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In August 1775, he was almost twenty-seven when he married Anna Van Schaick. By 1796, six of their children had been baptized in the Albany Dutch church where he was a member who sometimes supplied wine for church services.
Raised in his father's Market Street store, his first ward house and property (probably on State Street) were valued substantially on the assessment roll in 1779. By that time, he was raising a family and had served as a firemaster. Aside from contributing a barrel of flour in 1775, his name appears to be absent from the rolls of community-based wartime activities. However, he was reputed to be a financier of the American army!
In 1782, he was named as a contingent beneficiary in the will of his father. However, that document also held him to a debt of almost a thousand pounds and set up conditions for its repayment. His bachelor younger brother and later business associate, Gerrit W. Van Schaick, may have lived with them for a time and later became a prominent Albany bank officer and property holder. In 1790, this Albany merchant was the head of the first ward household.
The Van Schaick brothers proved to be sharp businessmen as they were among the creditors who hounded William Duer into debtor's prison in 1793.
Within a decade, he relocated to a home at 5 North Pearl Street while maintaining the landmark Market Street store.
After 1813, he seems to have left the city. Johannes G. Van Schaick died on Van Schaick Island in 1828.
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Background Characteristics of Examinees Showing Unusual Test Behavior on the Graduate Record Examinations
- Oltman, Philip K.
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We ordinarily expect item difficulty to be related to errors on tests; examinees generally tend to make errors on more difficult items and to answer easier items correctly. However, some examinees miss easy items and get more difficult items correct. The extent to which correct and incorrect responses are predicted by the difficulty of test items has been quantified in various ways. One method, originated by Sato (1975) and modified by Harnisch and Linn (1981), was used in the present study of item level data from the Graduate Record Examinations General Test. The modified Sato caution index was found to be of low reliability in these data and to be generally unrelated to a variety of background variables, although ethnic group showed a small but significant relation to the index. In these data the modified caution index showed a curvilinear relation to total test score, with examinees who showed very high or very low scores having higher index values than those in the middle range of test scores. Indexes calculated on the three sections of the test were uncorrelated with each other. Finally, the index did not moderate the relationship between test scores and self-reported grades, which it should have done if it indeed indicates how well the test measures the intended construct for any individual. The conclusion reached is that the modified caution index adds little information that would be of value in interpreting GRE test scores. ) | <urn:uuid:6e94db38-ec9f-4a11-9ac1-a82d6653d33c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/rr-85-39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929256 | 343 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Laser Spine Surgery in Texas
From car accidents to muscle strains while exercising, back pain is a common condition that can occur anywhere, including Texas. Some have estimated that around 8 in 10 adults will suffer from a back pain condition in their lifetime.
Despite the number of treatments, therapies, and techniques available to treat back pain, surgery is one that can get rid of pain almost permanently. Surgery has often been placed under a negative light, due to the complications that can arise. Practically speaking, there are just as many risks in undergoing surgery as there are in taking certain types of medications or doing physical therapy.
One of the safer alternatives to traditional open back surgery is laser spine surgery. Operating through a smaller opening, surgeons practicing minimally invasive laser spine surgery give patients more reason to opt for it.
Laser spine surgery utilizes endoscopic and laser tools, which target the impacted area accurately and efficiently. Whether you have painful bone growth or pressure on the spinal nerves, laser spine surgery can get rid of the pain quickly, sometimes within a few hours after the surgery is complete. Leaving with nothing but minimal scarring, patients often check out of the facility within the same day.
Laser spine surgery is able to treat a number of back pain conditions, such as:
- Herniated or bulging discs
- Pinched nerves
- Degenerative disc disease
- Bone spurs
To find more information on laser spine surgery in Texas, browse the directory below for locations based nearby. Travel may be required in order to be treated by a professional and qualified practice. If you need a second opinion, ask your primary care physician about the details of the procedure and whether your back pain condition can be resolved through laser spine surgery in Texas. | <urn:uuid:b5ad7442-e24a-42bd-acf0-0ac80b47f77f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.backpainrelief.net/laser-spine-surgery/tx/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953269 | 356 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Second, what is the purpose of language learning? Those in the humanities see language learning to be a way for students to broaden perspectives and expand educational experiences by learning a language not native to them.
Dom's suggestion that university recognition of ASL is a "watering down of any kind of standards" that detracts from "preparing our students for the new global economy," simply comes from a lack of understanding of the transnational linguistic and cultural potential of learning ASL or any signed language.
Dom's comments suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of ASL and suggests the common misperception that it's a signed version of English. Not only is ASL linguistically a complete human language with elaborate grammar independent of English, it's actually historically related to signed French and is in little-to-no way related to English with the exception of the "borrowing" of finger-spelled words-which has linguistic parallels in spoken languages.
I take Dom's response as evidence of his misunderstanding of, but not disdain for, a language and culture not his own. Should he wish to sit in on a class to experience the linguistic and cultural complexities of ASL, I invite him to do so.
Jami Fisher, American Sign Language Coordinator
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On U-M Gateway: revamped ADW reaches millions worldwide
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Professor Philip Myers was preparing to teach a new animal diversity course for nonmajors, but he couldn't find a textbook that contained the right mix: detailed information about individual species, lots of photos, and material about ecology and conservation.
So Myers and a few U-M colleagues created a new learning tool called the Animal Diversity Web, a searchable database and multimedia encyclopedia of animal natural history that was launched on the fledgling World Wide Web in 1995.
From modest beginnings, ADW has steadily grown to become one of the world's largest and most widely used natural history websites. During busy months, more than five million pages of content are provided to more than half a million users worldwide, said Myers, who added that the popularity and global reach of his brainchild was "totally unexpected."
And now, thanks to the first top-to-bottom site redesign in more than a decade, ADW has a fresh new look, with more graphics, new navigation tools that provide quicker access to information, and added features such as daily "animal headlines." The ADW was redesigned by U-M's Michigan Creative.
"The original and continuing goal has been to use this for educating students," said Myers, curator of mammals at the U-M Museum of Zoology. "We had no way of knowing, at the start, what the real potential of this project was. I could see that it had a great deal of potential for my personal use here at the University of Michigan, but the fact that somebody in Argentina would be using it in 2012 just never occurred to me."
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A clear and comprehensive volume spanning the entire theory course, HARMONY AND VOICE LEADING, Fourth Edition, begins with coverage of basic concepts of theory and harmony and moves into coverage of advanced dissonance and chromaticism. It emphasizes the linear aspects of music as much as the harmonic, and introduces large-scale progressions--linear and harmonic--at an early stage. The fourth edition now includes a chapter introducing species counterpoint and integrates that material into the rest of the text. A new Premium Website for students will provide interactive, guided exercises for new material covered in each unit. The Instructor's Companion Site will include Guidelines for Instructors, a new instructor's manual written by the authors.
"The concepts are approached from a musical standpoint as I mentioned earlier. In addition, the coverage is incredibly thorough and logically presented. My personal favorite is that the homework exercises are largely compositional in nature, as opposed to 'fill in the blank' harmonic exercises. I believe that through composition and melody harmonization students best learn harmony and voice leading principles. Most importantly, through composition, students will make the transition to counterpoint studies more easily." | <urn:uuid:ffe26b43-5ddc-4a68-af73-3e48b1e07d14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.co.jp/Harmony-Voice-Leading-Edward-Aldwell/dp/0495189758 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901045 | 231 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Should Members of Congress Have Term Limits? — Survey of the Day
The re-election rates for members of Congress hovers between 85 and 95 percent.
Yet, according to a new survey from Poll Position, the majority of American people would like new rules which would prevent them from sending the same represenatives to Washington, DC year after year.
The poll asked 1,152 registered voters if they would support or oppose a mandatory two-term limit on all members of the Senate and House of Representative. Sixty-four percent would support such a limit, 21 percent opposed it, and 16 percent were undecided.
Republicans were most in favor of the limit, at 71 percent. Independents supported it at a 65 percent clip, and 55 percent of Democrats think there should be a two term limit on Senators and members of Congress. | <urn:uuid:a6929b22-f040-42b8-bb04-a53a9f2fa333> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lite987.com/congress-term-limits-survey-of-the-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977757 | 171 | 1.625 | 2 |
Before we delve into the fundamentals of photographic technique, I’d like to take some time to discuss camera options for real estate professionals.
First off, digital cameras are everywhere – there are big ones, small ones, silver ones, black ones, metal ones, plastic ones, slow ones, fast ones, underwater ones… and ultimately, good and bad ones.
But what is a good digital camera?
A good digital camera is the same now as it was before – a camera that is capable of taking the pictures YOU need to take. In this case, YOU = Real Estate Agent.
So let’s talk about the “real estate” camera:
First off, your “real estate” camera is going to make you money. You are not buying it to shoot a picture of Uncle Fred at the upcoming family reunion; you are buying it to more effectively sell houses. I’m not saying you have to buy the best camera on the market, but what I am saying is that if you find the camera that can really shoot the pictures you need, just buy it. Prices have come down vastly, and your purchase should be considered as a business expense.
Shooting quality home interior photos is difficult. Owning a camera that has the required features for real estate photography is meaningless, unless you know how to use them. You must learn how to use your camera. An intelligent sales associate, manuals, online blogs and tutorials, practice… these are just a few ways to better your knowledge about how to use your camera.
Bigger is better. Yes, it’s true – bigger, bulkier cameras have more features and options than small point-and-shoot cameras. If you’re keen on owning a camera that easily fits in your front pocket, you will have to make sacrifices when it comes to taking pictures of real estate. So, it’s your decision: small and convenient, or large and feature-rich. Of course, you can always have one of each.
Stay tuned for my next post, when we’ll take a look at some more specific camera options and features . . . | <urn:uuid:ad1c749d-925a-4416-9235-6eabcbefb17f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://point2agentblog.com/2008/08/18/buying-a-real-estate-camera-part-12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948157 | 443 | 1.796875 | 2 |
LURKING BENEATH some of the biggest prescription drug scandals of our time is the specter of unflattering data that was known to pharmaceutical companies and could have revealed problems sooner had it been made public. Now, an international federation of drug manufacturers, whose members include the industry’s main players, has pledged to submit most clinical trial results for publication in peer-reviewed journals, whether the outcome is positive or negative.
This step should inject transparency into the now-murky process of data disclosure. But it will work only if there is a concerted effort by companies, journals, and regulators to ensure that all trials are published, and in a timely manner. Disclosure of unflattering data doesn’t just provide a fuller picture of how useful and safe a drug might be in treating a given medical condition; it also provides some guidance to researchers studying similar drugs and similar illnesses.
Until now, the industry’s track record has left much to be desired. Currently, companies seeking approval for new drugs must supply basic information about all their completed studies with ClinicalTrials.gov, a government website. But fewer than half of the studies registered there are published in journals. One-quarter to one-half of clinical trials for drugs that gained Food and Drug Administration approval remain unpublished several years later. A much higher proportion of the unpublished studies turn out to have unfavorable results for the marketed treatment.
In line with the new policy, adopted in June by the trade associations for drug manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and the United States, companies have agreed to submit results from “phase III’’ clinical trials (the most expensive kind, in which a drug is tested in large groups of people for safety and efficacy), as well as other smaller but medically relevant trials, to peer-reviewed journals. The commitment is to submit studies within 12 months, and no later than 18 months, of a drug either being approved or discontinued from development.
The success of this plan depends on the willingness of peer-reviewed journals to seek and accept more submissions of the not-so-sexy type — studies showing no difference between treatments. It isn’t unheard of: according to The New England Journal of Medicine, about 30 percent of the studies it published in 2008 and 2009 were negative. If established journals are unable to publish all this new data, it’s possible that new peer-reviewed forums will emerge, either in print or on the web.
Also, the FDA should take a stronger stance against companies that avoid publication of unflattering results. It should be more vigilant, too: More than one study has found a surprising number of clinical trials whose results, as registered with ClinicalTrials.gov or as sent to the FDA, did not fully match what was later published in a journal; the statistics looked better, or certain failures were omitted, in the published version. The FDA should do a better job at policing companies’ publication records, especially now that the industry has made a formal pledge to publish. | <urn:uuid:2b1364c3-597e-4c81-a38a-15e533f33cb1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/07/26/publish_data_on_drug_trials__even_when_its_not_flattering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967029 | 612 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Saturday 15 June
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad (Encephalartos caffer)
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad fact file
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Eastern Cape dwarf cycad description
This rare plant typically has an underground stem, with a small portion on top, the stem is only very rarely branched and may be as much as 40 cm long (2). Emerging from the top are long, pinnate, dark green leaves up to a metre long. These often have a distinctive ruffled, feathery appearance, caused by the numerous, clustered leaflets being irregularly twisted from the central stalk and pointing out in different directions (2) (4). New leaves are brown and woolly at first but most of the hair is lost as they mature, although they never become completely smooth or glossy. Both male and female plants bear single reproductive cones made up of a series of spiraled scales, which become greenish-yellow when mature. In the female, two largish, glossy, scarlet-coloured seeds are formed on top of each cone scale (2).
- Stem length: up to 40 cm (2)
- Stem width: up to 25 cm (2)
- Leaf length: 40 – 100 cm (2)
- Cone length: up to 30 cm (2)
- Cone width: up to 15 cm (2)
- Seed length: up to 3.8 cm (2)
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad biology
Cycads are dioecious, meaning that there are separate male and female plants, and the female produces seeds while the male produces pollen. Plants of this taxon have generally been considered to be wind pollinated, but several recent studies suggest that insect pollination is more likely. The seeds produced are typically large with a hard, stony layer (sclerotesta) beneath a fleshy outer coat (sarcotesta), attracting animals such as birds, rodents and small mammals, which serve as dispersal agents. In most cases, the fleshy coat is eaten off the seed rather than the entire seed being consumed. Cycads are long-lived and slow-growing, with slow recruitment and population turnover (6).
All cycads posses ‘coralloid' (meaning coral-like) roots. These roots contain symbiotic cyanobacteria that fix gaseous nitrogen from the atmosphere and provide essential nitrogenous compounds to the plant. This can be a great advantage, as many cycads grow in nutrient-poor habitats (6).Top
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad range
Approximately 10,000 mature individuals are confined to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa (1).Top
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad habitatTop
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad status
Classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List 2007, and listed on Appendix I of CITES (3).Top
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad threats
The Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities. Collectors have seriously depleted numbers in certain areas, particularly in easily-accessible terrain. Large numbers have also been destroyed by conversion of land to agriculture, such as in the Humansdorp and Albany districts (2).Top
Eastern Cape dwarf cycad conservation
A few viable colonies are protected on state-owned land, and a large colony occurs in the Cape provincial cycad reserve near Grahamstown, where plants are regularly inspected. Here, many seedlings can be seen amongst the mature plants, and the species therefore seems to be in no immediate danger of extinction (2).Top
Find out more
For more information on the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad see:
- Cycad Society of South Africa:
Authenticated (17/09/07) by Dr John Donaldson, Chief Director of Conservation Science, Head of Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute.Top
- A group of bacteria that is able to photosynthesise and contain the pigment chlorophyll. They used to be known as ‘blue-green algae'. They are thought to have been the first organisms to produce oxygen; fossil cyanobacteria have been found in 3000 million year old rocks. As they are responsible for the oxygen in the atmosphere they have played an essential role in influencing the course of evolution on this planet.
- Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants.
- In plants, a compound leaf where the leaflets (individual ‘leaves’) are found on either side of the central stalk.
- Symbiotic relationship
- Relationship in which two organisms form a close association, the term is now usually used only for associations that benefit both organisms (a mutualism).
- An open grassy plain.
- IUCN Red List (September, 2007)
- Cycad Society of South Africa (December, 2006)
- CITES (October, 2006)
- Jurassic Garden (December, 2006)
- Donaldson, J. (2007) Pers. comm.
- Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney – The Cycad Pages (December, 2006)
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Once bitten, twice shy. Having stood by in 1998, with a frown on its face, watching South Korea score with India when the latter chose not to impose economic sanctions after the “Shakti” nuclear tests, Japan has been quick to follow its neighbour this time, engaging India in talks for cooperation in civil nuclear energy. Japan has come a long, long way in 12 years.
It was in December 1998, six months after Pokhran-2, that I found myself in Tokyo as the youngest member of a group of wise men that included the late J N Dixit (former National Security Adviser of India), N N Vohra (the present governor of Jammu & Kashmir), Arjun Asrani (a distinguished former Indian ambassador to Japan) and Jasjit Singh (then director, Institute of Defence Studies & Analysis). We were all sent there to convince a similar group of influential Japanese that Japan should consider withdrawing the sanctions it had imposed in the wake of India’s nuclear tests and take advantage of the economic opportunities in India, striking a strategic partnership.
The Japanese side was led by the wise and thoughtful Matsunaga-san, a former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations. In his crisp, soft and no-nonsense style, Ambassador Matsunaga summed up the Japanese view, having spelt out Japan’s stated position that it is the only victim of a nuclear attack: “Japan understands why India has tested, but Japan cannot appreciate.” Your “understanding” is enough for now, we told our Japanese interlocutors, we can wait for your “appreciation”!
Twelve years later, as India’s civil nuclear energy business begins to open up, companies like Hitachi and Toshiba are helping Japan’s policy-makers appreciate the benefits of coming to terms with India’s nuclear power status. Just the way General Electric and Westinghouse helped US senators and Congressmen appreciate the economic benefits to their constituents of doing business with India.
Last week, Indian and Japanese diplomats met in Tokyo to discuss the prospects of Japan recognising India’s nuclear status which, in turn, would open up business opportunities for Japanese companies in India. At least one motivating factor that would have stirred Tokyo’s dour diplomats would have been South Korea’s decision last month to sign up on a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. In January 2008, during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing, even China flagged its interest in investing in India’s nuclear energy sector.
At the other end of the world last week, in Toronto, Prime Minister Singh got Canada, a country that has good reasons to be sour with India on the nuclear energy issue, given India’s “can do” history with Candu, to sign up on India’s ninth civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement. In the same week, Australia’s ruling Labour party got rid of a prime minister who was dragging his feet on an India-Australia nuclear cooperation agreement and replaced him with a lady who is willing, we are told.
It all started with George Bush! Today India has in place civil nuclear cooperation agreements with Argentina, Britain, Canada, France, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Namibia, Russia and the United States. The Kazakh, Mongolian and Namibian deals are mainly focused on uranium supply. Other agreements will enable India to get uranium, for existing and future reactors, and access to nuclear technology.
At the end of five years of diplomacy, Prime Minister Singh has stitched up enough agreements to power India’s nuclear energy programme. The challenge now is to get a nuclear liability Bill in place that will enable investors to come. In two important essays published in this newspaper, nuclear policy expert G Balachandran has convincingly articulated the case for a nuclear liability Bill that awaits scrutiny and approval by Parliament.
In his first essay (BS, July 2, 2010: www.business-standard.com/india/news/g-balachandrannuclear-liability-bill/396433/), Balachandran refers to the liability clauses of the Russia-France agreement, which states: “The Russian party shall bring no claims against the French party or against suppliers on grounds of nuclear damage resulting from a nuclear incident which has taken place within the territory of the Russian Federation. The Russian party shall grant the French party and the suppliers appropriate legal protection and shall exempt them from liability for damages in the event of claims by third parties on grounds of nuclear damage resulting from a nuclear incident which has taken place within the territory of the Russian Federation.”
In his second important column (BS, June 24, 2010, www.business-standard.com/india/news/g-balachandran-limits-to-changes-in-nuclear-liability-bill/399195/), Balachandran makes the telling point that any Bill going beyond existing global conventions and similar bilateral agreements will result in India not getting access to required technology. If the objective of the nuclear liability Bill is to prevent any investment in nuclear energy, then India can have its own sui generis law that pleases Parliament but gets no private investment. We can pat ourselves on the back and go dig for coal.
If India’s objective is, in fact, to get private investment in nuclear energy and secure access to technology, then a liability Bill is a must, albeit one that addresses legitimate concerns about operator and supplier liability.
Finally, India also needs a policy framework that will enable Indian companies to grow and attain scale and depth in the nuclear power equipment business. Indian companies, like L&T for example, complain that they are being denied a level-playing field in the nuclear power business and that existing policy on nuclear power plants may end up favouring global players who export equipment to India against domestic manufacturers.
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When it comes to immunizations, rumors and worried whispers are a mainstay is some parenting circles — from concerned conversations on soccer field sidelines to pointed posts on message boards and blogs. And once a seed of doubt is planted — even if the science or the source behind it may be unreliable or unsubstantiated — it's hard for perplexed parents to get it out of their minds.
As more and more moms and dads opt not to have their kids vaccinated because of their personal or religious beliefs, health officials this year are seeing the highest rate of measles cases in the United States in more than a decade (since 1996).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says 131 people were infected with measles (also called rubeola) in 15 states from January to July this year alone — and 2008 isn't even over. That's more than twice the number of cases (63, on average, each year) from 2000 to 2007.
Looking at who's getting the disease and from where, the CDC says:
- 91% of those infected hadn't been vaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown
- 89% of the cases were linked to people coming from or traveling to other countries, especially those in Europe
- 76% were under 20 years old
Before the vaccine was introduced in the mid-1960s, measles caused about 450 deaths and 4,000 cases of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) each year. An epidemic of the disease did break out in the United States between 1989 and 1991 when falling rates of immunizations among preschoolers led to a sharp increase in the number of measles cases, deaths, and children with permanent measles-related brain damage.
But after about 30 years of an active vaccination program, the disease was virtually wiped out here in 2000. The United Kingdom also thought it had gotten rid of measles 14 years ago, but it's now widespread again since immunization rates there have dropped — a worrisome situation the United States may soon be facing, too.
Measles still affects 20 million people worldwide every year. And, despite the common perception that the disease just causes a nasty rash, measles can actually be very serious and even deadly — globally, it killed 311,000 kids under age 5 in 2005 alone.
More on Measles
Measles is a viral infection that can spread easily through the air by sneezing and coughing. The illness causes a total-body skin rash and flu-like symptoms, including a fever, cough, and runny nose.
In some cases, the infection can lead to other health problems like:
- conjunctivitis (pinkeye)
- ear infections
- myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle)
A concern weighing on many parents' minds when it comes to vaccines is autism and the MMR vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). But study after study has found no scientific evidence that autism is caused by any single vaccine, combination vaccines (like the MMR vaccine), or the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal, which was once widely used in many childhood vaccines (including MMR) but has since been eliminated.
The controversial 1998 study that originally started the debate by suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism was retracted — or thrown out — in 2004, long after it had been rejected by many major health organizations. But the study and the attention it received influenced parents worldwide and contributed to a decrease in immunization rates.
Despite the lack of scientific evidence that it causes any harm, manufacturers began removing thimerosal from kids' vaccines in 1999 to reduce childhood exposure to mercury and other heavy metals. Now, the flu vaccine is the only one used in kids 2 and under that contains any of the preservative. Although some of the flu vaccines do have thimerosal in them, most of those available for children have only trace amounts and are technically considered thimerosal-free.
What This Means to You
The only way to protect your kids from getting measles is immunization. Children should get the MMR vaccine at 12 to 15 months and then the follow-up booster shot between 4 and 6 years. And if you're planning to take a trip abroad with your baby in tow, infants ages 6 to 11 months should get the MMR vaccine, too.
The fact is, a series of simple shots given from infancy to the teen years can fend off many major illnesses in millions of kids. Yet, a recent CDC study found that more than a quarter of young U.S. kids (ages 18 months to 3 years) aren't getting their vaccines on time.
Some parents may hesitate to have their kids vaccinated because they're worried about the risks and the possibility of serious reactions. Although some vaccines may cause mild reactions — like temporary fever and soreness around the shot site — serious reactions are very rare. All in all, the risks of serious reactions to vaccinations are extremely small compared with the health risks associated with the often-serious diseases they're intended to prevent.
Even though you may wonder why your children need immunizations if many of the diseases they protect against are no longer prevalent in the United States, infectious diseases that are rare or nonexistent here (because of immunization programs like those for measles and polio) are still huge problems in other parts of the world.
That means if immunization rates are allowed to drop among U.S. children, the spark for a major epidemic would be only an airplane flight away — when a disease could be introduced by just one unimmunized person (either an American traveling overseas or someone coming into the United States). Case in point: One 12-year-old boy from Japan who unknowingly had measles came to the United States for the August 2007 Little League World Series and passed the infection on to others.
An individual child's chance of catching a disease is low if everyone else is immunized. But if the number of unimmunized children in a population grows, the risk of sparking an epidemic increases dramatically.
Although it's natural to want to ensure that everything you do is in your youngsters' very best interests, when parents don't have their kids vaccinated, for whatever reason, it can affect everyone. That means even if you've made the decision to not vaccinate your children, it's not just your kids who could be at risk of catching certain preventable diseases — they could pass them on to other children, too (like babies who are too young to be vaccinated).
That why it's only safe to stop vaccinations for a particular disease when that disease has been totally wiped out worldwide, as in the case of smallpox.
To make sure your kids get all of the immunizations they need on time at every age:
- Schedule and keep all of your family's regular checkups.
- Get routine vaccinations on schedule as children grow — not just in the infant and toddler years, when most vaccines are given. Routine vaccines and boosters are also recommended between the ages of 4 and 6, 11 and 12, and then again before teens enter college.
- Find out when your kids can get any vaccine that's in short supply.
- Ask your doctor about any new vaccines. Boosters and vaccines are added to the childhood immunization schedule all the time — like the now-recommended chickenpox booster for 4- to 6-year-olds and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for 11- to 12-year-old girls.
- Never skip a dose in a vaccine series. Kids don't have adequate protection if they don't get all of the recommended doses for each series at the right time.
- Ask your doctor if you or your kids need any catch-up immunizations or boosters to ensure that your protection is up to date, especially if you're planning to travel overseas.
And before you jump to any conclusions or accept any medically related message you see, hear, or read about — no matter how reliable or believable the source may seem — talk to your doctor first. Discuss the information you've encountered, ask what it really means, and get all of the facts before making a decision to delay or skip an immunization — a choice that could affect not only your kids' health but also that of other children.
Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD
Date reviewed: August 2008
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Nathan Rabin is the longtime head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment section of The Onion and the author of The Big Rewind.
What does it mean to be a great American? Ask five of your countrymen, and you'll get five different answers.
For me, it means having some of the qualities that make our nation worth celebrating — like resilience, determination and optimism.
