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Thanks for wanting to help animals abused in the circus!
In the wild elephants can roam for over 20 miles a day with their familes. In the circus they are kept isolated and in chains and in the backs of trucks for their entire lives. In order for them to perform those unnatural tricks for audiences, they are beaten with metal rods called bullhooks. Click here to learn more: http://www.peta2.com/issue/circuses-three-rings-of-abuse/ | <urn:uuid:0c0a19af-1829-4cc9-b582-92d0d3d15323> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peta2.com/boards/topic/animal-abuse-in-circuses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957518 | 102 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Astiti, Ririen Vibriandhiny (2001) A Study on the Indonesian translation of the Kahlil Gibran's "Sang Nabi" from the original English version on the basis of the Newmark's expressive function. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository.
Translation is an everlasting subject to be analyzed. Whatever the kind of text a translator deals with, it will bring out something new, something different for the world of translation. Having a poetry translation to be analyzed is also an interesting thing to do, especially if the original version was written by a writer of all ages like Kahlil Gibran. It is one of the reasons why the writer is interested in analyzing "Sang Nabi", the Indonesian version of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet". The other reason is that she is very keen to know whether a literature translation text also pay attention on retaining the form along with the message. And it becomes a foundation that brings the writer to use a theory of translating expressive text namely an expressive function theory. Through this research, she wants to know whether "Sang Nabi" is translated properly based on the expressive function theory and what is maintained in Indonesian version based on that theory. The writer wishes that from the study, the readers, or anybody who is interested in the translation, realize that translating an expressive text is not the same as translating general type of text. It has its own strategy and mechanism. This study is a qualitative one and she collects the data from the original book, "The Prophet" and the Indonesian translation, "Sang Nabi". The writer chooses eight poems with the same titles from each book to be analyzed. She analyses the data by examining thoroughly whether the components of expressive function which consist of Unconventional Syntax, Original Metaphor, Infrequent Collocation, Archaism, Unit of Translation and the meaning of the poems are retained. Finally, she finds out that "Sang Nabi" is not translated properly on the point of view of expressive function. The forms that are maintained mostly are Unconventional syntax and Original Metaphor, only two out of six components. Meanwhile, the rest are not well-transferred and the poems also endure much loss of meaning because of many wrong translations. The writer infers that to retain the form along with the message in an expressive text is not an easy job to do and entail a great effort. Yet, she still thinks that it is not an impossible thing to do because by retaining the form as well as the message, we will not enjoy the poem but also to know further about the personal expression of the author.
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MITCHELL (AP) — South Dakota 4-H is implementing an animal DNA testing requirement for South Dakota State Fair livestock competitions in the wake of an alleged cheating scandal last year.
DNA samples will be taken from 4-H members’ animals during county livestock weigh-ins in the coming months, ahead of the 2013 State Fair next summer, according to The (Mitchell) Daily Republic newspaper. All grand and reserve champions at the fair, along with division champions and reserves, will be tested to ensure their DNA matches the samples taken at county events.
The rule aims to prevent cheating and protect the integrity of 4-H competitions, said Rod Geppert, South Dakota 4-H Livestock Show Management Coordinator. 4-H organizations in several other states already require DNA testing, along with some national competitions affiliated with 4-H and also FFA, he said.
South Dakota 4-H has considered implementing DNA testing for years and a court battle stemming from a scandal last year “put us over the edge to do it,” Geppert said.
Bayley Kroupa, 16, of White Lake, was banned from 4-H competition in October 2011 for allegedly showing a pig at the 2011 South Dakota State Fair that she did not take care of during the project season and that had been previously entered in a competition at the Missouri State Fair — a violation of the 4-H code of ethics.
The Kroupa family denies the accusation. Bayley’s father, Greg Kroupa, sued the state 4-H office and several 4-H officials, including Geppert, alleging Bayley was denied due process and seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Judge Karen Schreier in July issued a preliminary injunction barring 4-H officials from interfering with Bayley’s participation in its competitions. 4-H appealed to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in August, arguing that allowing Bayley to compete would tarnish 4-H’s reputation and integrity. Schreier denied a 4-H request to suspend her injunction until the appeal is decided. Both parties submitted briefs to the appellate court last month.
“If we had this (DNA testing) in place, we could have had some checks and put the story to rest right from the get-go,” Geppert said of the lawsuit.
A lot of money can ride on 4-H competitions. Bayley Kroupa showed a steer that was named grand champion of the North American International Livestock Expo in November. The steer sold for $21,000.
For the complete article see the 12-06-2012 issue.
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Finding free internet access in the US just means hunting down the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. But in Brazil those are few and far between. So Coca-Cola's ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather, created these Coke-branded machines that dispense free mobile data instead of sugar water.
Installed at a Coke store located on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, users still have to physically use the machine by pressing their phones against a fake tap which allows them to download a special Coke-themed browser. And every time they 'refill' their phones they're given 20 megabytes worth of credits which can be used in the browser to stream music, download weather forecasts, or browse social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
For the time being the dispenser is being beta-tested by around 50 users with Android handsets. But once all the kinks are worked out, Coca-Cola hopes to install more of the machines and expand their availability to other smartphones as well. So in the meantime you'll probably want to just avoid sticking your smartphone under random soda fountains hoping for a free mobile data payout. [Ogilvy via AdAge via PSFK] | <urn:uuid:4f998fb5-3ad4-40d7-9df8-a8bcc1008cf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gizmodo.com/5897747/in-brazil-soda-fountains-dispense-free-mobile-internet-access | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939444 | 243 | 1.726563 | 2 |
1542: Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explores and names the area Sierras Nevadas.
1609: The town of Santa Fe was established as a Spanish-Indian trade center.
1826: Jedadiah Smith is reported to be the first “White” man to enter Nevada.
1829: Modern-day Las Vegas (Spanish for “The Meadows”) is named by explorers on the Old Spanish Trail. The travelers found an abundance of water in the region that enabled a trail to Los Angeles.
1833: John C. Fremont and his party discover Lake Tahoe.
1846: The Infamous Donner Party became trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevadas and resorted to cannibalism to survive.
1848: United States acquires Nevada as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, as a result of the Mexico War.
1849: First recorded discovery of gold in Nevada was in Gold Canyon near present day Dayton.
1851: Carson City is founded as a trading post.
1859 – 1878: Comstock Silver Load discovered in Virginia City. Thousands of prospectors descend upon the “boomtown.” Over $400 million of silver and gold is extracted from the region marking the nation’s first major silver deposit discovery. Wealth from the Comstock Load greatly contributed to the growth and development of San Francisco, California and Nevada.
1861: Nevada separates from the land referred to as “Utah Territory” and adopts the name Nevada.
1864: Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1935: Construction on the Hoover Dam begins attracting thousands of workers from across the country and likely fueling the propagation of legal gambling.
1951: The Nevada Test Site is built for the purposes of testing Nuclear Weapons. | <urn:uuid:7b1fc4b9-ca49-4b39-8b1a-fdc3206ba664> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mrnussbaum.com/united-states/nevada/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935171 | 379 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Caring for your Child
As a parent, you want to do everything possible to help your child manage and cope with inflammatory bowel disease. However, the unpredictability of the disease can make it difficult for everyone. The most important thing you can do is to seek treatment and make sure you follow your doctor's treatment plan. Proper nutrition and diet are also critical to ensure your child grows and develops properly. Having your child eat small meals throughout the day can help reduce symptoms. Foods high in fat and sodium can increase the symptoms of the disease.
You'll also want to work with your child's teachers to ensure they understand the disease and your child's special needs. In some cases, psychological counseling may help your child learn to adjust and accept the disease. With proper care and treatment, your child can live a normal and productive life. | <urn:uuid:65ff15e2-3e42-435b-9da8-aee00ed90145> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.childrensomaha.org/CaringforyourChild | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956895 | 168 | 2.625 | 3 |
Monday, April 8, 1861
At two o’clock in the afternoon, a secretary for the Confederate Commissioners in Washington called upon Secretary of State Seward at his office. Having been informed that they would be dropping by, Seward was absent, leaving a letter dated March 15 in his place.
Seward wrote that he and the Commissioners had a different understanding of the state of things. While the Commissioners (and thus the Confederates) saw “a rightful and accomplished revolution and an independent nation, with an established government,” Seward saw “a perversion of a temporary and partisan excitement to the inconsiderate purposes of an unjustifiable and unconstitutional aggression upon the rights and the authority vested in the federal government.”
Continuing, he “looks patiently but confidently for the cure of evils which have resulted from proceedings so unnecessary, so unwise, so unusual, and so unnatural.”
“Under these circumstances,” Seward writes, stating that he is subject to the direction of Lincoln, he “is unable to comply with the request” of a meeting. Not only that, but he “has no authority nor is he [Seward was writing in the third-person] at liberty to recognize them as diplomatic agents, or hold correspondence or other communication with them.”
And claiming that he had Lincoln’s consent in writing and delivering this letter, he closed.1
With this information, the Commissioners wired Governor Pickens that Sumter was to be evacuated. They also wired the Confederate Secretary of State that Fort Pickens and Texas were to be the “first points of military demonstration.”2
They then packed up to return South.
Major Anderson at Fort Sumter had just received Secretary of War Simon Cameron’s letter dated April 4th informing him that Sumter was to be resupplied, backed up by naval warships. Anderson was unnerved by this and wrote to Washington to express it.
Word had gotten to Anderson that Seward had assured everyone that no such attempt would be made. He warned that “a movement made now, when the South has been erroneously informed that none such will be attempted, would produce most disastrous results throughout our country.”
Major Anderson could hardly believe that this was happening. Fox’s plan to resupply Sumter seemed insane. Lamon assured him that it would never happen. Still, here was Cameron’s letter proving everything wrong.
Anderson closed with a hope that “God will still avert it, and cause us to resort to pacific measures to maintain our rights, is my ardent prayer.”3
Washington would never receive this letter.
Robert Chew arrived in Charleston to seek an audience with Governor Pickens. He bore a letter from President Lincoln informing the Governor of the fate of Fort Sumter.
The Governor invited him in and Chew read aloud the President’s message: “I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort-Sumpter [sic] with provisions only; and that, if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or amunition, will be made, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the Fort.”4
He then handed the letter to Pickens. It was a startling, chilling letter. No formalities, no closing of “your obedient servant,” not even a signature adorned the paper. This was the word that they had been waiting for, the word they had simultaneously wanted and dreaded.
Pickens shared the letter with General Beauregard who wanted to write a reply. Chew waved it off. He was not authorized to accept a reply.
Robert Chew left on the 11pm train out of town.5
Beauregard immediately sent a message to Anderson in Fort Sumter letting him know that from here on out, no mail will be allowed to pass to or from the fort.6
In the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Harriet Lane set sail. She was heading, under sealed orders, for Fort Sumter.7
- Seward’s letter to the Confederate Commissioners, dated March 15, 1861, but delivered April 8, 1861. As found in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events edited by Frank Moore. [↩]
- Official Records of the Navy, Series I, Vol. 4, p259. [↩]
- The Genesis of the Civil War by Crawford. [↩]
- Lincoln to Robert Chew, April 6, 1861. [↩]
- Allegiance by David Detzer. [↩]
- Official Records, Series I, Vol. 1, p250. [↩]
- Days of Defiance by Maury Klein. [↩] | <urn:uuid:25638cdd-9dc4-4333-b40c-3476ee7f3fd8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://civilwardailygazette.com/2011/04/08/charleston-learns-of-fort-sumter-mission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973636 | 1,015 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In 2011, as part of its BUILDING VITAL COMMUNITIES grant program, the Guelph Community Foundation awarded $4,450 to Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington for its Youthopia , Youth for Inclusion, program.
Youthopia set out to engage newcomer youth through the arts with spoken word, drama and media, while building leadership skills and broader engagement in the community.
“Moving to a new school is difficult enough for youth, now imagine being new to the country, city, neighbourhood, and having to function in a second language,” said Roya Rabbani, Executive Director of Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington.
Over a period of six months, participants met with trained youth facilitators to work on a variety of activities. This process led to a core group choosing to work on a live production to honour the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination . Another group continued to meet weekly to work on smaller arts projects. Youth also participated in community and civic engagement activities in the Guelph community.
What did it mean to youth participating?
Youthtopia’s RiseUp! event poster said it best: “life is no longer about hiding in the shadows or trying to get by – it’s about laughing and crying, and all the things in between; it’s about the opposite of disappearing. Watch as we come out of our cocoons …”
Roya Rabbani, who recently spoke at the Foundation’s Fall Community Celebration, told the audience that two-thirds of Canada’s growth is coming through immigration. Like trees, these newcomers are uprooted from their homelands and transplanted here, and that is a difficult process. “A caring community allows those trees to take root, to flourish and bear fruit,” she said.
Spoken word was one of many activities undertaken. To view a short clip from one of Youthopia’s Spoken Word sessions, click here.
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The right to bear arms does not entail a right to have every weapon all the time for any reason.
The Capital Times
Friday morning’s mass shooting at a cinema complex in Aurora, Colorado, which left at least a dozen moviegoers dead and dozens injured, provides another agonizing reminder that President Obama and Democrats and Republicans in Congress have failed to respond in an even minimally sufficient manner to the simple challenge of balancing gun rights with public safety.
There is no question that the U.S. Constitution establishes a right to bear arms. But that right does not extend to include every weapon in every circumstance. To suggest such a fantasy would have horrified and offended the founders.
Reasonable controls on gun sales and gun ownership, which exist in every other free country, have been stymied in the U.S. by political pressures and the political spin that says guns can’t be blamed for violence.
Of course, there are always mitigating factors of criminality, personality and mental stability in any mass shooting.
But, as Michael Nutter, the mayor of Philadelphia and the head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (which represents almost 1,300 of the nation’s most populous cities) says: “Once again our nation’s attention is riveted on a single act of violence that has claimed a dozen lives and left dozens more injured. ... While we don’t yet have all of the facts in the case, we do know that all evidence this morning points to a heavily armed assailant now in police custody. While questions about his motives and about how he obtained his weapons will be answered in the hours and days ahead, the fact remains that once again guns have been used in a mass killing of innocent people.”
In responding to the tragic news from Aurora, Nutter repeated the call of the U.S. Conference of Mayors for “reasonable changes in our gun laws and regulations that could help to prevent senseless tragedies such as the one that has rocked Aurora and the nation (Friday) morning.”
We couldn’t agree more with the mayors’ call for change.
(This article originally appeared in the opinion section of the Capital Times.)
July 22, 2012
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Nyal Niemuth, Chief of the AZGS Economic Geology Section [at right in light colored shirt. Credit, BLM] recently briefed a delegation of cabinet-level government officials from Afghanistan on mining in Arizona.
The delegation was in Phoenix for a 23-day, four city tour of the US mining industry and government agencies.
Matt Shumaker, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) Chief Mineral Examiner hosted the group at the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
According to the BLM Daily agency newsletter, the group also visited the Arizona State Mine Inspector Office and the USGS headquarters in Reston, Virginia; the Department of Interior headquarters in Washington, DC; the Colorado School of Mines in Denver; and mining sites around Tucson and Denver.
The delegation members included Mohammad Hakim Amini, Director General of the Afghan Geological Survey, Said Mirzad, U.S. International Programs, Assadullah Zamir, Chief of Staff, Afghan Ministry of Mines, Mohammad Rahim Samim, Technical Mining Advisor for the Inter-Ministrial Commission, and Ali Yawar Qasimi, PIU Program Officer, Afghan Geological Survey.
BLM says the "USGS organized the Afghan officials' visit to the United States with assistance from the DOI International Technical Assistance Program, and the Department of Defense with funding from USAID." | <urn:uuid:31b3aed3-646b-410d-a460-bfc29d36b973> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arizonageology.blogspot.com/2013/02/briefing-afghan-officials-on-arizona.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910917 | 278 | 1.625 | 2 |
When and how self-control developsSelf-control is a skill that children learn over time. You need only look at a nine-month-old gleefully tossing food around to know that babies don't have much self-control — and we don't expect them to. But soon after your child's first birthday, you can expect him to listen to you and at least try to do as you say.
12 to 18 months
The beginnings of self-control emerge as children begin to be more cooperative. Your toddler is now a little more aware of your expectations and can obey simple requests. However, as your one-year-old is also driven to assert his independence, he may defy your wishes as well. Try asking him not to scream in a supermarket and it's a toss-up as to whether he'll do as you say or ignore you. At this stage he gets so carried away that he may not be able to stop even if he knows it's bothering you. Try to keep your temper in check and your expectations realistic. If you're warm and patient and don't expect too much from your toddler, he's more likely to cooperate. Show you're happy when your child does as he's told, but be prepared to remove him from temptation when he can't.
19 months to 24 months
Your child's making big improvements in the area of self-control at this stage. The ability to resist temptation — for example, waiting until everyone's seated before opening a present — improves significantly during these months. You can begin to expect your toddler to wait for you and not run out on the street while you pause to lock the front door or not to touch a hot oven or the remote control when you warn him off. You still need to be ready to follow up with action — for example, putting the remote control out of reach. But you should find that verbal reminders are more effective than they used to be.
Keep in mind that, as his self-control is still in its early stages, it's easier for your toddler to wait for an enjoyable activity than it is for him to stop once he's engrossed. Giving your child a warning before leaving the playground, for instance, will often make the difference between a tantrum and a pleasant departure. He may not have a clear sense of time ("We're going in five minutes"), but he'll at least be prepared for what happens next.
This is also the age when children have lots of fights over sharing. One minute your child is playing nicely next to a friend in the sandpit, the next he's biting or kicking and his little friend is screaming, all over a bucket or spade. Until your toddler's articulate enough to tell others what's bothering him, he'll lash out physically from time to time. Children this young are torn between wanting to do what their parents tell them ("Don't bite") and giving in to their impulses. They are then overcome by frustration and respond with bites, kicks and tantrums. | <urn:uuid:b2ce76cd-79e9-4559-8ac4-ac6aa86d532e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a1040551/developmental-milestones-self-control | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982997 | 610 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Nature: Dogs That Changed The World – Part 2
Some working dogs are able to use their skills to perform tasks they were bred for; there are still jobs today for herders, hunters and guard dogs. But as we multiply and transform the many breeds of dogs, honing their looks and their sizes, we also change our relationship with them, and theirs with us. How can we learn to cope with the hard-wired instincts of our pets, and what roles can they play in a world their ancestors would hardly recognize?
NOVA: Dogs Decoded
Dogs have been domesticated for longer than any other animal on the planet and humans have developed a unique relationship with these furry friends. We treat our pets like a part of the family and we feel that they can understand us in a way other animals cannot. Now, new research is revealing what dog lovers have suspected all along: dogs have an uncanny ability to read and respond to human emotions. What is surprising, however, is new research showing that humans, in turn, respond to dogs with the same hormone responsible for bonding mothers to their babies. How did this incredible relationship between humans and dogs come to be? And how can dogs, so closely related to fearsome wild wolves, behave so differently? It’s all in the genes. “Dogs Decoded” investigates new discoveries in genetics that are illuminating the origin of dogs — with revealing implications for the evolution of human culture as well. NOVA also travels to Siberia, where the mystery of dogs’ domestication is being repeated — in foxes. A 50-year-old breeding program is creating an entirely new kind of creature, a tame fox with some surprising similarities to man’s best friend. This film reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs and spurs new questions about what this could mean for our relationships with other animal species.
Ferrets: The Pursuit of Excellence
Ohio’s annual Ferret Buckeye Bash is the largest and most popular ferret show in the country. Hundreds of top breeders, seasoned experts and ferret enthusiasts pamper and parade their pets in a quest for prizes and prestige. Though these mischievous and often quirky creatures are unlikely show animals, the competition is intense. Tension is high as judges cast critical eyes over the bone structure, muscle mass and temperament of each furry critter. The tiny competitors, however, don’t understand what all the fuss is about: they’re too busy creating mayhem when no one’s watching. | <urn:uuid:37b305e8-0cfa-4c1b-b738-a1583f6a2481> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.klru.org/blog/2011/10/science-night-1012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962472 | 521 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The agreement leverages local, regional and federal funding to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in state high-speed rail funds for the peninsula. The next step will be the state Legislature's approval of funding later this month through the annual budget process. If funding is approved, riders could see an electrified and modernized Caltrain system as soon as 2019.
In addition to funding Caltrain modernization, the agreement also calls for future improvements to accommodate integrated Caltrain and high-speed rail service between San Francisco and San Jose. This blended system was proposed to control high-speed rail project costs and minimize impacts on surrounding communities.
To protect surrounding communities, the agreement specifies that the blended system will be limited to design alternatives that are primarily two-tracks and exist substantially within the existing Caltrain right-of-way.
Under the agreement, before the blended system is built, peninsula communities will benefit from electrified Caltrain service, which will provide faster, cleaner, quieter, more frequent service to more stations and more riders between San Francisco and San Jose.
Caltrain continues to experience record ridership growth, but the system's current diesel operations are near capacity and are consistently threatened by an ongoing structural deficit. The electrification and modernization of the Caltrain corridor will help accommodate increased ridership and reduce the subsidy required to operate the system, while also helping to prepare the corridor for future high-speed rail service. | <urn:uuid:773ca353-196c-4dd9-bfbf-7914c6b4d274> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rtands.com/index.php/passenger/rapid-transit-light-rail/regional-agreement-to-fund-caltrain-modernization-is-approved.html?channel=286 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945821 | 284 | 2.046875 | 2 |
NASA Debuts Unique Movie on a Sphere About Frozen Earth
NASA has created a unique "spherical" movie about Earth's changing ice and snow cover as captured by NASA spacecraft. "Frozen," a 12-minute, narrated film, premieres at science centers and museums March 27.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., produced the film for the "Science on a Sphere" projection system, a fully spherical video technology developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The six-foot spheres are installed in more than 30 locations around the world.
Ice covers about 20 percent of the Earth's surface and plays a major role in the world's climate. NASA operates a sophisticated fleet of spacecraft that make global measurements of ice and snow in remote and treacherous locations not easily accessible to scientists on the ground. Data from these NASA satellites play a critical role in climate change research.
"Frozen" probes all parts of Earth where water exists in solid form as snow or ice, known as the cryosphere. The movie takes viewers from the everyday experience of sensing heat and cold to a discussion of how satellites "see" heat and cold with advanced sensors. It then projects dramatic displays of satellite data of Earth, including changing Arctic sea ice and global snow cover, onto the sphere. Images generated by NASA's Aqua satellite and the Landsat series are featured in "Frozen."
"With 'Frozen,' we're not only breaking new ground in terms of spherical filmmaking but also transforming an otherwise technical subject into a powerful and poetic drama about the state of Earth," said Goddard's Michael Starobin, one of the film's producers.
Science on a Sphere uses a six-foot diameter carbon fiber sphere that hangs in a dark theater surrounded by four projectors. A computer system drives video content for the projectors to create a seamless image around the sphere.
"Science on a Sphere is a powerful and exciting new medium for telling all sorts of stories," said Starobin, who also produced and directed "Footprints," NASA's first movie for the system in 2006. "Footprints" explored the origin of hurricanes, the origin of gamma ray bursts and the human imperative to ask hard questions. NASA installed its first sphere at Goddard in 2006.
NOAA originally conceived Science on a Sphere to help illustrate Earth science principles by showing planet-wide data. Museums and universities have created hundreds of data visualizations for the platform since it first debuted in NOAA facilities, providing educational opportunities for millions of visitors. However, very few fully produced, narrated movies have been developed for the system.
"Frozen" marks the next step in the evolution of spherical filmmaking," Starobin said. "It moves the technology of the craft to new levels and, more importantly, tackles a single subject and uses the unique shape of the screen to discuss that subject in new ways. For example, where a flat screen only provides a sense of the remote, obscure scale of polar regions, a spherical presentation shows just how vast these places are. It highlights global processes in an orientation that matches reality."
For more information about "Frozen," including a list of locations showing the film, visit:
For information about downloading the movie from the main NOAA Science On a Sphere server, visit:
For more information about "Frozen," visit:
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Elderly who eat better stay mentally sharp, says study
Blood pressure meds “prolong life”
Eating fish boosts heart health in young women
Oranges for Health and Nutrition
Exercise Improves Sleep
Findings from a recent Stanford University Medical School study may come as no surprise: older and middle-age people reported sleeping better when they added regular exercise to their routine. After 16 weeks in a moderate intensity exercise program, subjects were able to fall asleep about 15 minutes earlier and sleep about 45 minutes longer at night.
Breast Health Tip #17: Sleep
BREAST HEALTH TIP #17: Sleep Go to bed by 10PM, pull down the shades and turn off all the lights.
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2001 found nurses that worked the night shift had a 50% increased risk of breast cancer. The longer they worked the night shift, the higher their risk of breast cancer became. The reason is simple. It has to do with the daily rhythms of the sun and the hormone “melatonin.” Melatonin is extremely powerful at protecting against and fighting breast cancer - but only if you go to bed early and it’s dark.
Scientists have discovered that when it gets dark the pineal gland in our brain produces more melatonin. As this hormone rises, you start to feel sleepy. The moment you fall asleep the level of melatonin goes much higher. But here’s the catch - melatonin doesn’t rise very high unless you’ve gone to bed by 10 pm and it’s dark.
The darker it is, the higher your melatonin will rise. Any type of light-even a soft night light can keep your melatonin levels from rising very high. Researchers think that is why breast cancer is more common in industrialized regions where city lights burn all night and why blind women have a 50% lower incidence breast cancer than women who can see.
If you have breast cancer, going to bed early in a dark room is important too. Breast cancer tumors in experimental animals exposed to constant light grew 7 times faster.
There are several big reasons melatonin is such a great breast cancer fighter. 1) Melatonin is a very potent antioxidant. Antioxidants destroy oxygen free radicals that can damage your cells and DNA –damage that can lead to cancer. 2) Melatonin slows down the production of estrogen. Estrogen stimulates breast cells causing cell division to speed up. The faster cells divide, the higher the risk of cancer. 3) Melatonin prevents the over production of estrogen, and blocks its stimulatory effects on breast cells. But melatonin’s great defenses don’t stop there. 4) Melatonin blocks the effects of two other threats, a hormone and a growth factor that can also increase cell division in the breast: the hormone is called “prolactin” and a growth factor is called “epidermal growth factor.” 5) Melatonin enhances the tumor fighting power of Vitamin D. It increases Vitamin D’s ability to stop tumor growth. Melatonin makes vitamin D’s tumor fighting abilities 20-100 times stronger.
If you have breast cancer and are being treated with chemotherapy, you may want to ask your doctor about taking supplemental melatonin. Researchers found it can enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy by increasing chemotherapy’s ability to kill tumors. In a 1999 study from Italy, researchers found that breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy lived longer if they were also given supplemental melatonin. In scientific terms, these patients had an increased “1 year survival.” That means more women than normally expected were alive at one year following the diagnosis and treatment of their breast cancer. Melatonin supplements given in addition to chemotherapy also caused the size of tumors in women to significantly decrease compared to women just receiving chemotherapy alone.
All of melatonin’s diverse breast cancer fighting skills can be summed up into 3 major effects: 1) it prevents the initiation of breast cancer 2) it slows down tumor growth by as much as 70% 3) it prevents metastasis or the spread of tumors to other areas of the body.
The bottom line is: melatonin is a powerful weapon against breast cancer. All you have to do is go to bed by 10 PM, pull down the shades, turn off all the lights and let it work its magic.
Creative Ways to Exercise On a Rainy Day
Is it Safe to Drink Your Urine?
Is it Good to Eat Fruits After a Meal?
You must have heard a lot of “rules” about when and how to eat fruits. Instead of solving your queries, they just end up confusing you more because they are pretty contradictory in nature. Are there really any rules for eating fruits? Let’s check out what this article has to say.
Staying in front of the TV increase the risk of diabetes
Tips for successful weight loss
Numerous observations show that after a strict diet weight for most people recover very quickly and some even exceed the previous frames. There are many tips on how not to reach this very desirable result. Below we have tried to list a few of them which nutritionists believe that the most effective and largely can not guarantee success in the fight against obesity:
The purpose from the antioxidants
If you are at least interested in the topic of premature aging of the body can not encountered the term “free radicals” and the benefits of antioxidants to fight them. Although the topic to write and speak very, very few people still know what it actually means “free radicals” – unstable oxygen molecule that is “damaged” as a result of the impact of factors such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, ultraviolet rays pesticides, radiation, emotional stress, and as incredible as it sounds too much movement. Unstable molecule needs one more electron to regain strength. So she began to literally bombard other molecules, leading to distortions and their integrity and strength. Why are they so important and beneficial antioxidants … Because they “donate” the missing electron, free radicals and thus make it stable and almost completely safe. The antioxidant “cocktail” typically includes beta-carotene, vitamins C and E, selenium, lycopene, coenzyme Q10 and lutein. Numerous studies have shown that antioxidants have specific characteristics which not only helps the body to neutralize free radicals, but also to get rid of them, discard them. | <urn:uuid:f013032a-b395-4f6b-bcba-3a6fb0642eac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yourhealthdiary.tumblr.com/tagged/journal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943932 | 1,334 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The Urban Country‘s mission is simple. We publish 2-3 quality articles per week to advocate for using bicycles as transportation in North America to improve our cities, our people, and the world.
The Urban Country has appeared on Guardian UK Bike Blog, National Public Radio, CBC Radio One, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, Seattle’s The Stranger, The Daily Beast and is frequently featured on Treehugger.com.
The Urban Country is for people who are tired of being herded like cattle and who are looking for a more efficient, stylish, healthy and fun way to get around the city. People who ride bicycles are tired of subsidizing motorists while being treated as second-class citizens in North America.
The Urban Country began in Canada in 2004 as a personal blog for James Schwartz. The term “urban country” stems from the fact that Canada is a country of vast land with the majority of its population concentrated in urban centres.
The median distance Canadians traveled to work in 2006 was 7.6km – hardly a difficult distance to ride. In the United States, 49% of all trips are shorter than 5km, 40% are shorter than 3km, and 28% are shorter than 1.6km – trips that could easily be made by bicycle.
Unfortunately, cities in North America have been built around the automobile, and bicycling is often discouraged, inconvenient and uncomfortable. We are advocating for better, safer, connected bicycling infrastructure, fair laws and general societal acceptance.
When it comes to bicycling gear, companies market their products to convince you that this gear is necessary. We believe that urban bicycling can be done comfortably in regular clothes – especially if you invest in a bike that makes the ride comfortable – even through the winter.
