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Rub the leaves for a scented clue as to the identity of this annual. Also known as Pot Marigold, Calendula can survive light frosts and cooler temperatures as compared to many annuals.
Website Administrator: Dr. Tim Rhodus
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2002 Ohio State University
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The Battle of Plattsburg Bay
An Overview of the Battle of Plattsburg Bay
The Battle of Plattsburg was in many ways, the most decisive engagement of the War of 1812. Sir George Prevost's failed invasion of the United States put an end to British plans to seize more American territory. It also had a significant effect on the peace negotiations which were being held in the Belgian town of Ghent. News of the outcome of the battle strengthened the American position at the talks. As a result, any remaining British hopes of creating a homeland in the northwest for its First Nations allies were abandoned.
By the end of the summer of 1814, Prevost had assembled a massive strike force of close to 10,000 soldiers near Montreal. Many of these soldiers were well-trained, battle-hardened regular troops inspired by Wellington's victory over Napoleon in Europe. On September 3, 1814, Prevost's army crossed the border into New York State.
While the British army moved down the western side of Lake Champlain, the American troops fell back to Plattsburg and prepared to make a stand. At the same time, the ships of the British Navy under Captain George Downie, moved slowly down the lake.
The U.S forces at Plattsburg were commanded by Brigadier General Alexander Macomb. The Americans were badly outnumbered but had the support of the US fleet under Thomas Macdonough. Realizing that the British had bigger ships and longer range guns, Macdonough anchored his squadron in Plattsburg Bay and waited for the British Navy to come to him.
Under tremendous pressure from George Prevost, who was waiting outside Plattsburg with his army, the British fleet sailed into battle before it was ready. For two hours the ships pounded each other with equal fury. Fifteen minutes into the battle the British commander, George Downie was killed.
At a critical moment in the engagement, the Americans surprised the British. Macdonough was able to winch around his flagship to bring a fresh broadside against the British fleet. This move made the all difference. The British realized they were beaten and surrendered.
When he learned of the defeat of his navy, the ever-cautious George Prevost called off his land assault and retreated back to Canada. There was much anger and resentment amongst his army and the decision turned out to be politically disastrous. After the war, Prevost's conduct during the campaign was criticized by a naval court martial. He died before he could clear his name.
For the United States, the victory against overwhelming odds at Plattsburg provided an important boost to national morale.
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One of the most difficult aspects of the transition from summer vacation to the school year is homework. Having grown accustomed to plentiful free playtime, kids naturally rebel at the thought of having to do homework during their scant after-school hours. We can certainly sympathize, and yet it is our job to make sure that they sit down and tackle that homework.
It’s a set-up for endless nagging, which is not a prospect that anyone welcomes. In order to avoid painful homework battles, our best hope is to establish good study time routines.
When setting up a routine with your child, here are questions to consider together:
Where is the best place in your house for homework to happen this year? This depends on the child’s age, ability to focus, and on other members of the household who may be likely to interfere (younger siblings are notoriously distracting). Some children do well at the kitchen table where they have easy access to an adult for help on sticky math problems. Others prefer to go into their rooms where they can get away from distracting sibs and pets. That is fine too, but an adult should check in regularly to make sure that homework is actually getting done. Having an attractive desk area may entice some kids to sit down and work, but all that’s needed is a clear surface, sharpened pencils, an eraser that works, and, if needed, a computer already logged in to the required program.
When is the best time of day to do homework? This is something to gauge according to the child and to talk about together. Some kids really need to run around at the park and blow off steam after school. Others prefer to sit down immediately and get the homework out of the way. The timing may also vary according to your child’s afterschool schedule. Indeed, the routine may be slightly different each day of the week. (Last year, for instance, my daughter always did her Monday night reading while sitting in the hallway of her music school waiting for her piano lesson!)
Does a snack help? Many young kids seem to like to snack on pretzels and grapes or some similarly non-messy snack while they are reading or filling out worksheets. Having a simple, healthy snack on hand may be just the thing to lure your child to the homework table. Other kids need to eat a heartier snack before they are able to concentrate on homework. Either way, we do find that trying to get hungry kids to work is pretty much impossible.
What about play dates? Play dates are wonderful bonding time for friends, but they are also disruptive of the homework routine. We’re had some success in having the kids do their homework together. It turns out that even first-graders like having study buddies!
Once your child gets into a good routine, everyone discovers that homework isn’t so bad. The key is to get it done! And when no time’s wasted on postponing, fretting, whining, and nagging, then you’ll be amazed at how quickly it goes.
Something happens to my kids’ bedtime over the summer: it drifts. What was once a rock-solid schedule becomes instead a moving target. Friends are visiting? Okay, stay up late to enjoy their company. A family reunion happening? Parents are too busy... read more
For those of us who love to read, raising our children to become readers may seem like a self-evident process. Read to them nightly, give them plenty of books... what else needs to be done?Alas, it's not always as easy as that. These days, there are... read more
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Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI):
"In response to a question at a press conference on February 16, the President said that he thought Governor Ryan did the right thing,' and that if he was in the Governor's shoes, he would consider doing the same thing. Well, with all due respect, the President is standing in the Governor's shoes. . . .
"The federal government needs to stop and think. When lives are at stake, pausing to carefully consider, or reconsider, the use of the federal death penalty is more than warranted — it is the right and moral thing to do. I urge the President, who has been thoughtful on so many issues, to exercise caution and leadership once again."
The Most Reverend Ricardo Ramirez, Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, representingthe United States Catholic Conference/National Conference of Catholic Bishops
"As you know, the Catholic bishops in the United States have long advocated an end to the death penalty. We oppose capital punishment primarily because of what it does to us as a society: it perpetuates a terrible cycle of violence and the notion that we can settle our most intractable problems by resorting to violence."
The Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, Sr. Minister, Foundry United Methodist Church:
"I join with others today in appealing to all those in authority to declare a moratorium on the death penalty. That does not mean a moratorium on pursuit of crime. Punishment of criminal behavior must be swift and sure. The victims of crime and especially the survivors of the terrible crime of murder must be embraced by a caring community. But let there be a pause in our use of the death penalty to reassess its effectiveness and above all to ensure that it will not ever be imposed wrongfully or unfairly or as an instrument of hatred. Ultimately, we are all accountable to God in these matters. And if we are to make mistakes, let them be mistakes prompted by God's grace and a passion for fairness.">
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations:
"When it comes to the death penalty, we cannot afford a system of justice that is inconsistent and arbitrary; we cannot afford to fall short of the absolute integrity that God demands of us in such matters. Nothing could be more of a nightmare and a miscarriage of justice than for the American people, through its government, to execute an innocent person.
"Mr. President, we urge you to rise above the cheap-shot politicians who pander to public wrath. We urge you by your example to rebuke the opportunistic demagogues who offer quick-fix solutions to the problems of crime, and are even prepared to accept wrongful executions. We urge you to speak out for justice — loud, proud, and unafraid. Mr. President, we call on you to follow the lead of Illinois Governor George Ryan. Until justice and fairness in our criminal justice system are ensured, human decency and Biblical values require that we put an end to this grisly march of legalized death."
The Rev. Archie LeMone, Associate Director, Office of Public Policy, National Council of the Churches of Christ USA
"It has been well established that it is less costly to sentence someone to life in prison, with the possibility of parole, than it is to impose capital punishment. It is also more than likely that, with the advent of scientific measurements and technology, such as DNA and other forensics, that those judged guilty have been properly exonerated That option is negated if the innocent is killed by the state. In that case, the late Justice Thurgood Marshall was right: What are we to say? Oops! . . .
"The church is concerned first and foremost with the question of justice. However, when issues such as the death penalty arise, it is just us' in the minority community who pay an imbalanced price in the courts of law and on the modern gallows'."
March 9, 2000
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
We write to urge you to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty by the federal government. Our nation is slowly realizing the truth of capital punishment: the death penalty, as applied in America today, threatens to shed innocent blood.
Recently, Illinois Governor George Ryan suspended executions in his state and appointed a commission to investigate why more death row inmates have been freed over the last twenty-four years than have been executed. In addition, thirty-three men who currently sit on Illinois' death row have been represented by attorneys who have since been either suspended or disbarred. Governor Ryan has demonstrated leadership and courage; no more innocent men and women will be executed on his watch. While we support the Department of Justice review on racial disparity in the imposition of the federal death penalty, we hope the review's scope will be broadened. We urge you to take the next logical step and impose a moratorium at least pending the review of that study.
Senator Feingold (D-WI) has written you and Attorney General Janet Reno calling for a national moratorium on the death penalty in federal cases. The use of DNA tests has proven the innocence of death row inmates and should be routine in capital cases. Undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University presented evidence that proved death row inmate Ronald Jones innocent of murder.
The prophet Zechariah enjoins us: "See that justice is done." It is our solemn obligation not just to promote justice, but also to stand up and decry injustice when we witness it. The system for administering capital punishment is profoundly flawed. Indeed, since 1976, 611 persons have been executed, but 79 persons on death row have been proven innocent and released. We are particularly concerned about the poor and minorities who have been sent to death row without an opportunity to prove their innocence by DNA testing or have been denied competent legal counsel.
In America today, there are too many death penalty cases where guilt is later cast in reasonable doubt. There are too many death penalty cases where questions remain — or even arise — after the execution has occurred. And there are too many death penalty cases where the understandable desire for punishment overshadows the impartial pursuit of justice. Until these problems are addressed, we respectfully call on you to halt all federal executions. Here, as you well know, one mistake is too many.
Executive Director, Alliance of Baptists
Rev. Dr. Daniel E. Weiss
General Secretary, American Baptist Church USA
Director, Washington Ethical Action Office, American Ethical Union
National Representative for Criminal Justice, American Friends Service Committee
Legislative Director and Counsel, American Jewish Committee
Director, Office on Governmental and Public Affairs, American Jewish Congress
President, American Humanist Association
Baptist Peace Fellowhip of North America
The Rev. Michael Dodd
Director, Columban Fathers Justice and Peace Office
Legislative Director, Church Women United
Senior Bishop Nathaniel Lindsey
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
The Rev. Dr. Richard L. Hamm
General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), USA
Legislative Associate, Washington Office, Church of the Brethren
Thomas H. Hart
Director of Government Relations, The Episcopal Church
H. George Anderson
Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Legislative Education Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Dr. B.L. Hooks
Pastor, Greater Middle Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee
Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos
Ecumenical Officer, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Avram B. Lyon
Executive Director, Jewish Labor Committee
Assistant Director Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Rev. Dr. Robert Edgar
General Secretary, National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA
The Rev. Elenora Giddings Ivory
Director, Washington Office, Presbyterian Church USA
Rabbi David Saperstein
Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Rabbi Eric Yoffie
President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations
The Very Rev. Nathan D. Baxter
Dean, Washington National Cathedral
The Rev. Meg A. Riley
Director, Washington Office for Faith in Action, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
The Rev. Dr. Jay Lintner
Director, Washington Office for Church in Society, United Church of Christ
Jane Hull Harvey
Assistant General Secretary, General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church
Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein
Executive Vice President, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Sarrae G. Crane
Director of Social Action and Public Policy, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
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The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is the Washington office of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations , representing its 895 congregations across North America, whose membership includes 1.5 million Refrom Jews , and the 1700 rabbis of the Central Conference of American Rabbis .
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I am trying to deploy a cross platform bridged VPN solution, so I chose openvpn. I need to be able to broadcast which is why I have the bridged requirement. I have a Debian Lenny Server running as the openvpn server and it is configured it appears properly, and my client is a windows machine also apparently configured properly. because I can connect and be authenticated and the connection is up and running. However, I cannot ping the server or anything on the LAN of the remote side. As a matter of fact no data whatsoever, makes it from the client back to the remote LAN side.
I will note I am not testing from external to the company. But I am on a different subnet. This is better explained by the setup so here it is.
|---LAN3(Specialized equipment) 192.168.1.x----switch-devs
The Router is a Juniper SSG140, and the switches are all linksys. Connectivity and firewall rules on the Router are appropriate to allow traffic between the different LANs currently LAN1 and LAN3 have an allow all policy as LAN 3 is the one where I need the VPN and I want to make sure that rules are not an issue in connectivity.
The openvpn server is running in a VirtualBox VM that has its virtual adapter connected to the physical ethernet port of the host, it is assigned an address statically and is accessible on LAN3 as a host. Bringing up bridging for the openvpn bridge works perfectly with connectivity after that. Connecting from LAN1 to the server in LAN3 works fine with the windows client in so far as it can find the server, and establish a connection, once connected everything appears appropriate in the logs, but I cannot ping anything not the server, not computers on the remote LAN3 and I can likewise not ping the ip of the client that is connected, I can still ping from LAN3 to LAN1 host IP. After looking at route and arp I determined it appeared that the clients arp was not being proxied by the server, the arp command showed that devices on LAN 3 were requesting the clients IP adddress but not receiving any response, the same was noted on the client arp entry for an IP with no MAC address. Running Wireshark revealed that this was true arp requests were being sent out but no response received. I could not see anything coming from the TAP interface on the client coming across wireshark on LAN3. I did see the tunnel between the LAN1 IP address and the LAN3 host IP in other words 192.168.100.109---192.168.1.3 but nothing from the virtual tap interface 192.168.1.243. Running Wireshark on the client revealed something I found interesting though. The client once connected to the VPN was receiving every broadcast on LAN3 and responding to them, the responses were not being forwarded over the VPN connection though. SO I could see every arp request wanting the MAC address for the client and the responses sent from the client when running wireshark on the client and monitoring the tap interface. This would indicate that the VPN is connected fine but that there is an issue sending data upstream. If I set the arp manually on the machines I still have no connectivity though I still cannot ping, so this is not an issue I think with arp so much but with pushing data through the link.
The only thing I can speculate is that since my remote server ip address is on LAN3 and the remote LAN I am trying to connect to is LAN3 is that when the arp cache is cleared by the openvpn connection sequence this is screwing with the traffic in that the client no longer knows where to send the encrytped tunnel traffic and that is causing everything else to fail this also explains why data is seen on the client but not on the LAN itself because the server still has a valid arp entry for the client, but the client no longer has a valid entry for the server.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions. Do you think I am on the right track in my thinking or way off base? Any ideas how to test my theory and or a way around it if my theory is correct. maybe a script hardcoding the remote server ip on the client or perhaps having to go outside the network, or something else.
Thank you for all your help in advance.
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is a must-read for you. Even if you haven’t felt like that, this book will help
you understand the people who do.
If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t belong or didn’t know what you wanted
to do with your life, then
The story revolves around Amy, a girl who doesn’t know exactly who she is
yet. She’s friends with two of the most popular and beautiful girls, but not
because they are nice to her—she doesn’t know where else she’d fit in. Well, at
least sort of fit in.
When all of them get stood up by their dates at prom, they somehow end up
in jail. And then it’s summertime. Amy’s working and meets a new friend…and two
totally opposite boys. She now has to learn to be herself so that she can
finally live her own life. But we all know, the life of a teen is super tough!
We got a chance to catch up with Pretty
Amy author Lisa Burstein, and had her spill on this brand new read.
Yikes! High school’s tough.
did you come up with the storyline for Pretty
Lisa Burstein: High school was not easy for me. Freshman year I tried my hardest to fit in with the popular
kids—girls who seemed like they had no problems, looked perfect, acted perfect,
smelled perfect. I kept feeling like I was just a body, taking up space around
people who actually belonged there. I cried in my room at night about why I
wasn't wanted. These experiences are what helped me write Pretty Amy. I wanted to write a contemporary
young adult book that was about what real teens go through.
girls enjoy this book?
well not the subject matter, but Amy is super funny and snarky. It speaks to
what girls think about when they are alone in their rooms at night after a hard
day at school. When the cute guy in your math class makes fun of you, or when
all you want is to be invited to a party. Amy expresses what I thought and felt
when I went through those things.
Was your prom anything like Amy’s?
didn't go to my prom. I do wish someone had asked me! My friends weren’t the
type of to just go stag. I don't regret not going, but I think I would have had
a great time.
If Pretty Amy were to be turned into a
movie, which actors/actresses would you want to play the main characters?
for Amy, Josh Hutcherson for Joe and Dylan Patton for Aaron.
you know you wanted to be an author?
Ever since I
was a little kid, I’ve loved writing. I guess the way some people know they
want to be a lawyer, or a doctor or an actress, I knew I had to be a writer. I
wouldn’t quit until I was.
advice do you have for girls out there who aspire to be an author one day?
keep submitting, and keep trying. Don’t give up. Just like high school, writing
is filled with rejection that you can’t let get you down.
Be sure to
pick up a copy of Lisa Burstein’s Pretty
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dreams of being an author? In your opinion, what’s the toughest thing about
being a teen? Blog about it, babes.
BY RACHAEL ELLENBOGEN ON 6/16/2012 12:00:00 AM
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A diaper-free baby? Does that sound crazy? Does it conjures up visions of baby pee and poop all over your apartment, your clothes, and your baby’s clothes? If you are like most North Americans, it probably does. When I first heard of people not using diapers, my reaction was also to think that they must be nuts. After all, don’t babies need diapers?
The deep ingraining of the baby=diapers equation in the North American mind just goes to show how we take for granted that our cultural norms are the standard by which we measure the value of every concept we encounter.
For a moment, step outside the bubble of what you associate with normal baby-care practices. Have you ever wondered what people did before disposable diapers were available? One would assume they used cloth, right? That would imply they must have had an awful lot of washing to do! What did people do when they were in situations where water was scarce, or the climate was very cold? Were they just burdened by these circumstances? What did Native American and Inuit peoples do?
Ask yourself, what do people do all over the world where neither disposable nor cloth diapers present viable alternatives to dealing with their infants’ elimination needs?
The answer is simple: they don’t use diapers!
Amazingly and contrary to what we take as a given, babies are born with the instinct not to soil themselves! If you have ever had a newborn, you have likely had the experience of watching pee and poop shoot out all over the place as soon as you remove the diaper. This is because your baby has been waiting for you to take it off! Conventional advice on how to deal with this usually involves the suggestion of placing a washcloth over your baby’s privates while you change the diaper and make the change quick before they have the chance to relieve themselves while uncovered. A much better strategy would be to simply hold your baby over a sink, toilet, or bowl and let them do their business outside their diaper. With practice, the parents or other caregiver will learn to read their baby’s signals, and will know exactly when he or she needs to eliminate. This is called Elimination Communication or EC for short
Although babies naturally do not want to eliminate in their clothes, they are trained, over time, to get used to going in their diapers. Then, when they reach the age of 2 or 3, we re-train them not to go in the diaper. How much sense does this make?
Infant Potty Training
EC really isn’t potty training, it’s about communication. The parents learn to interpret their babies’ signals and the babies learn to respond to the parents’ cues. EC is a gentle, natural, non-coercive alternative to conventional potty training. Early ‘graduation’ from diapers to the toilet is not the goal, but is a side benefit that often does come with EC. Many children who are EC’d are completely out of diapers and free of ‘misses’ by the time they are a year old.
Isn’t a Newborn Too Young for This?
No, a newborn is the perfect age to start EC! All you have to do is unwrap them when they need to eliminate, hold them over a receptacle, and make a cue sound like ‘pssss’. Very soon, your baby will learn to associate that sound with it being in an appropriate place to eliminate and before you know it, he or she will wait for your cue.
What if Your Baby is Not a Newborn?
That’s ok, too. You may notice that in the first weeks, your baby appears ‘constipated’, cries, grunts, and passes a lot of gas. Common advice is to switch formulas, give the baby some water or make them do the ‘bicycle’ to help them to poop, but better advice would be to take that diaper off! The first few weeks and months are a great time to start EC because your baby still retains awareness of its bodily functions and often displays obvious outward signs when it needs to go. Since your baby is not yet mobile, you can easily lay him or her on a cloth diaper or towel to help you observe what signals he or she gives before eliminating. Soon, you will know when to quickly scoop up your baby and offer a ‘pottytunity’.
What if Your Baby is Mobile?
No need to worry, you haven’t missed your chance. Although in general the rule is ‘the earlier, the better’ and there are definite advantages to starting EC with a very young infant, you can still help and old an older baby to retain or regain awareness of its elimination functions and respond to a cue, although you may find yourself following him or her around with a cup and wiping up messes from the floor from time to time during the initial learning period. Even a one-year-old or a toddler can be EC’d, but it’s a different experience from ECing an infant and requires different strategies in addition to the ones you use with a young baby.
You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
EC doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing situation. You can do EC full time, part time, or occasionally. Even the latter will have advantages, such as helping your child retain bodily awareness, familiarizing him or her with the use of receptacles for elimination, and making the eventual transition to the potty or toilet a lot smoother, without the usual confusion, struggles and bribes.
You can go completely diaper-free or use a diaper back-up even if you are doing full-time EC. Cloth diapers retain some advantages, since they don’t make pee magically disappear, which helps your baby not get trained to go in the diaper.
Why Would You Want to Try EC?
- Decreased costs by eliminating or decreasing the use of diapers
- Complete elimination of the problem of diaper rash
- Increased bonding and closeness with your child
- Avoidance of conventional toilet-training methods that are coercive and unpleasant and may result parent-child power struggles and bladder or bowel issues in childhood
- A natural, eco-friendly alternative to diapers
- A happier baby!
- Start as soon as possible. Newborns come naturally potty-trained!
- While breastfeeding, keep your baby’s lower half unwrapped and held over a potty bowl or other container. This will help you tune in to his or her elimination signals.
- Popping off the breast is often interpreted as a nursing problem, but it’s actually an EC signal.
- Offer pottytunities after nap time and first thing in the morning. Babies don’t pee in their sleep, but they do pee when they wake up.
- Carry your baby in a sling or other carrier. Babies won’t eliminate while they are being held, unless you really don’t give them the opportunity not to.
- Watch for squirminess when your baby is in the carrier; this is a signal that they have to go.
- While carrying your baby, you may experience a ‘phantom pee’ where you feel like you just got peed on, even though you didn’t. This is an amazing signal that baby has to go!
- Keep tabs on how long after nursing or finishing a bottle your baby pees. This way you can estimate when to offer the potty.
- Watch for straining, grunting, passing gas, or a certain ‘look’ that tells you your baby needs to poop.
- Remember to make the cue sounds like ‘psss’ and ‘mmmh’ while your baby eliminates; soon he or she will go on your cue.
- Have an ‘open door’ policy when it comes to the bathroom. Seeing you use the toilet demystifies it and helps your child associate it with elimination.
- If you EC part-time or have a miss, seeing you dump the contents of his or her diapers into the toilet will reinforce your baby’s associate of the toilet with being an appropriate place to eliminate.
- If your child seems resistant to eliminating in the designated place, try somewhere else: the bathtub, the sink, a toilet insert, a potty bowl, or a Tupperware container.
- Some babies tend to want to eliminate when they are in a stationary exersaucer, so be on the lookout for cues.
- Make sure pottytunities are fun for baby! Look at books together, sing to baby, play games, etc.
- One of the best potties is the Baby Bjorn potty bowl. It’s small and is made out of one piece, so your kid won’t be tempted to play with a lid or pull out a removable bowl. It’s sturdy, doesn’t tip over, and offers some support.
- EC clothing makes things a lot easier and can be bought online.
- Diaper-Free baby by Christine Gross-Loh
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The regular family will go into some kind of debts in order to keep up with their thoughts of offering a excellent Xmas for their children. In constant financial times, it took most individuals six months to pay off their Xmas debts and many, around 1 in 4 according to some research, will still be paying out off their debts by time the next Xmas comes around.
Part of the issue is we often think we must contend for our kid’s devotion. For example, separated mother and father will often try to buy their kid’s attention and love by buying larger and better toys and games than their former partner does, or even decreasing self-discipline and removing guidelines to try to win their kid’s devotion over the other parent or guardian.
On a more unconscious range, we do the same thing for Xmas regardless of our family situation. We presume the stress to put as many presents under the shrub as we can. We contest with our community, other close relatives, our others who live nearby, and other mother and father of other kids during the Xmas period. Establishing aside the fact that we have skipped the whole objective of Christmas-that of a Saviour blessed to take away our sins and offer a way to Heaven-we have converted Xmas into a materialistic indicates of advertising avarice and self-centeredness.
For some reason we think we are awful mother and father if we do not offer a excellent Xmas for our. The issue can be found in what we understand to be a ‘fantastic’ Xmas. For most, that indicates content items under a shrub. But why does this have to represent a excellent Christmas? Why do we have to contest with those around us? Why do we think awful if our kid doesn’t get the toy that the neighbors’ kid got?
There is a better way than going into debt!
THE GREATEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE YOUR CHILDREN
This Xmas give your family the very best gift that you could possibly provide them with…your time. Think about it, it is not the toys and games you got as a child that you most keep in mind. It is time you invested with adoring mother and father. If you never had time with those adoring mother and father, that is most likely your greatest repent from child years.
A well thought out and organized Xmas can produce fonder reminiscences than any existing under the shrub could. One of the things I most keep in mind about Xmas never occurred on Xmas day. It was going to the hills and decreasing down a Xmas shrub. I can probably only name one or two presents that I ever obtained under a shrub. But I can regale you with testimonies of decreasing down Xmas plants in the mountains! I keep in mind Xmas caroling (although I disliked to sing) more lovingly than any existing. I keep in mind time invested with my mother and father.
We invest too much cash and not a while on Xmas. If you want a better Xmas, invest less cash and a longer period with your children!
SUGGESTIONS FOR A BETTER CHRISTMAS
1. Cover a huge box in wrap document. Within have a lesser box covered in document and so forth until you have a very little box with certificates inside. On the document, create something like this: “One Free Time of Struggling with Father.” The document can say sportfishing, enjoying an activity, and for ladies doing cosmetics or her hair with mother. Get creative!
2. Take your family into the hills to cut down a Xmas shrub. This may cost you a little sum of cash, but remove some presents to do it. There will be fonder reminiscences of that than any existing.
3. Conspire as a family to create a person’s Xmas unforgettable. Have your family put onto the front patio of a companion or of a family in need and have them band the entrance gong and escape before anyone solutions it. Keep a covered existing behind for someone in the family. If you can, do it again at the mystery a while later. Your kids will have so much fun doing this!
4. Go Xmas caroling.
5. Always bring God into Xmas. I keep in mind the Xmas testimonies study before starting the presents.
6. Start new customs that include the whole family.
7. Xmas day before your kids all get up, cover up a few of the presents. This will turn finding their presents into a value hunts to deal with. Divided up into groups with kids using the services of mother and father to find a existing based on signs. Your kids can get engaged by covering presents for their mother and father.
8. Make beautifying for Xmas exclusive and pleasant.
9. Fun and pleasant Xmas practical jokes that get individuals to have fun (not get embarrassed) are more unforgettable than merely starting presents.
10. Make Xmas presents for others. Getting together with your family, especially your family, to create a variety of will offer excellent reminiscences.
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November 8, 2012
Sports leagues say new betting law will lead to corruptionLaw would allow bettors to put money on single games
By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau
The NHL and its major league counterparts say high-level sports would be open to players throwing matches if Parliament wagers on a bill allowing single-game betting in Canada.
The NHL, NBA, and NFL, along with the National Collegiate Athletic Association are on the offensive against a private member's bill that would allow Canadians to put money on single sporting events, such as the Super Bowl.
In arguments to the Senate committee currently studying Bill C-290, pro and amateur sports associations say loosening the gambling laws would irreparably warp the relationship between teams and their fans and leave players ripe for corruption.
"Government sponsored and/or regulated single-game sports gambling threatens to compromise the reputation and integrity of the NHL's product, and could seriously undermine our fans' trust and confidence in honest competition," said the league's deputy commissioner Bill Daly in a statement.
Tim Rahilly, with Simon Fraser University, the NCAA's only Canadian branch, told senators Thursday that if passed, his school's athletes could be forced out of the country to play in championship games. The NCAA, playing hardball against similar legislation passed in New Jersey, recently moved championship games out of that state.
Rahilly said he's concerned amateur athletes are especially vulnerable to being convinced to throw matches.
"There are many more checks and balances at the professional level and I think there are potentially resources there to make sure that people are complying with the law, should this be legalized," Rahilly said. "At the amateur level, I don't think that is the case. I don't think the resources are there."
In Canada, gamblers can legally wager on two or more games at a time. South of the border, Nevada - and recently New Jersey - allow people to wager on a single sporting event.
NDP MP Joe Comartin, the bill's sponsor, and its proponents maintain billions of dollars in revenue is being lost when Canadian take to the Internet to gamble on games. They say changing the rules would mean a windfall for casino regions near the U.S., such as Niagara Falls.
But the controversy means the legislation - which breezed through the House of Commons essentially unchallenged - faces hurdles in the Senate.
Conservative Senator Bob Runciman said it's a toss up as to whether it passes the final vote in the upper chamber.
"There's some strong feelings on this," he said. "There's been quite a lobby effort to kill the bill. We'll just have to wait and see."
If the bill does pass, each province would create their own laws to govern single-game gambling in their jurisdictions.
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:10
THE LEFT SIDE
As stated last week about the left side being associated with evil. For thousands of years the Devil in pictures and other images is portrayed as left-handed. It is considered that we can only see ghost if we look over our left shoulder and the Devil watches us over the left side.
Evil spirits lurk over the left shoulder; throw salt over this shoulder to ward them off. In Roman times, salt was a very valuable commodity, giving rise to the word “salary” and was once considered a form of money. If salt was spilled, it was considered bad luck; that could only be avoided by throwing some of the spilled salt over your left shoulder to placate the devil.
Joan of Arc, burned at the stake in 1431, for being a heretic and a witch was not left-handed but was depicted in this way to make her seem evil.
Getting out of bed with the left food first means that you will have a bad day and be bad tempered. Therefore, we have “getting out of bed the wrong side.” A ringing in the right ear means someone is praising you and the left ear it means that someone is cursing you.
Wedding rings worn on the third finger of the left hand originated with the Greeks and Romans, who wore them to fend of evil associated with the left-hand. It was believed that a nerved from this finger ran directly to the heart.
If you hear the sound of a cuckoo from the right it will be a lucky year. If the sound comes from the left it will be unlucky. If the left eye twitches, you will see an enemy. When dressmaking, it is believed to be bad luck to sew the left-hand sleeve onto a garment before the right sleeve. If going on a journey, if the right foot itches, you will have a good journey. If the left foot itches, it will end in sorrow. It is thought to be bad luck to pass a drink to another person with your left hand or anti-clockwise around a table. A left-handed toast will curse the victim. Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais are the most famous left-handed couple in history.
Here are superstitions in favor of left-handed folks. Anyone who digs coal out of the ground from under the left foot in the spring will have very good luck. Apply ointment to wounds with the left forefinger to heal. The ancient Zuni tribe considered left-handedness a sign of good luck and believed the left was the older and wiser.