Country legend Johnny Cash, bon vivant George Plimpton and consummate entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. don't have much in common. But their lives have much to tell us about what it means to be a great American.
Johnny Cash: The Biography, by Michael Streissguth, paperback, 368 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, "There are no second acts in American life." Clearly, someone forgot to tell the subject of Michael Streissguth's Johnny Cash: The Biography. Cash transformed pop music with early songs about trains, prisons and Jesus. By the late 1960s, however, Cash was written off as a self-destructive has-been lost in a downward spiral of booze and pills.
His 1968 live album from Folsom Prison changed all that. Suddenly Cash was vital and dangerous and relevant all over again. But a second act wasn't good enough. Cash insisted on a third when he teamed up with outlaw producer Rick Rubin in the 1990s for a series of albums that brought together punk, rock, metal, blues and country in a state of harmonious musical democracy.
Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr., by Sammy Davis Jr., Farrar Straus & Giroux, paperback, 611 pages, $35
Like Cash, Sammy Davis Jr. grew up poor and hungry. He was barely 30 when he put out Yes, I Can, his massive memoir. Yet no one could accuse him of lacking material. He had been a child vaudevillian, a controversy magnet and a recording and movie star.
Given the brutal racism he suffered, both as a household name and as an anonymous soldier, it would be easy for Davis to give in to hopelessness. But Davis never let our nation's ugly history of Jim Crow and slavery keep him down. Yes I Can teaches us to see green lights where others see only roadblocks. It's fitting that our first black president only had to tweak the title of Davis' memoir slightly to create a campaign slogan that appealed to the better angels in each of us.
George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals — and a Few Unappreciative Observers. by Nelson W. Aldrich, hardcover, 432 pages
If Cash and Davis Jr. grew up with nothing, George Plimpton grew up a pampered child of privilege. Yet he didn't let his family's enormous wealth keep him from making friends throughout the social strata. After reading George, Being George, Nelson W. Aldrich's wonderful oral history of George Plimpton, I didn't just want to befriend its subject: I wanted to slip inside his skin, if only for a day. For Plimpton was blessed with a special form of grace. People fascinated him and were fascinated by him.
During his charmed life, Plimpton did everything. He wrote. He edited. He acted. He endorsed video games. He even trained with the Detroit Lions. Like Forrest Gump, he had a way of stumbling into the forefront of history. Plimpton clowned around with Muhammad Ali, helped take down Sirhan Sirhan and tried to bribe Lisa Simpson into throwing a spelling bee. Through it all, he maintained a very American sense of curiosity, optimism and innocence we can all learn from.
Johnny Cash, Sammy Davis Jr. and George Plimpton each give us a model for making the most of the opportunities afforded us — and show us that nothing is impossible, so long as you're willing to laugh at yourself and at a world that is as comic as it is tragic.
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As far as careers go, comparative psychologist Harry Harlow had a pretty good run of things. The guy founded and chaired the internationally renowned Primate Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He generated over 320 research papers during his 50+ year career, won the National Medal of Science, and was even elected president of the American Psychological Association back in the 50s.
He’s also been described as a “sadistic rapist,” single-handedly responsible for the rise of the animal liberation movement.
As a comparative psychologist, Harlow believed that by studying the minds of animals, we could gain insight into our own psychology. His research dealt with the effects of maternal separation on one of God’s most cuddliest of creations, the baby rhesus macaque (pictured above looking ingenuous as all hell).
But enough necessary background information. The best way to get a feel for Harlow’s research is to hear about it from the man himself. So here’s a clip of Harlow discussing what’s probably his most highly regarded experiment:
Now for a mad scientist, Harlow’s methods weren’t all that absurd (oh man, wait till I get to guys like Demikhov and Bruyukhonenko). There were a number of researchers studying the effects of maternal deprivation on baby monkeys at the time.
What really got peoples goat, however, were the outrageous, dare I say evil, names he devised for his experimental contraptions. One particularly controversial set of studies involved sequestering monkeys for periods of up to a year in a so-called “well of despair,” a sunken isolation chamber devoid of virtually any sensory stimulation. The goal was to create an animal model of human depression, and it worked, the monkeys emerged horribly maladjusted. When they refused to mate, he created a forced mating device he called the “rape rack” in order to study how the isolates performed as parents. They turned out to be violently abusive, with one mother reportedly chewing off her child’s fingers, and another crushing her kid’s head.
One of the major criticisms echoed throughout the animal rights community is that these results are simply common sense. If you severely isolate a social creature, of course it’s gonna get fucked up. If you give a child the choice between cold wire and comfy cloth, of course it’s going to choose the cloth. But when you look closely, it’s hard to dismiss Harlow’s work as nothing more than a validation of the obvious.
His research came at a time when the psychological establishment was busy warning parents against the dangers of “mother love.” John Watson worried that too much mothering would turn our children into dependent sissies. “Never hug and kiss [your children],” he wrote, “Never let them sit on your lap.” B.F. Skinner’s second daughter spent the first two and a half years of her life in a box. A box people!
Harlow’s experiments on maternal deprivation reaffirmed the importance of close, physical contact in healthy child development (be it from a mother’s touch, or a cotton-pleated surrogate). His “well of despair” proved to be, at the very least, a reliable means of inducing depression in rhesus monkeys, and bears more than a striking resemblance to some of the world’s worst third world orphanages. Who’s to say what Harlow or others would have discovered if they used this model to test treatments for depression.
Though to Harlow’s credit as a mad scientist, he was out for more than just models of depression and parental advice. In his famous 1958 address to the American Psychological Association entitled “The Nature of Love,” Harlow set out his methodical raison d’etre: “Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned mission as psychologists is to analyze all facets of human and animal behavior into their component variables.”
Harlow wanted to be remembered as the scientist who cracked the mystery of the human heart. But in order to study love, he knew, he must also study hate.
Like a god he was to these apes, and they his Job!
All this high-concept high-faulutiness earns Harlow a well-deserved spot as the very first mad scientist on Mad Scientist Blog.
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Crowdsourcing Teems with Promise
For quick and cost-effective solutions, organizations are wise to turn to crowdsourcing. Pro or con?
Pro: Benefits for All Parties
When 25,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s e-mails were made public in June, journalists weren’t worried. If the e-mails held any relevant information the public needed, they would find it. They had people willing to sort through the content in record time, and for free. You.
Welcome to the wonderful world of crowdsourcing, where tasks are outsourced to a large, often unidentified group, through an open call via the Internet. And for repetitive tasks, this has worked wonders. Just look at SeeClickFix, a website that lets volunteers anywhere in the world report non-emergency neighborhood issues such as potholes.
If crowdsourcing such "menial" tasks is now an accepted solution to face the exponential amount of data we produce, how does it fare against complex problems, or to generate good ideas? Of course, we could talk about the free operating system Linux or the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia,
We’re more interested in the increasing number of companies that use crowdsourcing to solve complex R&D problems and drive their innovation. This includes IBM’s IdeaJam and P&G’s Connect+Develop, which put problems out to mostly qualified researchers and industry experts.
In this case, crowdsourcing’s cost and speed advantage as well as good ideas can come from anywhere. And they often do. Crowdsourcing helps a company tap into an outside base of knowledge, overcome the in-company bias and technical specificity of the field, and get results. Throughout history, innovation has often occurred via cross-pollination of fields.
The Web has only helped speed up the process, on a global scale.
Con: An Invitation to Trouble
Crowdsourcing brings its share of problems.
In the case of R&D problems, sorting through a pile of answers, some of which might be completely irrelevant, takes time and resources. IBM’s IdeaJam generates thousands of answers that all need to be addressed. Confidentiality worries regarding trade secrets and intellectual property have forced companies to be very careful about what they post on their sites. Some have chosen to outsource the entire process to open problem-solving platforms, which manage crowdsourcing for them, thus eliminating both issues at once.
Yet the most competitive crowdsourcing market involves graphic design. From T-shirts on Threadless.com to logos on 99designs.com, companies believe that crowdsourcing creativity is the better and much cheaper solution. It allows up-and-coming graphic designers to tap into a previously closed market. But for established professionals, it’s a different story. Crowdsourcing dramatically pushed down prices, and some believe that when a design gets crowdsourced, creativity dies. The first few designs end up dominating the creative output of the entire contest, and logos are often created and then "adapted" to fit the company’s guidelines.
So what about using crowdsourcing to generate market pull? Some companies are able to make the most of it. Starbucks (SBUX) interacts with its customers by letting them create designer coffees. But letting the public run your advertising campaign unchecked can turn into a PR nightmare.
Such was the case in 2006 for GM (GM), which used a crowdsourcing contest to mash up Chevy Tahoe ads. People seized the opportunity to criticize the car’s impact on the environment and litter the fake ads with lines such as "It’s Global Warming Time." Damage to the brand was significant.
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With the amount of account hacking that is so prevalent in gaming today, especially on the PC side, it is a breath of fresh air to hear about tightened security for Steam. Valve is helping gamers to avoid hackers by adding a few changes to its flagship Steam service.
Steam Guard allows users to link account management to a single computer, preventing changes from being made from any other computer. This could cause a little bit of a headache if you have multiple computers, but this is just an option, not mandatory.
The service will also take advantage of Intel’s Identity Protection Technology that randomly generates a numerical password every 30 seconds. This is integrated into background functions of the service and the aim is that you never know it’s running.
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In the last decade or so many active filters with resistors and capacitors have been replaced with a special kind of filter called a switched capacitor filter. The switched capacitor filter allows for very sophisticated, accurate, and tuneable analog circuits to be manufactured without using resistors. This is useful for several reasons. Chief among these is that resistors are hard to build on integrated circuits (they take up a lot of room), and the circuits can be made to depend on ratios of capacitor values (which can be set accurately), and not absolute values (which vary between manufacturing runs).
The Switched Capacitor Resistor
To understand how switched capacitor circuits work, consider the circuit shown with a capacitor connected to two switches and two different voltages.
If S2 closes with S1 open, then S1 closes with switch S2 open, a charge (q is transferred from v2 to v1 with
If this switching process is repeated N times in a time (t, the amount of charge transferred per unit time is given by
Recognizing that the left hand side represents charge per unit time, or current, and the the number of cycles per unit time is the switching frequency (or clock frequency, fCLK) we can rewrite the equation as
Rearranging we get
which states that the switched capacitor is equivalent to a resistor. The value of this resistor decreases with increasing switching frequency or increasing capacitance, as either will increase the amount of charge transfered from v2 to v1 in a given time.
The Switched Capacitor Integrator
Now consider the integrator circuit. You have shown (in a previous lab) that the input-output relationship for this circuit is given by (neglecting initial conditions):
We can also write this with the "s" notation (assuming a sinusoidal input, Aest, s=jw)
If you replaced the input resistor with a switched capacitor resistor, you would get
Thus, you can change the equivalent w' of the circuit by changing the clock frequency. The value of w' can be set very precisely because it depends only on the ratio of C1 and C2, and not their absolute value.
The LMF100 Switched Capacitor Filter
In this lab you will be using the MF100, or LMF100 (web page, datasheet, application note). This integrated circuit is a versatile circuit with four switched capacitor integrators, that can be connected as two second order filters or one fourth order filter. With this chip you can choose w' to either be 1/50 or 1/100 of the clock frequency (this is given by the ratio C1/C2 in the discussion above),. By changing internal and external connections to the circuit you can obtain different filter types (lowpass, highpass, bandpass, notch (bandreject) or allpass).
Filter Type Transfer Function Low Pass High Pass Band Pass Notch (Band Reject)
The pinout for the LMF100 is shown below (from the data sheet):
You can see that the chip, for the most part, is split into two halves, left and right. A block diagram of the left half ((and a few pins from the right half) is shown below.
The pins are described on page 8 of the datasheet. I will describe a few of them here:
- 50/100 - determines if the value of w' is wCLK/100, or wCLK/50.
- CLKA - is wCLK.
- INVA - the inverting input to the op-amp
- N/AP/HPA - an intermediate output, and the non-inverting input to the summer. Used for Notch, All Pass or High Pass output.
- BPA - another intermediate output, the output of the first integrator. Used for Band Pass output.
- LPA - the output of the second integrator. Used for Low Pass output.
- S1A - an inverting input to the summer.
- SAB - determins if the switch is to the left or to the right. That is, this pin determines if the second inverting input to the summer is ground (AGND), or the low pass output.
The two integrators are switched capacitor integrators. Their transfer functions are given by,
where w' is wCLK/100, or wCLK/50, depending on the state of the 50/100 pin. Note that the integrator is non-inverting.
A Typical Circuit.
The diagram below shows one of the modes (mode 1) of operations (pages 13 through 20 of the datasheet).
Let's analyze this circuit and try to derive the filter specifications as given in the datasheet, and given below.
The low pass (LPA) output is easily given in terms of the band pass output (BPA), as well as the band pass output as a function of the summer (SUM, not labeled on diagram).
The summer output (SUM) is simply the output of the op amp (NA) minus the lowpass output (LPA). However we can see that the op amp is set up as the inverting summing circuit. So
Replace SUM on the left hand side using equation (2) from above, and LPA using equation (1).
Equating this with the transfer function for a bandpass circuit
which is what we were trying to derive.
Similarly, the relationship between low pass and band pass, equation (1), can be used to find the low pass transfer function. The notch filter transfer function is derived in the same way.
The datasheet gives several other ways to connect the chip to realize other sorts of filters.
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View Full Version : How do you determine weight of a yarn?
07-03-2007, 11:25 PM
I have a yarn that seems to be finer than my worsted but I can't figure it out. Online I have seen that it is 4-5 stitches and inch and it is 106 yards for 40 grams. Is there a formula for this sort of thing? It is a wool/alpaca and very yummy so I am trying to find the best pattern for it.
07-04-2007, 12:46 AM
Being 4-5 sts per inch is probably worsted, depends on the needle size and exactly how many sts over 4" - there's a big difference between 16 and 20 sts in 4". One of the quickest ways to determine the yarn weight is wraps per inch, or wpi. Here's a couple charts for wpi - http://www.whirledyarn.com/WPIpage.html and http://www.fiber2yarn.com/info/wpigauge.htm
07-04-2007, 01:34 AM
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Meanwhile, a separate polio outbreak is ravaging Nigeria, where the outlook is similarly grim.
As of September 1, Nigeria reported 785 cases of polio, compared to 434 at the same time last year. The African nation currently accounts for about 70 percent of the world's polio cases.
According to Brandao Co, head of the UN's Expanded Program on Immunization in Nigeria, most of the country's polio cases are in northern Nigeria, where the situation is reaching epidemic proportions (see Nigeria map).
Moreover, increased global travel is providing the virus with new pathways of infection, experts warn.
Cases of polio associated with the current outbreaks have already been reported in Bangladesh, Nepal, Yemen, Angola, Namibia, and Indonesia, prompting large-scale immunization drives in those nations.
"As long as a single child remains infected with wild poliovirus in one country, children in all countries are at risk," Co, in Nigeria, said.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling disease that mainly targets children under five years of age. It is caused by a virus transmitted through drinking water tainted with fecal matter or through saliva.
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The virus spreads quickly through a child's nervous system, wreaking havoc on the nerve cells that activate muscles.
One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis, usually in the legs, within a few hours. In about 5 to 10 percent of these cases, an infected child dies when the paralysis reaches the muscles used for breathing.
Transmission of the wild poliovirus was interrupted in the United States in the late 1970s, and according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was eliminated from the Western Hemisphere in 1991.
A global UN vaccination campaign launched in 1988 to eradicate the disease has been 99 percent successful, reducing the number of worldwide polio cases from more than 350,000 in 1988 to less than 700 in 2003.
Along with India and Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only four nations where polio is currently endemic, or native to the region.
But reports of new cases of polio have begun appearing in several previously polio-free countries in recent months, causing health officials to worry that the new infections could seriously compromise the global effort against polio.
"It is a tragic setback," said Jeffrey Bates, a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in New York.
"We have to divert resources from endemic areas to reinfected areas. It dilutes our response and will lead to substantial input of resources by recipient countries to stop transmission."
Genetic tracking of the virus suggests that the outbreaks are spreading from India and Nigeria by infected travelers.
"The outbreak in Indonesia earlier this year can be traced to the Nigerian strain, which previously caused outbreaks in Sudan and Saudi Arabia," said Hamid Jafari, regional advisor to WHO in New Delhi, India.
"The Uttar Pradesh virus has since found its way to Bangladesh and Nepal. Last year there was an outbreak in Angola, which then spread to Namibia. That virus was also from Uttar Pradesh."
Experts in India and Nigeria blame the outbreaks there on factors such as high population density, poor sanitation, environmental degradation, and other diseases.
"The presence of other intestinal viruses affects the efficacy of the polio vaccine," UNICEF's Bates explained.
"When these viruses get into the food tract and interact with the vaccine, the immune system is compromised."
Less developed countries have to administer the vaccine several times for it to be effective, he says, and many families fail to present their children for repeated vaccinations.
Experts in both countries now think that this year's outbreaks could largely be due to immunization campaigns that missed a significant percentage of children in 2005.
But rumors about the side effects of the polio vaccine may also be amplifying the outbreaks.
Nearly 70 percent of reported polio cases in India are among Muslim children, according to WHO.
"We tend to miss more children in Muslim areas," said Wenger, of India's National Polio Surveillance Project.
"There seems to be some degree of reluctance to accept the vaccine, and this is reflected in numerous newspaper articles and the occasional fatwa [Islamic religious ruling]."
WHO's Jafari in New Delhi believes the local media there are compounding the problem.
"There is a lot of misinformation in newspapers and the media about the safety of the vaccine," he said.
Some communities believe the polio vaccine makes children impotent and sterile. Press reports in Urduthe language of many South Asian Muslimshave helped propagate the myths. In some areas of Moradabad, vaccination teams have even been attacked for trying to administer immunizations.
In Nigeria Muslim leaders suspended vaccination campaigns in 2003 because of rumors that the vaccine was laced with HIV and infertility drugs.
Co, of the Nigerian vaccination program, said that the misinformation has nearly undone the progress made in his region.
"The safety controversy about the oral polio vaccine raised by some Islamic scholars in mid-2003 has reversed all the gains in polio eradication up to 2002 in Nigeria," he said.
Both countries, however, are initiating new steps to tackle the growing infections.
In Nigeria, officials have launched a radical new campaign called Immunization Plus Days, in which communities are offered additional benefits to polio vaccination, including immunization against measles, diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus, as well as doses of Vitamin A and deworming tablets.
In India similar efforts are being strengthened to stop the outbreak in western Uttar Pradesh.
Health officials are teaming up with local leaders to ensure greater coverage for immunization, administering a new oral polio vaccine that offers greater protection with fewer doses than the traditional vaccine.
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A look at how vinyl is manufactured.
Today, some would say that living without vinyl is impossible. There are products made of vinyl, such as packaging for our food and drink, trim for all cars and safety pieces for professional athletes.
With such a large presence in our lives, you would think vinyl flooring would consist of a simple, age-old process, that could be repeated as needed. However, this is not the fact.
Vinyl flooring production uses highly sophisticated techniques, precise systems and complex methods. All of these provide you with high performance, high quality and beautiful vinyl flooring.
A new process has recently been developed, which offers you even more durable, fashionable and beautiful choices.
Please continue to read and increase your knowledge while we explain how vinyl flooring is made.
Perhaps your knowledge regarding vinyl after reading this will turn you and your home into one that is decorated with one of life’s most popular products.
The rotogravure process spins out unlimited choices. The rotogravure printing process is the most commonly used method for making residential vinyl floors. It offers you a number of possibilities in design and pattern.
The process of rotogravure involves a print cylinder that spins around while the vinyl's core layer (called the gel coat) passes underneath.
Various coloured ink dyes are printed systematically by the cylinder.
A clear wearlayer is applied to the surface after the print dyes are set.
The appearance retention of a rotogravure vinyl floor is dependent on the durability of the clear wearlayer.
Know this about vinyl flooring. The wearlayer is crucial to the performance of your vinyl floor. The thickness of the wearlayer varies with each vinyl product series or collection and is normally measured in mils.
The thickness of a mil is about the same as a page in your telephone book.
A 10-mil wearlayer would comparable in thickness to 10 pages of your telephone book.
Normally, more expensive vinyl floors will have thicker wearlayers.
The expectations of how long your vinyl floor will look attractive and new are based on the wearlayer’s performance.
In order to understand the capabilities of wearlayers, we need to define the performance characteristics that you need to look for in vinyl.
These performance characteristics can be divided into several areas:
Easy to clean up stills.
Doesn’t show scratches easily.
Resists staining from normal household products.
Stays looking like new.
Easy to clean
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If your floor begins to look drab and old, it is most likely caused by hundreds of hairline scratches in the wearlayer.
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Also, the style, value and beauty of vinyl put it in the running as a potential floor for your home and home life.
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STRIP TEASE ART LIES IN ILLUSION
Gunpowder Isn't All the Chinese Invented
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18 (AP) — The Chinese have invented just about everything, including the strip tease, says the Pekinese film star, Li Ling Ai.
Li Ling Ai, a visitor here, said in an interview that just as the Chinese invented gunpowder, but used it for firecrackers instead of weapons, they invented the strip tease — "but as an art instead of vulgar entertainment."
Since her arrival, the Chinese actress has struck up a friendship with Valerie Parks, an occidental who disrobes nightly before audiences at a burlesque house. Miss Ai [sic] said Miss Parks exhibited almost as much finesse as some of her sloe-eyed rivals.
"The essence of Chinese art is illusion," said Li Ling, who speaks voluby but dresses in native garb.
"The Chinese strip dancer combines suggestion with extreme delicacy. She removes her clothing layer by layer, intriguingly, but never reaches the final shock of complete nudity. She ends her dance — artistically — in black lace underwear.
Miss Ai made it plain she was not herself a strip dancer. A film writer, producer and director, as well as actress, she was the program director of the Chinese pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
For four years she has been devoting much of her time to the colored film study of China, "Kukan", which cameraman Rey Scott of St. Louis recently completed. She is in this country now arranging for its distribution.
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The U.S. Sheep Experiment Station is located approximately six miles north of Dubois, Idaho, which is the Clark County seat. Clark county contains 1,765 square miles of land and has a population of approximately 980 persons, approximately 500 of whom live in Dubois. The USSES is one of the largest employers in Clark County.
The USSES has research land in two states: 27,930 acres of ARS land at Headquarters, which has office, laboratory, animal, equipment, and residential buildings, dry-lot facilities for research throughout the year, lambing facilities, and lands used for spring and autumn grazing and rangeland research; approximately 16,600 acres of [unsurveyed] ARS land in Montana, which is used for summer grazing and rangeland research; 2,600 acres of ARS land at the Humphrey Ranch in Idaho, which is near Monida, Montana, has animal facilities and equipment buildings, and is used for spring, summer, and autumn grazing and rangeland research; and 1,200 acres of ARS land at the Henninger Ranch near Kilgore, Idaho, which has animal facilities and is used for summer grazing and rangeland research. The lands range from approximately 4,800 feet to nearly 10,000 feet in elevation, with average annual precipitation that ranges from approximately 10 inches in the Snake River plain to nearly 21 inches on the ARS land in Montana. Because of its diverse geography, USSES lands contain subalpine meadow, foothill, sagebrush steppe, and desert shrubland ecosystems. This diversity provides unparalleled research opportunities within ARS.
The USSES currently has approximately 3,000 mature sheep, plus attendant young sheep of various ages. Including mature ewes and ewe lambs, lambing rates are approximately 170%, and weaning rates are approximately 145%. The total number of sheep soon after the end of the lambing period is approximately 6,500. The numbers of mature and young sheep retained vary according to research needs. Sheep in excess of those needed for hypothesis-driven research are not retained. Sheep harvest most of their feed through grazing. The numbers of sheep are not allowed to approach the carrying-capacity of the land. Harvested feeds (e.g., alfalfa hay, barley straw, small grains, corn, and various by-products) are used to formulate balanced diets to feed the sheep when they are in dry-lots.
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Good morning. It’s a great honor to be here today to offer a few words about what Nelson Mandela means to my country and to people everywhere.
Nelson Mandela is a great man who faced one of the greatest evils of our time. Apartheid was twisted and it was grotesque. It used the trappings of democracy to try to conceal the reality of racist tyranny. It invoked the teachings of pseudo-science to try to rationalize the brutality of white supremacy. It deployed the preachings of false faith to try to justify the underlying malice of oppression. “Ah, but your land is beautiful,” wrote the South African novelist Alan Paton—and a land of the greatest beauty was scarred by a dictatorship of the greatest cruelty.
Looking back at the sheer reach and perversity of the apartheid regime reminds us of the magnitude of South Africa’s victory. Surely few could have imagined that apartheid’s overlords would have relinquished power voluntarily and peacefully. Nelson Mandela understood the power of words to change minds and the power of peaceful deeds to open hearts. He did not overthrow apartheid by force of arms. He overthrew it by force of example. He was apartheid’s captive but never its prisoner. He never let his jailers make him doubt his own humanity, and he never let himself doubt their own humanity. We should not minimize the impact of global isolation, moral reproach, and economic sanctions—but in the final analysis, apartheid collapsed because Mandela convinced his jailers to surrender the key.
Mandela’s ability to persuade South Africa’s apartheid government to release their grip on power was rooted in his astonishing capacity to quiet the fears of the white minority even as he insisted on the rights of the black majority—to make it possible for the old rulers to become ordinary citizens and for the nation to stand together elated in long lines to cast their first democratic ballots. What makes Mandela more than just a president, more than just the hero of a liberation struggle, is his ability to remember yesterday while focusing on tomorrow—to offer the knowing and embracing forgiveness that transforms the oppressor and lifts up the oppressed.
We live today in an era marred by those who preach division, in lands too often torn by those who see our differences as pretexts for strife rather than sources of strength. But in our unredeemed world, Nelson Mandela continues to embody the politics of truth and reconciliation—not amnesia, not amnesty without reckoning, but an unsparing realization that the humanity all of us share can help us transcend the sins that we commit. We are imperfect creatures; we are capable of immense and unexpected grace as well as vast and unimaginable malice. And so South Africa, once the world’s epitome of racism, has now become its paragon of reconciliation.
Sometimes it takes great leaders to remind us of the truths we hold to be self-evident. Nelson Mandela is such a leader, and we are fortunate to walk the earth in his days. We hope that this day in his honor will remind all our citizens of his towering, healing, and joyful example. When he won his country’s first free election on May 2, 1994, President-elect Mandela called the birth of democracy in South Africa “a small miracle.” It was indeed a miracle, but there was nothing small about it. For that great gift, on behalf of the United States, let me simply say: Madiba, we thank you.
