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Confirmed: Majority of UN member nations aren’t big on freedom of information
posted at 3:21 pm on December 17, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
The United States and an alliance of Western democracies spoke up against Russia, Iran, China, and others’ proposals to restrict the ease with which the Internet currently operates across international borders during the United Nations’ telecom conference over the past couple of weeks, but it was apparently too little, too late. Funnily enough, it turns out that the many authoritarian and oppressive regimes that belong to that oh-so-august body of international ‘peacekeepers’ are actually pretty much fine with cutting down on their people’s freedom of speech and access to information.
Gordon Crovitz aptly calls the whole thing a sort of Digital Cold War, and unfortunately, the more nefarious world powers that be just won that particular battle, at least in part:
At the just-concluded conference of the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai, the U.S. and its allies got outmaneuvered. …A majority of the 193 United Nations member countries approved a treaty giving governments new powers to close off access to the Internet in their countries. …
The result was 89 countries in favor, with 55 against. The authoritarian majority included Russia, China, Arab countries, Iran and much of Africa. Under the rules of the ITU, the treaty takes effect in 2015 for these countries. Countries that opposed it are not bound by it, but Internet users in free countries will also suffer as global networks split into two camps—one open, one closed.
The U.S. delegation never understood this conference was fundamentally a battle in what might be called the Digital Cold War. Russia and China had long been lobbying for votes, but U.S. opposition got serious only at the conference itself. …
Well, that’s nice — China gets the United Nations’ esteemed blessing to keep doing what they’ve been doing and other oppressive regimes have the go-ahead to follow suit. Remind me, why are we still providing funding for this forum for the legitimization of dictators and freedom-crushers?
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CINCINNATI - When the 10-year-old charged with inducing panic by bringing a gun to school took his seat in Hamilton County Juvenile Court, his feet could barely reach the floor.
Despite his age and size, he was facing felonies for inducing panic and bringing a firearm to Elmwood Place Elementary School in April.
But only for a few minutes.
Prosecutors reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, and dropped the firearms specifications, saying the gun the boy showed in his school bathroom was not real.
The boy had told police he brought the BB gun to school to intimidate students who bullied him because of his stature.
The boy will undergo a competency evaluation and is required to be under adult supervision at all times.
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Sangre Y Herencia Mixes Blood And Heritage At Exhibit
KINGSVILLE - September 24, 2008
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Dual exhibit complements Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
Two South Texas women have joined their art work together for the Sangre y Herencia exhibit at the Ben Bailey Art Gallery at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Grace Barraza-Vega, of Corpus Christi, is a painter, public school art teacher and graduate art student while Jessica Salazar McBride, of Harlingen, works in mixed media and is a self-employed commercial artist.
Their exhibit, which translates into Blood and Heritage, opens at the Bailey Art Gallery Wednesday, Oct. 1, and continues through Friday, Oct. 24. To open the exhibit, the public will be treated to a performance by De Xana Guana Azteca Dance Group from San Antonio. The group will perform at 6 p.m. in Jones Auditorium. Following the performance, at 7 p.m., an opening reception will be held in the art gallery.
George Vargas, assistant art professor and art historian, and Jesus de la Rosa, assistant professor, both from the A&M-Kingsville art department, curated the exhibit.
The exhibit was designed to complement the campus-wide Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration and Dia de la Raza, the celebration of the Hispanic heritage in Latin America. Dia de la Raza is celebrated Oct. 12 in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. It honors the birth of the Hispanic culture dating back to 1492. In English-speaking countries, the day is celebrated as Columbus Day or Native American Day.
The Ben Bailey Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 361-593-2619.
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- Disambiguation: Were you looking for The Beast, a boss in UBRS?
Most standard animals in the game are beasts, such as bears, wolves, raptors, etc.
Characteristics in World of Warcraft
- Nearly all beasts can be skinned, with the exception of intelligent beasts, most birds, and some insects.
- Some beasts can stealth, have diseases, poisonous attacks, or great speed; a few have more exotic attacks.
- Trolls have a Beast Slaying racial trait that gives them bonus attack power against beasts.
- Enchanters can enchant weapons with Beastslaying, which gives the player bonus attack power against beasts, and also causes their weapon to glow red.
- Not all are hostile. Some will only attack if you attack them or another nearby creature first.
- Can be polymorphed by mages.
- Most can be Hibernated or soothed by Druids.
- Can be tamed by Hunters, making them the player's pet. Can also be tracked, scared, and learned about.
- Druids who shapeshift into Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, Cat Form, Travel Form, Aquatic Form, Flight Form or Swift Flight Form, and Shamans who cast Ghost Wolf are considered beasts.
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American anthropologist of the Boas school. Benedict argued strongly for a culturally deterministic, anti-hereditarian view, following other Boasians like Kroeber and Lowie. Argued for the use of "cultural patterns" as a primary descriptive tool. Emphasized Native Americans in her field work, studying the Zuni in 1925 and the Pima in 1927. Benedict interpreted cultural differences between the Zuni and Pima as demonstrating the overriding importance of culture in determining behavior. Her 1934 book also discussed the Kwakiutl of British Columbia and the Dobuans of New Guinea. Also a published poet. A mentor and later close friend of Mead, Benedict had a major influence on Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa; Mead later (1974) published a biography of Benedict.
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You spoke at Occupy events here in L.A. and in the Bay Area. What has the Occupy movement accomplished?
"Class" used to be a dirty word in "classless" America, right?
Polls show most Americans today don't believe their children are going to live as well as they do. A large percentage feel the game is rigged against them. Upward mobility is now far more difficult to achieve. So the issue of class has emerged as very real and very tangible. For most of us, the America we knew was one in which anyone could make it with enough gumption and guts and drive. We truly believed that America was a place where there were no class distinctions, although we saw the plight of the poor, particularly poor minorities. What's new is this sense that a relatively small number of people have rigged the game or loaded the dice in such a way that their positions of power and privilege are entrenched.
We think of ourselves as a nation that practices democratic capitalism, but sometimes capitalism and democracy pull in opposite directions.
Essentially, every time the excesses of capitalism threaten to destroy it, we save capitalism from itself. We did it in the Progressive era, we did it in the New Deal, and hopefully we are at least beginning to do it now. Ironically, it's progressives and Democrats who take the lead in saving capitalism from itself.
The question is how bad things have to get before average people begin mobilizing. Sometimes we revert to third parties. Sometimes we take over dominant parties, as the tea partyers have done. Sometimes we make such a ruckus, as we did with civil rights and Vietnam, that we force change. These movements must always start at the grass-roots, and they always start with moral outrage. The tea partyers focus on government, and the Occupiers focus on Wall Street and big corporations. The source of the moral outrage is very similar.
One reason I love teaching so much is that I'm in contact with young people who, most of them, want to change the world.
Is Washington today an impossible nut to crack?
Every time I go to Washington, I'm struck by how many people are there for the right reasons. Most could have an easier life and could make more money doing something else. Most [are] there because they're deeply committed to changing the country.
You and former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson are good friends; what happened to cross-party relationships like that?
Newt Gingrich. When Gingrich came to town as speaker, he brought in a group of people who were far more ideological and frankly unpleasant. The tone of Washington changed abruptly in January of 1995.
When I testified [before Congress as Labor secretary], members of [both parties ] would have good questions. Disagreements would be respectful and friendly. But beginning in January of 1995, I'd be treated very differently. One question I got was "Mr. Secretary, are you a socialist?"'
I had never seen anything like it, and remember, I [came] to Washington in 1967. It was as if a dark cloud had descended over Washington and it's still there. I blame Gingrich -- not entirely, but he led the charge.
You were born in Scranton, Pa., the setting for the mock-workplace TV show "The Office." How does that show look to an economist?
I think "The Office" is very funny. What I take away beyond the humor is the realization that there's as much stupidity and bureaucracy in the private sector is as there is in the public!
The economy we had in the 1950s -- it doesn't look like that will be back in our future.
We can't go backward, but the economy of the 1950s, '60s and early '70s was far more equal, and America grew faster in those years on average than it's grown since. If you look at Germany over the last 10 years, until the past year, you see rapid growth combined with a far more equal distribution of [the] gains and very high wages going to average working people. What's the secret? Two things: Germany has focused intensively on public education, particularly skills that are relevant for the new high-tech world economy; and secondly, Germany has a much stronger labor movement than the United States.
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Rising Prices Prompt Sustainable Behaviors
March 15, 2012
Amid daily stories about rising gas prices, there is a growing discussion about how those rising prices will affect US driving patterns.
Some polls indicate that prices are unlikely to affect our behaviors dramatically unless the prices get really high. After all, lots of Americans feel that they do not have options when it comes to driving; a house in the suburbs and a job downtown means a long daily commute. In many communities there is a lack of viable public transportation alternatives that serve whole areas. That is true in my community of Madison, Wisconsin. Bus service extends beyond Madison’s city limits in some directions but not all.
At the same time, there are indications that price does affect our behaviors. We noted some months ago that the US Department of Transportation has reported that vehicle miles travelled in the US has been flat or declining for more than 47 months. More, we would note that humans tend to be notoriously bad at predicting our own behaviors; it seems likely that people will do whatever they can to mitigate rising costs at the gas pump.
This week the Los Angeles Times reports that auto manufacturers are definitely—finally—responding to consumer concerns about higher gas prices by offering more fuel efficient vehicles. Edmunds.com reports that the 2012 models are on average 16% more efficient than the cars available to Americans in 2008. That is an average savings of $400 per year.
Like so many sustainability issues, though, there is not just one strategy forward. Part of the answer is simply driving smarter—little things like driving the speed limit, avoiding jack-rabbit starts, idling less and making sure your tires are properly inflated can increase the mileage you get out of every gallon of gasoline you purchase. Taken together these actions can improve fuel economy by over 10%. More, participants in Cool Choices’ games report that these driving strategies can reduce the stress associated with driving—an added bonus to be sure.
Driving less—even just combining errands—can help, too. And of course it helps a lot if you can bike, walk, share a ride or take public transit to some locations rather than driving. At Cool Choices, we offer players lots of points for these actions because we know shifting away from single-occupancy vehicles to more sustainable travel options is a big change.
Another part of the answer, of course, is choosing the most fuel efficient car available to you; and when comparing options it is useful to think about gallons per 100 miles traveled, rather than mpg. (Calculate gallons per 100 miles traveled by dividing 100 into the vehicle’s average mpg; a 2012 Ford Explorer has an average mpg of 19.5 so 100/19.5 = 5.1 gallons per 100 miles.) A Toyota Prius uses 2 gallons of gasoline to go 100 miles; a Chevrolet Equinox uses 4 gallons and a Volkswagen Passat uses about 3.7. The gallons per 100 miles calculation can help you determine the potential savings of a switch from one vehicle to another. A driver that commutes 100 miles per week, for example, can save 1.2 gallons of gas per week in a Ford Focus over a Ford Taurus.
Taken together all of these small actions add up. As per industry predictions earlier this year, demand for gasoline is down from last year. While we still tend to drive way too much, the trend is going in the right direction.
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If you are an American, you probably don’t consider Nissan when you think “commercial vehicles,” even though it has a 75-year history in that segment. Until now, commercial vehicles represented fully 20% of the company’s global volume, and were sold outside of North America. Now that’s changed.
When Nissan undertook the development of the Titan full-sized pickup truck, it hired engineers, marketing people, and others from the Detroit automakers who had experience with work trucks. Given that resource, Nissan management decided to leverage this resource so in 2004—the year the Titan was launched—the company put together a research group to investigate opportunities in the North American commercial vehicle market, as its market researchers felt it was underserved by Ford, GM and Daimler/Freightliner. According to Peter Bedrosian, senior product planning manager, Nissan Commercial Vehicles, “Over the years we’ve talked to literally thousands of customers about what they liked and disliked about commercial vans.”
As information was accumulated, concepts and models were developed. Foam and plywood interior bucks were built to encompass the ideas, and the customer group was called back to critique the result. This iterative process continued throughout the development of what became the NV, and resulted in a number of customer-driven ideas. They include:
• A sliding arm rest/console top
• Captured nuts on the sidewalls, floor and bulkhead, and factory brackets on the roof to make attaching shelves, ladders, dividers, etc. easier and less likely to introduce a pathway for rust
• Flush-mount D-rings rated at 1,124 lb. each
• Near-vertical sidewalls that increase storage area, and expand the size of the walk-through aisle
• A rear step bumper and interior grab handles to ease entry and exit.
• A center console large enough to hold
file folders and a laptop computer
• Sliding trays on the sides of the seats accommodate tools workers normally keep in their back pockets, and thus reduce wear-and-tear on the seats
• Moving the weatherstrip edge below the sill so it won’t get ripped off by work boots
• Using water-repellant cloth seating surfaces with wear-resistant vinyl outer edges and lowered side seams, eliminating an area where damage, and a duct tape fix, are common in-service
• Adding a high-roof model with a 76.9-in. walk-through height (55.8 in. on standard roof models)
• Integrating the fuel filler door into one of the flat-topped inner wheel-wells to allow palettes, plywood or drywall to be loaded without damage.
The biggest change the Nissan engineers made, however, was to put a pickup-style nose on the NV van. This not only dramatically increased interior foot room, it removed a source of noise, heat and vibration, and made serviceability easier. “After nearly 60 years,” says Bedrosian, “we’ve finally removed the ‘dog house’ [the cover over the engine] from the interior of a full-size work van. That’s a big deal to this buyer..” It also was a big deal to Nissan management, who expected to take the Titan (or Dodge Ram when that option was in play during Cerberus’ ownership of Chrysler) pickup frame and drop a van body on top. It wasn’t that easy.
“Commercial vans are abused in ways pickup trucks aren’t,” claims Bedrosian. To handle the weight, duty cycle, and ensure the NV would have the expected durability, the engineers increased the height of the heavy-duty frame rails to reduce any tendency for them to twist. According to Bedrosian: “It’s a completely new fully boxed frame that shares only one crossmember with the Titan.” Designed and engineered by Nissan engineers (most of the work on the NV was done at the company’s technical center in Farmington Hills, MI), it is built by Tower Automotive at a satellite plant near Nissan’s Canton, MS, assembly plant, where the NV is produced alongside the Altima sedan, Armada SUV, and Titan pickup.
Durability testing included working hand-in-hand with outfitters like Adrian Steel to test the mounting points for things like shelving units under full load. Modifications were made to the NV along the way, and this collaboration also allowed Nissan to share ideas with aftermarket suppliers for improving the fit, finish and durability of their products, which were being tested to OEM standards. Test mileage totaled 700,000 km (434,000 miles).
American Axle provides the solid rear axles used on the three models (1500, 2500 HD and 3500 HD), which are coupled with leaf springs and an anti-roll bar. Up front, a double-wishbone independent setup is used. Four-wheel disc brakes are part of the package, with massive 14.2-in. ventilated rotors up front, and the added combination of 4-wheel ABS and electronic brake-force distribution. Vehicle stability and traction control also are standard. Other standard safety features include three-point front seat belts with pretensioners and load limiters, dual stage driver and passenger airbags, and available seat-mounted side airbags and roof-mounted curtain airbags.
Though the 1500 model comes only as a low-roof model, it shares its 4.0-liter VQ40 V6 engine with the 2500 HD low- and high-roof models. Also used in the Nissan Pathfinder SUV and Frontier pickup, the V6 produces 261 hp and 281 lb-ft of torque. Moving up to the optional V8 shared with the Titan pickup and Armada SUV bumps these numbers up to 317 hp and 385 lb-ft. Unavailable in the 1500, the V8 is an option for the 2500 HD and standard on the 3500 HD. All are mated to a five-speed automatic transmission.
“This vehicle was a significant investment,” says Bedrosian, “so we concen-trated on the heart of the market.” That means it will launch with one wheelbase (146.1-in.) and one length (240.6-in.). There are no dually or diesel variants. And while Nissan is planning on RV and commercial van applications for the NV, it won’t engineer those versions itself. Instead it will provide dedicated engineering help to outfitters looking to make these conversions. This doesn’t mean model proliferation is over: within one year, Nissan plans to have a 12-passenger version of the van available. It will be followed by longer wheelbase versions as market demand increases.
“We entered this market because commercial vehicles have the least satisfied customers, and two major competitors who have made very few improvements or created any real innovations over the years,” says Bedrosian. “Customers told us they wanted more utility and comfort, the option of a high-roof model, and better durability and serviceability. We saw the opportunity, and we took it.” As a result, Ford, GM and Daimler/Freightliner have every reason to be concerned.
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2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: Chemical elements
|Name, symbol, number||calcium, Ca, 20|
|Chemical series||alkaline earth metals|
|Group, period, block||2, 4, s|
|Standard atomic weight||40.078 (4) g·mol−1|
|Electron configuration||[Ar] 4s2|
|Electrons per shell||2, 8, 8, 2|
|Density (near r.t.)||1.55 g·cm−3|
|Liquid density at m.p.||1.378 g·cm−3|
|Melting point||1115 K
(842 ° C, 1548 ° F)
|Boiling point||1757 K
(1484 ° C, 2703 ° F)
|Heat of fusion||8.54 kJ·mol−1|
|Heat of vaporization||154.7 kJ·mol−1|
|Specific heat capacity||(25 °C) 25.929 J·mol−1·K−1|
|Crystal structure||face centered cubic|
(strongly basic oxide)
|Electronegativity||1.00 (Pauling scale)|
| Ionization energies
|1st: 589.8 kJ·mol−1|
|2nd: 1145.4 kJ·mol−1|
|3rd: 4912.4 kJ·mol−1|
|Atomic radius||180 pm|
|Atomic radius (calc.)||194 pm|
|Covalent radius||174 pm|
|Electrical resistivity||(20 °C) 33.6 nΩ·m|
|Thermal conductivity||(300 K) 201 W·m−1·K−1|
|Thermal expansion||(25 °C) 22.3 µm·m−1·K−1|
|Speed of sound (thin rod)||(20 °C) 3810 m/s|
|Young's modulus||20 GPa|
|Shear modulus||7.4 GPa|
|Bulk modulus||17 GPa|
|Brinell hardness||167 MPa|
|CAS registry number||7440-70-2|
Calcium (pronounced /ˈkælsiəm/) is the chemical element with the symbol Ca and atomic number 20. It has an atomic mass of 40.078. Calcium is a soft grey alkaline earth metal, and is the fifth most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust. Calcium is also the fifth most abundant dissolved ion in seawater by both molarity and mass, after sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate.
Calcium is essential for living organisms, particularly in cell physiology, where movement of the calcium ion Ca2+ into and out of the cytoplasm functions as a signal for many cellular processes. As a major material used in mineralization of bones and shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals.
The most abundant isotope, 40Ca, has a nucleus of 20 protons and 20 neutrons. This is the heaviest stable isotope of any element which has equal numbers of protons and neutrons. In supernova explosions, calcium is formed from the reaction of carbon with various numbers of alpha particles (helium nuclei), until the most common calcium isotope (containing 10 helium nuclei) has been synthesized. Calcium is the seventh most common element, by mass, in Earth's oceans (hydrogen and oxygen must be added to the list in the introduction).
Chemically calcium is reactive and moderately soft for a metal (though harder than lead, it can be cut with a knife with difficulty). It is a silvery metallic element that must be extracted by electrolysis from a fused salt like calcium chloride. Once produced, it rapidly forms a grey-white oxide and nitride coating when exposed to air. It is somewhat difficult to ignite, in character rather like magnesium, but when lit, the metal burns in air with a brilliant high-intensity red light. Calcium metal reacts with water, evolving hydrogen gas at a rate rapid enough to be noticeable (unlike its sister magnesium) but not fast enough at room temperature to generate much heat. In powdered form, however, the reaction with water is extremely rapid, as the increased surface area of the powder creates heat which accelerates the reaction with the water. Part of the slowness of the calcium-water reaction results from the metal being partly protected by insoluble white calcium hydroxide. In water solutions of acids where the salt is water soluble, calcium reacts vigorously.
Calcium salts are colorless from any contribution of the calcium, and ionic solutions of calcium (Ca2+) are colorless as well. Many calcium salts are not soluble in water. When in solution, the calcium ion to the human taste varies remarkably, being reported as mildly salty, sour, "mineral like" or even "soothing." It is apparent that many animals can taste, or develop a taste, for calcium, and use this sense to detect the mineral in salt licks or other sources. . In human nutrition, soluble calcium salts may be added to tart juices without much effect to the average palate.
Calcium is the fifth most abundant element by mass in the human body, where it is a common cellular ionic messenger with many functions, and serves also as a structural element in bone. It is the relatively high atomic-numbered calcium in the skeleton which causes bone to be radio-opaque. Of the human body's solid components after drying (as for example, after cremation), about a third of the total mass is the approximately one kilogram of calcium which composes the average skeleton (the remainder being mostly phosphorus and oxygen).
Calcium is not naturally found in its elemental state. Calcium occurs most commonly in sedimentary rocks in the minerals calcite, dolomite and gypsum. It also occurs in igneous and metamorphic rocks chiefly in the silicate minerals: plagioclase, amphiboles, pyroxenes and garnets.
Some uses are:
- as a reducing agent in the extraction of other metals, such as uranium, zirconium, and thorium.
- as a deoxidizer, desulfurizer, or decarbonizer for various ferrous and nonferrous alloys.
- as an alloying agent used in the production of aluminium, beryllium, copper, lead, and magnesium alloys.
- in the making of cements and mortars to be used in construction.
- Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) used in manufacturing cement and mortar, lime, limestone (usually used in the steel industry); aids in production in the glass industry, also has chemical and optical uses as mineral specimens in toothpastes for example.
- Calcium hydroxide solution (Ca(OH)2) (also known as limewater) is used to detect the presence of carbon dioxide by being bubbled through a solution. It turns cloudy where CO2 is present.
- Calcium arsenate (Ca3(AsO4)2) is used in insecticides.
- Calcium carbide (CaC2) is used: to make acetylene gas (for use in acetylene torches for welding) and in the manufacturing of plastics.
- Calcium chloride (CaCl2) is used: in ice removal and dust control on dirt roads, in conditioner for concrete, as an additive in canned tomatoes, and to provide body for automobile tires.
- Calcium cyclamate (Ca(C6H11NHSO4)2) was used as a sweetening agent but is no longer permitted for use because of suspected cancer-causing properties.
- Calcium gluconate (Ca(C6H11O7)2) is used as a food additive and in vitamin pills.
- Calcium hypochlorite (Ca(OCl)2) is used: as a swimming pool disinfectant, as a bleaching agent, as an ingredient in deodorant, and in algaecide and fungicide.
- Calcium permanganate (Ca(MnO4)2) is used in liquid rocket propellant, textile production, as a water sterilizing agent and in dental procedures.
- Calcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2) is used as a supplement for animal feed, fertilizer, in commercial production for dough and yeast products, in the manufacture of glass, and in dental products.
- Calcium phosphide (Ca3P2) is used in fireworks, rodenticide, torpedoes and flares.
- Calcium stearate (Ca(C18H35O2)2 is used in the manufacture of wax crayons, cements, certain kinds of plastics and cosmetics, as a food additive, in the production of water resistant materials and in the production of paints.
- Calcium sulfate (CaSO4·2H2O) is used as common blackboard chalk, as well as, in its hemihydrate form being more well known as Plaster of Paris.
- Calcium tungstate (CaWO4) is used in luminous paints, fluorescent lights and in X-ray studies.
H and K lines
In the visible portion of the spectrum of many stars, including the Sun, show strong absorption lines of singly-ionized Calcium. Prominent among these are the H-line at 3968.5 Å and the K line at 3933.7 Å of singly-ionized Calcium, or Ca II. For the Sun and stars with low temperatures, the prominence of the H and K lines can be an indication of strong magnetic activity in the chromosphere. Measurement of periodic variations of these active regions can also be used to deduce the rotation periods of these stars.
Calcium (Latin calx, meaning "limestone") was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide. It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. Davy was trying to isolate calcium; when he heard that Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself. He worked with electrolysis throughout his life and also discovered/isolated sodium, potassium, magnesium, boron and barium.
Other compounds include Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), one of the common compounds of calcium. It is heated to form quicklime (CaO), which is then added to water (H2O). This forms another material known as slaked lime (Ca(OH)2), which is an inexpensive base material used throughout the chemical industry. Chalk, marble, and limestone are all forms of calcium carbonate.
Calcium, combined with phosphate to form hydroxylapatite, is the mineral portion of human and animal bones and teeth. The mineral portion of some corals can also be transformed into hydroxylapatite.
Calcium oxide (lime) is used in many chemical refinery processes and is made by heating and carefully adding water to limestone. When lime is mixed with sand, it hardens into a mortar and is turned into plaster by carbon dioxide uptake. Mixed with other compounds, lime forms an important part of Portland cement.
When water percolates through limestone or other soluble carbonate rocks, it partially dissolves part of the rock and causes cave formation and characteristic stalactites and stalagmites and also forms hard water. Other important calcium compounds are nitrate, sulfide, chloride, carbide, cyanamide, and hypochlorite.
Calcium has four stable isotopes (40Ca and 42Ca through 44Ca), plus two more isotopes (46Ca and 48Ca) that have such long half-lives that for all practical purposes they can be considered stable. It also has a cosmogenic isotope, radioactive 41Ca, which has a half-life of 103,000 years. Unlike cosmogenic isotopes that are produced in the atmosphere, 41Ca is produced by neutron activation of 40Ca. Most of its production is in the upper metre or so of the soil column, where the cosmogenic neutron flux is still sufficiently strong. 41Ca has received much attention in stellar studies because it decays to 41K, a critical indicator of solar-system anomalies.
97% of naturally occurring calcium is in the form of 40Ca. 40Ca is one of the daughter products of 40K decay, along with 40Ar. While K-Ar dating has been used extensively in the geological sciences, the prevalence of 40Ca in nature has impeded its use in dating. Techniques using mass spectrometry and a double spike isotope dilution have been used for K-Ca age dating.
Calcium is an important component of a healthy diet. Calcium is essential for the normal growth and maintenance of bones and teeth, and calcium requirements must be met throughout life. Long-term calcium deficiency can lead to osteoporosis, in which the bone deteriorates and there is an increased risk of fractures. While a lifelong deficit can affect bone and tooth formation, over-retention can cause hypercalcemia (elevated levels of calcium in the blood), impaired kidney function and decreased absorption of other minerals.
High calcium intakes or high calcium absorption were previously thought to contribute to the development of kidney stones. However, more recent studies show that high dietary calcium intakes actually decrease the risk for kidney stones. Vitamin D is needed to absorb calcium. Dairy products, such as milk and cheese, are a well-known source of calcium. However, some individuals are allergic to dairy products and even more people, particularly those of non Indo-European descent, are lactose-intolerant, leaving them unable to consume non-fermented dairy products in quantities larger than about half a liter per serving. Others, such as vegans, avoid dairy products for ethical and health reasons. Fortunately, many good sources of calcium exist. These include seaweeds such as kelp, wakame and hijiki; nuts and seeds (like almonds and sesame); blackstrap molasses; beans; oranges; figs; amaranth; collard greens; okra; rutabaga; broccoli; dandelion leaves; kale; and fortified products such as orange juice and soy milk. An overlooked source of calcium is eggshell, which can be ground into a powder and mixed into food or a glass of water. Cultivated vegetables generally have less calcium than wild plants.
Dietary calcium supplements
Calcium supplements are used to prevent and to treat calcium deficiencies. There are conflicting recommendations about when to take calcium supplements. However, most experts agree that no more than 500 mg should be taken at a time because the percent of calcium absorbed decreases as the amount of calcium in the supplement increases. It is recommended to spread doses throughout the day, with the last dose near bedtime. Recommended daily calcium intake varies from 1000 to 1500 mg, depending upon the stage of life.
In July 2006, a report citing research from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, Washington claimed that women in their 50s gained 5 pounds less in a period of 10 years by taking more than 500 mg of calcium supplements than those who did not. However, the doctor in charge of the study, Dr. Alejandro J. Gonzalez also noted it would be "going out on a limb" to suggest calcium supplements as a weight-limiting aid.
- Calcium carbonate is the most common and least expensive calcium supplement. It can be difficult to digest and causes gas in some people. Taking magnesium with it can help to prevent constipation. Calcium carbonate is 40% elemental calcium. 1000 mg will provide 400 mg of calcium. It is recommended to take this supplement with food to aid in absorption. In some calcium supplements based on calcium carbonate, vitamin D is added to aid in absorption. Vitamin D is needed for the absorption of calcium from the stomach and for the functioning of calcium in the body.
- Coral Calcium is a salt of calcium derived from fossilized coral reefs. Coral calcium is comprised of calcium carbonate and trace minerals.
- Calcium citrate is more easily absorbed ( bioavailability is 2.5 times higher than calcium carbonate if taken on empty stomach), easier to digest and less likely to cause constipation and gas than calcium carbonate. It also has a lower risk of contributing to the formation of kidney stones. Calcium citrate is about 21% elemental calcium. 1000 mg will provide 210 mg of calcium. It is more expensive than calcium carbonate and more of it must be taken to get the same amount of calcium.
- Calcium phosphate costs more than calcium carbonate, but less than calcium citrate. It is easily absorbed and is less likely to cause constipation and gas than either.
- Calcium lactate and calcium aspartate are both more difficult to digest and are more expensive than calcium carbonate
- Calcium chelates have been chemically bonded with an agent that the body recognizes as food. This form is generally known to be better absorbed by the human body than all other forms of calcium due to the bond.
The National Nutritional Food Association — NNFA (Newport Beach, Calif.) defines a chelate very specifically, and several criteria must be met in order for chelation to actually occur. Some of the claimed "chelates" on the market are the various Krebs (Citric Acid) Cycle chelates, such as citrate, malate, and aspartate. Dicalcium malate (chelated with malic acid) is a newer form of a true calcium chelate. It contains a high amount of elemental calcium (30%).
Prevention of fractures due to osteoporosis
Such studies often do not test calcium alone, but rather combinations of calcium and vitamin D. Randomized controlled trials found both positive and negative benefit. The different results may be explained by doses of calcium and underlying rates of calcium supplementation in the control groups. However, it is clear that increasing the intake of calcium promotes deposition of calcium in the bones, where it is of more benefit in preventing the compression fractures resulting from the osteoporotic thinning of the dendritic web of the bodies of the vertebrae, than it is at preventing the more serious cortical bone fractures which happen at hip and wrist.
Prevention of cancer?
A meta-analysis by the international Cochrane Collaboration of two randomized controlled trialsfound that calcium "might contribute to a moderate degree to the prevention of adenomatous colonic polyps".
More recent studies were conflicting, and one which was positive for effect (Lappe, et al.) did control for a possible anti-carcinogenic effect of vitamin D, which was found to be an independent positive influence from calcium-alone on cancer risk (see second study below) .
- A randomized controlled trial found that 1000 mg of elemental calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D3 had no effect on colorectal cancer
- A randomized controlled trial found that 1400–1500 mg supplemental calcium and 1100 IU vitamin D3 reduced aggregated cancers with a relative risk of 0.402.
- An observational cohort study found that high calcium and vitamin D intake was associated with "lower risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer."
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Critical Futures #2
A debate on the future of architecture criticism organised by Domus at the Design Library in Milan, Tuesday February 8 at 7 pm.
Tuesday 8 February 2011, 7 p.m.
Via Savona 11, Milano
Over the past decade, epochal transformations have profoundly reshaped the context within which architecture is conceived and debated. The Internet has made images and information free and instantly ubiquitous; magazines, once the undisputed platforms for the criticism of architecture and design, have been challenged to redefine their purpose and economic model in the light of dwindling readerships; blogs have given a global audience, potentially of millions, to anyone with an Internet connection. In all of this, architecture criticism in the traditional sense appears to have all but vanished - not only from the Internet but from magazines themselves. As Peter Kelly, editor of Blueprint, wrote in a recent editorial, "As traditional publishing media and institutions become less influential, one wonders where architects can go to find informed, intelligent criticism of their work".