Superstition, in my belief is a state of mind, not supported by facts. I don’t believe in good or bad luck and ghosts. But to show how in-grained it is, I do sometime knock on wood and find myself aware when a black cat crosses my path and I see no reason for walking under a ladder. Superstitious, I might be.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:12
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 12:11
Autumn begins the 23rd of September, I suppose that means summer is ending. Before summer comes to a halt, perhaps one more grilling out or a campfire is in order. Simple hot dogs are a must for either, on the grill or roasted over a fire.
Hot dogs are rather a simple food with interesting facts. They range from cocktail size or big dinner frankfurters. Seasoned plain or taste may include spices.
Hot dogs are among America’s favorite foods. Americans consume on average 60 hot dogs each year. Hot dogs are primarily regarded as a fun, summertime food and most eaten on Memorial Day and Labor Day. The sausage (a form of hot dogs) is one of the oldest forms of processed food, having been mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey, 9th Century B.C.. Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar’s cook, Gaius, is often credited with discovering the first sausage. It was custom of the time to starve the pigs one week before cooking and eating them. One pig was brought out well roasted, but it was noticed that somehow it had not been cleaned. Cook Gaius ran a knife into its belly to see if the pig was fit to eat. To his surprise, out popped the intestines and they were all puffed up and hollow. It was reported that Gaius said, “I have discovered something of great importance.” He stuffed the intestines with ground venison and ground beef mixed with cooked ground wheat and spices. He ties them into sections and the wiener was born.
Marlene Dietrich said her favorite meal was hot dogs & champagne. Babe Ruth once ate 12 hot dogs and eight bottles of soda between games of a double header. He was rushed to the hospital after the game with a severe case of indigestion. Al Capone’s favorite food was Nathan’s Coney Island hot dogs as was Cary Grant. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport sells more than two million hot dogs a year.
NASA has approved hot dogs as a regular item on Apollo moon flights, Skylab missions and space shuttle flights. During the war, soldiers were fed the dreaded K-rations that often consisted of beans, corned beef or hot dogs. To make the hot dogs more appetizing, the mess staff referred to them as steaks in a tube or Tube Steaks.
And lastly, there is even hot dog etiquette. Don’t put hot dog toppings between the hot dog & the bun. Always “dress the dog,” not the bun. Wet condiments like mustard and chili are applied first, followed by chunky condiments like relish, onions and sauerkraut, followed by shredded cheese, then salt and pepper. Do eat hot dogs on buns with your hands utensils should not touch hot dogs on buns. Don’t use a cloth napkin to wipe you mouth when eating a hot dog. Paper is always preferable. Do use paper plates to serve hot dogs. Don’t take more than 6.1 bites to finish a hot dog. Don’t leave bits of bun on your plate. Eat it all. Do lick away any condiments remaining on the fingers after eating, not washed. Don’t bring wine to a hot dog barbecue. Beer, soda, lemonade and iced tea are preferable. Don’t ever think it is wrong to serve hot dogs.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 September 2011 12:13
Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:57
BRAISED EARLY SPRING GREENS
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
1 large onion cut into thin rings
2 cloves garlic, thin sliced
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
12 cups chicken stock
1 pound collard greens
1 pound chard
1 pound kale
1 pound mustard greens
Clean greens and remove stems. (May use any greens available). In a large stockpot over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add onion, salt and red pepper: sauté until tender, about 8 minutes. Add chicken stock and bring to a simmer, about 5 minutes. Add collard greens to pot and simmer in broth for 15 to 20 minutes. Using tongs; remove collards from broth; shake off excess liquid. Transfer to a sheet pan and spread out to cool (this helps retain the color). Repeat with remaining greens one bunch at a time, cooking each separately for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove stockpot form heat while greens cool. Then add all cooled greens back to pot together and gently reheat to desired temperature over low heat. Yield 10 servings.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:58
Wednesday, 02 February 2011 16:05
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
4 ounces unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large very ripe bananas, pureed
Preheat oven to 350°. Line 16 muffin cups with paper liners. Sift the flour, baking powder, soda and salt together in a mixing bowl. Set aside. Cream together the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla and eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add the flour mixture and blend ingredients together until only just combined. Stir in the bananas. Blend mixture until ingredients are fully incorporated. Pour batter into cups and bake 25-30 minutes or till tester comes out clean. Cool completely. Frost with Nutella frosting. Yield 16 cupcakes.
8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup Nutella
8 ounces powdered sugar
Cream together the cream cheese and Nutella until blended. Add the powdered sugar until combined. Mix on high speed until smooth and creamy. Fill a pastry bag for a swirl look or use a
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In the early days of the parties, it was nearly impossible not to vote on a straight party line vote. To vote, voters would receive a colored ballot with that party's nominees on it. To split ticket vote, you would need two different colored ballots, which made it confusing to the voter. Often, the voter would choose a specific party, and vote for everyone from that party. Some states have had an option to select "vote straight-ticket Democrat" and "vote straight-ticket Republican" that voters can check instead of voting for each race; states that do so include Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
One possible reason straight-ticket voting has declined among the general electorate in past years is the power of incumbency has risen. Also, there are very few places where there still is a one-party rule. In the South after the civil war, the Democrats were completely in power, and the hostility toward Republicans made it that an overwhelming majority of voters voted straight down the line on the Democratic side. Furthermore, local parties tend to run very weak party identifiers for local positions, such as mayor or town council, so at local levels, candidates must actually fight for their votes.
Straight-ticket Voting in Individual States
The straight-ticket voting option differs slightly from state to state.
In North Carolina, voting "straight party" (using the term from an NC ballot) does not include a vote for the President and Vice President of the United States. North Carolina voters therefore must make separate selections for the President/Vice President and the straight-party option (see sample ballot from Precinct 3, Durham, North Carolina).
This idiosyncrasy on the North Carolin ballot is described by some as "a ballot flaw" that may confuse voters, potentially resulting in voters failing to cast a vote for President and Vice President when doing so was their intent. In the 2000 presidential election, there was a 3.15% "undervote" (total voter turnout - total votes for President and Vice President) / total voter turnout); in the 2004 presidential election, there was a 2.57% undervote. This means that in raw numbers, more than 92,000 North Carolina voters in the 2000 election turned out to vote but did not vote for president; similarly, in 2004, more than 75,000 North Carolina voters turned out to vote but not vote for president.
As North Carolina is widely regarded as a swing state in the 2008 Presidential election, with Barack Obama having a narrow lead over John McCain in the polls (as of October 26, 2008), a similar undervote in North Carolina could impact the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
In Texas, "attempting to vote for President after choosing straight party voting could nullify one's vote."
- ↑ Hershey, Marjorie Randon. Party Politics in America 12th ed. 2007: Longman Classics in Political Science. page 110-111
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures 2008
- ↑ How Bad is North Carolina’s Ballot Flaw? The Numbers Say, Pretty Bad, Norden, Lawrence and Chen, Margaret, October 21, 2008
- ↑ Voting Rights Watch: Could confusing ballots swing the presidential election in NC? October 20, 2008, The Institute for Southern Studies
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Discover 1,700 years of culture at “the navel of the world”, a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Isla de Pascua (Photo: ProChile)
Far from the world and close to paradise, 3,256 kilometers from the Chilean mainland in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island has a total surface area of 180 square kilometers. Extinct volcanoes, marvelous beaches and, above all, the enormous megalithic statues called moais have transformed this location into an enigma that draws visitors from all over the world.
Easter Island was discovered by Dutch explorer, Jakob Roggeveen, on Easter Sunday, 1722 and was claimed as Chilean territory by Policarpo Toro in 1888. The island’s indigenous name is Rapa Nui, after the native people and language of the same name, and it was originally known as Rapa it Nui or “Big Rapa” (Rapa was another island), as well as Te Pito o Te Henua, “the navel of the world”.
The Rapa Nui people have preserved a culture dating back 1,700 years to around 300 CE, when the first waves of migration began from Polynesia. This vibrant culture is very much in evidence today, and vivid myths, legends, dances, festivals and traditional music – as well as the famous moais – are a powerful part of island life. As visitors step off the plane they are welcomed with a garland of flowers, and the warmth and friendliness of the local people.
Rapa Nui was made a National Park in 1935 and in 2005 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is considered the largest outdoor museum in the world, with just one main population center, Hanga Roa, and many alternatives for outdoor sports lovers. Snorkeling and scuba diving, surfing, sailing, kayaking, horseback riding and trekking are all on offer on and around the triangular shaped island.
Three extinct volcanoes – with beautiful lagoons in their enormous craters – are evidence of island’s volcanic origins. The largest volcano is Maunga Terevaka, at 525 m altitude, while Ranu Kau volcano rises 324 meters, and El Poike, 352 meters.
Archaeology: the moai route
Almost 900 moais are scattered across Easter Island, along with a diverse range of archeological sites which were used for religious rituals, agriculture or shelter.
The journey through these archeological sites is an opportunity to connect with the incredible magic and energy of Easter Island. Even today, these are places of real significance for the local community, and visitors should pay the greatest respect to each area’s rules of conduct. We recommend that visitors refrain from climbing the ahus and moais, and from touching or leaving any mark on the petroglyphs and other archeological items.
Rano Raraku: A rock quarry with around 400 moai statues, in various stages of construction and transport, surrounded by a network of hiking trails. Activity in the “moai factory” seems to have been abandoned abruptly, and to this day no full explanation has been found.
Ahus: There are approximately 300 platforms or altars called ahus on the island, most of them already destroyed. The most important are Vaihu, Akahanga, Heki'i, Raai, Te Peu and Vinapu, where you can observe statues, traces of human settlements that include houses, stoves and henhouses, as well as agricultural and ceremonial sites.
Tahai-Ko Te Riku Complex: This fully restored archeological site is located in the town of Hanga Roa. Visitors can see stone houses, henhouses, ceremonial sites, three moai platforms with (Tahai, Vai Uri and Ko Te Riku), as well as a jetty built entirely of stone.
Ahu Huri A Urenga: A restored site located near the town of Hanga Roa, with a single statue looking toward the spot where the sun rises on the day of the winter solstice. This astronomical event marks the beginning of winter, or tonga in the Rapa Nui language, and a period of ceremonial prohibitions – tapu – of activities such as fishing.
Ahu Akivi: An archeological complex restored in 1960 by the archeologist William Mulloy. Seven statues can be seen here gazing toward the sunset over the sea. Tradition tells that these seven moais represent the first seven explorers who arrived in Rapa Nui, sent by King Hotu Matu’a.
Ahu Ature Huki: Located on Anakena Beach, this is the first restoration carried out during the Norwegian expedition of 1956. It consists of an anthropomorphic statue and is thought to be older than the other platforms nearby.
Ahu Nau Nau: A restoration on Anakena Beach, carried out by Rapa Nui archeologist Sergio Rapu in the late 1970s. These seven well-preserved statues feature details that are impossible to make out on other moais, such as tattoos and clothing. One of the moais found during the restoration is currently on show in the Easter Island Museum.
Caves and volcanoes
The volcanic landscape of Easter Island offers fascinating geographic landmarks perfect for trekking enthusiasts. Don’t miss the chance to crawl in the dark through a series of caves until you reach a panoramic view of the island's emerald plateaus against the azure backdrop of the Pacific.
Ana o Keke and Ana Te Pahu are the most popular caves with visitors. Ana Te Pahu means “Cave of the Virgins”, where, in ancient times, Rapa Nui brides were locked away before marriage. You enter the cavern, located on the north face of Poike Mountain, by crawling on your belly. Ana Te Pahu is in the eastern part of the island and has a huge cavity with four chambers, sometimes used as tombs.
The hike to Rano Kao Volcano is hugely popular with visitors. This is a full-day excursion which takes you through eucalyptus forests and up to the volcano’s crater before descending into the extinct volcano. What used to be lava is today filled with a profusion of native flora and unique petroglyphs. Another, less traveled route runs between the cliffs of the north side, with collapsed moais visible along the trail.
Anakena and Ovahe: These are the only sandy beaches on the island. Anakena is the main beach, while and Ovahe, to the east, is smaller. With its sand, palm trees and turquoise waters, Anakena is a seaside paradise which features two restored ahus, camp sites, and safe storage. Its warm waters are perfect for bathing.
Surfing beaches: In Hanga Roa, Vaihu and Tahai offer waves for both beginners and experts. Vaihu is especially good for beginners and has beautiful tube waves, while Tahai has the biggest waves on the island.
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Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge
Established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, Lower Klamath Refuge is our nation's first waterfowl refuge. Located near Tulelake, California, this 46,900 acre Refuge is a varied mix of shallow freshwater marshes, open water, grassy uplands, and croplands that are intensively managed to provide feeding, resting, nesting, and brood rearing habitat for waterfowl and other water birds.
Notable Species
Just as sure as the leaves fall and ice begins to coat basin wetlands, they will arrive. Each year during the month of November, Bald Eagle begin to appear en masse on their Klamath Basin wintering grounds. Having traveled from as far away as Northwest Territories in Canada and Glacier National Park, these birds quickly settle into a daily routine of waterfowl scavenging throughout the Basin's marshes by day and locating sheltered roosts at night.
The best viewing occurs during January and February when numbers may peak at over 500 birds. During this time, an observant visitor should be able to easily spot dozens of these majestic raptors along the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath auto tours. It is not uncommon to see over 50 eagles from one spot!
Birds you can see here include:
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A marked 10-mile auto tour allows visitors year round access to great wildlife viewing opportunities. The Refuge also has a number of photoblinds which are strategically situated for great early-morning photography.
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Wow! It is so exciting that you would be able to perform a lot of "scientific investigations and experiments", at our Art Freiler Elementary School, but it can be dangerous if the proper precautions aren't followed. If a student chooses not to follow the rules below, you will not be allowed to participate in lab activities. You will do an alternative assignment, assigned by the teacher. To make sure that your laboratory experience is both exciting and safe, follow the general guidelines listed below:
1. Be respectful, follow your teacher's instructions, and don't take shortcuts.
2. Always get your teacher's permission before attempting any laboratory investigation.
3. Read the procedures carefully, paying attention to safety information and cautionary statements.
4. As a responsible citizen, be aware of the location of and the procedure for using the nearest fire alarms, fire-evacuation routes and any other safety equipment, such as fire blankets and eyewash fountains.
5. Never work alone in the laboratory.
6. Walk with care and keep your work area free from all unnecessary clutter. Keep backpacks and other belongings at a certain place designated by your teacher.
7. Dress appropriately on lab day, tie back long hair, remove dangling jewelry and wear closed-toed shoes or sandals in the laboratory. Wear an apron to protect your clothing from staining, burning, or corrosion if instructed by your teacher.
8. Certain products, like hair spray, are flammable and should not be worn while working near an open flame.
9. Wear approved safety goggles when working with or around chemicals, any mechanical device, or any type of flame or heating device. If any substance gets in your eyes or spills or your skin or clothes, rinse it immediately with water and have someone notify your teacher.
10. Wear protective gloves or oven mitts to avoid burns.
11. Be trustworthy and never touch, taste, smell or mix any chemicals unless your teacher instructs you do so.
12. Use knives and other sharp instruments with extreme care. Always cut an object after placing it on a suitable surface for cutting.
13. Handle plants and animals carefully and wash your hands afterwards. Always treat animals with care and respect.
14. While using electrical equipment, be careful about the wiring, hanging and damaged cords. Be sure your hands are dry and the electrical equipment is turned off before plugging it into the outlet. Turn off all equipment when you are finished using it.
15. Be a responsible and careful scientist by examining glassware to make sure that it is clean and is free of chips and cracks. Report damaged glassware to your teacher.
16. CLEANUP: Clean your work area before leaving! Follow your teacher's directions for washing, unplugging and putting away the equipment. Wash hands with soap and water after working in the laboratory.
17. Stay, work and talk to your own group. Don't leave your group and work area unless instructed by the teacher. Do not sit on counters or tables.
Student: I have read the science safety rules and agree to follow them.
Student's Signature & Date
Parent: I have read and discussed the science safety rules with my child and agree to reinforce them.
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As the electric vehicle market grows, developing charging infrastructure isn't the only challenge in preparing for the gradual transition. Grid operators will need to be prepared for the overload of electricity requirements from all those vehicles.
Tom Gage, who advanced plug-in vehicle technology at AC Propulsion (ACP), is working on that transition. To manage the complications between plug-in vehicles and grid operations, Gage will employ the concept of vehicle-to-grid (V2G), using vehicle batteries as a source of energy storage and vehicle operating systems as a means of managing that storage. Under his start-up, EV Grid, Gage hopes to streamline those interactions.
SEE OTHER TOP STORIES IN THE ENERGY DIGITAL CONTENT NETWORK
For EV Grid, “the big commercialization opportunity,” Gage explained to Green Tech Media, is “vehicle-grid integration,” because “everybody knows if ten people on the block go out and buy a LEAF and they all plug it in at 6 p.m. when they get home, they’re going to have a problem.” Many see this as a liability, Gage said, “but if you manage it properly, it becomes an asset.”
According to Gage, there are three ways to use batteries as grid storage. A warehouse full of batteries can run under the total control of a utility provider, or when the batteries get older and are replaced, the remaining storage capacity they provide can be recycled and used for grid storage. The third alternative is vehicle-to-grid, in which two streams of the battery are being extracted concurrently—one when the car is being driven and the other when it is charging and the battery is on call to the grid.
For electric car owners, that would mean paying less for a battery while sharing it with a utility, essentially creating two revenue streams. Sometime in May, the company will demonstrate a pilot project with the University of Delaware and NRG Energy, including V2G trials and sample business models. If it works, Gage is confident that V2G will benefit the EV market, making the vehicles look more economical.
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Lillye Younger in The History of Decatur County Past and Present provides this history of schools in the Bath Springs Area.
The first school at Bath Springs was a log structure located just across from the present Dr. B.M. Brooks home. It was constructed during Civil War days. George Brooks taught here.
In 1913 the building was torn down and a yellow pine school building erected about 50 feet from the present Bath Springs Baptist Church. It was used as a school-church combination until in 1929 when Three Way School was built.
The school at the Three Way intersection of Hwys 114 and 69 was the Lancaster School. It served the Bath Springs Community for many years. School desks remained in it until it was torn down in the 1960s.
from the research of Jerry L Butler
JOHN STEELE1 BRALY was born February 14, 1815 in Rowan Co. NC, and died September
13, 1861 in Wayne Co. TN. He married NANCY MELVINA STOWE November 11, 1846 in
Perry Co. TN. She was born February 28, 1824 in Lincoln Co. NC, and died August 20, 1909
in Blackfoot, Bingham Co. ID.
More About JOHN STEELE BRALY:
- Census: 1850, Dwelling 44, Perry Co. TN
- Occupation: 1850, Surveyor
Notes for NANCY MELVINA STOWE:
In the 1870 census, Nancy M. Brawley and family are living in the household of her son in
law, George Jackson. In the 1880 census, Nancy M. Brawley is living next door to the George
More About NANCY MELVINA STOWE:
- Census 1: 1850, Dwelling 44, Perry Co. TN
- Census 2: 1870, Dwelling 99, District 3, Wayne Co. TN
- Census 3: 1880, Dwelling 14, District 2, Decatur Co. TN
- Census 4: 1900, Dwelling 71, Franklin Village, Oneida Co. ID
More About JOHN BRALY and NANCY STOWE:
Marriage: November 11, 1846, Perry Co. TN
Children of JOHN BRALY and NANCY STOWE are:
- HUGH STANHOPE FERNANDO2 BRALY, b. September 09, 1847, Perry Co. TN; d. December 12, 1863, Wayne Co. TN.
More About HUGH STANHOPE FERNANDO BRALY:
Census: 1850, Dwelling 44, Perry Co. TN
- LOUISA JANE BRALY, b. August 21, 1849, Perry Co. TN; d. March 25, 1880.
- OCTAVIA ELENOR BRALY, b. December 01, 1851, Linden, Perry Co. TN; d. June 04, 1891, Cove, Cache Co. UT.
- BYRON EMERILLA (ELENOR) BRALY, b. December 25, 1855, Ashland, Wayne Co. TN; d. December 31, 1899.
- GASTON LAFAYETTE BRALEY, b. July 14, 1858, Ashland, Wayne Co. TN; d. April 11, 1934, Berkeley, Alameda Co. CA.
- WILLIAM THOMAS (MACK) BRALY, b. November 14, 1861, Ashland, Wayne Co. TN; d. February 11, 1886.
Read more about the Descendants of John Steele Braly including the Brawley family of Decatur Co. TN – requires Adobe Reader.
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The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article – Re-Imagining a New Urban India (subscription) written by Jaydeep Mody and Divya Dwivedi. The article looks at how urbanisation and economic growth go hand in hand and require macro and integrate planning.
Jaydeep Mody writes
Urban centers have the advantage of economies of scale and scope in offering a range of services to the citizenry that are simply uneconomical to provide in the vast rural hinterland……
Divya Dwivedi wrote
The concept of urbanization in India has been mostly oriented towards major cities, leading to the evolution of ‘two Indias’ – the rich urban India and the poor rural India…..
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A decision by the municipality’s Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) in July to recommend to council that regulations be amended to allow aquaculture operations in rural industrial zones (with environmental concerns addressed) was questioned by many residents.
The change would be one of several legislative adjustments necessary for the establishment of an eel production facility on Blueberry Hill in Chebogue by Jason Lee of Red Ocean Inc.
Residents expressed anger at the possible pollution of the scenic and historically-rich Chebogue River.
The proposed site is in a rural development zone so a rezoning application would also have to be submitted. That process would also require public hearings.
Inland aquaculture is presently only allowed in a marine industrial zone.
“How can you make a recommendation to council to approve something that you don’t even understand yourself,” asked Torey Grimshaw.
“That committee should go back to the table, understand what’s going on and then make informed judgment,” she said to applause.
Councillor Leland Anthony turned the lack of information back on the audience when asked for his opinion on the matter.
“You guys want to kill it before you even have the information,” he said.
A public participation meeting on the issue was held on Oct. 16. Grimshaw pointed out the innocuous nature of the advertisement announcing the meeting.
“It says nothing about the actual industry. If you were to read this you’d think, what the hell are they talking about?”
People questioned the net benefit of the
proposed development, with some speakers saying it would be highly mechanized. There was scorn expressed regarding district planner Brad Fulton’s description of the province’s aquaculture industry creating an estimated 750 direct and 1,000 indirect jobs annually.
Dianne Crowell owned and operated an eel processing plant in Argyle for close to 20 years.
She said there was no research based on Fulton’s recommendation.
Her business is for sale and is located on the Argyle River because it needs brackish water for its processing plant.
“You could probably get it for taxes at this point,” she said to laughter.
“He hasn’t gone into any research about what inland aquaculture means, where the waste goes for that.
“I’m going to be very frank with you, this is a way to get a licence to process elvers,” she said.
Elvers are baby eels born in the Sargasso Sea. It takes them a year and a half of swimming to arrive in this region. They are sometimes called glass eels because of their transparency.
Crowell said they command huge prices in today’s market.
“There are about 2,000 elvers in a kilo and presently they are getting thousands of dollars for a kilo. In Korea they are grown through aquaculture. In some countries they are the most expensive appetizer you’ll ever entertain, way more expensive than caviar,” she said.
Council will debate the PAC motion on Nov. 28 and will either pass, change or reject it. The item may also be returned to the PAC with a request for a different proposal related to the issue.
Should council approve the motion by the PAC, a public hearing must be held, with two weeks notice given of the upcoming meeting.
The change allowing aquaculture operations in an RI zone would affect all of the RI zones in the municipality.
If residents do not agree with the decision, they can apply to the Utility and Review Board of Nova Scotia to challenge it.
A new development would also be subject to developmental agreements.
Despite these hurdles, many residents expressed concern that the PAC was advancing the progress of the proposal with little information about the proposed business.
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EDITOR'S COMMENTS From Antique Radio Classified for April 2007
(Copyright 1996-2007 by John V. Terrey - For personal use only.)
Radio and clocks have become such a team (like the horse and carriage of a familiar song) that it's hard to remember when the union became an integral part of our lives. This thought came to mind as we changed our clocks to daylight savings a month earlier than usual.
Somehow, this schedule change made us more aware of how complex the once simple task of resetting clocks has become. Now we find that when setting the clocks on computers, as well as the clocks on appliances, including clock radios, the process is different for each one. Even resetting a watch can be a challenge.
That's why it's a pleasure sometimes to be able just to move the hands on a grandfather clock or turn the knobs on a simple alarm clock. But, clocks, like radio, have evolved, from decorative to utilitarian, from relatively simple to more complex operations, so the union of the two was a natural course of events.
It was inevitable that radio would become an almost universally used "alarm clock," and Steve Auyer describes one of the examples -- a 1950 GE Model 64. This is a nice, simple clock radio, but Steve uses it to illustrate a feature that we can't imagine living without -- glow-in-the dark dials. However, few of us may know that, in these early sets, the source of the illumination was radium-containing paint.
The link between clocks and radio is also illustrated by Richard Arnold's article tracing the history of the Sonora Company. This company evolved from a manufacturer of clocks in the early 1900s, to a manufacturer of windup phonographs, and, eventually, of radios and vacuum tubes.
A Model WAU-243 table set first piqued Richard's interest, but he then followed the company's history through changing products, international connections, two bankruptcies, and its demise in 1958. It's interesting that the company motto "Clear as a Bell" prevailed no matter what the product, clock or radio.
Restoring a set to its original condition, just as it came from the store, is another way of pursuing radio history. Don Watson achieved this goal in restoring the cabinet, as well as the chassis, of his Sears Silvertone 8052. However, he has had a little more trouble with the history of his set -- the year of manufacture is in question. As always, we hope Steve gets some input from readers.
Ray Chase continues to give us more valuable input on what's going on out there in the auction world. This time he covers three smaller auctions, which together totaled less than $40,000. Though there were no highly collectible items, over four dozen microphones selling from $3 to $350, highlighted the Dale Putt auction of the Robert Wilson collection.
In the Parzow auction of the Lee Kemp collection, radios were a small percentage of a general auction and were disposed of in about 20 minutes. Four items -- two Atwater Kent breadboards, and two Federals, a 61 and a 110 -- accounted for $2,800 of the total of about $5,000.
The September Estes auction is described as an old-fashioned, clean-out kind of sale. Only one item, an Atwater Kent breadboard, sold for over $1,000, and only 47 items, for over $100. Ray emphasizes that these were not "soft" prices, but that they simply reflect the fact that many of the items were left over and had not been included in previous auctions due to space or time.
This auction also illustrated the doggedness of collectors when on the auction circuit. To an outsider, Ray's description of the auction weather conditions would have made giving the whole thing up an easy choice. Not so for the radio collectors -- they hung in there despite the rain and cold.
A.R.C. Benefits. Be sure to take advantage of A.R.C. benefits: a toll-free number (866) 371-0512; Discover, MasterCard, American Express, Visa accepted; the Web, www.antiqueradio.com; books shipped free in the U. S. by USPS media mail; and for current subscribers, a 10 percent discount on all book orders.
Coming Radio Events. Spring in the air prompts collectors to begin to emerge from hibernation and get to more events. Among the choices this month are 24 meetings, 15 meets, and 5 auctions. Be sure to get out and enjoy at least one of each.
John V. Terrey, Editor
ON THE COVER
On the cover is a photo of Steve Auyer's GE Model 64 table radio, an example of the subject of his lead article "Glow-in-the-Dark Radios." Superimposed on the radio is an enlargement of the radio's glowing dial.
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Like an Extra Virgin
I'm not much of a cook, so when I first saw EVOO on a menu, it took me a sec to translate this into Extra Virgin Olive Oil. But you see it once, you see it a million times. (Just like all those other menu items that didn't used to exist, then - all of a sudden - they're on every middle-brow restaurant menu: focaccia, chicken Caesar salad, sorbet. Where do these things come from?)
If you can set the concept of just what an "extra virgin" might be aside, there are apparently strict guidelines on what sets EVOO apart from the plain old VOO in the gold can that sits in my cupboard.
From a recent New Yorker article by Tom Mueller on olive oil fraud, I learned that what separates the V's from the Extra V's is the free acidity percentage. (Free acidity tells you how decomposed the olives were when they entered the vat.) There's also something a grade below VOO, and it's something called lampante, or lamp oil. (I had best check my tin of olive oil to make sure it's not lampante.)
Whatever it says on the bottle or can, what's inside may or may not even be olive oil. As Mueller's article recounts, there's a long history of olive oil fraud, in which sunflower seed, hazelnut, and canola oil is doctored up with dyes and flavorings. And less you think of the olive oil industry as peasants filling baskets full of olives on their sun-kissed hillsides, then carefully make the oil in ancient wooden presses - or even stomp on the olives, like Lucy when she and Ethel made the wine - olive oil, like most agriculture these days, is a huge business. The lesser oils are often smuggled into Italy in tankers, where it's miraculously transformed into EVOO.
All this smuggling of seed oils (and semi-legitimate importing of lesser olive oil), does, of course, have an impact on those delightful peasant farmers you're thinking of. It makes it hard for them to compete with the real thing.
In any case, Mueller's article is fascinating reading - even for non-cooks like myself who don't hang around gourmet shops agonizing over just how much to spend on a bottle of EVOO.
Despite not cooking, however, I do have a long history with olive oil.
When I was a kid, my mother cooked with vegetable oil, but we did have a small, ancient bottle of olive oil around, which was used to cure earaches. A bit of olive oil was warmed up, eyedropped into your ear, and stopped up with a cotton ball. I can't remember if it worked or not, but I don't remember having many earaches.
I do remember having dandruff in eighth grade. Far be it for my family to actually go out and buy Head and Shoulders so that their self-conscious 13 year old could take care of what was very likely a minor but magnified case of dandruff.
No, my mother's remedy called for olive oil, and here instructions to me were "use olive oil."
Now, if she had told me to rub a little olive oil into my scalp, and then shampoo it out, I would have done so.
Left to my own imagination, I massaged the entire bottle of olive oil into my scalp and went to bed.
In the morning, I awoke to a sodden pillow and odiferous hair plastered to my head.
In a panic, I hopped in the shower and tried to wash the olive oil out.
There was not, however, enough time to do enough lather-rinse-repeats to rid me of the results of my olive oil treatment before it was time to leave for school.
Hard to believe, but the thought of letting me stay home and keep on shampooing never occurred to my parents, and the thought of skipping school never occurred to me.
Off I went, and I remember walking to school - it was early March - with my knit cap (red wool with white angora trim) only partially covering the fiasco that was my head of hair.
The day was one of agony.
Curiously, I do not remember anyone making fun of me. Given that the eighth graders at Our Lady of the Angels Grammar School were not known for their kindness and compassion, I can only guess that, what to me seemed like an obvious case of olive oil head must have passed for no more than an average hormonally-prompted greasy hair day.
In any case, I'm guessing that the bottle in our house was lampante.
