object-oriented systems as well as artificial intelligence. This book provides the foundation in knowledge representation and reasoning that every AI practitioner needs. The authors are well-recognized experts in the field who have applied the techniques to real-world problems. The book presents the core ideas of KR&R in a simple straight forward approach, independent of the quirks of research systems, and offers the first true synthesis of the field in over a decade.
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At 00:01 UTC today, ICAP Leopard, the Farr designed 100 foot super maxi yacht owned by Mike SLADE, officially began her transatlantic speed record attempt from Ambrose Light, off New York.
In order to beat the current Transatlantic record for a monohull under the World Sailing Speed Record Council's (WSSRC) powered sails rule 5c of 8 days, 3 hours and 29 minutes set by 246 foot yacht Phocea in July 1988, she will need to cross the finish line at Lizard Point Lighthouse before 03:30 UTC on Wednesday 4 June.
Chris SHERLOCK, Boat Captain aboard ICAP Leopard, commented: "We got off to a fairly quick start from Ambrose Light, passing it just after midnight [UTC], doing around 27 knots. It has been a very fast, wet and windy first 12 hours. We are all settling into our watch system, trying to eat the required amount of freeze dried food to refuel and then rest before getting drenched for another four hour stint on deck with the boat speed anywhere between 20 and 30 knots."
Due to ICAP Leopard's busy schedule, she was only graced with a five day weather window in which to begin the record attempt. Whilst owner Mike SLADE is confident that ICAP Leopard can break the record, the crew will be hoping that the window they have chosen will provide them with consistent wind until the finish.
SHERLOCK continued: "The forecast for the next few days is for more of the same and from then on we are in the hands of the weather gods to get through a ridge with not a great deal of wind in it. We are hoping things will change by the time we get there."
To follow ICAP Leopard's progress, visit the online tracker at: www.leopard3.com
Chris SHERLOCK (AUS)
Paul STANBRIDGE (GBR)
Mark THOMAS (AUS)
Tim SELLARS (AUS)
Zane GILLS (AUS)
Barnaby HENSHAW DEPLEDGE (GBR)
Ross MONSON (IRL)
Paul QUINN (NZL)
Gian AHLUWALIA (ARG)
Ben MORRISON JACK (AUS)
Jonathan CARTER (BER)
Matthew RICHARDSON (GBR)
The Record To Beat
Record: Transatlantic W to E, Ambrose Light - Lizard Point (monohull powered sails rule 5c)
Skipper: Bernard TAPIE (FRA)
Dates: July 1998
Elapsed time: 8 days, 3 hours and 29 minutes
Distance: 2,925 nm
Average Speed: 14.96 knots
World Sailing Speed Record Council - www.sailspeedrecords.com
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Janie Hipp is passionate about her work.
Hipp, a Senior Advisor to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, delivered the keynote address at the National American Indian Housing Council national conference going on in Phoenix, Arizona, this week. She noted that one of the first things that Secretary Vilsack did when he walked in the door was to create an Office of Tribal Relations—a move that impressed the straight-talking Hipp.
“Historically, we have had maybe one person trying to work across 17 agencies scattered in just about every county across the country…and around the globe,” she told the nearly 500 attendees. Read more »
USDA Rural Development State Director for Michigan James J. Turner speaks at the groundbreaking for Morton Township Library.
Recently Morton Township, Michigan held the groundbreaking ceremony for its library expansion. Located in the Village of Mecosta on the western side of the Lower Peninsula, the event was a wonderful example of how a rural community can come together to support a project. Read more »
To celebrate its 13th anniversary this year, the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana, has gone to the dog – one dog in particular that served as an integral part of the Lewis & Clark expedition more than 200 years ago.
The Center historically interprets the importance and relevance of the expedition that opened up the western portion of the growing Unites States to other exploration and expansion. It is part of the Lewis & Clark National Forest. Read more »
In a scientific achievement that is important in planning for future climate scenarios, and for protecting some endangered animal species, U.S. Forest Service research geneticist Bryce Richardson and research ecologist Michael Schwartz, have sequenced more than 40 billion base pairs of DNA from 130 samples of plant, animal and fungal species. The tree species were as diverse as tan oak, sugar pine and sagebrush.
This DNA sequencing is more than 12 times the amount of information in the human genome, which has about 3.3 billion base pairs. The massive undertaking, known as the Western Forest Transcriptome Survey, is a collaborative effort between four U.S. Forest Service research stations and four universities. Read more »
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appears on RFD TV in Nashville, TN, with RFD News Director Mark Oppold, on Monday, May 23, 2011. USDA Photo.
After a great event yesterday morning on the Obama Administration’s efforts to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, Secretary Vilsack headed to RFD-TV for a live show titled, “Homegrown Energy, Fueling America’s Future.” With an in-studio audience of about 275 people and others watching live, the Secretary kicked it off by talking with RFD-TV host Mark Oppold about how we need America to be a country that makes, creates and innovates. He talked about USDA programs and rural America’s ability to meet our country’s energy needs through renewable energy. Read more »
Cross posted from the Let’s Move! blog:
Have you cast your vote? The selection period for the Popular Choice Award in the First Lady’s Recipes for Healthy Kids competition will close soon, so it’s time to make your voice heard. The First Lady and the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the competition last September, challenging teams of school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, and community members to develop creative, nutritious, and kid-approved recipes that schools can easily incorporate into National School Lunch Program menus – and families can try at home. And I just want to say that I think Recipes for Healthy Kids is a really neat idea. It draws on America’s culinary creativity and our commitment to the healthy lifestyle we all aim for. Chefs are providing culinary expertise, school nutrition professionals are sharing insight as to what can be accomplished in a school setting, and kids and parents are making sure that students will choose these nutritious items in school and beyond. Read more »
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Vermont's Italian food heritage lives on — if you know where to look
“The array of appetizers leaves the novitiate agape. Paper thin slices of prosciutto, a ham processed in pepper and spices. Large, red wafers of tasty salami. Pickled veal. Celery. Ripe olives, the dark, succulent meats falling easily away from their pits.” So appeared the table prepared for paying guests in the home of Barre widow Maria Stefani, as documented by writer Mari Tomasi for the Depression-era Federal Writers Project. The piece was reprinted in Mark Kurlansky’s 2009 book The Food of a Younger Land . Stefani’s meal was one of many — known as Italian feeds — that were offered at the time by the widows of granite workers. Harnessing their cooking skills enabled these women to support their families.
The Italian immigrants who worked in Barre’s quarries deeply influenced the local culinary landscape. Rather than the southern Italian food most familiar to Americans — pizza and spaghetti — Barre’s northern Italians brought subtler dishes that included rice, polenta and mild sausage. These were sold in markets, eaten at picnics, and served in rooming houses and private homes. “The food business was one of the most important ways that new arrivals got their feet on the ground economically,” says Jeff Roberts, a food historian and adjunct professor at New England Culinary Institute .
Yet, when Roberts moved to Vermont and sought authentic Italian cuisine, he found it wasn’t so easy to come by. Anyone walking down Barre’s Main Street today might agree: Though there are a handful of pizza places, finding old-school Italian food requires timing, digging and connections.
For instance, you could hit Dente’s Market at Christmastime for some Dead Man’s Bones — flat, hard cookies made with almonds by owner Rick Dente. “Some of the older Italians, they start asking around Thanksgiving, ‘Gonna make your Bones?’” says Dente. Now more of a deli, his market has been around for 104 years.
At the Brookside Country Store on East Montpelier Road, a shopper must traipse past the Doritos to find a refrigerator that houses a selection of Ping’s Sausage, including salamini and zampet.
Or one could be invited to dinner at the Mutuo Soccorso , a local, members-only Italian American club founded in 1906. Twice a month, some of its members gather for languorous meals of pasta, polenta and grilled meat. The sauce recipe is closely guarded; so are the meals themselves, unless you belong to this fraternal society. “Back in the day, if you tried to sell a $6 loaf of bread, someone would’ve hit you over the head with it,” says one Mutuo member, who asks to remain anonymous, bemoaning the price of artisan bread while extolling the club’s homemade fare.
For the less connected, there is Campo di Vino . In a U-shaped complex on Barre’s South Main Street, Bob and Michelle Campo and their son Kevin have replicated an Italian market — they call it an enoteca and salumeria — complete with freezers full of ravioli and sausage, olive oil and vinegars, and racks of wine. At Campo di Vino, you can also find jars of almost the same mixture mentioned in that decades-old description of Maria Stefani’s Italian feed: “the antipasto, a savory achievement incorporating mushrooms, pearl onions, tuna, anchovies, broccoli — all permeated and tinctured with a tangy red sauce.”
Bob Campo is vice president of sales and marketing at Rock of Ages, but he says he spends 25 hours a week in the market’s bright kitchen making ravioli, Bolognese and sausages such as luganiga, vanillia and zampet. The markets he remembers from his childhood “just all started fading away” in the 1960s, he says. Gradually, Campo felt the urge to render his grandparents’ recipes. Two years ago, the business began modestly with a KitchenAid mixer with a pasta attachment and a pair of his grandparents’ silver ravioli trays.
Campo di Vino took off, with customers stopping by during the nine hours each week the market is open or picking up ravioli at the handful of markets that sell it throughout the state. The family still makes its meat ravioli with a delicate formula of durum flour, eggs and water, but now uses an Emiliomiti pasta maker from Milan. Campo’s father, Bob Sr., sometimes shows up to help turn out the ravioli. “He loves to come down here and let loose,” says his son.
Ravioli anchor the business, but sausage and sauce are big sellers, as well; the sausage recipes are those of Campos’ former partner, Gary Rubalcaba. The Bolognese has meat so finely ground the bits are almost imperceptible; the meat ravioli are tinged with an appealing sweetness. Campo di Vino’s luganiga sausage, when sautéed with fresh tomatoes and pan-caramelized onions and served over polenta, is delicate, creamy and faintly acidic, and almost conjures the ghosts of Barre past.
Campo di Vino’s antipasto comes from a recipe handed down from Campo’s grandmother, Ida Poli, and includes mushrooms, peppers, green beans, olives, anchovies and tuna in unctuous, tomato-flecked olive oil. “It’s a long process to make it and jar it,” says Campo — two hours to turn out a single batch.
Traditional Italians might raise their eyebrows at some of the Campo family’s ventures, such as food-and-wine pairings, and at their interest in eventually opening a wine bar. But they hope to keep the traditions alive by attracting new clientele. “We’ve got to the point where we’re almost going to lose this from generation to generation,” says Campo. Those looking for authentic Italian food have to travel far these days, he laments. “Where do they go? They go to the North End of Boston. So I’m glad we’re doing it.”
Not all of Vermont’s Italian-food traditions are hidden or precious — or in Barre. At Cate Farm in Plainfield, Peter Colman cuts, seasons and grinds pork into sausage that he sells to restaurants, in his own farm shop and at the Montpelier Farmers Market . (He cures it to ribbony prosciutto and capicola, too, but they’re not for sale yet.)
Colman, 29, was born in Assisi, in the Umbrian region of Italy, but moved with his mother to Vermont when he was a toddler. On Cate Farm, his mother and stepfather grew organic greens and vegetables. Colman assisted on the farm, but returned to Umbria each year to visit family. During such a visit about five years ago, he considered learning to cure his own meat and asked a great-uncle to direct him to a teacher; he was told to return when the weather turned cooler. In Italy, curing is a winter task.
So Colman waited. When he returned, he spent a month studying how to slaughter pigs and cure the meat. It was a task shared or watched by groups of men. “I love that people would hover around that process,” Colman says. “You’d never find yourself alone butchering a pig.”
Upon his return to Vermont, Colman purchased three piglets from a farm in Norwich, then raised and slaughtered them. It was the first time he had killed animals by his own hand. “I had emotions of pain, loss and sadness,” he recounts. “I can slaughter other people’s pigs and not be emotional. But it was difficult to create a relationship that would end.”
Once he got over that hurdle, Colman set about using every part of the pigs’ bodies for something edible — capicola, prosciutto, even headcheese. It was a challenge while also working 50 hours a week at an office job; he would butcher and cure late at night, trying to recall what he had learned in Italy. Those three pigs eventually filled his freezer. “I was inundated with pig for a year,” he says.
Colman claims there’s suspense in watching prosciutto age. “The legs of prosciutto go through the seasons and get moldy,” he says. “Then you slice into the layers, past the fat, into the deep, deep red color and to a part of the animal that’s never seen the light of day.”
Prosciutto can be eaten at five months, Colman says, or eight, but he waits patiently for another year. The lengthy curing process connects us to our primal urges for food preservation, he suggests. “It’s like a squirrel stashing away acorns. Winter is coming, and you’re preparing and storing your own food.”
In addition to curing meats for himself, Colman grinds sausage under the name Vermont Salumi and has a retail outlet in Plainfield. He makes special sausages for Salt Café in Montpelier. With the help of friends, he built a processing room and aging room in his barn to turn out traditional Italian sausages such as Roma — an almost gentle, aromatic blend — and the Daily Grind, a more robust, traditional sausage. He also makes chorizo and traditional English bangers seasoned with thyme and nutmeg, and will soon start selling salami.
Though born of Italian tradition, Colman’s sausages are intensely local. He buys pork from Vermont Family Farms in Enosburg Falls, wine from Lincoln Peak Vineyard in New Haven, beer from Greensboro Bend’s Hill Farmstead Brewery, cider vinegar from Lost Meadow Cider Mill in Calais and “lots of garlic” from Burlington’s Bella Pesto.
In Italy, curing and sausage making are social activities that foster connectedness, Colman says. Though the craft is currently practiced in isolated pockets in Vermont, Colman believes it will make a comeback. “It’s a form of preservation that allows us to get away from refrigeration. I think you’re going to start seeing more legs of prosciutto hanging in people’s basements,” he says.
For now, Colman seems happy to be part of the informal network of Italian home winemakers, bakers and fellow sausage makers who speckle the Barre region, citing their names easily as friends and acquaintances. “It’s all fun and engaging,” he says. “That’s what these traditions can offer.”
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On March 7, 1996, at 1745 hours Pacific standard time, a Maule M-6-235, N5652C, nosed over after losing control and colliding with vegetation off the right shoulder of runway 30 during the landing roll at the Bishop, California, airport. The aircraft was substantially damaged and the certificated private pilot was not injured. The aircraft was being operated by the pilot as a personal flight when the accident occurred. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
The pilot indicated he accomplished a normal landing and was rolling out on the runway approximately 40- to 45-miles per hour. The pilot indicated he encountered a crosswind from the left. The airplane's left wing lifted and the airplane turned right. The airplane then rolled off the right shoulder of the runway and struck some bushes.
The pilot described the vegetation during a telephone interview as being as big as a desk, with multiple branches, with a diameter at the base as big as his fingers. The pilot indicated the bushes were within 50 feet of the runway edge.
According to the Bishop Airport Manager, the vegetation is about 75 feet from the runway center line outside the lateral limits of the runway safety area.
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Breast reduction is a surgical procedure which involves the reduction
in the size of breasts; it may also involve lifting of the breasts. As
with breast augmentation, this procedure is almost universally
performed exclusively on women. It is formally known as reduction
This procedure is designed for women who have large, pendulous
breasts. They may experience neck, back and breathing problems or may
feel uncomfortable with the size of their breasts in proportion to the
rest of their body. They may also experience discomfort from bra
straps leaving indentations in their skin. Reduction mammoplasty gives
the recipient smaller, lighter and firmer breasts. The size of the
areola and nipples may also be reduced.
Except in extreme cases, this procedure is only performed on
individuals with fully developed breasts. It is not recommended for
women who intend to breast feed. It is almost always performed under
general anesthesia. During pre-operative visits, the doctor and
patient may decide on new (usually higher) positions of the areolas
The most common procedure involves an anchor-shaped incision which
circles the areola. The incision extends downward, following the
natural curve of the breast. Excess glandular tissue, fat, and skin is
removed. Next, the nipple and areola are moved into their new
position. Finally, remaining skin from both sides of the breast are
brought down around the areola and reattached.
In some extreme cases, the areola and nipple may need to be completely
removed for relocation. In these cases, sensation from the areola area
will be lost.
Patients may take a few weeks for initial recovery, however it may
take from six months to a year for the body to completely adjust to
the new breast size. Some women may experience discomfort during their
initial menstruation following the surgery due to the breasts
Scarring from this procedure is extensive and permanent. Initially the
scars are lumpy and red, but gradually subside into their final
smaller sizes as thin white lines. Though permanent, the surgeon can
generally make the scars inconspicuous to the point that even low-cut
tops may be worn without visible scars.
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Breast reduction results in the quickest body-image changes of all
plastic surgical procedures. The recipient will be rid of the physical
discomfort of large breasts, their body will look better proportioned
and their clothes will fit them better.
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An editorial in today's Wall Street Journal rejects the view that Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion in National Federation of Business v. Sebelius shows him to be "a chessmaster, a statesman, a Burkean minimalist, a battle-loser but war-winner, a Daniel Webster for our times." Roberts instead looks like a politician, the Journal argues:
His ruling, with its multiple contradictions and inconsistencies, reads if it were written by someone affronted by the government's core constitutional claims but who wanted to uphold the law anyway to avoid political blowback and thus found a pretext for doing so in the taxing power.
If this understanding is correct, then Chief Justice Roberts behaved like a politician, which is more corrosive to the rule of law and the Court's legitimacy than any abuse it would have taken from a ruling that President Obama disliked. The irony is that the Chief Justice's cheering section is praising his political skills, not his reasoning. Judges are not supposed to invent political compromises.
"It is not our job," the Chief Justice writes, "to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices." But the Court's most important role is to protect liberty when the political branches exceed the Constitution's bounds, not to bless their excesses in the interests of political or personal expediency or both. On one of the most consequential cases he will ever hear, Chief Justice Roberts failed this most basic responsibility.
The Journal accurately charges Roberts with "rewriting the plain text of a law" so he could uphold the individual health insurance mandate as an exercise of the tax power, converting the "penalty" that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act imposes on anyone who "fails to comply" with the "requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage" into a revenue-raising levy. Even if Congress had explicitly framed the mandate as a tax, the Journal says, that would not resolve the question of whether the policy amounts to an unconstitutional "direct tax."
The Journal notes that the tax power endorsed by Roberts is no less sweeping and dangerous to liberty than the Commerce Clause argument he rejected. "From now on," it says, "Congress can simply regulate interstate commerce by imposing 'taxes' whenever someone does or does not do something contrary to its desires." Worse, as I pointed out last week, the tax trick allows Congress to dispense with claims about interstate commerce altogether. As long as a mandate is disguised as a tax (and as long as it does not violate explicit limits on federal power such as those listed in the Bill of Rights), "because we said so" is reason enough.
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Tag Results for "Hispanic Studies"
Researchers cite the ability to toggle back and forth between two languages. Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at multi-tasking than children who learn only one language, a new study finds. continue reading »
Men who drank one sweet beverage daily had higher risk of heart disease. Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages every day raises men's risk of heart disease, a long-term study finds. continue reading »
In the final report from a 2010 census in Mexico, it was concluded that over 5.3 million people over 15 years of age are illiterate -- unable to read and write - more than 100 years after the start of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917). continue reading »
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March 13, 1942 is the official birthday of the United States K-9 Corps. They served to save and so it is only right to annually honor their service and sacrifice on this date.
Dogs have bled, suffered and died while serving in our wars. Dogs were there in the trenches of France in World War I and the slopes of Iwo Jima in World War II. They served with honor in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever our country has called them to serve. “War dogs” are no longer just those at “the front” or in the military. Police, customs, border patrol, secret service, airport, FBI and others use K-9 forces daily to protect the homeland. Some even died at Ground Zero.
So on March 13, take a moment to remember those special veterans and their human partners.
VFW Auxiliary President
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By Gary Lewis / The Bulletin
April 26, 2007
There's more to fishing than catching fish. But that's a hard thing to remember on the first day of trout season. You want to catch fish - and a lot of them.
It's not always easy at the beginning of the year. Water temperatures are low and the fish aren't as active as they'll be later in May and....
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Oct 21, 2010
Dako: FDA Approval of Diagnostic Tests Provides Hope for Patients with Stomach Cancer
Dako has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the intended use for HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit to include patients with metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer). Dako’s diagnostic tests are indicated as an aid in the assessment of patients for whom Herceptin® (trastuzumab) treatment is being considered. The FDA has simultaneously approved the use of Herceptin® in combination with chemotherapy for HER2-positive, metastatic stomach cancer or cancer of the gastroesophageal junction. Results from a recent clinical study indicate that patients with HER2-positive metastatic stomach cancer live longer when treated with Herceptin® in combination with chemotherapy, compared to chemotherapy alone.
Sunil S. Badve, MB, BS, FRCPath, professor at the Indiana University, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (USA) and diplomat of the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, states:
“Dako’s HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™Kit will be a great advance to the identification of patients with metastatic stomach cancer who are appropriate for HER2 targeted therapy with Herceptin®. The diagnostic tests can identify the group of patients having HER2-positive metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, and are appropriate candidates for receiving the right combination of targeted treatment and chemotherapy. With these diagnostic kits we now have tools to aid in the selection of a therapy for approx. 22% of the estimated 21,130 Americans who are diagnosed with stomach cancer each year.“
The FDA approval of Dako’s HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit for use in stomach cancer patients in the United States is based on the positive results of an international Phase III study (ToGA).In the screening phase for assessing HER2-status, the study involved more than 3,700 patients at 122 sites in 24 countries. The FDA-approved dataset (N=594) showed that treatment with Herceptin® in combination with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic HER2-positive stomach cancer found by the use of Dako’s diagnostic tests significantly prolongs the lives of patients with this aggressive cancer.
“The FDA approval underlines our commitment to develop high quality diagnostic tests to identify the right cancer patients for specific cancer therapy. We have seen how Dako’s HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit combined with Herceptin® treatment have revolutionized the field of breast cancer. It is our hope that these diagnostic kits will help patients with HER2-positive stomach cancer just as much,” says Lars Holmkvist, CEO of Dako.
Stomach cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths globally with over 1,000,000 new cases diagnosed each year. An estimated 21,130 Americans were diagnosed with stomach cancer and more than 10,600 Americans died from the disease in 2009, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). More than 64,000 Americans are currently living with the disease. Early diagnosis is challenging because most patients do not show symptoms in the early stage. Approximately one in five of all stomach tumors are HER2-positive.
HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit carry the CE mark in the European Union.
About HercepTest™ and HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit
HercepTest™ is an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay used to identify the patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who are eligible for treatment with Herceptin®; HercepTest™ was launched in 1998. The joint approval of Herceptin® and HercepTest™ was the first example in history of a diagnostic biomarker linked to a specific therapy. This indication has been expanded in the U.S.A to include patients with metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. HercepTest ® is a registered trademark of Genentech, Inc.
HER2 FISH pharmDx™ Kit, a direct fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay, was designed to quantitatively determine HER2 gene amplification in breast cancer specimens as an aid in the assessment of patients for whom Herceptin® treatment is being considered. This indication has been expanded now to include metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
Dako, located in Denmark, is a global leader in tissue-based cancer diagnostics. Hospitals and research laboratories worldwide use Dako’s know-how, reagents, instruments and software to make precise diagnoses and determine the most effective treatment for patients suffering from cancer. Employing more than 1000 persons and operating in more than 80 countries, Dako covers essentially all of the global anatomic pathology markets. Dako is owned by the private equity fund, EQT. www.dako.com
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Truth & Reconciliation, Spanish Style
I’m just back from 9 days in Madrid — my first visit, and it was great. Of course, while there I couldn’t ignore the international law-related story of the day. Judge Baltasar Garzón (of Pinochet, al Qaeda, and Eta fame) is at it again. This time he’s agreed to open a criminal investigation into thousands of disappearances and executions surrounding Spain’s half-century old civil war. It is a move that has some significant political support; it comes on the heels of recent legislative efforts to offer symbolic reparations to Republican victims of Franco-era atrocities. But Garzón has gone further –
The principal allegation is that Gen Franco, together with 34 senior aides, oversaw a systematic campaign to eliminate their left-wing opponents. Mr Garzon characterises this as a “crime against humanity”. In an exhaustive 68-page edict, the judge refers to 114,000 alleged victims who “disappeared” over a 15-year period, following Gen Franco’s military uprising against the elected Second Republic government in July 1936. Many are said to have been summarily executed during the brutal civil war, which Franco’s Nationalist forces won in March 1939; others were murdered later, as the general consolidated his power . . . The most immediate effect of Mr Garzon’s dramatic intervention will be the opening of 19 mass graves, believed to contain the remains of missing victims. Such excavations are not new in Spain, but until now they have been organised on an ad hoc basis, by relatives of the dead and volunteer archaeologiests.
Garzón’s inquiry has generated a firestorm of controversy in Spain, threatening the ”pact of forgetting” that formed a pillar of the transition to democracy after Franco’s 1975 death. On Monday, Javier Zaragoza, the National Court’s chief prosecutor, appealed Garzón’s move, arguing that it is barred by a 1977 amnesty law passed to help Spaniards put the war behind them. Garzón, however, relies in part on the crimes against humanity charge to claim that no amnesty law can override the search for justice in such cases.
I suspect that Spanish law will ultimately dictate how this case gets resolved (whether through some interpretation of the existing 1977 amensty law or through the application of a newly enacted law ala Chile and Pinochet). But looking at it from an international perspective, a few interesting questions loom.
First, does it matter at all that so many of the alleged atrocities occurred pre-World War II, and thus before the Nuremberg Declaration’s definition of a crime against humanity? Or, did Nuremberg’s own willingness to apply these definitions to earlier acts overcome any ex-post-facto arguments? I’d be interested in hearing how others more expert on international criminal law (Hi Kevin!) perceive this issue.
Second, if these were crimes against humanity, does that open up other non-Spanish avenues for those seeking justice? For example, could victims (the few still alive or, more likely, their families) seek relief under the Alien Tort Claims Act? If one follows a Filartiga approach, they might (assuming there are still living perpetrators to chase and sue). But more recent cases, such as my own experience working on behalf of the Comfort Women, suggest a countervailing pattern of protecting reliance interests when an issue is already regarded as settled such that U.S courts will characterize the issue as a nonjusticiable political question or invoke some other bases for exercising judicial caution.
Finally, there’s the missing middle-ground. Garzón is seeking to replace the status quo of amnesty with a judicial mechanism. In the process, more intermediate positions may be overlooked–i.e., a truth and reconciliation commission. Obviously the truth and reconciliation model has its own critics, and, even Chile–which once served as the paradigmatic model for this method–opted more recently for a judicial model instead. But, I’m not sure the Chilean analogue is as apt as it might first appear, despite Judge Garzón playing a starring role in both cases. In Chile, the courts took on a specific, then-living defendant, and made their move only after the truth and reconciliation process had been long played out. In Spain, however, the move is straight from total amnesty to criminal prosecution. Moreover, Franco and most (but not all) of the defendants are now dead, raising the question of what point the prosecution is meant to serve–is this meant to be punitive, remedial, or somehow reconciling Spain’s present modern democracy with its more autocratic past?
Now, I’m not saying that a truth and reconciliation approach would be a normatively better path than Garzón’s–I simply don’t know enough about the Spanish civil war or its consequences to make a judgement one way or another. But if the Spanish are going to reopen these old wounds–and recent events suggest that they are–might they not want to think more comprehensively about all the available models for doing so, and then choose the one that best fits the circumstances?
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BECAUSE SHE WAS returning to work, a lactating mother needed to use a breast pump to express and maintain her milk supply. After buying and using a battery-powered breast pump, she complained of breast and nipple pain and decreased milk supply; she had to use formula as a supplement. Her health care provider advised her to use a different breast pump to reestablish her milk supply.
Breast pumps can be manual, battery-powered, or electric. Different pump designs may be better for different women. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives few reports of adverse events or patient problems related to breast pumps, but pain is the most commonly reported problem. For each type of pump, a few women have reported breast or nipple pain that requires medical follow-up. In this case, the mother switched to another breast pump.
