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Some law students respond to a higher calling to create justice and serve the common good. Others respond to the call of the money gods, the pedigree and the cerebral challenge. But the economic crisis of 2009 has created an unusual laboratory where some graduating students who thought they were heading for the corner office were thrust into crowded courtrooms.
Virtually an entire class of law school graduates heading down the corporate track had the plans of its members derailed by the recession. Law firms said they could not afford to take on the new employees they had recruited in the years before.
Instead, 140 prospective corporate lawyers signed up for an unusual new program organized by the New York City Bar Association: Serve the public good for a year, then hop back on the corporate track.
These “deferred associate externs,” as they are called, are now defending immigrants threatened with deportation; preventing tenants from being evicted; fighting home foreclosures; and representing battered women in domestic violence cases.
They deal daily with clients in desperate situations and work alongside lawyers who have dedicated their careers to serving the poor. But when their year is up, they are planning to return to contract law, mergers and acquisitions, or whatever they were planning to do before.
Chris Reid graduated from Colgate University in 2003 as a chemistry and philosophy double major. After a few years working in various jobs, he attended Fordham Law School, where he developed an interest in intellectual property and constitutional law, graduating in 2009. He was recruited by Ropes & Gray to work in their patent litigation practice. But when his firm gave him the option of finding a public interest job in lieu of his first year, he ended up working with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn housing court, keeping families in their homes. This video is a glimpse into his world.
Mr. Reid will be responding to questions about his experiences in the program. Readers who would like to ask him a question can do so in the comments box below. His responses will appear on the blog at the end of the week.
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Club 33 is an exclusive club located in the heart of the New Orleans Square section of Disneyland. Officially maintained as a "secret" feature of the theme park, the club is located above the Blue Bayou Restaurant at "33 Royal Street" with the entrance recognizable by an ornate address plate with the number 33 engraved on it. Club 33 members enjoy access to the club's exclusive restaurant that serves -- along with meals -- beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages. It is the only location within Disneyland to offer alcoholic beverages. Club 33 members are also privileged with access to the park 365 days a year.
Club 33 offers individual and corporate memberships. Rumors are that the waiting list can be upwards of three years, and reports on the initiation and yearly fees range from US$2000 to $10,000. A variety of membership levels are offered, which may account for the range in reported membership fees.
Guests enter the ornate lobby and have the option of going to the dining level via an antique glass elevator. Once at the dining level, guests can view a collection of antique furniture collected by Lillian Disney as well as furnishings used as props in Disney films. There is a fully functional glass telephone booth just off the elevator which was used in The Happiest Millionaire and an ornate walnut table with white marble top which was used in Mary Poppins. A video capture from the film on display atop the table shows actors Karen Dotrice , Matthew Garber and David Tomlinson standing immediately to its left.
A harpsichord which was rumored to have been an antique was in fact custom-built for Lillian Disney specifically for use in Club 33. The underside of the lid features a Renaissance-style painting that was actually done by Disney artists.
Walt Disney also wanted to make use of Audio-Animatronic technology within Club 33. Microphones in lighting fixtures would pick up the sounds of normal conversation while an operator would respond via the characters. Though the system was never fully implemented, it was at least partially installed and remains so to this day. An Audio-Animatronic condor is perched in one corner of the club's "Trophy Room." The microphones remain in the room's lighting fixtures and are clearly visible at the bottom of each.
Club 33 is also located in Tokyo Disneyland, but officially it is a secret and details are virtually unknown.
- http://www.disneylandclub33.com - an informative fan site
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Name: Lana Peterson-Pressler
Describe one or two of the newest and/or most innovative activities that you do with your students in physical education.
Students in Rousseau Elementary PE enjoy a traverse and a top rope vertical climbing wall, Rollerblade in-line Skate in School program, Juggling for Success and The First Tee National School Program for elementary golf, to name a few of my students' favorites, and mine too! Skill development and unique challenges in many areas of exercise and activity are priorities for our PE time together.
In keeping with our school mission statement and expectations, physical education class is a place where students practice being safe, respectful and responsible and where the objectives always include thinking interdependently, learning academically and physically, and leading with character.
Additionally, as a progressive district in the area of quality physical education, we have recently worked extensively on formal and informal skill assessments, and student response and skill progress have been exciting. With one or two district level assessment(s) at each grade level 1-5, we have improved instruction and achievement in NASPE Standard 1 significantly, and continue working to create meaningful opportunities for children to demonstrate what they know, are able to do, and believe about themselves and others.
What is your philosophy for physical education - what do you believe in?
Physical educators are fortunate to teach children curriculum standards and objectives that are specifically and immediately relevant in creating productive, enjoyable lives: learn how to do many things, work to understand many things, be healthy, active and fit, be respectful and enjoy life! And as a teacher it is my greatest privilege and most urgent responsibility to help others value these aspects of physical education in school, leading to involvement in their school, community, participation in lifelong learning and activity, and a reduction in sedentary, uninvolved lives.
What does being a NASPE physical education Teacher of the Year mean to you?
Serving as a NASPE Teacher of the Year brings opportunities and responsibilities even beyond my initial expectations. I always love learning and teaching together with others in and around the education profession, and it has long been a personal and professional goal to serve the profession that has inspired so much in my life! I am so grateful to have this opportunity to continue to make meaningful connections with fellow educators and join the exceptional "Team of TOY's" in seeking and accepting a variety of responsibilities to advocate for children's health and fitness through physical education in schools!
What do you do to help other physical education teachers plan and implement exemplary programs?
My goal in working with children is to impress upon them the importance of trying something new, expand their interests, accept new challenges and stick with them, learn from mistakes, reflect on success, dare to try harder, do better and have fun! To build exemplary programs, I know teachers do the same! I try to support and encourage teachers as they engage in National Board for Professional Teaching Standards National Teacher Certification, NASPE STARS, membership in teaching organizations, attendance at conferences and conventions, involvement in advocacy and policy, as they practice what they teach, and discover again why they know teaching as a valiant, vibrant and fun profession! To love what you do and do what you love is the best way to ensure exemplary programs for children! | <urn:uuid:fae60a4a-c347-4abd-9324-5ebad3b62983> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/awards/peAwards/toy/2010-l-peterson.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95042 | 681 | 2.1875 | 2 |
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, Nov. 21, 2011
AUGUSTA, S.C. -- A quick search on Facebook reveals pages of pox party information sites.
One parent posts, "I wish I could find a Pox Party!!!" Another asks, "Would like to find one in South Georgia or Tallahassee, Fl. We are in the Bainbridge, GA area."
Parents on these websites are looking for pox parties where they can intentionally expose their children to chickenpox. Some parents are even looking for lollipops laced for the virus.
"I think it's kind of risky, especially now days you can't trust anybody, said Christian Dowdy, whose little girls have had the chickenpox vaccine.
Some parents are suspicious of it and turn to what they believe is a more natural way of infecting their children
Dr. Debbie Harris warns a risk is involved anytime your child is exposed to chickenpox, let alone with pox lollipops.
"You don't know where its coming from, you don't know who made it, you don't know what other ingredients are in it. I'm a parent also and I would want to know what I am putting in my child," she said. "Chickenpox is one of those diseases that you can have some very bad outcomes and as a parent you don't know if your child is going to have one of those bad outcomes."
Mailing any virus through the mail is considered to be illegal.
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Firstly, for reference, I think we are talking about this power here as indicated by Jason White
A crackling column of lightning appears amid your
enemies, lashing out at any who move near it.
Conjuration, Evocation, Implement, Lightning Standard Action
Effect: You conjure a pillar of crackling energy in an
unoccupied square within range. The pillar occupies 1 square and lasts
until the end of your next turn. Each enemy that moves into a square
adjacent to the pillar on its turn takes 1d6 + your Intelligence
modifier lightning damage. Level 21: 2d6 + Intelligence modifier
The way I read this power is as follows.
The caster creates a taller than wide column of lightning. This Column of lightning does not stand still, but rather moves back and forth, being attracted to enemies, and lashing out at them if they go near it. For this reason is "occupies" one square.
Now, for the Dragon, we need to look at the flying rules, and see if two flying creatures, or a flying creature and a non-flying creature can occupy the same "square".
The Entry for flying has the following:
Flying Flight Some creatures have the innate ability to fly, whereas
others gain the ability through powers, magic items, and the like. The
rules for flight in the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game stress abstraction and
simplicity over simulation. In real life, a flying creature’s ability
to turn, the speed it must maintain to stay aloft, and other factors
put a strict limit on flight. In the game, flying creatures face far
FLIGHT Flight follows the basic movement rules, with the following
clarifications. (Emphasis mine)
Fly Speed: To fly, a creature takes the walk, run, or charge action but uses its
fly speed in place of its walking speed. A creature that has a fly speed can also shift
and take other move actions, as appropriate, while flying.
Moving Up and Down: While flying, a creature can move straight up, straight down,
or diagonally up or down. There is no additional cost for moving up or down.
Falling Prone: If a creature falls prone while it is flying, it falls. This means
a flying creature falls when it becomes unconscious or suffers any other effect that
knocks it prone. The creature isn’t actually prone until it lands and takes falling
Remaining in the Air: A flying creature does not need to take any particular action
to remain aloft; the creature is assumed to be flying as it fights, moves, and takes
other actions. However, a flying creature falls the instant it is stunned, unless it can
Landing: If a creature flies to a surface it can hold onto or rest on, the
creature can land safely.
Terrain: Terrain on the ground does not affect a flying creature if the terrain
isn’t tall enough to reach it. Because of this rule, flying creatures can easily bypass
typical difficult terrain, such as a patch of ice on the ground. Aerial terrain can
affect flying creatures.
Since it does not specify that two creatures who are flying may occupy the same space, or a flying creature can not occupy the same space as another creature (the way a swarm can), it seems to me that in this case, the Pillar reaches the height of the space that it occupies, and in this case that means the ceiling.
The pillar would occupy the space for purposes of movement even to flying creatures, as it occupies the entire square.
I believe the argument that it is as tall as it's range is not correct. And I think the argument that it only takes up 5 feet of height it also incorrect. There are plenty of PCs and monsters that are over 5 feet tall, and still only occupy 1 square.
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We've waited long enough for new boat launch !
The Alaska Boating Association, definitely supports more boating access to the Susitna River drainage.
The 1987 legislation that created the Willow Creek State Recreation Area recognized the high demand for a boat launch there. It anticipated that a launch facility would complement development of the campground, day-use parking and bank angling.
The 1989 Willow Creek SRA Master Plan, in response to public demand, highly recommended a boat launch at Willow Creek. After years of waiting, the boating association began to direct attention toward the need for additional launch facilities.
For more information and the full article click here.
Hovercraft to fill in for road link
Sparks will fly soon in a Seattle boatyard as welders start building a new $8.8 million hovercraft for King Cove, the isolated Alaska Peninsula fishing town that received federal funding for the boat instead of a road to nearby Cold Bay.
The 95-foot-long vessel, built with an appropriation backed by Sen. Ted Stevens several years ago, will float over 6-foot seas on a cushion of air. It will carry nearly 50 passengers, two wheelchairs and 23 tons of inbound groceries or outbound fish. It should be able to haul an ambulance and ailing King Cove resident to a medical evacuation flight in Cold Bay in 90 minutes, a trip that now can take days due to weather delays.
But while the vessel purchase order is a milestone in King Cove's 25-year quest for better access to emergency medical care and a boost to its economy, the news hasn't caused much celebration in the village of 725, said Mayor Henry Mack.
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The proposed SATs boycott throws up once more the arguments for and against this form of assessment.
Many in education will tell you that the current SATs process is more about school accountablilty to government than it is to parents and children. How can an externally marked set of 45 minutes (and shorter) tests be of more value than the professional judgement and ongoing assessments of the teachers who work with those being tested everyday?
One of the major conerns with the current system is the public naming and shaming of schools through the publication of crude and potentially humiliating ‘League Tables’. Few would argue that it it important for children and parents to have some form of reported level at the end of their time in primary school but the current system puts so much stress and worry on the shoulders of the nation’s 11 year olds it’s no surprise that in some quarters they are being reported as less happy than their peers around the world. When neighbouring schools in Scotland and Wales don’t have this regime, it does seen odd that the English Education system still demands it. Indeed Key Stage 1 SATs are now internally marked and the government overnight, got rid of Key Stage 3 SATs, leaving one to wonder why Y2 and Y9 teachers appear to be trusted to assess students internally but not Y6 staff!
So, the answer remains unclear. Assessement for who?
Students are far better served by accurate teacher assessements based on knowing each individually and using informed judgements alongside internal summative and formative evidence. The use of such a range of information negates the possibility of students having an ‘off day” and seriously damaging their chances with a misleading and inaccurate result.
Parents want to an accurate picture of their children’s attainment and how they can improve and build on this.
Staff don’t want to spend weeks and months narrowing the curriculum down to drilling for exams that allow others to judge their performance and ability in the classoom. They want to give children creative, exciting learning opportunities – this obviously doesn’t sit well with the SATs regime.
Schools don’t want to be unfairly judged against other schools based on a questionable set of data that is constantly plagued with inaccuracies and marking fiascoes. Schools want collaboration, not competition and the pitting of one against the other through misleading League Tables and crude positions.
Local Authorities would also surely wlecome a reporting system that was accurate and enabled them to support local need ensuring all children left primary school with a love of learning, an understaning where they are and what they need to do to improve.
High schools would welcome the opportunity to work with primary colleagues to ensure tansition was as smooth as possible. This surely means getting together over assessments to unpick the reality of students ability over the snapshots currently provided through extenal national assessments.
It’s hard to find an argument in favour of the current system, it only appears to be useful as a political tool where figures can be used to support claims of success due to government intervention here, failure due to not following government intervention there. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of weeks. The main three parties believe education is a potential vote winner – here’s a great chance to make a real difference to schools, children and families. | <urn:uuid:2552acad-5736-43bb-b239-e544c0400580> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smichael920.wordpress.com/tag/sats-boycott/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969125 | 687 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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I’m concerned that this article will mislead some developers into bad habits.
Writing documentation before tests for example is only sensible if that documentation is transitory, a token of conversation between you and your pair (I’ll take it as read you’re pair programming all the time).
Rather than documentation though, it’s often better to write Acceptance Criteria, something akin to Cucumber tests, and use those as your tokens of conversation. Test Driven Development latterly Behaviour Driven Development is all about ‘Growing Software Guided By Tests’, the design to your system emerges through those expressions of behaviour that compromise your test suite. Writing documentation up front, in the manner described in this article could easily lead to you pre-determining your implementation, which can result in YAGNIY, non-dry code.
Writing documentation for private methods is also contentious. Ideally you want internal code to be self documenting, in the way you write the method signatures and split up your responsibilities. Documentation on internal methods can dissuade developers from refactoring, something you absolutely don’t want to do. (Pairing, peer reviews and a good SCM system should ensure refactoring only have positive impact).
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Wildmind Meditation News
Jun 12, 2012
Meditation enhances brain function, study finds
CBS News: Two U.S. scientists have updated findings that link a form of Chinese meditation to positive changes in brain structure, suggesting that just 11 hours of practising the technique over a month could help prevent mental illness.
In a paper to be released this week in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael Posner report that the practice known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT) can have a positive physical affect on the brain, boosting connectivity and efficiency.
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By Andrew Longstreth
Feb 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear
arguments on Wednesday in a case that could determine the extent
to which companies might rely on arbitration clauses to fend off
class action lawsuits.
Through contracts with consumers and other parties,
companies often require disputes to be settled through
arbitration. Those arbitration clauses also frequently prohibit
plaintiffs from banding together to bring one action on behalf
of a larger class.
Consumer advocates claim the clauses give unfair advantages
to companies. But in recent years, the Supreme Court has upheld
their enforcement under the Federal Arbitration Act, which was
intended to encourage their use.
In the class action before the Supreme Court, a group of
merchants accuse American Express of violating antitrust law.
The group, small businesses including Italian Colors Restaurant
from California, claimed that American Express required them to
accept its consumer credit cards that come with high transaction
fees as a condition for accepting its personal charge cards and
corporate cards, where it has a dominant market position.
Several class actions were filed against American Express,
and they were consolidated in the Southern District of New York
in 2003. Although the merchants had agreed to arbitrate their
disputes, they claimed that individual arbitrations would be
prohibitively expensive in light of their potential recoveries.
At the district court, they showed that conducting a
required antitrust study in arbitration would cost at least
several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, the
largest-volume merchant could hope to recover only $38,549.
The merchants argued that as a result, the arbitration
agreement denied their ability to effectively vindicate their
rights under U.S. antitrust law.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York agreed in
an opinion last year and overturned the district court judge's
decision granting American Express's motion to compel bilateral
In its appeal American Express argued that the 2nd Circuit's
decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's recent rulings that
have vindicated the use of arbitration agreements.
The credit card company cited a 2011 decision, AT&T Mobility
LLC v. Concepcion, in which the Supreme Court upheld contracts
that required customers to submit to individual arbitrations to
resolve disputes, and to waive their right to pursue class
action litigation. In that case, the Supreme Court found that a
California state law rule declaring arbitration agreements with
certain features unenforceable was pre-empted by the Federal
In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, lawyers for
American Express pointed to Concepcion's holding that an
arbitration barring class action claims is enforceable even "if
class proceedings are necessary to prosecute small-dollar claims
that might otherwise slip through the legal system."
Consumer advocates warn that a Supreme Court decision in
favor of American Express could effectively immunize companies
from certain claims. They argue that if the Supreme Court
blesses arbitration agreements that bar class actions - in some
cases the only effective way to bring a legal claim - it would
ensure that no action would be taken at all.
In an amicus brief filed on behalf of the merchants, lawyers
for Public Justice, a public interest law firm, wrote that the
Federal Arbitration Act would become the "Federal Corporate
The merchants have also received support from the U.S.
government. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli argued in a brief
that a decision in favor of American Express could allow
companies to use one-sided arbitration agreements that "would
deprive a range of federal statutes of their intended deterrent
and compensatory effect."
American Express has the backing of the business community,
including the Chamber of Commerce. In an amicus brief, the
chamber argued that the 2nd Circuit's decision was the result of
an intense effort to undermine the Supreme Court's ruling in
Concepcion by plaintiffs' lawyers, who can make huge fees in
class action settlements.
The 2nd Circuit's decision provides a road map for
plaintiffs' lawyers to avoid rulings enforcing arbitration
agreements, the chamber said.
Any plaintiffs' attorney, the chamber warned in its brief,
will be able to "retain an expert to assert the costs of proving
a plaintiff's claim would outweigh the potential recovery
-thereby providing the factual predicate needed to avoid
arbitration on an individual basis under the Second Circuit's
Theodore Frank, founder of the Center for Class Action
Fairness and a frequent critic of plaintiffs' lawyers, said
American Express should have contested more vigorously the
findings of the district court that the merchants could not
effectively vindicate their rights through individual
American Express said in a statement that it noted in the
district court that the "clause at issue in this case does not
prevent plaintiffs from sharing costs, specifically experts."
Frank said that if American Expresses loses, companies will
still have options to avoid class action lawsuits. For example,
companies could add provisions in their agreements to make it
more cost-effective for plaintiffs to arbitrate their claims.
"You'll see memos go out to say 'rework your arbitration
agreements,'" Frank said.
The case is American Express Co v. Italian Colors
Restaurant, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-133
For Italian Colors: Paul Clement of Bancroft.
For American Express: Michael Kellogg of Kellogg, Huber,
Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.
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In last week's post, we looked at a few of the key architectural requirements for a scale-out storage infrastructure, including a unified 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) network that supports diverse protocols. Today, we’ll look at some of the business benefits of scale-out storage.
Lower capital cost—Scale-out storage arrays typically cost less than enterprise-class storage. On a price/terabyte basis, some scale-out arrays sell for half the price of conventional enterprise storage systems. When you’re adding storage often to keep pace with data growth, these upfront savings become more important.
Lower operational costs—Scale-out storage architectures can deliver operational savings via management simplicity. With a unified 10GbE network, you have fewer protocols to manage and fewer management tools to buy, use, and maintain. And the tools you use tend to be lower-cost, thanks to open standards.
High availability backup and recovery—Scale-out storage can provide continuous high-availability backup and recovery, as you would get with more expensive storage. You’re just getting the benefits at a better price. Scale-out storage allows you to keep your backup data more accessible than it would be with conventional tape-based backup and an offsite data infrastructure. With near-real-time data, you’re poised to quickly bounce back from a failure or a disaster. Think hours instead of days.
Cloud benefits—Scale-out storage allows you to deploy a private cloud that delivers the cost benefits that Tier 1 public cloud providers realize. And when you have your storage in a cloud environment, you are better positioned to eventually move non-critical content to a public cloud. All that video you’re storing? How about moving it to a public cloud?
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Archaeologists discover the tomb of a Maya prince
Archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have discovered a lavishly adorned tomb of a young prince while excavating in a Maya palace. The discovery was made in a building of the royal palace complex in the Maya city of Uxul, Mexico. The tomb dates from the early 8th century and, in addition to containing the remains of a 20 to 25 years old adult, also revealed numerous valuable burial offerings which point to the noble status of the deceased. © Kai Delvendahl, Uxul Archaeological Project/University of Bonn.
BONN.- Archaeologists from the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have been excavating for the past four years together with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History in the Maya city of Uxul in Campeche, Mexico. The aim of the excavation project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube and Dr. Kai Delvendahl is to investigate the process of centralization and collapse of hegemonic state structures in the Maya Lowlands using the example of a mid-sized classic Maya city (Uxul) and its ties to a supra-regional center (Calakmul). Research at Uxul, located close to the border with Guatemala, is being funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Since 2011, excavations have concentrated on the royal palace complex, which is located directly south of the main plazas in the center of Uxul. The palace extends 120 x 130 meters and consists of at least eleven individual buildings which surround five courtyards. “The palace complex was built around 650 AD, a time when the neighboring ruling dynasty from Calakmul was extending its influence over large areas of the Maya Lowlands,” explains Professor Grube. In 2011, six sculpted panels were discovered during excavations of the southern stairway of the largest building of the group, Structure K2. Four of these panels depict kings from Calakmul, playing ball. The similarities in the layout of the centers of Calakmul and Uxul and especially of the main palace complexes in the two cities let the researchers to suggest that Uxul, originally a smaller independent kingdom, may have been temporarily ruled and inhabited by members of the Kaan Dynasty of Calakmul. Through recent excavations in several of Uxul´s central buildings, the changes in the physiognomy of the city´s center can be linked directly to the time of military and political expansion of the Kaan Dynasty during the reign of Yukno´m Ch´een II, in the first half of the 7th century. However, the influence subsided after 705 AD, and there is a strong likelihood that a local ruling family came back to power for a few generations. At the start of the 9th century, Uxul was almost completely abandoned.
Richly furnished tomb
“During this year´s excavation below one of the southern rooms of Structure K2, we have discovered a richly furnished tomb, which can be dated to the time right after the influence of Calakmul in Uxul had ended” explains Dr. Delvendahl. The walls of the crypt are made of rough stone and the chamber was covered with a corbel vault, typical for the Maya culture. In the interior of this tomb chamber which dates back about 1,300 years, the remains of a young man were discovered who was buried on his back with his arms folded. Deposited around him were four ceramic plates and five ceramic vases in an exceptionally preserved state, some of which were decorated with spectacular paintings and moldings. A unique plate, painted in the famed Codex-Style, was covering the skull of the deceased.
Vessel with dedication may point to the identity of the deceased
“On one of the vases, there was a simple dedication, written in elegantly molded hieroglyphics, which read: ‘[This is] the drinking vessel of the young man/prince’. Also a second molded vessel appears to mention a young man or prince” says Professor Grube. Although these references are not definite clues as to the identity of the departed, the location of the tomb and the absence of certain status markers, such as jade jewelry, would indicate that the deceased was a young male member of the ruling family who was not in direct line for the throne. A possible date on one of the vessels corresponds to the year 711 AD; therefore the death of the young prince and the construction of his tomb can be dated back to the second or third decade of the 8th century. The exceptionally preserved ceramics in particular make this tomb one of the most significant discoveries of its kind in the entire Maya Lowlands.
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The Prophet Micah in the Old Testament speaks of God’s reprove and chastisement of Israel in a very poetic language.
Chapter 1:3-4 “For Jehovah is about to come forth from His place, And He will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains will be melted under Him, And the valleys will be cleft, Like wax before fire, Like water poured down a slope.”