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New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Increasing taxes on tobacco can save up to a million lives, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas R. Frieden said here Monday.
Advocating higher tax on tobacco, Frieden said half a million to a million lives could be saved by making tobacco expensive, and hence difficult to afford.
'Taxation is the single most effective way to curb use of tobacco. Unfortunately, tobacco has become affordable for many, a little increase in the tax can prevent half a million to a million deaths,' said Frieden, who is on a visit to India.
He said that imposing taxes on 'bidi' is difficult as it is mostly in an unorganised sector.
Citing the example of Uruguay which reduced its tobacco use by 25 percent in just three years, he added that tough legislations can help reduce smoking.
He also said that studies have shown that tobacco farmers were not adversely effected by discouraging tobacco use.
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Rush Medical College opened in 1843 in Chicago, IL, with 22 students. The school was named for Dr Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence and was known as the Father of American Psychiatry. A doctor with “Rush” training was highly respected on the prairie of the American West during the 19th century.
At that time there were a lot of quacks running around hawking their wares and promising instant miracle cures. Anybody could call themselves a doctor and many did, selling ointments, salves, and other concoctions made from turpentine, creosote, and even heroin. However, the mainstream doctors at the time weren’t much better. Their course of action was bleeding, purging, and blistering. No wonder people turned to the quacks.
There was another arm of the medical profession. The Native American Indian used herbal, homeopathic medicine. Some physicians known as “Eclectics” followed this tradition and relied on herbs and other home remedies. This movement existed from 1825 to 1939. The leaders of the movement were interested in researching all possibilities and were never able to nail down a certain methodology. Therefore they eventually ceased to exist but their approach was popular with the people and helped to change the medical profession.
Due to the French and other explorers, by the year 1830 there was a large catalogue of plants with information on their medicinal uses. These Eclectics, or reformers, who rejected the lancet and mercury, had plants growing on the American prairie readily at their disposal.
Although my Great Grandfather graduated from the Rush Medical College in 1891, he is listed as an “Eclectic Physician” in the Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1882-1883. It seems he received his more formal training later in life. It is too bad his life was cut short because I it sounds like he was good at what he did.
“Dr J. C. Beard died on Monday morning, September 5, 1892, after a long illness, at the home of his father in Washington Township. He was aged 37 years, 2 months and three days. Dr Beard was born July 2, 1855. He was brought up in Ringgold County. He read medicine in the office of Dr S Bailey of this place, and in March 1891 graduated in the Rush Medical College at Chicago. In 1888 he married Miss Howell, daughter of W.I.F. Howell. He practiced for a time at Lyons, Kansas, but since last May, at Tingley, Iowa. He fell prey to tuberculosis. It had been making insidious progress for years though serious symptoms have been developed more recently. Dr Beard gave promise of taking high rank in his profession, being a good student and possessing in a marked degree the aptitudes essential to success. He was a self-possessed and well poised character, and made himself available to all. His most intimate friends knew him to be clear headed, posessing good habits and principles. He leaves a wife and four children, three daughters and one son. The wife, father and friends have much sympathy in their loss. The community feels that a life of great promise has been cut short. The funeral took place Tuesday, September 6 from his father’s home, and the services were conducted by Rev. BD Himebaugh and the remains were buried in the north cemetery.”
I had to look up “insidious” since it didn’t seem to fit.
- Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
- Treacherous; crafty.
But now that I think about it both definitions could fit in this context.
As an aside, the photo is not of my Great Grandfather. I could not find a photo of him. This photo is of his parents, my great, great, grandparents. My great great grandfather, Alexander, died at age 77, seven years later. His claim to fame was being an elected official and moving to 5 different cities across Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. His wife is Miss Harriet Jones whose “people” came to New Hampshire from England in the early 1600′s.
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TERRE HAUTE —
As a kid, Naaman Gambill peeked into his dad’s beehives.
“It’s amazing every time you go in [the hive],” said Gambill, now 27, “because it’s a city unto itself.”
The word “city” packs a bit of irony. Gambill grew up on his family’s small farm south of Terre Haute, but now he and his wife, Ashley, reside and work in Chicago. “If you would’ve told me I’d be living in a big city like this, I’d have told you you’re crazy,” he said, chuckling.
The irony doesn’t stop there. Amid the metropolitan setting, Gambill is still peering into beehives … for a living. He manages the beekeeping operation at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago’s west side.
He wears the title of “greening programs coordinator” and is employed by the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, a nonprofit agency that supports the city-owned park, but Gambill does a lot of teaching to many of the 130,000 people who annually visit its 14 acres of gardens and wildlife.
Which brings the story back to his Hoosier homeland.
Gambill got his early education in the Vigo County schools, and then earned a secondary education degree at Indiana University, where he met Ashley. They made a pact “that whoever got the better teaching job, we would move there,” he recalled.
His wife landed a position in Chicago, they moved, Naaman secured a job, too, and then both lost those jobs through reductions-in-force. Ashley found a spot at a private school in Chicago, Naaman heard about the conservatory job while volunteering there, and he took it.
Nearly two years later, he’s enjoying life.
“It is a fantastic job,” he said. “I get to keep bees, grow plants, and walk around this wonderful place.”
The conservatory opened in 1908. It features eight indoor display houses and three outdoor gardens, with more than 1,300 plant species indoors and another 300 species outdoors. The bees, with their pollinating virtues, keep the ecological system flowing. Gambill maintains 15 hives, organizes a team of 30 community volunteers who adopt and care for hives at the park, narrates and demonstrates for tours of students and adults, teaches urban beekeeping, and oversees two new hives at the popular Shedd Aquarium across town.
“Naaman’s fantastic,” said John Paterson, director of programs and interpretation for the alliance. “He’s a fantastic worker, and has such an innate interest in these urban agricultural issues. And being an educator gives him a unique perspective.”
In fact, there’s a waiting list to serve as a volunteer in Gambill’s beekeeping program, said Mattie Wilson, volunteer coordinator for the alliance.
“So he’s doing OK,” she said, understatedly.
Gambill’s passion for teaching and nature connect to his Vigo County roots. He sees the city of Chicago embracing the values of agriculture and wildlife, which he learned while popping open his dad’s beehives, eating tomatoes straight out of their garden, or fishing. “The more that I’m around the urban environment, I really appreciate the upbringing my parents gave me,” he said. “You really could be Tom Sawyer.”
Chicago’s hip attitude toward ecology gives Gambill a more at-home feeling. He credits former Mayor Richard M. Daley for adopting “green city” policies. After manufacturing industries vacated factories on Chicago’s west side, the city transitioned the area toward a greener look. The conservatory and the bees benefit.
“Because Chicago is a very green city, bees tend to do very well,” Gambill said. “Bees are kind of in vogue right now, because people are conscious of their plight.”
Nationwide, bee populations suffered declines in the past six years for a variety of reasons, according to researchers. The primary suspected causes include the cumulative effect of farm pesticides, parasites and “colony collapse disorder,” a phenomenon in which the worker bees suddenly disappear. The effect of this summer’s drought and intense heat on the bees is yet to be seen, said Candace Minster, garden manager at the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice in Vigo County.
“Not in my experience with bees have we had a season like this,” Minster said, “so I don’t know what will happen.”
In Chicago, the mild spring temperatures had Gambill optimistic. “Around March and April, we were thinking, ‘Wow, this could be a banner year,’” he said. Since then, he and the volunteers have noticed “a dropoff” in the bees’ ability to keep up their routine.
Still, their contributions to the plants and wildlife at the park, and elsewhere, is vital and fascinating.
Bees produce honey and wax, and “figure out the most efficient configuration [for their honeycomb] is a hexagon,” Gambill explained. (If those comb holes were circular, side-by-side, they would leave small gaps.) A strong hive contains 60,000 to 80,000 bees. Each colony includes a queen (a fertile female); workers (infertile females that perform the laborious tasks of preparing food for others and the queen, guarding the hive, and heating and cooling it); and drones (whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen, though only one in 1,000 realizes that royal opportunity), according to the American Beekeeping Federation.
Approximately one-third of food consumed in the U.S. is affected by bees. Crops pollinated by the winged creatures include cucumbers, melons, cherries, apples, alfalfa, onions, blueberries, cranberries and dozens of others.
Gambill passes on that message to visitors to the conservatory hives.
He’s also learned how to not get stung. Bees don’t like stinging people, he said, because they die after doing so. They’re simply protecting the colony. To avoid that situation, beekeepers typically “smoke” the bees. The tactic disrupts the bees’ pheromones, through which they communicate. Smoke also triggers an evolutionary trait in bees, Gambill said, telling them to eat quickly before an approaching fire damages their food source. The smoke disorients the bees, and leaves them too full to bother with stinging people.
Thus, “I really only get stung when I screw up,” he said.
Whether he’s explaining the “smoke” tactic, visiting an elementary school classroom, or teaching local adults how to maintain their own beehives right in the heart of Chicago, Gambill enjoys spreading the word about bees and introducing longtime Chicagoans to a facility that was often unknown to them.
“It’s basically an oasis on the west side,” he said, “that’s been here for over 100 years.”
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Invisible QR codes designed to thwart counterfeiters
By Ben Coxworth
September 13, 2012
Along with the possibilities of fluorescing dyes and butterfly-wing-inspired printing techniques, there could soon be a new weapon in the fight against counterfeiting – invisible QR codes. Researchers at the University of South Dakota and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have developed a process for applying such codes to glass, plastic film, and paper products such as bank notes.
The codes are generated using an AutoCAD (computer-aided design) program, and are physically made up of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles blended with blue and green fluorescence ink. They are applied using an aerosol jet printer, and remain invisible to the naked eye. This means that unlike bar codes, they wouldn’t interfere with the appearance of currency, packaging, or any other surface to which they were applied.
When illuminated with near infra-red laser light, the codes become visible. They can then be “read” by a scanning device such as a smartphone, to verify the authenticity of the item in question. In lab tests, codes were still readable after being printed on paper that was subsequently folded in random directions 50 times.
Because the production process is quite complex, the researchers believe that it would be very difficult for counterfeiters to replicate working, accurate QR codes. Things could be made even more difficult for those counterfeiters by embedding microscopic characters and symbols (which would require a microscope to read) within the original code, or by varying the nanoparticle-to-ink ratio.
While the entire design-to-verification process currently takes about 90 minutes, project leader Jeevan Meruga is confident that commercial-scale application of the codes could ultimately take as little as 10 to 15 minutes – it isn’t clear how many applications could be done within that amount of time, but presumably enough to make the technology logistically practical.
A paper on the research was published yesterday in the journal Nanotechnology. More information is available in the video below.
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Whether or not they like their current job, the majority of employees would work elsewhere if they had the chance, new research finds.
A study by the online recruiting website Jobvite revealed that three-quarters of workers are actively looking for, or are open to, new jobs — up 6 percentage points from a year ago.
Those looking for a new employer are increasingly turning to social media for help. The survey found that job seekers are more social than the overall work force, with 88 percent having at least one social networking profile. Nearly two-thirds of those looking for a new job have accounts on at least two networks, while 44 percent are using three or more.
"With fierce competition for jobs, which now includes a majority of employed people on top of active job seekers, social media has become a critical tool for job hunting and career growth," said Dan Finnigan, president and CEO of Jobvite.
Facebook is the most popular social network among those searching for a new employer. The research shows that 52 percent of job seekers use Facebook to help find work, up from 48 percent in 2011. Nearly 40 percent of job seekers use LinkedIn in their searches, and 34 percent are using Twitter.
The reasons job seekers use social networks is twofold: to search job postings and to network, the study found.
The study found that employers are also using social networks in the job search process. Nearly 20 percent of those applying for new jobs were asked to provide their Facebook profile, while nearly 10 percent were asked to see a LinkedIn or Twitter profile.
"One in six job seekers polled credited a social network for leading to their current/most recent employment," Finnigan said. "With technology and social networking rapidly evolving, those who don't engage through Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter will quickly find themselves falling behind."
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The coming storm overwhelms any other news today. People are busy with tasks such as cleaning gutters, clearing sewer drains, buying food items, getting gasoline for generators, buying ice that will melt into puddles in the refrigerator when the power does go out, as well as reading various Nixle reports that Jersey Central Power and Light said all customers should prepare for power outages lasting 7-10 days AFTER the storm. In an attempt to maintain normalcy and to see what the prelude to the storm might bring our way, birders did get into the field today. In the Morris and Somerset region, Chimney Rock’s 3 Evening Grosbeaks and 4th Golden Eagle of the season, an adult, were certainly the highlights of the day.
Duckage was thick at Melanie Lane Wetlands, where 70 Gadwall, 6 Northern Pintail (Morris County’s 1st of the season), 20 Green-winged Teal, and 4 Ruddy Duck joined the many Canada Geese, Mallards and American Black Ducks in attendance. American Wigeon, Wood Ducks, Green-winged Teal and Fox, White-throated, White-crowned, Song and Swamp Sparrows were at the southern end of Troy Meadows.
Lake Parsippany had only 1 Bufflehead with 15 Ruddy Ducks and a Pied-billed Grebe. Jamie Glydon found a Tennessee Warbler (TEWA) at Bee Meadow Park. Despite much effort and prodding by Jamie, the TEWA defied morphing into an Orange-crowned Warbler.
Meteorologists and weather-news people are saying that Sandy, The Storm of 2012, will be unlike anything most of us have ever experienced. Many of us are still smarting from the two weather bombshells of 2011, tropical storm Irene and the October 29 snowstorm (the irony of that latter date is not lost on anyone) so, I am not sure there is an appreciation of any more meteorological drama. Roadway passage and sanity permitting, there will be those who venture into the storm and its aftermath to see what unique avian species the storm may bring our way. Mocosocobirds will report any findings in our area albeit the posts will emanate from an iPhone 5 once the power goes out.
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4629 McCall Way NE, Calgary, AB, T2E 8A5, Canada
The Aero Space Museum of Calgary restores and preserves aircraft and artifacts relating to Western Canadian aviation history. Though educational activities we strive to educate the next generation with Canada's amazing aviation history.
9.1 miles Museum
1300 Zoo Road NE, Calgary, AB, T2E 7V6, Canada
The Calgary Zoo is the second largest zoo in Canada. The animal exhibits are organized by geographic region. The current exhibits include, Destination Africa, Canadian Wilds, Australia, Botanical gardens, Eurasia, Prehistoric Park and South America.
9.4 miles Zoo
4124 11th St SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 2H2, Canada
Those visitors interested in seeing antique firefighting equipment and trucks should stop in at the Calgary Firefighters Museum. Some of the key attractions at the Calgary Firefighters Museum are a 1948 Seagrave 25 m/ 85 ft aerial ladder truck, and a 1928 Godfredson...
9.9 miles Museum
750 - 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 5E1, Canada
Fort Calgary is operated by the Fort Calgary Preservation Society. The Society’s mandate is to preserve, utilize, develop, interpret and promote Fort Calgary for the benefit of the citizens and visitors to the city of Calgary.
10.0 miles Museum
316 - 7th Ave. S.E., Calgary, AB, T2G 0J2, Canada
Youthlink Calgary: The Calgary Police Interpretive Centre educates youth about crime and its consequences, and demonstrates how fulfilling tomorrows are built on sound lifestyle choices today. In addition, the role of police in society is examined.
10.5 miles Museum
130 — 9 Avenue S.E., Calgary, AB, T2G 0P3, Canada
At the Glenbow Museum, intriguing stories from Western Canada connect with extraordinary art and artifacts from around the world. Combining a museum, art gallery, library and archives all under one roof, Glenbow boasts over a million artifacts and some 28,000 works...
10.7 miles Museum
197 First Street, SW, Calgary, AB, T2P 4M4, Canada
The Chinese Artifacts Museum is located on the lower level of the centre. Exhibits include the story of Chinese immigration in Canada, and the history of the Chinese community in Calgary. There are also replicas of different kinds of Chinese artifacts, including...
10.9 miles Museum
707 - 13 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2R 0K8, Canada
Lougheed House is an independent, non-profit society, devoted to the restoration and public enjoyment of the historic House and its Gardens. Today many thousands of visitors from around the world come to view and explore the building, to enjoy lunch or tea in The...
11.4 miles Historic House
701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 2M5, Canada
The Creative Kids Museum, a part of the TELUS World of Science is located in Calgary, Canada. The Children's museum, which opened in October 2006, focuses on hands-on explorations of music, theater and visual arts and is Canada's first hands-on museum dedicated...
11.9 miles Museum
701 - 11 Street S.W., Calgary, AB, T2P 2C4, Canada
We help people of all ages and abilities put their imagination in action by providing inspiration, tools and opportunities.
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Unfortunately since 1972, travel to the moon has been non-existent, tourism or business. Currently the best bets to get yourself to the moon are with the USA, the European Space Agency and China - all have serious space programs with intentions to return, but are in no hurry - indeed the European Space Agency prefers robotic missions in general.
NASA was targeting their next trip for 2018, but that now looks to be perhaps a decade later than that. China is aiming for 2024, and India is perhaps dreaming but claims to want to go in 2020. Naturally places are limited on these crafts so you'll want to get in early.
Prices are difficult to estimate. Space tourism to the International Space Station is generally on the Soyuz rockets which can only reach Low Earth Orbit, and trips are generally believed to be around US$20 million per person.
If you're content with just a look at the moon, the private company Space Adventures and the Russian Space Agency have floated the idea of a flight around the moon for around US$100 million.
Getting around is more difficult once there, you can't fly as there's no atmosphere, and unless you bring a rover/vehicle you're stuck walking. If you can manage to land on Mons Hadley, the Descartes Highland or the Taurus-Littrow valley there are three stranded moon buggies from previous trips that may have some power left in them for your purposes.
There's not much to do once there - but the view of Earth is outstanding. You can play golf - although there's no official courses, but with the low gravity you'll set a personal best for driving, I promise!
And of course, where better a place to do the moonwalk than on the Sea of Tranquillity, site of the original manned moon landing!
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DOVER — Eleanor Harrison-Buck has spent years researching the people of Mesoamerica — studying the structure of their societies, and learning about their architecture and analyzing the role of religious ideology in their lives.
But lately, she's been spending a surprising amount of time talking about the Mayan calendar.
A mistaken idea that the Mayan calendar predicts an apocalyptic event will take place in December 2012 has taken root in popular culture, even though it's been debunked by new archaeological evidence, as well as academic experts.
Tales of a doomsday event occurring in 2012 are still running rampant in print, on television and online. The myth was also at the center of a major Hollywood film, adding more fuel to the fire.
About one in 10 Americans now reports feeling genuine anxiety about the prospect of a cataclysmic event occurring before the end of the year, according to a study conducted earlier this year.
“It is one of the first questions that comes up, not only among my students, but also among the general public and friends,” said Harrison-Buck, an assistant professor of archaeology at the University of New Hampshire. “You know, I can't tell you how many reporters have called me and asked me, 'Is the world going to end?”
As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Mayan calendar have been racing to convince people that the Mayas didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year. Earlier this year, archaeologists, anthropologists and others met in Mexico to discuss the implications of the myth.
The Maya calendar is a product of the 365 day solar calendar, which was shared throughout Mesoamerica. The Maya didn't develop it, according to Harrison-Buck, but they did elaborate on it. They also had a shorter ritual calendar, and the combination of the two produced a repeated cycle of 52 years, known as a “calendar round.”
For calculating dates beyond this 52-year period, the Maya and other cultures across Mesoamerica used the so-called “long count” calendar. This calendar is divided into periods of 394 years, called “baktuns.” The calendar fixes a given date within a period of 13 baktuns, known as the “great cycle.”
Researchers believe the great cycle of 13 baktuns started in 3,114 BC, meaning the period would end on date generally accepted as Dec. 21, 2012. That date is said to be the end of the “great cycle” of 13 baktuns.
Experts say 13 was a significant number for the Mayas, and the end of that cycle would be a milestone — but not an end.
The Maya saw time and space as a cyclical process, Harrison-Buck said. Researchers have determined this from hieroglyphics, and also from the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation story. The end of one time cycle in the long count calendar is more akin to a New Year's celebration than a doomsday, she said.
“While they didn't talk a lot about what events might accompany the end of this date, we know from period-ending celebrations in other, smaller bundles of time ... that they were certainly seen as times of destruction, but also renewal,” she said.
The Mayas, whose “classic” culture of writing, astronomy and temple complexes flourished from A.D. 300 to 900, were extremely interested in future events, far beyond Dec. 21.
By contrast, apocalyptic visions have been common for more than 1,000 years in Western, Christian thinking, and are not native to Mayan thought.
People interpreting the calendar incorrectly have proposed that the Maya were privy to knowledge about impending astronomical disasters, ranging from explosive storms on the surface of the sun that could knock out power grids to a galactic alignment that could trigger a reversal in Earth's magnetic field.
“It's become a snowballing process,” NASA astrobiologist David Morrison, who has been trying to debunk the Mayan calendar myth, said during a recent NASA videoconference. “It's gone viral. There's nothing logical about why these different calamities should be associated with Dec. 21, but that's the situation that we're in.”
For about a decade, Morrison has been answering questions from the public at NASA's “Ask an Astrobiologist” webpage. In the last few years, the real science questions have been overwhelmed by questions about a 2012 doomsday.
Morrison believes there are literally millions of people who think the world will end next month, including many children. Some have even said they are contemplating suicide, Morrison said.
“While it's a joke to many people and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly concerned, and I think it's appropriate that we should answer these questions that are being sent to us,” he said.
Some of the most convincing evidence disproving the Mayan calendar myth emerged during an archaeological dig in Guatemala earlier this year. A Boston University professor and his team found a mural painted inside a residence that includes a calendar with predictions of dates thousands of years after the end of the 13th baktun.
Fellow BU professor Curtis Runnels said the Mayan calendar myth appears to share some similarities with other great hoaxes of the past.
Runnels, an archaeology professor who teaches a course on historical myths and mysteries, recalled reading similar doomsday scenarios spelled out in newspaper stories when he was a child. He suggested that deep down, most people understand the stories are fiction, and value them only for entertainment.
“People like sensation,” he explained. “They like mystery.”
During NASA's videoconference last week, Andrew Fraknoi, a science educator from Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif., suggested that the Mayan calendar myth has exposed one real concern facing our country in the near future: a low regard for science education.
“It's really sad that so many people are worried and writing to David Morrison,” he said. “It's really sad that our schools have not taught skeptical thinking.”
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The high technology revolution in golf has been concentrated in the manufacturing of clubs and balls. Titanium shafts, acrylate centers, four-layer ball designs — terms that have moved from the physics lab to the pro shop. But now, the ultimate for the golf geek — global positioning systems for the golf course.
Just as GPS technology has exploded in the general consumer market so that stopping for directions out of town is a thing of the past, now it is revolutionizing the game of golf. Gone are the days of, “I guess I’m 20 yards from the 150 yard marker” to, “It’s 163 yards to the front of the green.” Global positioning technology connects to orbiting satellites to tell you precisely (plus-or-minus one yard) exactly how far you are to the front, middle and back of a green, as well as the distance to bunkers, water and other hazards.
The systems are pre-programmed with information on various courses or they include subscription services to download thousands of courses worldwide.
More Than One Number
Knowing the distance to the green (actually three distances to the green — front/middle/back) is obviously a big help. But getting maximum use from GPS technology means using more than just your approach distance. Because the devices are programmed for individual courses, you also have distances to things you want to avoid — bunkers, water, etc.
For example, on your second shot on a par five, the yard marker may put you at 240 yards from the green. But GPS will add information such as those bunkers 210 yards away, so your best strategy may be to play short of the bunkers and then hit a wedge close for a possible birdie.
One of the most popular GPS golf devices is the GolfBuddy® World Platinum. Featuring: 30,000+ preloaded courses, high resolution full color screen, full layout mode, full statistical analysis module, automatic course and hole recognition and includes rechargeable Lithium-ion battery and swivel holster.
Of course, no piece of golf equipment would be complete without a full range of accessories. Cart mounts, clamps, suction cups, leather cases and belt clips – low tech support for high tech golf.
GPS systems bring absolute precision to golf strategy. When you know you are exactly 187 yards from the green, you know exactly which club to use. Now, if you could just hit the ball exactly 187 yards!
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The scientific mission of the Helmholtz Institute is to study perception and motor behaviour on various levels of complexity (cells, organs and organism). Presently, it is generally accepted that perception and motor behaviour are manifestations of the same information processing system and should be studied together. In order to study perception successfully, a multi-disciplinary approach is essential in which concepts and methods from neurophysiology, biophysics, psychophysics and psychology are integrated. Excellent scientists with a variety of scientific backgrounds (biology, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, and others) work together within the institute to optimize exchange of ideas, knowledge and methods. In addition, the Institute provides a fruitful atmosphere for the development of young, promising scientists who are encouraged to create and realise innovative research plans. | <urn:uuid:40ff3578-314d-4b29-8c70-5f8bacc7719f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.narcis.nl/organisation/RecordID/ORG1237963/Language/nl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91881 | 155 | 2.25 | 2 |
How Edge-Core Wireless Solution Reduce Business Process Cost and Boost Operation Efficiency (Gwangyang Bay, Korea)
The Gwangyang Bay Area, located in South Jeolla Province, South Korea includes the nearby Gwangyang, Yeosu, Yulchon Industrial Complex, and MyodoIsland which is located in the center of bay area. The bay area, with over 150km square of hinterland, is also well-known for the global steelworks and marine tourism. Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs faces the challenge in implementing a project to build up a large-scale wireless communication network which provides not only free Wi-Fi internet access for visitors or ships' crew in this area but also ship-specific information services over a wide range over water.
The wireless solution required has to provide wide wireless coverage for all of the users and crew in this wide range of area with minimum budget required. The weather-proof design is also a critical concern as the extreme weather condition in Gwangyang where there can be very windy, snowy or rainy, especially during the harsh and cold winter.
After several wireless access and backhaul solutions were reviewed, Crofos Netowork, Edge-Core dual-band outdoor Bridge and Wireless Access Point, WA6202A / WA6202AM, is chosen as the outdoor Bridge / Access Points for this project.
Offering support for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz1(1a+b/g) radios, as well as the ability to provide point-to-point or point-to-multi-point connection, WA6202A/WA6202AM wins with the flexibility to satisfy both access and backhaul requirements. The WDS feature extends the wireless coverage by enabling the wireless interconnection without the wired backbone to link them. And the Power-Over-Ethernet capability enables the units to be installed in any ideal location while saving the time and cost to reach power outlets.