Teach breast-feeding mothers that breast and nipple pain can be caused by engorgement, plugged ducts, or mastitis.1 A health care provider should assess mothers who find breast pumping painful and infants with feeding difficulties to determine the cause. Mothers having difficulties with breast-feeding should seek a lactation specialist or another specialized health care provider for help with maternal and infant comfort measures, breast and nipple care, breast-feeding, and breast pumping. For example, lactation specialists can teach pumping techniques (including hand pumping) that may reduce pain and improve flow.
Teach mothers these tips:
* Never buy a used breast pump or share a pump. A used pump may carry infectious diseases.
* You can safely rent hospital-grade pumps, which can be reused safely.
* Choose a breast pump with a breast shield that's the appropriate size. You should be able to comfortably center the nipple inside the breast shield.
* The first few times you use a breast pump may be uncomfortable, but pumping shouldn't be painful, make your nipples sore, or cause bleeding.
* If you're injured using a breast pump or have persistent pain or bleeding, contact your health care provider immediately.
* If you have problems with pumping, contact a qualified health care provider. If your pump isn't working, contact the manufacturer.
Lactation specialists can be a valuable resource for educating and supporting mothers who are using breast pumps. Tell mothers who are breast-feeding and your colleagues about the FDA breast pump Web site at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/breastpumps/.
1. Mattson S, Smith J (eds). Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing, 3rd edition. W.B. Saunders, 2004. [Context Link]
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Uncle Eddy's E-mails -- December 15
Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Widow and Foundress, (entered heaven on this day, 1651)
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why you are in such a rush to plan out the rest of your life. It’s a temptation; I’m sure of it. Excessive worry about your future drains attention and energy that you could more fruitfully apply to your current duties and opportunities, and the devil loves that. You need to stay focused on one thing: God’s will. Certainly, once you become a junior or senior, God’s will will include prudent exploration of post-college options, but even then you ought not to get obsessed with it. You can’t plan out every turn your path of life will take, and you shouldn’t; life is an adventure, all you need to do is stay on the right path. I think you should take today’s saint as your patron for the year; she learned this lesson well.
From a noble family in northern Italy, her desires to enter the convent were foiled by her father’s insistence on a diplomatic marriage. The marriage only lasted three years, however. Her husband was a compulsive gambler and frequenter of houses of ill repute, and he treated her and his two daughters without the slightest respect. Nevertheless, when his dissolute living caught up with him and he lay on his deathbed, his faithful wife nursed him and led him back into friendship with God, so that his soul, it seems, was saved.
So Virginia was already a widow and a mother of two when she was only 20 years old (same as you, isn’t it?). She determined to follow the desire of her heart: to serve Christ in his poor. So she made a vow of perpetual chastity (much to her father’s chagrin) and dedicated herself to educating and providing for her children while at the same time welcoming the poor and the orphans near her Genoa residence. By the time her own biological children were happily married she had earned a reputation as a true guardian and spiritual mother of the poor and needy, and when war broke out in northern Italy, with its consequences of refugees, orphans, poverty, and plague, her small efforts to care for the needy blossomed into a full-fledged religious Institute of charitable and educational enterprises. It became so effective that it received a civil charter, and she wrote up a rule of life and a plan of action that put local nobility and government appointed overseers in charge of its many works. This enabled her to step down from administrative duties and wear herself out as one religious sister among the others, serving her fellow servants as energetically as she served the poor.
Unfortunately, as her maternal heart expanded and the Institute took on more and more activities, the noble women who ran it became squeamish, afraid that associating with the poor and the outcasts would tarnish their high-society reputations. Virginia was therefore forced to take the reins once again. Her efforts never waned, and towards the end of her life the Lord granted her deep consolation in prayer that included visions and interior locutions. By the time of her death at 64, the entire province had benefited spiritually and materially from this noble widow’s divine generosity.
She wouldn’t have planned it like that, but she followed God’s indications at each juncture, and along the way she always ruled herself by his commandments and according to Christ’s example. If you do the same, you will not only rediscover your peace of mind, but you will have the kind of impact on the world that you have always dreamed of having – the kind that lasts forever.
Your devoted uncle, Eddy
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Metals and acids
Many, but not all, metals react with acids. Hydrogen gas forms as the metals react with the acid to form salts. This is a well-tried standard class experiment often used in the introductory study of acids to establish that this behaviour is a characteristic property of acids.
The experiment is done first on a smaller scale using test-tubes (Lesson 1 below), with no attempt to recover the salts formed. This establishes that hydrogen production is a characteristic property of the reaction of metals and acids. It can then be done on a larger scale (Lesson 2 below), and the salts formed can be recovered by crystallisation, .
Lesson 1 is a series of test-tube experiments in which each working group establishes as a common feature that hydrogen is given off as metals react with an acid – if the metal reacts at all. This should take around 40 mins, and most classes should be able to do this version. Each working group needs a small selection of metals and acids to test.
The range of metals and acids tested can be extended to a teacher demonstration in the concluding part of this lesson.
Lesson 2, in which the salt formed is recovered by crystallisation, takes longer, and the class needs to be reliable enough in behaviour and manipulative skills to cope with the hazards involved in heating acidic solutions in beakers on tripods.
The time taken for the reaction depends on the particle size of the metal used. Using small granules helps to reduce the time taken.
Each working group requires:
Dilute hydrochloric acid, 1 M, 25 cm3
Dilute sulfuric acid, 0.5 M (IRRITANT), 25 cm3
Small granules, coarse filings, or foil pieces of these metals in small labelled containers:
Copper, iron, magnesium, zinc
Small zinc granules, about 5 g in labelled container
Dilute sulfuric acid, 0.5 M (IRRITANT), 50 cm3
Refer to Health & Safety and Technical notes section below for additional information.
Each working group requires:
Test-tubes (100 x 16 mm or similar), 8
Corks or bungs to fit test-tubes loosely, 2
Wood splint (one per group, further splints from teacher in charge)
Conical flask (100 cm3)
Beaker (100 cm3)
Measuring cylinder (100 cm3)
Filter funnel, about 65 mm diameter
Pipeclay triangle or ceramic gauze (Note 1)
Heat resistant mat
Evaporating basin, at least 50 cm3 capacity
Crystallising dish (Note 2)
Health & Safety and Technical notes
Wear eye protection.
The selection of metals can vary according to what is available as small granules (size <5 mm), coarse filings or foil. What matters is that each group has at least two metals that react readily and one that does not.
Copper, Cu(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Iron filings, Fe(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Magnesium ribbon, Mg(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard. Magnesium turnings are HIGHLY FLAMMABLE. Distribution of pieces of magnesium ribbon should be supervised to avoid students taking several pieces and experimenting later with igniting them.
Zinc granules, Zn(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard. While other metal/acid combinations react in the same way, recovering the salt by crystallisation (in lesson 2) may not be as successful as it is using zinc and sulfuric acid.
Dilute hydrochloric acid, HCl(aq) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
Dilute sulfuric acid, H2SO4(aq), (IRRITANT at concentration used) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
1 Ceramic gauzes can be used instead of pipeclay triangles to support the evaporating basin, but the evaporation will then take longer.
2 The evaporation and crystallisation stages may well be incomplete in the time available for lesson 2. In this case, the crystallisation dishes need to be set aside for crystallisation to take place slowly. However, the dishes should not be allowed to dry out completely, as this spoils the quality of the crystals. With occasional checks, it should be possible to decide when to decant surplus solution from each dish to leave good crystals for the students to inspect in the following lesson.
a Place six test-tubes in the test-tube rack.
b Add a 2–3 cm depth of dilute hydrochloric acid to the first three tubes, and a 2–3 cm depth of dilute sulfuric acid to the remaining three tubes.
c Add a small piece of a different metal to each of the tubes with hydrochloric acid in them. Record which metal you add to each tube.
d Add a small piece of the same metals to each of the tubes with sulfuric acid in them. Record which metal you add to each tube.
e Your teacher will show you how to test the gas being produced in these reactions.
Choose one of the metals that reacts rapidly with the acids, and in a clean test-tube add a piece of this metal to a 2–3 cm depth of one of the acids. This time place a cork loosely in the top of the test-tube so that any gas produced escapes slowly. Light a wood splint, remove the cork and immediately hold the flame to the mouth of the tube. If nothing happens, you may need to try again.
a Measure 50 cm3 of dilute sulfuric acid using a measuring cylinder and pour it into the beaker. Warm this acid gently over a low, non-smokey, Bunsen flame. Turn off the Bunsen burner before the solution boils. Carefully remove the beaker of acid from the tripod as instructed by your teacher, and stand it on the heat resistant mat. Be very careful not to knock the tripod while the beaker is on it.
b To this hot acid, add about half the zinc pieces provided. Avoid inhaling the acidic fumes that may rise from the beaker as a result of the vigorous bubbling.
c If all the zinc reacts, add two more pieces and stir. Add more zinc until no more bubbles form. The acid is now used up.
d Filter the warm solution into the conical flask to remove the excess zinc. Transfer the filtrate into an evaporating basin.
e Place the evaporating basin on a pipeclay triangle or gauze on a tripod and gently boil the solution over a low Bunsen flame. Be very careful not to knock the tripod supporting the basin. When the volume has been reduced by about half, dip a glass rod in the solution and then hold it up to cool. If small crystals form on the glass rod, stop heating, otherwise continue until that point is reached. Do not continue to heat beyond the point when crystals start to appear on the top edge of the solution.
f Pour the remaining hot solution into a crystallising dish as instructed by your teacher. Label the dish and leave until the next lesson to crystallise. The crystals can then be examined using a hand lens or microscope.
Download some student questions.
Safety is particularly relevant to younger students. Be aware of the problems associated with heating beakers or evaporating dishes on tripods, and with lifting such hot containers off a tripod after heating. Students should not be seated on laboratory stools whilst carrying out these operations.
Using tongs of suitable size is a good way of lifting hot containers but some schools may not have these. If there is any doubt about the safety of this step, the teacher should first lift each beaker down onto the heatproof mat, using a thick cloth or wearing suitable thermal protection gloves, before the students add the zinc pieces. The same applies to moving the evaporating basin before pouring its contents into the crystallising dish.
The procedure for safely testing the evolved hydrogen gas in the test-tube reactions needs to be demonstrated at a suitable point in Lesson 1. A loosely inserted cork allows sufficient build-up of gas in a slow reaction to enable a successful test. Nevertheless many students find it difficult to achieve a successful ‘pop’ test for hydrogen, so you may need to do follow-up demonstrations as well.
This pair of experiments forms an important stage for younger students in developing an understanding of what an acid is. They need to understand how to generalise from sufficient examples, and to see the limits to that generalisation in metals that do not react. It may help to develop this discussion in the concluding stages of Lesson 1 by additional demonstrations of other metals and acids. In particular dilute nitric acid (< 0.5 M) does produce hydrogen with moderately reactive metals such as magnesium and zinc, even though reactions are different at higher concentrations, and with other metals. By the end of the lesson, students should be able readily to draw the conclusion:
Metal + acid → salt + hydrogen
This experiment is also a good opportunity for students to learn how to draw up suitable tables for recording experimental observations.
In Lesson 2, selecting zinc and sulfuric acid as the example to follow through to producing crystals of the salt is governed by the need to have a salt that crystallises easily. Unfortunately the chlorides of magnesium and zinc are not easy to crystallise, while magnesium sulfate is so soluble that it takes longer to evaporate sufficiently. Iron(II) compounds may suffer from oxidation problems when the solution is evaporated, giving a visibly impure product.
There is potential for producing hazardous fumes if classes are allowed to over-evaporate salt solutions, either from evaporation of any excess sulfuric acid or from decomposition of the salt. There is also a danger of hot material spitting out of the container. If crystals begin to appear, e.g. at the top edge of the solution, the Bunsen burner should be turned off immediately and the aolution left to cool. Refer to CLEAPSS Laboratory Handbook Section 13.2.6 for a discussion.
If older students perform these experiments, they can be asked to write symbol equations:
Mg(s) + 2HCl(aq) → MgCl2(aq) + H2(g)
Mg(s) + H2SO4(aq) → MgSO4(aq) + H2(g)
For reactions of these acids with iron or zinc, the students simply substitute Fe or Zn for Mg in these equations.
Health and safety checked February 2008
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The gray wolf (Canis lupus
) once occupied nearly all of North America. Wolves, like other large predators in North America, were persecuted shortly after colonization by Europeans began and throughout the settlement period. Gradually, wolves were extirpated from the contiguous 48 states except Minnesota. By the 1930s, wolf populations had disappeared from Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. A few wolves, apparently long-range dispersers from Canadian populations, were periodically killed in these States. Reproduction did not resume in the western United States until 1986, when dispersing wolves from Canada
denned in Montana.
Protection under Endangered Species Act and Plan for Natural Dispersal and Reintroduction
In 1974, the remaining gray wolves in the lower 48 states were protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Thereafter, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FSW) of the U.S. Department of the Interior appointed a wolf recovery team, which initially recommended that natural dispersal and reintroduction be used to restore wolves to the Northern Rocky Mountain (NRM) region.
In 1987, the Service developed a revised and more specific recovery plan that recommended:
- promotion of natural recovery in northwestern Montana;
- reintroduction of wolves designated "nonessential experimental" in Yellowstone National Park (YNP); and
- other measures (presumably reintroduction) would be instigated in central Idaho if two breeding pairs had not naturally established there by 1992.
The recovery goal was ten breeding pairs of wolves in each of the three recovery areas (northwestern Montana (NWMT), central Idaho (CID), and the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA)) for three successive years. Achievement of this goal would be followed by removal of the gray wolf from ESA protection in the NRM region of the United States.
In late 1991, Congress directed the Service to work with the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on wolf reintroduction into YNP and Idaho. During the preparation of the EIS, over 130 public meetings were held and some 170,000 comments were received from the public.
In 1994, the final EIS was completed. In it, the Service proposed that wolves be reintroduced into both YNP and central Idaho and designated as "nonessential experimental populations" pursuant to Section 10(j) of the ESA, 16 U.S.C. § 1539(j). This approach, approved by Secretary of the Interior Bruce E. Babbitt in 1994, provided for wolf restoration while allowing management flexibility to deal with concerns of the local public.
- A reintroduction plan was developed in the summer and fall of 1994.
- Officials in Alberta and British Columbia offered wolves for reintroduction. The Canadian source areas were situated along the Rocky Mountains and had similar terrain and prey to the YNP and central Idaho release locations.
- Scientific opinion, access to release areas, and other logistical challenges led the Service to plan a: hard release (wolves captured, transported, and immediately released with a minimum of holding, handling, and expense) of young adult wolves in Idaho and; a soft release (wolves acclimated in pens for weeks or months before release) of family groups in YNP.
- Releases were planned to begin early in the fall so that wolves would settle before the mid-February breeding season. Some opponents and proponents of wolf reintroduction immediately attempted to prevent implementation of the reintroduction plan.
On November 25, 1994 -- two days after the final nonessential experimental population rules were published -- several groups filed suit in Federal District Court in Wyoming and sought to halt any reintroduction of wolves by the Service. In December 1994, U.S. District Judge William F. Downes heard legal argument in Cheyenne, Wyoming and, on January 3, 1995, issued an order denying a motion to preliminarily enjoin the reintroduction efforts.
1995. Following the court’s ruling, wolves were captured in Alberta, Canada by an interagency team of about 15 biologists, and 14 wolves were transported to YNP and 15 wolves were transported to central Idaho. Idaho wolves were freed immediately upon arrival, whereas YNP wolves (three family groups) were held in acclimation pens in the park until late March. Most Idaho wolves traveled extensively within the area intended for them. Wolves released into YNP continued to live as packs, stayed closer to their release sites, and settled into home ranges. After five months in the wild, at least 13 of 15 Idaho-released wolves were alive within the intended area, as were 13 of 14 Yellowstone wolves. The progress of the reintroduction program in its first year far exceeded expectations.
In 1996, reintroductions continued, where the Service released an additional 17 wolves from British Columbia into YNP and 20 wolves into central Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. While the original plan predicted three to five years of releases, only two years were needed due to the success of the initial reintroductions. At the same time that reintroductions were occurring in Idaho and YNP, the northwestern Montana wolf subpopulation was increasing. By August 1996, about 7 breeding pairs and 70 wolves occupied the area where natural recolonization began in the early 1980's.
After 1996, the NRM wolf population grew rapidly. The NRM area has amongst the highest diversity of large predators and native ungulate prey species and contains large blocks of secure habitat (wilderness areas, National Parks, remote public lands) in three core recovery areas. These conditions -- in conjunction with state and Federal management, the high reproductive rate of wolves, wolves natural dispersal abilities, and the ability of wolves to occupy and thrive under a variety of habitat conditions –-resulted in the NRM population increasing at an average rate of 22 percent annually from 1995 to 2008.
The three NRM subpopulations are genetically and demographically connected, constituting a three-part metapopulation. Wolves routinely disperse between all three NRM recovery areas, and dispersing wolves have successfully bred in all three recovery areas. The most distinct subpopulation in the NRM is located in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA), but wolves disperse between central Idaho and the GYA, and genetic data show that immigrating wolves from central Idaho have successfully bred in the GYA. In addition, central Idaho and northwestern Montana wolves are connected to the contiguous western Canadian wolf population that contains 12,000 wolves in British Columbia and Alberta.
By the end of 2008, the NRM wolf population occupied nearly all suitable habitats in the NRM area and contained approximately 1,645 wolves in 217 packs (two or more wolves, with an average territory of 200-500 square miles). Ninety-five of these packs also were classified as breeding pairs (a pack that contains at least one adult male and one adult female with two pups on December 31).
The NRM wolf population has exceeded the Service’s minimum recovery goal of at least 10 breeding pairs and 100 wolves in each State for at least four consecutive years in Montana, eleven consecutive years in Idaho, and nine consecutive years in Wyoming.
The transition from extirpated to recovered wolf population in the NRM within only 20 years is a remarkable wildlife conservation success story. Currently, there are more wolves in more places than originally predicted in 1994. The NRM wolf population represents a 400 mile southern range expansion of a vast contiguous wolf population that numbers of 12,000 wolves in western Canada and about 65,000 wolves across all of Canada and Alaska.
“As long as populations are maintained well above minimum recovery levels, wolf biology (namely the species’ reproductive capacity) and the availability of large, secure blocks of suitable habitat will maintain strong source populations capable of withstanding all other foreseeable threats.” Source: Fish and Wildlife Service (2009).
Representative Litigation Involving the Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolves.
Following the denial of a preliminary injunction motion, the Federal District Court in Wyoming overseeing the litigation involving the Service’s reintroduction of wolves into YNP and central Idaho held that the reintroduction as an experimental species had been improper and declared that the wolves must be removed from YNP and central Idaho. Wyoming Farm Bureau v. Babbitt, 987 F. Supp. 1349 (D. Wyo. 1997).
The district court, however, stayed its ruling pending review by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit Court thereafter found that the reintroduction was proper and allowed the wolves to remain in the YNP and central Idaho. Wyoming Farm Bureau v. Babbitt, 199 F.3d 1224 (10th Cir. 2000). In its ruling, the Tenth Circuit held that, although non-experimental wolves can enter into central Idaho and YNP, the Service did not violate the ESA’s requirement that experimental populations be “wholly separate geographically” from non-experimental populations. Further, the court held that Service’s treatment of all wolves occurring within the reintroduction area as nonessential experimental animals was proper.
In Gordon v. Norton, 322 F.3d 1213 (10th Cir. 2003), the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal district court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over a Fifth Amendment takings claim arising from damages to plaintiffs' property caused by the Service's wolf recovery program. The court characterized the plaintiffs' claim as one for loss of property and lifestyle due to wolf depredation and ruled that plaintiffs' exclusive remedy was to bring a Tucker Act claim in the U.S. Court of Claims.
Also in 2003, the Service reclassified the gray wolf from endangered to threatened in the newly created Eastern and Western Distinct Population Segments (“DPSs”), and retained the wolf’s endangered status in the Southwestern DPS. The Western DPS encompassed the NRM gray wolves. The rule was subject to litigation and found unlawful by the courts. National Wildlife Federation v. Norton, 386 F.Supp.2d 553 (D. Vt. 2005); Defenders of Wildlife v. Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, 354 F.Supp.2d 1156 (D. Or. 2005).
In 2004, the State of Wyoming filed a Misdemeanor Information in the Park County Circuit Court, alleging that a federal employee trespassed and littered on private property in the course of capturing and handling NRM wolves in northeastern Wyoming. The action was removed to federal court and subsequently dismissed on the grounds that the employee was immune from prosecution under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal, noting that the prosecution of the federal employee was “not a bona fide effort to punish a violation of Wyoming trespass law . . . but rather an attempt to hinder a locally unpopular federal program.” Wyoming v. Livingston, 443 F.3d 1211 (10th Cir. 2006).
In early 2008, the Service removed the NRM wolf population from the ESA’s protections, returning wolf management to the States and Tribes. However, on July 18, 2008, the Federal District Court in Missoula, Montana preliminarily enjoined the delisting and reinstated ESA protections for the NRM wolves. Defenders of Wildlife v. Hall, 565 F.Supp.2d 1160 (D. Mont. 2008). Among other things, the Court was concerned with the Service’s analysis of its recovery criteria and whether there was sufficient genetic exchange occurring between the three NRM wolf subpopulations.
Following additional scientific review and rulemaking, the Service issued a rule in 2009 to remove the NRM wolf population, except for wolves in Wyoming, from the ESA’s protections. Under State management, the regulated hunting of NRM wolves was authorized in Idaho and Montana. The first hunting seasons were set for fall 2009, with state wildlife managers planning to use hunting seasons with quotas to help manage the numbers and distribution of wolves.
Several lawsuits were filed in Montana and Wyoming challenging the rule. On September 9, 2009, the Federal District Court in Missoula, Montana denied a request to enjoin Service’s rule, and the Court allowed Idaho and Montana to continue with the regulated hunting of wolves in those States. Defenders of Wildlife v. Salazar, 09-cv-77 (D. Mont. Sept. 9, 2009).
On August 5, 2010, the court ruled that the Service's 2009 Final Rule violated the express terms of the ESA and vacated the rule, restoring ESA protections for the wolves in Idaho and Montana. 729 F.Supp.2d 1207 (D.Mont.2010).
In response, Congress adopted Section 1713 of the Department of Defense and Full–Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, 2011 Pub. L. 112–10, 125 Stat. 38 (2011), ordering the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the 2009 Rule without regard to the ESA and without judicial review. On May 5, 2011, FWS complied with Section 1713 by reissuing the 2009 Rule. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 1713 under the separation of powers doctrine. On August 3, 2011, the district court granted summary judgment to the government defendants. Alliance for the Wild Rockies, et al. v. Salazar, 800 F.Supp.2d 1123 (D.Mont. 2011). The Ninth Circuit affirmed. Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Salazar, 672 F.3d 1170 (9th Cir. 2012).
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A GREAT CITY was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance. A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense. Upon which a Currier stood up and said, "Sirs, I differ from you altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing so good as leather."
Every man for himself.
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January 8th, 2012
Submitted by: Esteban, Sharon, Dan
History: To be heard at General Assembly On Sunday, January 8th, 2012
What: Occupy Pasadena calls for a General Strike to be held on May 1st, 2012. We encourage people to with-hold their labor power for the day by not going to work, not going to school, and joining a demonstration during the day at Occupy Los Angeles’ Solidarity Park.
How: By working with the General Strike Preparation Committee of Los Angeles (occupymay1st.org) and reaching out to our community. This is just a general call in principle, more work will have to be done to begin organizing around the issue–outreach, flyering, events, etc.
Why: We’re the city of Roses. The People don’t just need bread to eat, they need roses for dignity. We strike for those who have no work. We strike for the rights of immigrants to live in peace and dignity. We strike for an end to evictions and foreclosure–because dignified shelter is a human right. We strike to call for quality and free education. We strike to demand that all human beings have access to healthcare, something that should be fact, not hope.
December 18th, 2011
What: Occupy Pasadena GA will remain autonomous in matters concerning other groups or organizations. Outside groups may solicit our help in their endeavors but OPGA will remain autonomous and will only participate under those conditions.
Why: Groups may attempt to co-opt OPGA for their own goals and we need a clear directive to point to so they they understand under what conditions we will participate in their actions.
How: The following statement will be posted on our website so that OPGA members can point to it when groups reach out to us for assistance. “Occupy Pasadena General Assembly will maintain autonomy when working with other groups or organizations.”
Submitted by: Sharon
Co-Signers: Carrie, Paul
Status — Approved by consensus
November 20th, 2011
Signers: Pablo O., Jeff R. Sharon F.
PROPOSAL: Endorse the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
What – That OPGA endorse the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City – http://www.nycga.net/resources/declaration/
Why – It succinctly summarizes the overarching grievances of our movement and helps to communicate that to our community.
How – We add a link to this declaration on our website – http://occupypasadena.org
November 20th, 2011
1. Proposal: The Occupy Pasadena General Assembly endorses and participates an Inter-Occupation Action and event!
On Saturday December 3 Occupy Pasadena, Occupy Long Beach, and Occupy LA will be meeting up!
Where: We will meet at LA Plaza Park across the street from Union Station at 11am. Occupy LA is going to investigate whether or not food is possible to have there. More details to come. At 12 noon we will cross over and enter into Union Station. It is our understanding that you will need a valid ticket to be inside the station.
Who: Currently Occupy Long Beach, Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Pasadena have confirmed they will be participating. Please forward this information on to anyone you know at other Occupations. We would like as many Occupations participating as possible.
What: Each Occupation will perform a 3 to 5 minute skit. As of today, there are 3 Occupations participating, and the plan is to have each Occupation perform in a row at each half an hour mark. The remaining time in the half hour will be used for what is called Invisible Theater. In the Invisible Theater section, we will break off into small groups (perhaps 5 each) and give voice to how we are part of the 99%. We will do this as though we don’t know one another, planting other team members in key places to stimulate conversation with those 99%ers passing by and not yet participating in the exercise. This is similar to Guerrilla Marketing. The only limit is your team’s creativity. If there are only 3 Occupations participating, we will continue this process 4 times from 12-2pm and then begin Theater of the Oppressed from 2-3. If more Occupations join, we will revise the schedule to accommodate, perhaps staggering different Occupations’ skits into different 30 minute sections (e.g. 1st half hour Occ1, Occ2, Occ3. 2nd half hour Occ4, Occ5, Occ6, etc.). This will be finalized at LA Plaza Park between 11am and noon, unless it’s clear beforehand who exactly will be participating. Immediately following Theater of the Oppressed will be joint committee meetings to plan the next Inter-Occupation action.
Why: This is both an opportunity for networking between Occupations, and an opportunity for Outreach. We can both join forces, and meet people where they are. It is being coordinated for a Saturday in hopes that people will be in less of a rush to get out of the station.
How: Each Occupation is coming up with their own skit and own themes for their skit.
Long Beach is intending to give voice to those 99%ers that cannot actively participate in the movement. We will be meeting on Thursday at 7pm in front of City Hall in LB this week to devise our methods. Sunday the 20th from 10am to 1pm we will begin collecting stories and then the following week we will begin formulating how to best represent them.
Los Angeles will be doing a skit on getting money out of politics and connecting the big issues to the seemingly smaller ones.
Pasadena will be organizing a skit at its action committee meeting on Tuesday at 7pm (Walnut and Mar Vista). Possible Issues: healthcare, Gentrification, Foreclosures, Foreign Wars
Drafters: Pablo O, Esteban G., Paul J, Carrie A.
November 13th, 2011
The General Assembly to make a statement
Occupy Pasadena (General Assembly)agrees that any inquiries from government agencies, including law enforcement, about our organization, or regarding our operational plans, are directed to our website. We strive for transparency and open communications. Any possible future direct communication with the police will only happen if consented to by the General Assembly, in the manner it chooses.