Helmets are not the silver bullet to bicycling safety. There is nothing wrong with choosing to wear helmets on a bicycle, but we don’t think they are warranted for urban transportation, and we are against mandatory helmet legislation.
If bicycling is dangerous on some streets in some cities, we prefer to get to the root cause of the problem rather than implementing a helmet law or other “band-aid” solutions that are designed to shift blame and ignore the root cause.
If you have content to contribute to the site (links, articles, studies), feel free to get in touch with us on our Contact Us page.
James is the Founder and Editor of The Urban Country. He is a Technology Consultant, Writer, year-round bicyclist, and seasonal kayaker living in downtown Toronto. James grew up in the Niagara region and began using a bicycle for transportation at a very young age. He loves traveling, exploring, being outdoors and he rarely leaves home without his camera. You can contact James at email@example.com | <urn:uuid:088ce655-e784-423a-8460-1661625f98f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theurbancountry.com/about-us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958099 | 589 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Artwork for sale
Russian Print Collection
Artist signed Giclee Fine Art print on Hahnemuhle 310gsm paper.
The work is sold as a set of eight prints on paper in a folio.
- artist Denise Wyllie
25 x 90 cms
5 x 3.5 ins
210 x 297 mm
These prints were inspired by Denise Wyllie's contact and experience of Russia, at the beginning of glasnost 1993, taken from sketchbooks, paintings, photographs and objects.
- Prints 1 to 4 Top Row, left to right:
- Historical Document: Exiles Tin Mug
- Syjatozero, Sacred Lake
- Fihmonovo Chickens
- Karelian driftwood boat
- Prints 5 to 8 2nd Row, left to right:
- Madonna Palm
- Glove (Cross)
- Soviet Tree (Lenin)
- Art Kontact
Print 1 Historical Document, Exiles Tin Mug, top row, left — The image, grew from Wyllie's quest to find a historical document from the communist era, whilst working in Russia.
The print was informed by my friends Marsha and Sergei's discovery of a prisoner's mug they found on a desolate island in Karelia. This bleak island, bordering with Finland, had been used by Stalin as camp for dissidents. The mug is a tin can with a scrap of wire around it forming a handle.
Marsha said "This is your historical document."
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Kids' Nutrition and All That Holiday Candy!
Submitted by MariMK
Many holidays tend to be all about the candy. Of course, Christmas tends to be more toy-centered, at Halloween they have to go out and get it. For those of us who celebrate Easter? A fluffy bunny brings you a big basket loaded with the sugary stuff.
I consider myself lucky that my son isn't big on candy. He likes maybe two or three kinds, and even with a huge sack of something like M&M's stops after a few. So it's not so much an issue for me, but for many of my mom friends, it's a source of stress. If you go to get your child's hair cut, in a jar at many local stores, kids activities in town, they're just dishing out the CANDY. Lollipops, Tootsie Rolls, mini candy bars, Cadbury eggs ... by the time Easter rolls around, they wind up with a basket of candy and are either completely crazed or candied out. And the KINDS of candy! Eggs filled with a sugary creme to mimic real eggs, or caramel, or corn-syrup-saturated imitation peanut butter. Those icky PEEPS that go stale in a heartbeat ... they even have their own website—people build things from Peeps and play with them! The only one I know who ever ate them regularly was my 92-year-old grandmother.
I belong to a local moms club. When we did our Easter egg hunt last year (the first of many in our close group of townships), I bought tattoos and stickers for the plastic hunting eggs but no candy. Why? To be honest, I forgot, but in retrospect, I had remembered taking possession of the previous year's unopened eggs and had to go through ALL of them before storing them to make sure there were no leftover jellybeans, mini eggs or other candies inside for rot or bugs to corrode. Most moms didn't mind the lack of candy; generally at Easter egg hunts, kids would go all out to get the plastic eggs full of either the dreaded candy or plastic trinkets that would wind up crushed underfoot of vacuumed up anyway. Stickers and tattoos were the lesser of the evils offered. But more than one piped up, "What about the candy?"
What ABOUT the candy?? Most of our kids have enough candy and other sweet, unhealthy things. I won't even start abou things like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and high cholesterol in today's kids. And a little candy isn't a bad thing. But why make it all about the candy? Do something with all those hardboiled eggs. ... | <urn:uuid:80fe82a2-25ad-4730-b4cc-9c984c0bcd90> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.parentsconnect.com/parenting-your-kids/kids-eating/kids-nutrition/rant_1236440082646.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96951 | 558 | 2.265625 | 2 |
There was an election on November 6th, yet the majority of voters granted the same group of groping grand-standers another grab at power. Instead of “great men”, voters chose more grinding through gridlock. Congressmen grill each other with growls for months, then grab each other at the last minute and grimace and groan over raising taxes instead of cutting spending.
The whole debt, spending, cut and paste drama is just a grimy, grating joke. Grr!
If voters want Congress to go from “gridlock” to “great”, they need to blame themselves for why things have grown the way they have grown. Our representatives are doing exactly what they were sent to do. They reflect the mindset of voters who elected them to cut spending, but not their spending. Moreover, just like putting off study for an exam or practice for a speech, Congressmen are acting from an impulse endemic to humanity: do as little as possible, and get as much in return. It is human nature to wait until the last minute to do something that no one wants to do.
Ghandi could not broker Congressional comity. Hoover might make arrests (or wear a dress?). Free-market economist Milton Friedman offered this advice: “Get the wrong people to do the right things.” Voters have to tell our leaders what to do. Fiscal cliffs, debt ceilings, limits to the uncivil, partisan gridlock: A Cliff’s Notes perusal of Walden may suggest that we refuse to pay our taxes. Perhaps civil disobedience will force reform. | <urn:uuid:f8a203ec-8ad9-4a92-ade4-dda375c80cea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aschaper1.blogspot.com/2013/01/about-fiscal-cliff-notes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967367 | 330 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Hundreds of species of birds live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Some birds live here year-round, while others migrate to the Bay region to feed or nest.
Birds are some of the region's most beautiful - but vulnerable - species. Although each bird has distinct behaviors and habitat needs, they all serve as important links in the Bay food web. However, birds are sensitive to pollution and habitat degradation.
Click on the images below to learn about some of the birds that live in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Ducks, geese and swans are all waterfowl. Most waterfowl visit the Chesapeake Bay region in winter as they migrate along the Atlantic Flyway, a major flight path for millions of birds. However, some waterfowl, including mute swans and many Canada geese, live in the Bay region year-round.
Seabirds and shorebirds live on and along the water. They primarily eat fish and other aquatic animals. Shorebirds include gulls, terns and sandpipers. Coots, pelicans and cormorants are all seabirds.
Wading birds quietly stalk their prey in wetlands and shallow waters. Most wading birds, which include herons and egrets, nest together in large breeding colonies on the Chesapeake Bay's small, isolated islands.
Raptors are birds of prey. They use their keen eyesight to hunt while flying. Hawks, owls, ospreys, eagles and falcons are all raptors.
Songbirds, game birds and hummingbirds are just a few of the many other types of birds that live in the Bay region. | <urn:uuid:78b26e52-43ed-409e-a878-52aa6d6e53e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldguide/categories/category/birds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94989 | 338 | 3.921875 | 4 |
|Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles|
|Copyright © 2002 Andreas Parsch|
In the early 1980s the Naval Weapons Center (NWC) developed an extremely simple and cheap surface-to-air missile (SAM) simulation rocket. It was to provide a realistic visual SAM threat in air warfare exercises by actually launching a rocket without endangering the "attacked" aircraft. The rocket was designated GTR-18A, and because it trails a highly visible thick white cloud of smoke when fired to simulate a SAM, it was called "Smokey Sam".
|Photo: via Glenn Campbell|
The GTR-18A rocket is a very simple rocket with a fuselage made of phenolic paper and styrofoam fins. Because of its very light construction, the Smokey Sam won't do serious harm even if it accidentally hits a low-flying aircraft. It can be launched from unprepared ground by using single-bay or four-bay launchers (designated LMU-23/E and LMU-24/E, respectively). The complete Smokey Sam Simulator (SSS) system, which also includes a vehicle-mounted AN/VPQ-1 tracking radar, is designated SMU-124/E. In the early 1990s the Smokey Sam rocket was redesignated as DGTR-18A, although the use of the D ("Dummy") prefix is usually limited to non-flying rockets/missiles used for ground handling training only. The DGTR-18A is still being built and used in large numbers.
|Photo: SSgt Hoekstra, USAF|
|GTR-18A launch (with AN/VPQ-1)|
Note: Data given by several sources show slight variations. Figures given below may therefore be inaccurate!
Data for GTR-18A:
|Length||38 cm (15 in)|
|Finspan||15 cm (6 in)|
|Diameter||5 cm (2 in)|
|Ceiling||550 m (1800 ft)|
"DOD 4120.15-L: Model Designation of Military Aerospace Vehicles", Department of Defense, 1998
Back to Current Designations Of U.S. Unmanned Military Aerospace Vehicles
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Possum Skin Cloaks
Continuing the practice of making and wearing possum skin cloaks has strengthened cultural identity and spiritual healing in Aboriginal communities across Victoria.
Embodying 5,000 years of tradition, cultural knowledge and ritual, wearing a possum skin cloak can be an emotional experience. Standing on the barren escarpment of Thunder Point with a Djargurd Wurrong cloak around his shoulders, Elder Ivan Couzens felt an enormous sense of pride in what it means to be Aboriginal.
In this story, eight Victorian Elders are pictured on Country and at home in cloaks that they either made or wore at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.
In a series of videos, the Elders talk about the significance of the cloaks in their lives, explain the meanings of some of the designs and motifs, and reflect on how the cloaks reinforce cultural identity and empower upcoming generations.
Uncle Ivan’s daughter, Vicki Couzens, worked with Lee Darroch, Treahna Hamm and Maree Clarke on the cloak project for the Games. In the essay, Vicki describes the importance of cloaks for spiritual healing in Aboriginal communities and in ceremony in mainstream society.
Traditionally, cloaks were made in South-eastern Australia (from northern NSW down to Tasmania and across to the southern areas of South Australia and West Australia), where there was a cool climate and abundance of possums. From the 1820s, when Indigenous people started living on missions, they were no longer able to hunt and were given blankets for warmth. The blankets, however, did not provide the same level of waterproof protection as the cloaks.
Due to the fragility of the cloaks, and because Aboriginal people were often buried with them, there are few original cloaks remaining. A Gunditjmara cloak from Lake Condah and a Yorta Yorta cloak from Maiden's Punt, Echuca, are held in Museum Victoria's collection. Reproductions of these cloaks are held at the National Museum of Australia.
A number of international institutions also hold original cloaks, including: the Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC), the Museum of Ethnology (Berlin), the British Museum (London) and the Luigi Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography (Rome).
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While the majority of Americans are losing faith in the American Dream, Latinos and immigrants remain more hopeful about their prospects than people of other backgrounds, according to 2010 research by the Xavier University Center for the Study of the American Dream. Some 37 percent of Hispanics, compared to 29 percent of non-Hispanic whites, express that optimism. Another study found that 61 percent of Hispanics, compared to 49 percent of non-Hispanic whites, say they have more opportunities to get ahead than their parents did. Latinos were also more likely to express confidence that they would get ahead financially in the next five years.
See also: Higher education resources for Hispanics only.
Here are two stories of Hispanics 50+ who believed in their dreams and pursued them — for the second time around.
Miguel Dorantes had already achieved one American Dream: He'd launched a successful roofing business after immigrating to the United States from Mexico in 1983. Then a surprising event pushed him to strive for even more.
After his wife's labor accelerated so quickly that there was no time to summon help, Dorantes delivered their daughter, with no medical training. "I thought to myself, 'I'm not too bad at this. I think I could become a good doctor,'" he recalls.
But the timing wasn't ideal for a career change. He and his wife, Linda — sweethearts since they attended high school together in Mexico City — had been married for five years and had started a family. Dorantes, then 31, had invested years in building his business in metropolitan Los Angeles. But Linda, whose bachelor's degree led her to specialize in working with students who are visually impaired, encouraged her husband to pursue his desire despite the sacrifices they'd have to make.
With a diploma, she says, "I felt so accomplished." She wanted her husband to have the same fulfilling experience she had in school: "He loves medicine. How could I deny him?"
Dorantes was accepted at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexicali, Mexico. The family — now with three daughters younger than 10 — moved to Calexico, right across the border in California, so the girls could attend U.S. schools. Linda worked full-time and took the lead in raising their children.
In Mexico, the costs of medical school are paid by the government, but Dorantes still needed to work weekend construction jobs in Los Angeles to support his family. This didn't strike him as unusual until he told a classmate, who remarked: "I don't know how you do this. I devote all the time I have to medicine. You have to find time to work, for your family, and you're doing well." | <urn:uuid:00ae40bc-d190-4d08-93a9-ff106ae5abf5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aarp.org/personal-growth/transitions/info-06-2011/american-dream-mid-career.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987946 | 553 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The New Way to Treat Herniated Discs Without Surgery
To Your Health February, 2007 (Vol. 01, Issue 02)
By Dr. James D. Edwards
If you're suffering from a herniated disc and chiropractic adjustments/therapy have not yielded sufficient benefit, you should ask your doctor if you might be a candidate for spinal decompression therapy.
What is spinal decompression therapy?
It's a nonsurgical, traction-based treatment for herniated or bulging discs in the neck and low back. Anyone who has back, neck, arm or leg pain caused by a degenerated or damaged disc may be helped by spinal decompression therapy. Specific conditions that may be helped by this therapeutic procedure include herniated or bulging discs, spinal stenosis, sciatica, facet syndrome, spondylosis or even failed spinal surgery.
Many patients, some with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-documented disc herniations, have achieved "good" to "excellent" results after spinal decompression therapy.
The computerized traction head on the decompression table or machine is the key to the therapy's effectiveness. The preprogrammed patterns for ramping up and down the amount of axial distraction eliminate muscle guarding and permit decompression to occur at the disc level. This creates a negative pressure within the disc, allowing the protruded or herniated portion to be pulled back within the normal confines of the disc, which permits healing to occur.
Your specific treatment plan will be determined by the doctor after your examination. Based on research and my clinical experience, the best results are achieved with 20 sessions over a six-week period. To reduce inflammation and assist the healing process, supporting structures sometimes are treated with passive therapies (ice/heat/muscle stimulation), chiropractic adjustments (when indicated) and/or active rehabilitation in order to strengthen the spinal musculature.
There are many spinal decompression systems in use today, most of which work equally well. The cost for 20 sessions can range from $1,000 to $5,000 or more. While this may seem like a lot, it is very reasonable, considering the cost and potential adverse outcomes associated with spine surgery.
Spinal decompression therapy has saved many people from spinal surgery. If you are suffering from a degenerated or herniated disc, I encourage you to explore safe and effective spinal decompression therapy before risking surgery. The rationale for treating a herniated disc without resorting to surgery has research support on its side: According to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, surgery is no more effective than non-invasive treatments, including chiropractic care, for patients with lumbar disc herniation causing sciatica.
Ask your doctor for more information about spinal decompression and if you might be a candidate. If your doctor does not yet offer spinal decompression therapy, they can help refer you to someone who does.
What Does It Mean?
Not familiar with some of the terminology in this article? Don't worry: Here's a brief explanation of what these terms mean in relation to your spine.
Anulus Fibrosus: The tough outer ring of a vertebral disc; it encases the nucleus pulposus (see description below) within the disc.
Facet Syndrome: An irritation of one or more of the joints on the back of the spinal vertebrae, which comprise the spinal column.
Herniated Disc: Displacement of the center of a vertebral disc through a crack in the outer layer. Disc herniation can put pressure on spinal nerves and cause pain.
Muscle Guarding: Muscle spasming, often in response to a painful stimulus.
Nucleus Pulposus: A gel-like substance within each intervertebral disc, surrounded by the anulus fibrosus.
Sciatica: Pain in the lower back, buttocks, hips, or adjacent anatomical structures, frequently attributable to spinal dysfunction.
Spinal Stenosis: Narrowing of the spine at one or more of three locations: in the center of the spine, where nerves branch from the spine, or in the space between vertebrae. This puts pressure on spinal nerves and can cause pain.
Spondylosis: Otherwise known as spinal arthritis, spondylosis is a degenerative condition in which spinal discs weaken, particularly with age.
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This immensely popular Bible was designed uniquely for boys ages 8 – 12.
First the features of this Bible will draw your boy in like a magnet. For example the ‘Gross’ feature highlights Bible facts that keep boys coming back for more.
More importantly though all of the features were written to help your guys grow from boys to men, physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. They will see what a man of God is and learn how to get there.
This is also an ideal Bible to use when transitioning your boys from a Bible Storybook to a whole text Bible. When used with the devotional books for boys in this same series (Bible Heroes and Bad Guys and others) you have a powerful combination to help them stay interested and make the transition.
PARENT’S GUIDE TO THE SPIRITUAL GROWTH OF CHILDREN
Helping your child develop a personal Faith
Gary Smalley (Author, speaker and founder of Smalley Relationship Center) says, “This book gives parents easy-to-use plans and ideas to help them pass on their Faith; this couldn’t come at a better time for our children and culture.”
Put together by Dr. John Trent, Rick Osborne and Kurt Bruner, this best-selling Guide from Focus On The Family is packed with information that will help you navigate your children spiritually from preplanning for parenthood right through to the early teens.
Highly recommended for parents who like to understand the process and develop an individual step-by-step plan that will work best for their family. Buy Now
In addition to writing his weekly blogs at Christian Parenting Daily, Rick has also begun work on his next full length book ‘Putting The “Sweet” Back In Home Sweet Home.’ This book will focus on family strife issues like sibling rivalry, teenage rebellion, blended families and parental strife. It will walk families through the seven practical and Biblical steps for creating and maintaining a peaceful, loving home and strong growing relationships. Rick’s books have sold close to ten million copies worldwide. The felt need for this book is great and we’re looking forward to the positive impact that it will have on families. If you’d like to be put on our list to be notified when the book is made available, please email us and enter ‘Book List Request’ in the subject line.
Finally, Rick is continuing work on the first ever Sunday School program that will unite church and home in a Biblical partnership for the progressive and intentional spiritual and moral development of children. Stay tuned to this site for more news on the Partnering With Parents program.
What other Christian Leaders have said about this Christian classic says it all.
Teaching Your Child How to Pray is must reading for all parents who are concerned and burdened about the spiritual development of their children (Dr. Tony Evans)
Rick writes and teaches what he lives. I heartily recommend Rick’s resources to every parent. Rick is one of God’s gifts to parents. (Josh D. McDowell)
In a step by step approach, Rick Osborne lays out a plan for working with children that meets their needs from the beginning of their lives, but the plan is just as effective for someone starting the learning process with older children. (Dr. D. James Kennedy)
I’m happy to recommend this book by Rick Osborne, who is able to communicate this message to parents and guide them in teaching their children to pray. (Larry Burkett)
This is not just another boring ‘how to’ book. In Teaching Your Child How to Pray, Rick Osborne makes this important venture challenging and exciting for both parents and their children. (Tim Wildmon)
Rick Osborne has done a masterful job of bringing together important principles and outstanding guidelines in Teaching Your Child How to Pray. Combined with the reader’s prayers, I believe the Lord will greatly use this book to revolutionize and strengthen the spiritual lives of their children, providing them a solid foundation from which, the Lord promises in His Word, they “will not depart”. (Vonette Bright)
This book is not just recommended. According to many it is essential reading for every Christian parent.
This book is a reprint of one of the most important sections of the ‘Parent’s Guide To The Spiritual Development of Children. ‘Teaching your kids about God’ is recommended for parents who want to understand the different stages that their children grow through and how they learn and what they should be learning about their Faith in each stage (birth to early teen). It wonderfully shows you what to focus on at each different age and then shows you how to practically help your child learn those essentials.
A parent’s practical guide to God, Bible stories, children and church, bedtime prayers, virtues, and other spiritual stuff.
This book answers over thirty how-to questions commonly asked by parents about everything Christian.
Questions like, “How can I show my children that the Bible is trustworthy?” and, “What can I tell my kids about Heaven?”
The text does not just stop with the answers but moves beyond and supplies easy tools for getting the job done.
This book is recommended for parents who want practical hands on help with the basics.
A great gift idea for new parents, for relatively new Christians with kids, or for those who are contemplating reconnecting with their Christian heritage now that they have kids.
Listening to all the news about economy lately has got me thinking about an old friend. Anyone remember the best-seller, ‘The Coming Economic Earthquake’? One Amazon review, written last month, says this about the book, “This book clearly outlines why the recession is here and it was written in 1991 predicting it.”
I had the pleasure of knowing Larry Burkett and being able to call him my friend for several years before he left us to be with our Lord. He was a wonderful person, a faithful friend and an awesome man of God. He studied the Bible and understood perhaps better than anyone what God’s Word says and teaches about money.
I met Larry shortly after he wrote ‘The Coming Economic Earthquake’ and although I didn’t understand all of what he was saying about where the economy was going, we talked about something that was near to my heart. Him and his son Allen Burkett Jr. wanted to help parents teach their kids Biblical financial principles so that Christians and the Church in the generations to come could stand strong during tough times.
Larry showed me the conclusions of a nation wide survey that tested the financial IQ of high school seniors. The director of the report summed up the results by saying that our kids were graduating financially illiterate. He also shared with me statistics that showed that 85% of young couples who divorce site financial issues as the reason for their marital breakdown. That discussion led to Larry and I co-writing the book ‘Financial Parenting.’ I also went on to work with both Larry Sr. and Jr. to develop many resources that help parents teach their children financial principles.
The Bible tells us that as parents we are to bring our children up in the instruction of the Lord. The Bible doesn’t just teach us about God, love and salvation. Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Paul and others were all used by God’s Spirit to teach us about stewardship and proper money management. It’s our job as parents to safeguard our children’s future by intentionally bringing them up in these truths.
I don’t know if the ‘Economic Earthquake’ as Larry saw it is here yet but I do know that if we want our kids to survive financially, now and in the future, we need to spend some time teaching them what God’s Word says about money.
The Coming Economic Earthquake, Financial Parenting and the other resources we developed for kids have been selling well and helping families for years but perhaps they are even more relevant and more important now.
Although Larry Burkett is no longer with us, every book he wrote was based on God’s Word and therefore timeless and very relevant today. I highly recommend the following books and any other’s with my friend’s name on them.
(RICK OSBORNE / Christian Author, Speaker & Dad – your source for Christian Parenting advice)
HOW TO RAISE GREAT PARENTS
In my last post, we talked about how God’s original parent training program was that one generation teach the next how to parent God’s way. It’s our job as parents to not only learn how to parent God’s way and to do it effectively but also to teach our children how to be a parent while we are parenting them.
This sounds more daunting then it actually is. In reality, parenting while teaching to parent is the easiest and most effective way of parenting.
When we send our children to school, they go knowing that they need to go through the learning process and do well so that one day they’ll graduate. They know because we tell them. From there we encourage them by telling them that great marks lead to better post secondary education options and those options can lead to better career opportunities etc. We keep them going by helping them to understand and to take on the goals as their own.
If our children think the only goal of parenting is for them to try and have fun and for us to try and stop them, they don’t see the reward in the process and our task will be difficult. However, if we talk to them not only about the benefits to their life for doing things the right way, but also about how cooperating with the parenting process and learning how it works will help make them great parents, then they’ll be able to see a bigger purpose and a greater reward. Read more
For those of you who read my blogs or my books, you know that I’m passionate about encouraging parents to apply themselves to learning how to parent. Parenting is not merely intuitive and it’s not only bad parents who need parenting books and courses, it’s all parents.
If you asked me to determine if a certain couple were great parents or not, I wouldn’t look first at the results but at the efforts they were making to learn and grow in the art of parenting. If you know how to get the right information and effectively and humbly apply it, the results will eventually follow. If you think you’re getting by but you’re not learning, then you’ll eventually come up against a problem that you don’t know how to solve properly and that will mess up your results.
I advocate parenting books, classes and courses but actually those resources should be mere booster shots that come along and support God’s original parent training program. When God spoke to Abraham and called him to teach his children after him to follow the Lord, in context (Genesis 18:18, 19), he wasn’t talking about just Abraham’s immediate children but generations of children. When God had Moses tell the Israelites to make sure that they taught their children to follow the Lord (Deuteronomy 6), again the context was that each generation pass it on to the next.
As an example of how to pass something from generation to generation, let’s look at farming. For centuries, farmers have passed the farm down to their children. How does that happen successfully? What if one generation farmed and got the kids to help from time to time and then one day they just handed them the keys to everything and moved to Florida. Either the farm would be sold or it would probably go under. In order for the farm to be passed on successfully, the parents must not only farm well but also teach their children everything they know about farming as they grow up, gradually preparing them for the task. God’s original parent training program is simply this, parents need to do everything they can to bring their children up well AND they need to all the while be teaching their children how to parent properly themselves.
That’s why I say that parenting books and courses should be booster shots. It’s our job as parents to teach our children how to do one of the most important tasks they’ll ever undertake, raising children. Yes, we train by example but that’s not enough. We need to understand what we teach our children and why we’re teaching it to them. We need to understand the discipline, instruction and training process and explain it to our children as we go. For those of you who are feeling that this sounds daunting it’s not, it actually makes the job easier. I’ll explain how in my next blog.
For more practical and Biblical Christian Parenting ideas we recommend the Christian resource, “The Seven Mistakes Parents of Toddlers Make”
(RICK OSBORNE / Christian Author, Speaker & Dad – your source for Christian Parenting advice)
Throughout the Bible, children are considered to be a gift from God and a blessing to the parents who receive them.
Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. (Psalm 127:3)
Scripture contains many prayers and songs thanking God for the blessing of children, including those of Sarah, Hannah, and Mary. Mary had heard the stories of Sarah and Hannah and had learned that children are an awesome gift and a blessing.
Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” (Luke 1:46-47)
If you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, here it comes. Sometimes parenting can seem downright overwhelming. Children need constant care, training, and discipline, and none of us is perfectly up to the task. So at times we feel tempted to consider the gift of children as anything but a blessing. I once heard a mother say to her young teenager (in jest of course), “Watch it, buster! I brought you into this world and I can take you back out again!” That about sums up the way we sometimes feel, doesn’t it? | <urn:uuid:8a26004e-bd72-4860-bdc9-a5f0d21f6d3c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rick-osborne.com/tag/spirit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964986 | 2,965 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Though they did not mention Bryants race, or the race of his alleged victim, who many assume is White, as a reason to ask for a possible change, race lurked just beneath the surface. He will be prosecuted in Eagle County by a White DA, and likely tried before a White judge, and an all White jury will likely decide his fate.
According to Census figures, Eagle County has only 140 Blacks in a population of more than 40,000. In 1996, the county came under harsh racial glare when a judge ruled that the Eagle County sheriffs department engaged in what it called racist pretexts to stop hundreds of Black and Latino motorists on drug searches. The county shelled out nearly $1 million to Black plaintiffs to settle the suit. But the sheriffs department still defended the practice.
The defense fears if race becomes, or is made a factor in a trial there, it could stir latent stereotypes of young Black males as violent-prone sexual predators. This would trump Bryants wealth, fame, superstar aura, and an O.J. Simpson type dream defense team. He has publicly admitted that he committed adultery, and that he lied when he initially claimed that he had done no wrong.
With two gaping character strikes already against him, it wouldnt take much of a leap of imagination for some jurors to think that he is also capable of committing a violent act against a White woman.
In racially charged trials, a presumption is that White jurors are so blinded by racial bigotry that they will always vote to convict Blacks. A 10-year study by The Capitol Jury Project on juror racial attitudes seemingly confirmed this notion. In interviews with more than 1000 jurors in 14 states, it found that White jurors were far more willing to believe the testimony of police, and prosecution witnesses than the testimony of Black defendants and witnesses.
Countless other studies have also shown that White jurors are more prone to convict Black than White defendants. If the defendant is Black, and the victim is White, the likelihood is greater still of a conviction. However, when the number of Blacks on a jury increase, the conviction rate for Black defendants drop. Blacks tend to be much more skeptical of police testimony.
But Bryant is also in peril of being convicted even if White jurors dont perceive race as an issue in his trial. In two separate studies in 1998 and 2001, the University of Michigan conducted a series of mock trials with Black and White jurors. In those situations where the defendant was Black and the victim White, the White mock jurors were far more willing to convict the Black defendant if race was not a trial issue. Ironically, in one scenario, the mock crime involved an assault by a Black basketball player on a White. In another scenario, the Black defendant assaulted his White girlfriend.
The race blindness of many White jurors toward Black defendants is almost certainly a fall-out from the Rodney King beating trial in 1992. The jury with no Blacks that acquitted the four White LAPD officers that beat Black motorist Rodney King of most of the charges seemingly confirmed the ugly suspicion that White jurors can never be objective toward Blacks even when they are the victims of abuse.
The orgy of looting and burning that followed the verdict, and the national angst over a criminal justice system hopelessly tainted by racism, made many Whites sensitive to the issue of race in criminal cases. They do not want to be perceived as bigots, but rather as capable of being fair and impartial toward Black defendants. With the national spotlight on the Bryant case, jurors in a possible trial will be under even more intense scrutiny to be fair, and will expect the prosecutors to prove their case beyond any standard of doubt.
For their part, prosecutors will do everything possible to insure that race is not a factor in the trial. They will argue that its strictly a case of a rich, powerful, superstar athlete abusing a naïve, and unsuspecting young woman.
They will fight hard to keep the statements made by the victim and Bryant sealed to prevent juror bias. This doesnt mean that race could not be a factor.
Bryant is still a Black defendant, although a much-celebrated one accused of a serious felony. If a predominantly or all-White jury in Eagle convicts Bryant, it wont be because the jurors were out to nail a Black. They will convict because they believed he committed the crime. A conviction, whether race is or isnt a factor, is the catch 22 for Bryant.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. Visit his news and opinion website: www.thehutchinsonreport.com He is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press).
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Fluvoxamine is a type of SSRI anti-depressant, sold under various brand names including Faverin® and Luvox®.
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Here are a list of important Heritage centres in Ireland useful for that vital tourist information:
Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills lie in what is now Ballincollig Regional Park and is Ireland’s largest industrial archaeological site. It can be accessd via Inniscarra Bridge as well as via the East Gate by the new Aldi in Ballincollig.