As for the critical concern caused by the extreme weather in the bay area, WA6202A / WA6202AM easily overcome the issue with the high standard of IP68 weather-proof design. This outdoor unit can withstand lightning up to +4KV of Input surge, wind survival up to 150 MPH, and operating temperature between -40 to 60 degree Celcius.
Approximately 100 units of WA6202A / WA6202AM are deployed in this project. There are four Base Transceiver Stations (BST) with four WA6202A connected by L2 switches, each WA6202A were configured as the slave units to receive the wireless signals while WA6202AM were configured as (point to point, or point to multipoint) master units to extend the range of the wireless network coverage further. The rest of the WA6202A units serve as access points that transmit service data to users' end (Wi-Fi enabled devices like PC, laptop or PDA). The transmissions from the master to access points are set to use 5.8GHz radio with fewer legacy devices and virtually no interferers, while the transmission from access points to users' ends are set to use certain channels of 2.4GHz radio.
The installation is easy and smooth, thanks to the RSSi LED indicator lights, 4 N-type connectors for diverse antenna options and Power-Over-Ethernet (POE) feature. These Edge-Core outdoor units can be easily upgraded or maintain configuration through Web, FTP or TFTP interface. In addition, the advanced security features like 802.1x (MD5, EAP-TTL, EAP-TTLS, PEAP), HTTPs, SSL, SSH, AES, TKIP, WEP, WPA, WPA2 makes WA6202A / WA6202AM the ideal choice for government or hotspot projects' says Mr. Kim, the authorized partner of Edge-Core in South Korea. 'The new wireless network system not only provides visitors with easy access to Wi-Fi services but also crew members with real-time safety information about ship operation. Moreover, the wireless network system will also be a great help in promoting the International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012.'
Introducing Edge-Core Dual-Band Wireless Outdoor Bridge / Access Point System Edge-Core dual-band outdoor bridge and wireless access point system is designed to bridge two or more wired LAN's, while simultaneously providing wireless access to local or mobile users. It comes with two models. One unit can be set as a Master base station (WA6202AM) while others will be used in slave configuration (WA6202A).
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Check article starting on page 18 of the spring 2011 Hotline here: http://www.w1dm.com/projects/HOTLINE/Hotline.html
Lots of good info.
That was an excellent writeup. One thing I would add having refinished mine the quick and inexpensive way (light sand, then sprayed three light coats of high gloss black appliance epoxy enamel from a rattle can) is don't make the mistake I made by overbuilding the application in the area you see highlighted in diagram #10. I have the older-style castings and with only three light coats of paint I discovered I could barely get the freshly painted rudders back into the castings. And once I did it was difficult to get the rudders to move up and down. Figured they would "break in" after a couple of sails but no go -Reboot!!
In my case I elected to remove the rudders and sand off the top 3" of freshly applied paint (left the top 3" unfinished). Not the perfect solution but after two seasons I was and still am happy results.
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A news item published in The New Indian Express (Chennai Edition).
February 27, 1995
Hams making waves in communications
Beep,beep,beep.... The amateur radio operators or hams in Neyveli are back in the air and are humming with activity after a long gap.
Amateur radio, popularly known as 'ham' radio, is a fascinating and scientific hobby but costly, too. It requires special skill to operate the transmitter and receiver.
A casual chat with president P.Ramarasu and general secretary V.Venkatesh of Neyveli Amateur Radio club, which recently celebrated its anniversary, revealed interesting details about ham operation.
They said hams exchanged messages of technical interest or of personal interest to develop their skill in radio communication techniques through this hobby. News, music, tape-recordings and political discussions are forbidden according to the rules.
A ham may communicate either by talking (voice mode) or through his computer. Some of the hams do not confine themselves to talking to hams nearby but conduct experiments in radio communication by bouching their signals to reach far-off stations.
Technical co-ordinator R.Mahadevan said the price of the equipment ranged from Rs.1,000 to Rs. one lakh in the open market. he said a reasonably good set could be assembled at home by purchasing the necessary spares from junk shops and the total cost would come to around Rs.6,000.
Before operating a ham radio, one should get a licence from the Wireless Planning and Co-ordination (WPC) wing of the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications, after passing their relevant examination conducted by the WPC wing. There are four grades of licences and the extent of priveleges depends on the grades.
According to enquires, around 100 persons took the examination from Neyveli in 1985 and only 45 emerged successful. But owing to lack of apparatus and their being employed in various parts of the country they could not pursue ham activies.
Neyveli being an important industrial town in the world. Mr. Ramarasu and Mr. Venkatesan wanted to revive ham activities and start an exclusive club. they launched the Neyveli Amateur Radio Club with an active membership of 25 hams.
They have even applied to the Ministry of Telecommunications for a call sign of their own - VUZ NLC. The NLSC had also promised to provide accommodation to house the club so as to serve as a meeting point for hams.
At present there are six assembly units on which new hams could be trained. Continuous practice will enable out to acquire perfection in operating hams.
Hobby apart, hams also render public service during emergencies and whenever natural calamities like cyclones, floods, earthquakes strike anywhere in the country. They rush to the scene of disaster and instal their radio stations to organise rescue and relief works. They also pass on messages seeking urgent blood transfusion, life-saving drugs or specialist medical advice normal times.
The importance of ham service was felt during the 1993 cyclone and floods in Tamil Nadu, according to Mr. Mahadevan and Mr. Venkatesan. they said hams also acted as relay stations to pass on urgent messages to the southern-most districts of Tamil Nadu when a devastating earthquake shook Maharashtra on September 30,1993.
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The Lafayette Collection consists of manuscripts, documents, and
correspondence. Facsimiles are noted as such in the folder listing.
Series I, manuscripts, comprises unpublished written or printed
material except for documents and original correspondence.
Series II, documents, comprises written and printed material that has
official or legal import.
Series I and II are each divided into two sections: the first,
material not written by Lafayette, is arranged alphabetically by name, place,
or issuing institution. Manuscripts written by Lafayette come last and are
Series III, Lafayette's correspondence, has been divided into outgoing
and incoming correspondence Outgoing is arranged chronologically except for the
large Beauchet correspondence which is grouped together and comes last (Boxes
34-41). Incoming correspondence is divided into three subsections: in the
first, correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name of sender; in the
second, Boxes 87-89, general correspondence Lafayette received in 1830-1831 is
arranged alphabetically by sender, but individual headings are not listed in
the folder guide; in the third, Boxes 90-94, incoming American correspondence
is arranged chronologically by year only, and alphabetically by sender within
each year. Box 95 contains facsimiles of correspondence and letters from
unknown senders from 1831-1834.
Series IV contains Lafayette family papers and is arranged as follows:
manuscripts and documents and letters related to Madame Lafayette; manuscripts
and documents related to George Washington Lafayette; letters from George
Washington Lafayette arranged chronologically; letters to him arranged
alphabetically; petitions received arranged alphabetically; papers associated
with the Lafayette family in general.
In the folder listing, folder titles include dates and places, most
derived from the item itself; some are supplied. Information supplied by the
editor appears in brackets. Some dates refer to the French Revolutionary
calendar; these are followed by the Gregorian equivalent in brackets. The
folder listing is indexed, using headings derived from folder titles or
supplied as necessary. When a page reference in the index does not adequately
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A study of calf milk pasteurization on six farms in central Pennsylvania.
Data regarding antibiotics in dairy products and meat has been monitored and of concern for many years, but recently government agencies, medical personnel, and consumers have place much more interest in this public health issue.
Field surveys show that more than 50% of cows will experience one or more metabolic or infectious disease process following calving.
Manure nutrients, a valuable commodity in the past, are becoming an unwanted pollutant. The primary concern is with nitrogen and phosphorus which, through run-off and leaching of manure-amended soils, find their ways into ground and surface water.
High milk quality is a product of management and not treatment.
Conversations that your employees have off the farm reflect on you and your business and go a long way in shaping your image in the community. But you can’t control what employees say on their time off, right? Wrong.
Private companies and money sources supply the expertise, funding, equipment and management help necessary for the design, construction and operation of these plants.
Even under ideal weather and housing conditions pneumonia is often just around the corner.
Research published in the December issue of the Journal of Dairy Science evaluated the effects of cold stress on calf growth, health, and immunity.
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The joint UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, currently visiting Jordan, has reiterated his call for a truce, urging the Syrians to monitor the proposed ceasefire themselves.
Lakhdar Brahimi has been touring the region, attempting to shore up international support for a temporary ceasefire to be established during next week's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
"The invitation to the ceasefire, if successful, will allow us to build upon a real truce, holding all fire, and eventually, a political process which will help the Syrians solve their problems and allow them to rebuild the Syria they dream of," Brahimi said after meeting Nasser Judeh, Jordan's foreign minister, on Thursday.
"People are asking me who is going to monitor the ceasefire? My answer to them is no one, I call upon the Syrians to monitor themselves."
Speaking from Geneva, Switzerland, Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, voiced support for Brahimi's attempt to broker a truce.
She also said war crimes appeared to have been committed by both sides in the 19-month long conflict.
"I have been looking at the facts found by the commission of inquiry," she said.
"They all point to war crimes being committed there, both by the government forces and the rebel forces, and I echo the call of the secretary-general, and now Mr Brahimi, for an immediate stop to the killings; a ceasefire."
Pillay said UN officials were still trying to verify whether or not forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used cluster munitions.
"I myself saw video footage of these cluster bombs," she said.
"They are illegal, and international law forbids the use of cluster bombs, particularly on the part of state authorities ... There would certainly be a very serious violation of international humanitarian law, because of how dangerous they are and how indiscriminately they can damage and kill people when they land on the ground and burst."
At least 44 people, including women and children, were killed on Thursday as fighter jets pounded the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan, said rescue workers.
They said bombs destroyed two residential buildings and a mosque in the strategic northwestern town, which was captured by rebel fighters on October 9 in a push to create a buffer zone along the Turkish border.
Rebels say they have launched a "final assault" on Wadi Deif army base in northwestern Syria - a key depot for tanks and fuel supplies.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 135 people were killed, including 53 civilians, in violence across the country during the day.
The conflict has claimed about 30,000 lives so far, according to the opposition. The UN says about 350,000 people have now fled the violence in Syria and entered the four countries bordering the war-torn nation.
Many more have been displaced within the country's borders.
Iraq has received more than 46,000 refugees, while about 96,000 have entered Lebanon.
More than 100,000 Syrians have sought refuge in Turkey, while nearly 106,000 are living in camps in Jordan, where a school has been set up for Syrian children in the al-Zaatari refugee camp.
Temporary classrooms are better than no classrooms, say the students, but conditions in the school, run by UNICEF, leave a lot to be desired.
"We're studying in tents in the middle of the desert just like the tents we live in," Asmaa, an eleventh-grade student from the city of Deraa, said.
"Nothing has changed. We're suffocating here. The scorching heat is roasting us. The toilets are so vile you can’t stand using them, and the tap water is boiling."
UNICEF's Simon Ingram says that conditions in the camp will soon improve, and has appealed to international donors to help the agency protect the children, especially as the bitter cold of winter will soon set in.
"It has to be said that things are not perfect ... but a lot has been done in a very short space of time," Ingram from Amman, Jordan.
"Just adjacent to that very site, construction is already well advanced on what will be prefabricated buildings to house even more children, as the needs of the camp rise faster than ever - and that's been the other issue that we've had to contend with, along with our partners from the ministry of education."
Establishing the school inside the camp is a sign that Jordan is preparing for the Syrians to be here for a long time, though many of the 2,400 children enrolled want to return home, where facilities are better and textbooks are more plentiful.
On the ground, meanwhile, fighting continued in Syria, with reports of an explosion in Damascus near an office of the intelligence services.
Syrian state television said a motorcycle bomb exploded in the Kafr Souseh neighbourhood, but that no one was injured.
The state-run news agency also said rebel fighters had blown up two oil and gas pipelines near the Iraqi border, while activist video posted on YouTube purported to show an attack on Maraat Horma, in Idlib province, where heavy shelling continues to be reported.
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Half a glass of wine a day ‘ups breast cancer risk in women by 10 pc’Published On: Wed, Jun 22nd, 2011 | Women Health | By BioNews
One of Britain”s leading doctors has warned that just half a glass of wine a day could raise a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore said that even those who stick within Government recommended limits for alcohol could be at higher risk.
He warned that one unit of alcohol a day – half a glass of wine – increased the risk of breast cancer by 10 percent.
Gilmore, who had been addressing MPs at the health select committee, said that it was important that this information “was in the public domain”.
“There is no safe limit for all conditions,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
“But the risk of breast cancer increases even for women who stick within the safe limits,” he added.
Gilmore, former head of the Royal College of Physicians, was referring to a major ongoing study carried out by Oxford University involving more than a million women. | <urn:uuid:e0a1941c-b8ef-4575-94ee-896f9aec14d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/06/half-a-glass-of-wine-a-day-%E2%80%98ups-breast-cancer-risk-in-women-by-10-pc%E2%80%99.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973379 | 232 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Location(s): Valinor, Tirion?
Dates: Age of the Trees
Spouse: beloved of Finrod Felagund
According to the Quenta Silmarillion, Ch. 15, Of the Noldor in Beleriand, Amarië did not follow Finrod into exile. The Grey Annals (War of the Jewels, HoMe 11) add to this that she wasn't permitted to follow him. In the Shibboleth of Fëanor (The Peoples of Middle Earth, HoMe 12), we read that 'Finrod left his wife in Valinor and had no children in exile'. No name is given here, but it seems likely that this refers to to Amarië. Whether 'no children in exile' means they did have children in Valinor remains a matter of conjecture.
After his death Finrod went to the Halls of Mandos, 'but it is said that released soon from Mandos, he went to Valinor and there dwells with Amarië (Grey Annals, see above). | <urn:uuid:9a540573-7cdf-418f-9cbd-ee822e41c568> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://henneth-annun.net/resources/bios_view.cfm?SCID=142 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951432 | 222 | 1.539063 | 2 |
A small town in Georgia called Monticello, south of Atlanta. There is a memorial to the confederate soldiers. Georgia is full of historical sites about the war between the states. I really loved one of the saying on the side of the monument. There is a little red from the brick store in the square. Also there were rose bushes planted all along the outer portion of the monument. I will go back in the summer and get a picture of them in full bloom.
"Crowns of roses fade. Crowns of thorns endure. Calvaries and crucifixions take deepest hold of humanity. The triumphs of night are transient. They pass and are forgotten. The sufferings of right are graven deepest on the chronicle of nations."
To the confederate soldiers of Jasper County, the record of whose sublime self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty, in the service of their county, is the proud heritage of a loyal posterity. "In legend and law, our heroes in gray shall forever live over again for us".
These monuments were always done in loving memory to those that served and lost their lives. | <urn:uuid:09bdee74-0414-46cf-8c34-d1de860f099e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fiddlers2.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953451 | 235 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Ever since the United States and Canada have made an early shift to daylight saving time (DST) it has caused DST-related malfunctions across several iPhone and iPod users across the globe.
There is no known solution to this problem. While some users have reported that simply restarting the phone seemed to solve the problem, no has found an exact fix to this issue. While initially the problem was perceived to be with the 4G devices it seems that even 3G and earlier Gen users were also affected. This problem is not specific to any version of the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch nor are they specific to any network carriers. We have understood reading through the Apple forums that the Clock application on the devices has been displaying very erratic behaviour.
Users have reported that their phones kept adjusting their time back and forth automatically and then later self-corrected back to the correct time. Behavior such as this from the Apple devices has caused several users to be late for work and others to wake up a few hours before their alarms were actually scheduled to go off.
A user from the state of Arizona, the only state in the US which does not observe DST claimed “When I got up on Sunday morning, my 3GS showed an hour later” Later his wife informed him that the phone was showing the correct time. The phone had managed to self-correct within a couple of hours after it started showing the wrong time. It’s amusing to find this happening in areas where there is no need for any DST corrections.
Has anyone here faced this problem? If you have observed this happening with your Apple devices please write to us and tell us what exactly happened and how you went about finding a solution to this weird issue. | <urn:uuid:ebd7055e-1188-4e11-bdde-e5ae2d07d868> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.callingallgeeks.org/apple-iphone-and-ipod-touch-forever-confused-over-daylight-saving-time-dst/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98416 | 351 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Long, Long, Long
- George Harrison – double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic guitar
- Paul McCartney – bass, backing vocal, Hammond organ
- Ringo Starr – drums
- Chris Thomas – piano
George Harrison wrote Long, Long, Long. It came out on the 1968 album, The Beatles (The White Album). Harrison blended psychedelic rock style with a folksy feel and added elements of jazz, packaging it all in an uncanny waltz rhythm. Critics have praised Harrison's composition as a superior effort, not fully appreciated by the fans. Ian MacDonald called it George's "finest moment" on the White Album. Long, Long, Long is generally taken as a love song, even though strong spiritual elements can easily be perceived in the lyrics. Harrison himself later said that the "You" in the song is God. On the final disc, Long, Long, Long provides a calm interlude between Helter Skelter and Revolution 1. The chord sequence is unusual, in that the IV chord is replaced by its relative minor (ii). This gives the song an unusual, lyrical quality. The finale is a low howl from George, with a iv-eleventh chord (in this case, g minor with added C above).
The Beatles recorded Long, Long, Long on October 7 through 9 of 1968. Lennon was absent from the sessions, in which a massive 67 takes were made of the rhythm track. George sang and played acoustic guitar. Paul was on the organ and also played a bass overdub; Ringo played the drums. Production assistant Chris Thomas played piano. (The rattle heard at the end is a bottle of wine that was placed on the Leslie speaker. When Paul played a certain note on the Hammond organ, the bottle vibrated. Ringo accented it with a drum roll, and the improvised noise was left in the mix.) | <urn:uuid:923a3bba-00bd-49bc-86bb-6389ab3fa5c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thebeatles.org/song/long-long-long | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967304 | 383 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A7 Radio's "Temple Talk" with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven
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In this highly charged live special two hour broadcast of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect upon the lessons of Purim and modern-day Hamans. They also talk about the relationship between the Golden Calf and the mysterious Red Heifer, including the dramatic revelation of a new red heifer alive and well in Israel at an undisclosed location! Our hosts take some lively calls from listeners and interview Yosef Rabin, a Temple activist working diligently on the International Temple Mount Awareness Day (March 16th) project. How are you going to be active in your community to raise Temple Mount awareness? Rabbi Richman reads an angry, threatening letter from a Moslem, plus a letter from the US government, both indicating that people are defintely taking notice of, and acknowledging the importance of, International Temple Mount Awareness Day. Be part of it!
This week from the TEMPLE INSTITUTE:
WEEKLY TORAH PORTION: KI TISA, with Rabbi Chaim Richman.
Why is is that the golden calf, of which we read in this weeks parasha, is symbolic of the impurity of death, while the red heifer, of which we also read in this weeks special Torah reading, is symbolic of of the pure nature of life eternal? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpqGBUPS6k
LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, with Rabbi Chaim Richman: THE PRIESTLY GARMENTS, PART III: How are the Priestly garments, (bigdei kehuna) fashioned, and what is the spiritual significance of their every detail?
Get ready for INTERNATIONAL TEMPLE MOUNT AWARENESS DAY - Rosh Chodesh Nisan, March 16th. Click here to find out what you can do to help bring the Temple Mount and the Holy Temple back to the forefront of world consciousness: http://www.templeinstitute.org/temple-mount-awareness-day.htm
Discuss this topic on the new Torah Spirituality for the Nations forum
Rabbi Chaim Richman is the international director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem which is dedicated to rebuilding the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash). He is a member of the current effort to revive the Sanhedrin and the author of ten books including Mystery of the Red Heifer and A House of Prayer for All Nations. Yitzchak Reuven works at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. He previously worked building Biblical harps and other musical instruments for use in the Holy Temple. He and Rabbi Chaim Richman have been friends since their Israeli army days. They host the Temple Talk podcast dealing with issues of the Temple Mount and the weekly Torah parsha every Tuesday from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Israel time (1pm U.S. EST) on Israel National Radio. | <urn:uuid:748590e5-9a04-495e-bb4f-66b28b4add5c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919199 | 637 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Top 1% Of American Income Earners Paid Nearly As Much In Taxes As The Bottom 95%
The latest data from the IRS for the 2010 tax year shows that America’s lop-sided tax burden continues. From Professor Mark Perry:
According to new IRS data, the 1.35 million taxpayers that represent the highest-earning one percent of the Americans who filed federal income tax returns in 2010 earned 18.9% of the total gross income and paid 37.4% of all federal income taxes paid in that year. In contrast, the 128.3 million taxpayers in the bottom 95% of all U.S. taxpayers in 2010 earned 66.2% of gross income and that group paid 40.9% of all taxes paid. In other words, the top 1 percent (1.35 million) of American taxpayers paid almost as much federal income tax in 2010 ($354.8 billion) as the entire bottom 95% of American tax filers ($388.4 billion), see chart above. And it’s that group of top income earners (with income above $221,000 in 2010 to be in the top one percent), that Obama and the Democrats want to tax even more.
According to our friends on the left, “the rich” don’t “pay their fair share” and so should face income tax hikes. But when the top 1% of income earners are paying nearly as much in income taxes as the bottom 95% of income earners, isn’t that more than their fair share?
Not only is that actually very unfair, but it is leading to a government bubble. We’ve seen bubbles in the housing market, and the student loan market, and both were the result of a disconnect between consumer and costs. Because home loans and student loans weren’t, and aren’t, priced appropriately (thanks to government subsidies) too many people bought them which created the bubble.
In the case of taxation, government isn’t being priced appropriately. We are growing government, but hiding the cost either by lumping it on a small portion of the populace (“the rich”) or by not paying for it at all (our $1 trillion annual budget deficit).
If we want end the government bubble, we must start taxing Americans more evenly for the government they’re getting.Tags: national debt deficits, Taxes | <urn:uuid:d448599f-dd98-41d4-8aef-a0230a2673f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/top-1-of-american-income-earners-paid-nearly-as-much-in-taxes-as-the-bottom-95/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963885 | 495 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Luxembourg participates in the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille
On March 13, 2012, the Minister for Home Affairs and the Greater Region of Luxembourg, Jean-Marie Halsdorf, who is in charge of the policy of Luxembourg in the field of water, attended the Ministerial Conference of the World Water Forum, a forum for exchanges between all actors involved in the field of water management, be they public, private or non-profit, at the global, regional and local levels.
Minister Halsdorf informed his colleagues on this occasion of the unanimous vote by the Luxembourg parliament, on March 7, 2012, of the law approving the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses. Luxembourg has thus kept its commitment made at the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul by ratifying this important agreement which will offer, as soon as it comes into force, a regulatory framework for cross-border cooperation between riparian States located in an international drainage basin.
The Ministerial Declaration adopted on March 13, 2012 at the 6th World Water Forum focuses on access to safe water and sanitation, to ensure the welfare of all. Participants have thus committed to « accelerate the full implementation of the human rights obligations relating to access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means as a part of [their] efforts to overcome the water crisis at all levels ». The conclusions of the 6th World Water Forum have to be seen in the perspective of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development « Rio +20 ». | <urn:uuid:cc96f5c3-d38d-4fe0-b2c0-81318d4750bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newyork-un.mae.lu/en/News/Luxembourg-participates-in-the-6th-World-Water-Forum-in-Marseille | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939732 | 320 | 1.523438 | 2 |
In 1979, Mumford recruited me and a year later McMullen to computationally explore the space of free two-generator Kleinian groups. We were the first to produce computer graphics programs to draw limit sets of arbitrary free two-generator groups, and to map the space of these groups, as parametrized by the traces of their generators. With the aid of these programs, we made many remarkable pictures and discovered several patterns in the limit sets. We also made the first picture of the `cuspy curve' which is the fractal boundary of one of the simplest nontrivial Teichmüller spaces, namely, Maskit's construction of the once-punctured torus space, where each point corresponds to a Kleinian group generated by the two Möbius transformations
Mumford had visions of a book for the general public that would entice them with pictures of extraordinary symmetry and lead them into the beautiful mathematics of discrete groups and the geometry of Riemann surfaces. This was a far more ambitious goal than Curt or I were able or willing to undertake at the time, and while I generally agreed we should do this, for some years I had no resources to help carry this out.
In 1987 at Göttingen, I spent some time figuring out exactly what was the mathematics that we were supposed to make available to the general public. In that endeavor, I wrote most of a manuscript [#!Wright:T11!#] explaining the definition of Maskit's Teichmüller space of once-punctured tori, which was essentially an extraction of a concrete example from Maskit's very general papers [#!Maskit1968!#,#!Maskit1974!#], explained the calculation of the cusps on this boundary, showed the pattern of the `circle chain' in a cusp group, and gave a precise asymptotic formula for the shape of the cusps in the boundary. The asymptotic formula was based on hypotheses that took many years to establish, and the precise formula is still not entirely proved. The continuity of the boundary was established in [#!Minsky1999!#] and the cardioid shape of the cusps is proved in [#!Miyachi2003!#].
I gave this manuscript to Caroline Series when she visited Göttingen, and because of her expertise in the combinatorics of Kleinian groups and Riemann surfaces and ultimately three-manifolds she was the ideal person to prove and explain much of the patterns of circle chains that appear in the limit sets of cusp groups. A handsome stream of research has emerged from those early works of Series and Keen.
When I returned to Stillwater, events prevented me from really finishing the manuscript, even though ultimately it is perhaps my most cited work. I did complete a new revision of the limit set and boundary drawing programs called kleinian. In 1994, while at the Institute for Advanced Study, I met with Mumford and he had convinced Series to help us write what would eventually become Indra's Pearls [#!MumfordSeriesetal2002!#]. I wrote an architecture of the book at IAS in 1995 and work began in earnest around 1996. Thus, began a vagabond life for me to mostly Providence and Warwick to work on what was a far more massive undertaking than I had even guessed as a student. Still the book contains accounts of limit set calculations and boundary tracing algorithms that appear nowhere else. It has been gratifying to see talented amateurs around the world take up these programs and produce their own pictures. A shining example is Jos Leys' work at www.josleys.com, including thousands of limit set pictures.
Over the course of time, I have used kleinian to contribute dozens of pictures to mathematical works of others. See for example the boundary of occurring in Milnor's account of McMullen's work [#!FieldsMedal1998!#].