To have a policy in place for dealing with inquiries from police or government agencies who wish to know about our activities.
Signers – Paul Jenvey, Esteban Gil, Sharon F
Status — Approved by consensus
2. Author: Sharon Flanagan
Co-signers: Paul Jenvey and Jon Raymond
i. Occupy Pasadena, General Assembly, members are encouraged to not speak to the media or police or any other agency outside of OPGA in relation to any actions OPGA may take or participate in, as a group, during the week of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena.
ii. This will not be binding on individuals and will in no way hinder individuals right to free speech on activities they participate in, as individuals, outside of OPGA.
iii. All media sites maintained by OPGA including, but not limited to occupypasadena.org, Occupy Pasadena (General Assembly) Facebook page and OPGA Google Groups will not post advance information on our actions for the week of the Tournment of Roses.
iv. This will not violate our desire for transparency but only narrows the distribution of information for limited activities and time frame. OPGA members will always be able to access information to activities.
i. During the week of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, police and other agencies are on heightened alert for activities that may disrupt the various renues. Any advance warning they may receive of actions OPGA plans could be detremental to the activity.
ii. Members of OPGA have already been approached by media concerning the ornanization, Occupyroseparade.org, which is not affiliated with OPGA in any way. We can expect this interest to contniue and become more frequent as the last week of December approaches.
i. Activities proposed,or planned, for the week of the Tournament of Roses, will be discussed within groups and during the General Assembly rather then posted on aformentioned media.
ii. At any time, either by group concensus or committee decision, an activity may be exempted from this proposal. It is merely a guideline.
iii. If a member is approached by a law enforcement agency or media, they should notify a member of the communications committee so it may be noted.
What: Weekly Marches at 6:00pm every Friday.
How: from Lake/Colorado on the North Side of the street down to Fair Oaks and Colorado. Then March back–on the south side of the street–to rally and have open mic (using the Peoples’ Mic) at the main entrance of the Paseo Colorado Mall on the Public Sidewalk.
Why: In solidarity with the world-wide Occupy Movement and the 99%, we march to reclaim our public space so that we can re-imagine and re-form ourselves together as a human community.
Drafting Group: Esteban G., Pablo O., Carrie A.
I propose that we meet for a GA on Wednesdays at 7pm along with our
already set Sunday GA at 3pm.
We need to meet more than once a week; things seem to be coming up on
a regular basis and we need to be able to get together and discuss
these as a group.
This seems redundant for this proposal, but by getting together at 7pm
Carrie A., Drew P., Jessica S.
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Welcome to Tom's "Charlie's 'Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper' Angels" Team Page for the JDRF 2013 Walk to Cure Diabetes!
Charlie found out in January 2012 that his pancreas has stopped functioning so his body can no longer produce insulin. He now monitors his blood sugar manually and is receiving daily insulin shots so he can continue to live an energetic and healthy life.
Charlie is thriving thanks to Medical and Technology innovations made in recent years which make this a very managable condition, but we strongly believe in making additional breakthoughs to allow people like Charlie to live their lives with minimal medical intervention or perhaps someday to achieve a full cure.
JDRF is focused on finding a cure for the form of diabetes that Charlie has (diabetes caused by the immune system going haywire and knocking out pancreas function, which is called "type 1"). The money our JDRF Walk Team raises will go directly to support this life-changing research.
As the leader of the type 1 diabetes community, JDRF unifies global efforts to cure, treat and prevent T1D. JDRF will not rest until T1D is fully conquered. Won't you please give to JDRF as generously as possible?
Did you know that:
The JDRF Walk is a fantastic way to make a difference in the millions of lives of people affected by type 1 diabetes.
Thank you for your support!
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The role of law in fighting non-communicable disease
20 September 2011
World leaders gathering at the United Nations in New York this week to discuss non-communicable disease (NCD) such as obesity and diabetes need to consider how law is an essential weapon in the fight against the problem, a University of Sydney legal expert said.
Professor Roger Magnusson from Sydney Law School makes the case in this month's edition of The Lancet which will be presented and debated today at a roundtable on the sidelines of the high-level UN General Assembly meeting on NCDs.
The article is co-authored by David Patterson from the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO).
"The article outlines the importance of global leadership in public health law to reduce the burden of NCD in low and middle-income countries," Professor Magnusson said.
The keynote address at the roundtable will be given by Australia's Health Minister, Nicola Roxon.
Other speakers include Patricia Lambert, Director of the International Legal Consortium at the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global health Law at Georgetown University.
"There is an emerging consensus about the affordable, and cost-effective strategies that could make the greatest difference to NCDs," said Professor Magnusson.
"These strategies focus on tobacco use, the harmful use of alcohol, lack of physical activity, and the overconsumption of salt, sugar and saturated fat. However in many cases successful implementation will depend on legal and regulatory actions by governments."
The Lancet article outlines that international leadership in public health law should focus on three areas:
- providing high-quality legal resources to assist countries to assess their options and navigate the process of legal-reform implementation
- investment in capacity building to nurture future leaders in public health law to counterbalance the legal expertise that industry and business groups are able to access in the private market
- the need for technical legal assistance by national and regional governments to both frame domestic laws and navigate international obligations."
According to Professor Magnusson, one of the outcomes of a greater understanding of NCD by governments is likely to be a greater demand for legal assistance and expertise, and for guidance on establishing policies for the best results.
"Australia has an opportunity to contribute to this and the University of Sydney is keen to do its part. The University's new centre dedicated to researching obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which I am a member of, gathers a wealth of expertise and experience in this area," Professor Magnusson said.
The roundtable event is sponsored by IDLO, the United Nations Development Program and the Italian and Australian governments.
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Franco-Flemish composer. Nothing certain is known of his early life or his arrival in Venice, but he sang in the choir of St Mark's in 1542-6 and studied with Willaert. In 1547 he became director of music to Duke Ercole II of Ferrara. While he was away visiting Antwerp in 1559 his patron died and since the next duke did not retain his services, Rore took up a similar court post at Parma in 1560. In 1563 he succeeded Willaert as maestro di cappella at St Mark's, but finding the duties too onerous he returned to his previous post at Parma in 1564.
Rore's surviving output consists of three Masses, 65 motets, one Passion, eight psalms and Magnificats, 125 madrigals and a few chansons. His sacred music is on the whole conservative though at times most impressive (the motet O altitudo divitiarum,for example); but his madrigals are historically far more important. He was always concerned to capture the mood of his texts through musical devices, timing and contrasts. His preference was for serious, highflown poetry. To some particularly intense texts he responded with daring chromaticism and modulations.
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In an wonderful essay, Conservatism and the Culture , the late Robert Bork writes:
“True conservatism,” we are informed, requires that we be at the center of American culture. That would be a liberal panacea. If their opponents are careful to stay in the center while liberals pull from the left, the center will continually move left and “true conservatives” will, by definition, be bound to move with it. This is a liberal ratchet and a recipe for the destruction of any effective conservatism.
How true. Exhibit A, the latest of two articles appearing in the Australian in which Abbott distances himself from the Catholic Church’s position on IVF. The motivation, according to Kerr and Maher, is
to pre-empt further expected government attacks on Mr Abbott’s attitude to women and perceptions that he is a conservative Catholic.
This is not merely disgraceful but also a self-defeating political strategy setting aside this specific issue. As Bork implies, every time conservatives or libertarians are attacked by those on the left as ‘extremists’, who often themselves hold opinions regarded as extreme by the centre, and we defend a meek position because we are either or both unwilling to attack our critics or defend our own considered position, we slowly and inexorably cede every position we hold between the centre and the right. And as we continually do this the centre inevitably moves more leftward, and the left’s strategy becomes ever more easier to accomplish. This must stop. The strategy of continual accommodation has failed. It has become ever harder to defend positions, cultural, economic, moral, and political, that only a generation ago where accepted as the common currency of voters, and as our common inheritance.
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In 2008, the National Research Council of the National Academies released a workshop report entitled - Space Weather Events - Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts
(http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507). In this report many different researchers from a wide range of industries and academic backgrounds, discussed the impact that severe solar weather - in particular powerful Earth facing X-Class Solar Flares and Corononal Mass Ejections could have on Earth.
They noted that the impact could be catastrophic, given the interconnectedness of modern civilization and our dependence on electrical power. The major risks that were highlighted in this report, are associated with the potential of a single strong or series of strong coronal mass ejections, to cripple the electrical power grids of many nations - particularly the USA (which is the country the report is focused upon). Millions of people could be affected within a matter of hours and days of the Earth being struck by a powerful CME - as in the case of the Carrington Event of 1859 and the CME which affected Quebec in 1989.
The current solar cycle, number 24 is not particularly strong. It is thought that most significant space weather occurs during a strong solar cycle or near the solar maximum. But the Carrington event occurred during a weak solar cycle. It is not unreasonable to assume that severe solar weather could occur any time. Scientists are now predicting a peak in solar activity sometime in 2013. But between now and then it seems likely that the sun will increase in activity.
Should a major solar flare/CME be aimed in our direction, Earth would be exceptionally vulnerable. The above report acknowledges that it is not difficult or expensive to fit transformers with appropriate devices, which prevent transformer meltdown, in the case of the power grid being overloading by energy from a major CME. The lead in time for the manufacture of large transformers is 12-24 months normally and would be impossible to assess if the grid were shut down. It is unclear and uncertain if any government in the world has taken these preventative steps.
I urge you to join this cause and take action to bring this issue to the attention of both the public, media and your government. If you know how to create a website, please do so. If you know how to blog about this, please do so. If you know how to read, please read the report. Please let others know about this issue and this cause. Lets get it off a touchy feely feel good cause page and into the real world.
Preparation of this kind is critical to the survival of our species. We are like children coming of age in the Milky Way and at some stage, we will have to learn think differently about our place in the cosmos and our relationship with the Lord of Fire.
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May all beings experience great joy and freedom from suffering, Bright Garlick.
We can stop the killing of Iranian protesters; we can bring the perpetrators to justice.
Serious claims about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster have been made by Elena Zabolotnogo, daughter of a nuclear physicist working in the "dead zone"; and whereas these claims include the following:
(1) radiation levels in Kiev are between 20-30% higher than the average American or Russian city;
(2) radiation will stay in the Chernobyl area for the next 48,000 years, and humans may not repopulate the area for 600 years - give or take three centuries;
(3) 3,500 people still live in the exclusion zone of the meltdown disaster;
(4) 70% of the Chernobyl radiation infected Belorusian territory and entire villages are unaccounted for;
(5) No one knows - not even approximately, the casualties of the disaster. The official casualty reports range from 300 to 300,000 and many unofficial sources put the toll over 400,000.
(6) Grotesque mutations of wildlife have been reported in the area;
(7) poor records and corruption have prevented the accurate registration of the workers who helped put out the fire and entomb the smouldering nuclear plant in 1986;
(8) Seven million people in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine are estimated to suffer phyical or psychological effects from the radiation;
(9) More than 2.32 million people have been hospitalised in Ukraine as of early 2004 with illnesses blamed on the disaster, including thyroid and blood cancer.
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Gilgit, September 26: People in Gilgit-Baltistan continue to remain victims of police brutality and discrimination by the Pakistan government. Recently Gilgit Baltistan police, Rangers and Northern Squad jointly cracked down on the victims of Attabad Lake disaster in Hunza Valley of Gilgit Baltistan. A massive landslide in Hunza Valley on 4th January 2010 had left two dozen villagers dead and displaced over 250 families. The government, however, failed to provide aid for their rehabilitation.
Pakistan, September 19: Pakistan's spy agencies and security forces continue targeting political activists who want an independent Balochistan. In August 2011, Pakistan's security forces twice raided the house of Former Balochistan chief minister Mir Humayun Marri. Backed by the police, they planted arms and ammunition at his farmhouse as a part of bigger plot to kill him. While addressing the media Marri said the raids were a clear message that the security forces and the establishment could kill or arrest anyone in Balochistan in broad daylight without any fear of being held accountable. Marri is the son-in-law of Nawab Akbar Bugti, the leader of the Bugti tribe killed by Pakistani security forces in 2006.
Pakistan, September 12: Pakistan’s continuing repression of Gilgit Baltistan is leading to a change in religious, ethnic and cultural demography. The region has abundant natural resources but people here lead a miserable life as Pakistanis ruthlessly exploit its assets and control the region. To address the violation of human rights and other issues concerning Gilgit Baltistan, experts came together at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington DC in an event titled “Resources on the Roof of the World: International Politics and Sustainable Development in the Greater Himalayan Region”. They expressed their support for people of Gilgit-Baltistan, who want self-rule.
Pakistan, September 5: Madrasas or Islamic seminaries impart Islamic education. But, in recent years, the perception of madrasas, especially in Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan has changed as they have become factories that churn out `jihadis’. Children are brainwashed here to become `Jihadis’ and carry out suicide attacks. Two-decades of war has severely affected education in Afghanistan and going to school has become increasingly dangerous for students and teachers. The insurgents tacitly encourage parents to send their sons to religious schools in neighbouring Pakistan for Islamic studies. The Islamic seminaries brainwash students and teach them religious extremism, armed jihad and hatred against the government in Afghanistan and the West. Almost all Taliban leaders, including Mullah Mohammad Omar, were trained in Pakistani madrasas.
Karachi, August 29: Political and ethnic violence has escalated in Karachi. Over 300 people were killed in July 2011 and over 250 people lost their lives in a mix of gang war and political violence in the first three weeks of August. Residents of Karachi are nervous and angry at the government's failure to contain the growing violence. A city of more than 18 million, Karachi has a long history of violence, ethnic, religious and sectarian disputes. Political rows can often explode into battles engulfing entire neighbourhoods. Fighting erupted on August 17 in and around the old district of Lyari, long a focus of battles between rival gangs and a stronghold of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
Afghanistan, August 22: Targeted violence against women, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and denied women education and jobs, forced them indoors and violently punished them for infractions of a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Women accused of adultery were stoned to death; those who flashed a bare ankle from under the shroud of a burqa were whipped. More than a decade after the ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan many women still suffer domestic violence, discrimination and lack of access to unbiased justice. For girls, going to school daily is no regular affair. Most of these girls risk their lives by walking to school, as there is a chance they may be attacked by hard-liners, who believe women should not be educated.
Pakistan/Afghanistan, August 15: The Taliban is responsible to a great degree for the mess in which Afghanistan finds itself today. The volatility in the country is also a result of its neighbour Pakistan's backing of Taliban leaders. And as US-led NATO forces start leaving, the Karzai government is seeking reconciliation with the Afghan Taliban. Unfortunately, Pakistan's spy agencies, the ISI and Military Intelligence hold the key to Taliban leaders and are undermining any peace agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The Taliban leaders living in Pakistan include Mullah Muhammed Omar, Hakimullah Mehsud and Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund.
London, August 08: The barbarism of Pakistani security agencies in Balochistan continues to infuriate the Baloch people. A Human Rights Watch report titled "We can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years': Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan" exposes the fact that Pakistani agencies are responsible for widespread disappearances of Baloch political activists. The 32-page report slams Pakistan authorities for taking people into custody and then denying all responsibility or knowledge of their fate or whereabouts. The rights group investigated several cases in which uniformed personnel of the Frontier Corps, an Interior Ministry paramilitary force, and the police were involved in abducting Baloch nationalists.
Washington / London, August 01: Pakistan's spy agency ISI in the doghouse of the international community for its nefarious activities which include providing safe havens to terrorists like Osama bin Laden, funding and training terrorist outfits and even helping some like Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out strikes such as the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Pakistan's relations with America have been strained in recent times. They took a turn for the worse with the arrest of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, a Kashmir lobbyist from Virginia, on July 18 by America's FBI for secretly working as an agent of Pakistan's notorious spy agency, the ISI in the US and driving Pakistan's Kashmir agenda. Fai ran a Washington-based non-profit organization called the Kashmiri American Council- better known as Kashmir Center- for decades using, said an FBI affidavit, money routed to him through the hawala network by the ISI.
Karachi,July 25: An irresponsible and a rash remark by a senior provincial minister of Pakistan's ruling Pakistan's People Party (PPP) added to the woes of Karachi,a city that is victim to unending political, ethnic and sectarian violence.Angry mobs went on the rampage in protest against Mirza's criticism of the city's dominant political group, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). 16 people were killed and over 40 vehicles torched in the violence.A city of 18 million people, Karachi is facing violence that goes unchecked by police and is fueled by thuggish politicians.
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Once again, it’s Bono Week in Washington: The U2 frontman has returned to sprinkle some stardust on the issue of third-world poverty. On Tuesday, he met with Joe Biden; on Wednesday, he has an audience with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim; and in between, he’s expected to lobby lawmakers against cutting foreign aid as they grapple with the “fiscal cliff.”
He kicked off his visit Monday night with a speech at Georgetown University, where he congratulated students “for electing an extraordinary man as president.” And then, we’re told, he lingered on campus to dine with a more elite crowd of about 30 business and political leaders.
Among those in the room: Nancy Pelosi, David Bradley, Mike Barnicle, Irish Ambassador Michael Collins, the younger Barbara Bush, foreign-policy scholar Steve Clemons, who moderated the conversation, and Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, which co-sponsored the speech. On the menu: spicy rockfish, butternut squash soup.
We’re told that Bono, always suave this way, lavished bipartisan praise on guests Pat Leahy and Norm Coleman for their support of anti-poverty programs — and Coleman, the former Republican senator, responded with a full-throated defense of the importance of government leadership. Bono also argued that overseas development won’t succeed unless leaders promote it as a business model, not strictly a charitable concern. Oh, and China? Way ahead of the U.S. in assisting Africa, he said, because it sees mercantile advantage. Soon, “China will have annexed Africa if we’re not there,” he said.
Aphorism to mull: “America is an idea that is supposed to be contagious. You don’t do very well isolated, as an island.”
Jolly banter: Guests introduced themselves, one by one. When it was his turn, he said, “Bono. I am a rock star.”
Read earlier: Bono drops in on White House as much as Oprah, 5/31/12
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ECT vendors will typically provide a color coded tubesheet map that shows the location of tubes with defects and the amount of wall loss determined by the test. While this shows where in the tube field damage is occurring, it is just as important to identify the location of the defect down the length of the tube (i.e. is the defect within the Drain Cooling Zone, Condensing Zone or Desuperheating zone, and is the defect at a baffle location or at the midspan). This information is critical to the primary objective, failure cause analysis.
A baseline ECT is recommended for future survey comparisons. Even new FWHs with no apparent issues should be opened, inspected and evaluated after the first 5 years of operation.
Tube leak location detection
Regardless of the limits of a particular outage, it is important to determine where in the span the tube failed. This information is critical in determining the root cause. For example, failures experienced in close proximity to steam or drains inlet locations might indicate undersized or dislodged impact
The location of a tube failure can be quickly determined by a number of methods. Probably the easiest method is by using a video probe to locate the failure and then measuring the length of probe inserted into the tube. Another method is to introduce compressed air into the failed tube from one end, and then insert a tight fitting rod or probe down the opposite end until the leak is covered, at which point the pressure in the tube will increase. The length of rod inserted will give the location of the leak. In vertical channel down heaters, the manometer principle can be employed using clear plastic tubing coupled to the failed tube leg.
When documenting and trending tube failures, it is important to look at the heater three dimensionally by superimposing the location of baffle cuts on to the tubesheet in order to determine which baffles the failed tube contained (see Figure 12). This can provide useful information when determining potential failure causes. Sometimes it might take a little expertise in determining the location of the baffles and cut lines, especially if heater internal drawings are not available.
Failed tube sampling
Following ECT or a tube failure, the best way to get a first-hand look at the nature of the defect is through tube sampling. Pulling a tube section from the heater has several advantages; 1) the defect can be viewed visually or under a microscope, 2) it can be used to confirm the credibility and reliability of the ECT results and 3) the tube can be sent to a metallurgical lab in order to identify suspected failure mechanisms. When sending a tube sample to a third-party laboratory, the utility should provide certain background data to the lab such as material compositions, typical pressures and temperatures experienced, and typical water chemistry. A good lab should be able to provide useful information, such as photo micrographs, chemical and metallurgical analysis, and provide likely failure and/or corrosion mechanisms.
When it comes to prolonging the life of feedwater heaters, the primary objective for the system engineer is to establish a programmatic approach for heater maintenance and to commit to conduct failure cause analysis. A complete life cycle management program is one where the results of all of the complementary tests and inspections are evaluated. The findings of which should all point to the same potential contributing factors, and thus the most likely root cause(s).
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That is the promise of Refugee Resettlement & Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) that has been working tirelessly since 1979 to help people who have suffered unimaginable loss to build a new home on these strange streets of Georgia.
The families come, often speaking no English, with only the possessions they can carry, filled with hope, fear and stupendous courage. They have been forced by war, persecution or terror to leave their homes in Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, and the Congo – or simply refugee camps where they’ve lived in limbo for decades – and are met at the airport by a smiling cadre of people determined to offer them support and services so they can start a new life.
The RRISA vision is that these refugee families will become stable, financially independent and productive citizens, while preserving their ethnic and cultural identity. The first goal is to help families become economically self-sufficient, typically within 180 days of arrival, and to that end, RRISA hits the ground running.
With a multi-cultural staff of 37 incredibly dedicated people, speaking 25 languages and representing 15 countries, RRSIA has designed a comprehensive program that serves 2,100 refugees, asylees, and victims of human trafficking each year. Since 1979, that adds up to resettling 15,000 refugees from 29 countries here in Atlanta.
From greeting refugees at the airport to furnishing their apartments; supplying food for the family to enrolling and equipping children for school; helping navigate the oceans of paperwork to preparing them for job interviews—RRISA enables the refugee families to acclimate to America, get their feet on the ground, and establish connections in their new communities.
The integration process takes about three to six months, and the government contribution is just $900/person. So obviously, RRISA is continually raising money and seeking volunteers from the amazingly philanthropic community in Atlanta. But just cause it’s fundraising, doesn’t mean it can’t be fun: RRISA’s events are invariably creative, wide-ranging and involve food & drink (my only two weaknesses).
This Thursday, for instance, there’s a Cocktails For a New Start party at the exclusive Ravinia Club from 5:30 to 8 pm, with a cash bar, delicious hors d’oeuvres, silent and live auctions, plus some fascinating people. I wouldn’t miss it for the world, except there’s an event at my house so I should probably show up for that.
RRISA folks (staff and volunteers alike) are on fire for their cause, and are out there every day, lending a hand to refugees whose sense of survival, resilience, humor and desire to succeed have transcended the tragedy of their circumstances.
Today, I’d like to celebrate the refugees and the resettlers with my $100 donation… and a prayer for the end of refugee-making conflicts in the world. To join me in donating, go to the Cocktail Party and ante up! Or click here. And to join the 900 people who volunteered with RRISA over the past year, click here!
What Gives 365 Update!
In the unlikely event that you haven’t heard enough from me, last Wednesday (7/14) I was interviewed by Chris Sweigart of WXIA 11 Alive News, giving my $100 donation to MedShare. You can see the interview on my Press page — it was so much fun to do! (Just wait for it to load– it takes a second!)
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Childhood Abuse May Be Tied to Uterine Fibroids: Study
Latest Womens Health News
"This is the second prospective study to show an association between childhood abuse and uterine fibroids diagnosed during adulthood," study leader Lauren Wise, senior epidemiologist at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center, said in a university news release.
This association may be due to the effects of mental stress on sex steroid hormones, which are thought to be involved in fibroid development and growth, Wise said.
In addition, child sexual abuse can lead to sexually transmitted infections, which may also increase fibroid risk, she explained in the news release.
For the study, published online Jan. 24 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wise and colleagues looked at data from about 9,900 participants in the U.S. Black Women's Health Study.
The investigators found that the incidence of uterine fibroids was 34 percent higher in women who had experienced childhood sexual abuse and 16 percent higher among those with a history of childhood physical abuse.
The more severe the abuse, the greater a woman's risk for uterine fibroids, according to the study, which found a link between abuse and uterine fibroids but did not prove cause-and-effect.
The researchers also found that the risk of uterine fibroids was lower in women who reported high levels of coping with childhood abuse. This suggests emotional support helps to buffer the effects of violence. And there was little indication that abuse during adolescence and adulthood increased the risk of fibroids, the study authors said.
Uterine fibroids are two to three times more common among black women than whites, according to background information in the news release.
The study does not prove that childhood violence causes uterine fibroids. Still, Wise said, "given the high prevalence of fibroids in African-American women, the association is of public health importance."
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: Boston University, Jan. 28, 2013, news release
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Middle-class parents don’t deprive their children of benefits so they can learn to struggle on their own. They shower benefits on their children to give them more opportunities — so they can play travel sports, go on foreign trips and develop more skills.
People are motivated when they feel competent. They are motivated when they have more opportunities. Ambition is fired by possibility, not by deprivation, as a tour through the world’s poorest regions makes clear.
Many of us had the safety net of our families. We lucked into them from birth. They didn’t give us everything, but they provided us with the solid floor from which to jump. We want to be careful not to remove the desire for others to jump higher, but not everyone gets the same experiences we do.
The American dream is one of an equality of opportunity. If you remove the chance for people to succeed, that’s when despondency and dependence will set in.
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The oceans that cover 70% of the earth’s surface strongly influence Earth’s climate and weather. The ocean absorbs heat from the sun in the tropics and carries it toward the poles; it carries cool water from polar regions toward the equator
FIGURE 1. AOPE engineer John Kemp (second from left) directs deployment of the KAUST air-sea interaction mooring for Tom Farrar’s research in the Red Sea from the R/V Oceanus, while Erich Horgan (left), Paul Bouchard (second from right), and Brian Hogue (right) handle lines. (Photo by Alex Dorsk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
FIGURE 2. Engineering Assistant Brennan Phillips performs pre-mission ballast adjustment on the REMUS AUV from the stern of the Annika Marie in particulate-laden water offshore of the Colville River on the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf. (Photo by Al Plueddemann, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
FIGURE 3. Fiamma Straneo and Jim Ryder deploying instruments through the ice. (Photo courtesy Eric Philips, IceTrek)
FIGURE 4. WHOI PO scientists John Toole (right) and Lou St. Laurent launch the Mark II version of the High Resolution Profiler. This deployment was done during an expedition on the R/V Endeavor during October 2009. (Photo by Rick Krishfield, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
FIGURE 5. Cruise track for P6 leg 1. Location of stations where temperature and salinity profiles as well as water sample were collected are marked. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Researchers in the Physical Oceanography (PO) Department seek to describe and understand this circulation and its variability and thus elucidate the role of the ocean in climate and weather. To investigate the physics of the ocean, they use laboratory experiments, analytical and numerical modeling analysis and synthesis of existing data and new observations at sea. In 2009, as in other years, work done by members of the PO Department was distinguished by a strong heritage and expertise in observing the circulation of the ocean and in developing new observational methods.
Here, we highlight some of the year’s accomplishments.
—Robert Weller, Department Chair
- PO Department members Tom Farrar, Steve Lentz, Amy Bower, Dick Limeburner and Jim Churchill continue to do research in the Red Sea under a research partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [Learn more about 2009 KAUST activities]. In 2009 they deployed an air-sea interaction mooring (Figure 1), a coastal meteorological tower, three coastal moorings, and tide gauges at several coastal sites.
- High latitude oceanography remains a focus in the department. Al Plueddemann and Bob Pickart participated in fieldwork on the Alaskan Beaufort shelf in the summer of 2009. They worked with investigators from multiple institutions to study coastal circulation and stratification, sea ice variability, cross-shelf property exchange and marine mammal distributions. Pickart performed CTD surveys and recovered a moored array that had been deployed in 2008. Plueddemann sampled the mid-to-inner shelf using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (Figure 2).