These sobering words caused Micah to weep but as with other prophets Micah also speaks of God’s comforting of His people. Which ultimately comes at the end of this age in what the prophets of all spoke as the restoration. A coming age when there will be no need of weapons for all the enemies will be gone and Christ will rule, shepherd and protect His people while His people feast and rejoice in loving worship of Him for a thousand years.
Of all the disciples called by the Lord Jesus in the gospels, probably the one we can most readily identify with is Peter. Simon Barjona as he was known before the Lord changed his name to Peter. In John chapter 1 was as impetuous as he was fervent and often found himself as the target of the Lord Jesus’ reprove.
Recall for example in Matthew chapter 16, Peter’s sympathetic suggestion to the Lord that He should keep Himself from the suffering of death that He knew awaited Him. “get behind Me, Satan” was the Lord’s reply. “You are a stumbling block to Me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.” How could Peter possibly recovered from such a stinging rebuke?
And of course it was also Peter, who denied the Lord three times during the hour of trial preceding the actual crucifixion. Yet only days later it was this same Peter who stood on the day of Pentecost and usher thousands into the kingdom with his powerful and dynamic speaking.
And not only so, in his two epistles, Peter uses language and phrases so rich and full of high and profound meaning that we can’t help but marvel at the power of God’s full salvation. That this unlearned fisherman could write such thing. Listen to his word in 1 Peter,
1:18 “Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,”
19 “But with precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ;”
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A single person making 250K per year steadily can be considered rich in any book. Not super rich by any means, but "lower" or "minor" rich. That is making 20,833 per month, or 683 per day (including weekends, but before taxes.) The incomes of the rich and super rich have been outpacing inflation, while the incomes of the poor have not kept pace with inflation in general.
maril my main point is that not many like to talk about inflation, but super inflation normally follows huge debt and it might come faster than most think and many will be above the 250 000 faster than they ever dreamed.
There is just too much which does not add up, but super inflation adds up fast.
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Morality and ethics have to do with right vs. wrong. Plenty of people in this novel are doing the wrong thing: Mrs. Coulter and the General Oblation Board, for example, are downright baddies. Others are doing shady things but with the best of intentions: for example, the Master of Jordan College, who attempts to poison Lord Asriel. Still others we're a bit hazy on, like the crazy ambitious Lord Asriel. For her part, Lyra always tries her best to do the right thing, but sometimes stuff turns out badly despite her good intentions. (Two words: Poor Roger.)
Philip Pullman is very conscious of questions of morality in his writing. Check out his thoughts on the matter:
"Try as hard as you can, you can't leave out morality from a book. Everything we do, however small, has consequences. The greatest fiction always has a sequence of actions followed by reactions, followed by consequences. […] You can't leave morality out unless your work is so stupid and trivial and so worthless that [nobody] would want to read it anyway." (source)
Wow, tell us what you really think, Phil. True to his word, The Golden Compass asks us to think about hard questions of right and wrong. In the book, just as in life, it's not always clear who or what is good or evil, and Lyra has to puzzle through as best she can.
Over the course of the book, Lyra goes from being an amoral child to a very moral young adult.
In The Golden Compass, there is a clear difference between good and evil.
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Karel ČapekArticle Free Pass
The son of a country doctor, Čapek suffered all his life from a spinal disease, and writing seemed a compensation. He studied philosophy in Prague, Berlin, and Paris and in 1917 settled in Prague as a writer and journalist. From 1907 until well into the 1920s, much of his work was written with his brother Josef, a painter, who illustrated several of Karel’s books.
Almost all Čapek’s literary works are inquiries into philosophical ideas. The early short stories—in Zářivé hlubiny (with Josef, 1916; “The Luminous Depths”), Krakonošova zahrada (with Josef, 1918; “The Garden of Krakonoš”), and Trapné povídky (1921; in Money and Other Stories, 1929)—are mainly concerned with man’s efforts to break out of the narrow circle of destiny and grasp ultimate values. Another series of works presents Čapek’s “black utopias,” showing how scientific discoveries and technological progress tempt man into titanic rebellions. Thus, in the play R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots (published 1920, performed 1921), a scientist discovers the secret of creating humanlike machines that are more precise and reliable than human beings. Years later the machines dominate the human race and threaten it with extinction, though at the last moment it is saved. For this play Čapek invented the word “robot,” deriving it from the Czech word for forced labour.
Other works, following the pattern of R.U.R., include the novel Továrna na absolutno (1922; The Absolute at Large); Krakatit (1924; An Atomic Phantasy); and Válka s mloky (1936; The War with the Newts).
In another vein, Čapek’s comic fantasy Ze života hmyzu (with Josef, 1921; The Insect Play) satirizes human greed, complacency, and selfishness, emphasizing the relativity of human values and the need to come to terms with life. His faith in democracy made him support his friend Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and write a biography of him. The quest for justice inspired most of the stories in Povídky z jedné kapsy and Povídky z druhé kapsy (both 1929; published together as Tales from Two Pockets).
The problem of identity and the mystery of people’s underlying motivations are the theme of Čapek’s most mature work, a trilogy of novels that together present three aspects of knowledge. Hordubal (1933) contrasts an inarticulate man’s awareness of the causes of his actions with the world’s incomprehension; Povětroň (1934; Meteor) illustrates the subjective causes of objective judgments; and Obyčejný život (1934; An Ordinary Life) explores the complex layers of personality underlying the “self” an “ordinary” man thinks himself to be.
The growing threat posed by Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia’s independent existence in the mid-1930s prompted Čapek to write several works intended to warn and mobilize his countrymen. The realistic novel Prvni parta (1937; The First Rescue Party) stressed the need for solidarity. In his last plays the appeal became more direct. Bílá nemoc (1937; Power and Glory) presented the tragedy of the noble pacifist; and Matka (1938; The Mother) vindicated armed resistance to barbaric invasion.
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Efficient Process Using microRNA Converts Human Skin Cells into Neurons
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
The addition of two particular gene snippets to a skin cell's usual genetic material is enough to turn that cell into a fully functional neuron, report researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding, to be published online July 13 in Nature, is one of just a few recent reports of ways to create human neurons in a lab dish.
Source: Stanford University Medical Center
Contact: Rosanne Spector
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Sun July 1, 2012
Fans Save Luke Skywalker's Tunisia Home
Originally published on Mon July 2, 2012 11:28 am
Mark Dermul is a serious Star Wars fan. He was just 7 years old in 1977 when the original movie hit the theaters. As soon as the huge Star Destroyer flew across the opening scene, he was hooked.
"It hasn't left me," he says. At 42, Dermul now guides tours throughout North Africa, visiting sites that were featured in the blockbuster films.
On one 2010 trip back to planet Tatooine — OK, Tunisia — he and his tour group noticed that Luke Skywalker's boyhood home was decaying. They jumped into hyperspace — OK, the Internet — to save it.
They sent out a call on Facebook to restore the sandy igloo first featured in Episode IV: A New Hope. Fans from around the world responded at light speed with donations, shooting past the goal and raising more than $11,000. Then, war threatened.
The Arab Spring put the project on hold, but by October 2011, Tunisia's newly instated government provided the permits necessary for the renovation to begin.
Though much of the hut was past saving, Dermul's group reinforced, plastered and painted what was left. Luke's old homestead is now back to its original desolate glory.
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Arthur Butz's place among the purveyors of Holocaust denial is secured by his 1976 book, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, one of the first major works of Holocaust denial in the English language. Though not as active as Ernst Zündel or David Irving, Butz has continued to play a role in the Holocaust denial movement by writing articles for the now-defunct Journal of Historical Review (on whose editorial advisory board he served from 1980 through 2001) and occasionally speaking at Holocaust denial conferences.
Butz is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University. Fellow deniers cite Butz's academic credentials in an attempt to cast his Holocaust writings as respectable works of scholarship. The publication of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century brought controversy to the Northwestern campus; Jewish groups protested Butz's continued presence on the staff while the university administration attempted to balance its stated abhorrence of Butz's views with its commitment to academic freedom. Because Butz did not introduce Holocaust denial in his classes, Northwestern President Robert Strotz allowed him to continue teaching. Strotz asked Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, to help design new classes on the Holocaust for Northwestern's curriculum. The university also sponsored a conference for high school teachers that explored ways of conveying the lessons of the Holocaust.
Many of Butz's Holocaust writings are available on the Internet. The Hoax of the Twentieth Century was recently reprinted by another Holocaust denier, a German fugitive from justice named Germar Rudolf, who has offered the book as a free download from his Web site. Many of the articles Butz contributed to the Journal of Historical Review are archived on the Web site of the Journal's publisher, the Institute for Historical Review. Butz also maintains his own Web site, though it is infrequently updated.
Some Holocaust deniers argue that Butz's book has never been refuted by mainstream scholars, but in fact many of his arguments have been thoroughly debunked in John C. Zimmerman, Holocaust Denial: Demographics, Testimonies and Ideologies (University Press of America, 2000), and in Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust (The Free Press, 1993). Online refutations have been posted by sites such as www.Nizkor.org and www.anti-rev.org. | <urn:uuid:fde52a8d-4a3d-4bf9-8255-79ad9f15a760> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Butz_print.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956613 | 474 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Rare Chinese moonflask discovered in Dorset
07 Nov, 2011
A rare Chinese blue and white porcelain Moonflask discovered at a village antiques day in Dorset is expected to fetch around half a million pounds at Woolley and Wallis's Asian Art sale on 16th November.
The vase’s octogenarian lady owner took it along to an antiques event organised by the WI, where the delighted antiques specialist recognised its rarity and suggested she contact John Axford, Woolley and Wallis’s Asian Art specialist. John confirmed that the vase was in fact a rare Ming-style Moonflask, of the highest quality, created for the Imperial Qing Dynasty in the 18th century. The vase is painted with delicate cobalt blue designs of birds perched on a prunus branch, a popular and auspicious theme for porcelain painters, believed to herald Spring.
In fact, the moonflask is such a fine example that John, a regular expert on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, included it in the Roadshow’s ‘Basic, Better, Best’ feature. In the episode, filmed at the Weald and Downland Musuem near Chichester, John challenges presenter Fiona Bruce to tell the difference in quality between three Chinese moonflasks. John chose this example as the best. The episode will be screened in Spring 2012.
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"Life is not a game to be won or a path to a goal; the purpose of life is to live".
Etodism arose as a minor religion during the early interplanetary period, among the tech-elite on Old Earth. The faith gained in relative influence only on Earth's initial colonies, due to a high proportion of Etodists among the spacefarers. Although persecuted on some Human Rim worlds after the collapse of the First Federation, especially during the Tahmetian crusades, Etodism became a powerful religion, first in the Eridanus League (peaking at over 800 million faithful) and again centuries later in the Yoson Confederacy (where the Etodist population reached nearly 3 billion). Even then, Etodism rarely had full government or military support; aside from a few popular uprisings, the religion remains mostly unsullied by fanaticism or atrocity.
Many of the core beliefs of Etodism have been adopted by later faiths (such as Fractalism), and are incorporated into several strains of Universalist theology.
Etodism is based on the "universe-within-a-universe" cosmology; simply put, our world is a mere particle within an infinitely greater universe, while other universes exist within every particle of our own cosmos. Etodists view human life as merely a temporary journey through the known universe; after death, the soul is reborn in some greater or lesser universe, as determined by a law which is essentially based on Karma. Most Etodists equate the larger universes with heavens, the internal universes with hells; for every 'heaven' (universe) the soul reaches, there will be an even more perfect 'heaven' to work towards. Unlike most religions, Etodists do not predict any kind of end point to the soul's journey--no nirvana or paradise. Their view is that "perfection is like infinity--no matter how perfect the soul becomes, it can always strive for greater perfection".
Etodism and Copying
When the technologies of uploading, copying and mind-state backup became widely available, many religions became embroiled in theological debates about the status of the soul during the copying process. After some controversy the Etodist Ecclesial Congress of Epsilon Eridani Two (1955 AT) decided that the soul of a copied sophont was also copied in its entirety; this doctrine, the Multiplication of Identities, was eventually adopted by many other sects and philosophies.
In this doctrine the soul of a copied person is momentarily identical to the original, and has the same level of spiritual development as the original. On the Infinite Path followed by all souls the act of multiplication of identities is one more step towards the infinitely distant goal.
The doctrine of Multiplication of Identities should be considered in contrast to other doctrines concerning the role of the soul in the copying process, such as Soul-Divisionism, the One Soul Movement, and the widespread materialist view that the soul does not exist.
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Upon the expiry of the deadline of 3 January 2011, the European Chemical Agency (ECHAi) received 3.1 million Classification and Labelling notifications covering a total of 107,067 different substances. All companies manufacturing or importing hazardous substances were required to classify them by 1 December 2010 and notify ECHA by 3 January 2011. The new rules are laid down in the EU Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals (CLPi Regulation No 1272/2008).
The aim of the notification is to make the information about the hazards of substances available to all stakeholders. Based on the information received, ECHA will publish a Classification & Labelling Inventory in May 2011. In the event that different classifications have been notified for the same substance, the companies concerned will be encouraged to agree an entry.
Given that there are no tonnage limits for submitting notifications – unlike the registration obligations under REACHi (Regulation No 1907/2006 for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals; IP/10/1632) – many more companies were affected by the notification obligations under CLP, notably small businesses.
Manufacturers and importers that place hazardous substances on the market for the first time after the deadline must notify the classification to the ECHA within one month (please refer to the ECHA website for practical information: http://echa.europa.eu/clp/info_clp_companies_en.asp).
More information can be found in the following ECHA press releases:
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The Andes Mountains
The Andes is a vast mountain system forming a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. It is roughly 7000 km (4400 mi) long, 500 km (300 mi) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20° S latitude), and of an average height of about 4000 m (13,000 ft).
The connection of this system with that of the Rocky Mountains, which has been pointed out by many writers, has received much support from the discovery of the extensive eruptions of granite during Tertiary times, extending from the southern extremity of South America to Alaska.
Andes Mountains from Bogata, Columbia
The Andean range is composed of two great principal chains with a deep intermediate depression, in which, and at the sides of the great chains, arise other chains of minor importance, the chief of which is that called the Cordillera de la Costa of Chile. This starts from the southern extremity of the continent and runs in a northerly direction, parallel with the coast, being broken up at its beginning into a number of islands and afterwards forming the western boundary of the great central valley of Chile. To the north this coastal chain continues in small ridges or isolated hills along the Pacific Ocean as far as Colombia, always leaving the same valley more or less visible to the west of the western great chain.
Alpamayo in the Peruvian Andes
Of the two principal chains the eastern is generally called Los Andes, and the western La Cordillera, in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where the eastern is likewise known as Cordillera Real de los Andes, while to the south of parallel 23°S in Chile and Argentina, the western is called Cordillera de los Andes. The eastern disappears in the centre of Argentina, and it is therefore only the Cordillera de los Andes that is prolonged as far as the south-eastern extremity of the continent.
Andes Mountains between Chile and Argentina
The Cordillera de la Costa begins near Cape Horn, which is composed principally of crystalline rocks, and its heights are inconsiderable when compared with those of the true Cordillera of the Andes. The latter, as regards its main chain, is on the northern coast of the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the deep depression of Lake Fagnano and of Admiralty Sound. Staten Island appears to be the termination to the east. The Cordillera of the Andes in Tierra del Fuego is formed of crystalline schists, and culminates in the snow-capped peaks of Mount Darwin and Mount Sarmiento 2200 m(7200 ft), which contains glaciers of greater extent than those of Mont Blanc. The extent of the glaciers is considerable in this region, which, geographically, is more complex than was formerly supposed. Although in the explored portion of the Fuegian chain the volcanoes which have been mentioned from time to time have not been met with, the islands to the south hold many neo-volcanic rocks, some of which appear to be contemporaneous with the basaltic sheet that covers a part of eastern Patagonia. The insular region between Mount Sarmiento and the Cordillera de los Andes, properly so called, i.e. that which extends from Magellan Strait northwards, is not fully explored, and all that is known of it is that it is principally composed of the same rocks as the Fuegian section, and that the greater part of its upper valleys is occupied by glaciers that reach down to the sea amid dense forest.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Andes". | <urn:uuid:87628ae9-8342-4bf9-a6a7-e15f35800f04> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/southamericaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-SouthAmerica3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95425 | 779 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Mozilla site shows Firefox 4 downloads in real-time
- — 23 March, 2011 08:09
Mozilla Firefox 4 was officially released on Tuesday, and within just a few short hours the browser had been downloaded more than a million times. To celebrate the browser's launch, Mozilla has opened the digital doors on a new download statistic Website, offering visitors a neat visual way to see Firefox 4 downloads in real-time.
The Firefox 4 Download Stats site, which can be found at glow.mozilla.org, shows a constantly updating counter of all Firefox 4 downloads to date, and as of time of writing the counter stands at well over 2,000,000.
As each download is logged and added to the ever-growing count, it is visualised on a map of the earth, which is currently animating the world over, with each glowing dot representing one single download.
Mozilla details how the real-time counter and global map works on the new download statistic site. They explain that "when someone clicks the download button on mozilla.com, or asks for an upgrade from inside Firefox" a users location is approximated "based on IP address". This information is then stored anonymously as "aggregate location information" in Mozilla's database.
In addition to the global map, Mozilla's download statistic site also serves up download information on a more local level. An additional arc chart module can be found on the site (bottom left), which allows visitors to break down the download data, starting at a continent level and going as deep down as providing statistics on a city-by-city basis. Where does your city stand?
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The Master Gardener Plant Sale, which lasts from May 11 to May 20, offers a way to purchase locally grown plants while supporting a student's education.
The event, which combines as a lilac festival, will feature locally grown plants sold at reasonable prices. No matter what type of plant you’re searching for, this sale is sure to have something for you, as both common and unusual annuals and perennials will be available. In addition to pretty flowers, organic vegetable and herb plants will be on hand, as well as shrubs, tree, and, of course, select lilacs.
You don’t have to sport a green thumb to attend. Knowledgeable Master Gardeners will be around to answer any and all of your gardening questions. All the proceeds of the garden sale help support the work of the Master Gardener Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County.
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Every good chef needs an assortment of knives at his disposal. What type of knife would be best suited for slicing up a loaf of sour dough?
This special utensil is commonly used to remove the top part of the skin from fruit like oranges and lemons.
Which of the following items listed below does not fit with the others?
One very specialized tool found in the kitchen drawer has the singular purpose of cutting out small balls of fruit. It is called a ________ baller.
A bain-marie can be used in the kitchen to melt chocolate or make custards and sauces. What is it more commonly known as?
This interesting kitchen aid is a perforated pot with a hand turned scraper. It sits on top of a bowl and is great for crushing fruit and removing seeds as well as mashing a variety of solids. What is the name of this item that is commonly referred to by its original manufacturers name?
Typically when a chef needs to chop up small amounts of vegetables and herbs a simple knife does the job. However, there is another choice to perform this job but it requires both hands as it has two handles. What is it?
This unique knife, originating in Japan, has become more common in the U.S. of recent. It is differentiated from other kitchen knives because of its shape and overall look, which often incorporates a Granton edge to keep materials from sticking to the blade during chopping.
Creme brulee -- a dessert custard topped with hard caramel -- is typically served in a small glazed ceramic serving bowl. What is the name of this bowl?
You've just returned from the market with a beautiful loaf of bread. The crust has been split on purpose on the top to let the bread "bloom" while baking. What utensil is used to score the dough before sticking it in the oven?
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Pollster Anthony Wells has reviewed the polling evidence, all of which shows popular support for the death penalty everywhere in Britain, except in parliament.
A lot of readers are asking why the e-petition specifies child killers and cop killers. The reasons are two-fold, in the case of child killers some crimes are so abhorrent that society demands more than protection, it wants retribution. Myra Hindley and Ian Brady’s 13 minute tape of them sexually torturing 10 year-old Lesley Ann Downey, with the child’s endless screams and pleas for her mother, truly shocked a nation. Hindley and Brady tortured and killed five children for sexual kicks. Even after half-a-century of pampered imprisonment they proved beyond rehabilitation. In cases like theirs, where there is no doubt of guilt and after due process of the law, justice should not prevent retribution. Retribution is missing from the criminal justice system.
The Soham murderer, Ian Huntley and Milly Dowler’s killer Levi Bellfield, a serial killer, would both under this proposed legislation pay for their crimes with their own life. That is the wish of many victim’s families, in the words of Gemma Dowler they want “a life for a life”. So do the public…
When the public are asked about the death penalty the results have consistently shown a majority in favour, when they are asked specifically about child killers, the numbers change dramatically with a range of polls showing two-thirds to three-quarters in in favour. On this issue there is definitely a clear regressive majority in Britain.
It is a similar picture for cop killers, the public understands that the police put themselves in harm’s way on their behalf every day. If a criminal in the course of committing a crime kills a police officer it is invariably deliberate. Having the death penalty for cop killers will make criminals fear the consequences and give extra legislative protection to the police beyond a stab vest. Once again the public shows a two-thirds majority in favour of the death penalty for cop killers. Not because their lives are worth more than ours, it is because the police daily risk their lives to protect our lives.
The third common objection is that Britain is bound by treaties that prevent us implementing the death penalty. Some claim that the ECHR prevents us, actually the Covenant itself specifically exempts “a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law”, it is later protocols which were added on that prohibit the death penalty. The protocols can be of course de-ratified or Britain can withdraw from the ECHR. The e-petition calls on the Ministry of Justice to first review international commitments and prepare a legislative escape path before bringing forward substantive legislation. This is what a free and sovereign nation of laws does if parliament wishes to change course.
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Built by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali in Italy, Carnival Destiny was the first cruise ship to exceed 100,000gt and, as such, set new standards in design and construction. Carnival Destiny sails every Sunday from the Port of Miami, alternating eastern and western Caribbean itineraries. Her sister vessel is Carnival Triumph. The Panama-flagged vessel is built to Lloyd's Register classification.
The 101,353gt vessel is 272.2m long, with a beam of 35.48m and a draught of 8.2m.
Carnival Destiny is powered by a diesel-electric plant, based on six Sulzer medium-speed turbo-charged diesel generator sets providing power at 6,600V, 60Hz: four are 16 cylinders in V form with a rated output of 11,520kW at 514rpm, and two are twelve cylinders in V form with a rated output of 8,640kW at 514rpm. The vessel is fitted with an ABB Industria electrical propulsion pack.
Carnival Destiny has a cruising speed of 20 knots and is able to operate at sea for up to 17 days continuously.
The vessel is fitted with six thruster units with controllable pitch propellers, three forward and three aft, each driven by one 1,720kW motor, and has computer-controlled retractable fin stabilisers from the UK-based firm, Brown Brothers.
The vessel is equipped with 22 Harding lifeboats that are fitted in a wholly-dedicated semi-open deck (deck 4). Each boat can carry 150 people and allows full emergency embarkation in the stowed position. They can be lowered in a single operation, reducing the overall time required for boarding and launching.
Carnival Destiny has a maximum passenger capacity of 3,360 and carries a crew of 1,000. The vessel has a total of 1,321 passenger cabins, including eight 36m² penthouse suites, 40 suites of 27m² and a further 756 standard outside cabins, measuring approximately 18m², with balconies or windows. The standard inside cabins measure appoximately 16m².
With a total of 16 decks, the configuration of Carnival Destiny makes it easy for passengers to find their way around, the main entertainment and recreation decks being located between the passenger decks. A total of 27 Schindler elevators, 18 of which are for passenger use, facilitate movement around the ship.
All the main public areas radiate from the rotunda, a central nine-deck atrium. The rotunda's flagship bar on deck 3 offers a view up through the skylight on sun deck 11.
With an auditorium occupying three decks and a stage complex that takes up five, Carnival Destiny's main theatre, the palladium show lounge, is the largest seen on any cruise ship and can seat 1,600 people. A separate aft lounge seats 600 people.
The ship has two main restaurants, both occupying two decks. The main restaurant is aft and seats 1,050 while the forward restaurant seats 750. The upper-deck sun and sea lido seats 868. In addition, passengers can choose from the 24-hour pizza parlour, buffet and salad bars, Italian and Chinese buffets and the grille, which serves American-style fast food.
New innovations on Carnival Destiny include the side deck, consisting of open promenades that run the length of the ship on both sides and a 525ft long, fully-enclosed double-width promenade called destiny's way. Comprising bars and cafés, a tuxedo rental, a flower shop and a video game and virtual reality emporium, destiny's way ends in the three-deck high captain's hall.
The 'millionaire's club' casino offers high-rollers tables, with minimum chips of $100.