How will the practice of architecture in Italy, a country whose architectural history is inextricably linked to that of its great magazines, evolve in response to the proliferation of open, autonomous and free networks of online debate? Are architects today really in search of "informed, intelligent criticism" of their work, or is the architecture critic to be considered instead an anachronism? Is, as Kelly writes, a more realistic and rigorous approach to architectural criticism online urgently needed? In the second of a three-part series of debates on the future of architecture criticism organized by Domus in London, Milan and New York to celebrate the launch of its new website, this discussion will bring together writers, editors, bloggers and theorists active in the field today to address these and other questions.
The event will be followed by complimentary drinks and music organised by domus.
Streaming live at www.domusweb.it
Salvatore d'Agostino – blogger atWilfing Architettura
Rossella Ferorelli – blogger e fondatrice Network italiano blog d'architettura
Fabrizio Gallanti – abitare.it
Marco de Michelis – critic
Elisa Poli – ricercatrice
Luca Molinari, critic and curator
Luca Diffuse, architect and blogger
Moderated by Joseph Grima – Domus
Tuesday, February 8 2011, 7 p.m.
Via Savona 11, Milan
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Bill Long 8/18/05
Filling out the Meaning of the 13th Amendment
The debate over the scope of the 13th Amendment, which I discussed earlier, preoccupied the Congress in 1864 and 1865. In a nutshell the concern was whether the Amendment should be read narrowly, as only proscribing the "peculiar institution" of chattel slavery, or broadly, as giving Congress power to outlaw what became known as the "badges and incidents" of slavery. That is, did the Amendment only have a negative reach (eliminating slavery) or could it also be seen as a positive authorization to grant additional powers/rights to the freed slaves? Different Congressmen would answer that question differently. Therefore, we are not going to find a single bright thread in the legislative history where all interpret things in the same way.
Significant for me, however, is the passage of legislation creating the Freedman's Bureau in 1865. The Bureau was created precisely because Congress felt that Blacks needed both protection and assistance in trying to adjust to the new life after slavery. Why would Congress create such a Bureau, with such extensive powers, if it saw the Amendment as having quite limited scope? As an indication of how the Freedman's Bureau and the concept of expanding civil rights were linked, once the 39th Congress convened in December 1865, two bills, extending the life of the Freedman's Bureau (S. 60) and the Civil Rights Bill (S.61) were introduced on the same day (January 5, 1866).
Understanding the Bill's Background
Two urgent factors stimulated quick Congressional action on a civil rights bill. First, the passage of the Black Codes by eight of the Southern States in the last half of 1865 signaled to all who had ears to hear that much of the South seemingly wanted to return to the status quo ante, even if they had to give up the institution of slavery. In the mind of many, the concept of freed Blacks did not carry with it the notion of equal rights for Blacks. Second, President Andrew Johnson, in a move that he came to regret, appointed Brigadier General Carl Schurz to travel through the South in Fall 1865 to document the condition of the freed slaves. His report, which received ample airing in the Northern press, fueled Radical Republican fears that the South was indeed attempting to create a system parallel to the now discredited slave system. Thus, when the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was introduced, its major substantive provision defined the nature of the new citizenship that was open to Blacks now that slavery was abolished. It intended to "fill out" the meaning of the 13th Amendment as well as to nip the Black Codes in the bud.
Introducing The Act
The Bill would emerge from the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Moderate Republican Lyman Trumbull from IL. (The Fourteenth Amendment, which the 39th Congress would also approve in Spring 1866 and send to the States, emerged however from the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, co-chaired by Fessenden in the Senate and Stevens in the House). Trumbull connected the 13th Amendment and the Act in these words:
"Mr. President, I regard the bill to which the attention of the Senate is now called as the most important measure that has been under consideration since the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. That amendment declared that all persons in the United States should be free. This measure is intended to give effect to that declaration..." Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, First Session, p. 474.
Thus, Section 1 of the Act, preserved as Ch. 31 in the collected laws of the 39th Congress, 12 Stat. 27-29, began as follows:
"That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States*; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right..."
[*The notion of national citizenship is something new in this Act. I will explore how this phrase, which is also incorporated in Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment, served to overrule the holding in the Dred Scott case when I look at that Amendment.]
Before getting to an enumeration of the rights involved in the 'same right,' however, we should pause and consider that an earlier version of the Act, rejected by the House, had one other clause in this section. It would have provided, after the words "and such citizens": "and that there shall be no discrimination in civil rights or immunities..." This clause is fascinating because it introduces the phrase, "rights and immunities," which would be similar to language in the 14th Amendment*,
[*The phrase "Privileges and Immunities" already appeared in Art. 4, Sec. 2 of the Constitution. "The Citizens of each States shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States."]
and it emphasizes that there should be no discrimination among citizens. The House replaced the latter phrase with its own: "as is enjoyed by white citizens," with which the Senate concurred. Several members of the House were concerned that the "no discrimination" clause would pave the way for interracial marriages and declarations that miscegenation statutes, which were only struck down a century later, might be unconstitutional.
What I hadn't previously pointed out, which this essay illustrates, is that the CRA of 1866 is sort of sandwiched between two Constitutional Amendments: the 13th and 14th. It looks backwards to the former, because it tries to fill out the meaning of emancipation by articulating civil rights now available to Blacks, but it anticipates the latter by using phrases that would also appear there. Yet the actual rights conferred by the CRA of 1866 should not be overloooked. The next essay considers them.
Copyright © 2004-2008 William R. Long
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / Prashant Panjiar
Bill Gates immunizes a child against polio during a visit to Nigeria.
Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest man, though he rules over a ravaged kingdom of billionaires. Forbes’ annual list has shriveled by nearly a third and $2 trillion in net worth. Those poor billionaires.
Gates is the sort of billionaire one can get behind. He has promised to will his entire fortune to charity and has already donated tens of billions.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates regained the title of world’s richest person on Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of billionaires worldwide, as the global recession slashed the size of the list by 30 percent.
The number of billionaires fell to 793 from 1,125 last year. It was the first time since 2003 that the number of people on the list decreased, and the biggest drop since the magazine began the ranking 23 years ago.
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For most teachers, the greatest reward for their job is seeing students thrive and succeed. They just want to know that they’ve helped. Thus, one of the most important things students can do for their teachers is say thank you. Our teacher profiles feature stories of students who return to visit their teachers many years later, and for these teachers, knowing where their students end up instills in them a sense of accomplishment.
Ways to Thank a Teacher
There are many ways to thank a teacher: a note, a card, a kind word. There are also ways to share your gratitude in the hopes that others will recognize your teacher’s impact and maybe honor their own teacher. The New York City Department of Education allows students and parents to thank teachers on their website. USC’s online Master of Arts in Teaching, the MAT@USC, has its weekly “Thank a Teacher Thursday” blog post. The website MyTeacherMyHero.com allows people to record and upload videos in which they speak about their favorite teachers. People like Sean Paul, Kathie Lee Gifford and Star Jones have already thanked their teachers --- have you?
Teacher Appreciation Celebrations
On a nation-wide level, the importance of teacher recognition is also acknowledged and encouraged. On the first Tuesday of the first full week of May, thousands of communities across the country gather to celebrate National Teacher’s Day, to focus on the invaluable contributions of educators. The week encapsulating National Teacher’s Day is also considered Teacher Appreciation Week, and many school districts sponsor events, including special lunches or awards ceremonies, to mark the occasion. National Teacher’s Day and Teacher Appreciation Week are opportunities for school administrators to thank the educators who work so hard to make schools a better place. But also, it is a chance for students, parents and communities to give back. It is not uncommon for students and parents to present teachers with gifts of appreciation or for classrooms to come together in little celebrations to honor their teachers during this time of year. National Teacher’s Day was instituted by the National Education Association, which provides resources for planning your own teacher appreciation events here.
Companies Honoring Teachers
Companies and organizations with vested interests in education also play a part in thanking teachers. Office Depot, for instance, has instituted the Star Teacher Program, which provides educators with everyday discounts, a Teacher Appreciation Breakfast and other events. Every year for Teacher Appreciation Day, Staples has in-store events that recognize educators and offers them special benefits. Target, Big Lots, Walmart and Office Max have similar initiatives.
Teacher Appreciation Awards
You can also nominate a teacher for an award to show your appreciation. There are many awards associations that are very stringent with regards to who’s allowed to nominate a teacher, but others, such as the National Teacher’s Hall of Fame, allow students, parents, community members and fellow teachers to nominate candidates. Other teaching awards include:
- Thomas Gale TEAMS Award
- National Association of Special Education Teachers Award
- The Great American Teacher Awards
- PBS Teacher Innovation Awards
- Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards
Remember: Appreciating your teacher shouldn’t be limited to a single day or special event. Teachers change lives every day, and it’s important to ensure they know they are appreciated. These awards and events are special ways to do a little something extra to show your gratitude, but what’s important is simply saying thank you.
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haiti: strengthening haitians’ capacity to deal with climate change
This project, begun in September 2007, continues a process launched two years ago by the climate change campaign of FoE Haiti. It aims to raise awareness among the general public about climate change, and to mitigate its effects through community actions.
what happened: To reach their objectives, FoE Haiti first sought to strengthen their overall administrative capacity. They set up an accounting system, hired a professional to train their accounting and administrative staff, and bought a computer and installed all the necessary software.
Then, to help build community capacity on climate change, they carried out seven (two more than originally planned) training and capacity strengthening workshops. They were held in the arrondissements of Gris Gris, Ferrier, Jean Rabel, Latortue and Thiotte, which are widely spread across the country. These workshops were well attended by the affected communities, including many women.
For the workshops, they made use of a training guide, and distributed brochures they had prepared about natural disasters and climate change in Haiti. In addition, communities were advised about how to react in the event of a disaster.
In Thiotte, FoE Haiti organized three radio programs to further their goals of awareness raising on local climate change impacts, and to introduce the results of a survey. The radio programs also informed Haitians about the 2007 climate change negotiations in Bali, in order to generate more pressure on authorities.
In the lead-up to FoE Haiti’s testimony at the Bali 2007 Conference of the Parties, they made additional radio presentations. This included one on Radio Tropical in New York, to inform the US Haitian community about climate change in Haiti, about the group’s Bali work, and to encourage them to change their attitude about energy consumption.
During January 2008, FoE Haiti worked with Friends of the Earth Mauritius to organize two workshops/debates on climate change on Mauritius and Rodrigues islands. They also took this opportunity to talk about actions carried out in Haiti in terms of adaptation.
Finally, based on their work with the Gris Gris community, FoE Haiti developed a project which they presented to the Friends of the Earth International ExCom. It essentially seeks to develop a pilot project for other dry regions, to improve the living conditions of people affected by climate change.
what is changing: With regard to FoE Haiti’s first set of objectives, their office is now better prepared to ensure activities are followed up, and more able to implement the climate change campaign at the network level.
Regarding the goals on awareness raising, a project evaluation carried out by FoE Haiti in March 2008 confirmed the project went according to plan. The local communities they worked with showed that they now know the importance of climate change. FoE Haiti are committed to ensuring this work is followed up, and intend to share the information they received during the training sessions
what we learned: The project helped affected communities become more conscious about climate change, and more willing to take actions to help them adapt to its impacts. The experience FoE Haiti acquired at the national level will also contribute to developing interventions in other countries with a similar climate.
what next: In coming months FoE Haiti will start a specific adaptation project, while continuing to raise awareness and carry out training programmes. They also expect to introduce an artistic side into our campaign — with the help of an artist who will make a number of paintings to illustrate the problem.
with thanks to our funders: the sigrid rausing trust
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From Wounds of Passion:
"When I come to college, it does not take me long to realize that the really hip people do not believe in god, that no one talks about religion expect the boring born against. My relationship to god is the most private union. I learn not to speak of it. Although in classes it is always I who can name a scriptural reference. I konw the bible and am not ashamed of this knowing. In fact, it surprises me that everyone in my classes is so ignorant, mostly though they brag about being atheist. That's what is really cool--to not believe in the existence of god. I believe."(pp 152)
I had a moderately different experience in college. I did meet some self-professed atheists in college, but mostly I meet people who claim agnosticism, or a generalized 'spirituality' not unlike what hooks tells us she ends up with. Of course, the atheists I did run across there (some of whom became friends!) were relatively vocal in their atheism not unlike the people hooks seems to be talking about. Hooks, for her part, moves along from her Christianity to look around for other paths:
"Mack finds my devotion to religion strange. I have moved away from the conventional church but I have kept in me the love of the inner life, the need to be one with the divine. I search for the meaning of religious life everywhere. I study Buddhism and Islamic mysticism. In town there is a Sufi meeting. I go there to dance in the circle of love. And that I am learning about the mystical dimensions of religious faith takes me back to the heart, to loving. To be with god is to love. It is required and understood that a man be found faithful. The ethics of being that govern my life are grounded in spiritual life.(pp152-153)"
Who can argue with love, or paying attention to one's inner life? I find it interesting that hooks doesn't seem to explicitly talk about the misogynist aspects of various religions--though I haven't read everything she has written. She does, however, express various ways in which religion has left her wanting--the white Buddhists who say race doesn't matter because we all choose our race, those who try to force their beliefs on others, the difficulties of letting go of the things in this world in order to be more spiritual. In the end, she likes the seeking--seeking seems to be her religion:
"I contemplate my work. I pray for divine guidance. It comes between me and Mack that I am turning from poetry to writing critical essays, on subjects that are more political. He feels I am abandoning the aesthetics of the artists life for the mundane realm of social theory. I am trying to invent a world that can sustain me as a writer, as a woman dedicated to the life of the mind. I want to remain a seeker on the path."(pp160)
I sometimes feel this way about feminism itself, actually. The infighting just kills me sometimes. And, the need for the infighting--there are real problems that need to be addressed--kills me too. When I start feeling like abandoning feminism for, say, humanism or some such, one thing that helps me is to understand the ways in which my relationship to feminism has developed, and the ways in which feminism itself has changed and grown, is to look at it in a similar way to the way that hooks is looking at religion. Seeking a better and better feminism seems to be the way to go--still seeking, even while unhappy with the current path. (Of course, I feel this way about humanism, and anti-racism, and lots of other ways of framing the world.)
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Penkava: A Eureka! moment: 'Discoveries' not new
Remember reading about all of those explorers of the Age of Discovery during the 15th through 17th centuries? Ah, who could forget famous names such as Magellan, Drake, Cortes, not to mention Balboa, who either discovered the Pacific Ocean or fought a lot around Philadelphia.
It certainly must have been an interesting way of life for those early explorers. They would just sail around looking for places to discover and name after themselves. I mean, how did they get to be explorers anyway? Did the local community colleges have courses such as “New Continents 101” or “Intro to Squelching Mutinies”? Perhaps you just answered an ad in the local newspaper:
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Make Your Mark And SucceedFor any professional, a strong identity and a distinct market position are key factors in achieving optimum business success. They can supersede academic credentials, experience and even your skill sets as a competitive edge. The power of perception allows you to make a unique mark in the minds of your industry, peers, customer and propects.
Companies and organizations worldwide spend enormous resources on building their brand. They know that a sound brand adds value to their existence, secures customer and employee loyalty and enhances profits. For professionals, the same fundamental brand building principles apply. A personal brand can deliver significant professional benefits, allowing you to command higher fees, earn more money, increase your market share and even enjoy a celebrity status.
Whether you are referring to a product, company, organization or an individual professional, a brand is a mental imprint, which conveys a personality, promise and unique position. Brands are visual, emotional, rational and cultural. Powerful brands start at the core of one’s existence and spread throughout every point of contact with their target audience.
When you see a Volvo, you think safety, when you fly Southwest Airlines, you think cheap fares and when you ship FedEx, you think overnight. Some brands are so strong that we as consumers actually replace the common noun with their brand name, like Xerox – photo copies, Jell-O – flavored gelatin and Kleenex – facial tissues. These established brands make selection easier and enhance the value and satisfaction from the experience. As consumers, we have a distinct mental image of these companies or products. When someone says your name, what do people think? That’s the essence of Brand Moi™. It is your personal mark that makes you special, memorable, desirable and worth money in the bank.
Brands are not just for big companies.
Personal branding, just like big company branding starts with a value-based strategic scheme and is followed by a tactical action plan. The universal branding principles are: know who you are, be unique, target those who want what you have, deliver a great experience and always speak loudly even when you whisper.
Brand Moi™ is your personal identity or brand. Build your brand plan from your core being and always be consistent with your values, or consider a new profession.
1. Start with defining what you offer the market, your brand proposition. This applies to everyone from business people to sales professionals to corporate employees. Do you cut hair? Provide financial advice? Or sell houses?
2. Articulate your brand promise. This may include your talents, skill set, competencies and attitude.
3. Clarify your unique brand position. What makes you different and distinct from your competition? Don’t even think about saying service and quality, that answer is far too general.
4. Describe your brand personality, just like you would an acquaintance. Include qualities, attributes, characteristics and traits.
Developing a personal brand strategy is usually the toughest part of creating a Brand Moi™. As you answer these questions make a list of whatever comes to mind, then ask your peers, customers and industry colleagues for their feedback. Filter through everything, follow your head and heart and strive to end up with a simple, concise snapshot of YOU!
“Land your Brand™” with a focused tactical action plan. This is where many professionals can sink their brand in a minute if they don’t adhere to their brand plan with passion and commitment. Remember, audiences derive their impressions from what they see, hear, read, experience and even smell! All your points of contact with your target market should pass your strict brand standards code. And don’t try to be all things to all people. Stick with you core purpose.
If you’re serious about building a powerful Brand Moi™, I would start with your professional name. Can people pronounce it? Does it have a meaning that would hurt what your brand promises? For example, I would consider a name change if your name were Tom Paine and you practiced dentistry. If your brand plan includes achieving celebrity status in your industry or in a mass market, short, memorable names are best.
Next I recommend auditing your graphics and visual presentations. This includes every piece of correspondence that you can control. If you are an independent professional this means your web presence, business cards, letterhead, thank you cars, proposals, advertising and all business forms. If you work for a company that has their own brand, this may mean internal communications and personal correspondence to your customers and peers. Your wardrobe and personal appearance express your brand everyday. Make sure it’s saying what you intended.
Audio points of contact are also brand important! From your recorded message on your phone, to your on-hold noise, to how you answer your phone, they all add to your brand imprint.
Doing business with you should be a rewarding, memorable experience. Your environment, whether your place of business or where you host events, should be brand sensitive and support your message. Signage, your office, your desk and the cleanliness of your car speak about you also. All elements of your customer service and interactions with your market reinforce your brand.
Do your written documents scream your brand? Are they consistent with your brand promise, personality and unique position? If not, it’s edit time. Your writing style, choice of words and content are the foundation to your brand communication. This means emails, proposals, letters, speeches and by-line articles.
Brand Moi™ is essential. If you compete with anyone for anything, you need a brand. Just like the products on the grocery store shelves, it’s a cluttered, aggressive environment. It’s human nature to gravitate to people you like, trust and can relate to. Connect to their souls. Stand out. Be heard. Make your mark and tout the very unique and special being you are!
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Not enough is known about prescription drug use in pregnancy, say experts
Prescription drug use during pregnancy is prevalent, however, not enough is known about the adverse effects they may have on the developing fetus, concludes a new review published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) today.
The majority of women take prescriptions for pregnancy-related complaints and minor infections. However, a small proportion of women receive medication for treatment for chronic diseases such as asthma, depression or hypertension.
The prevalence of congenital malformations is estimated at 2% of all births, of which approximately 1% are considered attributable to prescription drug use during pregnancy, states the review.
Two common groups of drugs, anti-epileptics and antidepressants are explored in the review.
Anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are the most studied group of drugs in pregnancy, with an estimated 1 in 250 pregnancies exposed.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines state that it is not possible to comment on the risks of physical abnormalities from the drugs in view of the limited data available.
The review also looks at preliminary data collated from the UK Epilepsy and Pregnancy Register which found that the risk of congenital malformations with the use of one AED was 3.7% (n = 2598), compared with 6.0% (n = 770) in those women taking two or more AEDs.
Up to 4% of women use antidepressants during pregnancy, with 2.3% taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
A large birth defect registry study found no association between maternal SSRI use and cardiac malformations. However, the review states that antidepressant use in late pregnancy is associated with neonatal complications such as premature birth, feeding problems, respiratory distress syndrome, endocrine and metabolic disorders and temperature regulation disorders.
The review concludes that our evidence base for using prescription drugs in pregnancy remains limited and that drug companies do not recruit pregnant women to their clinical trials unless the drug in question is aimed at pregnancy-related disease.
Alastair Sutcliffe, Reader in Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health and co-author of the review said:
"Many pregnant women use prescription drugs, however, the risk to the fetus remains unknown.
"Pregnant women are excluded from clinical trials, which means when new drugs are released there is almost no information on their safety and efficacy in pregnancy."
TOG's Editor in-Chief, Jason Waugh said:
"The maternal physiological changes that occur during pregnancy can alter what the body does to the drug in some cases. More research is needed into the fetal effects of some drugs as there are big gaps in our knowledge."
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In the modern visual world, some people want to use their photography to do more than just tell a news story, they want to make up a story using their photo. For editorail journalism, there is a fairly clearcut set of guidelines, while in the world of parody and opinion are much less defined.
Two recent cases over the last week are worth a case study. In the first, PDN reported on photographer Jill Greenberg, who took some personal liberties while shooting John McCain for the cover of The Atlantic. The short story is she basically ‘tricked’ McCain into a very unflattering lighting setup, thereby making him appear evil – think flashlight-under-the chin sort of thing. There is also a good read about this on the Photo Business Forum.
Attorney Ed Greenberg (no relation) has sent out a letter via his email list that contains the following helpful links, in which he writes:
There are numerous articles, rules and codes regarding photography in this “age of falsificationâ€. These codes and standards are used by news agencies, magazines and courtrooms and serve to permit and prohibit, the extent to which imagery may be altered for their respective purposes. We urge each of you to be aware of the ethics involved when altering imagery. It is a subject we teach at The School of Visual Arts.
Perhaps the best set of guidelines are those of The National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA Ethics)
Other notable references worth more than a look:
He also included the following links as well:
And then there’s the case of the photo of Sarah Palin in a flag-style bikini holding (edit) an air rifle. Photographer Jim Goldstein managed to score an interview with the young out-of-work web-editor that ‘assembled’ this image. Oddly and sadly, even in this parody arising out of boredom, she never asked permission to alter someone else’s photo(s). She says she just assumed the image(s) were creative commons, and she never thought to ask. What a great education some people seem to be lacking as they waltz out of school. What if the original photographer decided sue for unauthorized use? He may or may not win due to Fair Use doctrines, but either way, it would be a very expensive lesson.
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Press Contact: Helen Dalrymple (202) 707-1940
November 1, 1996
Symposium on 1,100 Years of Hungarian History To Be Held at Library of Congress November 15
An all-day symposium commemorating 1,100 years of Hungarian statehood will be held on Nov. 15 at the Library of Congress. The symposium, "Hungary on the Threshold of the 21st Century: 1,100 Years of Hungarian Culture," is sponsored by the European Division of the Library of Congress, the American Hungarian Educators' Association, and the Embassy of the Hungarian Republic.
The symposium commemorates the settlement of the Carpathian Basin in 896 by an alliance of Magyar tribes. Led by Arpad, whose descendants were the first to establish the Hungarian royal dynasty, the Hungarians were the only ones in a long line of conquerors to establish a lasting state in the area. By the end of the next century they relinquished their nomadic ways and, under King St. Stephen, embraced Christianity and entered the community of western European nations.
Distinguished scholars will present their views on Hungary at the end of the 20th century. Among the topics to be discussed are the reemergence of an independent Hungarian state, Hungarian- American connections, and Hungarian contributions to American civilization.
Gyorgy Banlaki, the ambassador to the United States from Hungary, and Deputy Librarian of Congress Donald L. Scott will open the conference. Scholars who will speak at the symposium are Denis Sinor, Distinguished Professor of Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University; Janos Horvath, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Butler University; Ivan Sanders, professor of English, Suffolk Community College, State University of New York (SUNY); Balint Vazsonyi, Center for the American Funding; and Francis Miko, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
The symposium is part of a worldwide celebration of the anniversary of Hungarian statehood. Other events being held in Washington include a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, art exhibitions at World Bank headquarters and the Corcoran Gallery, and a children's program at the Kennedy Center.
"Hungary on the Threshold of the 21st Century" will be held in the Mumford Room, sixth floor of the Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It was organized by Library staff member Enik Molnar Basa, who is also executive director of the American Hungarian Educators' Association.
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14 Feb 2013
- Written by Kam Williams
What's the key to becoming a millionaire for an African-American? That's the basic question posed by Dr. Dennis Kimbro to a thousand of the most affluent blacks in the United States in a study conducted over the last seven years. The results are reflect in 'The Wealth Choice Success Secrets of Black Millionaires.'
Among the icons graciously participating in the survey were entertainment industry tycoon Tyler Perry, Godfather's Pizza CEO-turned-presidential hopeful Herman "9-9-9" Cain, FUBU fashion line creator/Shark Tank co-host Daymond John, BET founder Bob Johnson, Renaissance man Steve Harvey, televangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes, TV-One CEO Cathy Hughes, film director Spike Lee, motivational speaker Les Brown, mutual fund manager John Rogers and entrepreneur Farrah Gray, who became a self-made millionaire by the age of fourteen.
Culling from the copious comments collected, Kimbro came up with nine "Disciplines" common to most of the millionaires interviewed. These pearls of wisdom include "Passion and Focus," "A Strong Work Ethic" and "A Frugal Nature" to name a few.
The precepts struck this critic, quite frankly, as almost common sense, suggesting that perhaps the biggest challenge rests in taking the advice offered to heart and actually implementing it in your daily economic regimen. A mouthwatering recipe for riches courtesy of accomplished African-American elders with proven track records.
– Excerpted from the Introduction (pgs. 8-9)
"In spite of Black America's advances... with more successful, educated and accomplished entrepreneurs and corporate professionals than at any other time in history, the journey is far from over. To be honest, it is only beginning...
"Pockets of prosperity, a gulf as vast and deep as the Nile, separates the majority of the Black community from its financial elites as well as from virtually every other ethnic group in our society. The abyss between wealthy Blacks and poverty-stricken Blacks is more than disturbing.
"The unemployment rate for young Black males... is fast approaching Great Depression levels. More Black males than ever are incarcerated, attend miserably-failing, segregated, inner-city schools, and live in gang-infested neighborhoods.
"These impoverished enclaves have become the equivalent of a domestic Third World country... Though the challenges... may desperately need addressing, the purpose of this book is to highlight the possibilities that are available to all... possibilities brought to my attention and clarified by Black America's wealthiest."
"The Wealth Choice:
Success Secrets of Black Millionaires
by Dennis Kimbro, Ph.D.
(To order a copy of The Wealth Choice, visit:
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Research has validated the positive impact pets particularly dogs have on sick children. I am talking about brave little kids receiving medical treatment while being confined to the sterile walls of a hospital. True, the children’s floors typically have a lot of colorful child-appropriate murals on the walls these days but it never feels like home.
Toby, the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends is a nicely illustrated children’s book about the true story of Toby, a big brown service dog along with his owner, Charmaine Hammond visits to hospitals spreading cheer to the little kids admitted there for treatment for various life threatening illnesses.
I received a copy of the book from it’s author and was immediately drawn to it because Toby, the dog had a name sake in my home, my son. My son’s name is spelt a little differently; think suzy/suzie/suzi. My son had grandma reading it to him every night for a whole week. Hearing his name being read aloud could not have hurt either.
Toby, the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends makes for a good read aloud books for preschoolers through second grade. Makes teaching kids empathy and compassion just a little easier.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of Toby, the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends and a companion novel, On Toby’s Terms from author, Charmaine Hammond to facilitate this review. I received no monetary compensation. All opinions expressed here are my mine alone.
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A friend and I were driving through rugged mountains with...
A friend and I were driving through rugged mountains with grades up to 15%. We were in my 1991 Toyota Camry V6 with automatic shift. While going down grades, I suggested that she put the car in second gear to help with the braking. I have been told by several people that this is the best way to handle steep downgrades. She said she had been told never to do that because brakes are cheaper to replace than transmissions. I'm in a quandry. Who is right?
RAY: You're right, Rose. It's true that brakes are cheaper to replace than transmissions, but that's irrelevant here.
TOM: First of all, you wouldn't be doing any damage to your transmission, so it won't need to be replaced.
RAY: Second, if you overuse the brakes, they won't work at all. And then you WILL have to replace your transmission...and your arms and your legs and your skull etc.
TOM: When you overuse the brakes---like by counting on nothing but the brakes to keep you under control down a long, 15% grade--those brakes will overheat. And when they overheat, the brake fluid boils. And when the fluid boils...no more brakes!
RAY: 15% (that's 15 feet of drop for every 100 feet of length) may not sound like much. But over some distance, you'd be amazed at how much speed your car will build up.
TOM: So you're absolutely right, Rose. On a long, steep downhill, you want to use a lower gear to keep the car at a comfortable speed so you can be stingy with your braking.
RAY: By the way, we don't recommend downshifting to slow down in normal stop and go driving, or on hills of a couple of hundred yards or less. It's not necessary there and it just wears out the clutch prematurely. But we absolutely recommend it for long, steep hills.
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“Why do they call it morning sickness when it lasts all day?” As an OB/GYN physician and mother, I’ve heard this question more than a few times - and with good reason. Approximately 50% of women experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and another 25% of women experience nausea without vomiting. A percentage of these women get so sick, they require hospitalization, sometimes for extended periods of time. Left untreated, severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (called “hyperemesis gravidarum”) can lead to nerve damage from vitamin B6 or B12 deficiency or Wernicke’s encephalopathy (due to thiamine [B1] deficiency) in the mother. It can also lead to low birth weight babies or preterm labor, resulting in premature birth.
Nobody quite knows for sure. Scientists believe the stimulus for nausea and vomiting appears to originate from the placenta. Many believe it’s related to the levels of the pregnancy hormone hCG. Production by hCG by the ovaries peaks around 9 weeks, and the placenta takes over.
Some also believe it’s caused by deficiencies of B vitamins, since vitamin B supplementation reduces the incidence of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
Whatever it is, it’s a real problem for many pregnant women and effective treatment is key to a happy, healthy pregnancy.
The treatment for this condition is multi-fold. Listed below are the treatment interventions I recommend to patients.
Step 1. Believe your nausea will resolve.
For reasons we don’t really understand, there’s a mind-body connection when it comes to pregnancy-related nausea. Studies show a dramatic placebo effect for pregnant women being treated for nausea and vomiting. In other words, if you believe you’ll get better, you will! And if you believe you’ll be saddled with it the whole 9 months, you probably will. Think positive, and you’re much more likely to be skipping and dancing through your pregnancy, rather than checking into the emergency room.
Step 2. Get a diagnosis.
Before you assume your nausea is related to the pregnancy, make sure you’re not sick with something else. The last thing you want to do when you’re pregnant is miss a case of appendicitis. While the old adage “If you hear hooves, don’t assume it’s a zebra” definitely applies to nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, you can’t leap straight to the assumption that your nausea is normal, since it can sometimes signal other health conditions, such as the flu, a kidney infection, hepatitis, gallbladder disease, pancreatitis, or a condition that requires surgery. I’m not suggesting you need to go the ER the first time you vomit. Certainly, nausea and vomiting in the first trimester is common. But it’s unusual for nausea to appear, out of the blue, after that time. So if you sailed through your first trimester and you’re suddenly puking your guts out at 20 weeks, get thee to the doctor and get thee a diagnosis.
And make sure you pick the right doctor. Clinical trials show that if your doctor believes you’ll get well, you’re significantly more likely to do so.
Step 3. Change how and what you eat.
The goal is to get nutrients and fluids in - and help them stay in.
Step 4. Optimize Western medicine.
Dehydrated women, especially those with ketones in their urine, will often need emergency intervention. If you can’t keep anything down - not even water - it’s probably time to call your doctor. Approximately 10% of women with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy will need some sort of pharmacologic treatment.
o Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
o Hydroxyzine (Vistaril)
o Metocloperamide (Reglan)
o Trimethobenzamide (Tigan)
o Droperidol (Inapsine)
o Promethazine (Phenergan)
o Prochlorperazine (Compazine)
o Ondansetron (Zofran)
o Glucocorticoids (for severe cases, only after 10 weeks gestation)
o Total parental nutrition (TPN) is required in very rare cases for those who are losing dangerous amounts of weight
Step 5 (which can definitely be tried before Step 4 for those seeking more natural treatment): Experiment with complementary/ alternative medicine.