At thirteen, I might have been what you'd call an extra virgin, but there's no way that the olive oil was.
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This museum contains farm tools, household items and farm equipment from years past. There are butter churns, a wood-burning cook stove, a cotton gin and numerous tools. A spinning wheel, a collection of iron cookware and World War I and II artifacts are included. School children enjoy visiting the museum for a glimpse of "life on a farm" 100 years ago. Collections include arrowheads, Indian pottery and artifacts pertaining to Native Americans. A Pee Dee Indian tour guide, dressed in authentic regalia, gives dancing demonstrations.
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NBC News: California has become the first state in the nation to ban therapy that tries turning gay teens straight. Gov. Jerry Brown says he signed Senate Bill 1172, which prohibits children under 18 from undergoing ‘sexual orientation change efforts.’ The law goes into effect Jan. 1.
The bill was sponsored by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, who says unethical practices by mental-health providers to try changing a young person’s sexual orientation have caused psychological harm.
*It’s amazing the steps the US is taking to create equality among its citizens.
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Albany, NY - Opponents of New York’s new gun laws are demanding answers about how Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York state Legislature can rush bills into law with little time for anyone to even read the bill.
The NY Safe Act was passed with no hearings, no testimony, no time for opponents to make a case to their legislators.
It’s not the first time a controversial bill was turned into a midnight emergency.
Others include same-sex marriage, pension reforms, requiring annual teacher evaluations, and, in some years, the entire state budget. It was an emergency to pass tax credits for brownfields clean-up, which had the unintended consequence of paying the Destiny USA developers $56 million in public money for a clean-up project that experts say could not have cost more than $1 million.
The New York State Constitution gives governors a tool to use to get a law passed as soon as enough legislators say yes and before anyone else can get to them. In the case of gun laws, it has angered the public like no other rushed bill. But creating emergency legislation is a time-honored practice in Albany.
Bill Mahoney, researcher at New York Public Interest Research Group, pulled together a list of the 415 times a “message of necessity” has been used to pass something the state deemed an “emergency.”
Here’s how it works:
Since 1938, The state Constitution has required a proposed bill to age for three days before a vote. It says:
§14. No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage….
Unless the government says so:
…unless the governor, or the acting governor, shall have certified, under his or her hand and the seal of the state, the facts which in his or her opinion necessitate an immediate vote thereon,…
Here is the argument Cuomo made to turn a vote on the gun law into an emergency:
"Some weapons are so dangerous, and some ammunition devices are so lethal, that New York State must act without delay to prohibit their continued sale and possession in the state in order to protect its children, first responders and citizens as soon as possible. This bill, if enacted, would do so by immediately banning the ownership, purchase and sale of assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices. For this reason, in addition to enacting a comprehensive package of measures that further protects the public, immediate action by the Legislature is imperative.”
Conservative activist Robert Schulz filed a lawsuit, saying the state violated his Constitutional rights by using a message of necessity when more time was needed to consider the law.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the state’s lawyer, responded in court by saying, essentially, that there is no point in arguing whether the governor’s reason for an emergency was adequate. The process he used fits the Constitution. The attorney general’s office said the argument is not “justiciable,” which means it can’t be decided by legal principles. Courts are mindful that the judiciary – an equal branch of government – cannot easily set aside acts of the Legislature.
“As long as I’ve been in Albany, there’s nothing that’s raised the controversy of the NY Safe Act,” Mahoney said.
People are mad. But NYPIRG’s analysis shows Cuomo is actually using messages of necessity less than previous governors. It was used only 5 times in 2012 and once so far this year.
Gov. George Pataki rushed 84 bills into law this way in 2004, according to NYPIRG.
NYPIRG and other good government groups are opposed to messages of necessity because it leaves no time for public debate. They said a message of necessity should be used rarely and only in a truly urgent situation.
Check out this list and decide for yourself whether the urgency rested with the issue or with a governor’s need to squeeze in a vote before someone changed his or her mind:
Contact Michelle Breidenbach at (315) 470-3186, email@example.com or on Twitter @mbreidenbach.
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DEHRADUN: A rafting guide drowned in Ganga river near Rishikesh after saving six tourists, all residents of Delhi, when the raft carrying them turned turtle downstream today, police said. The mishap occurred at about 1:30 pm at Shivpuri under Muni Ki Reti police station in Tehri district, 18 kms from Rishikesh, SHO Rajiv Dandariyal said. All the six tourists were saved by 40-year-old Ram Kumar Pathak but he himself could not survive as too much water had flown into his system causing asphyxiation.
March 29, 2013 |
DEHRADUN: A rafting guide drowned in river Ganga near Rishikesh after saving six tourists, all residents of Delhi, when the raft carrying them turned turtle downstream on Friday, police said. The mishap took place at about 1:30 pm at Shivpuri under Muni Ki Reti police station in Tehri district, 18 kms from Rishikesh, SHO Rajiv Dandariyal said. All the six tourists were saved by 40-year-old Ram Kumar Pathak but he himself could not survive as too much water had flown into his system causing asphyxiation.
March 23, 2013 |
If the government was serious it would carry out a proper scientific study of the rivers first. It is because of the lack of proper scientific studies that the government cannot take a stand on the issue. Policies on sand extraction can only be formed based on proper scientific study. The legal positions on the issue are extreme as they are not based on any study. Sand extraction, if not done in a proper manner can do enormous amount of damage to the ecology. Abhijit Prabhudesai Member, goenchea xetkarancho ekvott, Curtorim A recent documentary aired on NDTV showed enough evidence to prove the damage being done to Goan ecology.
March 19, 2013 |
GAYA: Activists belonging to different organizations staged dharna outside the Gaya Collectorate to register their protest against the proposed construction on the Falgu river-bed on the alibi of 'ghat construction' and beautification. The dharna call was given by Pratijnya, a social organization working for the restoration of eco friendly environment in the town. The activists, according to Pratijnya chairman Braj Nandan Pathak, did not oppose the ghat construction and beautification per se. The protesters opposed the location of the ghats, which, according to Pathak, fall deep inside the river which will further narrow the sacred river's breadth, which has already significantly narrowed on account of indiscriminate encroachment on either side of the river.
March 16, 2013 |
MAPUSA: Notwithstanding stiff opposition from Goa and Maharashtra, construction work on the mining jetty at Aronda continues. Villagers of Keri and Paliem in Goa and Aronda in Maharashtra claim that the work is being undertaken without approvals. Aronda locals, who have been opposing the jetty for the past one year, have formed a 'Aronda Bachao Sangharsha Samiti' (ABSS) to register their protest. ABSS members have approached 18 concerned authorities in Maharashtra to stop the jetty construction.
March 14, 2013 |
MAPUSA: Water resources minister Dayanand Mandrekar along with panchayat minister Laxmikant Parsekar laid the foundation stone for a retaining wall to prevent erosion at Khazankond in Keri on the banks of the Tiracol river on Tuesday. The work involves building of a protection wall along the river Tiracol on the banks of which the Keri village is situated, to prevent erosion. An amount of 4.14 crore was sanctioned for the first phase of works to arrest erosion and protect the houses on the banks of the river.
March 12, 2013 |
MALAPPURAM: Sri Lankan Frogmouth (Batrachostomus moniliger), a bird species found in the Western Ghats region of southwest India and Sri Lanka has been spotted on the banks of the Bharatapuzha. It is for the first time that the presence of the bird was reported from Malabar. Sri Lankan Frogmouths, birds of dense tropical forest, are rarely seen in low altitude regions. The presence of the bird was confirmed in a study conducted in the region by a group of researchers comprising Dr Zubair Medammal, assistant professor zoology department , Calicut University, A David Raveendran, head of the department of Biology, Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu , Miriam M Abraham, conservation officer of Bombay Natural History society and Haris Parengal , research student of Gandhigram university.
March 3, 2013 |
SURAT: A 8.7 feet long dolphin was found dead on the banks of Tapi river near Chowk area of the city on Sunday morning. Several people crowded the river bank to witness the dead dolphin, which weighed 150 kg. It was a female Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, commonly found in the Arabian Sea. Dolphin is protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act and its body is required to be burnt after death. It was cremated at Dumas forest office by the forest officials. The postmortem found no specific reason for its death.
March 1, 2013 |
SURAT: Visits of the residents in the diamond city have continued on second consecutive day on Friday at the embankment of Tapi river anticipating the view the dolphins in the shallow water. Hundreds of residents have been flocking on the river ghat at Navdi ovara and at the Makkai pool to look for the dolphins in the river. Mukesh Naik, a shopkeeper at Adajan said, "I have specially come to see the dolphins in the river. It is very rare to see such fish in the river.
February 27, 2013 |
AHMEDABAD: You must have heard of the popular tale that goes "Jab kutte pe sassa aaya, tab Badshah ne shehr basaya", which is the founding fable of the city. But in history, the first time this was recorded as evidence was by the Gujarati Vernacular Society (GVS) in 1851. A book with a special page dedicated to this fable has been found printed in an old 'Hastshilp printing technology.' The tale was first documented by Maganlal Vakhatchand in his book 'Amdavad No Itihas'. Vakhatchand was asked to write a book on the history of the city by the GVS. He was an obvious choice as he was the first person in the city to pass metric exams.
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The Indian Institute of Astrophysics operates a vigorous programme of graduate studies which forms a vital component of research and training. The graduate studies programme is overseen by the BOARD OF GRADUATE STUDIES, which takes care of the academic and related activities of the Ph.D. students as well as the students visiting IIA under the various training programmes. The Institute is also a major partner in the Joint Astronomy Programme (JAP), organized by the Indian Institute of Science.
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Seminole is a city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 6,899 at the 2000 census. Seminole experienced a large population growth in the 1920s due to an oil boom. Throughout that time many people came to Seminole in hopes of finding wealth in oil. After the oil boom however, the population once again decreased. Seminole is the home of Seminole State College.
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Transforming transfixing genre fiction into memorable cinema is no simple task. Just ask Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis, whose polarizing adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas arrives Friday. Next comes the first of Peter Jackson's films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's immortal fantasy novel The Hobbit, which you're probably obsessively anticipating (unless you live under a hill).
Will these projects leave a lasting impression on cinema the way 2001: A Space Odyssey and Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy did? The road from page to screen is littered with botch jobs and ambitious failures, but sometimes a director pulls it off, turning a beloved sci-fi or fantasy book into a surprisingly effective film.
You'll find those examples in Wired's gallery of most successful book-based sci-fi and fantasy films, alongside other picks ranging from the classic to the esoteric. Click through for our take on how those films made the jump from print to celluloid, then tell us your own favorite literary-cinematic crossover champs in the comments section below.
Lost in translation? A remarkably seamless media fusion, Clarke's novel and Kubrick's film were born and shaped together for maximum impact. The productive collaboration posthumously remains as instructive, and imposing, as the space baby that fills Earth's sky at 2001: A Space Odyssey's optimistic finale. You're not likely to see two literary and cinematic stars shine as brightly ever again.
Report card: It's arguable that Clarke and Kubrick's masterpiece is the most influential book-based film, and film-based book, in any genre or tongue. But good luck getting all geeks to agree.
Blowback: What’s Your Favorite, or Least Favorite, Book-Based Film?
Plenty of filmmakers have plundered novels and short stories over the years. Some trashed their source texts, others treasured them. Which directors did it right with their adaptations? And which ones blew it? Let us know your favorites in the comments below.
On his 1985 Sears typewriter, Nick Rombes taps out the adventures of a man trapped in a warren of subterranean tunnels, prints up pamphlets at the local print shop, then mails chapters to fans eager to find out what happens next in the serialized thriller Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint.
Why swim upstream in the digital age? The Michigan-based writer believes that nothing beats a personally addressed piece of mail to set the pulse racing.
“I’m finding that some readers crave the physical objects of stories themselves as well as the anticipation of receiving them on a regular basis not through e-mail or downloads but through the U.S. Postal Service,” Rombes writes in a snail-mailed letter to Wired.com.
Rombes, who also wrote A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982 and currently teaches at University of Detroit Mercy, describes Nigthmares as “a sort of disordered noir for our fragmented age, involving a vast underground tunnel system, a detective, a hunchback and a doppelganger.” Given the cliffhanger nature of his 12-part series, Rombes adds: “I’d better stop there.”
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As part of Google Serve Week, an initiative to get Google employees engaged in community service, CCTV and Google offered two Age Engage workshops this month. Age Engage is a collaboration between CCTV and Google that matches Google employees with people over 50 that are interested in learning Internet skills. CCTV and Google began working together to offer Age Engage in December of 2011 and plan to offer monthly workshops during 2012.
Some of the things participants had to say about Age Engage include:
"We learned how to scan pictures, attach them to emails, download pictures from emails onto computer, and post them on Facebook."
"We went over various topics(Email, Search, Docs, News, etc) and learned interesting things about how to work within each. Moving around, saving, etc."
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For more information about Age Engage and upcoming sessions, click here.
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Fr. Tarazi explains how the very concept of a New Testament "scripture" came into being, beginning with Paul's letters. Paul's death then left a void in the leadership of Gentile Christianity, which was still under attack by Jewish Christianity. In order to defend the faith as it was preached by Paul, some of his followers created what is now the Gospel of Mark.
Tarazi addresses the enigmatic Book of Revelation with its fantastical creatures, the significance of the numbers 666 and 144,000, the Millennium and so-called "prophecy."
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13 November 2012. The Society for Neuroscience Meeting was held on 13-17 October in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Sunday morning, 14 October, Deanna Smith, of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, moderated a nanosymposium entitled Molecular Genetics and Experimental Therapeutics in Psychotic Disorders.
What's going on at 15q13.3?
Three presentations on a mouse model of 15q13.3 deletion syndrome, which is associated with both schizophrenia and epilepsy, were made by a group of scientists from H. Lundbeck A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. First up was Jes Lauridsen, who described the generation and characterization of the mouse model. He reported that genes within the deleted region were expressed as expected, at half of normal levels, and that the mice displayed no gross brain abnormalities. However, males exhibited reduced survival and increased body weight, as well as increased stress-induced aggression, similar to what has been reported in human 15q13.3 deletion carriers (Ben-Shachar et al., 2009).
Next, Kim Fejgin focused on the behavioral patterns and seizure susceptibility of the 15q13.3 deletion mice. He described a behavioral phenotype that includes a decreased acoustic startle response (although prepulse inhibition is intact) and impaired long-term spatial reference memory (although short-term memory and working memory are intact), noting that these parallel some aspects of the schizophrenia phenotype. The mice also exhibited a surprising seizure protection phenotype, pointing to a critical role for the 15q13.3 region in modulating excitatory/inhibitory balance.
Jesper Bastlund described the last piece of the 15q13.3 story—the electrophysiological characterization of the mice. A reduced loudness dependence of auditory-evoked potentials (LDAEP) was observed, similar to what has been reported in schizophrenia (Gudlowski et al., 2009). In addition, the mice displayed a general reduction in the auditory-evoked potential, but no change in sensory gating, as well as selective deficits in evoked γ oscillations. Thus, the Lundbeck researchers argue, these mice display pre-attentive processing deficits and electroencephalography (EEG) phenotypes that are observed in schizophrenia.
From genes to drugs
Also from Lundbeck, Ib Klewe described efforts to determine the effects of schizophrenia risk genes in disease-relevant primary neuronal culture assays. Klewe and colleagues performed copy number variant (CNV) gene knockdown using small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) and then measured NMDA receptor function and parvalbumin immunoreactivity. Although off-target effects reduced the power of the screens, Klewe and colleagues identified two putative genetic regulators of NMDA receptor function and parvalbumin immunoreactivity—KDCT13 and UFD1L—that warrant follow-up with further experiments.
Next up was moderator Deanna Smith, who discussed the mammalian brain development gene Lis1. Smith described the use of rat dorsal root ganglion neuronal cultures to demonstrate that LIS1 and its binding partner NDEL1 regulate microtubule motor protein dynein-dependent axonal transport (Pandey and Smith, 2011). Interestingly, all three proteins interact with the schizophrenia gene DISC1 (see SRF related news story; SRF news story). In ongoing studies, Smith and colleagues are characterizing the lethality observed in mice in which LIS1 is eliminated in adult tissues.
Francoise Gastambide, of Eli Lilly and Company in Surrey, U.K., discussed the effects of LSN2463359, a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) positive allosteric modulator, on behavioral deficits induced by exposure to different classes of NMDA receptor antagonists. The drug was effective at normalizing deficits in lever pressing and reversal learning induced by NMDA antagonists, but only those induced by drugs acting outside the ion channel of the receptor (Gastambide et al., 2013).
The final speaker of the nanosymposium was Greet Vanhoof, of Janssen Research and Development in Beerse, Belgium, who presented his work demonstrating that phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10) inhibitors are dopamine modulators. PDE10 is highly expressed in the medium spiny neurons that make up the indirect and direct dopamine pathways that provide the main inhibitory input to the basal ganglia. Vanhoof showed that PDE10 inhibitors facilitate dopamine D1-mediated neurotransmission while also decreasing D2-mediated neurotransmission, thereby acting as both D1 agonists and D2 antagonists. This dual activity in reducing both hyperactivity and hypoactivity states may extend the therapeutic potential of the PDE10 inhibitors.—Allison A. Curley.
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Isaac Hits Gulf Coast On Katrina Anniversary
Originally published on Thu August 30, 2012 1:04 am
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
People naturally focus on New Orleans, a great American city that is below sea level in many places, but you cannot understand the full effect of the storm without moving along the Gulf Coast. Mississippi, for example, has faced high water, tropical storm-force winds and pounding rain. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.
(SOUNDBITE OF WIND AND SURF)
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: As Isaac moves ashore near the mouth of Mississippi River in neighboring Louisiana, outer bands of the hurricane swept into Gulfport, Mississippi.
JUDY MOORE: Oh, here's come the wind.
ELLIOTT: Judy and George Moore watch from the wide front porch of their home just a block from the churned-up waters of the Mississippi Sound.
GEORGE MOORE: We're listening to the wind and...
MOORE: And listening. We got...
MOORE: ...the water.
MOORE: We figure, we got concrete siding now, we got metal roof, we got hurricane windows, hurricane shutters, so we think we'd be all right - a lot better than the one before.
ELLIOTT: The one before meaning Katrina. Seven years ago today, their house was washed away.
MOORE: On the same day. Is that weird? That is so weird.
ELLIOTT: The house is elevated now, and better able to withstand both the storm surge and the intermittent downpours.
MOORE: You don't mess with water, especially in a hurricane.
ELLIOTT: And that's the message that government officials have been trying to get across for the past few days. But in some ways, the memory of Katrina makes it harder for a much weaker hurricane like Isaac to garner that same sense of urgency. That's been a worry for Craig Fugate, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
CRAIG FUGATE: Well, you know, I'm from Florida, so I'm used to it. People have gone through worse hurricanes. They go, well, this is no Katrina. We agree, but you got to understand that sometimes it isn't always the wind speed that's the greatest danger. Sometimes it can be those heavy rains.
ELLIOTT: Fugate, in Mississippi to help stage supplies as part of the federal response, says Isaac's landfall is by no means the end of the crisis.
FUGATE: You've got to understand, this storm's going to move slow, and the risk is a lot of rain. So people that live inland may be thinking, well, this is something going to hit the coast, and because it's only a Category 1 hurricane, it won't be that bad. It's moving so slow that the Hurricane Center and the weather service are very concerned about very heavy rainfall well up into Mississippi and parts of Louisiana, even Alabama.
ELLIOTT: He says people as far north as the capital in Jackson, 160 miles inland, should brace for flooding. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Gulfport, Mississippi. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Tiffany Leaded Glass
Innovative Glass Creations of an Exquisite Nature
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) was an American artist and designer who studied in New York and Paris. He went on to develop one of the most distinctive and recognizable styles in the Art Nouveau movement. He is most famous for his celebrated leaded glass windows and lampshades, but he also created glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Our journal covers celebrate the brilliant, gem-like colours and elegant designs created by Tiffany and his artisans. The incorporation of leadwork as an integral part of the designs and the subtle and exquisite differences in shading within each portion of glass created objects of magical beauty.
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Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post. I met him in Cincinnati, where he was the Jewish Community Relations Council guest speaker on recent developments in the Middle East. What follows is an abridged synopsis of our interview(4/5/2011) with full audio transcript.
Q: Netanyahu, Abbas, and Obama all agree in theory on the need for peace through a two-state solution. Why is there currently no progress on this issue?
A: America mishandled the peace process. Obama thought that pressure on Israel with regards to settlements, including those settlement that would remain as part of Israel under proposed agreements, would make the Palestinians more willing to make concessions. This policy backfired by creating a confrontation with Israel and making Palestinian demands less conciliatory, since Abbas could not be seen as demanding less than the US. Even though America has backed down from its demands, the Palestinians never did. The other reason Palestinians do not come to the negotiating table is that the international community gave indications that Palestinian statehood may be recognized at the UN General Assembly even without a negotiating process toward peace.
Q: What will restart the peace process?
A: The world must make clear to the Palestinians that the only way to achieving statehood is at the negotiating table and that Netanyahu is willing to go a lot farther than they may think if given the opportunity. The Palestinian Authority may need another election, currently schedule for September, before progress can be made.
Q: Is progress at the negotiation table possible while Israel’s settlement policies continue?
A: Settlements are not the issue. Israel froze construction for 10 months with little effect on Palestinian willingness to negotiate. Negotiations are necessary to determine boundaries. At that point it will be clear where each party can build housing. Israel and the Palestinians were negotiating since 1993. Only since settlements were made the primary issue by Obama did Palestinians start using it as a pretext not to negotiate.
Q: The peace process is predicated on a “land for peace” formula. If Abbas in the West Bank cannot guarantee peace and Hamas will not guarantee peace from Gaza, what is Israel’s incentive to consider further land concessions?
A: Netanyahu made clear that one of the conditions for statehood is that the area would be demilitarized under the supervision of the international community and that Palestinians would recognize Israel as a Jewish state to denote a complete end of the conflict. The arrangement necessitates a leader on the Palestinian side that could enforce this. Currently in Gaza this is not the case. In the West Bank it’s debatable.
Q: What can you tell us about Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman?
A: I cannot share personal opinions on the issue since I cover internal Israeli politics and must remain objective. As leader of the second largest party in the coalition Lieberman chose the Foreign Ministry portfolio. He has made clear that Israel can make concessions only to a genuine partner on the other side, which he believes Abu Mazen (Abbas) is not. Israel’s last election was during a war which helped propel Lieberman’s popularity. Currently his influence is “negligible.” He is not involved with the negotiations or the US-Israel relationship, instead focusing on improving Israel’s relationship with Eastern Europe, Africa, and South America.
Q: The removal of Mubarak from power in Egypt has allowed all segments of Egyptian society, including the Muslim Brotherhood, to participate in the formation of a new government. What is likely to be the nature of the new Egyptian government and how will this affect Egypt’s relations with Israel?
A: Israelis are concerned that the Muslim Brotherhood will win Egypt’s parliamentary elections, allowing them to reorient policy away from the West and toward Iran. Israel now sees the potential to be invaded from all sides at the same time, a situation it did not have to deal with for the last 30 years. And yet, if Egyptians elect a moderate leadership, it will be better for both countries.
Q: What do you make of Egypt allowing two Iranian warships to pass through the Suez Canal, which hasn’t happened since 1979, and the foreign minister reestablishing diplomatic relations with Iran? Do these actions signal a reorientation of Egyptian priorities vis-a-vis the West?
A: “This is a transitional period. Egypt is led by a temporary government, and I wouldn’t look too closely at what they’re doing right now.”
Q: Is there a diplomatic and/or economic solution to Iran’s nuclear development?
A: The world has tried several approaches thus far. The political approach was hindered by Iran’s undemocratic elections. The diplomatic approach of reaching out to Iran’s dictators at the expense of their people did not bear fruit. Now the world is in the middle of an economic approach with sanctions. It is possible it could work if the sanctions are tightened, better enforced, and come with a credible military threat. If Iran’s leaders are told that what’s happening in Lybia—air campaign without boots on the ground—can happen in Iran, the economic approach may work and there will not be a need for military action.
Q: Does US action in Libya stretch America’s military even further, thereby undermining the credibility of a military option against Iran?
A: Never underestimate the power of the United States. They led the campaign against Libya for two weeks and handed responsibility off to NATO. American now has more strength. Also, they are well positioned on the Persian Gulf.
Q: How will the action in Libya affect Israel?
A: Libya and Israel are unrelated matters. There is a concern in Israel that American resources that should be in reserve to counterbalance Iran are being used in Libya, there is enough American power to go around.
Q: A column published in The Jerusalem Post put forward the theory that Europe will aim to please the Arab street by putting pressure on Israel as a way for diverting anger from the Arab street for attacks on Libya.
A: Europe will pressure Israel no matter what. What’s happening in Libya is unrelated to Israel and largely a waste of resources by the West.
Q: What makes European pressure on Israel inevitable?
A: Europe has not gone through a 9/11 attack and fails to realize that there is a battle between Islamic fundamentalism and the West. There is an impatience with making peace without understanding the realities undermining this goal. Israel has to deal with these realities on a daily basis in order to protect its citizens.
Full Audio: Gil Hoffman of The Jerusalem Post (4/5/2011)
Audio was edited due to phone interruptions, but contains full responses)
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Adjective: fewer fyoo-u(r)
Adjective: few (fewer,fewest) fyoo
- (comparative of 'few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of
"fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late"
- A small but indefinite number (a quantifier that can be used with countable nouns and is often preceded by 'a')
"a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"
See also: a couple of, a few, hardly a, less, multiplicity, numerosity, numerousness, some
Antonym: many, more
Encyclopedia: Fewer Few
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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has designated funds for the purpose
of making grants in support of research on geographical topics and in support
of projects that further the mandate of the Society ‘to make Canada better
known to Canadians and to the world’. Proposals must identify the topic to
be addressed, the methods to be used and the nature of the finished product.
Awards are restricted to projects that are undertaken in Canada, by Canadian
residents and that address some element of the country’s geography.
Applications for a grant are considered once a year. The deadline for submission
of complete applications is MARCH 15. The Committee usually announces its
grants 6-8 weeks after this deadlines.
The Society has established the following priorities for funding:
- Support of research undertaken by senior high school students and by undergraduate students
in Canadian universities and colleges for projects that contribute to the completion of
their academic programme. High school teachers are eligible for comparable field work projects
that contribute to their curricula;
- Support of outstanding research proposals submitted by independent
researchers for projects
where the Society’s grant constitutes the majority of the overall budget;
- Other extraordinary proposals of modest budget that will further the aims of the Society.
Awards to graduate students and employees of universities and colleges are
explicitly excluded. Undergraduate applications which involve participation
in a larger research project will only be considered where it can be shown
that they represent a discrete piece of work that contributes to the applicant’s
The maximum award to any individual is $3,000. For a group proposal (up to
three people), the maximum is $5,000.
The following budget items will not be supported: travel outside Canada; salaries
or honoraria; professional fees; capital equipment outlays; costs of attending
conferences. Support will not be given to projects whose work has been completed
prior to the submitted deadlines.
Acceptance of a Society grant entails an obligation to use the funds in pursuit
of the specified project. If the project cannot be carried out, the funds must
be returned. Recipients are required to submit a progress report after six
months and a detailed written report, illustrated where appropriate, within
three months of completion of the project. The Society undertakes no obligation
to publish any report. It is assumed that grant funds will normally be expended
within 12 months of their award. Grants are normally non-renewable.
Contact us by e-mail
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How often does your new baby sleep in the same bed with you or anyone else?
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*2004 Data collected under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol.Return to Question Page
- All results are weighted.
- These results are for surveys that were mailed to mothers from April 2004 through March 2005. Child's dates of birth were from 1/1/2004 through 12/31/2004.
- The number of respondents (n) is the number of women who chose the responses above.
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Supervising Scientist Report 147
Finlayson CM & Spiers AG (eds)
Supervising Scientist, 1999
ISBN 0 642 24350 6
In recent years Australian governments have directed more and more attention towards the wise use and conservation of wetlands. This has resulted in a number of international initiatives such as hosting the 1996 Conference of the Ramsar Wetlands Convention, supporting the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel and initiating an Asia/Pacific wetland management training program. At a national level it has resulted in the development of specific federal and state wetland policies and a National Wetlands Program. The latter has provided support for a number of wetland projects, including the development of management plans for individual Ramsar sites and a directory of nationally important wetlands.
During the 1996 Ramsar Conference Australia strongly supported the adoption of Resolution 6.1 'Working Definitions of Ecological Character, Guidelines for Describing and Maintaining the Ecological Character of Listed Sites, and Guidelines for Operation of the Montreux Record'. This resolution called for a greater effort in wetland monitoring and a review of early warning systems for detecting adverse ecological change in wetlands.
In order to further develop the National Wetland Program and abide by Resolution 6.1 serious consideration has been given to the development of national approaches for wetland inventory and monitoring. As a consequence, the ANZECC Wetlands and Migratory Shorebirds Taskforce, consisting of representatives from all state/territory and the federal conservation/environment agencies, issued a recommendation supporting the development of a draft protocol for a national wetland inventory. In response, the Environment Australia (EA) Biodiversity Group obtained funding under the National Wetlands Program for a project aimed at developing a draft national wetland inventory proposal. The project, Technique Development and Databases for Enhanced Wetland Inventory in Northern Australia - Designing the Scope of the National Wetlands Inventory, is currently being undertaken by the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist.
The scope of this ambitious project included four major tasks for wetland inventory and monitoring with a particular emphasis on northern Australia. These tasks are paraphrased below
- Review the information provided in the national wetland directory
- Assess the usefulness of remote sensing techniques for wetland inventory and monitoring
- Review the usefulness of early warning systems for wetland monitoring
- Draft protocols for a national approach to wetland inventory and monitoring
Reports on these four tasks are provided in this volume. As such they provide a basis for further decisions on the development and implementation of wetland inventory and monitoring programs in Australia and elsewhere.
In these reports it is stressed that whilst a great deal of wetland monitoring and inventory of Australian wetlands has occurred this has been uneven and fragmentary, and, in too many instances, poorly done. Over the same period a large but possibly indeterminate proportion of Australian wetlands has been degraded or lost. If this situation is to be reversed and we move forward into an era of not only preventing further loss but also recouping past losses, we will require a greatly enhanced inventory and monitoring effort. This effort is not beyond the technological expertise and experience that currently exists within Australia.
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This week an interesting paper was published in Geophysical Research Letters by climate modelers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. They estimated future temperature changes if the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) were held constant at current levels (well, actually 2000 levels). The results are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Global average temperature change projected from 16 different climate models for the 21st century if atmospheric CO2 levels are held constant at the year 2000 levels.
The resulting temperature change by the year 2100 is around 0.5°C, and it basically represents the thermal inertia of the coupled land/ocean/atmosphere system. It works out to about 35 years.
