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Banking Crisis: Which are the Safest UK Banks?
We’ve seen Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley collapse, the Cheshire and Derbyshire Building Societies rescued, and even Halifax Bank of Scotland required a bail-out from Lloyds TSB.
Turmoil in the world’s markets mean that credit around the globe has literally frozen up, and banks face the very real possibility of a systemic meltdown of the financial system.
Consumers are naturally concerned as to where to place their money for safety.
The good news is that for UK banks, savings are now protected up to £50,000 per bank – which means that if you were to have £150,000 in savings, split equally between three UK banks, the government would guarantee all of that sum.
However, even with protections in place, nervous savers want to ensure their savings are as trouble-free as possible.
While the current turmoil is obviously unnerving, all major UK banks are believed to be strong enough to weather the current crisis.
However, some banks suggest themselves as stronger than others, and we’re going to list these here:
The Nationwide Building Society refused to become a bank while others rushed in, and remained a very conservative lender, even through the property boom.
Nationwide retains strong credit ratings from ratings agencies, and because shareholders are customers, does not face the same short-term pressures of public traded banks.
The Nationwide Building Society remains the world’s largest building society, and when it rescued the Derbyshire and Cheshire building societies provided full information on its balance which demonstrated that it is clearly strongly capitalised.
With only a limited exposure to the now crippled commercial markets, the Nationwide is about as far away as you can get to the worst troubles in the financial system.
Of all the UK banks to be hit by the credit crisis, HSBC has easily weathered the storm better than the rest – probably because while registered as a UK bank, it’s much more dependent on Asian markets, which have been far less exposed to US toxic debt.
While HSBC did have a US mortgage subsidiary, it has mammoth investing operations across Asia that have ensure it holds an enviably strong position among public-traded banks.
For an idea of how confident investors are in HSBC, here’s the change in share price for the big 5 UK banks since July 6th last year to this morning:
Lloyds TSB: -60%
That’s right – despite the financial crisis and stock market crashes, investor confidence in HSBC remains strong – HSBC has only lost 3% of its share value, compared to a minimum of 58% loss for Barclays, which is distant second place in terms of investor confidence.
Website: HSBC savings accounts can be found here.
3. Co-operative Bank
Like Nationwide, the Co-operative bank is mutually owned by customers and has not sought out aggressive profits via risky investments.
Additionally, it is relatively less dependent on commercial markets for funding compared to public-traded banks.
In addition to this, the company’s maverick insistence on ethical investment means that it has had an even more cautious investment strategy than many other financial services companies.
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Mean Green List takes a look at tankless water heater designs to help you decide if they are your best option. Traditional water heaters use a huge insulated water tank full of hot water, allowing you to access hot water in your sink, shower or dishwasher whenever you need it. However, one typically uses hot water only a couple times a day, so it’s rather wasteful to keep so much water constantly heated. The theory behind tankless water heaters is to heat the water right before you use it, thus sparing all that unutilized energy.
We spoke with Ed Baharopoulo, President of American Pride Heating & Cooling, Inc of Niles, Illinois to find out more about tankless water heaters as an option. A mere 1-to-5% of his clients opt for tankless due to their upfront costs compared to a newer traditional system. However many new condo builders in Chicago as well as rehabbers are going with small tankless units because they take up much less space than traditional tanks do, leaving more usable square footage to rent or sell.
Another challenge facing homeowners considering an upgrade is that there is no direct comparison between your old tank, and a new tankless system. Because the primary demand on a tankless is not overall capacity, but water flow rate, you can’t simply check your existing heater and based on that go out and buy a tankless.
A careful examination of the number of fixtures, and the distances between the fixtures, and the distance between all fixtures and the water heater needs to be taken into consideration. As is the case with traditional heaters, a larger residence requires a larger and more expensive tankless unit.
Many homeowners however have opted for a creative hybrid solution in which they connect a tankless water heater between the primary tank and the fixtures. They will set the tank heater to a lower setting, say 100 degrees instead of 120, taking advantage of the tankless to bring the water up to desired temperature, on demand. Less energy is used to keep the large tank of water hot this way, and because the tankless system is playing only a supporting role, a smaller, cheaper unit will suffice.
What’s more, federal tax credits are making the choice a little easier for some. Several hundred versus a few thousands is a steep jump when comparing the two options. But thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and its extension from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 you may get up to $1500 back in your 2010 filings using the IRS tax Form 5695. It’s important to note that at this time only gas, not electric, tankless water heaters are eligible for a tax credit. | <urn:uuid:1551f749-312d-42a3-b6c9-096c6b836c99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://meangreenlist.com/its-a-tank-less-job | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95874 | 554 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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How to Use the New Advanced Search Features in Windows 7
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft has upgraded the search facility to allow users ever better ways to find the myriad of files, folders, images, videos and even e-mail on their computers. Windows 7 is no exception, though its advanced features are not very well known since Microsoft chose to hide them on the results page.
In any event, the first step in finding something on your computer, is to click on the Start menu, and then type in something you’d like to find:
Notice that as with Vista, you don’t have to type the Enter key, as Windows displays results based on each key you type.
The results of your initial search, though likely very helpful, don’t give you the full power of the search facility; to get that you need to click just above the search box, on See more results:
Clicking on it brings up a popup window that allows you to modify the way your files and folders are presented; but one little gem among them is under the Search tab:
Which of course allows you to search the contents of every file on your hard drive for a certain string of text.
At the top right corner of the results page is another little search box; this one allows you to change the text you’ve typed:
It also allows you to further narrow down your search by Kind, Date modified, Type and Size.
Kind refers to the kind of document you are after (e.g. document, e-mail, folder, etc.). Type refers to which kind of file extension it has (e.g. .doc, .jpg, etc.).
And at the very bottom of the results page, after scrolling all the way down, you will find the following menu:
These icons allow you to search, respectively, your individual libraries, your home group, and your whole computer. And, of course it allows you to perform a custom search or to search the Internet using your default browser.
The reason Microsoft has chosen to give you so many options is because Windows doesn’t always search everything during its default search; it only searches items it has indexed. Generally, this means files that are in your local libraries. The other options are there because sometimes a search returns too many hits so the option to search in a more locally defined way can reduce the clutter dramatically.
This is the case with the Libraries menu choice; clicking on it causes Search to look only in your local libraries.
Similarly, clicking on Homegroup causes Search to look only at stuff that is shared by others in your home group.
Clicking on Computer, on the other hand, widens your search options by forcing Search to look at every single thing on your computer; be forewarned, it can take awhile.
Choosing Custom brings up following pop-up:
Double-clicking on files or folders causes them to be added to the bottom window which allows you to search just those files or folders.
And. of course clicking on Internet causes your default web browser to launch with your default search engine with a predefined search using your text.
In summation, Microsoft has give users far more search options than ever before though you might have to work at it to figure out how to get those results.
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Forbidden Speech/Controlled Speech: Some Observations on the Role of the Word in Rouch's Films:
This work is about commentary and dialogue in Jean Rouch's ethnographic filming, mainly in his ethnofictions. It includes two parts. The first is an article on the role of speech in Rouch's films; the second is an interview with Rouch on the same subject. This was conducted and recorded by me in 1995 at the Café Bullier in Montparnasse, where Rouch used to have breakfeast every morning. When I met Rouch between two doors I told him that I intended to write a paper about language in his films. He called out, apparently without paying attention, "Ah! the speech taboo." As nothing is never said by chance, it seemed to me that this jest deserved some attention: the forbidden words...which ones, forbidden by whom, how and why?
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Area vagrants devastated by pet food tainting
CINCINNATI - The lack of available pet food throughout the Tri-state has resulted in increased hardship for area vagrants who count on pet food for survival. Many homeless people who cannot afford food typically consumed by humans instead regularly purchase pet food. The recent pet food tainting incident has resulted in a scarcity of pet food never before experienced by the homeless. A spokesperson for the Coalition For The Homeless commented, “This pet food scarcity is only an inconvenience for pets because they can eat human food if necessary but it is a catastrophe for the homeless because we can’t afford human food.” Community members who wish to help are encouraged by homeless advocates to consider donating cans of untainted pet food to homeless shelters. For more information on organizing a canned pet food drive in your community contact the local Coalition For The Homeless.
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Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture is hailed as the most fabulous of Japan’s many castles. It is definitely the largest. I had the opportunity to visit Himeji for a half-day at the start of March in 2013. Himeji Castle is a UNESCO World Hertiage site.
Over the past several years, the main keep of Himeji Castle has been covered by a giant scaffolding that is essentially a building that encircles the high roof. The internal structure has been reinforced to prevent earthquake damage, while the plaster and roofing tiles have been replaced or reworked for water and fire proofing.
The last major restoration of the castle was completed in 1964. This new reconstruction is similar to the first. When I visited the restoration work was nearly complete. I had the opportunity to travel to the top of the scaffolding and view the roof from the outside, a view that will disappear in 2014 as the scaffolding is disassembled and the main keep re-opened. Despite the construction work, I found the grounds beautiful and interesting. Though the inner keep is not accessible, much of the rest of the grounds were, including the West Bailey. It was a great way to spend a few hours strolling through the castle grounds and trying to snap a few photos.
Throughout the grounds there are multilingual plaques describing many aspects of the history and culture of the castle including its reconstruction and maintenance. Many crests of past lords who reigned at the castle, many worked into the roofing tiles. In the Egret’s Eye View, I was even able to observe a live demonstration of the tiling work. I’ve always found Japanese style tile roofs to be interesting, so it was great to see how they and the walls were actually put together.
Himeji Castle is located in Hyo prefecture at 68 hon-machi, Himeji, Hyogo. Hours of operation are 9 am to 4 pm (September through April) and 9 am to 5 pm (May to August). Closed December 29 and 30. The Egrets Eye closes a bit earlier.
Japan has many castles, but Osaka’s is perhaps one of the most well-known and most visually stunning of them all. Nestled within the sprawling and modern city, Osaka Castle is part historical monument, park, and attraction all at once. It is well worth a visit if only to explore the beautiful grounds surrounding the exterior of the castle.
The towering structure is encircled by more than a moat. Trees, walkways, and parks form an amazingly interesting border between ancient and modern. Could you imagine going for a jog past a major castle every day? The wide areas and beautiful scenery attract both locals and tourists in a comfortable yet harmonious mix.
I found the grounds surrounding Osaka Castle a metaphor for the rest of Japan. A unique blend of new and old, local and seeker, casual and fast paced. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
When you hear about Okinawa, you probably envision white sandy beaches, tropical forests, and a bunch of American military. Well you’re right on those, but Okinawa also has a lot of history, and along with that history are a lot of castles. A friend of mine on the mainland knows about my interest in those so every once in a while when I fly in, he loads up his family and we all go sightseeing. Last time I was in town, we went to Katsuren Castle in Uruma City, Okinawa. Here are a few pictures from the trip!
Katsuren Castle is a World Heritage Site. It is composed of five enclosures on the top of a tall hill. The view from the top of the first enclosure looks out over surrounding lowlands and the ocean. It’s a great place to stop by for a few hours, but be aware that there are some steep slopes. The site is not the most disabled friendly place. If you are touring Okinawa its worth the stop, and can be enjoyed in about an hour.
The castle is named for the first Ryukyu lord to hold the castle. Ten more lords held it after, the final being Awamori.
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When you turn to the political coverage in this month’s issue, you will notice two words conspicuously missing: Obama and Romney.
It’s not that we don’t have strong feelings about the candidates, but weighing in on the minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow process of politics is not what DISCOVER does. There is plenty of that (too much perhaps) elsewhere in the media landscape. I am much more interested in the broader perspective: not what politics will look like in two months but in two years, or twenty. On that scale, personalities become less important and the role of science and technology becomes much more clear.
The steam engine gave rise to the whistle-stop campaign tours of the early 20th century; television made the first 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate into a national event. Web-based organizing is ushering in new possibilities today. Not everyone will like the effects of technological change. In the United States, the effort by Americans Elect to create a centrist party via Facebook got zero traction in this cycle, but social technology is poised to have more influence over future elections. In the Muslim world, the open communications that helped topple dictatorships are also aiding fundamentalist forces. As always, technology is only a tool, not an ideology. We need to understand it in order to anticipate its effects and to exploit it in beneficial ways.
The most intriguing political concept in this issue is also the most scientifically far out. It is now possible, in principle, to build a largely autonomous seafaring vessel, sail into international waters, and create a new island nation. With wireless technology, the people aboard could remain socially and economically connected to the rest of the world while becoming politically independent. Each vessel could try a different political system.
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Hampshire County Council hold a register for people with a vision impairment. There are two categories of registration – Sight Impaired (partially sighted) and Severely Sight Impaired (blind). If you are registered then your details are stored on a confidential database and you are given a small card as proof of your registration. It will not cost you any money to register.
The only person who can decide if you meet the criteria for registration is your Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Eye Department.
If he or she believes that you are entitled to be registered then they will complete and sign a Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI) form, which you will also sign. A copy of this will be sent to you, your GP and Hampshire County Council – someone from the Sensory Team, Adult Services (part of Hampshire County Council) will then contact you to finalise the registration.
If you are no longer under your local Eye Department then please contact your own GP or Optician for advice.
Registration can be a pathway for easier access to certain benefits and concessions such as
However all concessions are discretionary and may vary.
If you are registered as Severely Sight Impaired (blind) then you automatically qualify for the following;
Registration cards currently last for five years. If your card is about to expire or you need a replacement then please telephone Adult Services on 0845 603 5630 who will take your details and pass them on to the relevant team.
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8a.m. to 10a.m.
Weighing Oneself: “The best time of day to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning, immediately after getting out of bed,” said Prof. David Levitsky, nutrition. Stepping on the scale at this time after using the bathroom, but before eating breakfast can provide the most accurate reading of your weight.
“But don’t do it only once, but repeatedly over several days” Levitsky said. “Each weight will have error because of differences in body water content and GI content. If you take your weight over a period of at least a weight, you will see if you are gaining or losing weight.”
10a.m. to 12p.m., 12p.m.-2p.m., 3:p.m.
Mental Tasks: It may be best to get demanding mental tasks done between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon because this is when the brain is at its pinnacle of mental acuity, according to a 2008 paper published in the journal Mind, Brain and Education. The human mind tends to be sharpest in the morning, dwindle during the afternoon, and bounce back a little after 3p.m. Tasks that are not so mentally draining may be best to get done during the afternoon period and the tougher tasks can be picked back up around 3p.m.
2p.m. to 3p.m.
Power Naps: “The best time for a power nap is during the mid-day dip on alertness, usually around 2 p.m.,” said Prof. James Maas, psychology, a world expert on sleep. Between the hours of 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. factors in a person’s circadian rhythm cause the body to take a “post-lunch dip,” which is the cause for that drowsy feeling that many people get in mid-afternoon. A person’s body temperature also starts to dip at this time, just as it does at the time before a person goes to bed at night. To combat the fatigue, instead of grabbing a power drink or breaking for coffee, taking a quick power nap should be enough to recharge a person’s cognitive and physical performance.
“Naps should be either 15 to 20 minutes or 90 minutes to achieve a complete REM cycle,” Maas said.
5p.m. to 6p.m.
Drinking Alcohol: Although drinking alcohol will interfere with any kind of cognitive processing that one may be doing during the day, there are health benefits associated with drinking an occasional glass of red wine.
“The best time to drink alcohol like red wine is just before dinner,” said David Levitsky, nutrition. Research has shown that the liver metabolizes and detoxifies alcohol most efficiently and quickest between the hours of 5 and 6 pm. “Drinking at this time will also help relax you just before you begin the digestion of the meal.”
6p.m. to 7p.m.
Working Out: According to a person’s circadian rhythm, the best time to work out is during late afternoon. At Northwestern University, Prof. Phyllis Zee, associate director of the Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology, recommended working out between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. because this is the time when a person’s body temperature is at its peak. The body’s temperature is about one to two degrees warmer than it is in the morning around this time she said. Increased body temperature is ideal for participating in strength, speed and power activities because it makes the muscles more flexible and less prone to injuries. Then again, researchers like Prof. Levitsky recommend that anytime is the best time to exercise. “The body is amazingly adaptive,” he said. “As soon as you begin to exercise, the demands for the exercise by your muscles will dominate over any other modulating influence such as time of day or whether you have just eaten.”
9p.m./11p.m. to 6a.m./8a.m.
Sleeping: For most people normal circadian rhythms are set make them to fall asleep around 9 or 10 and wake up around 6 or 7 a.m. For most college students though, “the teenage brain is maximally set to fall asleep at 3am and wake up at 11am, but alas, that's not when classes are scheduled,” said Maas. “Keeping a regular sleep and rising time will help you overcome the delayed circadian rhythm,” he says. To obtain optimal amounts of rest, he suggested that students “go to bed 8 to 9 hours before you have to get up for classes.”
Scheduling Medical Appointments: In an episode of his show, Dr. Oz explained that doctor’s appointments are best scheduled first thing in the morning to avoid the long waiting room times that come when the doctor falls behind schedule. Studies show one of the problems that cause doctor’s offices to get backed up is that many doctors schedule their appointments in 15-minute blocks while a lot of appointments end up taking 20 to 30 minutes.
Surgeries are best scheduled before noon. A study at Duke University analyzed over 90,000 operations and found that problems in surgery came most often during 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and were at a low between 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The difference in adverse effect rates from surgery may be linked to the surgeons’ own circadian rhythm which dips late afternoon, but is at its peak during the late morning.
When scheduling a dentist appoint for a procedure like a root canal, it is best to have it done during the early afternoon. European studies have found that during the afternoon local anesthesia lasts three times longer because epinephrine levels in the body are higher than at any other point in the day. Epinephrine, which is also called adrenaline, is a hormone that can constrict the local anesthesia, making it last more effectively producing less pain. | <urn:uuid:6e610764-89b4-44c9-8539-5063b51c7b42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cornellsun.com/print/49141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963149 | 1,287 | 2.421875 | 2 |
by InvestorPlace Staff | January 2, 2013 10:26 pm
Hillary Clinton was finally released from the hospital today, after undergoing three days of treatment for a blood clot in a vein in her head.
The clot was a complication from the concussion she suffered in December after fainting, the result of dehydration from battling a stomach virus. Health issues prevented Clinton from testifying before Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, or from being present when President Barack Obama announced Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as his nominee for Secretary of State.
There are a few interesting things that you should know about the blood clot Clinton suffered from. These include:
Doctors noted that the type of blood clot Clinton had, a sinus venous thrombosis, “certainly isn’t the most common thing to happen after a concussion.” It is more common among newborns or young people. Clinton’s blood clot was located in the vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind Clinton’s right ear.
Clinton’s, however, was. Sinus venous thrombosis clots are one of the few treated by blood thinners, according to neurologist Dr. Larry Goldstein.
In 1998, she was treated for a blood clot located behind her right knee. When the blood clot was first announced by Clinton’s publicist, the location was not specified, leaving many speculating it was another leg clot. Eventually, the location of the clot was released publicly.
Given her history of blood clots, doctors may put her on a long-term prescription for blood thinners, or even one that lasts for the rest of her life. Blood thinners increase bleeding, so it increases the risk involved in falling or in suffering other blows to the head. It may even make her more susceptible to brain hemorrhages.
The State Department and Clinton’s spokesperson have both said she is making good progress and that they expect a full recovery. Unfortunately for Clinton, her illness has cut into what was expected to be a victory lap in her last month as Secretary of State. Chances are good that she will still testify before Congress about the State Department’s role in the Benghazi attacks before leaving office.
More worrisome is what her health issues portend for her political future. Prominent Democrats have been pushing her to run for president in 2016, although Clinton has denied interest in running. Might health issues tip her hand towards not running for office?
For more general information on blood clots, check out this article from the Associated Press.
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A new crime series set to air on BBC America will recreate the 1863 draft riots in New York City. But this isn't your typical teaser video. It was made using only handcrafted miniature figures made by Four Story Treehouse. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the first war draft, prompting the draft riots in NYC that lasted days and left over 130 people dead. This video was made to promote Cooper premiering Aug. 19. | <urn:uuid:9c42c49e-bab1-420f-8020-9a2b54c7add5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/city-severed-nyc-new-york-bbc-america-cooper-draft-riots?rate=_lbNBBMzVP4ETSisDXuuhxcsF2rMLB4tN1lRMX97vPo&up=1&node_id=13162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950246 | 84 | 1.539063 | 2 |
U.S. Senate Republicans continue blaming President Obama for increasing unrest and al-Qaida gains in Africa, and are calling for a much larger U.S. military footprint there.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s new top Republican, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, this weekend joined his predecessor, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Corker, R-Tenn., in calling for a larger American military presence in Africa.
“I don’t think we have the resources in Africa that I think we should have had,” Inhofe said on the latest edition of C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program. “And I’ve felt that way for a long time. … We need more resources.”
Last week, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told lawmakers that al-Qaida’s gains in the region, prompted by the late Osama bin Laden’s order for his operatives to disperse, means Washington can no longer be reluctant to pursue its foreign-affairs interests.
“We’re going to see more and more demands on AfriCom,” Clinton said of U.S. Africa Command. “And that is something, I think, the House and Senate will have to address.”
Clinton warned senators that new “democracies” in the region are inexperienced at running countries and providing security at American diplomatic facilities.
That command was established late last decade by the George W. Bush administration. But, due mostly to African leaders’ worries, that administration decided against erecting a headquarters facility on African soil. But as the vast continent becomes the epicenter of al-Qaida activities, some GOP lawmakers say that should change, and soon.
Speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 22, McCain also placed blame for ongoing unrest in Mali and a deadly hostage situation in neighboring Algeria by al-Qaida offshoot groups solely on the Obama administration.
That’s because of “a lack of engagement” by Washington the last four years in Northern Africa,” McCain said.
Asked by Defense News what the Obama administration should have done differently, McCain cited border security assistance to some African nations and other relatively modest moves that the Obama administration opted to “not provide.”
Corker told reporters the same day that the White House needed “more engagement” in North Africa during Obama’s first term.
The Pentagon announced over the weekend that AfriCom is helping French troops in Mali, providing aerial refueling and personnel air transport. Asked about the situation in Africa during a Jan. 28 press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney gave no indication the administration is planning to ramp up its military presence there in the short term. | <urn:uuid:e5b11560-84a8-4d67-8de9-148e3bed13af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130128/DEFREG04/301280016/1001/DEFSECT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944021 | 583 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Channel Islands National Park - Located off the coast of Ventura and an
hour's bumpy boat ride away via Island Packers is the the
spectacular treasure, Santa Cruz Island. One of eight visible
islands off the Southern California Coast and one of five that you
can actually comprise Channel Islands National Park, Santa Cruz is
the largest island. The water around the five islands in the park is
protected as part of the Channel Island National Marine Sanctuary.
The Channel Islands occupy such a unique niche in the ecology of the United States that they're sometimes referred to as America's Galapagos. As you'd expect with such a label, the
park's diversity of animal and plant life is amazing. More than 2,000
species crowd this small park, and of those 145 can be found nowhere else on
earth. The isolation of the eight islands in the chain has played a big role
in building that diversity, as has its location at the collision point
between the cold, nutrient-rich waters moving south from northern California
and warm water moving north from from Baja California.
Painted Cave on Santa Cruz Island is the largest and deepest sea cave in the world and is something you may not
want to miss if you are a kayak enthusiast. Painted Cave earns its name from the
colorful rocks and lichens that cover its surface. The cave reaches a
quarter of a mile into the side of the island. The entrance ceiling is an
immense 160 feet high. In the spring a waterfall curtains the mouth of the
cave. Kayak tours are available on the island. Arrangements are made through
Island Packers (805) 642-1393, for departing from Ventura and Channel
Islands Harbors to all of the islands. Truth Aquatics (805) 962-1127,
departing from Santa Barbara Harbor to all of the islands. Channel Islands
Aviation (805) 987-1301, for air travel to Santa Rosa Island. Folding boats
only or to meet up with others.
You can kayak with one of several outfitters that offer a variety of
different kayak trips to the Channel Islands. The trips are moderate to
strenuous in nature, but some do not require previous kayaking experience.
Most kayak excursions are offered from May through October. Some of the
outfitters also offer kayaks for rent. For a current listing of outfitters
and rental sources for kayaks perform an internet search, consult local
phone books or contact the Park Visitor Center.
Visitors with their own kayaks who
would like to explore Channel Islands National Park can contact the park
boat concessionaires, who will transport kayaks to the islands on their
public trips for an extra fee. Concessionaires such as Island Packers and
Truth Aquatics offer year-round transportation to the islands for day visits
and camping trips.
A visual spectacle of unparalleled beauty features amazing
critters in a transcendent environment, is part of the Channel Islands
excursion experience. It is natural, it's raw and is stripped of the many
artificial sights and sounds of the California mainland with its millions of
people. Unaccustomed to this natural environment, some visitors find the
experience a bit shocking. It doesn't take long, however, to embrace the
natural beauty and become a champion for the need for fragile ecosystems
reliant on human support to keep them flourishing. The Channel Islands are the most
important nesting grounds for seabirds on the West Coast. Though damaged by
decades of cattle and sheep ranching, the islands still sport an impressive
array of native plant life. Whales, orcas, and dolphins pass offshore. Tide
pools, a vanishing habitat on the mainland, are doing well on Channel
The national park occupies five of the eight islands in the chain, as well
as much of its offshore waters. The islands are Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa
Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara. Each island has its own character.
Anacapa is the entry point, tiny, popular, and closest to shore. Santa Cruz
is the largest and most biologically diverse; it is largely owned by the
nonprofit The Nature Conservancy. Santa Rosa is the most historically
interesting, and the most wide open of the larger islands for those who want
to do some independent exploring. San Miguel has (arguably) the best hiking
as well as terrific wildlife. Tiny Santa Barbara is the most isolated, a
place to go to be alone in a wild, windy ocean.
Anacapa, San Miguel, Santa Barbara,
Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands are accessible by booking seats on chartered
boats departing daily from Ventura and Santa Barbara or other coastal cities
which offer scuba, fishing and excursion charters. If you are short on
time, half-day non land excursions are also available in Ventura on the Whale
Watching trips. But the good news is that if the whales are migrating, the
captain of your day-trip charter will stop to watch and take photos. California's natural splendor
is what you'll discover on a trip to the islands where you may view cormorants, seals, sea lions
and endangered California brown pelicans near a giant kelp forests
shelter with more than 1,000 species of ocean life.
Pack it in, take it out! The
rule when you visit these islands is that you must bring your own
provisions, (fires are not permitted) and pack out everything you bring.
There's no one around to collect trash so your imprint will remain.
Visitors must stay on marked hiking
trails and are not allowed to disturb plants and animals. With no provisions on these rustic islands, you must bring your own water
and food. Overnight tent camping is permitted but reservations are
required. Check out the Island Packers for information on reserving a trip
to the Islands. islandpackers.com
The information we gathered about
the Channel Islands made us wonder if we could handle visiting a place
that sounded so rustic as to lack the luxuries of bathrooms and water.
Traveling from the greater Los Angeles area with its 12 million or so people,
to Ventura where we'd depart for this imagined paradise, we questioned
our ability to cope. What we didn't consider, surprised us to discover
and what we worried about worked out just fine.
Our first surprise came as the boat
left Ventura Harbor with the Island Packers crew, and hit the open sea.
Our group is not inclined toward motion sickness so it was a surprise that
we did experience some queasy moments on the boat ride to the island. Our
neighbors on the boat who took Dramamine before departure were doing just
We got over the uneasiness as we
arrived at this beautiful spot seen above. Our second awakening came as
we watched people depart the boat. The boat is docked closely to a set
of stairs but the dock requires handing your personal items up to someone
above and climbing a metal stair railing. We couldn't recommend this trip
to anyone who is wheelchair bound or is not in good health. We didn't know
this beforehand but we do now.