Step 6. Ask yourself whether anything else in your life is making you sick.
In this case, chances are good that you’re sick because you’re pregnant, but it always helps to question your symptoms. Is there something else in your life that could be exacerbating your nausea? Trouble at work? Tension in your marriage? Anxiety about becoming a parent? It may sound goofy, but try letting your morning sickness write you a letter. (As in “Dear You, Love, Your Nausea.) Try writing back. See what comes up.
Share what works for you. Tell us your stories.
Wishing you wellness,
Lissa Rankin, MD: Founder of OwningPink.com, Pink Medicine Revolutionary, motivational speaker, and author of What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend and Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide To Creating Fine Art With Wax.
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It was mid-June, and snow still blanketed the higher elevations, fanning down north faces, fissures, and crevices like the tattered ends of a flag in the wind. The temperature was dropping and the dozen switchbacks leading down to Mono Basin provided a bird's-eye view of the impending storm. The ES4WD crew had headed home, and it was back to dos amigos (tres amigos if you count our buddy Señor Patron), and a dog.
Controversy has long surrounded Mono Lake. In the early 20th century, the Los Angeles wate
Mono Lake has always been a place of intrigue. As a kid, the family made frequent camping and fishing trips to Lee Vining Creek near Tioga Pass. The parental units extended us kids the liberty of hiking down the creek, about eight miles, to the township of Lee Vining for ice cream. To the east lay Mono Lake, a small but unique inland sea flanked by endless expanses of open desert. I dreamed of exploring its distant shores one day.
In the '70s, after years of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District diverting the natural watershed away from the lake, water levels hit alarming lows and saline levels rose to triple that of the ocean. Alkali tufa formations materialized from the surface, catching the attention of the world-and many environmentalists-and leaving Mono and its tufa as a world-renowned tourist attraction. The "Save Mono Lake" crowd rallied to . . . Save Mono Lake. They've succeeded. Lake levels have risen and the area's main tourist attraction, the tufa, have all but disappeared.
The thunderheads and heavy rains passed as quickly as they arrived, trailing off to gray skies and a soggy track. That track was the eastern strandlines of Mono Lake that I'd gazed at from a distance as a young boy. Spectacular! We made our way north, crossing Highway 167 and into Cottonwood Canyon towards one of the most celebrated ghost towns in the Gold Rush.
The sun broke through the clouds as we departed the famed ghost town of Bodie. Extensively
"Goodbye God, I'm Going to Bodie"
Mile 802, Bodie, CA, Lat: N38º 12' 46": A chilly wind blew through the paneless wood-framed windows of the old church, swinging a pair of creaky-hinged double doors open and kicking up a swirl of dust as it exited the scene across a wood-planked sidewalk. Down the street was one of Bodie's 65 saloons: a billiard table with a full rack, dusty beer pitchers on the bar, and pool cues leaning against an old handmade rack. It appeared that the party just got up and walked away. That day was in 1962, when the State of California deemed their town a state park. This was the legendary ghost town of Bodie.
With a reputation for being a haven for gunslingers, con men, merchants, gamblers, and ladies of pleasure, the people of Bodie didn't mince words when it came to hard rock mining, drinking, or paydirt. In its heyday, around 1880, preachers, teachers, shopkeepers, and ladies of society had moved to town in an attempt to save the township from eternal hellfire (and maybe make a buck in the process). They were a hardy lot, and as winter snows and arctic-cold winds encapsulated the town, most folks stayed the course. The steam engines continued to whistle, stamp mills pounded away at mule carts of gold ore, town folks shoveled snow tunnels from saloon to saloon, and proper church services were still held on Sunday. The famous quote, "Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie," was penned by a young girl whose family moved to godforsaken Bodie from the refinement of San Francisco.
Destination Unknown: I've always liked the saying, "Adventure lays in the journey, not the
The sun broke through and the clouds dissipated as we climbed the grade out of town to find camp along Bodie Creek. The altimeter read 7,700 feet, temperatures were still dropping, and it looked like it was going to be a one-dog night (sorry, Del). I'm sure Del can cook, or at least heat water for an MRE, but dinner tonight was via Cuisine a la Chris: spaghetti with sautéed onions and fresh garlic. It wasn't quite up to the seafood alfredo I'd whipped up in Death Valley, but hot and tasty on a chilly night.
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Many trainers are familiar with the old adage, “You are never a prophet in your own land.” Jesus himself testified that, “a prophet hath no honor in his own country.”
Translated: a stranger would have more belief in you than your own family because they have known you since birth. Jesus couldn't teach His own family because their idea of a King was totally different from what Jesus taught. They thought that His teachings had nothing to do with running a kingdom.
No matter how much you know or how important people believe you are outside of your kingdom, you will always just be a regular old ‘Joe Blow’ to those who are nearest you. Can you handle being unimportant at your agency if you have appropriate outside outlets?
Never Outshine the Master
The book, The 48 Laws of Power states in law number one: “Never outshine the master.”
“Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite — inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.”
Can you be their “Yes” man?
Where am I going with this? I suppose that I am venting as much as letting you know that “YOU” are not alone. It’s probably obvious to any trainer who has been fighting the fight for any length of time.
I have always been very trusting of individuals around me who have appeared to share the same goal. I say “appeared” because in the beginning we all come together out of a common goal or idea.
Sooner or later, someone gets hurt by another’s success, ability, or place in the group and then for that person, a new goal forms — the cessation of any product that continues to lead toward success for the group. Sound familiar?
The King of Fools
Trainers themselves fall into the same mindset as their supervisors at times. They want to run their training kingdom without interference from supervisors above or from influences outside. Many feel that their agency is self sufficient when it comes to training trainers.
If you limit training to what you have always done, how do you grow? If your training cadre is managed by an individual who does not like to be challenged, what type of trainers will he surround himself with? Another saying comes to mind, “Surround yourself with idiots and you become the King of Fools. Surround yourself with excellence and it will rub off on you.”
Some wish to be King so bad that they would prefer to be the King of Fools.
If, as a training supervisor, I do not allow my instructors to go out and be externally influenced, I will never have to worry about being questioned or told that we can be doing better or that what we have been doing may be wrong.
A true leader, however, would prefer to be told what goes on in the world so that he can make a sound decision as to his future progress and endeavors. Ultimately those we train benefit from a well-trained and -educated training staff.
Conflict and Courageous Conversations
If all you ever do is what you have always done, you will never get more than what you already have. Few things anger me more than someone answering a “why” question with, “Because we’ve always done it this way.”
There is no learning or higher understanding gleaned from that response. If you are a person who offers that as an answer (or accepts that as an answer), you need to step back and rethink what you are doing in your position.
I know many trainers who are considered experts and are well respected across the nation in fields of use of force, firearms and defensive tactics (many of whom are authors for a host of respected publications, books, and columns here PoliceOne).
The little-known fact about all of these highly-respected trainers is that they are not (or were not) in good graces with their agencies. Not prophets in their own land! They were (or are being) run off. Certainly not being nurtured for their initiative, hard work, or willingness to create a high standard and then train others to that standard. Can you imagine?
You see, these are the men and women who were either never brought into training or were brought in and then removed. They are the individuals who either wanted to (or attempted to) propel training to the next level, change it up or think outside the box.
They are the ones who dared to ask the “why” questions and were not satisfied with the standard response. They continued to ask the “why” questions and were either removed for their insubordinate behavior or were ignored for so long that they finally tired and left of their own accord.
As a supervisor and trainer for many years, I have had many questions asked of my practices or methods. If I am unable to answer any of those questions with an educated or well researched response, it is my duty to hear the co-instructor or students rational for the question and their subsequent thought process as to the answer.
Sometimes we argue over ideas or suggestions. When egos do not get in the way, such conflict can bring compromise and resolution — greater learning and understanding for all involved.
Egos will hold back true progress for reasons only understood by the animal brain. Egos can mean the difference between achieving the original, common goal — or abandoning it. All too often, the goal is abandoned or it turns a group from working together to individually pursuing an objective (or worse, more than one).
Conflict and resolution can help us grow as operators, trainers, and supervisors of individuals and teams. Unfortunately some folks are unwilling to have these courageous conversations and choose to either avoid conflict or to disengage from the entire objective.
Those options are destructive to the group and to the individual. Anyone who continually runs from conflict will never truly grow. Anyone who remains in the team and yet does not voice their opposition will only hold the team back by failing to carry their fair share. How do you carry your share of a load you do not believe in?
There are hard questions to ask yourself as you begin to take on the beast of training. What am I doing this for? What do I hope to gain? Can I hold true to myself and what I know is right?
Will I allow myself to be part of a program that is doing disservice to my officers? Will I attempt to do the right thing even at risk of my own detriment? Where do you go when you find you can’t do the job you wanted to do in the land you are working in?
Tough questions with tough answers.
About the author
Chris Cerino, who has served with Medina (Ohio) Police Department, Federal Air Marshals, and the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy, is a nationally-known firearms instructor who has been training law enforcement officers and military for more than 10 years. Chris has worked in law enforcement positions for municipal, county, state and federal agencies spanning 19 years. A majority of those years have been spent in tactical and firearms related fields. As the director of training for Chris Cerino Training Group, Cerino remains immersed in the firearms and tactics training culture. Teaching the importance of fundamentals in a “do as I do” fashion has enabled him to be a respected instructor across the country.
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These days are the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. As you know, those who don’t read history, only can repeat history. If the stupid Iranians had read the world history, they would not have repeated history in 1979. What Orwell wrote in the 1940s, in his great novels “Animal Farm” and “1984″, were the story of Iranian revolution in 1979 and also the story of our tragic life in the past 33 years. Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” some years after Brinton’s masterpiece “The Anatomy of Revolution“. In fact, Animal Farm is based on “The Anatomy of Revolution”. Clarence Crane Brinton was an American historian. He wrote his masterpiece “The Anatomy of Revolution” in 1938. This book outlines the “uniformities” of four major political revolutions: the English Revolution, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution. Brinton notes how the revolutions followed a life-cycle from the Old regime to the new regime. The book has been called “classic, “famous” and a “watershed in the study of revolution,” and has been influential enough to have inspired advice given to US President Jimmy Carter by his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski during the Iranian Revolution. Apparently, in the recent years the Mullahs, specially Khamenei, read this book over and over, but in the 1978, only less than 1% of Iranians had read this book and also the Orwell’s novels. Even the stupid Shah and the Pahlavi family lived like sheep and knew nothing about the anatomy of revolution. But now, even Khamenei and his thugs know the anatomy of revolution, but it doesn’t prevent them form making horrible mistakes. Many believe the Mullahs are stooge of the west, specially the UK and the US, and that’s why they make horrible mistakes, but even if we think they are not stooge or mercenary, they are really so stupid. In fact, all dictators and their thugs in the 21st century are stupid and have a small brain. They don’t know that the people and the world have changed, and now you can’t kill and rape the people for staying in power at any price. Of course, the stupid nations can still create Animal Farm, if they don’t read history. In the Arab Spring, specially in Egypt, the stupid Arabs and the stupid Islamists can create another Islamic Animal Farm. They are really stupider than Iranians in 1979. But quotes from Khomeini before and after the Islamic Revolution, can show them how Islamic Animal Farm is made. In these days, when the stupid baby baboon, Reza Pahlavi, and the stupid Iranian Monarchists in LA, California, desperately try to repeat Khomeini’s words, the Iranians inside Iran laugh heartily. Iranians inside Iran are laughing at these stupid Monarchist bastards, because these stupid bastards don’t know: “The great events and dictators in world history reappear in one fashion or another; But the first time as tragedy, the second as farce“. In 1979, if the stupid Iranians had read history and had known Animal Farm, they would not have repeated history, but today’s Iranians know Animal Farm better than any other nation in the world. They know how Animal Farm works, and how “All people are created equal” becomes “All people are created equal, but some people are more equal”. So, lets take a look at Quotes from Khomeini before and after the Islamic Revolution. It can show how Animal Farm is made.
Before the Islamic Revolution
“Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system” (Khomeini, interview with the AP, Paris, November 7, 1978) “I have repeatedly said that neither my desire nor my age nor my position allows me to govern” (Khomeini, interview with the United Press, November 8, 1978) “I don’t want to have the power or the government in my hand; I am not interested in personal power” (Khomeini, interview with The Guardian, November 16, 1978) “I don’t want to be the leader of the Islamic Republic; I don’t want to have the government or the power in my hands. I only guide the people in selecting the system” (Khomeini, interview with an Austrian TV reporter, November 16, 1978) “It is the Iranian people who have to select their own regime and their own government. The people have to select capable and trustworthy individuals and give them the responsibilities. However, personally, I can’t accept any special role or responsibility” (Khomeini, interview with Le Journal newspaper, November 28, 1978) “After the Shah’s departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people” (Khomeini, interview with Le Monde, January 9, 1979) “The Islamic regime does not have oppression” (Khomeini, interview with France Press, October 25, 1978) “The foundation of our Islamic government is based on freedom of dialogue and will fight against any kind of censorship” (Khomeini, interview with Reuters, October 26, 1978) “In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded” (Khomeini, interview with an Austrian TV reporter, November 6, 1978) “In Iran’s Islamic government the media has the freedom to express all Iran’s realities and events, and people have the freedom to form any form of political parties and gatherings that they like” (Khomeini, interview with the Italian newspaper Paese Sera, November 2, 1978) “Our future society will be a free society, and all the elements of oppression, cruelty, and force will be destroyed” (Khomeini, interview with the Der Spiegel, November 7, 1978) “In Iran’s future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic” (Khomeini, interview with international reporters, November 9, 1978) “We would like to run the Islamic government like Islam at its beginning. If the people of the world know the benefits of Islam, my hope is that they all become Moslems [!!]” (Khomeini , interview with a group of young French people, November 9, 1978) “My proposal for establishing an Islamic government does not mean a return to the past. I am strongly for civilization and progress.” (Khomeini, interview with international reporters, January 11, 1979)” In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion” (Khomeini, interview with Human Rights Watch, November 10, 1978) “These words that you have heard regarding women in the future Islamic government are all hostile propaganda. In the Islamic Republic women have complete freedom, in their education, in everything that they do, just as men are free in everything” (Khomeini, interview with German reporters, November 12, 1978) “Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing ” (Khomeini, interview with The Guardian, November 6, 1978) “The Mullahs (Shiite clergymen) do not want to govern in Iran themselves” (Khomeini, interview with France Press, October 25, 1978) “In Islamic Iran the Mullahs themselves will not govern but only observe and support the government’s leaders. The government of the country at all levels will be observed, evaluated, and publicly criticized” (Khomeini, interview with Reuters, October 26, 1978) “The Mullahs will help lead the revolution but then step aside to let others rule. The Mullahs do not want to rule” (October 25, 1978). “Criticism of Islamic government will be tolerated. The Islamic government will answer criticism by reason and logic” (November 9, 1978)
After the Islamic Revolution
“A monopoly by itself is not a corrupt thing. God’s messengers had a monopoly; the blessed and supreme God also had a monopoly. The monopoly of this [sic] is correct” (Khomeini, Jamaran (Tehran), September 7, 1981) “Don’t listen to those who speak of democracy. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of nationalism, democracy, and such things” (Khomeini, Qom, March 13, 1979) “That group that due to its opposition to Islam is opposing us, with the same fist that we destroyed the regime we will destroy that group as well. Pay attention to your statements. Repent from your writings. I am warning you that you still have time to repent.” (Khomeini, Qom, June 5, 1979) “The intellectuals, the writers, those who have information and thoughts, you see some of them take their pens and in the name of democracy they write whatever they want. Whatever we are suffering is because of them” (Khomeini, Qom, July 23, 1979) “We have to warn these intellectuals that if they don’t stop their meddling, they will be crushed. We have treated you gently so that maybe you would stop your evilness, and if you don’t stop, we will have the last word. These American sympathizers and others must know that in just a few hours we can throw them in the trashcan of annihilation any day that we wish to do so” (Khomeini, August 8, 1979) “Those who create political fronts must stop their activities. If from the beginning, as in other revolutions in the world, several thousand of these corrupt individuals had been burned and beheaded till the issues were finished, problems would have been solved. We will allow one or more parties to operate if they operate correctly. But we announce that the rest are forbidden. We will no longer allow the same freedom that we used to give, and we cannot allow these parties to continue their activities. We made mistakes when we gave freedom. We will no longer allow any of their writings to be distributed in the country. We will destroy all their writings” (Khomeini, Qom, August 18, 1979) “We will no longer give freedom. These people are not the type who will stop their activities just from advice. We have to deal with them harshly” (Khomeini, Qom, August 19, 1979) “Those who have not voted for the Islamic Republic, it means that they want the previous system. Those who boycott the election so no one votes for the Islamic Republic are seditious. We will treat them like enemies, and we will oppress them. You are enemies that you are conspiring against Islam. Your comings and goings are controlled. We will not allow you to remain and continue your activities” (Khomeini, September 3, 1979) “Those who are against us are like cancer tumors that need to be removed surgically; otherwise they will corrupt everything. These writings, these speeches, these wrong activities, these democratic programs are separations from Islam. All these voices are blasphemy and are atheistic” (Khomeini, Qom, September 19, 1979) “We have to identify those who are not in line with Islam and the Islamic movement by their articles, speeches, and activities. They are all afraid of one thing, which is Islam. They might criticize many things, but the key point is that they are attacking Islam itself. Their pens are the same old bayonets that have become like pens. To all of you who oppose us, I recommend that you don’t gather so much, don’t send so many fliers, don’t publish so much; have you now become brave enough to stick out your neck? I will slap you on your mouth” (Khomeini, Qom, October 22, 1979) “In the revolution that was achieved in Iran, people were screaming that they wanted Islam;these people did not rise up so their country could have democracy” (Khomeini, Qom, December 10, 1979) “Iran is following a program, and that program is Islam. The same Islam that says if somebody has an association with left or right, that individual is fighting God. He has the intention of fighting God, and his punishment is the punishment that people fighting God will receive” (Khomeini, Jamaran, September 19, 1982) “We would like to have a university in the service of our own nation, not a university whose slogan is that we want a civilized and modern Iran, that wants to move toward a great civilization. We are against those universities from the foundation. We want university professors who are not facing left or right” (Khomeini, Qom, August 26, 1981) “This nation exists and the Mullahs exist too. What have you done for your country in all these years that now you’re saying the Mullahs should not be in charge? You do not understand correctly. If you put this group aside, no name or sign of Islam will remain” (Khomeini, Jamaran, May 27,1981) And finally after 30 years, Iranians saw the final chapter of Animal Farm in 2009, when the Mullahs and the Islamists killed the ordinary people in the streets, and tortured and raped the ordinary men and women, because the people repeated Khomeini’s words and asked for what Khomeini had promised the Iranians in 1978.
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SCC Math Department Helps Students Beyond Classroom
Math is necessary to understand the world around us.
Unfortunately, American students often fare poorly in international comparisons of mathematical abilities.
Such weakness tends to carry over into other areas and often leads to poor college performance and failure to perform well once in the work force.
Sandhills Community College has a long record of helping students overcome math struggles and become successful, not only in college, but also in their careers.
Elaine Lytton, chairperson of Sandhills' Department of Mathematics, is proud of the department's commitment to math education, evidenced in part by the many years of service each faculty member has contributed to the college.
"We have a solid math faculty at Sandhills, with very little turnover," she said. "They are here for our students. Each of our faculty has time set aside each day when students can come by for assistance."
This dedicated faculty includes husband and wife John and Judy McInerney. John McInerney served on the Southern Pines Town Council for 14 years from 1989 until 2003. He joined Sandhills in 1970. He has seen many changes at the college during his tenure.
"Of course, we have more bricks and mortar than when I first came," he said.
But the biggest change he has seen in students has been the increase in need for developmental math.
"We see a lot of students who have decided to return to school and have to learn, or in some cases, relearn math," said McInerney.
He sees the increase in technology as a contributing factor to a greater need for mathematics. "In all technology, you have to have some quantitative skills, one of which is math," he explained. "It used to be that high school students could graduate and go to work in textiles, and they really didn't need much education to be successful with their jobs, he said.
"Now, though, machines have replaced people, and that same textile worker needs to know how to operate that machine, and he or she will more than likely need to have strong math skills in order to do so," he said.
For reasons that are as varied as the students themselves, many high school graduates choose not to go directly to a four-year university. For many of these students, starting at Sandhills in the University Studies college transfer program provides the strong academic foundation they need to make a successful transition to a larger university.
Linda Chandler, math professor and coordinator of university studies, says that Sandhills not only prepares recent high school graduates, but also students coming to college after being in the work force for several years.
"There is a period of adjustment to college life for all students," Chandler said. "We do our best to provide our students with the academic, financial and technological skills and support needed to help them make a seamless and smooth transition to the university setting."
Upon acceptance to any of the University of North Carolina system institutions, students in the University Studies Program who successfully complete, with grades of C or better, the associate of arts, associate of fine arts, associate of science or transfer core diploma will have courses in the degree or diploma transfer as a block to the university.
Instructors in all University Studies college-transfer courses must have at least a master's in their area of teaching.
In addition, savings from completing the first two years of college at Sandhills prior to transferring to a four-year university can be substantial.
The maximum a student will pay at Sandhills Community College is $672 for a fall or spring semester and less than $50 in fees. Parking is free.
A state-supported university can cost this same student more than $1,800 per semester and another $750 in fees, with parking running $200 or more per semester at many UNC universities.
Richard Johnson began at Sandhills and transferred to Appalachian State University. He now works as an information systems security auditor and consultant for an accounting firm.
"The algebra classes I took at Sandhills made a direct impact on my future," Johnson said. "The Sandhills math department was vital in providing a platform for future math to come."
Learning math opens up career possibilities. A number of rewarding careers, such as architecture and engineering, require strong mathematical skills. Mathematical models are also routinely used in business and finance, as well as science and technological progress.
John Wilson, a Sandhills graduate, now works as an electrical engineer for Rambus Inc., where he designs high-speed chip-to-chip and memory interfaces for computers, gaming consoles, high-definition television sets and other various consumer electronics.
"As an engineering transfer student from Sandhills, I can attest to the fact that the math department did an excellent job of providing me with a solid math foundation," Wilson said.
Christian Sheppard, a 2005 summa cum laude civil engineering technology and surveying technologies graduate, secured employment with the Raleigh engineering firm Withers & Ravenel upon graduation from Sandhills. He is quick to note how the math courses he took at Sandhills have helped him in his career.
"I use math every day, whether it's simple adding and subtracting or more advanced trigonometry and calculus," he said. "I owe a great deal of success in my career to my mathematics professors at SCC. All of my math professors at Sandhills were willing to do whatever it took to help me. If not for their dedication to their profession, their willingness to make time for me after class and an overall passion for helping students understand math, I know I wouldn't have been as good at math as I am today."
Anyone needing more information on mathematics at Sandhills can contact Elaine Lytton at 695-3909 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
To learn more about the University Studies program at Sandhills Community College, contact Chandler at chandlerl@sandhills or call 695-3961.
Contact Ed Spitler for more information on the Engineering Technology Program at 695-3797 or email@example.com.
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How appropriate that a play about the social and political inner-workings of an English boy’s school have its South African premiere in a town with a long standing tradition of British education.
But the school being depicted in Alan Bennett’s, The History Boys, a 1980s northern England boy’s school, is a far cry from the well-to-do and clinically ordered St. Andrew’s and Kingswoods of Grahamstown—or is it?
The play, which first opened in London in 2004 and received a Tony Award in 2006, lays bare the dominant social insecurities around institutions of higher learning—that they are the exacting determinants of success. One doesn’t have to read between the lines of dense literary allusions and references to literary greats, to get that Bennett is advocating education for education’s sake.
The plot centres around a headmaster’s selfish ambition to elevate his school’s profile by ensuring the graduating class gain entrance to Oxford or Cambridge. To accomplish this, he must counteract the unconventional methods of the the senior English and General Studies teacher, Hector, who slips culture and the love of literature through the back door by making learning a game. If this clever but unpolished class is to have a shot, they will need to be groomed.
To coach the boys in all things Oxbridge, the headmaster hires a polished and evermore strategising new teacher, Irwin. The two teachers couldn’t be more polar: the ever-calculating prim and proper Irwin and the slightly belligerent but mostly affable tongue-in-cheek Hector. The play asks whether knowledge should be a matter of the head or the heart and gestures towards the implications of both points of view.
What endears the play are the individual preoccupations and anxieties of each boy, which are developed through boisterous classroom scenes and spotlight monologues. The boys practice the subjunctive in French by enacting a scene in a brothel, which catches one student with his pants down. Religion and sexual orientation are strong themes in the first half and the story develops with good pace.
Sordid and perverse
But the story plunges into crass and agenda-driven propaganda in the second half. It is very clear Bennett is depicting an amoral, post-religion, postmodern Britain. What the Festival programme described as a tone of “gentle seriousness” was a hyperbolic understatement.
Good-natured and humorous references to homosexuality became sordid and perverse as they devolved into uncritical depictions of abusive relationships in second half. It was disturbing how casually and dishonestly these relationships were rendered: no one was victimised, no one was scarred, no one was truly condemned.
What initially promised to be edifying became emotionally exhausting. A comment on the importance of a well-rounded education became a comment of the depravity of British boy schools and the absolute hopelessness of humanity. The fatiguing nearly three hours left one feeling violated and manipulated and wondering what lies beneath the noble veneer of the British education system.
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Originally Published Oct 2009 – Updated Apr 2012 (Newest items in Bold)
This policy is meant to provide some clear guidelines regarding what technology will be assigned as an End of Life (EoL) asset and no longer supported after the date attached to the specific hardware, OS, or software below. An exponential increase in the demands on Technology Services makes it impossible to support everything. This will also help in planning for technology as locations with EoL devices can prioritize spending based on the policy.
End of Life assets can remain in the district however there will be no priority or funds allocated to their servicing.
Special consideration may be given to assistive technology for 1701 identified students whose IEP requires technology that does not meet the specifications below. This could possibly include conversations with the School Principal/LAT, Technology Services, and Student Support Services regarding the appropriate solution.
As computer technology changes rapidly, the specifications of this policy are to be reviewed yearly by TS management and the SD60 Technology Committee.
Operating Systems (OS) that will no longer be supported
- Mac OS 9 or older (May 2010)
- Windows 2000 or older (May 2010)
- Win2k Server (September 2011)
Hardware Systems that will no longer be supported
- PC – Pentium III and older [Pentium IV, and newer will continue to be supported] (May 2010)
- Mac – G5s, G4s, G3 computers and older (powerbook G4, ibook G3, rainbow imacs, emacs) (May 2010)
- Old Thin Clients (December 2010)
Hardware Devices that will no longer be supported
- Inkjet printers-except drafting plotters (already in effect)
- CRT monitors (already in effect)
Software that will no longer be supported
- Any software that requires an EoL OS listed above (as per date listed on OS above)
- Email Clients (eudora, thunderbird, outlook, entourage, mail etc) (December 2009)
- Report Writer (September 2011 or as BCESIS training allows)
- Success Maker (EoL date TBA hardware dependant works on G4s or PC, server dependent that we will not upgrade)
- Microsoft Office unless needed for job functions (replace with Open Office for new hardware, or cost borne by school/dept for licenses)
- Asgard (July 15, 2011)
- IE 5 (September 2011)
- IE 6 (May 2010)
- Citrix for Library Services (TBA)
- Office X for Mac on WWP laptops (July 2014 [next refresh] or earlier depending on Operating System compatibility)
- Apple Works for Mac (future operating systems will not support the old PowerPC software architecture)
This policy is set to be reviewed December 1st of each year by TS and partners if they wish to share ideas.
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To help you be successful at CU Denver, we encourage students to take advantage of all of the academic resources and co-curricular learning and recreational opportunities that are available throughout the year at the university.
You can get involved with a student organization, Campus Village Community Council, student government or the campus newspaper. Perhaps, you will choose to spend time with one of more than 70 student groups and clubs including honorary and professional organizations and faith-based groups. Participation in these groups will help you develop leadership and organizational skills that will aid you throughout your education and career.
Campus Village Involvement Opportunities
The Campus Village Community Council
is a student-run organization that acts as a government for Campus Village. Community Council allows residents to voice their opinions and ideas in order to improve their community. Students involved in Community Council will participate in frequent meetings, elections, and programs. Any resident of Campus Village may join Community Council.
Become a Resident Assistant (RA)
Students who have lived in Campus Village for at least one year are eligible to apply for a Resident Assistant position. RA's are student leaders in the Campus Village community who work to create a healthy and inclusive living and learning environment. They support the transition to being a college student and help others to develop life skills. RA selection occurs each Spring Semester. Details on the application and selection process are distributed to current residents.
Ways to Get Involved on Campus
The Office of Student Life takes pride in providing a multitude of campus events for our students, including weekly activities and lectures on campus. We hope you will take advantage of everything that CU Denver and the Office of Student Life has to offer!
The purpose of the University of Colorado Denver Student Government Association is to represent and promote the ideas and interests of the Student Body while providing opportunities for student leadership and student leadership development.
SACAB is comprised of student representatives elected from all three institutions, including the Community College of Denver (CCD), Metropolitan State College of Denver (Metro State), and the University of Colorado Denver, Downtown Campus (UCD).
Meetings are held every Friday afternoon at 2:30 pm in the Tivoli Student Union, Suite 329 (Senate Chambers), and are open to the student public. The SACAB office is also located in the Tivoli Student Union, in Suite 314. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to stop by the SACAB office or give us a call at 303-556-4589.
The UCD Advocate is the publication for and by the students of the University of Colorado Denver and is paid for by UC Denver student fees and advertising revenue. The UCD Advocate is published every Wednesday during the academic year and is distributed throughout the Auraria Campus and its immediate environs. Opinions expressed within are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect those of the UCD Advocate or its advertisers.
At the University of Colorado Denver, we recognize the importance of student organizations for building leadership, teamwork, and networking skills. Not only are you enhancing your college experience but you are also impacting the college experience of your fellow students. Involvement in campus organizations is also an important part of UCD’s total educational program. Student Organizations offer social, service, and professional opportunities for their members within the university and community. Membership can broaden acquaintances, develop leadership abilities, build decision-making and problem-solving skills, and complement classroom instruction.
If you enjoy social networking, music, films and culture, you should be one of the first students to participate in our new Student Program Board. The Program Board is the talented group of students who brainstorm, plan, organize and provide the campus with a variety of outstanding events!
If you'd like to know more about the Student Program Board email us at: firstname.lastname@example.org right now!
So get involved! You have nothing to lose and absolutely everything to gain!
On-Going Events and Activities
The top priority while at the university is to get a degree…hey, it’s why you’re here…no secret there. In Student Activities, we know the journey to a degree takes a lot of work, but it should be fun too, right? We certainly think so.
Student Activities at the University of Colorado Denver seeks to provide students with opportunities to experience, learn and participate outside of the classroom. We aim to provide you, the student, with social, educational, cultural and recreational events and activities that challenge you as well as create an avenue for fun during your time on campus.
Our Distinguished Lecture Series hosts an array of speakers on Campus. The goal of the lecture series is to expose UC Denver students to different thoughts and cultures through lectures and entertainment. The Student Activities staff, composed of students and administration, plan and promote numerous speakers, guest lectures, presentations and exciting debates. The Distinguished Lecture Series is the cornerstone of our Student Activities programming.
Showcase your student band through the Office of Student Life weekly GIG Series. The GIG series is designed to showcase local and student talent. Every Thursday afternoon in the Tivoli Student Union Atrium from 11am to 1pm.
If your band or group is interested in playing a GIG, contact the Office of Student Life & Activities at 303.556.3399 or email us at email@example.com.
The last Tuesday evening, (7p-9p) of every month is devoted to an open stage for Auraria students. Comedy, music, poetry…anything (within reason) goes! Three winners will be chosen from each session and will square off Spring Semester in the 3rd Annual Auraria Talent Show.
A new program that offers a 60 minute open forum with a member of the Colorado Legislature. Lunch provided!