- With funding from WHOI’s Arctic Research Initiative, Fiamma Straneo, Ruth Curry, David Sutherland, and Jim Ryder (AOPE) investigated the intrusion of warm subtropical waters inside three glacial fjords in East Greenland. The fieldwork included deploying moorings, acoustically tracking floats, measuring salinity and temperature, as well as deploying instruments to measure temperature, salinity, and currents from sea-ice or glacial ice or from helicopters. (Figure 3) Dr. Straneo also continued work in Hudson Strait; four moorings recovered there by R/V Knorr in September 2009 will provide the first yearlong record of the net transport of freshwater through Hudson Strait — an important freshwater gateway for the North Atlantic.
- A five-mooring array was deployed in December by Mike McCarthy and Paula Fratantoni in the Australian-Antarctic Basin, spanning the continental slope of Antarctica, east of the Kerguelen Plateau, along longitude 113° E. The array is part of their program designed to verify the existence, and quantify the strength, of a newly-discovered cyclonic gyre located south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which is thought to transport as much water as the Gulf Stream.
- John Toole and Lou St. Laurent prepared in 2009 for participation in the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES) field program in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This current is among the most energetic in the global ocean, and is believed to be the primary conduit for the upwelling of deep water in the global ocean’s overturning circulation. John Toole and Lou St. Laurent tested a redesigned Mark II version of the WHOI High Resolution Profiler (HRP) (Figure 4) in 2009 to get ready for fieldwork in DIMES in January to March 5, 2010, on the R/V Thompson.
- Department members participated in sampling the basin scale properties of the ocean. Alison Macdonald was Chief Scientist of the first leg of P6 (Figure 5) from Brisbane, Australia to Papeete, French Polynesia (Nov 21, 2009 – Jan 2, 2010). Along with changes in temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen in intermediate waters, changes in chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) concentrations in bottom waters were also apparent, compared to earlier occupations of P6. Ruth Curry and Elizabeth Douglass will be the chief and co-chief scientists for Leg 2, which ended in Valparaiso, Chile on Feb 11th 2010.
- In December, department members Ray Schmitt, Tom Farrar, Dave Fratantoni, Lou St. Laurent and Lisan Yu attended a planning meeting for a new study of ocean salinity. By measuring salinity from new satellites, increasing the number and quality of in-situ salinity measurements and developing better understanding of the ocean mixing processes that affect salinity, oceanographers will make valuable contributions to humankind’s concerns with a changing global water cycle. A field program called "SPURS" (Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Studies) is being planned for 2012 in the high-evaporation region of the North Atlantic, where the highest open-ocean salinities are found.
- Two new scientists joined the department, Jong Jin Park and Anthony Kirincich. Park’s research interest is in mixing induced by near-inertial waves and its application to large-scale circulation and energy budget. Kirincich’s research is on coastal oceanography, near-shore processes, and biophysical interactions.
- Several members of the Department were honored in 2009. Steve Lentz was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. John Toole was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bruce Warren was named the 2010 winner of the prestigious Sverdrup Gold Medal, awarded by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) “for advancing our understanding of the general circulation of the ocean through observations and dynamical interpretation.” Other members continue to work in service to the community: Mike Spall became Chief Editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography; and Joe Pedlosky was awarded the Editor’s Award for his reviews of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Physical Oceanography.
- There are presently 20 graduate students in physical oceanography in the WHOI/MIT Joint Program. Over the past year, four students have graduated from the Physical Oceanography Joint Program with a PhD, with thesis topics ranging from the influence of eddies on western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream to recent changes in convection in Arctic Seas.
Last updated: March 17, 2010
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Instead, Shanksville became a landmark.
"How do you deal with a tragedy when you have no bodies, when you have no graves, nothing tangible to hold onto?" said Shaffer, who helped organize the first memorial service on the evening of Sept. 11. The plane and the people on board were obliterated on impact and the first firefighters to arrive found little more than scorched earth and a few burning trees, he said.
Many of the 260 people of Shanksville and the 2,000 in surrounding Stonycreek Township reacted by supporting the legions of emergency personnel, police and investigators who descended on the area over the following days and months. Outsiders also came with donations, although some were a bit quizzical, he said.
"We scratched our heads when a group of people from Pittsburgh showed up with two wheelbarrows and some shovels," Shaffer said.
For more than three years, crews searched the site for anything that could be returned to the victims' families, the last search taking place in July, Shaffer said.
The site is still guarded by sheriff's deputies and a temporary memorial will by 2011 be replaced by a permanent monument costing millions of dollars, he said.
Shaffer said Shanksville never wants to forget the sacrifice of those on Flight 93.
"They were not going to allow another plane to be used for destruction," he said.
It might also be that the 40 passengers and crew averted a tragedy that would have left a greater scar on Shanksville, Shaffer said. Had the plane stayed airborne five seconds longer, the FBI informed them it could have hit the community's lone school, he said.
"It would have killed all 500 of our children," he said.
"And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities," the Rev. William H. Harter of Chambersburg's Falling Spring Presbyterian Church said in his call to worship, quoting from Isaiah 61.
Harter said the former depot chapel, built during World War II by Italian prisoners of war, is a hopeful symbol from another dark time.
"This church represents the bridge between two people that were at war," he said.
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That would be one place to start, though you appear to be spoilt for choice.
Logic is a tool like mathematics. It depends on the assumptions you base your calculations on but it quickly becomes apparent when they're wrong. I'm no logician but when you start out with proven facts any conclusions logic allows you to draw will be equally true, so long as your method is sound.
Beliefs often feel like knowledge but are in danger of falling over when tested. You can sincerely believe that you're able to walk on water and you'll be safe in that belief so long as you don't embark on a journey over deep water on foot. Your belief may turn out to be right but that has no relationship with knowledge arising from sound reasoning based on solid facts.
You believe you're right and that makes you happy. Clearly you are not but, as I say, so long as you don't embark on any serious endeavour which relies on your belief being true, it really doesn't matter. In fact it doesn't much matter to me either way, so good luck.
First let me state for the record that I am no scientist or philosopher (I do dig science people though). I only have my education to go on but it seems to me that some people are arguing that you CAN in fact prove a negative. I agree with clivephoto etal that science does not set out to disprove anything. Science in fact sets out to test what you've said and see if it holds up. People make claims and then others try to duplicate the results. The more times you can duplicate the result the stronger the theory becomes. In the case of gravity, it is the best we have so far. Certainly though it is incomplete and there are things yet to be discovered that will make that theory better.
"Christian Science" (oxymoron I know) does at times set out to specifically disprove scientific claims that have mountains of evidence. One such claim is irreducible complexity. Scientifically though it fails under the most rudimentary scrutiny. Science (IMHO) has never been about disproving god but only explaining the unexplainable. As the centuries have progressed more and more things have been explained and taken from the realm of mysticism and squarely placed in the land of science - things like floods, earthquakes, electrical storms etc - are no longer angry gods but acts of nature. And all this thanks to science.
So I don't quite understand the argument for proving a negative. It's just not how science works (at least not at the university where I studied).
Besides that I guess "There are no extraterrestrials" is not really a scientific question. The statement is not testable and therefore is not considered science. If it is considered philosophy though that is different - no one can ever be wrong when in a philosophical discussion.
Science doesn't deal with the supernatural, ie imaginary, world of god, pixies etc., only the natural. If science can be applied then it's no longer supernatural. If it were possible to travel back in time with an Uzi and a projector or any number of modern wonders, you'd be probably be taken as a powerful magician. The Uzi would be especially useful in this respect.
Extraterrestials belong firmly in the natural world because, since we know we exist, it's perfectly reasonable to assume there could be other life forms in the universe.
Gods, being by their very nature, supernatural, are not the province of science and never will be. Any god which can affect the natural world is no longer supernatural and hence not a god, just something more advanced than we might currently understand. Extraterrestials may well appear to be god-like to us should any ever turn up.
Apart from the rather annoying claims that god exists because without a god to create us we couldn't, there's not a shred of evidence for any of the many thousands of gods men have invented to explain that which they don't yet understand.
I can't remember who said it, but when asked by a christian why he didn't believe in god the response was along the lines of- "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours"
Logic, on the other hand, demonstrates the impossibility of omnipresence, omnipotence and all the other omni's claimed by the fathful. You can argue the finer points of logic up hill and down dale for as long as you like but I think Epicurus has it nailed down when he says-
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Basically, if god can't be relied on to do something useful when needed, then why bother?
To put it in the simplest form, I say that knowledge requires evidence, but believing requires no evidence. Evidence is in the province of science. Belief and language is in the province of philosophy.
The philosophers say that they can prove a negative just by thinking logically about it. They require no evidence. By my definition, not requiring evidence is believing. I do not say their belief is valid or not, just that it is only belief, not knowledge. They contend it is in fact knowledge.
I noticed a lot of activity on this thread lately so I thought I'd step in and see what all the fuss was about... Philosophy, of course.
Now, if this were a scientific topic it would be worded something along the lines of "Can a universe come into existence on its own and organize itself in a manner that forms intelligent life and how can we test it?" Then at some point if the answer to that question was yes, then the next question is, "Can the forces that created such a universe be reproduced or manipulated?". We haven't even reach a point that this topic can reasonably be asked.
So, to all the philosophers out there... enjoy a small bit of the playful criticism from one of the most eloquent critics of philosophy.
--Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
--We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?"
I feel comfortable in saying that I know there is no god because I feel there is sufficient evidence to support that hypothesis and an utter lack of any to the contrary.
For me, sufficient evidence is enough. The lack of concrete proof in this circumstance is irrelevant, unnecessary, and leads to such time-wasting hypothetical pursuits as pondering alternate universes rather than living in the here and now. Life is too damn short to waste daydreaming about "what if."
I realize that evolution does not disprove the existence of god, but it utterly destroys creationism (see Q3 here to understand what I'm getting at). And the notion that a god could steer the process of evolution (as some believers want to believe) is absurd: it's natural (not supernatural) selection, stupid!
But evolution alone doesn't disprove the existence of god (Q5 from the FAQ). Religion takes the final steps toward doing that. Religious texts are so inwardly contradictory (in and of themselves) and so outwardly contradictory (to what science has shown us to be true, for example) that they are preposterous to anyone, of any age, capable of rational thought.
What we're left with if not atheism, then, is deism or spiritualism. The problem I have with these beliefs is explained in my second paragraph: I regard them as glorified daydreaming, no more, no less. My opinion is that those that take the position that "I don't believe in religion but I do believe in god" are clinging to that belief rather than examining the evidence with any degree of real effort. If you want to waste your life doing that, then go right ahead. But for me, reality is too damn interesting to pass by. I'd rather think about what is rather than what I'd like there to be.
Finally, I for one do not "trust scientific fact and reasoning" as OP puts it, and I don't recommend anybody does. I doubt it all the way. Science and scientists have been wrong in the past. They will be wrong again. But there is built-in self-correcting machinery: knowledge evolves. Perhaps the most beautiful thing about science is that it does not require belief in order to work. In fact, I have found that doubting it (this is different than denying it, I should add) makes it work best.
Hypothesizing is a human thing to do; it's part of the thinking process. But remember that theories evolve when there is lack of any contradictory evidence to an hypothesis: they fail to be dis-proven. Neither "god does not exist" nor "god exists" have been disproven concretely, but only one of those statements has any supporting evidence that has withstood intense scrutiny.
I think that belief in science is venomous. I feel that belief is antithetical to the Scientific Method. Beliefs opinions are like assholes. Just the facts, ma'am.
A quick clarification and I'm done. In the last paragraph I was equating belief and trust.
I also wanted to add that it's dangerous to believe in science. That's how frauds (homeopathy anyone?) continue to survive.
... but my edit timer ran out.
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The young Internet visionary downloaded scholarly works without paying for them and was aggressively charged with computer crimes. A few days ago, he took his own life.
The tragic suicide last week of Aaron Swartz, the visionary Internet activist who helped create Reddit, is being blamed in part on the zeal of the U.S. attorney whose office was prosecuting him for supposed computer crimes.
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School described his close friend Swartz as having been "driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying." Others pointed out that Swartz's alleged offense -- downloading scholarly papers without paying for them -- was essentially victimless. The owner of the database from which the papers were taken chose not to pursue the matter.
The critics have a point. The prosecution of Swartz was ridiculous. But it's a small part of a larger problem. There's far too much prosecution in the U.S. And as the philosopher Douglas Husak points out in his book "Overcriminalization," the reason we have too much prosecution is that we call too many things crimes.
By one common estimate, Congress creates new federal felonies at the rate of one a week. Husak argues that criminal liability has become less the outcome of deliberation than a habit, a bizarre bit of boilerplate tacked onto the end of statutes or regulations without a second thought. Criminal defense lawyers are fond of claiming that the average American commits two or three punishable crimes every day.
Here is the nub of the problem, as Husak describes it:
"Experts in the criminal law cannot make accurate predictions about potential offenders because the fate of such persons is not a function of the law at all. The real criminal law, as Holmes would construe it, is formulated by police and prosecutors. The realization that police and prosecutors wield such discretion is nothing new. What is new is the power to arrest and prosecute nearly everyone -- a power that derives from the ever-expanding scope of criminal statutes as written."
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- the principal statute under which Swartz was charged -- is a good example of Husak's point. Enacted in the 1980s, before the Internet explosion, the statute makes a criminal of anyone who "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access" and, in the process, obtains financial information, government information or "information from any protected computer."
What's wrong with this language? Consider: You're sitting in your office, when suddenly you remember that you forgot to pay your Visa bill. You take a moment to log on to your bank account, and you pay the bill. Then you go back to work. If your employer has a policy prohibiting personal use of office computers, then you have exceeded your authorized access; since you went to your bank website, you have obtained financial information.
Believe it or not, you're now a felon. The likelihood of prosecution might be small, but you've still committed a crime.
Aware of this risk, some federal courts have given the statute's language a narrow construction, but others have read it broadly, and the Obama administration has opposed efforts in Congress to narrow its scope. Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, warned in an opinion last spring that the government's position "would make criminals of large groups of people who would have little reason to suspect they are committing a federal crime."
The statute isn't unique, either in its vagueness or in its scope. In both parties there are people who believe that because they can make something illegal, they should; that somehow they're not showing how much they care unless they're thinking up new reasons to lock people up.
A traditional check on the absurd breadth of the law has been the discretion of prosecutors not to prosecute. Yet as law Professor Angela J. Davis of the American University Washington College of Law notes, this discretion is too rarely exercised.
In her thoughtful book "Arbitrary Justice," reflecting on her own days as a prosecutor, Davis writes that although some colleagues "saw themselves as ministers of justice and measured their decisions carefully, very few were humbled by the power they held." Further, she writes, there's no real check on abuse: "The judicial branch has failed to check prosecutorial overreaching, and the legislative branch traditionally has passed laws that increase prosecutorial power."
In a better world, prosecutors, like other functionaries of government, would indeed be humbled rather than emboldened by the authority placed in their hands. Too often, they're not. The question is what to do about it.
When corporate titans begin to swagger, the response of our political branches is to burden them with layer upon layer of regulation -- including, in many cases, criminal liability. When government officials abuse their authority, even when they cause enormous injury, the usual response is -- nothing. Errors of judgment by private citizens are occasion for new laws; errors by public servants, which can be equally if not more costly, are unfortunate incidents.
Here criminal prosecution presents a particular dilemma. On the one hand, prosecutors need to be able to do their difficult and often dangerous work without constantly looking over their shoulders, worrying about the legal consequences to themselves. On the other, given the penchant of government to criminalize more and more behavior, those who prosecute the law have to display enough common sense and humility to show that they remember they work for us -- not the other way around.
Uncontrolled prosecutors shouldn't necessarily be thrown in jail. But if we believe our own rhetoric about the treatment of others who abuse power, a heightened degree of civil liability would help them to do their jobs better. Right now, prosecutors are protected from most lawsuits by what's called qualified immunity. Prosecutors have to make hard decisions about going after dangerous people. They shouldn't have to worry overmuch about being sued. The immunity of prosecutors should indeed be high. It just shouldn't be as high as it is now.
And how high is that? High enough that the Supreme Court recently rejected a lawsuit against a prosecutor whose office deliberately failed to turn over exculpatory material to a defendant who was subsequently convicted twice, both times wrongly -- first of armed robbery, then of murder -- and came within a month of execution before the hidden reports turned up. Oh, well, wrote the justices: It was a single incident, not a pattern, and so didn't rise to a violation of the Constitution.
Critics excoriated the decision, but the true problem isn't judicial. It's legislative. Congress could abrogate the immunity of federal prosecutors any time it likes; state legislatures could do the same for their own state's attorneys. Working out a more nuanced system, protecting discretion while allowing lawsuits in cases of clear abuse, would be difficult. But that's no excuse for not trying. Yes, the potential for liability would make the work of the prosecutor harder -- but surgeons and chief executive officers seem to manage.
Prosecutors do need immunity. They just need a little less of it.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Yale University. He is the author of "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama," and the novel "The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln."
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The Illinois Adopt-A-Highway (AAH) program brings citizen volunteers into partnerships with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to pick up trash and keep our roadsides clean. The program also educates and encourages people to stop littering. Through the cleanup efforts of more than 10,000 Adopt-A-Highway volunteers throughout Illinois, visitors and tourists have a better first impression of our state.
Cabot Microelectronics employees are among the 10,000 volunteers who participate in this program. CMC is assigned a two-mile section of highway and has been participating for over five years. As a volunteer organization, CMC agrees to remove litter from our section of highway at least three times each year. The three Aurora facilities alternate volunteer times throughout the course of the year. Each facility has the opportunity to participate in this program at least once a year and has consistently accomplished the successful goal of doing our part to keep Illinois clean and improve environmental awareness.
Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, announced that it was named as one of only eight companies receiving Intel Corporation's Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award for its performance in 2012. Cabot Microelectronics Corporation is recognized for its significant contributions in providing Intel with CMP slurries and pads, deemed essential to Intel's success.
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Born Moscow, 1888; died Moscow, 1945
The son of a merchant, Osip Maksimovich Brik trained as a lawyer but came to prominence as a theorist of avant-garde literature and art. In 1912 he married Lily Kagan. In 1915, while he was on military duty in Petrograd, the young couple met Vladimir Maiakovskii, who became Lily’s lover and joined the Brik household in 1918. He was also active in the Society for the Study of Poetic Language, the cradle of the formalist movement. After a sojourn in Berlin in late 1922, Brik helped found LEF, the journal of group Left Front of the Arts, which was renamed Novyi LEF in 1927. In 1926 he was appointed head of the literary section of the Mezhrabpom-Rus fil’m studio. As formalism and leftist art fell into official disfavor, Brik adapted and became a prominent writer and critic in the Socialist Realist tradition, joining the Writers’ Union in 1934. Brik was one of the first writers to join the TASS studio collective and served for a time as its main literary editor.
Petr Ashotovich Sarkisian and Osip Maksimovich Brik. The Hapless Warrior, January 23, 1944. Ne boltai! Collection.
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TONY JONES: That BHP profit statement appeared on the same day the Kyoto protocol came into force around the world, without being ratified by Australia and the United States. One of the greatest users of fossil fuels, China, is not bound by Kyoto, but it's already searching for alternatives to coal. Now it's turning its attention to more nuclear power. Nuclear-generated power emits fewer greenhouse gases, and Australia may negotiate a treaty to allow the sale of more uranium to China. But is nuclear energy a smart option? Michael Carey reports.
MICHAEL CAREY: China wants power, and lots of it. With a massive growth in manufacturing output and a new middle class wanting better conditions, demand for electricity may have soared a staggering 16 per cent in the last year alone. In response, China is turning to every source of potential power, and high on its list is nuclear.
RICHARD MARTIN (IMA ASIA MANAGING DIRECTOR): You could say that the top leadership in China knows its way around the nuclear industry very well. They know the technologies, they know the direction it's developing, they know how to apply it, and I think as you look at nuclear energy in China, they will be at the forefront.
MICHAEL CAREY: China has nine reactors operating already and plans to commission 27 new ones in the next 15 years. Even that would represent only a small part of its power supply, but would still be a change for a country where coal has been king and created a pollution and safety nightmare.
CHEN QING (SOUTH-NORTH INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT): China is a developing country, so developing the economy is the most crucial thing. But protecting the environment is important. Global warming is a serious problem for China.
MICHAEL CAREY: But is nuclear power a sane choice for a country looking for new and less polluting power sources?
DAVID SWEENEY (AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION): There are real and very serious risks with nuclear power and any nuclear facility, and cutting corners or a culture that is putting development and the quick pouring of concrete ahead of perhaps the most considered approach is a real concern, and radiation and secrecy is a very dangerous and a very disturbing combination.
MICHAEL CAREY: China's nuclear future may seem remote to Australia, but it's already helped spark the takeover battle for Western Mining. Swiss giant Xstrata badly wants WMC's enormous uranium deposits at Olympic Dam. But selling uranium to China will need a new safeguards treaty, and the Australian Government is saying little about any negotiations. However, Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane says demand for uranium has boomed internationally and there are more opportunities.
IAN MACFARLANE (MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND RESOURCES): Even though Australia has 40 per cent of the world's uranium, we only have about 20 per cent of the world's uranium market. Now, we need to address that as a country and have the opportunity to grow whichever mines are the ones that are going to export uranium at a viable price.
MICHAEL CAREY: Uranium has been a divisive issue in Australia. In the 1970s and '80s, the Labor Party argued ferociously over whether to allow its export. But the ALP is giving in-principle support to sales to China, if conditions are met.
KIM BEAZLEY (OPPOSITION LEADER): If all those agreements are put in place, then it is a market for us.
MICHAEL CAREY: Meanwhile, there are some calls for the green movement to rethink its views on nuclear power.
JAMES LOVELOCK (AUTHOR, 'GAIA: A NEW LOOK AT LIFE ON EARTH'): I admit that nuclear has a few dangers, but they are trivial compared with the dangers of just letting global warming happen. I don't think people understand: if we get this 6 degrees Celsius rise of temperature by the end of the century, we're talking about billions of deaths.
MICHAEL CAREY: But according to Australian environmentalists, there's no new case for nuclear power.
DAVID SWEENEY: We don't see it as either a safe or sustainable silver bullet to the problems of greenhouse, and you don't address one major environmental problem by embracing another flawed technology. It's not the way forward.
MICHAEL CAREY: But around the world, a lot of money is already riding on whether there is a nuclear future or not.
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How to select and eat corn
It’s post-July 4th – time for corn.
No self-respecting Northeasterner eats corn before the July 4th holiday and even then, some Western New Yorkers won’t partake in those yellow ears until at least August when they can be assured that their corn comes from a farm no more than 60 miles away.
My sister-in-law Maureen worked on a Francavilla Farm in Fairfield, NJ starting when she was 13 until she became a mother at age 30. She was in charge of dumping corn on the farm stand and selecting corn for special orders.
This makes her the family authority on corn. We were shucking corn for our July 4th BBQ when she noticed that two ears my mother purchased had been partially peeled.
This is a cardinal no-no and the inspiration for this blog post.
So, here are Maureen’s tips for properly selecting and preparing corn:
- Only buy corn when it is local and fresh – that means the summer and the summer only. No January corn!
- Look at the corns husk and make sure it is green and the bottoms are not dry.
- The silks should be a hue of pale yellow (we just used the word Hue in a Bananagrams game. It’s a good word game word.)
- Inspect the husks for possible worm holes and other imperfections. This usually happens at the end of the season.
- Fondle your corn. Check it all around to make sure it is fully formed and not missing kernels.
- DO NOT open the corn at the farm stand or store. It will immediately lose its freshness. This means NO SHUCKING corn at the store, unless you will immediately cook it. I’ve been known to give many corn shuckers at Wegmans dirty looks. Do they not know that they are murdering their corn?
- If an ear of corn is particularly good, you can eat it raw and it will be full of sweet flavor.
- Steaming not boiling is the best way to eat corn.
- It only needs five minutes in the steamer to completely cook.
- Maureen loves butter and salt. You don’t have to butter and salt your corn if it’s good, but she still does.
All welcome the season of corn!
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I know the common recommendations about batteries. "Keep motors & chips seperate"... The project I'm working on needs reliable power on both, and I would prefer if I can use a single battery (bank possibly). I'm looking into giving microcontroller brains to my full sized boat. The engine has a battery charging circuit for a 12v battery. Since I have a nice source of charging power, I would like to use that for the microcontroller circuits.
I will be using a SLA battery for main power to start the engine, and steer the boat. Should I use a seperate small battery for the microcontroller, and have the main battery keep it charged? Or can I just use a voltage regulator for the small electronics?
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M Ed Educational Technology
J. Michael Blocher, PhD
Face-to-Face in Educational Technology
"Online Educational Technology students were willing to attend part of their coursework in Flagstaff during the pleasant summer weather this year ó even to the point of traveling halfway around the world."
Northern Arizona University has been a leader in distance education for quite some time, with students able to take coursework via interactive instructional television and in online learning environments. The Educational Technology Program, one of the earliest graduate programs delivered completely online, was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents in 1999 to support NAU’s mission of serving students in rural and distant locations who have limited access to educational opportunities.
Since then the program has grown to approximately 350 students, primarily from various locations throughout Arizona. However, Ed Tech students are also enrolled from many other locations within the U.S. as well as internationally. Students can choose to pursue a certificate or an M Ed in educational technology.
The Educational Technology Program is one of a very few programs that has received national recognition for meeting both the Technology Facilitator Standards and Technology Leadership Standards from the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE). However, the strength of the program is really in its students, who are educators who serve many different types of learners in many different learning environments. While most Ed Tech students are practicing P-12 classroom teachers, others are school district technology coordinators or trainers for school districts, business, industry, and the military.
Ed Tech faculty are committed to providing students with an engaging and interactive experience and approach their courses with that in mind. One of the primary goals of the faculty is to engage the students, not only with the course content but with each other, through peer interaction. In addition to having the opportunity to engage in rich discussions, Ed Tech courses often includes collaborative projects and activities that gives students from many different locations the opportunity to work together virtually on papers, web sites, and other engaging activities. Indeed, graduation often includes scenes of students who’ve never met their peers or faculty in the flesh embracing: they know each other well, but only virtually.
This past summer that changed for one group of Ed Tech students who were given the opportunity to take two of the foundational Ed Tech courses as hybrids, which included both online and face-to-face meetings. Students traveled primarily from various parts of Arizona to attend, but one student came all the way from India to be part of this group.
The course was designed with the first week online and included the usual online introductions, academic readings, and interactive discussions. The second week, however, students met in Flagstaff for three hours a day for each course over the course of four days. During that period, students worked individually and in teams on various hands-on projects involving technology tools, including learning how to use many of the Web 2.0 tools to enhance learning environments. During the final three weeks, students continued to work online.
The hybrid courses were conducted as a pilot to investigate several things:
While it will take time to come to full conclusions on some of these questions, students reported enjoying the time spent in classes and mentioned that they would take other classes with a similar hybrid design. One question seemed to be clearly answered, however.
Students were willing to attend part of their coursework here in Flagstaff during the pleasant summer weather—even to the point of traveling halfway around the world!
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You're probably going to be extremly dissapointed that we still didn't cover Democratic Republic of the Congo , we truely apologize. however, we encourage you to stay positive and come back to this page in the near future, maybe by then we will figure out a thing or two about Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Sikkim, a vertical land in India
One of the smallest states in India (which was slightly less than Friuli) had an independent history as far back as 1642, under the dynasty of kings Chogyal, Tibetan term translated from the Sanskrit "Dharmaraja" or "King defender of the dharma." In 1975, through a referendum, it became part of India. In the territory of Sikkim entirely mountainous and with only a few green houses ... Read full Blog post
An Aerial fiesta in Clark Pampanga
Its a party in the sky as multi colored hot air balloons piloted ny different pilots from various partso of the world participated in this annual gathering. As early as 5am, the 2,500 hectare aviation complex at Clar Economic Zone in Pampanga was already crammedi with excitement. Clusters of hot air balloon participants busily prepare their own balloons for liftoff as they need to take advantage of ... Read full Blog post
Laos seems like a long shot to become Southeast Asia’s next big thing. The food doesn’t win any prizes, the roads are severely potholed by frequent flooding and locals regard the prospect of increased tourism with a sunny indifference that exceeds even Mediterranean proportions. Laos is the least developed and most enigmatic of the three former French Indochinese states ... Read full Blog post
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Saucer-Shaped Object With Red Swirling Lights Reported In Central Indiana
Earlier this week, witnesses in Martinsville, Indiana say they watched a saucer-shaped object hovering about 1,000 feet away from a nearby tree line. According to a report filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), witnesses first saw lights shaped in a V-formation off in the distance while on their way home from Walmart.