As for it being rustic, we were
tipped off to the adventure trail as maps were issued to beginners. We
began to hike around the first bend beyond the dock and discovered an outhouse
(bathroom). Wow! We thought this was completely natural but we actually
discovered two facilities (with toilet paper, too. There was a beautifully,
maintained house on the island for someone who apparently owned the island
at one time, camping facilities for the rangers and some feral pigs that
had gotten loose from the island owner's farm, long ago, and now ran wild,
causing havoc with the native flora and fauna, we were told. The campsites
were not far from the boat dock and looked fairly routine, unlike our imagined
wild adventure style "camp in the tall grass" images.
A few guests were bummed out that
they couldn't have a fire and cook the steaks they brought. There are no
phones, food, vending machines, water faucets or anything of the sort.
The rule here is, "Bring only what you can carry and if you see it and
it doesn't belong, pick it up and take it off the island as you depart."
So with all that in mind, our surprises
were 1) that lots of people go to these islands to camp, scuba dive, spear
fish, kayak and hike, and you are never far away from help or companionship.
In fact, if you've not arranged camping like you are required to do, you'll
probably be tracked down and removed. 2) The scenic beauty of these islands
exists in the subtleties of nature. It's not like touring a botanical garden
with well placed plants that create settings. There are rocks, dust, tall
grasses and places where the path is not so worn. More real and more occupied
than we previously envisioned, we found the experience enjoyable and easy
for our day trip, ending perfectly with the boat stopping to watch orca
whales feed on krill.
are eight islands off the California coast which make up the Channel Islands
but only five of them in the Channel Islands National Park. The water around
these five islands is protected as part of the Channel Island National
Marine Sanctuary. Pictured left is Anacapa which lies 11 miles south
of Ventura. Composed of three small islets which are accessible to
each other by boat, the island's length is five miles with one square mile
of land area.
Of interest is a 1.5 mile self guided
nature trail, a beach and snorkeling area at West Anacapa's Frenchy Cove,
tidepools and skin and scuba diving around the cove. There are many shipwrecks,
including the Winfield Scott steamer which grounded and sank off Middle
Anacapa in 1853. You can take photographs but it is against the law
to touch anything. Also interesting but not for getting close and
personal is the East Anacapa lighthouse. Severe hearing damage may result
if you visit the lighthouse so visitors are warned to stay away from it.
Camping is allowed free at the East Anacapa campground only if you obtain
a permit. Fishing is permitted with a license.
For information, write: Superintendent, Channel
Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura, CA 93001-4354
or call, 805-658-5730. Request the brochure: Channel Islands National Park
California, produced by National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior
Rangers conduct walks on
San Miguel, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands. Call (805) 658-5711 for tour information
or (805) 964-7839 for Santa Cruz island.
Visitor Center in Channel Island
Harbor, 1901 Spinnaker Drive, contains the park headquarters, featuring
exhibits, hands on displays and slide and film shows about the islands.
Mon.- Fri. 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Sat.&Sun. 8 am - 5 pm (805) 658-5730
Ventura - Ventura Harbor 1691
Spinnaker Dr. Ventura, CA 93001 Phone: (805) 642-1393. Web:
Oxnard - Channel Islands Harbor, 3600 S. Harbor, Oxnard Phone:
(805) 642-1393. Web: www.islandpackers.com
Santa Barbara - Truth Aquatics Channel Island Trips Phone
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This strategy attempts to restore the biological diversity being affected through illegal felilng of tree specifies, specicially mahogany and cedar, and the livelihoods of local populations. The Government proposes this national strategy to combat illegal logging, to protect the natural resources which are part of the heritage of Peru and rights of the Andean and Amazonian peoples. By the Supreme DecreeNo. 052-2002-AG, later amended by Supreme Decree No. 011-2003-AG, logging was established as illegal.
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Women of Fair Trade
Every Donation Matters
Many special women help make Fair Trade successful here in the United States and around the world. You probably know some of those women yourself!
Women farmers and workers are leading their families and communities out of poverty thanks to selling their coffee, bananas or cocoa on Fair Trade terms. They are running profitable Fair Trade cooperatives, creating community programs and sending their children to school. (Like this CONACADO worker pictured here on the right.)
In the Dominican Republic, cocoa cooperative CONACADO used Fair Trade earnings to form a Women’s Community Group. They help women jump-start small businesses like selling crafts or making jam. The cooperative also dedicated Fair Trade funds and volunteer time to build a playground for local kids and an aqueduct system.
Here in the United States, women are buying and selling Fair Trade Certified products, spreading the word, and even making charitable donations to support Fair Trade USA.
Lauren Van Ham is the Chair of the Fair Trade Berkeley committee. She provided the dedication, spark, and energy that made Berkeley, CA the 19th Fair Trade Town in the USA.
"I first learned about Fair Trade Certified products from a minister friend who had begun serving and selling Fair Trade coffee at his church. The more I learned about the Fair Trade, the more enthusiastic I became. I'm committed to living a sustainable lifestyle to help ensure a sustainable future for all people - Fair Trade does this by taking care of farmers and workers, their communities, and the earth and its resources."
Kimberly McCain explains her commitment to Fair Trade, “I found out about Fair Trade Certified when I signed up to be a Mark. Products representative. I read up on all the wonderful things that Fair Trade has done for the world and wanted to be a part of this.
Now I spread the word to everyone I can about the benefits of using Fair Trade Certified ingredients. I love being a monthly donor and knowing that I am doing my part and being a part of something bigger.”
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Most of us know that a diet that includes fish can help protect the heart. Fish is rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) which, when taken as a supplement, can protect people with coronary disease from suffering a severe heart attack. But there was always the worry that the supplements might also increase the risk of stroke.
So, if heart patients were to get their omega-3 from fish alone, how much would they need to eat to gain the same protective effect, but without the stroke risk?
Researchers from Harvard Medical School decided to find out, and they recruited 43,000 healthy men aged between 40 and 75 years to find out.
The first piece of good news is that the researchers were able to confirm that fish can deliver the same benefits as supplements. Perhaps more surprisingly, it doesn’t take a lot to make a difference. Men who ate fish less than once a month certainly faced a far higher risk of stroke compared with those who ate fish just once to three times a month. But those who ate fish more frequently still, and the researchers assessed some participants who had fish five times a week, did not have any more protection than those who had fish less frequently.
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Comes with this description: A grand confluence of events created the great Los Angeles Zombie Killing Games. After the success of the 1932 Olympics, the city was eager to make use of their newly built stadiums and housing, and to reap more tourist and investment dollars. At the same time, a virulent strain of Living Undead Infections (or “Zombies”) affected the entire Valley area, from Santa Monica to Whittier. Mayor John C. Porter proposed the Zombie Killing Games (also known as the Living Undead Olympics), which drew renowned slayers from around the world to compete in such diverse fields as Underwater Battles, Competitive Silence, and the crowd-pleasing Head Hockey and “Foot” ball where zombie body parts were used as balls.
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More specifically, how does a wave-particle duality differ from a quasiparticle/collective excitation?
What makes a photon a gauge boson and a phonon a Nambu–Goldstone boson?
Not all phonons are Nambu-Goldstone bosons and not all Nambu-Goldstone bosons are phonons. Nambu-Goldstone bosons are (usually) gapless excitations that arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking. For instance, in a spinless Bose-Einstein condensate, the NG boson is indeed a phonon, with a linear dispersion at low energy. However, in a ferromagnet the NG boson is called a magnon. This magnon is gapless but has a quadratic dispersion relation, like a massive particle, and should generally not be called a phonon.
In a periodic crystal, for instance, phonon modes arise because of (discrete) translational symmetry but not spontaneous symmetry breaking -- they are not NG bosons. As someone pointed out, the periodicity is not necessary. In fact, in virtually all condensed matter systems have phonons because of translational symmetry (air has plenty!).
As you can probably tell, I'm much more inclined towards condensed matter than high energy theory, so I'm not sure if I can say anything useful about photons!
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Phonons are Goldstone bosons of a spontaneously broken spacetime symmetry (see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9609466). Typically, one breaks Galileo's (or Poincare') boosts and traslations but the resulting number of Goldstones is less or equal than the number of broken generators (e.g. a spacetime dependent traslation is not independent than a boost). Phonons are spin-0 and become strongly coupled, as every Goldstone boson, to the scale (e.g lattice scale) where the underlying microscopic degrees of freedom can be excited.
Massless Spin-1 bosons are instead described by mean of gauge invariance which is a bookkeeping 'symmetry' which erase all interactions that would either give the photon a mass or lower the cutoff of the theory making it strongly coupled at quite large distances. One can try to connect spin-1 massless gauge bosons with Goldstone bosons by breaking spacetime symmetries with a spin-1 order parameter. These are very speculative ideas that have a tiny chance to work only in Poincare' broken spacetimes. | <urn:uuid:dc30d62a-8c10-4ae4-93e3-1f2800fba96d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/47965/what-is-the-difference-between-a-photon-and-a-phonon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908011 | 540 | 2.40625 | 2 |
UNICEF supported Rugby Festival to promote healthy lifestyle among young people
21 November, 2010. Gori, Georgia. Follow sport, feel healthy lifestyle – this was the main slogan of the UNICEF supported Rugby festival among people aged 14-15 who gathered at the Gori main stadium today. Twelve teams of young people from all over the country participated in the tournament the main idea of which was to promote healthy lifestyle and to spread out specific messages against tobacco, drugs, aids and alcohol.
“For UNICEF sport is far more than a form of entertainment. Sport is critical to a child’s development. It teaches core values such as co-operation and respect. It improves health and reduces the likelihood of disease” said Roeland Monasch, UNICEF Representative in Georgia. “Rugby is a very popular sport in Georgia and young people play rugby not only to win but to play together that promotes real team spirit. We are delighted with the vision of the Georgian Rugby Union on how to promote healthy lifestyle among young people and we are happy to further enhance our partnership for the benefit of a healthy generation”.
Healthy lifestyle messages were communicated to children during the tournament which lasted the whole day. Children from Tbilisi, Gori, Kutaisi, Batumi, Poti and Rustavi not only played rugby and made friends with each other but also learned more about the importance of sport and healthy lifestyle.
“Rugby promotes networking among children”, said Mindia Lortkipanidze, Head of the Gori Rugby Club “Lions”, organizer of the tournament. “It changes their lifestyle and set examples for other children. I am sure that friends of these children will also want to follow sport. I can see it at the example of my own club. If last year we had only 100 children involved in our club, this year the number doubled and we have 200 children now.”
At the end of the tournament the participant children were awarded with special certificates and prizes. Representatives of the Georgian Rugby Union, National Rugby Team and UNICEF welcomed the participants and once again highlighted the need to follow sport and being healthy.
“I like playing rugby. I made a lot of friends here and I am glad that I met with the players of the Georgian National Team. Maybe one day I will also play for the national team”, said 14 years old David, one of the participants of the tournament.
UNICEF is on the ground in 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.
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A new scam on Facebook has already claimed thousands of victims. The scam centers around the new social network, Google plus, and all of the buzz it has been generating. The scam is a fake application called “Google Plus Direct Access.” It prompts users to visit a page on the site that they need to “like” in order to see. When they do that, they are handing over personal information to unknown developers of the dodgy app. Users are then offered a fake invitation to try out Google Plus in exchange for spamming their friends with invites to try out the app.
This offer is not real, of course. There is no such offer that exists. In reality, users will only promote the app, which will then falsely claim that it offers a means to “invite 50 friends” onto Google Plus, which is clearly not true.
The whole scheme could easily be altered just a little bit to instead promote sites that harbor malware on running privacy-threatening survey scams. This scheme is already serving as an efficient spreading mechanism. It has been reported that this Facebook scam has already gained more than 15,000 fans in less than a day.
These kinds of Facebook scams are quite popular. They are preying on people’s curiosity and using publicized events and trending topics. Social networking users need to be careful also about what applications they allow as many of these applications are allowed access to your Facebook records. There’s no telling what they are planning to do with your information, but it’s wise to just be careful about these sorts of things.
If you have suspicions about something on Facebook, it might be a good idea to run a general Google search on it. Doing this will usually tell you if it is a scam or not. | <urn:uuid:9e625d4a-ccb6-4d9d-ad24-202f21d5451d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.facebookgoogleplus.com/facebook-spam-app-for-g-invites-google-plus-direct-access/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964199 | 364 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The two most popular pineapples in the US are the Cayenne and the Red Spanish. The Cayenne is the traditional Hawaiian pineapple and although it's available all year round (thanks Hawaii) their peak season is in April and May. The Red Spanish however has two seasons one in August and September as well as January and February. That being said, it is actually an appropriate time to imbibe a tasty, pineappley beverage to beat the winter blues.
Pineapple Sage G&T
2 oz Gin
3 Sage leaves
3-4 1x1in fresh pineapple cubes
Fentamins Tonic Water
Muddle sage and pineapple with the lime juice in the bottom of a collins glass. Add gin, ice, and tonic. Slowly and gently stir to encourage flavor mixing without disturbing the bubbles in the tonic water. Garnish with pineapple and a sage leaf and serve with or without a straw.
Even though it's cold outside, who says you can't have a sandy beach right inside your living room.
Pineapple Tip: Choose the best pineapple by scent and the base of the pineapple. If the bottom is too green it means the fruit was picked too early and will never ripen properly. If it's a little orange/red at the bottom and it's scent is fruity and aromatic, it will be sweet and delicious! | <urn:uuid:281187f0-eaa4-4bbb-b872-a11d09c6721c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.middlebarla.com/2012/02/winter-fix-pineapple-sage-g.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967553 | 280 | 1.640625 | 2 |
As always, I am struck by the care and thought you've put into your reply.
The story goes (and you are basically right), that traders coming into the port of Guayaquil looking for the famed Ecuadorian "pepe de oro" (golden seed) were told to go "arriba" up the Guayas river to find the beans they were looking for. Today we know these areas as Los Rios, Manabi, Quevedo.
It is also important to note that the bean variety has always been called Nacional. Arriba is the name given to the unique flavor, which is not a genetic characteristic as Sam has noted because rootstock transplanted in other countries does not give rise to beans with the same flavor. So there is something about the terroir - in conjunction with that specific genetics - that results in the flavor. The Nacional flavor is likened to orange blossom with jasmine mixed in. Personally, I think the best example of this flavor I have ever tasted is the first harvest and production of Felchlin's Cru Sauvage.
I also have to agree with Sam about CCN51's undeserved reputation for poor quality. I think the photo she links to was taken on the same trip in 2005 that I was on. In this case, the pods were culled early in the week before being transported to the collection center and there was a national holiday over the weekend and a soccer match against arch-rivals Peru on Monday or somesuch so the beans had been fermenting in bags for at least five days before they were picked over to remove placenta. Unfortunately, the people doing the cleaning were not tasked with removing the rotting beans.
BTW: CCN stands for Collecion Castro Naranjal. Carlos Castro was famous cacao breeder in Ecuador, and the particular hybrid - of a trinitario with the the Nacional - was number 51. It was championed by the Crespo family and it was on their farm outside Guayaquil where we saw beans like this.
Ecuador is famous (or infamous) for its lackadaisical approach to fermentation, probably because of the convoluted market system that evolved out of the destruction of the Hacienda system of the late 1800s, brought about by agrarian land reform. The farmers aren't paid to care (for the most part) so they don't.
While in Ecuador in 2005 we visited a cocoa processor (Tulicorp) where we participated in a chocolate liquor tasting. One of the revelations of the tasting was that one of the best-tasting liquors came from CCN51 beans - that had been properly fermented. Fermented properly, it's possible to make some very decent chocolate using CCN51 beans. Certainly as good as anything made with Amelonado forastero from Western Africa. | <urn:uuid:ac17dd9c-0bbc-447d-93ab-5017c0722d53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thechocolatelife.com/forum/topics/chocolates-of-ecuador-arriba?commentId=1978963%3AComment%3A17066 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979675 | 597 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Check inflation with three simple steps you can do yourself
How confident are you about the Fed’s ability to control inflation? If you’re like us, it’s something you frequently think about. To help you better answer this question, here’s a simple way to see what kind of inflation rates are being priced into the fixed income markets.
The breakeven inflation rate between a conventional Treasury bond and TIPS is one way to measure the market expectations regarding future inflation rates.
So how do you calculate a breakeven inflation rate?
If you have access to a Bloomberg terminal, you can find an index for this breakeven inflation rate. But if you don’t, all is not lost. A three-step process can help you approximate the breakeven rate using publicly available data. The video above will walk you through the process or you can follow the three steps below:
- Go to the Wall Street Journal and pull the yield of the on-the-run Treasury for the maturity you’re interested in. This provides the most recently issued and frequently traded Treasury security for its maturity. (For example, if you’re interested in the five-year expectation, choose a maturity of around five-years).
- Take the yield for the TIPS with the closest maturity to your Treasury yield. TIPS are Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and are essentially identical to Treasury Bonds except the principal and coupon payments are adjusted to reflect the impact of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index.
- Compare the difference, or spread, between nominal U.S. Treasuries and TIPS as an approximate breakeven inflation rate. This difference should reflect market expectations of inflation.
This may be a little confusing, so let’s look at an example. To calculate the five-year spread between nominal U.S. Treasuries and TIPS for December 2, 2010, our three steps look like this:
|Yield for Treasuries with a five-year approximate maturity (11/30/15)||1.670%|
|Yield for TIPS with a five-year approximate maturity (1/15/16):||0.081%|
Keep in mind, this is an approximate calculation, so don’t worry if the maturities don’t exactly line up. In the example above, the five-year breakeven inflation rate of around 1.589% feels low and not above the levels of inflation that investors have come to expect over the past 20 years. Values higher than 2-3% could mean the market is expecting higher inflation. So, while Russell as a firm doesn’t believe that inflation expectations in the near term are serious, this is another way to see, directionally, what the market is pricing in going forward. | <urn:uuid:b1f3d056-a512-4ac4-b4bc-9bab4ac9e6f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.helpingadvisors.com/2010/12/07/check-inflation-with-three-simple-steps-you-can-do-yourself/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921413 | 589 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Growth funding sought
Lakota's rising numbers prompt 7.7-mill levy try
By Sue Kiesewetter
LIBERTY TWP. - Tracy Carson isn't happy that there are 29 children in her son's third-grade classroom at Liberty Elementary School.
It's the largest class he's been in since the family moved to West Chester when he started kindergarten. The increased class size and crowded hallways are visible reminders why residents in this growing district, Ohio's largest suburban district, should pass a combination levy Nov. 2, Carson says.
The 7.7-mill levy would provide $12.4 million annually for day-to-day operations as well as $80.3 million to build two elementary schools and a freshman school. It would also allow for the expansion of Lakota East and West high schools. Taxes would increase by about $236 each year on a $100,000 house.
"I hate to see the excellence we've built up go down, and that's what I think will happen if we don't pass this,'' Carson said.
In December, board members approved cuts totaling $3 million. When a larger levy was defeated in March, another $4.2 million was trimmed from this year's budget. Classroom and participation fees that students pay, along with preschool tuition, were increased.
Should the November levy be defeated, the district would be faced with cutting $13 million over the next two years to balance its budget. Board members have said $7 million must come from the 2005-06 school year budget.
"It's critically important to the continued success of Lakota to pass this now,'' said Joan Powell, school board president. "We have no place to put the children who keep coming." Almost 600 new children enrolled in this southeastern Butler County district in the past 12 months, bringing enrollment to 16,938. Another 500 are projected to enter in the next 12 months.
Unlike the March campaign, there doesn't appear to be an organized, visible opposition to the levy, supporters say. But that doesn't mean there aren't opponents.
"I'm against it, but I'm not doing anything this time,'' said Helen Shumaker, who says legislators must address the school-funding issue.
"As long as they keep putting property taxes on and people keep (approving) them, the state isn't going to do anything,'' Shumaker said. "There's got to be a change in the funding, and it's got to come from the state level.''
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Every product we buy whether it is manufactured in China or made here in the US has a price based on the skill and energy put into creating it. That price can be expensive or inexpensive based on the market for that item. Tiny houses are no exception. The blogosphere often asks why and assumes that tiny houses are too expensive, but are they really?
The only experience I have is my own, so I wanted to share a bit of it with you. Realize, however, I am not the numbers person in my partnership. I have these rough figures but specifics I am not so good at. In any case I do not believe that our tiny house was too expensive to build. It might cost more per square foot than a traditionally sized house, but that was a tradeoff we were willing to make.
The cost of our tiny house, not including the solar power set up, was just around $20,000. This figure includes the plans from the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company as well as the tools we used to build the house. This also includes all of our mistakes. Since it was our first time building anything we had a couple. If we started again we believe we could build the same or similar house for closer to $10,000.
Is this affordable? Yes, I believe it is. Finish reading below to see why I think so.
Our country had a problem with mortgages not that long ago. I should have known a recession was coming back in 2007.
I was working at a staffing company and one of our biggest clients was a sub-prime mortgage lender. At the time I didn’t put much thought into what that meant.
We had worked with them since our company was founded in 1999 and placed a lot of people there in really well-paying jobs. Young professionals just out of college were starting at nearly $50,000 a year and they really possessed no specialized skills, if I’m being honest.
The company spent a lot of money to move into a beautiful new office which they renovated. Then, one day only a couple of months later, it just didn’t exist anymore.
The temporary employees who had been there the day before showed up to a locked door and a dark building. They called us wanting to know what was going on and we didn’t have any idea.
The people we had placed over the years who had been hired started to call as well. No one knew what happened. We helped many of them find new jobs and just went about our business not realizing the kind of impact this actually had on the economy.
Shortly after that difficulties started for other companies related to the financial industry. The bottom fell out and there was a time I wasn’t sure if our company was going to stay in business either.
The problem was not that houses were too expensive. The problem was that mortgage companies were qualifying people who did not make enough money to afford payments on those houses.
Suddenly it was important for everyone to have a big suburban home even if they needed to scrape together the money for food and clothing between mortgage payments.
Enter the tiny house movement. It started small. It is still small for that matter. But when someone looks at the $30,000 or more price tag on a completed tiny house they panic.
Why is it so expensive? Well, it is a lot less expensive than that half-million dollar suburban home and you actually have a house in the end and not 30 or more years of debt.
Also, it takes money to build these houses and, just like any business that has ever existed the companies are interested in making some money as profit for their work.
When you look at the cost/benefit analysis of tiny living you’ll begin to see that the price tag for quality built tiny houses is not so bad. And I would caution against cutting corners for a home that is intended to be built on a trailer.
Let me know what you think about the cost of tiny houses.
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Visit Lumbini Year 2012
After the official Visit Nepal year 2011, the government of Nepal now announced the official Visit Lumbini Year 2012. Lumbini is the historic birthplace of Lord Buddha and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is hoped, that the Visit Lumbini Year will send Buddha's message of peace and harmony across the world in a new way.
It was only last year that Lumbini received a large development grant, opened a large Eco-monastery, underwent conservation works on some of its most important monuments and more than 100,000 trees have been planted in the sacred garden.
After the facelift for the monuments and the new additions to the sacred site Lumbini is better prepared than ever to welcome visitors and pilgrims from all over the world.
Do you want to be one of them?
Do you really wish to visit the birth place of Gautam Buddha?
A Special Buddhist Pilgrimage Tour in Nepal is available for booking.
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YOU MAKE CHANGE. (Human Rights MakerLab Reflextion)
|June 20, 2012||Posted by Pedro under Human Rights MakerLab||
When we first got asked about doing a MakerLab on Human Rights, we got the proposal of making T-Shirts and different objects with the Human Rights logo on it. The idea was to spread the Human Rights logo, at the same time that making those objects in a fair and open way which people could experience.
But we saw other potential in it. We saw that most makers have an inherent feeling for human rights. Non of them go around talking about how Human-Rights-Friendly their products or process are, instead they want to inspire people about a different way of doing things. A way that empowers Human Beings and the environment we live in. And they do this just because they believe is making a difference, and they love to do it.
In this sense, the MakerLab was not about defending the right to have a free speech or shelter. It was about the right to be a Human Being, and inspire others to be too. Not just with the minimums we need to live, but with the right to fully enjoy life and all its excitements and thrills. The MakerLab was the opportunity for those people trying to do something, to get in contact with other like-minded people and Make it happen, It was about making people happy. The logo, inspiration for this Makerlab, is then slowly translated into a symbol. A symbol for those that want to change the world to make it better for all. Is a symbol for those that have an idea, and can’t keep it to them self, but need to make it into the world.
Thanks to…Predrag Stakić, for the Logo Design,Everybody who came and took part,Everyone who passed through and contributed,Everybody who shared their ideas and thoughts,To those who intended to participate but couldn’t this time,To everyone we missed off due to sheer volumes of anarchic participation,To the forces of chaos, serendipity and pure collective will,To the world.
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Last year, my schedule didn’t allow me to make it to the Alexander McQueen exhibit, so this week, when I found myself with some unexpected free time while on a business trip, I snagged a cab and took a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Exhibit, “Schaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations”
How to describe an exhibition that is so beautifully curated that it shows, in brilliant compare/contrast, the inspiration, juxtaposition and evolution of fashion from the 1920s of Schap’s café society to the modern day Milan of Miuccia Prada? I have to admit, I was not expecting much when I walked in. I love Schiaparelli, but only in the context of cool stuff from a bygone age. And I got a bad taste in my mouth about Prada back in the 90s when I spent a small fortune on a Prada black nylon bag (the must-have bag of the day), only to see every Tammy, Deena and Harriet walking around with cheap knockoffs of it three months later.
But this exhibit changed my opinion. Oh yes, there is some silliness in the form of videos of “Elsa Schiaparelli” talking about fashion and design with Miuccia Prada. But beyond that (And can I tell you? People – there is real, historically significant fashion in the vitrines next to you. Stop staring at the f*cking video screens! But I digress), this show is positively jaw-dropping. My favorite part was titled “Waist Up/Waist Down”. I never really paid attention before this, but Schiaparelli put huge design focus on jackets, since her clients were ladies who lunched, and jackets with interesting embellishments were more likely to be photographed.
Prada, on the other hand, gives great attention to skirts. According to the show, she loves skirts because they move more and provide interesting visuals. (As an aside, yeah, that’s true on the runway. But have you ever seen what a skirt looks like after a day of sitting at an office desk? But I digress.) There were amazing side-by sides. The curators of this exhibit, Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, did an astounding job of finding garments that so beautifully complemented each other. My absolute favorite pairing was a jacket that had palm motifs embroidered on it (Lesage) next to a beautiful printed skirt.
There are other galleries: Ugly Chic, Hard Chic, Naïf Chic, The Exotic Body and The Classical Body, which I found fascinating, since I’ve never seen such demure and wearable pieces in the books I have on Schiaparelli. Then there was the final set of vitrines, called The Surreal Body. This was, as you might expect, where you saw some of the most “out there” looks. There was a cool Prada “Lobster” dress that was covered in paillettes that evoke the crustacean. The weirdest, and ickiest, was a dress that Schiap designed with Salvador Dali (a frequent collaborator). Called the Tears Dress, it was gorgeous, until you realized what it was about. It was a rayon and silk gown, mostly white that had slashes and appliquéd doodads in pink. I happened to be there when a docent was leading a group through. She explained that the dress was supposed to look like skin that had been flayed to reveal the underlying tissue. Ooookay. Thanks, I’m not hungry now.
There were some other classic pieces from Schiaparelli – the embroidered Apollo cape, the Jean Cocteau kiss, the Circus horses and trapeze jacket, the shoe hat. And equally beautiful, though not-yet-iconic pieces from Prada.