Similar to the GIG series, students will be able to sign up to read/perform their work or the work of their favorite poet on the first and last Wednesday in the Tivoli Atrium from 11am-2pm.
If you are interested in performing, contact the Office of Student Life & Activities at 303.556.3399 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The New Student Convocation is the official welcoming ceremony for freshmen and transfer students to the university community by the Provost, faculty, staff, and student government and features top university officials who welcome you and discuss what lies ahead for you at our campus. This event is held before the beginning of classes in the Fall.
The Student Involvement Fair is a great opportunity for student organizations and campus departments to promote the various programs and activities that they offer. This event is held during the first month of classes in the Fall. This event is not open to vendors.
Festival Fall Fest allows the community to interact with the students, faculty, and staff on campus. With music, food and fun, the Fall Fest is a great way to celebrate the final days of nice weather! This event is held in September.
The Women's Leadership Conference is a great way to get involved and network with the community. It is a session in which a keynote speaker is invited to speak on he accomplishments and struggles and allows participants to network and interact through a variety of breakout sessions on the topic at hand, empowerment and leadership
Fling is the equal of Fall Fest but it's the best way to top off the school year. It's the place to be with the presence of music, food, fun and lots of people! This event is held in April.
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With the rapid development and the large investment in highway construction, the detection, evaluation, prediction and maintenance of highway pavement performance are getting more attention than ever before in today's China. While most current codes and standards provide much guidance for the detection and evaluation of highway pavement performance, a systematic management tool to implement these provisions is rare. To fill this gap, a management system of highway pavement performance is presented. This system consists of three parts i.e. the detection subsystem which obtains the detailed data of the pavement condition by various detection tools and prepares them with specified file form, the evaluation subsystem which evaluates the pavement and categories them using scores or ranks and stores them in some databases, the prediction subsystem which predicts the status and life expectancy of the pavement based on these databases and gives maintenance suggestion for reference. This article gives emphasis to the data-processing method, interface design, database framework and total architecture of this system. The system was achieved using a combination of the programming tool and the document processing software.
Date of Conference: 26-28 June 2010
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*Includes over 25 pictures of Napoleon, and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes maps of famous battles like Austerlitz and Waterloo.*Answers common myths about Napoleon, including whether he was short, whether his men shot off the Sphinx's nose, whether he played chess, and whether he was poisoned.*Includes a Table of Contents*Includes a BibliographyCourage cannot be counterfeited. It is the one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. NapoleonWhen historians are asked to list the most influential people of the last 200 years, a handful of names might vary, but there is no question that the list will include Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), the most successful French leader since Charlemagne and widely acknowledged one of the greatest generals ever. Indeed, Napoleon was likely the most influential man of the 19th century, leaving an indelible mark on everything from the strategy and tactics of warfare to the Napoleonic Code that drafted laws across the continent. To defeat Napoleon, the Europeans had to form large coalitions multiple times, which helped bring about the entangling alliances that sparked World War I after Europe was rebuilt following Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna. Napoleons influence on the United States was also palpable. To finance his endeavors, he struck a deal with President Thomas Jefferson that became the Louisiana Purchase, and it was Napoleonic warfare that was used throughout the Civil War, leading to massive casualties because the weaponry of the 1860s was now more advanced than the tactics of 1815. When Napoleon died at St. Helena, he still engendered fear and distaste among the Europeans, but the man and his legacy continued to be held in awe across the world. In Napoleons time, emperors and leaders still hoped to become the next Julius Caesar. After the Napoleonic Era, emperors and generals hoped to become the next Napoleon. For the next century, military leaders and even civilians struck Napoleonic poses when having their pictures taken, and phrases like Napoleonic complex and meeting ones Waterloo are now common phrases in the English lexicon. It would be truly impossible to envision or understand geopolitics in the West over the last two centuries without Napoleon. With the passage of time, Napoleons legacy has had time to crystallize, but the legends, myths, and controversies about the man and his empire continue to swirl. Was he really short? Did his men shoot the nose off the Sphinx? Was he a good chess player? Was he poisoned by the British? In the rush to analyze his stunningly successful military record or question whether he was very short or a great chess player, people often overlook his political reign and personality. The Worlds Greatest Generals: The Life and Career of Napoleon Bonaparte addresses the controversies, myths, legends and battles, but it also humanizes a man who famously dominated most of the European continent while loving an indomitable woman whose political calculations matched if not surpassed his. Along with pictures of Napoleon and other important people, places and events in his life, you will learn about the French emperor like you never have before, in no time at all.
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Mobile Device Management
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Overview: Did you know that up to 70% of enterprise data exists in various frontline settings, from laptops to handheld devices, to store and remote office environments?
Your frontline workers may have a variety of skills but they’re rarely IT savvy and certainly not security experts. Yet more than 75% of enterprises leave responsibility for security in the hands of the user – literally.
With the increase in the use of mobile devices, you likely have questions that are left unanswered when it comes to managing and securing those devices. Well, now your answers are just a page away with Mobile Device Management for Dummies®. Use Mobile Device Management for Dummies® to discover how to:
- Manage your mobile devices and applications
- Secure your mobile data
- Unleash your workforce’s mobile potential
- And much more.
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The part I object to is "no negative impact" in the first paragraph. This violates, I think, the first law of thermodynamics which says, roughly, most every activity has some negative impact. Everything else is OK.
Sustainable business, or green business, is an enterprise to be that has no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line. Often, sustainable businesses have progressive environmental and human rights policies. In general, business is described as green if it matches the following four criteria:
- It incorporates principles of sustainability into each of its business decisions.
- It supplies environmentally friendly products or services that replaces demand for nongreen products and/or services.
- It is greener than traditional competition.
- It has made an enduring commitment to environmental principles in its business operations.
A sustainable business is any organization that participates in environmentally friendly or green activities to ensure that all processes, products, and manufacturing activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit. In other words, it is a business that “meets the needs of the present world without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.” It is the process of assessing how to design products that will take advantage of the current environmental situation and how well a company’s products perform with renewable resources.
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Chances are that you've seen the stories about what some are calling "the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever prosecuted."
28-year-old Albert Gonzalez, and two unnamed Russian men, are accused of stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers from late 2006 to early 2008. According to prosecutors, the hacking gang broke into computer networks belonging to Hannaford Brothers, and two undisclosed national retailers.
What makes this news particularly fascinating, however, is that Miami-based Albert Gonzales (who uses the online handle "Sevgec") is already awaiting trial in connection with a massive data breach at TJ Maxx, OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, Boston Market, Sports Authority, Forever 21, DSW, and BJ's Wholesale Club.
130 million stolen credit and debit card numbers is a jaw-dropping number by anyone's standards, and it's obviously very important for law enforcement agencies to send out a strong message that these types of attacks are serious offences.
After all, recovering from data breaches can mean significant costs for the companies involved and pain and inconvenience for their customers.
While many may concentrate on the alleged involvement of Albert Gonzalez, lets not forget that data thefts of this size are commited by organised and co-ordinated criminal gangs. Within the cybercrime underworld there are specialists in selling stolen data, turning that stolen data into hard cash, and laundering the proceeds.
And there are many other hackers out there.
Here is some advice for retailers, and other businesses, on how to better protect their data and the identities of their customers:
- Keep computers that store sensitive data, such as customer records, separate from your public facing website and servers.
- Ensure that sensitive data can be accessed by only those employees who actually need access to it.
- All sensitive data should be securely encrypted. There are more ways to lose data than via an electronic breach. Misplaced or stolen computers, CDs and USB drives can all be sources of information for criminals.
- Harden your website so it is not vulnerable to attacks such as SQL injection.
- Ensure that all points of your network are protected by good quality security software with anti-virus and anti-spyware on all computers, control the use of USB sticks, and deploy web security filtering in place to keep employees safe when they're online.
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In general use, herbs are any plants used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume. Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs as referring to the leafy green parts of a plant (either fresh or dried), from a "spice", a product from another part of the plant (usually dried), including seeds, berries, bark, roots and fruits.
In American botanical English the term "herb" is also used as an abbreviation of "herbaceous plant". This usage is rarely found in British English.
Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, and in some cases spiritual usage. General usage of the term "herb" differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the parts of the plant might be considered "herbs", including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, inner bark (and cambium), berries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions of the plant.
The word "herb" is pronounced // by many U.S. speakers, or // by other U.S. speakers and all other English speakers.
Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amounts and provide flavor rather than substance to food.
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In 1995, data rates of installed fiber is about 2.5 gigabits per second on the SONNET trunks. Laboratories have demonstrated 200 gigabits using different wave lengths or frequency division multiplexing. So the laboratory data rates are growing at 62% a year. This means it doubles every 18 months just like Moore's Law for semiconductors or magnetic disk density. But then the actual installed capacity is doubling every two years. So it just doesn't ring true. As subscribers, have we gotten any more bits from POTS for decades?
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Discover the secrets of Arkansas' history in the oldest still-standing state capitol building west of the Mississippi ... More
Old State House Museum
Discover the secrets of Arkansas' history in the oldest still-standing state capitol building west of the Mississippi River. Peruse permanent exhibits of Arkansas' women, President Clinton's journey to Washington, the first Arkansas House of Representatives, Arkansas first families, period rooms and the state house's history. Current special exhibits include "Brother In Arms: The Spence Family and the Civil War," which provides an in-depth look at the Civil War through Arkansas soldiers' perspectives. Visitors may either take a self-guided tour of the museum, or take one of the guided tours available each hour. Admission is free.
I loved the whole building inside and out. I always have. I have been to the building so many times that I can't count them all. It's structure and atmosphire is wonderful. The Memorbila is great! The view of the Arkansas River is breathtaking. I can imagine what it must have looked like back when it was the capital of Arkansas. "If walls could talk, what would they say?"
If you get the chance go and take your children. It is well worth the trip!
The Old State House Museum is a wonderful old building full of history. We were a bit rushed, since we arrived at 4pm and they close at 5pm on Saturdays. We were able to take our time in the Dresses of the First Ladies exhibit. What a neat museum and you can't beat the price, free! We could have spent hours there and had a wonderful afternoon.
*Terms & Conditions: Savings calculation is based on Flight + Hotel vacation package bookings for a 3 month period for 2 adults with a 2+ night length of stay compared to price of the same components if booked separately during same period. Savings will vary based on origin/destination, length of trip, travel dates and selected travel supplier(s). Savings not available on all packages.
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Next week (Sunday 3rd to Saturday 9th May) is International Compost Awareness Week. It is a week of activities, events and publicity to raise awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products.
A whopping 60% of the rubbish Australians currently throw out could be composted. This organic material – when buried ‘anaerobically’ (without air) in landfill causes over 3% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions annually by producing methane: a gas with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide! If properly composted instead, this same organic waste could help to abate climate change by sinking or ‘sequestering’ carbon back into the soil.
The Australian International Compost Week website provides some great information on composting, including a list of workshops on composting, worm farming, and sustainable gardening across Australia. If it wasn’t a work day for me I would love to go along to this local Newcastle workshop on composting and worm farming.
In honour of compost awareness week I’ll give my neglected compost bins some much needed love. Given the small size of my garden, I have three plastic compost bins which I move around the garden depending upon where I have space available. They currently sit next to my new straw bale garden. I’m not overly happy with this compost bin system. I find the compost difficult to turn, so only turn every few
weeks months. I tip out the contents of each bin, then shovel back into the bins layering with hay or similar when needed. We also have problems with mice – so one day I would love a Tumbleweed compost bin.
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The Traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Church
Observations About its Meaning
by Archpriest Alexander Lebedeff
Father Alexander is a Priest of the Russian
Orthodox Church Abroad, assigned to the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA.
He received his theological training at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, NY, and his
graduate schooling at Norwich University and Yale University. The following comments by
Father Alexander, written in response to specific points raised in defense of the calendar
reform, appeared in August of 1996 on the so-called "SCOBA list," an Orthodox
computer forum. The original "posting" has been slightly revised for publication
I HAVE BEEN deeply interested in the Calendar
question for over thirty years. I have yet to hear even one compelling, or even good
reason for the introduction of the New Calendar and the resultant sundering of the
Churchs liturgical unity. In response to the reasons usually put forth in defense of
this reform, I would make the following observations about the actual significance of the
Church (Julian or Old) Calendar.
THE ISSUE OF ACCURACY:THE OLD CALENDAR IS SUPPOSED TO BE ASTRONOMICALLY INACCURATE, AND THE NEW CALENDAR FIXES THIS
Observations: All calendars are inherently astronomically inaccurate. The Holy Fathers who
established the Church Calendar knew perfectly well that assigning the vernal equinox to a
fixed date was astronomically inaccurate. Yet, they went ahead and did this.
The so-called "Revised Julian Calendar" is
fundamentally flawed. By maintaining the traditional Paschalion while changing the
fixed calendar, the Typicon goes out the window. The Apostles Fast is severely
shortened, or even ends before it begins in certain years. Over the centuries, according
to the "Revised Julian Calendar," the date of Pascha will gradually slip forward
into the fixed year, so that Pascha (and all the moveable feasts) will eventually coincide
with the Feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul, with the Transfiguration, with the Dormition, and
even with the Nativity (the last will happen in about thirty-five thousand years, so you
may say, "Whats the big deal?"; but it will occur).
In fact, astronomers cannot use the Gregorian calendar for their
calculations, since it is "missing" the ten days that were "skipped"
in 1583. Computer programmers, moreover, always make their calculations of the distance
between dates by using the "Julian date." Copernicus, among other astronomers,
was also adamantly opposed to the Gregorian Calendar reform. Let us incidentally note, in
this vein, that the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences at the beginning of this century
found no scientific or astronomical reasons for adopting the Gregorian Calendar. [For more
on this see A Scientific Examination of the Orthodox
Church Calendar, by Hieromonk Cassian.]
Finally, as I will point out subsequently, astronomical accuracy was absolutely not one of the reasons that the calendar
change was introduced by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis in 1924.
THE ISSUE OF OBEDIENCE: ONE MUST NOT COUNTER THE DECISIONS OF ONES
Observations. This is actually a good reason for using the calendar your Bishops say that you
should. It is absolutely not in any way a justification, however, for the original change
of the Church Calendar.
An amazing issue here is the fact that some jurisdictions have allowed individual
parishes actually to vote and choose which calendar they wish to use! Here is a clear
example of Hierarchs abrogating their authority to lead and to teach. Lay parishioners
have no concept of the liturgical and historical issues surrounding the calendar reform.
They are not theologically educated. Yet, they are being asked to make decisions regarding
abandoning a calendar that has been part of the Tradition of the Church for sixteen
Not too long ago, there was an incident that occurred in the U.S. Navy. The captain of
one of the larger vessels offered his crew the opportunity to vote on the place where they
were to have their week of "shore leave," after a long tour of duty. Because of
this, the captain was relieved of his command and demotedhe had abrogated his
authority as commander of his vessel and had given this authority to his subordinates.
This story comes to mind when one reads that the Moscow Patriarchate has allowed its
parishes in Great Britain to choose which calendar they wish to follow, including even the
date of Pascha. Do parishioners really have the authority to overturn the decisions of
OEcumenical Synods and local Councils? This is democracy run amok, in my opinion.
THE ISSUE OF THE CIVIL CALENDAR: WE LIVE BY THE CIVIL CALENDAR, WHICH TELLS US
WHAT DAY OF THE MONTH IT IS, SO WE SHOULD ADJUST OUR LITURGICAL CALENDAR TO BE IN ACCORD
Observations. This seems like an
awfully weak argument. Certainly, the civil authorities regulate standards of weight and
measure, and even time (that is what the atomic clocks are for at the Bureau of
Standards). Do we really think that it is necessary, or even permissible, for the civil
authorities to regulate when the Holy Church celebrates its Feast Days? Whatever happened
to the separation of Church and State? The civil authorities should never be looked to in
questions that concern the liturgical life of the Church. The Church has lived and
functioned under a broad spectrum of civil authorities, with dozens of calendar systems.
Yet, it maintained its own Church Calendar, as it should have. Yes, the Church Calendar
was based on a pagan civil calendar. But once that calendar had been adopted by the
church, it became something different. It was now the Church Calendar, the
mechanism that regulates the "heartbeat" of the liturgical life of the Church in
timethat tells us when to fast, when to feast, etc.
At any time, in any place, the civil
authorities can arbitrarily change things like the calendar. Does this mean that we have
immediately to change the Church Calendar correspondingly? I do not think so. Indeed, the
Jews, Moslems, Chinese, and others have maintained their own calendars and pay no
attention to the civil calendars of the countries in which they live. There is no reason
why the Orthodox should not be able to maintain a Church Calendar, as well.
Also, we never know when the State might introduce some serious change in the
civil calendar. Seriously being discussed is the introduction of a calendar consisting of
thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, plus a "world day" at the end of the
year. This would, of course, ensure that, each year, every date would fall on the
same day of the week, simplifying all kinds of financial operations. If such a
calendar becomes law, should the Orthodox "join in" and throw out their Church
calendar to adopt the new civil one?
The fact is, there was and there is no compelling reason for the calendar change. None of the
reasons usually brought up can serve as justification for the Church abandoning its
traditional ecclesiastical calendar and for causing a rift in the liturgical unity of the
So far, for example, no one has come up with an answer as to why it is permissible to
ignore the anathemas of the three pan-Orthodox Councils held in the sixteenth century
which condemned the Papal Calendar as heretical. Likewise, no one has come up with an
answer as to why it is acceptable to use a "Revised Julian Calendar" that
severely shortens or even eliminates the ancient Apostles Fast or that willalbeit
some time from nowallow Pascha to drift forward through the Church year, until it
will eventually coincide with the Nativity. All of this, instead of an extremely
well-organized and brilliantly executed traditional Church Calendar, where such
aberrations are simply not possible.
The argument, that if one follows the Julian calendar eventually Pascha will occur in
the autumn, is also unconvincing. That happens in the Southern hemisphere already.
Perhaps we will see an argument, in time, that it is only fair that the seasons be
eventually reversed, so that our Orthodox brothersand sisters in South America, Africa,
and Australia will be able to celebrate Pascha in the Spring, as well. By the same token,
the argument that the existence of different time zones keeps Orthodox from celebrating
the Feasts together is specious; the calendar envisions each Feast as a whole day of
celebration: a twenty-four hour period from evening to evening, so that even in different
time zones, all are conceptually celebrating together.
Finally, for all the discussion of astronomical "accuracy," "obedience
to ones bishops," and "making the calendar an idol," or such
inane proclamations as, "there is no time in Heaven," people forget that the
reason that the calendar change, with all its painful consequences, was introduced in this
century is very well known; and it has nothing to do with any of these issues. Patriarch
Meletios Metaxakis of Constantinople, the architect of the calendar reform, was perfectly
clear about his reason for this innovation: it was to achieve unity with other Christians.
Let me repeat this again: The reason the calendar reform was introduced was to foster
We must remember that Patriarch Meletios (who had previously been Archbishop of Athens
and was later Patriarch of Alexandriaso much for the independence of these
autocephalous churches!) was a devoted and self-avowed Freemason and a die-hard
renovationist. In 1923, he recognized the renovationist "Living Church" in
Russia (which had married bishops!) and its deposition of Patriarch Tikhon. Meletios put
together an agenda for a Pan-Orthodox Council that was to include on its agenda not only
the acceptance of the Gregorian Calendar, but also the easing of restrictions for fast
periods, the shortening of services, permission for clergy to remarry, and many other
renovationist ideas. He was an advocate of civil dress for clergy, and most photographs of
him show him in a suit and tie with a bowler hat. [These photographs clearly
confirm Father Alexanders allegation about Meletios Metaxakis, who
found most of the Holy Traditions of the Orthodox Church, to quote him, "outmoded,
old-fashioned, and clear...impediments to Christian unity"Ed.]
This is the man who imposed the New Calendar on the Church.
Now, Meletios may have admittedly had other motives for his reform, as well. It is not
unlikely that the Patriarchate of Constantinople, in the early 1920s, was in danger of
annihilation by the newly secularized Turkish government. The Patriarchate had lost the
protection of Imperial Russia and thus needed the support of world public opinion, in
order to survive. Was the price of this support acceptance of the Western Calendar? Very
possibly so. So, the avowed reason for the calendar change was that of coming closer to
Roman Catholics and Protestants, not a single one of the reasons cited above. It did not
accomplish the goal of union with the heterodox. It did, however,
accomplish the goal of causing a bitter and deep division within the Orthodox Church.
Indeed, Meletios died a horrible and terrifying death, bemoaning the fact that he had
"divided the Church." Is this something we want to support?
There are those who have accused me of making an "emotional" appeal for the
preservation and restoration of the traditional Church calendar. But is the situation in
which we are now living reasonable, where a non-Orthodox coming up to an Orthodox
Christian, say, on the streets of Los Angeles, and asking a simple question"Is
today a fast day?"cannot get a direct answer? Nor can he get an answer to the
question, "What Saint does your Church celebrate today?" An answer like,
"Well, uh, you see, uh, some Orthodox are still fasting for the Dormition, while some
have already celebrated the Dormition," is not a good or direct answer.
Is it rational to cause schizophrenia in our bishops, who, in visiting different
parishes, have to remember which calendar they are on? Is it rational that bishops cannot
be spiritually united with their flockcannot feast with them and fast with them
because of the calendar issue? Some even have to celebrate each major Feast Day twice! Not
a very good way to follow the Typicon! In one parish, they are fasting and
preparing for the Feast; in another, the fast has long passed. Does a bishop who has
already celebrated the Nativity, as a case in point, have to go back and fast for two more
weeks, in order to serve at an Old Calendarist parish? Or does he start all of his fasts
two weeks early, just in case? The whole thing is ludicrous.
The same renovationists who brought us the calendar
reform are busy working on new ones. It is a fact that Constantinople is already actively
involved in discussions leading to a single date for Pascha for all Christians, and even
discussing the possibility of a fixed date. Stay tuned. Maybe we will hear post-factum justifications
for this reform as being more "accurate," as well.
The issue of the Church Calendar is painful and divisive In my opinion, this fact alone
is an excellent reason why the calendar reform should never have taken place, and
especially in a piece-meal fashion. Although I cherish the traditions of the Church and
consider the Church Calendar to be one of the most enduring and sanctified among them, I
would be less upset, had the decision to revise the Church Calendar been made by all of
the Bishops of the Orthodox Church, acting together, with all of the Orthodox Churches
participating in the decision and its implementation. This, however, did not occur.
Obviously, there are three possible resolutions to the calendar problem. One, a return
by all Orthodox Christians to the sanctified traditional Church Calendar. Two, acceptance
by all Orthodox Christians of Pope Gregorys calendar reform, and the ensuing
absurdities regarding the Apostles Fast and Paschal drift, as well as the acceptance
of the ecumenist goals of Meletios Metaxakis and the disavowal of the decrees of three
Church Councils convened to condemn such an eventuality (1583, 1587, 1593). Three,
maintenance of the status quo: a continuation of the division of world Orthodoxy
into two groups which cannot even celebrate the Great Feasts together.
It is clear to me which of these alternatives is consistent with the teaching of the
Holy Councils and Fathers, and which are not. I hope that this is clear for others, as
From Orthodox Tradition, Volume XIV, Nos. 2 & 3, pp. 81-85.
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Paris Métro Line 6
Métro Line 6
MP 73 stock train crosses the Seine via Pont de Bir-Hakeim
|Termini||Charles de Gaulle – Étoile / Nation|
|Ridership||100,700,000 (avg. per year)
|Rolling stock||MP 73
(45 trains as of October 10, 2010)
|Line length||13.6 km (8.5 mi)|
|Avg. distance between stations||504 m (1,654 ft)|
|Track gauge||1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge|
Line 6 is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro rapid transit system. Following a semi-circular route around the southern half of the city above boulevards formed by ancient city walls (boulevards extérieurs), it runs between Charles de Gaulle – Étoile in the west and Nation in the east.
Opened between 1900 and 1906 from Étoile to Place d'Italie, Line 6 was initially called 2 sud or circulaire sud ("southern circulator"), before being integrated for a long time with Line 5, while the section heading east to Nation opened in 1909. At that time, Line 6 took its current form.
13.6 km (8.5 mi) in length, of which 6.1 km (3.8 mi) are above ground, and equipped with rubber-tyred rolling stock since 1974, it is one of the most pleasant lines on the Métro. This is due in part due to is numerous views, sometimes exceptional, of many of Paris' most famous landmarks and monuments. With slightly more than 100 million riders in 2004, it is the sixth busiest line of the network.
- 2 October 1900: The section between Étoile and Trocadéro opened as an extension of line 1.
- 6 November 1903: The line was extended from Trocadéro to Passy and became known as line 2 Sud (2 South).
- 24 April 1906: Line 2 Sud was extended from Passy to Place d'Italie.
- 14 October 1907: Line 2 Sud from Étoile to Place d'Italie was incorporated into line 5.
- 1 March 1909: Line 6 was opened between Place d'Italie and Nation.
- 12 October 1942: The Étoile – Place d'Italie section was transferred from line 5 to the line 6 (Place d'Italie – Nation) in order to separate the underground and elevated sections of the metro (because the latter were more vulnerable to air attack).
- 1974: The rails were converted for rubber-tyred trains
South circulator (le circulaire sud)
Initially, the planners of the Métro envisaged a loop line such as the Circle line of the London Underground. However, the difficulties of operating such a line forced a separation of the circle into two lines: the north and south circulators. An initial plan was to run trains from Gare d'Austerlitz to Gare de Lyon, and from there operate along Line 1 to Nation. The abandonment of the project allowed designers to choose a new route via Place d'Italie to Nation; this option, using Bercy, is the origin of what is now Line 6.
The northern circulator, now Line 2, opened in 1903, while the tracks from Étoile to Trocadéro (referred to as Line 2 Sud) opened on 2 October 1900 as part of a branch of Line 1 meant to serve the World Expo of that year. The line was extended southward to Passy three years later but was not fully opened and only allowed four-car trains.
Work on the line was not particularly difficult, apart from the occasional sewer displacements and land stabilisation around Denfert-Rochereau due to old mines. On the other hand, the crossing of the Seine at Passy was much trickier; from 1903 to 1906, the construction of a viaduct over the Pont de Bir-Hakeim gave way to another project unrelated to the Métro. The original bridge, built in 1878, was replaced with one made of metal supporting the railway viaduct above. To the east, another bridge had to be built above the Pont de Bercy. Originally finished in 1864, it was enlarged by 5.5 m (18 ft) in order to hold the Métro and is the only viaduct in the system made of stone. Both the overpasses and underground stations in this section were designed similarly to those of Line 2 Nord, although elevated stations on the southern half are fully covered with side-walls made of brick, not glass.
On 24 April 1906, the line from Étoile to Place d'Italie opened. In October of the next year, it was decided to merge the circulaire sud with Line 5, as a result running trains between Étoile and Gare du Nord via Austerlitz. This consolidation eliminated the 2 Sud designation.
Following the bombardment of Paris during World War I, elevated rapid transit lines became a defence system. Trains were no longer lit at night from February to July 1918. However, underground trains became incredibly dark and resulted in complaints from passengers and employees. La compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), which operated Line 5, was authorised to make electrical and lighting changes.
Line 6
At the time, Line 6 was confined to the railway between Place d'Italie and Nation. Infrastructure works were completed in 1906, but the CMP was in no hurry to open what was perceived as a low-profiting stretch of track. Upon the urging of the City of Paris, the CMP opened Line 6 on 1 March 1909 and remained this way until 1931, when the need for a link across the southern part of the city was needed to provide access to a cultural exhibition at the Bois de Vincennes. Engineers decided upon Line 6 taking over the section west of Place d'Italie so as to create a line from Étoile to Nation, with Line 5 ending at Place d'Italie. After the exhibit closed, the old service pattern returned.
On 6 October 1942, at the height of the German occupation of the city, Line 6 was continually operated. The northern extension of Line 5 to Pantin significantly elongated the line; it was agreed upon that the line was too long, and the remedy was to end Line 5 at Place d'Italie, thereby creating a full southern loop from Étoile to Nation as Line 6 stands today.
Rubber tyre conversion
A change in Line 6's operation occurred during the 1970s: Kléber station was expanded to four tracks with two island platforms, a rare arrangement in the Paris Métro, and converted to the line's control terminal, with Étoile acting as a simple turn-around stop.
After doing the same to Lines 1, 4, and 11, the RATP decided in 1971 to convert Line 6 to rubber-tyres for the sake of noise and vibration reduction not only to passengers but also residents near the elevated portions of the line. Work began the next year and finished in May 1974. During this time, a temporary yard was created with 810 m (2,660 ft) of track to facilitate vehicle movement. Simultaneously, the line was equipped with a central control station.
The MP 73 rolling stock quickly replaced the old Sprague-Thomson during the month of July 1974. Unlike the MP 59 cars which also have rubber tyres, the MP 73 stock has grooved ones for better adhesion on the long stretches of elevated track; the rails are ribbed for the same reason. No adhesion failures have been reported since the switchover, even in heavy rain.
Route and stations
Renamed stations
|Date||Old name||New name||Notes|
|15 October 1907||Avenue de Suffren||Rue de Sèvres||then on line 5|
|11 March 1910||Montparnasse||Avenue du Maine||then on line 5|
|1 November 1913||Rue de Sèvres||Sèvres – Lecourbe||then on line 5|
|30 June 1933||Avenue du Maine||Bienvenüe||then on line 5|
|1 March 1937||Saint-Mandé||Picpus|
|12 July 1939||Charenton||Dugommier|
|6 October 1942||Bienvenüe||Montparnasse – Bienvenüe||then on line 5|
|18 June 1949||Grenelle||Bir-Hakeim|
|1970||Étoile||Charles de Gaulle – Étoile|
Themed or unique stations
Four stations on Line 6 have unique, cultural theming:
- La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle contains several crests of the family of Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, who lends his name to the name of the street over which the station lies. Containing three blue chevrons and spearheads, a fresco represents the wall that used to be situated there.
- Pasteur, once renovated similar to Mouton-Duvernet station, now has displays about medicine installed during the centennial of the Métro. The panels describe the evolution of biology and medicine since the work of Louis Pasteur and their legal framework and application.
- Some of the stations on line 6 are built on a viaduct offering views of Paris. The view from the Pont de Bir-Hakeim between Passy and Bir-Hakeim is especially breathtaking with a panorama on the Eiffel Tower. Line 6 passes near several places of interest:
- The Place de l'Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe.
- The place du Trocadéro.
- The Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars.
- Montparnasse, with its famous cafés and the Montparnasse Tower.
- Place d'Italie and the Butte aux Cailles.
- At Bercy, the Ministry of Finance, Paris-Bercy sports Arena and their gardens.
- Place de la Nation.
See also
- (French) Robert, Jean. Notre métro
- (French) RATP official website
- (English) RATP english speaking website
- (English) Interactive Map of the RER (from RATP's website)
- (English) Interactive Map of the Paris métro (from RATP's website)
- (French) Mobidf website, dedicated to the RER (unofficial)
- (French) Metro-Pole website, dedicated to Paris public transports (unofficial)
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February 15, 2013
New National and State Estimates of America’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population
The International Migration Review (IMR) today published a study with new estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population. The report, titled Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010, is co-authored by Robert Warren, former demographer for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and John Robert Warren, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.
The report estimates that the number of unauthorized immigrants arriving in the U.S. peaked at more than one million annually between 1999 and 2001, and then declined rapidly thereafter. The number leaving the population steadily increased over these years. It also finds that:
The total number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States was about 11.7 million in January 2010, about 4 million higher than it was in 2000. However, the United States lost more unauthorized immigrants than it gained in both 2008 and 2009. In January 2010, nearly 3 million unauthorized immigrants --- about 25 percent of the nation’s total --- resided in California.
Near two-thirds of all unauthorized immigrants lived in just seven states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Georgia.
Between 2000 and 2009, inflows declined in every state except Mississippi (and Washington, D.C.), and outflows increased in every state. As a result, 29 states and D.C. experienced net losses in their populations of unauthorized immigrants in 2009.
The seven states with the fastest growing populations of unauthorized immigrants over the past two decades, in declining order, were in the southeast: Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Georgia. In each of these states, the unauthorized immigrant population was more than 11 times larger in 2010 than it was in 1990.