“We were heading east on Old Morgantown Road,” said one witness. “We went around a curve and up a hill. As we reached the top of the hill we saw five lights in a slight V-formation. We all commented on how low this apparent plane was.”
However, as the spotters got closer to the mysterious lights, they quickly recognized that they were in the presence of something far greater than an airplane.
“The lights appeared bright white as we approached. We drove forward about half a mile. We were directly in front of the object. The object was at the tree line and about 1,000 feet away. The lights were now huge, orangish, red swirling spheres. They remained in the same formation, only now I could see clearly the shape of an object. The part I could see was saucer-shaped. The lights were lights on this craft.”
One witness attempted to document the sighting using a cell phone camera, but was not quick enough to capture any footage. “Before I could even touch the screen, the lights went off and it was gone. I got into the car and everyone was yelling, ‘It was a UFO.’”
Witnesses say they spotted the object once more about 10 to 20 miles away from their home. A MUFON report was filed on Friday, January 25, 2013. Unfortunately, though, there were no photos or videos included in the report.
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December 14, 2012
My Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As I’m sure is the case with all of us who are parents and/or work with children and parents – my heart sank when I heard the terrible news and thought about all the children and families – not just in Connecticut, but across our country – who will be impacted by this unimaginable act of violence, timed as it is at a time of year when for many of us, our traditions revolve around the ideal of “peace on earth.”
In response to senseless acts such as these- in part because they seem so utterly senseless and unimaginable – it is not uncommon for the media to look for explanations for the behavior of the perpetrator, who in nearly every case, is a male. Often, the explanation that is evoked is that of the “aberrant male;” that is, the male whose biology, development, or socialization were in some way deviant from the norm. And deviations can often be found. After all, who in his right mind would do such a thing? But what is too often overlooked is that violence is not always attributable to mental illness, nor is it always a product of “under-socialization” or “deviant” socialization. Violence is a direct product of normative socialization; it is a consequence of our society’s socialization of its members – especially boys and men – to believe that violence – and/or the threat of violence – are acceptable ways of resolving conflict. Statistics on intimate partner violence attest to this in a most sobering way. I am saddened to think that many of the children killed today – especially but not exclusively the boys – had at some point in their young lives probably played a violent video game – perhaps many. Beyond depicting male figures killing each other off, how many of these games endorse violence against women? Before today, how many people had these children “killed” or seen “killed” on TV, or in movies? My guess is many. But young children rarely consider the prospect of themselves or someone they know being potential victims of the very violence to which they become so desensitized as they grow up. We grown-ups know better.
As mental health care providers and agents of social justice I think it is our responsibility to do what we can within our spheres of influence to help put an end to the violence that so permeates our society. This is far more easily said than done, as it requires that we examine our own values closely and critically. But it is eminently worth the effort.
How difficult is it? I’ll close with this: Once upon a time, as I was giving a lecture in a course on the psychology of men and masculinity, I had a Power Point slide up that described one of the adverse consequences of normative male socialization as “predisposes boys and men to engage in unnecessary violence.” A female student raised her hand and said (with all due respect): “Only a man would say that.” Intrigued, I asked what she meant, and she in turn asked: “What is necessary violence?” Imagine my reaction. After class, I immediately edited the slide and took another, sobering look at my own perspective on violence. I have been forever thankful to her for that comment.
Respectfully – and still hopeful of the prospect of Peace on Earth,
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Although the report doesn’t speculate on the size of the potential cost savings that could be obtained from some of the reform proposals (most of which are not terribly comprehensive or economically “bold”–although elimination of the employer-provided health care tax exclusion would surely be politically “bold”), I found the discussion on pages 118-119 of the health care chapter most interesting:
Spending a rising share of income on health, as has occurred in the United States and other developed countries and is likely to continue occurring, makes economic sense as rising incomes increase the relative benefits of investing in health-care consumption to extend life…[H]ealth care consumption is a superior good…The large and growing size of health spending underscores the importance of ensuring that the sector functions efficiently and equitably.
Today I spoke at an event on Capitol Hill where the OECD’s Economic Survey of the United States was released. (The policy brief, a condensed summary, is here.) I was a discussant on the survey’s chapter on health care reform, which explains that the U.S. health system doesn’t seem to be performing well from a net-benefit perspective; we spend a lot more money on health care than other countries do, yet by many measures are not as healthy as those in those other countries.
The report puts forth some ideas for expanding health care coverage and controlling health care costs, and acknowledges that often the policy solutions to the two goals can run counter to each other.
To me it also seems to underscore the implication that federal government spending as a share of our economy is likely to continue to rise–not flat line–and the importance as well as feasibility of coming up with a way to pay for these rising health expenditures, while at the same time doing our best to make health spending more cost-effective.
--Diane Lim-Rogers (cross-posted at economistmom.com)
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(A) Mistreat an animal in cruel manner;
(B) Abandon an animal;
(i) Proper sustenance, including food or water;
(ii) Shelter that protects from the elements of weather; or
(iii) Medical treatment, necessary to sustain normal health and fitness or to end the suffering of any animal;
(D) Abandon an animal to die;
(E) Leave an animal unattended and confined in a motor vehicle when physical injury to or death of the animal is likely to result;
(F) Ride an animal when it is physically unfit;
(G) Bait or harass an animal for the purpose of making it perform for a person's amusement;
(H) Cruelly chain or tether an animal; or
(I) Use, train or possess a domesticated animal for the purpose of seizing, detaining or maltreating any other domesticated animal.
(2) Any person in violation of subdivision (1) of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than three hundred nor more than two thousand dollars or confined in jail not more than six months, or both.
(b) A person who intentionally tortures, or mutilates or maliciously kills an animal, or causes, procures or authorizes any other person to torture, mutilate or maliciously kill an animal, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in a correctional facility not less than one nor more than five years and be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars. For the purposes of this subsection, "torture" means an action taken for the primary purpose of inflicting pain.
(c) A person, other than a licensed veterinarian or a person acting under the direction or with the approval of a licensed veterinarian, who knowingly and willfully administers or causes to be administered to any animal participating in any contest any controlled substance or any other drug for the purpose of altering or otherwise affecting said animal's performance is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars.
(d) Any person convicted of a violation of this section forfeits his or her interest in any animal and all interest in the animal vests in the humane society or county pound of the county in which the conviction was rendered and the person is, in addition to any fine imposed, liable for any costs incurred or to be incurred by the humane society or county pound as a result.
(e) For the purpose of this section, the term "controlled substance" has the same meaning ascribed to it by subsection (d), section one hundred one, article one, chapter sixty-a of this code.
(f) The provisions of this section do not apply to lawful acts of hunting, fishing, trapping or animal training or farm livestock, poultry, gaming fowl or wildlife kept in private or licensed game farms if kept and maintained according to usual and accepted standards of livestock, poultry, gaming fowl or wildlife or game farm production and management, nor to humane use of animals or activities regulated under and in conformity with the provisions of 7 U.S.C. §2131, et seq., and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as both statutes and regulations are in effect on the effective date of this section.
(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of subsection (a) is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be confined in jail for a period of not less than ninety days nor more than one year, fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or both. The incarceration set forth in this subsection is mandatory unless the provisions of subsection (h) of this section are complied with.
(h) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, no person who has been convicted of a violation of the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section may be granted probation until the defendant has undergone a complete psychiatric or psychological evaluation and the court has reviewed the evaluation. Unless the defendant is determined by the court to be indigent, he or she is responsible for the cost of the evaluation.
(2) For any person convicted of a violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section, the court may, in addition to the penalties provided in this section, impose a requirement that he or she complete a program of anger management intervention for perpetrators of animal cruelty. Unless the defendant is determined by the court to be indigent, he or she is responsible for the cost of the program.
(i) In addition to any other penalty which can be imposed for a violation of this section, a court shall prohibit any person so convicted from possessing, owning or residing with any animal or type of animal for a period of five years following entry of a misdemeanor conviction and fifteen years following entry of a felony conviction. A violation under this subsection is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and forfeiture of the animal.
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Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- In this modern era, science affects every member of society on a daily basis, from technological conveniences such as the automobile and television to the year-round availability of fresh fruits and vegetables. But some scientific advances, especially those with clinical applications like stem cells and cloning, jostle with religion and politics in the public sphere to provide a potent and complex mix. A new book released today by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press explores the moral and ethical foundations of science in this context.
Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt, written by the eminent geneticist and historian of science Elof Axel Carlson, analyzes the current hot-button topics of genetically modified food, prenatal diagnosis, the environmental effects of pesticides and herbicides, new pharmaceuticals, and assisted reproduction, and also historical case studies such as thalidomide's effects on unborn children, human experimentation at Tuskegee, and the atrocities of Nazi medicine. Carlson dissects the motivation and ethics of the scientists involved and the conflicting points of view of the scientists and their critics--asking why, despite good intentions, scientists sometimes lose the public's trust.
"Scientists have dual responsibilities," Carlson explains in the first chapter. "As scientists, they are expected to have ethical standards for conducting researchscientists are also citizens, and they are not exempt from the ethical and moral standards of their communities."
By applying an ethical framework to the historical facts in each case, Carlson shows how events spin out of control. He indicates how scientists can be more effective in preventing undesirable consequences of their work. And he argues that such bad outcomes are largely preventable when scientists consult a range of opinions, including critical voices.
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Explore the geometry of the Conga Mine Project in Celendin, Cajamarca, Peru, through detailed Google satellite imagery. To Pan: click and drag
the map. Take advantage of the zoom bars.
Conga Mine Project: Buenaventura, Newmont to invest $4 billion in Peru mine
LIMA, July 27, 2011 (Reuters)
* Conga mine largest mining investment in Peru's' history
* Mine to produce at least 580,000 ounces of gold in 5 yrs
(Adds quotes from chief executive)
Peruvian miner Buenaventura and
U.S.-based Newmont said on Wednesday they would pour up to $4.8
billion into the Conga gold and copper mine, a sign of
confidence the day before leftist President-elect Ollanta
Humala takes office.
Buenaventura (BVN.N: Quote) estimated a capital cost for the
project of between $4 billion and $4.8 billion, the largest
investment in a mining project in Peru's history and about 3
percent of the country's gross domestic product. Newmont
(NEM.N: Quote) said its attributable capital costs were between $2
billion and $2.4 billion.
The mine's initial production is expected in late 2014 or
early 2015. It is seen producing between 580,000 and 680,000
ounces of gold and 155 to 235 million lbs of copper in its
first five years of operation in northern Peru.
Peru is the world's No. 2 copper producer and the sixth
largest producer of gold. Some $50 billion are destined for
mining projects in the next decade.
Newmont had delayed moving forward with the project several
times since 2009 because of changes in the market and projected
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It's an unpleasant fact of life in the computer security field that sometimes things come to our attention that can make you feel pretty disheartened about the world.
For instance, while the folks in our labs are analysing malware and spam it is possible they might come across content connected to child abuse (calling it child pornography seems wrong to me - this isn't porn, it's children being sexually abused.)
We have specfiic staff who have been trained to handle these situations, and we work closely with bodies such as the Internet Watch Foundation to ensure that the correct action is taken against these websites, and the people behind them.
Of course, it doesn't mean that we are regularly involved in the fight against people who are responsible for the demand for such offensive and illegal content.
According to a report in the Reno Gazette-Journal, a 36-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possessing images of young girls under the age of 10 in a variety of sexual positions.
Paul Kistner, of Verdi, Nevada, who until he resigned last month was a deputy for Washoe County's sheriff, was reported to the police by his own wife. Monique Kistner had grown suspicious of his online activities after noticing that his internet browsing histories were always purged, and installed spyware on his computer with the help of a friend.
Having discovered that her husband had been accessing pornographic and child abuse material, Monique Kistner delivered detectives her husband's computer at Washoe County Sheriff's office on August 7th. A subsequent search of the family home found further child abuse images on three portable USB flash drives.
Days after his arrest in August, Kistner resigned from his job at the sheriff's office, where he had been working for the last 12 years. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November, and could face up to six years in jail.
We're used to hearing about spyware stealing our identities, our passwords, our credit card numbers for the benefit of internet hackers - but it seems that we are going to be hearing more of how surveillance software can actually uncover criminal acts too. For instance, earlier this week I reported on how a child abuser was sent to jail after his victim's parent used spyware to discover he was in contact with their daughter.
As more and more people become aware of the ability to snoop on their family's online internet activities with spyware we're likely to see more cases like this.
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- About CEI
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Gainful Employment Proposal Penalizes At-Risk Student Populations and Hurts the Economy
March 24, 2011
Career colleges—also known as for-profit, proprietary or private sector colleges—provide an important avenue to post-secondary education and upward mobility for at-risk nontraditional student populations. The career college sector is also the country’s best hope, through its efficiency and innovation, to substantially expanding Americans’ access to the higher education that enables individuals to pursue the fastest growing and emerging occupations.
The career colleges sector is now under harsh scrutiny by Washington. The U.S. Department Education has decided that rapid growth in enrollment, rising student debt levels, and a relatively high level of default rates has created a need for new rules around “gainful employment” for graduates from career colleges. The Department’s proposed rules are not only unnecessary, they are certain to cause harm.
For decades, the Higher Education Act has required that career colleges and training programs prepare students for gainful employment in recognized occupations in order for students to qualify for federal financial aid (Title IV programs). This condition has not applied to the other channels of post-secondary education—nonprofit and public institutions. The Department is authorized by Congress to set rules on federal financial aid for education. Historically, it has never attempted to define gainful employment, but now proposes doing so in order to evaluate and sanction private sector colleges using a three-part test based on student debt-to-income levels and loan repayment rates.
The proposed gainful employment regulations were published in July 2010, but final regulations were pushed out to March or April 2011 by a flood of public comment and lobbying. The delayed rules have led to a heated debate, which has been characterized by a surfeit of confusing, frequently contradictory “report cards” on career colleges. Critics of for-profits schools have used inflammatory rhetoric, going so far as to compare career colleges with the much-maligned subprime loan industry.
The Department justifies its proposal on the grounds that, while career colleges now account for 10 percent of the nation’s post-secondary enrollment, they account for a disproportionate 23 percent of federal loan dollars and 44 percent of federal student loan defaults. However, as this paper makes clear, the Department’s case for the rule is fundamentally fl awed. Commonly drawn comparisons between career colleges and traditional schools are less meaningful than many suggest, because of the significant demographic differences in the student populations, programmatic variances, and major disparities in taxpayer subsidies between the distinct institutional sectors.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Political battleground Ohio is a noted swing state, in part because of close recent elections and in part because it has voted for the winning presidential candidate every time since helping to elect Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Here are five things to watch in Ohio as the presidential election returns come in tonight.Lake, Ottawa or Stark county. Historically, these counties closely follow the statewide trend more than any others.
Lake County often is among the first to report full results, and the share of the vote there for the winner is usually within a point or two of the statewide total. Ottawa County has voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election beginning in 1948 - the longest streak in the state.
2. Big county votes: Election maps in Ohio typically are heavily red (Republican) regardless of whether the Democrat or Republican wins. This is because most smaller counties vote Republican and most of the big counties vote Democrat. So look beyond the map to see how close the votes are in the big counties.
The Republicans are trying to reverse, or at least slow, the trend from recent elections that has the Democrats gaining wider margins in these counties. Here is the margin for each election since 2000, the first two won by Republican George Bush and the last one won by Democrat Barack Obama.
Vote margin of victory listed here is for Democratic candidates (negative numbers for Hamilton County in 2000 and 2004 represent Republican victories).
|County (major city)||2000||2004||2008|
3. Jeep Country: Much has been said, or written about, Mitt Romney's comments at an October rally in Defiance, Ohio, that "Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China." That turned out to be false. The question is whether it will hurt Romney in the Toledo area, home to a Jeep factory, or just be a non-factor with so many issues involved in the election. Another factor is how these voters feel about the auto rescue plan backed by Obama and opposed by Romney.
Obama carried the five Toledo-area counties (Lucas and the adjacent counties of Fulton, Henry, Ottawa and Wood) by a vote of 205,421 to 133,906 in 2008. That was a sizable improvement for the Democrats' edge from 2004, when John Kerry beat Bush in those counties, 186,569 to 156,367.
Though the number of coal jobs in the state increased 11 percent from 2008 to 2011, Romney supporters there say the industry would be doing better without Obama. This is an historically Democratic area of the state. Will this year be the tipping point?
Monroe County, the site of a Mitt Romney campaign stop with coal miners as the backdrop, is a good as any place in coal country to watch. A Republican hasn't won there since Richard Nixon in 1972. During the last three elections, the Republican managed just 44 percent of the vote each time. If Romney can win there, it's a signal that the coal message worked.
5. Late-arriving votes: If the race is still close once all the precincts report unofficial results, probably sometime Wednesday, it could be weeks before it is known whether Obama or Romney won Ohio.
In 2008, Obama widened is victory over John McCain by 56,912 votes between the available results the Wednesday afternoon after the election and the final tally weeks later. Nearly 500,000 votes were added to tht totals.
This was in large part due to late-arriving absentee ballots (if mailed in time, they have 10 days to get to the boards of elections) and provisional ballots cast for various reasons. This year, the county boards of elections must certify their results by Nov. 27.
|2008 vote: McCain vs. Obama||Total Votes||Obama Lead||Obama Pct|
|Wednesday after election||5,217,434||205,312||51.16%|
|Votes added later||490,852||56,912||55.12%|
|Final official vote||5,708,286||262,224||51.50%|
- Analysis: Lake, Ottawa and Stark are Ohio's ultimate bellwether counties
- Interactive map: Ohio county-by-county vote for the 2008 election
- Interactive maps: Ohio county-by-county vote for elections from 1960 to 2004
- Chart: How each state has voted in presidential elections, including Ohio, which has picked the winner each time since 1964
- Chart: Ohio counties that vote most overwhelmingly Republican or Democrat
- Graphic: 2008 election won by Obama in the large counties and McCain in small counties
- Interactive map: Congressional Ohio district map, 2012-20
- Interactive maps: Ohio Statehouse district maps, 2012-20
- Analysis: Study of the impact on Congressional redistricting in Ohio
- Chart: Ohio county voter registration, 2012
- Interactive Map: 2012 Primary: Romney runs strong in places where Obama ran strong
- Database and map: 2008 Presidential Election, by city and precinct in Cuyahoga County
- Analysis and chart: 2008-2004 Presidential Election Ohio, Obama/McCain vs. Bush/Kerry
- More archived election information at Data Central
- Previous Statistical Snapshots
- Data Central index
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MSNBC: (2004) – Natural Disasters Create Jobs, (2011) – Natural Disasters Wipe Out Jobs
Perhaps using a preemptive strike to help combat the May jobs report to be released on Friday, MSNBC has already found an excuse for lost jobs, and an increased unemployment rate – storms, tornadoes and flooding. According to a business report:
“…homes or places of business have been destroyed in this year's wave of storms, tornadoes and flooding. That means thousands of workers in the South and Midwest could be out of work for some time, potentially pushing up the nation's jobless rate and further taxing financially strapped state unemployment funds.”
Yet in 2004, when reporting on an October jobs report in which hiring had increased at the fastest pace in seven months, MSNBC somehow managed to find analysts who said the jump in hiring was due mainly to another form of natural disaster – hurricanes. The business report at that time read:
“Some analysts were skeptical about the latest surge of hiring, pointing out that much of the unusually large jump in October stemmed from cleanup and rebuilding in Florida and other states that were ravaged by four hurricanes…”
That assessment is buoyed by an accompanying CNBC video (seen below) in which Senior Economics Reporter, Steve Liesman, asks President Bush’s economic advisor, Gregory Mankiw, about the ‘Hurricane Effect’ on a jobs report.
Liesman: The concern here is that there was a lot of hurricane related with bounce back from September and a lot of construction related activity that added to jobs in October. Greg, take a step back from the number, the 339,000, where is the trend as far as you can tell?
Considering the devastation and destruction wrought by the recent spate of tornadoes, would there not be an uptick in construction related activity as well?
MSNBC followed that report with another forecast on job growth in November of 2004, which anticipated glowing numbers due to a ‘post-hurricane rebound’. That report read:
“Economists, who have been burned over the past few months by reports that fell short of expectations, are once again looking for a solid report, partly because of an expected rebound after four hurricanes tore through Florida and other southern states in August and September.”
That said, the biggest contradiction to the aforementioned ‘tornadoes wipe out jobs’ report may have come from an AP article run on the MSNBC site itself just four days ago. The headline?
Natural disasters probably won't bruise US economy
That piece stated:
The tornadoes and floods that have devastated parts of the South and Midwest have also hammered the local economies — flooding farmlands, suspending factory work and disrupting energy production.
Yet for the U.S. economy overall, the damage will likely be scant. At most, the disasters might knock one-tenth of 1 percentage point off national economic growth in the April-June quarter, Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner estimates.
"It's so small, you aren't going to notice it," said Patrick Newport, an economist at IHS Global Insight.
Also of interest is the next sentence which reads:
Others caution, though, that the tornado season hasn't ended yet, and the hurricane season has yet to arrive. Further major disasters could begin to weigh on the U.S. economy.
So in the view of MSNBC, hurricanes and natural disasters in 2004 actually helped to create jobs, while in 2011 they will likely eliminate jobs. What’s the biggest difference leading to two very contradicting conclusions in these jobs reports?
Who was running for re-election in October of 2004, and who is running for re-election now?
Rusty can be contacted at The Mental Recession
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The history of Rimini has had beginning from the beach.
In order every year the fifty and sixty hotel construction industry was the carrying axis of an economy that depended more and more from the tourist monoculture. Years seventy and eighty to Rimini town are characterized for the years of maximum tourist outbreak.
By many countries of the north Europe, Rimini was known for the beach, the numerous discotheques and for the crazy night life.
At less than 10 years, the beach changes; the crisis and the Euro has transformed it and the caraibici travels, before unaccessible have returned it less interesting to the tourist.
The bagnini, (worker on the beach, swimming instructors) of the Riviera Romagnola, are sure the personages more representative than that age in explosion.
This is a series of portraits of those which they have lived from the beach, the "Gold Moment" of the Riviera Romagnola, when Rimini was "The city" of European tourism.
Nicola Ókin Frioli ©
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By Tim Gracyk
from the book "Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895 -1925." If you would like to order a copy of this book, click here for details.
In 1917 this band cut nine titles for Edison, all issued on Blue Amberol as
well as Diamond Disc. It was among the first to make records marketed as
"jass." Jaudas' Society Orchestra was the only Edison group to make an
earlier recording characterized as "jass."
The Frisco "Jass" Band was formed in early 1917 by Rudy Wiedoeft soon after
he arrived in New York City. According to the July 1917 issue of Edison
Amberola Monthly, the band "is now playing engagements at Montmartre, New
York's famous midnight cafe, the Winter Garden and the leading summer
resorts near New York." Presumably the word Frisco was chosen to reflect
that the musicians were from California. The band had no connection with
Edison xylophone artist and vaudevillian Lou Chiha Frisco.
At its first session--on May 10, 1917--the Frisco "Jass" Band cut "Canary Cottage" and "Johnson's "Jass" Blues." In 1916-1917 Wiedoeft had played in
the pit for Oliver Morosco's production of Canary Cottage as the touring
show headed for the East Coast (it finally opened in New York City in the
Morosco Theatre on February 5, 1917). "Canary Cottage"--a medley of the
show's popular songs, written by Earl Carroll--was an obvious choice for the
band's first session. Announcing its August release, Edison promotional
literature characterized it as "a rattling One-Step melody from the tunes of
the musical show 'Canary Cottage,' played in typical 'Jass Band' style." No
cornet was featured, which was unusual for a "jass" ensemble at this time.
"Johnson 'Jass' Blues" was issued first on Blue Amberol 3254 in September
1917, then a few months later on Diamond Disc 50470. It was named after the
song's composer, Arnold Johnson, who was also the band's pianist (beginning
in the early 1920s he made Brunswick records under his own name). By 1920
lyrics were added to Johnson's melody, and the song was transformed into the
popular "O," recorded by Billy Murray and others. The reverse side of
Diamond Disc 50470 features "Umbrellas To Mend," notable for a band member
shouting "umbrella!" at intervals and for remarkable percussion work.
Additional titles include "Pozzo" and "That's It." Promotional literature
for "Night-Time In Little Italy," recorded on June 4, 1917, and issued as
Blue Amberol 3286 in October, states, "'Jazz' Bands are all the rage now.
This one is typical. The piece it plays is a very successful popular song,
given here in Fox-Trot rhythm."
The November 1917 issue of Edison Amberola Monthly promoted the December
release of "Yah-De-Dah" on Blue Amberol 3337 by stating, "The utter abandon
displayed by a Jazz Band constitutes the greatest charm of this newest and
smartest addition to modern dance music." Other Edison promotional
literature added, "No players ever before played like this; hear them once
and the Frisco Jazz Band will have you fascinated for life. Incidentally
you'll fox-trot as never before to this music." (In late 1917 the company
dropped quote marks from the band's name and, like other record
manufacturers, switched from "Jass" to "Jazz.") "Yah-De-Dah" was recorded
on July 26, 1917, and issued on Blue Amberol months afterwards. It was
finally issued on Diamond Disc 51081 in December 1922. The reverse side
featured "All I Need Is Just A Girl Like You," which had been recorded by
the band on August 2, 1917.
If you would like to order a copy of "Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895 -1925" click here for details.
Thanks to Nancy Karan, Al Simmons and Dominic Combe for their help with the recordings on this page.
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Polish can sell surprisingly well especially if a suitable black pigment can be found locally for producing black shoe polish. In polish recipes beeswax is dissolved in turpentine. This is known as wood spirit in Cameroon and may have other local names in other places). Other solvents will not work so care must be taken to get the correct product. Here are some polish recipes.
1 measure beeswax ; 1 ½ measures of genuine turpentine.
(equivalent to 50g beeswax 125 ml solvent)
For a softer polish add more turpentine; for harder polish use less. Harder, more resistant polish can be made v=by adding 1 part carnauba wax for every three parts beeswax.
The basic polish is made as described above. For brown shoes use as it is or add a little burnt umber /brown powdered paint or, if available, dye from the henna plant. For black shoes add a small amount of lamp black (often known as Zeebrite or Zebo). Add the dyes quickly stir well and put into the sales container immediately before the mixture cools and it starts to solidify.
Suitable pigments for shoe polish are not easily available anywhere. It is likely that producers will have to seek local alternatives. The writer has tried charcoal dust and this works well in the short term but dries the polish badly in the long term. Pitch has also been reported as being tried but the writer has no experience of this. There is not likely to be any substitute for indigenous knowledge that is most likely to produce suitable dyes from local sources such as the henna plant.
Print topic information
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|Making cosmetics||Svensson, B.|
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Pay attention during every hand, not just the ones you play.
Paying attention to the other player’s action while you are not in a hand gives you more time to learn about their habits and playing style.
Game selection is very important.
If you are the 10th best poker player in the world you should not play with the top 9.
Poker is a game of patience.
Losing your patience causes you to make costly mistakes like playing to many hands.
Don’t quit just because you are winning or losing.