After Indra's Pearls, I have started to produce more detailed accounts of the mathematics behind the pictures. A complete account of the web of circles that appears in the limit set of any maximal cusp group is presented in [#!Wright2006!#]. This also describes the similarity between the geometry of maximal cusp groups and that of the coherent spiral hexagonal circle packings (also known as Doyle packings) treated in [#!BeardonDubejkoetal1994!#]. We give a conjectural asymptotic formula for the similarity constants of Doyle packings that is an analogue of the cardioid shape of cusps.
The other short papers [#!MatthewsWright2004!#,#!Wright2004!#] both are outcomes of study of the patterns of maximal cusp groups. The graphic Double Cusp Group presented in [#!Wright2004!#] is a result of my realization that there is a simple direct enumeration procedure for the disks in certain maximal cusp groups that allows a coherent coloring. The coloring vividly illustrates the extra symmetries that occur in a `tangential' geometric limit of Kleinian groups. This graphic is currently on display in Paris in the exhibition Mathématíques et Arts (see http://www.hermay.org/IHP/). I am preparing a manuscript that explains this alternative coset enumeration for these cusp groups.
Although I have often been torn by the demands of two vastly different scholarly endeavors, I have a few more works to finish on my computations in kleinian groups, including a `revisited' edition of my old manuscript [#!Wright:T11!#] and a supplement of more details on programming kleinian groups, which exist now as an untidy collection of emails to Indra's Pearls readers around the world. Then I hope to participate in the next generation of work on algebraic groups and algebraic number fields heralded by Bhargava.
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Twenty-two years after the suicide of her father, author Amanda Evans takes advantage of Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to share her story with a global audience.
Since its launch in 2007, Amazon’sKindle Direct Publishing platform has received much criticism over the quality of work that is being accepted for sale in the Kindle eBook store. Because authors do not have to go through the traditional publishing route (or the proofreading and copyediting route for that matter), a significant number of titles available in eBook format have received negative reviews by readers.
Traditional publishers are up in arms over the way KDP and other self-publishing platforms are affecting their industry. The popularity of KDP means they no longer have control of what makes it to readers and what does not. Bloggers and columnists criticize the platform for allowing just about anything to make it to the Kindle store. In a 2011 article, Reuters said: Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing foray.
Not all publications, however, fall into this category; there are gems to be found amid the rubble. For unpublished authors who take their writing seriously, the KDP platform opens up an entirely new avenue through which to put their work in front of a global audience. It offers them the opportunity to skip over the selection process that is an unavoidable part of the established publishing industry (and its prejudices) and become published through their own efforts. And with Amazon paying authors royalty rates as high as 70%, self-publishing can potentially become a source of income for struggling writers.
Irish author Amanda Evans is one such example. In October of this year her self-published book, From Those Death Left Behind, reached Amazon’s Kindle store through its direct publishing platform. The work is a collection of poems and letters written to her father, James Evans, who committed suicide when she was just 13 years old.
For Ms. Evans, however, money is not the primary motivation for self-publishing. Instead, her aim is to share a message with the world, one which describes in detail her family’s grief over the tragic event, and one which offers hope for those whose loved ones have suffered the same fate. She also hopes that her family’s story might deter those who are considering taking their own lives by reminding them of the heartache their survivors will live with forever as a result.
Amanda J. Evans
Cover of From Those Death Left Behind by author Amanda Evans
Digital Journal recently had the opportunity to discuss the book and its publication with Ms. Evans.
Digital Journal: You chose to publish with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Why did you think this would be a good place to publish your work as an eBook?
Amanda Evans: The main reason has to be the ease in which you can get your work published and of course Amazon has a global buyer network. I chose to go with Kindle so I could also enrol the book in the KDP select program [an option which offers marketing and promotional opportunities] and give it away free for the first couple of days. This allows more people to get their hands on the book and brings more awareness to it.
DJ: This is a personal work. What was your aim in writing it?
AE: Yes this is a very personal book and it was originally written in 2005 as a healing journey for me and my family. It was something that I really wanted to do and I wanted to share a message with the world that suicide and the stigma attached to it needed to be recognised and looked at in a different light. I wanted people to realise that "those left behind" were suffering in silence, feeling cast out from society as if there was something wrong with them.
Suicide was a subject that wasn't spoken about in the 1990's and this is turn would have had an effect on how we coped with our grief. By telling our story [my family and I] looked at breaking the boundaries, and releasing our story publically was a way to do this. Since the economic downturn, which has been a global experience, there has been a dramatic increase in suicide rates and I felt that now was the time to revise and re-release this book to an audience who were now more open and more accepting of the subject.
My father [has been] dead 22 years on the 29th of October and I still live with the grief as does my family. In re-releasing my book I am hoping to be able to help others, offer them hope and hopefully make a difference to their lives. I am also hoping that perhaps some people contemplating ending their own lives will read this book and maybe think again. If they can realise the devastation and pain that they leave behind they may reconsider their actions.
DJ: What has been the public’s response to your work? Have any readers shared their stories with you or otherwise tried to contact you?
AE: Between 2005 and 2007 I was interviewed by local newspapers, and I did receive a number of emails from people who were thankful for the words my family and I had written. I also received a message from a relative of my father who told me that she was using the book in her classroom as a teaching tool for her students. This was a wonderful accomplishment for me. Since the re-release of this book, I have received a lot of messages from people who can also relate to the suffering and grief, and the reviews I have received have been amazing.
DJ: What difference (if any) has publishing your work on Amazon’s KDP made in your life? Has it made a difference in the lives of your family and friends about whom you've written?
AE: Publishing this book on Amazon has allowed me to reach a global audience, and with social media avenues it has made marketing a lot more effective and easy. It has given me a real sense of pride to know that my story and the story of my family can help others and is doing so. To change the mind of just one person contemplating suicide will be a success for me and to offer others going through the grief the understanding that they are not alone is another thing I am happy about. Publishing the book and putting our story on paper has been a massive healing journey for all my family members and even though some of them didn't tell their story they still gave their approval and permission for the book to be published.
DJ: Is the book only published on Amazon or have you utilized other publishing avenues?
AE: The eBook version is currently only available on Amazon, and the paperback version which I have self-published via Lulu [an independent, print-on-demand publisher] will be available via Amazon shortly. I also hope to make the book available via other channels such as the iBookStore, Nook, Kobo and more in the near future.
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How People Learn About Their Local Community
By Tom Rosenstiel, Amy Mitchell, Kristen Purcell and Lee Rainie
Contrary to much of the conventional understanding of how people learn about their communities, Americans turn to a wide range of platforms to get local news and information, and where they turn varies considerably depending on the subject matter and their age, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project, produced in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that asks about local information in a new way. Most Americans, including more tech-savvy adults under age 40, also use a blend of both new and traditional sources to get their information.
Overall, the picture revealed by the data is that of a richer and more nuanced ecosystem of community news and information than researchers have previously identified.
The survey echoes longstanding research that more Americans report watching local TV news than any other source—which has led to widely held idea that people go there for most of their community news and information. But it also finds that Americans tend to rely on the medium for just a few topics—mainly weather, breaking news, and to a lesser degree, traffic. These are the most widely followed local subjects. Yet consumers rely on other sources for most other local topics. Younger adults, moreover, rely on local television less, a fact that suggests more vulnerability for the medium in the future.
The survey also yields some striking findings for newspapers. Most Americans (69%) say that if their local newspaper no longer existed, it would not have a major impact on their ability to keep up with information and news about their community.
Yet the data show that newspapers play a much bigger role in people’s lives than many may realize. Newspapers (both the print and online versions, though primarily print) rank first or tie for first as the source people rely on most for 11 of the 16 different kinds of local information asked about—more topics than any other media source. But most of these topics—many of which relate to civic affairs such as government—taxes, etc., are ones followed by fewer Americans on a regular basis.
In other words, local TV draws a mass audience largely around a few popular subjects; local newspapers attract a smaller cohort of citizens but for a wider range of civically oriented subjects.
The survey also sheds light on the emerging role of the internet as people seek local news and information. The internet is defined here as web-only online destinations. For adults generally, the internet is a main source for information about restaurants and other local businesses, and it is tied with newspapers as a top source for material about housing, jobs and schools—all areas that place a special value on consumer input. Yet when one looks at the 79% of Americans who are online, the internet is the first or second most relied-upon source for 15 of the 16 local topics examined. For adults under 40, the web is first for 11 of the top 16 topics—and a close second on four others.
At the same time, the survey finds both citizen-based information sources and some very old forms of media remain vital as well. Print newsletters, online listservs and old-fashioned word of mouth are important means by which people learn in particular about community events and local schools.
In all, the data in a new national survey show that the majority (64%) of American adults use at least three different types of media every week to get news and information about their local community—and 15% rely on at least six different kinds of media weekly.
And nearly half of all American adults, 45%, say they do not even have a favorite local news source. Instead, in the modern local news information system, different media outlets, and in many cases entire platforms, are gaining footholds for specific topic areas.
While this can help news sources establish an identity with audiences, it also raises a critical question: If a platform were to wither or disappear, would parts of the community go unmonitored?
About the survey
The new survey was administered from January 12-25 among a nationally-representative sample of 2,251 adults age 18 and older on landline and cell phones. It has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Conventional research has tended to ask people about local news and information generically with some variation of a simple question: Where do people turn most often for their news? Asked that way, the majority of people answer local TV, which has made it the most popular news source in America. That is reinforced by ratings data that shows that the combined ratings of local television news programs exceeds that of other local media. The biennial media consumption survey of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press similarly finds that local TV news is the medium most people turn to for news and information of any type. And this new survey, too, finds that local TV is the most frequently used medium for news and information, with 74% watching local newscasts or visiting local TV websites at least weekly, compared with 50% who turn to newspapers and their websites, 51% to radio (on air and online), and 47% who turn to web-only sources.
But this survey also took a new approach as well, asking people about the information sources they rely on to get material about 16 different specific local information areas.
The result is a more complex portrait of how people learn and exchange information about community. The new data explodes the notion, for instance, that people have a primary or single source for most of their local news and information.
Rather, Americans appear to discern significant differences in the strengths of different information sources. They recognize that there may be more information about their child’s school on a parent-run listserv than on television or even their neighborhood weekly paper. They recognize that if they want information about zoning or local government, it may be more available in the newspaper they do not regularly buy than on the television station they watch many days for traffic and weather.
(For this survey, the “internet is defined as web-only sources such as search engines, specialty-topic websites, and social networking sites. If respondents said they relied on the website of a newspaper, it was considered reliance on the newspaper and was combined with references to the print version of the local newspaper. Similarly, if respondents said a local television website was their preferred sources for a particular type of local news, it was combined with references to watching local news on television and considered reliance on the local TV news platform rather than the internet.)
Other key themes
Other notable themes that emerge from the survey:
While there are a variety of demographic dimensions that are linked to the way people get local news and information, the most striking is the difference between younger and older information consumers. Simply put, one generation into the web, older consumers still rely more heavily on traditional platforms while younger consumers rely more on the internet. Among adults under age 40, the web ranks first or ties for first for 12 of the 16 local topics asked about.
If someone is under age 40, she tends to get the following kinds of local news and information from the following places:
If she is 40 or older, she tends to get the following kinds of news in the following places:
This move by younger users to rely on the internet for local information puts considerable pressure on traditional news organizations. Even though most have moved aggressively online with ambitious websites and social media strategies, there is evidence in the data that people find specialty websites and search engines a preferable way find the local material they want.
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The Daily Pic: Our toughest sculptor films our mighty industrial past.
The latest installment in our “video week” presents a moment from the wonderful film called “Railroad Turnbridge”, shot by Richard Serra in 1976 and now on view (as a digital projection) at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. (Click on the image to view a clip). The film is nothing more than some black-and-white footage of the massive piece of equipment – usually known as a “swing bridge” – that allowed ships on the Willamette River near Portland to pass to either side of a crossing train track. (The bridge still seems to exist, but now rises up instead of swinging.) In this clip, shot from the bridge-deck itself, the railroad equipment is cleverly assimilated to the camera that is shooting it – with a further parallel being drawn, maybe, between the force of heavy industry in society and the power of central perspective in art. Other passages in the film are more about documenting the machinery itself, and its insanely massive construction. They make you realize how profoundly Serra’s famous heavy-metal sculptures are rooted in the moment of their making, when the heyday of America’s heavy industry was coming to its end. Who would have thought that such tough-guy work had a nostalgic, almost sentimental side?
The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.
It’s video week at the DP, and this is a still from “Street”, an utterly engrossing projection by James Nares that’s now drawing crowds at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (Click on the image to view a clip that was shot in situ, or go to Nares’s Web site for a different one.) “Street” is nothing more than one hour’s worth of footage culled from 16 hours spent riding a car through the streets of Manhattan, with a video camera pointed out at the pedestrian flow.
What seems to account for the video’s almost magic, irresistible attraction is that it is shot in extreme slow motion and at very high definition. Nares has taken the slow-mo technology usually used to capture the flight of a hummingbird and trained it on his own species, as it too goes about its normal business.
Today’s very extended Daily Pic looks at how that tech causes the video’s entrancing effects, and it includes some guesses from a couple of experts: Alvy Ray Smith, the computer scientist who co-founded Pixar (and who happens to be my brother-in-law) and the Berkeley psychologist Arthur Shimamura. Click “Read Full Story” below to see our dissection of the video’s effects.
– A Slow Trip Through A World Slowed Down: Although it’s clear that the figures that we see on the sidewalks have been artificially slowed – it takes 12 seconds for an umbrella to pop open – we don’t feel as though the progress of Nares’s car has been equally decelerated. Even though that car must have been traveling the streets at a fair clip, to keep up with other traffic, we feel that it is (and we viewers are) moving at a real and normal snail’s pace. In other words, we feel that we are moving at a slow, stately rate through a universe whose contents have been abnormally slowed. At a guess, that could be because we identify completely with the lens of the camera, so that anything it sees feels like it has been seen with our own, untroubled, unmanipulated vision. The effect may also depend on the fact that there aren’t many cues in the scene to tell us how fast our car is really going (a car going 5 and a car going 30 witness basically the same streetscape, though passing by at different rates) whereas the pedestrians’ gait and actions – such as unfurling that umbrella – have a standard duration that we recognize as having been lengthened in Nares’s video. Slow motion filming almost always involves a static camera pointed at a moving subject, which may be why Nares’s use of a moving slow-mo camera seems to produce such novel effects.
Daily Pic: B. Wurtz suffers, or prospers, from aesthetic agnosia.
These are stills from “Metal Sculpture”, a wonderful 1979 film by the New York sculptor B. Wurtz which just went live (as a video) in the new issue of the online magazine called Triple Canopy. (Click on the stills to watch the footage.) The premise is simple, and charming: Wurtz talks about a new metal sculpture he’s discovered and which he assembles as we watch; it turns out to be a perfectly normal folding music stand. His (pretend) inability to recognize the object as the functional thing it is, and his desire to treat it only as art, is a kind of condensation of the spirit that animates a lot of the best art making. I’ve referred to it as aesthetic agnosia – an ability to perceive the stuff in the world but not to recognize what it is or how it works, like the famous Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Wurtz turns himself into The Man Who Mistook His Stand For His Art, and by doing so, made it so.
From Botticelli to John Updike, the rosebud nipple has long dominated Western art.
In case you haven’t heard, a nipple movement is sweeping the U.K. Ladies from Liverpool to Essex are increasingly looking to define, darken, and enlarge their areolae, shelling out as much as $1,800 for “tittooing,” a not-so-clever nickname for the two-hour tattooing procedure.
Sure, it could be a passing fad, but big nipples are in—and tittooing is poised to upend the landscape of breasts as we know them in the Western world. Taking our cues from the arts, we’ve long idealized the small, salmon-colored nipples of Botticelli’s Venus. Fashion tends to favor small nips as well (Kate Moss’s dime-size areolae are almost as famous as the model herself). Nipples are slightly more varied in the adult-entertainment industry, but there’s little diversity when it comes to highbrow smut. Playboy’s bare-breasted models may be buxom, but their nipples are rarely larger than pepperonis.
Despite the new trend overseas, scientific evidence suggests both women and men are partial to petite nipples. In a 2011 study, a plastic surgeon in the U.K. surveyed 100 models’ breasts in attempt to determine what factors make some more appealing to the eye than others. Proportion was key, but his “Analysis of an Ideal Breast” also found that nipples accounted for very little surface area on said perfect breast.
To be sure, the small nipple ideal is subjective, even silly, given that no two nipples are the same in reality. But artists, poets, and breast-obsessed men alike have been drawn to the ideal for centuries.
In Libya, behold a cultural revolution.
The Libyan poet Khaled Mattawa and I agreed to meet by the Arch of Marcus Aurelius, in the heart of Tripoli. I was there a few minutes early and walked toward the familiar structure in that invisible atmosphere that surrounds us when we find ourselves in a place that has meant a great deal but from which we had been separated. I had not been back to the city of my childhood in over three decades. I left a boy; returned a man.
Under Gaddafi's dictatorship, painting subversive graffiti was a dangerous crime. (Louis Quail/In Pictures/Corbis)
The sun was sharp. The shade beneath the stone arch was as physical and reliable as a lake. The structure was built some 1,850 years ago, a year or two after Aurelius came to power. I remembered the opening lines from one of Khaled Mattawa’s poems—“East of Carthage: An Idyll”—when he addresses the Roman emperor:
Look here, Marcus Aurelius, we’ve come to see
your temple, deluded the guards, crawled through a hole
in the fence. Why your descendent, my guide and friend
A new retrospective of the late American art prodigy Keith Haring opens at Paris’s Modern Art Museum.
An extensive retrospective of the late American artist Keith Haring opens today at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. The exhibition, titled The Political Line, showcases some of the highlights from Haring’s formidable career, which spanned just over a decade. (Sadly, the artist passed away in 1990 at the age of 32 due to complications related to HIV/AIDS.)
Through his art, Haring commented on some of the most important socio-political issues of his time and, fittingly, this exhibition trails the major themes that influenced his work: capitalism, mass media and religion, racism, and his campaign against drug use and AIDS (he himself was diagnosed with HIV in 1988). Ultimately, the messages he conveyed were just as important as the medium itself.
“This is not something that he simply put into his work: this is a reflection of who he was as a person,” Julia Gruen, director of the Keith Haring Foundation, explained at yesterday’s press conference. “What you are going to experience with this exhibition is the great passion and idealism of this young artist. He put part of himself out there, so that you can reflect and you can interact with the experience of his time. He was very engaged in his whole moment.”
Upon arriving in New York in 1978, Haring fell in love with the energy of the city—particularly its prolific street-art culture—and he painted some of his earliest works on billboards, in the subway, and in other available public spaces. As such, he became a great champion for the democratization of art. “The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,” he once said on his desire to make his work accessible to all. His approach was also a most pertinent way for him to get his message across.
The Daily Pic: Elli Chung contemplates veggie aesthetics.
This lovely, funny image is by Elli Chung, from her show at Julie Saul Gallery in New York. The title is “KAWA AKAGO, An Infant Monster Who Lurks Near Rivers and Drowns People” – the show illustrates moments from Japanese folk tales – but that name does not at all reflect my first impressions of the photio. I saw this naked tuber as entirely within the Western tradition of nude beauties on riverbanks, with echoes of Titian and Courbet’s “White Stockings”. Rather than seeing a threat in it, I found a note of sadness, as the vegetable contemplates its failure to live up to that aesthetic and erotic tradition.
The Daily Pic: The Viennese artist makes room for video's supporting cast.
In this age of projected art, six screens demand equal billing with the images shown on them. The installation is by Heimo Zobernig, and I saw it in a group show at Leo Koenig gallery in New York. In person, the effect is quite strange: By now, we’re used to found objects getting used as sculpture, but here it’s as though pedestals replaced the works that normally sit on them. Rather than fading into the background, like the well-trained servants of aristocracy, Zobernig’s screens insist on being recognized in all their individuality and distinct objecthood: Here’s one wearing a yellow belt; there’s one discretely detailed in green; here’s another, standing proud and taller than all his kin, in a suit of silver that’s brighter than anyone else’s.
The Daily Pic: Designer Yuya Ushida makes a sofa from recycled eating sticks.
Designer and engineer Yuya Ushida “unfurls” his “SOFA_XXXX”, which isn’t X-rated, but gets its name from the X joints that give it both structure and expandability. (Click on the image to see a video of its laborious production, and then its fascinating use.) I saw the piece in the “Against the Grain” show at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where a wall text explained that its first prototype was made from about 8,000 recycled bamboo chopsticks – China alone throws out about 90 billion of them each year – which were hand-drilled by Ushida as a student project for the design academy in Eindhoven. It seems that the versions of XXXX going into mass production may be made from plastic, and so won’t be as “green”. Maybe the trick would be to publish DIY plans for sofas to be made by anyone who eats lots (and lots) of take-out Chinese.
The Daily Pic: The late L.A. artist got rid of everything except garbage.
The late Mike Kelley made this drawing, and it’s now in the fascinating New Museum show of art from New York in 1993. The image is from a series based on the “Sad Sack” comic strip, except that Kelley has erased everything except the trash that is everpresent around the strip’s eponymous hero, a private in the U.S. army who gets everything wrong. I love the way erasure becomes a tool for depiction and emphasis, and failure becomes a heroic condition.
The Daily Pic: The artist looks at how East Germany sold its military mission.
In his solo show at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, the German artist Peter Piller is showing a series of appropriated photos called “Umschläge” (German for “Covers”), which are just that: Images of the front and back covers of the defunct East German magazine called “Armeerundschau” (“Army Panorama”), whose layout juxtaposed a front image of a war scene and a back image of a pretty girl. According to Wikipedia, the magazine’s primary attraction was its “clothed pin-ups of women”, but the site also quotes the magazine’s longtime editor saying that its aim was to “prepare boys and men for their military service in the NVA [the “National People’s Army”], and to prepare women and girls to be good wives and girlfriends, to teach them to love soldiers and be willing to wait for them. We knew we had to convince women to love soldiers. If we didn’t, men wouldn’t want to go into the NVA.” That weird tension seems visible in Piller’s appropriations: A testosterone-laden front cover stands in strange tension with a remarkably chaste back cover that has to function as sexual bait for the magazine’s male readers and as a mirror for women viewing it. And then, in this issue at least, there’s a weird racial and colonial subtext as well. Sometimes, it’s enough for art simply to point out the world’s weirdnesses.
The Daily Pic: The "pop" in his culture came from the 1930s.
This real pastry case full of plaster confections was made by Claes Oldenburg in 1962, and is in the show of his very early works that opens Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In researching my New York Times profile of him that just went up on the paper’s Web site, I came to realize that Oldenburg’s glance at American consumption was hugely retrospective. Rather than contemplating the shiny chrome of the Mad Men era, Oldenburg was looking back at the more modest material culture of his childhood during the Great Depression, when he first arrived in the U.S. from Sweden.
The Daily Beast: The Swiss artist stomps on earlier masterworks.
This still is from a video called “Walking on Carl Andre”, made in 1998 by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury and now being shown on the street-front screen at Salon 94 gallery on the Bowery. (Click on the image to watch the full work.) The video takes seriously Andre’s invitation to walk on his minimal floor pieces, but treats them as cheesy fashion runways rather than elite artistic conceits. Fleury entertains the possibility that there’s more in common between fashion and art, between shoes and masterworks, than most of us want to let on.
Jenna Lyons Will Not Wear Google Glass; UN Backs Woman Who Sued Prada Japan for Sexual Discrimination
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Rioting broke out following the Protestant “mini Twelfth” parade on Friday, a PSNI spokeswoman said.
Police vehicles were damaged and missiles were thrown at officers trying to quell the “significant disorder” in the Castlereagh Street and Albertbridge Road areas of the city.
Officers used rubber bullets and a water cannon to try to disperse the crowds, finally bringing calm to the area in the early hours of Saturday.
Six officers were hurt when youths threw blocks of masonry during the disturbance but none of their injuries is said to be life-threatening, she added.
The force spokeswoman said seven people had been arrested for disorderly behaviour.
The violence was not believed to be orchestrated. Chief Inspector Mark McEwan, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said: "From what we can see there was no paramilitary involvement in what happened last night.
"The violence was spontaneous, it was a number of people within the Castlereagh Street area attacking police, sparked off by crowds gathering on both sides."
Officers were working with community leaders and advising members of the public “to avoid the area as they work to restore calm”, said the spokeswoman.
The rioting comes two weeks after some of Northern Ireland’s worst sectarian violence for years erupted in a Catholic enclave in east Belfast.
A photographer, employed by the Press Association, was shot in the leg and rioters threw petrol bombs and other missiles at police.
Officers responded by firing water cannon during two nights of riots involving hundreds of people.
The peace agreements in 1998 largely ended the cycle of sectarian bombings and shootings in the province and led to the creation of a devolved, power-sharing Northern Irish Assembly.
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Menand's study looks at the lives and thought of four representative American thinkers who variously ascribed to a philosophy known as pragamatism: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Pierce, and Thomas Dewey. The first three met briefly in 1872 as the "Metaphysical Club," but their respect for and effects upon one another went much further than that. Menand concludes they were largely responsible for laying the foundations for free...
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1. ‘There were thoughts with bows and thoughts without.’ Can you find other examples of where the twins’ own thoughts are invested with the life and persona of the twin’s outward appearances? What is the effect of this narrative technique? Do you like it, and do you find it a unique way of writing?
2. Discuss the significance of the characters’ time in Sekon and how it impacts on the rest of their lives. Did you find that Evan’s use of colours to tell her story changed in any way after this time?
3. How important is magic realism as a device for Evans to tell her story? Find some examples of this technique and consider why they are significant to the novel.
4. It was the first time ever, in this land of twoness in oneness, that something had seemed unsayable.’ Discuss what impact the ‘cartwheel’ incident with Sedrick has on the twin’s relationship.
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Chicken Incubators Are An Expert Breeder’s Bestfriend
Breeding chickens can be fun, fulfilling and rewarding if you have the knowledge and make use of good quality incubators. Lots of breeders have considered using high quality chicken incubators from www.incubators.org for making the process easier and also achieved considerable results.
There are actually various ways of breeding based on the number of chickens you’ve got. The most common type of chicken breeding is to just bring a hen and a rooster together and wait for the magic to happen. However many strategies are much more complicated as well as more engaging. This not only incorporate having your hens and roosters but in addition chicken supplies, including chicks starter feeds, chicken incubators, beddings, pens, chicken feeds, vitamins along with other considerable supplies for breeding. Nevertheless keep in mind that chicken breeding is one of the least complicated animal you can breed, you just should give it a shot and you will see.