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Vice president and chief technology officer, Intel Corporation
Today, Newsweek and Intel released the findings from a survey on innovation and the economy. The good news: despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth. The bad news: most Americans say that the downturn has hurt the U.S.’s ability to innovate and they have significant doubts about our ability to maintain leadership.
While pursuing game-changing technology innovation is my charge at Intel, I am acutely interested in supporting this undiminished faith of the American people and am working tirelessly to relieve their doubts about our ability to compete on the global stage.
Too often I find that organizations of all types are told by their management or their customers to be more innovative. They quickly embrace the idea, but then struggle to understand its true meaning and are clueless about how to achieve it.
Having spent my entire career in R&D, I’ve learned that innovation is a type of human endeavor, a process. If we as a nation fail to understand that innovation is this long, often torturous process, we will find ourselves taking a back seat to those countries that learned how to innovate by studying us in great detail, but then took the bold steps to make innovation their hallmark instead of ours. If we are not vigilant, the students will have become the masters.
Being an optimist, something essential to being a successful innovator, I believe we can return to our cultural roots and make innovation a process to be once again embraced and nurtured. Doing so will require the kind of investment environments, R&D strategies, and management know-how to keep us at the forefront of innovation and reassert our competitiveness in the rapidly changing, global economy.
A 21st Century Model of Cooperation between Government, Industry, and Academia
The old 20th century research model is all but dead. The big “think tank” labs that did research for the sake of doing research, such as Bell Labs (invented information theory and the transistor) and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (invented the Ethernet, laser printing, and the window-mouse user interface) are now just shadows of their former selves.
After World War II, much of what energized our economy was driven by industrial research and development organizations continuing the innovation process by taking the fundamental ideas from academia or the big think tanks and turning them into truly useful products and services. Indeed, the Internet may have been invented at UCLA and Stanford, with funding by the Defense Research Projects Agency, and the World Wide Web at CERN and the University of Illinois with funding from NSF, but it took industrial R&D at companies such as Cisco and Google to make the net and the web the global reality they are today.
In the 21st century, we advocate the adoption of a more contemporary research model, bringing together the best of world-class university research and industrial R&D with critical government support in a phased approach that yields the best outcome for all three sectors and drives a healthy pipeline of innovative American products and services to the global market well into the new century.
Can Government Alone Drive Innovation?
According to the survey, nearly half of Americans also want the government to offer incentives to spur innovation and a third think a national innovation initiative would be very effective. Where is the next invention on the level of the integrated circuit or the Internet going to come from, and how can we be sure it creates high paying jobs here at home?
For the 21st century R&D model to work we also must commit to increased funding for R&D in both the public and private sectors. While the call we often hear is for unilateral increases in government R&D funding and tax policy, I guarantee you that alone will not keep us competitive. The decreasing amount of industrial investment in R&D must be of equal concern.
A two-year old study by the Chinese government of its own electronics industry revealed that very few companies in China spend more than one percent on R&D. Are you surprised that most of those companies are not profitable? The few that spend ten percent or more on R&D, more typical of U.S. electronics companies such as Intel, do make money. There is a powerful lesson to be learned from this study. Government funding and tax policy must be matched by industrial R&D investments. One without the other is a recipe for failure.
Science & Engineering Education in the U.S. is Critical
The doubts that Americans expressed in the survey about the ability to maintain leadership in innovation is shared by Chinese respondents. To no one’s surprise, the Chinese believe that the U.S. has a significant advantage today, but they expect to take the mantle of leadership over the next 30 years. In contrast, Americans say their doubts are largely based on a perceived gap with other nations in the quality of math and science education, with 82% thinking that the U.S. lags behind other countries. While it’s true that we do lag, the good news is that the trend for American student is positive. The 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) ranked U.S. fourth and eighth grade student 12th and 10th world-wide in mathematics, up dramatically from previous surveys. We need to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes until we’re on par with the Chinese.
Immigration Policy Helps Power U.S. Innovation
Since innovation begins with an idea in response to a need, the next big product or service idea will hopefully come from the mind of a current American or an American-trained student. Given that I’m responsible for six of Intel’s international research labs, I can say first hand that the U.S. doesn’t have an exclusive deal on smart people. They are everywhere on the planet and most of them don’t live in the U.S. It doesn’t help to chase them out of the U.S. once they finish their academic training. We should give them a job offer and a hiring bonus the day they get their PhDs.
Tuning Up for the Global Battle
With 75% of Americans believing that technological innovation is more important than ever in driving U.S. economic success, the significance of developing our innovators of tomorrow is more pronounced than ever. The space race was basically a dual between two countries. Now we are engaged in a truly global competition over who will have the best ideas and who will turn those ideas into products, services, and high-paying jobs.
It’s amazing to think that with an enlightened combination of cutting edge academic research and industrial R&D, well-informed government policy and support, and continuous improvement of math and science outcomes, the next big thing is on the horizon — something that will change our lives and better our world. In that: not just reason to have faith, but a reason to act and act quickly.
Motivating the Newsweek-Intel Survey
Intel sponsored this survey with Newsweek to highlight key areas of interest around innovation. In the current economy, there is nothing more important than driving change that will create jobs and build confidence among the American people. Intel is also sponsoring a conference in Washington, DC to explore what American business, governmental and academic institutions, NGOs, and private citizens can do to invigorate our culture of innovation that will drive economic recovery and ensure long-term, sustainable growth.
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Communication during and after a devastating event such as Hurricane Sandy can be crucial. Not only does it open the lines between yourself and emergency personnel, but it also allows for loved ones to know how you are doing. That’s why AT&T and T-Mobile have entered into an agreement to enable roaming on their networks to customers of both companies in the New York/New Jersey area affected by hurricane Sandy.
This partnership is a tremendous help to those having trouble connecting to their specific network. Since AT&T and T-Mobile both operate using technology based on GSM and UMTS standards, it’s a seamless transition for them to allow the sharing of voice and data traffic across their networks.
Any AT&T or T-Mobile customer in one of these impacted areas will automatically pick up whichever network is most operational in their area. Switching networks will not cause any changes in their service plans and customers will be able to place calls and use data just as they would on their own network.
Kudos to AT&T and T-Mobile for working together in such dire times. It’s going to be a long road to recovery and we wish the best and safest to all those affected.
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Live Chickens Arrive at SLU Culinary Camp
Six Rhode Island Red hens came home to roost at Saint Louis University's summer culinary camp last week, where they were feted with cornbread and toasted with mint lemonade before they were permitted to settle down to their regular work of laying eggs, eating dirt and hunting for bugs.
Image source Janelle Criscione sends one of her chickens off to college.
The hens now live in a chicken tractor in the nutrition and dietetics garden at the Saint Louis University Medical Center. The tractor was decorated by campers in anticipation of their arrival. The campers will eventually name the chickens and train them to come when called. (Chickens do that. Who knew?)
Every day the campers will gather the chickens' eggs, which will be put to use at SLU Medical Center's Fresh Gatherings Cafe.
The chickens were donated by SLU alum Dr. James R. Criscione and his wife Janelle, who adopted the chickens from a farm in Richmond, Missouri, when they were three days old. "We told them they were going away to college," said Janelle Criscione.
Culinary camp, which runs in eight one-week sessions between June 7 and August 6, teaches children ages 7 to 12 different aspects of health, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. Counselors come from many different departments across the university, including nutrition, dietetics, occupational science and occupational therapy.
View a Post-Dispatch video here.
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We present a new surface acoustic wave (SAW) chip for odorant detection by the using of olfactory receptors as molecular sensors. The molecular sensors were originated from the expression of ODR-10 in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells, which is an olfactory receptor of C. elegances. ODR-10 was then combined with SAW chips to serve as molecular sensors for odorant detection. The resonance frequency shifts of SAW can be recorded to characterize the responses of this molecular sensor to various odorants. The recording data show this molecular sensor can recognize its natural ligand of diacetyl with high specificity and sensitivity. It is indicated that this molecular sensor has great potential to be applied in many fields such as biomedicine, environmental monitoring, and food quality control.
Date of Conference: 20-23 Feb. 2011
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Results Standards for
Theme: Dimpled Ballots, Hanging Chads, and Reform
State Vital Results Standards to which this lesson relates:
1.3 Students read for meaning, demonstrating both initial understanding and personal response to what is read. This is evident when students:
1.3.g. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts produced for a wide range of purposes and audiences, including their cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts.
Reading Range of Text
1.4 Students comprehend and respond to a range of media, images, and text (e.g., poetry, narrative, information, technical) for a variety of purposes (e.g., reading for pleasure as well as reading to develop understanding and expertise). This is evident when students:
1.4.c. Read primary and secondary sources;
1.8 In written reports, students organize and convey information and ideas accurately and effectively. This is evident when students:
1.8.j. Use a variety of strategies to develop the report; and
1.8.k. Organize text in a framework appropriate to purpose, audience, and content.
In persuasive writing, students judge, propose, and persuade. This is evident when students:
1.11.e. Take an authoritative stand on a topic;
1.11.f. Support the statement with sound reasoning;
1.18 Students use computers, telecommunications, and other tools of technology to research, to gather information and ideas, and to represent information and ideas accurately and appropriately.Research
1.19 Students use organizational systems to obtain information from various sources (including libraries and the Internet). This is evident when students:
1.19.b. Develop an effective search strategy to satisfy their informational needs;
1.19.c. Conduct effective searches for information and ideas;
1.19.d. Evaluate information for timeliness, relevance, bias, accuracy, quality, and accessibility;
1.19.e. Synthesize and organize information;
1.19.f. Present information in appropriate formats
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Problem Solving Process
2.2 Students use reasoning strategies, knowledge, and common sense to solve complex problems related to all fields of knowledge. This is evident when students:
2.2.aaa. Critically evaluate the validity and significance of sources and interpretations.Civic and Social Responsibility
4.2 Students participate in democratic processes.
Continuity and Change
4.5 Students understand continuity and change. This is evident when students:
4.5.aaa. Analyze personal, family, systemic, cultural, environmental, historical, and societal changes over time - both rapid, revolutionary changes and those that evolve more slowly.
4.6 Students demonstrate understanding of the relationship between their local environment and community heritage and how each shapes their lives. This is evident when students:
4.6.bbb. Evaluate and predict how current trends (e.g., environmental, economic, social, political, technological) will affect the future of their local community and environment.
History and Social Sciences
Causes and Effects in Human Societies
6.1 Students examine complex webs of causes and effects in relations to events in order to generalize about the workings of human societies, and they apply their findings to problems. This is evident when students:
6.1.d. Use knowledge of change and continuity in making decisions and taking action on public issues
6.4 Students identify major historical eras and analyze periods of transition in various times in their local community, in Vermont, in the United States, and in various locations world wide, to interpret the influence of the past on the present. This is evident when student:
Post War United States(1945-present) analyze the domestic issues facing the US in post World War II as well as foreign policy issues.
Meaning of Citizenship
6.9 Students examine and debate the meaning of citizenship and act as citizens in a democratic society. This is evident when students:
6.9.b. Analyze and debate the problems of majority rule and the protection of minority rights as written in the U.S. Constitution.
Types of Government
6.10 Students compare and evaluate the philosophical underpinnings and the workings of different types of governments, including constitutional governments, in various times in their local community, in Vermont, in the United States, and in various locations world wide. This is evident when students:
6.10.bbb. Evaluate how political systems, including the American system, evolve
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At one time the boundaries of recorded music seemed fixed. Record
companies would find new heroes to record the same works all safely
placed inside the same security fence enclosing the Great and
the Good. Radio orchestras pushed the fence further out but the
conventions of commercial acceptability were largely unthreatened.
In fact this picture was never entirely true but read back-copies
of Gramophone from the 1950s, 1960s and to some extent the 1970s
to follow the predominance of the known and the largely stagnant
repertoire re-ploughing comes across strongly. That was a long
time ago and several new generations of music-lovers have entered
the lists since then. The present disc - the second in a series
- is part of the wave moving outwards towards new peripheries.
Gram was a Danish composer born in Copenhagen. His
activities were mainly as a teacher. His pupils included Riisager
and Fernstrom. His works are not numerous: three symphonies
are widely spread throughout his career: 1913, 1925, 1954.
His Avalon, written in the
depths of the Great War, is a short and bejewelled impressionistic
piece with a warm French undertow. A fragile skein of sound
is conjured from harp, celesta and avian woodwind and the
broad flow of the music carried by the ample string choir.
This is all more than a few degrees South than the Nielsen's
Pan and Echo although a Sibelian shimmer in the strings
towards the end tells us the Gram was alive to concert activity
at the time. Pellegrini - with her Janet Baker tone - provides
the drama and narrative flow in this picture of the same celtic-Arthurian
wonderland that also drew an opera of the same name from Rutland
The two symphonies recorded here are compact
- each at half an hour or so. The Second is in five
separately-tracked sections with the central one being for
soprano and orchestra. The composer designed this symphony
for small orchestra as a single movement structure. A descending
three note figure recurs throughout as does a sylvan pantheism.
However the work does not lack in vigour as the romping fourth
section proves. There is a thoughtfully musing epilogue -
part woodland warm anthem in the manner of Glass's Fifth Symphony
without being quite as grandiloquent. We also hear a brief
icy Tapiola-style storm in its earlier stages. The
piece is rounded out with contentment.
Challenged in his retirement to write
a further symphony, Gram wrote a Third that turned
out to be very different from its predecessor of a quarter
century earlier. This sturdy and finely crafted three movement
piece includes some Sibelian and Tchaikovskian woodwind. The
string writing in the first movement Moderato ends
in slightly conventional muscular grandeur belled out by the
brass. A sun-warmed peaceful meadow of an Adagio is
distinguished by a general air of hush with horn and wind
solos calling out. More intense and insistent music later
disturbs the general air of calm. The concluding Allegro
Marciale is full of vigorous detail and rustic-obstreperous
activity beside the more refined mood in the first two movements.
There is no declared programme.
The notes by Claus Røllum-Larsen are full
and to the point. The sung words are reproduced in original
and in English translation in the booklet.
see also Review
of Volume 1
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A quick look around the just opened Flatbush, Brooklyn location of
The Freedonia Group is offering a 300-page study, called "Batteries," which touches on such category issues as growth and demand for primary and secondary cells.
Growth of primary batteries is expected to be driven by strong demand for battery-powered electronic devices, such as digital cameras and 3G wireless phones, according to the study.
With secondary batteries, growth is expected to outpace battery market gains through 2007, benefiting from strong demand of high-drain portable CE devices, said the study.
Consumer applications will continue to account for close to 75 percent of all primary battery sales in 2007.
Primary lithium, zinc-air and other advanced chemistries are expected to account for an increasingly larger share of total sales, which will allow these cells to be used in applications that were once the exclusive domain of rechargeable cells.
Annual percentage growth through 2007 remains strongest among secondary units, with rechargeable lithium and nickel-metal hydride batteries at the forefront, according to Freedonia.
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1:1 THESE ARE the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
1:2 It is eleven days journey from Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount Seir.
1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
1:4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei;
1:5 beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:
1:6 The LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain;
1:7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'
1:9 And I spoke unto you at that time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone;
1:10 the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.--
1:11 The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you!--
1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
1:13 Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you.'
1:14 And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'
1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.
1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.'
1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
1:19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
1:20 And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God giveth unto us.
1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.'
1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.'
1:23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe;
1:24 and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.'
1:26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;
1:27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
1:28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'
1:29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
1:30 The LORD your God who goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
1:31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.
1:32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God,
1:33 Who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.'
1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying:
1:35 'Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil generation, see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers,
1:36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD.'
1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither;
1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage thou him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
1:39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me: 'We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill-country.
1:42 And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto them: Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.'
1:43 So I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
1:44 And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah.
1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.
1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
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Every Day Is Earth Day!
History of Earth Day
the 1969 National UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, social activist, John McConnell, proposed an Earth Day to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. This day was dedicated, from its birth, to celebrate Earth's life and beauty, and the need for preserving and renewing the threatened ecological balances upon which all life on Earth depends. The proposal won strong support and was followed by an Earth Day Proclamation by the City of San Francisco. The idea, supported by U. N. Secretary General U Thant, Margaret Mead and many others, spread worldwide. The ringing of the United Nations Peace Bell at the moment of the March Equinox on Earth Day has become a tradition.
The Democratic senator, Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, eventually founded the first nationwide Earth Day that was celebrated on 22 April 1970. Inspired by the protest movements of the 1960s, twenty million Americans took to the streets to demonstrate for a cleaner environment. In the aftermath, President Richard M. Nixon proposed the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in July 1970 and Congress passed the Clean Air (1970), Clean Water (1972), and Endangered Species (1973) Acts. The 2010 Earth Day, now celebrated worldwide, is its 40th anniversary.
Also, read "What and When Is Earth Day" by John McConnell and "The History of Earth Day" by Senator Gaylord Nelson, for personal reflections on the birthing of this now global celebration of preserving and conserving the Earth and its valuable natural resources.
Environmental Event Dates
- World Wetlands Day - February 2
- National Biodiesel Day - March 18
- UN World Day for Water - March 22
- Earth Hour - March 27, 2010
- Earth Awareness Month - Month of April
- Fossil Fools Day - April 1, 2010
- Annual Earth Day - April 22
- Arbor Day - Last Friday in April (each state also has its own observation based on best tree planting time)
- International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day) - May 22
- Bike-to-Work Day - Third Friday in May
- UN World Environment Day - June 5
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer - September 16
- Zero Emissions Day - September 21
- Car Free Day - September 22
- UN World Habitat Day - first Monday in October
- International Day of Climate Action - October 24
- Hawai‘i Recycles Day (America Recycles Day) - November 15
- World Soil Day - December 5
Earth Day Network
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Earth Day
The Nature Conservancy - Earth Day
History Network - Earth Day
Hawai‘i Community College Tropical Forest Ecosystem & Agroforestry Management Program (Forest TEAM)
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The Guildhall at SMU
Teaching the art and science of video game development
The Guildhall at SMU, part of the Linda and Mitch Hart eCenter, is the world’s premier graduate education program in digital game development. The rigorous, intense, in-depth graduate program offers a complete approach to digital game development, with courses that focus on three critical disciplines:
- Art Creation
- Level Design
The program itself is comprised of coursework, directed individual focus studies, and game development in multidisciplinary teams. With a curriculum designed by experts at SMU, and in collaboration with some of the industry’s most influential leaders, the program provides a broad base of knowledge in one of the most exciting, growing technology fields.
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Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be — given the devastation it is wreaking — should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.
Reported in latest dotearth post on the foreseeably polarizing "Sandy-causation-teaching-moment" meme.
BTW, by calling Bloomberg's statement a "teachable moment" for science communication, I recognize that I risk insulting the many many many people who have been urging that Sandy be seized as a "teachable moment" for those communicating climate science to the public. The problem with this phrase is that that it conveys a certain attitude; it comes off sounding as if one views those who need to be "taught" something as dimwitted school children. I'd recommend a different "strategy" -- like, say, treating (even truly regarding) the people to whom one is purporting to communicate science as thinking citizens who are entitled to get information in a form and under conditions that enable them to use their reason.
I promise not to use this obnoxious idiom anymore if you do. Deal?
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SOURCE: Emotional weight
There are many factors and conditions that make the holiday season an unbearable time for those suffering from hot flashes. The single biggest factor is STRESS! That is why, during these holidays, it is great that their is a product like Hot Flash Eliminator.
(PRWEB) December 05, 2012
When stress levels change, the body increases the production of cortisol resulting in hot flashes sweats and uncontrolled mood swings. At this time of year people tend to be get much less sleep and tend to put a lot of stress on the body. What presents to buy, meals to prepare, family issues to navigate, the financial burdens, the need to realize the dream of the picture perfect Christmas and people wrestle with the overwhelming knowledge that it all comes with a price.
Singing Christmas Carols and getting liquored up just isn’t going to cut it! In fact, if things are stressful now, don’t even go there, Alcohol is like pouring gasoline on an already raging fire.
So the option is to suppress it. People put it all on the card and deal with it over time in the New Year. But, let’s face it; in the back of their minds they get a cold sweat over the realization of what lies ahead before even having a full blown hot flash and, sure enough, on comes a real doozie. OMG, let's just peel off clothes and jump in the nearest snow bank.
Perhaps a little comfort food will work.
Because there is much to do, people soldier on, looking for relief, from comfort foods people love wherever they can find them. Perhaps that good old comfort food Chocolate. But that’s no good because according to studies at the University of Michigan Health Centre, chocolate can trigger hot flashes because it contains chemical stimulants that may raise the body’s internal thermostat; not such a sweet idea. Sugar and foods that act like sugar in the system, such as refined carbohydrates, can cause blood glucose levels to spike and then dive rapidly. These blood sugar peaks and valleys often incite late-night sweating, particularly if combined with sweet and high-carb foods with caffeine and alcohol, two other substances known to trigger night sweats.
So what to do when surrounded by stressful situations and thoughts, surrounded by scrumptious foods and delicacies (after all it’s tradition.) and further stressed out by the thought of trading off temporary pleasures for impending doom; payback in the form of massive thighs, and bellies and searing internal heat and sweating that surely will follow?
Decision time. What to do and how to deal with all this stuff without becoming at risk?
Well, sweat no more. There is a solution and one that is so simple, so immediate and so safe that it will literally blow peoples minds. A Canadian product called Hot Flash Eliminator has been saving sufferers with hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings for the past 71/2 years. By taking it under the tongue, the drops work instantly to deliver the ingredients with the speed like that of nitroglycerine during a heart attack directly to the hypothalamus, the body’s internal thermostat. So effective is this product that the manufacturer offers a no hassle money back guarantee if people do not get the desired relief. The company states that during the past 71/2 years its national return rate is less than 3%!
The fact that it works instantly is great. But, is it safe, and what’s in it?
Hot Flash Eliminator is made from Flower essences infused into distilled water base with a small amount of brandy (as preservative). It is a true energy product that harnesses the emotional and physical healing properties of these exotic essences and further energizes the mixture with Reiki. The resulting relief is exceptional and unprecedented!
Hot Flash Eliminator contains no plant-based phytoestrogens and is therefore totally safe to use for Cancer patients, for MS sufferers and for women on estrogen suppressing drugs like Tamoxifen or Evista. The product will not contraindicate with any medication, prescribed or over-the-counter.
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High functioning natural language processing is hands down one of the most sought after features of interactive voice response systems. Natural language processing (NLP) is a field that combines computer science and linguistics and studies interactions between human language and computer processing.
As the above title suggests, the nuances and slight variations included in every human language make this one of the most difficult and confusing fields in all of science. How would one teach an inanimate object that doesn’t have consciousness or inherent lingual abilities to distinguish between two words that have very different meanings but sound phonetically the same?
NLP is a sub-branch of artificial intelligence, and is primarily focused on developing technology that allows machines to interpret verbal communication that enables humans to speak in their natural language, dialect, and accent.
So where did this idea of natural language processing originate? Presumably, computers have only been functional on a consumer level for several decades. It actually dates back much further than most would assume, and can be traced to patents applications in the 1930s for a translating machine. The machines would in theory be bilingual and able to translate between languages with varying levels of complexity (including dealing with grammatical roles between languages).
Actual software capable of performing NLP tasks was not released until 1954 during an experiment at Georgetown University and IBM. Researchers were able to program an application to fully and automatically translate more than sixty Russian sentences into English.
There was a ten year gap between the development 1954 and 1964 (when an application was released that could solve algebraic word problems), put post-1964 there was a steady stream of NLP applications released. Some of the more interesting ones included chatterbots able to simulate natural human language and generate prose at random and a question answering system that was so advanced that it was able to win Jeopardy when pitted against some of the best human contestants in the world (most will recognize the device as Watson).
When NLP programs are integrated into software applications and IVR systems, the results are lauded as the type of programs that science fiction would imagine. The actual technology behind NLP applications is extremely complex and requires extensive research and testing to implement.
NLP software and applications have been developed that perform a variety of language interpretation tasks. Various tasks include translating text from one human language to another, identifying the discourse structure of text, converting information stored in databases to readable language, offering answers to human-language questions, and even identifying the sentiment of spoken or written text based on extracting subjective information.
Coming up: The challenges and complexities of programming a machine to understand a person.
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911 First, Before Anything Else
When a person is suffering a severe injury or sudden illness, dialing 911 allows for direct access to a county dispatch center. The dispatch centers are located at the county sheriff’s departments and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The emergency dispatcher gathers information about accidents and sudden illnesses. Based on that information, the appropriate response team is dispatched in an appropriate manner, whether it be police, fire, community first responder or ambulance. Some dispatchers also offer basic first aid instructions to the caller. Early access to the emergency system allows a faster response by emergency personnel.
Gold Cross Ambulance along with ThedaCare, Affinity Health System and Outagamie, Winnebago and Calumet counties raised $149,000 for an 18-month multimedia campaign to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of calling 911 first. The American Heart Association and the American Red Cross participated in this program with the financial support of the Community Foundation, St. Elizabeth Foundation and the
The “Chain of Survival” above was developed by the American Heart Association. Studies show that early access to 911, CPR, defibrillation and advanced life support saves lives.
FIRST RESPONDER AED
A first responder is a person trained to provide initial care for patients. The role of the first responder is to assess the patient, provide basic life support such as airway control, CPR, automated external defibrillation (AED), bleeding and shock management, and splinting. A first responder may be a police officer, firefighter or a local community member.
There are currently 26 first responder groups that partner with Gold Cross on scene. Every community serviced by Gold Cross has first responders. Each group has AED capabilities. Many of the groups took advantage of a $60,000 grant received by Gold Cross from the Medtronic Foundation and many have received local community financial support.
PARAMEDICS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Upon arrival, the paramedics begin an assessment of the patient that involves the ABC’s – airway, breathing and circulation. The crew works to immediately stabilize the condition of the patient utilizing their advanced life support skills which include:
Diagnostic Based Assessment
IV / Central Lines
Advanced Cardiac Life Support Procedures
Availability of over 30 Medications
Advanced Airway Management known as Intubation
External Cardiac Pacing
Needle Thoracentesis (Chest Decompression)
Defibrillation and Synchronized Cardio-version
Once the patient is stabilized the paramedics begin transport, usually to a local hospital. The paramedics contact the emergency room physician by radio or phone either at the scene or enroute to the hospital. With the physician’s guidance the paramedics continue treatment. Upon arrival, the paramedics report to the physician the patient’s response to treatment. The emergency room staff takes over patient care. Soon the paramedic is back in the ambulance ready for the next call.
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[ EDITORIAL ]
Sources of Fuel: Energy Policy On Ice
Published: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 10:49 p.m.
Thousands of miles apart, in vastly disparate environments, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Chukchi Sea have something in common: Both illustrate the increasing futility of an energy policy heavily dependent on oil.
The risks in the gulf's offshore drilling became brutally apparent in April 2010, when a BP deep-sea well exploded, killing 11 oil rig workers and causing a massive spill of almost 5 million barrels of crude. The disaster led to new regulations for offshore drilling.
In the Chukchi Sea, off Alaska's northwest coast, the challenge is not the depth of the water but the ice upon it. Floating sheets of ice, along with powerful waves, have confounded Royal Dutch Shell's so-far six-year, $5 billion effort to drill offshore. Approaching winter and persistent problems with an oil-containment barge recently forced Shell to postpone its efforts for another year.
For these difficulties and risks, both in the gulf and in the Arctic, as well as off the east and west U.S. coasts and in shale formations, the problem is slow and expensive extraction methods.
Consequently, claims by candidates or elected officials that America could achieve oil independence if government would only get out of the way are just a lot of hot air. The U.S. Department of Energy has established that America has only 2 percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Yet we use 25 percent of the world's supply.
TOWARD OIL INDEPENDENCE
What Americans should be asking is not which candidate will lower the price at the pump, but who will do what's necessary to continue moving the United States toward energy independence.
Recent steps by the federal government and developments in the industry have already reduced U.S. dependence on foreign oil to the lowest level in a decade. Consider:
Imports of crude oil fell 10 percent last year. The United States now imports 45 percent of its oil, down from 57 percent in 2008.
U.S. crude oil production is up 15 percent in the past two years, to its highest level since 2003.
The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas. At present consumption rates, this country has an estimated 75-year supply of recoverable gas.
The Obama administration, after negotiations with automakers, environmentalists and others, established the first new fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks since the 1990s. By model-year 2016, those standards will raise the average fuel economy of new cars and trucks to 35.5 miles per gallon. By 2025, the required average will be almost 55 mpg.
The White House estimates that the new standards will reduce U.S. oil consumption by 2.2 million barrels a day in 2025. In comparison, Shell geologists say that their leases in the Chukchi Sea might someday yield 400,000 barrels a day.
PARTS OF THE PUZZLE
The U.S. supply of natural gas, presuming it can be extracted with minimal harm to the environment, offers Americans time to transition to renewables. Still, while natural gas fuels power plants and heats homes and businesses, the U.S. transportation sector is still dependent on oil.
That's beginning to change. Last week, a Florida-based firm opened a natural gas fueling station in Tallahassee and announced plans for 15 more. Private companies and governments across the country are converting truck, bus and car fleets from gasoline power to cleaner-burning natural gas. Meanwhile, renewable sources such as wind and solar are a tiny part of the picture.
America needs a national energy policy that:
Removes federal tax breaks for the oil-and-gas industry and invests the new revenue in promoting energy efficiency and the development of alternative sources.
Offers incentives to homeowners, residential developers and businesses to employ energy conservation and renewables.
Requires public utilities to generate a substantial share of their power from renewable sources within the next decade.
Imposes a carbon tax that fairly assesses the impact on the environment and public health from the burning of fossil fuels.
America will remain dependent on oil and gas for years. For the decades beyond, though, the president and Congress must shape a long-term policy that facilitates the transition to renewable energy.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.
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How To Save On Travel Expenses
By planning carefully and spending financial resources cautiously you can save yourself and your company a sizeable amount of money while on the road.
Business travel expenses can prove costly whether it is plane tickets, train tickets, rental cars, taxis or meals out. There are many methods of cutting business expenses. By planning carefully and spending financial resources cautiously you can save yourself and your company a sizeable amount of money.
Credit Cards and Voyageur Miles
Often using credit cards can benefit you and your company through mileage or points programmes. It is better to fly, drive, and stay with member and partner companies and earn points each time. It is fairly easy to apply online, by mail or in person. This can help the business and the individual save on travel expenses in the future.
Pay off as much as you can on your credit cards to avoid finance charges and interest and always pay your minimum payment on time to avoid late charges and more interest.
Distinguish Between Comfort and Luxury
One of the easiest ways to cut costs is to distinguish the comforts from the luxuries. You can do this by flying economy or booking your ticket in advance. If you have to fly business class you should consider using a points upgrade or look for lower rates.
Book hotels that cost less. By opting a hotel that is clean and comfortable which includes wireless Internet and breakfast in the price and not a luxury hotel, you can save on expenses. Another way to save is have employees share rooms or suites with separate sleeping areas.
Employees should be awarded a budget per day for meals and expensive dining should be avoided. Alcohol should be prohibited in most cases.
A good way of reducing travel expenses is by travelling less. Use conference calls, email or video conferencing where it possible. Weigh up if it is really worth travelling for.
Plan Your Travel
Coincide your trips. If you have a meeting or a conference in the same area try to make sure you kill two birds with one stone.
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Easy Spring Flowers
Difficulty: Very Easy
Make sure you put newspaper or something protective under the coffee filters as the markers will bleed through them.
What you'll need:
- Newspapers or protective cover for work area
- Coffee filters
- Bumpy chenille stem (or regular chenille stem)
How to make it:
- Cover work area with newspapers or other protective covering.
- Let children draw or color on 5-7 coffee filters with the markers. Random markings are just fine as detailed drawings won't show up in this project.
- Place one coffee filter decorative side down on the table. Stack other coffee filters decorative side up on top.
- Fold coffee filters in half. Scrunch middle of the coffee filters (starting at the bottom coffee filter).
- Wrap chenille stem tightly around scrunched area to hold in place. Straighten chenille stem to use as flower stem.