Sports facilities on-board include a gymnasium, an aerobics room, whirlpools, and sauna, steam and massage rooms. The nautica jogging track on sun deck 11 is positioned over the sun and sea pool.
The ship offers a teenage entertainment programme and separate children's facilities, including a play centre with its own gym and pool. | <urn:uuid:be362521-cd4d-44ef-9a39-5ae8ad12f584> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/destiny/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932363 | 874 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The planet Earth produces more food than ever before. Tremendous advances in food sciences have lead a higher percentage of our planets population to be fed than in any time in the modern era. No person is more responsible for this than one of my personal heroes, Norman Borlaug. It is estimated that the advancements he created saved over a BILLION lives. Yet to this day he and his techniques are widely criticized.
I mention Dr Borlaug for two reasons. First, I feel he is someone everyone should know about. Second, in a time of unprecedented food abundance we are supposed to feel guilty about eating more of it than ever before. All food does come with an environmental cost. Even people who may not be willing to avoid meat entirely are more concerned with the environmental impact of what they do eat. I have never considered myself a food alarmist, but I do have three items I avoid: bar olives, gulf oysters, and farm raised salmon.
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An advantage of this hydroponics system is that it's simple and suited to growing a wide variety of plants, making it the most popular choice for homemade hydroponics systems. The ebb and flow system is also ideal for flower and ornamental plant lovers. You can place potted plants in the tray instead of mass-planting, and remove and display your plants whenever you like.
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The California Department of Fish and Game will propose six new tule elk zones to the Fish and Game Commission this comming year.
Alameda County tule elk bull
In general they are as follows: Mendocino County – 0-4 bulls, 0-4 cows; Colusa-Lake-Yolo Counties – 0-4 bulls, 0-4 cows; Lake County (Lake Pillsbury area) 0-4 bulls, 0-4 cows; Alameda – San Joaquin Counties – 0-2 bulls, 0-2 cows; Merced-Santa Clara Counties – 0-2 bulls, 0-2 cows; Kern – San Luis Obispo -Santa Clara Counties – 0-2 bulls and 0-2 cows.
This proposal, if approved, will likely have a significant impact upon the ability of California and out-of-state elk hunters to draw a tule elk tag. CDFG has made revision of the elk hunts a priority this year and elk hunters will find several other upgrades to the elk hunting regulations.
In addition several changes to black bear hunting will also be proposed including creation of a new black bear hunt in San Luis Obispo County that was pulled from the F&G Commission docket last year.
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Yes, these tule elk are (or in this case, were) living in a the potential new tule elk unit.
These bulls were photographed last winter in Southern Alameda County. Here they are again, a little closer.
These are very respectible animals.
Here’s a lone bull photographed in the same area as those above on another trip. Hard to say if he’s in the other photos, but could be. Although these bulls were all living near private ranches, they primarily live on SFWD properties near San Antonio Reservoir. No matter, there is no season for hunting the animals on either private or public lands.
These bulls were hanging out on private property when I spotted them while guiding pig hunters. Note that it was late spring and their antlers were in velvet, but nearly full size.
Here’s a trio of bulls photographed on private property more than ten years ago. For many years these bulls have been left to die of old age for lack of a hunting season in the area.
Near the center of this photograph, along with cattle, two tule elk are feeding on the open hillside. These elk prefer open hillsides where they can spot trouble from far away.
Here’s another bull that frequented private property where he could have been hunted if there had been a season in the area. But it’s not too late to make a change. The California Department of Fish and Game has the ability to open this area to hunting and it may consider just that. The area south of highway 152 has a season on tule elk and at the present time there are tule elk scattered all the way from Highway 152 to Del Valle Reservior (just south of Livermore). Elk have been living on Crane Ridge and Corral Hollow for many years.
Ranches in Hospital Canyon have a number of elk and tags are available for tule elk on private ranches in the San Antonio Valley and Corral Hollow because a few ranches have entered the PLM program allowing them to harvest a limited number of tule elk. In the San Antonio Valley, the State has purchased land. Is it possible it could be hunted in the future?
A friend of mine has observed tule elk on Mission Peak on the northern edge of Fremont and one of my golfing friends talks about the tule elk that live near “The Ranch” golf course in San Jose. Creation of a elk hunting unit in the area could open the door for better monitoring and managment of the elk of Alameda, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Santa Clara Counties. And, a few lucky elk hunters might get a chance to hunt for and maybe take one of these great animals home.
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Construction has been under way for weeks, but the official groundbreaking for the new $35 million, 100,000-square-foot science center at Hudson Valley Community College was held Tuesday at the school’s Troy campus. The new building is designed to be energy-efficient; it hopes to obtain silver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.
HVCC’s new Tec-Smart facility in Malta did even better, recently achieving platinum certification, two levels above silver and the highest awarded under the program.
The science center in Troy is expected to be completed in the fall of 2013, and will include 25 laboratories for the study of biology, chemistry, physics, biotechnology, bio-manufacturing, earth science and forensics.
“Hudson Valley Community College plays a vital role for our students and businesses as they provide the training and educational opportunities for the jobs of today and tomorrow, and I am certain this facility will only augment the good work that is already being done here,” said Rensselaer County Executive Kathleen M. Jimino. | <urn:uuid:d514eb0c-2eea-4a7c-a170-7b9d6ba9bfb7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.timesunion.com/business/groundbreaking-for-35m-hvcc-science-center-held/51899/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941997 | 231 | 2.09375 | 2 |
New and updated editions of these popular, low-priced guidesthe definitive companion for road trippersoffer drivers side-by-side map and text commentary on the scenery, wildlife, geology, and history of the most spectacular and popular parks. The revised and updated series offers user-friendly guides that follow major roads.
Perfect for the motoring traveler, the National Park Road Guides offer topographical maps that point out where to look for wildlife such as mountain goats, elk, deer, and bears and scenic vistas, geological formations, historical sites, and wildflowers. The books' design eliminates a major frustration of other road guideshaving to count odometer mileage and flip back and forth between maps and text. Here the text and maps are contiguous, making the parks easy to explore. Furthermore, the maps are plainly coded with important roadside points, such as visitor centers, ranger stations, trails, restrooms, gasoline stops, and much more. | <urn:uuid:0cd8c621-d693-494a-bae0-1e610ab3acab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/books/travel-and-adventure/travel-best-sellers/grand-canyon-national-park-road-guide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911728 | 192 | 1.609375 | 2 |
NEW YORK.- Christie's
highly anticipated Latin American Sale totaled $11,004,350, led by strong results for Mario Carreño, Leonora Carrington, and Diego Rivera. Five new world auction records were achieved for artists Leonora Carrington, René Portocarrero, Helio Oiticica, Roberto Aizenberg, and Lygia Pape. The sale was 68% sold by lot and 77% by value.
Icons of Latin American modernism led the sale tonight with strong results for the top three lots, all of which date from the 1940s. We are particularly excited about the long overdue recognition and important world auction record for Leonora Carrington, whose work surpassed the $1million dollar mark, and for the spectacular price realized for the rediscovered masterpiece Fuego en el batey by the Cuban master Mario Carreño, which became the second highest auction price achieved for the artist. In addition, a new record was set for a self-portrait by Diego Rivera, said Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Art at Christies.
One of the finest examples by Leonora Carrington, The Giantess, also known as The Guardian of the Egg, painted circa 1947, set a new artist record at $1,482,500, doubling her previous record for Juggler, el juglar, 1954, which sold for $713,000 at Christies in May 2008. In this surrealist seascape, a towering Giantess allegorically commands the flora and fauna of the earth, sea and sky. The Giantess embodies Carrington's fascination with mystical femininity and the enchantments of the cosmic world. Between her palms she clasps a mysterious black egg, a symbol the artist frequently includes in her work.
Exceptional results were achieved for four major works from the Collection of the late Milton and Nona Ward of New York. The lead lot of the group was Mario Carreños Fuego en el batey (Fire in the farm) from 1943, which sold for $2,188,100. The painting was widely regarded as a lost masterpiece of Cuban modernism until it was recently rediscovered in the couples private collection, where it had been for over 50 years. Known to scholars and collectors, but never published in color, Fuego en el batey achieved an iconic stature over time as a key missing link in the scholarship of one of Cubas most accomplished artists. Fuego en el batey is one of the three masterpieces from a brief series of paintings in Duco that he painted in Cuba in 1943.
Among the other major works in the Ward collection were two other previously unpublished and unknown works by Carreño and his contemporary René Portocarrero. Untitled (Woman with Flowers) from 1945, sold for $60,000, and Untitled, a portrayal of a trio of masked musicians from 1938, realized $146,500, well above its pre-sale estimate. René Portocarreros Untitled (Woman with Umbrella), achieved $52,500, a new world auction record for a work on paper by the artist. Total sales achieved for the collection were $2,447,100.
A self-portrait by Diego Rivera, commissioned by Sigmund Firestone achieved $1,022,500. Firestone was an American engineer and art collector from Rochester, New York, who met Rivera and Frida Kahlo on a business trip to Mexico in 1939, and subsequently maintained a friendship and correspondence with the artists, commissioning self-portraits from each. The painting was sold along with 14 letters exchanged between Rivera, Kahlo and Firestone during their years of friendship. In one letter, Kahlo affectionately signed the letter with magenta-pink kisses, one for Sigy and one each for his daughters, Alberta and Natalie.
Additional strong results were achieved for Brazilian artists, with two new world auction records achieved for Helio Oiticica and Lygia Pape. Oiticicas abstract grid painting Metasquema 19, painted in 1957-58, set a record at $186,500; Lygia Papes Untitled (Grupo Frente), a wood relief from 1954 set a record at $86,500. Earlier in the sale, Emiliano di Cavalcantis Baianas, 1959, drew $56,250, Candido Portinaris Menino sentado, 1945, sold for $218,500, and the final lot of the sale, Adriana Varejãos Azulejaria de cozinha com peixes (Kitchen tiles with Fish), 1995, achieved $146,500. Argentinian artist Roberto Aizenbergs Pintura, painted in 1988-1989, also set an auction record at $146,500. The Latin American Sale will continue tomorrow at 10am. | <urn:uuid:6e19e351-baaa-4077-bb99-a9c8c264ceed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=31139&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948433 | 1,010 | 1.59375 | 2 |
What Are Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and Pre-Diabetes?
Learn about the conditions that greatly increase your risk for type 2 diabetes
Many people who develop type 2 diabetes are first diagnosed with one of its precursors:
Let’s go over each of them so you can understand how they affect the body and how they develop into full-blown diabetes.
If you have insulin resistance, your body produces insulin but does not use it properly.
Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that helps the body burn glucose for energy. Glucose is a simple sugar and a major source of fuel for cells. Most of the food we consume is converted into glucose.
In the bloodstream, insulin helps glucose and other nutrients enter cells. However, if there is not enough insulin in the bloodstream to “unlock” the cells so that nutrients can get in, the cells literally starve to death.
When you are insulin resistant, your body requires extra insulin in order for this “unlocking” process to work. The pancreas will try to keep up with this increased need by producing more insulin, but eventually it will fail to produce the amount your body needs. When this occurs, the extra glucose will begin building up in your blood, and type 2 diabetes will develop.
Metabolic Syndrome (Syndrome X)
In addition to being the driving force behind type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance is also part and parcel of a condition known as metabolic syndrome (formerly called syndrome X). Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of disorders that includes:
- Obesity (especially abdominal obesity: a waist measurement of 40 inches or more for men and 35 inches or more for women)
- High blood pressure (130/85 or higher)
- Elevated triglycerides (150 mg/dL or higher)
- Low HDL cholesterol (below 40 mg/dL for men and below 50 mg/dL for women)
- Increased risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes
The underlying constant among all of these characteristics is insulin resistance. Other risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome include:
- Age (the older you are, the higher your risk)
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Hormone imbalances
- Poor diet (particularly a diet high in saturated and trans fats and sugar)
Pre-diabetes is diagnosed when a person’s blood sugar is elevated, but not quite to diabetic levels.
People with pre-diabetes have either impaired fasting glucose (IFG), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or both. To test for IFG, you must fast overnight and then have your blood sugar levels tested in a physician’s office. If your fasting blood sugar level is 100–125 mg/dL, you have IFG. To test for IGT, you will need to undergo a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test. If your blood sugar level is 140–199 mg/dL, then you have IGT.
A diagnosis of pre-diabetes doesn’t necessarily mean you will develop type 2 diabetes. Studies have shown that people with pre-diabetes who lose weight and increase their level of physical activity can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and get their blood sugar levels back to normal.
While it makes sense to find out if you have pre-diabetes so you can take steps to prevent it from turning into full-blown type 2 diabetes, I only recommend taking these tests if you know you are at high risk for developing the disease.
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As opinion polls have the two leading presidential candidates neck-and-neck, some big business leaders have came out in strong support of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). There is an old Chinese saying that people cannot win against government officials and this is especially true where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Ma’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) are involved.
I don’t know what benefits these businesspeople stand to gain by supporting Ma, but at least they will not be offending him. However, have they considered what would happen if Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) wins the election?
The thing is that they know Tsai would not seek revenge if she is elected. Ma, however, is different. When Next Magazine recently ran a story saying Evergreen Group chairman Chang Yung-fa (張榮發) couldn’t be bothered about Ma, Chang rushed to express his support for Ma to avoid getting into trouble.
If we look at the dodgy information Ma and King Pu-tsung (金溥聰), executive director of Ma’s re-election campaign office, have used to attack and discredit Tsai, one can understand the actions of businesspeople with huge investments in China, because if the KMT and the CCP wanted to hurt their businesses, they could do so easily. It is therefore little wonder that not a single big business leader has been willing to show support for Tsai.
Another way of building support for Ma is to scare small investors by saying that if Tsai were elected, the stock market would drop to 5,800 points. However, if we look back we see that the index was at its high point of 9,309 on May 20, 2008, Ma’s first day in office. However, half a year later, on Nov. 21, it had reached its lowest level at 3,955 points.
Ma’s subordinates did not caution small investors to invest carefully, but instead played up the health of Taiwan’s stock market fundamentals and the outstanding state of the Chinese economy while encouraging retail investors. At the same time, four major funds — labor insurance, labor pensions, civil-servant pensions and postal savings — have been lending shares to foreign investors to allow them to short the market, thus killing off small retail investors. Had this not been the case, the KMT would never have been able to earn dividends of NT$2.9 billion (US$95.6 million) last year despite the bad state of the market.
Perhaps those pro-Ma business leaders say they support him because of his pro-China policies. However, a comparison of the stock prices of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co after Ma came into office show that it is Hon Hai’s share price that has taken a drubbing. This could be thanks to TSMC chairman and chief executive Morris Chang’s (張忠謀) “business is business” attitude and the fact that he has made his neutral stance well known, as well as his morals and conscience when it comes to business.
Taiwan is often plagued by specious rumors and an inability to tell fact from fiction. The current Yu Chang Biologics Co controversy is just one example. Tsai was trying to do something good, but because the company’s shares rose while the stock market has dropped on Ma’s watch, she is now the target of “score settling.”
It is not strange for the CCP to do such things, but when these things happen in Taiwan, a democracy, it places the spotlight on the attitudes and moral character of those currently in power. For Taiwanese businesspeople to have to worry about things like this is a stain on Taiwan’s human rights record. The nation needs another change in political power to prevent our democracy from being distorted and to allow it to develop normally. | <urn:uuid:36b950bd-4030-4e7a-b87b-12b51da6206c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/12/21/2003521243 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977767 | 842 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Online newspaper archives are a wonderful source for researching your ancestors, studying history, learning more about your family, hometown or roots, or simply browsing to learn what was happening in day-to-day life in earlier times. There are some wonderful free newspaper archives online covering history and news in Canada. Did I mention they’re free? Take a look!
Canadian newspapers and the Second World War. A rich resource for Canada’s important role in the Big One!
British Columbia, Canada newspaper archives, from 1926–present. A nice collection from the Terrace, BC Public Library, with an unusual search interface. Worth a visit.
The British Colonist, British Columbia, 1859-1860. A few more items from BC.
The Prince George newspaper project, 1909-1961. Still more from British Columbia; Newspapers from Prince George and Fort George, with more papers and years to be added.
Nechako Chronicle, 1928-1984 (British Columbia). Yet another BC archive from the Vanderhoof Library…they’re busy there in the North Country.
Toronto Star. One of Canada’s major news publications, so I’ve included it here, though it’s only sort of free. You can search its abysmally unfriendly interface at no cost, but if you want the full article, you’ll have to pay up.
Manitoba Newspaper Archives, 1859-present. A good, rich collection of more than a dozen newspapers in both French and English.
Winnipeg Free Press, 1874-2008. Another free archive from one of Manitoba’s main newspapers.
Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Maritime Newspaper Archives, 19th and 20th centuries. Two papers are here: the Twillington Sun (1884-1924) and Le Gaboteur, in French (1984-1995), Collections are browseable by date. There are a number of other digital resources here as well.
Quebec Newspaper Archives, 1826-1978. Over a dozen newspapers here, in French and English, naturellement. Browseable by date only, courtesy of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec.
Alberta Newspaper Archive, 1885-2001. A large archived collection, but only browseable, rather than text-searchable. Sigh!
Canada Gazette: The Official Newspaper of the Government of Canada, 1841-1997. A government publication, but surprisingly interesting.
Multicultural Canada. Another sigh! This is an important collection representing Canada’s rich cultural diversity, but is poorly designed, and not well described. Includes archives of Canadian India Times, Al Hilal, Voice of Pakistan, L’Ami duPeuple, and several Chinese and Vietnamese sources.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers. Small but lovely. These are ’special issue’ newspapers, such as Christmas editions, going back to 1885.
Halton Newspaper Index (Ontario). There are several local newspapers here, from this community near Toronto. Archives are mosty from the 1950′s and onwards, though there are sporadic issues from earlier as well.
NewspaperArchives.com. This is a fee-based resource, but is such an amazing archive collection that I had to list it anyway. Their holdings from Canada include about a dozen newspapers, going back to the mid-1800′s. Well worth a look.
If readers know of additional sources that should be added here, please leave a suggestion in Comments, and I’ll be sure to have a look.
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I have tried looking all over the web for this information, but I guess I do not know the proper lingo to get good hits on my search criteria. I KNOW you all can help me get the answer I need.
I have a combo box on my form that will be used for data entry. I would like for it behave in the following way: When the user types in the first letter of the word on the list the list advances to the first matching item that starts with that letter. This is normal behavior, however what I would like it to do from there is to advance to the next item on the list that starts with that same letter or number if you press the same letter or number key more than once. For example, when I type in forms online and select my state, I usually press "T" twice and then tab on in the form, because the list advances to Texas, just after Tennessee.
I hope I explained that well enough. My apologies for not having the proper lingo. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
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As a child, we always had family dogs. We had a couple of cats too. My parents believed that having a pet helped teach responsibility and foster maturity.
I loved all of our dogs growing up, but it was only when I got my first dog as an adult that I really realized what a unique and special bond could be formed with one’s canine animal companion. And how much there was to learn from them.
Zen and the art of canine communication
There are some key lessons about communication I have been taught, or have had driven home, by my dogs:
- Enthusiasm is contagious. Just by being enthusiastic and excited yourself, you can motivate those around you to become enthusiastic and excited, too.
- Not everyone you meet may want to interact, but that shouldn’t discourage you from trying. Often, they will smile despite themselves and that, in itself, is a reward.
- You have a whole body you can use to communicate. Humans may not have prominent ears or that wonderfully expressive tail, but we have shoulders, arms, hands and a huge range of facial expressions. Even the way you walk conveys your mood or attitude.
- Never underestimate the power of touch. The poke of a cold nose, the brush of a furry body or a big head lying on your leg is a concrete reminder that we are not alone. In human terms, a touch on the arm, taking a hand in our own, or a hug, is a way to let others know we are there and we care.
- That a simple tilt of the head can convey interest, curiosity, engagement and attention and that you are most important thing in the whole world at that moment.
- Eye contact is important, but you need to get it right. A look should be direct without being either aggressive or submissive. It must hold for just the right amount of time; too briefly met seems like avoidance, too long seems challenging.
- That, by paying a little bit of attention, body language becomes easy to understand and adds a depth of awareness that allows one to read mood without, and beyond, words. And that body language doesn’t lie.
- A bad mood can be changed in an instant.
- Sometimes, all you need is someone to keep you company, no chatter, no conversation. Just someone to sit with companionably, in quiet harmony.
- Be honest, be genuine, just be who you are. Not everyone will accept you, some will be indifferent and a few will even dislike you. However to be happy in life, you must like yourself and be satisfied with who you are. In order to achieve that, you must be true to yourself.
- Try not to be too enthusiastic in your greeting. That is sometimes off-putting and overwhelming. There are certain social niceties that must be observed, and a slight reservation is appropriate when meeting someone new.
- That, sometimes, the most important and valued role in conversation is the one where you play focused, totally absorbed, unconditional listener.
Live and enjoy each moment
My dogs have taught me much about life in general.
Things like you should live each moment fully, throwing yourself into it. Enjoy the good times; try not to dwell on the bad. Play hard. Love completely and unconditionally. Don’t let a bad mood or bad incident ruin your day. Be a loyal friend.
Here’s to Jazz (1996 – 2008), Isla (2008) and Aurora (2012) and the valuable lessons they have taught me. I know I have a lot more to learn!
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If you've read or watched the news lately, you've probably come across some article, snippet or sound bite related to oil and oil prices. Even in your daily routines, there's a good chance of someone mentioning it. Whether it's in automotives, economics, history, geography or politics, oil has managed to filter into almost every aspect of our daily lives. It's one of the most discussed (and controversial) commodities that consumers rely on daily.
All of this talk about oil sparks continued interest in gasoline alternatives. Things like electric cars and hydrogen fuel cells are being talked about as feasible alternatives to oil. As technology improves, these concepts could become reality. But what about now?
Lost in the mix are the biofuels, fuels made from biological ingredients instead of fossil fuels. These starting ingredients can range from corn to soybeans to animal fat, depending on the type of fuel being made and the production method.
In this article, we'll take a closer look at biodiesel, one of the major biofuels. For starters, it would be a good idea to check out How Car Engines Work and How Diesel Engines Work to get some background. After that, head back over and we'll separate biodiesel fact from fiction.
Generally speaking, biodiesel is an alternative or additive to standard diesel fuel that is made from biological ingredients instead of petroleum (or crude oil). Biodiesel is usually made from plant oils or animal fat through a series of chemical reactions. It is both non-toxic and renewable. Because biodiesel essentially comes from plants and animals, the sources can be replenished through farming and recycling.
Biodiesel is safe and can be used in diesel engines with little or no modification needed. Although biodiesel can be used in its pure form, it is usually blended with standard diesel fuel. Blends are indicated by the abbreviation Bxx, where xx is the percentage of biodiesel in the mixture. For example, the most common blend is B20, or 20 percent biodiesel to 80 percent standard. So, B100 refers to pure biodiesel.
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Biodiesel isn't just a catch-all term, however. There is also a formal, technical definition that is recognized by ASTM International (known formerly as the American Society for Testing and Materials), the organization responsible for providing industry standards. According to the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), the technical definition of biodiesel is as follows:
- a fuel comprised of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of ASTM D 6751.
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Eloquent, profoundly melancholic, intelligent and deeply wise, sentimental and provocative yet always raw in terms of emotion, Virginia Woolf was a woman entirely ahead of her time. This is made with much love and respect in her memory.
Sitting alone among the clean cups at the long table, she felt cut off from other people, and able only to go on watching, asking, wondering; what does it mean then? What can it all mean?
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Did you know that eggplant was once thought to cause bad breath? Not only that, but the tasty food item - which is technically a fruit - was blamed for all sorts of nasty health conditions, at least until Thomas Jefferson brought it to this country.
That's right - the third President of the United States of America introduced the eggplant to the nation, according to Nanette Goings' history book Stirring Up a World of Fun. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms the story.
At the time when Jefferson brought the eggplant back from Europe, the plant was believed to cause bad breath, leprosy, cancer or even insanity. Ever the experimenters, the sage of Monticello brought the tasty bulb back to his budding nation, where it was planted and bred for centuries.
The CDC notes that we Americans first started eating eggplant much later, in the 20th century. And, though it has never been connected with tumors or madness, eggplant can - like any other food - cause halitosis.
To get rid of bad breath caused by Jefferson's contribution to culinary science, simply gargle with a specialty breath freshening rinse or use an oral care probiotic kit.
Trivia about Thomas Jefferson:
- He kept a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese in the White House. Nicknamed the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, the titanic dairy product was a gift from the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts in 1802. Talk about some bad breath!