If the game is good you should continue to play as long as you can regardless of how you are doing.
Don’t play over your bankroll or out of your comfort zone.
Playing out of your comport zone can cause you to make decisions passed on how much money you have, not based on the situation itself.
Play more hands in late position or on the button.
Being in late position allows you to see what everyone else does before you have to act.
Don’t play too many hands especially in early position.
Playing too many hands is the most common poker mistake especially in early position.
Poker is one game forever.
The result of one session does not make you a good or bad player.
Know the rules of the house especially concerning jackpots.
It is very important to know what qualifies as a jackpot hand so you don’t throw one away.
Play to have fun.
Poker is a game of entertainment and you should always have fun.
Make sure the other players at the table are having fun.
If the other players are having a good time at the table they won’t mind as much when their chips end up in your stack.
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Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation. With 146 million registered voters in the United States during that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every 15 million prospective voters.
10 cases. 10 cases of in-person voter impersonation that might have been deterred by polling place Photo ID restrictions --- restrictions which, according to study after study, could keep as many as 22 million perfectly legal eligible voters from being able to cast their legal vote.
But, again, the Republicans who have been enacting these laws are doing it for exactly that reason: to keep those who are most likely to lack the type of state-issued Photo ID required to vote under these new restrictions --- the elderly, minorities, the poor and students (read: Democratic-leaning voters) --- from being able to cast their legal vote.
And this exhaustive new study, once again, makes that case crystal clear...
The 'voter fraud' fraud
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The paper deals with the radiation of aerodynamic sound due to two symmetrically placed point sources on either side of a double layer jet flow. These sources are regarded as the driving forces in the acoustic medium. In consequence, the illumination due to a point source on one side is supplemented by the transmission due to the point source on the other side, which results in an enhanced radiation on each side. The analysis provides an expression for the reflexion coefficient which is valid at an interface that separates a fluid at rest from a fluid in motion [which is in perfect agreement with the one obtained by Miles, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 29, 226–228 (1957), Ffowcs Williams, J. Fluid Mech. 66, 791–816 (1974), and Dash, J. Sound Vib. 49, 365–377; 379–392 (1976)] and predicts an aerodynamic zone of silence, also known as the valley of relative silence, which prevails parallel to the vortex interface off the source locations and appears in the form of sharp clefts around the jet axis. This deep valley in the directivity pattern deepens as the jet velocity or the ambient‐to‐jet density ratio ( ρ0/ρ1) increases. Marked by the conspicuous absence of highly directional beams, the formation of symmetric directivity patterns around the jet axis resembling a kidney‐shaped, lung‐shaped, or heart‐shaped structure has been vividly illustrated in Figs. 5–8. The emergence of these structures depends on the jet speed and the ambient‐to‐jet density ratio ( ρ0/ρ1). This investigation also suggests that the sharp, steep, dual dimples formed in the directivity pattern are characteristics to the transonic and supersonic flows at ρ0/ρ1=1 whereas the balloon‐type, puffed‐up, dual loops formed symmetrically at close angles to the jet axis in the forward flow direction are solely characteristics to the supersonic flows at all values of the ambient‐to‐jet density ratio, ρ0/ρ1≥1.
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Posts Tagged ‘Upstate New York Genealogy Blog’
Our friend Gary Jones, an employee of the Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse, NY has sent in some items of interest to our Upstate New York Genealogy blog.
“What a great conference and the Family History Library was unbelievable. It will be a while for me to process what I learned but will definitely email you some tidbits.
I did attend the Ancestry.com reception where the Senior VP of Product Development Eric Shoup and CEO Tim Sullivan announced a revamped search engine that will offer new and more precise search options for the advanced user while maintaining a simpler search option for the novice.
Ancestry.com will release a Mac version of Family Tree Maker before the end of the year. I saw a demo of the alpha version and really like it. I’ll be beta testing the MAC version of FTM for them. I switched to Mac 2 years ago and will never go back to a PC, so I am really excited about this.
And yes, they will have an iPad application to go with it! Later, Gary.”
Another item of interest in addition to our recent report about the 300 million new names to the LDS beta search engine they have added an unknown quantity of death notices and other historical records. The largest quantity of extracted vital records that have been available previously has been of birth/christening and marriage records, so it is great to see that LDS is now also adding large quantities of death records. I used it on a few names and came up with some awesome quality census images also.
You may search for this series at: http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/
Read our previous post on this subject here: http://bit.ly/bVOX6k
A huge treasure trove of historical and biographical information is now online for those of you that have family that lived in Wisconsin.
Why would we care on an Upstate New York Genealogy Blog? Simple, millions of people that lived in, and migrated out of New York state went on out to the upper mid-west. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Wisconsin and others as well.
You might have been searching for many years in New York for details, and you should, but actually your clues might be found in information that was published in later generations that had moved on out of NY.
So this information just came in on one of the rootsweb newsgroups (GENWISCONSIN) sent by Patricia Ricci about an hour ago and I jumped right in to see what it was about. Wow! The Wisconsin Historical Society has sponsored this project, major kudos to them, and it is a very easy website to navigate and the digitized scans are remarkably clear.
More than 80 standard county and local histories are all word searchable, or you may browse them page by page. You will find obscure directories, almanacs, local histories and county histories. Are these primary source documents? Absolutely not. Do they have immense value to genealogist, of course they do! Where else would you find such clues to spark a major in-depth search for primary records unless you know where people were at any given time?
I have always been interested in the earlier settlers of Racine and Kenosha Wisconsin as that area was first populated by old time families from around Hannibal, Oswego County, NY.
Here is a section of data that I have in my computer database regarding a family of HULET/HULETT relatives: “Many families from the town of Hannibal, New York and the immediate surrounding towns, were stockholders in “The Western Emigration Company” that originated in Hannibal and settled in Racine County, Wisconsin and the Kenosaha area. I presume that Gardner HULETT either was a stockholder or went to Kenosha to join neighbors, friends, and possibly other relatives. More can be found out about the Western Emigration Company on the Hannibal and Kenosha GenWeb sites on the Internet.”
So I went right to the search engine on the new WCH website, checked for Racine and found three publications:
Prairie Farmer’s Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders, Kenosha and Racine Counties, Wisconsin – 1919
Smith’s Business and Farmers’ Directory of Racine and Kenosha Counties for 1897-1898. Containing a List Smith’s Business and Farmers’ Directory of Racine and Kenosha Counties for 1897-1898.
Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha Counties Wisconsin. – 1906
In this last one I discovered the parents and siblings of one of the HULETT wives that is sure to lead me to more clues as they were from New York state originally also.
Thank you Pat, and a big thank you to the Wisconsin Historical Society!
Here is the link to the Wisconsin County Histories
Upstate New York Genealogy Blog
There is an enormous amount of discussion on the internet about using DNA testing to “prove” one’s genealogy. Well certainly genealogy and DNA go hand in hand however there are certain limits as to what may be proven.
DNA absolutely may be used to authenticate the parents of an individual. We all inherit absolutely unique codes of information from our parents. 50% of the code in our genomic makeup comes from our father and is known Y-DNA, and 50% comes from our mother which is called Mitochondrial DNA. As long as you are able to collect a sufficient number of cells from all three individuals, you will have absolute proof that the two parents are indeed the ones that created the child.
There are various ways to collect the sufficient number of cells, such as through blood test comparisons, hair follicle strands, saliva, cigarette butts, a soda pop can and all of the various methods you will see on your favorite mystery or crime television program. Most of those tests are indeed the figment of a TV writer’s imagination. They might be able to be done but they very difficult to test and could be very costly.
One thing that is absolutely provable is that a blood spatter at a crime scene compared to a blood sample from a suspect unconditionally can prove or disprove that the blood came from the same individual. The DNA sample can not lie. Only certain people can lie in court and get away with it. OJ did it.
For genealogy and DNA testing there is an easier way. There are now many companies that offer DNA kits to gather the samples with. This is a pain free, no blood method that is actually kind of fun to use. A typical DNA collection kit will contain some sterile envelopes and perhaps some solution to swish around in your mouth for a specified period of time and then spit out into a container.
Another method is to use a simple little scraper which kind of works like a tongue depressor only it is shaped somewhat like a stumpy tooth brush with no bristles. All you do is scrape it up and down inside the cheek of your mouth for a specified period and then this device is sealed and mailed in to the DNA testing center of your choice.
For my own Y-DNA testing I will be looking for my father’s and paternal grandfather’s bloodline male ancestors. Well all of these males are deceased, so what to do? Now we enter into sibling and male cousin relative comparisons to be able to show markers that will compare to the first common ancestor. This should be fairly easy to affirm, as my brother and I will compare to our dad, and then we have three male first cousins that though all three are deceased, they each had male issue and those first cousins once removed will no doubt all compare to my paternal grandfather.
Now after that it will become a little more problematic. My grandfather Jacob HILLENBRAND (1862-1941) was the only son of an only son. Let that sink in for a moment. Grandfather Jacob came to America in 1885 and settled in Upstate New York in Syracuse. I have been contacted many times through my years of genealogy publishing on the internet by other people with the HILLENBRAND (or variant spelling) surname to see if we could be related. My answer at first is a simple “No”. However I mean it in the aspect of related as in modern times. It just can not be so.
We would have to go back in time through three generations to find any of the males that had sons. Gramp’s father died fairly young (1825-1866) and his father also died fairly young (1798-1826). Neither of these two early ancestors had any other male issue, than my direct line.
The earliest ancestor of this surname that I have been able to locate is Caspar HILLENBRAND who was born circa 1760 somewhere in what is now Germany and is first located in church records in Markelsheim, Wurttemberg in the late 1700’s as the father of three sons of which the only one I know anything about is my own direct line ancestor.
So that does leave two possible males that ‘might’ have produced male issue but it would take me a lot of time and money to attempt to track this possibility down to modern times.
However there is a possibility that we ‘might’ be able to perform Genealogy DNA tests on other males anywhere with this surname and if we were able to show that we indeed did have a common ancestor then it might help us to shortcut the amount of genealogical research that we would have to do to show the connection.
I think it will be fun to do and will firm up the many thousands of hours that I have invested this past 40 or so years of intense genealogical research in, and I will write about this later as we gather more information.
If you have your own genealogy and DNA story to tell please leave a comment here on the Upstate New York Genealogy Blog.
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Mission and Philosophy
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | March 12, 2001
Smith v. Noel and Knoller, et. al.
(San Francisco, CA, March 12, 2001) — It is heartbreakingly clear that the relationship between Sharon and Diane was a marriage. It is clear that Sharon was a spouse and is now, due to the deplorable recklessness of the defendants, a widow. The issue of whether someone in Sharon's position can bring a wrongful death suit has never been addressed by a California court. We are confident that the answer in this case will be yes. The time has passed when lesbian and gay people will accept being treated as anything less than fully human. The time has passed when the law could deny the dignity of our relationships. The law must acknowledge the obvious. This case is about nothing more and nothing less than the recognition of our common humanity.
The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.
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Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters also condemned Mursi's decrees, as US support continues to flow
Egypt’s highest body of judges joined the popular protesters’ condemnation of President Mohammed Mursi’s latest power grab, which undercut the authority of the courts and gave him near-absolute control over the government.
Morsi decreed this week that courts cannot overrule his decisions until a new constitution and parliament is in place, achievements which now seem far into the future. His decree also said the courts could not interfere with these processes, which are dominated by Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood.
This prompted the Supreme Judicial Council not only to condemn Mursi’s measures, but to call for a national strike in protest.
Granted, the Supreme Judicial Council is filled with judges appointed by former ruler Hosni Mubarak. But the overreach was not overlooked by the public either, who came out in the tens of thousands to protest.
Mursi is in part coming off of a politically beneficial role in brokering the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, in which he worked with President Obama in a way that administration officials have said established trust.
The US bears some measure responsibility for these executive overreaches. Not only is the current system in place because of decades-long US support for the Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt, but even since his overthrow, Washington has been sending Egyptian security forces anti-riot gear, crowd control equipment and weaponry.
Despite the transfer of power in Egypt and the unsettling hand it dealt to Washington’s foreign policy elite, the US has continued to send about $1.5 billion to Egypt every year, mostly in security assistance, and offering even more in debt relief, apparently as a bribe to keep “American interests” a priority.
Last 5 posts by John Glaser
- Obama Admits US Killed 4 Americans in Drone War - May 22nd, 2013
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- Rand Paul: My Fellow Senators Voted to Arm Al-Qaeda - May 21st, 2013
- Kerry Warns Assad: More Help to Rebels If You Do Not Negotiate - May 14th, 2013
- Senators Discuss Revising 2001 AUMF - May 7th, 2013
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At least 5,000 pelicans and other ocean birds washed up on the country’s northern coast just weeks after more than 900 dolphins died in the same area.
In total, nearly 3,000 of the marine mammals have perished so far this year, which some scientists say was mainly due to seismic testing for oil offshore.
The government and one of the exploration companies operating offshore say the dolphins succumbed to a virus.
Initial tests suggest the dead birds were malnourished, leading officials to say the two die-offs are entirely unrelated.
They point to a mass pelican death along the same stretch of coast in 1997 that was due to a shortage of anchovies, which were driven off by the El Niño ocean-warming phenomenon.
The Health Ministry said sea surface temperatures have risen and the usual schools of anchovies “have moved elsewhere.”
But long-term residents say they have never seen anything like the current spate of wildlife fatalities. Some say they fear offshore oil exploration could be disturbing marine life, or pesticides and other chemicals used onshore could be making their way into the water and up the food chain.
Peru’s coast is nourished by the the cold Humboldt Current, making it one of the richest fisheries on Earth. The famed anchovies there are sometimes forced to swim deeper due to the El Niño warming, making them too deep for pelicans to reach.
Photo: Ministry of Health (Peru)
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The actions cite China's restriction on exports of 17 forms of rare earths, in addition to tungsten and molybdenum. They state that China administers these export restrictions through its ministries, as well as "other organizations under the State Council and various chambers of commerce and industry association." They also state that it appears that China administers the export restrictions and associated requirements and procedures "in a manner that is not uniform, impartial, reasonable, or transparent," and "through measures that are not published."
Karel De Gucht, the EU's trade commissioner, made an even more forceful statement than Obama. "China's restrictions on rare earths and other products violate international trade rules and must be removed," he said. "These measures hurt our producers and consumers in the EU and across the world, including manufacturers. Despite the clear ruling of the WTO in our first dispute on raw materials, China has made no attempt to remove the other export restrictions. This leaves us no choice but to challenge China's export regime again to ensure fair access for our businesses to these materials."
An earlier Design News article on US manufacturing implied by its title that Obama has been timid in taking action to improve US technical manufacturing jobs. I agreed with that view until I read about this WTO action. I don't entirely agree with the conclusion that we should compete with China, where so many jobs have already gone, and not litigate. The whole point of the rare earth issue is that China's stance is making it extremely difficult to compete by unfair restriction of trade. So competition alone is not enough.
Litigation presents an uneasy scenario. The purpose of global organizations such as the WTO are to hold court, in the more old-fashioned, non-judicial sense of talking things out among one's peers. The WTO's description of its settlement process includes the statement that most of its disputes have not gone further than the consultation stage, "either because a satisfactory settlement was found, or because the complainant decided for other reasons not to pursue the matter further." In other words, most of them rarely reach litigation. I hope this one doesn't. But if China refuses to cooperate on the rare earth issue, the US -- and Japan and the EU -- may have to do both: compete and litigate.
Rob, you're sure right about difficulty in occupying the country by US and Soviet forces. But the problem is, there's no overall economy for the dollars to go into: there are tribes and powerful individuals/families within those tribes. Some of them, most likely those already in power, very likely the ones we don't like, will manage to get the dollars, assuming there are any left after all the mercenaries and whatnot forces we send over there have taken their pickings first. There's no particular reason to think that similar sociopolitical-economic structures (to sub-Saharan Africa or portions of the Middle East like Iraq and our involvement with them) will produce different results.
Yes, you're right about Afghanistan, Ann, which is probably part of the reason the Soviets and the U.S. have had so much trouble occupying the country. I would think that the dollars would still go into the economy in one way or another, but maybe not.
Rob, thanks for the info. You're right, that looks promising. However, it's not going to do the country much good overall because Afghanistan isn't really a country, in the sense of a state. It's a collection of people with different ethnic and linguistic origins living mostly in nomadic tribes at conflict with each other, and without any overall unifying sense of statehood. If the main European invasion of North America had been by Vikings or Celts in the years 500-1000 AD, we might have had a sociologically and technologically similar situation here, among native and European-born tribes in conflict with each other.
Some American officials have estimated the Afghan rare earth deposits are worth up to one trillion dollars. So it is significant. That should have some impact on the country's economy even it it goes to just a few.
Dave, I agree with you about the unlikelihood that Afghanistani residents will benefit from this discovery. My references to chess and and poker concerned relations between the governments of the US and China, which are actual nations with a sense of statehood and longstanding central governments, regardless of what we may think of them. That description does not fit Afghanistan in the least: politically and sociologically it is much more like many sub-Saharan African "nations."
Rob, thanks for that info about the discovery of rare earth minerals in Afghanistan. Given the long history of outside intervention in that country, I find it difficult to believe that the people who live there will benefit from this discovery.
I understand your point, Dave. In some of these under developed countries, it is a small number who actually benefit. With the Congo, there is at least a movement among developed countries to avoid the use of "conflict materials." Though I have to say, I'm not sure how well the effort is succeeding.
That's pretty good, Ann. I like your differentiation. To further complicate the world of rare earth minerals, a huge supply has been discovered in southern Afghanistan. Geologists estimate Afghanistan has enough rare earths to supply the world's need for 10 years:
Rob, now I'm thinking that the relationships, which are complex, resemble chess sometimes and poker at others, and in both cases, military strategies or tactics. Over the long haul I suspect it's more like chess: you can see your opponent's "hand" (pieces on the board) and guess at their strategy while formulating your own (like war). At the tactical level, I think it's more like poker: you don't know what resources your opponent has for this next confrontation (battle) or what tactics they will use, so you rely more on bluff.
I think your observation is very interesting about government and industry re who's playing which game.
Inspired by the hooks a parasitic worm uses to penetrate its host's intestines, the Karp Lab has invented a flexible adhesive patch covered with microneedles that adheres well to wet, soft tissues, but doesn't cause damage when removed.
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science & Technology have designed a new nanoscale material that can transmit light faster than the 186,000 miles per second it usually takes to travel through air.
It has often been said that as California goes, so goes the nation. This spring, the state's wind power is setting energy generation records and solar energy generation is expected to rise sharply during the second half of 2013.
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
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I worked for a long time at a leading high-quality antibody company, so I'll try and share some of my experiences with you. The process of making a highly specific antibody (I'll focus on monoclonals) has three important parts - antigen design and immunization, cloning and subcloning, and screening/validation. Each part is crucial on its own, and the better one is performed, the higher your chances of success downstream become.
In order for an antibody to work, it needs to bind specifically to its target. I won't get into all the specifics here, as there is a good open literature on antigen design, but basically you need something that will promote a strong immune response in the host, give you a variety of clones to choose from, and be specific - it shouldn't bind other targets besides your protein of interest. There are lots of factors to consider, including antigenicity, solubility, ease of production (for immunizing and screening), steric considerations (does another protein or nucleic acid obscure the target site in vivo?), and others. Antigens can be roughly divided into two types - peptides (typically less than 20 or 30 amino acids) and proteins or protein fragments. You will most likely want to try several antigens to maximize your probability of success. After the antigen is synthesized and purified, you need to come up with an immunization schedule for priming and boosting the animal(s), then determine when and how to test them (screening), and at what time and how to harvest it for the monoclonal process.
The cloning process then comes next. Clones can be generated by a variety of methods, some widely available, such as the various hybridoma methods, and some proprietary to individual companies. My former company employed a mix of both, depending on the species of animal, using some really cool in-house tech that was constantly being improved and expanded upon. These processes are very dependent on the quality of materials being used and the expertise of the cloners. The input B cells (which make the antibodies) need to have been harvested, treated, and stored according to a set of precise steps to allow for the highest number of viable clones. Once the immortalized cells have been obtained (after fusion with the myeloma partner cells in the hybridoma process, for example) they are diluted to a pre-determined cell count and plated in 96-well plates and allowed to recover and grow for a time, during which they are secreting antibodies into the medium. This media is then tested quickly (before the cells overgrow the well), and positive wells are diluted out to (hopefully) single-cell suspensions and subcloned, or frozen down for later. The first testing is frequently by ELISA using the immunizing antigen, although depending on your application of interest it may be by high-throughput screening via flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, or immunofluorescence. After the initial testing, subsequent steps of subcloning and re-testing can occur at a more measured pace, as the cells can be frozen indefinitely after generating sufficient quantities of antibodies in the supernatant.
This is where the quality of your screening program comes in. Your assays need to be well-designed, robust, well-documented and performed, and have appropriate positive and negative controls so that you can truly tell whether a certain clone is of interest, or performs better than an existing product. This means controlled conditions, standardized reagents and protocols, and a high degree of repeatability from assay to assay. Also, the appropriateness of your controls cannot be emphasized enough. Do you have a knockout or non-expressing sample for comparison, or a way of looking at baseline vs. induced or inhibited activity? For ChIP, unless you have a good control antibody and primer pair for your gene of interest, how will you know if the assay works? You may get a great result doing a straight immunoprecipitation-Western blot, but still not pull down DNA-bound protein. If your ChIP method doesn't produce clean DNA, you may never get binding. And if you don't have appropriate data analysis protocols in place with multiple replicate wells, you may waste time chasing noise instead of specific signal. Additionally, along with testing all your clones, you also need to titrate them to determine the optimal working concentration. I've seen a lot of antibodies that look like crap when you first test the supe, but diluted 100 or 1000X they are clean, specific, and still strong. Be patient, testing is a lot of work and requires a ton of repetition to confirm your results, but it'll be well worth it in the end.
Finally, after all this is done, you hopefully have a great clone that does what you want it to do, and better than anything else out there. You now need to decide what you're going to do with it, because if you're an academic lab and publish with it, the world will come knocking at your door. Don't slack off at the end and decide 100 ml of supernatant will be enough to last forever - save the clones and put them in a cell bank, or try to get a commercialization deal with a manufacturing company so you don't have to do all the work!
I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.
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1957 -- Meadow Brook Is Created
In July 1957, the voters approved a bond issue of $875,000 to build a new elementary school in the Christian Hills area. Christian Hills was the first major new subdivision in the Rochester District. After considerable discussion about the new school's location, the board decided the school would be located north of Crooks Road. A nine-acre parcel of land was purchased from Mr. & Mrs. Fred Prucher for $1,600 per acre or $14,468.00.
Our school was originally referred to as the "Christian Hills School" in its planning stages. A letter was written on September 11, 1957 from Donald G. Baldwin, Superintendent of schools to Mr. & Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson to ask if they had any objections if he suggested to the Board of Education that the new building be named Meadow Brook Elementary School since it is on property which was formerly part of Meadowbrook Farms. Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Wilson wrote back stating that they had no objection and were thankful of his thoughtful consideration. The Board approved Mr. Baldwin's suggestion; thus Meadow Brook Elementary got its name.
Mr. Harry Denyes, a representative from O'Dell, Hewlett and Luckenbach, and architectural firm worked with Donald Baldwin, Superintendent and Richard F. Huizenga, Assistant Superintendent of Business to develop plans for construction of the school. This was the first elementary school located outside the vicinity of the City of Rochester and therefore plans had to be made to provide the water and septic facilities for the building. An unusual feature, not experienced in previous building projects, was our own water supply with a well and a submersible pump.
On October 15, 1957 the bids were opened for the construction of Meadow Brook Elementary School and also an addition to North Hill Elementary School. The J.A. Fredman Construction Co. of Pontiac, MI was the successful bidder in the amount of $398,880.
In December 1958 a six-room addition to the original plan was approved by the Board of Education with a contract price of $120, 835 with J.A. Fredman Construction of Pontiac, MI. The last addition was completed in 1961.
Meadow Brook was dedicated on Sunday, February 22, 1959 with many well-known names to the community attending. The faculty consisted of ten teachers, staffing grades K-6. Our first principal was Charles P. Schoch. He remained principal of our school for 20 years. Other staff members on the 1959 dedication included Ella Stanton -- Secretary, Mary Drake -- Gym, David Greenlee -- Music, Betty Popa -- Cook and Charlie Clanahan -- Custodian
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By Dr. Harold Pease
It was in the eighth grade when I moved from Santa to Christ as my main focus of Christmas. I well remember the star saturated night when the heavens overwhelmingly testified of God’s awesomeness. I could almost feel the words of my favorite Christmas carol “Silent Night” go down into my soul as never before as I both sang and pondered its words. Perhaps it was the scenic nativity-like setting where I found myself, hand milking my neighbors cow while he was away for a week, the three-sided shed that allowed my gaze into the dark but star-lite, cold, cloudless night which allowed my peak into the heavens and most of all, it was Christmas Eve. I was alone with Christ. It could not have been more impressive and it was the same every morning and night for the week after Christmas.
I never had that experience again in the same way but I always had an intense love for the carols that spoke of his birth: “Oh Holy Night,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “Joy to the World,” and “The First Noel.” They were just different somehow—far more powerful than regular jingles. My background was not particularly unique for the time period. Santa was there for the children but he never competed with Christ for the spotlight. The transition to Christ just followed with maturity. Years followed years, I had children and now they have children and, because of home and church the songs have passed on as they had for hundreds of years before. But, unfortunately, this does not happen for everyone.
Today the earth is still bathed with happy songs but radio stations seldom play the ageless Christ-birth songs: “Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains,” “With Wondering Awe,” “Away in the Manger,” and “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Outdoor nativity decorations are virtually non-existent unless you make your own. Even indoor nativity scenes are hard to find. Stores have almost nothing to purchase that speaks to this Holy Night. Have we removed Christ from Christmas?
There are no television shows or movies that address Nativity themes but Hollywood never really did much in this direction anyway, the “Waltons” or “Little House on the Prairie” were the exception, but then again that was in an earlier generation. There is no Nativity symbolism on television programs today. Everything is “feel good” or Santa related. Even the Grinch is given more attention than Christ.
All references to Christ have been removed from our schools and teachers dare not encourage the singing of traditional Christmas carols, although any tune without the mention of Jesus Christ is encouraged. A culture that did not know the words of “Silent Night,” “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” “Joy to the World,” or, “Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful” would have been unheard of in my day, but is the norm today. Only the churches and homes give any exposure to Christ in Christmas, as was so for me and generations before me. Sadly some churches may give more emphasis to Santa than Christ. Neither churches nor communities have Nativity plays as once they did.
The reason for the season is Jesus Christ, that is why it is called Christ-mas but few homes show any evidence that He is center placed. Most Americans consider themselves unchurched (a term for those without religious affiliation) so the incentive to read, tell or act out the “Old Story” is mostly gone. Seemingly each generation transfers to the next less of Christ in Christmas.
Today we do not wish to offend other religions so Christmas has turned into Winter Break and Easter into Spring Break. I refuse to use these terms. Some advocate changing Christmas to Winter Holiday. The undermining of Christ’s special day is endless and seemingly intentional.
Why not change to a traditional Christmas this Christmas season, like generations before you. In your home play mostly the traditional Christ centered songs. Instead of a Santa, or reindeer in your front yard make a nativity scene. Take yourself or family to a church service. Find a service that will speak of that special night and rehearse the events of that most special day. Go caroling to shut-ins or to a nursing home. Read to your friends and loved ones on Christmas Eve the story of the birth of Jesus Christ—the one believed by all Christians to be the Savior of the world. If you have children let them act it out. Give Christ a few hours of your month. You will never be sorry that you took this challenge.
You may never have a special moment in a shed milking a cow on a cold starry night as I did as a 14 year-old boy but this same special feeling will find a way of filling your soul just as intensely in its own way. Then you will not be an accomplice in removing Christ from Christmas and will join those who wonder why anyone would want to.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
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“Your planet is very beautiful,” he said. “Does it have any oceans?