- Let the children make a couple and put them in a May Basket.
- Early on the morning of May 1st hang on your mother's door, a neighbor's door, a friend's, or anyone special to you.
- Remember, it's supposed to be a surprise!
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Writing is a creative process. If you enjoy it, inscribe a story, create something that only you can do. Scripting is like a person’s fingerprint; all authors are different. Each of us is unique.
The best writers are the ones who compose stories that speak to them. Circumstances that the novelist feels must be told and emphasized.
A mystery storyteller loves the intrigue of the journey.
An inspirational writer enjoys showing the world a kinder, gentler path to dealing with daily events.
The paranormal creator will let the mind soar the depths of the unusual.
No matter what you write, remain consistent with the style you’re comfortable using. By producing a manuscript that pours out of the soul a distinctive label marks the engravings.
Dedication is also needed. A writer must learn to take criticism and rejections as a chance to better skills. No determined author has time to wallow in negative responses-simply edit and rewrite.
If a writer truly wants to become an author they can’t give in to negativity. Don’t let others trample dreams. Life is what we make of it, not what people tell us it should be.
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Thirteen Days That Shook the World and Nearly Ended It
by Eric Margolis: On
to Timbuktu! A New Jolly Little War We Can’t Find on a Map
The black, sinister-looking Soviet SS-4 intermediate-ranged missile
on display at Havana’s La Cabana fortress looks old, roughly finished,
and rather primitive.
But this missile,
and 41 others (including some longer-ranged SS-5’s) terrified the
United States during the October 1962 missile crisis – 13 days that
shook the world. Each of them could have delivered a one megaton
warhead onto America’s East Coast cities, starting with Washington
DC. One megaton is a city-buster.
When the Cuban
missile crisis erupted 50 years ago this month, I was a student
at Washington’s Georgetown University Foreign Service School. Cuba
was headline news. The Cold War was at its peak.
to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro’s Marxist government had
spectacularly failed at the Bay of Pigs. The new, inexperienced
US president, John Kennedy, got cold feet on the last minute and
called off vital air cover for an invasion by Cuban exiles. Deprived
of air cover, most were killed or captured. Kennedy should have
either call off the amphibious operation or provided it air cover.
then urged a full-scale US invasion of Cuba, backed by massive naval
and air power. The Kennedy administration wavered.
Nikita Khrushchev seized the moment by sneaking 42 medium-ranged
missiles and smaller tactical nukes into Cuba, right under the nose
of the Americans. He gambled the Soviet nuclear-armed missiles would
forestall a US invasion of Cuba, which Moscow intended to use as
a base to expand its influence in Latin America.
When US U-2
spy planes finally spotted the Soviet missile bases all hell broke
US forces went
to DEFCON 3, then DEFCON 2 – the highest readiness stage before
all-out war. Six US army and Marine divisions moved to South Florida
and Georgia. Nearly 600 US warplanes were poised to attack.
On 25 Oct.
nuclear weapons were loaded onto US B-47 and B-52 bombers. Seventy
five percent of the Strategic Air Command’s bombers were airborne
or poised to attack the USSR. Curiously, the Soviets did not go
to maximum readiness.
In an act of
madness, Fidel Castro furiously demanded Khrushchev launch a pre-emptive
nuclear strike on the US. Decades later, Castro admitted this was
a terrible mistake. Fortunately, the Soviet leadership said "nyet!"
A nuclear exchange in 1962 between the US and USSR would have killed
an estimated 100 million people on each side.
As Soviet freighters
steamed towards Cuba, the Kennedy White House imposed a naval and
air blockade on Cuba. But it was called a "quarantine"
since under international law, a blockade is an act of war. Today,
in Washington’s undeclared war against Iran, the favored term is
I watched all
this from Washington, knowing the city was the first target for
a Soviet nuclear strike. Some wise people left town. Wealthy Latin
American families chartered aircraft to bring their children home.
The university chapel was filled with students on their knees, many
weeping, and saying ‘Hail Mary’s."
I don’t know why my friends and I didn’t high tail it out of Washington.
I guess we simply could not believe that nuclear Armageddon was
really at hand. But it was. Soviet and US forces were heading for
A US U-2 was
shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-manned SA-2 anti-aircraft missile
battery. A Soviet sub heading for Cuba was detected by US warships,
prevented from snorkeling, and forced to surface when it ran out
of air. Its captain came within two minutes of firing a torpedo
with a nuclear warhead at the US warships hunting him.
This was too
much even for the blustering but crafty Khrushchev. He offered to
take Soviet missiles out of Cuba if the US pledged never to invade
the island. Kennedy readily accepted the deal. In a secret codicil,
Kennedy agreed to quietly withdraw US nuclear-armed Thor and Jupiter
missiles targeted on the USSR from Turkey and Italy.
The deal was
done. Washington hailed it as a huge victory for President Kennedy
who became a national hero and icon. This mythology persists in
the US today. The American public is still largely unaware of the
In the end,
the Soviet Union came out ahead in the crisis. Cuba was saved from
a US invasion, which was Moscow’s principal strategic goal, along
with preserving the Castro regime, which remains to this day.
in Turkey and Italy (and likely Britain) threatening the USSR were
removed but the story remained secret for decades.
of it, the Soviet politburo ousted Khruschev a year later for "reckless,
hare-brained schemes" and made the plodding Leonid Brezhnev
chairman. He lead the USSR directly into economic collapse by wildly
over-spending on arms to keep up with the Americans and their wealthy
allies, and by failing to renew the USSR’s industrial and agricultural
the US military was not allowed to invade Cuba: Unknown at the time,
Soviet troops there were authorized to use 100 tactical nuclear
weapons against any invading force and their bases in South Florida.
As Wellington said after Waterloo, "it was a damned near-run
But this "victory"
misled America into hubris and over-relying on military action to
resolve its future political problems.
him mail] is the author of War
at the Top of the World and the new book, American
Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the
West and the Muslim World. See his
© 2012 Eric Margolis
Best of Eric Margolis
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Frequently Asked Questions
Healthy rivers are the lifelines of our planet, and provide many critical services for free. Rivers and their watersheds – and the rich variety of plants and animals which they sustain – provide people with water for drinking, watering crops, and washing, and with food, medicines, building materials, and more. They also filter out pollutants, mitigate floods and droughts, recharge groundwater supplies, and sustain fisheries. Rivers are also important byways for travel.
A river is much more than flowing water. Its ever-shifting bed and banks, the groundwater below, its surrounding forests, marshes and floodplain are all parts of the river. A river carries not just water, but just as importantly nutrient-rich sediments and dissolved minerals that replenish the land.
The river’s estuary, where fresh water mixes with the ocean’s salt, is one of the most biologically productive parts of the river – and of the planet. Most of the world’s fish catch comes from species that depend for at least part of their life cycle on estuarine habitat.
The damming of great rivers is among the most dramatic, deliberate impacts that humans have on their natural environment. Nothing alters a river as totally as a dam.
A dam is an attempt to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flows. A dam traps sediments and nutrients, alters the river’s temperature and chemistry, and upsets the geological processes of erosion and deposition through which the river sculpts the surrounding land. Such changes can throw an entire watershed out of ecological balance.
An estimated 50,000 large dams now block most big river systems. Dams now hold back 15% of the world’s annual freshwater runoff. If we want to sustain the world’s biodiversity and riverine goods and services, then we need to replace large dam building with alternate solutions.
- Read more about the Environmental Impacts of Dams.
An estimated 40 to 80 million people have been displaced by dams. At present perhaps two million people are displaced every year by large dams. At least 500 million more people also suffer from the downstream impacts of dams, which can include loss of fisheries, decreased water quality and quantity, a decline in the fertility of farmlands and forests due to the loss of natural fertilizers and seasonal floods that healthy rivers provide.
In nearly every case, the majority of people evicted by dams end up further impoverished, and rarely share in project benefits. They suffer cultural decline, high rates of sickness and great psychological stress. The ones who suffer are typically those most marginalized in society – poor farmers and indigenous people. In some cases, people receive no or negligible compensation for their losses. Where compensation is given, cash payments are rarely enough to compensate for the loss of land, homes, jobs and businesses. Dam-affected communities are often promised great improvements such as electricity, new clinics and improved schools. Such promises are often broken.
For a brief visual introduction to dams, rivers and people, watch We All Live Downstream (slideshow), or watch the 22-minute film below, A River Runs Through Us.
Dams are not “clean” sources of electricity because of their serious social and environmental impacts. In addition, studies reveal that dam reservoirs are significant sources of greenhouse gases. In some cases, especially in the tropics, reservoirs can produce more greenhouse gases than even the dirtiest fossil fuel power plants. The Balbina Dam in the Brazilian Amazon is estimated to produce 20–40 times the amount of carbon dioxide produced by coal fired power plants.
- Read "Greenwashing Hydropower": The Problems with Big Dams.
Economically speaking, hydroelectricity is cheap to produce – once the dams are built. The problem is the huge costs of building dams and the long time it takes to build them. Actual costs for hydropower dams are almost always far higher than estimated; in a number of cases, the actual cost was more than double the estimated cost. The Itaipu Dam in South America cost $20 billion and took 18 years to build. This was 488% higher than originally estimated.
Dams often produce less power than promised – and as climate change is expected to change river hydrology in many parts of the globe, power output from dams could become even more unreliable. Dam promoters do not take into account the risk of climate change impacting their projects, which adds to the already optimistic cost-benefit estimates that characterize so many dam projects. In addition, the transmission lines needed to distribute the power generated by the dam are often inefficient and expensive. Too often in many poor countries where large dams are being built, electricity grid coverage is very limited, and the cost of extending the grid from a remote dam to where the need is greatest is not included in project costs. When these factors are taken into account, hydropower is actually a very costly form of power generation.
No energy source is a “silver bullet” for meeting the world’s growing energy needs. The key is to openly assess energy needs against the various options for meeting that need, while also being honest about the costs and benefits (and the distribution of these costs and benefits) that various project options would bring. Energy needs must also be balanced against other societal goods, such as those provided by healthy rivers.
One of the first "sources" of energy we should look to is energy efficiency. Electricity use in most parts of the world is extremely wasteful. The priority before building new power plants should always be to improve the efficiency of existing energy supply and use. Energy losses through inefficient systems can be huge even in developing countries with low production of electricity. As an example, almost 50% of power generated in India is lost before reaching the consumer. Indian energy analysts have estimated that improved efficiency could provide the entire increase in energy supply supposed to be needed over the next decade, at a fraction of the cost of new supply.
When new power plants are clearly needed, prioritizing the use of decentralized renewable energy solutions such as wind, solar, geothermal (and perhaps in future, wave power and other technologies) has many advantages. Small dams can be a sustainable and economic source of electricity, especially in rural areas – as long as they are designed to protect basic river functions such as fish migration and sediment flow. All of these options can help bring electricity to the parts of the world that need it most: rural communities far from national electricity grids.
Q: How can we reduce poverty in developing countries unless we exploit all available power sources, including hydro?
Like other investments, funding for the power sector in developing countries is limited. Better processes for selecting energy projects can help avoid the political favoritism (and even bribery) that now often influences the decision-making process, and too often leads to white-elephant dams being built.
The World Commission on Dams, an international panel that provided the first independent and comprehensive assessment of dams, devised an approach to dam-planning in which affected communities negotiate their own compensation packages, and become primary beneficiaries of dam projects’ benefits. Dams planned using the commission’s recommendations and guidelines are more likely to go forward only after carefully analyzing all available options, and through a fair and transparent planning process. A few countries – for example, South Africa – have taken steps to incorporate the WCD’s recommendations into their planning processes for water and energy projects.
In developing countries (where most dams are being built today), most jobs to design and build dams go to highly trained engineers and contractors who are brought in to build the project, not local people or even citizens of that country. Maintaining dams provides fewer jobs, so the long–term jobs benefit is often minimal. Wind power creates 4–10 times more jobs per unit of output than large hydro (and biomass and solar power can create many more jobs than wind).
When a dam is built for flood control and other uses, the floodplain no longer serves the ecological function it once did for the community, and more people move into the most flood–prone lands, believing they will be protected from all floods. The dam reduces the frequency of floods, but does not prevent the biggest, most damaging floods from occurring. The result: more expensive damages from floods than ever before. A "soft path" to flood management would better prepare us to adapt to and work with the forces of nature
Water storage is a critical need in all parts of the world, and of growing concern due to population growth and climate change. There are many ways to improve not only how we store water, but also how we conserve it.
Better solutions tend to work with nature, rather than against it, and make effective use of "ecosystem services" provided by healthy watersheds and other ecological systems. And by relying on better technologies and more informed choices, these solutions seek to raise water productivity.
Working with nature is critically important to building resilience and reducing the energy costs associated with water delivery and use. Healthy rivers and watersheds, for instance, filter out pollutants, mitigate floods and droughts, recharge groundwater supplies, and sustain fisheries. By contrast, all the technological alternatives – building and running a treatment plant to remove pollutants, artificially recharging groundwater, constructing dikes and levees, raising fish on farms – require external inputs of increasingly expensive energy.
- Read “Adapting to a New Normal” by water expert Sandra Postel.
The global stock of dams as a whole is aging, and as dams get old they become increasingly more expensive to maintain. Around the world, 5,000 large dams are at least 50 years old; the average US dam is in its forties. Worldwide, there is systematic underfunding of dam maintenance. It would cost billions of dollars to bring the world’s dams to safety. In addition, there is increasing concern that dams can trigger earthquakes from the weight of the reservoir, among other factors. Earthquakes also increase the probability of dam failure and the risk of downstream flooding.
Today, the biggest dam–safety challenge is climate change. The world’s more than 45,000 existing large dams have not been built to allow for a rapidly intensifying hydrological cycle. In this sense, all dams should now be considered unsafe. While the climatic future is filled with uncertainties, climatologists almost universally agree that we will see (and indeed are already seeing) more extreme storms and increasingly severe floods – which will have major implications for dam safety.
The United States, whose 5,500 large dams make it one of the most dammed countries in the world, has stopped building large dams, and is now spending great amounts of money trying to fix the problems created by existing dams. Many US communities are revitalizing their rivers by taking down or otherwise “decommissioning” dams that are no longer safe or serving a justifiable purpose. Over the past decade hundreds of dams have been removed from US rivers, opening up habitat for fisheries, restoring healthier water flows, improving water quality, and returning aquatic life to rivers.
In general, no. They do believe that dams (and other development projects) should only be built after all relevant project information has been made public; the claims of project promoters of the economic, environmental and social benefits and costs of projects are verified by independent experts; and only if affected people agree that the project should be built.
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Our work to build healthy communities, families and individuals is at the heart of Mercy Corps' vision for social change. By partnering with a range of partners, from village health committees to government agencies, we help build the means to improve maternal, newborn and child health, ensure proper nutrition and combat infectious diseases.
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Afghanistan: Mercy Corps distributes school and hospital supplies in Kabul, Afghanistan February 14, 2002
From the hands of students in Issaquah, Washington to desks of children in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Mercy Corps relief mission is helping to deliver much needed aid while also bringing people together.
Afghanistan: Kabul area health clinics in desperate need of rehabilitation January 25, 2002
A Mercy Corps assessment team recently visited health clinics in the villages outside the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, and found health facilities lacking basic medicines and patients forced to wait on hallway floors because there were no beds.
Afghanistan: Rehabilitation Program improving lives of disabled Afghans January 7, 2002
For Afghan families living in the refugee villages in Baluchistan Province, Pakistan, the challenges they face each day are enormous. This is especially true for those who are disabled, as well as for those who must care for disabled relatives, children and friends.
Program to Aid Malnourished Eritreans October 2, 2001
Mercy Corps Participates in Global Food Program January 4, 2001
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LED Parking Lights are just what all cars need. They provide a great amount of extra light on the road day and night. Along with the different colors to choose from; Xenon White, Ultra Blue and Brilliant Red, drivers will find LED Parking Lights are not only helpful but a nice touch up to their cars.
168 LED bulbs make a great complement to bright headlights. Because of its LED technology, these little bulbs will produce a far brighter light that regular filament stock bulbs. Not only that, LED also has a longer sustaining life. These bulbs will run as long if not run longer than your headlights!
LED Parking Lights will look amazing during the day and even more amazing at night. With its clean Xenon White or bold Ultra Blue/Brilliant Red colors, your friends and colleagues will be impressed and all you have done was spend a few bucks on two little bulbs. But just because they are little doesn’t make them less significant. LED bulbs are made specifically to be small yet powerful so even the car-dumbest drivers can install them without any trouble. The plug and play technology makes it quick and simple.
Notice how these little bulbs can shine just as bright as the HID headlights. They make a perfect combination to light up a brighter road for drivers at night. Better lighting means better vision and better vision means a better overall drive. So not only do these little bulbs make your car appear more sleek and stylish, they are also a huge help when driving at night. Lone drives at night can become tedious and uncomfortable but with the help of 168 LED bulbs, drivers can be ease with greater visibility and perform better. Each bulb is packed with little diodes of light and all it takes is a simple plug and play change to get them started.
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An Evolved Consciousness Sees the World Differently
As we observe people, we see the great differences among us. People range from loving and compassionate humanitarians to that of extreme greed and selfishness. Today it would seem that the gap is greater than ever before. And indeed it is. This does not necessarily mean that people have become greedier or more uncaring – tho new technology, war machinery and media would make it seems so. The vast difference is due to the millions of people who are experiencing an evolutionary shift in Consciousness. This is the end where the gap is widening.
As people experience an awakening Consciousness they see the greater picture of who we are, and our interconnectedness to one another. They see as tho through new eyes – eyes of compassion and love. Whereas before they could be indifferent or uncaring – now that is not possible. Theirs is a deep knowing that there is a new and better way to live, and feel compelled to do their part to bring it about.
What then is the difference between the selfish and the loving individual? It is their level of Consciousness. An evolved Consciousness is an expanded version of oneself as part of a whole, rather than separate. Love is the force that evolves us. Forgiveness is a given, gratitude is joy expressed.
As Consciousness expands, all aspects of fear fall away. This includes the fear of death. From this greater vantage, we recognize dying as the doorway to our greater Consciousness – as we release our body, we re-merge back into our glorious Spirit self, and to a level of Consciousness accessible only beyond our physical experience. We also see birth as leaving our greater Conscious Self, to temporarily experience our next amazing human adventure.
This level of consciousness – Cosmic Consciousness, is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history our greatest spiritual teachers such as Jesus and Buddha experienced a profound Consciousness shift that changed them from ordinary to extra-ordinary teachers of love and compassion. What is new, is the global magnitude of those now shifting in unison into greater Consciousness.
Any who have experienced this level of Consciousness are irrevocably and forever changed. Their memory has been awakened, their Consciousness heightened, and they live in the joy of the human experience regardless of how it looks from the ordinary conscious state.
An evolving consciousness has an expanded sense of wholeness which includes a connection and love for all things. We begin to see the world and life around us differently, and feel things we have never before felt.
We see animals as intelligent fellow beings who have incarnated into physical form with us to experience life on this planet. Like us they have a great capacity for life’s joys, and a deep love for their young – some even mating for life. Without agenda, their unconditional love and loyalty can extend to us. The thought of eating them as food becomes unthinkable.
We see the earth as a living, breathing being, supporting our life system and experience. We bask in its exquisite beauty, its glorious sunrises and sunsets, its expansive blue oceans, and majestic mountains, and desert plains. Like a mother, it nourishes and supports us if we but love it back.
Our heart grieves when we look upon mountains sheared of their trees, at great caverns cut deep into the earth to mine coal, where oil rigs suck out the richness of earth’s blood, using it to pollute the very air we breathe. When we see the rain forests, once beautiful and lush and sustaining us, now nearly dead with struggling efforts to live and breathe, we feel as though our very flesh has been ripped open, for our connection to the earth is deep. When we see great war machinery moving in to kill and maim we can hardly breathe, for we are feeling what their targets are feeling.
We also see the humans we are becoming as we evolve. We know that nothing is lost, nothing is really out of control. What we see are the birth pangs of a birthing and awakening to the next level of the human experience. We see and feel it all…from the anguish to the ecstasy as we shift from one level of consciousness to the next.
The evolving human is us. We are becoming more. We are aware that our beingness extends far beyond our physical bodies to include all else, and with this knowing, are compelled to fulfill our part in this planetary shift into a more joyful and loving world.
We feel the ecstasy of our own becoming, and great joy as in every moment more and more are reaching this threshold of Consciousness to join us as we create a new culture – a new world of love and sharing.
As we move swiftly into 2012, humanity is reaching the tipping point where we could loose it all – or we could gain our greatest dreams. My heart tells me that we are already tipping into the welcoming arms of our joyous evolved selves.
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Google Wallet security not foolproof: Rubin
NEW YORK SECURITY researchers said they found a vulnerability in the Google Inc mobile payments platform which is currently available in phones sold by Sprint Nextel Corp.
Mobile payment services that allow consumers to pay by waving their phone at a check-out terminal, instead of using a credit card, have long been available in Japan and some other countries but are only just emerging in the United States.
Isis, a venture of Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc and TMobile USA, is expected to launch an offering to compete with Google but has yet to announce a launch date.
The alleged vulnerability in the Google Wallet was identified by Joshua Rubin, a senior engineer with zvelo, a closely held security firm in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
Rubin developed an app dubbed Wallet Cracker that he says can break the four-digit PIN required to launch the Google Wallet app. He demonstrated how it works in a video on his blog.
Rubin said that he had disclosed his findings to Google and that the company “was able to confirm the issue and agreed to work quickly to resolve it.” Google spokesman Jay Nancarrow in an emailed statement said “We are working to resolve the issue,” even as he took issue with the study that prompted the allegations.
“The zvelo study was conducted on their own phone, on which they disabled the security mechanisms that protect Google Wallet by ‘rooting’ the device,” Nancarrow said.
Google, he added, recommends that people not install Google Wallet on “rooted” devices and that they should set up a screen lock as an additional layer of security.
Sprint representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Google’s Wallet partners also include Citigroup Inc and payment network MasterCard.
Emily Collins, a Citi spokeswoman, said no Citi cardholder information is stored in the Google Wallet nor are cardholders liable for unauthorized transactions.
Jimmy Shah, a security researcher for security software specialist McAfee, said on Friday that the vulnerability did not appear to be a very easy one to exploit.
But he said it was theoretically possible if a hacker was able to physically steal a user’s phone.
Shah said that a hacker would need time to install the Cracker app and to install another piece of malware to disable the phone’s security system before being able to run the Cracker app to retrieve the PIN number.
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The foodservice business is built on a supply chain that begins in the field and extends to processors, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and ultimately, the operator. The security of the food supply can be compromised at any of the connecting links, which means operators must get their own houses in order and check up on suppliers to be sure they are doing what they should.
The first and most obvious step for foodservice operators, according to Lisa Berger, MPH, CFSP, president of Berger Food Safety Consulting in Boston, is simply to ask purveyors to disclose their policies and procedures for food security. She recommends looking at factors such as whether or not the building itself is secured with an alarm system and perimeter fencing, how employees are screened to gain access to the facility and whether delivery trucks are sealed and not reopened until they arrive at an operator’s loading dock.
Ask the experts: Craig Phillips, vice president of purchasing for Metz and Associates, Ltd., in Dallas, Penn., regularly visits suppliers’ facilities, but he doesn’t recommend that most foodservice operators conduct these inspections themselves since they often don’t have the necessary background to do a comprehensive job.
What he recommends instead is that operators find out which agency is regularly inspecting that facility and check with the agency for feedback. “There are a lot of these type of agencies that do inspections,” he notes. “It’s the first thing I would want to see, and some assurances that they received a passing grade.”
Fresh produce is a particularly murky area when it comes to food safety and security, says Phillips. “There are many, many small companies up and down the street that have less than proper procedures in regard to keeping food quality high and safe,” he asserts. “I look for a highly professional company, which may cost a little more, that is run cleanly and keeps my product safe.”
Self inspections: “As far as I know there is no accrediting organization at this point like there is in terms of food safety and HACCP,” adds Berger. In her home state, however, the Massachusetts Division of Food and Drugs Food Protection Program offers a food security planning self-inspection checklist for, among others, food processors and distributors.
“The possibility of deliberate biological attacks on the food supply is becoming our new reality,” the division notes.
In these times of terrorist threats, it is evident that our nation’s food supply is a vulnerable area that we must look at more closely.”
The division offers detailed guidelines for food production facilities and distributors. For example, it suggests that a facility should use only approved sources for all ingredients, packaging and labels, and that access to outside wells, potable water and ice-making equipment be secured.
When it comes to finish product, says the Massachusetts division, suppliers should maintain an inventory, have a written recall procedure in place and appoint an employee or a team to conduct trace-back and product verification.
Good practices: Common sense should prevail in all cases, says Wayne Bryant, program administrator North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. His department inspects and provides certification for food production facilities and distributors that meet USDA’s criteria. The USDA’s Good Agricultural Practices and Good Handling Practices Audit Verification Matrix delves into several areas including procedures that employees and visitors should follow at food production sites and procedures for securing the facility.
Facility officials “need to make sure that anybody going in and out of the plant signs in, that people can’t just wander in,” says Bryant. Also, according to the USDA, facilities should offer food security training to all employees; employees should know exactly who to contact should a security problem arise; and visitors should be required to show identification, be prohibited from packing and storage areas without an employee and should be able to verify the purpose of the visit before being allowed in.
USDA’s suggested procedures for actually securing the facility include limiting computer access to specific personnel, conducting background checks on all employees, performing security checks for signs of tampering and criminal action, and segregating imported products from domestic ones.
Getting it wrong? However, International food security consultant Ray Pettit, president of Ray Pettit Enterprises in Milton, WA, suggests that the foodservice industry take a different approach to food security and take a closer look at accepted practices that may not be as effective as those who employ them expect them to be.
Security for food companies “is not an extension of, or an outgrowth of, food safety,” notes Pettit. The idea that food security is an off-shoot of food safety concerns is a “critical misunderstanding that has been perpetuated by food safety officials and directors…(and) institutionalized across all levels of government, trade associations, the trade media, and across the food industry itself.”
Pettit believes that this has led to widespread industry acceptance of security measures that often don’t provide sufficient protection to warrant their implementation.
Some of the measures include:
What Pettit calls the “greatest folly in our current national bio-terrorism protection strategy” is the open
and public discussion of the food industry’s vulnerability. Terrorists “know how to use ‘open sources’ of information to benefit their intelligence gathering and attack planning strategies,” he says.
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The Lies & Hypocrisy of Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States : Showtime Propaganda, Distortions, Quotes out of Context, Moral Equivocations. Where to begin with Oliver Stone’s morally bankrupt retelling of history through the eyes of Stone’s communist/socialist sympathetic world view. Along with his PhD partner fellow Marxist sympathizer Peter Kuznick they’ve done a pretty good job of distorting history with quotes out of context, moral equivocations between the United States leaders and mass murdering dictators of Stalin and Mao and Castro’s ilk.
Of course Stone defends his treatment of Stalin saying he does report in the documentary of Stalin’s crimes. True but when you listen to how he reports them, you’ll see how this Showtime propaganda piece has whitewashed the history to give Stalin reasons for his barbarism or glossing over the murders or stating the United States instigated the Soviet Union’s crimes against humanity and territorial expansion and aggression.
War69.com will dig into a particular episode to highlight the glaring mischaracterizations and outright lies Oliver Stone propagates in this so called documentary. But it will be striking to the viewer how time and time again in Stone’s narration, he utters one statement completely hypocritical to the previous statement. It was as if Stone was stoned while writing or voicing the narration. If you don’t do any research, simply listen to Stone’s narration, you see how poorly executed this piece of propaganda was delivered by Stone. You’ll also see how Stone will take quotes from the same leader and when they suit Stone and Kuznick’s world view, they are lauded, when the same leader’s quote is against communism and the Soviet Union, that quote is denigrated. In addition Stone will take a single quote, a single sentence from a U.S. President or Winston Churchill and proclaim it as if that leader never uttered anything contradictory, never updated the quote as he or she got older, never had conflicting quotes as to the specific contexts of history; leaders that have thousands of pages of speeches, diaries, books, and yet Stone defines them by his select quotes that defend his point of view.
You’ll also see how Stone takes the word of dictators like Joseph Stalin, when in a previous segment he quickly stated that Stalin was extremely paranoid, yet his supposed quotes offering trust and non aggression are to be taken at face value. Every single act or quote by the Soviet Union is to be trusted and when they do act out as in the invasion of Hungary, it is always because of the instigation of the United States. And of course Stone shows no quotes from Soviet leaders threatening America in any way, Stone acts as if we had no right to build up our military to defend ourselves from the Communist threat.
And one has to love Oliver Stone’s amateur psychoanalysis of U.S. Presidents like Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. Stone will remark about a Western leaders height or lack thereof, talk about them being bullied as a child or dressed up as a girl by their parents. Yet he offers no such look into the backgrounds or the short stature of Stalin and the psychological underpinnings of Mao. Nah, murder millions and Stone never looks into your psychological framework.
At one point Oliver Stone compares the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin’s view of Poland in the same way the United States views Mexico and Canada, as regions that need to be watched because of a potential invasion. This specious equivocation is laughable considering how many Polish people the Soviets killed or deported to work camps before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Stone acts as if Stalin held nothing against Poland, simply was concerned with the fact that it was a border country that could be used as a staging point for invasion. When the complete opposite has been proven by legitimate scholars. That after the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact was signed, the Soviets sought to stamp out Polish history and erase the entire culture.
Do you believe Oliver Stone when he says the rapes of German women ended once Stalin found out about them and ordered them to cease when Stalin himself ordered the killing or deportations of thousands of Soviet troops who made the mistake of being captured by German soldiers and were POW’s, yes folks if you were a Soviet troop that had the misfortune to survive WWII as a POW there was a pretty good chance you were not to be trusted by your dear leader Stalin and you would die in a Soviet gulag. Yes we are supposed to believe in the truth, compassion, and peacefulness of Stalin’s Russia.
We are supposed to believe Oliver Stone’s assertion that the Soviet Union’s post WWII domination of Eastern Europe was all in reaction to the United States interventions in countries like Greece and Italy when in fact that the Soviet-Nazi Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact already sliced and diced Eastern Europe into the Soviet Union’s hands before WWII ever started. It cut Poland in half and Stalin began murdering, arresting, staging elections, and gutting a culture. It offered up Finland, Estonia, and Latvia to the Soviets. Parts of Romania and most of Lithuania would be given to Stalin and the Soviet Union. When Finland did not cooperate, Stalin and the Soviet Union communists invaded Finland. Soviet troops then attacked Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. No mention of this from Oliver Stone. The most damning fact of history that goes against the essence of his documentary. The Soviet Union had a history of territorial expansion, of the outright murder of innocent civilians, of the forced deportation of innocent civilians in these countries to Soviet gulags and work camps, of the looting and gutting of a political structure. Given this history thank goodness Harry Truman did not trust the Soviets. But Oliver Stone will not even mention the facts.
According to Oliver Stone, Stalin and the Communists are the good guys, the United States are the bad guys. Sorry Oliver unlike your conspiracy theories about the U.S. training death squads etc. etc., the blood is on the hands of Soviet troops, actual murders, triggers pulled by the Soviets, orders sent down from Stalin and his comrades, death, destruction, famines caused by the collectivization of farms which you fail to mention in Oliver Stone’s False History of the United States.
Now War69.com will show some of the hypocritical and contradictory narrations of Oliver Stone from Episode 4: The Cold War 1945-1950:
Narration by Oliver Stone:
First some highlights: Stone mentions the U.S. dropping in dissidents via parachutes into Ukraine to foment a revolution but never mentions the millions of Ukraine citizens that dies since 1932 because of Stalin’s forced collectivization of the entire Ukraine farming industry.
Stone blames the Soviet inspired Communist Coup d’etat of Czechoslovakia in 1948 on the Marshall Plan but never mentions the Soviet archives that show that Stalin did not believe the communist party could win a parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia after the party lost in Italy and France and believed force had to be used.