- According to historian Joseph Ellis, Jefferson sang under his breath all the time.
- The third president spent roughly ten hours per day at his writing desk.
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This study looks at the change in controversial content in films during the 20th century. Original films made prior to 1968 and their remakes produced after were compared in the content areas of profanity, nudity, sexual content, alcohol and drug use, and violence. The advent of television, post-war effects and a proposed “Hollywood elite” are discussed as possible causes for the increase in controversial content. Commentary from industry professionals on the change in content is presented, along with an overview of American culture and the history of the film industry. | <urn:uuid:e6997112-58af-48de-9228-cbda4b58de0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938414 | 135 | 1.90625 | 2 |
DuPont Performance Polymers showcased its wide range of plastics for medical and healthcare applications. These materials are similar to engineering resins and thermoplastics, but have been adapted for medical use. "They have similar chemistries, but we provide heightened manufacturing controls and testing," Diana Salvadori, North America healthcare manager, told us. They include Delrin POM and Hytrel, as well as the more recent Delrin SC 699. On exhibit was the Rhythm Foot, shown here, the second-generation version of the flexible yet durable prosthetic Niagara Foot made by Niagara Prosthetics. The original version was injection molded in one piece from DuPont's Hytrel 8238 thermoplastic polyester elastomer. This prosthetic device was designed for very active people, such as soldiers who've lost a foot due to landmines. The material, combined with the design, lets the device act as a spring, giving the wearer a more natural gait. (Source: DuPont Performance Polymers)
Greg, I agree, and that's why I was pleasantly surprised to find how many medical-grade plastics manufacturers are addressing the sterilization issue, including materials that can withstand multiple types of sterilization chemicals and processes.
I'm thinking that what 3drob noted about things not being all that easy to wipe down is due to the increased desire for more pleasing surroundings. As they give the hospitals a more "homey" feel, they also by necessity make it harder to maintain.
A big challenge in medical product design is to identify and specify plastics that survive the harsh chemicals used when wiping down surfaces for sterilization. I'm glad to see plastic suppliers continue to address this issue and develop plastics that are more resistant to chemicals and bacterial growth.
Really scary to hear about this personal story about catching something from the hospital. In addition to plastics, 3drob, hospitals are trying out other new techniques to try to keep things clean. At Johns Hopkins there is a robot that is spraying disinfectant into the air to try to prevent people from catching these hospital superbugs: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/renesas-electronics-unveils-low-power-microcontroller-family-with-up-to-1mb-of-on-chip-flash-2013-03-06
So you're right, there is more they can do to keep things clean so people don't fall ill from the place that is supposed to make them better.
Rob, the rise of super-bugs is due in part to over-prescription of antibiotics for people and the less widely known use of antibiotics in animals raised for food, as well as poor control of disease in hospital environments. Antimicrobial materials can at least not give organisms a place to grow and spread if present, and harm sick people in hospitals even further, but they're not the cause of the bugs or their spread in the first place.
After a trip to the Emergency room, my whole family picked up the Rotovirus (a lot of people were there with the bug at the time), so this rings personal for me. We were careful (bordering paranoid) not to touch things, which leads me to think it's more the staff than the objects. As I sat there looking around, I couldn't help but think that so much more could be done to make the areas less prone to disease transmission (from the beds, chairs, curtains, tables, etc.) Making things easy to wipe down, easy to remove and sterilize, hard to capture/hold fluids seems the obvious first steps.
I like that they are developing plastics capable of surviving sterilization (presumably including autoclaving), but it worries me when they start embedding anything anti-microbial. Hospitals are becoming the engineering / breeding grounds of super bugs, and it's the over use of antimicrobial materials that is the root cause.
I agree, Liz. We don't normally think of plastic as a means for fighting disease, but they do in fact play a role in the medical systems that help us recuperate. The MD&M Show is always a great place to see materials, and this is an impressive compilation of this year's best.
Thanks for this, Ann, it's nice to see plastic being used for some worthy products. Infections in hospitals are a real problem. It's not an exaggeration to say people are sometimes more sick when they leave than when they go in. I in fact just heard of a friend's father who passed away from an infection he picked up in a hospital after he had a successful operation. So it's no joke. I hope these products help prevent such things from occurring in the future.
Inspired by the hooks a parasitic worm uses to penetrate its host's intestines, the Karp Lab has invented a flexible adhesive patch covered with microneedles that adheres well to wet, soft tissues, but doesn't cause damage when removed.
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science & Technology have designed a new nanoscale material that can transmit light faster than the 186,000 miles per second it usually takes to travel through air.
It has often been said that as California goes, so goes the nation. This spring, the state's wind power is setting energy generation records and solar energy generation is expected to rise sharply during the second half of 2013.
A quick look into the merger of two powerhouse 3D printing OEMs and the new leader in rapid prototyping solutions, Stratasys. The industrial revolution is now led by 3D printing and engineers are given the opportunity to fully maximize their design capabilities, reduce their time-to-market and functionally test prototypes cheaper, faster and easier. Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing in North America, will explore the large product offering and variety of materials that will help CAD designers articulate their product design with actual, physical prototypes. This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. 3D Printing is | <urn:uuid:e8f90f2c-4eea-4c34-aed6-7ab91655cb40> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&doc_id=260069&image_number=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967714 | 1,234 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Close to Home
A roundup of things newsworthy
and noteworthy in your neck of the woods
June 18, 2010
Illinois – Challenging young minds
This past spring, four students from Heritage High School in Broadlands, Ill., won an engineering competition in which 24 Illinois high schools participated. The competition, called the Real World Design Challenge, was put forth by the State of Illinois, U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration and others as part of a national education initiative. The program puts students alongside experts to gain engineering experience, and this year’s challenge was to design an aircraft tail that maximized fuel efficiency. The Illinois winners traveled to Washington, D.C., in March to compete at the national level.
Indiana – Food and fun in the sun
A half million visitors will have some fun July 9-17 at the Three Rivers Festival in Fort Wayne, Ind. The festival, Indiana’s second largest, is made possible by more than 100,000 volunteer hours each year. It attracts visitors from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky and features numerous events, music, crafting stations and good eats. Check out the schedule at trfonline.org.
Maryland – Sassafras soil
Maryland may soon join 19 other states that have an official state soil. The type? “Sassafras sandy loam,” a type of soil that covers nearly 500,000 acres across the state. The Sassafras soil series was named in 1901, and it’s noted as one of the most productive soils—good for agriculture, forestry, construction and recreational development. If named as a state icon, it will join Maryland’s state desert (Smith Island Cave), state bird (Baltimore Oriole) and state exercise (walking).
New York – New bridge across Lake Champlain
The Lake Champlain Bridge, which connects Crown Point, N.Y., and Chimney Point, Vt., will soon have a new look. The design concept, voted as a favorite by local citizens, was announced in January and construction began soon after. Both the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) are leading the effort and providing funds for the project. While the bridge is under construction, travelers can take a free ferry across the lake.
North Carolina – Celebrating civil rights
Greensboro, N.C., celebrated the grand opening of its new International Civil Rights Center & Museum this past February. As a memorial of the “Greensboro Four,” Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, the museum hosted a grand opening that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the F.W. Woolworth sit-ins. The four college students fought segregation in 1960 when they came into the Woolworth store and sat at a white-only lunch counter, where they were not served. Their sitting served as a demonstration that led other students to come back the next day in organized, peaceful protest. The trend spread to other towns throughout North Carolina and became a notable part of the Civil Rights Movement.
Ohio – Earthquakes in Ohio
The world’s been rocked this year with earthquakes both small and large. Some of them happened in the unlikely states of Indiana and Ohio. The Ohio Seismic Network, part of the Ohio Geological Survey, was established in 1998 and has tracked more than 60 earthquakes in the state over the past 12 years, some of which originated from beneath Lake Erie. To continue their work, which happens at 25 measuring locations across the state, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is seeking funding and support. Learn more about the work they do at ohiodnr.com/geosurvey. And, if you’re concerned, talk to your ERIE Agent about earthquake coverage. Like flood insurance, earthquake coverage is a type of insurance sold separately from or as an addition to homeowners insurance.
Pennsylvania – Guarding the roads
Pennsylvania branched out on its own this year to curb aggressive driving. Previously, the Commonwealth participated in a multi-state coalition, the Smooth Operator program, along with Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia to produce waves of enforcement meant to deter aggressive driving. Now, Pennsylvania will have targeted enforcement all year round. The new program also complements PennDOT’s Drive Safe PA traffic safety initiative. Check it out at drivesafepa.org or stopaggressivedriving.org.
Tennessee – Turning a new Leaf
Tennessee will be one of the first states where drivers can buy the much-anticipated, zero-emissions Nissan Leaf. Buyers of the all-electric car will also receive a special “docking station” installed at their place of residence. With a large plant in Tennessee, Nissan is also working closely with U.S. Department of Energy and others to help bring charging stations for electronic vehicles (EVs) to market. The automaker began taking reservations for the car in the spring.
Virginia – Viva la visitors
Virginia set a new record for the number of visitors to its 35 national parks in 2009. The 7.5 million visitors who came to the parks last year was a 4 percent increase over 2008. The numbers are part of a three-year trend that showed more people camping, hiking and biking at the Commonwealth’s parks than at any other time in its 74-year history. The state estimates the visits generated $175 million, much of which came from overnight guests at 26 of the parks.
Washington, D.C. – Sun-run meters
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) recently piloted the first in a number of innovations in parking management with solar-powered parking meters. The single-space meters accept both coins and credit cards and are operated by a solar-power battery system with a battery back. They were installed in five locations throughout the District for three months, giving users a chance to send feedback to DDOT about the new system. The new technology may also soon tie in with pay-by-phone technology.three years.
West Virginia – Two in the top
The American Bus Association (ABA) named two West Virginia events in its North America’s 100 Best Events for 2010. The Mountain State Art & Craft Fair, July 1-3 in Ripley, and the New River Gorge Bridge Day, Oct. 17 in Fayetteville, both made the list, which was published last fall in Destinations magazine. The ABA’s Best Events judges considered the events’ broad appeal, accessibility to motor coaches, skill at handling large groups and a variety of other relevant criteria.
Wisconsin – Of ducks and the Great Lakes
Last fall, the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing in Milwaukee, part of which focused on preserving the Great Lakes Region. Lon Knoedler of Ducks Unlimited, an international nonprofit dedicated to wetlands and waterfowl conservation, testified at the hearing, hoping to raise awareness and encourage restoration of wetlands in the area. Lon is heavily involved with Ducks Unlimited at the national level, and he also works as an ERIE Agent in Kenosha, Wis. To learn more about Ducks Unlimited, go to ducksunlimited.org. | <urn:uuid:3ddfa828-dfb9-423b-9248-8724ae708075> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.erieinsurance.com/Eriesense/issues/Summer2010/CloseToHome.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954161 | 1,499 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The 'Gotchas' of Backup and Recovery
Considerations and potential solutions for storage managers.
Today's Web-driven, distributed businesses provide storage administrators with the unique challenge of ensuring backup-data recoverability from across multiple platforms and locations. There are many considerations - technology, human influence, market pressures - that can be "gotchas" in backup and recovery.
This article outlines the gotchas at play in many organizations and highlights the considerations and potential solutions for storage managers.
When facing a recovery situation, five basic concerns trouble most executives:
- Can I recover?
- How long will it take?
- Will I lose any data?
- Will I have to rerun any work?
- How much will it cost?
The answers to these questions depend entirely on how well your organization has prepared for recovery. Traditionally, the principal recovery tool has been the creation of backup copies of all business data. This process has proven over time to be the best means of data protection and really hasn't changed much over the years. At a selected time, usually at the end of a typical day's processing, all data is copied to some form of removable media and stored safely at a remote facility.
It sounds simple, and it is, but some issues can severely complicate the backup and recovery process. We call them the gotchas, and if you're not prepared to handle them, a minor glitch could become a major business disruption.
Gotcha #1: Runaway Data Expansion
The first gotcha is your changing environment itself. Backup and recovery procedures may be tested periodically, but your environment is constantly changing. New business applications equate to new datasets. Changes within existing applications may generate new files. Storage-management constructs can move data to different media, and "one-time jobs" or special user-submitted processing may update files. Processing schedules change, and the introduction of new technology requires new procedures.
Today's business applications are highly integrated, and it's common for one application to update the files of another. From an operational perspective, it's difficult to know which files were updated, when and by which application. Identifying a common sync-point is difficult, if not impossible.
This is the basis for the first gotcha: Namely, you really don't know what needs to be backed up, so you back up everything - an expensive and time-consuming solution.
Although we may envision catastrophic events such as fire, flood, severe weather, etc., when we think about recovery, 80 percent of all recovery situations are caused by people or processing errors. | <urn:uuid:061f791e-78fb-4e4c-8e31-1996e82d9cf3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/administrator/backuprecovery/The--Gotchas--of-Backup-and-Recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946849 | 532 | 1.601563 | 2 |
New Jersey became the third state to join the Union on December 18, 1787. New Jersey’s first two senators, Jonathan Elmer and William Paterson, took office on March 4, 1789. The state’s longest-serving senators include Clifford Case (1955-1979) and Frank Lautenberg (1982-2001; 2003-2013). Among those who rose to leadership positions is Samuel Southard who served as the Senate’s president pro tempore. Charles P. McIlvaine (son of Senator Joseph McIlvaine) served as Senate chaplain, 1821-1822. | <urn:uuid:f70d22cc-218b-412c-b30f-3136fa05e3b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.senate.gov/states/NJ/intro.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931246 | 128 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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Public asked to comment on continued use of Chocolate Mountain range
Alternative 1: Renew the CMAGR land withdrawal for 20 years (without boundary realignments). Management would remain unchanged from current conditions; Department of Navy would manage DoN land per Sikes Act and Bureau of Land Management would manage withdrawn land.
Alternative 2: Renew the CMAGR land withdrawal for 25 years with full Bradshaw Trail (including acquisition of land south of the trail), Union Pacific Railroad, and Niland-Blythe Road realignments. Management of the withdrawn BLM land would be transferred to DoN; DoN would manage DoN and BLM lands per Sikes Act.
Alternative 3: Renew the CMAGR land withdrawal for an indefinite duration with full Bradshaw Trail and Niland-Blythe Road realignments. The BLM land would be transferred to DoN; DoN would manage all CMAGR land per Sikes Act.
Alternative 4: Renew the land withdrawal for 25 years and incorporate a partial Bradshaw Trail realignment by not renewing range land that either includes the trail or is north of it. Management of the withdrawn land would be the same as Alternative 2.
No-Action: No action would be taken to renew the land withdrawal, which would expire in October 2014. The range would be closed. The CMAGR boundary would no longer define an active range, but would demarcate a post-range planning and cleanup area. DoN would continue to manage DoN land per the Sikes Act until disposition of DoN land is determined; BLM would manage BLM land; DoN would be responsible for any needed post-range cleanup.
As Lt. Col. John Hicks, a former Harrier pilot, flew over Iraq for the first time, he thought, “This really is like the Chocolate Mountains.”
Hicks, director of operations at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, trained at the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, which consists of about 459,000 acres located within desert mountain terrain in Riverside and Imperial counties in Southern California.
“It's crucial to the training of our pilots. It's the only range for realistic training with live bombs,” said Hicks at an open house held Monday to review a draft Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (LEIS) and proposed alternatives.
For 70 years, the range has been used for military training, but Congress must grant permission for its continued use every 20 years, according to the California Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflight Act of 1994 (Withdrawal Act).
The current land withdrawal will expire in October 2014, and the Department of Navy has initiated the renewal processes.
The DoN-prepared draft LEIS explains the purpose and need to continue use of the range. The draft includes five alternatives, including one for not taking action.
Some of the alternatives suggest realigning the range boundary, extending or making permanent the withdrawal and assigns jurisdictions and management responsibilities for land in the range.
Right now the land is managed between the Bureau of Land Management and the DoN, resulting in a checkerboard pattern, with the every other square-mile section alternately managed by either organization.
Roughly half of the range (228,465 acres) is managed by the BLM, and most of the remaining land (229,903 acres) is administered by the DoN. The Bureau of Reclamation also manages about 162 acres.
This split jurisdiction often results in “deficiencies and duplication of effort,” noted Beth Defend of URS Corporation, the contractor hired to prepare the LEIS.
The draft provides three alternatives for assigning management responsibilities. One alternative would continue the existing split while the other two would assign all management responsibility to the DoN.
In addition, one alternative would retain the current range boundary and other alternatives would release land north of the Bradshaw Trail and south of the Niland-Blythe Road that is no longer needed for military purposes and generally aligning the boundary with the Bradshaw Trail and/or a segment of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Congress has until October 2014 to take action, otherwise the withdrawal would expire. In that case, a whole new process would kick in.
“The no-action alternative would have a lot of action to it,” Defend quipped.
Noting that this range is critical to military training, Defend believes there is a “strong sense that it will be renewed.”
Although she has not heard of any real protest to the renewal, there has been a couple of comments regarding limited access in connection to recreation or mining.
Some people have questioned why the range needs so much land. Defend noted that with live bombs training, the impact area must be sufficiently large for that “one-in-a-million chance” a pilot misses his target.
“Every range has a different purpose and is used in a different way,” she added. “At Chocolate Mountains, troops learn to drop live bombs. I don't see an end in sight when they wouldn't need the Chocolate Mountains.”
Capt. Staci Reidinger agreed, noting that “this range is vital for national defense.” She pointed out the range not only trains U.S. troops but also international forces.
“Our pilots need the distance to travel. They can take off at Miramar or from a Navy ship in San Diego, fly to the Chocolate Mountains, drop their bombs and head back,” Reidinger said.
In addition, the range goes “hand-in-hand” with the arrival of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to MCAS Yuma.
“With the new aircraft coming in, the Chocolate Mountains will enable training so we can get that squadron ready for deployment.”
Reidinger added that the MCAS Yuma works with the BLM to ensure conservation of wildlife and range staff to ensure people aren't in harm's way.
“This is the bread and butter of our station,” she said.
The public comment period ends Nov. 30. To comment or for more information, go to www.chocolatemountainrenewal.com.
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When illness strikes, you may feel a bit overwhelmed with the challenges that come with being sick. Worries about finances, getting adequate care, the effects of the illness on your family and possible adjustment to a new lifestyle are some of the issues that a medical social worker can help you through.
The Social Services Department understands individual needs and is ready to provide emotional support and to share valuable information on the community resources and programs available to you. You can then make independent choices about the services you may need to help you through your hospitalization and recovery.
Professional social workers provide support and guidance in dealing with an illness or treatment and can help you make decisions about discharge plans. They are experienced in working with community agencies that can provide you with the services you may need following discharge.
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Our mission is to provide the highest quality of healthcare to your child. Increasing communication and the involvement of parents as a part of the team at Dell Children’s makes the job of supporting children and families easier during times of a stressful healthcare experience.
For additional information about preparing your child for surgery or hospitalization, please call the Surgery Child Life Specialist at 512-324-0000 ext. 86302.
Suggestions for Parents to Consider Before Your Child Has a Planned Surgery or Hospitalization
- Ask your physician and staff at the hospital questions so that you and your child will know what to expect.
- Be Honest! Telling your child the truth about what will happen and how things will feel will let them know what to expect. Be sure to use simple explanations suitable for your child’s development.
- Listen to your child’s questions and talk about them. If you don’t know the answer, write the question down to ask later.
- Allow your child to explore with real or pretend medical equipment on stuffed animals or dolls before going to the hospital and when he/she comes home. This helps your child to express their feelings and feel more in control.
- Read Curious George Goes to the Hospital or other stories about health care experiences.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Barack Obama was elected the nation's first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states - Colorado, Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa.
A huge crowd in Grant Park in Chicago erupted in jubilation at the news of Obama's victory. Some wept.
McCain called to concede defeat - and the end of his own 10-year quest for the White House.
Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, will take their oaths of office as president and vice president on Jan. 20, 2009.
As the 44th president, Obama will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession, and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
The popular vote was close, but not the count in the Electoral College, where it mattered most.
There, Obama's audacious decision to contest McCain in states that hadn't gone Democratic in years paid rich dividends.
Obama has said his first order of presidential business will be to tackle the economy. He has also pledged to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.
Fellow Democrats rode his coattails to larger majorities in both houses of Congress. They defeated incumbent Republicans and won open seats by turn. | <urn:uuid:609b2416-54c1-42dc-9775-11cf6ddd96f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2008/nov/04/obama_defeats_mccain_topples_racial_barrier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978834 | 321 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The technological revolution will never eclipse the need for good journalists and consumers will always be happy to pay for quality content, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest news organisations.
John Ryley, who has been head of Sky News for the past four years, said there was no substitute for quality reporters at the “coal-face” and that demand for trusted news sources was as strong as ever, although the ways in which it has been delivered may have changed.
Mr Ryley, speaking ahead of delivering the annual Baird Lecture at University of Birmingham to the Midlands branch of the Royal Television Society (RTS), was responsible for helping to deliver the candidates’ debate at last year’s General Election and is now leading the charge for allowing television cameras into courtrooms.
As far as he is concerned, news organisations must innovate or fade away, and he is under no illusion about the challenges the industry faces, particularly given the mass of information that is freely available as news providers strive to stay profitable.
He said: “The pay versus free debate is one every news organisation has to consider and there is no right or wrong answer.
“I firmly believe that premium content should be paid for – like Sky News for iPad or Sky News HD – and trusted news brands who employ the very best journalists and commentators have a loyal following.
“Consumers rarely rely on just one news outlet anymore and often they choose a mixture of paid for and free outlets. I think paid for and free content can sit happily side by side.”
As to whether technology and journalism can coexist, Mr Ryley is unequivocal in believing they can but remains convinced good journalism will always rely on real human input at the ‘coal face’.
“They can certainly coexist happily and technology is most definitely an asset to journalism,” he said.
“I firmly believe that front-line journalism can never be replaced and having a reporter live on the ground in the midst of the action is the best way to bring the latest news to viewers across the world. What technology can do is make that process easier.
“Mark Stone brought the London riots to our viewers via his iPhone, and Alex Crawford’s trip into Tripoli on the back of a rebel truck was enabled by a camera plugged into a cigarette lighter.
"Technology should never be underestimated, but live reports by a human being in the thick of it are what make journalism.”
Asked whether he feels there is a danger that news coverage might become increasingly patchy given the climate of media cuts, Mr Ryley remained optimistic.
“Good old-fashioned journalism is still very much present in our society and I don’t see any shortage of scoops and investigative journalism,” he said.
“Despite what has happened over the past few months, I genuinely believe that journalism can be a force for good in this country and am sure that will continue for decades to come.”
A passionate believer in transparency, Mr Ryley believes allowing television cameras into courtrooms can only be a good thing and will help bring a rather old-fashioned aspect of British life bang up to date.
He said: “Quite simply I believe justice should be seen to be done and currently the only branch of our democratic system which broadcasting has not penetrated is the courts. Our judicial system is a complex one and I believe allowing cameras into court rooms will shed light on how the system works and how the sentencing of criminals is reached.
“Members of the public are allowed to enter a court and watch proceedings so why should we not bring it to them via television making it accessible to everyone?
"As rioters looted high streets in August and MPs were prosecuted for fiddling their expenses earlier in the year, it seems only right to have a transparent system that allows the public to see the outcome of their criminal behaviour.”
Mr Ryley also helped pioneer the televised party leader debates in the last general election.
He said “It led to the public feeling more informed and engaged in the political process, particularly in the 18-25 age group. It certainly offered the public more transparency but I fear the public might still be disaffected by some politicians.”
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Today is Pi Day. Pi as in 3.14 etc etc etc. (Note that the date today is 3/14, henceÖ Pi Day.) First observed in 1988 by those wacky scientists and teachers at the San Francisco Exploratorium. They celebrated by walking around the (round - note again that p (sometimes written pi) is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space) building eating fruit pies. How geeky is that? Not that geeky is a bad thing, I have been called a geek from time to time and itís a badge of honor for me.
So here we are, full circle (again with the circle and pi thing?) back to pi. Or more tangentially, Pie. I have spent a good deal of time in the kitchen making pies. Nothing more Zen than hand rolling and making 50-75 pies a day. And what dessert is more satisfying than pie? Itís the most dependable dessert you can make or serve. I mean who doesn't like pie? Ok, I'm sure there is a statistical number of people who donít like pie. But seriously, they are truly and ANOMALY, right?