(Readers of these pages will recall that we achieved the same number without a climate model way back in 2001. The related scientific reference is at the end of this article.)
So all we have to do is cut emissions back to 2000 levels, right?
Wrongo. This result holds only if atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases remain at 2000 levels, which is impossible.
Figure 2 shows why. Figure 2a gives the annual global emissions of CO2, with year-over-year increases for the past 50 years (and for many years prior to that—for the complete record see here . Figure 2b is the annual change in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 (as measured atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano). There is a slow rise in the rate of atmospheric CO2 concentration increase (although it is barely significant over the past 25 years). Cutting back on emissions doesn’t result in much of a slowdown in the rate of atmospheric CO2 build-up.
Figure 2 (a). Annual global emissions of carbon dioxide; (b) Annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration; (c) Annual global emissions of carbon dioxide expressed as a percentage reduction from the 2002 emissions level.
Figure 2c shows the global CO2 emissions as a percentage of the 2002 value. This chart allows each of us to dial back the global CO2 emissions to any point, and then to see what the associated rate of atmospheric CO2 accumulation would be. From there, we can calculate the future temperature. To make this easier for everyone, we created Table 1.
(note: A full adherence to by all the nation’s of the world to the terms of the Kyoto Protocol would, by the year 2010, reduce emissions to about a 2005 level and then rise from there. Kyoto doesn’t even make it into this chart, because it does nothing.
Table 1. Dial in your own climate change. Pick an emissions reduction (from 2002) levels (column 2) and see what year in the past that it equates with (column 1) and then see the temperature change by 2100.
For example, let’s cut the world’s CO2 emissions by 10 percent in the next couple of years (actually this really isn’t reasonable at all—as Figure 2a shows, the annual rate of CO2 emissions continues to grow—so unless a cutback is achieved immediately, a 10 percent reduction quickly becomes 12 percent, which quickly becomes 15 percent in just a few years). From Figure 2c we see that a 10% reduction gets us somewhere to around the emissions levels of 1991. And from Figure 2b, we see that 1991 levels of CO2 emissions resulted in an annual atmospheric CO2 concentration increase of about 1.6 ppm/yr. From Table 1, we see that by the year 2100 that this increase will result in CO2 levels of about 530ppm and an approximate temperature rise of about 1.47ºC by 2100. (for reference, a projection based upon the current rate of CO2 build-up is about 563 ppm by 2100 and a temperature rise of about 1.73ºC).
What about a 50% reduction in global CO2 emissions? That takes us back to the levels of the late-1960s, which were associated with about a 1ppm/yr CO2 increase. Starting from today’s level of about 380ppm, in 94 years at 1ppm/yr we get about 474 ppm and an associated temperature rise of about 1.01ºC. In other words, by reducing global emissions of CO2 by about 50% from 2002 levels you prevent about 0.7ºC of warming. That is not a lot of bang for quite a lot of bucks!
Even a 10% reduction is not easy. A full adherence to the Kyoto Protocol will lower global CO2 emissions by about 8% from the expected levels in 2010. 8% below 2010 levels is still several percentage points above the current 2002 levels. And, it is looking more and more like no major emitting nation is going to meet their individual emissions targets, let alone the world.
The nickel-and-dime emissions reductions that will be vehemently fought over in Congress next January will have no effect on future climate. Only a major break-through in energy production technology (or a massive turn-over to nukes) will result in a lowering of global CO2 emissions to the degree necessary to impact our future climate pathway in any meaningful way. That time will come, but it isn’t yet upon us. And the more money we waste on futile attempts to stop emissions, the longer away that day is.
Michaels, P.J., 2001. Integrated Projections of Future Warming based upon Observed Climate During the Greenhouse Enhancement. 1st Intl. Conf on Global Warming and The Next Ice Age, American Meteorological Society, Halifax NS, 162-167.
Teng, H., et al., 2006. Twentiy-first-century climate change commitment from a multi-model ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07706, doi:10.1029/2005GL024766.
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the media focus on a handful of states passing anti-immigrant measures, the
unreported story has been the increasing crackdown by state governments on wage
law violators as a response to the growing underground economy. A few
The Arizona and Ohiominimum
wage ballot initiatives passed by voters in 2006 included new triple
damages against employers violating their state wage laws.
In 2008, Massachusettsmade it the law, SB 1059, that triple
damages will be mandatory for violations of that state's wage law.
IowaSF 2416 (approved in the
Senate) would have established triple damages for wage law violations and
created significantly larger civil penalties, including severe penalties
for retaliation against employees reporting violations.
contracting laws in a few states and cities now deny public contracts or
operating licenses to wage law violators. See Los
Angeles Responsible Contractor Ordinance for one example and San
city minimum wage for provisions that authorize city agencies to revoke
permits or licenses for businesses that violate the law.
A number of
jurisdictions are increasingly applying "theft of wages"
statutes to enforce criminal sanctions against wage law violators. Many states already have "theft of
wages" statutes on the books, so all that is needed is to enforce
these provisions. See NELP's Using
Criminal Theft of Service Laws To Enforce Workers' Right to be Paid (NELP) for more on
how to use such criminal theft statutes or add them to a state's criminal
The federal government is fixated on raiding workplaces in search of
immigrant workers, but they have practically abandoned punishing
irresponsible employers violating wage, workplace safety and child
labor laws. Demonstrating a remarkable commitment to punishing the
victims, they've left it up to states to take action against the more
pervasive problem of sweatshop labor conditions.
Instead of allowing the right-wing to scapegoat undocumented immigrant
workers, Progressive States Network will be working with progressive
leaders across the country to introduce wage enforcement laws that
emphasize that native and immigrant workers both suffer under illegal
working conditions. See State Immigration Project: Policy Options for 2009 for the full range of immigration policies Progressive States Network is supporting in upcoming legislative sessions.
The Iowa Senate on Tuesday approved SF 2416,
a bill to sharply increase fines on employers violating Iowa state wage
laws, crack down on the practice of misclassifying employees as
"independent contractors" to evade those laws, and protect workers
reporting violations from retaliation.
In honor of Labor Day, we thought we would highlight some of our past
Dispatches which outline steps states can take to protect workers'
rights and raise wage standards. With new Census data
showing that the median
income for working-age households is still $1,300 below 2001 when the last
recession hit bottom, the need for states to act to improve working conditions
is greater than ever.
The good news is that over thirty states and the federal government raised the minimum wage in recent years. The bad news is that many employers, even most employers in some industries, ignore existing wage and workplace regulations, so the real challenge now is to stop the systematic violation of these laws.
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County health officials are warning residents with compromised health to limit their exposure to the smoke around the Pima County area, although air-quality monitors are not picking up particularly high levels of pollution.
The worst pollution levels were seen Monday morning in the Green Valley area - where they came in at 2.5 times the normal levels for fine-particle pollution - but those numbers had stabilized by the afternoon.
Raymond McLeod, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tucson, said southerly winds are bringing in smoke from the Murphy Fire, which is burning south of Tucson near Tubac. The wind patterns aren't expected to change in the next couple days, he said, so as long as the fire is burning, Tucsonans may continue to have hazy conditions.
The smoke is going to be worse in the mornings, he said, since inversions trap the smoke low to the ground. A resident in Sonoita estimated the visibility Monday morning at two miles, he said, although Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Tucson International Airport did not report any restrictions to visibility.
As the day heats up, the smoke will get pushed up into the upper atmosphere, he said. Gusty afternoon winds will also help break up the smoke, he said.
Although the Tucson Fire Department and the county Health Department did not report any uptick in respiratory-related calls, public-health officials are worried about particulate matter, the often invisible particles of dust that float in the air.
The smallest of them, measuring 2.5 micrometers, are the worst. Only a 30th as thick as a human hair, they can slip past the body's natural defenses, such as mucus and nose hair - and lodge deep within the lungs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates as much as 90 percent of particles in wild-land fire smoke are within the fine-particle size. They're so small, they can also stay in the air for days or weeks and can travel hundreds of miles.
The Environmental Protection Agency has set a health standard of no more than 35 micrograms per cubic meter, based on a 24-hour standard. Air-monitoring systems measured 70 in the Green Valley area at 9 a.m., although measurements stabilized by the following hour. So far, there has been no exceedance of the 24-hour standard throughout the course of the fire.
Susan Jones, the administrative assistant for the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council, said the smoke was thick enough that she couldn't see the mountains over the weekend. And while the wind pattern seemed to have shifted in the afternoon, she described Monday morning as "pretty odorific." Still, she said, the phone calls she had anticipated didn't materialize throughout the day.
In Tucson, the highest reading came midmorning at 40 on the south side near C.E. Rose Elementary School. Otherwise, most readings failed to show elevated levels.
Environmental Quality spokeswoman Beth Gorman acknowledged that may seem counterintuitive, given the visibility of the smoke, but suggested the particles might be larger than what the department is measuring, or they may be higher in the atmosphere than the monitoring stations, which are at ground level.
"It's not a panic situation," she said, but suggested those with heart or lung disease, or those sensitive to particulates, should reduce their exposure. That means trying to avoid exercising or working outside, or at least limiting exertion when they are outside. Air conditioning is often preferable to evaporative cooling to reduce smoke exposure. For healthy adults, exposure to elevated levels for small periods of time shouldn't result in significant health impacts.
Otherwise, for a general rule of thumb, she said: "Even though you're seeing this in the air, if you don't smell the smoke, the chances are you're not at risk. It doesn't seem to be pervasive across the community."
If nothing else, said meteorologist McLeod, the sunsets should be "kind of interesting."
Just to be on the safe side, maybe watch them from behind your (closed) window.
Contact reporter Rhonda Bodfield at firstname.lastname@example.org or 573-4243.
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Dell uses ARM-based "Copper" servers to accelerate ecosystem
Subject: Processors, Systems | May 29, 2012 - 05:15 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: server, dell, copper, arm
Dell announced today that is going to help enable the world of the ARM-based server ecosystem by enabling key hyperscale customers to access and develop on Dell's own "Copper" ARM servers.
Dell today announced it is responding to the demands of our customers for continued innovation in support of hyperscale environments, and enabling the ecosystem for ARM-based servers. The ARM-based server market is approaching an inflection point, marked by increasing customer interest in testing and developing applications, and Dell believes now is the right time to help foster development and testing of operating systems and applications for ARM servers.
Dell is recognized as an industry leader in both the x86 architecture and the hyperscale server market segments. Dell began testing ARM server technology internally in 2010 in response to increasing customer demands for density and power efficiency, and worked closely with select Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) hyperscale customers to understand their interest level and expectations for ARM-based servers. Today's announcement is a natural extension of Dell's server leadership and the company's continued focus on delivering next generation technology innovation.
While these servers are still not publicly available, Dell is fostering the development of software and verification processes by seeding these unique servers to a select few groups. PC Perspective is NOT one of them.
Each of these 3U rack mount machines includes 48 independent servers, each based around a 1.6 GHz quad-core Marvell Armada XP SoC. Each of the sleds (pictured below) holds four discrete server nodes, each capable of as much as 8GB of memory on a single DDR3 UDIMM. Each node can access one 2.5-in HDD bay and one Gigabit Ethernet connection.
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Even though we are still very early into the life cycle of ARM architectures in the server room, Dell claims that these systems are built perfectly for web front-ends and Hadoop environments:
Customers have expressed great interest in understanding ARM-based server advantages and how they may apply to their hyperscale environments. Dell believes ARM infrastructures demonstrate promise for web front-end and Hadoop environments, where advantages in performance per dollar and performance per watt are critical. The ARM server ecosystem is still developing, and largely available in open-source, non-production versions, and the current focus is on supporting development of that ecosystem. Dell has designed its programs to support today's market realities by providing lightweight, high-performance seed units and easy remote access to development clusters.
There is little doubt that Intel will feel and address this competition in the coming years.
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Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.
When you sacrifice a communal sacrifice of well-being to the LORD, offer it so that it will be accepted on your account.
It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice or the following day; whatever is left over on the third day must be burned with fire.
If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is foul; it will not be accepted.
Anyone who eats it will be liable to punishment, because they defiled what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from their people.
When you harvest your land's produce, you must not harvest all the way to the edge of your field; and don't gather up every remaining bit of your harvest.
Also do not pick your vineyard clean or gather up all the grapes that have fallen there. Leave these items for the poor and the immigrant; I am the LORD your God.
You must not steal nor deceive nor lie to each other.
You must not swear falsely by my name, desecrating your God's name in doing so; I am the LORD.
You must not oppress your neighbors or rob them. Do not withhold a hired laborer's pay overnight.
You must not insult a deaf person or put some obstacle in front of a blind person that would cause them to trip. Instead, fear your God; I am the LORD.
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Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS)
In May 2010 the Army canceled the Non-Line of Sight-Launch System, a billion-dollar missile program under development by Tucson, Arizona-based Raytheon Missile Systems and Lockheed Martin. The Navy was still evaluating its options for the system, which it had been considering for use aboard the Littoral Combat Ship. The modular system, known as NLOS-LS or simply NLOS, features 15 all-weather missiles in a common launcher that can be mounted on an array of military vehicles. The NLOS-LS was part of the Army's Future Combat Systems program, which was canceled last year.
Raytheon makes the NLOS-LS's Precision Attack Missile (PAM) and Lockheed Martin makes the launch unit, under a joint venture called Netfires LLC. "It's disappointing that the U.S. Army has decided to cancel the NLOS-LS program," Raytheon said in a prepared statement to the Star. "After a more than $1 billion investment over ten years, the program stands at 92 percent complete." The cancellation came after test failures and an examination of the program by a Pentagon review board, which recommended cancellation last month. The missile failed in four of six flights in a critical Army "limited user test" at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in late January and early February 2010. The missile had succeeded in 12 of 17 prior tests, and Raytheon said the recent problems have been fixed.
The NLOS-LS, previously known as NetFires and as the Advanced Fire Support System, was a technology demonstration program focused on beyond line-of-sight fires for the Army's Future Combat System. The program was formerly DARPA (NetFires) managed using combined DARPA-Army S&T funding. On March 19, 2004 NetFires LLC, which was established by Raytheon Missile Systems and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control was awarded a $1.1 billion, six-year contract for the System Design and Development (SDD) phase of the NLOS-LS.
The NLOS-LS program is developing and testing a containerized, platform-independent multi-mission weapon concept as an enabling technology element for the FCS. The NLOS-LS provides rapid response and lethality in packages requiring significantly fewer personnel, decreased logistical support and lower life-cycle costs, while increasing survivability compared to current direct fire gun and missile artillery. The original concept was called "Rockets in a Box."
The NLOS-LS allows FCS to defeat all known threats, is air deployable in C-130 (and smaller) aircraft, and enhances the situation awareness and survivability of FCS by providing standoff target acquisition and extended-range, non-line-of-sight engagements. The program is developing and demonstrating a highly flexible modular, multimission precision missile and a loitering attack missile that can be remotely commanded. Both missile types have a self-locating launcher and a command and control system compatible with the FCS.
The NLOS-LS is one alternative system the Defense Department is looking at to provide artillery support in place of the Crusader artillery system. Defense officials want to stress accuracy in artillery fire and bring to Army and Marine Corps groundpounders the same capabilities that precision- guided munitions have brought to Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aviators.
It is a concept for a vertical-launch set of missiles with a command and control system in a box. It is designed to be platform-independent. Normal cannon and other rocket artillery systems depend on their launch platforms. The round in its launch canister is a complete entity. Being in a box means NLOS-LS can be mounted on a Humvee or a truck, or set up on the ground. The idea is to let the Army's Future Combat System integrate NLOS-LS into the different launch configurations. Furthermore, the NLOS-LS can be utilized in the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and in the Army's Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV).
The system as designed today is a box with 16 sections. Fifteen hold rockets, and the last contains command and control gear. The box has its own power system. The rockets fire from the canister like the Navy's Vertical Launch System. Back-blast follows the missile out the front of the launcher so there's no impact on any transport vehicle.
The rocket system is "soft launch," meaning that the rocket doesn't experience high G's as would an artillery shell traveling at high speed. There's just enough to get (the missile) out of the box and move it forward. Planners have found that vertical launch is better from the standpoint of tactical deployment. This also enables the system to engage targets in all 360 degrees.
NLOS-LS has two missiles.
The first is a Precision Attack Missile (PAM), which was formerly developed by Raytheon Corporation alone. The missile travels at high speed for minimal time to target or to reach maximum range. It has a variable thrust motor, an uncooled infrared laser seeker and a multi-mode warhead. The PAM can be utilized for both hard and soft targets.
- 7-inch diameter 120 lb class (formerly 100 lb class)
- Range support: 40-60 kms (formerly 0.5-50 km)
- Variable thrust solid rocket motor
- Dual-mode precision end game seeker
- Large multi-mode warhead
- In-flight updates, retargeting and image capabilities
The second is a Loitering Attack Missile (LAM), which has continued to be developed by both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. It carries a laser detection and ranging ("ladar") seeker, a turbojet motor, and wings that extend on launch. The missile has a 70-kilometer range with a 30-minute loiter time. It is able to loiter over targets of interest, do automatic target recognition and attack targets on its own.
- 7-inch diameter 120 lb class (formerly 100 lb class)
- Large area search capability using a LADAR seeker with
- automatic target recognition (ATR)
- 45 minute cruise with micro turbojet engine
- Networks with CLU and maneuver/control elements for
- redirect, target acquisition, down-linked images
Both missiles have an onboard datalink. With proper integration into the Future Combat System, which is one of the challenges of the project, Tousley said, Net Fires rounds could be directed to the target by forward observers, unmanned sensors or "whoever is forward."
Any needed target updates could be sent to the missile through the datalink. The missiles then would be fired into a Global Positioning System "basket." On the way there, the rounds are handed off to forward personnel or unmanned sensors such as a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. This gives the capability to interact -- if the target is moving there is a need to update the location. It gives capability, but it is going to mean challenges operationally.
Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the first test flight of a prototype NetFires Loitering Attack Missile (LAM) at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., on November 11, 2002. The LAM vertically launched flawlessly, transitioned to stable flight and performed several maneuvers during the short flight test. Test objectives were successfully achieved. The Lockheed Martin-designed LAM was flown without a Laser Radar (LADAR) seeker or warhead.
A solid rocket motor vertically launched the 7-inch, 100-pound missile from a closed breach canister mounted in a Lockheed Martin prototype launcher. Control surfaces and a pivoting wing deployed as planned as the missile began its programmed assent-phase roll and pitch maneuver. Protective covers on the forward dome, scoring camera and turbojet inlet were ejected properly and engine start sequence began as scheduled. Turbojet ignition sequence completed approximately five seconds after launch, and the engine came up to speed as the prototype approached apogee. For the next eight minutes, the LAM prototype executed preprogrammed maneuvers over the Eglin test range, demonstrating impressive stability and validating aerodynamic performance, navigation and autopilot performance design parameters. Subsequent tests on additional prototypes have utilized the LADAR seeker with automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms and radio data links.
When completely developed, NLOS-LS LAMs will enable the Army, with a single shot, to search large areas for specific targets or identify exact locations (and types) of targets encountered. The networked feature of LAM will provide for redirection in-flight and downlinked images of targets discovered. LAM is envisioned as an autonomous, loitering hunter-killer with a 200+ kilometer range and a 45-minute flight time. It will include a LADAR seeker with ATR, and up to an eight-pound multimode warhead. Prospective LAM targets would be moving or stationary missile launchers, mobile air defense equipment, artillery, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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The long-delayed legalization of civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado is all but a foregone conclusion, now that the Democrats are in control. But that doesn't mean you can't still watch two people argue about the morality of it all.
At least, that's what people at Manitou Springs' Summit Ministries figure. So they've invited author and journalist Jonathan Rauch and Glenn Stanton, an employee of Focus on the Family and former consultant on fatherhood to the George W. Bush administration, to do the honors. Beginning at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, Rauch will take the side supporting civil unions, while Stanton will oppose.
Rauch is actually something of a heavy hitter, with bylines in publications like The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Economist. A recent piece in TNR lays his view out pretty plainly: "I bow to no one in my support for marriage equality," he wrote. "I have been fighting for it since 1996, when the cause seemed crazy and only the courts offered any hope at all."
In another piece, published on Salon in May of last year, Rauch wrote of love outside of legal rights: "But then came ... the discovery, too often, that we had only each other for family, yet we had none of the tools to care for one another that families need," he wrote. "We could not enter the hospital room; sometimes, we could not even enter the country. We would use our bodies to warm our shuddering 'lover' (such was the term in those days — even worse than 'partner'). We would hand-feed him as he wasted. Then, when he passed, we would be sent packing by the relatives who had never known or cared we existed.
"Never again, we said."
In the meantime, Stanton's done stuff, too, like write a whole book about why couples who live together should be married; and how Jesus actually did say gay people shouldn't get married, but he meant in a family way, so it's not codified hatred, and certainly not the way "homosexual activists" mean it, just the way Stanton thinks the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, and Everlasting Father means it.
"If today’s lazy rhetoric is to be believed, we must conclude that the Prince of Peace is a homophobic, nasty bigot who must be condemned in the strongest possible way," Stanton wrote in October, clearly hitting the nail on the head. "Who wants to step forward and cast that stone?"
Let me just warm up my throwing arm ...
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A Croquet Mars Colony Simulator
A video of six kids collaboratively co-constructing a simulated colony on Mars using a Croquet-based EduSim 3D Smartboard application prototype running on both a networked smartboard and several personal computers. This work is being done by Rich White of the Greenbush Southeast Kansas Educational Service Center. I am told that the kids really engage with this.
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2. In true faith is an assent to the truth of God’s word, and that not wavering, but firm, not because we see how, or can render or see reasons of the truth of the things, but because God has spoken them, as 2 Pet. 1:16, he knew the things he taught concerning Christ were no fables. So Paul was so resolved of the truth of that he believed and taught, as he dared pronounce him accursed that taught contrary, and was ready to lay down his life for it, as the martyrs also were.
And here by the way understand what is the object of faith, viz., God’s Word, not man’s word or conceit, or any such thing, I believe such and such, because God has spoken it, not because I think so, or because I find it so written in the Apocrypha or some man’s writing. I believe like a fool, except I can bring God’s Word for that I believe; for that is the only foundation and ground of true faith, because God has spoken it, that is well: for then we may believe, it, and otherwise we believe like children; many believe and cannot tell why: a groundless faith.
Secondly, the whole word of God is the object of faith, law, gospel, commandments, prohibitions, threats, so that I must believe all, and not as some, that believe the promises but not the threats. Yet the most proper object of faith is the gospel, and Christ therein exhibited, and life and salvation promised by him: the promise of life first, and then all other inferior promises of preservation, provision, of perseverance, [and] audience of prayers. It is believing in Christ that saves us, not the believing of any part of God’s word. Therefore, the that believe the main fully (as they say) and yet have no faith in the inferior promises, but run to unlawful shifts, or be utterly dismayed in any trouble, they deceive themselves: if they believe the greater, then much more the less, Rom. 8:32. So one cannot be confident of outward things, and these inferior promises to belong to him, except it be from believing the main promises belong to him.
Next to the assent in truth faith, follows that wherein it outstrips the other two false faiths, viz., a particular application of the Word of God, especially the promises, even the promise of life and salvation by Jesus Christ to a man’s own self, for as the hypocrites believe the threatenings in general, but apply them not to themselves in particular, so do they by the promises, either apply them not at all, or else falsely and without ground.
It is, therefore, a particular persuasion of my heart, that Christ Jesus is mine, and that I shall have life and salvation by his means, that whatsoever Christ did for the redemption of mankind, he did it for me, &c.
A persuasion, not a conceit, an opinion, or blind and uncertain conjecture, but it is a persuasion of the heart. And here by the way understand the seat of true faith, to be the whole soul of man, not the head only, or the heart only, knowledge and assent in the head, the particular application of it to oneself, and the confidence and comfort growing thereon, is in the heart, so that faith is begun in the head, but not perfected til it comes to the heart, Act. 8, towards the end, “If thou believe with all thine heart,” Act. 26, “God opened Lydia’s heart,” and Rom. 10, “With the heart man believes to righteousness.”
Faith is a persuasion, as Rom. 8:38, “I am persuaded,” and is, therefore, called knowledge, to show certainty. “By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many,” Isa. 53:11. “This is life eternal, that they might know thee,” John 17:3. Job, “I know my redeemer lives”; 2 Cor. 5:1, 1 Thess. 1:5. Hence also it is, that it is called, Heb. 11:1, a demonstration from the Word of God of such things as be above reason, and an evidence of things not seen, making things absent to the believers to be present, as resurrection and eternal life. It is also called an assurance, Heb. 10:22, “draw near in assurance.” And Rom. 4, “Abraham was fully assured. Though every faith be not full assurance or persuasion and certainty in it, and tends hereto more and more, for the weakest desires to be assured, yea, that faith that is weakest has certainty in it, being built on certain grounds, upon the Word of God and promise, or on the witness of the Spirit.
As a man in a dungeon sees light at little crevice, as certain that he is abroad, though not so much. And a poor blind man sees the sun, as certainly thought not so clearly as the quickest sighted. A shaking palsy hand shakes in the reaching out to take the gift, but it holds surely, so weak faith is opposed and assailed with many doubtings, but they be not of the nature of faith but of our own corruption, and the unregenerate part, as faith is of the part regenerate.
When they look upon themselves, they doubt and fear, when upon God’s unspeakable goodness and infallible truth, then they are bold to believe, so that a weak believer doubts between whiles, not of God’s Word, or whether Christ be a sufficient Savior, or whether or no, God will perform his promise to humble and contrite hearted sinners, that seek and cry unto him for grace and mercy, &c., but whether he be such a one or no, which shall know more certainly in time.
It is a particular persuasion, “My Lord, my God,” says Thomas, and Job, “My redeemer lives,” and Gal. 2:20, “and gave himself for me,” and Mary, “My Savior.” According to that prophet Hab. 2:4, “The just shall love by his own faith.” This is set out by divers phrases of Scripture, John 1:12. Believe is called the receiving of Christ, as the hand receives the gift, and “eating Christ’s flesh, and drinking his blood,” John 6. “Putting on Christ,” Romans 13, which is an appropriating that part of the meat to man’s self, which is prepared, and his apparel to his back. And as the seeing, liking, and commending the meat nourishes not, if it be not eaten, so not this knowing of Christ, assenting to the truth of the promise, and of Christ the Savior, “except I apply them to me.”
And this is signified by particular setting down the Articles of our Faith, which are not well believed when in general only, but when every [one] of them is particularly applied to myself, for what avails to believe that God is a Father, if I believe him not to be mine? And Christ a perfect Savior who died for man’s sins, rose again for his righteousness, except I believe, he did these for me? And so in the rest, that there is a holy catholic Church, except I be a member of it, forgiveness of sins, resurrection to eternal life, except I believe they belong to me.
This is confirmed by the Lord’s ordinance of the Sacrament wherein he applies Christ to us in particular, and will us to appropriate him to ourselves. In the Lord’s Supper, God gives Christ under the outward signs of Bread and Wine, as if he should say, “As verily as I give thee this, so verily I give thee my Son and all his benefits.” Now every one particularly takes the Bread and Wine, eating and drinking the same, so are men thereby taught to reach out the hand of faith to take Christ home to them. This is the only true and saving faith whereby we are justified before God and comforted in ourselves.
John Rogers, The Doctrine of Faith (London: Printed by G.M. For Nathanael Newbery and Henry Overton, and are to be sold at their shops in Popes-head Alley, 1634), 20-28 . [Some spelling modernized; some sentence reconstruction; marginal headers cited inline; italics original; and underlining mine.]
[Note: The reader should not only take note of Roger's famous line that 'whatever Christ did for mankind, he did also for me,' but also his very Calvinian comment regarding the communicant's perception of what is offered in communion.]
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This Lilliputian-sized playset makes an irresistable present for a child, and it's deceptively simple to make -- just mount photographs and color copies of photographs so they stand up.
For tall objects, like trees and basketball hoops, attach larger bases and reinforce them by taping a wooden skewer or craft stick to their backs.
PHOTOS: Snap individual photographs of each family member against a white or light-colored background, with the tallest person filling the height of the frame. To maintain size consistency, mark foot positions of the model and the photographer with tape on the floor. (You may need to give your kids a creative explanation for this photo shoot to keep your gift a secret.) Photograph the outside of your house or apartment building, plus cars, pets, shrubs and whatever else you want to include.
ENLARGEMENTS: Once your film's developed, use a color copier to enlarge your house photo until it fills an 11- by 17-inch piece of paper. If you like, copy adjacent porches or garages onto a second sheet of paper. Cut out your home around the edges. While you're at the copy shop, enlarge any other objects, such as your car, that need it.
BACK PANEL: To make the three-sided background panel, use a craft knife (adults only) to first cut a rectangle from foam core. Determine the size of the rectangle by measuring the length and height of your house cutout, then add an inch at the sides and a few inches at the top for the sky. Next, cut two side panels, each the same height as your rectangle and a little less than half its length.
Use a yardstick to mark a slanted line down each side panel (see dotted lines on illustration, below). Cut with a craft knife. Tape the side panels to the rectangle. Then cover the front of the panels (the taped side) by gluing on sheets of blue card stock or construction paper. Leave a small space between the paper sheets along the tape line so they won't buckle when the panels are folded up.
Glue your house cutout to the center of the background panel. Decorate the panel with construction paper, photos, cutouts from magazines or drawings. Then stand the panel on top of a colored sheet of poster board that reflects what's in front of your house (green for a yard, gray for a street, etc.). Decorate.
STAND-UPS: Using scissors, loosely cut out your photographed subjects and any other images from magazines or catalogs. Glue them to similarly sized pieces of cardboard, let them dry, then trim more closely along the edges of the images. To make the photos stand, create triangular bases from 1/2-inch strips of cardboard. For each figure, tape or glue the triangle against the back side, 3/16 of an inch above the bottom edge (this tilts the standing shape back slightly so it's less likely to topple).
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You know how when life doesn’t go according to plan and it seems as though you'll never, ever bounce back from your mistakes? Good news: Running into a few mishaps and false starts along the way may actually help you in the long run.
“What are often called mistakes are actually an integral step in the learning process — if you learn from them,” explains Katherine L. Ziegler, Ph.D., a psychologist, life coach, and founder of Self Aware Life in Oakland, California. “Take riding a bicycle. If you lean too far to the left or right and start wobbling, your brain and your muscles learn to straighten up. This course correction happens over and over again, becoming ever more natural and seamless. It’s the same with goals; we can learn from the actual results of our early choices and draw accurate conclusions that guide our next choices.”