So if you are in New York, by all means, get thee to this exhibit! It’s wonderful, and it’s at the Met through August 19, 2012.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
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Community Table is helping to establish a local food system that draws from the local landbase to sustainably produce, process, and market fresh and healthy food to meet the needs of the local community. We do this primarily by coordinating and supporting a network of business cooperatives, each addressing a particular aspect of the food system, each committed to the principles of transparency, equity, and trust. Our aim is to create a new local food economy that works to promote the health, well-being, and security of the land and people of our communities, all while providing just wages and a fair market environment.
Community Table is developing resources for people interested in starting businesses that contribute to the local food system. We are in the process of creating a membership structure that will help businesses get organized as cooperatives, facilitate networking, connect businesses to local markets, offer a Community Table product label guaranteeing standards of quality, sustainability, and fairness, and provide ongoing training and support. Please see What We Do for more details. And if you are so inspired, join us in working to create these important services. We can use your help.
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The Mediterranean Diet has long been lauded for its vast health benefits, often being deemed the healthiest of all diet styles. Heart health now joins fertility, Alzheimer’s, longevity, lower cholesterol, and even diabetes as some of the many ways this diet improves health, per a study released today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study found that there is a 30 percent decrease in the development of cardiac disease, including heart attack and stroke, when a Mediterranean Diet is followed. The New York Times reported it was “the first major clinical trial to measure the diet’s effect on heart risks. The magnitude of the diet’s benefits startled experts. The study ended early, after almost five years, because the results were so clear it was considered unethical to continue.”
The study involved 7,447 people in Spain, each with risk factors like overweight, smoking or diabetes, who were randomly put on a Mediterranean Diet or a low-fat diet. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of the Mediterranean diet, which is focused on eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and healthy fats from sources like olive oil, avocado, and fish. Even wine is included; in this study, one group was able to have seven glasses of wine each week. Dairy, red meat, and processed foods like bakery items are to be avoided or strictly limited.
This isn’t the first time the Mediterranean Diet has been linked with improving heart disease. We reported such findings in 2010, which found that the diet was “associated with higher heart rate variability (HRV), which is a measure of the time between a person’s heart beats. A lower variability in heart rate is a risk factor for coronary artery disease,” wrote Jason Knapfel.
Most impressive, according to the New York Times, the researchers say they learned so much from this study hat they have adopted Mediterranean eating habits themselves.
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In the first of his weekly columns for Globe Investor's new month-long Home Buying site, housing bear Ben Rabidoux looks at whether now is better to buy or rent.
Not too long ago I received an e-mail from a young couple in their early 20s who had just made the decision to purchase their first home after renting a house for the past three years.
“It was a no-brainer for us. It was either keep renting and throwing our money away or buy and start building equity.”
At the time, they had been renting a two-bedroom bungalow in a small Ontario town. Their rent had gone up by about 5 per cent over three years, while local housing prices had appreciated by 20 per cent or more in the same period.
“Does it concern you at all that house prices have risen so much faster than rent,” I asked.
“Not at all. Our town is growing. People want to live here. Small town, nice people, close to the water ... Why wouldn’t house prices go up?”
Their experience has been mirrored in most cities in Canada. House prices over the past decade have substantially outpaced rental growth. You can see the pattern in these charts comparing rent and home price increases in major Canadian centres:
The same pattern is widespread even in most smaller communities
Should it concern us when we see house prices rising much faster than rents for a prolonged period of time? Interestingly, in 2004, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco released a report warning of a serious overvaluation issue in U.S. real estate. This proved to be a remarkably prescient warning as the market peaked two years later, then began its unprecedented decline. What tipped them off to the existence of a housing bubble in the U.S.? Believe it or not, it was the fact that house prices had grown so much faster than rents for a prolonged period of time.
Why do rents determine fair value of a home?
We need to step back and look at the issue of home prices in a completely different way. All of the usual factors that people tend to associate with rising house prices, namely rising population, income growth, limited supply, and the general desirability of a particular city or area, should affect the price of renting a home as well as buying a comparable home.
Let’s consider just rising population amid a relatively stable supply of residences. This creates demand for dwellings in general, pushing up house prices, along with the rent that a landlord could charge. But not every factor drives them up equally. In fact, there are two main factors that can cause the value of a house to rise faster than the rents that a comparable dwelling would command.
The first factor is cheap and readily available credit. Since houses tend to be bought on credit, but rents paid out of income, when credit is cheap and readily available, it can, for a time, push house prices up much faster than rents. But this is not sustainable in the long run as ultimately even house prices are constrained by the growth in the incomes that support mortgage payments. With interest rates hovering near historic lows and with mortgage debt at all time highs, it’s easy to see that this fact is at play here in Canada.
The second factor is what economists call the "ownership premium." When people look favourably upon real estate as an investment, the price of houses can increase faster than rents for a time. Said another way, when there is a cultural shift towards owning a home, and an associated stigma towards renting, it can cause people to make irrational financial decisions such as purchasing a home when an equivalent home can be rented for substantially less than ownership costs. This is particularly the case in Canada’s larger cities.
Our home ownership rates have risen across all demographics, and we now have the highest proportion of homeowners in our country’s history (roughly a 70/30 split). At the same time, surveys by RBC and the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals (CAAMP) have consistently shown that people view home ownership as the best way to build long-term wealth. Home ownership is consistently rated higher than investing in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds as the best way to build wealth. The notion of housing as a means to riches and renting as “throwing your money away” is a relatively new, and in some cases, dangerous mentality.
In many cities, it makes far more sense financially to rent a dwelling and build your equity by saving the difference between your rent and your ownership costs. Unfortunately, it is phenomenally difficult for many prospective new buyers to think logically about this due to the prevailing stigma against renting and the pressure exerted by well-meaning friends and family to “stop throwing money away on rent.” As I like to remind people, the majority of new buyers are still renters; they’ve just gone from renting space to renting money.
The growth in prices relative to rents tells us that unsustainable factors are at play. Temper your expectations! A decade of house price appreciation like the past is exceptionally unlikely and the chances of significant price corrections are high and rising, particularly in places like Vancouver and the Toronto condo market.
Analyst and strategist Mr. Rabidoux covers Canadian macro economic trends with a focus on housing and consumer credit. He also has a website, TheEconomicAnalyst.com.
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Where: Central Florida
What: Pristine wilderness in the shadow of America’s theme park capital
Orlando is famous as the family-fun city that Disney built, but it has quietly developed a secret second identity as a jumping-off spot to some of the most pristine wilderness in Florida. Sadly, the bulk of the 50 million-plus visitors who converge on this tourist megalopolis every year, spending hours creeping along congested highways from hotels to theme parks, probably never realize that the other, wilder Florida lurks just an exit away. When I passed through recently with my daughters en route to a family reunion, we were able to explore this hidden Orlando, where tropical ecology is the prime attraction. It was a relaxing antidote to the hyperstimulating theme park experience: no crowds, no merchandise booths, no imitation castles, and the only mouse ears in sight belong to Podomys floridanus, the Florida mouse.
Orlando’s transformation into a mecca for family vacationers began in the early 1960s, when agents working for the Walt Disney Corporation bought up more than 40 square miles of cattle fields and swamps here. For Walt Disney World (now the Magic Kingdom®), which opened in 1971, the company built dozens of canals and levees and drained an entire lake. But Orlando’s fate changed again in 1972, when Congress passed the Clean Water Act, recognizing that wetlands filter the water that flows through them and provide important habitats for fish and birds. Under the law, when builders drain or pave over wetlands they must restore others nearby, a process known as mitigation.
One result is the Disney Wilderness Preserve, located some 30 miles south of Orlando. In the early 1990s Disney needed to offset new construction at its theme parks and at the planned community of Celebration. The company crafted what was, at the time, an innovative response, says Tricia Martin, the Nature Conservancy’s Central Florida conservation director: “Instead of doing piecemeal mitigation, which tended to produce tiny parcels within a development, they decided to do a larger project off-site.” In the end, Disney decided to buy an entire 8,500-acre tract called Walker Ranch and then donated it to the nonprofit Nature Conservancy. (For information on the preserve: call 407-935-0002, email firstname.lastname@example.org, or see the webpage for the preserve.)
Other developers have since adopted this approach as well, for several reasons. First and foremost, wetlands are more complicated than they look. Marshes, swamps, and bogs are all unique ecosystems with their own water flow patterns, and it takes more to create a healthy, lasting wetland than digging a hole and adding water. Many companies are willing to hire experts to do it, and environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy are ready to help conserve sites that would otherwise become parking lots.
The Disney Wilderness Preserve is a case in point. It sits in the Everglades headwaters, a zone of streams, lakes, and ranch lands stretching between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee in central Florida. Water once flowed freely from the lake to the Gulf of Mexico 100 miles south, creating the Everglades, the extraordinary 50-mile-wide swath of marshes that author and environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas memorably called a “river of grass.” Drainage for ranching and development have shrunk the Everglades to half their original size, but state and federal agencies had adopted a 30-year plan that is projected to cost more than $10 billion. Conserving land in the headwaters area is critical because it helps protect the system at its source.
Driving along narrow side roads to the preserve, subdivisions quickly give way to scattered houses and cattle fields, without any billboards hawking the gator farms and swim-with-dolphin packages that pass as nature tourism in many parts of the state. At the refuge we follow a sandy walking trail that takes us back to a prehistoric Florida. Fields of leathery saw palmettos and stands of longleaf pine trees are pocked with ponds and marshes. Sandhill cranes swoop overhead, and a red-shouldered hawk screeches in the distance. There are more than 1,000 species of plants and animals at the refuge. Some are common, like wild turkeys, but many are endangered or threatened. The Conservancy is reintroducing endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers to the preserve and monitoring a rare wood stork rookery on the site.
To re-wild this tract, the Conservancy filled in drainage ditches, restoring natural water flows. It also attempted to weed out invasive species like feral hogs, a major Florida scourge introduced by Spanish explorers in the 1500s (the animals uproot delicate plants), and saltbush, a shrub that grows well in marshy areas but can spread aggressively. Now curators carry out managed burns across parts of the site each year to clear undergrowth and help native plants germinate. “Burns would happen even if we didn’t set them. This is the lightning capital of Florida, and these plants are wired for fire,” says program assistant Christa Evans. When we pass a burned-over section we see young longleaf pines sending bright green shoots up from their blackened stems, leafing out above the fire line. | <urn:uuid:11903865-d5fc-4db4-8602-301ecea7ba47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/02-destination-science-natural-world-outside-disney-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942578 | 1,112 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The Royal family to share its memories by posting photos on Flickr
She has famously given YouTube and Twitter the Royal seal of approval. Now the Queen is to establish a presence on picture-sharing website Flickr.
Up-to-the-minute images of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family will be streamed on to the new Buckingham Palace Flickr page, which goes live tomorrow.
The site will initially store 600 images of the Royals and will have 28 sections covering senior members of the Royal Family including the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Princes William and Harry.
The Duke and Duchess of York, later to become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, are seen with Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, in an archive photo of The Royal Collection in 1929 that will feature on the Royal family's page
Left: Prince Charles, the late Princess Diana and their sons Harry and William during a 1989 holiday on the Scilly Isles. Right: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1854
The online photograph album will provide a unique glimpse into the life and work of the modern Monarchy and will allow Flickr users to use the photographs in blogs and other social media.
As well as recent photographs of the Royal Family at work and play, the site will include more historical material drawn from the Royal collections.
There are several intimate family photos depicting both the Queen and Prince Charles as babies and children.
The photo website Flickr will host hundreds of photos of the Royal family from tomorrow
A photograph that will appear on Flickr showing the Queen at age two
Highlights include a picture of the Queen when she was just two years old, and a family portrait which shows the three-year-old Princess Elizabeth enjoying tea with her parents, the future George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
The site also includes a letter sent to the future Queen Mother by nurse Clara Knight, who looked after the young Princess Elizabeth. The letter, which was sent to accompany a photograph and which is dated March 8, 1927, reads: ‘If mummy looks into my wide open mouth with a little magnifying glass she will see my teeth. Elizabeth quite well and happy!’
The site also features a family snap of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with a young Princess Anne and Prince Charles, taken in the grounds of Clarence House in August 1951.
Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana leave hospital with Prince Harry after he was born in 1984
Left: The hand of the then Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, in 1927. Right: The Queen in 2008
The section dedicated to Charles has a picture of the heir to the throne on his first day at Hill House school and records key moments of his life, including his investiture
Also featured in the collection is a wedding photograph of the Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall from 2005, as well as two photographs of the late Princess Diana. One shows Charles, Diana and their children William, then aged six, and Harry, aged four, on holiday in the Isles of Scilly. The other shows the couple and their sons saying goodbye to the people of Toronto following a Royal visit in 1991.
Several sections of the site are dedicated to the Queen’s year and show her greeting guests at a garden party, presiding over a state banquet and even receiving the credentials of Werner Matias Romero, the ambassador for El Salvador.
Princes William and Harry with footballer David Beckham at last month's World Cup in South Africa
Prince Harry in his room at Eton (left) and on patrol in Afghanistan (right) during his deployment to Helmand
There are also pictures from recent Royal visits to New York, Canada and Holyrood.
The site has more than 40 photos drawn from the Collection of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. They include several of the couple, including at study of them completed by Roger Fenton at Buckingham Palace in 1854.
The Flickr account is a collaboration between Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace and Clarence House and is the latest attempt by the Royal Family to harness the power of new technology.
It follows the launch of the Royal Family channel on YouTube in 2007 and the establishment of the British Monarchy Twitter account in 2009. The bank of Royal photographs will grow as new images are added to the collection.
Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to Wallets Marts in Castle Douglas earlier this month
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: ‘The Royal Household is always keen to embrace new technology and the use of Flickr is an extension of that.’
Flickr has become a world phenomenon since its launch in 2004 and is now home to more than four billion images.
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Fresh air, wide open spaces and the chance to hit a ball. These are just some of the reasons why children love playing golf at Constance Belle Mare Plage.
More and more children are trying the game while on holiday with us. Here’s why kids and golf are a perfect match.
1. Much has been written on how playing sport is good for children – it develops confidence and self-awareness, as well as respect for others.
2. Playing golf gives children the chance to spend time in beautiful natural landscapes, soaking up the fresh air and sunshine.
3. Children love to be active, and playing golf is a great way to learn how to exercise while having fun.
4. Kids love hanging out with other kids, and playing golf together is a great way to make friends.
5. Sport helps kids learn how to manage their emotions. Everyone has good and bad days on the golf course. The game teaches children to stay calm and focused on one thing at a time.
6. Golf teaches a certain etiquette – there are no referees in golf, golfers negotiate among themselves and play to the rules.
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ScienceDaily (July 19, 2010) — Psychologists aren't usually called to the battlefield, but the 2008-09 Gaza War gave Tel Aviv University researchers a unique picture of how anxiety manifests during stressful situations.
In a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Prof. Yair Bar Haim of TAU's Department of Psychology reports that people confronted with acute stress -- daily rocket attacks -- tend to dissociate from threats instead of becoming more vigilant. This research overturns accepted convention and may lead to better understanding of the mechanisms underlying acute stress reactions, he says.
Though conducted on the battlefields of the Middle East, Prof. Bar Haim's research has immediate repercussions for U.S. soldiers as well. "The American government is dealing with large numbers of soldiers coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq suffering from PTSD," he says. "Our study is important because it's the first to show the effects of war-related acute stress in real time." It also has significant implications for the understanding of other known PTSD triggers, such as rape or motor vehicle accidents.
A real-time picture of stress
Using fMRI and other imaging techniques, Prof. Bar Haim investigated neural mechanisms related to anxiety disorders and how people respond cognitively to stress. He also studied how people process threats when they are under severe stress. His previous studies, both at Tel Aviv University and through the U.S. National Institutes of Health, looked at neural, genetic and molecular factors related to threat processing in the brain, and these gave Prof. Bar Haim and his team a context to infer what happens in the brain when behavioral data on acute stress situations is collected.
In the most recent study, he looked at Israelis close to the firing zone, near the border with Gaza, where they had been living with the daily stress of rocket threats for eight years. The threat became more severe during the war. While his test subjects completed various computer tasks to test behavior, Dr. Bar Haim monitored processes at the deeper, unseen levels of the brain.
He found that subjects under acute stress developed symptoms of post-trauma and most often manifested a dissociative state rather than one of hypervigilance. Most important for clinical applications, the researchers found that the symptoms produce a measurable effect -- a neuromarker -- that may be used to predict who are the individuals most at risk for developing chronic PTSD following a traumatic event.
Less vigilant to personal threats
Prof. Bar Haim says this is the first study in the scientific literature to describe real-time effects of war-related stress on its victims. In the previous literature, scientists assumed that people under stress would become more vigilant to threats, rather than disengaging. "This calls for some revision of the foundations of the stress-PTSD model," he says.
Prof. Bar Haim is now conducting a study involving Israeli soldiers that investigates the potential use of computer-based tasks to modify and retrain the attention system of the afflicted patient. Called "Attention Bias Modification Treatment," the approach has been successfully applied in several clinical trials both in the U.S. and in Israel. Soon it will be tested in IDF veterans with PTSD.
Prof. Bar Haim emphasizes that the treatment of anxiety-related disorders is not an easy task. But he hopes that his work in the field, coupled with imaging technologies and computer software, will lead to more effective ways of treating victims of anxiety and PTSD so they can lead normal and healthy lives. | <urn:uuid:9c0d201f-4bd2-46d9-8fc8-6b4dfee16513> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.warriorlifecoach.com/component/content/article/1-front-line/113-battlefield-psychologists-investigate-stress-in-combat-and-after | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963157 | 711 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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For our list today we have an interesting combination: small-cap dividend stocks with moderately high yields that appear to be trading below their true value. When the price drops, it can be a particularly good time to get in on a dividend stock that is known for its reliable payouts. As with any price fluctuation, it is helpful to have additional information to provide a more comprehensive picture. The second trait we focused on was earnings. All of the small-cap dividend stocks have a track record of improving profitability over time. We think the sum of these traits - moderate-to-high yields, profitability, and a discounted price - make for a compelling composition. We think you will find the list below of small-cap dividend stocks rather interesting.
The Price/Earnings ratio is one of the most commonly used price-multiple metrics. Often, EPS from the last four quarters is used to derive this number. A firm that has a high P/E ratio generally indicates that investors have high expectations of the firm relative to future earnings growth. By the opposite token, investors generally have lower expectations of a firm with a low P/E ratio. A firm that holds a P/E below 10 could be viewed as having "value investment" potential. One thing to remember is that EPS is an accounting measure that could be potentially manipulated. Thus the P/E is only as good as the quality of the earnings.
The forward P/E is a price multiple valuation metric, which is similar to the current P/E ratio, except that it uses the forecasted earnings instead. While this number might not be as accurate because it uses "forecasted" numbers, it does offer the benefit of illustrating analysts' expectations of a firm. If the market believes that earnings will grow moving forward, then the forward P/E should be lower than the current P/E. Financial Leverage, also known as the Equity Multiplier, illustrates how a firm is financing its assets. The lower the number the more a firm is financing its assets internally through stockholder equity. The higher this metric is the more the firm is relying on debt to finance its assets.
The Net Margin is a profitability metric that illustrates, by percentage, how much of every dollar earned gets turned into a bottom line profit. This is just one of many profitability metrics used by investors and analysts to better understand what the company is being left with at the end of the day. Generally, a firm that can expand its net profit margins over a period of time will see its stock price rise as well due to the trend of increasing profitability. Net Margin = Net Income/Total Revenue
EPS growth (earnings per share growth) illustrates the growth of earnings per share over time. EPS growth rates help investors identify stocks that are increasing or decreasing in profitability. This profitability metric is generally a key driver in the price of the stock as it directly correlates to the profitability of the company as a whole.
We first looked for small-cap dividend stocks. Next, we then screened for businesses that are trading at a discount (P/E<10) (forward P/E<10). We next screened for businesses that have achieved strong bottom line profitability (Net Margin [TTM]>10%) (1-year fiscal EPS growth rate>10%). We did not screen out any sectors.
Do you think these small-cap stocks have more value to price in? Use our screened list as a starting point for your own analysis.
1) Aircastle LTD (AYR)
|Industry||Rental & Leasing Services|
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||7.49|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||98.71%|
Aircastle Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, lease, and sale of high-utility commercial jet aircraft to passenger and cargo airlines worldwide. The company also makes investments in various aviation assets, including debt investments secured by commercial jet aircraft. As of December 31, 2011, its aircraft portfolio consisted of 144 aircraft that were leased to 65 lessees located in 36 countries, and managed through offices in the United States, Ireland, and Singapore. The company was formerly known as Aircastle Investment Limited. Aircastle Limited was founded in 2004 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
2) Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners L.P. (PSE)
|Industry||Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration|
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||9.68|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||15.45%|
Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners L.P. engages in the production of oil and gas in the United States. As of December 31, 2011, its oil and gas properties included non-operated working interests in approximately 1,116 producing wells located in the Spraberry field in the Permian Basin area of west Texas; and its proved reserves totaled 50,732 thousand barrels of oil equivalent. Pioneer Natural Resources GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Irving, Texas. Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners L.P. is a subsidiary of Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.
3) SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. (BOX)
|Industry||Rental & Leasing Services|
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||6.78|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||11.70%|
SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. operates as a container leasing company worldwide. It principally engages in the acquisition, leasing, re-leasing, and subsequent sale of refrigerated and dry containers, and generator sets. The company's containers are used to ship products internationally and facilitate movement of goods via multiple transportation modes, including ships, rail, and trucks. SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. leases its containers primarily under long-term contracts to various shipping lines. As of December 31, 2011, it owned or managed a fleet of 594,071 units, representing 933,499 twenty-foot equivalent units of containers and generator sets. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Park Ridge, New Jersey.
4) TAL International Group, Inc. (TAL)
|Industry||Rental & Leasing Services|
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||8.10|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||77.90%|
TAL International Group, Inc. engages in leasing intermodal containers and chassis worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Equipment Leasing and Equipment Trading. The Equipment Leasing segment is involved in the acquisition, leasing, re-leasing, and sale of intermodal transportation equipment, including dry freight containers, which are used for general cargo, such as manufactured component parts, consumer staples, electronics, and apparel; and refrigerated containers that are used for perishable items comprising fresh and frozen foods.
This segment also leases special containers, which are used for heavy and oversized cargo, including marble slabs, building products, and machinery; chassis that are used for the transportation of containers; and tank containers, which are used to transport bulk liquid products, such as chemicals. The Equipment Trading segment engages in the purchase of containers from shipping line customers and other sellers of containers, and resale of these containers to container traders and users of containers for storage and one-way shipments. As of December 31, 2011, the company's fleet consisted of 1,009,644 containers and chassis, including 26,491 containers under management for third parties, representing 1,645,868 twenty-foot equivalent units. TAL International Group, Inc. was founded in 1963 and its headquarters is in Purchase, New York.
5) PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDLI)
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||4.25|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||112.98%|
PDL BioPharma, Inc. engages in intellectual property asset management and royalty bearing assets investment activities. The company is involved in the humanization of monoclonal antibodies and the discovery of a new generation of targeted treatments for cancer and immunologic diseases. It offers Queen et al. patents that cover humanized antibodies, methods for humanizing antibodies, polynucleotide encoding in humanized antibodies, and methods of producing humanized antibodies. The company was formerly known as Protein Design Labs, Inc. and changed its name to PDL BioPharma, Inc. in 2006. PDL BioPharma, Inc. was founded in 1986 and its headquarters is in Incline Village, Nevada.
6) Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. (AMTG)
|Industry||REIT - Residential|
|Forward Price/Earnings Ratio||7.48|
|Earnings Per Share Growth Rate||538.60%|
Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. operates as a residential real estate finance company that invests in residential mortgage assets in the United States. It offers agency and non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities. The company is based in New York, New York.
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View Full Version : 433MHz Transmitter/Reciever help.
03-11-2010, 08:37 AM
This has just kind of been dropped on me. I've read the documentation and such but have hit a brick wall trying to program these. I'm using a BS2 with the 433MHx TX(27980) and RX(27981). I need to be able to get the transmitter to send data from multiple sensors such as a GPS unit and a Digital thermometer to the receiver. Is this possible? If so, could someone please point me in the right direction to figure this out?
03-11-2010, 11:22 AM
It is certainly possible. There's sample code for reading from GPS receivers and digital thermometers and there's sample code for sending data over a transmitter / receiver link. Most of the sample code is found via links on the Parallax webstore pages for the various products. There are some other examples in the Nuts and Volts Columns. You'll find the index for these by clicking on the Resources tab on the main Parallax webpage.
03-11-2010, 12:22 PM
Thanks for your reply. I did as you said and really couldn't find anything pertaining to my specific need. I have the TX and RX running the programs provided with the product PDF and everything is fine. However, I need a way to transmit the data from a GPS unit and a thermometer to another BS with the Receiver. I couldn't find anything that really helped with this goal. I found a couple of articles talking about this but they were of no help because they didn't really say how this was achieved, or provide any source codes. =[ I'm really pushed for time so a nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
03-11-2010, 10:51 PM
The sample programs show how to send arbitrary data from one Stamp to another. The GPS sample code and thermometer sample code show how to input (and display) the data from these devices. It's your job to take the pieces of data and, rather than treat them as individual pieces, treat them as a hunk of arbitrary data to be transmitted from one Stamp to another, then do something with them on the other end.
The "433RadioCRC-V1.2" example written originally for this transmitter/receiver pair and revised for the transceiver explains in the comments at the beginning how up to 16 bytes of data can be combined to make a packet for transmission with a CRC (for error checking).
It is the nature of this forum and of embedded systems that each project is different from others. Examples may be either generic or for combinations of devices different from what you have or need. You will have to adapt the existing examples for your specific needs. From the standpoint of receive/transmit code, there's no difference between a GPS receiver and a real-time-clock chip or a thermometer and a color sensor. It's all bytes of data.
You may need to browse through the BASIC Stamp Syntax and Reference Manual and look at the examples provided for the various I/O statements used in some of these sample programs. Depending on your level of programming experience, you may need to start with some of the more basic tutorials available for downloading from Parallax.
03-25-2010, 03:20 AM
I've tried and tried to figure this out but can't unfortunately and there is no one else to do it. I was attempting to figure out how to have the TX and a GPS unit on one stamp with another recieving. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the radio to transmit the info the GPS outputs to the RX. I have the radios sending some arbitrary data, and the GPS unit working, but I have no clue how to integrate the two and be able to see the output of the GPS on the debug window on the laptop with the RX. I really need to get this working soon but I cannot find ANY information even hinting at how to do this.
03-25-2010, 03:59 AM
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July 2, 2008 Scientists have achieved a record light conversion efficiency of 8.2% in solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cells. This breakthrough in efficiency without the use of volatile organic solvents will make it possible to pursue large scale, outdoor practical application of lightweight, inexpensive, flexible dye-sensitized solar films that are stable over long periods of light and heat exposure.
The new paper published online June 29 in the journal Nature Materials by EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dye-sensitized solar cell technology, invented by Michael Grätzel at EPFL in the 1990s, shows great promise as a cheap alternative to expensive silicon solar cells. Dye-sensitized cells imitate the way that plants and certain algae convert sunlight into energy. The cells are made up of a porous film of tiny (nanometer sized) white pigment particles made out of titanium dioxide.
The latter are covered with a layer of dye which is in contact with an electrolyte solution. When solar radiation hits the dye it injects a negative charge in the pigment nanoparticle and a positive charge into the electrolyte resulting in the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy. The cells are inexpensive, easy to produce and can withstand long exposure to light and heat compared with traditional silicon-based solar cells.
Currently, state-of-the-art dye-sensitized cells have an overall light conversion efficiency greater than 11%, still about two times lower than silicon cell technology.
A major drawback to the dye-sensitized cell technology is the electrolyte solution, which is made up of volatile organic solvents and must be carefully sealed. This, along with the fact that the solvents permeate plastics, has precluded large-scale outdoor application and integration into flexible structures.