Let's just run down a quick list of the top pies. This is by no means an inclusive list. And I am totally leaving out pie's little sister, the Tart. We could go on and on about thisÖ but hereís my short list:
Cherry pie (my erstwhile favorite), apple pie (America's favorite), berry pie, blueberry, strawberry, rhubarb, strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin (my least favorite -- I know, I'm an anomaly), PEACH pie (fresh peaches, auuuuggghhh hurry up summer , I canít wait!), cream pies -- chocolate, coconut, banana, pecan pie, CHOCOLATE pecan pie (Yeah!!!) PIES!!!! Ya gotta love 'em! Cuppa coffee and pie. MMMMmmmmmMMMMM!
I want you to try this experiment: After the meal is done and you are clearing the plates, say, "Save your forks everyone, there's pie!" And count how many smiles are around your table. I'm estimating 100 percent. | <urn:uuid:7483cad5-26c1-4ac0-a061-ce7c0e4e63a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.radiokitchen.net/ARTpiday.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93053 | 478 | 1.703125 | 2 |
In the late months of 1941, the Soviet Union was facing a critical shortage of manpower. This defies our understanding of the Russians, but the fact is a number of factors contributed to a shortage of Red Army soldiers in the Fall of 1941, to such an extent that only the Russian Winter saved Moscow from falling.
Where did all the troops go? They were wasted by their commanders. Russian tactics consisted of every man charging at the enemy, even if troops didn’t have rifles. German Tanks? – No problem, Comrade – try to throw yourself in to the gears and slow it down – This was the extent of Russian tactics in 1941. The Human Wave, with enemies in front, and officers with submachines in back gunning down anyone who retreated contributed to a much shorter lifespan for the average Russian soldier. With winter came reinforcements and Siberian reserves, as well as the new T-34 tank would contribute to a change in tactics in 1942. Now the Russians could attack like the Germans. They could launch Armored Spearheads, or they could retreat till the Germans advanced so far their reserves/supplies were strained and troops could be sealed off in urban areas. In the case of Stalingrad, they sealed off an entire German Army.
In the same way, one can read thru the 2+2 boards on any given day and read about how someone discusses how someone else has failed to play properly because he didn’t bet/raise at every stage of the game. Some pros (Chris Ferguson, for one) completely advise against any open-limping ever, in ring or tourney games. But I think the fully realized player would use varying tactics against different opponents, just as he would on a battlefield.
Or to give another example, if we were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, the forums would be full of people saying that one cannot truly win at poker unless he plays Rock, and Rock will crush your opponents and furthermore, they made $50000 last month on Partypoker playing Rock - but in this case, I think they’ve fallen prey to the “One size fits all” syndrome.
Opponent limping too much? - Raise –
Opponent betting too much? – Raise
Opponent raising too much? - Reraise – (ooh….something different – not really) –
The expert poker player realizes that there is a no one-size fits all solution. (much to the dismay of those hundreds of people who focused on David Sklansky’s “System” to the exclusion of all the other wisdom in TPFAP) – He knows when to raise/bet, and he knows when to limp in anticipation of winning a big pot if he hits, and he knows how to trap, esp. vs. characters are more concerned with their PFR statistic in Pokertracker then they are concerned with the stat that shows what they’ve won.
Poker isn’t a game of perfect strategy – this is good, because if it were, everyone would use it and no one would ever win. Without a doubt, a good game of Tight/Aggressive play will work against the majority of your opponents, but recognize situations when it won’t work as well. Poker is like war – Parry, Feint, Trap, and Defend – One tactic is the better choice depending what your opponent does, and it’s not always hitting the raise button. –
In fact, anytime anyone ever tells you there’s an absolute in poker (besides not mucking your cards till you see the winning hand turned over) – think twice before buying his book. | <urn:uuid:99921348-b335-4d31-9ce5-2d8847430d0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whiskeytown.blogspot.com/2005/05/in-late-months-of-1941-soviet-union.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966654 | 756 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Prophet or Madman
Former businessman Bruce Adam explains what prompted him to write Prophet or Madman, a book that centers itself around nothing less than the explanation of Eternity, the Universe – and our place within it.
BY: Bruce Adams
Prophet or Madman… an admittedly curious title to a book that centers itself around nothing less than the explanation of Eternity, the Universe – and our place within it.
Written by Bruce Adams, self-described as “neither a theologian, a Bible scholar, a pastor, nor a teacher” one has to wonder what in the world prompted this successful businessman to even think about writing a 234 page revelation on the meaning of life.
The pivotal event in Bruce’s life happened in – of all places – a skating rink, where he had brought his nine year old son for an afternoon outing.
As Bruce explains… “That’s when it happened. It’s been said God speaks in whispers, but for me it was different. I was out skating with my nine year old son, and suddenly the world went quiet – almost like I was moving through a fog of absolute silence.
“That’s when I heard the “Voice,” but not limited to my ears or mind, but multi-dimensional – a voice that was heard not only through my outward senses, but vibrating throughout and within my entire being. And quite frankly, I wasn’t happy about what it was saying to me.”
In effect, the Voice Bruce was hearing instructed him to drop all his current business plans, all his previous work, even all his financial security and expectations – and start upon a new journey.
Small wonder he wasn’t exactly thrilled at this message!
However, after a series of other events which utterly defied his logic and understanding – Bruce was ready to be awakened to a totally new understanding of the Universe, and mankind’s place alongside the Infinite.
The Core of What Bruce Was Being Told To Relate
We like to think of ourselves as separate beings. You are you, the taxi cab driver is the taxi cab driver, and that annoying, barking dog down the street is simply a pooch with a bad attitude.
Not so according to Bruce!
There is no outside, no “them and us,” no barriers between us and the entire universe – except those of our own mental creation.
Hard to grasp, isn’t it?
But this message isn’t unique. It’s one the greatest philosophers and religious figures throughout time have tried to impress upon us. Plato, Marcus Aurelius, The Buddha, Jesus, Rumi, even Einstein – all stressed the interconnection between us and the infinite.
Their common message is that the life we live is but an illusion, that the past, present and future are inexorably intertwined in an eternal “now” which is unfolding before our eyes.
The book Prophet or Madman attempts to tie these divergent pieces together, while weaving his inspired insights into the latest advances in Quantum Physics and alternate realities.
Bruce writes there is one inescapable fact – we are all spiritual beings temporarily inhabiting a physical shell. There is no end to existence, and the life we now live has been created by us, by our thoughts and our feelings to further our way along the path of knowledge.
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Euro opinion on the EU and Christmas
by Stephan Shakespeare in Commentary, Editor's picks and Politics
Wed December 19, 11:43 a.m. GMT
Britons are feeling less than festive about Europe
Every month YouGov runs its EuroTrack survey, a multi-country study tracking public opinion in the UK, Germany, France and the Nordic countries.
Looking at the latest data, the results of two questions (one a serious political issue, the other more light-hearted) grabbed my attention.
First, the serious political issue: how would people in the countries we surveyed vote in a referendum on EU membership? Majorities in Germany and Denmark were strongly in favour of remaining in the European Union, while France, Sweden and Finland were less supportive, but still with more people in favour of staying in the EU than those who would support leaving.
Brits, meanwhile, by a vote of 51 per cent to 30 per cent, say that they would vote to leave the European Union.
Any referendum would, of course, be preceded by much debate and campaigning from both sides and, as we saw from the voting reform referendum of 2011, the public’s initial views can quickly change once the arguments for and against are put forward. Therefore we should not see this as conclusive evidence on how an in/out referendum might go.
However, it is the current status of public opinion reflected in these numbers that drives how all politicians across Europe act within the European context as they represent their countries and frames the discussions that Cameron, Merkel et al will have in 2013.
Not so Joyeux Noel
On an unrelated note, we also asked whether people were looking forward to Christmas this year. Most nations are very positive, Norway the most so with 64 per cent of people saying they were looking forward to Christmas, whilst 56 per cent of Britons said they were excited.
In Finland, on the other hand, only 41 per cent are looking forward to Christmas.
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A tourism official says the spring mating dances by greater prairie chickens are expected to entice tourists and their money to southwest Nebraska.
MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) - The McCook Daily Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/YYpdJO) that the spring ritual is so unfailingly regular that tourism officials think they can sell it to eco-tourists and bird-watchers.
Carol Schlegel is tourism director of Red Willow County's Visitors Committee, and she told county commissioners Monday that her committee and the Southwest Nebraska Resource Conservation and Development organization will offer weekend packages next spring.
Schlegel says the greater prairie chicken does its mating dance from mid-March through mid-May, "and you can depend on the birds to show up."
Commissioner Steve Downer suggested that organizers could link the prairie chicken event with the end of the sandhill crane watching in mid-Nebraska.
Information from: McCook Daily Gazette, http://www.mccookgazette.com
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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A campaign to bring ‘hospice at home at night’ services to the South Lakes has been launched.
The local MP Tim Farron has written to Dr Hugh Reeve asking him to bring in this service. Hugh as the Chair of the GP consortia which has the role of commissioning services for patients in South Lakeland.
Currently after 7pm there is no hospice at home service in South Lakes. Each time a person has to call out an ambulance or get emergency help over night it costs the NHS around £3,000.
Currently there is a ‘hospice at home at night’ being run in Barrow which cares for 200 people a year. Estimates put the potential savings of a ‘hospice at home at night’ service for South Lakes at around £1 million a year for the NHS.
– Tim Farron MP
"Our campaign to bring cancer treatment services has gone fantastic well, we now have chemotherapy services at Westmorland General and we are far down the road to bring radiotherapy as well. But for me I want to bring high quality palliative care to our area too. I think ‘hospice at home at night’ would be a fantastic addition to our local health services. I hope that GP commissioners back this campaign and agree to look at the feasibility of bringing this service to the South Lakes.” _ | <urn:uuid:93a7c63e-9e43-44bc-bc16-7aba3383e24b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.itv.com/news/border/story/2012-05-24/evening-cancer-services-campaign-launched/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974825 | 289 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Abigail Adams, despite lack of a formal education, was widely read with particular interest in philosophy, Shakespeare, theology, the classics, ancient history, government and law. She ably managed the household and their farm during her husband’s frequent absences. The many letters she and her husband wrote to one another are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics, as well as a testament to their strong and affectionate marriage. The letters are invaluable eyewitness accounts of our democracy in its infancy.
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What is diffrenec between old and new testimony of bible
The Old Testament is the first two-thirds of the Bible. It contains all the Jewish scriptures compiled until about 400 B.C. 400 years before the birth and ministry of Jesus Christ. The first five books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy comprise the Pentateuch, or Torah for Jews.
These books tell the creation story, the story of the fall and how sin entered the world, and of God\'s first intervention in the history of man. It also tells the story of Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, their emergence as a people and their wanderings in the desert for 40 years, The Old Testament lists the law, the Ten Commandments and many rule ...more
New Testament i.e.New Covenant - a covenant God made with all mankind based on the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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Monday, January 07, 2013
Restorative justice and murder
This story from yesterday's New York Times Magazine tells the story of a domestic violence murder in Dan's neck of the woods in Tallahassee and the efforts of the families of the victim to use restorative justice processes in determining his sentence. At some level, this seems like an ordinary example of the family of the victim forgiving the perpetrator; on another, there were some unique procedures brought to bear.
I would like to hear what people (including Dan, who has gotten to watch this up close) think about this as a genuine example of potential alternative processes in criminal law.
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I just got around to reading this powerful story, which I think artfully lays out the issues. I have criticized restorative justice elsewhere on a couple occasions. This particular story is subject to the same concerns identified in those critiques but, for the same reason that Les Mis is so wonderfully complicated, I cannot say there is no basis for thinking that this is initially seductive.
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Sky News reports: The nation’s annual climate report says while 2006 was one of the driest years on record for the south and east, the sparsely populated north had a bumper wet season.
2006 was the eleventh warmest year since 1910. This isn’t the only dramatic weather we’ve seen in recent times. A firestorm, the longest drought in history, a metre of hail in summer, uneven rainfall, Antarctica icebergs broke off and headed for New Zealand and monster bushfires.
If you’ve been dismissive of Climate Change, have a think about your local weather.
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Does large amounts of data equal large amounts of new knowledge? Sometimes it does. Applying analytics techniques to social network data reveals new things about how people make decisions, say two Facebook researchers. There are also advantages that come from the ability to more quickly find patterns in data than was previously possible, says a scientist at Microsoft Research. But the CEO of Personal.com predicts that many companies will find that data analysis is not a core skill. | <urn:uuid:cdc16d06-7c83-490f-a20a-dc01ea1dd6b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sloanreview.mit.edu/topic/data-and-analytics/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956924 | 95 | 2.609375 | 3 |
LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems administrators who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. It is configured with configuration files, and the backup is started from the command line. It has been tested for over 10 years. Backups can be to local media, or to remote media via one or more networks. The networks may be private LANs, WANs, or sets of untrusted public networks such as the Internet.
Eggy is an IDE that includes syntax highlighting, template features, options for compiling and running your code, auto completion, and more. Eggy's distinguishing feature is its support for group projects, which allows users from around the world to connect to each other and work together on a project and see live changes being made. Users can communicate through the chat mechanism, add, remove, and rename files to and from the project, sync files, and exploit other useful features. Eggy supports many languages, including C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, shell scripting, and others.
Cinabox (Continuous Integration in a Box) automates the setup of a Continuous Integration (CI) system by doing The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work. It consists of two simple scripts to set up a cruisecontrolrb CI server from scratch on an Ubuntu 8.04 system: one script to bootstrap Ruby, and another script to set up CI.
oVirt is a small host image that provides libvirt service and hosts virtual machines (oVirt Node) and a Web-based virtual machine management console (oVirt Server Suite). It is built using existing open source components (libvirt, kvm, collectd, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and freeIPA). Presently, the oVirt Server Suite only manages the oVirt Node, but the goal is to be able to manage other node types and hypervisors in the future. | <urn:uuid:9c1a05e6-3ef9-4372-b03b-655ec9e6466f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freecode.com/tags/ruby?page=1&with=361&without= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90587 | 390 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Of the 125 passengers and six crew members aboard the Aires airline jet, the only one killed was a 68-year-old woman, Amar Fernandez de Barreto, said San Andres Gov. Pedro Gallardo.
“It was a miracle and we have to give thanks to God,” Gallardo said.
Officials were investigating a range of possible causes and looking into reports that Aires Flight 8520 was hit by lightning before the crash on the resort island, Colombian air force Col. David Barrero said.
“You can’t speculate. Lightning? A gust of wind? The investigation will say,” Barrero said by telephone from San Andres. “The pilot’s skill kept the plane from colliding with the airport.”
Officials said 119 people were treated or checked at clinics and five of them were seriously injured.
The airline said at least five U.S. citizens were on the plane, while the U.S. Embassy in Colombia said that four Americans and one U.S. permanent resident suffered injuries. The embassy said one critically injured American was being flown to Bogota for care, while the others were treated and released.
Airline representative Erika Zarante said four Brazilians, two Germans, two Costa Ricans and two French citizens also were on the plane.
The accident occurred so suddenly that the pilot did not report an emergency to the control tower, said Col. Donald Tascon, deputy director of the civil aeronautics agency. He said the plane’s low altitude as it prepared to land _ perhaps 100 feet (30 meters) just before the crash _ may have averted worse damage.
Passenger Ricardo Ramirez, a vacationing civil engineer, told Caracol Radio that all had seemed normal, even though the plane was flying through a storm, with flashes of lightning, as it neared the airport.
“The plane was coming in perfectly. We were just about to land, everything was under control,” he said. The accident “appeared out of nowhere.”
After the plane hit and skidded to a stop on the pavement, Ramirez said he struggled to free himself and his wife from their seat belts.
“We tried to get out of the plane because the plane was starting to shoot flames,” he said. “In a few minutes, a police patrol arrived and helped us.”
Survival was “a miracle of God. Thanks to God we are alive,” Ramirez said, though his wife suffered a dislocated shoulder.
Firefighters quickly doused the beginnings of a fire on a wing, police Gen. Orlando Paez said. A group of police officers who were waiting at the airport for the plane to fly them back to the mainland aided in rescuing victims.
The jet crashed at 1:49 a.m. on the island, a resort area of 78,000 people about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of the Nicaraguan coast.
Ninety-nine passengers were taken to Amor de Patria Hospital on San Andres, said Dr. Robert Sanchez, the hospital director. “It’s incredible. For the dimension (of the accident), there should be more,” he said.
Sanchez said an initial examination indicated that the single fatality may have been caused by a heart attack.
Twenty other passengers were treated at another clinic, according to the national civil aviation agency.
Among the seriously injured was a 12-year-old girl who suffered a broken pelvis, Gallardo said.
A 1 1/2-year-old boy among the passengers wasn’t listed among those with serious injuries.
Dr. Ricardo Villarreal, director of the clinic of the same name, said the pilot suffered some cuts to his face and was under observation. He identified him as Wilson Gutierrez.
Manuel Villamizar, director of Bogota’s emergency regulating center, said six injured people would be flown to Colombia’s capital from San Andres for treatment. Bogota’s health ministry, however, said 13 injured people would be flow there.
The airline, Aerovias de Integracion Regional SA, said it has about 20 planes, including 10 Boeing 737-700 jets. It said in a Twitter posting that it was “working and investigating with the aeronautical authorities to determine the causes.”
Barrero said scattered pieces of the plane blocked part of the 7,800-foot (2,380-meter) runway. But enough was usable that air ambulances would be able to land, he said.
Boeing said the 737-700 jet left the factory in 2003. It was not clear whether Aires was the first operator.
Aviation experts said it was too early in the investigation to speculate about what caused the accident.
At this stage in the probe, “you don’t exclude any possibility, but investigators will be looking closely at the weather,” said William Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Voss said a “sudden shift in wind direction can cause the aircraft to suddenly lose a lot of lift and end up landing short of the runway.”
He and other experts say there can be hazards due to wind shear, violent shifts in wind direction and speed that can develop, especially beneath a thunderstorm.
Tascon said San Adnres’ airport is not equipped with sophisticated equipment such as Doppler radar _ which is used in many U.S. airports to help detect wind shear.
Larry Cornman, a physicist and expert on wind shear and turbulence at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said he doubted lightning alone would be enough to bring down an aircraft. He said a strike would have to be powerful enough to pierce the aircraft skin and would have to hit a very specific location, such as going through a wing and into a vapor-filled fuel tank.
Planes are designed to be protected from lightning, and because of their shape and metallic construction, lightning usually dissipates around aircraft rather than causing severe damage, Cornman said.
“You certainly don’t expect to see catastrophic damage to an aircraft due to lightning,” Voss said.
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As I have written about previously, one of Europe's most progressive nations has had one of Europe's most repressive policies towards transgender people. Sweden has required all transgender people to be sterilized in exchange for legal change of their sex.
On December 19 the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal overturned that law, declaring it to be unconstitutional. The appeal period ended January 10, so the old law, enacted in 1972, is now invalid.
Sweden’s 1970s-era statutes on sexual identity mandated that any person who legally wanted to change their sex must be sterile. Transgender Swedes had to go through gender reassignment surgery to have their legal documents updated, and to comply with the law, they were also sterilized, whether or not they wanted to be.
In March an administrative court in Sweden ruled that compulsory sterilization was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
I think that it is important for anyone who has been involved in the issue that the legal community has taken a stand and that we receive confirmation that the convention’s support for human rights apply in practice.
--Swedish rights lawyer Kerstin Burman, last March
But while the liberal and moderate members of Sweden's Parliament fought to repeal the law, the conservative Christian Democrats remained stubborn. One compromise allowed transgender people to marry, which had been banned even though same-sex marriage had been legalized in 2009.
An unidentified plaintiff who desired to change his legal gender but refused to be sterilized then took his case to the Swedish Board of Health…and won that right.
Now around 500 people who underwent forced sterilization in order to change their legal gender are suing. Ulrika Westerlund of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights has said that 200,000 kronor ($31,000) is thought to be a "fair sum for damages".
It was an assault, a rape. The state gave an ultimatum I had to accept. The alternative was to die, which I felt so strongly. I do not know how many wills I wrote as a child… I am terribly disappointed that it took so terribly long.
Being transgender is considered embarrassing and unimportant in society. They would rather hide us, it’s hard to even talk about us. Therefore, it has taken time… It’s lucky that I can feel joy for others. Otherwise I would have been driven to madness by the bitterness.
Colliander and her intersex partner, Vio Szabo, are shown in the photo.
Transgender Law Center Operations Manager Maceo Persson offers his reaction to the news.
Today’s news is huge. It lifts a dehumanizing law that traces back to the dark times of the eugenics movement. The sterilization law in Sweden had also been joined with a law that didn’t allow transgender people to be married in order to go through a legal and medical transition. These policies sent a very clear message that the government saw transgender people as unfit to have a family. It is astonishing that we still had to have a legal battle in order to remove this archaic practice and it is a huge victory for transgender Swedes.
If lawmakers take the initiative to adopt a law outlining damages, we will not file a lawsuit.
In 1999 Sweden granted 175,000 kronor in damages to women who had been sterilized under an infamous eugenics program.
Currently sixteen countries require some form of sterilization before they undergo gender reassignment surgery (Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Monaco, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia. Denmark, the Netherlands, and Portugal are currently reviewing their legal requirements.
Croatia, Ireland, Lithuania have no legal recognition of transgender people. The legal situation in Bulgaria is unknown.
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UNDERSTANDING PHOSPHORUS CHEMISTRY IN MANURE AND SOIL AND THEIR INTERACTIONS TO TREAT AND CONTROL PHOSPHORUS MOVEMENT IN THE ENVIRONMENT
Title: Sensing Site-Specific Variability in Soil and Plant Phosphorus and Other Mineral Nutrients by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
Submitted to: Asian Conference on Precision Agriculture
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: August 30, 2009
Publication Date: October 14, 2009
Citation: Dao, T.H., Miao, Y. 2009. Sensing Site-Specific Variability in Soil and Plant Phosphorus and Other Mineral Nutrients by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. Asian Conference on Precision Agriculture.
Interpretive Summary: To attain optimal crop yields, phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), and potassium (K), have become essential production inputs. Although significant progress has been made in real time management of N inputs, P sources have not received the same degree of scrutiny. Early emergence and uniform crop stand establishment is one of the most important yield contributing factors. Phosphorus is a critical nutrient for early seedling growth and a uniform application of starter P fertilizer is traditionally placed below the seeds at planting. However, soil P often is highly variable within a field and contributes to extremes in P availability that can be detrimental to plant growth and the environment. The problem is more acute in fields amended with animal manure, which is highly heterogeneous in composition. While numerous analytical techniques can provide the needed information, they differ widely in analytical sensitivity, labor, time, and the cost of chemicals used per analysis, and transportability, thereby on-site or on-farm analysis. With recent technological advances in material science, measurements of light elements with faint fluorescence, although difficult, are becoming more feasible. These light elements include many plant nutrients such as P, magnesium, calcium,
and K. Because of the rapid and non-destructive nature of the analysis, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRFS) is adapted to both on-site and post-harvest laboratory analysis of soil and plant tissue samples. We found a number of significant advantages over prevalent wet chemistry techniques, including minimal sample preparation, rapid analysis times thus high throughput, multi-element detection, and on-site field use with portable analyzers for environmental studies as well as site-specific nutrient management applications, and the development of practices to minimize the footprint of agricultural production and laboratory chemical analysis on the environment.
Detection and rapid response to in-season changes of soil nutrient availability and plant needs with weather conditions and site-specific characteristics are essential to the optimal performance of an agronomic crop production system. With recent advances in material science, detector design and sensitivity, and improved sample-target-detector geometry, quantitative determinations of light elements with low energy fluorescence are becoming more feasible. The non-destructive multi-element capability of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRFS) has been applied to obtain compositional data on soil and plant samples in two large-scale field studies of nutrient management and mitigation of nutrient losses to the environment. The objectives are to demonstrate the benefits of XRFS in achieving accurate and timely compositional information. Significant relationships between XRFS-phosphorus concentrations and indices of plant availability supported the role of such methodology as a real-time soil phosphorus and other mineral nutrient sensor for site-specific precision management of nutrient inputs. Thus, the technology has an essential role in increasing nutrient-use efficiency and crop productivity while reducing nutrients losses from the farm. | <urn:uuid:840d1c8b-68cc-4b66-9774-852f8b3bd14a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=244300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906242 | 749 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Ivan Cankar Biography and Poems
Ivan Cankar Biography and Poems. This is biographical information on Ivan Cankar, one of the best poets of all time. This biography page also provides a link to poems written by Cankar, as well as, a video biography...if available.