Still, to succeed in your next attempts, there are some things you do need to nail from the get-go, like what your goals actually are. According to Ziegler, when you discover what you truly want, it helps you to adjust your goals accordingly. “This shortens the time it takes to check your plans against reality, and minimizes any compulsions to do it the hard way — actually pursuing the career or the guy, only to find the resulting experiences are not what you wanted at all," she says. In other words, if you’re still stuck in dead-end strategies, then that’s exactly where you are going to end up: at a dead end.
Rebounding from failure isn't easy, but it's worth looking at whether you've truly failed — or if you've merely failed to live up to someone else's definition of success. Ziegler says that it's only natural for us to choose a job, career, or relationship early in our lives because someone close to us thought it was cool, or right, or the best option for us. Unfortunately, these goals don't take into account our uniqueness. “There is actually no such thing as a job — or a place to live, a life partner, a lifestyle, a time in your life to get married or do anything else — that is the only right way for everybody,” she adds.
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Water lapping at Bangkok's heart as residents seek aid
ONE of Thailand's largest industrial estates in the east of Bangkok is in danger of being inundated as floods continue to creep towards inner areas of the capital.
Rancid brown water has gushed into fields near Lat Krabang estate, which accommodates more than 50 factories employing tens of thousands of people.
Seven other large industrial estates have already been swamped in a disaster that has killed more than 437 people, affected the lives of up to 3 million others and caused damage estimated at $US5.8 billion ($A5.6 billion).
A slow-moving mass of runoff water from the north following three months of monsoon rains has created a stark divide for Bangkok, a city of 12 million people.
Twelve of Bangkok's 50 districts are either flooded or at imminent risk of flooding, affecting up to 1.7 million people, while the city's inner areas remain bone dry under a clear blue sky.
City and government officials are unable to say whether the water will eventually swamp the capital's inner area of high-rise shopping malls, apartments and luxury hotels. The Chao Phraya River, which winds through Bangkok, has broken its western banks, flooding areas there more quickly than the business districts on the eastern side.
''In terms of area, about 20 per cent of the capital is under floodwater but nobody knows the exact population affected,'' said Bangkok Metropolitan Administration spokesman Jate Sopitpongstorn.
More than 11,000 people have taken shelter in government evacuation centres while many residents have opted to stay at their homes, living on verandahs and second storeys above waters that bubbled up through drains or sewer outlets or gushed through streets that have become waterways. Raw sewage and animal carcasses float in waters ripe for disease.
Health experts warn of outbreaks of flood-related diseases when the waters recede, leaving stagnant pools.
''There's a lot of danger around,'' said Mark Thomas, spokesman for UNICEF, which is assisting with sanitation issues.
''You need to keep the kids out of the water and everybody should stay out of the water as much as possible.''
While drowning is the most common cause of death, dozens of others have been electrocuted in their flooded homes, unaware of the risk from electricity.
Bangkok's residents have become increasingly frustrated amid rivalry and bickering among officials of government and city agencies divided by political loyalties who have often sent out confusing and inaccurate information, which fuelled panic buying and prompted many to flee the city.
Residents have complained that their homes and businesses have been sacrificed to save downtown Bangkok, which accounts for 42 per cent of Thailand's economic output.
In the city's main commercial and tourist areas air-conditioned restaurants continue to serve well-heeled diners while only a few kilometres away food and drinking water is in short supply for thousands of people struggling to survive in flooded areas.
Angry residents have destroyed some dykes and more than 100 police were deployed to protect a key sluice gate from others demanding it be opened further to ease flooding in their local area.
Only 12 weeks after taking office, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has come under strong criticism for her handling of the crisis as she has frequently toured flooded areas to help deliver relief supplies.
''I don't know if you've come here to help or make things worse,'' shouted a woman who missed out on an aid package because supplies ran out.
Ms Yingluck, the sister of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, told reporters she has a ''heavy heart to see people suffer. Anyway, I will work to the best of my ability and please be assured officials will comply.''
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Word of the Day, Website of the Day, Number to Know, This Day in History, Today's Featured Birthday and Daily Quote.
Morning Minutes: March 1
Word of the Day
Obsequious uhb-SEE-kwee-uhs (adjective) Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning. - dictionary.com
Website of the Day
Justin Bieber Games
In honor of Bieber's birthday, play games like Justin Bieber Tattoos Makeover, Justin Bieber Trivia Quiz and Justin Bieber Haircut.
Number to Know
15 million: Number of albums Justin Bieber had sold worldwide as of April 2012.
This Day in History
March 1, 1932: Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son is kidnapped from his room in the Lindbergh's house, kicking off a nationwide search. Despite two ransom notes, several false leads and an offer of assistance from Al Capone, the boy's body is found several days later, less than a mile from the Lindbergh's house.
Today's Featured Birthday
Pop singer Justin Bieber (19)
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
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As I was turning into the parking lot, I remembered the success of my volunteer tomato plants and the joy it brought me when the tomatoes turned bright red. Also the extra joy as I added them to my salad. It would be amazing to have an entire summer of sun ripened homegrown tomatoes. Not to mention the average price of one large heirloom tomato costs as much as one seedling.
I immediately decided to seek out the most knowledgeable person there and the one who was in charge, Scott Daigre, the owner and creator of Tomato Mania. Tomato Mania was created to offer anyone common to rare tomatoes. The success is so huge he takes it across the country.
10 Steps for the novice tomato grower
- Begin-Start planting after the last freeze.
- Soil- Make sure your soil is good and, if it isn’t, amend it with organic composts and build it up. You might even try placing a whole egg under the soil to add calcium. Most importantly, keep the soil balanced and don’t use chicken manure (nitrogen loaded), as it will off-balance it.
- Quantity- Grow three to five sturdy hybrids (the perfect amount to begin). Eight is a lot and maybe too many.
- Cherry tomatoes are the toughest species with more give and are harder to kill.
- Middle of the road hybrids- Better Boy and Sweet Tangerine
- Three heirlooms- Jaune Flame, Gardeners Delight, German heirlooms
- Red cherry tomato Nyugu- chocolate insides
- Good Buys-pineapple, Kellogg’s breakfast, any reds, Noir de Crimee and Paul Robeson
- Plant- Cherry tomatoes can be planted in a pot, but most tomatoes should be planted in the ground. Choose either Indeterminate (keep growing up) or Determinate (grows and stops). Indicated by a D or an I on the tag. Take your space into consideration and choose accordingly.
- Steak- Hold the tomato plants up with steaks, cages or spread along a fence (favorite). The most important part is to give them air. Ties- something soft, “Stockings are what my grandmother used,” Daigre said.
- Water- Most people water too much. Test with a pencil by sticking into the ground and then remove it. If the bottom of the pencil is dry you need water, but if the bottom of the pencil is wet, then stop.
- Pesticides and Pest Control - Assess the situation. It’s best to check on your plants daily so you know what’s going on with them. Next, decide whether you can spray the bugs off with a hose, pick them by hand, use ladybugs or if you have to use a pesticide (organic is preferable).
- Harvest- Pick tomatoes when they’re soft and ripe. Bright in color, firm but soft to touch. Avoid picking when they’re not full color or before they are overly soft. When growing heirlooms, make sure you know their true color and as they change color you know when to pick them.
- Store- In the kitchen on a cool counter, avoid sunlight and the refrigerator. Best if stored blossom side down. Don’t wash them until you are ready to eat them.
After a long discussion, I packed up my six tomato plants and ladybugs and was on my way home. Before I could get too far, a bride and groom arrived to take part in all of the action.
“A bride and groom showing up for Tomato Mania, this is a first,” Daigre said.
I got home and unloaded my tomato plants, excited about the summer ahead and the possibility of homegrown tomatoes. I picked a perfect spot and planted my six different varieties as Daigre had instructed. Now, I just wait, water and see.
Thanks for all the help, Scott, and I wish you luck with Tomato Mania!
For more information about Tomato Mania, please check out their Web site.
Health Benefits of Tomatoes-
a. Aids digestion
b. Strengthens stomach
e. And loaded with Vitamin C and Potassium
The Tomato originated from South America and Mexico.
Heirloom Tomatoes are tomatoes where seeds have been passed down from generation to generation. The heirloom tomato is usually an irregular shape, may have large brown cracks on the skin and comes in a rainbow of colors. They run anywhere from $1 to $6 a piece but worth every penny.
Hybridized Tomato seeds can’t be cultivated and were created to be disease resistant, heat tolerant, etc.
Tomatoes range in taste from sweet +3 to sour -3 and a perfect tomato is 0. Heinz Ketchup uses a 0 tomato so that they always know how to season it.
Yellow Tomatoes are not as acidic as red tomatoes.
On Wednesday, I will be sharing tomato recipes that would be great for Easter or Passover.
Don't forget to sign up for Chef Mary's Newsletter firstname.lastname@example.org
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No Quick Fix for the Ozone Hole
The hole in Earth's protective ozone layer won't repair itself until about two decades later than had been expected, scientists announced yesterday.
The ozone layer blocks more than 90 percent of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, helping to make life as we know it on Earth possible. For many decades, ozone was depleted by chlorine and bromine gas in the air, produced by man-made chlorofluorocarbons. A hole in the ozone layer formed over the Southern Hemisphere.
Efforts to curb those chemicals have in recent years led to optimism that ozone would rebuild.
Computer models had predicted the hole would fill back in by 2050.
An improved computer model, from scientists at NASA, NOAA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, predicts the recovery won't occur until 2068. The model, fed with fresh data from satellites and airplanes, was verified by the fact that it accurately reproduced ozone levels in the Antarctic stratosphere over the past 27 years.
The ozone hole is actually more of a broad region with less ozone than ought to occur naturally. It is not confined to Antarctica, as is often believed.
"Over areas that are farther from the poles like Africa or the U.S., the levels of ozone are only three to six percent below natural levels," explained the leader of the new study, Paul Newman, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Over Antarctica, ozone levels are 70 percent lower in the spring. This new method allows us to more accurately estimate ozone-depleting gases over Antarctica, and how they will decrease over time, reducing the ozone hole area."
Newman and his colleagues also found that the ozone hole has not started to shrink as much as anticipated. They figure it will not start shrinking a lot until 2018, after which time the recovery should proceed more quickly.
The new study confirms earlier work Newman and colleagues reported last year, in which they said the hole wouldn't replenish until 2065.
MORE FROM LiveScience.com
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Re: Article: Open-source needs more women developers
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Helen Faulkner <firstname.lastname@example.org> [2005.08.29.0155 +0200]:
>>Would a German speaker mind telling us roughly what that article says, and what
>>it says about Debian Women?
> - there's prejudice against women in software, despite all the
> important female contributors in history.
> - related to the "secondary position" of women in society (not being
> allowed to attend universities), women were "used" as programmers,
> for that task was too repetitive for men.
> - sexual tension existed at workplaces, culminating e.g. in the
> prohibition for women to enter the Eniac room.
> - the women remained tough despite all the obstacles, writing e.g.
> the first compiler (Grace Hopper), or developing languages like
> Cobol, Pascal, and Basic.
> - then they refer to Magni's paper and her theory that free software
> developers are equivalents of the adventurers of the "rough" times
> in history, when pain and (the strive for) glory were what made
> a man.
> - she says that diverse groups have greater chances of success, so
> free software should diversify more, partly by recognising
> the presence and needs of male and female users more.
> - now Fernanda is quoted as seeing the main obstacle in the
> communication. without it, you can't contribute to F/OSS, but when
> women try to join the forums, they get objectified.
> - Karin Kosina of FSF Europe says that she's tired of being hit on
> when that seems to be the only logical thing to do for males even
> in the context of tech talks or the like.
> - She wants women not to smile or "giggle", but to take a position
> and set things straight.
> - then the article goes to mention hot babe. Men suggested to women
> to just work pictures of naked men into the tool, but the women
> didn't see why they should do work just to make the software
> acceptable in the archive.
> - political correctness and religion are also mentioned, with
> reference to debian-bible and debian-koran and how they are
> theoretically also not okay.
> - Generally, the desire seems to be for the 99.6% men of the project
> to show more respect and understanding for the women's position.
> - The hostility by men and difficulty of the situation cause only
> few women to actually do something about it.
> - The article ends with the hope that more women get active in DW.
> If you ask me, it's a good article, and rather objective and
> factually correct.
>>We should add all these into the links on the "press" page of the DW website.
> My translation is very rough, and it's late. But it's herewith
> released under the Artistic Licence with the additional restriction
> that the sentence preceeding this one must appear somewhere close to
> it. :)
Thanks for translating Martin :)
It's great to see some of the people involved in Debian Women getting noticed
for the work they are doing in free software and in studying the role of women
in free software. I think we are increasingly recognised as doing
groundbreaking work here in Debian Women :) Thanks to all who are helping to
achieve our goals!
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More than 20 months ago, President Obama signed the law to reform America’s dangerously outdated food safety system. But the administration has still not issued the regulations to implement this measure -- regulations that would improve U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety oversight of domestic produce and processed foods, as well as imported food products.
While these regulations have been waiting for approval, more American families have seen loved ones fall ill – and even die – from preventable foodborne illnesses, such as E. coli and Salmonella.
The victims and their survivors fought hard to pass the new law to help fix this problem. It’s time to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
In 2006, two-year-old Kyle Allgood became sick and passed away after eating contaminated spinach. This is his family's story.
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Twenty-three years later, while arguing for marijuana prohibition, Harry Anslinger also played on Americans' fear of crime and foreigners. The Bureau of Narcotics chief spun tales of people driven to insanity or murder after ingesting the drug and spoke of the 2 to 3 tons of grass being produced in Mexico.
"This, the Mexicans make into cigarettes, which they sell at two for 25 cents, mostly to white high school students," Anslinger told Congress.
The term marijuana itself was intended to stoke alarm, as many Americans in the 1930s were already familiar with other terms for the drug, according to Michael Aldrich.
"(The drug's opponents) preferred the word marijuana instead of cannabis or hemp because people thought it was some new devil drug from Mexico," said Aldrich, the curator of what is now Harvard University's Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, a collection of psychoactive drug-related literature.
"All of a sudden, there's this new thing being introduced by outside people," Aldrich, who is credited with writing the first dissertation on marijuana myths and folklore. "It was all a bunch of crap."
'Reefer Madness' vs. 'Medicinal marijuana'
In the shaky, handwritten opening lines of the 1936 movie "Reefer Madness," marijuana is described as a "violent narcotic" that first renders "sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter" on its users before "dangerous hallucinations" and then "acts of shocking violence ... ending often in incurable insanity."
Watching the movie today (available on YouTube) might provoke "uncontrollable laughter" -- even from those who oppose marijuana legalization. Yet the movie's message was based in part on scientific studies that were considered legitimate at the time.
There were similar claims about alcohol in the years leading up to Prohibition. While the Anti-Saloon League painted drinking as un-American and immoral to convince counties and states they'd be better off saloonless, they also leaned on hokey research, according to Garrett Peck, author of "The Prohibition Hangover."
The ASL used "quack medical experiments" to demonize beer, wine and liquor, Peck said. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union went into classrooms purporting to demonstrate the effects of alcohol by pouring it directly onto sheep and cow brains, quickly transforming the pink organ to a grayish hue, he said.
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TRAVEL TIPS: GREAT CULTURAL THINGS TO DO IN LANGKAWI ISLAND
While Langkawi is first and foremost a little-disturbed natural paradise, with plenty of great outdoor adventures for nature lovers, several interesting and educational cultural attractions also are available on the island. Learn all about rice cultivation, the use of local plants for cooking and medicinal purposes, Malaysian arts such as batik and silver jewelry making, interact with water buffalo, and learn other aspects of traditional Malaysian life. Here are 5 worthwhile cultural places/activities as well as several I personally recommend skipping:
1. Laman Padi (Rice Museum) free
Laman Padi is a beautiful compound full of rice fields, an extensive herb and flower garden, a museum, a spa, and two restaurants. Run by LADA, Langkawi Development Authority, its aim is to educate visitors about rice cultivation and natural plants & herbs. The unique building designs and layout are similar to Balinese style and exceedingly attractive, though a bit in disrepair these days. The museum and guided tour of the herb garden and rice fields are free. Staff are eager to teach you all about plant uses and rice cultivation as they escort you around the gardens and various rice fields.
Laman Padi is located very conveniently at the north end of Cenang Beach, across from Casa del Mar Resort.
2. Cultural Tour: Untold Stories
cost: 190 RM / $63 US
On this informative, entertaining cultural tour by Dev’s Adventure Tours, you’ll learn all about traditional Malay houses and how their architectural style changed slowly over the course of the colonial trade period. You’ll get to taste and smell native plants while learning about their medicinal and cooking uses. You’ll travel along narrow country lanes around the island. You’ll sample traditional Malaysian sweets and snacks from roadside stalls and Langkawi evening market. You’ll learn a bit about Buddhism and Hinduism while visiting virtually unknown Thai and Hindu cave temples. Finally, you’ll be treated to a home-cooked Indian banana leaf rice meal at the tour guide’s own home while meeting his family! This is a fantastic tour if you’d like to learn more about Malaysian culture and visit spots on the island that you’ll never find on your own.
3. Langkawi Craft Complex free
Although this complex is overwhelmingly a rather expensive shopping complex for Malaysian arts, crafts, and clothes, it’s still worth a visit for its large, very well-done cultural museum and on-site working craftsmen, which are all free to visit.
The large museum shows all aspects of Malaysian art, handicrafts, daily life, and culture via beautiful displays with extensive explanations in English. In other areas of the complex, you can watch artists making batik fabrics, blowing glass, weaving baskets and other woven products, and making Malaysian kites.
The merchandise on sale is all traditional Malaysian goods of very high quality. So even if you’re turned off by shopping on vacation, the products at this complex are worth taking a look at, at least from an art/cultural appreciation point of view.
Warning: The food stall set up in the parking lot serves very bad food.
4. Buffalo Park
admission: 5 RM ($1.65 US) / buffalo riding: 20 RM ($6.50 US) / buffalo-pulled cart: 30 RM ($10 US)
Langkawi’s buffalo park is a working dairy farm- of water buffalo instead of cows. If you’ve never visited a dairy farm before, this is a very interesting chance to learn how to milk cows and to make cheese, ice cream and yogurt. You can also ride a water buffalo, get pulled on a traditional Malay cart by buffalo, or try your hand at milking a buffalo. Their cafe serves ice cream, milk, and cheese made right there on the farm.
5. Langkawi Night Market free to browse
This large roving outdoor market is a typical Malaysian evening market where locals go to buy fresh fruit, cooked meals and sweets, clothes, accessories, and housewares. A few western tourists roam through the aisles, but primarily it’s full of locals. It’s the perfect chance to try out exotic tropical fruits like durian or rambutan, delicious meals, and equally tasty local sweets.
Each night of the week the market sets up at a different location around the island, including Kuah town, behind Cenang Beach, and other spots. Ask your guest house/hotel staff or locals where the market will be set up on your evening of choice. For most travelers, the easiest location is Cenang Beach, currently set up on Thursday evenings.
Cultural spots worth skipping:
Everyone has own their interests and tastes, of course, including myself. In my opinion, the following ‘cultural attractions’ are worth skipping, mostly because they’re such gimmicky tourist attractions, at least by western standards. However, if you like these kinds of things, no offense intended. Go for it! To each his own.
Eagle square. A gigantic cement eagle statue in Kuah town. You’ll see it anyhow when you arrive.
Legenda Park. A park full of cement statues depicting famous Langkawi legends. The park itself is actually a large, lovely town park set beside Kuah’s beautiful harbor, with a beach, stunning views, and loads of tropical vegetation. If you need to kill some time in Kuah, it’s a nice place to stroll and relax.
Air Hangat. Described as a ‘spa’ hot springs, that’s really stretching the imagination on the definition of ‘spa’! A natural hot spring does indeed exist there, about the size of a large pot. Hot water does flow out into 2 narrow long canals where you could soak your feet, but the water looks terribly dirty and unsanitary. The place has been made into a lovely garden, which could be worth a stroll through if you’re passing by.
Oriental Village Set at the base of Langkawi Cable Car, visitors must unfortunately walk through the ‘village’ to go up the mountain. It’s basically a huge shopping complex and ‘amusement’ center offering pony rides, elephant rides, horse n cart rides.. you get the picture. Something like a mini Disney Land.
What kinds of cultural activities or places do you enjoy when traveling?
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KidsRuby Robot Edition: New Release With Support For Sphero Robots, Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi
We've just released the latest KidsRuby version 1.3, and we're very excited to announce built-in support for the Sphero robotic ball from Orbotix (http://gosphero.com). If you were at RubyConf in Denver you might have seen the preview, and now we've got everything you need to get started learning about the wonderful world of robotics! Support for more robots coming soon...
In addition, we now have the standalone KidsRuby Installer for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian), and KidsRuby Installer for Debian, including Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux versions. Get them while they're hot from our download page at http://kidsruby.com/download.
KidsRuby Studies Abroad: Now Available In Japanese, French, and Spanish!
Our brand new 1.2 release of KidsRuby has gone international, now with full Japanese, French, and Spanish translations. That means our unique and fun way to learn programming has been localized so even more kids all over the world can have fun coding in in Ruby. Thank you to the translators and dev team who helped make this new release possible!
The Twin Cities Hosts KidsRuby In Minneapolis, MN At KidsCodeCamp Before JRubyConf Conference 2012
Our kids programming class on May 20 in Minneapolis at KidsCodeCamp in cooperation with JRubyConf 2012 (http://jrubyconf.com/) was incredibly fun. Special thanks to the fantastic local organizers, as well as the awesome kids in attendence!
KidsRuby and Robots at KidsCodeCamp At STEM Expo 2012 in Pasadena, CA
We had a fantastic KidsRuby class at the KidsCodeCamp that took place on May 19 in Pasadena, CA in participation with the massive Pasadena STEM Expo 2012 event! Hundreds of kids were in attendance, between our packed classes, the robotics competitions, and the separate exibition hall. Robots everywhere!
KidsRuby In Austin, TX, At The First KidsCodeCamp Before RailsConf 2012 Conference
A great time was had by all on April 22, 2012 in Austin, TX. in cooperation with the first KidsCodeCamp (http://kidscodecamp.com/) event taking place in participation with RailsConf 2012 (http://railsconf2012.com/). Thank you so much to all of the great volunteers and kids!
Fun Times At KidsRuby In Bend, OR After Ruby On Ales Conference.
We had a fun and well-attended KidsRuby class on Mar. 3, 2012 in Bend, OR. in cooperation with the Ruby On Ales Conference 2012 (http://ruby.onales.com/). Despite the snow on the ground, it was warm inside, and we had some of the most creative turtle graphics art yet. Great job from all the young programmers!
Happy KidsRuby, We've Gone Version 1.0!
Happy happy joy joy! We've gone to release 1.0 of KidsRuby, and we have a new website design too. Plus, as a special treat we now include the Ruby programming learning game RubyWarrior along with KidsRuby. Learning to program with Ruby is now more fun than ever! Thank you so very much to the dev team and our testers for helping us make this 1.0 release possible. Enjoy!
Who Dat, New Orleans? Thank You For An Excellent Kids Programming Class After RubyConf
New Orleans, LA was the location of our KidsRuby class in cooperation with the International Ruby Conference (RubyConf). The Sunday after RubyConf was a beautiful day for code, and kids filled up all the space we had available. Thank you Launchpad NOLA for sharing their office space with the kids of New Orleans. Thanks also to Blue Box Group for donating USB drives, and of course special thanks to the volunteers!
KidsRuby Loves Raspberry Pi! Introducing Support For The New $25 Kids Computer
We are extremely excited to announce that we have KidsRuby running on the new Raspberry Pi $25 computer. The result of the hard work of a dedicated team located in the U.K., the Raspberry Pi uses an inexpensive ARM processor to bring the price of a computer down to an amazing new level. The first alpha version shown in public in the United States took place at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference during Ron Evans(@deadprogram)'s opening talk on Sept. 16, the day before Raspberry Pi's more formal introduction at Maker Faire NYC. You can watch the complete video of the talk on KidsRuby and Raspberry Pi here. KidsRuby being able to support the Raspberry Pi opens up many new possibilities for helping teach the next generation of programmers, and we are delighted to be working together!
Kids Programming Class at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference Was Tremendous Fun
We held a really fantastic class using KidsRuby in San Francisco, California on Sunday, September 18, in cooperation with the Golden Gate Ruby Conference which was held on September 16th & 17th. Special thank you to Sarah Mei for helping organize it, Pivotal Labs for sharing their office space with the kids of San Francisco, and especially all of the volunteers that came out and helped with the class.
It Was Great Showing Off KidsRuby and Flying Robot at the Pasadena Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Expo
On Saturday, June 11, we were demoing KidsRuby and also bringing Flying Robots #4 & #5 to the Pasadena Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Expo. Put together by the remarkable efforts of Erik Dreyer of Pasadena Robotics, the combination expo and robotics competition was lots of fun for all. We were doing UAV overflights with our video camera, as well as students fly the blimps. We WILL be posting video, rest assured! If you were there, thank you for sharing the geeky fun with Pasadena/Los Angeles. There is more info available here about the expo.
Thanks Baltimore, for An Awesome KidsRuby
On Monday, May 16, KidsRuby came to Baltimore, Maryland to hold another awesome kids programming class, in cooperation with BohConf 2011 and RailsConf 2011. This was one of our best events yet, with an amazing group of young people who came in from Digital Harbor HS each equipped with their own school-issued MacBooks, no less. Go, Baltimore! Local civic leader and Rubyist Dave Troy was also in attendance, with his kids in tow. Thank you so very much to everyone who helped out with the class, especially the teachers from Digital Harbor, your efforts are appreciated!
The Kids Programming Class at BarcampLA Was Excellent
Last Sunday, May 1, we held another KidsRuby class in Los Angeles, California, in cooperation with BarCampLA. It was another great turnout, with even a few "big kids" from Barcamp joining in as both teachers and students. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen, kids programming is awesome!
A Fantastic Time Had By All at KidsRuby in Bend, Oregon
We held a KidsRuby class in Bend, Oregon on March 26th, in cooperation with the Ruby On Ales Conference. A fantastic class, and a very fun morning. We had a great venue provided by G5 (http://www.g5platform.com/ thanks guys!) and an amazing turnout. There were also lots of local Rubyists out to help the class, which was good because there were lots of kids ready to have fun with Ruby. Thank you everyone for making it a great event!
The Los Angeles Ruby Conference for Kids Was Awesome, Thank You!
We taught our first class using nothing but KidsRuby in Los Angeles on February 4th, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Ruby Conference (LARubyConf). It was really an excellent class, and everyone had a great time and learned about Ruby. Thank you very much to the students, teachers, and especially the KidsRuby dev team for working so hard to get that first version of KidsRuby ready in time for the class.
What do you exactly mean by "hack your homework"?
When we say "hack your homework" we mean "learn how to write a computer program to help you with your homework". For example, writing code to solve a particular math problem. By showing kids that programming can apply to the real world, like any subject, it becomes a lot more interesting to learn about.
The term "hack" in the computer world, means to be able to do something with hardware or software that the original designers did not realize could be done, usually in a good way. This term is often confused with the term "crack" which means to bypass security of some kind, usually considered something bad that you do not wish to do.
A little more detail?
KidsRuby provides a way that kids can use the awesome programming language Ruby to learn how to write their own software. While using a simple interface, it still lets them explore the full capabilities of the Ruby language.
In addition to providing a full Ruby programming environment for kids, we also have a complete KidsRuby operating system based on Ubuntu Linux that makes it easy for kids to learn how to program in Ruby on any computer. And it will let them do it anywhere they go, just bring their own USB drive, plug in, and reboot.
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Fall is here, there’s no denying it, and to tell the truth we are loving it. There’s a certain sense of relief and a feeling that we can FINALLY catch up on all the things that were running just ahead of us in the garden all summer.
It’s time to catch up and clean up (click here for our fall cleanup tips). It’s also time to make adjustments to your watering schedules.
Those of you who garden in this region know that fall and winter watering can be very tricky. It all depends on how dry it is. When there is less atmospheric moisture you’ll need to water enough replace what the plants transpire. Unlike SoCal where the local water utility provides good guidelines for seasonal watering, Durango seems to either not have the information available or to have it buried so deeply in their website that it is not findable.
So we went to the Colorado State University Extension site for info. Here’s a link to Watering Basics that you may already know — water early in the day, don’t over water, etc., but watering in fall and winter in this semi-arid climate can be a challenge so here are some quick facts to help your plants make it through the next few months:
- Water trees, shrubs, lawns, and perennials during prolonged dry fall and winter periods to prevent root damage.
- Water only when the air and soil temperature are above 40 degrees F with no snow cover.
- Established large trees have a root spread equal to or greater than the height of the tree. Apply water to the most critical part of the root zone within the dripline.
- Newly planted trees and shrubs will required more water than established ones. Water deeply and slowly.
Coastal Southern California
At this point in the season plants are transpiring less water and so their needs are not as great as they were a few weeks ago. This is true even if it’s hot in the daytime because the days are shorter, nighttime temps are a lot cooler, and many plants are entering a dormant phase. Plant water needs drop by almost 30% in September so cut back your watering accordingly.
The one exception to this rule is when the Santa Ana winds are blowing. When that happens the air is extremely dry and you should give your plants supplemental water. This is especially true for container plants that may need to be watered twice a day when the hot winds are blowing. (Hint: misting them mid-afternoon will cool them down and help them make it through the most brutal Santa Ana conditions.)
The Irvine Ranch Water District does a really nice job of helping home gardeners figure out how to adjust their irrigation schedule and cycles. Click here for handy chart with suggested weekly watering schedules. You may have to make adjustments for your landscape, but this is a very good starting point.
And while we’re at it here are some good general tips for conserving water in either region and for preventing runoff — which in SoCal ends up in our ocean carrying all manner of nasty pollutants with it.
- Water only when necessary – saves 1,100 gallons per irrigation cycle.
- Water in the early morning, before 8 a.m., to reduce evaporation and interference from the wind – saves 25 gallons per day.
- Check sprinkler system for leaks, overspray and broken sprinkler heads – saves 500 gallons per month.
- Turn off hoses run when not in use and use a water-saving hose nozzle instead – saves up to 7,500 gallons per year.
- Use a broom instead of a hose to clean driveways and sidewalks – saves 150 gallons each time.
- Install a “smart” sprinkler controller - saves 40 gallons per irrigation cycle.
- Place organic mulch throughout garden to reduce evaporation, even soil temperatures and inhibit weed growth – save hundreds of gallons per year.
- Replace thirsty plants with California Friendly drought-resistant varieties – saves hundreds of gallons each year per plant.
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A thyroid scan uses a radioactive tracer and a special camera to measure how much tracer the thyroid gland absorbs from the blood. A thyroid scan is done to find problems with the thyroid gland. A thyroid scan may be done with a radioactive iodine uptake test (RAIU) to check how well the thyroid gland is working.
A thyroid scan can show the size, shape, and location of the thyroid gland. It can also find areas of the thyroid gland that are overactive or underactive. The camera takes pictures of the thyroid gland from three different angles. The radioactive tracer used in this test is either iodine or technetium.