The white round tower at the entrance to the park was once a watch house for the gunpowder mills where workers were searched upon entering the complex. It is possible to enjoy a walk along the designated paths and see the ruins of other old buildings associated with gunpowder manufacture. These include a charcoal mill, a sawmill, a huge circular coal store and two magazines at the eastern end, a boiler house in the middle for drying the powder and the weir and Inniscarra Bridge at the western end.
One of the most important features of the site is the main canal which runs the length of the complex and which acted as a means of transport within the factory as well as providing the power to drive the waterwheels of the mills.
Situated 60 km from Galway and 6 km from Clifden, lies the Connemara Heritage Centre, a National award winning enterprise in 1992 and 1994. Irish Tourist Board approved. A time journey through Connemara past, this centre also includes the home of legendary Dan O’Hara.
To get there, stay on the N59 i.e. Galway to Clifden Road approximately 1 hour’s drive from Galway city, 10 minutes drive from Clifden.
The history of the cinema is littered with major box-office ‘hits’ which after their fashionable success are forgotten, as surely as if they ended up on the ‘cutting room floor’. However, there are some enduring classics which have developed a cult-following and high on this list is John Ford’s greatest movie ‘The Quiet Man’ starring Maureen O’Hara, John Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald.
Shot in 1951 and released in 1952 it is set in the beautiful West of Ireland, with filming being centred in the village of Cong, on the Mayo-Galway border. These heady days are re-created in the Quiet Man Heritage Cottage/Cong Archaeological and Historical Exhibition. Large numbers of people flock to the area to avail of guided tours of the various film locations. The Quiet Man Heritage Cottage is a novel concept which gives the visitor a total Quiet Man experience as if they were actually ‘on-set’.
Located by the river at Circular Road, Cong, between actual locations used for filming, the ground floor of the cottage has been designed as an exact replica of the original set in Hollywood where the interior scenes were filmed.
Adare Heritage Centre tells the story of the development of the town of Adare from it’s the building of the Norman castle by the banks of the River Maigue in 1233 to the present day using realistic models, enactments and audiovisuals. It shows the busy day-to-day life of Adare from the 13th to 16th centuries, and the changes that came to Adare, with war and rebellions helping to cause it to wane, and then how it waxed again under the Dunraven family.
Located just 10 miles outside Limerick and 40 minutes from Shannon Airport. Also housed here are the Tourist Information Office, The Abbot’s Rest Restaurant, Adare Woollen Mills and Black Abbey Crafts for gifts and Curran.
Newgrange is Ireland’s best known prehistoric monument, and one of the finest passage-tombs in the whole of Western Europe. Foremost among the passage-tombs of Europe.
The almost heart-shaped mound is about 36 feet high and about 300 feet in diameter. Carbon dating has shown that the tomb was constructed around 3100 BC and is thus probably centuries before the Pyramids.
The magnificent entrance slab is a decorated stone covering a small box over the passage which allowed the sun’s rays to penetrate to the centre of the burial chamber as they appear above the horizon on the morning of 21 December, and one or two days on either side of it. It is ‘one of the most famous stones in the entire repertory of megalithic art. The triple spiral, found only at Newgrange, occurs both on the entrance stone and inside the chamber.
The passage is long, over 60 feet, and leads to a burial chamber with a corbelled roof which rises to a height of nearly 20 feet. A number of the stones bear decoration, such as spirals, zigzags etc.Recent excavations have shown up some clever techniques used in building the mound, particularly the stone packing above the chamber, so that water filtering down from above could be drained off rather than dripping into the chamber – which remains remarkably dry.
Standing upright in the earth outside the base of the mound are large boulders up to 8 feet high, of which 12 out of the original estimated 38 survive. The revetment of large horizontal stones surrounds the base of the mound and many of these are also decorated with geometric designs. Excavation has shown these stones to be later than the great mound.
Newgrange is located eight kilometres east of the picturesque village of Slane.
The Giants Causeway is located one mile north of Bushmills, and signposted off the B146.
Spectacular cliffs and headlands faced with basalt columns of different heights give shelter to a number of bays, while pavements of “Causeway Stone” march out in regular shapes from the foot of the cliffs towards the sea. Within the nature reserve, a series of paths run between the visitor centre at Causeway Head and Hamilton’s Seat.
One path follows the cliff top, while another runs midway up the cliffs to provide breathtaking views of the Amphitheatre, the Chimney Tops, the Giant’s Causeway itself, and Port-na-Spaniagh, where the Spanish galleon “Girona” sank in 1588. In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird’s-foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift. Watch out for buzzards, peregrine falcons and rare choughs around the cliffs. Eider ducks and oystercatchers often feed in the sheltered bays below
The Old Jameson Distillery in Smithfield Village is in the heart of Old Dublin. Irish Whiskey can trace its history back to the 6th century.
It was established in 1780 by John Jameson and it’s now one of Dublin’s top attractions. It’s almost like a tour of a working distillery as you can follow the fascinating craft of whiskey making through the different stages from grain intake to malting, mashing, fermentation, distillation, maturation and bottling.
Finally the tour culminates in the Jameson Bar for a traditional Irish Whiskey tasting session. Other facilities include the Distillery Gift Shop on the ground floor and the 3rd Still Restaurant which overlooks the lobby.
Take bus number 68, 69 or 79 from Aston Quay, 90 from Connolly, Tara & Heuston Station. Get off at Merchants Quay. You can also take the Red Line Luas to the Smithfield stop. The Distillery is only about a 3-minute walk from there.
The Waterford Crystal Centre is located off the Cork Road, N25 on the outskirts of Waterford. Nowhere in Ireland will you receive a warmer welcome than at the home of the world’s finest crystal.
‘Waterford’ – the very word conjures up the brilliant sparkling crystal, famed the world over. Each piece is a miracle of light, heat and the skill of master craftsmen. Learn all about the arts of blowing and glass cutting in this precise skill.
Our aim is not to be the largest crystalmaker – just the best. Every piece of Waterford celebrates a tradition of perfection. Before commencing your journey into the world of crystal, our short audio visual presentation will introduce you to the crafting process through the eyes of our crystal makers. The centre’s hosts and hostesses will assist you along the route with any queries. | <urn:uuid:01363447-b0ea-4f9f-b1c6-1b9d8f90839f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.goireland.com/2010/01/09/heritage-centres-in-ireland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940727 | 1,752 | 1.84375 | 2 |
March 28, 2012 -- Obesity and inactivity are emerging as new public health threats in the fight against cancer.
Although a new CDC report shows that the overall cancer death rate dropped among adults and children in the United States, some of those cancers associated with obesity are on the rise.
The joint report from the CDC and some of the nation’s leading cancer groups marks the first time they have highlighted the relationship between obesity and cancer. A review of more than 7,000 studies supports a link between obesity and increased risk for colorectal and postmenopausal breast cancers, as well as cancers of the esophagus, kidney, pancreas, and uterus. Lack of physical activity was linked to increased risk for colon cancer and “probable” increased risk for postmenopausal breast and uterine cancers.
“Everybody knows obesity and inactivity can put people at risk for diabetes, heart disease, and many other chronic diseases, but for the most part people don’t know that they can cause cancer,” says Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, who directs the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the CDC.
The newly published report was a collaborative effort between the CDC, the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, based on comprehensive, nationwide registry data on newly diagnosed cancers and cancer deaths.
It found that cancer death rates in the U.S. decreased, on average, by about 1.6% per year between 2004 and 2008, while cancer incidence rates dropped slightly among men and stabilized among women.
The overall downward trends reflect progress in prevention, screening, early detection, and the treatment of cancer.
Among the trends for some of the most common cancers:
Lung cancer incidence and deaths continued to decline among men and women, largely because fewer people smoke. Lung cancer rates have dropped the most in states with the strongest tobacco cessation programs, the report noted.
Breast cancer incidence rates have been relatively stable for the past decade, after steep declines in the early 2000s. The decreased use of hormone therapy by postmenopausal women was credited with this decline.
Incidence and death rates for colorectal cancer continue to decline, largely due to more people using colonoscopy and other forms of screening.
The prostate cancer death rate has decreased since the early 1990s, but the contribution of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to this decline is not known, according to the report.
The rate of childhood cancers has increased by 0.6% per year since the early 1990s, but the dramatic decline in cancer deaths that began in the mid 1970s continues.
The death rate among children and teens dropped by 2.7% annually between 1975 and 1996, and continued to decline by 1.3% per year between 1996 and 2008.
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Henry T. King
Mr. King, a former U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, is author of a book on Nuremberg defendant Albert Speer, The Two Worlds of Albert Speer. Mr. King also was General Counsel of the U.S. Foreign Economic Aid Program and a former chairman of the Section on International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association.
He is U.S. Chairman of the Joint American Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association and the Bara Mexicana Working Group on the Settlement of International Disputes. He is founder of the Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group and is a former president of the Cleveland World Trade Association. Mr. King also served as a member of the ABA Task Force on War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia. He has published more than 70 articles on legal subjects, including international business transactions, international arbitration, and Nuremberg related topics. | <urn:uuid:fd075ed7-c100-458f-8785-d6340bcb4ea6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fredonia.edu/org/jacksonsymposium/king.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957071 | 185 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The following definitions and abbreviations, and those found in WAC 388-500-0005
, apply to this chapter unless otherwise specified. "Advanced life support (ALS)"
means that level of care that calls for invasive emergency medical services requiring advanced medical treatment skills. "Advanced life support (ALS) assessment"
means an assessment performed by an ALS crew as part of an emergency response that was necessary because the client's reported condition at the time of dispatch was such that only an ALS crew was qualified to perform the assessment. An ALS assessment does not necessarily result in a determination that the client requires an ALS level of service. "Advanced life support (ALS) intervention"
means a procedure that is beyond the scope of care of an emergency medical technician (EMT). "Aid vehicle"
means a vehicle used to carry aid equipment and individuals trained in first aid or emergency medical procedures. "Air ambulance"
means a helicopter or airplane designed and used to provide transportation for the ill and injured, and to provide personnel, facilities, and equipment to treat clients before and during transportation. Air ambulance is considered an ALS service. "Ambulance"
means a ground or air vehicle designed and used to provide transportation to the ill and injured; and to provide personnel, facilities, and equipment to treat clients before and during transportation; and licensed per RCW 18.73.140
. "Base rate"
means the medical assistance administration's (MAA) minimum payment amount per covered trip, which includes allowances for emergency medical personnel and their services, the costs of standing orders, reusable supplies and equipment, hardware, stretchers, oxygen and oxygen administration, intravenous supplies and IV administration, disposable supplies, normal waiting time, and the normal overhead costs of doing business. The base rate excludes mileage. "Basic life support (BLS)"
means that level of care that justifies ambulance transportation but requires only basic medical treatment skills. It does not include the need for or delivery of invasive medical procedures/services. "Bed-confined"
means the client is unable to perform all of the following actions:
(1) Get up from bed without assistance;
(2) Ambulate; and
(3) Sit in a chair or wheelchair. "Bordering city hospital"
means a licensed hospital in a designated bordering city (see WAC 388-501-0175
(see "transportation broker"). "Brokered transportation"
means nonemergency transportation arranged by a broker, under contract with MAA, to or from covered medical services for an eligible client (also, see "transportation broker"). "By report"
means a method of payment in which MAA determines the amount it will pay for a service that is covered but does not have an established maximum allowable fee. Providers must submit a report describing the nature, extent, time, effort, and/or equipment necessary to deliver the service. "Emergency medical service"
means medical treatment and care that may be rendered at the scene of any medical emergency or while transporting any client in an ambulance to an appropriate medical facility, including ambulance transportation between medical facilities. "Emergency medical transportation"
means ambulance transportation during which a client receives needed emergency medical services en route to an appropriate medical facility. "Ground ambulance"
means a ground vehicle (including a water ambulance) designed and used to provide transportation to the ill and injured and to provide personnel, facilities, and equipment to treat clients before and during transportation. "Invasive procedure"
means a medical intervention that intrudes on the client's person or breaks the skin barrier. "Lift-off fee"
means either of the two base rates MAA pays to air ambulance providers for transporting a client. MAA establishes separate lift-off fees for helicopters and airplanes. "Loaded mileage"
means the number of miles the client is transported in the ambulance vehicle. "Medical control"
means the medical authority upon whom an ambulance provider relies to coordinate prehospital emergency services, triage and trauma center assignment/destination for the person being transported. The medical control is designated in the trauma care plan by the approved medical program director of the region in which the service is provided. "Nonemergency ambulance transportation"
means the use of a ground ambulance to carry a client who may be confined to a stretcher but typically does not require the provision of emergency medical services en route, or the use of an air ambulance when prior authorized by MAA. Nonemergency ambulance transportation is usually scheduled or prearranged. See also "prone or supine transportation," and "scheduled transportation." "Point of destination"
means a facility generally equipped to provide the needed medical or nursing care for the injury, illness, symptoms, or complaint involved. "Point of pickup"
means the location of the client at the time he or she is placed on board the ambulance or transport vehicle. "Prone or supine transportation"
means transporting a client confined to a stretcher or gurney, with or without emergency medical services being provided en route. "Scheduled transportation"
means prearranged transportation for an eligible client, typically in a vehicle other than an ambulance, with no emergency medical services being required or provided en route to or from a covered medical service. "Specialty care transport (SCT)"
means interfacility transportation of a critically injured or ill client by a ground ambulance vehicle, including medically necessary supplies and services, at a level of service beyond the scope of the paramedic. "Standing order"
means an order remaining in effect indefinitely until canceled or modified by an approved medical program director (regional trauma system) or the ambulance provider's medical control. "Transportation broker"
means a person or organization contracted by MAA to arrange, coordinate and manage the provision of necessary but nonemergency transportation services for eligible clients to and from covered medical services. "Trip"
means transportation one-way from the point of pickup to the point of destination by an authorized transportation provider.
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"To me, the relay's about survivors. They have fought the fight and at that point won; that's what I'm here to do is to help get more survivors so you don't have to hear the words 'you have cancer,' " says Emily Dodson, co-chair of American Relay for Life.
The Ethel's Gang American Relay for Life held their first winter craft show to raise money to fight cancer.
"This is the first year that we have done a craft bazaar. This is a new fundraiser but we've been a team for a couple of years now and we're just always looking for new ways to raise money to kick cancer's butt," says Jacki Thomas, president of Ethel's Gang.
Vendors from different locations offered homemade crafts such as accessories, food and decorations.
"They can come out and they can buy wonderful handmade items. We also have a donation jar and we're also selling pork barbecue, hot dogs, different things like that and that money all goes to relay," adds Thomas.
Each year, more than four million people in over 20 countries take part in Relay for Life to raise funds in saving lives from cancer.
The organization has been finding new ways to reach out to the community all because they want to see more survivors.
"Every penny raised for relay goes to the American Cancer Society so every penny that they raise here today will be put to our community to fight cancer," adds Dodson.
The craft show was held at The North Warren Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department where shoppers left with bags of goodies and a successful good deed.
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PlayStation 4 (PS4) Orbis Hardware Specifications - AMD APU or Discrete?
Subject: Graphics Cards, Processors | January 23, 2013 - 02:42 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: southern islands, sony, ps4, playstation 4, orbis, Kaveri, bulldozer, APU, amd
Earlier today a report from Kotaku.com posted some details about the upcoming PlayStation console, code named Orbis and sometimes just called the PS4. Kotaku author Luke Plunkett got the information from a 90 page PDF that details the development kit so the information is likely pretty accurate if incomplete. It discusses a new controller and a completely new accounts system but I was mostly interested in the hardware details given.
We'll begin with the specs. And before we go any further, know that these are current specs for a PS4 development kit, not the final retail console itself. So while the general gist of the things you see here may be similar to what makes it into the actual commercial hardware, there's every chance some—if not all of it—changes, if only slightly.
This is key to keep in mind because here are the specs listed on the report:
- 8GB of system memory
- 2.2GB of graphics memory
- 4 module (8 core) AMD Bulldozer CPU
- AMD "R10xx" based GPU
- 4x USB 3.0 ports and 2x Ethernet connections
- Blu-ray drive
- 160GB HDD
- HDMI and optical audio output
We are essentially talking about an AMD FX-series processor with a Southern Islands based discrete card and I am nearly 100% sure that this will not match the configuration of the shipping system. Think about it - would a console developer really want to have a processor that can draw more than 100 watts inside its box in addition to a discrete GPU? I doubt it.
Instead, let's go with the idea that this developer kit is simply meant to emulate some final specifications. More than likely we are looking at an APU solution that combines Bulldozer or Steamroller cores along with GCN-based GPU SIMD arrays. The most likely candidate is Kaveri, a 28nm based product that meets both of those requirements. Josh recently discussed the future with Kaveri in a post during CES, worth checking out. AMD has told us several times that Kaveri should be able to hit the 1.0 TFLOPs level of performance and if we compare to the current discrete GPUs would enable graphics performance similar to that of an under-clocked Radeon HD 7770.
There is some room for doubt though - Kaveri isn't supposed to be out until "late Q4" though its possible that the PS4 will be the first customer. It is also possible that AMD is making a specific discrete GPU for implementation on the PS4 based on the GCN architecture that would be faster than the graphics performance expected on the Kaveri APU.
When speaking with our own Josh Walrath on this rumor, he tended to think that Sony and AMD would not use an APU but would rather combine a separate CPU and GPU on a single substrate, allowing for better yields than a combined APU part. In order to make up for the slower memory controller interface (on substrate is not as fast as on-die) AMD might again utilize backside cache, just like the one used on the Xbox 360 today. With process technology improvements its not unthinkable to see that jump to 30 or 40MB of cache.
With the debate of a 2013 or 2014 release still up in the air, there is plenty of time for this to change still but we will likely know for sure after our next trip to Taipei. | <urn:uuid:3466223f-4978-49d7-95a9-99ac6502d93b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/PlayStation-4-PS4-Orbis-Hardware-Specifications-AMD-APU-or-Discrete?pcper_ajax_tabs_block_tab=1&referer=node%2F56386&args= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943391 | 774 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships. | <urn:uuid:b27f1212-f603-4215-adb7-3e31239d6c10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pearltrees.com/xinyufxx/social-network-analysis/id5591410 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918724 | 126 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Alex the Lion (Stiller) is the king of the urban jungle as the main attraction at New York’s Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends Marty the Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Pinkett Smith) have lived their entire lives in blissful captivity, complete with lavish meals and their own park views.
Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty allows his curiosity to get the better of him and, with the help of some prodigious penguins, makes his escape to explore the world he’s been missing, intending to return before morning. In the middle of the night, Alex, Melman and Gloria discover their friend is missing and decide the only course of action is to break out of the zoo and get Marty back home before anyone notices they’re gone.
Even in New York, a lion, giraffe and hippopotamus wandering the streets and riding the subway are bound to attract some attention. Alex, Melman and Gloria track Marty down to Grand Central Station, but before they can catch the train home, they are darted, captured, crated and put on a ship to Africa by well-meaning humans who think they should be freed from the stress of New York life.
When those plotting penguins sabotage the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria finds themselves washed ashore on the exotic island of Madagascar. Now, these native New Yorkers have to figure out how to survive in the wild and sicover the true meaning of the phrase “It’s a jungle out there.” | <urn:uuid:c9729a75-6045-4f47-b62d-93f4ff6c1030> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kalahari.com/games/Madagascar/372/28386447.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947699 | 332 | 1.679688 | 2 |
But more importantly, the survey answered a question that's obviously running through every voter's mind this election season: Who would win in hand-to-hand combat?
Americans, by far, apparently believe Obama is more physically intimidating than his Republican challenger. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said the president would win in a fistfight, compared to only 22 percent who had that confidence in Romney.
Other surveys have also found Obama is the more formidable of the pair, especially when it comes to foreign policy. In response to a similarly outlandish question from a National Geographic Channel poll released earlier this year, 65 percent of Americans said Obama is better suited to defend the nation against an alien invasion. | <urn:uuid:946d8fe8-3b09-438f-9d75-826892f4ae48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ibtimes.com/poll-says-obama-would-crush-romney-fistfight-because-you-really-want-know-789578 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97514 | 138 | 1.625 | 2 |
Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) is the second largest private employer in Hawaii with approximately 5,000 people on staff. It is a non-profit medical system that provides high quality healthcare and healthcare services to the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Basin. The organization manages hospitals and clinics throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Problem: Block spam without catching legitimate email
For any large organization that relies on email, email systems are a prime target for costly attacks, including inbound threats such as spam, viruses, hacking, worms and Trojans, and outbound threats that risk regulatory sanctions and data loss. For HPH, the measures used to block spam were also interfering with legitimate email. “We had issues with legitimate email being blocked and spam slipping through,” explains Alex Georgiev, network and systems administrator for HPH. “The product we were using was very good at blocking viruses, but we couldn’t find the right balance between blocking spam and allowing legitimate mail. The product would either block a lot of legitimate email or it would allow the legitimate email to reach the desktops along with a high volume of spam.”
Even when spam isn’t connected with more serious intrusions, it can still have an insidious impact on IT productivity. “The cost of spam really comes down to the fact that people open help desk calls to cope with it,” continues Georgiev. “So you end up just dealing with people and explaining that you’re trying to make this work. It’s really all about wasted support time.”
To address this problem, HPH purchased McAfee Email Gateway (IronMail) from the McAfee Network Security Business Unit (formerly Secure Computing). “We looked at all the well-known vendors, and McAfee Email Gateway was the best product for the best price,” remembers Georgiev.
McAfee Email Gateway combines the critical elements of comprehensive email security into a single hardened appliance that sits in front of an existing mail server and provides immediate relief from inbound and outbound threats. “Blocking the inbound email threats is where we need to be proactive,” Georgiev comments. “We concentrate most of our resources here because we can’t rely on the end-user to help us out.”
McAfee’s reputation-based technology, TrustedSource, is integrated into McAfee Email Gateway. HPH relies heavily on TrustedSource as a means to accurately detect and prevent email-borne attacks before they enter the network. HPH has realized more than 99 percent spam detection rate, with 80 percent of incoming email blocked upfront using TrustedSource global reputation intelligence. “That’s an enormous benefit in terms of reducing the CPU cycles the box uses,” Georgiev elaborates. “It minimizes appliance fatigue. It also saves network bandwidth. We block about 350,000 spam messages in a week across 4,500 email addresses and the majority are based on recipient rejection.”
Another important advantage of McAfee Email Gateway that HPH realized is a ZERO False Positive rate. Spam does not make it to the user’s inbox, and no business emails are inadvertently blocked as spam.
"We’ve found McAfee delivers excellent value as compared to other vendors in the market. McAfee Email Gateway is priced well, feature-rich, flexible, and high quality. The support organization is also very, very good."Alex Georgiev
Network and Systems Administrator, Hawaii Pacific Health
Protecting outbound sensitive information
Healthcare organizations must comply with a variety of state and federal laws regarding information privacy, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Although inbound email threats consume the lion’s share of HPH’s security resources, ensuring information privacy via outbound message control is still a vital concern.
“When it comes to outbound protection, we have marginal confidence our end user community has adopted our privacy guidelines,” notes Georgiev. “For example, we rely on the sender’s discretion to encrypt an email. Users are our first level of protection and we try to educate them.”
HPH had an encryption solution that was very buggy and required a reboot monthly. To reduce risk, HPH opted to replace this product with McAfee Email Encryption, Gateway Edition. The company also found financial benefits by selecting a single vendor for both inbound and outbound protection. McAfee Email Encryption, Gateway Edition provides HPH with policy-based encryption to protect sensitive information such as credit card and Social Security numbers (SSNs). “We monitor the outbound emails for a specific string, such as a Social Security number. If an SSN appears in an email, it is automatically encrypted,” says Georgiev.
Up next: McAfee Advanced Compliance Profiler
HPH has plans to deploy the newest release of McAfee Email Gateway to take advantage of a new, built-in feature—McAfee Advanced Compliance Engine. Advanced Compliance Engine employs sophisticated content analysis techniques like fingerprinting, lexical analysis and clustering to monitor and prevent data leaks.
This engine can be “trained” to automatically recognize sensitive information in more than 250 document types in eight languages. It can even identify documents that have been intentionally modified to escape detection or different versions of those documents without retraining McAfee Email Gateway on them.
“We’ve found McAfee delivers excellent value as compared to other vendors in the market,” concludes Georgiev. “McAfee Email Gateway is priced well, feature rich, flexible, and high quality. The support organization is also very, very good.” | <urn:uuid:e00aa263-2cd9-4d65-b4de-3ba3771de16b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mcafee.com/ca/case-studies/cs-hawaii-pacific-health.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937863 | 1,178 | 1.5 | 2 |
There are many established causes of hypercalcemia. These include hyperparathyroidism, malignancies with or without bony metastases, sarcoidosis, bone atrophy, thyroid dysfunction, Addison disease, vitamin D intoxication, and the milk-alkali syndrome.1 Hypercalcemia with disseminated bone tuberculosis is extremely rare. However, a case of miliary tuberculosis in which symptomatic hypercalcemia developed was reversed by corticosteroid therapy.
A 28-year-old officer began serving a tour of duty in the Republic of Vietnam in September 1969. In March 1970, the patient noted the onset of fever, chills, nausea, and vomiting. A chest roentgenogram was normal, and peripheral blood smears revealed falciparum malaria. Despite several courses of antimalarial therapy and clearing of the parasitemia, fever persisted; and in late May, he was transferred to Walter Reed General Hospital.On admission, the patient complained of weakness, anorexia, and had a 9.04-kg weight loss. He was a thin, chronically ill appearing, white man in no | <urn:uuid:d07d178e-82c8-4d70-8a37-09579ec02482> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=581677 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94453 | 233 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Marketing/Advertising 101 teaches us two basic principles; you need to know your target audience and you need to know how to get your marketing/advertising efforts in front of your target audience. The same applies to Local Internet Marketing.
Most small business owners are local in nature, and with over 2.75 million SMBs in the United States all vying for that coveted spot on the first page of Google, Yahoo!, or Bing in a local search query (which accounts for 20% of all U.S. searches or 3.83 billion a month), knowing how to get found is paramount to a successful online advertising campaign.
Knowing your target audience – Most businesses know who their target audience is and what they are looking for in their products or services. For example, Home Security Systems have three targeted audiences; single women in their mid 30s to mid 50s who want protection for themselves, men in their 30s through 50s who want to protect their families, and elderly who want the extra protection or whose middle aged children want to be certain they are safe. For this business, the average customer earns over 40,000 and owns a home.
To try to determine what your target audience is, you only need to think about your product and who you receive the most calls or walk ins from; women or men? Does the price point require a certain income, marital status, or home ownership? I recently found a good article on About Us that explains the process of understanding your target audience with Internet Marketing.
Reaching Your Target Audience and Knowing How to Get Found
Once you understand your target audience, you need to focus on how to get your business in front of those customers. A well crafted billboard on an untraveled road is not effective marketing. With Internet Marketing and SEO for Natural Organic Results, specifically understanding Search behavior is equal to placing your billboard on a busy highway filled with your target audience. One important way to get your business found is to understand consumer search behavior.
When searching for a local business:
- Males use ZIP codes as part of their Search queries. Does this have something to do with the old belief that males are better at math than women? Not sure, but using zip codes (sparingly) in your content can help drive results to male searchers.
- While zip code searches currently account for less than 3% of Search Engine referrals, as the use of hand held devices increases, so will the significance of zip code driven Search Results.
- Females use Town Name and/or City Name. Including geo targeting by combining keyword/geo or geo/keyword can help if your product or services are directed toward females.
- Younger searches focus on generic search terms without geo modifiers, allowing the Search Engines or Mobile to handle the localization. (see point two in reference to zip codes)
- Older searchers almost always focus their search queries on search terms with local modifiers and tend to take the time to write out a full statement or question. As a result, always including the answer to their question in the content is helpful. For example; Where can I sell my car? What type of plumber fixes leaky pipes? or even the spelling of a state name can help attract the “older” generation.
- Only 6% of all searches include a neighborhood or region, but very few businesses are targeted for these searches, so if you include it in your content, you are likely to get found by those 6%. (ie: Inland Empire, Middlesex County Tri-borough)
- Adjectives and superlatives still help. Remember that understanding your target audience means that you will know what they are looking for. If they are budget conscious, they will be looking for an affordable (maybe even cheap) solution to their needs. If they are quality conscious, then they will desire quality products and services. According to a “marketing” friend of mine, the word BEST is beyond cliché, but words like quality, superior, distinguished, and fine can help not only with Search results, but with conversion.
Wrapping it All Up – Understanding your audience and their search behavior is key to getting found and to growing your business. A well rounded Local SEO campaign should use as many of the “tricks of the trade” as possible, but including too many tactics can result in poor results as you may be seen as scammy. Instead focus on well thought out, targeted content written for the types of customers you want to attract. Build a great billboard on a busy street and they will find you!
John J. Buzon is currently the Content Manager at eLocal Listing, he and his team are responsible for the creation of thousands of pieces of highly ranked content being published on the Internet for thousands of businesses of all sizes. | <urn:uuid:8dcee47b-00af-4434-92b8-0a2b3bf63935> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.mylocally.com/understanding-your-target-audience-for-local-seo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953527 | 982 | 1.625 | 2 |
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Whether you are "good at languages" or not, whether your interests lie in people themselves, or in their art, their literature, their political institutions, or their language, as long as you want to learn more about the great classical forerunners of Western culture, our department has much to offer you. Here you will find some of the most interesting, unusual and significant course material for an understanding of the ancient world as a parent of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and our modern way of life, presented to you in a variety of class types and teaching techniques.
Classes on the whole are kept small, so that there is much opportunity for useful and interesting discussion and conversation, in or out of class, with fellow students and with faculty members.
Even if you do not intend to major in Classical Studies, we welcome you in any of our courses. No matter how many or how few courses you decide to take, we will endeavour to make the classical past alive and significant for you.
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.
Barack Obama’s longtime pastor says he hopes the controversy will have a positive outcome and spark an honest dialogue about race in America. Wright says black church traditions are still “invisible” to many Americans, as they have been throughout the country’s history.
Politico’s Mike Allen has more:
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to chance national policy by “coming after†Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president.
The pastor also insisted Obama “didn’t denounce†him and “didn’t distance himself†from Wright’s controversial remarks, but “did what politicians do.â€
Wright implied Obama still agrees with him by saying: “He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American.â€
Wright spoke at the National Press Club Monday morning before the Washington press corps and a supportive audience of black church leaders beginning a two-day symposium.