Ivan Cankar ( pronunciation (help·info)) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župancic, Dragotin Kette and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language, and has sometimes been compared to Franz Kafka and James Joyce.. Slovene writer playwright essayist poet and political activist
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The Archivist Speaks ...
On July 7th a new series of events at V2_ kicks off with Wild Things. What's in the archive that is related to this?
The new series of events at V2_ is entitled Blowup. The first event in this series, Wild Things, features art for animals, or more precisely: "art and design projects that are created with animals in mind as the end users and active participants – not people." It presents Wilfried Houjebek's rewriting of the Gilgamesh epic in pictograms which can be understood by great apes; new habitats for hermit crabs and a lounge space for crickets created by Amy Young; television for pigs by Elio Caccavale and finally an iPad arena in which cats can play.
Wilfried Houjebek has been at V2_ at least twice. He led a street walk in 2010, but he must have participated years earlier (2000) in Wiretap 6.11 Slow Crash on art and space travel, as he was one of the driving forces behind the Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts, which generated lots of interest and lots of fun around that time.
Browsing through the archive – both the material which is publicly available and all those photographs, videos and scans which are not yet accessible through the website – one has to conclude that animals have not played a major role in the arts and projects which have been presented at V2_ through the years.
Yes, there was a dog in Paul Garrin's work Yuppie Ghetto with Watchdog, but it was not a real dog; it was a 'virtual dog'. This work was presented at DEAF94, which featured many other works that dealt with the theme Digital Nature. But digital nature was exactly not concerned with real animals, nor with real nature, Both the exhibition of DEAF94 and the symposium on Generated Life which was part of DEAF94 were concerned with digital artifacts which behaved just like nature, or reflected on philosophical questions of nature and 'life'. Papegaaien (Parrots) by Felix Hess is not an installations with or for parrots, it's a sound installation consisting of loudspeakers.
An interesting case is the work of artist and biologist Louis Bec. His work opens a very intriguing take on technology its influence on human nature, and how we understand our environment by reasoning from the perspective of strange, fictional animals. He did a lecture at the symposium of DEAF94, and his essay Squids, Elements of Technozoosemiotics is part of the the book Technomorphica.
Though V2_ has upheld firm interest in biology through the years, it has seldom welcomed animals. Except, of course, when these animals were robots, as in Chico MacMurtrie's The Ancestral Path: The Dog Monkeys Journey through the Amorphic Society. There are many more of those examples to find.... | <urn:uuid:58be2a28-bfe3-487a-9c3e-ff5513221acd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://v2.nl/archive/articles/a-look-at-whats-in-the-archive....-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976486 | 603 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Shenzhen is located in the southern portion of the Guangdong Province, on the eastern shore of the Pearl River Delta. Neighboring the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, Shenzhen's location gives it a geographical advantage for economic development. In 1980, the first Special Economic Zone of China was built in this city. From then on, the city become a highlight of China, one known for its rapid economic growth.
More than thirty years ago, Shenzhen just was a small fishing village called Baoan County. In 1979, it was renamed Shenzhen City. When the Special Economic Zone was built, the city was divided into six zones, four of which are located in the Special Economic Zone.
Thailand Royal Palace,
Window of the World
Each year, more and more people come to this city to try to find employment. As a result, the city has become increasingly crowded. The local government has recently made city-wide environmental improvements in an effort to combat problems caused by overpopulation. In recognition for these improvements, the city was awarded the Garden City Award in 2000.
While Shenzhen has had to overcome a number of obstacles resulting from this population swell, the city has also benefited from the increased diversity. Workers come to the city from almost every part of china, bringing with them their local traditions and cuisines. Visitors are able to sample foods from each of China's famous eight cuisines. Local dishes are also worth trying - Kejia is one of the many dishes that should not be missed.
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Articles in PEB Exchange (formerly PEB Exchange):
- Designing and constructing an exemplar zero carbon primary school in the city of Exeter, United Kingdom, April 2012
- High performance school buildings in Portugal: A life cycle perspective, December 2011.
- Sustainability innovation in United Kingdom Schools, October 2009.
- In Slovenia, Šoštanj Primary School Collaborates with Its Community, October 2008.
- Reducing Greenhouse Gases in English HEIs, June 2006.
- School Grounds in Austria, no. 56, October 2005.
- Energy-Efficient Renovation of Educational Buildings, no. 55, June 2005.
- Low Energy Schools in Ireland, no. 52, June 2004.
- An Ultra Energy-Efficient School in Quebec, no. 50, October 2003.
- An Environmentally Sustainable Development in Australia, no. 50, October 2003.
- Korea's School Grounds Projects, no. 50, October 2003.
- The Role of Principals in Environmental School Development, no. 42, February 2001.
- Improving the Quality of School Grounds in Finland: A Nation-Wide Competition, no. 40, June 2000.
- Quebec: Energy Performance Contracts for the School System, no. 38, October 1999.
- Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, no. 36, February 1999.
- Teaching Environmentally Sustainable Design, no. 35, October 1998.
- Australia: School Grounds and Risk Management, no. 34, June 1998.
- The Ecologisation of Schools in Austria, no. 34, June 1998.
- School Grounds (PEB conference), no. 33, February 1998.
- Eco-schools - the Environment and Schools Initiative (ENSI), no. 32, October 1997
- Ecological School Building in France, no. 31, June 1997
See also www.oecd.org/edu/facilities/sustainableschools
Mandaglio, M. (2008), “Eco-sustainability Principles and Responsible Development for Educational Facilities”, PowerPoint presentation made at the INIFED "VII International Congress on the Development of Educational Spaces", Guanajuato, Mexico, 12-14 November.
Green Star Rating Tool for Educational Facilities
Checklist of Actions to Promote Green Awareness
Other publications related to environmentally sustainable development
Websites: environmentally sustainable development and school buildings
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Suchir Karmarkar, 14, presents a solar-powered lamp to schoolchildren in India as part of his initiative LightUpIndia.
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This summer, while some kids were playing video games or cooling off at the beach, one East Brunswick teen spent his time raising money to light up the lives of others half a world away.
Suchir Karmarkar, 14, launched the New Jersey-based, non-profit initiative LightUpIndia last September to bring solar-powered lamp kits to households with school-going children in rural India that lack electricity.
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Cisco founder Len Bosack can't wait to get to 200G. But it seems he might be alone in his anxiety.
Bosack is now running XKL, a maker of compact optical access systems for enterprises that include a Cisco CLI for configuration. The benefit and appeal of XKL's Darkstar product is that it has a familar interface to the router people, and that it doesn't require an optical engineer to install, operate and maintain it.
"It gets along with a router and switch network," Bosack said during an interview at the recent Interop trade show in Las Vegas. Darkstar is for companies in campus environments looking for a more cost effective and efficient high-bandwidth alternative than leasing multiple DS-3s.
And high bandwidth is where XKL is taking Darkstar, but the 100G efforts underway at the IEEE and that everyone else seems to be striving for are short-sighted, according to Bosack.
"There is going to be a future and it doesn't stop at 100G," he said at Interop. "If you use the IEEE scheme it will do what they say and nothing more. It doesn't go further or faster. New schemes are required and we already know how. We think we can get 200G across the country."
Progress towards 200G is being hamstrung by optical components vendors, Bosack says.
"The time is mostly consumed with the microwave and optical component vendors convincing them to build something that's got a future instead of, ‘Well, we got a spec from the committee, let's just build to that.' I can't tell you how many times we have to explain to them that there will be a future."
Bosack says XKL currently has some active programs underway "to go farther and faster," and that we'll see announcements to that effect in short order.
With regard to enterprise routing, the bedrock of his Cisco baby, Bosack says he doesn't follow the market much anymore. But he does have some ideas for improving the efficiency of BGP in the Internet. He says he has some schemes to improve the reliability and "robustness" of the Internet by allowing BGP to share a little more information with its neighbors than it currently shares.
Such an advancement might allow nodes to improve response times and proactively reroute around congested or disabled links. Bosack says his scheme could allow the Internet to experience a loss of 12% to 15% of its nodes before failure, rather than the 2% node loss that might disable it today.
And speaking of congestion avoidance, XKL has a "full and effective" solution for that as well, Bosack says. But not a product as yet -- that's another future augmentation to XKL's product line.
Suffice it to say, it will be cheaper than what people are paying now to add congestion avoidance features to routers, he says.
"The world is not ready to pay 2x on a router just to keep it from suffering a congestion collapse," Bosack says. (Internet pioneer and Anagran chairman and founder) Larry Roberts is finding that out, I'm afraid. Their current offering is a hard sell. We've done reaserach in that area, we think we have a full and effective solution. But not a product right now."
As for the product right now -- Darkstar -- XKL's finding that to be a long sell. Not only have capital budgets frozen due to the economy, but XKL's customers include government agencies with notoriously long sales cycles.
The US Geological Survey, for example, pushed out an RFP for which XKL is planning to bid to 2012.
"That's who they are and that's how it works," Bosack says. "It takes a while. None (of the other vendors) are going to compete for it because it's too much trouble, but for me they are kind of old friends. You get used to them. But that's the time scale."
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Student Research Projects - Biology
Title of Project
Investigating Temporal Variation in the Stress Response and Protein Catabolism of the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
The glucocorticoid stress response is designed to respond to extended, long-term threats, such as predators and environmental changes, in order to ensure the survival of an animal. The catecholamines of the adrenal medulla (i.e. epinephrine and norepinephrine) are an integral part of the fight or flight response. These hormones are released rapidly and increase metabolic rate and vasoconstriction. Concurrently, a cascade of hormonal signals travels along the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis translating external stimuli into a longer-term physiological response. These hormones, glucocorticoids, are released from the adrenal cortex and promote escape behavior and gluconeogenesis. The acute effects of glucocorticoids are beneficial to the organism, but long-term chronic levels can be detrimental to an organism's health and potentially lethal.
The aim of this study is to measure seasonal variation of both corticosterone, as an indicator of the stress response, and 3-methylhistidine (3-MH), as an indicator of muscle protein breakdown, in the Northern Cardinal and compare the two in search of trends. Four time periods of interest were chosen coinciding with important annual events in a cardinal's life cycle: 1) fall molt, 2) winter, 3) spring nest initiation/egg laying, and 4) summer chick rearing. Many studies have explored seasonal variation of corticosterone in birds, but corticosterone has been shown to be elevated at several different times throughout the course of the year.
While numerous studies have investigated temporal variation of corticosterone in migratory birds, few have examined variation in non-migratory birds and none have done so with the Northern Cardinal. Additionally, although a connection between increased glucocorticoids and protein breakdown has been made, little research has been done on seasonal variation of muscle protein breakdown in non-migratory birds. It is interesting to consider not only how the avian stress response and protein catabolism fluctuate seasonally, but also how the two interrelate.
Ongoing Work of Research Project
The total stress response (F=3.48, p=0.03) and baseline corticosterone levels (F=3.35, p=0.03) were determined to be significantly different between seasons. Post hoc analysis revealed that summer cardinals had a less robust total stress response and a lower starting baseline compared to spring. Analysis showed no sex differences in total (F=1.23, p=0.28) or baseline (F=1.71, p=0.20) corticosterone levels. These results show that there is significant variation in the stress response of C. cardinalis over the course of the year, particularly between spring and summer.
3-methylhistidine analysis is ongoing. Currently, we are in the process of validating a gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy method for detecting 3-MH.
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to enter and enjoy the world of reading, they must be able to recognize
graphemes and know their corresponding phonemes. Before
a child can recognize a phoneme in
written language, they must be able to hear the phoneme in oral
language. In this lesson, they will learn
to recognize the
grapheme and b=/b/ in spoken words by
learning a fun hand gesture and tongue twister and then practicing
finding /b/ in words.
board with tongue twister "Big boy Biscuit was ready for bed" written
- pictures of
objects that have B's in
- a copy of
the book Biscuit, by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Publisher: HarperCollins,
cards with B and non-B words on them
with dry erase markers
with pictures with B and non-B words
(bat, fish, bed, house, doll,
ball, bottle, clock)
Boys and girls, today we are going to talk
about a new letter. Many of you may
already recognize this letter. Show
the letter b on the white board. Does anyone know what letter this is? Yes,
this is the letter b. Give
specific praise to the students that recognized the letter. Every letter in our alphabet
has a sound. Does anyone know what sound
the b makes? Give
specific praise for student that knows the sound of b. Yes, the letter b says
- Do any of you know any
words that have the /b/ sound in them? (bed,
ball, basket, etc.) Write the words on the
white board and give specific praise. Let's say those words
together. Okay, now let's just say
"bbbbb" and while we are saying the /b/ sound lets pat our chest
like a heartbeat.
- I am going to show you some
pictures of objects that have the /b/ sound in them. When you hear the /b/ sound, pat your
chest like a heartbeat. (Pictures: ball, basket, boat, bottle, bed).
- Who has ever heard of a
tongue twister? Let's look at a tongue
twister to help us hear the /b/. Show the poster board with
the tongue twister "Big boy Biscuit was ready for bed."
I am going to read it once then I want you to
read it with me. Read the
tongue twister. Now I want
us to read it together and listen for the /b/ in the tongue
twister. When you hear the /b/ I
want you to pat your chest like your heart is beating.
Let me repeat this three times to make sure they
understand the /b/ sound.
- We can even write the
/b/ sound by using the letter b. Let's
practice writing a lower case "b". Model
for students how to write a "b". Start at the sky, go down to the grass, and then bounce up to
the fence and back around. Now you try on
your paper. When you think you've got it,
raise your hand and I will come and take a look. Let's
practice writing a "b" ten times on your paper.
Now we will practice writing a capital "B".
Model for students how to write it.
Start at the sky and go straight down to the
grass. Go around for his big chest and
around for his big tummy. When you think you've got it,
raise your hand and I will come and take a look. Now
let's practice writing a capital "B" ten times.
- Let's look at some flash
cards. I want you to tell me if the word
that I show you has the letter "b" in it.
flash cards with B and non-B words. (bat, doll, dress, blue, bed, red, button).
- We are now going to read a
book. Do a book talk for the book
Biscuit. "Biscuit is a cute little dog that gets into
trouble. Let's read the book to find out what type of trouble
Biscuit gets into." While I am reading
the story I want you to listen hard for the /b/ and pat your
chest like your heart is beating every time you hear the /b/ sound. Read book. Can anyone tell me any words in the story that had the /b/
sound? Write the
words on the white board and give specific praise.
- Individual Assessment: I am going to give you
a piece of paper that has different pictures on it.
Some of the pictures will have the /b/ sound in
them and some will not. I want you to
color only the pictures that have the /b/ sound in their
name. After you color the pictures, I want
you to write the name of the objects under their pictures.
If you are not sure what the pictures is raise your hand and
I will share with the class so everyone will know.
will use the student's work sheets in which they have colored the
well as write the name of the object containing the /b/
to Print Letters", The Reading Genie website,
Ashley, "Shelly Goes to Sherman's Shoe Shop",
"La La Lilly",
B., "Baboons Banging Bongos!",
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3. Back Pain
Flare-up: For the random spasm or ache, grab some Tylenol. "Most acute back pain is not inflammatory, so for many people, taking an analgesic like acetaminophen may be all they need," says Portenoy. When this doesn't work, then try an NSAID.
You need something stronger: When you're in agony, or the discomfort doesn't relent in several days, ask your doctor about a combination drug such as Tylenol with codeine, a prescription NSAID, or a short-acting opioid. Drugs for chronic back pain include antidepressants, antiepileptics, muscle relaxants such as cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril), and long-acting opioids like OxyContin.
4. Joint Pain
Once in a while: For the occasional achy hip or shoulder, either acetaminophen or an NSAID (which may help more if there's inflammation) should do the trick, says Fishman.
You need something stronger: Treatments include prescription-level NSAIDS, muscle relaxants, short-acting opioids, and corticosteroid shots. Chronic pain patients may also be prescribed the new fibromyalgia drug Lyrica, as well as certain antidepressants.
In addition to medication, a number of complementary treatments—including acupuncture, guided imagery, cognitive and physical therapy, massage, and hydrotherapy—can help ease pain. Mindfulness meditation in particular has proven to be incredibly effective, says Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. Begin by simply focusing on your breath. Pay attention to every inhalation and exhalation through your nostrils. Picture the breath circulating all around your body, then imagine breathing specifically through the area where the pain is located. If you have a headache, for example, visualize the breath going through a hole at the top of your head; for menstrual cramps, it would flow through your pelvis. Do this for five to 20 minutes, and you should begin to notice the pressure diminish.
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Nanoq: flat out and bluesome: A Cultural Life of Polar Bears
By Bryndis Snæbjornsdottir and Mark Wilson
Black Dog Publishing, $29.95
Reviewed by Russell A. Potter
The Polar Bear – nanoq in Inuktitut – is perhaps the most popular large carnivore on the planet, its singular blend of fuzziness and ferocity compelling to children and adults alike. The vast majority of us, happily, have seen this great animal only in zoos and museums; an encounter in the wild is something we are glad to have done without. With its enormous range of movement, and that paw which – as zoo docents never tire of reminding us – could rip our heads off with one casual thwack, there is also probably no animal more uncanny in the stillness of its taxidermied state, and it is this class of specimens, and their curious place in our material culture, that Snæbjornsdottir and Wilson document in this remarkable book.
They began with a photographic inventory of all the major stuffed specimens of Ursus Maritimus in the UK, whether in private homes, snarling above the taps at a local pub, or proudly displayed at national museums. Despite the imposing nature of such a task, it might well have been a banal exercise, but for two things: 1) their conscious decision to photograph all the bears in situ, even when (as was surprisingly common) they’d been placed in storage or cast aside in a back room; and 2) the almost obsessive care with which the context and material culture of these bears was catalogued with them.
The result is a volume which is, by turns, strikingly beautiful, tawdry, sublime, disturbing, and enlightening. One of the book’s very first images, that of a bearskin mounted only on a sawhorse-like wooden armature at Blair Atholl Castle in Perthsire, manages to be all of the above at once. The fur, darkened no doubt by centuries of pipe-puffing Dukes and their wax tapers, is nearly black; mounted without glass eyes but with its teeth still clinging to mummified gums, it lurks in a corner by the stairs, waiting to give the unwary tourist nightmares. Such visions make one yearn for the subtle vivacity conferred by the taxidermist’s art, although even then – as with a half-bear mounted as if about to pounce on a seal at Fyvie Castle, not everything is as complete as might be wished.
The authors give details on the provenance of each bear, when known, and in several instances this leads to unexpected riches, as with the bear shot by famed Arctic explorer Francis Leopold McClintock, now in the National Museum in Dublin. In another case, a search through the effects of a far less well-known northern adventurer, Sir Saville Crossley, yielded a series of sixteen tinted magic lantern slides, which are wonderfully reproduced in full color. And yet even when, as with a bear in a private home in Somerset, almost nothing is known, they manage to ferret out apt details; having served for some years as the mascot for Fox’s Glacier Mints, the bear – we are soberly informed – is now newly adorned: “the fez and the basket of plastic flower lights are additions by the present owners.”
All this would make for a book of enormous interest, and yet there is more. A small selection of thought-provoking essays – the best of which is Michelle Henning’s “Skins of the Real: Taxidermy and Photography” – adds scholarly panache. This surprising and captivating volume is almost impossible to classify – but no matter. It will appeal to any reader who has ever found their consciousness haunted by images of these immaculately mobile animals, whose kinetic energy persists even long after their forms have been stilled. | <urn:uuid:8ccac92b-a684-49dd-a122-02c15257628a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/abr/nanoqrev.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962788 | 826 | 1.90625 | 2 |
UC Santa Barbara > History Department > Prof. Marcuse > Courses > Hist 133B Homepage > 133B Book Essays Index page > Student essay
The Successful Escape From Sobibor
on: Richard Rashke, Escape From Sobibor: The Heroic Story of
the Jews Who Escaped From A Nazi Death Camp
by Kristen Dimperio
for Prof. Marcuse's lecture course
About Kristen Dimperio
I am a senior at UCSB majoring in business economics with an emphasis in accounting. I have found World War II and all of its dynamics fascinating since I was in high school. This is my third class on the history of Germany and I have been very interested in the revolt at Sobibor.
Abstract (back to top)
Richard Rashke's book Escape From Sobibor is a story about the death camp Sobibor, the prisoners there, and, most importantly, the Sobibor revolt. The revolt at Sobibor was the most successful revolt during World War II in any camp. In this essay, I argue that the only reason this revolt was more successful than other revolts was because the prisoners had luck on their side. There were four main incidents that proved the prisoners had luck on their side. The first incident was that Sergeant Gomerski and Sergeant Wagner were on leave at the time of the escape. They were two of the smartest officers in the camp, and if they had been there, "they would have sniffed the escape out like a dog" (Rashke 319). There was no reason for these two men to be on leave at the time and this proved that the prisoners had luck on their side. The second incident was the murder of Sergeant Goetzinger. The Ukrainians secretly killed Goetzinger at Sobibor before the planned escape. The Ukranians had no knowledge of the planned escape and only killed him because they did not like him. Sergeant Greischutz replaced Goetzinger, and luckily, with a new commander, the Ukrainians were even more confused when the revolt happened. The third incident was that no one noticed that the telephone wires were cut until it was too late. The fourth incident was that all of the SS officers that they tricked, suspected nothing and went along with what the prisoners had asked them to do, so the killings could go according to plan. With luck on the prisoners' side, nothing went wrong on the day of the escape.
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In the spring of 1942, three death camps were built as part of Himmler’s top-secret program, which would later be called “Operation Reinhard.” The three camps were Belzec, which opened in March and was located southeast of the large Lublin ghetto, Treblinka, which opened in June and was located northeast of Warsaw, and Sobibor, which opened in April and was located northeast of Lublin. To run the three death camps, Himmler chose ninety-six SS men who had already had experience with gas chambers, mainly from working in Hitler’s euthanasia program. Every Jewish person sent to one of these camps “was to be gassed within twenty-four hours, with the exception of between a hundred and six hundred Jews chosen to maintain the camp” (Rashke, vii). Eventually, these men and women chosen to maintain the camp would be killed as well. Within these three camps there were several revolts, but there were none as successful as the revolt at Sobibor. On October 14, 1943, over three hundred Jews, which was over half of the prisoners there, successfully escaped Sobibor, and there were forty-seven Sobibor Jews that were still alive in 1982, according to Rashke. The revolt at Sobibor was the most successful revolt during World War II in any camp. But why was the revolt at Sobibor so successful? I believe the main reason the revolt was successful, based on the evidence given in Richard Rashke’s book, Escape From Sobibor: The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp, was due to luck and coincidence. There were four main events, including the death of SS Sergeant Greischutz, the absence of Sergeant Gomerski and Sergeant Wagner, the fact that no one noticed that the telephone wires were cut until it was too late, and the fact that none of the guards in Sobibor got suspicious that anything was out of the ordinary that day, were important coincidences that enabled the uprising to succeed.
Of the forty-seven survivors who were still alive when he researched his book, Rashke interviewed eighteen, including Thomas Blatt, Shlomo Szmajzner, Selma Wijnberg, Chaim Engel, Esther Terner-Raab and Alexander Pechersky. Thomas Blatt entered Sobibor at the age of fifteen, did numerous jobs around Sobibor and was a watchman during the revolt. Shlomo Szmajzner was fifteen when he came to Sobibor, became the head goldsmith at the camp, and during the revolt stole guns from the Ukrainian barracks for himself and the other prisoners to use during the outbreak. Selma Wijnberg was a Dutch Jew who entered Sobibor at the age of twenty-one, and was a sorter in Camp II. A sorter was someone who sorted the belongings of the Jews who had been gassed. Chaim Engel, also a sorter at Sobibor, stabbed and ultimately killed Sergeant Beckmann, an SS officer, during the revolt. Once out of the camp, Engel married Selma Wijnberg. Esther Terner-Raab was a knitter at Sobibor, and later was a witness at some of the war crime trials of the Sobibor Nazis. Alexander Pechersky was a Russian officer who had been in and out of different camps for two years before he had entered Sobibor and became co-leader of the revolt. Later, he was called the hero of Sobibor for leading the prisoners out of the death camp. Another co-leader in the revolt was Leon Feldhendler. Feldhendler was one of the three hundred survivors who successfully escaped from Sobibor, however, he was killed by the Poles before the war was over. Together, these prisoners helped succeed in revolting against the Nazis and made history by organizing the largest and most successful revolt in any camp.