Another type of thyroid scan, a whole-body thyroid scan, may be done for people who have had thyroid cancer that has been treated. The whole-body scan can check to see if cancer has spread to other areas of the body.
Why It Is Done
A thyroid scan is done to:
How To Prepare
Tell your doctor if you:
- Take any medicines regularly. Be sure your
doctor knows the names and doses of all your medicines. Your doctor will
instruct you if and when you need to stop taking any of the following medicines
that can change the thyroid scan test results.
- Thyroid hormones
- Antithyroid medicines
- Medicines that have iodine, such as iodized salt, kelp, cough syrups, multivitamins, or the heart medicine amiodarone (such as Cordarone or Pacerone)
- Are allergic to any medicines, such as iodine. But even if you are allergic to iodine, you will likely be able to have this test because the amount used in the tracer is so small that your chance of an allergic reaction is very low.
- Have ever had a serious allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) from any substance, such as the venom from a bee sting or from eating shellfish.
- Have had any test using radioactive materials or iodine dye 4 weeks before the thyroid scan. These other tests may change the results of the thyroid scan.
- Are or might be pregnant.
- Are breast-feeding.
Before a thyroid scan, blood tests may be done to measure the amount of thyroid hormones (TSH, T3, and T4) in your blood.
To prepare for a thyroid scan:
- Do not eat for 2 hours before the test.
- Do not take any antithyroid medicine for 5 to 7 days before the test.
Your doctor may ask you to eat a low-iodine diet, especially if this test is being done to check for thyroid cancer.
For a thyroid scan, you will either swallow a dose of radioactive iodine or be given technetium in a vein (intravenously) in your arm. When and how you take the radioactive tracer depends on which tracer is used.
- Iodine can be taken as a capsule or a fluid 24 hours before the test. Iodine has little or no taste.
- Technetium is given 2 hours before the test.
Just before the test, you will remove your dentures (if you wear them) and all jewelry or metal objects from around your neck and upper body.
Before a thyroid scan, you need to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the thyroid scan and agree to have it done. Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form(What is a PDF document?) .
How It Is Done
A thyroid scan is done in the nuclear medicine section of a hospital's radiology department by a person trained in nuclear medicine (nuclear medicine technologist).
If you get technetium, you may feel warm, flushed, and nauseated when it is given. Taking deep breaths to relax may relieve these feelings.
For this test, you will lie on your back with your head tipped backward and your neck extended. It is important to lie still during this test. A special camera (called a gamma scintillation camera) takes pictures of your thyroid gland from three different angles 4 to 6 hours after you took the tracer. The test takes about 10 minutes. Another scan is done again in 24 hours.
After a thyroid scan, you can do your regular activities. But you will be asked to take special precautions when you urinate. This is because your body gets rid of the radioactive tracer through your urine. This takes about 24 hours. It is important to flush the toilet and wash your hands thoroughly after each time you urinate.
How It Feels
You may find it uncomfortable to lie still with your head tipped backward.
There is always a slight chance of damage to cells or tissue from radiation, including the low levels of radiation used for this test. But the chance of damage from the radiation is usually very low compared with the benefits of the test.
This test is not done for pregnant women because of the chance of exposing the baby (fetus) to radiation. This test is also not recommended for breast-feeding women or young children.
A thyroid scan uses a radioactive tracer and a special camera to make a picture of the thyroid gland. The radioactive tracer used in this test is usually iodine or technetium. A thyroid scan is done to help find problems with the thyroid gland.
A normal thyroid scan shows a small butterfly-shaped thyroid gland about 2 in. (5.1 cm) long and 2 in. (5.1 cm) wide with an even spread of radioactive tracer in the gland.
An abnormal thyroid scan shows a thyroid gland that is smaller or larger than normal. It can also show areas in the thyroid gland where the activity is less than normal (cold nodules) or more than normal (hot nodules). Cold nodules may be related to thyroid cancer.
A whole-body scan will show whether iodine is in bone or other tissue (iodine uptake) after the thyroid gland has been removed for cancer. The whole-body scan can check to see if cancer has spread to other areas of the body.
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking thyroid medicine.
- Eating foods with iodine, such as shellfish, iodized salt, or kelp.
- Having other tests using contrast materials in the past 4 weeks.
What To Think About
- Blood tests may be done before a thyroid scan to measure the amount of thyroid hormones (TSH, T3, and T4) in your blood. For more information, see the medical tests Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and Thyroid Hormone Tests.
- A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) test may also be done to find problems with how the thyroid gland works, such as hyperthyroidism. For more information, see the medical test Radioactive Iodine Uptake Test.
- Cancer of the thyroid is usually treated with surgery. If the tumor is large, has spread outside the thyroid gland, or has recurred, it may then be treated with very high doses of radioactive iodine. After treating recurring thyroid cancer, a scan of the entire body can be done to see where the cancer has spread.
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2006). Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 3rd ed. St. Louis: Mosby.
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|Editor||Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS|
|Associate Editor||Terrina Vail|
|Primary Medical Reviewer||E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine|
|Specialist Medical Reviewer||Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism|
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Findings from the Council for Economic Education have once again encouraged local leaders to promote financial literacy in their schools.
California Assemblyman Roger Hernandez’ bill to bolster financial literacy instruction at high schools statewide is making progress. The Diamond Bar-Walnut Patch has more on his efforts.
“Financial literacy is an issue of equity. Not everyone is given an opportunity at home to be financially literate,” Hernandez said. “Teaching this topic at schools prepares our students to enter an increasingly competitive workforce and gives them the tools to help protect themselves against predatory lending, credit card fraud and other deceptive practices.”
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Quantitative Easing. What the Fed announced yesterday at 2:15, didn't get a whole lot of attention. The stock market is going through the roof because of it. What is it? Quantitative Easing is where a country's central bank, i.e., the Federal Reserve, tries to boost the economy by increasing lending by increasing the money supply. How do they do that? Well, the Federal Reserve announced they're gonna purchase about $600 billion in Treasury securities. That's about $75 billion per month for the next eight months. This is the government printing new money to purchase existing Treasury securities that have already been issued and are currently owned. All right, so who owns them? Well, banks, Wall Street firms, insurance companies, pension funds, other governments. The purpose of the program, the purpose of QE2 is to reflate the economy, to create wealth via higher stock and bond prices, via inflation. It's another stimulus. They tried it once before. That's why it is QE2, Quantitative Easing 2.
In addition to the $600 billion, the Federal Reserve will also purchase $250 billion of Treasury securities with TARP money. Remember that TARP money? We had to bail out that $700 billion. If we didn't, the world financial system would cash in 24 hours. We still have $250 billion of that unspent. So that $250 billion to purchase Treasury securities with TARP money again over the next few months. The total package will be $100 billion a month over the next eight months. The Federal Reserve is not buying the stocks. The institutions will have more money as a result of selling the Treasuries to the Fed and they use the money to buy securities and thus higher prices and this creates the impression of the economy's growing, Wall Street, Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing every day, wow, look, we got an economy recovery. The purpose of the program is to put more cash, liquidity, into the system. Banks, Wall Street firms, insurance and pension funds, money firms who own them get the cash. The goal is the banks and other lending institutions will also lend the money to business and consumers to expand their business.
They did this once and it didn't work and the small business people tell you this is not what we need. We don't have a credit problem. We don't have any customers. Our problem is there aren't any customers. Our problem is we don't have any sales and we don't have any sales because there aren't enough people working. More and more people are losing their jobs. Unemployment claims "unexpectedly" went up again. Unexpectedly. Past stimulus plans from Obama's to Quantitative Easing 1 have not helped the economy. They have not created sufficient job or economic growth. They have failed. Excessive printing of money and spending has hurt the value of the US dollar. The value of the dollar is down over 15% since Ben Bernanke began talking about QE2 back in August.
Now, the past stimulus money, previous, went to commercial banks, investment banks, Wall Street firms who have not lent the money, which we predicted. We predicted when TARP came they're not going to lend the money, they're not gonna redistribute, they're going to shore up their own accounts, they're gonna shore up their own bottom line, they're gonna keep it, which they did. They have not lent the money to business and consumers as planned. The money has not been used to spend on new projects or on hiring people or creating growth. I mean interest rates are practically zero. They're getting money for nothing. I mean it's almost as though they're being given money. That's how low interest rates are for these transactions. And they have used this zero-cost money to buy and trade Treasury securities or other financial instruments and made money on the differential. It doesn't cost them anything to get money, they invest it, they get a big return on it. Why would they lend it? Why would they put it out there at risk to somebody who may not be able to pay it back when they can invest it and shore up their own bottom lines, which is what's happened. The money is being printed, it is being invested to banks and firms and Wall Street firms and it's stopping with them. It's not circulating.
It didn't work in QE1, so damn it, you know, let's try it again, QE2. What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So the banks and all the people who are getting the newly printed money are using it to make more money, maintain a strong balance sheet during troubled Financial Times, make themselves look solid. Now, in the past, with Obama and the Democrats controlling the presidency and the House and the Senate, things were far too uncertain politically and economically. It's another reason why all these firms have all this cash. You've heard the number, trillions of dollars in cash, firms are sitting on it. Democrats are running around, "Why don't they invest it? These are selfish people." No, the objective is not to lose it. And they don't know, speaking of taxes and freedom and loss of liberty, they don't know how much of it Obama's gonna come and claim. They don't know how much Obama is going to cost them. But they got a good idea, it's gonna be a lot.
So they're holding it in reserve to be able to either pay it or to finagle a way around it. They're willing to be criticized for this, too. Ask yourself, what's a big number to you? Let's say you had a hundred thousand dollars, and everybody was expecting you to take that hundred thousand dollars and spend it on something. But you weren't sure what the future held and you've got your family to be concerned about and yourself, and you think down the road the federal government might have policies that are gonna make that hundred thousand dollars worth 40 or 50. Well, you're gonna hold onto it, shelter it as best you can trying to keep it away from those guys as long as possible, 'cause it's yours, you've earned it, or in some cases the Fed has given it to you, but regardless, you don't want to give it to Obama. It's not his.
In addition to all that, the USA world economy has been coming out of a financial crash, this thing in 2008, 2009. The institutions were very hesitant to lend the money back then so credit became and is still hard to get for a lot of businesses and people. And many of the companies and people whom the money was meant to be lent to were too hesitant to borrow it for the same reason. And these are the people who are saying we don't need easier access to credit. We need customers. We need sales. So I mean you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make the horse drink, so there was no average American or corporate beneficiary of any of this. Now with QE2 they want to attempt the same thing as they tried in the past, much of the previous stimulus money still out there. And, despite what you've heard, a lot of it -- well, I'm sure some of it's now been spent in this election cycle, but up until this election cycle, campaign cycle, a lot of the stimulus had not been spent; it had been held in reserve. And a lot of people think because of that there's already enough money out there. There was $250 billion unspent TARP money. Why are they printing more? It's a mistake. There should be sufficient money to achieve the goal of reflating the economy without printing the money, but they don't think there is.
So the number of trillions that corporations are now sitting on in cash is $2 trillion. It is estimated that consumers are sitting on a combined $8 trillion in cash saving money, hedging their bets against the future not knowing but having a very great fear of what the future holds. US corporations have over a trillion dollars sitting in offshore accounts that benefit other countries and not the USA. We talked about this last week about double taxation. If Obama and US Congress would simply change tax rules some of that money being held offshore would be brought home and that would begin circulating in our economy. Now that the Democrats have lost the House, the Obama presidency and the Democrat controlled Senate can no longer do whatever they want. The Republicans have now created a check and balance, and this is going to lead to gridlock, which the markets absolutely love. One of the reasons the market is skyrocketing is because they can anticipate the gridlock that's coming. They love it, because that's not uncertainty. The uncertainty that has plagued the country and its companies for two years, uncertainty and fear now for the most part can be eradicated.
So the notion of gridlock -- which Mort Kondracke is very afraid of -- the notion of gridlock creates a more confidence business and consumer environment, which results in an expanding economy utilizing the increasing liquidity that has been injected by the Fed. So it has some potential, because of this money firms that have been holding the cash, been too hesitant to spend it or lend it, can see some credit ease, maybe, and we don't need the QE2 to do this. We don't need to start printing money. This is simply unnecessary, totally unnecessary. Money firms that have been holding the cash have been too hesitant to spend it or lend it, feeling we can see credit ease up, borrowers wanting to borrow, companies and small business, individuals feel better and safer, more confident to spend the cash, we'll see if it happens. It's still largely gonna depend on what President Obama's policies are, what happens. Robert Fibbs floated the idea this afternoon they're now open, they say, to extending the Bush tax cuts to everybody. We'll see. So that's what QE2 is. It's an attempt to stimulate the economy in identical ways that have failed up 'til now.
The problem is if this doesn't work. If it doesn't work, and if these banks just sit on the cash, again, if the institutions just sit on the cash, hello inflation. And a lot of people are saying that's good because that will show growth. One of the fastest ways to retire debt is to inflate the currency because you're automatically gonna retire some of it just by virtue of the inflation. So if the economy doesn't take off, the Fed's not gotta be able to sell these bonds that it bought. Remember, the Fed's buying all these Treasury bonds. The dollar will be devalued and we'll have inflation, maybe even hyperinflation if this doesn't work. That's why people are really leery of it, that's why it's so damned risky and a lot of people are scratching their heads, "Why are we doing this, it isn't necessary."
RUSH: Now, to put this in perspective, during QE1 (Quantitative Easing 1, that was December 2008 through March of this year) the Fed bought $1.7 trillion of Treasury notes and mortgage-backed securities. So if $1.7 trillion didn't do the trick, why will another $600 to $800 billion help? Even the New York Times is afraid of this. I don't like quoting them, but they're not even on board with this.
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Kashihara-jingu, located in the city of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, was built in 1889 at the site of the Kashihara-gu where Japans first emperor, Jinmu, is said to have acceded to the throne. The Main Hall and Kagura-den (hall for sacred dancing) were relocated here from the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and the other buildings were constructed in 1940. The deities enshrined are Emperor Jinmu and his consort Hime-tatara-Isuzu-Hime. A new national regime was inaugurated in 1868 with the end of rule by the samurai class, with the emperor as head of state, and the spirits of Emperor and Empress Jinmu were formally enshrined here in recognition of their status as the first generation of the Imperial Family.'
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Identifinders has been assisting History Flight and Missing Air Crew in their efforts to locate family references of MIAs for DNA identification. On July 24-28, U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia Peter A. Prahar travelled to Yap State to participate in the dedication ceremony of the Ensign Joseph E. Cox Memorial, named in honor of a U.S. naval pilot whose F6F-5 Hellcat fighter plane was shot down over Yap Island on September 6, 1944. Thanks to the efforts of Identifinders, members of the family of Howard Holding were present; Holding was killed during the same mission. Identifinders located his niece, Terri Trick, who with her brother Brent Jacob, traveled to Yap to attend the ceremony. To read the Press Release issued by the Embassy of the United States of America Kolonia Public Affairs Section, click here.
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Oglala and Rosebud File Federal Child-Welfare Lawsuit
On March 21, the Oglala and Rosebud Sioux tribes and three tribal members filed a federal class-action suit in Rapid City, seeking a ruling that would compel Pennington County, South Dakota courts to provide prompt and meaningful hearings when Indian children in the county are removed from their homes because of neglect or abuse accusations.
The lawsuit follows a 16-month American Civil Liberties Union investigation that found Pennington County courts routinely prevent parents in custody hearings from seeing the affidavits making claims against them, from cross-examining those who filed the documents and from introducing evidence on their own behalf, according to ACLU attorney Stephen Pevar. Hearings may be as short as one minute.
This practice causes great suffering and long-lasting trauma, said Bryan Brewer, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which has declared a child-welfare state of emergency. “This abuse of state power has tragic results,” said Brewer.
Plaintiffs and others attending a Rapid City press conference to announce the suit gave emotional accounts of being separated from their children for months or years. “Give my grandson back. I want him back. Please, someone help me,” cried Bernice Spotted Eagle, from Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
South Dakota’s Native children, families and tribes are impacted by these policies because Indian children are taken in numbers way out of proportion to their percentage of the state’s child population. However, Brewer and others noted, the suit is aimed at greater fairness for all. “This is not just an Indian issue,” said Pevar. “It’s a constitutional issue. No one can afford to have these rights taken away. The Oglala and Rosebud tribes are leading the charge on behalf of all families.”
According to the complaint, Pennington County judges routinely give the state custody of children for at least 50 or as many as 120 days, even going so far as to make dubious claims in their orders. A hearing for plaintiff Madonna Pappan, her husband and their two children lasted about 60 seconds, said the complaint, which further says that the court did not permit the Pappans to see the petition that state officials had filed against them.
At the end of the Pappans’ minute-long proceeding, the judge entered an order claiming—apparently without hearing evidence of this—that “active efforts have been made to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs” to the Pappans and that taking their children was “the least restrictive alternative available.”
Much is known about the high number of Indian children taken into foster care in South Dakota and their placement in non-Indian homes and group facilities, according to Pevar. However, he noted, the current suit is not about these problems—though they may be alleviated if parents get proper hearings.
This suit is about systemic change, he said: “It’s about procedural fairness, about guaranteeing rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution and the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Supreme Court has long held that when the government takes anything from you, even your driver’s license or your furniture, you get a full accounting. If it’s true in those cases, it’s certainly true when government takes your children.”
The defendants (who are sued in their official capacity) are an official of the state’s Department of Social Services, the Pennington County state’s attorney and the county’s presiding judge. The ACLU investigation did not determine whether Pennington County is the worst jurisdiction in South Dakota but rather that the situation there is very bad, said Pevar. The other plaintiffs’ attorneys are Dana Hanna, of Rapid City, who represents the Oglala and Rosebud tribes in ICWA and other matters, and Robert Doody, of the South Dakota ACLU.
If the state perceives the merit of the suit, it could proceed to a settlement, said Pevar. If the state chooses to fight, the lawsuit moves into the discovery phase, in which case the plaintiffs would be able to take depositions and obtain documents about the number, timing and results of custody hearings in Pennington County.
The ACLU has not ruled out future lawsuits. “We’re in this for the long haul,” said Pevar.
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I am talking about unheated raw honey.
I am talking about unheated raw honey.
Can Bee clear as water
Yes. And Freshly extracted, settled, and bottled honey should be. Over time honey will crystallize, and this can vary from days to years depending on the variety. With gentle heating to 35 - 40 degrees celsius ( the internal temperature of a bee hive) this process can be undone, without damaging any of the health benefits.
Have you or your neighbors been feeding sugar syrup?
Same as Solomon.
Capped or uncapped honey?
Nectar can be clear.
My early season Willow honey is pretty clear.
When you say clear...are you referring to lack of color or lack of particles in suspension?
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
When I have pretty clear honey it is usually in first year fresh drawn comb,or so it seems
I'm with Dan. I think clear honey means no suspendeded particles, not lack of color. However, raw honey can be clear and light in color.
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain
I guess the only one that can answer what is meant is the one that started the post
Our fireweed can be almost water clear.
Cotton Honey in South GA normally comes out of the comb nearly as clear as water. Strain the wax particles out and it's clear X's 2. Also has its own unique taste, but sugars fairly fast.
I WV locust honey is the closest thing to clear honey I have seen. I think the variety of plants has a lot to do with it. Our Poplar honey is very dark and Autumn Olive is light yellow. Another thought, were you feeding sugar water? This would give you a clear honey.
I guess this was missed when first posted, but there are several inaccuracies that need to be pointed out. Comb honey will definitely crystallize. It may crystallize slower than extracted honey, but it will crystallize. Crystallization is more a function of nectar source (relative percentages of sugars). I'd like to see the source of the comment "ANY artificial heating shall remove FDA's "grade A" from the label." If true, that would eliminate almost all commercially extracted honey from being graded A. Here's a quote from the USDA publication: United States Standards
for Grades of Extracted Honey
Section 52.1401 Determining the grade.
(e) "Crystallized honey and partially crystallized honey shall be liquified by heating to approximately 54.4C (130F) and cooled to approximately 20C (68F) before determining the grade of the product."
I could see nothing that says that heated honey could not receive the grade A designation.
Our locust honey is pretty clear color wise and I often get asked what we add/mix with our
honey and proudly say nothing that is the color of our spring honey!
Also fireweed and snowberry can be fairly light in color.
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Errr, and tupelo honey and buckwheat honey won't crystalize after extraction, and some honey crystalizes in the comb (heather is famous for this, I have some goldenrod that is crystalized in the comb). It is folly to generalize too much about what characteristics honey has.I have comb honey, which is stored for almost a year - it did not crystallize. Crystallization somehow related to honey extraction. Once honey leave its "natural" place (honeycomb) it could crystallize, which, I believe did not affect its properties.
That is simply not true. I believe that there are some state standards of identity that say that heat cannot be added to grade a raw honey...but adding heat is anything other than cooling....it's nonsense.ANY artificial heating shall remove FDA's "grade A" from the label. But, I guess, one could bring honey in Mohave desert and heat it up "naturally"...
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October 25, 2010 1:45 am
A design for studying
The importance of design, playing to your core strengths and speed to market are all themes driven home in business schools. But how many schools actually practise what they preach? When the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, decided in August 2009 to redesign its executive MBA programme, it did just that. (The school is already known to architecture aficionados for its radical, Frank Gehry-designed premises, above, unveiled in 2002.)
It brought in a team of consultants in commercial product design to provide a different perspective. After that, says Michael Devlin, associate dean, “we set ourselves a 90-day window in which to complete the design”.
The consultants used rapid prototyping, a system employed by Apple, among others, to develop a range of potential degree concepts. Working with the faculty, those six or eight programmes were whittled down to three, and then to one.
By the time the next EMBA programme started in August this year, all the course materials were in place.
The new programme is substantially different from the old one. As well as reducing the number of on-site residencies from 24 to 12, the 21-month programme now centres on the school’s work on leadership, including emotional intelligence – Weatherhead is a pioneer in applying this concept to management. As a result, students have enrolled from across the US, and the number of women has rocketed to 41 per cent of the class.
Terror tactics for success
For executive MBA students, the thought of learning about terrorism might seem irrelevant – or even offensive. But, David James, executive professor of marketing and growth management at Henley Business School in the UK, says corporations can learn a lot from how terrorists behave. Indeed, terrorist cells often act like entrepreneurial small businesses, he says. “How can corporations defend themselves against entrepreneurs? Big companies struggle to react quickly.”
He cites the example of Somali pirates: for them, a single raid costs $30,000 to organise, and one out of every three is successful, but oil tankers are so large and slow to manoeuvre that they cannot avoid confrontation. It is the same for big business. “By the time you see a small business attacking you, it’s too late.”
The issue, says James, is what corporations can learn from how terrorist cells are structured. Using examples from traditional military training, he highlights how corporations can become “corporate terrorists”.
“Key to being a corporate terrorist is to get your message out,” he says. “Throw out caution.” As well as managing the brand, trust is essential, he says. “Allow people on the ground to have a strategy. It’s a different way of doing things.”
Executive MBA timeline
1943 The EMBA degree for working professionals debuts at the University of Chicago, inspired by the economic impact of the second world war.
1954 The Michigan State University Broad College of Business EMBA is launched in response to a request from the leaders of the “big three” in the booming automobile industry – GM, Ford and Chrysler.
1960s The ever-faster pace of the business world drives the development of the EMBA. Companies start looking for ways to improve leadership skills of executives; they also want graduates to enter the workforce, rather than spending another two years in a classroom.
1980s Schools begin to focus on the global nature of business. Professor Hanns M. Schoenfeld from the Illinois College of Business EMBA programme organises trips to Germany and Poland to expose executives to business culture and practice in other countries.
1981 The EMBA Council is formed in response to the increasing number of EMBA programmes offered by schools.
1994 The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business sets up an international campus in Barcelona, Spain, for its EMBA programme.
1996 Duke University’s Fuqua Business School launches one of the first global EMBA programmes for senior managers with global responsibilities and demanding schedules.
2001 The Financial Times ranking of EMBA programmes is launched. There are 72 programmes submitted for analysis, 50 of which feature in the final table.
2010 The EMBA is the fastest-growing segment of the executive education market. The EMBA Council has a members’ list of more than 300 programmes worldwide. The FT cele-brates the 10th anniversary of its ranking: 121 programmes participate in the survey, 100 of which feature in the final table.
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from the screw-you dept
One of the interesting questions we've been looking at for years is whether or not a business is an enabler or a gatekeeper. Being in the gatekeeper business can work for a period of time, but it's often difficult to sustain. Apple is an interesting company in that it certainly has elements of both, enabling in some areas, but being a very strict gatekeeper in other areas. As if to reinforce this point, Apple is apparently changing the screws on iPhones to make them much harder to open. Apparently, it's come up with a "pentalobe" design:
Not only that, but if you bring in your iPhone for repairs, Apple will replace the old screws with these new pentalobe screws to keep you from... well... screwing around. The whole thing seems really incredibly pointless. First of all, those who really want to open the phones will figure out ways to do so. I would guess that it won't take long for tools that work on such screws to hit the market. All this really does is frustrate iPhone owners by making life difficult for them. What possible good does it serve to have a non-standard screw system?
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The European Shakespeare Festivals Network was founded in March 2010 in Gdansk. In spite of the fact that William Shakespeare did not know the word “network”, and certainly the idea of having international theatre festivals showing his plays never occurred to him, he certainly knew of all the countries that are now members of the organization, for with no exception they are mentioned in his plays. These are (apart from UK) Armenia, Bohemia (now, the Czech Republic), Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Spain. Some of these countries were even visited by the English strolling players in the early seventeenth century, and Shakespeare’s plays were performed there during his own lifetime. The Bard would undoubtedly be pleased with the appearance of a strong group of international promoters, but at the same time he would be surprised to see the scale of his popularity in today’s world, in millions of copies of critical editions of his dramas appearing every year, complemented by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre productions around the world.
It is indeed difficult to follow what is going on in “Shakespeare industry”, and which of the sundry productions are worth seeing. This prompted us to start a new organization, which would catch the important and stimulating productions into the net of verifiable criteria and critical experience. Thus, the network (ESFN) came into being, and aims not only at promoting the works of William Shakespeare or exchange of information, but also at producing new and innovative interpretations of the plays and at enhancing various educational programmes. We intend to support new translations and academic research, to create a genuine network of artistic and educational exchange.
To date, we have co-organized and participated in a number of international events, such as Beyond the Stage – New Trends in European Theatre (2009-10), Shake-in the City. The Art of Inclusion (2010-2011), and we co-organised the tour of Miranda (based on The Tempest), directed by Oskaras Koršunovas, which premiered in Hungary and Poland in the summer of 2011. Similarly, we are contributing to the premiere of The Tempest by Silviu Purcarete in 2012. We aim to develop the network, recently HamletScenen from Denmark, based in Kronborg - the castle of Hamlet expressed their interest to join us.
In spite of the fact that we carry the European label, in the name of our organization, we are open to establish permanent links and various forms of cooperation with institutions that are “beyond the sea” – as Shakespeare would put it. So far, we have established a fruitful cooperation with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, to give just one example, but we are still in an early phase and it seems that this is just the beginning of a larger scale of operations.
And we are sure that the Muses will approve.
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The June S. Stillman Memorial Scholarship is named for a remarkable woman who served this university for decades.
June S. Stillman, pictured right with scholarship co-founders Cheryl Mahan (left) and Phyllis Hudson (right), was a charter member of the library faculty in 1968 when the Florida Technological University (later renamed University of Central Florida) opened. She began as an Associate University Librarian in the Reference Department. In 1970, she became head of the Reference Department, serving in that capacity for 18 years. In 1979 she achieved the rank of University Librarian. June served as Collection Development Librarian with responsibilities for building the Engineering Collection from 1988 to 1992, and later directed the library’s Telephone Information Service from 1992 until her retirement in 1996. During this period she also found time to acquire a second master’s degree (English) – the first degree was in Library Science - in 1986 from UCF.
Under June’s leadership as head of Reference, the library moved forward with innovations in service and in applications of technology. During the 70s, June played a key role in the establishment of an online search service. In the early 80s, she lead the department’s effort to implement an integrated online catalog and to promote its use to students and faculty. In 1985, June again led public service librarians in the implementation of a second online catalog. UCF was one of the first libraries in the nation to make a conversion from one online catalog to a second system. June's leadership was also important in initiating and nurturing the Library Instruction program.
At the 25th reunion of the university’s first graduating class, alumni were asked to recall the name of one important person from their student days. June Stillman was the one most often remembered, for her kindness, helpfulness, and expertise.
June S. Stillman was an active member for many years in the American Library Association, Southeastern Library Association, Florida Library Association, and United Faculty of Florida. As a member of the Florida Library Association, June was instrumental in building involvement with the Library Orientation and Bibliographic Instruction Caucus, serving as its Clearinghouse Director for many years. She was an active member of the Beta Phi Mu and Phi Kappa Phi national honor societies.
Appropriately, June Stillman was the recipient of the first UCF Excellence in Librarianship award in 1984. She received the UCF Library Lifetime Service Award in 1996, at her retirement from the university and was posthumously designated Faculty Emerita in 2000.
What makes June Stillman’s contributions to the UCF Library remarkable is not her achievements, but her commitment to the university and the library profession. Her pursuit of accurate, timely information for faculty and students set a high service standard for the entire library staff. She valued learning for its own sake. Her work at the UCF Library has had an impact on the UCF experience of almost every graduate through the services she helped establish, and the collection she helped build.
By example and by encouragement, she was an inspiration to her family and friends and to the student assistants and university colleagues who worked with her. After her untimely death in 1998, this annual scholarship was established by those who loved and respected her, to honor June S. Stillman and to keep her memory alive forever.
The scholarship process is closed for 2013-2014. Applications are no longer being accepted at this time.
The June S. Stillman Memorial Scholarship for UCF Libraries Student Assistants and USPS Staff was established at the University of Central Florida Libraries by friends and family of Ms. Stillman after her tragic and untimely death in 1998. It is not necessarily based on financial need. This scholarship is for $2,000 for the 2013/2014 school year and will be awarded in the 2013 fall semester to a UCF student who has worked in the UCF Libraries as a student assistant or USPS staff member. This scholarship is awarded strictly on the basis of the specified criteria.
NOTE: Before submitting any application for scholarships, applicants are strongly advised to ascertain what effect, if any, receipt of the award will have on current or future financial assistance awards, including Federal Work Study.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to have a supervisor, mentor, or faculty member review the application packet, including letters of recommendation and personal statement, before submitting it to the selection committee.
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Astonishing Science. Spectacular museum.