He said the black church tradition is not bombastic or controversial, but different and misunderstood by the “dominant culture” in the United States.
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According to 2010 statistics, from Ministry of Water and Irrigation, only 58.7 percent of rural communities and 84 percent of urban dwellers use clean and safe water.
As the population increases coupled with increased industrial and irrigation activities, water demands also increases swiftly, something which calls for immediate action…
To address the situation, Drilling and Dam Construction Agency, has embarked on construction of water wells to supplement government efforts of making sure that every Tanzanian country accesses clean an safe water.
As the nation heads towards Water week which commences on March 16 to March 22, many Tanzanians are faced with acute shortage of water, as many depend on water sourced from short and temporary wells which is usually not clean and safe.
In many places, be it urban or rural areas, water is a critical problem because many women waste their valuable time, spending the whole day queuing at the water wells, some abandoning their income generating activities at the expense of water shortage.
The acute shortage of water could be solved if different communities in collaboration with the government put in place comprehensive strategies to construct deep and short wells and supply to residents.
DDCA’s Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Mgaiwa chronicles achievements and efforts undertaken to supplement government’s plans to solve the problem of acute shortage of water.
According to Mgaiwa, since its establishment in 1997, a total of 6,614 have been constructed out of which 5,639 wells managed to supply water, while 975 did not.
Mgaiwa would like to see to it that DDCA takes the leading role the construction of water wells and dams that have value for money and deliver better services for the people.
He said DDCA’s main customers for the service are small scale farmers, ordinary users for domestic purposes and livestock keepers.
He also mentioned other customers of the agency as government and its institutions, manufacturing industries, large scale farmers, private sector, and different religious communities.
He said the DDCA has a big role in alleviating poverty and that same efforts will continue to rescue people from life hardship.
Mgaiwa said the objective of DDCA is to improve accountability and efficiency in delivering the services, reduce the cost, and contribute to the economic growth of the country especially on better water supply services.
Mgaiwa said the main role of DDCA is to improve water supply services and make sure that its cost is affordable so that many can access it easily.
He said another role is to dig long and short water wells, construct dams to increase water availability for the communities all over the country.
“Therefore, DDCA delivers the services for both urban and rural communities without discriminating poor people who usually have scarce resources. DDCA has been caring and will continue to care all people in the urban and in the rural areas where there are no financial support to improve the water supply services in their respective communities.
“DDCA has proved that it has the capacity to build new sources of water and rehabilitate the old ones at a low cost which is affordable by majority” he says.
He said that an average of 450 water wells are constructed every year by DDCA while 50 to 100 wells were constructed by the government yearly before the introduction of DDCA.
“This achievement proves that currently DDCA has the capacity to deliver the service to many customers and is an institution which is reliable on water supply services” Mgaiwa said.
The Agency was established in 1997. It is the government Agency operating under Ministry of Water and Irrigation.
The objectives are to oversee and enhance availability of water sources to improve
accessibility of clean and safe water for different purposes including domestic, agriculture, livestock, fish projects, industries to alleviate poverty.
Apart from being commercial oriented, this Agency has the obligation to delivery the services to the general public at a low cost.
“We are involved in research, examining soil samples to establish whether a particular area is useful for water wells and dams. We are also conducting soil samples to determine arrangements of rock strata beneath the earth’s crust and establish if that place is useful for construction of deep water wells.
Mgaiwa said that they have been installing pumping water machines to the water wells and dams to determine quality of the water in the wells.
About preliminary research, the Chief Executive Officer said that they have been examining the geology of the area and its history to determine whether there are signs of availability of water.
Commenting on detailed research, he said DDCA has been examining the possibility of availability of water by looking at the rock strata and soil samples.
He said that data analysis and preparation of the report are underway on the depth of the water well and the machines to be used for digging such wells.
Question: What are the advantages of conducting the research before digging the water wells and dams?
According to the official the cost of digging water wells depends on many factors such as diameter of the well and the pipeline to be used in the construction process, type of the rock and the distance from the location of the DDCA machines.
Also in the list are the costs of equipments, fuel cost, and the situation of proposed area for the well construction such as presence of road, requires construction of the new path for laying down the pipes and other machines.
He said that the construction process of the well also depends on number of the equipments that would be ferried to the area, and time to be taken before the well is dug.
He said other costs include hiring of the equipments, vehicles and other machines.
On dams constructions, Mgaiwa said that the costs depends on the feasibility study which involves examining of soil samples, the environment and preparation of the report among others.
The Ministry of water and Irrigation recently announced commemoration of National water week and admitted that the sector faced several challenges including acute shortage of water to many rural and urban communities.
The Ministry’s Deputy Minister Gerson Lwenge said until end of next year, the problem of water in many places in Dar es Salaam will be a history after completion of a big project of installing large pipes at lower Ruvu, running from Bagamoyo to Dar es Salaam .
However, he said water is very important because it is also used for agriculture development through irrigation, something which ensures the nation of food security.
"Food security depends on availability of water supply in different areas including rain water, water wells, and that from catchment areas" he says.
By depending on rain water, many farmers get big loss because even if they cultivate, their crops dry because of shortage of water.
The government through DDCA, can construct many water wells and dams to keep rain water and other underground sourced water to be used during dry season.
The theme for this water week is “water for food security.”
October 2010, President Jakaya Kikwete, said that the problem of shortage of water in the city of Dar es Salaam would be history following comprehensive plans to increase water sources and make water available and accessible to all city residents.
He promised this during at a political campaign rally held October 2010 at one of the meeting Kiwalani, Kitunda and Mwembe Yanga in the city.
He said upper Ruvu had the capacity of supplying 60,000 litres per day while lower Ruvu could supply 90,000 litres. He said this amount is not sufficient to meet the demands of all residents in the city.
He said unlike the past, the city’s water demand is 360,000 litres per day, a problem partly contributed by the rapid growing population. He said with the support from the American people, the government would continue improving lower Ruvu to be able to supply more water.
The official said while the government continues with its efforts and plans to improve water accessibility and supply , the new research conducted by Norway discovered another source of water at Kimbiji.
“When the people of Norway told me that Kimbiji had water, I asked them that is it not fuel? They answered no, it was water !. When they showed me the map, I agreed, there are plenty and could be half of the size of the Lake Victoria ” he said.
He said the new source would produce 260,000 litres which, if combined with other reliable sources of water, is quite enough to meet water demands in the city.
However, he said experts from Dawasa, and Dawasco, told him that the project could be completed in three years time.
“When they briefed me on the project, that it could take three years, I told them that they should make sure that it is completed a bit earlier.
I directed that one contractor should be assigned to deal with water wells only, another one for installation of tanks, and supplying of large pipes should be assigned to another contractor so that the project could be completed earlier” said Kikwete
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Q: Gurudev, please tell us about the significance of the different armaments of Goddess Durga?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: I’ll tell you in brief. In those days they didn’t have guns. In those days, they only had the Trishul (trident). If there would have been guns in those days then maybe an AK-47 would have been in the hands of Maa Durga (Mother Divine).
It is said that the Devatas asked the Mother Divine (Devi), 'Devi, why are you holding these armaments. With one sound of yours, you can burn all the demons to ashes.'
The Devatas then themselves gave the answer saying, 'You are so merciful that you want to purify even the demons with your armaments. You want to liberate them and that is why you are doing this.'
The message behind this is to say that action has its own value. Having the Sankalpa (determination) alone is not enough.
See, God has given us hands and legs so that we can do work.
Now why does Mother Divine have so many hands? That is to signify that even God does work, and not through just one hand but through a thousand hands and in a thousand ways.
Devi has a thousand ways to destroy demons. She can dispel evil even through a flower, like Gandhigiri. So that is why Devi holds a flower in her hand, to settle things through a flower. Then by blowing the conch (Shank) and imparting knowledge. If even that doesn’t work then she uses the Sudarshan Chakra.
So, she has more than one trick. This is to signify that to bring about changes in this world only a single tactic won’t work. You will have to find many ways.
Why does Mother Divine has
so many hands? That is
to signify that even God
does work, and not through
just one hand but through
a thousand hands and
in a thousand ways.
Same is the case with our relationships. We can’t be adamant in all situations. If you be adamant with your father all the time and hope for things to work then that it will not happen. Sometimes love, sometimes being adamant and sometimes anger works.
Same with children. Look at how parents use all different kind of tactics and behavior to bring up their child. Every time using a stick won’t work. Sometimes they have to get their things done through love as well.
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Whole grains are the hottest trend in sliced bread, with whole wheat edging out soft white bread in total sales for the first time.
Flooded with messages about heart health, fiber intake and the need for omega-3s, more consumers are looking for bread that can taste good and deliver nutrients.
That's why shopping for sliced bread is increasingly about one of two things: what's affordable, and what seems healthiest. And the breads in the middle of the market seem to be getting squeezed.
The best-performing breads are promoting credentials like "whole grain" and "natural," sometimes asking consumers to pay more for those loaves. And it seems to be working. Breads with "natural" in the name, or grains visible through the packaging, are among the best performing at grocery stores. Among them: Nature's Own, Nature's Pride, and Arnold.
It's part of a major turning of the tide. Packaged wheat bread recently surpassed white bread in dollar sales, according to Nielsen Co. For the 52 weeks ended July 10, wheat bread sales increased 0.6 percent to $2.6 billion, while white bread sales declined 7 percent to $2.5 billion. White bread is still ahead in volume, but the margin is shrinking. Americans bought 1.5 billion packages of white bread in the last year, a 3 percent decrease, and 1.3 billion packages of wheat bread, a 5 percent increase.
The environment has been hard on midprice players. Among them, Downers Grove-based Sara Lee, which has put its $2.2 billion bread business up for sale, people familiar with the matter say. The company declined to comment on the possibility of a sale.
Sara Lee-brand bread sales are down 10 percent over the last 52 weeks to $359 million, according to SymphonyIRI Group, a Chicago-based market-research firm. IRI figures do not include Wal-Mart.
Many other brands also are slipping, including Bimbo's Oroweat, down 10 percent to $301 million, Hostess' Wonder bread, down 5 percent to $220 million, and Bimbo's Stroehmann, down 6 percent to $116 million.
Sliced-bread sales as a whole fell 3 percent, to $6.5 billion, over the same period.
Sara Lee had been the second-highest grossing bread brand at grocery stores, behind Campbell's Soup Co.'s Pepperidge Farm, until it was surpassed in 2009 by Nature's Own, a whole-wheat bread owned by Thomasville, Ga.-based Flower Foods. Nature's Own sales are up 3 percent over the past year to $416 million.
As an overall business, however, Sara Lee's bread is faring a little better than its namesake brand, with sales down 4 percent and volume up 2 percent for the year ended April 4.
In a statement, Jeff Dryfhout, director of marketing for Sara Lee North America Bakery, noted a series of product launches, including Sara Lee Soft & Smooth made with whole grains but having the texture of white bread, and a 100 percent whole wheat bread in 2005.
This year, Sara Lee introduced a Soft & Smooth bread made with DHA omega-3. Because of these products and others, Dryfhout said, "We are in a strong position with a robust and meaningful portfolio of products that address the evolving trends."
Sharon Glass, group vice president of health and wellness at Catalina Marketing, said many consumers are trying whole-grain products, especially with more variety on shelves and less association with dry, dense breads of the past. She said some people will need coupons to get them to try a whole-grain bread, but once they find something they like, it will become a habit.
Samantha Dulles, a stay-at-home mom in Downers Grove, said since she found a whole-grain bread that her whole family enjoyed — Pepperidge Farm's Farmhouse Soft Oatmeal bread — she has never bought anything else.
"It's great if it's on sale, but I don't really worry about that," she said.
Dulles first started buying the brand about two years ago after examining nutritional claims and other information on just about every whole-grain loaf in the bread aisle.
Dulles is the kind of shopper Euromonitor industry analyst Francisco Reduello said will drive the bread industry in the U.S. during the next few years. "People are going to continue to buy bread, and some consumers are going to buy for function, with a high added value," he said.
While bread consumption in the U.S., as in Western Europe, is expected to remain flat, the popularity of whole grains has created an opportunity for the bread industry to grow in the U.S., especially with niche consumers.
And as a result, dollar-sales of bread are expected to grow here, and be flat or slightly down in Europe, where there's little or no premium placed on bread's nutritional content.
Glass said that whole grains are a top priority with consumers these days, ranking between healthy food to feed children and heart health in a recent study by Catalina Marketing. Bread benefits from interest in whole grain, she added, because it's an easy way for consumers "to get their nutrients without having to prepare a meal."
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Sweet Briar Dam Restoring spawning habitat at Sweet Brian Dam required removing silt, laying fabric, and adding "pea rock" in off-channel areas that were close to deep water. Other projects were undertaken to restore riparian areas, create better angling access and prevent erosion.
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March 12th 1865
Gen F P Pierpoint
On last Thursday evening the 9th day of March I was attacked by a Company of Rebbels Commanded by Capt L H Campbell numbering about thirty men We succeeded in holding the Court House and preventing the Town from being robbed There is two stores here and no damage done except that they burned our fort & I Sir could have held the fort but then the Town would have been robbed.
The only Causuality was that Leut R W Varner lat of the 10th Reg was a mile out of Camp and attempted to make his way in was seriously if not mortally wounded
These Rebbels are still in these woods and hills in this vicinity although Col Wilkin sent men here to look after them They returned without crossing to the southside of the River I could not prevail on them to cross and assist in driving them from the Country They said that he had provided them no rations or forage & were tired consequently they could not go after them if I had men enough I could soon start some of them
I wish you would have His Excellency to suggest to Col Wilkenson to send if but twenty five men (although there should be more) if there were only twenty five might do much good to act in Conjuction with my Company They should be stationed here for two or three weeks at least
Capt W I Wiant
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Food Logistics Taps into Tech Solutions
Smart technology helps cold chain shippers prevent product spoilage and loss.
From the time food is harvested, contamination risk exists in every phase from farm to fork. Washing and cleaning produce seems like a safe step—but not if the process involves tainted water. Unsanitary packaging, handling, and transportation equipment represent additional sources of contamination.
Some food products are at higher risk than others. "Cantaloupes had a bad year in 2012," notes Kevin Payne, senior director at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intelleflex, a global supplier of on-demand data visibility solutions. An August 2012 salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes infected 178 people, resulting in 62 hospitalizations and two deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"A number of variables impact safe food handling during transport from field to table, and all of them are difficult to control," explains Payne. "Nearly every food item has some level of bacteria. It is impossible to remove it all, and cantaloupe is particularly difficult because of the nature of the rind. If handlers store and manage the product properly through the cold chain, however, they can nearly eliminate the risk of bacterial infection."
An unbroken cold chain comprises an uninterrupted series of storage and distribution activities that maintain a given temperature range. It is used to help ensure product safety and extend the shelf life of items such as fresh agricultural produce, seafood, frozen food, photographic film, chemicals, and pharmaceutical drugs.
"The cantaloupe-related outbreak illustrates several cold chain challenges," Payne continues. "One is identifying at-risk product, which results from improper temperature management. Another is speeding the recalls of bad product."
Recent legislation may help shippers and cold chain logistics providers address both challenges. The Food Safety Modernization Act, passed in 2010, requires food facilities to evaluate hazards, implement preventive controls, and create food safety plans.
"The legislation was the first major overhaul to food safety laws since the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in the 1930s," Payne says. "It was long overdue, and changed the philosophy behind food safety from reactive to proactive, which is a fundamental shift."
Today, the proactive approach is to document proper product handling and temperature maintenance from the field through the retailer. A range of new technologies supports these efforts.
Tagging the Goods
The principal tool used for tracking and tracing perishables is the temperature tag, or "temp tag."
"Temperature tags provide real-time temperature data, and allow handlers to respond to any problems," says Rod Bernard, director of quality assurance and food safety at Pompano Beach, Fla.-based produce supplier Southern Specialties. "They gather data continuously, in contrast to point-driven downloads by data recorders."
Southern Specialties uses a tag called Xsense, manufactured by Israeli technology firm BT9 Ltd. The Xsense system monitors, analyzes, and disseminates relevant shipment data, and recommends how to manage products throughout the entire cold chain, ensuring the viability of a product's optimal environment from start to finish. The data it provides gives cold chain stakeholders transparency and control over their perishables, no matter where they are.
"Xsense communicates with a control unit," Bernard notes. "This is valuable because the tag is placed during packing, so we monitor the shipment's condition from that instant until it arrives at the Southern Specialties facility."
Some companies apply tags only on departure, leaving shippers unable to monitor pre-departure conditions. One shipment of berries arrived at a Southern Specialties facility showing only a two-degree difference in temperature from departure to arrival. The historical data from the temp tags, however, noted a 10-degree shift had occurred in transit.
"This information allows us to adjust how we handle the product, because it will have a shorter shelf life," Bernard says. "We can take action such as shipping shorter distances, cooling the products, and continually monitoring the shipment."
Monitoring perishable products is vital because of the "cliff of spoilage." "When product moves through the supply chain, it doesn't appear to spoil until just before it does," Payne explains. "We call this the cliff of spoilage."
Because of the cliff of spoilage, shipment rejections tend to occur at the end of the supply chain, a cost ultimately borne by the grower. Although growers typically estimate that loss, called shrink, at two to four percent of production, Intelleflex tags have demonstrated that eight to 10 percent may be more accurate—and that loss rates can reach 20 percent for some growers.
"Growers are losing more of their crop than they think," says Payne. "Monitoring temperature allows shippers and cold chain logistics providers to gauge relative shelf life." This allows them to reprioritize distribution to move product with a short shelf life to market faster.
"Instead of losing 10 percent of a crop to spoilage, cold chain shippers can save all but one or two percent," notes Payne.
Steps Toward Consumer Safety
In addition to preventing shrink, cold chain monitoring tools help minimize consumer health risks. "Using these technologies has allowed us to minimize the food safety risk when transporting fresh and frozen seafood products," says Sal Battaglia, director of operations at Vaughan, Ontario-based Seacore Seafoods.
Seacore uses both GPS tracking and downloadable temperature data loggers on its trucks. "These tools ensure that products remain at the ideal temperature, and that the shipment comes straight to our facility without any delays," he explains. "With these technologies in place, we can tell right away if the inbound logistics played any part in a food safety or product quality issue."
Establishing the Links
One challenge cold chain shippers face is coordinating safe post-harvest handling, freight forwarding, and the latest technology.
"The University of Florida Food Science Technology Center has trained our staff to better understand grower and packer procedures, and how logistics and post-harvest processes can work together to maintain the cold chain and ensure hygiene across the supply chain," says Frank Cascante, head of consumer and perishable logistics at DHL Global Forwarding.
DHL uses GPS-driven data temperature tags based on radio frequency identification technology. "These sensors are not just data recorders; they're data loggers," says Cascante. "Recorders register temperature and humidity at a relay point—such as logistics site, departure point, and destination—but loggers report hourly or even minute-by-minute history."
The data the loggers provide gives shippers and logistics providers valuable insight. "For a shipment of Peruvian asparagus, temperature and humidity monitoring tags were installed as one of our first protocols," Cascante recalls. "The container was exported from a new packing facility in Peru that we hadn't worked with before, and it was an urgent load during the peak of the European season.
"When we downloaded the temp tags in Panama, we determined that the temperature regulations had not been met post-harvest; the proper pre-cooling had not been done at the facility," he continues. "In fact, there was already some odor of decay. Immediately, we notified both origin and destination parties that the product was going to decay extremely fast. The consignee agreed with the shipper not to receive that load."
That critical decision helped DHL avoid a significant claim; because this was the seasonal peak, an asparagus load could have cost $70,000 to $80,000.
Cold chain monitoring detects not only temperature fluctuations, but possible occurrences of intentional shipment contamination.
Beyond Food Safety: Food Defense
"The biggest challenge food companies face is 'food defense'—preventing the intentional adulteration of food," says Don Hsieh, director of commercial industrial marketing at Boca Raton, Fla.-based security solutions provider Tyco Integrated Security. "This threat is probably greatest during movement through the supply chain."
The food supply chain has grown increasingly longer over the past few years, primarily because consumers want year-round access to produce that used to be sold seasonally.
To meet this demand, products are being sourced from uncommon areas, such as Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. The longer the supply chain, the greater the exposure and risk.
Cargo theft has also increased. Food and beverage thefts accounted for the highest number of cargo thefts of any industry in 2010 and 2011, according to FreightWatch International, which tracks U.S. cargo theft. This is the first time food and beverage has topped the list, which used to be led by high-value products such as electronics.
Food theft becomes a safety concern for products requiring refrigeration. Thieves steal the product to resell it, but they have no concern that the product stays within the prescribed temperature range. If it is resold into the legitimate supply chain and causes foodborne illness, the manufacturer's reputation suffers.
The same technologies that ensure temperature integrity of perishables in the cold chain can help track and monitor food defense concerns.
Patterns of Improvement
Traceability is increasingly important in a food supply chain that is becoming more global in scope. "It isn't sufficient to know where a product was manufactured; you must know the origin of the individual ingredients that make up the finished product, as well as the condition they were kept in at all points along the supply chain," says Keith Sherry, general manager of supply chain services at BT Global Services, a technology provider with U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas.
A loaf of multigrain bread made in the United States, for example, contains seven ingredients, sourced from 18 different countries. It is sold in 224,000 retail food stores and 935,000 retail food outlets. A contamination issue with any of the bread's ingredients can affect thousands of consumers, so manufacturers must be able to track every component.
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How To Buy A Kneeboard
If you are looking for a unique watersport that is similar to water skiing, and just as thrilling, kneeboarding
is for you. Kneeboarding offers all new challenges and thrills, but having the right equipment for your size and
ability is essential to enjoy the sport.
Choosing the Right Kneeboard
Choosing between the two basic types of kneeboards offered by top manufacturers depends primarily on what type of
kneeboarding you plan to do.
Types of Kneeboards
- Most recreational kneeboarders use a rotomolded board, which is widely available and
less expensive than high-tech models
- The soft, wide edges of rotomolded boards are best suited for beginners and boarders just out for a good
- The design allows for smooth turning and good control for even the novice kneeboarder
- The boards are relatively thick and very buoyant, so they help act as a flotation
device after a spill
- Some rotomolded boards offer fins to help make turning easier
- Compression-molded boards offer more performance and durability for the advanced kneeboarder
- These are thinner, lighter and have sharper edges to allow quicker turning and tricks
- Compression-molded boards are not as buoyant as rotomolded versions, which allows advanced users to utilize
Whether you are a beginner or advanced, there are two general styles of kneeboards, and the one you choose depends on what you are planning to do out on the water.
- Trick board
- Features a rounded bottom and rounded edges to make it easier to perform tricks.
- Slalom board
- Designed for the specific use of slalom boarding
- Has sharper edges to allow for better turning and holding the edge through the turn
There are various parts of every kneeboard that affect its performance.
- Kneeboards are comprised of generally the same materials as water ski's
- A polyurethane or foam core is wrapped by a fiberglass or fiberglass/graphite (on advanced boards) composite
- This is the measurement of the curve on the bottom of the kneeboard
- The higher the rocker number, the easier to turn. The lower the rocker, the faster it goes.
- Most kneeboards have a rocker of 5-6 centimeters
- These are located on the bottom of the kneeboard to make it easier to steer
- Usually made of hard plastic and a fiberglass composite.
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Choosing the Right Rope
Kneeboarders, require a stiffer rope than water skiers to help perform tricks. A tighter, stiffer rope that does
not stretch helps you get more air and be able to pull yourself through flips and spins.
- Low stretch ropes are generally constructed of polyethylene or a polyethylene blend
- These generally stretch around one percent in length when under a normal kneeboarding load
- No-stretch ropes are constructed using a materal called Spectra
- Spectra® rope is very strong and has almost no elastic properties.
- They stretch less than half a percent when under a normal load
- If you mainly kneeboard and are trying to improve your skills and learn tricks, the spectra rope is your best
- If you spend equal amounts of time skiing and kneeboarding and you are an occasional or recreational user, a
low-stretch rope will do the job. This gives you some stretch for recreational water skiing, but also offers enough
stiffness to pull against when kneeboarding.
- Kneeboard ropes vary in length, but most are 60 to 70 feet long
- Kneeboard handles tend to be more specialized than water-ski handles because they offer more features that make
tricks and aerial maneuvers easier
- Most kneeboard handles have a wider grip than water ski handles
- Kneeboard handles commonly have grips that are 13-15" wide, whereas ski handles are generally 11-12" wide
- The increased grip width makes it easier to perform tricks requiring the handle to be passed behind the rider's
- Kneeboard handles typically have a feature that makes spinning tricks easier. This may come in the form of a
rope braid or the newer "launch" handles that offer a second, smaller handle grip built into the rope for a stronger
- Most kneeboard handles have neoprene foam floats on them to keep the handle floating
- Kneeboarders ride at fairly slow speed, much slower than water skiers, allowing foam floats to be built onto the
handle without having a problem with the water ripping them off
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Approximately one in every two thousand infants born in the United States each year is sexually ambiguous in such a way that doctors cannot immediately determine the child's sex. Some children's chromosomal sexuality contradicts their sexual characteristics. Others have the physical traits of both sexes, or of neither. Drawing upon life history interviews with adults who were treated for intersexuality as children, Sharon E. Preves explores how such individuals experience and cope with being labeled sexual deviants in a society that demands sexual conformity. By demonstrating how intersexed people manage and create their own identities, often in conflict with their medical diagnosis, Preves argues that medical intervention into intersexuality often creates, rather than mitigates, the stigma these people suffer. | <urn:uuid:4188cda8-a6db-4016-aba5-0d1be43a0f7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scarleteen.com/node/122?theme=scarleteen_textonly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95958 | 146 | 2.171875 | 2 |
9th EMBL/EMBO Joint Conference 2008
Regine Kollek, University of Hamburg, Germany
Regine Kollek, PhD, received her doctoral degree in molecular biology from the University of Würzburg (Germany), before she spent two years at the Medical School of the University of California, San Diego (USA). From 1981 through 1984, she was senior researcher at the Heinrich-Pette Institute at the University of Hamburg (Germany). From 1985-1987 she was a member of the scientific staff of the Inquiry Commission on "Chances and Risks of Gene-Technology" of the German parliament in Bonn. After that she joined an interdisciplinary research group at the Hamburger Institute for Social Research, working on sociology of science and technology and risk theory.
Since 1995 she has been professor for biomedical technology assessment at the University of Hamburg and head of a research group dedicated to the study of the implications of modern biotechnology in medicine at the Research Centre for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment. Her research focuses on the ethical and societal implications of modern biotechnology and genetics in medicine. Her latest books are on predictive genetic diagnosis (2008) and on pharmacogenetics and individualised therapy (2004). She is member of the German Ethics Council and of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO. | <urn:uuid:1c9cfbab-7049-491f-b006-77dad507b7f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.embl.de/aboutus/science_society/conferences/conference_2008/participants/kollek/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932595 | 267 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Feliz Día de la Candelaria
Today marks the Catholic holiday of Día de la Candelaria, known as Candlemas in English.
In Mexico, whoever cuts the Rosca de Reyes on Día de Los Reyes and ends up with the baby Jesus figurine is responsible for bringing tamales for everyone on February 2. Several times I’ve gotten the figurine while celebrating Día de Los Reyes with our family in Mexico and always get teased that I’ll have to come back for a visit soon (with tamales in tow).
Today, we’re eating tamales de pollo con mole verde at our house to celebrate. I admit: I bought mine this year from my favorite tamalería, the Tamalli Space Charros. They’ve got a tamal truck and when they stopped near my house the other day, I just couldn’t resist and bought a few for the holiday.
It’s also common in Mexico to enjoy your tamales on Día de la Candelaria with an atole. You can check out my recipe for champurrado for a delicious chocolate atole.
We’re working on a great recipe for tamales in the test kitchen based on a recipe given to us by a friend who grew up along the Texas-Mexico border. Her mother owns a well-known restaurant and one of the cooks there was generous enough to share their recipe with us. We can’t wait to pass it on to you soon!
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Dedicated couch potatoes can already watch sport in 3-D and YouTube videos on their TVs, but Apple is now working on its own full-blown television set that may one day be controlled by voice or even movement.
The electronics maker behind the iPhone and iPad has been in talks this month with media executives about a television set capable of wirelessly streaming shows and movies, according to reports. Component makers in Asia now say they will start preparing materials for a so-called Apple iTV in the first quarter of next year. The sets would be released by the end of the year and span 32 and 37 inches in size, DigiTimes reported this week.
"This will definitely be exciting as there is a lot of room to change the way we use our TV and the whole experience," says Ashish Panjabi, the chief operating officer of Jacky's Group of Companies, which oversees the local chain of electronics shops.
"Could we be seeing the end of all those wires that we connect into our televisions" or the beginning of "voice-controlled televisions?"
TV manufacturers have been be making strides in that direction.
Last week, LG announced a "magic remote" that lets viewers use their voice to enter text while accessing more than 1,000 apps on certain TVs. Another gesture feature lets people control models that display 3-D images "with simple arm or wrist movements", LG says.
Before Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, passed away, he told Walter Isaacson, his biographer, that he had "cracked" the secret for an easy-to-use TV set with "the simplest user interface you could imagine".
Apple's move today towards making this a reality may seem like a rerun of an old episode from the company's history. Back in 2007, Jobs announced a set-top box called Apple TV, although it linked televisions only to content from Apple's iTunes store and was widely considered a failure compared with the successes of other products.
At the time, Jobs likened it to "a DVD player for the 21st century".
Since then, established players in the TV manufacturing business such as Samsung have concocted all sorts of innovations to spur television sales, including sets that display 3-D images and stream videos from the internet. Hitachi even displayed a prototype with which viewers could control a TV's volume and channels with the wiggle of a finger or a wave of their hand. But not all of these innovations make it to stores, and when they do, blockbuster sales are far from guaranteed.
Google TV launched last year to connect televisions with music, apps, shows and movies from the internet. Yet it has failed to garner the kind of traction some within the industry had expected.
Last month, Guerrino De Luca, the chief executive of Logitech, acknowledged that its bet on a set-top box linked to Google TV was "a mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature". After suffering a loss ofabout US$100 million (Dh367.3m) on the venture, Logitech says it will not be coming out with a new model next year.
Still, other companies are expected to release new technologies pegged to Google TV, with many likely to be displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month.