To overcome these limitations, Grätzel and his colleagues developed a new concept -- a mixture of three solid salts as an alternative to using organic solvents as an electrolyte solution. When the three solid components are mixed together in the right proportion they turn into a melt showing excellent stability and efficiency.
Grätzel is confident that further development of these types of electrolyte mixtures will lead to large-scale practical application of dye-sensitized solar cell technology, reinforcing solar energy's role as a cornerstone of alternative energy production.
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Indian pilots struggle in fog
Ehtasham Khan in New Delhi |
January 02, 2004 13:30 IST
Despite proper facilities at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, most Indian pilots are not trained to land in foggy weather.
Every winter, delays due to fog hassle passengers flying in and out of the airport.
In a written reply to Parliament last month, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Rajiv Pratap Rudy said: "Directorate General of Civil Aviation is continuously monitoring the progress of training of pilots on automatic landing systems."
Three years ago the airport installed Category IIIa landing system at a cost of Rs 48 crore to allow aircraft to land when runway visibility is up to 200 metres.
The system illuminates the runway and the lighting is synchronised with the computer in the aircraft.
An IGIA official told rediff.com: "It all depends on the ability of the pilot whether he can use the system or not. Unfortunately, most of the Indian pilots are not trained to use it. Therefore, we have this problem every year."
Foreign pilots, he said, are well trained to handle such situations.
Last month this facility was used for the first time when two Indian Airlines aircraft took off in low visibility. Some other IA planes soon followed suit.
"Some of the Indian Airlines aircrafts are using this system. But it will take some time to train all the pilots. Also, private airlines are not yet equipped with this. We need some time to fully use this system," the official said.
"They [private airlines] don't want to spend on training because the foggy condition is just for about a month," he said.
Germany's Lufthansa pilots are best trained to tackle such situations.
"This is because their country is covered with fog for a long time every year," the official said.
Harbhajan Singh, spokesperson, IGIA, said: "The airlines have their own policy regarding landing of aircrafts. Most of them don't want to take risk.
"Pilots are being trained and it will take some time. Regular meetings are being held with the air services on this issue."
Another problem is that many times the visibility in Delhi is as low as 50 metres. The Category IIIa system then becomes useless.
He said there is Category IIIc landing system where aircrafts can land even in zero visibility. This has not yet been installed because it needs certain prerequisites.
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Gas prices are dropping fast in the Sacramento region in contrast to the sharp spike just a couple of weeks ago. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $4.301, compared to $4.482 a week ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
That’s a drop of 18.1 cents in a week, but still 21.6 cents more than last month. A year ago, gas only cost $3.785.
Gas prices in Sacramento are still 12.6 cents more than the state average of $4.427. The national average is $3.665, which is 12.2 cents less than last week’s $3.787. A year ago, the national average was $3.461.
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My theory offers a simple explanation of problems
all genealogists encounter. My husband (a VERY non-genealogist) thinks
this theory would save a great deal of time and effort, and
would make genealogy more interesting to read. (I am NOT
responsible for his opinions!) Here is an example:
My ancestor, Daniel Lovet, was reportedly born 15 May 1769, possibly enroute
to this planet, although perhaps it was his parents who were
beamed down from the spaceship (this part isn't real clear yet).
His parents either remained aboard, or were beamed back aboard, for no
earthly record has been found of them.
At any rate, after Daniel's marriage to Mary James on 11 Sep 1794 in Allegeny Co, MD, he spent the remainder of his
lifetime on this planet. Their oldest son, John, married Anna Price
(1821, OH) and had three sons by 1827. Since no other record of
Anna's birth, life or death can be found, it is obvious that not
only was she beamed down from a spaceship, but her mission was
completed sometime in 1827 and she was therefore beamed back aboard.
John, on the other hand, spent his entire lifetime on this planet.
It is not certain if more than one spaceship is involved
in this process.
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Questions relating to the link between smoking and health will also be examined. The research will document the existence and extent of selection into smoking, and its consequences for the quantification of the effect of smoking on mortality. Understanding selection into smoking matters greatly for the effectiveness of policies designed to deter smoking, in allowing better targeting of populations at risk. | <urn:uuid:3dde1b55-e088-4ffc-889a-beae828fcd11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-063-27-0002/read/reports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931813 | 291 | 1.90625 | 2 |
March 20, 2013
Ohio University’s Health Sciences Center was awarded $813,930 in Medicaid Technical Assistance and Policy Program (MEDTAPP) funds secured by the Ohio Office of Medical Assistance/Ohio Medicaid to support several projects designed to recruit, train and retain healthcare professionals to better serve the needs of Ohio’s Medicaid population.
Ohio University was one of three institutions in Ohio to receive funding through the Office of Medical Assistance/Ohio Medicaid in Phase 1-Round 2 of the MEDTAPP Healthcare Access (HCA) Initiative.
The projects, managed by faculty and staff in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and College of Health Sciences and Professions (both part of the Health Sciences Center), support training in the areas of nursing, primary care, integrated mind-body care and interdisciplinary health care work. The following activities are currently funded under the MEDTAPP Healthcare Access Initiative:
• The Interprofessional Health Teams Initiative supports 56 students in six disciplines (medicine, nursing, nutrition, physical therapy, speech-language pathology and social work) who are participating in a curriculum that promotes team-based medical care. The content modules, as well as much of the team interactions, are performed virtually. Students will be able to apply these skills via experiential learning at two separate Laurels Healthcare sites. The project stems from combined efforts of an Ohio University 1804 Fund award to John McCarthy of the College of Health Sciences and Professions and the Clinical Integration Committee, chaired by Jeffrey DiGiovanni, whose membership comprises faculty from the College of Health Sciences and Professions and the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
• The Integrated Mind-Body Medicine Program is a specialized residency training program that focuses on mind-body health in primary care. The training is designed to enhance a healthcare provider’s capacity to deal with chronic stress, in an effort to improve job satisfaction and the retention of physicians serving rural, Medicaid and low-income residents. The program is led by Joseph Bianco and physician Tracy Marx, D.O., of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
• The MEDTAPP Scholars program is designed to recruit and retain primary care practitioners to care for those on Medicaid in underserved rural Appalachia, as well as to establish practices that serve as training sites for future physicians and nurse practitioner students. The program will focus on practitioners new to practice, just out of residency or new to practicing in a Medicaid-rich rural underserved area in Appalachian Ohio. Training sites will include several local nursing homes, an Express Care clinic and Appalachian Behavioral Health, an area psychiatric hospital. The program is led by physician Tracy Marx, D.O., of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
• The Primary Care Scholarship Program incentivizes fourth-year medical students in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine to choose residencies in primary care in high-need Medicaid areas. The program, which provides 12 tuition stipends of $15,000, intends to increase the number of students choosing primary care to serve the Ohio Medicaid population. Primary care is often not an attractive choice financially for students who have a heavy debt load upon graduating from medical school, said project leader Sharon Zimmerman of the university’s Health Sciences Center. The Osteopathic Heritage Foundation provides match funding for this program. Upon graduation, these selected students will spend a minimum of one year practicing at a high-volume Medicaid site in Ohio.
The following project is participating in the MEDTAPP Healthcare Access Initiative, but is not using MEDTAPP funding to support related activities:
• The FNP + DNP = 1 + 1 Year Residency Program links master’s prepared nurse practitioners to a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) residency through employment and training at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics. The project is managed by Teresa Julian in the School of Nursing at the College of Health Sciences and Professions.
Northeast Ohio Medical University and Cleveland State University also received funding during the recent round of MEDTAPP HCA funding. These three newly funded institutions’ projects will foster training of approximately 500 additional medical professionals to better serve the Medicaid population.
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With the rise of Ron Paul in the Presidential Primary polls; America may be ready to crush crony capitalists by embracing “libertarianism.” As the founding philosophy that once unified our nation; today libertarianism represents the true existential threat to the crony capitalism that has flourished for decades in both established political parties. But with both political parties in decay and independents positioned to determine the outcome of next year’s Presidential and Congressional elections; voters seem ready to embrace a political philosophy that puts strict limits on all government activity in order to maximize individual liberty and economic freedom.
Libertarianism is defined as “any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals.” To the political party establishments who fund their existence on the ability to attain this power and rent it back to their crony capitalist fellow travelers; libertarianism was dismissed as a "popular, dogmatic political cult in the vein of Marxism-Leninism.” The political elites have been comforted that “libertarians would never get hold of true power – for unlike their Marxist-Leninist brethren, they are a political cult without a broad base of support; they have no proletariat and no peasantry!” But in the age of social networking’s viral formation of voluntary associations at virtually no cost; libertarianism has found its broad base of support that can competes favorably versus paid advertising that drives the “peasant” support of the established parties.
Political party competition in America has primarily been fought out on television screens with thirty second ads that end in: “and I endorse this message”. In 2008, dark horse primary candidate Barack Obama successfully tapped the internet to raise money and mobilize millions of voters; but Obama spent 50% of the $650 million campaign contributions he raised on television commercials during the Presidential election. In 2010 many politicians tried the same strategy; but even digital expert Meg Whitman who had jumped on the social media bandwagon, including Facebook and Twitter in the primary; scaled back on internet ad buys in favor of the tried and true television spots for the gubernatorial election. Analysts estimate that of the $2 billion campaign dollars raised for the 2010 midterm elections; over $1 billion was spent on television spots, $250 million for commercial radio, and $650 million on direct mail campaigns; versus less than $50 million on internet strategies.
Over the last twelve months there has been an unreported ground-swell of support for Congressman Paul’s libertarian philosophy that virally self-organized through social media. Paul never captured as much media attention as other Republican presidential candidates; even after placing second in the early Iowa Ames Straw Poll. When his name came up on the cable news shows, his libertarian ideas were dismissed the fringe ramblings of an unelectable candidate.
The media remained oblivious to Paul’s emergent online following. According to the Pew Charitable Trust's Project for Excellence for Journalism; in a new study analyzing more than 20 million election-related tweets from May through November, Paul "fared far better" than any other Republican candidate. Pew found that Ron Paul was referred to “positively” in 55% of the 1.1 million Twitter assessments about him; versus 15% negative assessments and 30% neutral:
"This treatment of Paul stands in contrast to that of most of the GOP field, for whom twitter has been a tough neighborhood,”... "Five of Paul's seven GOP rivals have had negative opinions on Twitter outstrip positive ones by roughly 2-1 or more."
America’s libertarian roots were incubated in the run-up to American Revolutionary War of 1776. The British raised taxes by 500% from 1698 to the 1773, and imposed the taxes without consent from America's own directly elected representatives; denied Americans their right to a fair trial by enforcing the Sugar and Stamp Acts in military courts; and kept troop high to intimidate the colonials settlers into submission.
American Exceptionalism is associated with our libertarian tradition based on personal freedom, egalitarianism, individualism, populism and laissez-faire. Of course these values clash directly with goals of crony capitalists to extract massive wealth from U.S. government contracts, permits, grants, special tax breaks, and so forth. But the low-cost economics of libertarian social networking is driving a determined to challenge crony capitalist’s tight-fisted grip on elections.
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This short, Sunday afternoon class provides a brief introduction to XML for newcomers. It takes a whistle-stop tour of the topics covered in practical detail over the three days of the Hands-on Introduction course. After this gentle first encounter with XML you should have gained some insight into answers to the following questions:
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Home & Garden
Some of you may remember Rube Goldberg. He’s a favorite case study of mine when it comes to home remodeling. If you know who he is, you’re giggling now. Rube, a UC Berkeley grad and local engineer (he worked on the sewer systems in San Francisco!) invented cartoon machinery that would perform one simple task in 20 or more complicated and ludicrous steps.
Complicated is fine for a cartoon. In your home, simpler is better. A lean, tightly designed system is more reliable and also easier to diagnose and repair when things go wrong.
When I crawl through our old houses I’m often reminded of Rube’s work—but not in an amusing way. I often find twice as much piping as would be actually needed to feed all the fixtures in the house. Excessive piping and fittings reduce flow and allow for lots more leaks. Excessive and poorly designed wiring gets hotter and has many more chances to fail, increasing fire concerns. A gas distribution system with 60 parts instead of 25 is that much more likely to leak and to break during an earthquake.
One of the most difficult areas of discussion with regard to home repair is the question of how deep or thorough a repair should be. I’m going to attempt to discuss this in a broad manner, but we’ll touch on some specific areas of common upgrade, such as plumbing and wiring.
First, repairs are almost always best achieved when done broadly. This speaks to quality but also to cost, if one looks at things on a per-unit basis. For example, adding a single electrical outlet in an upstairs room far from the electrical panel may cost several hundred dollars, whereas installing five outlets in a circuit from the same source may be less than $100 each when done as a single job.
This rule applies to all sorts of things and needs to be considered prior to beginning a course of work. However, the issue of primary importance here is that work must be planned and organized.
When deciding to add a gas line to your kitchen (you’re finally sick of cooking on a electric stove), it’s a good idea to first have your plumber take a look at the whole gas distribution system. It may be that you are only feeding three appliances but that the gas piping is routed, a la Rube, back and forth all over the crawlspace to sites that are no longer using gas (such as the long-gone floor furnace, or the laundry which is now in its third location.) If this is the case (and I certainly see quite a bit of it), I think it’s worthwhile to have the plumber bid the cost of rerouting the entire system. It also may be possible to remove most of the extraneous piping while leaving some in place. It will cost more to redo things properly, but it may not cost much more. Don’t miss out on an opportunity for big improvement if small dollars are in the way. Also, old piping is often loose at fittings and poorly supported, not to mention installed in such a way as to obstruct inspection (thank you very much) and the installation of other systems, such as furnace ducting.
Let’s take another common example. Say your dining room ceiling is cracked and unsightly, and you’ve been thinking about painting and putting in some nice lighting. In this case, it is almost certain that the removal of all the plaster in this room would be worth your while. When the room is free of encumbering and obstructive surfaces, it is far cheaper to do all the things that the room may require, such as a well-arranged spate of lamps, electrical outlets all around, switches in all the right places, TV cable, DSL, a skylight, or whatever your heart desires. All these things are so much easier to do when the wall material is gone, and when you’re done, drywall installation is relatively inexpensive and the finishes will be smooth and crack-free. Now this certainly isn’t the necessary approach when you need only one outlet, but it’s important to stop and ask yourself whether you might not be better off taking a broader approach.
Let’s turn to the issue of old wiring. Say you have a house full of antique “knob and tube” wiring (are all your outlets two-prong?). If this is the case, it’s probably not worthwhile to take small measures when the house is in need of a lot more wiring and possibly the repair of existing wiring. Talk to your electrician and look at your long-range needs. Do you have a lot of computers, lamps and laser printers? Are you using lots of extension cords? (Naughty!) If this is you and you can set aside a few thousand dollars (gulp), it’s very much to your benefit to do a major system upgrade. You’ll be safer and, with a well-designed plan, you’ll get a lot more for your buck. (OK, your whole herd of bucks.)
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The Egoyo are mostly known for the fact that their faces consist mostly of nose, and their bodies consist mostly of face. There skin is a deep Midnight blue, or Cerulean, and their beady eyes aere a milky celadon. Egoyo are fond of wearing thick clothing, composed of black cloth and metals, resulting in their hunched, weighted looking shapes.
The Egoyo are sensitive to sunlight, though they often venture out of their mountain homes. Their heavy clothes, while hellishly hot, do not bother them on these excursions, as Egoyo have high heat tolerance. The trips are often made into human cities, either to trade, or raid their dumps to make and fuel their infernal machines.
Egoyo are much feared in human society, though they have succeeded in relatively peaceful, if tense, trade relations with many nations. The “blues,” as they are often called, are at the brunt of many human jokes, and are insulted even in religious texts and children’s rhymes.
The Egoyo come in many sizes, ranging from one foot to four. though they make no distinction in class between them. An Egoyo does not grow like humans or Ylfharn do, either, instead having one or two periods of rapid growth. Their life spans an average of 45 years, just barely succeding that of a Human’s.
Only Egoyo, out of all sentient beings in Wider realm, have the largest understanding of the old technology. The Great engines of war and life saving machines the humans left behind in fear are scavenged and rebuilt by the Egoyo, though even they do not know how or why such knowledge was lost.
The Egoyo do not worship the Traditional gods of the Humans and Ylfharn, but instead have two distinct pantheons of their own. The First set of dieties are ancestral in nature. It is said that the Egoyo were descended from divine beings, with each family, no matter how small, having their own ancestral god, whose name is used in the same manner as humans use surnames. The second set is animistic in nature, and revolves around the spiits of machines. Anything mechanical in nature is atleast partially divine, and all machines are personified. The strangest charicteristic of this latter belief, and of the Egoyo themselves, is their mysterious ability to “Smell” the “Moods” of these gods.
The term “Blue” is veiwed as one of the foulest insults in human culture, especially in Kalmshan. It is used to denote a thief, heretic, and traitor. For this reason, Prison uniforms are often bright blue, which also allows them to be picked out easily against the sand and brush in human populated areas.
The Shako is popular among the Egoyo, particularly their machinists, and is known among humans as a “Blue cap.”
While the Egoyo are not a fertile race, their numbers are still large, and there are uncountable numbers of families. However, a few groups are particularly reknowned, these are listed as follows:
YoYaYe - The God YoYaYe is depicted as having three heads, (Yo, Ya, and Ye, respectively,) at their coming of age ceremony, a young Egoyo born into this family is choosen by one of the heads, which sets out a career path for it. Yo is a warrior, Ya, a sage, and Ye, a laborer.
Kway - Kway is a trickster god, and his descendants make particularly good scavengers and traders.
Gnowaryay - Gnowaryay is a mother, and she is like the sun in her light. Her descendants are great scavengers, having higher than normal sun tolerance for Egoyo, though it is still little compared to Humans.
Tonalanjiyo - Closely associated with the snakes that crawl over his body, Tonalanjiyo is the great Glutton, and some say he will someday eat the universe. The Tonalanjiyii, his relatives, are often cooks, and have a great love of food.
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The application itself is a Google Chrome extension called Facebook Friend Exporter. Created by Mohamed Mansour, it was released back in November 2010, well before Google+ came out. The application lets users export contact information from Facebook – name, e-mail address, phone number, birthday, and more – and save it as a spreadsheet file. Users can also import the information directly into their Gmail address book, if they so choose.
The exporter only works on the English version of Facebook. It’s become very popular; its home page states that it had more than 22,000 users as of July 5. Unfortunately, the current version, 2.2.2, may be blocked by Facebook.
Mansour offers an update of the situation on the home page: “Facebook is trying so hard to not allow you to export your friends. They started to remove emails of your friends from your profile…it will no longer work for many people.” He noted that he’s currently deploying a new version with a different design, and explained that “You might have to do exports daily. It uses a different approach, and I will maintain this version. Just bear with me.”
So why exactly is Facebook doing this? Let’s put aside the obvious explanation for a moment, and note that the extension does in fact violate Facebook’s terms of service. Section 3.2 from the social network’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities states specifically that “You will not collect users’ content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.”
And exactly why would Facebook make such a restriction? Believe it or not, it’s a privacy issue. Yes, the social site boasts (if that’s the right word) a poor record on this score, but it’s a legitimate concern. Also, as Joe Wilcox points out, “Facebook rightly doesn’t want marketers or cybercriminals taking massive amounts of personal data.”
But the fact of the matter remains that Facebook didn’t start blocking the extension until after Google+ started opening its doors. Beta users of Google’s new social service have given it excellent reviews, and started extending invites to their friends. Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on Google Plus; in fact, he’s believed to have more friends on that service than anyone else. (It’s the ultimate in irony if he used Mansour’s extension to move his friends’ information into Google Plus, of course).
Some observers have pointed out that the debate isn’t so much about who owns your friends, as Mansour has suggested, but who owns your friends’ information. Facebook apparently hopes to keep a lock on that information. In fact, they would probably argue that it’s their responsibility to do so, since the information was specifically shared in the context of their service.
It’s worth noting, however, that Google has quietly taken a different approach – even when it’s not in their best interest to do so. They’ve unveiled a website called the Data Liberation Front that explains how to get your data out of more than a score of Google products. And Google+ users can take advantage of a feature called Google Takeout, which lets them export their data from all sorts of Google products. Actually, you don’t even need to be a Google+ user to use Google Takeout; I’m not, and I had no problem getting into the service. So if you want to take all of your friends’ contact information from, say, Gmail, and move it to Yahoo Mail, Google Takeout can help you do it.
So who really owns the information? Both sides offer valid arguments. When I give my contact information to someone, I expect them to use it to contact me, and not to spam me with information on products and services in which I have no interest. I’ve had applications offer to extract all of the contact information I have in an email service to move it into the social network – and then offer to spam all of my friends to invite them into the service. I’ve also received automated email (spam) from friends who did this. No thank you.
On the other hand, I have a real problem finding fault with an application that simply takes your own friends’ contact information and organizes it so you can use it somewhere else. Yes, it can presumably be used for nefarious purposes. But I don’t think that’s what Facebook is truly concerned about here. And if I received a personal letter from a friend who’d just joined a new social network and sincerely wanted me to join, too…well, that’s not spam anymore, that’s word-of-mouth advertising. And I can treat it in the same way I’d treat any suggestion I get from a friend.
Facebook, ideally is supposed to be all about building relationships. You’re communicating with friends, sharing pictures and links, and otherwise staying in touch. By blocking this application, the social network is, in some sense, trying to interfere with those relationships. More than that, it’s making a number of people rather angry – quite possibly angry enough to grab their information the hard way and go play somewhere else. | <urn:uuid:cabd46a6-7fe0-449e-aeb2-8cfe1257c5f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/Facebook-Blocks-Friend-Export-to-Google-Plus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952784 | 1,172 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Susan Ornelas: Achieving Public Toiletude – June 29, 2010
Mayor Susan Ornelas
Special to the Eye
ARCATA – There is an issue that has come up in the past, but has never been satisfactorily solved. Public toilets –people are talking about them. There is an understandable need for a public toilet. Society has wrangled with this need for a thousand years or so – OK, not in Arcata – but in civilization. A civil society should have a public toilet – many people think so.
Particularly people who have traveled overseas. They see a third world country being able to offer a public toilet and ask – why not at home? Why not in Arcata? Many public toilets overseas cost a small token to a caretaker, who sees to the cleanliness of the room. It is not a well-paid job.
I have heard of public toilets in Paris – often they cost from one-half to one Euro to use ($0.70 to $1.40), give the user 20 minutes, then the toilets clean themselves. Without someone watching them, they often go out of service. At times, all they need is more paper.
There are other interesting automated toilets – one being by the company Exeloo. The City looked into these in 2006 – particularly the models Orion and Galaxy. They include anti-loitering, anti-vandalism and automated cleaning features.
Their 2006 costs were between $160,000 to 225,000 to install, plus $23,000/year for a service and maintenance cost – with a three-year agreement with the company to handle everything (service, maintenance, consumables).
How can we provide a public toilet in Arcata, successfully?
Arcata has been through this discussion, and some feel we have been through it and out the backside, so to speak. Recently, Councilmember Alex Stillman stated that if the council wants to discuss public toilets, can we schedule it for Oct. 5 – when she is out of town?
City staff reminds me we had a public toilet at the bus transfer station and it was a disaster. We learned a public toilet must be watched, someone has to care for it, like they do in third world countries.
It has been suggested that maybe an entrepreneur could open a toilet, but it is hard for me to believe a private enterprise in the number one and two business can really be economically sustained, on its own. I think it needs some public investment, and, can I suggest, ongoing public support.
The City Council has not recently had a discussion about public toilets, and there is currently no direction to staff regarding this issue.
I am proposing my opinions in this column as a private citizen, not as the mayor or even as a councilmember. The following thoughts are my own musings.
So here is a suggestion I have – how about a three-way support system? Strong, like a three-legged stool. Maybe the Co-op, the City and the public can be partners?
Here’s how I imagine it could go – the City provides funding through CDBG*, or redevelopment funds, to build a nice public toilet at the Co-op. Maybe it is automated? It needs to be associated with a business, so someone can oversee the cleanliness, and I suggest the Co-op as they have shown an interest and are close to the Plaza.
But the Co-op should not bear the full cost of the toilet maintenance – this is where the public can come in. I suggest every Arcata household pay $5 per year on their wastewater bill to contribute to the public toilet. I understand this would need to be approved by the voters, but for this discussion I will assume voters approve it.
Five dollars, multiplied by 7,000 households is $35,000. This could be a supplement to salaries for two jobs at the Co-op.
This is not a gift of public funds, but a public–private partnership. There are public–private partnerships to deliver public toilet services in Italy, why not Arcata?
As a community, we can discuss this issue through the paper. Maybe some good ideas can be discussed, vetted and explored. This information could be fodder for the Council when we take up this discussion – maybe on Oct. 5?
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Committee of Public Accounts
London: TSO, 2007 (House of Commons Papers session 2006-07; HC 402)
An academy is a publicly funded school that is supported by one or more sponsors and operates independently of the local authority. The Department of Children, Families & Schools aims to open 200 academies by 2010 at a capital cost of around £5 billion. This report examines evidence about the progress of the Academies programme and identifies the following trends: GCSE performance at academies has improved faster than that of other schools; there have been improvements at Key Stage 3; exclusions of pupils are higher than at other schools; literacy and numeracy of academy pupils have been rising but are still less than half the level of attainment in all secondary schools; and most academiesí sixth forms have not performed well so far. This report recommends that academies collaborate with other secondary schools to share the benefits of their facilities and the lessons from the educational improvements they have made, but also for the benefit of their own pupils, for example in broadening and improving the quality of education for all pupils, particularly post-16.
London: TSO, 2007 (House of Commons papers, session 2006-07; HC 1002)
This report introduces the new Ofsted, which came into being on 1st April 2007, and provides commentary on the outcomes of inspection of local authority childrenís services, schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning, adult education and more. Evidence is presented from more than 36,000 inspections and regulatory visits and provides a robust basis for the reportís conclusions. For the first time, the report draws together the findings from surveys and inspection work across all of Ofstedís remit and describes the quality of provision across the spectrum of care and learning, commenting on the themes of improving life chances, the development of childrenís identity in 21st century England and acquiring skills for employment.
S. D. Emery
Deafness and Education International, vol. 9, 2007, p. 173-186
Sign bilingualism is used to mean an approach to the education of deaf children that utilises both sign language and the written and spoken language of the hearing community. If a deaf child cannot or does not want to develop speech, the focus should be on their learning sign language and the written form of the native language. The author argues that:
Education & Skills Committee
London: TSO, 2007 (House of Commons Papers session 2006-07; HC 1034)
Since the establishment of the National Curriculum (in 1988) and the National Literacy and Numeracy strategies (in 1998 and 1999 respectively), concerns have been expressed that creativity and innovative approaches to teaching may have been unintentionally constrained. Since 2002 the Department for Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS), with a smaller contribution from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCFS), has funded an initiative called Creative Partnerships. The scheme funds creative professionals to work in schools with teachers and students, offering continuing professional development to school staff and providing guidance on creativity in relation to wider school improvement. This report offers evidence of a very high level of support among school staff and practitioners for more creative approaches to teaching and recommends more systematic analysis of the evidence linking creative programmes with improved attainment. The report proposes that DCMS and DCFS should review policies such as Every Child Matters and personalised learning strategies to ensure that creativity is established as a core principle in learning and development. The committee considers a key priority for Creative Partnerships in the coming years will be to produce replicable models or templates, which can be used and adapted to initiate work in schools that have not yet participated directly in the programme, ensuring that all schools benefit from the investment to date.