“I couldn’t say,” said the geographer.
“Oh!” The little prince was disappointed. “And mountains?”
“I couldn’t say,” said the geographer.
“And cities and rivers and deserts?”
“I couldn’t tell you that, either,” the geographer said.
“But you’re a geographer!”
“That’s right,” said the geographer, “but I’m not an explorer.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince (1943)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an explorer in the best sense of the word. As a pilot during the early days of flight, he was able to see the physical world in a way that was available to very few people. But the terrain that Saint-Exupéry explored most passionately — and most ?successfully — was the human heart, and as he wrote in his most famous book, “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”Saint-Exupéry’s life and career were so full and so interesting that I cannot hope to do justice to them here. The best I can do is give you a few highlights, to hopefully pique your interest in one of my favorite authors. I can also direct you to a wonderful biography, Saint-Exupéry, written by Stacy Schiff.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900, in Lyons, France. His adventures in aviation were set in motion at age 12, when he flew in an airplane for the first time. Nine years later, he became a pilot while serving in the military. After leaving the military in 1923, he tried his hand at several jobs but returned to flying in 1926 as a pilot for Aéropostale, which was pioneering airmail between France and Africa. Flying over mountains and deserts in the unsophisticated airplanes of the time was a dangerous undertaking, and Saint-Exupéry thrived at it. A year later, he became an airfield chief in Morocco. In that remote outpost, he wrote ?Southern Mail, his first book. After a stint in Argentina, during which he helped establish that country’s mail service, Saint-Exupéry returned to France in 1931 and published his very successful second book, Night Flight.
The next few years were a mix of daring (although not always successful) aviation exploits and writing. In 1935, he crashed his plane into the Libyan desert while trying to break the speed record between Paris and Saigon. He and his mechanic barely survived a three-day walk through the desert. Three years later, he was badly hurt while attempting to fly from New York City to Argentina. The silver lining to the accident was that during his recovery, Saint-Exupéry wrote Wind, Sand and Stars, which received a National Book Award and was later named a National Geographic Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time.
During the early days of World War II, Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions for France. When Germany occupied his beloved homeland, he went to New York and lobbied the United States for help. While in New York, he continued to write, producing three books, including the classic The Little Prince, often described as a children’s book for adults. In 1943, Saint-Exupéry was able to rejoin his air squadron in northern Africa. He insisted on flying, despite his growing literary fame and the objections of authorities concerned about the lingering effects of his many injuries. On July 31, 1944, the aviator/author took off from Corsica on a mission over occupied France, and he never returned.
The life and career of Saint-Exupéry fascinate, in part, because to many, the realms of aviation and literature seem so different. But I think both vocations are about exploration and revealing truths that might otherwise have remained ?hidden — in the world, in ourselves and in our fellow man. You don’t need to fly an open-cockpit airplane through a sandstorm, as Saint-Exupéry did, to be an adventurer. And you don’t need to be the first person to set foot some place to be an explorer. All you need is an open mind and an open heart. I believe — and I think Saint-Exupéry would agree — that anyone can be an explorer. And, of course, that includes geographers, along with you and me!
Thank you for making us part of your adventure today. Have a great trip.
Gerard J. Arpey
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The Institution of Electrical Engineers
(lEE) has published an 'On-site guide' with the 16th edition
of its Regulations, which is intended to enable the electrician
to carry out 'certain specified installation work' without
further reference to the Regulations. Publicity for this guide
before its issue stated 'the electrician is generally not
required to perform any calculations'. When printed, this
was changed to 'to reduce the need for detailed calculations'.
In the opinion of
the Author, this attitude is incorrect. It assumes that behind
every electrician there is a designer who will provide him
with precise details of exactly what he is to do. This is,
of course, what happens in some cases, but totally ignores
all those electricians (probably a majority) who are left
to work entirely on their own, who have to do their own calculations
and make their own decisions. These same electricians are
subject to the law, so that a failure to implement the IEE
Regulations which leads to an accident, may result (and has
resulted) in a prison sentence.
It would be foolish
to suppose that this Electrician's Guide could totally replace
the complete Regulations, which are made up of over two hundred
and fifty A4 pages, together with a total of eight associated
'guides'. Certainly, every electrician who does not have the
advantage of expert design advice should equip himself with
the complete Regulations and with the associated guides. However,
it is the belief of the Author that this Electrician's Guide
will help the average electrician to understand, and to implement,
these very complicated Regulations in the safest and most
cost-effective way possible.
For many years the supply voltage
for single-phase supplies in the UK has been 240V +/- 6%,
giving a possible spread of voltage from 226V to 254 V. For
three-phase supplies the voltage was 415 V +/- 6%, the spread
being from 390 V to 440V. Most continental voltage levels
have been 220/380V.
In 1988 an agreement
was reached that voltage levels across Europe should be unified
at 230V single phase and 400V three-phase with effect from
January 1st, 1995. In both cases the tolerance levels have
become -6% to +10%, giving a single-phase voltage spread of
216 V to 253 V, with three-phase values between 376V and 440
V. It is proposed that on January 1st, 2003 the tolerance
levels will be widened to +/- 10%.
Since the present
supply voltages in the UK lie within the acceptable spread
of values, Supply Companies are not intending to reduce their
voltages in the near future. This is hardly surprising, because
such action would immediately reduce the energy used by consumers
(and the income of the Companies) by more than 8%.
In view of the fact
that there will be no change to the actual voltage applied
to installations, it has been decided not to make changes
to the calculations in this book. All are based on the 240/415V
supply voltages which have applied for many years and will
continue so to do.
In due course, it
is to be expected that manufacturers will supply appliances
rated at 230 V for use in the UK. When they do so, there will
be problems. A 230 V linear appliance used on a 240 V supply
will take 4.3% more current and will consume almost 9% more
energy. A 230 V rated 3 kW immersion heater, for example,
will actually provide almost 3.27kw when fed at 240 V. This
means that the water will heat a little more quickly and that
there is unlikely to be a serious problem other than that
the life of the heater may be reduced, the level of reduction
being difficult to quantify.
Life reduction is
easier to specify in the case of filament lamps. A 230 V rated
lamp used at 240 V will achieve only 55% of its rated life
(it will fail after about 550 hours instead of the average
of 1,000 hours) but will be brighter and will run much hotter,
possibly leading to overheating problems in some luminaires.
The starting current for large concentrations of discharge
lamps will increase dramatically, especially when they are
very cold. High pressure sodium and metal halide lamps will
show a significant change in colour output when run at higher
voltage than their rating, and rechargeable batteries in 230
V rated emergency lighting luminaires will overheat and suffer
drastic life reductions when fed at 240V
There could be electrical
installation problems here for the future!
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Her daughter's keeper
<b>Her daughter's keeper</b>Some psychologists say parents who feel terrible about every bad thing that happens to their child are suffering from something called omnipotent guilt. That concept is explored with sympathy and humor in <b>A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity</b> by Kathleen Gilles Seidel, a wife and mother with a doctorate in English literature from John Hopkins. In this modern-day tale with echoes of Jane Austen's work, Seidel pinpoints how certain social issues affect the lives of affluent people. The novel centers on four mothers who are unapologetic about not only feeling their daughters' pain, but also fighting their daughters' battles. In a world where old money collides with new money, parents compete fiercely to ensure their daughters attend the right school, appear at the right social events and make the right friends. However, these four friends quickly learn that when one gets involved in playground politics, kid stuff isn't always fun.
When Lydia Meadows trades in her career as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., to become a full-time housewife and mother, she thinks her life will be less complicated. Wrong. Her first clue that life is about to change is the moment she sees her 11-year-old daughter, Erin, and her three best friends dressed alike on the first day of sixth grade at their private school. Lydia realizes together the girls have achieved something she could never reach as a preteen girl: popularity. This should have been good news, but instead, her daughter's popularity, and what happens when it is threatened, causes Lydia to obsess over Erin's social activities and nearly ruins Lydia's relationships with her three best friends. Eventually, Lydia learns that sometimes it's necessary to allow children to fight and win their own battles. <b>A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity</b> is written with the tenderness, affection and insight that only a mother can muster. <i>Tanya S. Hodges writes from Nashville.</i>
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An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2013
Where did the German Wisong family come from? What is the German Wisong family crest and coat of arms? When did the Wisong family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Wisong family history?
Spelling variations of this family name include: Wysong, Wisong, Weisong, Wiesong, Weysong and others.
First found in Germany, where the name Wisong made a great early contribution to the feudal society of Europe. The name became prominent in local affairs, where it continued to play important roles in the savage tribal and national conflicts as each group sought to enhance its power and status in an ever changing territorial profile. The earliest known record of the surname Wisong is of Hans Weysung, who was a pot maker in Ulm in 1505.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Wisong research. Another 127 words(9 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Wisong History in all our PDF Extended History products.
More information is included under the topic Early Wisong Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Wisong Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
The Wisong Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Wisong Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 23 September 2010 at 15:38.
houseofnames.com is an internet property owned by Swyrich Corporation.
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[Source: Science Daily]
Temper tantrums in young children can be an early signal of mental health problems, but how does a parent or pediatrician know when disruptive behavior is typical or a sign of a serious problem?
New Northwestern Medicine research will give parents and professionals a new tool to know when to worry about young children’s misbehavior. Researchers have developed an easy-to-administer questionnaire specifically designed to distinguish the typical misbehavior of early childhood from more concerning misbehavior. This will enable early identification and treatment of emerging mental health problems, key to preventing young children struggling with their behavior from spiraling downward into chronic mental health problems. The new tool also will prevent rampant mislabeling and overtreatment of typical misbehavior.
Surprise Finding: Temper Tantrums Not Frequent
In a surprising key finding, the study also debunks the common belief temper tantrums are rampant among young children. Although temper tantrums among preschoolers are common, they are not particularly frequent, the research shows. Less than 10 percent of young children have a daily tantrum. That pattern is similar for girls and boys, poor and non-poor children and Hispanic, white and African-American children.
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This is rather interesting from today's Yorkshire Post.
Mr Blair also turned to recent grassroots pressure on the subject of an English Parliament by saying he would be "surprised" if people really did want to break up the Union of England and Scotland: "I think just to break the Union would be completely regressive step, totally wrong and totally contrary to where the modern world is living, which is countries moving closer together," he said. Mr Blair acknowledged that if people in England were asked if they wanted a Parliament like Scotland's they would overwhelmingly agree. But he added: "I think to then take it a step further and say, 'Actually we want to bust up the UK'... no, I don't think people want to bust up the UK."
So the PM agrees that the people of England want a Parliament. In 1997 he said it was what the people of Scotland wanted and so he granted them a referendum. Why won't he grant the same courtesy to the English?
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To study the effect of rose hip powder on type 2 diabetes and heart disease risk, researchers randomly gave 31 obese people with normal or impaired glucose tolerance a drink that contained 40 grams of rose hip powder, or a control drink, containing no rose hips. The beverages, which were consumed daily for six weeks, looked and tasted similar; the study participants and researchers did not know who was taking rose hips and who was not.
After six weeks, the subjects consumed no drinks for a two-week washout period, and then the groups were switched. As with the first study phase, the participants and researchers did not know who was taking rose hips. In comparison with the control drink, six weeks of daily consumption of the rose hip drink resulted in a significant reductions of:
There were no differences in body weight, diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number), glucose tolerance, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and markers of inflammation between the two groups in either study phase.
According to the study authors, these study findings indicate that rose hip powder “may represent an attractive alternative to statin treatment for people that, because of muscle pain and increases in liver and muscle enzymes, do not tolerate statins.”
This study found that a daily rose hip powder supplement may reduce heart disease risk in obese people by lowering systolic blood pressure and cholesterol levels. If you are interested in trying rose hips to lower your heart disease risk, keep the following in mind:
(Eur J Clin Nutr 2012;66:585–90)
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Tennant Company’s ec-H2O™ Technology Selected As Sustainable Industries 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products Award Winner
MINNEAPOLIS — Tennant Company, a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer world, today announces that its ec-H2O™ technology has been selected by award-winning business magazine Sustainable Industries as one of its 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products winners. Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products guide is an annual publication profiling industry-leading green building products selected by a panel of expert judges and the Sustainable Industries editorial team.
“In the four years Sustainable Industries has produced this popular, independent guide, green building has advanced to the mainstream,” says Brian Back, founding editor and publisher of Sustainable Industries. “The Top 10 Green Building Products guide provides a unique snapshot of the most innovative building materials on the market today, which are particularly important given the increased strains on environmental resources.”
Tennant Company’s ec-H2O technology was selected as a 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products winner based on its environmental performance, scalability/market impact, innovativeness, design aesthetic, value and compatibility with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
Developed by Tennant researchers and engineers and named by R&D Magazine as one of the most technologically significant developments in 2008, ec-H2O technology helps to meet the ever-growing need for sustainable cleaning. The ec-H2O technology delivers proven cleaning results without the negative environmental and health concerns associated with producing, packaging, transporting, using and disposing of traditional cleaning chemicals. The technology starts with water and ends with water, so it can be handled and disposed of easily and safely. It uses 70 percent less water than traditional cleaning methods, which increases scrub time up to three times per tank. It also leaves behind no slippery detergent residue on the floor, and releases no used detergent discharge into water systems. Eliminating the need for chemical additives enhances worker safety and reduces costs for purchasing and disposal of chemicals.
“Tennant Company is committed to providing our customers with products and technologies that are good for them, good for their employees, and good for the environment. We are honored that our ec-H2O technology, which exemplifies Tennant’s sustainable product innovation, has been recognized as a Top 10 Green Building Product by Sustainable Industries,” said Sven Toelen, ec-H2O product manager with Tennant Company.
Minneapolis-based Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC) is a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer world. Its products include equipment for maintaining surfaces in industrial, commercial and outdoor environments; and specialty surface coatings for protecting, repairing and upgrading concrete floors. Tennant''s global field service network is the most extensive in the industry. Tennant has manufacturing operations in Minneapolis, Minn.; Holland, Mich.; Uden, The Netherlands; Northampton and Falkirk, United Kingdom; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Shanghai, China, and sells products directly in 15 countries and through distributors in more than 80 countries. For more information, visit www.tennantco.com.
About Sustainable Industries
Sustainable Industries is an independent, award-winning business magazine, web site, event and media company serving top-of-the-pyramid sustainable business leaders on the West Coast and beyond. With offices in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, Sustainable Industries connects the dots between the environmental and social components of the region’s economy, just as it connects the dots between leading sectors, to raise the stakes in a working definition of sustainable industries. For more information, visit www.sustainableindustries.com.
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AS the investigation into President Clinton's relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky caroms toward a pivotal intersection tomorrow with the President's testimony to a grand jury, a semantic wrinkle has emerged. Just what are ''sexual relations?'' Whether the President and Ms. Lewinsky had them depends on the answer. Herewith, a clip-and-save road map for the murky verbal terrain ahead.
The Paula Jones lawsuit. For the purposes of her dismissed sexual harassment claim against the President, sexual relations were defined as ''contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.'' By a literal reading, that definition would not embrace the passive partner in oral sex, who could say truthfully that he had not had sexual relations.
The legal view. There is no generic legal definition of sexual relations, the description of which depends on the context of a given case -- civil or criminal, sexual harassment or rape -- and the specific statutes wherever the case resides, according to Elizabeth Schneider, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and expert on gender and law.
The dictionary. The third edition of Webster's New World Dictionary does not include an entry for ''sexual relations,'' but the definition of the noun ''sex'' includes ''anything connected with sexual gratification or reproduction or the urge for these.''
The Southern Baptist Convention. Bill Merrell, a spokesman for the organization's executive committee, said participation in any type of activity that involves the touching of one partner's genitals for pleasure would qualify as sexual relations -- and would be forbidden between the unmarried by Baptists. As for the suggestion that the passive partner's experience could be considered something other than sexual, Mr. Merrell said, ''It is astounding to me that anyone of a rational mind and with any experience as an adult could say that.''
The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Dr. Ted McIlvenna, the institute's president, said sexual relations encompass any part of the process through which an individual, having experienced the stirrings of desire, negotiates a satisfaction of that urge. The negotiation, he added, can be solitary. ''You can have sexual relations with yourself,'' Dr. McIlvenna said. FRANK BRUNI
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Who Do You Love B-
By Michael T. Dennis
The historical biopic, “Who Do You Love,” tells the story of Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records in the 1940s during the emergence of Chicago blues. The film is an entertaining slice of music history that disappoints in its secondary capacity as a tale of a man torn between work and family.
Blues music, which has been called the only truly American art form, cropped up in the early 20th century in the Mississippi Delta region as black sharecroppers developed new ways to play the guitar and sing about their abundant woes.
With Southern agriculture in decline, a second generation of blues men migrated to Chicago in the 1940s, seeking work in the booming mid-western industrial center. It was there that big city music promoters with keen ears and big ambitions took blues into the clubs and, more importantly, the recording studios.
Soon Chicago blues records were national bestsellers, expanding the form to include complex musical arrangements and big bands. By the 1950s, white performers started playing the music, bringing along country and western influences. This was the heaven-sent combination that resulted in rock & roll.
“Who Do You Love” is concerned with the singular pre-rock moment. Based on a true story, but with plenty of fiction thrown in, it follows the rise of Jewish immigrant Leonard Chess (Alessandro Nivola). After struggling to entertain his young wife with late-night trips to black dance clubs, Leonard appeals to his brother Phil to sell the junkyard they inherited from their father and establish their own club.
Phil sees the idea as more of a nod to Leonard's passions that his business sensibilities. How will they make money from a club in a black neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks, where white people fear to tread, Phil asks. Fuck 'em, is Lenoard's terse reply. “We don't need 'em.” (The producers of “Who Do You Love” should also get ready to do without a certain demographic, namely anyone who isn't already interested in blues music.)
Sensing his big brother's passion, Phil relents. Soon the Macomba is the hottest joint in town and Leonard is once again left looking for the next big thing. That turns out to be producing records for the performers who appear on-stage at his club. After a rocky start, Leonard stumbles onto the fledgling local blues scene with some help from his friend and mentor, songwriter Willie Dixon. They record the first album of a young guitarist named Muddy Waters, and the rest is history.
While the narrative of his career is engaging, “Who Do You Love” also throws in a plot about Leonard's difficulty balancing his ambition with his duties as a husband and father. It may be only an accident that this part of the film gets overshadowed by scenes in the recording studio or toe-tapping stage number, but if so it's a happy accident. Leonard's human side is far less interesting than his business, despite a very good performance by Alessandro Nivola.
Most of the situations are cliché, such as when Leonard decides at the last minute to accompany one of his bands on tour rather than joining the family for a fishing trip. Then there's the affair with fictional song writer Ivy Mills, whose drug habit unsurprisingly turns out to be bad for business, as well as for Leonard's marriage.
Leonard's personal life touches on a long list of popular themes without exploring any of them in depth. A suggestion near the end of the movie that everything Leonard has done was actually to please his wife is laughable, since nothing we've seen on-screen supports this idea in the slightest. There's also the tension between his safe, suburban existence and the exotic world of music, the clash between his strong personality and the artistic temperament of the musicians, and walking the line between good business decisions and racial prejudice.
Racism has its place in “Who Do You Love” but, like most good things in the movie, it comes through best in scenes about music. One especially nice tableau on the subject shows rowdy white teenagers kicking down the rope that divides a segregated dance floor; the metaphor about rock's crossover appeal is a bit obvious, but it's an economical way to cite the racism of the era and the winds of change that are beginning to blow.
Music would eventually play an important role in the Civil Rights movement, and throughout “Who Do You Love” the music takes center stage. A loud, guttural performance from Chess Records icon Bo Diddley opens and closes the film. Robert Randolph portrays Diddley and, along with David Oyelowo as Muddy Waters, sings all of his own songs, providing a raw, contemporary take on some American classics.
The preeminence of music is unsurprising, given director Jerrk Zaks's background as a Tony Award-winning broadway director. In “Who Do You Love” he handles spectacle well, but never manages to tell a heartfelt story. Instead the pieces of that story remain strewn throughout the film, giving it an unkempt appearance.
For anyone with a taste for the blues, the music will be more than enough to make watching “Who Do You Love” an enjoyable experience. Audiences looking for a meditation on the price of success, or unwilling to give in to the sheer joy of listening to the soundtrack, would be better off elsewhere.
Leonard Chess – Alessandro Nivola
Muddy Waters – David Oyelowo
Willie Dixon – Chi McBride
Phil Chess – John Abrahams
Ivy Mills – Megalyn Echikunwoke
Revetta – Marika Dominczyk
Bo Diddley – Robert Randolph
Alexander/ Mitchell Productions
Distributed by International Film Circuit
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte
Producers, Les Alexander, Gideon Amir, Andrea Baynes, Dennis A. Brown, Robert Conte, Jonathan Mitchell, Peter Martin Wortmann
Original Music, Jeff Beal
Cinematographer, David Franco
Editor, Scott Richter
Casting, Stacey Rosen
Production Designer, Carey Meyer
Art Director, Val Wilt
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By Jim Gerard
A new study suggests that you don’t have to hoist heavy weights to get bigger and stronger. Is this a revolutionary discovery that will force us to completely rethink strength training? Or are these claims based on seriously flawed research, as detractors suggest? Here’s how our experts weighed in on the topic…
From time immemorial—or at least since the 1950s—the mantra for people looking to boost muscular size and strength has been to lift heavy weights (usually defined as those that can be lifted only from three to 10 times with proper form).
However, a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology says that half-century of research is, well, heavy-handed (Mitchell et al., 2012).
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada recruited 18 healthy men to participate in the study, all of whom were in their early 20s and recreationally active, but who hadn’t lifted weights before. Over a period of 10 weeks, subjects were assigned a combination of three different programs that required them to complete as many repetitions as possible on the leg extension machine, depending upon their assigned programs—eight to 12 reps for the heaviest weights and 25 to 30 reps for the lightest. The three programs used in the combinations were:
- One set at 80 percent of the maximum load
- Three sets at 80 percent of the maximum load
- Three sets at 30 percent of the maximum load
The researchers concluded that doing more repetitions using lighter weights is just as effective at muscle-building as the heavy-weight protocol—as long as the subjects trained to momentary muscular failure (a.k.a. fatigue, or the inability to finish your last rep in a set with proper form).
Stuart Phillips, Ph.D., one of the researchers and a professor in McMaster’s department of kinesiology, explains that these findings are consistent with the size principle, in which the body, when needed to perform a task, recruits all its motor units (nerves that activate muscle fibers), from the smallest to the largest.
The smallest motor units activate slow-twitch fibers, and the largest units activate fast-twitch fibers—the ones that generate greater force. “People in the strength-conditioning world have said, correctly, that if you lift a heavier weight, you activate both the small and large motor units. But the size principle says that if the smaller motor units (slow-twitch fibers) get fatigued, the muscle dips into the fast-twitch fibers.”
In short, Phillips says, your muscles react the same way upon reaching fatigue, regardless of whether you’re at your fifth rep (presumably at a heavy weight) or your twenty-fifth.
“Since most resistance-training programs are designed to make you stronger,” argues Phillips, “all you need to do to make all your muscle fibers grow is to load and work to fatigue.” In short: The amount of weight you lift doesn’t matter.
Karen Croteau, Ph.D., an associate professor of exercise science at the University of Southern Maine, believes the science of the McMaster study valid, which isn’t surprising given that she describes herself as “a lifelong proponent of the idea that you [don’t] need to lift very heavy weights for many sets to get the same benefits as the heavy lifters.”
Croteau likes the idea that an individual can do “one set of all the major muscle groups in a half hour and get similar gains in muscle size and strength—assuming that these results carry over to other major muscle groups.” Croteau’s caveat stems from her concern that the McMaster study looked at only the quadriceps, and mainly at just one of its four muscles.
And therein lies the source of many arguments against the validity of the study, of which we found many. Not to mention the fact that, as many critics pointed out, the study contradicts a broad body of past research.
Other Experts Don’t Buy It
William Kraemer, Ph.D., is director of research at the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Connecticut and one of the country’s leading experts on strength training. He says that the major problem with the McMaster study is that “it goes against solid research acquired since the 1950s showing that to build optimal strength you have to lift heavy loads.” (Croteau also admitted as much.)
“Besides which,” Kraemer continues, “it violated a ton of physiological rules and contradicts what we know—that you can’t strengthen bone and connective tissue without training heavily.”
Finally, Kraemer echoes Croteau’s reservation—that the study’s volunteers were asked to do only knee extensions and not a total-body weight-training program.
Jeffrey Potteiger, Ph.D., dean of graduate students in the department of movement science at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich., agrees with Kraemer’s assessment of the study. “Scientific literature shows that gains in strength are a result of training volume—the number of sets times the number of reps times the resistance used,” explains Potteiger. “The McMaster paper even proves this. While all the subjects got stronger, the ones who did three sets got stronger than the ones who did one set.”
Potteiger also cites as flaws both the study’s short duration and the inexperience of its subjects in weight training. He says that there are two components to strength training: muscular and neurological (the coordination necessary to, say, perform a free-weight bench press). “If you put untrained people on a strength-training program and gave them time to practice, they’d eventually improve their balance in three planes of movement,” which would make it easier for them to lift heavier weights, explains Potteiger. Phillips’s subjects used a leg extension machine, which is easier to control. The logical conclusion is that the McMaster results might have been very different had they used veteran weight trainers as their subjects.
Phillips disagrees. “The strength gains occurred in the early part of the study, and if the study had been longer, we’d have continued to see increases. You’d have to do a 24- or 48-week study to disprove our study.”
Other critics cited as a weakness the small number of study volunteers, all from a very specific cohort—men in their early 20s, with, as Croteau put it, “high levels of testosterone” that might’ve caused them to build muscle faster than other groups.
Phillips’ response: “We’re all the same species; we all gain strength in fundamentally the same way. I’ve never seen evidence that there’s something fundamentally different about the way older people or women gain strength.”
In fact, Phillips says the researchers’ primary motivation for undertaking the study was to establish that the elderly or other people with joint problems could achieve results “that established people in the field say can’t happen.”
So What Should Fitness Pros Tell Their Clients?
One unequivocal result of the McMaster study is that it has reignited the debate between the heavy-weight/low-rep and the light-weight/high-rep strength-training camps, a dispute that continues to rage in gyms everywhere.
In light of the study, how should trainers adjust their training practices (if at all)? What should they tell their clients, some of whom might be inclined to subscribe to the McMaster results and alter their training accordingly?
Not necessarily, says Stan Reents, Pharm.D., president and CEO of AthleteInMe.com (R), a Phoenix-based company that provides exercise advice and guidance to consumers. “The lower-weight, higher-reps protocol might be a good strategy for the older population—over 60—or anybody of any age who hasn’t exercised in many years, is extremely deconditioned or has joint problems or other health issues such as high blood pressure.”
Potteiger thinks strength training—light, heavy and in-between—is a matter of individual preference. However, for the average person who just wants to maintain his or her strength level, he suggests doing “a total-body workout, two to three days a week consisting of two to three sets for each body part using a weight that can lifted comfortably.”
Kraemer, on the other hand, considers the McMaster regimen “really a recovery workout” to be followed on one’s light training days, if at all.
So what can fitness pros take away from this study? According to Reents, the main point is to recognize that “the traditional ways of training are still valid, but they’re more similar than previously thought.”
And that is exactly Phillips’ point. “You still have to get to the gym, but once you get to the gym, the sets, reps and other factors—the 15 or 20 variations that trainers think are important—aren’t that important. Whether you’re training light or heavy, your muscles don’t know difference.”
That assertion, presuming it contains an element of truth, begs the question: Can people combine light with heavy weight training? The answer seems to be: It depends—on whom you ask and the individuals’ goals.