At the end of September 1943, Feldhelder sensed that the end was near for them and if they did not revolt soon, they would be killed, just like the others had been in the gas chambers at Sobibor. The two other death camps, Treblinka and Belzec, had already been closed down permanently. The prisoners at Treblinka had tried to escape by burning down the camp and killing some Nazis, but only a handful escaped and the others were killed. The last of the Belzec prisoners were brought to Sobibor and were shot and killed the moment they arrived. The prisoners knew that it would be their time soon enough and they had to think of a plan immediately. Some of the strongest prisoners, including Pechersky and Feldhendler, built an organization to plan a breakout for all of the Sobibor prisoners. Once they had finally come up with a strong enough plan, they decided on the date they would escape. They had first planned for the date of the escape to be October 13, however, a train filled with SS officers came to the camp to visit Sobibor that day. With so many SS officers at the camp it was too risky, so Pechersky decided to postpone the escape and, instead, wait for the next day, October 14. On October 14, everything went smoothly and according to plan. The prisoners killed as many SS officers as they could and gathered as many weapons as possible without getting caught. At 5:10 p.m. the prisoners gathered for roll call like they normally would have, but instead of lining up many of the prisoners stampeded the main gate, killed and fought against the officers who were still alive, dodged the mine fields and ran to their freedom in the woods. Out of the 600 prisoners that were in Sobibor at the time, over 300 prisoners got out of Sobibor alive. During the revolt the prisoners had successfully killed ten SS men and two foreign guards. The revolt at Sobibor is known to be the most successful revolt at any camp, including P.O.W. camps, during World War II, because the prisoners had luck on their side the day of their escape.
The first and most important incident that proved that the prisoners had luck on their side was that Sergeant Gomerski and Sergeant Wagner were both on leave during the escape. This meant that there were two fewer officers would could kill or catch them, especially since these were two of the smartest officers in the camp. During the morning of the escape, Sergeant Frenzel noticed that the shop chief was dressed much more nicely than usual, but instead of suspecting anything he just joked about it. Pechersky knew they were lucky because Frenzel was not so bright, and if Wagner or Gomerski would have been there and noticed it, they would have suspected something right off the bat. When Rashke was interviewing Terner-Raab, she explained that the only reason she survived was because Wagner was not in the camp during the escape. She explained, “He would have sniffed the escape out like a dog. He was the smartest Hitler could find. He even knew what you were thinking. Shrewd. That man was shrewd” (Rashke, 319). Before the two men went on leave, the revolt had already been planned, however, there was not a set date yet. The prisoners would have revolted if Wagner and Gomerski were there or not, but when they did go on leave the prisoners knew that it would be much easier if the day of their revolt coincided with their leave of absence. Even though this did involve some planning on the prisoners’ behalf, it was lucky for the prisoners that they actually did take a leave of absence around the time they were planning on revolting.
Another incident was the murder of SS Sergeant Goetzinger, which happened before the planned escape. The Ukrainians secretly killed Goetzinger at Sobibor and the Nazis never caught on to the fact that it was actually murder and not accidental. The Nazis believed that an explosion had killed Goetzinger. SS Sergeant Greischutz replaced Goetzinger as commander of the Ukrainian guards. “Pechersky considered the death of Goetzinger a small victory for the Organization” (Rashke, 201). With a new commander, the Ukrainians would be even more confused when the revolt happened and the prisoners would have an even better chance of surviving when the time to escape happened. Also, Greischutz was injured due to a Russian plane while returning to Sobibor from leave, which was also an advantage. This killing was not done by the prisoners, but done by the Ukrainians who had no idea that an escape was planned, and this turned out to be lucky for the prisoners at the time of the escape.
At 3:30 p.m., on the day of the revolt, Leon Friedman, an electrician and shoemaker in the camp, cut all the phone wires at Sobibor. This was almost two hours before the prisoners ran out of the camp. If any officer would have, by chance, needed to make a phone call, he would have noticed that the phone lines were dead and suspected that something was wrong. Again, with luck on the prisoners’ side, none of the officers needed to use the phone until they realized the revolt was happening and the prisoners were already escaping.
During the day of the revolt, the prisoners tricked many of the SS officers to come into their barracks to “try on a new coat or a new pair of boots,” but instead the prisoners killed them. All of the SS officers that they tricked, suspected nothing and went along with what the prisoners had asked them, with the sole exception of Sergeant Beckmann. Drescher, the Putzer, had asked Sergeant Beckmann if he wanted to see a new leather jacket that was made just for him. Beckmann agreed, and headed for the storeroom where other prisoners were planning on killing him, however, once he got there he hesitated. “The Nazi turned around as if he sensed something was wrong or had just remembered he had something more important to do than to try on clothes” (Rashke, 216). This did not stop the prisoners from killing Beckmann, though; later in the day Engel and two others went to Beckmann’s office and killed him there. Many of the other guards did not notice that anything was wrong or that anyone was missing and if anyone did get suspicious the prisoners killed them. A very lucky break occurred when Engel was killing Beckmann. Wijnberg was outside Beckmann’s office and had heard him screaming but during this time a truck came towards the office, and luckily the driver did not hear Beckmann being killed. In this and other cases the prisoners had several lucky breaks, either because guards were not smart enough to notice, or they were killed before they could take action. Some could argue that the fact that no one noticed the killings was not lucky at all and was just careful planning on the prisoners’ behalf. However, there was so much unpredictability in the camp that no one could have planned for every case scenario. There were so many things that could have gone wrong that no one could have planned for, but they were lucky enough that they were never caught.
Even though there is much evidence to prove that this revolt was successful, many argue that it was actually not successful. Some people may think the uprising at Sobibor was unsuccessful because not all of the prisoners escaped and many of the prisoners who did escape were killed just outside the boundaries of the camp. Some argue that forty-seven was not a large number of survivors. They also argue that because of this revolt the liquidation of the other camps were accelerated in fear of another revolt. However, the liquidation of camps, including Sobibor, was inevitable. The prisoners at Sobibor knew that if they did not revolt, no one would get out. So even though forty-seven may not be a big number, it would have been zero who survived the war if the revolt had not happened. These escaped prisoners were able to tell the world about the atrocities at Sobibor. Another argument against the success of the revolt was that many people do not believe that the Holocaust ever happened, or do not care if it did or did not happen. Many of the survivors fear that history may repeat itself because of this attitude. However, if it were to ever happen in our history, “there will be one difference in the future – [the prisoners] will not go like sheep. [The prisoners] will fight” (Rashke, 306). Sobibor serves as an example to future political prisoners and victims of genocide.
Three hundred prisoners escaped on October 14, 1943, and forty-seven were able to survive the war. This plan to revolt was well thought out and probably much smarter than many of the other escape plans that were more spur of the moment. However, this plan still had its weaknesses and most were not convinced that they were even going to survive through it. Even Perchersky, the co-leader of the revolt, was unsure, he “knew he would kill a few Germans, but they’d never make it to roll call. So many things could go wrong, that surely one would” (Rashke, 202). But, with luck on the prisoners’ side, nothing did go wrong and the prisoners of Sobibor successfully executed the most successful revolt in World War II.
Bibliography and Links (back to top)(links last checked 3/25/09)
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It’s about time Congress started paying more attention to terrorism in Nigeria.
This morning, Congressman Patrick Meehan (R–PA), chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, announced that the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram poses an emerging threat to U.S. interests and the U.S. homeland.
The hearing coincided with the subcommittee’s release of a report outlining Boko Haram’s evolution, rapid escalation of attacks, and ties with al-Qaeda. The report recommends that the United States provide diplomatic, military, and intelligence support to Nigeria in addition to investigating whether Boko Haram should be listed as a foreign terrorist organization.
These steps are a welcome start. However, Congress should ensure that increased engagement with Nigeria as well as the resources the U.S. provides are used effectively and that the Nigerian government makes meaningful progress in addressing this threat.
The Nigerian government does not have a good track record in combating Boko Haram. In July 2009, a raid by Nigerian security forces in Bauchi state killed 700 people and resulted in the extrajudicial killing of Boko Haram’s founder, Ustz Mohammed Yusuf. Following the raid, Boko Haram vowed to regroup and escalate its attacks against the Nigerian state.
In the past year Boko Haram has waged frequent attacks against government forces and civilians across northern Nigeria and in the capital city of Abuja, committing its first international attack against U.N. headquarters last August.
Nigeria’s security forces have a history of unprofessional and brutal conduct. Civilians across the north often fear government soldiers as much as they fear Boko Haram. The Nigerian government has combined brutal tactics with prospective attempts to negotiate with the militants.
Last August, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan appointed seven government officials to explore various options in dealing with the organization. In September, the committee urged the government to engage in open talks with militants despite its bloody acts. Yet doing so would only grant Boko Haram legitimacy.
The Nigerian government has also failed to address the marginalization of Nigeria’s northern populations. Much of this is owed to the stark sectarian divisions within the country, as it is split between Christians residing in the south and Muslims in the north. As a Christian who is believed to have stolen last April’s presidential election by northerners, Jonathan has not addressed the challenges that northern populations face, including unemployment, lack of education, and widespread poverty.
The Nigerian government’s scattered approach to combating Boko Haram should concern the United States. While Boko Haram does not pose an immediate threat to the U.S. homeland, that doesn’t mean that it won’t in the future. The Nigerian government should take the threat that Boko Haram poses more seriously.
It was only a few weeks ago that Nigerian national security advisor General Owoeye Andrew Azazi criticized the United States for activating a security alert, as it was believed that Boko Haram posed an immediate threat to U.S. citizens. While the U.S. later withdrew the alert, the Nigerian government should not have questioned America’s duty to protect its citizens.
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I have two new posts up at Macmillan Dictionary Blog. The first, Touchous, honeyfuggle, and whoopensocker, celebrates a few regional terms in US English, and suggests some good sources for learning more about them:
A curious recent example is unthoughted, meaning thoughtless, with the related adverb unthoughtedly and noun unthoughtedness (heard mainly in the South and South Midlands, according to DARE). Given another spin of the language-change wheel, it’s easy to imagine this being the normal morphology and thoughtless the obscure one.
More exotically, consider the BFG-esque honeyfuggle, an old-fashioned term meaning (among other things) “to flatter, sweet-talk; to wheedle; to ballyhoo”. There’s a related noun, equally fun to say: honeyfoogler, meaning a flatterer. [Read the rest.]
While I’m on the subject: DARE – the Dictionary of American Regional English – has hit financial trouble and is seeking help. It appears, as far as I can tell from samples and reviews, to be a masterwork of modern lexicography, and deserves rescuing.
Next I revisit the fuss over whom, in To whom it deeply concerns. This was triggered by an article at the Atlantic that quotes me and other usage specialists on the word’s declining status. Some of the comments there were, shall we say, on the alarmist side.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that language is somehow not supposed to change, when in fact change is one of its central qualities. English has survived the loss of umpteen inflections, with no significant effects on its expressiveness. People who lament whom’s decline, and protest that they like the word, may continue using it – they needn’t stop just because it’s becoming less popular.
Nor is whom sure to disappear: there’s every chance it will persist in set phrases (for whom the bell tolls) and, more generally, right after prepositions, especially in formal settings (The applicants, all of whom live locally, will be notified today). Tellingly, COCA (1990–2012) has 17 examples of all of who versus 1429 of all of whom.
I also discuss why whom has fallen from favour, among other things.
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Large and Little Spellcasting.
How much fatigue does a pixie spend to charm a human? To zap him with lightning?
To turn him into a toad? What about a giant? What if it is the giant who's
casting the spells?
If your campaign is going to have pixies and giants as well as humans,
all slinging spells, you'll need to give this some thought.
Speaking of size and gaming, if you haven't read T-bone's GULLIVER yet,
stop reading and go here.
The Value of Fatigue
Fatigue is the energy used to power spellcasting. In the following, it
will be assumed that fatigue is based on HT. Thus, the number of
fatigue points a given creature has will not be linked to size.
So, how much magic can a giant or micro work? There are a few options:
If option 1 is in place, everybody can cast the same spells, provided they
know them, at the same fatigue cost. Micro sorcerers blast their (micro-sized)
foes out of existence easily. Giants can cast spells at each other until
they pass out, but it won't matter much. I don't like this option.
Fatigue is fatigue. A point of fatigue will work the same magic, whether
it's from a pixie or a giant.
Fatigue scales with linear dimension, making a point of giant fatigue worth
much more for spellcasting purposes.
Fatigue scales with linear dimension, and so does granularity. This
is my favourite option.
If option 2 is in place, every spellcaster has a Fatigue Value, FV.
FV is proportional with his linear size: Some may use ST/10, others just
size category multiplier. For every (FV) fatigue points the spell requires,
it costs one point of fatigue.
If option 3 is used, every spell costs fatigue as usual, but the
effects are on the caster's own scale.
What does this mean?
Note that the minimum cost for a spell is for one hex, relative to the
For damaging spells, the damage is from the casters point of view. A 1d
flame jet cast by a man will annoy a giant, harm a man and incinerate a
micro. The same flame jet by a micro will harm a micro, annoy a man,
and fail to grab the attention of a giant. If cast by the giant, the human
will die almost as messily as the micro.
For information spells, range is proportional to the caster's scale.
For spells that affect an area, including any that affect a body,
the number of hexes the caster must pay for is determined by the targets
size as perceived by the caster. A human is a multi-hex creature
to a micro, while a human could affect multiple micros with a 1-hex spell.
Note that this includes Regular spells.
Range penalty is modified by the caster's size; 3 yards is nothing to a
giant but a lot to a micro.
For spells affecting units not measured in hexes, multiply mass limits
by scale^3, areas by scale^2.
The Size of a Soul
How much energy does it take to affect a mind or a soul? Each of these
You can easily use one system for the mind, another for soul, if you want
A fixed "size". This makes the soul or mind of a larger opponent cheaper
to affect than his body. It also makes mind control hideously expensive
if you're a small spellcaster.
Equal in size to the body. If your opponent is triple-sized, any mind-
or soul-affecting spells will cost triple as well.
What's this nonsense about Soul Size? A charm spell is a charm spell, never
mind the size of caster and victim.
Which system should you use?
If you don't mind powerful mages controlling huge beasts, or small
pixies charming the PCs, use system 2. If you dont want this to happen,
use system 3.
If your cosmology requires it, system 1.
I recommend keeping points out of this - it will be rather complicated.
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Apparently, $110 billion in stimulus funds for education wasn't enough.
The Washington Post reports that
The proposal to raise federal education spending by as much as $4 billion in the next fiscal year was described by administration officials Tuesday night as the start of an effort to revamp the No Child Left Behind law enacted under President George W. Bush. Obama will highlight his school reform agenda Wednesday in the address.
The funding would include a $1.35 billion increase in Obama's "Race to the Top" competitive grants for school reform. It would also set aside $1 billion to finance an overhaul of No Child Left Behind, according to aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the budget proposal before its release next week.
Administration officials said they could not provide a direct comparison to current elementary and secondary education spending levels for No Child Left Behind, but they said federal education spending would rise overall by 6.2 percent.
At this point it is appropriate to link and quote Andy Smarick's must-read evaluation "Toothless Reform" of the effectivenes of the education stimulus dollars in Education Next:
The ARRA seemed to complete the constellation: an astounding $100 billion of new federal funds—nearly twice the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Education—to jump-start and sustain the improvement of America’s schools. When Duncan expressed his intention to make the very most of this once-in-a-lifetime “moon shot,” some advocates eagerly prophesied an epochal shift for reform.
The ARRA’s results to date, however, have been soberingly quotidian. So far, the vast majority of its funds have served to sustain the status quo, funding the most traditional line items and actually helping schools and districts go about their everyday business. With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.
Mike Petrilli at Fordham's Flypaper does the math and asks the $1,500 question:
So let’s do the math with the whole $110 billion education stimulus in mind. Now we’re talking $366 for every man, woman, and child. That’s almost $1,500 for a family of four.
So let me get personal: is it worth 1500 bucks to me to see a handful of states lift their charter caps, a couple more promise to take teacher evaluations seriously, and lots of states to sign a letter saying they will do national standards—unless they later decide not to?
I’m an “education reformer,” for Pete’s sake, and I gotta say: I don’t think so.
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Locals suspect teen backpacker Sam Woodhead was Bear Grylls copycat
- From: The Courier-Mail
- February 19, 2013
EXPERTS have called for increased awareness about the dangers of the Outback as rescuers question the motives of a British tourist who sparked a three-day search.
More than 50 people searched a 450,000sq km zone for the British teen.
Survival expert Bob Cooper said visitors must be told the Outback is life-threatening.
"We need ourselves to be more responsible in our attitude to visitors, and visitors to the Outback, whether they're from the city or overseas," Mr Cooper said.
The concerns come as locals who searched for the teen - who dreams of joining the army - raised questions about his motives when he set off on the afternoon jog armed with a bag of clothes.
Mr Woodhead told The Courier-Mail he was using the bag as a weight for the run.
He said it was "just a run that went wrong".
"It seemed more of an interesting run than around the airfield that I had been going around," he said.
While happy with the search's successful result, locals voiced their concerns that the 18-year-old was deliberately testing his survival skills in a Bear Grylls-style adventure.
"Just a few things don't add up . . . it's a funny feeling," local Norman Philp said.
"You get a feeling he wanted to go bush."
Many other locals have spoken out, including Adrian Roots, who has been involved in several other searches for people lost in the Outback.
"From what his mum told us about him wanting to be in the Royal Marines and being big fan of Bear Grylls, that's probably why people are angry, thinking that's what he was doing.
"There's just the unanswered questions."
Outback Queensland Tourism general manager Lloyd Mills, based in Longreach, said it was the responsibility of tourists to research the dangers of the Outback.
"At the end of the day, (if) you're making a trip to a place in outback Queensland you need to do your research," he said.
"The information is available, you just have to look for it."
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By Anthony Advincula NAM Contributor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week announced that the state department was adding a fourth “D” to its toolbox of Diplomacy, Development and Defense: Diaspora.
Marking a historic shift in the agency’s view of global migrants, Clinton spoke at the opening of a three-day “Global Diaspora Forum” that drew over 300 invitees including The Hartford Guardian‘s own Ann-Marie Adams, a star-studded cast of international development experts, diplomats and representatives of different diaspora groups.
“You have the potential to be the most powerful people-to-people asset we can bring to the world’s table,” Clinton told a standing room only crowd at the State Department’s Loy Henderson Auditorium. “Because of your familiarity with cultural norms, your own motivations, your own special skills and leadership, you are, frankly, our Peace Corps, our USAID, our OPIC, our State Department rolled into one.”
Clinton highlighted the contributions of some 60 million Americans who last year sent over $48 billion in remittances to countries around the world. “It dwarfs any foreign aid that our government can give,” she noted.
Clinton also acknowledged that diaspora groups and individuals are the first to respond to natural disasters, economic stagnation, poverty or civil unrest overseas. “When an earthquake happens in Haiti or civil unrest begins in Tripoli or a multitude of disasters hit Japan, we hear from Americans who have roots, who have business connections, who want to know what they can do.”
Clinton was most passionate when it came to the intersection of diaspora communities and diplomacy. She pointed to the role of Irish Americans in bringing peace, at long last, to Northern Ireland. She recounted the first time she and her husband, Bill Clinton, went to Belfast, where the hotel they stayed in “had been recently bombed and windows were still boarded up.” Because of the help of Irish Americans, the next time she went back after the Good Friday Accords, “there was 98 percent occupancy.” She noted how conflicts de-escalate when women become engaged and find common ground as wives and mothers.
The state secretary also emphasized the leadership of American diaspora communities in helping home countries in their transition to democracy.
“Many don’t know the first thing about politics…and this is where many of you can come in. We need to just get into the basics of what it means to participate in the hard and sometimes frustrating work of politics. That’s the way you get to govern in a democracy.”
As the United States grapples with difficult global challenges – whether natural disaster, war, economic recession, or terrorism – it would be impossible for it to work alone, she concluded. These challenges will only be solved by partnership with the private sector, civil society, public institutions and diaspora communities.
To that end, Clinton announced the launching of the International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IDEA). “We spend a lot of time in the State Department trying to think of how we can put words together so the first letter spells something,” she joked, but she added that IDEA would engage “the whole of government.”
She ended with a call to action: “I hope you will look back on this day and really see that we started something that has just spread across the world, improving the lives of so many people, giving them the same chance that all of us have had because of this country that we love and we call home,” Clinton said.
The conference — cosponsored by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) — featured the heads of the Export-Import Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the US Trade and Development Agency, the Millenium Challenge Corporation and the International Fund for Global Development, as well as dozens of Non-Governmental Organizations and grassroots organizations. New America Media ran a special workshop on diaspora communications which featured a panel of ethnic media leaders and reporters from the Haitian Times, Al Jazeera English, Sing Tao Daily, Indian Express and ImpreMedia. | <urn:uuid:f1588ee4-b18e-44a5-a477-553ed3eba51c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehartfordguardian.com/tag/the-hartford-guardian/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953766 | 886 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri (shärl zhül äNrēˈ nēkôlˈ) [key], 1866–1936, French physician and microbiologist. He worked with P. P. É. Roux in Paris and was director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis from 1903 and professor at the Collège de France, Paris, from 1932. He worked on various diseases, including whooping cough, measles, trachoma, and influenza, and demonstrated (1909) the transmission of typhus by the body louse. For his work on typhus he received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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So I’m tracing my Perry ancestors back from my grandfather Frank Maxwell Perry (1910-1970) to my great-great-great grandfather Joshua Perry (1805-1866) & his wife Louvicia Anne Wade Perry (1806-1884), my brick wall. Last post I reached my great-great grandfather William Preston Perry (1839-1908) and his two wives, the sisters Georgia F. Cutts (1849-1869) and Elizabeth Margrette Cutts (1854-1923).
Making use of the kind contributors to FindAGrave.com I found pictures of the tombstones of William P. Perry Georgia, his first wife Georgia F., in the Salem Cemetery in Edison, Calhoun County, Georgia. Elizabeth’s tombstone wasn’t there, though, so I looked back at the census records again. From his tombstone we know that W. P. Perry died in 1908. So I found him and his family on the 1900 census living in Edison, in Calhoun County, Georgia, right where you’d expect him to be. For the 1910 census I searched instead for Elizabeth Perry. I found one Elizabeth Perry, of the right age, widowed, but living down in Mitchell County. Not surprising since my grandfather grew up in Mitchell County and my great-grandmother died there. So I broadened my FindAGrave.com search and located a listing for Elizabeth Cutts Perry in the Sale City Cemetery, Sale City, Mitchell County.
Now that I know Elizabeth Perry died in 1923, I made another search of the Georgia Death Certificates at the Georgia’s Virtual Vault from the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. Remember there is a limited window where the death certificates have been digitized and posted to the Virtual Archive. In this case a quick search was successful and I have Elizabeth Perry’s death certificate. There isn’t much immediately useful here, but I made note that the informant was H.H. Perry (she had a son, Henry Holcombe Perry), that her middle name was probably Margrette (Martha is scratched out) and in place of the scratched out “don’t know” her mother’s maiden name is written as “Miss Scarbrough.” It also provides additional corroboration of date of birth, and the date of death confirms the tombstone.
Now, look back up at W.P.’s tombstone. It not only give his birth and death dates, but adds “Son of Joshua and Anne Perry.” I’d like to use the census to confirm William’s relationship to his father and mother in the same way that I traced John I. Perry back to William and Elizabeth. I know that in 1870
William was living with Louvisa A, Francis M & William T Perry (see Jan 12th post). So I look for Joshua Perry in the 1860 census and find him as his family living in Calhoun County. The family consists of Joshua, Lonvicia A, Francis M & William P Perry and a child Sarah A E Collier (who is a granddaughter, but that’s another story). On the 1850 census I find Joshua living in Early County. A quick Google check shows multiple sources noting that Calhoun County was formed in part from Early County in 1854, so that works. The family consists of Joshua, Lavisa A, Julia, John J, William P, Thadeous J & Francis M Perry. The names and ages are consistent, though it’s important to point out the spelling variations that occur with Louvicia/Lavisa … This also ties back into the 1870 census where Louvisa A Perry was living with William P Perry; even though the 1870 census did not show the relationship of household members to the head of household, it’s now apparent that she could easily be his mother, and the 1850 and 1860 censuses, in conjunction with W.P.’s tombstone, increase the likelihood to a near-certainty.