"Google has tried getting involved with TVs with limited success thus far, but 2012 will need to see Google and Samsung find a way of cracking their way forward or else they risk Apple taking over this industry as well," Mr Panjabi says. | <urn:uuid:9cec45b3-0afb-4e04-9317-8a2e549101aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/steve-jobs-last-wish-to-play-on-itv | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959663 | 726 | 1.65625 | 2 |
But the memorial outside Shanksville, Pa., where Flight 93 crashed with the loss of 40 passengers and crew, is still millions short of meeting its $70 million proposed budget.
A gala fundraiser at the Newseum last week, with former presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton and House Speaker John Boehner delivering remarks, raised $2 million, bringing the gap down to $8 million.
So far, the National Park Foundation, which is the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, has raised about $32 million from more than 100,000 contributors.
But it appears that fewer than 10 contributions came either from the 535 members of the House and Senate there on 9/11 or from the 300 others who’ve been elected since then. That’s a 1.2 percent participation rate.
Pennsylvania, which only had one resident on the plane, has ponied up $18 million, and the federal government has committed $8 million, with an additional $4 million expected at some point from other legislation.
Problem is, tiny Shanksville (pop. 245) lacks the fundraising abilities the other memorials had. No deep-pocketed defense industry or financial industry seems willing to jump in, just an abandoned coal mine. And no family members from that area — Flight 93 was going from Newark to San Francisco.
But those soldiers “knew when they signed up that they might die,” Clinton said. The passengers on Flight 93 “didn’t sign up for this.”
“Ten million dollars is not too much to pay” for those who “made a decision to die for us,” Clinton said.
Actually, more specifically, their deaths, according to the 9/11 Commission, saved many of the estimated 5,000 people in and around the Capitol that morning, including, let’s see, 535 members of Congress. There were countless staff, tourists and surely the ubiquitous lobbyist or two up there as well.
And yet, when the foundation invited members to join an honorary Flight 93 committee last year, we hear fewer than 25 responded.
“I’m confounded,” former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell told The Loop, by the lack of adequate federal involvement. There are rules against earmarks, he added, but this would certainly be a meritorious exception.
(We’re not even going to mention the horrific Al Qaeda propaganda photos of the Capitol in flames, the cost to replace the irreplaceable, treasured icon of our democracy.)
And $8 million? After spending $621 million for a Capitol visitors center? That $8 million doesn’t even qualify as what they call budget dust. Not even close to that $200 million affront to basic free market principles that Congress approved in February when it voted to subsidize airline passengers at small airports.
But Congress isn’t about to cut a check for the memorial, even though Boehner has been a consistent leader in efforts to raise private funds to complete the memorial.
“We remain confident that the memorial will reach its private fundraising goal,” a Boehner spokesman e-mailed us.
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Ship Warring is anything that insults or discourages another ship, and is against our policies. A "ship" is a shortened word for relationship. Example: S/am + G/ibby = Sibby.
Examples of ship warring:Edit
- Ship x is stupid / boring etc.
- Ship x will never happen.
- I hate x ship because it's stupid / makes no sense / obnoxious / pathetic / boring.
- x ship will never happen.
- You need help if you think x ship will ever happen.
- X shippers suck.
- X ship is so much better than y ship.
What is not ship warring:Edit
Friendly, civil discussion about the ships is allowed.
- I prefer x ship over y ship.
- I hope x ship happens.
- I like both x and y ships, but I like x better.
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Boy Scouts of America leaders may remove the organization’s national ban on openly gay members.
The change may come as early as next week, when the organization’s executive board next meets.
The board will considering removing any national policy on sexual orientation, spokesman Deron Smith said in a statement.
Instead, it would be up to the individual charters — the churches, organizations or schools — that house and run individual Scout troops and packs — to select leaders and accept membership according to their own principles.
“The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic or educational organizations that oversee and deliver scouting to determine how to address this issue,” Smith said. “The Boy Scouts would not, under any circumstances, dictate a position to units, members or parents. BSA members and parents would be able to choose a local unit which best meets the needs of their families.”
The majority of local Scout troops are run through churches, said Don Kinney, Scout executive of the Blackhawk Area Council.
Kinney said that since the Boy Scouts are so broad it’s difficult to have one standard policy and the change could allow families more flexibility in finding a program.
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Ohio Environmental Science & Environmental Engineering Scholarship
The Ohio Academy of Science has received a grant from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF) to establish the Ohio Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering Scholarship Program. The projected three year program cost is $150,000. These merit-based, non-renewable scholarships will fulfill the OEEF objective of "Providing scholarships in environmental science and environmental engineering at State colleges and universities" as outlined in House Bill 804 which established the OEEF on October 1, 1990.
Scholarships will be given to Ohio students admitted to state or private colleges and universities who can demonstrate their knowledge and commitment to careers in environmental sciences or environmental engineering. These scholarships will provide partial support for the last few quarters or semesters needed to complete a degree. Initially, a maximum of 10 university scholarships each valued at a maximum of $2,500 and a maximum of 10 community and technical college scholarships each valued at a maximum of $1,250 will be awarded. These scholarships will be limited to fourth- or fifth-year students at colleges and universities and second year students at technical and community colleges.
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Who is the Information & Privacy Commissioner?
The Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner's role and mandate is defined and set out in the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPP Act). He is an independent Officer of the Legislative Assembly, responsible to the Yukon Legislative Assembly.
What we do
The mission of the Office of the Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner is to provide independent oversight of the ATIPP Act.
Our office also receives and processes requests for review and complaints from citizens who feel their access to information rights or their privacy rights have not been respected by a public body.
We also comment on the access and privacy implications of existing or proposed programs or legislation.
In addition, we work to promote openness and accountability in public administration, in part through providing public education about access to information and protection of privacy rights in general and those set out in the ATIPP Act.
The services of the Information and Privacy Commissioner are available to all Yukoners at no cost. We strive throughout the year to publicize our work to ensure people are aware of what services are available and why they might need them.
Our office also hosts public education sessions upon request to provide the public with an opportunity to ask questions and obtain information about the ATIPP Act. | <urn:uuid:2bcff861-48fa-4f44-a398-199f25129230> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ombudsman.yk.ca/ipc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936003 | 257 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The original ¡del Corazón! website, launched in 1996, featured Latino artists and art from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Although the featured artists and their artwork remain interesting and relevant today, the look and feel of that website became dated over time.
The original ¡del Corazón! also documented an educational project the museum conducted in collaboration with educators in Texas and Nebraska and presented actual classroom lessons integrating featured artworks. Subsequently, k-12 education has moved to a standards-based approach.
¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art remains committed to providing primary source materials featuring Latino artists and art from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Unlike the original ¡del Corazón! website, this site is largely bilingual and, rather than attempt a duplication of the original collaboration, this website’s focus is on providing standards-based curricula and supporting resources.
While lesson plans are provided for six of the featured artworks, ¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art is not a teacher guide. Research has shown that learning best occurs in those classrooms with an effective culture for learning that includes local values, educational goals, expectations of high performance, as well as respect for and support of the educator. In this context, consistent with the customs of your community, educators are encouraged to adapt ¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art for their own use. | <urn:uuid:0d6afac5-fdd1-44e1-afb8-1a3d101d8474> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/page_about.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935821 | 295 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Today technology must reflect an in-depth knowledge of environmental needs: it is not enough to embrace the future, it must be a beautiful future.
Biesse recognises environmental requirements and has adopted new virtuous procedures. The latest generation of Biesse machines are designed to minimise pollution through optimisation of the work processes and a sharp reduction in unnecessary energy consumption and CO2 emissions. It has also chosen to use water-based paints, lower energy consumption, and sort waste for recycling, recycle wood shavings for use in new panels, and to use only panels containing almost zero formaldehyde for demonstration purposes.
When saving energy is a fundamental objective for protecting the environment and reducing costs. An innovative green device means the machine can be adjusted to execute the job consuming only the energy required. | <urn:uuid:fa78fbac-5bd7-4e09-a9c3-c2c28ec6dc1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biesse.com/en/corporate/the-company/quality-and-sustainability/sustainable-innovation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904996 | 160 | 2.453125 | 2 |
I’ve had a hankering for menudo for a couple of weeks.
The soup menudo is a traditional Mexican dish, made with hominy and tripe in a clear broth or occasionally with a red chile base (this variation is called menudo colorado). It is traditionally served on special occasions or with family. Usually, lime, chopped onions, and chopped cilantro are added, as well as crushed oregano and crushed red chili peppers. Boiled tripe has a tough chewy texture very similar to calamari, but with a completely unique flavor and smell.
Menudo is usually eaten with tortillas or other breads, such as bolillo. It is often chilled and reheated, which causes a more concentrated flavor. The popularity of menudo in Mexico is such that Mexico is a major export market for stomach tripe from US and Canadian beef producers. Large frozen blocks of imported menudo meat can frequently be seen in Mexican meat markets.
Menudo is essentially a poor people’s food. One of the two prime ingredients is hominy, or nixtamalized corn, an ingredient that has provided nourishment to Mesoamerican peoples for millennia; the other is tripe, an offal meat usually eaten by the poor. Menudo is also a familial food, in the preparation of which the entire family participates, and even serves as an occasion for social interaction with others, since oftentimes throngs of people with pots in hand will wait at the butcher’s shop to buy their menudo, if their families no longer make it themselves.
Given that menudo is time and labor intensive to prepare–the tripe takes hours to cook (or else it is extremely tough), and many ingredients and side dishes (such as salsa) need to be cut and cooked–the dish is often prepared communally and eaten at a feast; documents from the Works Progress Administration indicate that in the 1930s, among (migrant) workers in Arizona, menudo parties were held regularly to celebrate births, Christmas, and other occasions.
It’s also said to be a cure for hangovers.. it’s a bit like Vietnamese phò, in that regard.
“Pa’ un crudo, come menudo“ (for a hangover, eat menudo, Breakfast of Champions)
Menudo, que rico!
I had a nice bowl of it for breakfast today at El Vaquero after my usual 2-mile walk. I was not hungover, either. | <urn:uuid:854dff19-86ef-421a-a15b-22a763d4aa50> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cfootsoup.wordpress.com/tag/breakfast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959118 | 524 | 1.984375 | 2 |
What do you do when you use the Internet to find something? Chances are you’ll use a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo!. Typically, you type a word into a search window and a list of results pops up on your screen. If you were marketing a product or service, wouldn’t you want YOUR website to be one of the first on the list of results?
Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit ‘enter’ you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list because they believe those sites are more relevant to their search. If you’ve ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than others, it’s because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
SEO is the active practice of increasing the number of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine (SERP). SEO is a technique that helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. Using SEO helps you get traffic from search engines.
In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. Internet users usually won’t click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward that site. SEO helps to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found, so it’ll be listed higher in the results when searched by a search engine.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms typed into search engines, and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.
How Search Engines Work
Search engines are not humans. They don’t have the capacity to think, and they are text-driven. Search engines crawl around the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. Search engines perform several activities to deliver search results: crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.
First, search engines crawl around the Web to see what’s there. This task is performed by a piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way.
After a page is crawled, the next step is to index its content. The indexed page is stored in a giant database, where it can be retrieved later. Essentially, the process of indexing involves identifying the words and expressions that best describe the page and assigning the page to particular keywords. Sometimes spiders might not get the meaning of a page right but, if you help by optimizing it, it’ll be easier for them to classify your pages correctly and for you to get higher rankings.
When a search request comes, the search engine processes it by comparing the search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it’s likely that more than one page (potentially millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index with the search string.
There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has different relative weights for common factors, such as keyword density, links, or metatags. That’s why different search engines give different search results pages for the same search string. To complicate things, it’s a known fact that all major search engines periodically change their algorithms and, if you want to stay at the top, you must adapt your pages to the latest changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors!) to devote permanent efforts to SEO to get the highest possible rank.
The last step in search engines’ activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser as the endless pages of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites.
Differences Between the Major Search Engines
Although the basic operating principle of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results. Different factors are important for different search engines. The major search engines like different stuff and, if you plan to conquer more than one of them, you need to optimize carefully.
There are many differences between search engines. For instance, one-page keyword factors are of primary importance for Yahoo! and Bing, while links are very, very important for Google. Also, for Google sites are like wine – the older, the better – while Yahoo! generally has no expressed preference towards sites and domains with maturity and tradition (older ones). Therefore, you might need more time for your site to get higher results in Google than in Yahoo!.
Why does my company/organization/website need SEO?
The majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines: Google, Bing and Yahoo!. If your site can’t be found by search engines, people who are looking for what you have won’t find your site! Whether your site provides content, services, products, or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.
Search queries, the words that users type into the search box which contain terms and phrases best suited to your site, carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organization’s success. Targeted visitors to a website can provide publicity, revenue, and exposure like no other. Investing in SEO, whether through time or finances, can have an exceptional rate of return.
Why can’t the search engines figure out my site without SEO help?
Search engine rank is subject to change due to competition and changes to search engine indexing algorithms. Getting and maintaining a strong rank requires continuous work and consistent effort. There are no shortcuts. Building a good reputation and gaining the lasting trust of search engines takes time. SEO is not a one-time event. It is an ongoing process operating in a world of constant change.
Search engines are always working towards improving their technology to crawl the web more deeply and return increasingly relevant results to users. However, there is and will always be a limit to how search engines can operate. Just as the right moves can net you thousands of visitors and attention, the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in search results where your site where visibility is minimal. In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO can also help boost rankings so content that has been found will be placed where searchers will see it easier. The online environment is becoming increasingly competitive, and those companies who perform SEO will have a decided advantage in visitors AND customers.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers
how search engines work,
what people search for,
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Heads of what has been done in the Voyage; with some Conjectures concerning the Formation of Ice-Islands; and an Account of our Proceedings till our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope.
I had now made the circuit of the southern ocean in a high latitude, and traversed it in such a manner as to leave not the least room for the possibility of there being a continent, unless near the Pole, and out of the reach of navigation. By twice visiting the tropical sea, I had not only settled the situation of some old discoveries, but made there many new ones, and left, I conceive, very little more to be done even in that part. Thus I flatter myself, that the intention of the voyage has, in every respect, been fully answered; the southern hemisphere sufficiently explored, and a final end put to the searching after a southern continent, which has, at times, ingrossed the attention of some of the maritime powers, for near two centuries past, and been a favourite theory amongst the geographers of all ages.
That there may be a continent, or large tract of land, near the Pole, I will not deny; on the contrary I am of opinion there is; and it is probable that we have seen a part of it. The excessive cold, the many islands and vast floats of ice, all tend to prove that there must be land to the south; and for my persuasion that this southern land must lie, or extend, farthest to the north opposite to the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans, I have already assigned some reasons; to which I may add the greater degree of cold experienced by us in these seas, than in the southern Pacific ocean under the same parallels of latitude.
[Footnote 11: After what has been said of the utter inutility of a southern continent to any human being, or even in the way of hypothesis to explain the constitution of nature, it may seem quite unnecessary to occupy a moment’s attention about any arguments for its existence. As, however, a few remarks were hazarded respecting those of a mathematical kind, it may be proper to say a word or two as to others of a physical nature. Two reasons for this supposition have been urged; viz. the presence of rivers necessary to account for the large masses of fresh-water ice found in high southern latitudes; and the existence of firm and immoveable points of land round which these masses might form. The first of these is glaringly erroneous in point of principle and fact. In the first place, it is most certain, that the waters of the ocean admit of being frozen, and that when so, they either do or do not contain the salts they held in solution, according to certain circumstances, which the argument does not require to be explained. And, secondly, it is absurd to imagine that lands in the vicinity of the Pole should have any rivers, as the snow-line, as it has been called, reaches so low down there as the surface of the earth, and as the temperature of the atmosphere, reckoning from what is known of it in high latitudes, can scarcely | <urn:uuid:2941f41e-00ee-44e6-9ba8-7ccedf6ed945> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/14611/37.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968348 | 640 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The narrator picks up on Toby's enthusiasm at finding natives, and he temporarily forgets his fears about meeting cannibalistic savages. Their descent into the valley is difficult, though. Soon they come across an enormous ravine from which there is no path down, only a crashing waterfall. Toby determines that the only way down is by swinging on the thick roots of the plants that wind down the sides. Toby starts by grabbing one and transferring to another. The narrator is apprehensive as he is heavier than Toby, but he uses the roots to descend nonetheless. Except for a few moments when the roots give way and the narrator panics, all goes fine. At the bottom though, there still is another wall of rock to descend. They get down, as per Toby's instructions, by jumping directly onto a tree below them and end up getting caught in its branches. Toby manages to get out first and then the narrator frees himself. They now are fully in the valley.
The valley appears to be uninhabited, but the two men move tentatively since they do not want to meet the natives. As they wander, they finally come across a natural fruit tree, called "annuee." They are overjoyed and quickly shovel many of these fruits into their mouths, even though they are particularly decayed. A few moments later, the narrator sees a stalk of breadfruit and realizes that someone must have just placed it there. They walk a short distance further and see two natives standing just a bit off in the woods. They cannot tell if they are Typee or Happar, but they feel that it is too late to stop now. The narrator takes the calico out from his shirt and approaches the natives.
The natives—a young boy and a young girl—look alarmed upon seeing them. The narrator uses his limited Polynesian to talk to them. He and Toby also start pantomiming that they need food. The narrator asks them if they are "Happar" by saying "Happar" and the words for "Good", the natives look surprised at this but they smile, so Toby and the narrator feel that they are amongst the Happars. When it begins to pour rain, the natives let the men follow them into the village for shelter.
The group of natives stands in the village staring at them and everyone seems slightly tense. The narrator tries to give one of the chiefs some tobacco, but he will not take it. The chief then asks him "Happar" or "Typee" and the narrator feels stunned for a minute, knowing that he is being asked to choose and could lose his life if he chooses wrong. He answers, "Typee" and then adds "Typee Good". The natives around erupt in laughter and life. They all start talking and asking him questions. He says that his name is "Tom", but since the natives cannot pronounce it they call him Tommo. They have no trouble with "Toby." The chief introduces himself as Mehevi. After an hour of such conversation, Mehevi realizes that they are hungry and gets some breadfruit mash—the common native dish called "poee-poee"—for them to eat, as well as some native dishes. The natives ask them questions until a time that must be well after midnight, but eventually the men are placed in a hut on some mats and are able to sleep.
When Tommo wakes, it is broad day and a group of young girls are sitting around him, almost making him uncomfortable in their familiarity. Mehevi soon appears. Intricate tattoos cover him and he wears fine native gear, such as a necklace of boar tusks. Mehevi eagerly jumps into conversation about French people and other subjects, which Tommo manages to handle despite his limited language skills. When Mehevi notices the swelling on Tommo's leg, he summons a local healer. This healer abuses the injury with a wooden hammer, before placing some healing herbs on it. Mehevi then appoints a man from the house, Kory-Kory, to be the narrator's servant and he leaves.
Kory-Kory is about twenty-five years old, moderately tattooed, and has a bizarre hairstyle with two large tufts of hair growing out of an otherwise shaven head. Kory-Kory's father, Marheyo, also lives in the house as does his mother, Tinor, a hardworking woman who is an expert at preparing "poee-poee", or a breadfruit dish. Some other young men and women also live there, but most notable is Fayaway, a beautiful young woman who captures the narrator's heart. The narrator finds Fayaway to be the loveliest women in Typee, with long brown hair, olive skin, and blue eyes. He sees her as a virtual child of Eden.
Toby and the narrator, who can now be called Tommo even though that is not his true name, finally have come into the heart of the valley. Their descent took much physical effort and their physical struggle has symbolic significance as well. In getting from the boat, to the mountain, and into the valley, the men have moved from European civilization into a Polynesian world. Since the Polynesian valley is a virtual Paradise, this move requires not simply physical steps but also a psychological preparation to enter a culture that exists in a purer state than European civilization. As such, the motif of childhood and regression continues as Toby and Tommo make their descent. Many critics have found their scaling down the lush ravine to contain an especially symbolic effect, comparing the act of descent to that of re-entering a mother's womb. This ravine itself physically resembles female genitalia; by carefully climbing down it, the men enter the womb of the Typee valley. The idea of being at the original point of birth (a mother's womb) exists on a general spectrum—as the valley is Paradise, Tommo and Toby must return to the theoretical womb of humanity, to what humans were first meant to be before they contracted the complications of civilization.
Aside from the symbolic meaning of the descent, the scene is also a great one from an adventure book. Their amazing actions would fascinate readers in far off lands. They are swinging from vine to vine and some of the vines occasionally slip, leaving them dangerously dangling over a precipice. They see crystalline cataracts and jump off a cliff onto a tree that will break their fall. The difficulties of their descent intensifies the suspense of their actions. As they go down, the crucial questions still remain—Typee or Happar. The suspense of this question continues all the way until chief Mehevi himself asks it of Tommo. Tommo instinctively changes his mind and answers "Typee" and it is a good thing that he does. Instead of meeting an unknown fate for supplying the wrong answer, he is immediately offered open hospitality by a group of friendly Typees. The suspense of the Happar-Typee question has been resolved, but much puzzlement still remains. What will happen to Tommo and Toby now that they are with the Typees? And why are the Typees acting with such hospitality when they are supposed to be brutes? A great many questions still remain unanswered and these further propel the suspense of the plot, even after the remarkably suspenseful descent that led Tommo and Toby to the village in the first place.
The characteristics of the natives that Tommo and Toby meet all continue the metaphor of paradise. The first natives that Tommo and Toby see are a young boy and girl—perhaps the most classic form of Paradise, two young, almost naked bodies, nearly in the form of Adam and Eve. The loveliness of Fayaway continues to perpetuate the idea of a perfectly formed female figure. Tommo dwells heavily on Fayaway's physical person, with her blue eyes, dark tresses, and olive skin. Fayaway shall represent the most innocent and pure of all the Typees. She is the virtual child of Eden whose relationship with Tommo will draw him closely into the paradise of the Typee valley.
Mehevi, as well, is a classic figure from a nearby perfect world. Mehevi embodies the "noble savage." He is a native, what Europeans could call "savage," but he possesses an innate form of nobility. Although he lacks the trappings of civilization, the high quality of his personality is evident. Mehevi's dignified leadership in this valley of Paradise embodies true humanism and grace, even though Europeans broadly categorize all natives, including the noble Mehevi, simply as barbarians.
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Your question reminded me of this blog post, The Korean's English Acquisition
, by a guy who moved to the U.S. when he was 16 and didn't know any English. He made flashcards for every word he came across that he didn't know and studied a group of 50 until he memorized them all. Then after memorizing five groups of 50, he practiced all
of them (i.e. 250 words) again. He says that by the time he graduated high school he had memorized over 30,000 words.
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In spite of this notoriety, few are aware of Capote’s connection with K-State and Manhattan during and after the writing of In Cold Blood. This relationship began soon after the death of the Clutter family in 1959 when Capote decided to do a piece for The New Yorker magazine on the gruesome event. Recognizing that it would be difficult for him to arrive in the small community to interview residents about the murders without assistance from others to pave the way, he went to his publisher, Bennett Cerf, for advice. As it turned out, Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, had recently visited K-State to give a lecture and meet with English classes. He considered James McCain, the president, a friend as a result of the time they had spent together in Manhattan. When Cerf called McCain to ask if he knew the Clutter family and if one of their writers could visit him on the way to the murder site, McCain responded, “The Clutters were my close personal friends, I know everybody in Garden City” (the seat of Finney County, not far from Holcomb). When Cerf informed McCain who the author was he responded, “Truman Capote? Coming to Kansas?” McCain told Cerf if Capote would spend an evening with the English department he would “…give him letters to half the people in Garden City.” Cerf accepted the invitation for Capote!
Capote arrived in Manhattan on November 19, 1959 only four days after the murder! He was accompanied by his long time friend, Harper Lee (“Nelle”), the author of To Kill a Mockingbird (slated for publication the next year) to help with the endeavor. President McCain arranged for a luncheon in the K-State Union that included mostly people from the School of Agriculture who had known Herbert Clutter. Earle Davis, chair of the English Department, also attended. Cerf recounted how McCain told him that when he met Capote he was wearing a pink velvet coat. After Capote announced, “I bet I’m the first man who has ever come to Manhattan, Kansas wearing a Dior jacket,” McCain replied, “I’ll go you one better, Mr. Capote. You’re probably the first man or woman who ever came to Manhattan wearing a Dior jacket.”
According to Davis, Capote and Lee stayed at the Wareham Hotel where he went to pick up Capote for an evening in the Union Ball Room with members of the English Department. When Davis arrived at the hotel, Capote invited him to his room for a drink and pulled a whiskey bottle out of one of two trunks he brought with him in case he couldn’t buy liquor in Kansas, as he had been told. Arriving at the Union wearing a florid scarf, pink shirt, bright orange red jacket, and button-shoes with turned-up toes, Davis’ apprehension about Capote’s drinking, clothes, and mannerisms soon dissipated as he used stories about literary figures in New York, and other topics, to charm the group. According to the account that McCain gave Cerf of Capote’s visit, when Capote and Lee left the next morning for Garden City, “the entire [English] faculty got up to see them off. Mrs. McCain and I got up too.”
In an article he wrote for the Manhattan Mercury in 1984, “Memories of Capote,” Davis doesn’t mention other visits to Manhattan by Capote in 1959 or later (Capote died in 1984). He states that after Capote left town that morning in 1959, “he never stopped by on his way back.” Local lore has it that Capote spent a summer with Davis in his house at 1711 Fairchild Ave. working on his book, but that cannot be substantiated. It would appear that Davis would have mentioned this residency in his “memories” piece (and it is difficult to imagine Capote staying in Kansas for an extended period!). Davis’ son, Charles, does not recall his parents ever mentioning that Capote stayed in the family home, although he does remember hearing that Capote did stay in the Wareham Hotel but it is unclear if this was during his visit in 1959 or at a later time. One reason the book was not completed and published prior to 1966 was the fact the two murderers were not executed until April 15, 1965 after spending five years on death row in Lansing, Kansas. Written in a literary form Capote called “the non-fiction novel,” bringing the crime to a close was an essential part of the book.
In addition to visiting Kansas shortly after the Clutter family was murdered, Capote had other occasions to visit the state during the writing of the book and for the filming of a movie that opened in 1967. Bill Brown, editor of the Garden City Telegram at the time the book was written, and later a professor of journalism at K-State, recalled that Capote was in Garden City “off and on for six years.” This included a return shortly after In Cold Blood was published to attend a reception in his honor at the public library, but not before giving a reading to 3,500 students at the University of Kansas! He was followed by representatives of NBC news who were filming a story, “Capote Returns to Kansas.” It is not known if he stopped in Manhattan.
To date evidence does not exist to prove that Capote made other visits to Manhattan, but it is likely that he did. According to letters between Capote and McCain in the University Archives, the two remained in contact for several years. The correspondence reveals the desire by both parties for Capote to come to Manhattan. In one letter, Capote explains that he had to leave [Garden City] sooner than expected and could not come to Manhattan, and in another he states that he will be coming to the state “within the next six months” and that he would be “happy to meet anyone you wish” but he wasn’t “equipped to address a dinner,” perhaps a reference to his experience at K-State in 1959! Capote’s letters also show his kindness towards Mrs. McCain, one ending with “All good wishes to Janet.” It is clear that Capote valued their friendship and the assistance that McCain gave him while writing In Cold Blood. Among the few individuals that he singled out in the book’s acknowledgments, “Dr. James McCain, President of Kansas State University,” is listed first.
Sources: James A. McCain Papers, University Archives; In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote; Capote: A Biography by George Clarke; At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf;
“Journalism Professor Remembers Meeting Capote,” Kansas State
Collegian, August 29, 1984; “Memories of Capote” by Earle Davis,
Manhattan Mercury, September 2, 1984.
--Tony Crawford, University Archivist
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The view from the sea of the magnificent stone walls of the Maltese capital of Valletta in the summer dusk, as the sun gently washes them with its orange rays, is truly an unforgettable experience for the lovers of true romance. Superbissima, “most proud”, as the people of La Valletta refer to their city with deep affection, with its lavish beauty, has been awe inspiring to all travelers in the past 445 years. The magnificent welcome to the city under the protection of UNESCO is only an introduction into the natural and cultural secrets that the Maltese islands reveal. Without any exaggeration, they are among the most beautiful ones in the Mediterranean.
Malta is located only 93 kilometers away from the Italian island of Sicily, and 360 kilometers from Libya. The Republic of Malta consists of seven little islands: Malta, Gozo, Comino, Cominotto, Filflu, Manoel and the island of St. Paul. The first three ones are also the biggest, and they are the only ones that are inhabited. Due to their attractive strategic location, the island was ruled by numerous powers: from Phoenicians and Romans in the ancient times, all the way to the British who recognized Malta’s independence in September 1964. It is therefore not surprising that the Maltese national anthem (L-Innu Malti) contains a line in which the people of Malta beg the Lord to preserve their beautiful country.
Christianity arrived to the island in 70AD with St. Paul the apostle. Malta today has 360 churches, and a population of 400,000, 98 percent of which are Roman Catholics. People of Malta thank their patron saint, St. Paul, with his statue on their entrance doors. On St. Paul’s day, the streets and churches are decorated with flowers and golden statues. The celebrations with fireworks and musical processions are an attraction to numerous tourists. The official languages of the island are Maltese and English.
The first inhabitants of the Maltese islands in 5200 BC were farmers from the nearby Sicily. The stone remains of megalithic temples are a proof of this early stage of civilization on Malta and Gozo. The oldest religious buildings in the world date back from 3500 BC, temple Hagar Qima and Mnajdra on Malta, and Ggantija on Gozo. Around 700 BC, the island was inhabited by Greeks, and a century later by Phoenicians. During the Punic Wars, the population of the Maltese state at the time submitted to Rome, and this gave them autonomy. The capital at that time was Mdina, still very well preserved to this day. When the Roman Empire divided into Western and Eastern Empire in the 4th century AD, Malta became a part of Byzantium.
Malta was taken as a spoil of war by the Arabs, whose influence of many hundreds of years is still felt today, especially in gastronomy and language. They took in during the wars with Byzantium in the 10th century. During their rule, the Arabs improved the irrigation system and planted new fruits and cotton. In 1091, the Norman liberators arrived, led by Roger I. As a thank you to the brave Maltese soldiers, he gave them a piece of his red and white flag, which became the foundation of today’s Maltese flag. Malta flourished during the Norman rule, especially in architecture. During the rule of Frederick I, the Muslims were exiled from the island, and Christians brought in.