Education, Knowledge and Economy, vol. 1, 2007, p. 241-259
During the last two years, Britainís Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has commissioned several pieces of research into various aspects of home education. These items of research have served to illustrate several of the most pressing local authority concerns with regard to the educational outcomes, socialisation and welfare of children educated in this manner. As a result, in part, of the publication of these commissioned studies, and because of the perceived anomalous regulatory situation regarding such educational practice when compared with state and private education provision (which is subject to significant levels of legislation), a full public consultation into legislation concerned with the regulation of home education has been widely anticipated. Instead, the government has recently launched a consultation on elective home education guidelines. This article seeks to explore the need for, and implications of guidelines, further regulation and legislation for the home-educating community, in the light of increasing levels of national and international research into the educational attainment, welfare and impact of legislation on education other than at school.
Education & Skills Committee
London: TSO, 2007 (House of Commons Papers session 2006-07; HC 1077)
This report outlines how confidence in the provision for children with special educational needs might be improved through separating assessment from funding. It makes three specific recommendations: commissioning of assessments by local authorities or Childrenís Trusts; delegation of responsibilities for assessment to schools; and making educational psychology services more independent. Amid concerns that money delegated to schools to fund provision for special educational needs is not necessarily spent as intended the report requests an early statement from the Government on how the money from the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review will be used. The committee also asks the Government to make explicit commitments to provide a national framework for special educational needs and to encourage local authorities to publish provision maps setting out the services and support that schools and other providers across each area ought to be making available.
Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, vol. 2, 2007, p. 223-235
This article examines conceptions of participative citizenship, democracy and diversity and looks at how these concepts inter-relate in the citizenship education policymaking process in England. It is shown that the dominant model of citizenship is a participatory one, and this is linked to the concept of democracy. However, 'diversity' is not explicitly addressed in within the participatory concept, nor in relation to democracy. It is argued that unless there is a concomitant focus on peopleís diversity of identities, the dominant model of a participatory citizenship will not achieve inclusion and empowerment for all. The author proposes that citizenship education should focus on inclusive communication and collective problem solving, rather than privileging non-existent shared values and notions of the common good. | <urn:uuid:6e6d9045-6525-40f8-9827-f097fc9cc19c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bl.uk/welfarereform/issue102/schools.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940428 | 1,322 | 1.9375 | 2 |
"20 years after the end of the Cold War, and 10 years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the nuclear security debate has not fully adjusted to modern realities and threats. The United States has not yet fully articulated a strategy for dealing with Iran's questionable nuclear activities, the threat of nuclear terrorism, or the utility of nuclear deterrence in the 21st century. The Nuclear Security Index provides an excellent primer on these vital issues and will equip readers to understand the latest headlines as well as longer-term nuclear trends," said Dr. Janne Nolan, director of Nuclear Security Programs at ASP.
The report also notes that Iran, North Korea, and Syria are the states most commonly seen as a nuclear proliferation threat and lists India, Israel, North Korea, and Pakistan as countries that have yet to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Download the full report below.
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CENSORS GET ACTIVE IN MISSOURI
Catalyst September Issue 2006
Maurice S. Owens, a Washington lawyer, filed a complaint with the IRS against the Missouri Catholic Conference alleging “illegal political interference.” The Catholic group was urging candidates for state office to return contributions received from an organization, Supporters of Health Research and Treatment, that promotes embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.
The ruthlessness of this IRS complaint, which is bogus on the face of it, should mobilize all principled civil libertarians to protest its implications for free speech. Regardless of whether one supports or objects to the intentional killing of human embryos, the immediate issue is a First Amendment matter: All non-profit organizations that speak to public policy issues have a stake in this debate.
The IRS issued a fact sheet in February regarding “Election Year Activities and the Prohibition on Political Campaign Intervention for Section 501(c)(3) Organizations.” There is nothing in that document that suggests that it is a violation of the IRS tax-exempt code for a religious group to urge candidates for public office to return contributions from any individual or organization. Indeed, it would be impossible to mandate such a stricture without trespassing on the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and religious liberty.
If the Missouri Catholic Conference were advocating that candidates for public office return monies donated by the Klan, no IRS complaint would have been filed. But because the Catholic group is fighting the fat cats—millions have been raised in Missouri by political action committees promoting all kinds of genetic research—the censors are out in force. Not only do they seek to advance a utilitarian agenda, they seek to promote a gag rule on those who disagree with them.
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The Meaning of Games You can find out a lot about your child by watching and listening to him play. Clues to new skills and developing intelligence can be found in the games he makes up with his toys. Does he sort them into groups, add voices to figures, re-enact events that recently took place and test the properties of object? If so, what does that tell you about his development?
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY How your child plays is more revealing than you might think. The way he handles his toys can tell you whether he's mastering the cognitive tasks appropriate for his age. For instance, he might make a square out of blocks - a sort of room. In the room, he places a girl doll. "Go home," he says as he brings the boy doll up. "Knock, knock! Come in!" he says as he pushes one block aside to let the boy doll enter the room. The two dolls embrace. In that scene, the child demonstrated his ability to use symbolic play, which brings out imitation, which, in turn, shows that he understands how his world works. Even a small bit of behaviour like this confirms all kinds of accomplishments. | <urn:uuid:a4bed726-81d6-443d-81bc-4244315738f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pampers.ie/interesting-new-twists-to-look-out-for-in-play-behaviour | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982988 | 241 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Pest infestation is something that many homeowners have to deal with at some point. Sometimes, this concern cannot be solved with the simple use of pesticide sprays. The problem could either be that there are so many pests that the amount of pesticide he or she has is not sufficient to deal with the menace, or maybe the pests are of a species that you can’t find a good remedy for. When you’re in such a situation, you should call in a pest control firm to deal with the issue.
Within other situations, you may use a certain sort of pesticide for a long time but the pests still persist. In such a situation, you additionally need to consider the solutions of a pest control company. Nevertheless, before you do this, you should know how to pick the best firm. Here are some simple good ideas , pick the best provider.
The first thing you should do is to recognize the pests and research their life-cycle and traits. The problem could be much simpler compared to you think. If you cannot recognize the pest, you can pick-up a dead one and take it to your nearby agricultural office and get them to identify this for you and also provide you with tips on how to control it.
In choosing a Pest Control Escondido company to employ, the best place to ask can be a referral from your household, friends and neighbors who you know had such a dilemma. They may have used the help of this type of company just before and so they know which ones are the good ones and which are the bad kinds. It is unlikely that they’ll all recommend the identical company but you may notice that more people have got recommended one firm over the others.
Once you’ve identified a good firm, you should ask them to come and inspect the website. This will enable them to recognize the pest, the main affected area and know what pesticide they are going to use to solve the problem. It is important that they do this so that they can prepare on their own in advance and understand how to solve the problem within the best way possible.
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A Statement on Smoking and Tobacco
For more than a century, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has warned its youth and the general public regarding the addictive and health destroying nature of tobacco smoking.
Cigarette smoking is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world. One of the firm ethical concepts of most, if not all societies, is that prevention is better than cure. When it comes to smoking, most countries are faced by an ethical paradox: while many decades of research have provided incontrovertible evidence of the hazards of cigarette smoking, the tobacco industry still flourishes, often with either tacit or overt government support. The ethics of smoking is made even more serious by alarming revelations about the cancer deaths and other health risks caused by second-hand smoke.
We believe that the ethics of prevention requires in every country a uniform ban on all tobacco advertising, stricter laws prohibiting smoking in non-residential public places, more aggressive and systematic public education, and substantially higher taxes on cigarettes. These measures would save millions of lives every year.
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WAPPINGERS FALLS - The Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 2607 South Avenue, Wappingers Falls is hosting the 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Commemorative Service on Sunday, January 20, 2013, at 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend the service.
This year’s theme, "The Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King, Jr.," recounts the brave efforts of young people from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who in 1961 put their lives on the line to end segregation in interstate travel.
This is a powerful historical account of how black and white youth seized the opportunity to use non-violent techniques espoused by Dr. King to alert the world on the issues of segregated travel and the "white" and "colored" signs at terminals, toilets, lunch counters and water fountains in some parts of the United States of America.
The Reverend Charlese Dorsey of the United Methodist Church of Wappingers Falls will deliver the sermon entitled "Kingdom Builders." Music will be provided by Barbara Davis, soloist, and the Bethel Missionary Baptist Chorus. As is the custom, the service ends with the Litany recited by the congregants and the singing of "We Shall Overcome." After the service, light refreshments will be served.
In 1988, three pastors from Wappingers Falls’ churches, William Dalrymple, Community Baptist Church, Edward L. Hunt, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, and Michael Webber, former rector of Zion Episcopal Church envisioned an event which would promote a unified community spirit and build on strengthening the bonds of racial harmony. They institutionalized a Wappingers community service in 1989 honoring Dr. King for his humanitarian service in building bridges of racial understanding. The event was planned as an annual service to be hosted by Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.
In past years Wappingers Falls clergy have been the speakers including the Reverends Gail Berger, (former director Dutchess Interfaith Council); Lindsey Borden, (First Presbyterian); William Dalrymple; Dr. Edward L. Hunt; James Kirk (Immanuel Church), Astrid Storm (St. Nicholas on the Hudson Episcopal Church); Keith Tamlyn (New Hackensack Reformed), and Alex Vinogradov (St. Gregory’s Orthodox Church).
A free-will offering will be allocated to a not-for-profit community initiative to be announced at the service. Past donations at the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Commemorative Service have supported the Jane Bolin Portrait Project, Grinnell Library, Meals on Wheels and several local shelters. | <urn:uuid:b13b6565-5dfe-4d8d-92d7-5003681c9b46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hvpress.net/news/125/ARTICLE/11978/2013-01-16.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923754 | 567 | 1.671875 | 2 |
It’s nearly over, and one could reasonably argue that the American presidential election has been at least as bad for Americans—in terms of ulcers, family arguments, and meme overdose—as it’s been good for democracy.
Which, you know: Ha ha! Jokes! But I would argue in all sincerity that the election has, in fact, been truly bad for at least one group of Americans: American Jews.
How so? You ask, and not unreasonably. Here's a brief list:
On more than one occasion, both candidates gave the impression that “foreign policy” was synonymous with “supporting Israel’s government at all costs.” At the third presidential debate, the word “Israel” was uttered more than 30 times, often in a sentence that started with “and of course we’ll consult with…" Why is this bad news for the Jews? Because it goes a really long way toward helping the liars, hatemongers and anti-Semites who want to believe that Israel runs (a) America and (b) the world. Dear Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama: You’re not helping.
On frequent occasion, both candidates talked about their support for the Israeli government and its policies as if these are the single most important issue in the American Jewish community, and as if their shot at the presidency depended on the pandering. Why is this bad news for the Jews? Because it misrepresents us to our fellow Americans—we’re only 2 percent of the electorate, and well less than 10 percent of us say that Israel is our most important election issue—and it also goes a really long way toward supporting the liars, hatemongers and anti-Semites who want to believe that “the Jews” run (a) America and (b) the world. Dear Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama: Can we cut that out now?
Also on frequent occasion, the specter of a nuclear Iran was raised largely in order to burnish the candidate’s bona fides as a tough guy in the region (though, it must be admitted, this was worse on Romney’s side than on Obama’s). Why is this bad news for the Jews? Because the specter of a nuclear Iran is a genuine concern to Israel and thus to the American Jewish community, and the best way to keep any country from being a threat is not to use it as a rhetorical prop, but to do our best to engage that country and find diplomatic ways around war.
On virtually no occasion did either candidate say so much as a single serious word about Israel’s actual most pressing existential threat: its unresolved conflict with the Palestinian people. Obama entered the Oval Office full of good ideas and good intentions to try to restart negotiations toward a two-state solution, and at every turn, allowed himself to be turned away from the effort by the Israeli government and its American supporters. Mitt Romney pledged to do “the opposite” of what Obama has done in the region, but given that he told supporters that he’s just going to let the problem be kicked down the road “and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it,” he seems to be pretty attached to the President’s actual approach to the issue.
Now, anyone who’s in any way acquainted with me or my work knows who I’ll be voting for (or, in fact, who I’ve already voted for). I’m a big Obama supporter, for all the usual reasons that a Democrat likes this incumbent: his positions on women’s equality and reproductive choice, the steps he’s taken for LGBTQ rights, Obamacare, Pell Grants, saving the American economy from the abyss, etc.
But I cannot say—despite all the protestations from all sides of the Democratic map that he really, really loves Israel, just look at how much military aid he’s given!—that he’s done much good for Israel. On the contrary: In allowing the conflict to drag on for four more bloody, settlement-heavy years, President Obama has done an active disservice to American security interests, American foreign policy goals, Israel’s long-term viability, and (it bears mentioning) the Palestinian people.
It may be all the rage to talk about a “one-state solution” now, but the simple truth is that there is no way to achieve a single state without even more massive suffering along the way, because there is no way to force the sides to play nice with each other. If Israelis and Palestinians are going to learn to stop wanting to kill each other, they’re going to have to learn how to live next to each other first. And that means the two-state solution to which President Obama is nominally dedicated.
I’m under no illusion that a President Romney would do a better job on this front. As an American-Israeli Jew who loves both of her countries very much, I live in hope that in Obama’s second term, the President will be freed up by the lack of a re-election campaign to find the kind of boldness he promised at the start of his first term.
But if he doesn’t, I’m pretty sure we can just go ahead and bury the two-state solution and sit shiva.
And that will be very bad news for the Jews, indeed.
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Once called the “disease of kings” because of its association with consumption of rich food and alcohol, gout actually affects far more than royalty. Three million Americans suffer from the painful affliction, and the VHA treats a disproportionate share of those, since gout is more common in older men and post-menopausal women, especially those who use alcohol. Still, quality indicators for treating gout have been available less than 10 years and only more recently has the VA begun looking at how those best practices could be applied in its system.
The high rate of mental health conditions not only can make it difficult for HCV-infected veterans to manage their own illnesses. Those psychiatric issues also can be barriers to interferon treatment and liver transplants. In response, VA resource centers are employing a multi-disciplinary approach to HCV disease management.
Lack of treatment adherence is one of the biggest difficulties for health providers trying to manage HIV patients. Now, a new computerized assessment tool being rolled out by the VHA helps identify patients who are not taking their drugs as well as reasons for noncompliance.
Menopause once was a barrier to women reaching the top ranks of the military because of concerns it could cause “irrational decisions.” Those attitudes have changed, with more than 200,000 women in active duty and more than 50 of them serving as generals and admirals. To better serve their needs, military medicine and VA are taking a close look at women’s health services, including menopause, as the female cohort grows older.
Nearly everything about multiple sclerosis remains a mystery—its pathology, its unpredictable severity in some patients and its myriad symptoms. In an effort to provide as much information as possible to sufferers, VA’s MS Centers of Excellence research the best use of current medications while searching for new treatment methods.
Rates of herpes zoster have nearly doubled among veterans seeking care through the VA since 2000. The disease, also known as shingles, creates significant morbidity, especially when herpetic neuralgia, a painful complication, is involved. Yet, use of the vaccine, introduced in 2007, remains low at about 2% in both the VA and general populations.
Of the three-fourths of homeless veterans that suffer from alcohol, drug or mental health problems, those who are schizophrenic are among the most difficult to treat. Not only does lack of housing complicate medical care, but many of the patients lack insight about their situation. Now, VA is fine-tuning programs to find homes for these troubled veterans, improve their medical care and keep them out of legal trouble.
WASHINGTON, DC—Returning servicemembers are among the some 40 million Americans who suffer from chronic long term sleep disorders, and, for reasons ranging from disrupted sleep during deployment, battlefield stress or even hyper vigilance, their sleep problems can be especially challenging to treat. That is even more the case when post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, pain and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are involved.
WASHINGTON, DC—Military health care beneficiaries currently can access their own health data by choosing the web-based “Blue Button” feature on TRICARE Online (TOL). In an upgrade that will be available before the end of the year, they also will be able to use the site for secure, two-way communication with providers.
WASHINGTON, DC—Even though the overall 2012 budget request for VA includes $50.9 billion for medical care— a net increase of $240 million over the 2012 advance appropriations request of $50.6 billion in the 2011 budget—union representatives are worried that cost-cutting measures may be putting too much strain on VA’s already stretched-thin staff.
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The name of Panang curry paste suggests its Malaysian origin, being named after the island city on the West coast of Malaysia. It is a full bodied, creamy curry made with various spices and finely ground peanut which goes well with steamed jasmine rice.
This type of Thai curry is a favorite of foreigner visitors to Thailand. Panang Curry Paste is a drier type of curry. Prepared with less coconut milk then other types of Thai curries, Panang curry is usually made with beef, but it can also be used for seafood or chicken curries. Vegetables are not usually added to Panang curry. Top the finished dish with finely cut fresh kaffir lime leaves for a aromatic and attractive garnish.
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Magdalena - Meaning of Magdalena
[ 4 syll. mag-da-le-na, ma-gdal-ena ] The baby girl name Magdalena is pronounced in English as MaeGDaeLEYNae, in German as MaaKDaaLEHNaa, or in Polish as MaaGDaaLEHNaa †. Magdalena has its origins in the Hebrew language. It is used largely in Czech, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Spanish. The first name is derived from the name Mary Magdalene, borne in the Bible by the woman who was cured of evil spirits and infirmities. Her name Magdalene means 'of Magdala', referring to the village on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, north of Tiberias; the place name is itself from the Hebrew word migdal (meaning 'tower'). The biblical name 'Mary of Magdala' was used to differentiate her from other women with the common first name Mary. Mary Magdalene is also considered a saint by Roman Catholics; her relics were first venerated at an abbey in Burgundy in 771 and her body later venerated at Provence in 1279, leading to an increase in popularity of the name and its subsequent introduction from France into England in the 13th century.Lene (used in Dutch, German, Polish, Scandinavian, and Scottish as well), Lenna, Lina (used in German, Italian, and Russian as well), Linn, Lynn, Lynne, Mada, Madaleine, Madalena (used in Portuguese as well), Madalene, Madaliene, Madaline, Madalyn, Madalyne, Maddi, Madelaine (used in German as well), Madeleine (used in French as well), Madelena (used in Italian and Spanish as well), Madelene, Madelina (used in Russian as well), Madeline, Madella, Madelyn, Madelynn, Madie, Madilyn, Madlin, Madlyn, Madoline, and Mady. Other English variant forms include the shortenings Lena (used in German, Polish, and Spanish as well), Mad, Madge, Madlen (used in German as well), Magda (used in Czech, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish as well), and Malena (used in Italian as well), and the diminutives Dalanna, Maddie, Maddy, Magdala, Maggie, and Mala.
Variant forms used in foreign languages include Alene (Czech), Madailéin (Irish), Maddalena (Italian), Madelen (Scandinavian), Madena (Spanish), Madia (Spanish), Madina (Spanish), Madlaina (Rhaeto-Romanic), Madleine (French), Madlene (German), Magaly (Spanish), Magdalina (Russian), Magdelena (Czech), Magdelina (Polish), Magdolna (Hungarian), Magia (Polish), Magola (Spanish), Mahda (Russian), Mahulena (Czech), Malene (Scandinavian), Malin (Scandinavian), Malina (German), Marlene (German and Polish), and Matxalen (Basque). Specific foreign variant forms include the shortenings Alena (Czech), Madleen (German), and Madlena (German), and the diminutives Lenka (Czech and Polish) and Madelon (French).
Magdalena is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked in 2005 with 0.016% of baby girls being named Magdalena. It had a ranking of #813 then. The baby name has substantially dropped in popularity since then, and is used only on a very modest scale today. In 2011, among the family of girl names directly related to Magdalena, Madelyn was the most commonly used.
Baby names that sound like Magdalena include Magdaleine, Magdaleny, Magdalina, Magdelana, Magdelena, Magdelina, Magdalen, Magdalene, Magdaline, Magdalyn, Magdalynn, Magdelane, Magdelene, Magdelin, Magdeline, Magdaleen, and Magdelyn.
† Pronunciation for Magdalena: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; G as in "grin (G.R.IH.N)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)"
A famous person named Magdalena is Model Magdalena Wrobel, born 1975, Gdansk, Poland. | <urn:uuid:09374d32-0609-41ee-ae48-ed21257ff833> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Magdalena | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943079 | 1,069 | 2.6875 | 3 |
is an Assistant Clinical Professor and
is a Professor in the Department of Radiology, University of
North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast has been in use
since the mid-1980s. Primarily, it has been used for evaluating
implant rupture and for searching for a primary breast cancer in
cases in which the mammogram and physical examination were negative
in patients with metastatic disease to axillary lymph nodes. Since
MRI allows for improved soft-tissue contrast, enhancement of a
lesion, and multiplanar imaging, investigations continue to
evaluate its usefulness and role in breast cancer detection.
Breast cancer is often similar in density to the surrounding
normal dense breast tissue; therefore, 10% to 20% of cancers are
not visualized by conventional film-screen mammography.
Mammography is the only imaging study that has been shown to reduce
breast cancer mortality.
However, mammography has limited sensitivity and specificity in
dense breasts, postsurgical/postradiation breasts, and augmented
breasts. Recent studies have demonstrated that the sensitivity of
breast MRI in lesion detection is as high as 100%; however, breast
MRI has a low specificity, ranging from 37% to 86%.
To detect malignant breast lesions, an intravenous contrast
agent, gadolinium-DTPA, must be administered to the patient. Lesion
enhancement is based on the phenomenon of angiogenesis (increased
tumor vascularity that is disorganized and has increased
permeability). The contrast agent also causes T-1 shortening, which
allows for increased conspicuity of the lesion. Therefore, lesions
would be expected to enhance rapidly and strongly. Benign lesions
such as fibroadenomas, fibrocystic changes, and inflammation can
also be vascular and can demonstrate rapid and strong enhancement.
Consequently, if a lesion or region demonstrates these findings,
malignancy cannot be excluded, which produces a high false-positive
False negatives have also been reported in the literature, but
appear to be less common. False negatives have been reported with
ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and slowly enhancing lesions, such
as invasive lobular and mucinous carcinomas.
Prior to imaging the patient, there are several imaging
variables that need to be considered. First, since there is no
universally accepted breast MRI technique, what type of magnetic
field strength is your institution going to use? When using a lower
field strength, such as 0.5 Tesla, the radiologist needs to be
aware that low-field protocols create several issues, including a
lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), possible problems with chemical
shift dispersion, and less T1 tissue variability, which offers less
enhancement. Most of the MRI breast literature is based on a 1.5
Tesla field strength.
Second, since there is no consensus on which imaging sequences
to use, the radiologist must decide how to determine a balance
between spatial and temporal resolution. Also, the slice thickness
and interslice gap/no gap between the slices must be chosen, since
not all breast cancers are >1 cm in size or have a focal growth
pattern. Currently, fat-suppressed T1-weighted, three-dimensional
(3D) volumetric images seem to be sensitive to contrast and to
allow rapid acquisition so that enhancing lesions can be identified
before the enhancement of normal breast tissue.
Third, to increase lesion detection against a fatty background,
image subtraction or fat saturation is required. One method for
accomplishing this is to subtract the precontrast images from the
postcontrast images. This makes it imperative that there is no
patient motion between the precontrast and postcontrast images.
Alternatively, the fat signal can be eliminated by a variety of
In order to report enhancement relative to the rest of the tissue
(minimal, mild, etc.) and for biopsy guidance, the radiologist
should be comfortable with viewing fat saturation images.
For breast MR imaging, a dedicated breast coil is required to
improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Unilateral and bilateral coils
are available. To decrease imaging time, several institutions use a
compression plate to decrease the thickness of the breast and
reduce respiratory motion. The patient is imaged in a prone
The study can be optimized further if the patient has minimal
hormone stimulation that can be obtained by imaging the patient in
the second week of the menstrual cycle or by stopping hormone
replacement therapy for several weeks.
It is also very important to know the patient's clinical history,
including past surgeries, and to have reviewed the patient's recent
mammogram and/or ultrasound before viewing the MR images.
Use of contrast media
Breast cancers enhance after intravenous contrast administration
(Figures 1 and 2). Numerous authors have evaluated the kinetics or
dynamic measurements of contrast medium uptake in breast masses. By
doing so, they are attempting to differentiate malignant from
benign lesions based on how rapid the initial uptake and washout of
the contrast, which is plotted as a kinetic curve. Breast cancers
tend to have rapid enhancement and washout while benign lesions
tend to have slow progressive enhancement.
Heywang-Kobrunner et al
have seen rapid enhancement with slow washout, as well as less
rapid enhancement in breast cancers. Both of these types of
enhancement have also been seen at our institution. In addition,
benign lesions can also have these types of kinetic curves.
Since there is such an overlap with kinetic analysis of
malignant and benign lesions, Heywang-Kobrunner et al
and Nunes et al
have been evaluating the morphologic features of a breast mass
after contrast administration. Currently, these researchers have
demonstrated higher positive predictive values for malignancy for a
spiculated enhancing mass and for an irregular mass with peripheral
enhancement. The same appears to be true with ductal enhancement.
Also, a mass that was smooth or gently lobulated in contour and had
no enhancement or minimal enhancement was most likely found to be
Indications for breast MRI
Currently, there is not enough data available to justify routine
performance of MRI on all patients due to its high cost and lack of
well-established accuracy. Research into its utility continues in
multicenter studies such as the one led by Sylvia
Heywang-Kobrunner, MD at the University of Halle, Germany, and
Mitchell Schnall, MD at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, with the latter results not yet published. MRI of
the breast may find its niche in evaluating patients who are
recommended for biopsy to evaluate for multicentric or multifocal
disease. It may change the patient's staging and the type of
surgical procedure selected, such as mastectomy instead of breast
conservation surgery. In the literature, it has been reported that
up to one-third of patients have other foci of disease than
Others who may benefit from breast MRI are those who have
undergone breast conservation surgery. Sometimes it is difficult
with mammography to determine if the patient has a breast cancer
recurrence versus postsurgical changes at the lumpectomy site. With
the increased sensitivity of MRI and the use of contrast
administration, a malignant lesion would enhance while scar tissue
should not. However, scar tissue that is <18 months of age may
enhance and create a false-positive result.
In addition, to evaluate for recurrence, MRI can be helpful in the
immediate postoperative period to assess for residual disease.
MRI may be useful in women who are at high risk of developing
breast cancer and have dense breasts. Recent reports from Germany
assessing this population are promising so far.
However, there may be more false-positive results in this
subpopulation due to the increased sensitivity of MRI compared with
conventional mammography. This patient subgroup tends to be
younger. Brown et al
have shown that in a younger population group with increased breast
density there are usually more incidental enhancing lesions, and
management of these incidental lesions is problematic. At our
institution, we have evaluated incidental enhancing lesions with
additional mammography and ultrasound, and we have been able to
find a lesion(s) retrospectively using these modalities. An
appropriate work-up of the lesion(s) is then performed, including
biopsy if necessary. Additionally, some institutions do a
short-term follow-up MRI for incidental enhancing lesions.
If a suspicious lesion is detected only with MRI, then the
lesion can be biopsied or localized for surgical excision only with
MRI guidance. It is essential that an institution that provides
breast MRI to its patients have the capability to perform the
appropriate procedure for the area(s) of concern. MRI-guided
procedures are performed with the patient in the prone position and
with the patient's breast in a compression system with an open or
perforated lateral side plate. All of these procedures must be
performed with the introduction of the needle from a lateral
approach. After preoperative needle localization, one cannot give
the specimen contrast or image it with MRI to look for the original
abnormality. At our institution, a specimen radiograph confirms
that the localization wire has been removed and determines if an
abnormality can be visualized to mark for the pathology
Compared with mammography, breast MRI has the advantage of
improved tissue contrast and information about vascularity and
enhancement of a lesion. However, it has the limitations of greater
expense, lack of universal imaging parameters, the low risk
associated with the administration of intravenous contrast, and the
need for MRI-compatible biopsy or localization systems. Despite
these disadvantages, preliminary research demonstrates that MRI of
the breast is a promising imaging tool. It appears to be most
promising for the detection and staging of breast cancer in
patients with a known suspicious lesion, identifying a
mammographically occult lesion in patients with axillary lymph
nodes positive for adenocarcinoma, distinguishing scar tissue from
cancer recurrence, and for the evaluation of residual disease.