Read about the artwork
Fallout by Tim Head - © Patu Tifinger
Fallout is inspired by The Unswept Floor, a Roman mosaic depicting debris from a feast, such as gnawed chicken bones and overturned wine glasses, strewn across the floor in a trompe l'oeil effect. For this modern interpretation, Head chose to depict hugely enlarged silhouettes of familiar consumer products – a disposable camera, phone card, CD case and plastic drink stirrers – that are often discarded on the street, never to be enshrined in a museum. With the constant evolution of technology and consumer products, some of these objects would today be considered historic relics, soon to become museum artefacts.
British artist Tim Head's (born 1946) early installations investigated the process of perception and the method of scientific enquiry. In the early 1980s he used photography to explore the world of commerce in order to speculate on the roles of technology and corporate power and on how their functions become accepted as an inevitable part of daily existence. Since the late 90's, using digital projections, screens and inkjet prints, he has developed computer programs that focus on certain intrinsic properties of the digital medium to reveal its elusive material substance.
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This is really cool. The guys that brought you the JanusVM Internet Privacy Appliance are about to release instructions on how to make a hardware privacy adapter. What is a hardware privacy adapter you ask?
Via Hack a day:
“It’s a small two port router. You just plug it in-line between your computer’s switch and your internet connection. It will then anonymize all of your traffic via the Tor network. You can also use it with OpenVPN. The hardware appears to be a Gumstix computer mounted to a daughtercard with two ethernet ports. It will have a web configuration just like a standard router. This looks like a great plug-n-play privacy device.”
Once you buy all the parts you can build your own for about $250. Not too bad for an easy way to anonymize all of your traffic over the Tor network or a VPN. Tor and Privoxy can sometimes be a real pain to configure so something like this would be fantastic to just plug in and configure once. It’s also nice that is can use OpenVPN as well.
My only issue with Tor is that it can be *really* slow for web surfing depending on what relays you connect to and there are some warnings you should be aware of. Also, your Tor installation needs to be updated frequently as the development team is always making updates and improvements. However, Tor is better then nothing if you are concerned with online anonymity.
Kudos to the JanusPA team…looks like I might have a hardware project to work on next year once the instructions get released.
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A video to highlight the benefits of choosing Camfil’s low energy air filters over lower cost filtration products. The Total Cost of Ownership across the life cycle of Camfil products against lower cost filtration products.
Did you know that in the average commercial building, 50% of the energy bill is for the HVAC system and 30% of that is directly related to the air filter? Choosing the right air filter can be a big part of your company’s energy saving plan. In order to optimise filter lifetime and reduce energy cost during the filters lifetime, it is important to understand how far configuration or design influences average pressure drop. Camfil has been a pioneer in designing low average pressure drop filters in all filter classes for the HVAC system for over 40 years.
Many people assume that filter efficiency is the largest contributor to initial pressure drop; in certain filter classes, however, it is the actual design of the filter that has the main impact! Camfil has developed software to determine precise LCC costs for a particular filter, in any given system, with its unique conditions and requirements.
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) – Energy accounts for 70% of the total cost!
Our Camfil Sales teams will help you optimise your system. Calculations reveal that energy normally accounts for 70% of the total life cycle cost of the system. The energy consumption is directly proportional to the average pressure drop over the filter.
So what can I do next?
Ask Camfil Farr for an ‘Opportunity Assessment’ this will help you:
- Understand the system condition of your Air Handling Unit (AHU)
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There are regular training sessions and webinars available for groups of interested customers, engineers, designers, specifiers and air filter users. If you are interested in finding out more and attending one of these events please email us here or give us a call on 01706 238000 . Find out how Camfil filters can reduce your energy bills by between 25- 50% – ideal for CRC compliance and energy reduction targets.
For more information, visit http://camfil.co.uk/
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Truth of faith is God’s gift, Pope says at close of annual seminar
CWN – September 03, 2012
The annual meeting of the Ratzinger Schülerkreis–the seminar bringing together former theology students of Pope Benedict XVI—ended on September 2 with a Mass celebrated by the Pontiff at the Mariapoli Centre in Castel Gandolfo.
This year’s meeting of the seminar discussed ecumenism. In his homily at the closing Mass the Pope emphasized that the Church receives the truth as a gift from God, not as the product of any human wisdom. “There is no room for triumphalism of any kind,” he said; “but only for joy and gratitude at the gift we have received, a gift we did not create.”
Additional sources for this story: Closure of the Summer Seminar of the Ratzinger Schülerkreis (VIS) www.visnews-en.blogspot.com/2012/09/closure-of-summer-seminar-of-ratzinger.html
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The list of young green starlets in Hollywood continues to grow with the additions of actresses like Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freida Pinto and Annalynne McCord.
Joining the ranks of Jessica Alba, Amy Smart and Gisele Bundchen, just to name a few, these eco gals of Hollywood each recently spoke out about the contributions they are making to reduce their impact on the environment.
“I’ve been recycling,” Hewitt recently told E! Online. “And I’ve been trying to buy the cloth cover for my dry cleaning so they don’t use the plastic, which is really good and it doesn’t bring toxins into your home.”
Pinto talked about her conscious effort to reduce her use of plastics, stating, “I just avoid it. I carry water in a glass bottle instead of buying plastic bottles of water.”
McCord discussed what she has learned from her recent time in Canada. “I’ve been in Vancouver for the last couple of weeks and they put our recycling to shame. They have videos showing you how for tourists like me,” she continued. “They have the recycle bin for bottles, cans, plastics and aluminum. Then they have the organics where you actually throw the food away. Then they have the paper recyclables…I’m going to try and be a catalyst for that here in the U.S.”
Another great green trend sweeping more and more young celebrities is reduce their carbon footprint by going vegan.
Actress Renee Olstead was quoted at “The Avengers” premiere saying she has recently removed dairy and meat from her diet and feels great. ”Vegan is the easiest way to go green,” says Olstead.
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Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad is situated in the heart of the third most populous city of Pakistan. It first staged first-class cricket in 1962 and in 1972-73 hosted the first of its five Tests when Pakistan drew with England. The last Test was 12 seasons later, Test cricket's 1000th game, when Pakistan drew New Zealand.
The ground staged the World Cup match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 1987 when a capacity crowd of 15,000 watched the hosts register a narrow victory. The last ODI was in 1997-98, and the end of the stadium as a credible venue came in when West Indies' tour match later that season against Habib Bank was abandoned after a protest against sub-standard accommodation facilities.
The stadium fell into a state of disrepair and the lack of acceptable accommodation nearby deemed it unfit to host international games. The outfield during the last ODI played there was so poor that gaps had to be covered with coloured sawdust.
Things finally changed in mid-2007 when the Pakistan board took possession of the stadium and upgraded its facilities. A one-day international was awarded against the touring Zimbabweans in January the following year, ending a ten-year hiatus.
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Solanum dulcamara is a common European weed called woody nightshade, bittersweet or douce amère. It grows in hedgerows, gardens and wasteland throughout Europe and spreads via underground stems.
It has been used in folk medicine across Europe for hundreds of years. But Michel Felix Dunal, who worked on Solanum in the 1800s, realised that many of the powers attributed to this plant were spurious.
Woody nightshade was used to treat skin conditions, circulatory conditions and breathing problems like asthma. It was included in the official British Pharamcopeia until 1907, but was taken out of later editions.
It carries the bacterium - Ralstonia solanacearum – that causes brown rot in potatoes. The disease can be spread to potatoes from infected woody nightshade growing on riverbanks if the river water is used to irrigate potato fields.
Solanum dulcamara leaves vary in size and shape. So, what should you look out for?
Solanum dulcamara is found on most continents and favours open spaces. It likes disturbed soil and can establish itself from just a piece of stem thrown on the ground. Find out more.
Bees help pollenate Solanum dulcamara flowers. Find out how.
Solanum dulcamara harbours the bacterium that causes brown rot in potatoes. The bacterium fails to harm the woody nightshade but can devastate potato crops.
Find out about the conservation status of this weed.
Get reference material for Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara is found in open areas such as sea shores.© S Knapp
Solanum dulcamara fruits, bright red when ripe.© S Knapp
Solanum dulcamara being pollinated by a bumblebee.© S Knapp
Solanum dulcamara common European weed called woody nightshade, bittersweet or douce amère.© S Knapp
Leaves of Solanum dulcamara.
A flower of Solanum dulcamara.
Merit researcher in botany
'Solanum dulcamara is one of a group of about 50 species for which I am doing an in-depth taxonomic treatment. It is one of only four in this group that occur in the northern hemisphere and is really interesting because of its huge geographic range and its incredible variability.'
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Prove that all trees are 2-colourable, from this are all trees there planar or not? Justify your answer.
I am just stuck on how to start this question, how do I prove all trees are 2-colourable...
So lets prove by induction that a tree is bipartite.
Let be the proposition 'every tree with n vertices is bipartite.' The is true, which is trivial.
Suppose that and that is true. Let be a tree with vertices. Then contains a leaf . Let be be the vertex adjacent to and let be the tree formed by removing from . Then has a 2-coloring, and we can extend this to by coloring a different color to .
Thus every tree is 2-colorable.
As to the question about if all trees are planar, I wouldn't know what to do. What are your thoughts on this?
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Census confirms Poles as UK's second biggest foreign community
PR dla Zagranicy
Statistics released by Britain's Office for National Statistics have confirmed that Poles constitute the second largest foreign community in the UK.
Polish shop: photo - flickr -creative commons/kake
According to census results from 2011, some 521,000 Polish-born people were listed as being resident in the UK, making them second only to Indians in terms of numbers of foreign nationals.
Poles are already the largest foreign-born group in both Scotland (53,000) and Wales (14,000), and in Northern Ireland (15,000) they are second only to immigrants from the Republic of Ireland.
In England itself, Poles are second to Indians, while in London alone there are 123,000 Polish-born residents, 24 percent of the UK's entire Polish population.
The statistics underline the enormous shift since Poland joined the EU in 2004.
In 2003, just 75,000 Polish-born people were listed in the UK census. The majority of these were Poles who had remained in Britain following the Second World War, owing to the installation of a communist government in Poland.
Since 2003, this figure has grown by six-fold. (nh)
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Science Explained: Cool Video of ATP Synthase, Which Provides Usable Energy to Us
This webcast shows animations of ATP synthase structure and the mechanism for synthesizing ATP. Biology is incredibly cool. Too bad they didn’t have stuff like this when I was in school, instead biology was mainly about memorizing boring lists of stuff.
ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate ) transports chemical energy within cells. When one of the phosphates is released by ATP energy is given off (and ATP becomes ADP (adenosine di-phosphate) + Pi (inorganic phosphate). And then the synthase structure can then turn it back into ATP to be used again.
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Mayor Announces Action Agenda for City's First Sustainability Plan Published: 02-28-2013
The Mayor's Action Agenda: Sustainability Plan Items for City Implementation By 2018
The City’s Sustainability Plan is a 260-page library of ideas developed through two years of public engagement to improve economic, social and environmental conditions by enhancing the City’s natural and built environment.
Commissioned by Mayor Francis Slay, the plan has three purposes: first, to make our City cleaner, safer, healthier, with less waste of energy and natural resources; second, to attract knowledge workers and others who want more-sustainable spaces and neighborhoods; and third, to make life better and easier for all of the City’s citizens.
“Our City is already a vibrant, connected and diverse place of opportunity and innovation. While we are proud of our accomplishments, this Sustainability Plan builds on the many existing assets found in the City and provides a comprehensive blueprint for achieving even greater livability and quality of life,” Mayor Slay said.
This Sustainability Plan will guide City government for decades to come. The plan is extensive. It is a collection of broad goals, specific objectives and direct strategies that have been identified by the people ofSt. Louisas presenting the best opportunity to advance sustainability in the City.
“By doing so, we will make our community and environment healthier and safer for all living things – people, plants and animals. We look forward to working with the City to use our expertise to support all efforts in environmental conservation in St. Louis and the revitalization of the City’s biodiversity and natural resources,” Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, Missouri Botanical Garden President, said.
The Sustainability Plan was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy with an ARRA Stimulus grant, allowing the City to conduct extensive community outreach before developing the plan.
"It is so exciting to see City staff, stakeholders, and others in our community come together in support of making St. Louis a model of urban sustainability," Catherine Werner, the City's Sustainability Director, said. "I'm really looking forward to our working together to turn these ideas into reality."
With the Sustainability Plan, the City has identified a path toward being a world-class sustainable city. Since it is not possible to pursue all of the elements of the Sustainability Plan at once, the Mayor’s Sustainability Action Agenda outlines the City’s priority items for implementation in the next five years.
“We want to improve our City in ways that people can feel, touch, understand and measure,” Mayor Slay said. “The Mayor’s Sustainability Action Agenda can be viewed as my firm commitment to advancing sustainability in the City. I will be directing City resources in these priority areas beginning in the upcoming fiscal year.”
The Mayor's Action Agenda:
Sustainability Plan Items for City Implementation By 2018
Urban Character, Vitality & Ecology
- Create a sustainability resource toolkit for neighborhoods
- Make LRA land available at no cost for smart, productive, creative re-use of the land
- Provide easy access to greenspace, trails or parks within a half mile or 10 minute walk
- Increase number of trees planted by 16,000, or 15%
Arts, Culture & Innovation
- Promote sustainability practices at all public arts and cultural events
- Build Phase II of CORTEX bioscience and technology research hub
- Advance use of public transit, trolleys and streetcars to connect arts, culture and innovation hubs
Empowerment, Diversity & Equity
- Employ 500 youth in annual summer job program
- Form a Mayor’s Community Council for Sustainability Implementation
- Implement Board Bill 297 pertaining to workforce inclusion
- Maintain our premier Municipal Equality Index rating for LGBTQ
Health, Well-Being & Safety
- Decrease obesity by 5% by expanding our Small Changes for Health, Let's MoveSTLand Good 4 U! Programs
- Reduce crime by 25%
- End chronic homelessness
Infrastructure, Facilities & Transportation
- Advocate for transportation plans and funding that allow more people to be less car dependent
- Support Citywide greenhouse gas emission reductions of 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050
- Achieve a 6% reduction in fuel use in City fleet and expand use of alternative fuels to 85% of Airport’s fleet
- Increase number of dedicated bicycle lanes by 150% and shared road facilities by 35%
- Increase bike racks by 150%
- Have single stream recycling facilities for 100% of City government buildings and double residential recycling to 20% participation
- Reduce City government use of water by 10%
- Use green custodial cleaning supplies in 100% of City government facilities
Education, Training & Leadership
- Create an Office of Sustainability in which the City’s Sustainability Director works with a City Green Team to implement and track the City’s sustainability initiatives
- Open 20 additional quality public charter schools
- Double the current eco-literacy rate by launching a program to foster an enhanced connection between people and urban natural resources
Prosperity, Opportunity & Employment
- Require a sustainability impact statement for allnew Citydevelopment
- Create at least 8,500 new jobs atBallparkVillage, CORTEX, Carondelet Coke,St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant, and North Riverfront
- Remediate and prepare at least 40 vacant properties for redevelopment
- Create an urban forestry employment training program for high school students
The City encourages its citizens to get more involved. So far, Mayor Slay has held two Mayor’s Sustainability Summits where both technical stakeholders and members of the community were encouraged to participate. The Mayor’s SustainabilitySummitI :: imagine was held in 2011. TheMayor’s Sustainability SummitII :: innovate was held in 2012. In the fall of 2013, the City will hold the Mayor’s Sustainability SummitIII:: implement.
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sequencing problem - (May/31/2011 )
I cloned my insert into a high copy number plasmid and did the miniprep (Promega) and RE digest. The profile was correct with the vector and the insert at the correct size. When I went ahead for sequencing, i got a lot of noise and no specific signal. The template and primers were optimised according to the requirement of the DNA sequencing facility. I just gave the forward primer which spans part of the vector and part of the insert at the cloning site. This was the same primer I used for PCR. My vector and inserts were spin column purified before the cloning reaction. The DNA quality seemed quite good (260/280 was 1.9). The facility people are suggesting that I might have genomic DNA contamination. So I double checked my clone running the uncut plasmid at 75V for 2 hours. I got the major band at the expected size with two light bands above and below the expected band. Does this mean contamination or it could mean that my plasmid itself is in the nicked, linear and supercoiled form? The latter seems unlikely as its not been digested. How to detect for genomic DNA contamination? I do not get a smear anytime when I run the cut or uncut plasmid.
I attached the picture, left is the mol marker, right is the vector (expected size 7600bp).
Any suggestions are really welcome as this is hindering my basic work.
In my limited experience with uncut plasmids, they always move on gel as supercoiled and nicked versions.
For your question you may probably try to amplify some bacterial gene not present on the plasmid to see if there is gDNA contamination, but PCR is very sensitive so you will probably get a signal. Anyway this finding wouldn't help you.
I would single-cut the plasmid (prefereably not near the insert), run it on gel and then cut the piece with plasmid out and isolate from gel, you will only get a pure linear plasmid (the yield will be lower, but you don't need that much for sequencing).
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Parents with kids in after school activities will tell you that all the not only do all the sports practices, language classes and boy and girl scout meetings consume a lot of time, but they eat up a lot of the family budget.
Knowing the true costs and prioritizing extracurricular activities can help you protect your wallet while enhancing your child’s free time.
An after school activity can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars over a childhood, making it more important to budget and plan for such expenses. “The important point from a financial point of view is that you want to think about what works for your kid and your budget,” says Suzanna de Baca, vice president of wealth strategies at Ameriprise Financial.
Since a child’s extracurricular activities are such a big part of family life, they need to be part of the family budget, says Clare Levison, certified public accountant and member of the AICPA’s National CPA Financial Literacy Commission. “You want to consider the activity fee, equipment, uniform expenses and travel costs.” Experts advise trying to stay within your budget when choosing activities.
Identify Your Child’s Interest
“Children change their mind and want to do different stuff,” says Scott Halliwell, certified financial planner at USAA. Planning out extracurricular activities is important since these can have a hefty price tag.
“As far as making the activity choices, that’s a good money lesson to instill because you can’t do it all,” says Levison. To save on expenses, she suggests pursuing activities that a child wants to do rather than what a parent wants the child to be interested in. “You can cut back on activity fees by not suggesting new activities,” says Levison.
When your child wants to try something new, take advantage of free trial months before investing in uniforms and equipment and paying registration fees. “By the end of the month, you’ll know if that’s something your child’s really interested in,” says Levison.
Pick and Prioritize
“The activities and having to do homework can be stressful for kids and parents and their budget,” says Levison. “If an activity is stressful, it defeats the purpose of the activity.”
You may have to make trade-offs for your child to participate in an activity—have this discussion about what you can and can’t do on a high level because you’ve limited time and money, says De Baca. “Kids respond really well if they’re part of the discussion on a high level.” This conversation may not be appropriate for a kindergartner but as he or she gets older, it’s important that a child understands how you make decisions and trade-offs for the health of the household.
Pinpoint the True Cost of an Activity
Extracurricular activities should appear as a line item in your budget.
One of the best ways to understand an activity’s true costs is to ask other parents, the coach and teachers, suggests De Baca. Participating in an activity may require buying equipment, food, group photos and commemorative T-shirts, as well as paying for hotels and other costs for traveling leagues and parties.
“Parents need to be realistic about what things will cost,” says Halliwell. “Go month by month and try to put a price tag on the known expenses.” When sports season begins, you need to plan for any equipment purchases and registration fees—it’s important to know what you can and can’t afford to do.
To cover unanticipated expenses over the course of the year, Levison suggests adding 10% extra to amounts allocated for any new activities to give your budget a cushion.
What to Budget?
“The budget for the activity increases the household budget overall,” says Levison. You may have higher food costs from eating out since there’s no time to cook, as well as the cost of hiring people to do things you can’t do yourself, like lawn care and cleaning. “It’s time spent on things that cost money instead of time spent on things that are free. The activities take away from these and there has to be a balance.”
Experts caution against spending money on a child’s activities when you don’t have an emergency fund with six months of expenses or aren’t putting money in a 401(k). Balancing short-term needs with long-term savings can be a challenge, says Linda Shelby, regional sales manager at Merrill Edge. “Unless savings was intended for extracurriculars, short-term needs need to be managed with cash flow. Long-term assets and savings should only be used for long-term goals for which it was intended and not for short-term or month-to-month expenses.”
“If you have credit card debt, people need to make a good faith effort to scale back and prioritize,” says Levison. This may not mean pulling your child out of soccer but reprioritizing and cutting back somewhere else like having fewer cable channels or driving back and forth to a game in the same day instead of staying in a hotel.
“For parents whose kids have the desire but they really can’t afford it, there are programs that offer subsidies,” says Shelby. Parents can apply for need-based scholarships on registration forms or volunteer to coach or participate in other ways in exchange for discounted fees.
“You may have to explain to a child that you can only do one activity per month,” says Shelby. If your child still wants to do other activities, figure out how to fit it in so it doesn’t cost money—like participating through a local recreation center or YMCA without being part of a formal league.
Equipment can be expensive and needs to be factored into your budget. “If you can get passed the ‘I want it new’ syndrome, you can buy sports equipment and music instruments used for less than half [the cost of buying it new],” says Halliwell. Some leagues provide equipment. When buying sneakers and clothing, Halliwell suggests spending less on items that you know your child will grow out of in six months.
If you’ve purchased equipment or instruments but your child is no longer interested in that activity, experts recommend selling these to other parents or back to the store to avoid as big of a hit.
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Stevens’ criticisms of political science in her NY Times OP-Ed were not criticisms of political science per se; rather, they were criticisms of the scientific process in general. It is a frustrating process. It would be nice if we could identify all the causes of a particular outcome after doing a limited amount of research. But it actually takes time to identify causes of any natural or social phenomenon. We often develop models that only partially reflect the real world- these models will inevitably give us inaccurate predictions. But those inaccurate predictions give us an opportunity to re-evaluate what we think we know about the world. They allow us to encourage us to (1) find better ways to quantify “qualitative” concepts, (2) develop and use better statistical models that meet the realities of the outcomes we are examining, (3) determine whether we left something out of our analyses, and (4) determine whether we included things in our model we should not have. In other words, poor predictions tell us we need to do more research.
Just because a research program does not lead to all the answers we were looking for does not mean the program is a waste of money. I cannot imagine applying this same logic to other sciences. For example, between 1878 and 1880, Thomas Edison worked on over 3,000 different theories trying to develop an efficient light bulb. He learned 2999 wrong answers until he discovered 1 workable answer. Then other researchers continued to do work on the light bulb and made improvements. And ultimately that is what the goal is- to continue to do research until we find workable answers. The same logic applies to medical research. Doctors still do not know all the causes/cures for several deadly diseases/viruses, and several cancers. Does this mean we should stop funding their research? Quite the contrary- we continue to fund their research in hopes that one day we do find the cures. In short, science is a collaborative and cumulative process. Bad results and poor predictions are stepping stones to better theories, refined hypotheses, fuller data, and better predictions.
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For many parents, the strain of their children teen-hood can be felt around the house as early as the first year of Middle School, as they are refer to at some states, or Junior High, as they're called at others.
If you have teen boys at home, most likely everyday that you look at them, they are an inch taller, more hairy, and when you speak to them on the phone you want to hang up because you're certain you've reached a wrong number. And if you have a teen girl at home most likely you find how you never agree on anything - from clothes to food to talking on the phone - the talking back never ends, and the idea that you have something good to offer is beyond their comprehension.
Parents, I can probably assure most of you that when that door slams at your house, if you pause for a moment and listen, you'd be able to hear a thousand other doors slammed at the exact same time. No, it's not in your head. It's a door in every home and at every neighbor, in every neighborhood in which a child has just turned into a teen monster. And yes, most of us had problems with our children before; we've had the tantrums at restaurants and the crying at nights and the arguments over sit belts and that extra piece of candy… but somehow it's not the same.
We can all probably share how we've begun to recognize that a lovable butt we used to wash in the bathtub is no longer ours to pinch or stare in amazement. That the cute little hand that used to leave dirty marks on our walls and cabinets, is now another man's, or another woman's, hand. That the never-ending questions and cheerful conversations about trash trucks and dinosaurs, prince and princesses, have been replaced by one syllable answers.
- "How was school?"
- "Do you want to eat?"
- (a boy): "Yes!" (a girl): "No!"
- When will you be back?"
You get the idea…
So what did happen to our children and what can we understand from the stage they have grown into and the variety of developmental changes they are going through, that can help us all be less annoyed with one another; less angry - before we actually throw them out…?
For boys, the change mostly occurs between the ages of 11-13, for girls it may start younger, and as early as 9 or 10. In most cases it begins to show signs of spiraling downward once the child has joined Middle school. In most states, children graduate elementary school at the end of 5th grade and begin three years of Middle school. That transition, along with other changes we have no control over, is like the push a baby bird gets from his mother bird when it's time to fly out of the nest: we might not be the ones to actually give them that push, but flying is something they are not doing well yet and so diving towards earth at the speed of a falling rock, at times hitting bottom, at others barely catching enough wind to keep from crashing - is, for them, inevitable.
That switch to Middle school is a startling upheaval in our children's lives. In most cases, the last time our child has switched schools was perhaps at kindergarten or first grade level. For an 11 year old this was a lifetime ago; too long ago to remember the actual transition, what it meant emotionally for them and you, how long the adjustment took.
This transition between two different schools, two very different systems, becomes a huge pill to swallow. Add to that the fact that your child, moving from elementary school to Middle (Junior High) school is also moving from a smaller more familiar grounds to a usually much larger one, as well as shifting from one or two teachers at the most, who know them very well, to 5 or 6 teachers that don't have the time to get to know them because they are moving around 3, 4, 5, or more classes themselves. By the way it is set in Middle school, it means that a child needs to get to know many more different teachers' personalities, to comply with each accordingly, to understand each one's demands, requirements, style. Surviving all that takes a toll on our children.
And that's not all!
Adding to that the fact that the environment itself is now larger (usually few elementary schools feed into one middle school) results in a bigger bland of children from a variety of neighborhoods, cultures, backgrounds. No matter which side of the tracks your child comes from he or she is likely to get intimidated and unsettled about "the other children".
We can surly relate to that: Take any of us outside of our familiar circle, the one we've been accustomed to for the most part of our lives, and we are destined to feel like a fish out of water. And regardless of our personality, it will be an adjustment; it will take us time to ease into the new situation. And we, usually, have a bit more social skills, experience, and a sense of obligation. All gears which our children are not equipped with, yet.
Finding their way amidst the bigger campus; having to deal with the responsibility of a locker (in some school two of them), a larger variety of teachers' and children's personalities, new and unfamiliar academic demands, and we're still not concluding why we notice such a drastic change in our children during that time. Because, yes, you guessed it: That's not all!
Bigger, even more powerful changes are the inner changes our children are going through at this crucial time in their life: the body changes.
We've all heard of hormones, oh, yea, we've all experienced at one point in our life or another changes we ourselves go through. And we don't usually take it lightly. We tend to fuss and complain about it, we are moody and irritable: it can get scary even for us. Nevertheless, we have an idea of what is going on, we have resources and the option to seek help, advice, support. Once again, our children, going through such dramatic changes in their lives, lack the ability to understand what it going on, and the experience to express themselves accordingly. Since they are still very self-centered they are under the complete assumption that it is only happening to them, therefore they are even less likely to express themselves or ask questions. More so, their still primitive level of awareness prevents them from coming forth in articulating and communicating to us what they might be feeling or fearing. During that time, much like they have done knowingly and unknowingly since the day they were born, they are looking to us to for answers and for the interpretation of the occurrences; they want us to fix it for them, and bail them out of this misery. But they don't know how to ask.
In addition to the actual changes in school's environment, body transformation and adjustments, at this specific age and time the brain too goes through a modification in the way it is able to perceive and comprehend ideas. Up to age 11 or 12, children have, only, what is called a cognitive ability to recognize and identify concepts. One of the bigger transformations we go through in life is that of our ability, beyond age 12, to visualize and imagine abstract ideas. This "simple" fact alone is responsible for your children talking back at you, feeling embarrassed by you in public or around their friends, conveying, and sometimes forcing, their own opinions on you about everything and anything as if they have sole custody on them, and looking down on you, your values and your principals, as if they are literally appalled by what you have to say.
- "Can you please pick up your socks from the floor?"
- "Please go do you homework."
Now, we all know that we can count at least 150 times in one week only that we've asked them to pick up their socks, or their shoes, or their books, or their backpack… or we've asked them to please put the phone back where it belongs so we can perhaps find it and make a call as well… or we've asked and asked and bagged and yelled for them to go do their homework (already), as they stroll from room to room, are attached to the computer as it is their only life line, or are again hungry and can't do anything before they get something to eat… and yet, each time they hear us, it merely seems to be the first time ever, and our strange ideas of picking up things from the floor or returning things to their proper places or God forbid doing homework - are a shock to their ears and contradict anything they have ever heard before. Wow! It is a mystery how these kids that we've been raising for some ten, eleven, twelve years, are now hearing from us for the first time those simple orders and instructions. Are they really? No! Why then are they acting as if we just landed from another planet while they have been here all along doing things their way…?
Once again, the explanation to it is set in the changes our children are going through at this time: it's as if all that they've been hearing from us all along was received and perceived by one kind of brain they've been using so far. From now on, it is all received, perceived, and more so, filtered, by an entirely different brain. And yes, to them, concepts of picking up things from the floor, doing homework just because we (or their teachers) are telling them to, and proceeding to trail our guidelines as a matter of fact, are no longer without question and doubt.
It is the beginning of the era of rebelliousness:
No concept is without inquiry; no idea is without examination and scrutiny.
We, parents, are under a magnifying glass and if you think your children are deaf and blind to you, you are greatly mistaken. They are actually more tuned to you than ever, except that now they have a thought process that allows them to judge and criticize you like never before. And they use it freely, happily, and as often as they can, regardless of the consequences.
So what does all that mean? That we can't be their parents anymore? Can't tell them what to do now that they are "smarter" and more able to think on their own? Obviously not! Do we punish more, yell more, fight more? Yes, we can do that. But most of all we want to remember that we are still the parents, they are still just children, and they have a long way ahead of them as they still need our guidance, support, advice, and more than ever, our understanding. Except that we parents don't quite understand what is going on with our children and our behavior towards them reflects exactly that.
Since we don't understand, we lack the compassion to their difficulties and thus begin to feel resentful at them. We are easily angered by their fluctuating moods, bad-temper and argumentative manners. We tend to judge them back, belittle their embarrassments, and fume at the fact that they are questioning our morals and values. We disregard their opinions, especially when we find them to be contradicting to ours, and we are sometimes shocked at how daring they become in their oppositional and challenging actions. All of which lead to a great gap between us that begins to build up and to create very disconnected, lonely spaces for them and us, separately.
This is not how we've planned it or want it to be.
So, parents, there's work to be done. And no, it is never simple or easy, but it is effective. Roll up your sleeves, study each and every point made above regarding the changes your children are going through, and thrust to be there; literally and completely be there for them. Next, follow these guidelines, they lead straight to a smoother relationship between you and your soon to be a full blown teen.