Spanish king Charles V left the island in 1530 to the Knights of St. John to rule it forever. After they managed to break free from the Ottoman siege, the new capital of Valetta was built on the peninsula Scebberras on the north coast of Malta in 1566. It was named after its founder, Jean Parisotu de la Valetta. The walls are best seen from the traditional open horse carriage. Since the competition among the carriage drivers is huge, with a little bit of communications skills, you can enjoy an unforgettable tour of the city for some 20 euro. People of Malta love horses. Touring the islands, you will often meet the locals riding in their small carriages.
Before French emperor Napoleon arrived in 1798, several new towns were built, like Citta Rohan and Citta Hompesch. Although more than two hundred years have passed since then, the architecture has not changed much. The new buildings also strictly observe the sand hue of the façade. The swift victory over the Napoleon’s troops marked the beginning of the long rule of the British, the “liberators”.
The hate between the locals and the British culminated on 7 July 1919, when four protestors were killed. That day is now celebrated as a national holiday. In WWII, Malta bravely fought against the Germans. This bravery earned them the George Cross medal, which became an integral part of the Maltese flag. Numerous bombardments by the Germans greatly damaged three coastal towns: Vittoriosa, Cospicua and Sengle. The most beautiful view of these three cities comes from the palace of Auberge de Castille el Leon and the nearby Barrakka Park, next to the Memorial Monument.
Although Malta proclaimed its independence in 1964, according to its constitution, it was accountable to the British crown for another ten years, after which it became a republic within the Commonwealth. The British military left the island in 1979. Up until 2004, Malta was a member of the Non-aligned Movement, when it entered the European Union. In 2008, its national currency, the lira, was replaced by euro. The prices dropped steeply, so even those travelers traveling on the budget can visit the land of chivalric tradition.
Malta is a country with a mild climate and scarce precipitation. In the summer months, the temperatures can reach up to scorching 40 degrees Celsius. The best time to visit the island is early or late summer when it is not too hot, and the sea is warm enough for swimming. The southern side of the island of Malta is adorned by steep cliffs of unusual shapes, while the northern side is reserved for tourism, especially in the town of Sliema, best reached by a boat or bus. The chief transportation method in Malta is the yellow and orange bus service, that has been operating on the island since 1905. It is one of the chief tourist attractions.
The owners of beautiful oldtimer cars take care of their prized possessions. What makes them different are the wise words about life written on the back of their vehicles. Don’t be surprised if you miss several buses in the morning rush hour. They will stop only if you wave the driver down, and only if they are half full. Apart from the impressive palaces, the British colonists left them the culture of driving on the left-hand side of the road.
Since its surface area of 315 square kilometers is only a little bit bigger than the island of Brac, it is best to see Malta on a scooter. If you decide to head onto this adventure, pay good attention to the signposts, because you can very easily get lost. Also visit the blue cave that can be reached only by a boat, and the natural pool, called the St. Peter's Pool. Both these locations will be a treat for both the swimmers and the scuba divers. Don’t forget the visit to the towns in the hinterland like Rabata and Siggiewi, and the little ports where typical Maltese multicolored wooden fishing boats are anchored.
Apart from tourism, the Maltese economy also depends on international freighter shipping and artisans. The workshops in the small storage spaces along the roads remind of long lost times. The dry docks near the three towns are the place where ships from foreign shipyards, including Croatian, often end up. Lately, a great contribution to the economy comes from the movie industry. Several big budget movies are shot every year in Malta. For the needs of the movie Popeye, a complete village was built in one of the bays, and today it became a favorite tourist destination for the children. A typical Maltese souvenir is lace.
Malta is also well known for its night life. The clubs and bars in the town of St. Julian's guarantee you a night of fun until the early morning. The lovers of traditional music will enjoy a typical Maltese dinner, listening to Ghana, performed on guitar, played in turns by several people, mostly men. The lyrics of the songs are improvised.
The legend has it that Gozo, an island only 67 square kilometers, lured even Homer’s Ulysses on his voyages on the high seas. The famous hero could not resist the charm of the beautiful nymph Calypso, who promised him immortality in return for him staying on Ogigi (Gozo). The Greek gods decided that he should leave the island on a wooden raft filled with food, water and wine. Gozo is known even today for its broad gastronomical offer. Along with sheep cheese, salted or pickled capers, they also boast the production of aromatic honey, which is one of ingredients of the local beer Cisk. The Azure Window is the biggest attraction on Gozo.
The flavors in the Maltese cuisine were influenced by Sicily, Tunisia, Spain, France and Great Britain. The cuisine is based on vegetables and fish. Still, the most famous recipe of the islands is rabbit in red wine with capers. Numerous bakeries offer various pies with different fillings and Ross il-Forn, a dish made with rice and minced meat, baked with grated cheese. Authentic grapevine varieties include Girgentina white and Gellewza red. After a huge meal and a nice glass of wine, the favorite pastime of the people of Malta is their traditional sport – boulles. | <urn:uuid:091ee6c4-0256-4844-bef0-57618116cf14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.limun.hr/en/main.aspx?id=759252 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968705 | 2,050 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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High-risk adults age 18–64 who ever received pneumococcal vaccination.
Healthy People 2010, measure 14-29d.
94 High-risk adults age 18–64 who ever received pneumococcal vaccination, United States, 2003, by
- Family income
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population: high-risk persons age 18–64.
Number of high-risk persons age 18–64 who answered "Yes" to the question "Have you ever had a pneumonia vaccination, sometimes called a pneumonia shot? This shot is usually given only once in a person's lifetime and is different from the flu shot."
High-risk conditions include diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease, liver disease, and cancer. Not all high-risk conditions for complications of influenza and pneumococcal disease can be ascertained by NHIS (for example, immunocompromised), and the sample size may be too small for some groups.
Data are age-adjusted to the 2000 standard population. Age-adjusted percents are weighted sums of age-specific percents. For a discussion of age adjustment, see Part A, Section 5 of Tracking Healthy People 2010. | <urn:uuid:649e1869-16fe-4091-8844-8dafbd2310ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archive.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr05/fullreport/PneVac.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923255 | 363 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Use our quick and easy guide to cutting tools to learn how to use, store and care for everything from scissors and paper trimmers to craft knives and paper punches.
Cutting Tools: Scissors, Rotary Cutters, Paper Trimmers, Craft Knifes, Decorative Scissors, & Paper Punches
- Never cut with a dull blade. Dull blades can tear, rip, and damage. Paper dulls blades very quickly so keep extra blades for paper trimmers, rotary cutters, and craft knifes handy and sharpen scissors on a regular basis.
- Rotary cutters are the easiest on your hands. Rotary cutters now come with a wide assortment of decorative blades as well as perforating and scoring blades.
- Keep all cutting tools dry and stored safely. Wipe and clean blades that have any substance on them. Store flat. If you use your cutting tools with glued or painted items, consider investing in Teflon coated blades.
- Sharpen punches with aluminum foil and “oil” them with wax paper if they begin to stick.
- Craft knifes are best for cutting straight edges and curves. This is probably one of the most universal of all cutting tools and will cut through most materials with ease. There are swivel head knifes that make detailed cutting even easier.
- If cutting out small items, consider a pair of micro-tip scissors. These are best for intricate cuts. When cutting bring the paper to the blade and move the paper, not the blade for the smoothest cuts.
- Do not use blades for anything but cutting. It’s tempting to use the tips of scissors to pry something open, but you can end up breaking the tip. Blades can chip and once damaged the blade is no longer useful.
- Keep track of what scissors and punches you have and keep the list handy when you are shopping for supplies.
- By turning decorative or patterned scissors around you will get complete different look. Try cutting a strip of paper with scissors one direction and on other side of paper turn the scissors other direction.
- Don’t use more than one or two different decorative edges on a page. Too many decorative edges makes the page look busy and confusing.
- Punches often have guides or bottoms that open. These can be removed without harming the punch.
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Fidel Galvan knows that his hard work, self-motivation and solid sense of responsibility helped him get where he’s at. But when he reflects on what set him up for success, he sees that throughout his life he had a community of people who guided him in the right direction.
There are his parents, who were not well off financially, but made sure to teach him the importance of a good education and did what they could to support his path to college. They also instilled in him independence and a strong work ethic.
There is the basketball coach who mentored a group of high school boys, including Fidel. The coach helped them see the opportunities in front of them, encouraged them to pursue their dreams, and even pointed out scholarship sources like Hispanic Scholarship Fund that might help make college possible.
There’s the college professor that started an engineering internship program that helped launch Fidel’s career. And there was the college Resident Assistant program that he credits for teaching him to organize activities, mentor other students and work with a team of peers.
And there was HSF, whose scholarship helped Fidel pay living expenses while he was in school.
So it was with a heart full of immense gratitude that he accepted his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge, in 2008. “It wasn’t always easy,” says Fidel. “I struggled with math and chemistry and even thought about switching majors. But I had the support to stick it out and now I’m enjoying my work and looking to a future in the field.”
Fidel started as an intern at Southern California Gas Company and is now an Associate Engineer there. As he gains more experience, he plans to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree. He hopes to learn more about the project and human management side of his work so that he can help to grow the company.
He’s also continuing to give back to his community because he knows what a difference that a helping hand can make.
Fidel volunteers at HSF outreach events to help students plan for a successful time in college. He tells students to take advantage of all the scholarships available and to keep GPAs above 3.0 to stay viable as a scholarship candidate. He also coaches them on the less obvious things, like getting focused on choosing the right major early so they can graduate in four years and start their careers, and the importance of getting involved while in college by joining clubs or a fraternity or sorority. Fidel says, “Those college years are really special. Getting involved means you meet more people, learn how to network, and give yourself lots of opportunities to grow.” | <urn:uuid:6f4d42bc-611b-405f-b6b5-807eaf03ece8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hsf.net/HSF-Alumni-Profile.aspx?id=3760 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9861 | 549 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people. In the USA, it may refer to any card game played by oneself; In the UK the term Patience refers to solitaire with cards. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout of tiles, pegs or stones rather than cards. These games include Peg solitaire and Mahjong solitaire. Most solitaire games function as a puzzle which, due to a different starting position, may (or may not) be solved in a different fashion each time. | <urn:uuid:d12bd37b-ecf9-4074-bad9-7242486b2a74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slidetoplay.com/games/game-solitaire/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964239 | 122 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Until now FileCatalyst users have been “jailed” in their home directory. This was designed as a security feature to prevent users from browsing the file system. Users could only access files that were found within their sandbox, regardless of the underlying operating system.
The flip side to the security this feature was the tight restriction placed on locations a user has access to. A new directory outside a user’s sandbox could only be accessed by creating a new, separate user and having that user’s home directory pointing to the required source.
Starting with v3.1, administrators will now be able to create multi-homed directories using the new virtual folders feature. This feature gives administrators the flexibility to allow users access to any required directories, while maintaining tight control over user access.
Steps to creating and assigning virtual folders:
- When a user requires access to files stored in another directory, the administrator can create a Virtual Folder, which is an alias for a path. For example, a Virtual Folder might be named "project1" but have the path "Y:/PROJECT//" on the server.
- The virtual folder is then assigned to the user, where it appears as a mounted subdirectory inside their home directory.
- Multiple virtual folders may be assigned to a user, each with assigned permissions on the mounted drive.
Admins are also able to place multiple virtual folders into a “group”. Assigning this group to a user will assign all folders within that group with a single action.
For example, a video project might require folders from various drives. HD work might be on k:\hdwork, web clips might be on g:\web-clips and closed captioning might be on f:\closed-captioning.
These 3 folders can be grouped into a single file group called “video project” and assign all 3 virtual folders with a single click to a user defined in FileCatalyst Direct Server. | <urn:uuid:013cfc49-e1ca-4e5a-b977-daca3331e7e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.filecatalyst.com/new-feature-virtual-folders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933698 | 403 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Road to Naseby
Overnight the temperature had dropped to 4 degrees Centigrade at Kyeburn Diggings. After rain for most of the day before, the morning sun made a welcome reappearance.
Just 29 km from Naseby, the settlement of Kyeburn Diggings is where the Danseys Pass Inn is situated. The hotel was built in 1863 and for a time was the centre of all activities in the district. Apparently a stonemason called Happy Bill built the stone building in schist in 1863 and took his payment in beer, a pint for every schist boulder shaped and laid on the thick walls! Remnants of some of the other stone buildings of the settlement are across the road from the inn.
“The gold fields in the Kyeburn area known as the Kyeburn Diggings were well underway before the main discovery of gold at nearby Naseby. The Upper Kyeburn gold fields once boasted hotels, stores, a butcher, a baker and in the 1860’s a school opened. Sadly the only reminder of the Upper Kyeburn settlement is that of the Upper Kyeburn Cemetery and the scars of sluicing and dredging that went on the area. Like many of the early gold mining towns photos are all that remain of what was once a bustling area.” (Visit Central Otago)
It is always sobering to visit old cemeteries, especially those of settler times or in old battlefields. People died very young in those days, and sometimes whole families died within relatively short spaces of time when compared with today’s life expectations. I also find the inscriptions on some of the old gravestones interesting, and sometimes “quaint”.
At the gate of the cemetery at Upper Kyeburn is a tariff board showing service charges for burial which were current in the gold mining era in the late nineteenth century. In those days £1 represented a lot of money.
From the cemetery the road continues to Naseby through farmland and the sluiced banks of the nearby river, with views to the Kakanui Mountains to the right. Rain clouds still hung over the hills, but as the day progressed and we moved further into the Maniatoto Basin it got warmer as the weather improved.
Finally, with just a few kilometres to go the sign pointing to Naseby lead us to an unexpected surprise! More on that in the next post. | <urn:uuid:7803db06-860d-41bc-b73e-e3fd62398279> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alphathread.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/the-road-to-naseby/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974947 | 507 | 2.421875 | 2 |
UConn water plan could ruin Farmington River, area residents say
Mansfield >> Town officials, legislators, residents and environmental groups are outraged that a proposal, handed out by the University of Connecticut to supply additional water to its Storrs campus and the town of Mansfield, could be detrimental to the natural habitats and communities along the Farmington River.
The University of Connecticut is considering three options to provide an additional 2 million gallons of water daily to serve the region and keep the water supply afloat for future educational and economic developments.
These three options include connecting with the Metropolitan District Commission by extending a pipeline from East Hartford; a connection with the Connecticut Water Company, extending a pipeline from Tolland; and a connection with Windham Water Works in Willimantic.
The most controversial though of the three options has been the MDC proposal, which rang true especially at a public hearing on Tuesday night at the Farmington Health Center. The public hearing, led by Environmental Compliance Analyst for the UConn Office of Environmental Policy Jason Coite, and David Murphy, a senior associate at Milone and MacBroom, addressed the crowd’s concerns on how the proposals for additional water would affect their communities and region.
As expected, communities expressed that the MDC proposal to divert water from the West Branch of the Farmington River, consequently allowing reductions in water levels on Hogback Reservoir and Lake McDonough, as well as the East Branch of the River, could cause long-term risks on the natural resources and potential impact on recreation - kayaking, fishing and tubing - and tourism, something Barkhamsted and New Hartford, especially, are known for.
“We believe this plan will have an adverse impact on the residents of the Farmington Valley,” a letter, presented on behalf of the Farmington Valley towns, stated. “While we support the water resource needs of the Storrs-Mansfield region, we believe that better and cheaper alternatives to the MDC proposal exist.”
Prior to the hearing, the university already received over 20 letters from the concerned members of the community. Many of them conservation groups, outdoor recreational organizations, residents and town officials.
Grady Allen of UpCountry Sportfishing, located in New Hartford, said, in a previous interview, that every business alongside the Farmington River heavily relies on the water for fishing and boating trails.
“If the water isn’t available, there will be less flowing in our areas. Without water, the businesses will dry up,” Allen said.
Besides the negative economic factor the MDC proposal would cause, disrupting the Farmington Valley’s staple worries many members of the community that rely on the Farmington River for their livelihoods and a source of tradition. Continued...
“We use the (Farmington) River for not only recreation but for a lot of the livelihoods,” said New Hartford First Selectman Dan Jerram. “Potential diversions just makes people nervous.”
“While there are three recommended options for additional water supply, I feel this is the only one that draws from an historic river, which has a federal destination of wild and scenic,” said state Sen. Kevin Witkos, who represents the 8th Senatorial district and 11 towns that he said would be adversely affected by the MDC proposal.
Because Lake McDonough, which serves both New Hartford and Barkhamsted, is used for overflow from the Barkhamsted Reservoir and is critical for recreation offered to residents and neighboring communities, drawing water from the Barkhamsted Reservoir would potentially cause an insufficient amount of water to keep the lake at an appropriate level for boating, swimming and fishing, Barkhamsted First Selectman Don Stein said.
“The (West Branch of the Farmington River) is our best known and most significant tourist attraction and attracts fisherman from many parts of the country,” Stein said in a written letter. “The potential for future diversion of West Branch waters into the Barkhamsted Reservoir could be devastating to the fish and the river environment. That would be very negative for this area, and the proposed provision of water to UConn has no positive impact for this part of the State.”
Besides accumulating a reputation of possibly devastating the Farmington River’s natural habitats and economic strength, the MDC proposal, is also the most expensive of the three options. While the Windham Water Works proposal would cost $44.4 million and the Connecticut Water Company proposal would cost $20.1 million, MDC’s would cost more than $51.2 million.
UConn and Mansfield has a long history of expressing a need of additional water. In 2002, Mansfield prepared a water supply plan which documented areas of pollution and need for water, according to Stephanie Reitz, a spokesperson for UConn. She said that Mansfield is an area where geology and geography makes the long-term water supply more challenging than in some parts of the state, constituting UConn’s water dilemma.
UConn has two wellfields, which has supplied campus facilities and buildings, off campus residences and town buildings for years, the Fenton River and the Willimantic River.
Murphy said that, on paper, UConn has an abundance of water, as both rivers release a combined 3.1 millions of gallons of water per day. Yet with dry seasons and a growing population, the amount of water needed to stay between the margin of safety just isn’t up to par. The margin of safety is supply divided by need with an acceptable margin of safety above 1.5 as recommended by the Department of Public Health. UConn’s margin of safety is below one.
Water use though, according to Murphy, is actually lower than it was five years ago, because of conservation techniques. He said that in September and October 2007, water usage dropped 11 percent from previous years.
Reitz said that the conservation efforts are due to “a robust conservation department,” active public outreach programs and a strong green building policy. UConn is also building a new water reclamation facility that will treat up to 1 million gallons of wastewater per day to transform into heating and cooling for much of the campus. This new facility will save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water each day for the school, according to Reitz. Continued...
“UConn really can cause a savings of water when they implement these day to day conservation methods,” Murphy said.
Despite those efforts, the UConn still needs more water.
The MDC was asked to consider diverting its own water resources in mid-2012. If it chose do to so, the water would have been diverted to these northern communities by a pipeline system in East Hartford, since the Barkhamsted reservoir already reaches there. Several possible water sources were reviewed over the last 18 months, until UConn finally chose three possible alternatives.
The MDC would to access up to five million gallons more water per day to serve UConn and the other surrounding communities. The MDC has 50 million gallons of water drawn from the Farmington River watershed daily.
A minimum of 32 million gallons of water per day is released into the Farmington River from the MDC.
According to a statement from the MDC, water would be taken from the reservoirs, not directly from the river. Less water in the reservoirs, however, would ultimately mean less water to release downstream into the river.
Environmental Impact Evaluations were developed for UConn by its Office of Environmental Policy, to propose for additional water sources.
Murphy said that there is no front-runner of the three options nor is UConn leaning against one over another.
“All three of the proposals are all viable and each have their own environmental impacts,” Murphy said.
A decision on which proposal will be selected will not be made until the EIE has completed more thorough research and UConn has determined where funding for the project for additional funding will come from along with answering crucial, legal questions. Continued...
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Guide to Religious Services
Note: All listings are paid advertisements.
Unity in the Foothills
102 Prospect Street, Torrington, Ct 06790
A Course in Miracles Tuesday evenings 7 p.m
Transformational Prayer Group Thursday 1:15 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m.
Northfield Bible Church
10 Camp Hill Road, Northfield, CT 06778
Bible Doctrines Class: Sunday at 9:00 a.m.
Sunday Service at 10:00 a.m.
Bible Study: Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Pot Luck Supper every 4th Friday of the Month at 6:15 p.m.
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
First Assembly of God
387 New Harwinton Road, Torrington, CT 06790
Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship Service at 10:45 a.m.
Family Night Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
Adult Bible Study Prayer Service: Saturday at 9:15 a.m.
Cable 5 Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 3 p.m.
CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
Founders Congregational Church
41 Birge Park Road, Harwinton, CT 06791
Sunday School and Services 10:00 a.m.
Bible Study: Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. and Thursday at 10:00 a.m.
Center Congregational Church
155 Main Street, Torrington, CT 06790
Sunday Services and Church School at 10:00 a.m.
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The steering committee charged with coming up with a charter application for the new Lamar County College and Career Academy approved the key document which will be presented to the school board for approval July 20.
This is fantastic. Not all students are college material and for those who do get a college degree their effort does not assure future employment. College graduates find that local employment with pay worthy of their educational investment doesn’t exist. They must venture into the metro area for viable employment. Blue color technical skills are a completely different story. It’s a great way to make a living and work closer to home. This is a major step toward attracting new industry to our neck of the woods. Lamar County is finally on the right path to better the quality of life of its citizens. Good job folks!
It may be interesting to know that Georgia is below the national average of what it financially invest in its citizens education. This is a good start toward correcting this disparity.
If these schools are legally mandated to abide by NCLB laws, it will be the same as public schools.
it will be 20 mills in2012
06/30/10 at 07:11 PM
glad to see that the public school system has admitted that the private sector can do a better job than the public. why dont we save the tax payers millions and send all the kids to private schools. it would be cheaper than what we spend on public education per child. oh yea cant do that because all the teacher unions and all the fat cats that take up central office jobs would be in an uproar.yes to answer your next question, i know i didnt cpitalize or use correct punctuation. guess' i was too busy reading "johnnys got 2 daddys" or studying about peer mediation or alternate lifestyles or it takes a whole village to raise a child, or the history of islam to waste time on engish class or praying .
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Water Heater Blankets
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Grade 6 Ancient Hebrews
History - Social Science Standards Addressed
6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of the Ancient Hebrews, in terms of:
1. The origins and significance of Judaism as the first monotheistic religion based on the concept of one God who sets down moral laws for humanity.
Language Arts Standards Addressed
1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development:
Students use their knowledge of word origins and word relationships, as well as historical and literary context clues, both to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-appropriate words.
1.0. Writing Strategies:
Students write clear, coherent, and focused essays.
Student writing exhibits awareness of audience and purpose.
Essays contain formal introductions, bodies of supporting evidence, and conclusions.
Research and Technology:
1.3. Use organizational features of printed text (e.g., citations, end notes, bibliographic references) to locate relevant information
1.4. Create simple documents using electronic media, employing organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, thesaurus, spell checks)
Revising and Evaluating Writing:
1.6. Revise writing to improve the meaning and focus of writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences
The gold leaves, that had once adorned the facade, had been stripped away. The beautiful fabrics, that once hung within the Temple doors, had been torn off and sold. Even the holy vessels had been used and thrown around, and there on the altar stood a likeness of the god Zeus.
There was, however, something even more disturbing. The lamp of the Temple stood cold and dead, its wick black and dry. The oil had run out and no one had bothered to refill it.
Judah knew that his first task was to rededicate the Temple. He gathered the priests and holy men, and ordered them to cleanse the Temple.
When this was done, Judah entered the Temple and looked about him. There was a sense of calmness.
1c. Guerrilla Warfare:
They attacked from the hills under cover of night. They led the enemy into traps where they surrounded and attacked them.
Judah Maccabee had far fewer men than the enemy but his detailed knowledge of the country allowed him to organize surprise attacks.
3. Students may provide a variety of answers, the following are a selection of possibilities.
The people were held together by their religion. It was a religion shared by all the people and so it became a binding force.
The Ancient Israelites were separated from other nations by their religion. The religious beliefs were monotheistic and, therefore, different from other nations.
The Israelites had strong religious leaders that kept alive their religious beliefs.
The religion of the Israelites was not only a spiritual code but also the law by which they lived.
|Evaluation of the Final Task|
Joyce and David Mollet
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The largest city in South Africa and the provincial capital of Gauteng Province, situated in the northeast of he country.
The Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha) is on LDS film: Film number: 1259151. The major cities in South Africa have their own burial societies that control burials of all types of Jews. As the majority of Jews have been buried in large cities. These records are available. They are a very useful source of information. Johannesburg probably accounts for over 75% of all burials. The earliest record goes back to 1888 at Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton in 1914 and West Park in 1942. Burials still occasionally take place in the 2 older cemeteries. Registers are kept on the premises, but in 1980, the Mormons microfilmed records of Jewish graves. Film no 1259151 referring to the Braamfontein cemetery was done. Apparently, their efforts at microfilming further Jewish Death records were brought to a halt by the intervention of the Chief Rabbi's office.
With reference to other burials, the Chevra Kadisha now has an easily accessed database of every burial in West Park, the major cemetery since approximately 1942. A computer terminal is kept at the cemetery and at their central offices. The records of the two older cemeteries, Brixton and Braamfontein, are small and easy to look up. At present , about 700 burials take place annually in Johannesburg. Mr Jackson, the Secretary of the society, told me that they get many requests from abroad for information and are often stumped by changes in spelling of names as families have migrated. Anglicization of Jewish surnames in South Africa was relatively uncommon. Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Societies 1877-1930 (Johannesburg) Burial records. FHL microfilm number 1259151. Secretary, Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Society P.O. Box 1105; Johannesburg 2000 tel.: 011 298236 Fax 011 232446
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People who wear a badge also want reform. At a recent Midwest summit on immigration, Lake County, Illinois Sheriff Mark Curran said, "We don't need higher deportation levels; we need to fix the system as it exists."
And job creators, people who own businesses, are yearning for common-sense reforms too. We know we need to find a solution when Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, says, "The longer national political leaders ignore the issue or use it as a political wedge, the more our farmers suffer because they cannot find a sufficient labor pool to harvest their crops."
Post-election talk will focus on the president's mandate. Immigration is different from other issues because the mandate for reform is clear, and it's not only because of his vote margin among Latinos.
"Immigration is the most important thing to focus on if you're concerned about America as an economic power. It's not only good policy to have more immigrants to the United States ... (and) a path forward for those people who are here; it's also good politics."
That's Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who added, "Hostility to immigrants is a vote-losing, not a vote-winning, issue."
When it comes to crafting a 21st century immigration process, Bibles, badges and business are ready to work with both Democrats and Republicans to reach a consensus.
Americans are ready for a just immigration system that treats all people with dignity and respect. Our leaders in Washington -- of both parties -- can and must deliver.
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A few old-school video cameras, a cloned apartment, a sea of digital sharks, and an actress who helped herself to craft services were just a few tricks that international filmmakers employed in their Oscar nominated films.
The five directors nominated for this year's foreign language film Academy Award revealed on Saturday how they used movie magic:
- "No," an account of the advertising tactics used in the 1988 campaign to oust Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, was filmed with U-Matic video cameras to give the film a grainy VHS aesthetic similar to the political commercials it depicted.
"We got used to it, and we just started loving it," said director Pablo Larrain, who noted that the vintage cameras had less resolution than an iPhone. "When we get to see regular movies now, they look so sharp!"
- Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke based the apartment where much of his relationship drama "Amour" takes place on his parents' own home because it felt comfortable and inspired him when crafting the film about an elderly French couple. The apartment was built on a soundstage and digital effects were used in windows to make the cityscape come alive.
"It was an exact reproduction," said Haneke through a translator. "Not because their story had anything to do with what was happening on screen, but it gave me ideas and helped me find solutions when writing the script."
- The 18th century Danish period piece "A Royal Affair," which centers on the forbidden romance between the Queen of Denmark and royal physician and minister Johann Struensee, was filmed in Prague, not Denmark.
"No street in Copenhagen looks remotely like it used to look in the 1760s," said director Nikolaj Arcel. "But you can actually go to Prague, and they've quite beautifully kept some of these old streets and restored them."
- Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, the directors of the Norwegian film "Kon-Tiki," digitally recorded their historical drama about the treacherous 1947 sea voyage of adventurer Thor Heyerdahl so they wouldn't run out of film.
Ronning said the filmmakers shot 140 terabytes worth of material - roughly about the size of 6,000 Blu-ray discs. They captured the boatload of footage because "Kon-Tiki" was shot in both Norwegian and English and included over 500 special effects shots.
- Kim Nguyen, the Canadian director of "War Witch," said his Congo-set drama about a young woman who becomes embroiled in an African rebellion was filmed chronologically, and that Rachel Mwanza, the film's 16-year-old star from the Congo, gained weight during production. It wasn't an issue because her character becomes pregnant in the film.
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Hepatitis refers to inflammation of the liver, which is the largest gland in the human body and an important component of the digestive and metabolic processes among other functions. Hepatitis can be caused by infection from bacteria and viruses (such as Hepatitis A, B, and C); an attack from the body's own immune system (autoimmune hepatitis); damage from drugs or alcohol; or in rare cases, an overdose of acetaminophen or other medications.
Hepatitis may acute (appears suddenly and resolves quickly) or chronic (develops slowly and lasts longer). The severity of the disease varies according to the underlying cause. Because some forms of hepatitis can lead to liver damage (cirrhosis), liver cancer, or liver failure, it is important to seek diagnosis and treatment if you exhibit symptoms of hepatitis. Many people recover fully from hepatitis, but the healing process can take several months. Long-term prognoses are largely dependent on the type and cause of the hepatitis, as well as any concurrent illnesses or conditions.
Common signs of heptatis include:
- Dark urine
- Pale-colored stools
- Painful or swollen abdomen
- Nausea and vomiting
- Appetite loss
- Weight loss
- Fatigue or weakness
- Jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes)
- Low-grade fever
- General itching
Some forms of hepatitis, including Hepatitis B and C, may not generate any symptoms until long after the initial infection. If you are at risk for these types of hepatitis, it is important to get tested regularly in order to detect the disease early and begin treatment.
Causes and Risk Factors
Hepatitis A, B, and C are caused by viruses and are the most common viral-based forms of hepatitis. The Heptatis A virus is generally contracted through close personal contact with an infected person or from consuming contaminated food or water. The Hepatitis B virus is spread through the exchange of bodily fluids with an infected person, such as through sexual contact or sharing drug needles with an infected person. Hepatitis C can be contracted through contact with an infected person’s blood, such as being pricked with a needle that has infected blood on it or through sexual activity.