Croteau doesn’t advise a constant switching of light/heavy protocols for the average person, but admits that it could work for, say, runners seeking to increase upper-body strength or “competitive athletes, whose whole-body regimen might change from in-season to off-season.”
Pottieger, however, sides with the bulk of research. “The literature is pretty clear—to get bigger and stronger, you don’t do a lot of high-rep training.” He also points out that the argument often excludes crucial factors such as genetics and age.
Clearly, while the issue remains settled for some experts, others still see questions in need of answers. Phillips told ACE Certified News that his team has been working on another study that he claims will solidify the credibility of their earlier work. His contention is fighting a half-century of contrary evidence.
Perhaps someday everyone will be lifting lighter loads. However, for now, the jury is still out.
Mitchell, C. J. et al. (2012). Resistance exercise load does not determine training-mediated hypertrophic gains in young men. Journal of Applied Physiology, 113, 1, 71–77.
Jim Gerard is an author, journalist, playwright and stand-up comic. He has written for the New Republic, Travel & Leisure, Maxim, Cosmopolitan, Washington Post, Salon, Details, New York Observer, and many other magazines. For more information, visit his site at www.gangof60.com.
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Today is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the British novelist Malcolm Lowry. Why not mark it by watching Donald Brittain’s 1976 documentary “Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry,” made available for free online by the National Film Board of Canada (noted yesterday by MetaFilter). The film chronicles the writer’s life, from his wealthy but difficult childhood in Britain, to his alcoholic adulthood in Vancouver, and his suicide in Sussex in 1957. Lowry published his first novel, “Ultramarine,” right out of Cambridge, then spent the next fourteen years trying to redeem himself with a better one. This ended up being his masterpiece “Under the Volcano” (which happens to be our book club’s August pick). But literary fame was short-lived, and by all accounts an uncomfortable fit—Lowry was awkward at celebrations and filled with anxiety about producing a follow-up.
“Volcano” is obsessed with Lowry’s demise—Brittain beefs up the horrors of Lowry’s reality with lingering shots of syphilitic corpses and Mexican butchers hacking fly-riddled meat apart on the sidewalk—so watching it might seem a strange way of celebrating his birth. But it also highlights Lowry’s admirable commitment to writing, and there are moments—notably an interview with his second wife—that are downright touching.
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The Family History Team. Photo: AIATSIS
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While the Family History Unit is no longer able to complete a family history search for you, there are still some ways that we can assist you to find out about your mob.
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Andrew Linklater is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, having previously taught at Keele University, and the University of Tasmania and Monash University in Australia. He has published on various aspects of international relations theory, his books including Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations, The Transformation of Political Community and a recent collection of papers on community, citizenship and harm in world politics, Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Humanity. Andrew is currently working on a projected three-volume study on the problem of harm in world politics, a project that analyses civilizing processes in different periods of international history. Here he discusses Norbert Elias's The Civilizing Process.
Andrew Linklater on The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias
In the late 1980s, Norbert Elias (1897-1990) wrote a largely overlooked paper on 'the retreat of sociologists into the present'. An important claim was that the shortening of horizons was a widespread affliction amongst social scientists, some focusing on developments over as little as a 10-year period. Enlightening though such work might be, there was a loss of the longer-term horizons that alone could make such periods intelligible. Intellectual fragmentation and 'over-specialization' often proceeded with little concern for synthetic projects, some of which risked incurring contempt. Politically, there were costs because the tendency for synthesis to lag behind analysis obstructed the task of increasing human control over largely unmastered social processes. It is important to add that Elias recognized that the large scale synthesis could not progress without the advances that have occurred as a result of ever more specialized work. The issue was one of balance, and of restoring the grand narratives that had been advanced by such thinkers as Comte and Marx.
In his later writings, Elias focused on very long-term processes of change that had led to the triumph of the human over non-human species, to the pacification of nature, to the development of ever longer chains of interconnectedness that signified the species's domination of the earth. Such themes were major extensions of the thesis of arguably his most important work, The Civilizing Process, first published by an obscure Swiss publisher in the inauspicious year 1939. Its main purpose was to understand how modern Europeans came over roughly five centuries of development to the view that they were civilized while others were barbaric or languishing in their savage past. The analysis is remarkable both in its breadth and depth, encompassing such apparently disparate phenomena as state-building and domestic pacification, the growth of commerce and urban centres, and the increased need for self-restraint in response to the everyday challenges of increasing human interconnectedness. Amongst the latter Elias included dimensions of human life that have only become central to social inquiry in very recent times - they include controls over the body and the management of human emotions. Of particular importance, they included changing notions of shame and disgust, as well as changing attitudes to violence, cruelty and suffering. Unlike much work on those areas, Elias always stressed that they needed to be understood in conjunction with large-scale structural changes, including state-formation, the emergence of court society, the rise of the bourgeoisie, the changing practices of warfare and so on.
The sub-title of The Civilizing Process underlines the point that the sociogenetic and psychogenetic dimensions of human existence interact to shape long-term developments – or conversely, that the latter are always reflected in changes in social and political organization and also in the basic emotional lives of those that are caught up in them. The process that has led to stable monopolies of power and psychological transformations was not, in Elias's view, complete or immune from reversal. His major work was published at a time when the civilizing process was most clearly endangered. Indeed, Elias would later argue that civilizing and decivilizing processes invariably develop in tandem, but that one may have the upper hand at any moment. Perhaps there is a parallel with Thucydides's remarkable study of the Peloponnesian War that showed how the long process of Hellenic civilization was suddenly thrown into reverse by the war between Athens and Sparta. And rather like Thucydides, Elias may have doubted that humans will ever control the appetite for violence and revenge, and the motivating power of fear and anger, when they face major threats to their security and survival. He not only makes it clear that the effort to pacify all social relations is one that is worth making; he suggests, more optimistically, that major advances may yet take place during the millions of years in which the species may continue to survive on this planet.
There are various points that can be drawn from Elias's work:
- the stress on the processual (that is, on the developments that societies, their main institutions, codes of behaviour and so forth, undergo over long-term horizons, whether decades or centuries);
- the emphasis on the need to understand the complex interactions between social-structural changes, the everyday world of norms and emotions (the habitus as Elias called it), and personality systems;
- the advice to beware of false dichotomies (individual and society, agent and structure, the ideational and the material, the domestic and the international) that are responsible for so much 'wasted effort' in the social sciences.
Those themes amount to an attempt to recover the more holistic conceptions of social science which had been defended by the founding figures in the 19th century - a recovery that does not remain tied to the innocence of so much thinking in that period, one that distances itself from commitments to progress, teleology and the rest, which rightly brought the grand meta-narratives into disrepute.
They are themes that also remain faithful to the ethical convictions running through those narratives, and specifically to the belief that one of the main purposes of the social sciences is to promote understanding of how humans might live together amicably. Although Elias eschewed partisan inquiry, his discussion remains faithful to the moral commitments contained in those narratives, and specifically to the belief that one of the main purposes of the social sciences is to understand how humans might live together in relations of mutual respect and support.
These points were advanced by him in the belief that human interconnectedness may still be in its infancy, that humans remain tied to national and state horizons which impede their capacity to understand the processes affecting them all, and that the growing challenge which faces them is how to promote a global civilizing process in the absence of a higher monopoly power and without advanced 'steering mechanisms'. They were connected with the belief that sociology in particular had to shift its field of vision from developments within supposedly independent societies to processes that are increasingly played out at the global level, influencing the fate of humanity as a whole. One will struggle to find a deeper and more inspiring vision of what the social sciences can be and might yet become - a vision that is applicable, in general outline, to many of its sub-divisions, and one that reveals how they might be drawn together in more complex wholes rather than left to develop in separate and unrelated rivulets.
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Mississippi River flood of 2011 already a $2 billion disaster
Posted by: JeffMasters, 12:33 PM GMT on May 12, 2011
The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in the great 1937 flood. The river is expected to keep rising at Natchez until May 21, when a crest of 64 feet--a full six feet above the previous all-time record--is expected. Record crests are also expected downstream from Natchez, at Red River Landing and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on May 22. Fortunately, the levee system on the Lower Mississippi constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers is built to withstand a greater than 1-in-500 year flood, and this flood is "only" a 1-in-100 to 1-in-300 year flood.
However, flooding on tributaries feeding into the Mississippi is severe in many locations along the Mississippi, since the tremendous volume of water confined behind the levees is backing up into the tributaries. Huge quantities of farmland are being submerged in the great flood, and damages already exceed $2 billion. Rainfall amounts of at most 1.25 inches are expected over the Lower Mississippi River watershed over the next five days, which should prevent flood heights from rising above the current forecast.
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How do you build robots?
Some people asked me on methods to design a robot beforehand (sort of drawing table) and then just building the real model in one run.
For truth to tell, I don't know about an efficient way to do this (let alone a way to do so that makes fun also - one could use LDraw, of course, but "Ldrawing" without a real model on your table is likely to turn out a complete drudgery):
as for me, I commonly start with a rough idea only and then build away, frequently changing the design while the robot comes gradually into being.
How about you?
What is your procedure in building NXT robots?
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Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loss a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also. If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live,(cheap wow gold), then you live in a narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow circumscribed life. But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China; if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.(world of warcraft gold)
To be or not to be－to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. Let us widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let us live!
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E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
(Greek, hepta; Latin, septem; German, sieben; Anglo-Saxon, seofan; etc.). A holy number. There are seven days in creation, seven spirits before the throne of God, seven days in the week, seven graces, seven divisions in the Lords Prayer, seven ages in the life of man, and the just fall seven times a day. There are seven phases of the moon, every seventh year was sabbatical, and seven times seven years was the jubilee. The three great Jewish feasts lasted seven days, and between the first and second of these feasts were seven weeks. Levitical purifications lasted seven days. We have seven churches of Asia, seven candlesticks, seven stars, seven trumpets, seven spirits before the throne of God, seven horns, the Lamb has seven eyes, ten times seven Israelites go to Egypt, the exile lasts the same number of years, and there were ten times seven elders. Pharaoh in his dream saw seven kine and seven ears of corn, etc.
It is frequently used indefinitely to signify a long time, or a great many; thus in the Interlude of the Four Elements, the dance of Apetyte is called the best that I have seen this seven yere. Shakespeare talks of a man being a vile thief this seven year.
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In a mailer accusing opponent Susan Jordan of having attended a “luxury junket,” the campaign team of Santa Barbara City Councilman Das Williams doctored a photograph of Jordan to place a glass of champagne in her hand.
“We took our poetic license with that,” said Josh Pulliam, strategist for the Williams campaign. “It’s a physical manifestation of what she probably looked like at the location.”
The two are engaged in a hard-fought, nearly $1 million campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 35th Assembly District seat, which is being vacated by termed-out Assemblyman Pedro Nava, who is Jordan’s husband.
The original photograph, taken from Jordan’s campaign website, is a flattering image of her, wearing a cream-colored suit and a silk scarf. The altered photograph attaches a woman’s hand holding a crystal flute filled with champagne.
The tactic, fueled by software advances that give users heightened ability to manipulate photographs, has been used with increasing frequency in recent campaign cycles. In a Sacramento-area Assembly campaign last week, a candidate denounced an independent group that had sent out a mailer with a doctored photo showing the head of his opponent on the body of a man holding a number of expensive electronic devices.
Pulliam said he has used Photoshop techniques to alter photographs in previous campaign mailers.
“I don’t know if it’s commonplace or not,” he said. “It’s certainly been seen in this election cycle and the last cycle. Technology has made it possible to present a photo so that it goes along with the story you’re trying to tell.”
Jordan denounced the action as “a deliberate attempt to mislead voters. You don’t take a photograph and alter it in that fashion without acknowledging in the mailer that you’ve done so.”
The campaign has heated up in recent weeks, largely over the candidates’ differences over a plan to allow new drilling in state waters off Santa Barbara County in exchange for the oil company PXP’s promise to abandon four existing platforms and tear down onshore processing facilities after 14 years.
Williams joins Santa Barbara environmental groups that negotiated the agreement in supporting it; Jordan contends the promises to end drilling are unenforceable and has strongly opposed it.
In the wake of the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the issue has taken on heightened visibility.
Jordan sent out mail, illustrated with a photo of the Gulf platform in flames, to attack Williams for his position. The new Williams mailer seeks to paint Jordan with a pro-oil development label. In fact, both have been longtime opponents of new drilling, and Williams says his support for the PXP project is based solely on his desire to ultimately end drilling off Santa Barbara.
The new mailer calls attention to a 2004 trip to Australia and Asia to visit liquefied natural gas facilities and meet with industry and government officials to discuss LNG. The trip was sponsored by a foundation funded by energy and oil companies, but also includes a representative of the Natural Resources Defense Council on its board. Jordan participated at the request of the NRDC, and said her role was that of “the only environmental watchdog” on the trip.
Other attendees included top advisers to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the time, Energy Commissioner Joe Desmond and EPA Secretary Terry Tamminen.
The mailer describes it as “a luxury junket with Schwarzenegger and the oil companies.”
“I went with an oppose position on LNG, came back with an oppose position and then led the fight against BHP,” Jordan said.
The Australian energy company BHP Billiton sought to build an LNG terminal off the Oxnard coast, a plan that was ultimately rejected by the State Lands Commission.
Pulliam said the altering of the photograph is not fundamentally different from what he accuses the Jordan campaign of having done by using in its mailers “out-of-context” portions of statements Williams has made about his position on the PXP oil project offshore of Santa Barbara County.
“I think that’s just unscrupulous,” Pulliam said of taking words out of context to misrepresent an opponent’s position on an issue.
He cites the following statement in a Jordan mailer quoting Williams on the PXP proposal: “I think it was a good deal and I think we should be willing to make good deals like that.”
In the full interview from which the quote is taken, Williams said: “I supported that deal, not because of the money it would make, but because it ultimately would get rid of oil — existing oil operations — and I think it was a good deal, and I think we should be willing to make good deals like that.”
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You gotta hand it to some of those first nursing school graduates at OSU-OKC. They didn’t let their starched white nursing caps get in the way of a good bee-hive.
Portraits of graduating students from the past decades hang proudly on the walls of a hallway in the nursing building. They show a chronology of the school’s growth, and hair style fads through the ages.
But more has changed in the nursing profession than follicle fashion. Training has changed as dramatically as technology, and advanced education is more important than ever.
A few things have remained constant. It’s still mostly women — white women — seeking nursing credentials, although more minorities and men are entering the profession.
What’s your story? When did you become a nurse and why? I want to know more about the many pathways to education, jobs and maybe now, even retirement.
And maybe you can also explain the engineering of the bee-hive. It’s making a comeback, ala Amy Winehouse. But that’s another story altogether.
E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Public Security Investigation Agency [Koancho]
A small intelligence agency, the Public Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Justice, handles national security matters both inside and outside the country. Mainly involved in counter-espionage, its activities are not generally known to the public. The Koancho was set up in 1952 as an agency to investigate and control internal subversion. It is staffed by some 1,800 investigators. Its activities focus mainly on the far left and right, as well as the Japan Communist Party, which was its main target during its early years. In addition, it is probably the single group in Japan that is most responsible for surveillance of resident Koreans At present, it is focusing its surveillance on Aum Shinrikyo, partly in a move to gain increased legitimacy.
With the Subversive Activities Prevention Law coming into force on 21 July 1952, Public Security Investigation Agency was established on the same date based on this law as an executive organization which is tasked to execute comprehensive duties that include conducting of investigations and requesting for action in reference to control of subversive organizations based on the provisions of the law. The Subversive Activities Prevention Law has objectives of taking such measures as control of activities or even dissolution of such organizations as deemed necessary, imposing appropriate penalty to individuals who committed violent subversive activities, and protecting democracy, basis of the Japanese people to enjoy peaceful and secured living.
The Public Security Investigation Agency comprises internal departments, an institute, regional bureaus and prefectural offices. Internal departments are the General Affairs Department, First Investigation Department and Second Investigation Department, institute being the Training and Research Institute and there are eight (8) regional Public Security Investigation Bureaus and forty-three (43) prefectural Public Security Investigation Offices throughout the country as field offices.
The Public Security Investigation Agency is set up with the purpose of contributing to insuring security of the public. Among its key tasks are to conduct investigations based on the Subversive Activities Prevention Law into organizational structure and activities of organizations that harbor intentions of destroying the democratic system guaranteed by the Japanese Constitution through violent means, and in the event it was determined that the results of investigations meet the requirement of the law, and that some control measures including dissolution are necessary, it is the task of the Public Security Investigation Agency to forward a request for control measures to the Public Security Examination Commission.
The control of organization is an administrative measures to be taken against an organization that ignored the fundamental law and order provided by the Constitution, carried out violent subversive activities, and there remains apprehensions that the organization may in the future carry out similar activities. The control of organization included restriction of specific activities and dissolution of organization.
In order to conduct investigations needed for control of a subversive organization, Public Security Investigation Agency has public security investigators stationed throughout the country. The public security investigators are conferred an investigative authority by the Subversive Activities Prevention Law. This investigative authority has no compulsory power such as to seize evidence or to search houses, but limited to optional basis.
By the early 1990s, with internal ultra leftists' activities gradually fading, PSIA lost its main role. That was the time when AUM Supreme Truth caused Tokyo Gas Attack. PSIA, having no file and data about AUM in adbance, rushed to investigate the cult and so, in 1995 winter, managed to be ready for applying "the Subversive Acitivies Prevention Law". PSIA has established a position as authority about AUM related problems. However, because of insufficient evidence, the Publice Security Examination Commission eventually rejected PSIA's appeal to disband AUM.
Under the administrative reform since 1996, the Japanese government decided that PSIA should be reduced in size and, in turn, a part of the staff should be allocated to other organizations -- that is, the Cabinet Intelligence Research Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Those PSIA staff are to be sent to foreign countries in order to strengthen overseas intelligence activities of Japan.Current there are 1,700-1,800 members of PSIA, which will eventually be decreased to at most 1,100. The other 600-700 staff will be assigned to these other agencies.
The Second Department of Investigation is in charge of foreign intelligence. The Division 2-2 has liaison contacts with over 30 intelligence agencies in the world, including CIA, FBI, MI6, MOSSAD and so on. The US Central Intelligence Agency has invited PSIA officials for training in Washington D.C., in the Intelligence Analysis Course. An "external organization" called Kyudankai had the function of analyzing information (and conducting espionage) on military movements in the Soviet Union. This group reportedly had knowledge of the impending 1980 invasion of Afghanistan, and communicated these suspicions to the Japanese government.
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Today, the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected an industry challenge to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that cuts toxic air pollution from medical waste incinerators. In addition to the potent neurotoxicant mercury, medical waste incinerators release dioxin, which in even small amounts causes cancer. The challenged standards are EPA’s replacement for 1997 standards that failed to provide the level of protection required by the Clean Air Act and were remanded to the EPA in 1999 following a legal challenge by Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council. The new standards, which were upheld by the court today, are more protective and provide significant health and environmental benefits.
The court’s decision follows more than a decade of advocacy by Earthjustice and the Sierra Club to keep these dangerous pollutants out of communities.
The EPA projects that these clean air standards will reduce regulated air pollutants by nearly 400,000 pounds per year.
“The less medical waste incinerator pollution in our air, the cleaner and safer our air is to breathe,” said Ed Hopkins, Director of the Environmental Quality Program of the Sierra Club. “This rule will benefit the communities who live near these dangerous facilities.”
“Irresponsible Congressional critics should heed court decisions like today’s, and let EPA do its job to uphold the law, cut dangerous toxic air pollution and protect Americans’ health,” said John Walke, Clean Air Director, Natural Resources Defense Council.
“It is no coincidence that when EPA follows the Clean Air Act, its rules hold up in court,” said James Pew, Earthjustice attorney. “This rule will save lives and make our communities safer.”
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We've always known you can press spacebar to play and pause a YouTube video, or jump to certain points with the number keys. You can also use J, K, and L, as Back, Pause, and Forward buttons.
Pressing K does the same thing as spacebar: it pauses or plays the video. However, the two keys on either side of it, J and L, act as Previous and Next buttons, respectively, just like a regular remote control. Pressing J will take you 12 seconds back in the video, and pressing L will take you 12 seconds forward. Note that Firefox users will have to turn off the "Search for Text When I Start Typing" feature under Options > Advanced > General in order for this to work. Just another handy little shortcut for kicking back with YouTube videos, no mouse necessary.
Photo by Luke Jones.
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2012 - 2013 -- 3-2 Engineering Program
Westminster offers a 3-2 Engineering Program in conjunction with the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California (USC), and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Students who successfully complete the requirements for this program will earn two degrees:
The 3–2 program is perfect for the student who wants to enhance and broaden their undergraduate education as a prelude to the focused work of engineering school. In all their pre-engineering classes, students receive the benefits of Westminster's small class sizes and tradition of teaching excellence. Westminster's math and science programs offer "learning communities" that couple courses like math and biology and utilize group-based, hands-on learning. Moreover, students often develop close nurturing relationships with faculty and their peers at Westminster that might not happen at a larger school.
Under the 3–2 program, a student attends Westminster College for approximately three years and then transfers to either the University of Southern California (USC) or Washington University for an additional two years of study in the selected engineering discipline. (1) As Westminster freshman, students must meet entrance requirements for USC or Washington University. (2) The 3–2 program advisor at Westminster College must recommend them. (To be considered for this recommendation a students must satisfy all the program requirements listed below, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.00, and maintain a 3.00 average in the major courses.) (3) Students must complete at least four semesters of full-time study at Westminster before transferring to the engineering school. (4) Students must have completed 12 upper division credits in their major prior to transfer. Students who complete the 3–2 program by transferring to either USC or Washington University automatically have the Westminster residency requirement waived. (Westminster requires that the last 36 hours of course work be completed at Westminster.)
After successful completion of both portions of the program the student is awarded degrees from both institutions.
In order for the student to complete the dual degree program in five years, it is important to follow closely the timetable set up by the advisor. The following is a sample timetable for a student majoring in Physics at Westminster and desiring a dual degree in Electrical Engineering. A particular student's course schedule will depend upon their prior coursework, their major at Westminster, the desired engineering discipline, and the specific requirements of the engineering school.*
*Some engineering disciplines require specific pre-engineering classes. These can be taken at the engineering school.
Merit-based and need-based financial aid is available from Westminster College and the engineering schools. However, these programs are not linked. Students receiving financial aid from Westminster must reapply for financial aid at the engineering school.
Students in this program are encouraged to meet with the program director at Westminster College during their freshman year to ensure satisfaction of all the requirements for their chosen field of engineering during their time at Westminster College and to learn about the coursework that will be required during their two years at the university.
Students must complete all their Liberal Education Requirements and the following set of engineering core courses:
Additional classes that may be required, depending on the field of engineering chosen, include:
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Posted 1 year ago on Feb. 27, 2012, 1:20 a.m. EST by Rennaye
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BREAKING NEWS: The BP Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: An Explosive Detonation?
by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda February 24, 2012
“Most of the oil that began to flow into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico did not come from Leaks 1 and 2, but from a third Well that BP hid from the public record.
The 3rd Well, research shows, could have been blown out by an explosive detonation.
FOREWORD Sometimes reality can stare you in the face, but you can’t see it. This is true today more than ever, even for those who fancy themselves as having an understanding of reality. The clearest example is with the so-called experts, that seem to live in a “version of reality” that does not represent the real world. Their expert views are blinded by hubris, bravado and arrogance. Just like many of us, they grew up inside this fake alternative version of reality, that is hard to leave. Failing to see reality has a lot to do with the human incapacity to see beyond the nose, to realize things may be different. Often, the experts believe in impossible scenarios, while they ignore facts and events that are right in front of them.
But blindness is not only a direct result of incapacity to see reality. It can also be attributed to a clear intention to avoid the facts and the reality those facts present. In the case of the April 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill, the refusal of the experts to carefully and calmly analyze the facts, together with the US Congress’ lack of expertise to objectively study those same facts, forced a group of concerned, very capable citizens, to dig deep into much of a mountain of documentation in order to find the answers that their elected officials and trusted experts did not produce. Their efforts not only confirmed the most feared suspicions – that the Gulf Oil Spill was not an accident –, but also revealed a concerted effort to hide the real causes of the disaster and what was done thereafter. Even though independent researchers warned about dire consequences to come if the Gulf Oil Spill environmental catastrophe taking place under the waters of the Gulf was not addressed, both the EPA and BP decided to continue with their original approach. While the EPA enforced obsolete standards for cleaning disasters such as the Gulf Oil Spill, forcing BP to keep using Corexit, the British company continued to cover the tracks of one of the largest conspiracies in the history of the oil industry…”
The real truth about this planned event is finally coming out...RIP all those that were assassinated to keep this hidden]
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Oregon's lawmakers are getting briefed Thursday on an extensive report on the potential damage from a monster earthquake and tsunami off the Pacific coast. The report predicts unprecedented devastation when the big one hits.
About 150 experts worked on the report, which was written at the request of the Legislature.
Their task was to study what would happen if the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest produced a magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami.
They found that a quake that large and its resulting tsunami could kill as many as 10,000 people — half of them on the coast and half of them inland.
According to the report, it could take the state months to recover.
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(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
We have a new contender in the education reform race: Michigan! Very interesting proposal.
Michigan has an iron-clad constitutional prohibition on public money going to private schools, so it is hilarious to see some of the usual suspects in the above article calling this a “voucher proposal.” Nevertheless, this raises some interesting questions. Is a student taking a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (public institution) class online through EdX (a private 501 c3) taking attending a “private school?”
What if they are taking a Harvard course through EdX? What about a University of Michigan course through Coursera?
Luckily it doesn’t much matter because they are free and don’t require much in the way of public funding. It would be highly desirable to allow students to use public money to pay for the $89 testing fee in order to receive college credit, especially for children of limited means, but not necessary. Presumably Michigan is going to develop their own system of end of course exams in order for purposes of transparency and accountability. College credit will be a bonus.
Note that while the usual conspiracy theorists have already donned their tin-foil hats about evil profit driven plots that for-profit providers while they will in fact be in direct competition with brand names like Stanford and Princeton who will be providing courses free of charge.
Let me also note that rather than providing $2500 per semester of early graduation, it would make more sense to put all education funding into an Education Savings Account and let the providers compete on both the basis of quality and cost. A greatly reformatted system of in-person schooling customizing their offerings to meet individual needs would result. All providers would need to compete on the basis of quality and cost, updating the 19th Century Prussian factory model of schooling in the process.
This however is simply an optimizing detail-congratulations to Governor Rick Synder and his team of visionaries for reimagining K-12 education for the 21st Century.
HT: Adam Emerson.
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State Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, has introduced a bill in the Oregon Legislature to ban suction dredge mining in 30 rivers identified as State Scenic Waterways.
Senate Bill 401 would protect segments of the Rogue, Illinois, South Umpqua, Grande Ronde, Sandy, Molalla, and other rivers across the state. The bill would prohibit suction dredge mining, a practice involving the use of gasoline-powered vacuums, mounted on floating rafts, to suck up riverbed sands and gravels in search of gold, in rivers designated as State Scenic Waterways.
"World-class rivers like the Illinois, Rogue, and South Umpqua have become ground zero for destructive suction dredge mining in our state, and this practice is impacting imperiled wild salmon runs," John Ward of Rogue Flyfishers said in a press release supporting the bill. "This designation will benefit salmon recovery as water quality and fish habitat get protected."
California placed a moratorium on suction dredge mining in 2010. That resulted in an increase in suction dredge miners In Oregon as California miners moved north.
Oregonians created the State Scenic Waterway system in a 1970 initiative vote. The program originally contained all or part of six rivers but has grown through additional initiatives to include 19 rivers as well as Waldo Lake. The system was last updated in 1988.
The Oregon Conservation Network, which consists of more than 40 organizations, has identified the bill as one of its four priorities for passage in the 2013 session.
Opponents of the measure say it will not only affect suction mining, but also property owners' rights along the banks of the protected areas.
— Staff reports
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