One method is flock breeding; this is breeding by pairs, trios, or small and large flocks. In this way you’ll possess control of the mating environment of the chickens; you’ll know what flock was mated by rooster A and flocks mated by Rooster B, in this way you are going to have a good mating environment. Often, this method would require you to house 12 hens and 1 rooster. With this kind of setup feeding and cleaning cages is a lot easier.
Another kind is pen mating, where it involves a whole pen of hens with just a rooster, thus allowing them to live freely and mate.
Stud mating is also another method wherein the hens and roosters are placed in separate pens and they are only set up for mating purposes by letting a hen and a rooster mate in one pen.
Alternative males is the last method wherein there are two roosters for the job which are alternately released with the flock every other day.
However regardless of what type of method you employ, of course you need to keep in mind and establish a means to hatch and raise chicks. This would entail you to use superior quality incubators and breeding supplies.
Placing eggs in chicken incubators is an alternative for a broody hen, this will assure eggs to hatch, and will take no less than about 21 days. Still, in case of abandonment of hens of their eggs, simply keep in hand incubators and also brooders for the worst to come. Chicks need 95c of heat on their first week this is because they are still not fairly feathered and they won’t have the ability to withstand cold temperatures. And always keep in mind that when they peep loudly and annoyingly, they’re getting too cold. The easiest way to achieve this kind of temperature is to make a DIY brooder with a heat source such as a heat lamp or light bulb. | <urn:uuid:13644bd1-2a3b-4073-8887-d96eeaeccca0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://siscer.net/articles/general/chicken-incubators-are-an-expert-breeders-bestfriend/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95719 | 607 | 2.03125 | 2 |
'The children believe in it and in themselves. They know they are learning and feel much more a part of it. They see, the decisions they make have consequences and effects, they have to face up to and deal with. The classroom becomes a bigger place and a wider world. The work is fun and purposeful for them.' | <urn:uuid:0f685bee-1b6b-4d29-ac86-dd25b280956e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mantleoftheexpert.com/community/galleries/titanic-ice-age/?pid=239 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988427 | 67 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Wednesday March 10, 2010
Financing Medical School
Your best source of information is the financial aid office at the medical school where you have been accepted. Most schools provide preliminary information around the time of the interview. Final awards usually are mailed to accepted applicants in the late spring, after they have completed their needs analysis forms. Loans are the most common form of financial aid in medical school. Helpful information on financial aid can be found in the MSAR and at the sites listed on the Internet Resources page.
Unpaid bills or late payments can ruin your credit rating, preventing you from obtaining loans. In past years, some medical schools have rescinded offers to students found to have bad credit ratings. Check your credit status, since your report may contain errors that could cause problems. You can obtain a copy of your credit report from companies such as TRW Information Services, Equifax Credit Services or Trans Union Credit Information. | <urn:uuid:f3f35fb5-22c5-423b-bf03-c609ac67b7a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bios.ohio.edu/undergraduate/pre-professional/pre-medical/financing-medical-school | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96399 | 184 | 1.859375 | 2 |
At some point, I discovered that it was possible to save a link to a webpage by just dragging its icon from the Address bar in an Internet browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) to a folder in Windows Explorer. Doing that would create a URL file with two bits of information: the location of the webpage, and the name by which I referred to it. For example, I might have renamed one of those URL files, pointing at some random CNN.com webpage, to be "July 30 Article about China." I had also gotten some URL files by dragging Firefox bookmarks to a Windows Explorer folder.
I now had a bunch of those URL files. I wanted to print the linked webpages in PDF format, using those given names as the names of the resulting PDFs. And I wanted to automate it, so that I could just provide the set of URL files, or something derived from it, and some program would do the rest. Input a dozen URL link files; output a dozen PDFs, each containing a printout of what was on the webpage cited in one of the URL files.
Part of the solution was easy enough. On the command line, I could type two commands:
echo China Story.url > filelist.txtNote the seeming inconsistency in quotation marks. (I would have to continue using >> rather than > with any subsequent additions, so as not to overwrite what was already in Filelist.txt.) Filelist.txt would then contain three lines, like this:
type "China Story.url" >> filelist.txt
China Story.urlI could do a simple find-and-replace to get rid of the [Internet Shortcut] part, and manipulate the rest of it in a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel, using DIR to produce the filenames. So the spreadsheet created from filelist.txt could have a series of commands whose concept would be like this:
print webpage located at URL as PDF and call it China Story.pdfSo then I needed a PDF printer that would print webpages from the command line. I had previously searched for something similar and had wound up using wkHTMLtoPDF (which they actually wrote as just all lower-case: wkhtmltopdf, where the "wk" apparently stood for "webkit"). It had been somewhat complicated. I decided to look for something else. There followed a time-consuming search that brought me back to wkHTMLtoPDF.
As before, wkHTMLtoPDF seemed vastly more capable than the alternatives I had been looking at. After the initial reluctance that drove me to look at those other possibilities, I realized that, this time, due to the different nature of the project, the wkHTMLtoPDF part might not complicated at all. Among the many options available in the help file ("wkhtmltopdf --help" on the command line), it looked like I might get acceptable results from a command like this:
start /wait wkhtmltopdf -s Letter -T 25 -B 25 -L 25 -R 25 "http://www.nytimes.com/" "D:\NY Times Front Page.pdf"That command, which I would have to run from within the folder where wkhtmltopdf was installed, would specify a Size of letter-sized paper, a Top margin of 0.25 inch, and so forth. I just needed to come up with my list of URLs and their names (above). I noticed that some of those items were really long, so in Excel I added a column to calculate their lengths (using LEN) and edited some of them. I also had to run tests (i.e., Excel formulas looking at the contents of preceding rows) to verify that I had exact alternating pairs: one file title followed by one URL. In some instances, somehow the file name had come over in corrupted form, so I had to add some rows to account for all the URLs. Among other things, ampersands (&) in URL file names seemed to result in some confusion; I'd have been better off to replace them in advance with "and." This cleanup took longer than expected. If I were doing a truly huge number of URLs, I would probably have wanted to begin with a dry run of a hundred or so, to test it out and see if there were any other preliminary steps that might ease things along.
So I assembled my batch file lines and ran them in a batch file. They worked for the first 42 PDFs. Then I ran into a problem. Wkhtmltopdf gave me this error and said it was going to close:
Error: Failed loading page." The error message gave the URL and then said, "Sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore."
After a while, it was finished. Now I wanted to see what it had done. The first step was to do a count and, if necessary, a comparison of the URL files being examined against the PDFs output. I had 507 URL files but only 489 resulting PDFs. Some of the missing pages were not found. Apparently webmasters had made some changes between the time when I created the URL files and now. Some were evidently due to a malfunction somewhere; they were available when I revisited them manually. Others were PDFs (as distinct from HTML webpages) that apparently did not work in this process. I had to PDF a few webpages by hand. Then I used Adobe Acrobat to combine the resulting individual PDFs into a single PDF. Its merge process would treat the names of the individual files as bookmarks, saving me that labor. In the final wrapup, there were some imperfections, but on this first run it appeared that the basic process was successful in converting large numbers of webpages into a PDF. | <urn:uuid:5d7bcdd0-54ef-4c07-a24e-c4d5295e7055> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://raywoodcockslatest.blogspot.com/2012/03/converting-url-linked-webpages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97318 | 1,205 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Proof that, sometimes, tough times can give way to good things? Fashion Delivers.
Having started in 2005 as a relief effort to the devastation wreaked by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Fashion Delivers is a nonprofit organization that partners with manufacturers and retailers to provide apparel and home goods to situations of poverty and disaster relief. The donations from these partners are channeled to local social services agencies, who distribute the products within their region.
By Sarah Stanley, Staff Writer
For more on stylish acts of charity, check our In Good Fashion column every Thursday.
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Thermo ScientificBsm DNA Polymerase, Large Fragment, is a portion of DNA polymerase of Bacillus smithii, which catalyzes 5'=>3' synthesis of DNA and lacks 5'→3' and 3'→5' exonuclease activities. Bsm DNA Polymerase, Large Fragment, has a strong strand displacement activity and is active in a wide range of temperatures from 30°C to 63°C, with an optimum of activity at 60°. It is an enzyme with high functional similarity to Bst DNA Polymerase, Large Fragment, and can replace it in most applications.
Not suitable for use in PCR.
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An item appeared on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Agenda for their April 16, 2013 meeting which will begin the process of vacating a portion of county owned property known as the Jim DeMulling Memorial Park in Garberville .
The agenda item and accompanying recommendation appeared as quoted below.
"Vacation of a Portion of Redwood Drive (C6B105) and Thomas Drive (6B150), also known as the Jim DeMulling Veterans Memorial Grove in Garberville."
"RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of Supervisors direct staff to prepare the necessary documents for the vacation of a portion of the unused right of way of Redwood Drive (C6B105) and Thomas Drive (6B150)."
According to the document above removing the property, not used for public road purposes, will allow the county to manage the property for non-road related purposes, and could ultimately allow the county to, "lease, license, or sell the property."
The DeMulling Park area, at the Northern entrance to Garberville, has been, and is currently, used as a meeting place, resting area, and refuge for the Houseless, Homeless, Traveler (HHT) population in Southern Humboldt. At times, however, it has also been the site of incidents of illegal activity and violence, making the continued use of the area by the HHT Community a point of controversy between various factions in the SoHum Community at large.
Use the player below to hear or download the audio of a report on this Board item, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Daniel Mintz. This piece was aired by News Director, Terri Klemetson, on the KMUD Local News Tues., April 16, 2013.
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In January, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required new limitations on some of the most dangerous rat poisons to protect families but left loopholes that will still leave wildlife at risk.
The Center for Biological Diversity previously reported that recent research concludes that rat poisons have been implicated in deaths involving at least 25 different species of animals in California. And last February, the CBD submitted a formal notice of intent to sue the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to, "...protect the endangered San Joaquin kit fox, golden eagle, Pacific fisher and other wildlife from unintended poisonings from “super-toxic” rat poisons."
According to KMUD News,"Rat Poison disappeared off of some Southern Humboldt shelves this month...other stores continue to sell the second generation anti-coagulant."
More can be heard on this story using the player below. This report was submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Travis Turner, and was aired by KMUD News Coordinator, Terri Klemetson on Mon., April 15, 2013.
Previous related KMUD News Posts:
"New lawsuit targets rat poison regulation"
"See Biologist Mourad Gabriel- Pot and Endangered Wildlife-Sept. 27 Arcata"
According to a the 2011 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Humboldt Creamery in Fortuna made up 30% of the total toxic release in Humboldt County. The releases were in the form of nitrates as a by product of its milk manufacturing process.
According to Wikipedia, The Humboldt Creamery was established in 1929 as a local association of 152 dairy farms and, until 2009, creamery production was based on 50 small family dairies located in both Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. Wikipedia futher states that, "It was one of only two dairy operations in the United States to have 'free-farmed' certification, a designation related to the extraordinary quality of life attributed to cows who live in pastures."
After experiencing financial problems and a scandal following the resignation of CEO Rich Ghilarducci, bankruptcy was filed and the assets of the Humboldt Creamery were sold at auction on August 27, 2009 to Foster Farms Dairy. Click here to see the Northcoast Journal article on this story.
Use the player below to hear a report on the toxic release, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent Dan Young. This piece was aired by KMUD News Coordinator, Terri Klemetson, on Friday, April 12, 2013.
Water is necessary for the existence of our species, as well as other life forms on our planet. An article in the Huffington Post, titled, "Water Wars? Here in the US?", uses the term "peak water" to describe the coming water crisis, while a post in Aljazeera.com, states that, "...almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030."
Focusing on water issues in our local area, the third Annual Water Day was held at the Mateel Community Center in Redway on March 30, 2013. This all-day event was sponsored by the Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) and co-sponsored by a dozen other environmental non-profits.
Kmud News recorded the event and is bringing highlights from the day's offerings of presentations and panels.
Use the player below to hear a report from Water Day, submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Eric Black, and aired on the KMUD Local News on Mon., April 8, 2013. The piece includes information from a presentation by Tasha McKee (Sanctuary Forest) and ideas offered by Sungnome Madrone of the Mattole Salmon Group.
The player below hosts an audio report submitted by KMUD News Correspondent, Eileen Russell and includes highlights from a presentation on Algae Blooms in the Eel River by Keith Bouma-Gregson from the UC Berkeley, Mary Power Lab; Survey work done by the Eel River Recovery Project, presented by Pat Higgins ERRP Volunteer Coordinator; and toxic algae monitoring discussed by Paul Domanchuk (ERRP Toxic Algae Team). The report was aired by KMUD News Director, Terri Klemetson, on Wed., April 3, 2013.
Photos below show (top to bottom) Tasha McKee doing her presentation; morning panel - (left to right) Sara Schremmer (HSU/SRF), Tasha Mckee (Sancutary Forest), Sungnome Madrone (Mattole Salmon Group), Larry Desmond (Mendocino Water Works), Andrew Orahoske (EPIC); Morning WDIII Audience.
April Cannabis Science Update:
A social work research study recently published in the International Journal of Drug Policy finds that children living in homes where marijuana is cultivated do not suffer from adverse health effects at any greater rate than do comparable children in cannabis-free environments.
Chronic cannabis consumers may test positive for trace, residual levels of THC in their blood, even after abstaining from cannabis use for several weeks. This is according to clinical trial data published in the journal of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry.
The National Institutes for Health and the National Institute for Drug Abuse - both US government agencies - are offering $2 million to researchers who want to study the negative impacts of marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington.
A new study published online in Diabetes Care finds that chronic cannabis smoking can induce subtle metabolic changes that include increased visceral adiposity (also known as belly fat) and increased body fat insulin resistance. The study found no evidence, however, of an association between chronic cannabis smoking and more severe metabolic impairment.
And new research from Australia provides evidence that Adults who inhale cannabis report significantly better health outcomes than those who smoke tobacco, or a combination of both substances.
Use the player below to hear the April Edition of Cannabis Science Update.
Cannabis Science Update is a regular feature of the KMUD radio show, Cannabis Consciousness (1:30-3:00pm on the first Sun. of every month), and is written by Kerry Reynolds, read by Harold Day, and recorded by Dave Smith.
Missing - Genevieve Alexander described as approximately 5' 6", 115 pounds, 30 years of age, curly brown hair, possibly wearing eye glasses.
According to information from the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, 30 year old Genevieve Alexander, shown in the photo above, has been missing since April 4, 2013, at around 3:30 pm. Ms. Alexander was last seen by family members at the Pomo Campground in Fort Bragg, and there was a confirmed sighting of her later at 4:00 pm at the Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg.
Mendocino County Search and Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a search along the coast with negative results.
If you have any information regarding Genevieve's whereabouts, please call the Sheriff's Office at (707) 463-4086.
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center between March 13-17, among 1,501 adults, shows that for the first time in more than forty years of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans now favor legalizing the use of marijuana. The survey indicates that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 45% say it should not. This represents an increase of 11 percentage points in those favoring legalization since 2011. Young people between the ages of 18 and 32 polled the highest, with 65% in support, up from just 36% in 2008.
Additionally, within the Baby Boomer group (those born between 1946 and 1964), 50% now favor legalizing marijuana, among the highest percentages ever. In past studies, statistics have fluctuated in the Boomer group. For example, in 1978, 47% of Boomers favored legalizing marijuana, but support fell during the 1980s reaching a low of 17% in 1990. However, since 1994 the percentage of Boomers favoring marijuana legalization has more than doubled, going from 24% to 50%.
For further survey details see: www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/
Confrontation escalated this morning, April 2, 2013, between those protesting the Caltrans Willits Bypass Project and California Highway Patrol Officers, the agency charged with safety and enforcement at the project site. Using CHP SWAT Officers trained in climbing techniques, the tree-sitter known as Warbler, who was also engaged in a hunger strike, was removed from high in the tree that she has occupied for over two months. Additional tree-sitters were extracted by the CHP team later in the day.
In response to today's removal of Willit's Bypass Project protestors, by the California Highway Patrol, California Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) issued a statement which can be read below.
Use the player below to hear details on this story in a piece aired on the KMUD Local News on Tues., April, 2, 2013 by KMUD News Director, Terri Klemetson.
For more information, photos and video see the Save Little Lake Valley web site: http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org
California State Senator Evans' Statement, dated April 2, 2013:
CHP was deployed to remove the protestors of the Willits Bypass Project just hours before I was set to meet with the director of Caltrans to have my questions answered. According to some reports, protestors in trees were extracted by CHP using "rubber bullets", and that CHP officers significantly outnumbered protestors.
I am shocked and dismayed at what seems to be an excessive use of force on unarmed protestors.
Thus far, I feel Caltrans and CHP have been slow to respond to my questions and quick to act regarding the Bypass Project.
It also was extremely disturbing to learn that the press was excluded from observing the removal of the protestors.
I had asked to be kept informed on a daily basis prior to any extraordinary action on this project as I represent the 1.3 million Californians living in the Second Senate District where this project is taking place. Regretfully that did not happen today.
I met today with Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty to express my dismay at today's events. I have additionally requested an immediate meeting with CHP Commissioner Joseph Farrow.
I urge everyone to remain calm and for protestors to remain peaceful in their opposition.
Photo below shows Warbler in her perch in March-Photo from Save Little Lake Valley Web Site.
Photo below provided by Jennifer Poole shows the remains of the Warbler tree-sit.
A study published this month in the Open Journal of Pediatrics indicated that just days after the meltdowns in the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima-Dai-ichi plant in Japan in March, 2011, Iodine-131 concentrations in US precipitation was measured up to 211 times above normal, and that the highest levels of I-131 were found in the five US pacific coastal states. The number of congenital hypothyroid cases in these five states from March 17-December 31, 2011 was found to be 16% greater than for the same period in 2010, compared to a 3% decline in 36 other US States. The authors' noted that In the Pacific/West Coast, the largest changes were in the California city of Eureka.
Joseph Mangan and Janette Sherman, the authors of the study, suggest that, "Further analysis, in the US and in other nations, is needed to better understand any association between iodine exposure from Fukushima-Dai-ichi and congenital hypothyroidism risk."
A search warrant for a residence in Eureka resulted in the arrest of 19 year old Matthew Mildbrandt for cultivation and possession for sale of marijuana, conspiracy to commit a felony, being armed in commission of a felony and unlawful sexual relations with a minor. In the same case a search warrant for a residence in Fortuna and another property at the 2500 block of Burr Valley Road, Dinsmore, led to the arrest of Mark Mildbrandt 56 years old, and his wife Denise Mildbrandt, 54 years old, the parents of Matthew Mildbrandt. Mark Mildbrandt was arrested for cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony, and Denise Mildbrandt was arrested for cultivation of marijuana, possession for sale of marijuana, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony. The searches also turned up cash, silver, numerous weapons and suspected evidence of environmental damage.The full press release and photos may be viewed below.
HCSO press release, March 26,2013:
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Community Response Unit (C.R.U.) obtained a Humboldt County Superior Court Search warrant for two residences after an approximate month long investigation which began with a crime tip. The warrant authorized the deputies to search a residence in the 2100 block of Law Blvd, Eureka and a residence in the 1900 block of Scenic Drive, Fortuna. Deputies assisted by the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (H.C.D.T.F) served the warrant at Law Blvd first at approximately 7:30 a.m. on 03-25-2013. When deputies arrived they located Matthew Mildbrandt, 19 years old and a 17 year old juvenile female. When deputies searched the residence they located ten one pound packages of marijuana bud, an assault weapon, 65 growing marijuana plants, approximately 10 pounds of processed marijuana, a US Postal Box containing approximately two pounds of sealed marijuana ready to be shipped via US Postal Service, paperwork indicating sales of marijuana, approximately $6000.00 in US Currency and evidence of Matthew Mildbrandt having unlawful sexual relations with a minor. Matthew was arrested for cultivation and possession for sale of marijuana, conspiracy to commit a felony, being armed in commission of a felony and unlawful sexual relations with a minor. He was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where his bail was set at $50,000.00. The juvenile female was released to her mother who responded to the residence and took custody of her. Mark Mildbrandt was arrested for cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony, and Denise Mildbrandt was arrested for cultivation of marijuana, possession for sale of marijuana, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony.
Deputies then served the search warrant at the Scenic Drive residence. When they arrived at the residence no one was home. The residence belonged to Mark Mildbrandt 56 years old, and his wife Denise Mildbrandt, 54 years old, the parents of Matthew Mildbrandt. They searched the residence and located two assault style weapons and nineteen other rifles and handguns. They also located paperwork indicating sales of marijuana and over 400 ounces of silver along withother precious metals and approximately 13,000.00 in cash. While at the home Mark showed up in his employer's truck. Deputies searched the truck Mark arrived in and found approximately 10 pounds of harvested marijuana in the truck. Mark Mildbrandt was arrested for cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony. He was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where his bail was set at $50,000.00. Denise Mildbrandt showed up at the residence after Mark, and she too was arrested for cultivation of marijuana, possession for sale of marijuana, conspiracy and armed in commission of a felony. Her bail was set at $50,000.00.
Deputies were able to obtain information during their search which indicated Mark and Denise Mildbrandt had property in the 2500 block of Burr Valley Road, Dinsmore along with Mark David Mildbrandt. Deputies obtained a search warrant for that property and drove to Burr Valley
Road to serve the warrant on 3-25-2013, approximately 4:00 p.m. When the deputies drove up Burr Valley Road, they came across four fir trees that had been recently fallen across the road. The fir trees were approximately two feet in diameter and completely blocked the road. This not only blocked the deputies from accessing the search warrant location to be searched, but it also blocked other non involved residents from accessing or leaving their homes. Deputies were able to clear the road enough to pass after about thirty minutes using chainsaws.
Once at the search warrant site, deputies located a cabin that had been converted for cultivation of marijuana. There was a small living space, along with a drying and manicuring room. Deputies located a diesel powered greenhouse on the property that had leaked several gallons of diesel and oil onto the ground. In the greenhouse structure deputies approximately 300 growing marijuana plants approximately one foot high. They also located approximately 364 pounds of dried marijuana and three firearms including a shotgun. No one was at the structure when they arrived.
The Humboldt County Code Enforcement Unit and Environmental Health are being notified of the environmental damage that the deputies witnessed at the scene. This is an ongoing investigations with more arrests anticipated.
Photos below were provided by HCSO.
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Midwifery bag, United Kingdom, 1866-1900
Destructive and non-destructive instruments are contained in this leather bag. It belonged to a male midwife. The tools were used during childbirth. The obstetric forceps were standard delivery tools. Others, such as the perforators, were destructive. Also in the bag are apparatus for anaesthesia and seven glass jars containing medication. These included chloroform and brandy. The obstetrician may have also carried opium and ergotamine. Opium relieved pain and ergotamine stopped the bleeding.
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A branch of medicine dealing with the care of women. This care occurs during pregnancy, childbirth, and the period of recovery from childbirth.
Glossary: obstetric instrument set
Glossary: midwifery bag
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Journal Staff Report
The city of Atlanta honored one of its own Friday when it
unveiled a street sign renaming the road leading to the city
airport to Bessie Coleman Drive. The road was originally named
Coleman was American's first female African-American pilot.
She was born in Atlanta on Jan. 26, 1892, the sixth surviving
child of Susan and George Coleman.
She made headlines in 1921when she became the first African-American
woman to earn an international pilot's license. On Sept. 3,
1922 she made history as she became the first black woman
to fly over American soil.
Coleman died April 30, 1926 in a flying accident near Jacksonville,
She was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame on
Nov. 10 of this year.
Mayor Kay Philips unveiled the sign and guests were treated
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Since 1981, Political Research Associates (PRA) has produced investigative research and analysis on the U.S. Right to support social justice advocates and defend human rights.
A social justice think tank, PRA holds a unique position in studying the entire spectrum of the U.S. Right–secular, religious, economic, and xenophobic–including its influence both domestically and overseas. Our thirty years of expertise helps journalists, advocates, educators, scholars, and the public to understand and challenge the right-wing.
PRA produces investigative reports, articles, and activist resource kits; publishes the quarterly magazine The Public Eye; advises policy makers and social justice advocates; and offers expert commentary for media outlets. Our core issue areas span reproductive justice, LGBTQ rights, racial/immigrant justice, civil liberties, and economic justice.
While threats to human and civil rights may come from any direction, the most robust opposition over the past few decades has emerged from the U.S. Right, which routinely employs harmful scapegoating and clever slogans that oversimplify complex policy issues. PRA counters with reliable analysis, looking beneath the sound-bites to expose the true agendas of right-wing leaders, institutions, and ideologies.
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Whether you’re trying to declutter your home or just want to put the focus back on the true meaning of the holiday season, consider giving a gift from Heifer International.
This organization works to end poverty and hunger by helping people in impoverished communities get the tools they need to take control of their lives.
Some of the low cost gift ideas from Heifer International’s holiday catalog include:
- Â A Flock of Chicks ($20): A flock of chicks can help families add nourishing, life-sustaining eggs to their inadequate diets. The protein in just one egg is a nutritious gift for a hungry child. Protein-packed eggs from even a single chicken can make a life-saving difference.
- A Gardener’s Basket ($20 to $170): Provide an impoverished family with all the tools necessary to start a sustainable farm – tree seedlings, chickens to eat pests, worms and soil for rich compost and a hive of bees to pollinate crops and increase yields.
-  Honey Bees ($30): As bees search for nectar, they pollinate plants. Placed strategically, beehives can as much as double some fruit! This gift can help provide a family with a package of bees, the box and hive plus training in beekeeping, which can be a livelihood or supplement a family’s income.
When you give a gift from Heifer International, the recipient receives a beautiful card in the mail describing the benefits of the gift.
Personally, I like the idea of a flock of chicks as a gift because I think this would be the present a young child would be most likely to be excited to give.
My son isn’t old enough to fully comprehend world hunger, but he loves scrambled eggs and I think he would be thrilled to be doing something that would help a needy child be able to enjoy a the same nutritious breakfast.
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Around 100 people held a rally last week at the Eritrean Embassy in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the government's crackdown on Christians and religious people in the small African country often compared to North Korea for its repressive regime.
The government of Eritrea grants religious freedom to only a handful of faith groups – the Roman Catholic Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church (which is not recognized by the Orthodox papacy), the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Sunni Islam. All other faith groups are illegal, and as many as 2,000–3,000 Protestant Christians in the country have reportedly been jailed for their beliefs.