Further research is still needed to determine if MRI technology can
provide valuable clinical information that cannot be obtained with
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Several lines of evidence suggest that CD8+ T cells are important in protection against tuberculosis. To understand the function of this cell population in the immune response against M. tuberculosis, N.V. Serbina and J.L Flynn examined T cells from lungs of M. tuberculosis-infected mice using flow cytometry.
"The kinetics of the appearance of CD8+ T cells in lungs of infected mice closely paralleled that of CD4+ T cells," Serbina and Flynn wrote ("Production of Type 1...
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Gregg, Sir Norman McAlister
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Sir Norman McAlister Gregg showed that maternal rubella infection in early pregnancy caused birth defects. His work profoundly influenced further clinical and experimental research into birth defects and their causes.
Norman Gregg was born in Sydney in 1892 and graduated from medicine in 1915 with honours. Aside from his studies, he led and active student life, becoming President of the Undergraduates Association and a director of the University Union. He was an exceptional sportsman – described as a “tall, lithe and vigorous young man” – and played on numerous University teams and representing the State in cricket and tennis. As an adult, Norman continued his love of sport. He became captain and later President of the Royal Sydney Golf Club.
During the World War I he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and was awarded the Military Cross “for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid”. Paul Lancaster states that “like many other Australian medical graduates of his era, Norman later went to England for postgraduate training and experience, working at the Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital in London, and also at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital.”
He returned to Sydney and took up appointments as Paediatric Ophthalmologist Senior Surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, as well as commencing private practice. When World War II broke out, many young doctors were in the army and consequently Norman saw most of the children with eye problems needing surgery.
Norman became alarmed at the number of babies who came to his office with congenital cataract, at least two or three times more than what would be expected by heredity alone. He heard two mothers speak in the hall outside his office, who both had affected babies. They were discussing how both had had German measles (rubella) in pregnancy. Out of the 78 children born in the early months of 1941 who went to see a doctor in Australia for cataract (13 in his own office), 68 had been exposed to Rubella in utero.
Although the possibility that maternal infection during pregnancy could cause birth defects and other serious consequences had been considered, this hypothesis lacked evidence. Examining young babies, Norman noted that aside from congenital cataracts, many of the babies he observed:
had congenital heart defects and that most of them were 'of small size, ill nourished and difficult to feed'. Microphthalmia was also sometimes present. In seeking an explanation for this atypical pattern of birth defects, he elicited a history of rubella infection in early pregnancy from the babies' mothers.
Epidemics of meningitis and rubella in army camps just outside Sydney was brought home to the community. Norman was convinced that the outbreak of cataract amongst newborns was most likely due to a rubella infection during the mothers’ pregnancy. Norman gathered epidemiological evidence from his own practice and cases of other ophthalmologists and drew the conclusion that "children exposed to rubella virus in utero during the first trimester of pregnancy are at risk for not just cataract, but also deafness and other severe problems". However, Normans findings were not immediately accepted amongst the medical profession as Margaret Burgess notes:
There was no laboratory test for rubella, Norman just had a clinical association. He presented his data at a meeting of eye surgeons. While in Australia his results were met with praise and belief, ‘overseas’ people did not trust his data. The Lancet in 1944 wrote ‘Gregg did not prove his case’. When Sir Lorimer Dods, an Australian paediatrician, travelled to the US in 1947 to speak about Gregg’s work, he wrote of the assembly of physicians who listened to his talk. ‘You could see them all doubting’. Only when Gregg’s data was analysed by a mathematician, Professor Oliver Lancaster, a former physician, then statistician and epidemiologist at the University of Sydney, who proved the association between the virus and the congenital syndrome highly significant, only then did the outside world listen and believe Gregg’s data.
Hence, it was not until 1961, two decades after Norman’s initial findings that research scientists were to isolate were able to isolate the rubella virus. When there was a worldwide outbreak of rubella in 1964, resulting in 20,000 cases of congenital cataract in the United States alone, a vaccine was developed. Paul Lancaster notes that “Norman’s discovery also stimulated rapid development of the fledgling field of teratology, the study of birth defects and their causes.”
In 1964 Norman Gregg was awarded the Britannica Australia Award for medicine. Norman Gregg died in 1968. At the University of Sydney his work is commemorated by the naming of the Norman Gregg Lecture Theatre.
Citation: Mellor, Lise (2008) Gregg, Sir Norman McAlister. Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney.
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Takashi Miike seems to be single-handedly bringing the samurai movie back to its former glory; first with 13 Assassins, and now this gripping remake of Kobayashi’s classic attack on the honor code within the samurai class. A wandering samurai comes to the house of a feudal lord to perform seppuku and hears from the clan counselor (Koji Yakusho of 13 Assassins) the grisly fate of another samurai with similar plans, but ulterior motives. Miike reveals the hypocrisy of a samurai clan more concerned with appearing honorable, even if it means ruining the lives of innocent people. He tones back his usual violence to examine these men who find shame a fate worse than death. Yakusho plays the counselor with tremendous complexity; a weaker actor might have turned him into a villain, but his performance shows him to be part of a more complex moral web. The movie is tellingly named after the blunt, informal term for the ritual (hara-kiri means “cut belly”) and effectively deglorifies these “honorable” ritual suicides. | <urn:uuid:d6ea67a8-5ed4-4a24-824d-94c519c6eacf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thephoenix.com/Boston/movies/141756-hara-kiri-death-of-a-samurai/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947003 | 223 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I’ve talked before about Dr Berman’s research into Attention Restoration Theory, which proposes that people concentrate better after nature walks or even just looking at nature scenes. In his latest study, the findings have been extended to those with clinical depression.
The study involved 20 young adults (average age 26), all of whom had a diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Short-term memory and mood were assessed (using the backwards digit span task and the PANAS), and then participants were asked to think about an unresolved, painful autobiographical experience. They were then randomly assigned to go for a 50-minute walk along a prescribed route in either the Ann Arbor Arboretum (woodland park) or traffic heavy portions of downtown Ann Arbor. After the walk, mood and cognition were again assessed. A week later the participants repeated the entire procedure in the other location.
Participants exhibited a significant (16%) increase in attention and working memory after the nature walk compared to the urban walk. While participants felt more positive after both walks, there was no correlation with memory effects.
The finding is particularly interesting because depression is characterized by high levels of rumination and negative thinking. It seemed quite likely, then, that a solitary walk in the park might make depressed people feel worse, and worsen working memory. It’s intriguing that it didn’t.
It’s also worth emphasizing that, as in earlier studies, this effect of nature on cognition appears to be independent of mood (which is, of course, the basic tenet of Attention Restoration Theory).
Of course, this study is, like the others, small, and involves the same demographic. Hopefully future research will extend the sample groups, to middle-aged and older adults. | <urn:uuid:3cea1699-2be4-4102-8018-1b01d5c8b6b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://memory-key.com/research/news/nature-walks-improve-cognition-people-depression | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960067 | 355 | 2.765625 | 3 |
More smoke drifts over from Victorian bushfires
- From: adelaidenow
- February 21, 2013
MORE smoke from massive bushfires in Victoria has drifted over the border into South Australia.
The fire in Victoria's Grampians National Park has burnt more than 25,000ha and continues to burn out of control despite the ongoing efforts of about 350 firefighters.
Country Fire Service state co-ordinator, Brenton Eden, said that wind had blown smoke from the in to many parts of South Australia, from Mount Gambie to metropolitan Adelaide.
"There is no cause for alarm because there is no threat in South Australia but this smoke from Victoria is expected to remain over South Australia into tomorrow (Friday)," he said.
"Although at this point in time there are currently no active bushfires in South Australia, residents and travellers are advised to remain vigilant at all times during the fire danger season."
Mr Eden asked the public to report only sightings of fresh flames, embers or smoke.
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Radio Phoenix: Is Phoenix's Only Community Radio Station Tuning In or Fading Out?
Last month Neba, Underwater Getdown, Kinch, Black Carl, Kirkwood Dellinger, and Lisa Savidge all donated their time to the grassroots, DIY, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that is beginning to fill a void that Phoenicians so desperately crave. They call it Radio Phoenix, the only community-based radio station in town.
Radio Phoenix's general manager Kaja Brown points out that Phoenix is the largest city without a community station. Many of its residents have come from other places where community radio is a part of local music. While Tucson and Bisbee and Green Valley have community stations, Phoenix, sadly, until October, did not.
While ASU's radio station, The Blaze 1260 AM, operates under a
similar volunteer structure, involvement is limited to those attending
the university. Radio Phoenix seeks to reach out then to the most
under-represented communities, musical and otherwise. Their programming
includes talk shows regarding the LGBT community, social justice
issues, feminism, the environment, and the Native American community, to
name a few.
Radio Phoenix's national music director, Jeremy Deatherage, says
that music constitutes the majority of the station's programming which
also includes talk shows regarding the LGBT community, social justice
issues, feminism, the environment, and more.
"Our most important goal with that is to develop
programs that feature very under-represented music," says Deatherage. "Independently
produced rock, independent hip-hop, electronica, world music, and stuff
like that, that you pretty much don't get on any other commercial
stations around town."
Currently, Radio Phoenix broadcasts solely online, though the plan is
to obtain an FM signal, build a tower, and be live on FM radio within
18 months. While this sounds overly ambitious to some, the team of
people working toward this goal put in over four years of research
before even launching radiophoenix.org, and are modeling themselves
after Pacific Coast radio stations like famed KEXP, out of Seattle. The
locally controlled "by the people, for the people" station is the
radio service of the Arizona Community Media Foundation, which is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to "strengthen our
community by providing access to and participation in independent
educational and cultural community-based media."
In fact, the modest house (known as "the bungalow") in the heart of Roosevelt Row that is home to Radio Phoenix and is the site of its broadcasts belongs to Rhonda Boyle, the executive director and president of the Arizona Community Media Foundation.
The station is not just innovative in its programming, though. It is making new and unique concerted efforts to help the local music community in unprecedented ways. Local music director and assistant program director Nick Gortari is interested in bringing more people out to local shows, making it easier for them to come and stay, and partnering with venues and other local businesses to make the success of local music beneficial to everyone.
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WALKING THE FINE LINE
If you a are the owner or top manager of a business, you have delegated certain responsibilities to other worksite managers and supervisors. You want to avoid undercutting their authority since that would interfere with their ability to carry out those responsibilities. At the same time, you want to demonstrate your own commitment to reducing safety and health hazards and protecting your work force. How do you walk this fine line?
- Put a complete safety and health program in place.
- Hold your managers and supervisors strictly accountable.
- Encourage employees to use the routine systems afforded to them by the safety and health program.
- Forge a partnership with your managers and supervisors that encourages employees to speak out and use the system.
COMPLETE SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM
Each method you use to improve workplace safety and health protection will work even better if complemented by the other techniques of good management. While the chapters of this manual separate safety and health program management into component parts, a functioning program is the sum of all those parts. Therefore, it would be a mistake to allow managers to pick and choose, using some program parts and not the rest.
This manual describes ways to implement OSHA’s Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines. If you are setting up some version of what is described in all 12 chapters, you are probably providing a complete program. If you have any doubt, refer to Chapter 1 which provides the full text of the Guidelines and summary of what each part means.
In providing a complete safety and health program, you give your entire work force -- managers, supervisors, and rank and file employees -- the tools they need to work with you in keeping the worksite safe and healthful. A complete program addresses the needs and responsibilities of all employees.
Managers and supervisors held accountable for their safety and health responsibilities are more likely to press for solutions to safety and health problems than to present barriers to problem resolution. They are more likely to suggest new ideas for hazard prevention and control then oppose new ideas. By holding your managers and supervisors accountable, you encourage their positive involvement in the safety and health program. Your own involvement then is less likely to undercut or threaten their authority. For more information on developing accountability, see Chapter 6.
ENCOURAGING THE USE OF PROGRAM SYSTEMS
You have a full program in place, and you are holding your managers and supervisors accountable for carrying out their responsibilities. The next step is to encourage the rest of your work force to use the system built into the program and to do their part.
Encourage employees to take full advantage of opportunities to become involved in problem identification, problem solving and hazard reporting. Then, when they do become involved, make sure they get appropriate and timely management feedback, including recognition and reward.
When your program's systems are working well, most safety and health problems will be resolved before your employees feel the need to approach you directly. Big problems may arise, however, that the normal systems cannot handle. Your supervisors probably will understand that these problems are not a reflection on them, and that you are the proper person to address these concerns.
What should you do when an employee brings a problem or suggestion to your attention? Listen carefully! Then tactfully ask what attempts have been made already to solve the problem or submit the suggestion. In other words, what systems -- safety and health program mechanisms -- have already been used?
Perhaps the employee will respond that he/she has spoken with the supervisor but has gotten no action. This may indicate a problem within your program. Although unlikely, the problem may be a supervisor who genuinely does not care about having a safe or healthful workplace. Rather than approach this situation as a personal matter involving this particular supervisor, focus on how the system is not working. Maybe the supervisor did not understand the issue raised by the employee or could not explain to the employee why no action was necessary. Make clear to the supervisor's manager that you want the problem within the system to be resolved. If the supervisor's attitude is at least part of the problem, give the supervisor and his/her manager a chance to work it out. It is not a good idea to confront the supervisor based on one incident.
Obviously, if your accountability system is going to work, any individual who continues to present barriers to effective safety and health management will have to be held accountable. It is important, however, to try to separate any accountability activity from your immediate response to employee-raised questions, concerns or suggestions.
Remember, too, that your safety and health systems not only encourage employee involvement in identifying hazards and resolving problems, but also protect those employees from retaliatory and discriminatory actions, including unofficial harassment.
FORGING A PARTNERSHIP
Make sure your supervisors know you understand that not every safety or health problem can be solved at the supervisory level. Call upon your managers and supervisors to help make the employee input systems work. Think of your work units -- crews, department -- as teams striving to identify and solve problems throughout whatever system mechanisms are needed. Your managers and supervisors are the team leaders, working with you and the other players toward a common goal.
You may wish to reward or otherwise recognize the teams that report hazards or suggest new hazard control ideas. Recognition can be based on the submission of reports and suggestions or on the quality of employee input. Let your managers and supervisors know that when an employee brings a safety or health matter to your attention, you consider that a good reflection of the supervisor's leadership. | <urn:uuid:9406cb06-e905-42d3-ae78-05679206713a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://labor.mo.gov/DLS/SafetyConsultation/ccp/appendix_3_1.asp?style=mobile1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956755 | 1,123 | 2.265625 | 2 |
It’s an argument as old as cinema itself—montage vs. mise-en-scène, edited progression vs. real-time wandering, narrative bricklaying vs. roving experience, D. W. Griffith vs. Louis Feuillade. Ideally, we should have both, and almost always do, but the eye-roasting ordeal of director Mikhail Kalatozov and DP Sergei Urusevsky’s Letter Never Sent (1959) is one of those galvanizing eruptions of cinema-ness that makes the debate fresh again. As in, Feuillade was right, Griffith was wrong, and if cinema is good for something other than slaying the hours of an otherwise empty Saturday night, then it is this: unleashing the time spent in our dreams into a shareable world, stalking the corridors of a collective fugue state, strafing the landscapes of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Of course, one does not want to be exclusionary, and of course, Griffith’s methodology—syntax engineered to control and manipulate the viewer’s attention—has proven to be the more powerful and financially viable avenue. But the medium’s zealots and freaks know better; they know that a Kalatozov/Urusevsky traveling shot is among the medium’s truest transcendent offerings. Any single shot from Letter’s middle third—the epochal forest fire sequence—proves the point:
With their unique arsenal of mobile camera, infrared stock, infinite range, and deep compositions, the filmmakers tell this strange, despairing little Soviet tale about a geological team lost in Siberia with a visual palette that veers from the Robert Flaherty–esque to the Dantean to the ur-Gothic, almost all of it in signature tracking shots that, virtually by definition, limn time and space as an experience in ways that classic narrative editing, particularly as it has evolved since Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein, actually negates.
Time and space, in Kalatozov and in the filmographies of his acolytes, are expanses in which we are free to roam. When a film is Hollywood-cut for maximum audience control, a dynamic that has found its perfected practice in Spielbergian blockbusterdom, we are not free but rather Huxley-like drones, willingly fabulated and lured into acquiescent semisleep and commanded to look first here, then there.
Which may be why, perhaps even subconsciously, the soaring rides Kalatozov and Urusevsky take us on in Letter Never Sent, The Cranes Are Flying (1957), and I Am Cuba (1964) are so electrifying, so enlivening. We sense a form of liberation, even if the story at hand is a tale of oppression, war, or tragedy. In Cranes, which is for Kalatozov a distinctively intimate, confined work, the film moves like a hunting dog whenever its characters hit the streets or the battlefield; the traveling sequences, such as when star Tatiana Samiljova goes searching through the bombed city, through crowds and fires and rows of tanks, are not overlong but are extraordinarily dense with life-stuff and awe, mini-movies unfurling like history we cannot stop.
We certainly experience this rush in I Am Cuba, as perhaps in no other film, during the Promethean two-and-a-half-minute funeral march sequence, in which seemingly the entirety of the city of Havana is participating, and in which the camera climbs buildings, passes over rooftops and through windows, and finally flies out over the crowd in midair, without a single cut. It’s tragic and exultant as dramatic agitprop, but it’s also a manifestation of the angelic, in a Rilkean sense, both beautiful and terrifying, abstract and tangible.
The inheritance of Kalatozov’s topos is one of modern cinema’s great secret histories, as it has been largely left in the hands of Eastern-European and Asian filmmakers distinguished by their temperamental immunity from orthodox cinematic storytelling. Miklós Jancsó came first, prowling the Hungarian puszta in The Round-Up (1966), The Red and the White (1967), Red Psalm (1972), Electra, My Love (1974), and other films, which thanks to the camera orchestrations, off-screen space, long-take realism, and seemingly mandated weather all appeared to have the scale and square footage of small countries. (In his early years, Jancsó took cues from Michelangelo Antonioni, whose aesthetic was more temperate but who attained some kind of long-stroll-shot zenith vibe with the penultimate seven-minute shot of 1975’s The Passenger, all the more remarkable for being centered on the protagonist’s death but at the same time avoiding it fastidiously.)
It was Andrei Tarkovsky who sold this aesthetic to willing cinephiles, primarily with his last three features, Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986), all of which could be characterized as a series of ordeals by time and impossibility, with stretches of carefully composed motion and monumentalism that came closer than any films ever had to embodying an ineffable sense of metaphysical struggle. At about the same time, the late Theo Angelopoulos began his journey to the outer limits of four-dimensional long-take wanderlust, but used the strategy not for spiritualism but for history and politics, which Alexander Sokurov began doing in his own crepuscular fashion, from Save and Protect (1990) to the ne plus ultra edit-free excursionism Russian Ark (2002) and beyond. Bela Tarr likewise toiled in a gritty early phase for years before, with 1988’s Damnation, discovering plan sequence as an expressive idea and then taking it, sequence by sequence, as far as it can go and still remain “narrative.”
Nowadays, thanks to the evolution of technology, it appears easy for any film-school grad/TV-commercial vet to, pace David Fincher and Brian DePalma, swoop their camera over impossibly long distances and disconnected spaces, through phone cables, across rooftops, and down throats. Kalatozov’s achievements look positively neolithic by comparison. That is, if you’re blind. The essential glory of the Kalatozov-to-Tarr model—still used by Hou Hsaio-hsien, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and a handful of others—is that the nexus of camera-people-landscape really happened, in exactly the amount of time it appears to have happened, and it all happens again as we watch. It’s witness to the sublime. A digitally enabled traveling shot is not a traveling shot at all—it’s just as much the result of sutures as a cut-up action scene, both set pieces cobbled together at a console long after the camera finished its work. One could say that these shots are, in essence, dishonest, but it’s difficult to argue that they’re a meaningful experience. Rather, they represent a trick, a video-game gambit. What Kalatozov did isn’t remarkable just for its labor and artisanship but for the very real, long moments it captured, forever ours now and completely unfakeable. | <urn:uuid:e73b79db-a8dd-44f8-a376-8e6c3abf112e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2213-long-voyage-home-traveling-with-kalatozov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939308 | 1,572 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Ethan A. Huff
Oct 20, 2010
Many veterinarians recommend them, and most animal shelters require them. Identification microchips injected into the necks of cats and dogs are touted as useful in recovering lost pets because the devices store owner and medical information. But are they safe? A new lawsuit against Merck & Co., Inc., maker of the HomeAgain pet microchip, says they are not, noting that they can cause cancer to develop in pets.
Featured at www.ChipMeNot.org, a website launched to raise awareness about the harm caused to animals by microchips, the lawsuit alleges that Merck’s HomeAgain pet microchip induces cancerous tumors in pets. According to the suit, the defendant’s cat developed cancer after getting a chip implant, and according to reports, other animals have gotten cancer after getting chipped as well.
“Based on the alarming number of microchip-induced cancers we’re discovering, I predict this lawsuit will be just the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Katherine Albrecht, a consumer advocate and expert on side effects associated with implantable microchips. “Merck and organizations that advocate pet chipping should take this lawsuit seriously and start warning pet owners of the risk of microchip-induced cancer.”
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, potential health risks associated with implantable microchips include “adverse tissue reaction”. Based on data from the British Small Animal Veterinary Association, this can include “swelling”, “infection”, “abscesses”, and “tumors”.
Albrecht presented a paper on the subject called “Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of the Literature 1990-2006″ (http://www.chipmenot.org/pdfs/P074.pdf) at the June conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that documents the increasing number of animals being harmed by microchips. Currently, there is no repository of data on adverse events associated with microchips in the U.S., but Albrecht organization, CASPIAN, is filling that void by compiling such information and making it available to the public.
To learn more about the dangers of animal microchips, visit: www.ChipMeNot.org
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On December 5, 2004, approximately 2140 central standard time, a Piper PA-28-180 single-engine airplane, N4750L, was destroyed when it impacted terrain while maneuvering near the Hammond Municipal Airport (HDC) near Hammond, Louisiana. The private pilot, sole occupant of the airplane, was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. No flight plan was filed for the cross-country flight that originated at the Houma-Terrebonne Airport (HUM) near Houma, Louisiana, approximately 2100, and destined for Hammond Municipal Airport. Night instrument meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
According to a witness, who owned several airplanes that were based at Hammond Airport, the pilot had recently purchased the airplane and based it at the airport. On the day before the accident, he said the pilot arrived at the airport about 1630-1700 and proceeded to perform touch-and-go landings in the traffic pattern for approximately two hours. Half of the landings were executed in daylight conditions and the other half were conducted in night conditions.
The following day, the pilot arrived at Hammond Airport about 15-20 minutes before sundown, about 1630. He parked his vehicle in front of his hangar, pulled the airplane out, started the engine and taxied to the active runway. It was still light outside when he departed on the 58.7 nautical mile flight to Houma-Terrebonne Airport.
The witness left the airport around 1845, at which time he noted that the humidity was "very high." He said, "Everything was covered in condensation, the ceiling was 1,200 to 1,400 feet above ground level (agl), the visibility was 2-4 miles before the sun set and had it had reduced to about 1-mile with haze after the sun had set."
According to an air traffic controller at Houma-Terrebonne Airport, the pilot contacted the control tower about 1653 when he was approximately 30 miles from the airport. He reported that he had the current automated terminal information system (ATIS) information, which included a ceiling of 700 feet broken and a visibility of three miles. The pilot requested a special visual flight rules (SVFR) clearance to land and the controller advised the pilot to contact the tower when he was 10 miles from the airport.
At 1708, the pilot contacted the tower and the controller informed him that runway 18/36 was closed and that he was cleared for the SVFR approach for runway 12. The controller also told the pilot to contact the tower when he was within two miles of the airport. The pilot agreed and later contacted the tower when he was two miles from the airport. The pilot was then cleared to land on runway 12.
According to the controller, the cloud layer was "ragged" which limited his ability to make visual contact with the airplane. He searched along the final approach course for runway 12, but was unable to see the airplane. Then, out of the corner of his eye, the controller saw the airplane when it was 150-200 feet above the landing threshold of runway 18, which was closed and unlit. He said that he immediately instructed the pilot to make a missed approach. The pilot heeded the instructions and began to climb. Then, the controller cleared the pilot to land on runway 12, which the pilot accomplished without incident at 1720.
After the airplane landed, one of the pilot's friends who was waiting for him to arrive, called the controller and told him that the pilot was meeting them at a certain location on the airport.
The control tower closed at 1900, and the controller left the tower facility about 1915. He said the pilot did not depart prior to the tower closing.
According to a friend of the pilot, who had an airplane based at Houma-Terrabonne Airport, he said that the pilot had called him around 1530-1600 on the day of the accident. The pilot wanted to fly down to Houma for dinner and to "gain some cross-country experience." The friend said that the pilot arrived in Houma around 1700, before dark. After he arrived, they had dinner and did some "hangar flying." Around 2015, the pilot called DeRidder Flight Service Station (FSS) to get an update on the weather, since he planned to fly back to Hammond, Louisiana, later that evening. The friend did not hear the briefing, but said that when the pilot returned back to the hangar after calling FSS, he said that the weather was "3,000 scattered in New Orleans and it looked good." The pilot hung around the hangar for a few more minutes, then began to preflight his airplane. The friend asked him if he needed fuel, and the pilot said "no." Then the pilot also asked his friend for the proper approach frequency. The friend gave him the approach frequency and told the pilot to call him when he landed at Hammond.
In addition, the friend said the weather at the time was marginal VFR, and he asked the pilot if he was sure that he wanted to fly back to Hammond. The pilot said that he did. The friend thought that maybe the pilot had something pressing that he needed to do the next day, and that is why he wanted to return that evening.
A witness, an automobile mechanic, was standing outside his home located approximately a 1/4-mile south of the accident site about 2135, when he heard the sound of an airplane approaching from the south and heading toward the north. Although he could not see the airplane, he said that it was flying "low" and that the engine sounded "good." Shortly after the airplane flew over his house, the engine started to "miss out" as if was "starving for fuel." Approximately two minutes later the witness heard the sound of the airplane impacting the ground.
The accident occurred at night approximately 30 degrees, 33 minutes north latitude and 090 degrees 24 minutes west longitude.
The pilot held a private pilot certificate with a rating for airplane single-engine land. The pilot's most recent Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) third-class medical certificate was issued on October 18, 2004. At that time, the pilot reported a total of 87 hours of flight time. The pilot's logbooks were not made available for review during the course of the investigation.
At 2139, the weather observation facility at Hammond Municipal Airport, located approximately 2.6 miles southeast of the accident site, reported wind from 170 degrees at 9 knots, visibility 5 statute miles in mist, overcast ceiling 500 feet, temperature 72 degrees Fahrenheit, dew point 69 degrees Fahrenheit, and a barometric pressure setting of 30.00 inches of Mercury.
An on-scene examination of the airplane wreckage was conducted on December 6-7, 2004. All major components of the airplane were accounted for at the site. The airplane impacted brush and muddy terrain and came to rest upright at an elevation of approximately 88 feet mean sea level (msl) on a magnetic heading of 183 degrees.
The point of initial impact was along a line of several trees that ran parallel to the wreckage path on a magnetic heading of approximately 160 degrees. The tips of the tree limbs were severed and impact marks were evident at points progressively closer to the ground along the wreckage path prior to the airplane's first contact with the ground. The first ground impact mark, containing the nose gear, was approximately 32 feet beyond the initial impact with the trees. The main wreckage came to rest approximately 29 feet beyond the first ground impact mark.