- Now that you know Middle school is a tough transition, let them know you understand that. Don't minimize their struggles, express compassion, and enlighten them with your similar grim experiences. What you share with them about your own struggles is extremely meaningful to them.
- If they express distress over other kids teasing them, or fearing other kids are teasing them (remember your young teens are still very self-oriented which means the whole world is focused on them only), inform them how all children are feeling just as anxious as they are; how everyone else is always concerned with how others see them, will judge them, will accept them: it is a universal feeling at all ages for all of us in new situations, it is not just a concern for them alone.
- Respect their privacy more than before when it comes to their body. This is a time when a girl and a boy form the most crucial opinions about their body image. Be positive, avoid remarks such as: you look terrible with that shirt… are you really going out looking like that…? Instead, use a suggestive voice, express your opinions with a lot of compassion and humor, and stress as many good points about their appearance as you possibly can.
- Praise and encourage them when they express feelings of distress. Remember, all of us need support when we are struggling. Notice their mood swings and reflect what they are not saying: "School was hard today, ha…?" or "It's not easy getting to all your homework.", or "You seem to have a lot on your mind, I know the feeling."
- When they express embarrassment with you appearing at their school function or when they meet with their friends, respect their feelings and don't try to push yourself on them.
- When they express different opinions then yours, remember, they are testing and trying to shock you by seeing your reaction. Don't change your views and morals to accommodate their changes, but be open minded and listen between the lines. Their new ideas might reflect fears, misunderstandings, and rumors. Once again, be the wise adult that navigates them through life; yet allow them to grow into their own.
And most of all remember to use humor whenever possible! Laugh at yourself; laugh at the situation; laugh with them: you'll all make it through with less grudge.
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The White House Office of Public Engagement held the first Safety Datapalooza illustrating the power of Data.gov communities. Federal Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari hosted the event, which touted the data available on Safety.Data.gov and the community of innovators using it to make effective tools for consumers.
The event showcased many of the tools that have been produced as a result of opening this safety data including:
- PulsePoint, from the San Ramon Fire Protection District, a lifesaving mobile app that allows CPR-trained volunteers to be notified if someone nearby is in need of emergency assistance;
- Commute and crime maps, from Trulia, allow home buyers to choose their new residence based on two important everyday factors; and
- Hurricane App, from the American Red Cross, to monitor storm conditions, prepare your family and home, find help, and let others know you’re safe even if the power is out;
Safety data is far from alone in generating innovative ideas and gathering a community of developers and entrepreneurs, Data.gov currently has 16 different topically diverse communities on land and sea — the Cities and Oceans communities being two such examples. Data.gov’s communities are a virtual meeting spot for interested parties across government, academia and industry to come together and put the data to use. Data.gov enables a whole set of tools to make these communities come to life: apps, blogs, challenges, forums, ranking, rating and wikis.
For a summary of the Safety Datapalooza visit Transportation’s “Fast Lane” blog.
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Peace Course with the
military still going
… despite war in Basilan and Sulu
By Belle Garcia
Posted 17 August 2007
9th batch of soldiers from the 103rd Infantry Brigade based in
the 1st "Tabak" Infantry Division.
THE NINTH BATCH of soldiers
now undergoing the Course on Conflict Management and Peace Building
at the Balay Mindanao Peace Center from August 13-17 may be the
last. But the question still lingers: “What happens after the
This is one of the questions
Col. Raynard Ronnie Y. Javier, commanding officer of the 103rd
Infantry Brigade, posed as a challenge to his 33 officers and men
who attended the Operation Peace Course, or OPKORS!
This batch of soldiers come
from the 5th, 51st and 32nd Infantry Battalions, with some from the
Many of them expressed
anguish and anger over the Basilan incident since most of them
served the island province for 13 years before they were reassigned
in the Lanao provinces early this year.
Sgt Manny A. Tan and SSg Harry A. Bangsa, both standing behind
their fellow soldiers and helping facilitate the operation
peace course with Balay Mindanaw.
This capacity building
program of the military is an offshoot of the roundtable discussion
with the erstwhile Southern Command (now split into the Eastern and
Western commands) on Conflict Management and Peace building held
last October 19, 2006. There, the idea of transforming the military’s
culture of war into that of conflict management, culture of peace
and peace building was reinforced and supported. Immediately, Maj.
Gen. Raymundo Ferrer, then commanding general of the First “Tabak”
Infantry Division, ordered his brigade and battalion commanders and
their men to undergo the peace course.
Specifically OPKORS! provides
venue for soldiers to understand deeper the conflicts in their
respective areas, understand their inner selves, develop and enhance
skills in managing conflict, and provide strategic interventions
with the fundamentals of peace building as their basis of action.
These sets of peace courses are being conducted by the Balay
Mindanaw Group of NGOs, in partnership with the Catholic Relief
Services, MSU-IIT Iligan Center for Peace Education and Research and
other support groups and donor organizations.
During the short evaluation
among the trainers and military officers involved in the course, it
was articulated that there were very significant changes in most of
the soldiers’ understanding of conflict at the personal and
Col. Raynard Ronnie Javier,
peace advocate and commanding officer of the 103rd Infantry Brigade.
“Malaking bagay para sa
akin ang training na ito kasi tinuruan ako kung paano alisin ang
galit ko … lalo na simula sa aking sarili at pati na rin sa aming
mga kaaway. Natututo akong mag adjust sa pag-iisip at paguunawa,”
said 1st Sgt. Manuelito A. Tan of the Echo Company of the 5th
Infantry Battalion. Manny, as he is now called by fellow trainers of
Balay Mindanaw, was a participant of the peace course in February
Having difficulty adjusting
to this new approach at soldiering, he is unlearning and learning at
the same time the values and skills regarding communication,
dialogue and mediation. Later, he was then called to join the
trainers’ training of the 103rd brigade in April 2007 to help
conduct the increasing number of peace courses under this brigade.
Manny already helped facilitate and accompanied four sets of
trainings, including the last batch. He highly recommends the course
to his fellow cadres and CAFGUs.
To date, the 103IB has 88
officers, 116 non-commissioned officers and 201 Civilian Armed
Auxiliaries (CAFGU members) who have undergone the peace course that
started November last year. Even when MGen. Ferrer was reassigned
from Tabak to the 6th Infantry Division last March 16, the 103IB,
which is under Tabak, continued the trainings and advocacy on peace
building. Convinced as he is, Col. Javier expressed, “These are
reaffirmations of my long-time belief that peace is possible in the
Diana C. Alarda, 2LT Julie F. Laddaran and PFC Karen June
Remion are the only female military officers and personnel who
participated in the operation peace course this August.
As it seems, the road to
peace is not easy, with the ongoing burning events happening with
the Army in Sulu and the Marines in Basilan. But Col. Javier is
still hopeful that things will turn for the better as he expects to
see something good will happen out of the peace trainings for his
officers and men in the province of Lanao del Norte. He believes
that with his soldiers now equipped with the new knowledge, skills
and approaches on peace acquired from the trainings, they will know
how to analyze conflicts, what directions to consider, what values
to guide them and know that peace is an option to take.
In the meantime, MGen Ferrer
has started to train his new men in the 6ID on peace building. MGen
Ferrer and Col. Javier, who are both committed in this peace
endeavor, along with their like-minded generals, are now planning to
pursue an enterprise program at the CAFGU/CAA level, to reach out to
LGUs and the police and to continue peace advocacy within their
ranks. These are several complementary activities that Balay
Mindanaw will also look into, including developing strategies
towards creating a favorable policy environment with the top
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For some journalists working for Western news organizations, the MENA uprisings are more than a fascinating story but a deeply personal one as well.
NPR’s On the Media Producer Sarah Abdurrahman discusses how she worked with others from the Libyan diaspora to source news, and connect sources with news organizations.
Here’s some of what she has to say:
Libya is one of the most closed-off societies and, and one of the most difficult places to get information in and out of. And if I have people that I can get in touch with there and get information out to put a spotlight on it then, I mean, it - it’s a duty. There’s no question. I’ve purely been trying to get the information out. And if the people that are around me want to make comments about it, editorialize, retweet, do what they want with it, that’s fine. But I still do recognize my role as a journalist and that I can’t get too involved in that regard.
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NonAlignment 2.0 chalks out foreign and strategic policy for India
Warning that the time for India to get its act together is now because of the favourable growth prospects, demographic profile and international environment it faces — all of which may subsequently change — a group of foreign policy experts released a report here on Tuesday, NonAlignment 2.0: A foreign and strategic policy for India in the 21st century, which identifies the basic principles and drivers that would make the country a leading player on the world stage while preserving its strategic autonomy and value system.
Unveiled before a packed audience of present and former National Security Advisers, Foreign Secretaries, Ambassadors and High Commissioners and policy wonks, NonAlignment 2.0 was written over 14 months of deliberations by Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Lt. Gen. (retd.) Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran and Siddharth Varadarajan. National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon and Deputy National Security Advisers Alok Prasad and Latha Reddy also joined some of the deliberations.
As the report reiterated several times, the trends for India to extend its global role and influence are favourable but time is of essence. The basic structures suggested by the report must be quickly implemented because the “underlying factors that are propitious for our growth may not last long.” But the authors say India's big challenge will be to aim at not just being powerful but to set new standards for what the powerful must do, because in international relations, “idealism not backed by power can be self-defeating and power not backed by the power of ideas can be blind.” India's legitimacy in the world will come from its ability to stand for the highest human and universal values and at the global level, “India must remain true to its aspiration of creating a new and alternative universality.”
In a situation where the world is no longer bifurcated between two dominant powers, nonalignment today will require managing complicated coalitions and opportunities in an environment that is not structurally settled, the report say. But former NSA Brajesh Mishra, who spoke at the launch, questioned the approach of the report, especially its view that India not take sides in the rivalry between China and the U.S. China's approach was that of the Middle Kingdom, it wants to be number one, and India's priority should be to build a closer partnership with Washington.
The report deals with India's approach towards the ‘Asian theatre,' the international order, hardpower, internal security, non-conventional security issues like energy and nuclear options, the knowledge and information foundations of power as well as the state and democracy.
NSA Shivshankar Menon commended the overall thrust of the report, especially the link made between the manner in which India dealt with its internal and external challenges. West Bengal Governor and former NSA M.K. Narayanan said the report should have devoted more attention to left wing extremism and questioned some of its conclusions on the internal security front.
The report emphasises that for its strategic and foreign policy to be successful, India must sustain domestic economic growth, social inclusion and democracy. Its approach must be to secure the maximum space possible for its own economic growth in order for the country to become reasonably prosperous and equitable. Although India's competitors will put roadblocks in its path, “the foundations of India's success will depend on its developmental model.”
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Resources about Course Design
Initial Questions to Ask as Course Design or Redesign Begins
You can start with two questions. Ask what your purpose for the course is and what your students' capacities, expectations, and needs are. At this web site, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard follows these primary questions with related questions that help instructors define their course, identify what is most important, show progression during the course, consider teaching methods, select ways to evaluate and deliver feedback, and communicate the course plan to students. You can use these questions to make decisions about your course that can guide your course design process and syllabus construction.
Designing Better Learning Experiences
Course design guidance to lead to better learning experiences and greater student engagement can be found at this site. Find design tips and forms, examples of course designs, join the course design listserv, and download a self-directed course design guide to lead you through course design for significant learning.
What Can Be Done Better Online? - In this presentation archive from the Teaching Learning Technology Group (TLT Group), originally shown on December 14, 2007, Eli Collins-Brown reports on her findings about the differences between the online and face-to-face learning environments and what teachers she interviewed reported works better for them online. You will need speakers or a headset for the audio.
Writing Learning Objectives/Learning Outcomes
This site from Education Oasis gives you a process for creating student learning objectives. Those learning objectives then can be used to guide your choices of assessments and learning activities. It is a good idea to share your learning objectives with your students.
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MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked reading choices of people in medieval London.
"Pathologies of Power: Science, Technology and the Future of Human Rights," this year's annual Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics, will be delivered by Dr. Paul E. Farmer on Monday, May 8 at 4pm in Bartos Theater (Building E15). The lecture is sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Dr. Farmer, an infectious disease physician and anthropologist, is a world authority on tuberculosis treatment and control. He is co-director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, where he heads the International Working Group on Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. He has also written on AIDS and social inequity. In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in recognition of his work.
The lecture honors the memory of Dr. Arthur Miller (SB 1945), who was noted for his work in electronic measurement and instrumentation. During World War II, he was loaned out by the Sanborn Co. (later incorporated into Hewlett-Packard) to MIT's Radiation Lab, where he worked for several years. His medical contributions included methods to reduce shock hazards in hospital monitoring systems.
The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call Debbie Meinbresse at x3-4062.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 3, 2000.
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Silver & Metal Work
The historic Irish silver collection has few equals. It shows the skills of the Irish makers and the taste and influence of the aristocratic patron on the styles and fashions of the times.
The earliest piece, the Loftus Cup is engraved with the words 'This silver cuppe was made of the great seale of Ireland in 1593, Adam Loftus being then Lord Chancellor'. Seventeenth century pieces include two two-handled cups with covers, a tankard of 1679 by Edward Swan, a Dublin rosewater dish of 1658, a chocolate pot of 1699 and a small but comprehensive group of spoons.
The strongest section of the collections are the 18th century holdings which include dining silver such as the large wine cistern with swan neck handles, Dublin 1715, by John Hamilton; an epergne of 1770 made for the Butler family, Dukes of Ormonde, and a monteith of 1726 made by Thomas Sutton. Eighteenth century flatware includes fish slices and punch ladles.
The Bolton Charger, made in 1708 to commemorate the centenary of the Plantation of Londonderry is the largest known piece of Queen Anne silver. The single most important holding is the Kildare Toilet Service, a uniquely large and complete 28 piece silver gilt toilet service, made for the dressing table of the wife of the 19th Earl of Kildare to celebrate the birth of their son. Made by David Willaume, it dates from 1720-22.
The contemporary collection
The contemporary collection is also primarily Irish, with commissioned and purchased pieces by Kevin O'Dwyer, Cara Murphy and others.MetalworkWe hold collections of Elkington Electrotype and pewter, and a small selection of other metalwork.Image: Salt and Pepper casters, silver and stone, Cara Mu...
Ask an Expert
If you would like further information about this collection you may contact the
curator by following this link and
completing the short form.
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Chung Do Mu Sool Won
From Martial Arts, MMA, Karate, Kungfu Information Source
Chung Do Mu Sool Won is a traditional martial art of Korea that resembles the modern Hapkido. Chung Do Mu Sool is marked by a mixture of Taekyon (an ancient martial art from the same country), Kwonbup (fist arts) and traditional Korean weapons training. This art incorporates 4000 different self-defense techniques such as joint locking and throws, as well as Qigong and the arts of Ji-Ap-Sool (Acupressure) and Chim-Sool (Acupuncture). It has been this fully integrated training method that has allowed Chung Do Mu Sool Won to remain as the most complete traditional Korean martial arts system.
Chung Do Mu Sool Won was practiced by the Korean Royal Palace Guards and the Korean Royal Bodyguards for the last 2000 years. It is literally translated as "True Way Martial Arts/Skill."
Chung Do Mu Sool Won training consisted of several main methods or technical categories that were then further broken down into specific or specialized skill sets, and then further subsets. A significant portions of the Chung Do Mu Sool Won training method was documented in the Korean historical document, the four volume "Muye Dobo Tongji" - Comprehensive Martial Arts Text, published in 1790 by Yi Duk-Mu and Pak Ji-Ga, by order of King Yi Jung Jo (the Korean Monarch, Yi Choseon Dynasty).
These main methods were: Kwonbop (more specifically "Jung Kwon Bop" - Middle Fist Arts/Principles, which in turn was documented in the Muye Dobo Tongji main index of contributing skills as: "Nae Ga Kwon Bop, Hwang Baek Ga" - Internal Family Fist Arts/Principles of Master Hwang Baek's Family), which comprised the empty hand fighting methods contained within Chung Do Mu Sool Won. Kwon Bop contained various striking, kicking, and grappling skills, which in turn was further divided into "Yu Sool" - Soft Techniques, and "Taek Kyun" - Push Shoulder (kicking and hand maneuvers). Yu Sool was then subdivided into multiple skill sets of various blocks, strikes, kicks, headbutting, joint locks, pressure points, body throws, ground controls and pins, chokes, disabling and arresting/control, as well as "Chim Sool" - Acupuncture, "Ji Ap Sool" Acupressure Massage, and "Maek Chi Gi" - the study of Vital Points. Taek Kyun was divided into two subcategories: "Kyul Yun Teak Kyun" - Upper Body Maneuvers, and "Seo Gi Taek Kyun" - Lower Body Maneuvers, which were meant to be combined into a generalized rhythmic pattern of training. In the Late Yi Choseon Dynasty Taek Kyun was often practiced as a competitive combative sport along side "Sserum" - Native Korean Style Wrestling.
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To know when the tanks are finished cycling, between now and check Nitrates if you want to. When you are confident that the amonia-converting bacteria are eating all the ammonia in a small amount of time (it's really that ammonia = 0 when you test it. Number of minutes is good information but not essential. You just want that zero when you take 5 ml out of the tank and test it.
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Vincent Lauwers (AUS), who, in 2000 was nominated for the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards in recognition of his successful solo, nonstop unassisted circumnavigation a world first, won the disability category at the '2001 Laureus World Sports Award'
The Laureus World Sports Awards, styled as the Oscars of the sporting world, celebrate sporting excellence across all disciplines and continents.
Vinny won the Award in recognition of making history by becoming the first disabled person to sail solo, non-stop unassisted around the world. Vinny, who is 32 years, became paraplegic in 1990 and was determined to let nothing stand in his way. His dream voyage took seven years to prepare for, planning and building his boat, using all his time and resources to achieve his goal.
The voyage was completed on 12 August 2000 after seven and a half months, when he arrived into Port Phillip Bay on the south-eastern coast of Australia. The ravages of the ocean had taken their toll on the boat, with its rigging damaged and an emergency steering system being used. His voyage helped to raise A$40,000 for both disadvantaged children and children with a disability.
The ceremony for the Laureus World Sports Awards was shown in more than 150 countries and featured many well-known personalities from the fields of sport and entertainment.
Said Lauwers after the ceremony: "Over the seven and a half months I spent sailing around the world, I never once in my wildest dreams thought that my vision would come to fruition with such a great award. It's a great honor and I shall really treasure it as one of my greatest achievements."
The other nominees for the disability category were: track athlete Shea Cowart (United States), tennis player David Hall (Australia), swimmer Béatrice Hess (France) and equestrian athlete Lee Pearson (Britain).
At last year's inaugural Laureus Awards founded by DaimlerChrysler and Richemont, Australian wheelchair athlete Louise Sauvage was named Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability.
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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
- Don D., California
An e-Reader Price War or the Inventible Marginalization of a Limited Product
The price-lowering tit for tat between Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Amazon.com (AMZN) over their e-readers, the Nook and Kindle, respectively, looks for all intents and purposes like an old fashioned price war. This is how many are portraying it, but it is quite possibly something bigger. Some might argue that it is most definitely something bigger. Indeed, Apple’s (AAPL) i-Pad has shown that a device similar to an e-reader, but with vastly more functionality, is not only possible, but, for many, preferable.
Book reading devices are an interesting product. They basically strive to do just one thing, but they strive to that one thing exceptionally well. The Kindle was, when it was introduced, an incredible step forward in the space. It wasn’t the first product here, Sony (SNE) has offered a book reader for years, but Amazon’s product married a highly functional product with the easy ability to acquire content. The Nook is simply a knock off on the same idea. In fact, Borders Group’s (BGP) e-reader, the recently introduced Kobo, is yet another knock off with an even cheaper price point than the Nook or the Kindle.
Although currently very popular, e-readers are a niche product. They do one thing, and though doing that one thing very well, they are highly limited offerings. This limitation comes in two forms. First, they are designed almost exclusively for reading books, from their screens to their controls. This is wonderful on one level, but the similarities to more functional devices, such as a keypad, give away the aspirations of being a more functional tool. But largely speaking, they aren’t more functional items, they are just one more thing to carry around. Sales of these products suggest that for voracious readers they are highly prized. For the mass market, however, they are, in reality, probably closer to an expensive toy.
The second limiting factor with e-books is their direct tie to specific retail outlets. If you buy a Kindle you better be prepared to buy all your books from Amazon; the same goes for the Nook. While there are compatible formats and ways to read e-books from other sources on competitors’ products, this requires more knowledge of the products and e-book formats than most customers will want to bother knowing.
These two limitations are material, particularly now that a similarly sized product with vastly more functionality has come to town. Although Apple’s i-Pad suffers from the retailer tie in limitation to some degree, its functionality is much better. In fact, that’s an understatement; the i-Pad verges on being a full computer that can also act as an e-reader. True, the screen isn’t as easy on the eyes, but the additional functionality will probably offset that negative for many users. And there are competing tablet products on the way from virtually every major manufacturer.
This progression is eerily similar to the tale of the Palm Pilot. The category was, interestingly enough, kicked off by Apple with its ill-fated Newton offering. Shortly after that product died, the Palm Pilot sprung to life. This little gizmo provided scheduling and address book functions to start, but, because of an open architecture, quickly drew a large following of willing programmers who created applications of all sorts and sizes. However, despite all of the bells and whistles being added by the masses, it was still just one more thing to lug around. It quickly became obvious that, with advancing technology, many of the functions of a digital assistant could be incorporated into a cell phone. The digital assistant simply couldn’t compete. This is largely why Palm’s (PALM) history is checkered and also why it is about to be swallowed by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
Over the years, there have been any number of devices created for just one purpose, such as email reader/writers, pagers, and, more recently, social network reader/writers. These products often end up in the historical dustbin because they simply don’t stand the test of time. It is quite possible that e-readers will find themselves added to this list. They may not disappear completely, but even in the best case they are likely to be greatly marginalized.
This has major implications for the booksellers. First, the closed system of selling books virtually exclusively to one product is faulty. People like to buy from the places they like to buy from using the devices they want to use. Apple has been able to get away with tying customers to its iTune’s store because of design quality, its leadership position in changing the way customers interact with content, and its willingness to allow third parties to create applications, even though they are subject to certain approvals if they are to be sold through Apple’s site. The booksellers don’t have these strengths and are going to have become more open. They are also likely to lose a currently hot selling product.
The death of e-book readers, or at least marginalization of them, isn’t likely to happen overnight. But using history as a rhyming aid, they aren’t likely to remain the hot product that they are today without substantive changes. The only problem is that the changes that customers are likely to demand are going to make e-readers look like tablet computers.
It’s unlikely that Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders will be able to compete with true hardware and software products since, at their heart, they are retailers. Although some have suggested that e-book readers are destined to become sales tools, being given away to tie people to a company’s book store like razors are utilized to sell razor blades, this seems like a temporary stop on the way to obsolescence and, if not, a potentially expensive drag on these retailers’ profits. Instead, look for the e-book readers to fade away and be replaced by something more functional and, quite likely, not created by the booksellers.
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Educating for Liberty is published by Regnery Publishing
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute was founded half a century ago to defend traditional liberal education in American colleges and universities against the onslaught of leftist ideologues. With its myriad of lectures, journals, fellowships, books, seminars, and mentoring programs, ISI is today the educational pillar of the conservative movement and the leading source of information about a free society for the many students and teachers who reject the post-modernist zeitgeist.
In this absorbing, fast-paced book, Lee Edwards, the pre-eminent historian of the conservative movement, details how ISI has inspired the minds of collegiate conservatives for decades and prepared them to defend the American and Western patrimony in public office, research organizations, the media, and the academy.
You will meet in Educating for Liberty the remarkable men and women behind ISI and their vision for renewing higher education in America. Long before the advent of "compassionate conservatism," ISI promoted a robust humane conservatism through the works of Richard Weaver, Russell Kirk, and others. The Institute has also served as an open forum for traditionalists, neoconservatives, and classical liberals to debate the nature of American conservatism.
Edwards tells the dramatic story of ISI's original focus on combating socialism, its resistance to the cultural crisis of the 1960s and the 1970s, its battle against political correctness in the 1980s and 1990s, and its answer to the renascent anti-Americanism on college campuses after 9/11. ISI's unwavering mission from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism has been to lay the intellectual and cultural foundation for ordered liberty in America and to help the West triumph in the clash of civilizations.
The founders of ISI hoped their work would give rise to a better future for their children's children. In this superb history, Edwards recounts the rich fruits of their unremitting labors but cautions that the struggle to transmit the cultural and intellectual heritage of America and the West is unending.
What They're Saying...
"The tale is lively and Edwards' detailed narrative includes a generous sprinkling of bons mots from ISI-affiliated wits."
— First Things
"The whole truth about ISI can now be told. Lee Edwards' recently published book, Educating for Liberty, is a straightforward account of the people, programs and publications that issued from a little-known organization that had big ambitions right from the start."
— Human Events
“By the time the Reagan Revolution marched into Washington, I had the troops I needed—thanks in no small measure to the work with American youth ISI had been doing since 1953. I am proud to count many ISI products among the workhorses of my two terms as President.”
— Ronald Reagan
“ISI performs a valuable service to the nation by introducing to American college youth the great moral and intellectual achievements of our Western heritage. I am proud to take part in their efforts.”
— Robert P. George
"By fighting for the soul of the university, ISI is performing a very valuable function for America as a whole."
— Robert Bork
“[A]lmost a "who's who" guide for the American conservative movement.”
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An expeditionary squadron of B-1B bombers, including a contingency of 400 airmen, recently finished a 6 month deployment in Afghanistan
Over the course of the 6-plus month deployment, the squadron flew more than 770 combat sorties, encompassing over 9,500 hours, to provide 24 hours of coverage every day.
They also responded to more than 500 troops-in-contact situations, with the enemy as close as 300 meters from friendly forces, and another 700 priority air requests, delivering more than 400 weapons on target.
Basically a bomber was airborne and able to provide support to ground troops, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...for 6 months.
Amazing feat, however at a cost of $35,000 / hour; there are cheaper means in which to provide round the clock close air support to our boys (and girls) on the ground.
Countering this, the B-1B can carry a large array of ordnance compared to unmanned aerial platforms. So I suppose it balances out on the cost effectiveness side, at least in part.
Anyway, job well done by these airmen.
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Dr.Amos Grunebaum and his BabyMed staff have put together all the tools and information for getting pregnant, what you need to better understand and learn about your body and its fertility rhythms, so you and your partner can optimize your chances of conceiving a baby and having a healthy pregnancy.
No matter if you may have tried for some to get pregnant or you are just starting out. Learning more about your and your partner's fertility but especially if you suspect that you and your partner may have a problem getting pregnant, finding and eliminating the cause will obviously be your and your doctor's No. 1 concern.
Ovulation happens when the mature egg is ejected from the ovary. The time of the menstrual cycle and ovulation is one of the most important things a woman should understand about her body since it is the determining factor in getting pregnant and preventing pregnancy.
Sexual intercourse and sex before and during pregnancy are essential when getting pregnant and trying to conceive. BabyMed helps you sort through all the information you need to know.
All your questions about infertility and how to get tested for fertility answered.
Learn all about early pregnancy symptoms and signs of pregnancy.
For many couples getting pregnant and trying to conceive is easy. However, for others getting pregnant can take a long time and they have to resort to reproductive technology.
Clomiphene Clomid is a medication to induce ovulation and then hopefully get you pregnant. Many women take clomiphene citrate (Clomid) and don't know what it does and how to take it.
Your chances getting pregnant depend on many variables including your age, your frequency of having intercourse, when you have intercourse, and other variables.
Fertility is at the heart of reproduction, conception, pregnancy and
parenthood, but many couples do not give fertility a passing thought
until something goes wrong in the process. It is then that couples want
to know when to work on fertility.
You and your partner have finally decided to have a baby. Though you
might wish your little one would suddenly appear tomorrow, you still
have a long road ahead of you.
The postpartum period can be a confusing time for some women in terms of pregnancy prevention. Breastfeeding can lengthen the time between birth and first menstrual cycle, but ovulation may occur before that first cycle, increasing the risk of pregnancy during the immediate postpartum period.
The birth control pill has been around for more than 40 years. The
birth control pill, commonly referred to as simply “the pill,” supplies
hormones to the body, preventing ovulation, altering the lining of the
uterus and altering cervical mucus.
You would think with the body expelling the uterine lining during
your menstrual cycle that sex during menstruation should be the safest
time to go unprotected, but that is not the case.
When it comes to conceiving a child without a partner, women have two choices. They can choose to talk with a close personal male friend to arrange an intimate relationship for the sake of conception or in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
There is no evidence birth control reduces fertility. Clinical studies
have suggested that pregnancy rates after long-term birth control use
are nearly identical to those in women who’ve never taken birth control.
In most situations, getting pregnant with one ovary is not only possible, but no more difficult then if you had two ovaries. More important is whether the fallopian tube, a small tube that connects the ovary to the uterine cavity, is intact.
Getting pregnant is not always easy. Below are 15 effective ways on your way to improve your chances getting pregnant.
As you get into treatment, you’ll be told when to have sex and when to abstain and it can be easy to get caught up in the “we have to have sex tonight because the doctor called” cycle.
My patients who have decided to have children almost invariably ask me,
“What should I do to get pregnant?” What books should they read? How do
they take their basal body temperature? Should they use an ovulation
You’ve been trying to conceive for months now with no luck. You’ve not been trying long enough to take on the cost of a fertility specialist and your gynecologist keeps telling you to relax and keep trying because some couples have more trouble than others conceiving.
I think the Universe has some prescribed formulary of human curiosity
when it comes to major life events. When you are single, you get asked
“so are you dating anyone?” When you are dating someone for a short
time, you get the “so is it serious?” question.
The modern couple has choices if they truly want to preserve fertility
until the time is right to conceive, but could freezing fertility lead
to more harm than good?
This post is the first in a three-part series by BustedKate talking
about how she first found out she was facing infertility.
For the first six to eight weeks after giving birth to my first, second,
third and fourth children, I did not want ANYTHING to do with sex.
Last month before me and my boyfriends trip he told his entire family
and friends that I was pregnant. I thought I was, and so did he so I
went with the flow. When we returned from our trip the pregnancy tests
Infertility may be associated with more than physical imparities that
can be solved with a medication or some form of assisted reproductive
technology. According to a new research study, circadian rhythm may have
a lot to do with menstrual and fertility cycles.
You have to have sex to have babies, but how much sex is enough?
Having a family is part luck and part planning; for some couples, it’s
the planning part that is the most difficult. You know you want to have
more than one child, but you have no idea how close together or far
apart you should plan your children.
Many couples struggling to achieve pregnancy can conceive naturally by following some simple guidelines before resorting to expensive and potentially hazardous fertility medications.
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