I added the 1840 census to this list to demonstrate an important point. The 1850 census was the first census to list members of a household. In 1840 and earlier only the name of the head of household is listed, and then the ages (by age group) and genders of free and slave members. I’ve built a mostly-solid foundation of evidence getting from my grandfather, Frank M. Perry, to my 3g-grandfather (that’s shorthand for great-great-great grandfather), Joshua Perry. Prior to about 1918 it’s impossible to obtain birth and death certificates, and many marriage licenses are missing, but census records along with other references fill in nicely. They aren’t conclusive by themselves, but they add to the “preponderance of evidence” in helping to reach or prove a conclusion. Unfortunately it appears my progenitors were not fond of creating wills, but I’m still hopeful that when I locate property records (deeds, mortgages, etc.) I’ll have more clues, and I’ll revisit them at that time. I’ll be relying on the Family History Center and Family Search for those records.
I didn’t show you how I made the jump from Early County in southwestern Georgia to Screven County the other side of the state, but that’s a tale for the next post as we finally hit the wall!
Here’s your summary:
- You should learn about the limitations of the census records, and the various additional questions asked each decade. A good introduction can be found on the Ancestry.com Learning Center article on census records.
- The Family History Center, the Family History Library and Family Search, a closely related set of resources from LDS, are invaluable. You should find your local Center, and get to know both the individual search and the library search. The volunteers at your local Center will be glad to help you.
- Don’t forget to Google your ancestors’ names. Yes, you’ll get a lot of chaff, but if you learn to use Advanced Search, and add keywords and place restrictions, you’ll be surprised at what you can find. Remember, even if you can’t use an index as a primary source it’s still a valuable pointer to the sources themselves.
- FindAGrave.com is an excellent resource online, not only for locating the place of burial, but particularly for obtaining pictures of your dearly departed. It's all done by volunteers, so if you make extensive use of the pictures, please consider volunteering in your own area to take cemetery pictures for others. And always give credit for any pictures you use in your research. | <urn:uuid:b6c3da8f-fd2f-46e9-8742-962659f08fef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mygeorgiaroots.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-joshua-tree-part-iv.html?pfstyle=wp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950432 | 1,414 | 1.546875 | 2 |
3 Healthy Foods That Support Healthy Aging
Want a delicious meal that supports healthy aging? Make sure the menu includes an appetizer of Brazil nuts, an entrée of broiled cod and a dessert featuring fresh blueberries. The glutathione, selenium and antioxidants in those three foods are proven health boosters for older people.
Let’s look at the three foods on this “super menu” and explore their age-defying health benefits:
Brazil Nuts - Brazil nuts are one of the best food sources of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that can protect the cells from harmful free radicals and toxins. Glutathione can help the body repair cell damage that is caused by years of environmental pollution, chronic stress and diseases. It supports the white blood cells that are essential for a healthy immune system. Fortunately, Brazil nuts are inexpensive, easy to find and require little or no preparation.
Cod - This white, flaky, mild-flavored fish is delicious when broiled or baked with lemon and herbs. More importantly, it contains plentiful amounts of selenium, an essential trace mineral that has been shown to slow down the aging process. A 3 ounce serving of cod provides 58 percent of the recommended daily requirements of selenium. Studies have shown that selenium can help prevent many diseases including cancer and cardiovascular disease. Cod is also rich in vitamins A and D and omega-3 fatty acids. Cod is available at most grocery stores. It can be poached, baked or broiled. Most nutrition experts recommend including lean fish in the diet at least three times per week.
Blueberries - Often referred to as the little berry that packs the big punch, the blueberry is an amazing nutritional gift from Mother Nature. The blue color of the berry comes from powerful antioxidants that protect the body from age-related degenerative diseases. Antioxidants are plant-based phytochemicals. Blueberries also strengthen neuron signals which help improve memory and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Blueberries are so sweet and delicious that it is easy to include them in your daily diet. Add them to your breakfast cereal, mix with yogurt or serve for dessert drizzled with honey or low-fat whipped cream.
In addition to the age-defying foods listed above, make sure your diet includes plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Opt for low-fat recipes and include plenty of whole grains in your daily nutrition plan. Use alcohol only in moderation, avoid caffeine and limit your intake of sugar. Good nutrition can help reduce the risks of age-related maladies such as osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Consider adding nutritional supplements to your daily regimen to ensure you are getting the vital nutrients that you need.
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Healing Your Mind
If the parasite is like a disease in the mind, surely there must be a cure. The most important aspect of the disease is fear. The parasite creates fear and eats fear. It depends on fear for its survival. It creates fear in the human mind, and eats the emotions that arise from it in the body. Perhaps by now you are impressed with the skill and persistence of the parasite — both your own and the big one in the dream of the planet. It is a living dream, and lives in the minds of nearly all humans. Surely there must be a cure for this disease.
Could it be so simple that the cure for this disease of fear is its opposite — love? Yes, this is exactly what the Toltecs, and many other spiritual paths, teach. They know that each human comes into this world filled with love and acceptance — and no fear. The new humans must be infected with the parasite disease, in order to be like everyone else. The infection does not destroy or diminish the love that is the nature of every being. It simply overwhelms the nature of the humans, who then forget what they are.
The word love is one of the most distorted in the English language. It means so many different things, and brings up so many different emotions and memories in people. If you add all the differences created by other cultures and languages, the meaning is lost. To the Toltecs, love means “acceptance.”
The gift given by the Toltec master, ancient and modern, is to awaken the seeker to the truth of who he is as love, as life itself. The master takes the fish out of the water and wakes it from the parasite's dream. She says to her awakening apprentice, “Wake up! You have been suffering in a dream hell created by the parasite! Wake up! See life all around you and within you. You have been asleep in the midst of a wild celebration of life's abundance and magic. It is dancing in joy all around you. Wake up, and join the dance!”
No part of the parasite is capable of waking you up from its own dream. It only knows fear, and the antidote for its disease is love. You need a new resource, a spiritual warrior who sees the truth of what you are and can help you embrace it for yourself. Teachers from all paths of love and truth have acted as that source for their students and apprentices throughout the millennia, and it is wonderful if you can find a modern master to support you.
In this time of the sixth sun, a new way of dreaming is awakening. The teachings of ancient mystery schools such as the Toltec are coming alive and are accessible for everyone. It is possible to awaken a strong resource of love inside yourself. There is a powerful spiritual warrior in your heart. He has been put to sleep by the old dream and overwhelmed by the parasite, but he is there. Perhaps it is time to liberate him from his bonds. | <urn:uuid:6a522000-8047-4e24-8981-89c733c36803> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.netplaces.com/toltec-wisdom/the-parasite-in-your-mind/healing-your-mind.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965474 | 614 | 1.679688 | 2 |
ABSTRACT: Our objective was to quantify and predict diabetes risk reduction during the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) in participants who returned to normal glucose regulation at least once during the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) compared with those who consistently met criteria for prediabetes.
DPPOS is an ongoing observational study of participants from the DPP randomised trial. For this analysis, diabetes cumulative incidence in DPPOS was calculated for participants with normal glucose regulation or prediabetes status during DPP with and without stratification by previous randomised treatment group. Cox proportional hazards modelling and generalised linear mixed models were used to quantify the effect of previous (DPP) glycaemic status on risk of later (DPPOS) diabetes and normal glucose regulation status, respectively, per SD in change. Included in this analysis were 1990 participants of DPPOS who had been randomly assigned to treatment groups during DPP (736 intensive lifestyle intervention, 647 metformin, 607 placebo). These studies are registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00004992 (DPP) and NCT00038727 (DPPOS).
Diabetes risk during DPPOS was 56% lower for participants who had returned to normal glucose regulation versus those who consistently had prediabetes (hazard ratio [HR] 0·44, 95% CI 0·37-0·55, p<0·0001) and was unaffected by previous group assignment (interaction test for normal glucose regulation and lifestyle intervention, p=0·1722; normal glucose regulation and metformin, p=0·3304). Many, but not all, of the variables that increased diabetes risk were inversely associated with the chance of a participant reaching normal glucose regulation status in DPPOS. Specifically, previous achievement of normal glucose regulation (odds ratio [OR] 3·18, 95% CI 2·71-3·72, p<0·0001), increased β-cell function (OR 1·28; 95% CI 1·18-1·39, p<0·0001), and insulin sensitivity (OR 1·16, 95% CI 1·08-1·25, p<0·0001) were associated with normal glucose regulation in DPPOS, whereas the opposite was true for prediction of diabetes, with increased β-cell function (HR 0·80, 95% CI 0·71-0·89, p<0·0001) and insulin sensitivity (HR 0·83, 95% CI 0·74-0·94, p=0·0001) having a protective effect. Among participants who did not return to normal glucose regulation in DPP, those assigned to the intensive lifestyle intervention had a higher diabetes risk (HR 1·31, 95% CI 1·03-1·68, p=0·0304) and lower chance of normal glucose regulation (OR 0·59, 95% CI 0·42-0·82, p=0·0014) than did the placebo group in DPPOS.
We conclude that prediabetes is a high-risk state for diabetes, especially in patients who remain with prediabetes despite intensive lifestyle intervention. Reversion to normal glucose regulation, even if transient, is associated with a significantly reduced risk of future diabetes independent of previous treatment group.
US National Institutes of Health.
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Outpatient Women's Health Physical Therapists manage women's concerns throughout the lifespan and help the patient regain their quality of life.
Physical therapists are skilled in evaluating and providing patient centered treatment of musculoskeletal problems. Physical therapists with advanced training in the area of women’s heath have further knowledge regarding issues directly related to women and their unique anatomy, physiology and lifestyle.
Fluctuating hormone levels in both the prenatal and post-partum phases cause excessive joint mobility which can lead to pain and dysfunction. Postural changes can also cause some muscles to become tight while trying to support the posture while others become stretched or weak.
Pelvic floor muscles disorders can arise from muscles being overactive, underactive or non-functioning. This can lead to incontinence, sexual dysfunction, organ prolapse or pelvic pain syndromes. Function can be regained or normalized through sensory awareness or re-education.
Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease where there is an exaggerated loss of quantity and quality of bone causing an increase in the risk of fractures. Physical therapists not only help people to regain function and movement, but also play a role in education and prevention.
Lymphedema is a condition where the body is unable to properly transport lymph fluid from the tissue spaces back to the blood stream. Physical therapists develop treatment plans with the patient focusing on re-education and maintenance.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by fatigue and widespread pain in muscles and tendons and ligaments. Physical therapists incorporate land and aquatic exercises, patient education with lifestyle changes to help patients learn a life long way to manage the fibromyalgia to improve their quality of life.
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[Haskell-cafe] Re: group-by (Was: Nested guards?)
anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz
Tue Dec 11 00:18:02 EST 2007
Henning Thielemann <lemming <at> henning-thielemann.de> writes:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > | And I think that the solution is not to make the language larger and
> > | everytime someone wants a feature but to give people the tools to provide
> > | features without language changes.
> > Of course that would be even better! (Provided of course the resulting
> > programs were comprehensible.) Haskell is already pretty good in this
> > respect, thanks to type classes, higher order functions, and laziness;
> > that's why it's so good at embedded domain-specific languages.
> When I learned about GROUP BY and HAVING in SQL with its rules about what
> is allowed in GROUP BY and SELECT I considered GROUP BY a terrible hack,
> that was just introduced because the SQL people didn't want to allow types
> different from TABLE, namely lists of tables. I try to convince my data
> base colleagues that GROUP BY can nicely be handled in relational algebra
> by allowing sets of sets and that this is a fine combinatorial approach. I
I agree with Henning that HAVING is a 'terrible hack', but then SQL altogether
is a terrible hack. I would expect the Haskell approach to be based on the
much sounder theoretical principles of Relational Algebra, and I applaud that
Wadler+SPJ's 'Comprehensive Comprehensions' restricts itself to a subset of
SQL that corresponds to Relational Algebra. In that context, GROUP BY is
reasonably well-defined as a mapping from a table to a table. (The hack in SQL
vintage 1975 is in trying to squeeze GROUP BY into the structure of SELECT ...
FROM ... WHERE ..., the mess now can be blamed on trying to preserve backwards
As that paper points out, HAVING is unnecessary - it's just a filter on the
result set of group-by. And relational theorists agree that HAVING is
unneccessary (see for example 'The Importance of Column Names', Hugh Darwen
2003 from www.thethirdmanifesto.com).
It's crucial that in Relational Algebra everything is a table. (See Codd's 12
rules). The result of GROUP BY we might want to pass to another GROUP BY, or
JOIN to another table, etc -- or does Henning propose a hierarchy of sets of
sets ... of tables, presumably with a hierarchy of HAVINGHAVING's?
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Crustaceans have a hard, jointed external skeleton, called an exoskeleton, that protects them like armour. They have five pairs of jointed legs, and in some species, the front pair of legs are modified to form strong pincers. Crustaceans have compound eyes (made up of lots of lenses) on stalks and two pairs of antennae, which help them to sense predators. Most crustaceans live in water, but some, such as woodlice, live in damp places on land.
Most crustaceans live in water. There are more than 45,000 species in seven classes, including:
(fairy shrimps, water fleas)
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CFI issued a press release on the prospects for a better future with a new pope.
Ron Lindsay’s hopes are not stratospherically high.
As with anyone taking on a position of substantial responsibility, in which decisions can affect the lives of millions, we sincerely hope for the best for Pope Francis. However, even leaving aside the fact that the institution he oversees is based on a fundamentally false understanding of reality, at this stage one cannot be too optimistic about the prospects of Francis bringing the Church into the 21st century. Indeed, even the Church’s dipping a toe into the 20th century seems unrealistic.
Like much of the Church’s hierarchy, his views stem from beliefs and myths formed in previous millennia. For example, his prior hateful statements about same-sex marriage, calling it a ‘move by the father of lies to confuse and deceive the children of God,’ indicate a mindset that gives priority to dogma over basic human compassion. His labeling of the adoption of children by gay parents as ‘discrimination against children’ shows a backward and almost flippant view of the plight of those who suffer from genuine discrimination.
We can only hope that Pope Francis proves our pessimism wrong, but all evidence suggests a continuation of a most unfortunate status quo for a deeply troubled, and troubling, institution.
A mindset that gives priority to dogma over basic human compassion – that’s it in a nutshell. It’s a bad, wrong, backward way to do things, and everybody everywhere needs to learn that.
The foundation of the dogma and the preference for dogma is “God’s law over human law.” The irony is that what they call “God’s law” is of course human law, but human law made rigid and resistant to reform and improvement by being labeled “God’s law.” They say it’s “God’s law over human law” but really it’s “dogmatic coercive unaccountable law over reformable reasons-based accountable law.” | <urn:uuid:9c0bf5be-f600-462d-92c2-fa8b6e07f689> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2013/03/the-prospects-for-francis/?wpmp_switcher=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945772 | 432 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Vote Like a Motorcyclist 2012
Countdown to Election Day on November 6, 2012:
Motorcycle-only checkpoints. Public land grabs. Too much ethanol in gasoline. Health insurance discrimination against motorcyclists.
There are a wide variety of issues on Capitol Hill related to motorcycling. And Election Day choices will affect motorcyclists.
That’s why the AMA Government Relations Department has put together a 2012 AMA Voter Guide for AMA members to use when deciding how to cast their ballots in the November general election.
But even going into the primary elections, motorcyclists should take stock of where candidates stand on motorcycling issues, and what they can do to help protect the future of motorcycling.
The AMA is a non-partisan organization and doesn’t make political endorsements. But it does provide tools to help its members make informed choices on Election Day and offers tips for getting involved in campaigns.
The AMA encourages members to cast their ballots and work on political campaigns based in part on candidates’ positions on motorcycling-related issues, as well as other issues of importance to them.
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Telling the Human Story, 10 December 2012
KIGEME, Rwanda, December 10 (UNHCR) – Amid all the statistics of massive population displacement in eastern Congo, the suffering of individuals – especially women like multiple rape victim Mathilde – tends to get glossed over. The current 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (November 25-December 10) focuses our minds at UNHCR on the human rights abuses against forcibly displaced women in places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Mathilde, whose real name cannot be given for protection reasons, is now living with her three children in the Kigeme refugee camp in Rwanda's Southern province. She was abandoned by her husband after they fled to Rwanda in May to escape the fighting in DRC's North Kivu province between government troops and the rebel M23 movement and not long after she was raped by militiamen.
It was not the first time the 24-year-old woman had been sexually violated in her home province, where rape has become a daily occurrence in some areas as well as a weapon of war. These attacks had affected her health and she was also unable to have normal sexual relations – Mathilde thinks this is why her husband left. Rape is also regarded as a stigma in the region.
Mathilde feels isolated in the camp, where she is surrounded by people from a different ethnic group. She cannot speak the local language, Kinyarwanda, and she relies totally on UNHCR and other humanitarian organizations for general help, food, vital medical treatment and psychiatric counselling.
But at least she is now safer in Rwanda at a time when UNHCR continues to receive appalling reports – linked to the latest fighting – of sexual violence across the border, including the rape of 72 women in the South Kivu town of Minova. Mathilde recently talked to UNHCR's Senior Donor Relations Officer Céline Schmitt about her ordeal.
I fled from Bihambwe [in North Kivu] in May 2012. My mother was killed in 1993 because of her ethnicity. I was just a child and my father, who was from another ethnic group to my mother, sent me to stay with his friend in Goma [the capital of North Kivu province] and study.
When I was in 6th Grade, I returned to visit my father during the summer holiday. I was with two friends one day and we were walking in the fields when we saw armed men from one of the rebel groups. They captured some of the girls and began raping them. I tried to flee but they shot me in the legs, arms and stomach and I fell down. Two men came and raped me as I lay wounded.
I was treated at the hospital in Masisi town and eventually returned to Goma. I looked for a husband and ended up marrying a man who was an orphan. I did not tell him that I had been raped. My first child is four years old and the others are almost two and one.
My brothers were not happy that I married a man from a different ethnic group and said they would kill him. We fled to Kaniro [in North Kivu's Masisi territory] and felt safe there. But then one of my brothers showed up with friends in the Mai Mai militia. They tied my husband to a chair, gagged him and raped me in front of him and my children. They told my husband to return to Rwanda.
I was taken by the militiamen and they raped me every day for a week. Then I managed to escape and made my way to Bihambo, where I found my husband and asked him to pardon me for having been raped. He did.
Just after the fighting with the M23 started [in Masisi in April], we fled to Rwanda. I explained my problem to UNHCR staff in Nkamira transit camp. I was ashamed and I felt ill.
We were transported to Kigeme and I had terrible pains in my stomach. The doctors said I had an infection. It was very painful. I received drugs but I could not have sexual relations and my husband left. It's my first time in Rwanda and I cannot speak Kinyarwanda – I can't cope, I can't work in the fields.
But I cannot go back to Congo with the kids. If I return they will be killed...
My children don't eat the cornflour that we receive. My oldest daughter, Patricia [aged two], has problems. She has a big belly, there's a problem with her eye... I don't have enough clothes for my children.
There are some psychologists in the camp who help me. UNHCR gave us a tent, sleeping mats, blankets and cooking pans, but it is not enough. I know that there is not much future for me, but it's different for my children. They are small.
When I wake up in the morning, I clean the house, I dress the young ones, I prepare the food and I wash the clothes. And the day finishes like that. I can't sleep because of my problems. I don't know if my husband will return. If he comes back, I will welcome him because he is my husband. My brother called him on his mobile phone after we got here and threatened to kill him. Perhaps that's why he fled.
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Getting teenagers to speak English can prove a challenge to many teachers. One way is to provide a context for real and meaningful communication. This article examines how a video exchange project can stimulate motivation and interest by providing such a context.
- Why an exchange project?
- Exchange and follow-up
- Evaluation and tips
Why an exchange project?
Exchange projects offer students many benefits:
- The opportunity for learners to communicate in a real and meaningful way about their interests
- The possibility to promote cross-cultural understanding/tolerance
- The opportunity to use a wide range of skills and language
- A variety of activities which accommodate different learning styles
- A change from 'routine' class work
- An increase in levels of motivation and enthusiasm
- A sense of achievement.
I was teaching a group of young learners aged 11-14 at upper-intermediate level who were following a course book. It was a 12-week course and even though I used a lot of supplementary material, after several weeks they were lacking motivation and enthusiasm. I needed something to 'spice up' the lessons. At around the same time our centre acquired a video camera and we were encouraged to make use of it. I decided to experiment with it and came up with the idea of a video exchange project.
The main factors I had to consider when planning the project were:
My students were Ukrainians and I decided on the general topic 'Aspects of Life in Ukraine'. This way the students had a framework but also some freedom of choice. We would send the video to other teenagers in a different country since they would find the content informative and this would promote meaningful communication. For the video, the students would present their information in pairs and each pair could speak for 2-4 minutes.
Finally, I worked out that we would need to divide the project into 3 stages; preparation, rehearsal and performance. This translated into 3 classes. After the exchange we would also need time to watch the other country's video.
I introduced the idea of the exchange project to the students and told them the general topic. Then in small groups they brainstormed different aspects of Ukrainian life. I put all these ideas on the board in the form of a spider gram. Some suggestions were: food and drink, school, entertainment, music, religion, famous sights, geography, extreme sports. In pairs, students then chose the topic which interested them most.
Students thought about what they wanted to include in their presentation and made notes using bullet points / lists. The reason I discouraged writing texts was because I wanted them to speak naturally and more freely in front of the camera. At this point I monitored the students to make sure that they didn't include too much information, and I helped with vocabulary. For some topics, geography for example, the students needed to do some research. However, I discouraged too much research because I wanted them to talk about what they already knew in their own words. When they spoke about what they knew they could focus more on delivery.
When students had decided on what information to include, they then joined another pair and shared their ideas. The other pair commented on the content, whether there was too much or too little, whether it was interesting, if there was anything missing etc. I simply monitored and encouraged full participation.
In their pairs, students then decided how they would present their information e.g. as a question/answer session, as a dialogue, simple presentation etc. They then made notes or prompt cards to remind themselves. I didn't allow them to write full sentences because I wanted the presentation to be natural.
Students then rehearsed in pairs and timed themselves. Then they rehearsed with different pairs and gave each other feedback. I monitored throughout and noted any hindrances to effective communication e.g. pronunciation difficulties, intonation, misuse of vocabulary or grammar.
When the students had rehearsed, they then worked in their pairs to decide on which props they would use in the filming e.g. flags, pictures, souvenirs, food items, even skateboards! They then brought these to the next class when we filmed the video.
I set up the video camera in a quiet room prior to the class. I decided against filming in the classroom to ensure audio quality and clarity. I took one pair at a time to the quiet room and gave them time to make themselves comfortable and arrange their props. Then I recorded them. I told them that I would only record them once. If they made a mistake they should just carry on. As a result, the recording didn't take a long time and the other students in the classroom didn't become too restless. In fact, they had another task to work on during the recording.
Naturally, the students wanted to watch themselves afterwards but I encouraged them to focus on the positive aspects.
Exchange and follow-up
I then posted the video to the other centre (in Portugal). When I received their video I watched it and prepared questions for the students. Some questions focussed on factual information e.g. geographical details and places of interest. Others were designed to raise awareness of similarities and differences between the two cultures e.g. the education system. Students were then invited to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the two systems and voice their opinions.
After watching the video I hoped that my students would be interested in communicating with the Portuguese students via e-mail. However, this didn't happen mainly because the other students were slightly older, but also because their recording quality was not good and it was difficult to understand what they were saying.
Evaluation and tips
On reflection, the exchange project was a success. The students performed well and the project gave them a sense of achievement. In addition, they gained knowledge of another country and culture. Most notable was the performance of the boys. In this class the girls usually outperformed the boys. This project gave the boys an opportunity to excel. However, the project could have been better organised to ensure greater success. In future I would
- Select an exchange group of the same age and level of English where possible.
- Work closely with the other teacher (this could be via e-mail) e.g. agree on topics together.
- Ensure audio quality and clarity. If the students can't hear or understand each other, they become frustrated or uninterested.
- Encourage a variety of presentation techniques e.g. interview or role-play and the use of interesting props (since video is primarily a visual medium).
- Discourage the reading of texts while filming because the students don't look at the camera or use body language. Similarly, discourage memorisation as this leads to unnatural speech
If you would like to find a partner school to do an exchange project with we can help. See the Global Gateway
Deborah Bullock, Teacher, British Council, Ukraine
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Obama asks Congress Friday for the power to shrink the federal government by combining trade and commerce agencies with overlapping programs.
POTUS: “We live in a 21st century economy, but we’ve still got a government organized for the 20th century.”
Read the President’s remarks here.
Would blend: Commerce Department, Small Business Administration, Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade and Development Agency.
Obama: “We could consolidate them all into one department with one website, one phone number and one mission – helping American businesses succeed.”
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