Stone plays a quote from Stalin in which Stalin tells Tito the Communist dictator in Yugoslavia not to fight the United States in Greece. Stone uses this quote to assert that Stalin was not looking for expansion, he was honoring his WWII treaty agreements but if you listen to the quote that Stone uses, Stalin’s stated rationale is that he doesn’t think the U.S. can be defeated in Greece, that they are too strong a country to mess with so it is not worth the trouble. In addition Stone does not say anything about Tito truly pissing off Stalin by running an independent economy and not using one controlled by the Soviet Union. Stone also asserts that the U.S. tried to lump Tito in with the Soviet Union after their split as one big red menace. But Stone fails to mention that Tito accepted money from the U.S. Marshall Plan. Stone also doesn’t mention that the only successful independent split from the Soviet Union was met with Stalin trying multiple assassination attempts of Tito.
Stone mentions Mao Tse Tung’s revolutionary takeover of China in 1949, while Stone correctly labels the Chinese Nationalist Party that Mao defeats as corrupt, Stone never attributes a single murder to a man that eventually was responsible for between 30 and 50 million deaths either through forced starvation, direct murders especially during the Cultural Revolution, or indifference to famines caused by disastrous farming policies enacted by Mao.
Stone who during the documentary tries to make it sound like Stalin and the Soviet Union had no ambition to spread communism throughout the world, states that the Soviets installed the dictator of North Korea Kim Il-Sung, certainly this goes against Stone’s thesis and then once again the blames the United States. Stone states that Stalin ordered Il-Sung’s North Korea to invade South Korea but he did it out of anger because of the U.S. helping to build up Stalin’s rival Japan. You see Stone’s logic, we try to build up Western Europe and Germany’s economy as to avoid another World War and another Hitler and that gives Stalin the right to blockade West Berlin and build the Berlin Wall. The U.S. builds up Japan’s economy to avoid history repeating itself and that gives Stalin the right to invade South Korea. Stone is clearly out of whack mentally.
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Guest posting on the personal finance blog Budgets Are Sexy, Robert Sommers explains the difference between home equity lines of credit and home equity loans, which are also known as second mortgages.
If you already knew the difference before reading the post, you’re more savvy than I, who thought they were different names for the same thing. Not so, Sommers explains:
Home Equity Line of Credit, or HELOC, also allows a homeowner to borrow against the value of their home. The loan is essentially a form of revolving credit in which your home serves as collateral. There are two major differences between this type of loan and a standard HEL. First, a HELOC typically has a variable interest rate rather than a fixed one, meaning that the amount of your monthly interest changes just as it would for an adjustable rate mortgage. The second difference is that rather than receiving the entire amount as a lump sum at the start of the loan, the borrower is given a predetermined line of revolving credit that has a draw period of 5-25 years during which funds can be drawn whenever needed.
There is a maximum limit that can be taken out and a minimum payment that is due each month, with the borrower given the option to pay off as much of the line as he and/or she wants- much in the same way as you would with a credit card or other revolving line of credit. A big advantage that comes with a HELOC is that the borrower pays interest only on the money that they draw, rather than the entire sum as they would with a Home Equity Loan.
Sommers says HELs are better if you’re using the money for set expenses, while HELOCs make more sense if the amount of extra money you’ll be needing varies.
It’s definitely best to avoid either unless absolutely necessary, because both can be gateway drugs to bankruptcy.
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My title comes from the chorus of a song on the Jam’s second album, This Is the Modern World (1977). Written by the band’s singer and guitarist Paul Weller, the song is a bombastically ironic attack on the enforcers of social conformity.
But if Weller were not a socially conscious rock musician and instead were a computational scientist, he might have still chanted, “Standards rule OK!” For without standards in hardware, software, and data formats, our work would be less efficient and less effective.
I first appreciated the importance of computer standards when I worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in the early 1990s. My field, x-ray astronomy, was just three decades old at the time. The first pioneering missions could detect only a handful of bright objects. But their successors—among them the European Space Agency’s European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT; 1983–86) and NASA’s Einstein Observatory (1978−82)—observed thousands of x-ray emitting stars, galaxies, and other cosmic objects. Then came Germany’s Röntgen Satellite (ROSAT; 1990−99) and Japan’s Ginga (1987−91), which added to that swelling collection.
Because spacecraft telemetry is limited by bandwidth, the data gathered and beamed to Earth by satellite observatories are packaged in efficient, instrument-specific formats—15 altogether for the instruments carried by the four spacecraft listed above. In contrast with the diversity of telemetry formats, the figures that embody the data’s scientific content (and ultimately appear in research papers) typically come in a smaller set of generic flavors: images, spectra, and light curves.
Creating those figures entails background subtraction, binning, filtering, and other generic tasks. In principle, the software that, say, Fourier-transforms a data stream from EXOSAT‘s Medium Energy instrument could do the same for a data stream from Ginga‘s Large-Area Counter. But the raw formats are as different as Dutch and Japanese. If the same software is to work with data from those and other missions, the data must be translated into a common format. And that format must be flexible enough to accommodate new instruments.
My former colleagues at GSFC duly picked such a format: flexible image transport system (FITS). Originally developed for optical and radio data, FITS makes extensive use of headers and keywords. Like XML, FITS is extensible. Whenever a new detector technology comes online, new keywords and data structures are defined within the FITS framework. Granted, someone has to write an instrument-specific program that translates telemetry into FITS, but no one has to take on the more onerous job of rewriting data analysis software.
When I left GSFC in 1997, astronomers there and elsewhere used three software programs to analyze their data: Xspec (for spectra), Xronos (for light curves), and Ximage (for images). Now, 14 years later, they’re still using the same three programs for data from observatories that launched years after my departure.
FITS made its public debut in 1981 in a paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics. On 30 November of that same year, the Swedish pop group ABBA’s eighth and final album The Visitors became the first recording available on a new format, the compact disc. Although CD sales are waning, it remains a durable standard—at least I hope so. I have six Jam CDs.
This essay by Charles Day first appeared on page 96 of the September/October 2011 issue of Computing in Science & Engineering, a bimonthly magazine published jointly by the American Institute of Physics and IEEE Computer Society.
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A medical powerhouse where Western and Oriental medicine coexist
Korea’s medical industry has achieved significant growth in recent years. Together with quality medical services, the nation’s advanced medical technologies have also been highly recognized. Medical professionals are appraised for their outstanding abilities and skills by international associations. In 2011, the revenue from medical tourism reached 116 million dollars.
Those visiting Korea for medical tourism can experience Western medicine as well as nationally-certified traditional Korean medicine. The treatments of traditional Korean medicine are based on medicinal herbs, and mainly involve treatments using acupuncture and moxibustion. Korean traditional medicine prescribes treatment based on scientific findings like the patients’ physical constitution and flow of qi energy. This has the advantage of healing the body without using chemical drugs or resorting to an invasive surgical operation.
☞ Oriental medicine tours
☞ Medical Tourism
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There are a variety of ways of including price, but remember that for the customer price is not necessarily related to cost and what you're trying to do is understand how customers use price to indicate value.
The simplest method is to keep price as a single independent attribute and see how preferences vary by a price and feature combination - you can then evaluate the price value of individual items - in other words how preferences are counterbalanced by price. You may need to exclude the most extreme combinations.
If you want to infer prices for each individual attribute, then you will need to be more sophisticated. For instance, do you only allocate one value (or price delta value) to design/density/brand etc, or do you allow price to vary within design. If you fix the price are you already constraining what you think the customer values?
For instance it might be valid to have a low price high quality carpet from an unknown brand, compared to a high price, branded, but low quality carpet. If you make the assumption that high quality is high price for instance, you're already constraining the options. For this reason you may find it more useful to stick with a simple independent price variable.
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PETA urged Safeway to follow the lead of McDonald's by instituting higher animal-welfare standards for its suppliers, but 18 months of discussions netted no improvements.
In February 2002, PETA launched a campaign against Safeway and its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada. Our campaign included more than 100 demonstrations in 20 states and four Canadian provinces, as well as powerful advertisements and celebrity involvement.
In May 2002, Safeway announced that it would immediately begin auditing one of its pig suppliers and would implement new minimum animal welfare standards that would initially mirror those of the fast-food giants but quickly surpass them. Safeway was the first U.S. grocery chain to make much-needed improvements in the conditions of farmed animals, as well as the first Fortune 50 Corporation to do so.
For more information on the Safeway victory, including a complete timeline, please visit Shameway.com.
Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights? Read more.
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Ok, to begin with I am fully aware of the bathroom humor that accompanies any discussion of Core Exercise Balls, and to be perfectly honest, I participate in that sort of sophomoric tomfoolery more than almost anyone! But to get this review past all those Internet content filters, we'll exit that road right there, and stick with the clean names…
So whether you call yours a Pilate Ball, or a Fitness Ball, or a Pezzi Ball, they've been around for nearly 50 years, and many folks swear by them! The most common uses of the Core Exercise Ball are for flexibility training and abdominal training, and for the purposes of the list I've compiled here, those are the activities I've focused on. Certainly, there are many other reasonable, and perhaps some not-so-reasonable, ways to utilize the Core Exercise Ball, but for all the “cooky stuff,” you're on your own.
The overall concept is simple: exercising on, and with, hard surfaces that don't “give,” create stress on the body, and especially on the joints. If we can introduce a softer surface to the process, we should be able to exercise longer with less negative impact on the joints, right? Hence, the creation of the Core Exercise Ball!
The Core Exercise Ball is great for flexibility and balance, and is commonly incorporated into many aerobic activities as a way to stretch and loosen up at the beginning of a workout. Similarly, the core exercise ball is also recognized as a highly effective abdominal training tool, by getting the back and butt up off the hard floor and onto the softer pillow like surface; thus, it is often incorporated into a “core abdominal routine” at the end of the workout.
Three things to look for in a core exercise ball:
1) Is it the right size?
2) Is it right material?
3) Is it built to last?
Two things to look for in a Core Exercise Ball Book:
1) Does it focus on the right exercises? You don't want to get a book about Pilates if you're looking for a strength routine.
2) Is it the appropriate fitness ability level? Many of these books have beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, and there certainly is no shame in thinking ambitiously; but why waste time or torture your self confidence by reading content that is totally out of reach.
Work out with the best exercise ball that helps you build your core. With these core exercise ball, you'll not only build those belly muscles but create a new sense of balance in your whole body.
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If you read this blog much you probably know by now that I'm a sucker for "making of" videos and stories. It doesn't matter who the artist is, you can always learn something from their creative experience because each one is so unique.
Here's the making of Jimi Hendrix's Dolly Dagger from the Rainbow Bridge album. The song was never a big hit, but a "making of" really doesn't have to be. I have a little bit of a connection to Rainbow Bridge in that I was the producer and surround mixer for the DVD release, and my good friend Eddy Schreyer's (a great mastering engineer and owner of Oasis Mastering) father was the cinematographer on the film.
The video features a very young Eddie Kramer (engineer for most of Jimi's records) working on an API console and an Ampeg MM-1100 tape recorder (gear that I cut my teeth on as well), which probably dates this to about the early 70's. Eddie has also been a friend for a long time and is featured in a couple of my books. You can read an excerpt of an interview with him from The Recording Engineer's Handbook.
The video is interesting in that Eddie talks about how complicated the song is, and it really is for the time. Today, most engineer's would revel in it's simplicity, but it's still pretty interesting to see and hear how it was put together.
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As governments and businesses strive to remain competitive in a cyber era, the Economist Intelligence Unit, in sponsorship with Booz Allen, set out to understand the significance of cyber power around the world, and develop a Cyber Hub to provide an overview of the digital arena.
The Cyber Hub's content was built on several integral parts: an interactive index that assesses specific aspects of the cyber environment of the G20 countries, and a series of research papers that examine the implications for the business community.
The research papers examine how the business community is responding to the opportunities and challenges offered by cyber. The investigation begins with an exploration of how organizations and government authorities can build cyber resilience. It then focuses on the specific challenges created by an increasingly mobile workforce. Both papers are based on surveys of senior executives and interviews with experts.
The Cyber Power Index was developed to gain a better understanding of factors influencing cyber power globally. The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative model, constructed from 39 indicators and sub-indicators that measure specific attributes of the cyber environment across four drivers of cyber power: legal and regulatory framework; economic and social context; technology infrastructure; and industry application, which examines digital progress across key industries.
This benchmarking exercise covers 19 countries of the Group of 20 (G20), excluding its last member, the EU. Each country was evaluated relative to others by an Economist Intelligence Unit analyst; categories and individual indicators were weighted according to assumptions of their relative importance. Details on the methodology, including weighting, can be found in the appendix of the Cyber Power Index Findings and Methodology paper.
To learn more visit The Cyber Hub.
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LOS ANGELES AND FREMONT, CALIF. — Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to abandon its assembly line in Fremont marks the end of large-scale auto manufacturing in California, which over the years boasted a dozen or more plants building vehicles ranging from Studebakers to Camaro muscle cars.
The Japanese automaker said Thursday that it would end production at the plant March 31, throwing 4,700 people out of work, and return some production to Japan.
It's another hard blow for California, a state already grappling with an 11.9% unemployment rate -- its highest since World War II and the fourth-worst in the nation.
In addition to wiping out the jobs directly tied to the plant, closing the facility will send ripples through the web of suppliers that make components for the factory and through nearby stores, restaurants and bars that depend on its workers for business.
Overall, closing the plant could cost more than 40,000 jobs, according to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has worked with other public officials to try to keep the plant open. But communications with Toyota eventually broke down, she said.
Operated as a joint venture between Toyota and the former General Motors Corp. since 1984, the plant saw its future put in doubt last month when GM pulled out of the arrangement as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
Executives of the venture, New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., told union members Thursday morning about Toyota's decision. It is the first time that Toyota has ever closed a major auto assembly plant.
Assembly line worker Jose Hernandez, 40, who commutes 75 miles to the plant from the Central Valley town of Ceres, said the news was a bit surprising because the plant had been busy since the government's "cash for clunkers" program jump-started auto sales this month.
"What can I do, look for a job, which is going to be very difficult right now?" he asked.
End of an era
Shutting down the plant will be another milepost in the long erosion of California's once-thriving auto industry -- a decline that is being only partly offset by the rise of a new breed of start-up car companies specializing in such advanced technology as all-electric drivetrains.
The old plants with their union payrolls provided a vital boost into the middle class for many Californians.
"The auto industry was very important in this state," said Jack Kyser, economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "You could be a less-than-stellar student in high school and go to work on an assembly line, and pretty soon you were making good wages with good benefits."
Many of the shuttered plants were either bulldozed or converted into shopping malls, where paychecks for retail clerks typically are much skimpier. The old GM plant in Van Nuys is now a shopping center anchored by Home Depot, for instance, and a Samson Tire & Rubber factory in City of Commerce was turned into the Citadel mall.
Analysts say those better-paying union jobs, along with other costs of doing business in California, are big reasons that California's auto production has fled overseas or to other, lower-cost states.
The Fremont plant, which makes Corolla compact cars and Tacoma pickups for Toyota and, until last week, Pontiac Vibe hatchbacks for GM, was the Japanese company's only U.S. auto plant with a union workforce. As Japanese and German automakers opened vehicle production to the U.S. beginning in the 1980s, they often have opted for states such as Kentucky, Texas and Alabama, where union shops are more rare.
"It just made sense for Toyota to pull the plug," said Dennis Virag, president of the Automotive Consulting Group in Ann Arbor, Mich. "When you look at states like Kentucky and Tennessee, California just isn't competitive in manufacturing with its taxes, regulations and overall cost of doing business."
The costs apparently outweighed a package of incentives put together by state and local officials in an effort to persuade Toyota to stay in Fremont. The incentives included tax breaks, lower utility rates and publicly funded road and rail improvements around the plant, according to Feinstein.
State Sen. Dave Cox (R-Fair Oaks) said an executive from the Fremont plant had expressed concern to lawmakers about the state's workers' compensation system, overtime laws and employee leave requirements.
On Thursday, Toyota blamed the end of the joint venture on GM's decision to pull out of the arrangement. It also said that producing cars at Fremont wasn't "economically viable" given the current auto market, the worst in decades. The automaker, which reported its largest-ever annual loss this year, has been cutting production in Japan and elsewhere amid falling sales.
Atsushi Niimi, a Toyota executive vice president, said the union presence didn't influence the decision to close the plant. But he acknowledged that "California's cost of living is relatively high, which leads to higher labor costs compared to other regions."
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Films Directed by Leni Riefenstahl
TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (1935)
"It seemed as if the earth's surface were spreading out in front of me", Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph des Willens remains the single most controversial film of its time. It is the film which has forced Leni Riefenstahl into cinematic exile. Inaccuracies are perpetuated by some who see it as "the film that started the Holocaust" . The anger directed toward the artist is not helped by Riefenstahl's own honesty about her perspective on Hitler and the Third Reich which was favorable in 1934. Yet, historically it is clear that Riefenstahl's perspective was at a time that long preceded concentration camps, "the final solution", and World War II.
The film has been banned in Germany since the War. At a recent exhibit in Potsdam of Riefenstahl's photographic work, it was noted that the crowds were not looking at her oversized images of Africa. Rather they were crowding around a small TV that was playing a tape of Triumph des Willens. In Germany it was the only known public "screening" of that film in over fifty years.
Premiere screening of Triumph des Willens, 1935
French cinema acknowledges the artistic effort
Whatever one's perspective, its place in film and world history is not in doubt.
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Costs have to come down for space and there needs to be a space based economy.
What is the economy for a moon colony ? Platinum maybe. helium three in the future. tourism.
The orbital economy, space based solar power, tourism and entertainment.
We have a longer wait for more countries and companies to get into the space game. this will make colonization and space more competitive and progress less dependent upon a now quite ineffective US government space program.
Reference on historical colonization.
About 350,000 people migrated to the Americas in the 1600's. 1.5 million in the 1700's. By 1670, There 500 crossings going up to 1500 by 1730. Each of the ships could carry up to 200 or so colonists. Many were moving tons goods back and forth. Various supplies one way and furs and other stuff the other way.
Point being: to colonize space. You have to make a lot of trips (or move a heck of lot of stuff in fewer trips) and move a lot of stuff and live off the resources that are there. Plus there should be economic reasons or strong societal reasons for it.
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Amy Myers Jaffe is an energy consultant and the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Policy Studies at Rice University.
The latest round of briefing papers on oil published over the last week on Wall Street is a testament to how quickly things can change when it comes to oil prices. Less than a few months after Brent crude prices topped $125 a barrel, Wall Street is suddenly predicting a possible collapse in oil prices to $50 a barrel.
The forecasts, which may or may not prove to be correct, reflect more than just a cloudy economic outlook for Europe. There appears to be a definitive shift brewing in long-range perceptions about future oil supplies.
With the shale oil boom promising over one million barrels a day of new oil production within a year in the United States, analysts are coming out of the woodwork to embrace falling oil prices. The new word on the street when it comes to oil is “sell.” Already, the long oil price, that is, futures prices going out past a year, has fallen to $85 a barrel, down from over $100 a barrel earlier this year.
Citigroup Global Markets took the lead last week with predictions of a cyclical shift that could cause prices to slide in the long term to as low as $50 a barrel. In their latest publication, “Zeroing In On the Long-Term Oil Prices,” Citi analysts state: “Signs are abounding that the escalation in upstream capital spending is bearing fruit, with a surge in discoveries and reserve bookings that is already being converted into new production, particularly in North America.
“There are no reasons to believe the supply boom in Canada and the United States is about to end,” they write. “To the contrary, it appears likely to start spreading across the world.”
Citigroup points to a new peak in upstream capital expenditures and the likelihood of a further cost deflation in shale oil economics as potential indicators of a cyclical downturn. “Current shale oil economics are in the $50-to-$80-a-barrel range,” the analysts write. “But as technology continues to mature, there is the likelihood of further cost deflation.”
This week Credit Suisse is singing a similar song. “Critically different in the narrative around the current oil market view is a simply bearish view of global economic growth that combines with a positively sanguine view of supply,” its analysts write. In the latest issue of its Oil Sense report, Credit Suisse also suggests a severe credit crunch from Europe, against the backdrop of cheaper shale oil prices, could deflate oil prices to $50 a barrel.
Oswald Clint of Sanford Bernstein is hailing Russia’s Bazhenov shale as a formation that will dwarf North Dakota’s, and bloggers are noting that the state of California has enormous shale oil reserves of 24 billion barrels. Barclay’s is more sanguine, expecting stabilization at recent lows below $100 for Brent crude but issuing a similar warning to those who might want to bet that oil prices are about to go back up.
In the short term, oil prices may or may not gyrate in coming weeks in response to events in the Middle East. But the change from Wall Street’s previous obsession with rising oil prices prompts me to say “I told you so” to friends and confidants from the Middle East who thought prices were bound to stay structurally high based on the expectation that the end of “easy oil” would force investors to shift to more costly oil plays.
As in past decades, technology is increasingly upending fears of impending oil scarcity, causing the costs of unconventional oil and gas development to fall dramatically. Indeed, the technology costs of converting one form of hydrocarbon to another and the costs of providing alternative automotive engine technologies are also likely to fall. So I feel at peace with my original contention that, in the long run, oil prices are cyclical, and that high prices invite the creation of new technologies, ensuring that the upswing of the cycle is eventually followed by the downward slope.
That is the lesson of $147 oil. It propelled shale oil technology and drilling more rapidly than anyone expected. And if you top off shale oil technology with the arrival of more fuel-efficient car technology, ditto on the possibility that oil prices will moderate over time. Experienced futures brokers like Andrew Lebow of Jeffries Bach agree: Shale is already taking the wind out of the sails of long-term oil futures prices.
My point, however, is not that we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Wall Street oil price predictions can be notoriously inaccurate. And some analysts are arguing that shale’s potential is being overblown.
Still, that the herd can change its mind is a signal that the feeding frenzy in oil is losing force. There is definitely going to be more oil from shale, and our cars are going to need less of the stuff. Does that mean a major disruption of Middle East oil couldn’t push us back to $147 oil? No. But it might mean that a major disruption of Middle East oil might be less punishing down the road.
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By Andy Mannix
By Caleb Hannan
By Olivia LaVecchia
By CP Staff
By Aaron Rupar
By Jacob Wheeler
By Olivia LaVecchia
By Aaron Rupar
What the coming climate has in store by way of climate flips is unclear. But there are scenarios pointing just about any possible direction--one, by UM associate professor Robert Johnson, suggests that global warming could actually send the glaciers that once covered Minnesota creeping back from the Arctic. "Climate is an angry beast," Wallace Broecker of Columbia University's Lamond-Doherty Earth Observatory has said, "and we are poking it with sticks."
One thing researchers know for sure is that carbon dioxide is a remarkably long-lived gas. Almost all the CO2 humans have been sending into the atmosphere for the past century is still up there (minus, that is, the 50 percent or so plants have obligingly extracted), and will affect climate for another century or more. Children born now may see the rate of climate change slow down, if they live long lives and if most fossil-fuel burning stops immediately.
Which, of course, will not happen. But coal and oil consumption could come down--drastically if desired, slowly otherwise. This is something the IPCC considered. One of the most interesting graphics in its 1995 report shows just how much warming is likely, both for this generation and the next few, under various "emissions scenarios."
Under the most benevolent of those scenarios, humans would put the brakes on fossil-fuel burning to the point where CO2 emissions would increase just a little for the next 25 years, and then begin declining. By about 2100 they'd be back to where they were in 1960 and keep going down. This is what the science panel called the "safe trajectory"--not because it would avoid global warming, but because average temperatures would rise a mere 2.5 degrees over the next 100 years. The commission figured that was the upper range to which humans and ecosystems could more or less adjust.
For a moment, it looked as if the world's politicians were listening. In a 1992 convention signed by, among others, George Bush, the governments of 157 nations promised to "achieve... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." As a first step, by 2000 they would all rein in their carbon emissions to 1990 rates. And by 1997, they would get together to determine "legally binding" targets for the next century. A meeting to do just that is set for December in Kyoto, Japan.
Judging from the performance of the first five years, the signatories aren't doing too well. Worldwide, carbon emissions are up some 6 percent over the 1990 level, and rising; the U.S. is in the lead, set to overshoot the target by as much as 11 percent. (It's also the world's biggest carbon user, period: The average American is responsible for some five tons of CO2 each year, compared to 2.5 for the average Japanese and a mere 0.25 tons for the average East Indian.) Bill Clinton came into office promising to get serious about emissions reduction; yet when international negotiations turn to how much and how fast, the American delegation has a reputation for blocking any firm targets. It's thus earned itself the designation of "chief of the carbon club."
It's not until you start reading the international press that you realize just how far out of step that position is. Not that the U.S. is alone in wanting to keep burning fossil fuels; everyone does, with varying degrees of hypocrisy. But no other industrialized nation seems to cling to the notion that climate change is just a theory. Which, in turn, reveals the depth of the public-relations war that has shaped debate here.
One recent effort was particularly instructive: In 1994, a group called the Information Council on the Environment (ICE) launched a campaign aimed explicitly at "repositioning global warming as theory rather than fact." It included, according to internal memos, locating and funding scientists who would question global warming; getting them interviewed by the press; and producing ads that asked things like "If the earth is getting warmer, why is Minneapolis getting colder?" Those spots, a campaign memo noted, should be aired on shows appealing to "older and less educated men" and "young, low-income women" in districts that got their electricity from coal plants and, if possible, had a representative on one of Congress's energy committees.
ICE was sponsored by coal-industry trade groups, who called off the whole endeavor after its existence became known. But kindred efforts have continued, chiefly by way of funding and publicizing a small but vocal group of researchers known as the "climate skeptics." The best-known are Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia, Richard Lindzen of MIT, and "rebirth of the biosphere" theorist Idso.
Contrary to what some greenhouse activists like to claim, these are not uncredentialed kooks. Their research, when it appears in scientific journals, is subjected to the same scrutiny as anyone else's, and in many cases it opens interesting questions about the climate puzzle. What it does not do is balance the weight of evidence on the other side--unless, that is, the voices of the skeptics are amplified beyond what their number would warrant.
Other key bits of information, by contrast, haven't been nearly as well publicized. A number of economists calculate that industrialized countries could cut their CO2 emissions by up to 30 percent at no net cost. Even further reductions are feasible with technology allowing cars and power plants to run on "fuel cells" in which natural gas is converted to energy without being burned. As the IPCC noted, each factory, power plant, and office building will be replaced at least once within the next century anyway, "offering opportunities to change the energy system without premature retirement of capital stock."
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Tips For Preventing and Healing Foot Problems
Since our feet are what bear the brunt of most of the harsh aspects in our everyday lives, it is vital we learn to give back and take care of our feet in order to prevent the never ending list of feet problems.
Feet problems are very common and are nothing to be ashamed about. Many of us have been there, experienced the pain and discomfort, and the embarrassment of facing these issues. However there is something you can do to help yourself, and that is learn ways of how to prevent such problems in occurring in tine, and if not, then ways to treat and care for you special feet.
Here are a list of the most common feet problem, feet problem symptoms, and ways to treat or prevent them.
Bacterial and Fungal Feet Problems
This is a very common problem and interestingly – has little to do with poor hygiene habits. Bacterial and fungal feet problems are very common amongst athletes. This is because athletes spend a lot of their time training in closed shoes. The shoe then becomes moist from the sweat, humid from the heat and it is obviously dark.These three conditions are a breeding ground for bacteria. This problem is something you need to take care of immediately as once it starts spreading it will get a lot worse! This includes Blisters, Peeling, Dry skin, Red skin. Preventing this problem from occurring and treating is very easy. All you have to do is learn how to give your feet a break and let them air. Keep them extra clean and make sure they are dry. And most importantly, make sure you change your shoes and socks regularly!
Flat fleet may lead to severe pain in the knees, lower back and ankles. Moreoever, individuals with flat feet are more prone to foot related injuries (such as sprains) and may even experience poor coordination. However, not everyone with flat feet experience the above mentioned complications. If you do, there are many specialists that design footwear and other equipment which may help flat fleet.
Ingrown toenails are commonly caused as a result of the nail breaking into the skin surrounding the toe. This is where the necessity of basic hygiene kicks in. In order to prevent this from happening, it is important you trim your toe nails on a regular basis and cut them in a straight line.
This is caused due to shortened tendons in the toe that control movements. This can severely effect your balance and the way you walk. Some people with dire hammertoe conditions even require surgery, while those who do not, may wear loose fitted closed shoes that are comfortable, more spacious and easy to walk with.
Spurs may be caused by standing for long periods, wearing uncomfortable shoes constantly or being overweight. Those with spurs are advised to wear heal pads or heel cups. However, those who experience a severe case of spurs are probably even in need of surgery. A doctor should be consulted.
This is caused when the joints of your toes no longer fit together properly and thereofore cause your toe to become very tender and even swollen. This is usually a hereditary problem and therefore depending on the severity of your bunion problem you can wear pads inside your shoe that will help protect and cushion your bunion or you can even buy shoes with a deeper and wider in step!
Dry Skin and Irritation
Dry skin is another very common foot problem that can be easily treated and prevented. All you have to do is lather up some moisturizing soap and some nice creamy moisturizer or lotion and just apply on your feet, daily. This will help both, preventing and treating dry skin and irritation.
Calluses and Corns
This problem is caused by the constant rubbing of the bony parts of your feet to your shoe. This can easily be prevented and treated by purchasing comfortable, well fitted shoes or even by wearing pads inside your shoes to attain a cushioning between the two.
Warts are skin growths mainly caused by viruses that need to either be frozen off or burnt. However there are proper clinics and specialist who provide this service. If these are not rid of in time they can spread.
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Communicate Your Food Truck's Marketing Message with Public Relations
You need to determine how to share your food truck's marketing message with your community. Three of the most common methods of message promotion are public relations (PR), advertising, and social media. Using PR in particular to market your food truck gives your targeted customers the ability to become familiar with what your business is all about before you even hit the streets.
Public relations means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For you, the basic purpose of public relations is to shape and maintain the image of your food truck business in the eyes of anyone who will ever form an opinion about it. The main goal of your public relations strategy is to enhance your company’s reputation.
The food truck industry is extremely competitive. You need to have an edge that makes your business stand out from the crowd, something that makes it more appealing and interesting to both the public and the media.
The public is your current and future customers, whereas the media is partly responsible for selling your brand. Your PR efforts help you give the public and the media a better understanding of who you are.
Although PR is one of the most powerful ways to promote your business, it also has several disadvantages that you need to be aware of:
Coming up with an interesting press release isn’t always easy.
Measuring the success of a PR campaign is difficult.
Selecting the appropriate media may be challenging.
Controlling the interpretation of your press releases is tricky.
Do public relations for your food truck yourself
Many start-up businesses don’t have a budget for PR at the outset, so they take the responsibility for PR on themselves. You can take the following steps to get off on the right foot:
Understand what makes news.
Apply your marketing message and determine what newsworthy information you have to share that would interest readers, listeners, or viewers.
For example, are you launching a food truck that will be the very first of a specific type of ethnic cuisine to be offered in your community? Have you just secured permitting in a city in which you’ll be the very first food truck? Is your business doing a lot of charity work in your community?
These types of topics are appealing leads to the media, and by talking with relevant journalists, you may secure a few column inches or air time to promote yourself.
PR is all about getting closer to your audience by amplifying your marketing messages and inspiring others to tell your story. You can get your message to relevant journalists via press releases, your website, and other social media platforms.
Stories that are of interest to your customers but don’t make good news stories are perfect for your website. You can also tweet links to updates and any coverage you manage to secure to make your online presence work even harder.
Getting some help from PR agencies
Owning a food truck can seem like a 24/7 operation where some business tasks simply must be farmed out to consultants to be completed. Read through the following reasons why some food truck owners select this route to help you determine whether hiring a PR agency is the right avenue for you:
They don’t have enough time to devote to it. PR requires more than flipping an on switch and walking away. PR continues to benefit you only if you put more effort into it. Just like other marketing functions, consistent, strategic, and measurable PR is something that needs to be planned for and executed over a long period of time.
They want to maximize their launch. Most business owners understand the importance of their initial launch to the success of their business. PR is much more than just writing a press release and sending it out via a wire service. Having a partner who can maximize your media relations, events, and other PR-related activities in conjunction with a major press release can help you successfully launch your truck.