Autoimmune hepatitis is uncommon and occurs when the body's own immune system begins to attack the liver. It is unclear what causes the immune system to do this, but researchers suspect that viral infections such as Epstein-Barr or the measles may play a role. Genetic abnormalities and certain drugs (such as acetaminophen, some antibiotics, and some high-blood pressure medications) might also be culprits in autoimmune hepatitis. Autoimmune hepatitis is more common in women, older adults, and people with a history of viral infections.
Finally, excessive alcohol abuse can cause liver damage and trigger alcoholic hepatitis. Genetic factors, obesity, malnutrition, and the presence of other forms of hepatitis increase the chances that a heavy drinker will develop for alcoholic hepatitis.
General risk factors for hepatitis include:
- Intravenous drug use
- Risky sexual activity (including unprotected sex and multiple sexual partners)
- Consuming contaminated food or water
- Travel in an area where hepatitis is common
- Alcohol abuse
- Taking too much acetaminophen
- Having HIV or AIDS
- Being an organ transplant recipient
- Having received a blood transfusion before 1990
- Being a newborn of a mother with hepatitis B or C
- Employment as a healthcare worker, including dentist and dental hygienist
- Living or working in a nursing home or rehabilitation center
- Having a family member who recently had hepatitis A
- Receiving a tattoo
Vaccines are available for Hepatitis A and B; vaccinations are recommended for children under the age of 18 and for adults who are at risk for exposure.
In addition to your medical history and any presenting symptoms such as yellowing of the skin, your physician may want to perform tests depending on the suspected cause of your hepatitis:
- Liver function test
- Hepatitis virus serology
- Liver biopsy (to determine the presence and severity of possible liver damage)
- Autoimmune blood marker
- Abdominal ultrasound
A proper diagnosis, including which particular form of hepatitis you have, is crucial for planning and executing an effective treatment plan.
Treatment plans will depend largely on the type of hepatitis you have contracted.
Hepatitis A: This form of hepatitis generally clears up on its own. You may need bedrest for several weeks and you should stay at home if possible in order to minimize the chance of spreading the virus. Alcohol should not be consumed during recovery, and your doctor may want to limit other medications.
Hepatitis B: If you know you've been exposed to the Hepatitis B virus, you may be able to prevent infection by immediately beginning a series of immunization shots. If you do develop a case of chronic Hepatitis B, your doctor may want to wait until you show signs of liver damage to begin a treatment regime. Antiviral medications such as interferon and nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are the most common drugs used to treat Hepatitis B. A liver transplant may be necessary if you develop extensive liver damage or show signs of liver failure.
Hepatitis C: Treatment for Hepatitis C is usually initiated when you show the beginning signs of liver damage (determined through a biopsy) and detectable levels of the virus in your bloodstream. Your doctor might then start you on the antiviral medication peginterferon, either alone or in combination with ribavirin. If you have certain medical conditions such as cirrhosis, depression, or an autoimmune disorder, antiviral medications might not advised. Severe liver damage as a result of Hepatitis C may take as long as twenty years to occur. However, if you do develop end-stage liver failure, a liver transplant may become necessary.
Autoimmune hepatitis: The immune-suppressant prednisone is most commonly prescribed for autoimmune hepatitis; it may be used alone or in conjunction with azathioprine, another immune suppressant. You will likely start out on a high dosage, which is lowered as signs of improvement appear. Most people need a long-term course of prednisone, and some people must take it for life. Because it can cause serious side effects such as diabetes, osteoporosis, and glaucoma, your physician will want to monitor you carefully for these conditions. If medication does not work, you may require a liver transplant.
Alcoholic hepatitis: The single most important step in treating alcoholic hepatitis is to permanently abstain from consuming alcohol. Counseling can play an important role in maintaining sobriety and should be included in the treatment regimen if needed. Other options for treatment include nutritional therapy, antioxidant supplements, and lifestyle changes such as maintaining a healthy weight. In cases where severe liver damage is present, a liver transplant may become necessary.
Irreversible scarring of the liver is known as cirrhosis. The scar tissue replaces healthy liver tissue, blocking blood flow and impairing the liver's ability to function normally. Because the liver performs many essential roles in keeping the body healthy, cirrhosis can be a life-threatening disease with severe complications. In fact, it is currently the 12th leading cause of death in the United States.
Cirrhosis generally develops slowly and rarely exhibits symptoms in its early stages. However, as greater amounts of scar tissue build up, signs begin to appear including:
- Appetite loss
- Weight loss
- Abdominal pain
- Spider-like blood vessels (spider angiomas) that develop on the skin
- Jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes)
- Fluid build up in the legs or abdomen
Causes and Risk Factors
Cirrhosis is caused by many conditions, but most commonly develops as a result of long-term alcohol abuse, alcoholic hepatitis, or certain forms of viral hepatitis. People who have experienced autoimmune hepatitis may also be at risk. Certain inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis or Wilson's disease might cause cirrhosis as well. Blocked bile ducts, reactions to certain prescription drugs, and exposure to environmental toxins are also thought to be triggers of cirrhosis, although these are rarer.
If your physician suspects cirrhosis based on your medical history and symptoms, he or she may order blood tests and imaging tests such as ultrasound, computerized tomography (CT) scan, or Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Ultimately a liver biopsy will be necessary to examine liver damage and determine that cirrhosis is present.
While liver scarring cannot be reversed, it is possible to prevent further damage from occurring. Treatment regimes will largely depend on the underlying condition that triggered the cirrhosis originally. In all cases, patients should abstain from alcohol and maintain a healthy lifestyle to ease the burden on the liver. When liver damage becomes extreme, a liver transplant may be necessary.
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Just for the Fun of It!
A great way to make science fun and interesting is to experiment and do projects on an informal basis. You don't need to have a science fair looming on the horizon in order to work through a science project.
The next time you and a friend are sitting around trying to think of something to do, suggest that you try one of the projects outlined in this section. You'll have a good time, and, who knows, you might even end up looking at the world a little differently.
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Quote from: watchtell on May 29, 2006, 09:16:56 PMWhat a thread! Now I understand why LSD posters become hooked! This site has some great threads! Yeah too bad most of the posts are by people plagarizing other people's work and passing it off as their own.
What a thread! Now I understand why LSD posters become hooked! This site has some great threads!
Quote from: mybelle on November 24, 2005, 05:56:41 PMWow, in this seal I recognized this symbol,It's a design created based on a four-triangle Rosecrucian symbol. It is composed of two figures - a central triangle and a seven-pointed figure. If one travels along the path described by this 7-pointed figure, one goes through a movement similar to the one described by the 6-pointed figure in the Enneagram. The Enneagram could have been drawn in such a way as to avoid using a 6-pointed figure. In other words, it was not because of the absence of adequate seven-pointed figures on which to map the 7-tone scale that Enneagram was chosen, with its 6-pointed figure.In her 1972 book "The Gnostic Circle", Vedic Cosmologist Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet superimposes the Zodiac on the Enneagram and uses both the 12 and 9 divisions of the circle as an Integral Yoga which she presents an approach to understanding the evolution of consciousness. Norelli-Bachelet suggests that there is more to the Enneagram than personality typing. She teaches an understanding of the Enneagram that includes the indivual's journey in various cycles of time. In her work, the Zero figures into the Enneagram, holding the same place as the 9 point at the top of the circle, and she sets the numbers flowing in a counter-clockwise direction, following the direction of the planets around the sun and the astrological signs around the Zodiac. Each Integer or point on the Enneagram of the Gnostic Circle corresponds to one of the planets, with the Sun as the Zero, Mercury as the One and finally Pluto as the Nine.
Wow, in this seal I recognized this symbol,It's a design created based on a four-triangle Rosecrucian symbol. It is composed of two figures - a central triangle and a seven-pointed figure. If one travels along the path described by this 7-pointed figure, one goes through a movement similar to the one described by the 6-pointed figure in the Enneagram. The Enneagram could have been drawn in such a way as to avoid using a 6-pointed figure. In other words, it was not because of the absence of adequate seven-pointed figures on which to map the 7-tone scale that Enneagram was chosen, with its 6-pointed figure.
[...] That will change someday, but for now it's the conservatives' time because when our imagination of the future is weak, we fall back on the past for want of something better. And we find ourselves voting for mediocrities like George Bush rather than mediocrities like John Kerry for the same reason.[...]
He recalls a tale he can't place as fact or fiction, but which suits the George W. Bush he remembers to a tee: "The story was that a professor started class saying, "Some of you will grow up to be President." Bush made a V-for-victory sign with his arms, and got a laugh out of everyone."
So, Zionists have basically hijacked the US government and are working in the interest of Zionist-extremism with an Israel first policy and not the USA? Well, I guess Nietzsche was not angry in vain with Jews ... Nietzsche described Jews as the truly great haters in world history.
Terrorists, serial killers, and mass murderers can be phenomenologically described as narcissists in a constant state of deficient narcissistic supply. The "grandiosity gap" - the painful and narcissistically injurious gap between their grandiose fantasies and their dreary and humiliating reality - becomes emotionally insupportable. They decompensate and act out. They bring "down to their level" (by destroying it) the object of their pathological envy, the cause of their seething frustration, the symbol of their dull achievements, always incommensurate with their inflated self-image. They seek omnipotence through murder, control (not least self control) through violence, prestige, fame and celebrity by defying figures of authorities, challenging them, and humbling them. Unbeknownst to them, they seek self punishment. They are at heart suicidal. They aim to cast themselves as victims by forcing others to punish them. This is called "projective identification". They attribute evil and corruption to their enemies and foes. These forms of paranoia are called projection and splitting. These are all primitive, infantile, and often persecutory, defence mechanisms. When coupled with narcissism - the inability to empathize, the exploitativeness, the sense of entitlement, the rages, the dehumanization and devaluation of others - this mindset yields abysmal contempt for the narcissist's victims. The overriding emotion of terrorists and serial killers, the amalgam and culmination of their tortured psyche - is deep seated disdain for everything human, the flip side of envy. It is cognitive dissonance gone amok. On the one hand the terrorist, or serial killer derides as "false", "meaningless", "dangerous", and "corrupt" common values, institutions, human intercourse, and society. On the other hand, he devotes his entire life (and often risks it) to the elimination and pulverization of these "insignificant" entities. To justify this apparent contradiction, the mass murderer casts himself as an altruistic savior of a group of people "endangered" by his foes. He is always self-appointed and self-proclaimed, rarely elected. The serial killer and the mass murderer rationalize and intellectualize their murders by purporting to "liberate" or "deliver" the victims from a fate worse than death. The global reach, the secrecy, the impotence, and growing panic of his victims, of the public, and of his pursuers, the damage he wreaks - all serve as external ego functions. The terrorist cut pasted and serial killer regulate their sense of self esteem and self worth by feeding slavishly on the reactions to their heinous deeds. Their cosmic significance is daily sustained by newspaper headlines, ever increasing bounties, admiring copycats, successful acts of blackmail, the strength and size of their opponents, and the devastation of human life and property. Appeasement works only to aggravate their drives and strengthen their appetites by emboldening them and by raising the threshold of excitation and "narcissistic supply". Terrorists and killers are addicted to this drug of being acknowledged and reflected. They derive their sense of existence, parasitically, from the reactions of their (often captive) audience.Erich Fromm suggested that both Hitler and Stalin were narcissistic mass murderers. Hitler and Nazism are often portrayed as an apocalyptic and seismic break with European history. Yet the truth is that they were the culmination and reification of European history in the 19th century. Europe's annals of colonialism have prepared it for the range of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory.Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain. What set it apart is that it directed its colonial attentions at the heartland of Europe - rather than at Africa or Asia. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing racial theories (usually reserved to non-whites) to the white race itself. It started with the Jews - a non-controversial proposition - but then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. The far right in France was as pernicious. Nazism - and Fascism - were world ideologies, adopted enthusiastically in places as diverse as Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Latin America, and Britain. At the end of the 1930's, liberal capitalism, communism, and fascism (and its mutations) were locked in mortal battle of ideologies. Hitler's mistake was to delusionally believe in the affinity between capitalism and Nazism - an affinity enhanced, to his mind, by Germany's corporatism and by the existence of a common enemy: global communism.Colonialism always had discernible religious overtones and often collaborated with missionary religion. "The White Man's burden" of civilizing the "savages" was widely perceived as ordained by God. The church was the extension of the colonial power's army and trading companies. It is no wonder that Hitler's lebensraum colonial movement - Nazism - possessed all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. Hitler was this religion's ascetic saint. He monastically denied himself earthly pleasures (or so he claimed) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. Hitler was a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself so that (Aryan) humanity should benefit. By surpassing and suppressing his humanity, Hitler became a distorted version of Nietzsche's "superman".But being a-human or super-human also means being a-sexual and a-moral. In this restricted sense, Hitler was a post-modernist and a moral relativist. He projected to the masses an androgynous figure and enhanced it by fostering the adoration of nudity and all things "natural". But what Nazism referred to as "nature" was not natural at all. It was an aesthetic of decadence and evil (though it was not perceived this way by the Nazis), carefully orchestrated, and artificial. Nazism was about reproduced copies, not about originals. It was about the manipulation of symbols - not about veritable atavism.In short: Nazism was about theatre, not about life. To enjoy the spectacle (and be subsumed by it), Nazism demanded the suspension of judgment, depersonalization, and de-realization. Catharsis was tantamount, in Nazi dramaturgy, to self-annulment. Nazism was nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives were nihilistic. Nazism was conspicuous nihilism - and Hitler served as a role model, annihilating Hitler the Man, only to re-appear as Hitler the stychia.What was the role of the Jews in all this? Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the European order. The Nazis borrowed the Leninist vocabulary and assimilated it effectively. Hitler and the Nazis were an adolescent movement, a reaction to narcissistic injuries inflicted upon a narcissistic (and rather psychopathic) toddler nation-state. Hitler himself was a malignant narcissist, as Fromm correctly noted. The Jews constituted a perfect, easily identifiable, reification of all that was "wrong" with Europe. They were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "decadent", they were hated on religious and socio-economic grounds (see Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners"), they were different, they were narcissistic (felt and acted as morally superior), they were everywhere, they were defenseless, they were credulous, they were adaptable (and thus could be co-opted to collaborate in their own destruction). They were the perfect hated father figure and parricide was in fashion.This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler. He was an inverted human. His unconscious was his conscious. He acted out our most repressed drives, fantasies, and wishes. He provides us with a glimpse of the horrors that lie beneath the veneer, the barbarians at our personal gates, and what it was like before we invented civilization. Hitler forced us all through a time warp and many did not emerge. He was not the devil. He was one of us. He was what Arendt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed, failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived through disturbed and failing times. He was the perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls.
George W. Bush was a picture of honor once he got past his party days at Yale with the Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers and members of Skull & Bones, a secret society that enrolled him during his senior year -- so hush-hush, in fact, it barely gets a mention in his book. Bush earned an undergraduate degree in history from Yale in 1968.
"She may also raise a nasty rumour that circulates in Washington DC from time to time, that President Bush had a 'special relationship' with a former mayor of Tennessee, Victor Ashe, who is now the US ambassador to Poland."
This humiliation is complete with a bar disclosure form that rivals the CIA's in its comprehensive invasiveness.
The bar exam is a rite of passage by which the hopeful lawyer-to-be shows his willingness to do anything to please the state bar authorities in exchange for a license.
Quote from: bushy on June 04, 2006, 07:18:05 AMHe recalls a tale he can't place as fact or fiction, but which suits the George W. Bush he remembers to a tee: "The story was that a professor started class saying, "Some of you will grow up to be President." Bush made a V-for-victory sign with his arms, and got a laugh out of everyone." Hahaha, this is so funny!
Just how "fabulous" is Mr. Ashe, Georgie? "It's known by many sources that George W. Bush in 1968 [when he was tapped into the Skulls and Bones] was performing homosexual acts with his male sex-mate and Yale roommate Mayor Ashe of Knoxville, TN. While mayor, Ashe made several unscheduled visits to the White House and, according to US Secret Service sources, Bush made at least 8 unscheduled and unannounced trips to Knoxville while he has been President. Ashe is suspected of two arrests. One was in Washington DC and the other was in Atlanta, while he was a Tennessee state legislator. They allegedly involved arrests while he was picking up male tranvestite prostitutes in public restrooms. Ashe was allegedly introduced on live TV, by Peter Jennings, as "The gay mayor from Knoxville" at a national mayor's conference in San Francisco."The mainline Australian newspaper, The Age, reported last week, prior to the release of Kitty Kelley's book "The Family" (Bush's) some charges Kelley could make, including: Quote"She may also raise a nasty rumour that circulates in Washington DC from time to time, that President Bush had a 'special relationship' with a former mayor of Tennessee, Victor Ashe, who is now the US ambassador to Poland." http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/10/1094789692938.html?oneclick=true
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Philip Roth has a new biographer: Blake Bailey, the author of highly regarded biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever. Mr. Bailey said on Wednesday that in June he and Mr. Roth signed a collaboration agreement guaranteeing him unlimited access to Mr. Roth’s archives and correspondence, and help in encouraging friends to cooperate, and that he had already spent several marathon sessions interviewing the 79-year-old novelist.
The project will take him 8 to 10 years to complete, he estimated, and he plans shortly to send out a proposal to book publishers.
Mr. Bailey is actually the second writer to begin a life of Mr. Roth, the author of 26 novels (several highly autobiographical) and two volumes of memoirs, “Patrimony: A True Story” and “The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography.” In 2004, Mr. Roth appointed Ross Miller, a professor at the University of Connecticut and nephew of the late playwright Arthur Miller, as his biographer.
That arrangement was abandoned by mutual consent in 2009, according to Mr. Roth’s agent, Andrew Wylie. Mr. Miller remains the editor of the nine-volume Library of America edition of Mr. Roth’s writings.
Mr. Bailey said he approached Mr. Roth in the spring, after finishing his latest book, a biography of Charles Jackson, who wrote “The Lost Week-End,” but had to undergo a lengthy vetting process before securing his approval. According to Mr. Bailey, the first thing Mr. Roth wanted to know was what qualified a gentile from Oklahoma to write his biography. “I pointed out that I’m not an aging bisexual alcoholic with an ancient Puritan lineage and I still managed to write a biography of John Cheever,” he said. | <urn:uuid:0df3fc1e-302a-4de0-b4df-e85728700bd9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/philip-roth-to-cooperate-with-new-biographer/?ref=books | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967901 | 381 | 1.601563 | 2 |
In the September issue, I discussed some of the claims that various organizations working on the smart grid have made in the two years since the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 passed. The act contained Title XIII, which has 10 characterizations of a smart grid.
(Note: Part 1 appeared in Security + Life Safety Systems. Find it here.)
It appears that a large number of people of mixed degrees of knowledge on the subject have focused on No. 5 as the weak link in the chain: “(5) Deployment of smart technologies (real-time, automated, interactive technologies that optimize the physical operation of appliances and consumer devices) for metering, communications concerning grid operations and status, and distribution automation.”
I am not sure which is the more troubling of the two camps—the ones making the claims of improved security or the ones making claims of increased vulnerability. Here are a couple samples from the latter side of the debate:
According to a CNET report, “Smart-grid Hackers Could Cause Blackouts,” cyber-security experts said some types of meters can be hacked, as can other points in the smart grid’s communications systems. IOActive, a professional security services firm, determined that an attacker with $500 worth of equipment and materials, and a background in electronics and software engineering, could “take command and control of the [advanced meter infrastructure], allowing for the en masse manipulation of service to homes and businesses.”
According to a Fox News report, “Electrical ‘Smart Grid’ Not Yet Smart Enough to Block Hackers”: “With smart grid, anybody with an eBay account and $80 can go and buy a smart meter, reverse-engineer it and figure out how to attack the grid,” said Josh Pennell, president and CEO of IOActive, who testified before the Department of Homeland Security.
And there are those who are convinced that just about everyone will want to get their hands on the smart meter data. Surprisingly, virtually no one seems to mention one of the primary reasons utilities are putting in smart meters: to be able to charge more based on time-of-use and real-time-pricing.
On the flip side, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the initial batch of the 16 interoperability standards that it has tagged to help ensure software and hardware components from different vendors will work together seamlessly, while securing the grid against disruptions. The standards cover applications ranging from advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart grid end-to-end security, to information security for power system control operations, to cyber security standards and guidelines for federal information systems, including those for the bulk power system. There seems to be a lot of attention focused on the security of the information.
A Department of Energy (DOE) report, “A Systems View of the Modern Grid,” highlights the ability for the identification of threats and vulnerabilities and protecting the network. The result would be reduced system vulnerability to physical or cyber attack, with minimal consequences of any disruption, including its extent, duration or economic impact. In addition, security-related improvements would help optimize reliability, communications, computing, decision-making support and self-healing.
Let’s step back and inject in a small dose of reality. The proliferation of PCs and the Internet has already made the world a network with access into just about everyone’s home and business. All you have to do to see that plenty of people with wireless networks are still using them without authentication and encryption is to walk through your neighborhood with your laptop and a wireless card (but please don’t, as it is illegal in some jurisdictions).
But utility information is different. Consider that electric utilities have been using communications to protect the grid for years. Power line carrier, radio and microwave transmissions send signals that contain system protection information back and forth. Other countries have been using “mains signaling frequencies” to change tariffs in billing meters. There is plenty of data being collected by the Supervisory, Control, And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at the generation, transmission and distribution levels. And the information about how much a building consumes is on a computer with a network connected as well. It’s called your electric utility bill.
What about the physical security of the grid? Remember the last large-scale blackout in the United States in August 2003? It was contact between transmission lines and a tree that started the cascade of events. Yes, there were other factors involved, such as a generator being out for service, a faulty computer program and some human error thrown in as well. Rather than focusing all this energy on a disgruntled employee or terrorist who will bring down the grid by hacking into my smart meter and turning off my house, how about we pay just a bit more attention to the physical security of the 10,000 generating plants 157,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines?
BINGHAM, a contributing editor for power quality, can be reached at 732.287.3680. | <urn:uuid:42f30f73-fdfb-4a61-80c3-f5fb15946f65> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ecmag.com/print/section/your-business/securing-promise?qt-issues_block=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948624 | 1,043 | 2.25 | 2 |
The SSH protocol is available in two incompatible varieties: SSH 1 and SSH 2.
The older SSH 1 protocol comes in two major sub-variants: protocol 1.3 and protocol 1.5. Both are supported by OpenSSH. Both of these use the asymmetric cryptography algorithm RSA (for which the USA patent has expired, allowing full use by everyone) for key negotiation, and then use a short list of symmetric algorithms for data hiding: 3DES and Blowfish. (There used to be a few other algorithms like RC4, but their implementations had security problems). Some SSH 1 protocol implementations also support the IDEA symmetric algorithm, but since this algorithm is patented in some nations, and because the other two supplied algorithms are sufficient, OpenSSH ships without support for IDEA.
The SSH 1 protocol uses a simple CRC for data integrity, which turns out to be flawed; an insertion attack is known to be possible, however due to a number of bandaids which have been applied to SSH implementations over the years, attacks against it are very difficult to perform. When the 3DES cipher is used, the insertion attack is significantly less possible. (We may solve this soon).
The second major variety of SSH is the SSH 2 protocol. SSH 2 was invented to avoid the patent issues regarding RSA (patent issues which no longer apply, since the patent has expired), and to fix the CRC data integrity problem that SSH1 has, and for a number of other technical reasons. By using the asymmetric DSA and DH algorithms, protocol 2 avoids all patents. The CRC problem is also solved by using a real HMAC algorithm. SSH 2 protocol supports many other choices for symmetric ciphers, as well as many other new features.
OpenSSH code including full SSH 1.3 and SSH 1.5 protocol support shipped on December 1, 1999.
For many of its cryptography features, OpenSSH relies on the non-GPL'd OpenSSL library.
Almost immediately after we shipped our SSH 1 protocol implementation, various non-OpenBSD groups got very, very interested. Damien Miller, Philip Hands, and handful of others started porting OpenSSH to Linux and various other Unix operating systems. From the start of our own efforts, we have felt that even the original SSH implementation was too complicated; it simply had too many operating system dependencies to deal with. Our approach to writing completely secure and rock solid code avoids dealing with excessive differences like that. Thus, to make the entire development process easier on us all, we decided to split our core development efforts from portability developments. This has worked out very well for us. (As a case in point, compare the number of lines of code between the baseline and portable versions).
Continuing that trend, the OpenBSD project members who worked on OpenSSH made a push at supporting the SSH 2 protocol as well. This work was primarily done by Markus Friedl. Around May 4, 2000, the SSH 2 protocol support was implemented sufficiently to be useable. | <urn:uuid:07bc23ef-4346-41cb-9e8c-9d59d9fa7986> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openbsd.org/openssh/goals.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957922 | 619 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Through August 14, New Yorkers will have access to a unique opportunity, namely that of seeing five of Shakespeare’s best plays performed in an environment not too terribly different from that in which they were originally showcased in Elizabethan England. As part of the Lincoln Center Festival and to celebrate its 50th year, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has erected a near facsimile of its brand new Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) in Stratford-upon-Avon within the drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory. There, the RSC is putting on such Shakespeare favorites as As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, and King Lear, all within the intimate confines of a temporary steel-structured 975-seat thrust-stage auditorium modeled on the cozy arrangements of the Globe, Rose, and other Renaissance period playhouses.
Courtesy Park Avenue Armory
To understand what now occupies the Armory it is best to begin with the recent changes that the RSC has made to its Stratford-upon-Avon home base. The original RST was a 1,400-seat art deco cinema-style theater designed by Elizabeth Scott and opened in 1932. While this theater had its virtues, its back seats were more than 88 feet away from the stage, making it difficult for those seated there (most notably school groups) to take part in the drama. To improve this experience, the RSC hired a design team led by Bennetts Associates of London to deliver “an auditorium Shakespeare might recognize.”
Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which actors and audiences shared the same space. By reducing the number of seats to 1,040 and selecting a thrust-stage design—where the audience surrounds the stage on three sides—the team halved the distance of the furthest seat from where the actors strut and fret. Bennetts also settled upon a faceted auditorium based on a 12-sided polygon reminiscent of the Globe and supported the two upper tiers with Miesian steel cruciform columns placed near the edge of the balcony.
The purist view of theater design is that if there is a column then there is a problem. However, adding columns provides a front to the architecture that makes it part of the scenery. The columns also allow the tiers to sit much closer together, whereas cantilevers would make them higher and further apart. In addition, the column and beam construction harkens back to the timber building of Elizabethan times and creates small, subdivided communities within the theater, providing an experience where everyone feels that they are in their own private box.
The thrust stage does create acoustical challenges. Since the audience surrounds the stage on three sides, it is inevitable that at some point during the play the actors will have their backs to much of the crowd, casting their voices away from them. To ensure that everyone can hear, sound had to be bounced around the theater. This was accomplished by installing wooden panels in the railings of the balconies and keeping the rear walls (also wooden) as close to the last seats as possible. The most challenged seats were actually at the foot of the stage, where sound threatened to fly over the heads of the crowd. Additional panels directly behind these first seats keep the sound bouncing back to their ears. At the Armory, the team also placed acoustical sails up around the fly space, keeping the actors’ voices from escaping into the cavernous drill hall.
Stephanie Berger and Peter Cook
To prepare for the Armory show, the RSC staff built a mirror image of Bennetts’ RST in their workshop in Stratford-upon-Avon. Some differences, of course, were inevitable. Rather than use the cruciform steel columns they used more economical and lighter hollow tube sections. The number of seats was also reduced slightly. The entire assembly was shop-fabricated in sections and then packed into 46 shipping containers before making the trip across the Atlantic. Once in New York, it took the RSC 15 days to erect the auditorium within the Armory, connecting the sections with some 18,000 bolts, nuts, and washers. Even the packing containers were used in the construction, making up a platform for the backstage as well as space for costume and prop storage.
The difference in the ventilation systems at the RSC and at the Armory is also worth noting. In Stratford-upon-Avon, the ventilation is under the seats. Cool air enters there and then drifts up as it gets warm. The temporary auditorium, however, uses the air conditioning system of the armory, which is pumped in through two large ducts that cross the ceiling. Feeder ducts were patched onto these ducts to deliver air to the top of the theater. This created a challenge, because the top is where the hot lights are, and the hot lights create convection currents that force air up. Intakes at the ground level, however, draw the air down through the space, keeping everyone as cool as cucumbers. | <urn:uuid:c1a275d0-b92a-4b9f-9fa7-c94430d376b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5545 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964279 | 1,032 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Cloisters set of fifty-two cards constitutes the only known complete deck of illuminated ordinary playing cards (as opposed to tarot cards) from the fifteenth century. The are four suits, each consisting of a king, a queen, a knave, and ten pip cards. The suit symbols, based on equipment associated with the hunt, are hunting horns, dog collars, hound tethers, and game nooses. The value of the pip cards is indicated by appropriate repetitions of the suit symbol. The figures, which appear to be based on Franco-Flemish models, were drawn with a bold, free, and engaging, if somewhat unrefined, hand. Their exaggerated and sometimes anachronistic costumes suggest a lampoon of extravagant Burgundian court fashions. Although some period card games are named, it is not known how they were played. Almost all card games did, however, involve some form of gambling. The condition of the set indicates that the cards were hardly used, if at all. It is possible that they were conceived as a collector's curiosity rather than as a deck for play. | <urn:uuid:187d0cb8-4418-47d6-a919-6305943b9522> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/70016900?high=on&rpp=15&pg=1&rndkey=20121119&ft=*&where=Netherlands&what=Playing+cards&pos=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98251 | 230 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Magento U is in Full Swing!
The first course for Magento U was successfully delivered last week. This 2-day course taught students (front-end developers and designers), the fundamentals of the Magento templating system. The course focused on how Magento themes work with a focus on layouts, page templates and block templates. Students were taught best practices through a full set of guided examples and hands-on exercises. Students felt they received value and provided feedback which will continue to be built into ongoing course enhancements. One student commented ...
This course covered exactly what I have wanted to learn for a long time. It shed light on some things that may be out there somewhere, but are really hard to find. I liked the emphasis on best practices and thought the instructor was very knowledgeable.
We will deliver the “Fundamentals of Magento Development” course starting Monday, March 7, 2011. This course will be taught over 5 days and will focus on the architecture of Magento, review the processes around Magento Rendering, Request Flow, Adminhtml, Database and EAV. It will highlight the basics and best practices of extending the platform. After completion of this course, students will be able to optimize the platform while enabling future upgrade-ability.