The main wreckage included the cockpit, fuselage, empennage, tail section, the left and right wings, and the engine. The post-impact fire consumed the cockpit, forward fuselage, and inboard section of the left wing, including the fuel tank. The right wing was not damaged by fire, and the fuel tank was not breached. The flaps were found in the fully retracted position, and the elevator trim tab was in the full nose-up position.
The engine sustained impact damage. The propeller remained attached to the engine. Engine and valve train continuity were established by manually rotating the propeller. While the engine was being rotated, compression was established on each cylinder. Both magnetos were removed from the engine and examined. Timing was verified and when manually rotated, spark was observed at each outlet point. The spark plugs were removed and appeared to be dark gray in color, except for the #2 and #4 bottom spark plugs, which were oil soaked.
Examination of the two-bladed propeller revealed that both blades exhibited leading edge polishing and chordwise scratches. However, one of the blades was bent aft approximately 45° and was twisted to low pitch, starting approximately 10-inches from the center of the propeller hub.
The fuel selector valve was found set to the right wing fuel tank. Several ounces of blue-colored aviation fuel were found in the engine fuel strainer and in the fuel line from the engine driven fuel pump. The carburetor fuel bowl was damaged from impact and contained no fuel. The fuel inlet screen was removed and was absent of debris.
The vacuum pump was removed from the engine it rotated freely by hand and produced suction and compression. The unit was disassembled and no anomalies were noted.
MEDICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL INFORMATION
An autopsy was performed on the pilot on December 6, 2004, by the Tangipahoa Parish Coroner's Office, Independance, Louisiana.
The FAA Toxicology Accident Research Laboratory, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, conducted toxicological testing. The pilot tested positive for amphetamine and phenylpropanolamine (PPA). According to the FAA's Southwest Regional Flight Surgeon, the use of amphetamine by the pilot would have precluded medical certification if it had been reported to the FAA at the time of his medical application. A review of the pilot's past medical applications revealed that he did not report the use of this substance. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had banned phenylpropanolamine due to medical concerns.
A review of fuel receipts revealed that the pilot last purchased fuel (32.18 gallons of 100 LL) on October 31, 2004, at the Hammond Municipal Airport.
The Piper PA-28-180 has a total fuel capacity of 50 gallons (25 gallons in each tank) with 48 usable gallons (24 gallons in each tank).
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News reports frequently inform us that, as a nation, we are part of a global economy. We are constantly reminded that to remain an economic power we must have a more competitive work force. This imperative translates into efforts to increase workplace skills and enhance job performance at a local level. Community colleges have responded by cooperating with local businesses and governments to design workplace literacy programs and projects to raise the competency levels of America's work force.
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Bamett, Lynn, Ed. Rural Workplace Literacy: Community College Partnerships. Washington, DC: American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Commission on Small/Rural Community Colleges, 1991. 22 pp. (ED 338 300)
In 1990, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges developed a national workplace literacy demonstration project to raise awareness of the link between local economic development and basic workplace skill performance, and to stimulate a local leadership initiative around a community-wide effort to raise worker performance levels. Ten grants were awarded to the following rural colleges (I) Columbia College (California), where students from the college and community were recruited to become literacy tutors; (2) Crowder College (Missouri), where work site adult literacy classes were implemented; (3) Enterprise State Junior College (Alabama), which coordinated an adult basic education (ABE) program with six local companies; (4) Genesee Community College (New York), which conducted seminars and workshops for more than 100 farm owners/managers and agribusiness employees; (5) Mount Wachusett Community College (Massachusetts), which developed a flexible, cost-effective tutor training program directed towards unemployed and dislocated workers; (6) New River Community College (Virginia), which provided on-site reading and math classes for workers in the local textile industry who were weak in basic skills; (7) Northeast Texas Community College, which planned and implemented a business/education partnership to enhance workplace literacy in targeted agricultural industries and occupations; (8) Roane State Community College (Tennessee), where a workplace literacy program geared toward unemployed adults and low-skilled workers was developed; (9) Salish Kootenai College (Montana), which expanded its ABE program, developed workplace-related classes, and provided transportation and child care for students on the Flathead Indian Reservation; and (10) Southwestern Oregon Community College, which conducted a workplace literacy project focused on towboat workers, fishermen, apprentices, and underemployed and unemployed adults.
Carnes, John. Northeast Texas Agricultural Literacy Net-work: A -Lit-NeT:A Rural College PartnershipProject. Final Report. Mount Pleasant, TX: Northeast Texas Community College, 1991. 21 pp. (ED 333 917)
ln northeast Texas, 47% of the adults over the age of 25 have not graduated from high school. Area agricultural businesses are rapidly implementing new technologies and quality control measures, both of which require literate and highly trainable workers. To meet these needs, a partnership project was undertaken between Northeast Texas Community College (NTCD) and the Northeast Texas Quality Work Force Planning Committee) ("Vision-NeT") aimed at enhancing workplace literacy in targeted agricultural industries and occupations. The four goals of the project were to identify industries and occupations with high employment demands, conduct a literacy audit of employees at selected businesses to determine the relationship between workplace literacy and productivity, integrate the results of the literacy audit into the existing Agriculture 2 + 2 (Tech-Prep) and literacy programs, and disseminate the findings of the literacy audit at a Vision-NeT quarterly symposium. Using a labor market information system, three key industries with high projected employment demand were identified (i.e., food and kindred products, agricultural production-livestock, and forestry) and a prioritized list of target occupations was developed. A literacy audit of area poultry businesses led to the development of a literacy and occupational skills matrix for use in determining the training needs of specific on-site occupations, as well as to evaluate and improve occupational education curricula. Finally, as a result of attending the Vision-NeT symposium, Lonestar Steel, together with a local union, entered into a training partnership with NTCC that is currently providing workplace literacy classes to 35 employees/members. Recommendations included: (1) enhance communications between business and education by avoiding "educationese"; (2) business and education must reach consensus on the definition of basic skills; (3) a more workable taxonomy of basic workplace skills should be developed; (4) where possible inventories of job duties and tasks should be used to focus literacy audits; (5) community andjunior colleges should use a team approach to literacy audits; and (6) in-service training should be provided to community and junior college staff on conducting literacy audits.
Carnes, John. Northeast Texas Agricultural Literacy Net-work (A-Lit-Ne T. A Rural College Partnership Project). Handbook for Customizing Workplace Literacy to Employer TrainingNeeds. MountPleasant, TX: North-east Texas Community College, 1991. 61 pp. (ED 333 916)
Problems associated with the poor academic and technical preparation of many workers can be addressed through the use of occupational analysis techniques coupled with the development of curricula based on the results of such analyses. This workplace literacy handbook describes five stages in analyzing business literacy needs and developing relevant curricula. Following a brief introduction, the first section, "Getting Organized," describes the creation of a technical advisory committee made up of workplace supervisors, senior-level workers, workplace training directors, a representative from organized labor, and postsecondary instructors, administrators, and career counselors. The next section, "Targeting Industries and Occupations," discusses the collection and analysis of labormarket information. Next, "Occupational Analysis" describes the Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) process in which expert workers from a business serve on special panels to assist in identifying job tasks and skills. The fourth section, "Task Analysis (Literacy Audit)," reviews the application of special matrices that list job tasks on the vertical axis, and various mathematical, reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills along the horizontal axis. The final section, "Curriculum Development," discusses the creation and sequencing of course objectives and the evaluation of student progress. Detailed appendixes provide a sample completed job inventory for poultry production and processing, a sample task analysis matrix, and a sample basic skills taxonomy that reviews and defines the academic skills listed on the task analysis matrix.
Designing and Implementing Workforce Literacy: Programs in Partnership with Business and Industry. Handhook for Community Colleges and Technical Institutes in Texas. First Edition. Developed by the Dallas County Community College District, El Paso Community College District, and North Harris Montgomery Community College District, 1991. 265 pp. (ED 344 006)
This handbook presents research findings from recent work force literacy programs, practical applications for workplace literacy programs, and resources for community colleges and technical institute personnel to use in forming partnerships with business and industry. Following a list of project staff, an acknowledgements section, and a brief preface concerning the consortium that developed the handbook and the reasons why it is needed, the handbook consists of five main sections. The first of these introduces the idea of work force literacy and presents a research review on the nature of the adult learner; 22 references are cited. The next section presents an overview of the development and management of a work force literacy program partnership. Appendixes to this section include materials that can be used in setting up a program/partnership. A literature review and 44 references are also included. This is followed by a section concerning assessment and evaluation. The section includes an overview, appended assessment materials, a literature review, and 52 references . Next, an overview of curriculum and instruction for work force literacy programs is presented; an appendix includes curriculum material samples, a review of literature, and 36 references. The final section includes a glossary, publishers' addresses, newsletter listings, suggested readings and resources, and a list of the consortium's advisory committee members.
Grimes, Jan, and Renner, Robert. Toward a More Literate Workforce. The Emergence of Workplace Literacy Programs in Illinois. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Library,1988. 29 pp. (ED 313 530)
This report presents eight examples of approaches used by local providers, employers, and unions in Illinois to make basic skills programs available to workers. The programs profiled are the following: Rockford Area Literacy. Council--Project READ '86-'89; Highland Community College--Literacy Outreach Program for Northwest Illinois; Waukegan Public Library--Libraries for Literacy in Lake County; Regional Office of Education--Project U.P.W.A.R.D. (United Peoria Working on Adult Reading Development); Rolling Prairie Library System--Project READ, Decatur; Lake Land Community College--Project PAL (Partners in Adult Literacy), Mattoon; Lawrence Adult Center--VIA (Volunteers in Action)/Literacy, Springfield; and CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation--CEFS Literacy Program, Effingham. Each profile provides a narrative summary of the scope and methods of the program, with such information as number served, businesses involved, funding, successful techniques for recruiting businesses and students, and a name and telephone number for the project coordinator. A discussion of the issues involved in workplace literacy programs is included in the report.
Leslie, Bruce. Skill Standards and Certification Issues; Testimony delivered to the Department of Labor, Department of Education, and National Advisory Commission on Work-Based Learning on behalf of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, 1992. 12 pp. (ED 343 640)
America's more than 1,200 community, technical, and junior colleges constitute the largest branch of higher education in the country. Two-year colleges are subjected to rigorous institutional accreditation standards and procedures by regional accrediting bodies. At least 80% of their students are already in the workforce, and two-year colleges serve the majority of women and persons of color pursuing higher education today. The employer community increasingly requests broadly educated new employees adaptable to the rapid changes of the workplace. In 1988, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) identified the fundamental educational standards necessary for the U.S. workforce to be competitive. These standards would require that American workers have the following skills: (1) knowing how to learn; (2) competence in reading, writing, and computation; (3) listening and oral communication skills; (4) creative thinking and problem solving; (5) self-esteem, goal-setting, and career development; (6) interpersonal skills; and (7) organizational effectiveness and leadership. These skills should underpin a broad based, flexible, and voluntary system of standards, perhaps modeled on the Defense Department-sponsored Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, that would permit greater transferability of credits for an increasingly mobile workforce. Today, many industries already require the associate degree as the basis for employment. To make community colleges the presumptive deliverer of workforce development would simply affirm what is already happening in most states.
Roane State Community College Workplace Literacy Program Report. AACJC Rural College Partnership. Harriman, TN: Roane State Community College, l 991. 24 pp. (ED 336 149)
The Roane State Community College (Tennessee) Workplace Literacy Program (RSWLP), administered by the Roane County Adult Learning Center, coordinates instructional programs for increasing the competency of area businesses with employees lacking in basic skills. A group of 13 community volunteers completed six two-hour training sessions to act as tutors for a computer-assisted literacy instructional (CALI) software package to be used in the program. To identify specific workplace literacy needs, surveys were sent to 70 major employers and industries in the county. Fourteen surveys were returned for a 20% response rate. Of the surveys returned, two employers indicated an interest in establishing a workplace literacy program and four requested additional information about literacy. Classes were established at two worksites that had requested literacy instruction. Recruitment materials were also placed in local businesses advertising additional classes to be held in five locations in the county. Thirty-eight students received adult basic education (ABE) instruction at their work sites and five students passed the General Educational Development (GED) Test, while the community classes enrolled 160 employed students. Employer incentives for participation in the program included released time and a cash bonus for GED completion. To assure continuation of the program, a literacy lab utilizing the CALI program and community volunteers has been established at the Adult Learning Center. In addition, area high school computer labs will make CALI available to each local community in Roane County. The survey, cover letter, summary responses, project receipts, and correspondence are included.
Skills Enhancement Program. Performance Report, Evaluation Report, and Administration Manual. Developed by Great Lakes Steel, Industrial Technology Institute and Wayne County Community College. 1991. 109 pp. (ED 341 833)
This document contains three products of Skills Enhancement Program, a cooperative venture between Industrial Technology Institute (ITI), Wayne County (Michigan) Community College (WCCC), and Great Lakes Steel (GLS). The performance report describes the project's objective of designing a job-related literacy curriculum for hourly workers and project activities, i.e., worker recruitment; literacy audit; development of self-instructional booklets, a job skills database, and an administration manual; implementation through tutoring at WCCC and GLS; and evaluation. The evaluation report contains nine sections covering approach, administration needs assessment, presentation of findings, use of materials, use by students, use during one-to-one tutoring, use as course materials, and overall findings. The administration manual includes the following sections: foreword, introduction, demographics of GLS, job analysis and training at GLS, set-up of a workplace literacy program, program administration and implementation, project administration and implementation, specialized materials/Tech Prep workbook, evaluation, and three appendices. The appendices include a historical overview of training electrical craft personnel, work breakdown task list by ITI staff, and evaluation forms.
Taylor, Maurice C. Workplace Literacy Demands. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 1989. 6 pp. (ED 330 886).
A study was conducted to identify the literacy requirements of 10 college vocational training programs and their corresponding occupations. Following a review of five years of student records at an eastern Ontario community college, the 10 major vocational programs studied were categorized as follows: motor vehicle mechanic, engineering technician, baker, computer operator, cabinet maker, welder, cook, business equipment service technician, electronics assembler, and refrigeration and air conditioning technician. Reading and writing requirements needed for these programs were identified and compared to those on the job sites for each of the corresponding occupations. Instructors, coordinators, and students were interviewed for each of the vocational preparation programs. Three job sites corresponding to the occupational training program were identified and employees and supervisors were interviewed. Samples of materials used in the training programs and on the job were analyzed and subjected to readability formulas. The study found that reading was a requirement of both trainees in the vocational programs and of employees on the job sites; however, employees spent much less time reading than trainees. Readability scores for all training program materials and occupational site materials ranged form grade 9 to grade 12 levels. Writing skills needed were higher for trainees than for workers. Suggestions were made to improve training by focusing on job-related materials and vocabulary.
Van-Ast, John. Workplace Basics: The Skills Employers Want...Can We Change the Way We Operate? Paper presented at the American Vocational Association Convention, Orlando, FL, December 2, 1989. 57 pp. (ED 315606)
This document considers whether postsecondary education can change the way it operates. The introduction identifies six challenges of the 1990s, including heterogeneous student populations; quality of working life competence, basic competence, employability competence, learning-to-learn competence, common core competencies, and threats and science/vocational and technical gap; a mature faculty; teacher effectiveness; the significance of associate degree and certificate technical education; and curriculum alignment and accountability. Two areas that will be affected by these challenges are identified: instructor's competence in dealing with curriculum and instruction and the necessity for community college administrators to develop the skills of faculty. The four subsets of basics that employers want, such as conventional basic skills and group process skills, are summarized. The paper describes three research studies designed to determine Iowa's vocational technical educators' perceived needs in two areas: (1) their need for curriculum resource materials in basics, quality of working life, and employability; and (2) their perceived need for in-service seminars on how to implement those materials. The document concludes with 11 references and a set of 34 transparency masters. | <urn:uuid:57901537-cf9e-4ad5-a6f2-17185c160e37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/CATALYST/V23N2/deckelbaum.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933271 | 3,682 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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Yet Parker died in poverty far from the land of his birth. In later life he was estranged from his people and dismissed by political leaders he once considered friends. Today, American history remembers him as a mere footnote, and inside the Seneca community, he is a controversial figure -- considered a hero by some, branded a traitor by others.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- It's been almost 60 years since James McEachin returned home with a bullet still lodged in his chest, finding an America indifferent toward the troops who fought in Korea. Now he will get the homecoming parade he had expected.
The Defense Department for the first time will put a float in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses -- one of the most watched parades -- to commemorate the veterans from a conflict that still casts a shadow over the world.
"I think it's a magnificent gesture and it cures a lot of ills," said McEachin, who will be among six veterans who will ride on the float Tuesday. The 82-year-old author and actor starred in Perry Mason TV movies, among other things.
The $247,000 flower-covered float will be a replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Pentagon's debut comes ahead of events marking the 60th anniversary of the July 1953 armistice that halted the bloodshed but did not declare peace.
Col. David Clark said the Pentagon decided to seize the opportunity to sponsor one of the 42 floats in the 124-year-old New Year's Day parade to raise awareness about what has been called "The Forgotten War."
It has taken decades for the success of the war's efforts to be recognized, and the department wanted to remind Americans about the sacrifices that were made by the veterans, most of whom are now in their 80s, Clark said.
The war resulted in South Korea developing into a thriving democratic ally in sharp contrast to its bitterly poor, communist neighbor that is seen as a global threat.
"As a nation, this may be our last opportunity to say 'thank you' to them and honor their service," said Clark, director of the department's 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee.
The war began when North Korea invaded the South to try to reunify the nation, a liberated Japanese colony sliced in two in 1945 by the U.S. and Soviet victors of World War II.
North Korea had the upper hand at first, almost pushing a weak South Korean-U.S. force off the peninsula, but then U.S. reinforcements poured in and pushed them back.
Then, in late 1950, communist China stepped in and the Americans and South Koreans were forced back to the peninsula's midsection. The two sides battled there for two years before ending with a stalemate.
"We didn't march home in victory. We did what we were supposed to do, which is stop this aggressive force called communism," said McEachin, a Silver Star recipient.
Edward Chang, director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California, Riverside, said U.S. intervention gave South Korea the opportunity to become one of the world's major economies.
"Most Americans simply are not aware of what is happening in Korea and how it happened," he said.
More than 36,000 U.S. service members were killed in the conflict, and millions overall.
The government did not talk to troops at the time about how pivotal the war was in stopping communism. After the victory in World War II, the Korean conflict seemed to almost provoke shame for Americans, McEachin said.
The American public also felt no connection to the fighting in a faraway Asian country unlike during World War II when airwaves filled with patriotic fight songs, he said.
McEachin not only returned to indifference but discrimination as an African American soldier.
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Housed in the historic General Land Office Building (built 1856-1857), the Capitol Visitors Center provides an informative and fun orientation to the Capitol Complex. The Visitors Center features interactive exhibits and films about Capitol and Texas history. Have you ever wanted to view the top of the Capitol? See secret places of the Capitol in the movie Beyond the Dome. How did they place the Goddess of Liberty on top of the Capitol? Access a video on the interactive computer timeline. How did Texas pay soldiers during the Texas Revolution? Select the identity of a soldier and draw a map of their land. Who was O. Henry? Listen to the famed writer’s stories about the old Land Office.
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The Tolerance Program in St. Petersburg (2006-2011): Its Logic and First Results
The city government of Saint Petersburg started an educational initiative in 2006 “to develop tolerance, to provide peace and cooperation in all aspects,” according to Stanislav Tkachenko, Director of Diplomatic Studies, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, and Coordinator, St. Petersburg Tolerance Program (2006 and 2011). At a 17 November 2011 Kennan Institute event, the speaker outlined the history and framework of the St. Petersburg Tolerance Program and its impact on the city thus far.
Tkakchenko began his talk with a brief history of the Tolerance Program. Dialogue concerning the establishment of the Program began in early 2006 in light of the G8 summit that was held in St. Petersburg later that year. St. Petersburg had a negative image at that time, according to Tkachenko, who cited factors such as the rising popularity of ultranationalist movements and rampant corruption throughout the city. The government of St. Petersburg approved funding for the Tolerance Program in February of 2006, whereupon Tkachenko organized a team of fourteen professors with whom he met weekly to develop the Program’s educational strategy.
In order to develop the educational framework of the Tolerance Program, the committee analyzed demographic information of the population of St. Petersburg. With over one hundred registered ethnic communities in St. Petersburg, the Tolerance Program was challenged to create programming that supported ethnic and cultural mutual respect, while celebrating the diversity of the city’s population. Tkachenko explained that the Tolerance Program utilizes a variety of outreach strategies to promote its educational mission.
In particular, the speaker emphasized the presence of the Tolerance Program in St. Petersburg elementary schools; outreach efforts vary in strategy based on the age of the students. For example, the Program initially designed and circulated posters teaching kindergarten students about tolerance and respect; based on the successful reception of the posters throughout the city, the Tolerance Program subsequently created 90-second cartoons promoting the importance of diversity, and aired the films during popular children’s television programming to target kindergarteners. At the third- and fourth-grade levels, Tkachenko continued, the Program’s outreach plan differed to address the age differences of those elementary school students. Instead of posters, the Tolerance Program developed informative pamphlets and other literature that focused on highlighting the diverse ethnic communities located in St. Petersburg, including positive information about the histories and notable historic figures of each community. This information is included in a publication the speaker called the “Ethnocalendar,” and is available to all students at those grade levels annually at no charge.
Outreach efforts are also extended to teachers in the St. Petersburg school system. Since the start of the Tolerance Program, specialists in facilitating positive, constructive dialogue about diversity and tolerance have been recruited to train teachers throughout the city on how to teach their students about these issues in a professional way. Tkachenko noted that since 2006, over 2,000 teachers have been trained to implement this programming, which has impacted approximately 15,000 students throughout St. Petersburg thus far.
Originally, the city government of St. Petersburg approved funding—over 400 million rubles—for the Tolerance Program to implement its programming through 2010. However, in light of initiative’s success, the Program was approved in 2010 to continue its efforts with additional funding through 2015. Tkachenko concluded that the continuation of the Program has allowed him and his team to further develop their initial strategies, and will allow the Tolerance Program to expand its outreach to international and interregional organizations dedicated to youth enrichment activities in diversity education through the coming years.
By Amy Shannon Liedy
Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute
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To the Editor: In schizophrenia, functional hallucinations are defined as those that occur when a patient simultaneously receives a real stimulus in the perceptual field concerned (e.g., hallucinated voices heard simultaneously with—and specific to—the real sound of running water) (1).
Mr. A, a 35-year-old man who had suffered from schizophrenia since his early 20s, was referred for assessment of refractory auditory verbal hallucinations. He was taking quetiapine, having previously been given several other antipsychotics, including clozapine (which was discontinued after a generalized tonic-clonic seizure and neutropenia). No pharmacological treatments had resulted in significant attenuation of his auditory hallucinations (the predominant clinical symptom of his illness).
The most salient hallucinated voice was perceived solely when Mr. A simultaneously heard real engine sounds from motor vehicles. The engine sounds and the voice were perceived as "in parallel." The "engine voice" spoke to him in the second person, uttering frightening statements such as, "I’ve got hell for you." The timbre of this voice was mechanistic, like the accompanying engine sounds, and lacked human characteristics, such as gender or accent.
Another hallucinated voice occurred simultaneously with actual speech uttered by television announcers. The semantic content was the same as that of the "engine voice," but the "television voice" sounded human, exactly like the real voice of the television announcer who was speaking at the same time. For example, the "television voice" was often described as sounding like an adult woman with a northern British accent and "serious" emotional prosody.
A third variant of Mr. A’s functional auditory hallucinations occurred when he played his electric guitar. Single hallucinated words accompanied the playing (and perception) of each individual musical note. These words were in a seemingly random order, without apparent semantic features. Like the "engine voice," the "guitar voice" lacked human attributes but instead sounded like an electric guitar. For example, if Mr. A played a musical scale, then he would hear hallucinated words whose pitch matched the simultaneously perceived guitar notes. A physical examination, routine blood investigations, and an audiological assessment revealed no abnormalities.
In this patient, we observed a direct relationship between the timbre, prosody, and pitch of real environmental sounds and simultaneously perceived auditory hallucinations. Evidence from functional neuroimaging supports a general hypothesis that auditory hallucinations can arise because of abnormal activation in the auditory cortex (2, 3). This case suggests a further hypothesis: normal activation in the auditory system, which corresponds to neural encoding of natural-sound object and location characteristics (4, 5), may be misinterpreted, leading to the false perception of functional auditory hallucinations that retain certain acoustic features that were present in the original signal. | <urn:uuid:1486f985-d2f0-4df8-831c-c07175616efa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=176809 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96874 | 575 | 2.390625 | 2 |
OTTAWA, Dec. 13, 2012 /CNW/ – A new poll by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) reveals that fewer Canadian drivers are getting behind the wheel after drinking. Researchers found that both the percentage of drinking drivers who drove after drinking any amount of alcohol and of drinking drivers who drove when they thought they were over the legal limit dropped in 2012 compared to previous years. The public opinion poll conducted in October 2012 investigated Canadians' behaviours and actions in relation to drinking and driving as well as trends in their behaviours.
In a new Road Safety Monitor (RSM) report by TIRF, researchers found that the percentage of those who drove after drinking any amount of alcohol decreased from 19.2% in 2011 to 17.3% in 2012. Researchers also found a significant decrease in the percentage of Canadian drivers who admitted to driving when they thought they were over the legal limit in the past twelve months from 5.4% in 2011 to 3.6% in 2012. The drop in 2012 is even larger when compared with the 9.1% reported in 1998. TIRF first reported a significant drop in the number of drivers who admitted to driving when they thought they were over the legal limit in 2008. Reasons explaining the additional decrease in 2012 are not immediately apparent but researchers say this finding is encouraging.
“Socio-economic factors such as employment rates, increasing gas prices and reduced alcohol consumption are always noted as possible contributing factors when looking at impaired driving rates, “explains Kyla Marcoux, TIRF research associate. “However, increases in the availability and the scope of educational programming and awareness campaigns as well changes to federal and jurisdictional impaired driving laws in recent years may be contributing factors as well and further monitoring will be needed to quantify the effects.”
In spite of these declines, researchers want to emphasize that further progress can be made. The study found that the decline seen among the percentage of drivers who admitted to driving after drinking any alcohol in 2012 is still well above the low of 14.7% that was reported in 2005. This may suggest that a small number of drivers continue to be unaware of the risks that lower levels of alcohol can pose.
Marcoux explains that “Even in small quantities, alcohol can have a detrimental effect on one’s driving ability. Fatigue, lack of food and mixing drugs, prescription or illicit with alcohol can also magnify the effects of alcohol on your system.”
With the holiday season upon us, TIRF, along with poll sponsors, Brewers Association of Canada, Toyota Canada Foundation, and Aviva Canada, remind Canadians to plan ahead when celebrating out with friends or at home with loved ones. According to survey results, more than a third of respondents who drove when thought they were over the legal limit reported doing most of their drinking at the home of a friend or relative. Another third of respondents reported that they had been drinking at a bar or restaurant.
“Drinking drivers clearly continue to be a great concern for Canadians, as over 81% of respondents rated the issue as a very or extremely serious problem,” notes Marcoux. “And Canadians can be part of the solution. If you’re hosting a get together this holiday season, encourage alternatives such as public transit, taxis or designated drive programs or offer to have them stay the night. By speaking up, you’re helping to reinforce that driving after drinking isn’t the social norm.”
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Many talented young men and women who consider themselves American in every way are eager to serve America by either continuing their education and investing in our economy, or protecting our nation by serving in the military. The DREAM Act would provide them with this opportunity. Following is a selection of quotes from Republican leaders who support the DREAM Act.
For months, Republican Senators have been lining up excuse after excuse in an effort to obstruct a vote on the DREAM Act. But with the 111th Congress drawing to a close, the moment of truth will soon be here. Senators will have to decide if they stand on the side of talented young leaders and the broader Latino community, or with a small but vocal band of nativists and their darker view of America. Here are some of the most popular excuses Republican Senators have been citing as reasons to oppose DREAM, along with the actual facts behind them.