Every church in Eritrea not belonging to these specific faiths has been closed down, despite activists and concerned citizens calling on the international community to put pressure on the government and call for the release of all prisoners of conscience.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), an organization in England working for religious freedom through advocacy and for the promotion of human rights, shared with The Christian Point its perspective on the situation in Eritrea.
"Eritrea is one of the world's most repressive regimes, often likened to North Korea. It is a single-party state dominated by a dictatorial president, and the military pervades every aspect of society, including the economy. The regime demands total allegiance, thus Christians are perceived as a threat to national unity due to their ultimate allegiance to a higher being," explained Kiri Kankhwende, the organization's press officer.
In their letter delivered to the embassy last week, protesters assured officials that Eritrea's Christians were good citizens.
"Contrary to prevalent government thinking, the teachings and principles of our faith encourage good citizenship and loyalty to one's country. We are confident that Christians in Eritrea are committed to strengthening the nation, and to contributing positively towards its development," the letter reads.
Protesters also shared in the letter the "inhumane condition" Christians face in prison.
"The testimonies of people who escaped from prisons in Eritrea attest to inmates being incarcerated in inhumane conditions, physically and mentally abused, and deprived of access to adequate food, potable water and medication. We are aware that several have died following mistreatment and/or denial of medical attention, and are particularly concerned at the continuing practice of requiring prisoners to sign statements renouncing their faith as a prerequisite to obtaining their freedom," the letter states.
Kankhwende shared that 10 years ago, on May 15, 2002, all churches except those belonging to the Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran denominations were effectively banned and the era of mass arrests of Christians began. Members of independent evangelical and charismatic churches have been particularly singled out, and even licensed churches suffer persecution.
The Orthodox Church patriarch in Eritrea, Abune Antonios, has been under house arrest since 2006 for resisting government interference in church affairs, and priests seen as sympathizing with him have been detained and harassed, according to CSW.
Kankhwende further explained that thousands of Eritreans flee the country every year, but risk a government shoot-to-kill border policy.
"Many are fleeing military conscription, which can last indefinitely and is mandatory for all citizens aged between 18 and 48 years. The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimated in 2011 that there are over 100,000 Eritrean refugees in Sudan, with around 1,600 crossing the border every month. Some fall into the hands of abusive traffickers, and are held hostage in torture camps in the Sinai Desert pending payment of exorbitant ransoms, or the forcible removal of organs," the CSW press officer said.
"Others receive inadequate assistance from the countries they arrive in, and continue to suffer. The Eritrean security services have been known to pursue or harass refugees in foreign countries through their agents abroad, while countries such as Sudan and Egypt have in the past forcibly returned Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers despite evidence of the severe mistreatment of returnees," she continued.
Official statistics on Eritrea's population are hard to come by, but according to a study by the U.S. Department of State, about 48 percent of the population identifies as Christian, while 50 percent are largely Sunni Muslim. Around five percent of that Christian population falls in the groups outlawed by the Eritrea government.
"Right now we're working to raise awareness of the situation for Christians in Eritrea, and the suffering of the Eritrean people at the hands of their government," Kankhwende shared on what Christians from around the globe can do to help persecuted Eritreans.
"CSW is advocating at an international level, and working with the media to raise attention of their plight. Interest has been growing in the media with regards to the treatment of Eritrean refugees by people traffickers in the Sinai, especially following commentary by Pope Benedict XVI. Unfortunately, we have not yet seen effective action on behalf of the international community to deal decisively with the trade in hostages and organs, which many Eritreans and other refugees from the horn of Africa fall victim to in places like the Sinai," she said.
"We are encouraging Christians to pray for Eritrea, for freedom for her people. We are also urging people to partner with our Cry Freedom campaign and donate a tweet a day to raise awareness about what is going on. We would also encourage Christians to write to their elected officials and express their concerns." | <urn:uuid:f87accbc-7acb-437a-b2be-d27e05fdd497> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.christianpost.com/news/eritreans-protest-persecution-of-christians-on-anniversary-of-church-crackdown-75300/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966535 | 1,103 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Myanmar (also known as Burma) was formerly a British colony and a part of the UK's Indian Empire. In 1937, Britain made Burma a separate, self-governing colony, granting it independence in 1948. Independent Burma has long been ruled by a military junta. In 1989, the military junta officially changed the English version of the country's name from Burma to Myanmar.
The current regime is headed by Senior General Than Shwe, who is also the chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). THE SPDC is responsible for suppressions of dissent and arrests of human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize Winner and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her party won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first multi-party elections held in 1990, but the junta did not hand over power.
In 2009, Suu Kyi was tried for violating the terms of her house arrest. She was sentenced to another 18 months of house arrest, which means she will be in custody during next year's elections. World leaders heavily criticized the trial and its verdict.
In August 2007, the junta raised fuel prices, which led to protests by tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists and Buddhist monks. The protests were brutally suppressed a month later: at least 13 were killed and thousands more were arrested.
Sanctions led by the US have not achieved significant results. Myanmar became a full member of ASEAN in 1997, and both India and China maintain trade agreements with the nation. In addition, France’s oil interests and collaboration with the junta to exploit gas have minimized the impact of the European Union’s sanctions against the regime.
Burma has fertile soil, large offshore oil and gas deposits, and a growing tourism industry. But much of the nation is poor, and the economy is widely driven by the black market and unofficial border trade. Corruption and mismanagement are rampant in the junta-controlled industries. The military has also been accused of heroin trafficking.
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If you don't know what Port Forwarding is yet, you might want to start by reading our What is Port Forwarding guide.
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Click the File button near the top of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Configure.
Click the Virtual Server button near the top of the page.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. BitTorrent requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Server menu and then click Down Arrow.
|By Port Number|
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Hayate wrote:Pick a point inside the object, then the normal for any face points away from that point if the number of other faces crossed by the line segment joining the point to the face is even, otherwise it points towards the point.
Alternatively pick a point outside, and do the same but reversing away from/towards.
Hayate wrote:Then pick any arbitrary point, render both images and manually pick the best one.
quickfur wrote:To understand why this is necessary, consider, say, a mesh of 6 triangles that tile a nonplanar hexagon. If we just blindly take the cross products of the triangle vertices in any order, some normals will point up and some will point down. We can't sanely interpolate normals in this case, because they will vary from a positive vector to a negative vector where there is no actual "flip" in the surface's curvature. (You may also get zero at some points, which is ridiculous.) So we must reorient the triangles so that the normals always points up (or down, it doesn't matter which as long as all of the triangles have normals pointing the same way).
Hayate wrote:My algorithm works for this example - perhaps you didn't understand the idea or are the conditions different for 4D objects?
quickfur wrote:Hayate wrote:My algorithm works for this example - perhaps you didn't understand the idea or are the conditions different for 4D objects?
Did I misunderstand what you meant? You said "render both images" - of what? A single face, or the entire 2-manifold? What did you mean by "manually pick" - run the program N times to correctly render N faces? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant, but manually picking (i.e. by the user) an orientation for each face is not feasible, because I may be using hundreds and thousands of faces to represent a projected 2-manifold.
Hayate wrote:[...]The algorithm is this:
1. Pick any point with random floating-point coordinates.
2. For each facet in the object, draw a line from the point to the facet.
3. If said line intersects an even number of facets, the normal of the target facet points one way (either towards or away from the point), otherwise it points the other way.
4. If by mere fluke the line happens to be perpendicular to the normal, it is impossible to solve the orientation for that facet, so pick a different point and try again (though this is very unlikely to happen since the point had random floating-point coordinates).
5. Render the image with those normals.
6. Repeat 1-5, reversing the directions of the normals.
7. Now you have two images, a right one and a wrong one. Manually pick the correct image.
But, I'm glad you solved the problem anyway - very nice images of the cubinder there!
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The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, with claws strong enough to snap a man’s arm, was released back into the ocean Thursday after being trapped in a shrimp net last week, according to Reuters.
Cushing shrimp fisherman Robert Malone caught the monster crustacean in his nets Friday, said Maine State Aquarium Director Aimee Hayden-Rodriques. Malone gave it to the Department of Marine Resources for its aquarium in Boothbay Harbor, according to the Associated Press.
The beast weighed in at 27 pounds and measured nearly 40 inches long. It was dubbed Rocky because it was caught in the Rockland area, but Hayden-Rodriquez said it could have been named for Rocky the boxer because its claws are big enough to pack quite a punch.
The lobster is the biggest ever brought to the aquarium, surpassing the previous biggest one by 4 pounds. It’s downright huge compared to lobsters people eat, which typically weigh between 1 and 2 pounds.
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Will Closing a Credit Card Improve Credit Score?
There’s no definitive answer to this question because canceling a credit card will affect credit score in more than one way and the impact could be either positive or negative.
To see what I meant, let’s first take a look at how a FICO score is determined. Obviously, there’s no way we can know what kind of formula is used in the FICO score calculation. But with the help from FICO, we do know what elements contribute to one’s FICO credit score and how much each element weighs in the overall calculation.
How FICO Credit Score Is Determined
Following is a breakdown of a FICO score (PDF file) from FICO.
As you can see from the above chart, two dominant factors in your credit score are payment history and amounts owed on all credits. Payment histrory referrs to the track record of past payment information of all your credit accounts, not just credit card accounts, but also store credit accounts, installment loan accounts and mortgage accounts. Since 35% of your credit score is determined by payment history, it’s always good to have a clean, long history of on-time payments in order to have and maintain a good credit score.
The second element in the list, the amounts owed which accounts for 30% of your credit score, is more about the credit utilization ratio than the absolute amounts owed. Having $100,000 overall credit limit and using only $10,000 is totally different from having $10,000 limit and using all of them. In both cases, the absolute amount owed is the same at $10,000, but only 10% of the available credit is used in the former (thus the credit utilization ratio is 10%) while 100% is used in the latter. Generally, the lower the ratio the better.
Length of credit history mesures how long your credit history has been established, which started when you obtained your first credit, whether it was a credit card, store card, or a loan. The length of credit history usually includes the oldest credit and the average age of all your credit accounts. The longer the credit history the higher the score.
New credit makes up about 10% of the overall credit score, which takes into consideration not only the number of new credit accounts, but also the time period those new accounts were obtained. The number of new credits you own (and the number of recent credit inquires) and the time since the newest account usually serve as an indication of whether or not you are taking new debt. The fewer new account the better.
Finally, the types of credit you are using also affects your FICO score, though not as greatly as other factors mentioned above. Ideally, you would want to have a good mix of different credit accounts including both credit cards (revolving credit) and loans (installment credit) to show that you have experience with different types of credit.
Will Cancelling a Credit Card Improve My Score?
Now that we know how a FICO score is determined, let’s see what could happen if you cancel a credit card. From the above discussion, the biggest impact cancelling a credit card could have is on the amounts owed because it changes the overall credit utilization ratio, especially when the card has a big credit limit. In this case, the amounts owed won’t change but the total available credit will be reduced, leading to an increase in the ratio, which could me a drop in your score. If, on the other hand, the cancelled card only has a very small limit, your score still won’t improve, but any drop in score could be very small.
Generally, cancelling a credit card will also change the length of your credit history. If the card you plan to cancel happens to be your oldest card, you may want to think twice before closing it because that could dramatically shorten the average age of your credit accounts, which will be negative to your score. But it’s a different story if it’s a new card (for example, those you opened just to get the incentive). To see what I mean, assume you own four cards with the age of 5, 4, 3, and 1. The average age of all your account is 3.25 years. Now if you cancle the newest card (age 1), the average age improves to 4 years, which means your score could get a boost, though may be very little. But if you close the oldest (age 5) instead, the average reduces to 2.67 years. This is definitely not what you want.
Since a late payment record will stay on your credit report for 7 years, closing the credit card that has the late payment will not improve your score. Also, unless the credit card is the only credit card you own, cancelling it won’t have any significant impact on the mix of your credit. However since FICO score does look at the total number of accounts you own, closing an account, thus reducing the total number of accounts, could be positive to your score.
There were a few times in the past when I cancelled some credit cards that I no longer wanted. Because of the concern about credit length, what I did was, instead of calling the issuer and telling them to close the account, I always asked them to move the credit limit from the card that I wanted to cancel to another account that I have with the same issuer. In this way, I kept the overall credit limit, thus the credit utilization ratio, intact while reducing the total number of accounts I own.
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Gretchen Rubin wants you to be happy, and she knows that you want to get the most out of life, you need regular exercise. She has a lot of tips on sticking with your program.
Exercise helps make you happy. People who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, and have delayed onset of dementia. They also get relief from anxiety and mild depression, comparable to medication and therapy.
Here are a few of her tips:
- Always exercise on Monday.
- Never skip exercising for two days in a row.
- DON’T link exercise to weight loss as a way to motivate yourself.
- Give yourself credit for the smallest effort.
- Think about context.
The tips are thoughtful, well-considered, and really go far in helping someone understand and frame their fitness efforts around reasonable and healthy motivations.
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SYDNEY, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say a new infrared test that measures the quality of hay will help farmers determine how much feed an animal will eat.
The test, developed by Australia's science and industrial research agency, the CSIRO, uses a mechanical device called Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to measure the toughness or shear energy of oaten hay.
Around the world, NIRS already is used to measure the fiber and sugar content of forage and feed, but it never has been used before to measure shear energy.
The advance has particular importance for the dairy and equine industries, where hay is an important part of the animals' diet. Making the hay as good as possible, particularly for young animals, is critical for productivity.
That means not only ensuring the hay has a high nutritional value but also that the animals can digest it easily.
David Henry, project leader at CSIRO Livestock Industries, that is where the shear test helps. By measuring the toughness of the hay, it can tell producers how easily an animal will be able to break it down into small particle sizes that can be easily digested.
The higher the hay's shear energy measurement or toughness, the longer the animal will need to chew, the less it will eat and the less energy it gets. After eating, it may feel full, but it cannot make ready use of the nutrients in the hay.
"The beauty of NIRS is that it is inexpensive, rapid and accurate," Henry said.
It takes just 10 minutes to measure shear quality from the time the hay is ground up and thrown into a NIRS machine. It is a huge advance on current wet chemistry analysis, which takes up to two days.
Henry believes NIRS technology also could be used to rapidly and accurately test other characteristics of forage quality, such as fibere and carbohydrate content.
Hans Jung, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was in Australia learning about the project.
"I'm not sure if knowing the shear is going to enable you to give animals a better diet, deliver better milk or increase profits," he said. "But being able to estimate the shear value of hay using NIRS is a huge cost and time saving over the way we usually do it. It's not only cheap and rapid, it's also quite precise.
"This is an advance. To my knowledge, no one has taken this shear force value and applied it to the diet of foraging animals," Jung said.
Colin Peace, executive officer of the Australian Fodder Industry Association, which consists of hay producers, exporters and consumers, is more circumspect.
"We see it as still being at the experimental stage," he said. "But the potential is here to really help producers focus on what their end markets require and make the production pathway more efficient. It could eventually increase production efficiency for a lot of ruminant feedlot systems."
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June 08, 2011 -- Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found the biochemically weakness of the lethal malaria parasite. With a grant of 15 million DKK (approximately 3 million USD) from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation and close corporation with two Danish biotech companies, the researchers can now start developing the vaccine and take it through the first trials to test its safety.
The malaria parasite travels via the spit of an infected mosquito to the liver of the new host, where it spreads to the red blood corpuscles and starts to reproduce itself.
"Pregnant women and children below the age of five years are particularly vulnerable to malaria because of the parasite's survival mechanisms. The parasite has a protein hook designed to attach it to the placenta and this leads to amnesia of the mother who in worst case can die or deliver prematurely. This increases the maternal mortality - and infant mortality," explains Associate Professor Ali Salanti from the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Medical Parasitology who manages the project.
The parasite cheats the immune system
The body's immune system normally attacks any foreign body but since our spleen constantly filters our blood and removes ruined or deform blood cells, the body's natural defense does not need to check the blood. And the malaria parasite exploits this fact.
An infected red blood corpuscle is more stiff than in its normal state and this would usually trigger the spleen to destroy the cell and parasite, but the malaria parasite has an advanced arsenal of protein hooks. With these hooks the parasite attaches itself to the inner side of the blood vessel and even if our immune system succeeds in defeating one hook, the parasite has 60 different hooks, which again differ from one malaria parasite to another.
Vaccine development is tricky
Researchers have for years been looking for a vaccine which can attack the malaria parasite's specific placenta hook. This is tricky not least due to the fact that the parasite's hooks are long proteins which are difficult to produce artificially in the lab when developing of a vaccine.
After intensive research efforts, the researchers have now succeeded in identifying a fragment of the placenta hook (VAR2CSA) which not only is crucial for the parasite's ability to attach itself to the placenta, but also is possible to produce artificially for a vaccine.
"A vaccine must stimulate the immune system to quickly attack something foreign in the body. Therefore, it was a matter of finding the part of the placenta hook, which the parasite cannot manage without and which we could target a vaccine against," says Associate Professor Ali Salanti.
Private public partnership to mass produce vaccine
With the 15 Million DKK from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, Ali Salanti and his colleagues collaborate with the biotech companies ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies and CMC Biologics A/S to develop a method for mass production of the vaccine.
Once this has fallen into place, the researchers can start up the clinical trials on animals and human beings. If the trials are successful the parasistologists from the University of Copenhagen and their partners will make a significant contribution in reaching the UN's Millennium Development goal number 4 and 5. These two goals encourage every country in the world to work on lowering global child mortality with two thirds and maternal mortality with three quarters.
Associate Professor Ali Salanti
Centre for Medical Parasitology
Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen
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Pub. date: 2011 | Online Pub. Date: May 04, 2010 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412973816 | Print ISBN: 9781412996822 | Online ISBN: 9781412973816| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
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Bicycling is a human-powered form of transportation that is relatively quick and efficient when one travels distances less than five miles. Because it produces no greenhouse gas emissions, bicycling is a sustainable and ecologically friendly means of transportation, especially in cities facing congestion, pollution, and limited parking space. In cities throughout the world, where many trips are shorter than five miles, bicycling offers an attractive alternative to automobiles, buses, and light rail in helping cities become greener. Many cities, however, were designed in ways that fail to accommodate bicycling. Other forms of transportation also possess other attractions that dwarf those of bicycling. Because bicycling provides an alternative, environmentally friendly mode of transport to commuters who would otherwise ride public transportation or a private vehicle, however, it remains a viable option for commuters. As a result, numerous cities have explored the benefits of this practical and economical mode of transportation throughout ... | <urn:uuid:59f4061e-4377-4753-ad77-46ebcbbc09dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/greencities/n10.xml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92205 | 262 | 3.6875 | 4 |
In this series we’ll reflect on the Advent Scriptures in the Revised Common Lectionary as a way of enabling us to celebrate the birth of Christ.
27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” (Luke 21:27-28 ESV)
As a very young child, the happiest day of the year was also the saddest–Christmas Day. I anticipated that day as much as any child ever has. I counted the months, the days, the hours and the minutes. I couldn’t wait to open my presents on Christmas morning.
But all that anticipation was over in about ten minutes. In about ten minutes all the wrapping paper was removed, the bows were strewn across the room, my presents were unveiled and that was that. I had such a pit in my stomach each year when I realized I was opening my last present. I wanted Christmas to go on and on and on.
In more significant ways, I suppose we all do. ”Redemption” is the word Jesus uses in our Christmas text above. Redemption is what Jesus came to bring that first Christmas Day. And redeem he did. His ministry was an astounding period of handing out the present of redemption.
And yet…that redemption still seems incomplete. We yearn for more of it. Our world seems to need more of it. There are still broken lives and fractured homes and shattered societies. We need the redemption of the one in the manger like never before.
And this, Jesus promises, is what will happen upon his return. He came first in the manger. He’ll come again in majesty. And when he arrives again, the redemption started at his birth will be completed. All will be restored. Fully. Completely. Irreversibly. | <urn:uuid:dc797056-ce63-4c47-85c9-41307436bd68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chrisaltrock.com/2012/12/the-end-of-the-end-of-christmas-advent-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975124 | 400 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Learn More, Earn More
Understand how education increases earning potential
2011 Median U.S. Earnings by Educational Attainment
(for workers age 25 and older)
What's the best way to improve your future earnings? Many people believe the answer lies in getting a college education.
Others point to the exceptional cases of wealthy businesspeople who dropped out of college as strong counter-examples. But the thing about exceptional cases is that they're just that: exceptions.
On average, people who go to college earn more than those who don't.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median yearly income for someone with a bachelor's degree is $54,756, while for those with only a high school diploma the amount is $33,176. That's a difference of $21,580! In fact, the greater level of education people complete, the more likely they are to earn more money. Each level of educational achievement provides a boost in earning power — from no high school diploma all the way through a professional degree such as a master's of business administration (M.B.A.), medical doctor (M.D.), or juris doctor (J.D.). The median income for this last group — those with professional degrees — is $86,580!
The difference in the salary earned by higher-educated workers compounds over a lifetime. The estimated earnings during the worklife (approximately 40 years) of a full-time worker who didn't complete high school are about $1 million dollars. Completing high school increases earnings by about a third of a million dollars, and completing a bachelor's degree raises worklife earnings to about $2.2 million.
Finally, people with less education often have fewer choices in life and are more likely to depend on government services than the rest of the population: 14.1 percent of high school dropouts were unemployed in 2011 — versus 4.9 percent of college graduates.
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A speed controller is a device which operates an electric motor at a variety of speeds. They are commonly found in industrial control and R/C (radio controlled) vehicle applications. Power output of an electric motor is governed both by the input voltage and by overall current. The voltage determines the speed, and the current the peak torque, which will limit the speed under load.
There are just a few primary methods of controlling the speed of a DC motor. The first and most obvious is to use a variable resistor to change resistance in the circuit, which will reduce voltage (but not current) and thus change the overall power. There are two problems with this approach. Firstly, you are dissipating electrical energy as heat energy, which is inefficient. The second is that you can pass no more current to the motor than your resistor can handle.
The second method is to use a mechanical switch or a series of relays in conjunction with fixed resistors to provide a variety of speeds. This is the method most commonly used in older radio controlled cars; There is a carrier with a number of contacts, and a wiper which will touch them which is driven by a R/C servo. Low speed is provided by the use of a large ceramic resistor, while high speed is the electrical equivalent of "wide open throttle", with no added resistance.
A third method, also used in R/C, is to provide pulse code modulated or pulse width modulated power to the motor, generally with inline capacitors to smooth out the wave. This has the advantage that less power is lost, though it must be done too quickly for relays to be effective, and transistors do heat up when they are switched off, or when a lot of current passes through them. For this reason, RC speed controllers (which in extreme cases pass more than 10 amperes of current) tend to have multiple transistors which are employed either in rapid succession or used in parallel.
Modern R/C speed controllers also provide advanced features like regenerative braking and ABS. Regenerative braking is done by operating the pulsed power in reverse, from the motor to the battery. When the amount of power being generated by the motor (electric motors will operate as a generator if kinetic force is applied to the "output" shaft) drops too low, then the wheels are not turning, and the rate of the pulses is decreased, meaning that the load is decreased. This causes the wheels to not "lock up", thus providing ABS braking. | <urn:uuid:72ea42fa-e52c-4695-a139-20114c26fc27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/speed+controller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960813 | 507 | 3.765625 | 4 |
A Chippewa County company is picking up the pieces today, and is wondering what started a big fire last night. More >>
Eau Claire (WQOW) - The UW school system could speed up
the process for some students.
Gov. Scott Walker announced a new
program that allows students to earn credit based on what they already know.
"As I understand
it, the new UW flexible degree will be targeting working adults, particularly
those adults who have completed some university credit," said UW-Stout Interim Provost Mary Hopkins-Best.
The new flexible degree program
governor walker unveiled Tuesday is designed to help more non-traditional
students earn degrees.
"In a process of assessment
for prior learning, individuals might submit a portfolio, for example, that
might include actual work samples. Faculty then would review the materials and through
those various processes then, be able to award credit for learning that had
already occurred," Hopkins-Best said.
Eliminating unnecessary coursework
helps people learn at a pace that fits their lifestyle and checkbook.
individuals enrolling for example in a 3 credit course that would need to be
completed over sixteen weeks, courses would be broken down into smaller units
or modules and the individual would be able to progress through those modules
at their own pace," said Hopkins-Best.
"They cannot see
themselves at all being in a conventional educational setting for financial
reasons as well, this will be a very, very attractive option for them," UW-Eau Claire Provost Dr. Patricia Kleine said.
How it all affects the bottom line
for universities however, is still unknown.
The financial piece
still needs to be worked out. But typically what happens is there's a price,
some type of fee for taking the exam. The fee will always be less, markedly
less, than taking the courses or taking the modules," said Kleine.
Fall Creek (WQOW)- A home on Partridge Road exploded Sunday afternoon. The Township Fire Department says the family is out of town and no one was hurt in the blast. Right now crews are on scene investigatingMore >>
A home on Partridge Road exploded around noon on Sunday. The Township Fire Department says the family is out of town and no one was hurt in the blast.More >>
Local scores, complete golf results, softball brackets, plus highlights from softball and golf.More >>
Local scores, complete golf results, softball brackets, plus highlights from softball (Altoona vs. Baldwin-Woodville, Superior vs. EC North, Osseo-Fairchild vs. EC Regis, McDonell vs. EC Immanuel Lutheran) and golf (WIAA Division 1, 2, & 3 regionals).More >>
Eau Claire Co. (WQOW) - Just like wearing a seat belt when you ride in a car, wearing your life vest on a boat is key to staying safe on the water. Wednesday, a new project will launch at two local boat landings.More >>
A new project to promote water safety is being launched at two local boat landings.More >>
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Iphone apps are being used by most of the folks and this is increasing the need of Iphone applications and this has created a new industry for iphone app developer. The best thing about iPhone Applications is that there are endless apps that can be created. Apple Store is flooded with such apps and more are going to be added everyday and a big demand is abiding in the market. As technology always keeps on changing, there will always be a space for new and creative iPhone apps. So creating iPhone apps for any industry could be a long term idea.