If you plan on utilizing an outside agency for your launch, you need to make sure you have a system in place to continue all the energy and momentum you’ve built after the launch is over. The worst thing you can do is launch your truck with a huge amount of fanfare and then fade away without maximizing what you and your agency spent months developing.
They’re in a crowded market. Food truck owners who are trying to compete in large, well-established, or crowded markets may see some benefits to hiring an outside PR agency. A good agency can develop a strategy that focuses on your company’s strengths and makes you stand out from your competitors.
Find out about agencies that have experience within the restaurant or food truck industry by asking fellow food truck or restaurant owners for recommendations. Look at press releases issued by other food trucks to see who represents them.
After you identify a few agencies that seem appropriate, take a look at their websites or call and ask for general information about their services, including a complete or mobile-food-industry-related client list. If you plan to get the word out about your opening, hire an agency about a month before you plan to hit the streets.
If you have a limited budget, consider hiring an intern from a local college to do the PR work for you. In most cases, interns will work for a low price or for free.
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How well do winter-eclosing monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) fare in southern California?
Three days ago I was observing the abundance of caterpillars, which will inevitably become pupae, then eclosing butterflies. By the way, winter maturation of monarch caterpillars is common here; I see lots of them each winter.
I found one recently emerged adult the day I posted on the caterpillars. The weather that day was cool, breezy and partly sunny. By late afternoon, this butterfly was lying in the garden path. I blew some hot air on it and it began to move in my cupped hand. So I brought it inside for the night to see if it would take flight the next day. It didn't. You can see the wings have hardened in a slightly crinkled state, probably not likely to sustain flight. I had offered the butterfly sliced orange as a food source but couldn't confirm if it had taken any.
The next day turned out to be rainy; while the rumpled butterfly hung on a twig in its wine box on the back porch, I found another monarch very recently emerged hanging from the foliage in a misty rain. So I brought that one indoors too.
The outcome for each of these butterflies was not good. The first one never took flight and seemed terribly weak by the morning of 12/19. The second one's wing was malformed and parts of the chrysalis were stuck to its body. It flapped its wings vigorously but never took flight.
I set the two butterflies in sunny spots in the garden where maybe, if butterflies have feelings, they could feel the warmth of the sun one time before they died.
However I'm sure conditions in winter-- Rain, cold, cold wind, lack of abundant flowers to feed on, short day length--take a toll on the adult monarch population that manages to successfully eclose. On the other hand, many more caterpillars thrive during the winter because the population of wasps that prey on them is so much lower in the cold, and weather conditions don't seem to harm the larvae as they can the adults. Perhaps a higher number of less fit (genetically) caterpillars live longer in winter because they aren't eaten by wasps but then get weeded out by the perilous process of pupation, made even more risky by unfavorable weather. Or, because there are so many more pupations this time of year (because so many more caterpillars are maturing) does it just seem like there are an awful lot of failures, but percentage-wise is it the same as during spring/summer/fall?
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Seems to me like yesterday;—
Walkin’ down the beaten path,
Where the autumn aftermath
Glistened with the April wet.
Tryin’ to look green and yet
Kind of limp and lonesome lay,
Gettin' long toward Easter time;
Days the city folks calls Lent,—
Little that we cared or spent
What they called it, prose or rhyme,
More than twenty years ago.—
Me and my old playmate Joe;
Back in dear old Yucatan
Township, where Root River ran.
What we cared fur was the wood
Filled with flowing maple sap.
And the bluff above the gap
Where the Mississippi’s flood,—
Floating many a steamboat craft,
Many a Chippewa forest raft,—
Met our boyish gaze and curled
Round the bend into the world.
Then the mill—pond and the dam
Spearing red horse in the race;
And below our swimming-place
Was a cave where Turkey Sam
Shot and killed a hungry bear—
Oftentimes we’d go and peer
In about the rocks and stones
Looking for dead Injuns’ bones
While our hearts felt awful queer.
But about them Easter eggs—
We had fixed it—Joe and I—
Talked it over on the sly.
Makin’ tops and mumble-pegs;
Playin’ marble and high spy; —
Next time Easter day come round
We would know where eggs was found;
Many a jocund, boyish boast.
‘Bout the eggs wed have to roast
Over in the poplar grove
Just this side of Knox’s cove—
Then there’d be a ‘big surprise;—
When we’d from our hidden store
Bring our Easter eggs galore
How the folks would bug their eyes!
I remember ‘long in March,
Mild and early was the spring.
Say, how them old hens did sing!
How the folks for eggs would search.
Mother couldn’t understand—
Fed ‘em table scraps and meat—
Combs was red and slick and neat.
Cackle, and they’d kick the sand
Through their feathers with their feet.
Joe and I—we understood,—
Playin’ ‘round the old barnyard,
Watched them old hens weasel hard
Tryin' to hide away and brood
Every secret cleft and nook,—
Underneath the horses’ stall,
High up on the smoke house wall.
Knowed ‘em better than a book;—
Out beside the pile o' rails,
in the tool house by the nails,—
Where a hen could crawl or fly,
We went after,— Joe and I.
Then to make a hiding place,
In the corner of a stack,
Lay a weatherbeaten rack—
Crawled beneath it on our face
With a forked, crooked pole
Worked and twisted through the straw,
Roughest work I ever saw;
Made a long and narrow hole,
Then by twisting round and round.
Dug a nest close to the ground.
In it went our Easter eggs:
Many a time I hurt my back
Skoochin’ under that old rack.
Rusty nails would scratch my legs—
Still, as Easter time drew nigh,
Poked ‘em in there on the sly;—
One thing troubled us—old Nig
Our old Spanish topknot hen,
Disappeared, we couldn’t find,
Not a feather left behind
Just to show where she had been.
Last our Easter Sunday came—
Seems to me like yesterday,
In that old familiar path
With the autumn aftermath
Lying round like locks of hay:—
All the cast was clouds of flame
Like that early Easter morn
When the Son, of woman born,
Rose and rolled the stone away.—
Bright and early did we creep
Underneath that beaten rack,
Scratched our legs and punched our back,
Reached in for them eggs, when "cheep,"
"Cheep, cheep, cheep" and "cluck, cluck, cluck"
And Joe says "Dog on our luck,
"Ef it haint that old black hen,
"Ef she ain’t a’gone and ben
"Just a settin’ with her legs
"Straddled on our Easter eggs,
An’ what’s more—it beats the dickens
"Half them Easter eggs is chickens."
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Tomboys can be of any age. The term usually refers to someone of the female gender who enjoys participating in typically male gender activities. It can range from cars to canoeing, and everything 'typically' male in our society. Tomboys are not only capable of easily navigating in a man's world, but they can also be feminine and sexy when they desire to be. They do it because they want to, not because they feel cultural pressure to do so. Tomboys will look you in the eyes when speaking to you. Tomboys tend to chose careers that are in the hard sciences - like math, engineering, architecture, etc... Tomboys can have difficulty relating to Girly-Girls because tomboys aren't as restricted in their ability to express themselves honestly and openly - whereas Girly-Girls tend to want to please, and thus work hard at conforming and trying to be pleasant, even when they are really ticked off! Tomboys friends are usually males, and they make really good wives. They can be sexy when necessary, and they can change a tire or rewire a lamp when needed. They aren't restricted by thoughts like, "I can't do that, it isn't feminine"! Tomboys are terrific!more...
A compound and abbreviated word for "Asian Addict". Anyone who is obsessed with any and all things Asian. They generally know about the 3 year wait associated with things that will come to America ahead of time; and probably have experienced those things, such as fashion, movies (usually Asian horror flicks), and music. There are some specific groups such as Japanophile who are obsessed with anything Japanese, but ultimately leads to one central obsession of anything Asian. Asiads usually dress differently from western culture because of the influence of the quirky styles of Japan, Hong Kong, and Korean fashion. Asiads love all types of Asian clothing and study obsessively about the culture of Asian countries. Most likely an asiad has already learned a 2nd language of the Asian tongue, if not several. Asiad's dreams usually consist of visiting or living in Asia, or they most likely have already gone in a study abroad program to Asia. They love to eat Asian cuisine whenever possible, if not everyday. Most of everything that asiads buy are usually "imported" directly from Asia. Most likely, they have a Haduri personal page with all the movable pictures. They try to take pictures that are "cute" and close up face shots that are very white washed out so the only things that you can see are eyes, hair, and maybe lips. Asiads usually havemore...
Bill Kaulitz is the lead singer of the German rock band, Tokio Hotel, which is known internationallu. Bill is known for, cat eyes, a girly voice, and gravity defining hair.
Bill was born on September 1st, 1989 in Leipzig,East Germany but was raised in Magdeburg, Germany. He was born to Simone Kaulitz, a tailor, and Jorg Kaulitz and had a identical twin brother named, Tom Kaulitz. When him and his twin brother were 7, their parents got divorced. They got custody of their mother. Their mother remarried to Gordon Trumper, a guitarist from the German rock band, Fatun. Gordan inspired Bill and Tom to get into music and create a career in it. Bill began writing his own songs at age 7, and his brother at age 9. His biggest music influence was the German pop artist ,Nena. For the beginning of his career, he was done the voice for Arthur in the film, Arthur Und Die Minimoys.
How It Got Started
He started a band called "Devilish" when he was 9 with him being lead vocals, Tom being lead guitarist, Georg Listing being basist, and Gustav Shafer being drummer an When he was 12,and started touring Germany. in 2001 he was in German Star Search and lost to quarter-final. But then he got discovered and him and his band changed their name to Tokio Hotel, and recored their first album
"Schrei" (scream), which his platinum,as 13 to 15 year olds which has 2 number one singles, "Schrei" and "Durch Den Monsun" almoung Europe. Him and his band were the...
Someone who is attracted to the same gender romantically or sexually.more...
This is a group that is ridiculed quite often, and I will list a few reasons why, and prove that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. However, I will also refrain from insulting other orientations or religions.
1- The bible
Many people believe that they should hate homosexuals because the bible says it is wrong. I believe this is a misinterpretation. However, for those of you who don't, I still have reasons for you to stop the hate. For one thing, Homosexuality as a sin is equal to masturbation. They are both acts of acquiring sexual pleasure without the purpose of reproduction. I believe nearly everyone has masturbated before, no matter what their sexual orientation or religion. If you are catholic, you might argue that you go to confession after masturbation, so it's all okay. Well what about all of the non-catholics who masterbate? Are you going to hate them just because they did it without going to confession? I doubt it. And what do you think god would dislike the most? It is one thing to commit a sin, but to hate an entire group of people for it is far worse. Whether you think homosexuality is moral or not, I believe that god would appreciate it most if everyone could learn to coexist anyway.
2- "It's not natural!"
This is one reason that I understand the least. I'm definitely sure that my sexuality was something I was born with, therefore making it natural. You could say the same thin...
It's girls who used to be goth,emo,and punk but decided to change their style.The stores they shop at are Hollister,Aeropostale,Pac Sun,Zumiez,Urban Outfitters,Marshalls,rue 21,forever 21.They buy Hello Kitty,cutesy girly makeup and nail polish,and those little bowtie hair clips all from Hot Topic.They hardly even wear the stuff they buy at Hot Topic.Their style is Preppy and Skateboarder with a touch of glam and Scene.They're sort of girly but they're also sort of punky too.They wear Roxy stuff.They buy tote bags from Pac Sun that are Billabong or Volcom and they wear nice cute blouses with it from the Skater or preppy stores.They wear black nail polish and eyeliner.They like all different types of animal-print in all diffent colors.They love to wear designer scarves from thrift stores.They wear them with an Aeropostale or Hollister T-shirt or hoodie With light-colored ripped jeans and a cute pair of leopard-print flip-flops and their tote bag from the skater store.They often have their toenail polish in a bright funky hot pink when they wear flip-flops.They listen too emo and screamo bands.They dye their hair sandy blonde with tons of blended platinum-blonde highlights and choppy ends.They wear black-framed eye-glasses.The kind that emo people wear.The colors that they wear are blue,pink,purple,black,gray,white,brown,red,and orange.They like guys with Tattoos and piercings.They allways wear expensive silver jewelry.They are Sephora and M.A.C. junkies.They love My Chemica...more...
a common female name.
when most people think of madison the think blonde hair blue eyes.
while this is true there are much more characteristics that accompany this name.
Madison is a nice person who knows how to deal with problems, the right way. She is extremely smart. Though she tends to get angry easily, she is an all around good person.
Madison is not a "girly-girl", in fact she is anything but.
She isnt afraid to take charge and lead a situation.
she loves to help her friends and feel appreciated.
Madison will take care of it.
The car that i had for a couple of months till i got tired of it. It looks exactly like a civic and i tried to convince myself that the tsx is the new rsx but its no use. tsx is a lot nicer in every aspect. i tried to make it look better by modding it and "keeping it clean" but it was useless its not a nice car. Even stock people looked at it as a semi ricer cuz acura makes it look fast with its MASSIVE 4 cylinder engine.more...
I got tired of being called i was in a girls car and its true, rsx's are very girly. they're tiny, metro looking, and a hatchback to plant stuff in its ass. by the time i tintied, debadged(didnt want people to know i was driving an ACURA which claims to be a "luxury brand" but the truth is that even the honda accord is ten times nicer than the rsx. The Acura rsx should not be allowed to compare itself to true luxury brands such as lexus or infiniti. Other acura's are nicer but they all seem to fall in the "im to cheap to buy a real car" category.
I'm sorry if i offended anyone but you can ask anyone and they'll say its a decent car that looks like its worth 10k at most and looks girly. Seriously no one buy one, your no better than the civic down your street and you better not start comparing it to newer acuras because the truth of the matter is that acura stopped making the rsx to introduce the newer and improved HONDA CIVIC, thats a fact, the owners of acura said that. No amount of tint or mods can clean one up.
Since a while ago i sold it, bought mys...
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Australia Sikhs celebrated Vaisakhi as Harmony Day .
Encouraged by the healthy response of last year's Vaisakhi celebrations as Harmony Day from people of other religions and cultures, Gurdwara Sahib Revesby celebrated the same this year also on 12th April.
Hon Darryl Melham MP Bankstown and Mayor of Bankstown graced the occasion with their presence and enjoyed the celebrations all day.
From the feedback of last year, elaborate arrangements were made to open the Gurdwara Sahib for general public. Generally the gurdwaras all around the world are always open for all sects of life but there is always a bit of hesitation in public from other religions to come forward and get some understanding about Sikhism. And also Sikhism is not very old in Australia, so not known to general public. Therefore this Harmony day combined with Vaisakhi celebrations served the purpose of knowing each other very well.
Many guests from other religions visited the Gurdwara Sahib and were accompanied by trained volunteers to take them around the Gurdwara and brief them on the customs and beliefs of Sikhism.
Many people said they knew about this place by passing by but never thought of coming along like this thinking it may not be acceptable but after knowing that Sikhism welcomes people from all walks of life, they felt so comfortable. Some of the visitors already knew about Sikhism but wanted to know more about practices about the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, daily prayers (by singing the verses from Guru Granth Sahib Ji) etc.
The celebrations went on throughout the day with fantastic display of Gatka (the Martial Art of Sikhs) which was overwhelmingly liked by all. There was jumping castle and face painting for kids. 'Australian Neighbourhood Centre' also joined in celebrations. There was free medical camp for seniors. Free literature/CDs about Sikhism was distributed. An exhibition about History of Sikhs in Australia was also organised.
All of the visitors enjoyed the Langar (free vegetarian meals) that were served all day along with tea/drinks and snacks. Almost all of the visitors provided valuable comments in the visitors book and wished to visit again - soon and this time, informally.
The pick of children were jumping castle and face painting. Everyone enjoyed the 'Langer' (community meals) and was delighted to know its background of promoting equality and harmony as this tradition of serving free meals in every congregation is going on for the last five centuries in Sikh Faith. Every one irrespective of caste, creed, colour, race, status, gender is welcome to partake in the community meals and can visit Gurdwara (Sikh Temple).
We look forward to your comments and feedback to make it more harmonious and attractive where members from different communities can know each other and enjoy our common values of mutual respect and living in peace and harmony.
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By Rev. Creede Hinshaw
Former Commissioner of Major League Baseball Fay Vincent recently served up a curve ball in a Wall Street Journal op ed piece (Sep. 16 2011, p. A11) titled “Soak the Rich? No, Soak the Needy.” Mr. Vincent complained because the Obama Administration, as part of a comprehensive jobs and deficit reduction package, is proposing to reduce the benefit a donor can receive for making a charitable contribution.
Noting that this plan would cost him and others an additional $70 on each $1,000 gift, he threatened that he might have to “diminish or terminate” his charitable giving to the Mayo Clinic, thus causing President Obama to punish a worthy young female doctor receiving his funds. The torturous logic of this article is reminiscent of some of the wildest pitches Mr. Vincent ever saw on the baseball diamond.
One might think that this pastor of a local church completely dependent upon charitable gifts would want to sign up for Mr. Vincent’s team. Don’t churches want to promote tax laws that have the greatest opportunity of feathering their own nest?
But Mr. Vincent’s self-serving article disappoints and he throws an intentional bean ball at the government by accusing them of giving an “intentional whack to the wealthy.”
The major world religions decry making charitable gifts based on an anticipated return for the giver or self-promotion. The Jewish philosopher Miamonides stated that the second highest level of giving is when neither giver nor receiver know each other and Jesus clearly warned with regard to giving, “Do not let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.”
Because no one is wholly altruistic, most of us will work every angle when it comes to taxes and charitable giving. I will concede Mr. Vincent’s point that some wealthy people (sadly) will reduce their giving because they’ve lost a $70 benefit, but his complaint runs counter to the conservative argument that what this nation needs is less financial assistance and more self reliance. I guess it depends on who’s getting the financial assistance. Most Americans will never receive Mr. Vincent’s benefit at 35 percent or 28 percent, not having enough wealth to itemize deductions in the first place.
Prior to 1917 the federal government did not allow one single penny of deduction for making a charitable contribution. It is worth noting that probably more than 90 percent of the hospitals and institutions of higher learning in this nation were founded by religious people who never asked for nor wanted tax relief from their government. Out of the religious impulse people fed the poor, healed the sick and educated the nation. They did it because it was the right thing to do and not because a certified public accountant said it would help their bottom line. That’s true conservatism. The former baseball commissioner has struck out on this one.
The Rev. Creede Hinshaw is the senior pastor at Wesley Monumental UMC in Savannah. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org
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In 1938, the BIS Technical Committee decided to go the full distance and produce a conceptual design of a vessel that would carry a crew of three safely to the Moon, permit them to land for a stay of fourteen days, and provide for a safe return to the Earth with a final payload of half a tonne. The object of the exercise was to demonstrate that, within the capabilities of propellants that could be specified (at least theoretically) at the time, such a mission was not merely possible but would be economically viable – in so far as the vehicle lift-off mass from the Earth would be no more than one thousand tonnes. The conceptual design that resulted came to be known as the BIS Lunar Spaceship, and for all its flaws and misconceptions it must be regarded as one of the classical pioneering studies in the history of astronautics.
At this point it is appropriate to review the nature of the problem and the arguments put forward by more objective critics against the feasibility of its solution. The mission proposed for the Lunar Spaceship would involve total velocity changes in excess of 16 km/s, a figure that would be significantly increased by certain losses. The best available propellants were not expected to achieve rocket motor efflux velocities of one quarter of that figure. This enormous disparity implied that, if one attempted to achieve the entire mission with a simple single-stage vessel, 99% or more of its initial lift-off mass would have to consist of the propellant. (In the more common parlance of rocketry this required a mass ratio exceeding100.) The most enthusiastic proponents of Space flight were at one with their critics in dismissing this as inconceivable.
To circumvent this, the pioneers of astronautics invented the Step Rocket, in which the vessel consisted of a series of stages of diminishing size, fired in sequence. As each successive stage completed firing, its engines and other redundant structure would be discarded leaving the higher stages to continue the flight. In this way it would be possible to obtain a high mass ratio without invoking the need to achieve impossible structural factors. Looked at in another way, the total velocity change required of the overall vessel would be shared between the stages. Thus in the case in point, four equal stages would each need to contribute little more than 4 km/sec to the total velocity change. That would be possible with the performance of known propellants. The proportion of the stage mass taken up by propellant would assume a reasonable level (say, 75%, corresponding to a mass ratio of 4). However, a penalty would be incurred in the final payload, which would be reduced in inverse proportion to some number raised to the power of the number of stages. Optimistically, at the time, that number might have been taken as 10. Thus, with four stages, the final payload might be expected to be only one ten-thousandth of the lift-off mass. The nub of the argument of the more informed critics of such a lunar flight would have been that such a mission would probably have required as many as five stages, perhaps more, so that the initial vessel would have had to match an ocean liner in size to carry an ultimate payload of one tonne. Such a mission could not be viable.
In 1919 Robert Goddard, in his classical paper “A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes”, went a stage further than the step rocket principle in suggesting a firing procedure that amounted to the continuous discarding of redundant structure. This procedure, in principle, could result in a significant improvement in payload ratio compared to the step rocket. The BIS, in its design concept, adopted a cellular construction that, in essence, conformed to Goddard’s suggestion. The BIS Space Ship was de- scribed in the January 1939 Journal by H.E. Ross. The vessel was divided into six tiers (steps) of equal hexagonal cross-section and the six sections were made up of an array of tubes each consisting of a separate rocket motors. Each of the lowest 5 steps was made up of 168 motors, intended to impart sufficient velocity to achieve escape from the Earth’s gravitation. The remaining stage consisted of 45 medium motors and 1200 smaller tubes intended to land the remainder of the vessel on the Moon; allow for subsequent escape from the latter (leaving redundant structure on the surface of our satellite), and for reduction in velocity prior to entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Perhaps the most important lasting achievement of the Lunar Spaceship study, however, came from their conclusions regarding the landing upon, and lift-off from, the lunar surface. R.A. Smith developed the concept after the War in an article – “Landing on an Airless World” – published in the August 1947 BIS Journal; accurately depicting the procedure that was to be adopted with the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module. The only notable difference between the two cases was, perhaps, that Smith’s design was more elegant than the actual LEM.
The Technical Committee decided that its activities should embrace an experimental programme to support its Lunar Spaceship concept. From the outset, it rejected the experimental “firing of free rockets” as valueless on account of their small scale and lack of control over the many parameters involved in such flights. It made no attempt, therefore, to emulate the VfR or later American groups. The BIS workers considered that the development of rocket motors for their proposed lunar mission would have to proceed in stages, beginning with literature and experimental studies of possible propellants, followed by the design of chambers and nozzles on the best theoretical basis – the work of Sänger was cited as noteworthy in this respect. The resulting motors and selected propellants would then be brought together in static proving stand firings in which all the variables could be systematically controlled and measured. The intention was correct and logical, but even the over-optimistic members of the Technical Committee were bound to note that such a programme was far beyond their resources. Nevertheless, largely under the supervision of Janser, who was a research chemist, they embarked on the preliminary stages of the propellant survey hoping that eventually they would solicit sufficient support from public benefactors, convinced by the evidence emerging from the Lunar Spaceship study, to proceed with serious development. Undaunted, R.A. Smith designed a basic test stand that was actually constructed.
Despite some shortcomings, the programme of the Technical Committee was a laudable endeavour. The BIS Lunar Space Ship mission was a “bridge too far” for the technology at the time. There was never any possibility that the cellular vehicle could have performed as required. In retrospect the critics in the Society, who asserted that attention should have been devoted to lesser targets, were right. If the Technical Committee had set its sights, for example, on an orbiting spacecraft they could have produced a convincing case for its feasibility and, perhaps, succeeded in soliciting support for a strong research and development programme.
In the event, war came and the development of the rocket was to depend upon purely military considerations with astronautical achievements a fortuitous spin-off.
Information used with kind permission from Dr Bob Parkinson, Editor of the book “Interplanetary – the History of the British Interplanetary Society”, published by the BIS.
Please click here to purchase a copy of Interplanetary.
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Colorado study says Facebook, Twitter use contribute to drop in youth driving
Coloradans are driving less, and rising gas prices isn’t the only reason.
A new study by CoPIRG finds that the use of technology, from smartphone apps to social networking sites such as Facebook, is also contributing to the trend.
The report shows that for the first time since World War II, Americans are driving less and have been doing so since the middle of last decade. By 2011, the average American was driving 6 percent fewer miles per year than in 2004.
In Colorado, per capita vehicle miles traveled dropped between 2005 and 2010 by 10 percent.
The trend is more pronounced among young people, with the average 16 to 34-year-old driving 20 percent fewer miles in 2009 than the same age group did in 2001.
From the study:
Social networking technology has become a substitute for some types of car trips. Web- sites and smart phone apps, which did not exist 20 years ago, provide real-time transit data (e.g. Nextbus) and make public trans- portation easier to use, particularly for infrequent users. Meanwhile, technology advances have also facilitated the growth of car-sharing and bike-sharing services, enabling users to reserve, pay for, and lo- cate cars or bikes anytime of the day.
Nearly a quarter of 18- to 34-year-olds said they strongly agreed with the following statement: “With access to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, text messaging and online gaming, I sometimes choose to spend time with friends online instead of driving to see them.” Another 31 percent said they somewhat agreed.
The belief is that some young people choose to take the bus over driving because they have the ability to surf the web or Facebook while using public transportation. A better explanation may be that they simply prefer to communicate online, whether through Twitter, Skype or Facebook, than drive over to their friend’s house.
“Some young people who spend time interacting with friends through communications technology have less time and desire to drive to see someone,” the study states.
You can also visit insidetechknow.com.
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is inspired by his experience of living the Gay-Mexican-American dream, and strives to create dance choreography that inspires young dancers to make dance and seek higher education. In 2010 he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at Texas Woman’s University and as a graduate student he was awarded the highly prestigious national honor, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.
This fellowship provided funding to launch his contemporary dance company, CholoRock Dance Theatre
. Since receiving his degree, Zamora’s work has been described by DFW dance reviewer, Margaret Putnam, “as exuberant theatricality with a traditional Mexican folklorico flavor…..This was not about whirling skirts, stamping feet and stolen kisses, but dance based in the present –that is, a time of turmoil, unease and distrust. Jose Zamora captures that unrest with a style both deceptively simple and yet sophisticated. Almost every dance sputtered with a ferocity that came from the gut.”
His work has been performed in Houston, McAllen, the DFW area, Louisiana, Washington DC and the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. Along with his role as the artistic director of his dance company, he is the 21st Century Site Coordinator at Calhoun Middle School, a dance teacher at Denton Dance Conservatory and an Adjunct Professor at TWU.
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In a new post to his blog Johannes Schluter looks at a helpful new inclusion into the latest versions of the PHP trunk - a new JSON serialization interface included in the core.
For many PHP objects the JSON-representation of the data is a bit more complex.for instance what about private properties or maybe you want to calculate some inner values? - In PHP 5.3 you were on your own. but thanks to Sara there's hope in sight: the new interface JsonSerializable. Classes implementing this interface have to provide a method jsonSerialize() which will be called by json_encode() and has to return a JSON-compatible representation of the data by doing whatever you want.
He gives two examples of this new feature in action - a simple one that just spits out some basic JSON as a result of the output of a class and the other that's a bit more technical, involving multiple class isntances, a stdClass and a normal array.
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An Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) is an account established to provide an education for qualified disabled and non-disabled students. The programs’ main purpose is to provide options for parents to freely choose how and where to educate their children with financial assistance from the state.
Minimum Qualifications1. Attended public school full-time for the first 100 days during the prior school year. 2. Be identified in one of the approved student populations.
- A child with a disability
- A child of an active duty member of the military
- A child who is a ward of the juvenile court and is residing in perspective permanent placement foster care
- A child who is a ward of the juvenile court and who achieved permanency through adoption
- A Child who attended a letter grade “D” or “F” public school the prior school year
Received a scholarship from a Student Tuition Organization (STO) that receives contributions to provide scholarships to students with disabilities pursuant to ARS §43-1505.
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CNY students learn the tools of the construction trade
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ONONDAGA COUNTY, N.Y. -- Hundreds of high school students from around Central New York become construction workers for a day. Thursday was the sixth annual Syracuse Construction Career Day at the New York State Fairgrounds.
And with a current shortage of construction workers, organizers saw the day was a way to show students the opportunities available to them. Students learned about the construction business, took part in hands-on activities and even operated construction equipment.
"It's better than just getting a hand-out because they can actually try to the trade itself with people who are, you know, done this their whole career. They have a lot of training, they know exactly how to show them how it works and it sparks their interest a little bit more," said Melissa Gould, Chairperson for Career Day Committee.
Members of the Operating Engineers Union were also on hand supervise students while they operated equipment and used a crane simulator.
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The competencies below have been identified as key behavioural competencies contributing to excellence in Research Technician/Technologist roles at NRC. They are not intended to represent all of the competencies necessary for success in a specific position. In addition to these competencies, specific technical expertise will be required.
Creative thinking: Responding to challenges with innovative solutions, products or services by questioning conventional means, using intuition, experimentation and fresh perspectives.
Results orientation: Focusing efforts on achieving quality results consistent with the NRC vision.
Teamwork: Demonstrating effective interpersonal skills and working cooperatively and effectively within and across organizational units to achieve common goals.
Client focus: Bringing excellence to internal or external clients by focusing efforts on discovering and meeting their needs.
Communication: Openly communicating in a compelling, honest, persuasive and articulate manner, ensuring the message is clear, understood and consistent with NRC objectives.
Initiative: Anticipating and dealing with problems and issues in a persistent manner, seizing opportunities that arise and going beyond what is expected.
Self-knowing and self-development: Assessing strengths and weaknesses and engaging in ongoing self-development and improvement; maintaining effectiveness in the face of change or ambiguity.
- The term "organization" is used in this document to refer to NRC as a whole or that part of NRC for which the individual is accountable or exerts influence.
- The levels in each competency represent performance increments. Thus, competent performance at one level assumes competent performance at all levels below.
- The proficiency levels located at the base of each competency scale are defined as follows:
- Entry - The individual who is at an early stage in their career or is at a junior level in the role and is continuing to develop.
- Working - The individual who is operating at a fully competent level in the role.
- Mastery - The individual who is seen as a master or role model.
- Exceptional - The individual who is far above others in quality or excellence.
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Regina Snayfir was a fighter in the Lebanese Forces militia in the 1980s. She later saw first hand scenes of torture and murder and left in disgust. She wrote a revealing account about her experience, and how the Maronite Patriarch did not react when she informed him about the dungeons of torture in Lebanese Forces’ prisons. She also said (in her memoir, Alqaytu As-Silah) that when she underwent military training, she remembered the most fanatic anti-Islam bigot who spoke to the fighters during training. She said that Walid Phares was the most passionate in mobilizing Christians to fight Muslims at that military base that she was at.(pp. 119-122).
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As Mother Nature preps for her annual autumn changeover, the state of Vermont is getting ready to show it all off. NY1's Valarie D'Elia filed the following report.
When it comes to fall foliage it all adds up in Vermont, where 76 percent -- a full three quarters of the state -- is covered with trees.
"Nearly a quarter of our trees are maples, sugar maples, they have really great capacity for turning red, in addition to yellows and oranges and all these mixtures," says Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder.
On a media visit recently, I caught up with Vermont’s newly appointed foliage forecaster who says it should be an especially colorful season.
"All the factors necessary are in place: Healthy forests, plenty of sunshine and moisture throughout the summer, and all we can do now is sit back and watch it unfold," says Snyder.
Watching it unfold is historically Vermont’s most popular tourism spectacle.
"You’ve got framed views of farm fields and church steeples in the village and that sort of thing, so it's heavily forested and it's got contrast and variety," notes Synder.
Should you plan a trip to Vermont, keep in mind there’s a window of color-tunity.
"Over the first few weeks of September you will see gradual increases in colors, and generally when you hit the last week of September, first couple of weeks in October, somewhere in that range, depending on where you are, you will see peak conditions," says Snyder.
One of the best ways to view the foliage is from the chairlifts above the state’s ski resorts, like the one at Stowe Mountain Resort that offers lots of kid-friendly activities.
To get there, Amtrak is offering a special "Visit Vermont" discount of 20 percent through October 31, including the "Vermonter," train from New York City.
For more information, visit www.vermontvacation.com/Fall.aspx
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