During the debate on the DREAM Act in the House of Representatives, Republicans attacking the bill called DREAMers “drug smugglers” and “lawbreakers,” warned that they could bring “up to 179 relatives with them” if they were granted legal status, and said, “Let’s wake up, America. Your country is being taken from you and being given to somebody else.” This fact sheet collects the most offensive and inaccurate statements made by anti-DREAM Republicans during the House debate.
Ever since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he intended to keep his promise and bring DREAM up for a vote in the lame duck session of Congress, Republican senators—caught between their nativist wing and the need to appeal to a broader group of voters in 2012 and beyond--have been looking for excuse after excuse to avoid a vote. Included in this memo is a chart of current Republican senators who have supported the DREAM Act and/or comprehensive immigration reform (including DREAM) in the past.
A number of newspapers in states as diverse as Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Kansas have editorialized in favor of the DREAM Act this year. The DREAM Act is bi-partisan legislation introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D‐IL) and Senator Richard Lugar (R‐IN), and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), that would give eligible young people who were brought to the U.S. as children the opportunity to legalize their immigration status and work towards citizenship.
Latino voters delivered in 2010. In 2010, Latinos kept the Senate in Democratic hands and were a key factor in Democratic gubernatorial wins in California, Colorado, and Illinois, as well as a number of House races. In fact, were it not for the “Latino firewall” in the West, Democratic losses would have been much worse. In past wave elections, when one chamber of Congress changes parties, both chambers changed parties.
The 2010 mid-term campaign season is shaping up to be the most vicious, vitriolic election cycle in recent memory. Here’s a dozen of the most outrageous candidate claims thus far, plus a couple honorable mentions. Consider this the Immigration Politics 2010 Wall of Shame.
Maribel Hasting's “March to the Polls 2010” series captures the attitude of Hispanic voters in key states. Two years ago, they voted at record levels, and neither Republicans or Democrats should ignore that the Latino vote, without a doubt, could be essential in continuing their own political careers, or creating a nationally-viable party.
In the Voter Guide to the Candidates on Immigration Reform, America’s Voice reviews the candidates’ positions on immigration in fifty-four competitive races in nineteen states. These include seven gubernatorial, six U.S. Senate, and forty-one U.S. House races in which Latino and immigrant voters could help decide the outcome.
After the 2010 Census, new Members of Congress in states like Georgia and South Carolina as well as Arizona and Texas will owe their positions, in part, to the expanding Latino population. In states whose Congressional delegations are shrinking overall, Latino voters are gaining power as they expand their share of the electorate. | <urn:uuid:619bf503-2050-4668-9b1a-1e587027cb51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://act.americasvoiceonline.org/research/P20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96528 | 869 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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McCool Hill, as seen from the summit of Husband Hill.
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|Eponym||William C. McCool|
McCool Hill is the tallest of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, Mars. It was named in honor of William C. McCool, an astronaut of the Space Shuttle Columbia during its final mission where it disintegrated during atmospheric reentry (see Space Shuttle Columbia disaster).
The hill was to be Spirit rover's next target. She was expect significant north-facing slopes on the hill in mid-April 2006, and spend her second winter on Mars there. However, on the way to slopes on "McCool Hill" between outcrops nicknamed "Oberth" and "Korolev," Spirit ran into an impassable, sandy area. To increase solar power output, Spirit's handlers redirected the rover to a closer north-facing slope in an area known as "Low Ridge" or "Low Ridge Haven," about 20 meters away from the rover's position on sol 802 (April 5, 2006). Spirit is spending the rest of the Martian winter here, operating from a fixed position for long periods of time, attempting to observe very small changes that would not be noticeable otherwise because the rover was moving much more often. Mission directors were undecided on where to go in the spring, either to re-attempt the climb of McCool Hill, go back to Home Plate, or somewhere else. In the end they decided to go to Low Ridge Haven.
Husband Hill was originally thought to be the highest of the Columbia Hills as seen from Columbia Memorial Station until recent surveying by Spirit updated elevation levels, placing McCool as the highest.
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Warp-Speed Algebra; January 2010; Scientific American Magazine; by Davide Castelvecchi; 2 Page(s)
Quantum computers can do wondrous things: too bad they do not exist yet. That has not stopped physicists from devising new algorithms for the devices, which can calculate a lot faster than ordinary computers—in fact, exponentially faster, in quite a literal sense. Once quantum computers do become available, the algorithms could become a key part of applications that require number crunching, from engineering to video games.
The latest quantum algorithm is generating excitement among physicists. It tackles linear equations: expressions such as 3x + 2y = 7 and typically written with unknowns on one side and constants on the other. Many high schoolers learn the trite mechanics of solving systems of such equations by eliminating one unknown at a time. Speed becomes crucial when systems contain billions of variables and billions of equations, which are not unusual in modern applications such as simulations of weather and other physical phenomena. Efficient algorithms can solve large, “N by N” systems (systems having N linear equations and N unknowns) by computer. Still, calculation time grows at least as fast as N does: if N gets 1,000 times larger, the problem will take at least 1,000 times longer to solve, often more. | <urn:uuid:faa97ffe-d794-4eab-991f-8ecd2ee13066> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=97C0BDFA-237D-9F22-E87BB879179573C7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954411 | 273 | 3.921875 | 4 |
BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices were slightly higher Thursday as reports of a moderately improving U.S. economy, which suggests increased fuel consumption, were neutralized by growing crude supplies.
Benchmark oil for April delivery was up 11 cents to $90.54 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 39 cents to close at $90.43 per barrel on the Nymex on Wednesday.
The death on Tuesday of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which sits on the world's second-largest oil reserves, has had little immediate effect on the price of oil so far.
Chavez oversaw a decline in oil production during his 14 years as the leader of Venezuela. Traders are anxious to see if the new government invites foreign investment in Venezuela's oil industry and is able to boost output.
"Over the longer term, changes in policy towards the energy sector might eventually allow Venezuela's oil production to return to the much higher levels seen in the late 1990s," Julian Jessop of Capital Economics wrote in an email commentary.
A report from the Federal Reserve issued Wednesday showed the U.S. economy strengthened across much of the country. The Fed's Beige Book report showed that auto sales, more hiring and the ongoing housing recovery helped the U.S. economy grow in the first two months of the year.
Also Wednesday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that U.S. oil supplies grew last week by 3.8 million barrels, or 0.4 percent, more than three times the increase that analysts expected. The nation's supply of crude is 10.3 percent above year-ago levels. And at more than 7 million barrels a day, U.S. oil production is at the highest level since the late 1990s.
Brent crude, used to price many kinds of oil imported by U.S. refineries, was unchanged at $111.06 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline dropped 0.6 cent to $3.118 a gallon.
— Heating oil fell 0.5 cent to $2.971 a gallon.
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Kaua’i County, Hawaii Plastic Bag Ban
Posted by Ted Duboise
Photo Credit: NOAA
Late in 2009, the Council of the County of Kaua’i declared that to preserve the health, safety, welfare and scenic beauty of Kaua’i, the distribution of plastic bags should be regulated and prohibited. The Kaua’i County Council voted to enact a plastic bag ban ordinance.
Home to three National Wildlife Refuges, Kaua’i County encompasses four islands in Hawaii. The county has a population of just over 58,000 residents.
By a vote of 4 to 2, the Council passed Bill No. 2322, Draft 2, Ordinance No. 885. It was approved by the Mayor and became law on October 12, 2009. The ordinance applies to all retail businesses in the county.
Retailers are not required to provide any alternative means for the customer to use to carry their purchases. However, they may provide alternatives as long as the alternative complies with the law. The County is promoting reusable or recyclable bags.
Kaua’i County’s Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance will take effect on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. The ban is designed to reduce the impact that plastic check-out bags have on the environment.
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Ah, the lazy American T. Responsible for so many homophones. Bid and Bit would never be pronounced the same here, but Bidder and Bitter often are. Wade and Wait – two distinct pronunciations. Waded and Waited – let's just say them the same, why not?
Here's an interesting little description of the tongue tap that we (and apparently Australians) are so fond of. UK English speakers apparently wouldn't hear these words as homophones at all. Which is just as well; when we say "take me to your leader," they'll know exactly what we mean. | <urn:uuid:771afacc-e186-4817-a252-1b63267176aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://homophonesweakly.blogspot.com/2013/02/leader-liter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975695 | 126 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The 10 Vegetables or Fruit a Day Challenge — Join Us! There’s a Prize!
Here’s a thing we’d like to do: Challenge you guys—again—but this time it’s going to be all about food. We’re bringing back an early idea we launched here but never initiated as a formal challenge because this blog was just a baby then, and we hadn’t started our Challenge series yet.
Get excited: This is one is fun, easy, and rewards you with glowing skin.
A while back, a friend mentioned a study he’d seen showing that Japanese farmers who ate on average 20 fruits and vegetables a day were in significantly better health than those who ate just 10, even when controlling for other factors. They lived longer, had fewer health events and felt better. We’d wager they looked pretty good too.
Intuitively this makes sense, and it’s partly why we devoted two chapters in the book to food and lifestyle. We’re big believers in the idea that you can’t just slather on products and expect to look your best. You also need to eat avocados, drink plenty of water, sleep a lot, have sex, have fun, exercise and commit to relaxation in some form or another (preferably the sober kind, at least some of the time).
And we’re making it easy. A bite of anything that contains a fruit of vegetable, even if somewhat adulterated, counts for one point.
Half an apple counts, and so does the garlic you crushed into your pasta sauce*. And, like, if you eat a greek yogurt with the gooey raspberries at the bottom, well, ew, but that counts! Even better would be yogurt with whole raspberries, but that’s the thing with this challenge: You can fake it to make it. Cool? Great.
Now who’s in?
Some rules: Don’t cheat.
Instructions: For seven consecutive days, consume at least 10 different fruits or vegetables per day. Ten total: You decide how many of those you want to be fruits and vegetables. Then write us an email at nomoredirtylooks (at) gmail (dot) com with NOMNOM in the subject line, and include your first name and location, written thusly “Siobhan, Brooklyn, NY” and a brief description of how you felt at the end of your seven days. Send this to us by the end of the day Wednesday, January 18th.
Prize: We’re still working on a prize, but it’ll be awesome as always. Stay tuned. We’ll post when we have it locked and loaded.
The reason for the challenge: See above. It’s healthy. You’ll glow. And you’ll feel better. Also, when you turn life into a summer camp challenge, and you do it with other people, it’s way more fun.
Good luck! Share your clever veggie- and fruit-loading tips in the comments. Ten is a lot, but it’s not that hard. Bon appetit!
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An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2013
Where did the German Oler family come from? What is the German Oler family crest and coat of arms? When did the Oler family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Oler family history?The roots of the distinguished German surname Oler lie in the region of Hessen. The name is derived from the Middle High German "öler," meaning "oil miller," and was likely first borne by a practitioner of this occupation.
Spelling variations of this family name include: Ohler, Oehler, Öler, Öhler, Oiler, Ohlenschlager, Ohleyer, Ohligschlager, Ohlschlager, Öhlschläger, Öhlenschläger, Oelenschlaeger and many more.
First found in Hessen, where it first emerged in the early Middle Ages, and the young Oler family played an important role in the region's history. The first known bearer of the name was Johann Oleier, who was living in Frankfurt in the year 1291. The young Oler family was instrumental during this early period, playing a major role in the development of medieval Hessen society.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Oler research. Another 75 words(5 lines of text) covering the years 1380, 1777, and 1852 are included under the topic Early Oler History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 24 words(2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Oler Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Oler Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
The Oler Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Oler Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
This page was last modified on 20 December 2012 at 02:29.
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This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them. The authors argue that social workers need to understand these phenomena, so that they can become more confident in challenging discriminatory and oppressive practices. The centrality of religion and associated beliefs in the lives of many is emphasised, as are their potentially liberating (and potentially negative) impacts. In line with the "Social Work in Practice" series style, the book allows readers to explore issues in depth. It focuses on knowledge transmission, and the encouragement of critical reflection on practice. Each chapter is built around 'real-life' case scenarios using a problem-based learning approach. This book is the first to deal with social work and religion so comprehensively and will therefore be essential reading not only for social work students, but also for practitioners in a range of areas, social work academics and researchers in the UK and beyond. | <urn:uuid:0f76d0b1-afba-484a-8cb8-cb442425b5d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo13439385.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944756 | 192 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 12:29 PM by Claire Anderson - MTN News
GREAT FALLS- A Great Falls resident discovered something rather surprising under a flower pot recently: a camel spider.
After talking to an expert, we will have a look at whether you should be concerned about these creatures, hear from the man who found it, and see how his family reacted to it.
The body width of the specimen he found is 1 and a half inches; the main portion of the body is one inch long; from top of head to end of back legs it is two inches long.
Despite their ferocious appearance and contrary to urban legend, camel spiders are not venomous, although they can inflict a painful bite.
And although they are often referred to as "camel spiders" and are related to spiders, they are not truly spiders.
CamelSpider.org states: "The camel spider belongs to the order Solifugae of the class Arachnida. It is related to both spiders and scorpions but is neither."
National Geographic reports:
Not actually scorpions, these predators are solifugids, members of the Arachnida, a class that includes spiders, mites, ticks, and true scorpions. Sometimes known as sun spiders, and called camel spiders in North Africa and the Middle East because of their humped profile, wind scorpions weigh as much as two ounces (56 grams) and can have leg spans exceeding five inches (12 centimeters). Most of the 1,100 species are nocturnal. Racing over the sand in the dark like supercharged dune buggies, they seem to know no fear. | <urn:uuid:6ba73ced-1bbc-4e69-acaf-21db7eb6b488> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kpax.com/news/great-falls-man-finds-camel-spider-in-yard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959925 | 342 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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The Johns Creek Foundation Board of Directors recently approved a grant application to Autrey Mill Middle School PTA for the school's fledgling video journalism program.
The school's program is an often-requested class by students and has begun to fill to capacity. The idea of the program began when Amy Creamer, Autrey Mill Middle School drama teacher, took over the morning news show. With the help of Jamie Chuven, video broadcast journalism teacher at Johns Creek High School, Creamer learned simple journalism and broadcasting techniques, and found the students embraced the program, the technology and equipment operation.
With morning broadcasts led by students, preparation of videos and the increasing evolution of technology, the need for newer equipment became evident. This grant application will assist in the purchase of computers, camcorders and the various components to continue these daily broadcasts and allow the students to continue their journalism aspirations.
“Autrey Mill Middle School is extremely grateful to the Johns Creek Foundation for enabling its fledgling Video Journalism Department to grow through its generous donation to the school. These funds will be spent on new technology including Apple computers, HD video cameras, and microphones that will be used by students to create videos, PSAs and other media for their school community,” Creamer said.
By raising funds from individuals and businesses and granting them into the community, the Johns Creek Foundation serves as a rallying point for “giving back” in Johns Creek. In its first six years the Foundation has poured over $100,000 into the community through programs as varied as the summer arts camp at Johns Creek Arts Center to the Ceremony of HOPE at the Johns Creek Relay for Life. For more information, visit www.JohnsCreekFoundation.org. | <urn:uuid:4b92413b-3718-464a-a5d8-9dd5226b3ceb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://johnscreek.patch.com/articles/autrey-mill-journalism-program-gets-a-boost | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945659 | 352 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Much has been made of the claim in one of the new ENCODE papers regarding the demise of the concept of “junkDNA” and the claim that 80% of the genome is “functional.” However, even members of the ENCODE consortium seem to be backing off. One of them, Max Libbrecht, when asked about the 80% figure, linked to this article:
which has a great summary of the research pertaining to ‘junkDNA’ and explains how/why the claim of 80% of the genome being “functional” is at best a stretch.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” – Isaac Asimov
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Anthony Sassi, a senior biology major from Norwich University conducting research with Prof. Natalia F. Blank, was awarded Best Poster Presentation at the third-annual Northest Undergraduate Research Development Symposium (NURDS). This National Science Foundation-supported conference promotes scientific exploration through peer collaboration. It was held March 5-6, 2011, at the University of New England’s Biddeford, Maine campus.
Sassi presented a research project entitled: “Synthesis of Chiral 1,2-diamines via Asymmetric Addition of Organolithium to 1,2-diimine. A Mechanistic Study.”
The NURDS symposium featured research projects by undergraduate students from the New England region and Atlantic Canada. Nearly 170 students from 42 colleges and universities presented projects in the area of marine biology, medical biology, ecology, evolution, geology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, environmental science and others.
Sassi expects to graduate in May and is evaluating graduate programs.
There are still several spots left in my Summer Session I (May 31-July 1) BI 215 A&P I class. The schedule looks overwhelming – M-F, 8-12, however, that is to allow for flexibility, as I typically attend a meeting or two over the summer. That is, the class will NOT meet every day from 8-12, usually 4 days a week, 8:15-11 or so, depending on whether or not we are doing labs.
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Arteriosclerosis is one of the most common diseases of the blood vessels. It refers to a thickening of the walls of the arteries due to the presence of calcium or lime. It has become a common ailment in modern times, accounting for much of the disability and high death rate among older people.
Arteriosclerosis is usually preceded by atherosclerosis, a kind of degeneration or softening of the inner lining of the blood vessel walls. The most risky places for such degeneration are the coronary vessels of the heart and the arteries leading to the brain. Arteriosclerosis results in the loss of elasticity of the blood vessels, with a narrowing of the smaller arteries, which interferes with the free circulation of the blood. These changes may gradually extend to capillaries and veins.
Arteriosclerosis is more frequent in men than women, especially in the younger age group. It has been estimated that 40 per cent of all men over 40 years of age have a significant degree of obstruction of their coronary arteries and this can lead to a heart attack at any time.
The symptoms of arteriosclerosis vary with the arteries involved. Signs of inadequate blood supply generally appear first in the legs. There may be numbness and coldness in the feet and cramps and pains in the legs even after light exercise. If the coronary arteries are involved, the patient may have sharp pains, characteristic of angina pectoris. When arteries leading to the brain are involved, the vessel may burst, causing haemorrhage in the brain tissues. A cerebral vascular stroke, with partial or complete paralysis of one side of the body may result, if there is blockage with a blood clot. It may also lead to loss of memory and a confused state of mind in elderly people. If arteries leading to the kidneys are involved, the patient may suffer from high blood pressure and kidney disorders.
The most important cause of arteriosclerosis is excessive intake of white sugar, refined foods and a diet high in fat, i.e. rich in cholesterol. A sedentary life and ex- cesses of all kinds are the major contributing causes. Hardening of the arteries may also be caused by other diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, rheumatism, Bright’s disease, malaria and syphillis. Emotional stress also plays an important part, and heart attacks are more common during periods of mental and emotional disturbances, particularly in those engaged in sedentary occupations. Heredity also plays its role and this disease runs in families.
If the causes of arteriosclerosis are known, remedial action should be taken promptly to remove them. To begin with, the patient should resort to a short juice fast for five to seven days. All available fresh, raw vegetable and fruit juices in season may be taken. Grapefruit juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice and juices of green vegetables are specially beneficial. A warm water enema should be used daily to cleanse the bowels during the period of fasting.
After the juice fast, patient should follow a diet made up of the three basic food groups, namely, seeds, nuts and grains, vegetables and fruits, with emphasis on raw foods. Plenty of raw and sprouted seeds and nuts should be used. Cold pressed vegetable oils, particularly safflower oil, flax seed oil and olive oil should be used regularly. Further short fasts on juices may be undertaken at intervals of three months or so, depending on the progress being made.
The patient should take several small meals instead of a few large ones. He should avoid all hydrogenerated fats and an excess of saturated fats, such as butter, cream, ghee and animal fat. He should also avoid meat, salt and all refined and processed foods, condiments, sauces, pickles, strong tea, coffee, white sugar, white flour, and all products made with them. Foods cooked in aluminium and copper utensils should not be taken, as toxic metals entering the body are known to be deposited on the walls of the aorta and the arteries. Smoking, if habitual, should be given up as smoking constricts the arteries and aggravates the condition.
Recent investigations have shown that garlic and onions have a preventive effect on the development of arteriosclerosis. Vitamin C has also proved beneficial as it helps in the conversion of cholesterol into bile acids.
The patient should undertake plenty of outdoor exercise and eliminate all mental stress and worries. Warm baths or carefully graduated cold baths are helpful. Prolonged neutral immersion baths at bed time on alternate days are also beneficial. | <urn:uuid:5bbbeeea-1179-447f-932b-a5a9bade8003> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://healthlibrary.com/book16_chapter433.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940327 | 941 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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Born on March 27, 1970, Mariah Carey was one of the
best-selling female artists of the 1990's.
Mariah was the daughter of a former opera singer and vocal coach. Rumor
has it that her name stems from a song in a popular musical "Paint
Your Wagon". Her mother apparently liked the song titled "They
Call the Wind Mariah".
Mariah grew up in Long Island, New York amidst racial tension. Her mother
Patricia is Irish and her father Alfred is Venezuelan and Black. According
to Carey, their household was met with racial slurs, hostility and even
violence (Mariah claimed in the early days, someone burned a cross on
their lawn, her dogs were poisoned, their car was blown up, and a shot
was fired through the kitchen window during mealtime). Her parents split
up when Mariah was only three years old. To make matters worse, her mother
was forced to work multiple jobs in order to make ends meet.
From a very early age, Mariah knew that she had a knack for singing. She
looked to her mother for inspiration. It was Carey's mothers great love;
support and confidence that helped mold the young Mariah. She first performed
in public when she was just six years old and first began writing songs
when she was in grade school.
During her high school years, Carey didn't concentrate a good deal on
her education. She would frequently skip class; and write songs. In fact
her nickname at school was "Mirage", because she was never in
class. She dreamt about becoming a famous singer.
Mariah Carey graduated Harborfields High School in Greenlawn in 1987 and
focused all her attention on music. Before she got her big break, Mariah
finished 500 hours of beauty school and even worked coat check girl, a
waitress and as a hair sweeper in a salon.
Carey moved to New York City and her big break came as a backing vocalist
on a studio session with dance-pop singer Brenda K. Starr. Allegedly it
was Star who handed Carey's demo tape to Columbia Records head Tommy Mottola
at a party. According to legend, Tommy listened to the tape in his limousine
while driving home that same evening. He was so struck by Carey's talent
that he doubled back to the party to track her down. She was signed to
At age 20, Mariah's career really began with the release of her debut
album in 1990. Her heavily promoted album was a chart-topping success,
launching four number one singles: "Someday," "Vision of
Love," "Love Takes Time," and "I Don't Wanna Cry."
Her overnight success earned Grammy awards as Best New Artist and Best
Female Vocalist. The self titled album "Mariah Carey" was certified
8x RIAA-Platinum, sold 12 million copies worldwide.
Carey soon rose to superstardom on the strength of her stunning five-octave
voice; a resilient talent who moved easily from slick ballads to hip-hop-inspired
dance-pop music. She offered a fresh new sound that distinctively included
R&B, Soul and Pop into one melodical body.
1992 saw the release of Mariah's second album, "Emotions." This
produced Mariah's 5th #1 hit "Emotions," and gained several
awards and nominations. On March 17th of that same year, Carey sang on
MTV's acoustic concert special "Unplugged." A recording of the
seven songs she performed was released as an EP entitled "Mariah
Carey: MTV Unplugged." Only one of the seven tracks was a song not
on one of MC's first two albums: the cover of The Jackson 5's "I'll
Be There." This album itself was an added success. It sold 5 million
copies worldwide and was certified 3x Platinum in the United States.
In 1993, Mariah offered up "Music Box." Her most successful
to-date, Carey's third studio album sold an astonishing 24 million copies
throughout the world and was certified 10x RIAA Platinum.
Mariah followed up with Music Box and 2 other top hits, "Dreamlover"
She next released Merry Christmas, Daydream, Butterfly, Rainbow, Charmbracelet,
Glitter, and more recently The emancipation of Mimi.
Although the last couple of years have not been as bright as her very
first, Mariah has been able to show the world that she is a lasting performer.
The one thing that no one will be able to take away is the fact that Mariah
Carey is the only artist to have had a #1 single for every year of the
1990's. An outstanding achievement even now.
Carey's devoted fan base (who sometimes go by the name lambs) have continued
to buy her singles in the thousands and there is still something very
special about this woman.
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Thanks to the popularity of this classic fairy tale, many youngsters have grown-up in fear of sprouting a sapling in the midst of their face, if ever they told a lie.
The story begins with a wood carver named Geppetto (voice of Christian Rub), who uses the tools of his trade to construct a beautiful puppet. The lonely old man christens his creation Pinocchio (voice of Dickie Jones), and wishes upon a star that the little figure could be the son he longs for. In answer to his heart's desire, the Blue Fairy (voice of Evelyn Venable) comes, and with a wave of her magical wand brings the doll to life. However, she cannot make Pinocchio into a real boy by herself. In order for that to happen, he must show himself to be brave, truthful and unselfish.
Perhaps because of the sawdust between his ears, this task proves to be more difficult than expected even with the help of Jiminy Cricket (voice of Cliff Edwards), who is assigned to be his conscience. With a little peer pressure from a sly fox and his copycat sidekick, the gullible marionette walks away from education and responsibility to follow the easy road to success and relaxation.
Learning the hard way that such freedom only comes with strings attached, the prodigal returns to the toy maker's workshop, where he discovers his faithful father is in grave danger. This new challenge will be his last chance to find out what he is really made of.
Choosing right from wrong is the theme of this timeless story. As a result, some young viewers may find a few scenes disturbing, especially those involving Pinocchio's excursion to Pleasure Island. Here he and other disobedient boys indulge in rebellious behaviors including drinking and smoking, with the ominous consequence of making a jackass out of themselves. Still for many, the moral messages about avoiding temptation will out weigh the slightly scary aspects of the movie.
Another reason for watching this particular adaptation of the story is because it represents the pinnacle of Disney's animation collection. Aptly subtitled a masterpiece, everything from the intricacies of the mechanical music boxes and clocks in Geppetto's home to the splashing waves and undersea realm of Monstro the whale, show the incredible skills of those hands that painstakingly brought this film to life. It is also a testament that technology does not necessarily improve on art. Thanks to a meticulous restoration effort, Pinocchio will continue to live in the hearts of new generations.
Pinocchio (Disney’s) is rated G:
Cast: Voice of Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Evelyn Venable, Cliff Edwards.
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Degrees and Programs
The Department of Art and Design offers many exciting and creative opportunities for students to nurture and expand their artistic and design senses. Entering the 21st century, the department provides a broad range of experiences that prepare its graduates for art- and design-related career opportunities and artistic endeavors. Students study and produce works that include state-of-the-art computer applications, conceptual art, graphic design, and interior design. The department has fine arts as its core and foundation, while offering areas of study that allow for occupational preparation in a variety of areas.
The award-winning faculty is committed to the idea that a foundation in the crafts of art and design is an essential prerequisite to the production of works that show sophistication both conceptually and visually.
Areas of Emphasis: Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Art History and a
Areas of Emphasis: Graphic Design, Illustration and Interactive Multimedia Design
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Our areas of specialization include the Iconography of Women, the Renaissance and Baroque of Italy and Northern Europe as well as the indigenous cultures of Native North America, pre-Columbian Mexico and Peru, sub-Saharan Africa and the South Pacific. We emphasize the social history of art and thus endeavor to link artworks to their contexts, focusing on the cultural groups that produced the work and the conditions (historical, social and environmental) that dictated the nature of the artistic product. The Art History area has a long history of student field trips, international travel, and graduate seminars that often result in exhibitions and student publications. | <urn:uuid:c64ebd35-833e-45b8-bcc9-dbb56e0e369a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/artanddesign/degrees-programs/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949831 | 331 | 1.640625 | 2 |