Both courses will be delivered once a month going forward in the US and Europe. Please see schedule at magentocommerce.com/services/training. Courses are filling up. If interested, please visit our training page and register for your specific course and location. | <urn:uuid:cbfc9f37-6596-4174-ae07-a5865ed33651> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/magento-u-is-in-full-swing/%7Btitle_permalink=blog/rss_2.0%7D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940582 | 313 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
The admonition of a true friend should be like the practice of a wise physician, who wrappeth his sharp pills in fine sugar; or the cunning Chirurgeon, who lancing a wound with an iron, immediately applieth to it soft lint; or as mothers deal with their children for worms, who put their bitter seeds into sweet raisins. If this order had been observed in thy discourse, that interlacing sour taunts with sugared counsel, bearing as well a gentle rein as using a hard snaffle, than mightest have done more with the whisk of a wand, that now thou canst with a pick of the spur, and avoid that which now thou mayest not, extreme unkindness. But thou art like that kind of judge which Propertius noeth, who condemning his friend, cause him for the more ease to be hanged with a silken twist. And thou, like a friend, cuttest my throat with a razor, not with a hatchet, for my more honour. John Lyly | <urn:uuid:69386fb2-b01b-4450-8ef5-17f328b3394e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bartleby.com/161/28.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959907 | 233 | 1.953125 | 2 |
I've noticed some discussion about creatives and planners working together. While we wait for Scamp and Russell's Blogclash here's my views on how planners can best involve themselves in the creative process.
1. Don't forget, planners are not essential. Creatives and account people did fine before planners came along. Planners need to persuade people to want them there. For creatives, being useful means two things: i) Getting their work through research and clients ii) Useful stuff, inspiration and guidance.
2. Getting work through research means using groups (if you have to) to find how to improve the work, not kill it. Getting work through clients means working closely with suits and constantly contributing stuff they won't have considered themselves. It also means being good at suggesting instead of telling.
3. To be able to be useful in the creative process, two things matter. Firstly, how you behave and secondly, the quality of the stuff you give them.
4. When it comes to you, it all comes down to being interesting and helpful. You need to be the person they want in the room. This means working with them instead of dictating, it also means people believing that you're a font of all knowledge. So collect things, articles, pictures, films thoughts,whatever is interesting. If people think you have lots of useful stuff, they'll come to you for it. But be generous, don't try and take credit for their ideas or they'll never come to you again.
5. The creative briefing is important, but all the stuff that goes on before the first review are even more so. Keep on informally dropping in for a chat, giving them stuff they may find useful. Do this before the breifing too. If you want to be part of the creative process, it's only right that they should be part of the strategy.
5. Be quick and do the work. If they ask for something, get it quick while the idea is fresh in their minds. They'll appreciate that you've helped.
6. Creatives tend to prefer analogy and visual stimulus NOT LOTS OF WORDS. Give them loads of stuff - it's the density and relevance of the stimulus that counts more then the quality, they'll know how best to utilise it.
7. It's hard to go to suits for some objective thoughts on where the work is going - they've always got the client hat on. Planners have the opportunity to act as a non-threatening sounding board. There's no need to criticise work either. If you talk about the good work, they'll get the message about the other stuff. Ditto about disussing the good points about individual executions.
8. One of the hardest things to get accross in a briefing is a tone of voice. But just like body language, it's at least as important as what you'ren actually saying. Work hard at showing them the tone instead of telling - pictures, video, real people, anything.
9. There is some disgreement about this, but I've found that creative starters wind them up, while fresh useful insights help.
10. It's not knew, but never forget that creatives remember the briefing, never the brief. Make your brief a pleasure to read as a matter of course, or consider something that is far more than words. Get a bit of theatre into the briefing, get them inspired. They'll have lots of briefs on, how can you make them want to do their best work on yours?
11. (bonus just added). Never underestimate how much they want feedback. If the work has bombed in groups, tell the truth. If the client hates it, tell the truth. You always get found out and you'll have lost them forever. | <urn:uuid:72ade81c-7373-43a5-b0ca-c6ac5e025c3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joymachine.typepad.com/northern_planner/2006/07/working_with_cr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969251 | 778 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Seasonal to Interannual Forecasts
ARCHIVE COPY - JANUARY 2008
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The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) translates global-scale climate forecasts and conditions into regional-scale climate forecasts for Pacific Northwest (PNW) resource managers and the general public. The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important factor for seasonal forecasting, changing the odds for different types of winter and spring weather (e.g. warmer/drier, cooler/wetter) in the PNW. Another important climate variable for Pacific Northwest climate is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The climate outlook also provides the basis for natural resource forecasts, including the CIG's annual streamflow forecasts.
What's Next for the Pacific Northwest?
Updated January 24, 2008 (posted January 28)
The climate outlook is reviewed monthly and updated as needed.
During December 1-3, a series of storms moved through the Pacific Northwest (PNW) bringing snow, strong winds, heavy rainfall, landslides, and major flooding. Over the 3-day period, strong winds in excess of 80 mph battered much of the Oregon and Washington coast. Winds in several locations, including Hoquiam, which recorded a maximum gust of 81 mph, were the strongest since the Columbus Day storm of 1962. (More on the Great Coastal Gale of December 1 - 3, 2007).
The most significant event of this period was the heavy rainfall around western Washington on December 3, which resulted in major flooding. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), major flooding was observed in southwest Washington and moderate flooding in central western Washington. Three rivers -- the Elwha, Skokomish, and the Chehalis -- reached all-time flood levels. The high water from Chehalis river led to widespread flooding for much of the central Chehalis valley, including a 20-mile stretch of Interstate-5. Preliminary estimates indicate that 24-hour precipitation amounts were near 100-year rain frequency levels. Bremerton broke its all-time daily maximum rainfall record on December with 7.50" of rain, breaking the old record of 5.62" set December 10, 1921. (Additional rainfall totals)
As December 2007 drew to a close, the monthly precipitation totals were above the 1971-2000 normal in western Oregon and Washington, the eastern flank of the North Cascades, the Spokane area, and northern Idaho (totals, percentage of normal, High Plains Regional Climate Center). December temperatures were near normal over the region, as were precipitation and temperature averaged over October, November, and December (not shown).
Coastal sea surface temperatures (SSTs) continued to be below normal in December, with SSTs at least 1C below normal along the Washington coast, and at least 2C below normal along the Oregon and much of the California coast (figure, 1985-97 climatology, NOAA Coastwatch). This pattern of colder than normal west coast SSTs is consistent with the cold ENSO conditions that have dominated the equatorial Pacific in the last several months (figure, 1982-96 climatology, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory).
Mid-January 2008 brought cold, dry conditions to the Pacific Northwest and much of the U.S. (7-day averages for the PNW and U.S.), but the average temperature for the last 30 days remains near normal for the PNW (figure). The Snotel snow water content, as reported on 23 January, is at or above the 1961-90 normal for much of the PNW, and in the 75-90% range in southeast Oregon and southern Idaho (figure). A comparison with the 20 December 2007 analysis reveals how much the values can change at this time of year (figure, Western Regional Climate Center).
Current indicators for Pacific climate
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Cold ENSO continues in the equatorial Pacific, with mean October-November-December sea surface temperatures (SSTs) 1.48°C below the 1971-2000 normal in the Niño 3.4 region (5N-5S, 170-120W), the coldest temperatures at this time of the year since 1988 (figure) and the 6th coldest in the 58 year record. As of 10 January, NCEP characterized this as a moderate "La Niña" (cold ENSO) episode (discussion). The cold conditions are forecast to remain strong through the remainder of the December-January-February season, with diminished cold ENSO conditions persisting through June-July-August (18 forecast models).
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The existing pattern of colder than normal SSTs along the west coast of North America and on the equator, and warmer than normal SSTs in the central north Pacific is characteristic of the cold polarity of the PDO phenomenon (figure). The amplitude of this pattern in September, October, November, and December was -0.36, -1.45, -1.08, and -0.58, respectively, indicating that the PDO has diminished in strength since October. One of the conceptual models for PDO variability is that the seasonal and longer term fluctuations in the PDO are produced by ENSO, so the forecast of continued cold ENSO is consistent with the PDO to remain negative in the coming months. The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory experimental SST forecast is for the PDO pattern to remain negative through the rest of 2008.
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What does the outlook mean for the PNW in coming months?
The Climate Prediction Center's outlook for January-February-March temperature and precipitation is for equal chances of above, below, or normal temperatures for the PNW, with the exception of the southeast corner of Idaho which has a 33% chance of above normal temperatures. Precipitation probabilities are for a greater than 40% chance of above normal precipitation for southeast Washington, northeast Oregon and central Idaho, and a greater than 30% chance of above normal precipitation in the rest of the region.
The forecasts should be interpreted as the tilting of odds towards general categories of conditions, and should not be viewed as a guarantee that the specified conditions will be realized. The forecasts tend to have most skill in years of significant warm or cold ENSO conditions, like this one. Historically, La Niña conditions have favored cooler than average winter temperatures around western Washington and western Oregon. However, the combination of long-term warming trends with the La Niña influence supports the CPC forecast for “equal chances” for above, below, and average winter temperatures in the PNW region.
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Pacific Northwest Resource Outlooks
- Water Resources Forecasts (streamflow and other hydrologic conditions)
- Salmon survival forecast
- Forecast of extreme weather events
Climate Prediction Resources
The links below provide access to the latest information on the current state of global and regional climate, as well as links to global and regional climate predictions.
The Current State of the Tropical Pacific
- Real-time data from moored ocean buoys (from NOAA’s TAO array)
- ENSO diagnostic discussion (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- NOAA El Niño and La Niña definitions (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- Weekly ENSO update (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- ENSO Quick Look (from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction)
- Monitoring El Niño/La Niña (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
Predictions of Tropical Pacific and North Pacific Conditions
- Seasonal Niño3.4 sea surface temperature anomaly plume forecasts (from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)
- Statistical Probabilistic ENSO Predictions (from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction)
- Sea surface temperature forecasts (from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction)
- Experimental PDO and Pacific Seasonal Forecasts (from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory)
The Current State of the Globe
- Climate diagnostics bulletin (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- Accumulated daily precipitation time series graphs (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- Daily global and regional precipitation analysis (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- Index of Climate Prediction Center’s climate monitoring activities and data
Current and Predicted U.S. Conditions
- Monthly to seasonal climate outlooks (from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center)
- State of the Climate report (from the National Climatic Data Center)
- Northern Hemisphere snow report (from the National Climatic Data Center)
- Spring and summer streamflow forecasts (from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
- Drought in the US
- Water supply forecasts and snowpack conditions for the Western U.S.
- Experimental seasonal fire risk forecasts (from the U.S. Forest Service)
- Western U.S. climate conditions and forecasts (from the Western Regional Climate Center)
Pacific Northwest Conditions
- Western Washington water and snowpack (from Seattle City Light)
- Seattle water supply conditions and outlook (from Seattle Public Utilities)
- Coastal conditions (from NOAA’s CoastWatch)
- Data on PNW snowpack (from the Western Regional Climate Center)
State Climatologist Offices
- Drought in central and southwest Asia (from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction) | <urn:uuid:c8bf6802-9edf-4f13-a251-924246248624> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cses.washington.edu/cig/fpt/cloutarchive/cloutlook0108.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921914 | 1,989 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Posted by: GuyPardon
Channel, interactive media, IPTV, network, new media, video, webcast
Like YouTube, Current.tv features videos created by users and uploaded to their distribution platform on the Web. They call them “viewer-created content” but that difference is only semantic, especially considering that of the short programs called “pods” that make up the bulk of programming, an estimated 30% are created by viewers and users.
Unlike YouTube, Current.tv organizes the content into a single channel, with short to medium-length programming includes spots from of Google. Current.tv isn’t just on the Web, either; the channel went live in 2005 on most major domestic U.S. cable networks, including Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, DirectTV and Dish Network.
The cable television network is run by Current TV, an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. A second network was launched in the spring of 2007 in the United Kingdom and Ireland for Sky and Virgin Media subscribers. There’s an official Current blog that about noteworthy content that’s worth a look as well. | <urn:uuid:655fded7-44c8-4049-b820-5907e7167416> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/whatis/currenttv-the-first-24-hour-network-based-around-viewer-created-content/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96153 | 251 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Internet telephony, or more common, Voice over IP (VoIP) or digital telephony allows parties to exchange voice data flows over the network. The big difference is that the data flows over a general purpose network, the Internet, contrary to conventional telephony, that uses a dedicated network of voice transmission lines. The two networks can be connected, however, under special circumstances, but for now this is certainly not a standard. In other words: it is very likely that you will not be able to call people who are using a conventional telephone. If it is possible at all, it is likely that you will need to pay for a subscription.
While there are currently various applications available for free download, both free and proprietary, there are some major drawbacks to telephony over the Internet. Most noticably, the system is unreliable, it can be slow or there can be a lot of noise on the connection, and it can thus certainly not be used to replace conventional telephony - think about emergency calls. While some providers take their precautions, there is no guarantee that you can reach the party that you want to call.
Most applications currently do not use encryption, so be aware that it is potentially easy for someone to eavesdrop on your conversations. If security is a concern for you, read the documentation that comes with your VoIP client. Additionally, if you are using a firewall, it should be configured to allow incoming connections from anywhere, so using VoIP also includes taking risks on the level of site security.
First of all, you need a provider offering the service. This service might integrate traditional telephony and it might or might not be free. Among others are SIPphone, Vonage, Lingo, AOL TotalTalk and many locally accessible providers offering the so-called "full phone service". Internet phone service only is offered by Skype, SIP Broker, Google and many others.
If you want to set up a server of your own, you might want to look into Asterisk.
On the client side, the applications that you can use depend on your network configuration. If you have a direct Internet connection, there won't be any problems, provided that you know on what server you can connect, and usually that you also have a username and password to authenticate to the service.
If you are behind a firewall that does Network Address Translation (NAT), however, some services might not work, as they will only see the IP address of the firewall and not the address of your computer, which might well be unroutable over the Internet, for instance when you are in a company network and your IP address starts with 10., 192.168. or another non-routable subnet prefix. This depends on the protocol that is used by the application.
Also, available bandwidth might be a blocking factor: some applications are optimized for low bandwidth consumption, while others might require high bandwidth connections. This depends on the codec that is used by the application.
Among the most common applications are the Skype client, which has an interface that reminds of instant messaging, and X-Lite, the free version of the XTen softphone, which looks like a mobile telephone. However, while these programs are available for free download and very popular, they are not free as in free speech: they use proprietary protocols and/or are only available in binary packages, not in source format.
While your computer, especially if it is a laptop PC, might have a built-in microphone, the result will be far better if you connect a headset. If you have the choice, opt for a USB headset, as it functions independently from existing audio hardware. Use alsamixer to configure input and output sound levels to your taste.
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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) remedies
A week or two before your period starts, you may notice bloating, headaches, mood swings or other physical and emotional changes. These recurring monthly symptoms are known as premenstrual syndrome, or PMS.
About 85% of women experience some degree of PMS. Here are some remedies that may help.
- Exercise does help to boost mood and lessen fatigue, but you need to be doing moderate exercise on most days of the week for at least 30 minutes.
- Foods rich in B vitamins may help ward off PMS. In one study, researchers followed more than 2,000 women for 10 years. They found that women who ate foods high in thiamine like pork and Brazil nuts and riboflavin found in eggs and dairy products were far less likely to develop PMS.
- Cutting back on alcohol, salt, caffeine and sugar can all help to ease PMS
- Because PMS can cause tension, anxiety and irritability, it’s important to find healthy ways to cope with stress during this time. Different strategies work for different women. You may want to try yoga, meditation, massage or simply talking with friends. Make sure you get enough sleep.
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Older Americans: Debilitating Eyesight Problems on the Decline
Today elderly report fewer eyesight
problems when reading the
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Today's senior citizens are reporting fewer visual impairment problems than their counterparts from a generation ago, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. Improved techniques for cataract surgery and a reduction in the prevalence of macular degeneration may be the driving forces behind this change, the researchers said.
"From 1984 until 2010, the decrease in visual impairment in those 65 and older was highly statistically significant," said Angelo P. Tanna, first author of the study. "There was little change in visual impairments in adults under the age of 65."
The study shows that in 1984, 23 per cent of elderly adults had difficulty reading or seeing newspaper print because of poor eyesight. By 2010, there was an age-adjusted 58 per cent decrease in this kind of visual impairment, with only 9.7 per cent of elderly reporting the problem.
There was also a substantial decline in eyesight problems that limited elderly Americans from taking part in daily activities, such as bathing, dressing or getting around inside or outside of the home, according to the study.
"The findings are exciting, because they suggest that currently used diagnostic and screening tools and therapeutic interventions for various ophthalmic diseases are helping to prolong the vision of elderly Americans," Tanna said.
The study used self-reported data collected from 1984 to 2010 through two major population-based surveys, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Survey questions revealed how vision problems can impact the daily activities and quality of life of Americans and helped researchers analyse trends in the prevalence of visual impairment of adults in the United States.
While this study didn't identify any of the causes of the change in the prevalence of visual impairment, Tanna said there are three likely reasons for the decline:
• Improved techniques and outcomes for cataract surgery
• Less smoking, resulting in a drop in the prevalence of macular degeneration
• Treatments for diabetic eye diseases are more readily available and improved, despite the fact that the prevalence of diabetes has increased
Future studies should identify which treatment strategies help prevent vision in older adults and then make those treatments available to as many people as possible, Tanna said.
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- More about the Northwestern University at: www.northwestern.edu
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We use plastic bags for just about everything. But, if city council members Steven Cohn and Kevin McCarty have their way, plastic bags could be banned by summer in grocery stores and other big retailers across Sacramento.
Environmental advocates say plastic bags are often not disposed of properly, causing damage to the environment.
Sacramento would be the largest city in the valley to adopt bag restrictions. But, they wouldn’t be the first in California. More than 60 local governments throughout the state have already passed some type of bag regulation.
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|Do you see "No" or "Yes"? All depends on your bias.|
What is confirmation bias? The above Wikipedia link does a decent job of summarizing the premise:
Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias, myside bias or verification bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.Now that we understand on a basic level what confirmation bias is, I'll share that it is the lens through which I've been tracking pretty much all of the dialogue since the All-Star break started. Those who were opposed to the notion of a CBJ fan protest were vocal in their opposition before and after the protest, pointing out what they consider to be inconsistencies and shortcomings of the protest - both in terms of form and substance. Those (including me) who were in favor of the protest did pretty much the same thing, just from the other side of the coin. And both sides actively seek out information which buttresses their opinion and/or tears the other opinion down.
Point being, we've dug into our respective frames. Because we all know that the Columbus Blue Jackets would never be so naive as to tell us the unvarnished truth on how they perceived the protest, reacted to it and perhaps adjusted their business plan as a result, we're all left to speculation...and the search for confirmation bias.
Which brings me to today's discussions. And I'll be the first to admit my bias, so bear with me if you don't share my opinion. Or, if you're really threatened by opinions that run counter to yours, just move along.
IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING - Protest co-organizer Light The Lamp presented a theory on how the Blue Jackets management's knowledge (and perhaps fear) of the protest may have influenced the team's bid for the NHL All-Star Game.
(A quick digression: Much as I enjoy LTL, I don't track his work automatically. I use Twitter as my initial means to learn of new blog content, and LTL doesn't use Twitter to promote his latest like I and other bloggers do with ours. So more often than not, I learn of LTL's blog posts by seeing the reaction...or reading Matt Wagner's masterful "Shrapnel" daily summaries of CBJ-related news and blogs. Back to the story.)
This particular LTL post came to my attention this morning via the Twitter chatter post-"Shrapnel". I tell you this because of how my confirmation bias was activated. The same folks (which includes many of my Blue Jackets friends) who decried the protests all along were patting Matt on the back for his slap-down of LTL. So, of course, I had to see what got everyone going.
So let's get to the meat of the issue:
- Is it reasonable to think that, sans protest, McConnell would not have written a letter to the fans at the All-Star break essentially suggesting that the season is lost? Yes.
- Is it reasonable to think that the media-shy McConnell would not have spoken to the Dispatch last week had a public protest not been scheduled? Yes.
- Is it reasonable to think that the Blue Jackets, a team that surely isn't rolling in extra money considering the volume of team-issued free and discounted tickets on the street, would have preferred to avoid spending more money on infrastructure improvements at this point in time? Yes.
- Is it reasonable to think that the NHL would have preferred to let the Ottawa All-Star weekend actually take place before upstaging it by an announcement of the 2013 game had a protest not been scheduled...if only to allow for a bigger public relations bang when the 2013 announcement is made? Yes.
- Is it reasonable to think that the protest and the protest alone is responsible for all of these actions? Probably not.
I've said all along (here, here and here, to be specific) that protests work as far as making leaders uncomfortable and changing the public dialogue. McConnell's own words in the Dispatch interview do not suggest that he was entirely comfortable with the idea of the protest. Same goes for NHL commissioner Bettman. And there is no question that the public dialogue was affected by the protest.
To wrap this section up, I'll also guess that the protest probably played at least a minor role in the discussions that led up to the flurry of public relations activity. But that's my bias.
LOOK OVER THERE! - Then we have "clock-gate". Oh, how I was hoping that this one would have gone quietly into the night because I really, really didn't want to spend the next few days discussing how clocks work. As I watched the "Blue Jackets Live" postgame show, however, I knew it wasn't going to happen. This is a league and a sport that will spend days wringing their hands over the relative severity of brain-crushing hits and whether common sense should prevail when it comes to wearing protective equipment. The chance to talk about how an electronic clock works or doesn't work is like manna from heaven for NHL intelligentsia in a long, 82-game season.
What I didn't expect, however, was Scott Howson's engagement of the issue.
Howson posted perhaps his strongest-worded blog entry ever on the subject today. [UPDATE: As of 3:30 PM today, Howson's blog post has been pulled off the Columbus Blue Jackets website. Here's a screen capture of the post.] In fact, in this "get along to get along" culture that is professional sports, it's genuinely surprising to see Howson put something in print like:
"...this was an unjust result. In reality, this game should have gone to overtime, and we will never know what the true result of the game should have been."Comments like this get people fined in the NHL. Coming from a guy like Howson, it's surprising.
Better yet - especially in light of LTL's "conspiracy" post mentioned above, was this gem from Howson:
"It is an amazing coincidence that with the Kings on a power play at STAPLES Center and with a mad scramble around our net in the dying seconds of the third period of a 2-2 hockey game that the clock stopped for at least one full second. I can only think of two ways in which this would have happened. Either there was a deliberate stopping of the clock or the clock malfunctioned."I'm willing to grant Howson that either possibility could have occurred. I'm also willing to grant that the CBJ fan protest influenced the actions of the Blue Jackets management over the past week. Gotta keep an open mind, you know.
I didn't care about it before Howson blogged on the topic. Regardless of how the NHL decides to handle their own little public relations nightmare, it doesn't change the Blue Jackets' season. The CBJ started the night deep in last place and are so far behind 14th place that a "loser point" from getting to overtime just wasn't going to make a difference.
I know that it could have an effect on the outcome of the Western Conference playoff seedings. I fully support every team challenging Los Angeles for the final Western Conference seeds to scream bloody murder and call for an investigation in the hopes of overturning the outcome.
I just find the Blue Jackets protesting it to be a distraction from the fact that the team - for a host of reasons - couldn't find a way to win the game in the other 59 minutes and 58.5 seconds of playing time. Chief among those reasons is that the man carrying the flag on this acceptable protest put together a roster that wasn't playing .500 hockey (8-9-4) when its two prized acquisitions were in the lineup and the team was - more or less - healthy and not suspended.
And thus I will look at Blue Jackets involvement in "clock-gate" as a big distraction from the fact that Columbus couldn't beat a Los Angeles team that really didn't play that well last night. I consider it a distraction much as I looked at the seemingly rushed All-Star Game announcement as a distraction from the CBJ fan protest...just another shiny bauble to take the fans' eyes off the fact that this team, as constructed, is plunging deeper into the NHL record books for all the wrong reasons.
RIGHT GUY, WRONG EMPLOYER - One last thought on Howson's blog, separated from the above argument so as to give everyone a chance to catch their breaths.
It's abundantly clear that Scott Howson loves professional hockey. He is passionate about the sport and appears to have a vision for how he wants it played.
|Scott Howson: Great for the NHL, but perhaps not|
the right guy to manage a team's hockey operations?
Now, with the determined public stance on getting the "clock-gate" matter straightened out despite the fact that it just won't impact the CBJ season, we see Howson saddling up once again for the cause of better hockey. From that perspective (and that alone), I say good for him.
If I may be so bold, I think Howson has found his calling...and it's in Toronto or New York, not Columbus. I would love to see a deliberate, thoughtful, measured and - above all - bright man like Howson in a position with the National Hockey League where he could advance improvements in the game. Perhaps he could work with the likes of Colin Campbell and Brendan Shanahan, bringing his legal acumen to bear on some of the hardest issues facing today's NHL. He could manage the "clock-gate" investigations. He could help broker profound improvements in the game by bringing owners, managers and players together.
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The phenomenon of Internet television is rising many controversies among the supporters and owners of traditional corporate TVs, because of the potentially devastating changes it might provoke in the mass media world. The unstoppable growth of the online social media networks automatically leads internet users to question whether there are alternatives to the corporate media decisions and how they can put them in practice through the use of the internet.
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With the diffusion of P2P networks, internet users have increased their opportunities to share information and also set the stage for personal broadcasting and independent news production. The P2P technology - which is remarkably supported by an authentic peer-to-peer network culture - is progressively changing the way people relate to the traditional corporate TV, by enabling them to actually choose what they want to see and in which way.
On the other side, P2P networks bring with themselves a long trail of issues, which span from copyright infringement to violated broadcasting rights, along with all those things that relate to the interests of the major corporate TV channels and movie studios.
While many businesses, corporations and artists have recently started to take advantage of P2P technologies to spread information and deliver their works, those advantages are actually becoming disadvantages for corporate TV, the most important mass medium.
At the beginning of 2006, a very significative event has taken place: Sky, one of the leading providers of digital pay TV, sued two young Italian webmasters because they linked a Chinese internet television which was legally streaming soccer games on the Web.
Recently, this fact is being talked about again on the most popular Italian blogs, showing how hot this issue is and how people are interested in knowing more about the consequences of this event, which is likely to influence the future of TV broadcasting and internet television.
The story begins
There is a Chinese TV channel called CCTV, which legally broadcasts football games that have been previously bought from other television channels. CCTV also acquired the rights to transmit all the games of the Italian soccer championship, which in Italy belong to Sky, UK's largest digital pay television platform and a leading broadcaster of sports, movies and news.
At this point, another Chinese company called Synacast has apparently agreed with CCTV to put the signal on the Internet, allowing CCTV to broadcast on the Web too. By doing that, the two Chinese companies have potentially allowed thousands of people all over the world to watch those games on the Internet with the use of P2P technology.
In January 2006, two Italian webmasters have been denounced by Sky, because they used their websites (http://www.calciolibero.com and http://www.coolstreaming.it) to spread information on how to download the P2P software with which it was possible to watch the sport games legally bought by the Chinese channels, also providing the links to those sites.
The procedure to watch those games is indeed very easy: users only need to download the proper P2P client and install Windows Media Player (available also for Mac users) on their computers. Thus, it was possible to watch literally any kind of TV show legally broadcasted by CCTV from anywhere in the world (although video quality was not the best).
Right after the boss of Sky, Rupert Murdoch, officially sued the two guys, the Italian financial police added them to the list of those who are investigated for violating the rules about authors’copyrights. Initially, this request was turned down by the judge and their computers were returned to them; but Sky didn’t give up and a magistrate brought the case to the Italian High Court of justice.
The giant corporation against two young guys.
What is happening now
The High Court of justice has disposed a new trial against the two webmasters for having “illegally spread and broadcasted via the Internet sport events for which Sky had exclusive rights, with the help of peer-to-peer software”. The event is ongoing, therefore we still don’t know what is going to happen next.
What we know for sure is that those Italian websites have been closed because considered illegal.
Beppe Grillo (one of the most popular Italian comedians and bloggers) commented last week that the High Court declared that linking can be a crime: whoever links to a TV program, a video clip and any work protected by copyright that have already been legally spread or broadcasted online from another country, can be subject to trial.
Additionally, Grillo raises a few important questions:
“If one uses Google to search for the Chinese website and then uses that site, has he/she committed a linking crime? Why isn’t Murdoch taking action against Google and - while he’s at it - against the whole Internet?”.
As a result, Beppe Grillo has requested the internet community to mobilitate against this decision, by openly supporting the two Italian guys and asking his readers to send emails to the High Court of justice and denounce themselves as criminals.
Sky has certainly sued those links because they violate its redistribution rights… but what about the two Italian webmasters? Perhaps we should start wondering whether they have been legitimately seized for watching TV programs that were legally streamed online by a foreign site.
The present laws have not yet declared what is legal and what's not in a definitive and universally accepted way: internet television is far from being subjected to national laws without facing the risk of incurring into censorship and limitations to the freedom of internet users.
According to what Sky says, we deduce that if those Italian guys had been in China they could have watched and streamed those soccer games lawfully: the big difference is that they acted in the World Wide Web, a place where it is almost impossible to set national borders.
The first thing we should take in consideration, at this point, is that reporting a link to whatever resource available online can be considered a crime, doesn’t matter whether that resource has never been considered officially illegal.
Also, as the author of the MiniMarketing blog ironically says, Sky has made an "own-goal", by bringing to the light a phenomenon whose existence was almost unknown to the major part of Italian soccer fans, with the result that now many more people know about P2P networks and how they work. Perhaps not a very successful PR strategy.
Roberto Pavanello of the Italian newspaper La Stampa, already reported on this fact at the beginning of 2006, adding an important detail which - if true - could lead to further paths:
“Being uncapable to act in China, for the first time in history the Italian financial police requested to the major Italian internet service providers to forbid Italian users to access the Chinese servers. Furthermore, investigators will also blacklist an additional number of sites that Italian users will not be able to visit”. (La Stampa - January 28th, 2006)
If the Italian police is really about to creating a blacklist of sites (or has already started), we are nearly close to pure censorship; that is because a private TV company doesn’t want to lose the money it gets from selling subscriptions to its users.
What's your take on this?
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