Mobile application development gives a user with amount variety of features and impute. iPhone can be used as a personal computer it is made for these facilities is increasing the demand of iPhone application development. Now programming developers and experts have switched to this new era of technology. iPhone application development needs technical expertise as all cannot develop iPhone application because it is totally different from custom software development. | <urn:uuid:f0b2c8a9-6031-408b-b801-b1905d6a1083> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://facebook-iphon-apps.blogspot.com/2011/11/iphone-application-solutions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960197 | 186 | 2.25 | 2 |
Working With Emotions (Talk 5 of 7)
Zoketsu lectures on Daniel Goleman's Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. - Proceedings of a dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Western philosophers and scientists. Zoketsu discuses cultivating emotional balance and how to work with emotions on and off the cushion. He advocates the cultivation of sympathetic joy.
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The introduction of the Smart Grid on a mass scale requires robust and reliable communication services. In general, a combination of two communication systems is taking on the challenge: short range or mesh wireless and narrowband power line communication (N-PLC). Both systems face challenges when millions of devices send and receive information and each of them has its place in various deployment environments and regional regulatory climates.
The idea of using the AC mains for communications is not new. The concept of sending communication signals on the same pair of wires that are used for power distribution dates to patents from 1924 implementing "Carrier Transmission Over Power Circuits”. The simple carrier signaling evolved to using various modulation schemes that comprise N-PLC. Only in the last two decades, however, advancements in communications technology made N-PLC a commercially viable solution for large scale deployments.
Narrowband power line Communication (N-PLC) is generally defined as communication over power line that is typically operating in transmission frequencies of up to 500 kHz (as opposed to Broadband PLC that targets much higher bandwidth at shorter distances and operates over a much higher frequency band). Specifically, frequencies of 148.5 kHz and less have been recognized by Europe's CENELEC standards body
for use in N-PLC systems on a public utility’s power wires. Within this frequency range the resulting data rates are modest, ranging from 1Kbps to less than 100Kbps. These rates are appropriate for telemetry and control applications. In North America, Japan and China, the frequency range of up to 500 kHz are viable under local regulations for N-PLC and offers a reasonably wide communications bandwidth (up to above 300Kbps) and a broader range of applications can be considered.
In a power transmission and distribution system the conduit available to all nodes by definition is the power line. An N-PLC system that can provide reliable and cost effective data communication capabilities is an ideal and natural solution to grid communication needs. However, due to the characteristics of the power line noise environment, its changing conditions and variations in equipment and standards, communications over the power grid are difficult. To both reliably operate in this challenging environment and to successfully co-exist with previously installed equipment requires new approaches. This article focuses on the characteristics of PLC within this frequency range and presents the common communication techniques currently used within this band. | <urn:uuid:aaeb4aad-e979-4657-9734-34b8001c8fa1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eetimes.com/design/smart-energy-design/4236198/Narrowband-PLC-and-the-power-line-medium?pageNumber=0&Ecosystem=embedded-internet-design | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933535 | 481 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The Prime Minister, Mr Mizengo Pinda, has warned Tanzanians of the imminent danger of mass infection of HIV/Aids due to complacency.
Addressing the nation during the International Aids Day marked at national level in Tanga yesterday, Mr Pinda said many people have been falling back in taking precautions against infection of the killer virus.
The Premier said the national infection rate which stands at 5.7 per cent, should jingle alarm bells to every Tanzanian.
He said although Tanzania is among two African countries listed on the forefront in the fight against the pandemic, efforts should be enhanced to reduce the prevailing rate. The other country is Zambia.
In his speech, Mr Pinda listed five regions which showed an upward trend in HIV/Aids infections. They are Iringa, (15.7%), Dar es Salaam (9.3%), Mbeya (9.2), Shinyanga (7.4%), Pwani (6.7%), Tabora (6.4%) and Ruvuma (5.9%).
Elsewhere, Unaids country coordinator Dr Luc Bariere-Constantin, has urged people to abandon stigma and discrimination, a major setback in the community's fights against the spread of HIV/Aids infection.
Dr Bariere-Constantin, who was speaking in Zanzibar yesterday during the commemoration of world Aids day, said there was a need for the Government to create space for the people of Zanzibar to adapt to the reality of the epidemic and adopt culturally appropriate measures for changes to happen.
According to him, the silence on the pandemic and about the underlining facts and behaviours that propels the epidemic by many people, has been another limiting factor in the war against HIV/Aids.
He added that the Government should consider changing the legal framework so as to protect HIV negative people from getting infected and to provide space for the others to safely get appropriate services.
In Morogoro, the Mayor, Prof Romanus Ishengoma, said the number of people living with HIV/Aids in the region has increased by 7.6 per cent during the previous nine months.
He said that number does not portray the real image of people living with HIV in Morogoro because among the 300,000 municipal residents, only 23,102 had their health status tested between January and September this year.
The mayor added that the statistics shows that women were the most affected.
In another development, Barclays Bank has dispatched Aids experts to secondary schools, higher learning institutions and to some of its customers in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Moshi and Mwanza, to educate them about the disease.
According to the bank's chief executive officer, Mr Jeremy Awori, the decision was part of the bank's initiative to educate one million people globally by March 2010, through the Clinton Global Initiative as it had previously pledged.
Zain Tanzania, on its part, donated hospital equipment worth Sh10 million to Mwananyamala District Hospital.
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Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length. (8)
Della again seems somewhat over-excitable here. All of her actions are exaggerated – she "whirls" and pulls down her hair "rapidly."
| Quote #5
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. (20)
Here, there's the image of an overemotional Della, who has to come down from her soaring feelings and come back to her senses. Then again, "prudence" and "reason" are presumably things she's had to use quite often before, given how carefully she saves money.
| Quote #6
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. (21)
Della's hair, her one prized possession, is something traditionally characterized as feminine. Now that it's lost, she herself looks less feminine, and more like a boy. She worries that this change will be repulsive to Jim. It's a small detail, but it suggests a larger question. How much does their relationship depend on a clear separation of traditional masculine and feminine roles? | <urn:uuid:966f69fd-ec2d-4306-9891-dcfbcbc97720> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shmoop.com/gift-of-the-magi/women-femininity-quotes-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985719 | 289 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Psychosis is a serious mental disorder characterized by thinking and emotions that are so impaired, that they indicate that the person experiencing them has lost contact with reality.
People who are psychotic have false thoughts (delusions) and/or see or hear things that are not there (hallucinations). These are referred to as “positive” symptoms; “negative” symptoms like loss of motivation and social withdrawal can also occur.
These experiences can be frightening and may cause people who are suffering from psychosis to hurt themselves or others. It is important to see a doctor right away if you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of psychosis.
Psychosis affects three out of every 100 people. It is most likely to be diagnosed in young adults, but psychosis can happen to anyone.
Early stage psychosis:
- difficulty concentrating
- depressed mood
- sleep changes—sleeping too much or not enough
- withdrawal from family and friends
- ongoing unusual thoughts and beliefs
Later stage psychosis
- disorganized speech—switching topics erratically
- suicidal thoughts or actions
- difficulty functioning
A delusion is a false belief or impression that is firmly held even though it is contradicted by reality and what is commonly held as true. There are delusions of paranoia, grandiose delusions, and somatic delusions.
People who are experiencing a delusion of paranoia might think that they are being followed when they are not or that secret messages are being sent only to them through media. Someone with a grandiose delusion will have an exaggerated sense of his or her importance. Somatic delusions are the belief that you have a terminal illness when you are healthy.
A hallucination is a sensory perception in the absence of outside stimulus. That means seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that isn’t present. A person who is hallucinating might see things that don’t exist or hear people talking when he or she is alone.
Delusions and hallucinations seem real to the person who is experiencing them.
Each case of psychosis is different, and the exact cause is not always entirely clear. There are, however, certain illnesses that cause psychosis. There are also triggers like drug use, lack of sleep, and other environmental factors. In addition, certain situations can lead to specific types of psychosis to develop (see “Types of Psychosis” below).
Illnesses that can cause psychosis:
- brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and some chromosomal disorders
- brain tumors or cysts
- dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease)
- HIV, syphilis, and other infections that attack the brain
- some types of epilepsy
Psychosis can be triggered by the use of alcohol and illegal drugs, including stimulants such as methamphetamine (meth) and cocaine. Hallucinogenic drugs like LSD (acid) often cause users to see things that are not really there, but this effect is temporary. People who do not get enough sleep for long periods of time can experience symptoms of psychosis. Some prescription drugs like steroids and stimulants can cause symptoms of psychosis.
It is not currently possible to precisely identify individuals who are likely to develop a psychotic disorder. However, research has shown that genetics may play a role.
If one identical twin develops psychosis, there is a 50 percent chance the other twin will as well. Individuals with a close family member (parent or sibling) who has a psychotic disorder are more likely to develop a psychotic disorder.
Children born with the genetic mutation known as 22q11 deletion syndrome are at risk for developing a psychotic disorder, especially schizophrenia.
Some kinds of psychosis are brought on by specific conditions or circumstances.
Brief Reactive Psychosis
Extreme personal stress like the death of a family member can bring on symptoms of psychosis. Someone experiencing brief reactive psychosis will recover in a few days.
Drug- or Alcohol-Related Psychosis
Use of alcohol and drugs can sometimes cause symptoms of psychosis. These symptoms might go away immediately when the effect of the alcohol or drug wears off, but this is not always the case. People who are addicted to alcohol and certain drugs can experience psychotic symptoms if they suddenly stop drinking or taking the drug to which they are addicted.
A head injury or an illness that affects the brain like Parkinson’s disease can cause symptoms of psychosis.
The following types of psychoses are called psychotic disorders. They can be triggered by stress, drug or alcohol use, injury or illness, or they can appear on their own.
When someone has bipolar disorder, his or her moods swing from very high to very low. When his or her mood is high and positive, he or she may have symptoms of psychosis. The individual may feel extremely good and believe he or she has special powers. When his or her mood is depressed, the individual may have psychotic symptoms that make him or her feel angry, sad, or frightened. These symptoms include thinking someone is trying to harm him or her.
A person suffering from delusional disorder strongly believes in things that are not real.
This is major depression with psychotic symptoms.
Schizophrenia is psychosis that lasts longer than six months. Schizophrenia is a lifelong disease.
Psychosis is diagnosed through a psychiatric evaluation. That means a doctor will watch the person’s behavior and ask questions about what he or she is experiencing. Medical tests and X-rays may be used to determine whether there is an underlying illness causing the symptoms.
Many of the symptoms of psychosis are perfectly normal in young people. For example, a teenager may suddenly need more sleep in response to changes in their body. Small children often have imaginary friends with whom they talk. If you are worried about psychosis in a child or adolescent, describe the individual’s behavior to a doctor.
Treating psychosis may involve a combination of medications and therapy. Most people recover from psychosis with treatment.
Sometimes people suffering from psychosis can become agitated and be at risk of hurting themselves or others. In those cases, it may be necessary to calm them down quickly. This method is called rapid tranquilization. A doctor or emergency response personnel will administer a fast-acting shot or liquid medicine to relax the patient right away.
Drugs and medication
Symptoms of psychosis can be controlled with medications called antipsychotics. These medicines reduce hallucinations and delusions and help people think more clearly. The type of medicine you are prescribed will depend on which symptoms you are experiencing. In many cases, people only need to take antipsychotics for a short time to get their symptoms under control. People with schizophrenia may have to stay on medications for life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy means meeting regularly to talk with a mental health counselor with the goal of changing thinking and behaviors. This approach has been shown to be effective in helping patients make permanent changes and more effectively manage their illness.
Psychosis does not have many medical complications. However, if left untreated, it can make it hard for the people with this disorder to take good care of themselves. That could cause other illnesses to go untreated.
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Phone: 395-4554 or 395-4555
Location: Levinson Hall (Campus Map)
Remain calm and answer the dispatcher’s questions. The dispatcher is trained to obtain the necessary and required information for an appropriate emergency response.
If safe to do so, stop and take time to get a good description of the shooter. Note
height, weight, sex, race, approximate age, clothing, method and direction of travel, and
his/her name, if known.
If the suspect is entering a vehicle, note the license plate number, make and model, color, and outstanding characteristics. All of this takes only a few seconds and is of the utmost help to the responding officers.
NOTE: An individual must use his/her own discretion during an active shooter event as to whether he/she chooses to run to safety or remain in place. However, best practices for an active shooter event are listed below.
Drop to the ground immediately, face down as flat as possible. If within 15-20
feet of a safe place or cover, duck and run to it. Move or crawl away from gunfire, trying to utilize any obstructions between you and the gunfire.
When you reach a place of relative safety, stay down and do not move.
Wait and listen for directions from Public Safety and/or public agency personnel.
Stay inside the classroom/office.
If possible, close and lock the outside door to the room.
Close the blinds, turn off the lights, remain quiet and move behind available cover. Stay
on the floor, away from doors or windows, and do not peek out to see what may be
If possible and safe to do so, report the location of the assailant.
Lie motionless and pretend to be unconscious.
Do not attempt to apprehend or interfere with the shooter except for self-protection.
An individual must use his/her own discretion about when he or she must engage a shooter for survival.
Reporting a Threat
While shootings in schools are rare episodes, when they occur, they are often devastating. As an institution of higher learning, it is important for Bakersfield College to view these types of incidents with the appropriate perspective. Since 1966, there have been 89 shooting deaths at U.S. universities and college campuses; Virginia Tech was the largest. Compare that to the approximately 1,100 that commit suicide on college and university campuses every year, or the 1,400 to 1,700 alcohol related deaths on college and university campuses each year.
Despite shootings on campuses being rare, we as a community must be vigilant and prepared. It is important to note a few facts about these types of shootings. The Secret Service has studied the 30 major shooting incidents that have taken place at schools (elementary through college) since 1974. They found remarkable similarity in them. First, almost all of the individuals who have committed these crimes have been male, and were known for being isolated socially.
Almost all of them planned out their actions in advance, and over three quarters of them actually shared their plans with others before putting them into effect. Unfortunately, in only two cases did anyone report the plan to authorities before the attack. With these facts in mind, it is critically important that members of our community report threats and potential threats in a timely manner.
If you believe an individual poses an imminent threat to a member or members of the college community please contact the Department of Public Safety immediately. If you are located at an off campus site, and believe imminent danger is likely, please contact 911 immediately and then contact the Department of Public Safety.
If you do not believe that harm is imminent, but an individual’s behavior seems threatening or seems like it could lead to harm to the individual or to the community, you should report the concern.
If you are a student or a faculty member, contact the Department of Public Safety or your Dean’s office. If you are a staff member or other member of the community, contact Public Safety or the local police. It is better to err on the side of notifying the appropriate individuals than to remain silent; the institution has resources with which to assess these situations and the individual of concern. If you have any questions, please contact the Department of Public Safety at (661) 395-4554. | <urn:uuid:2536690f-8376-4313-a939-2bfe0753ea6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/public_safety/Shooter.asp?c=Faculty | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958416 | 882 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Oklahoma v. Texas - 265 U.S. 513 (1924)
U.S. Supreme Court
Oklahoma v. Texas, 265 U.S. 513 (1924)
Oklahoma v. Texas
No. 15, Original
Orders entered June 9, 1924
265 U.S. 513
1. Granting Texas leave to file an amended counterclaim and fixing time for answer.
2. That an injunction issue directing dismissal of a certain action against the receiver herein. [See ante, p. 265 U. S. 490.]
3. Approving survey, etc., of medial line of part of Red River, and as to expenses, etc., of the commissioners. [See ante, p. 265 U. S. 493.]
4. Authorizing the receiver to pay a Texas production tax, upon stated conditions.
5. As to distribution of interest, discounts, and other profits from general operations of receivership.
6. As to collection by receiver of claims and accounts and report of those uncollected.
7. Directing publication of final notice to claimants and limiting time for presenting claims against receiver or receivership.
8. Forbidding reimbursement by receiver for work on unremunerative wells prior to receivership, and overruling applications therefor.
9. Directing receiver how to spread general expenses over impounded funds.
10. Expenses and losses of receiver's work on unremunerative riverbed wells to be charged to funds derived from remunerative riverbed wells.
11. Authorizing a certain payment to one Testerman.
12. Denying another claim of Testerman
13. Amending order of June 1, 1921, by authorizing reimbursement by receiver for well No. 139 on certain conditions.
14. Authorizing receiver to surrender south half of river bed, with wells, etc., to Secretary of the Interior, as representative of the United States.
15. Authorizing receiver to deliver certain other property to said Secretary, as representative, etc., with provisions for valuation, for crediting receiver and for charging United States.
16. Authorizing receiver to pay said Secretary, as representative, etc., part of net funds from river-bed wells.
17. Authorizing receiver to surrender to their several owners and lessees flood-plain (Texas) wells, with pipelines, etc., in absence of controversy or doubt as to persons entitled.
18. Instruction receiver to publish notice to claimants of funds from flood-plain wells, limiting time for presenting claims, with provisions as to payment, or, in case of controversy or doubt, report to the Court.
19. Directing audit of receiver's accounts.
1. The motion of the defendant, the State of Texas, for leave to file an amended counterclaim relating to the interstate boundary along the one hundredth meridian is granted, and the complainant, the State of Oklahoma, and the intervener, the United States of America, are severally given until and including the first Monday of October next within which to answer such amended counterclaim.
2. On consideration of the response made by J. H. Duhon and H. J. Kebideaux to the order to show cause issued against them on May 5, 1924, such response is found insufficient, and it is ordered that an injunction be issued directing that they dismiss the action brought by them against the receiver in this cause in the district court of Wichita County, Texas, and that they refrain from taking any other proceeding or step in that action.
3. The report of the boundary commissioners of the survey and platting of the medial line of Red River in the vicinity of the river-bed wells, pursuant to the order of June 4, 1923, 262 U. S. 262 U.S. 505, is approved and adopted. The report of such commissioners of the time employed and expense incurred in that work is also approved, and the receiver is directed to pay the sums specified in such report and to charge the same against the impounded funds derived from the river-bed wells.
4. On consideration of the motion of the State of Texas that the receiver pay out of the proceeds of the receivership wells south of the interstate boundary the production tax prescribed by the laws of that state, it is ordered that
the receiver be authorized, out of the impounded proceeds from every such well, to pay such tax in respect of such impounded proceeds and to charge the same against such well as an expense specially pertaining to it. But, before making any such payment, the receiver shall request the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and the parties interested in the fund from which the payment is to be made, to submit to him definite statements showing the amount of the tax and whether it has been otherwise paid. If in any instance the receiver is in doubt respecting the propriety of the payment, he shall withhold it and report the matter to this Court for further instructions.
5. The receiver is instructed to distribute pro rata over the impounded funds in his custody all interest received on receivership moneys, all discounts collected and all other similar items of profit arising from the general operations or business of the receivership, and not from particular wells.
6. The receiver is authorized to take all proper steps to obtain payment of all accounts and claims that may be due or owing to him as such receiver and to report to the court at its next term all of such accounts and claims as then may remain unpaid with his recommendations respecting the measures to be taken to enforce payment.
7. The receiver is directed to publish a final notice to all persons asserting or holding claims against him or the receivership rising out of matters accruing since the claims notice of June 1, 1921, to present such claims within 40 days after the first publication of such notice, in default of which, the claims will be barred.
8. The receiver is instructed to make no reimbursement, under the order of June 1, 1921, 256 U. S. 256 U.S. 607, or otherwise, to any operator or driller for work done on any river-bed well prior to the receivership where the well has proved to be a dry hole or unproductive, and all
applications and suggestions that reimbursement be made for such work are overruled.
9. The receiver is instructed to spread the general expenses of the receivership over all the impounded funds in his custody in such way that each dollar in the funds derived from river-bed wells, and in those derived from flood-plain wells which have remained in the operation of the receiver, will bear twice as much of such expenses as each dollar in the funds derived from flood-plain wells which have been operated by private claimants will bear. The spreading shall be made evenly over all moneys in the funds bearing the lesser share of the expenses, and evenly over all moneys in the funds bearing the larger share. No distinction shall be made between moneys going to owners of flood-plain wells and moneys going to lessees of such wells. Neither shall be exempted and the spreading over the two shall be on a pro rata basis.
10. All expenses and losses incident to work done by the receiver on river-bed wells which proved unremunerative shall be charged against the funds derived from remunerative wells in the river bed.
11. The receiver is authorized to pay to Tom Testermann the sum received by the receiver on the sale by him of equipment belonging to Mr. Testermann which had come into the possession of the receiver.
12. The petition of Tom Testermann asking that he be reimbursed out of funds enuring to the Bass Petroleum Company, its successor or assigns, for the conversion by such company, prior to the receivership, of property claimed by Mr. Testermann is denied.
13. Notwithstanding the exception if well No. 139, known as the Burk-Senator well, from the order of June 1, 1921, 256 U. S. 256 U.S. 607, the receiver is authorized, in his discretion, to reimburse the operators who drilled that well prior to the receivership for the cost of that work,
if the operators who participated therein are disposed to adjust the differences between them and to accept a reimbursement which is satisfactory to the receiver.
14. The receiver is authorized to surrender to the Secretary of the Interior, as the representative of the United States, the possession of all of the south half of the river bed, now in the receivership, with all oil wells, pipelines and other property pertaining to such river bed, the surrender to be made at the close of business on the 30th of June, 1924, or as soon thereafter as the Secretary of the Interior is prepared to take over that property.
15. The receiver is authorized to deliver to the Secretary of the Interior, as the representative of the United States at the time of the surrender named in the last paragraph the office buildings, equipment and supplies belonging to the receivership and intended for use in its oil and gas operations, the delivery to be at a valuation agreed upon between the Secretary of the Interior and the receiver. The agreed price shall be charged to the United States and credited to the receiver as a partial payment to the former of the money enuring to it as proceeds of river-bed wells.
16. The receiver is authorized to pay over to the Secretary of the Interior, as the representative of the United States at the time of the surrender and delivery named in the last two paragraphs approximately two-thirds of the net impounded funds derived from the river-bed wells.
17. The receiver is authorized to surrender to the several owners or lessees entitled thereto, as soon as arrangements therefor satisfactorily can be made, the possession of the flood-plain wells which he is now operating, together with the pipelines and fixtures pertaining to them. If there be controversy or doubt as to who is entitled to any particular well, the receiver shall withhold its surrender
for the time being and pursue the course indicated in the next paragraph of this order.
18. The receiver is instructed to publish notice to all claimants to funds in his custody derived from flood-plain wells (meaning wells south of the interstate boundary as now established) to present their claims to such funds within 40 days after the first publication of such notice, the presentation to be in the form of a definite statement of what is claimed and of the claimant's title. After the expiration of 20 days more, the receiver shall be authorized, where there are no conflicting claims, to pay the proceeds from any well or wells, less expenses and charges, to the proper claimant or claimants. If there be controversy or doubt as to who is entitled to the proceeds from any well, the receiver shall withhold action as to such proceeds and report the matter to this Court at its next term for further instructions.
19. The receiver is directed to have all of his accounts audited as of the close of business on June 30, 1924, by an expert public accountant designated by the Chief Justice. | <urn:uuid:e3d049b0-567e-45c2-a9aa-868a241fec1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/265/513/case.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970245 | 2,280 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Llewelyn Davies Yeang, in association with T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd. (Kuala Lumpur) and Andrew Lee King Fun Associates (Hong Kong) have been commissioned by the University of Hong Kong to design the Human Research Institute (HRI) (10 storeys above ground and 3 storeys below), for genome research and for complimentary and alternative medicine at the Li Shu Fan Site at the University of Hong Kong campus.
Phase One is a 16,000 sq.m. new building that will house laboratories, offices and common areas. The project is planned for expansion, and future phases will be developed based on funding availability.
The project will be an exemplar green design for research and teaching facilities, with its built form integrated with the ecosystem of the locality. It will make extensive use of a planting-system that connects the existent green park adjoining the site by means of a series of continuous planter-strips on the facade of the building that leads upwards to a vegetated roof-garden. This is combined with passive low energy techniques that will reduce the building's energy consumption while improving the quality of the learning and research environment.
The built form is shaped around the existing trees on the site as a signature design and landmark building that will enhance the University's campus environment and its international stature. | <urn:uuid:07947bee-01a8-46e1-a529-3379c506b819> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=670 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935932 | 276 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Microsoft Windows Smart Display
Speaking of clunky tablets, remember Microsoft's "Mira?" That was the codename for Microsoft's precursor to the tablet, which Bill Gates famously introduced at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show. A portable touchscreen device with its own operating system (Windows CE) and the ability to connect to traditional PCs, the tablet-like Smart Display was on the right track.
But, the product suffered from several issues -- a high price tag and connectivity problems, to name two. The most egregious visual offense was the Smart Display's clunky, unattractive design, which was partly to blame on ViewSonic and other OEM partners. The thick borders and odd control panels made the Smart Display have an extremely inelegant display, while the size and weight of the device basically rendered Microsoft's Mira as an underpowered notebook with no keyboard. In other words, it was the worst of both worlds for the combined display-mobile computer. Microsoft discontinued the Smart Display a year after its launch. | <urn:uuid:9c8d1722-4e35-4069-b6da-09a86306af03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/mobility/232900533/the-10-ugliest-gadgets-of-the-last-10-years.htm?pgno=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942818 | 203 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Now They’re Putting Babies In Murphy Beds (Dec, 1941)
Now They’re Putting Babies In Murphy Beds
WELL, well! The famous Murphy Bed, which has been lauded in poem, song and movie, finally has been adapted for infant use; though we’ll admit the babe at the left seems to be old enough to know better. The idea is that this crib can be hidden away when your offspring isn’t in it—which, if you know your Murphy Beds, is the time to fold it away. When folded up, the crib looks like an ordinary closet or bookcase, and takes no extra room. | <urn:uuid:1b5c5c2f-0d07-4b49-bc52-a2771d821c79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/now-theyre-putting-babies-in-murphy-beds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964395 | 139 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Magicians - The illusionists
Houdini, David Copperfield,
David Blaine, Criss Angel...
Have you seen many magicians performing magic tricks with cards? Were you amazed by the magic card tricks?
The magician is a person who
works with illusions and does something that
seems impossible to others.
But does the magician need to have special
powers? The answer is yes, he needs to have
passion for what he is doing. Most people
think that the secret is to know a technique of
a trick. That is part of it, but not
everything. The magician needs to know more than
technique. He needs to believe he can do
it and convert something simple into something
Many magicians have been known for doing amazing magic shows.
Let's remember some of the most
prominent names, such as:
The magician Harry Houdini
Born in Budapest, Hungary
on March 24, 1874, he died on October 31, 1926 at the age of 52 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
He was the master of escapism, illusions and mystery.
There was nobody like him in his time period. He
captivated millions of
people doing amazing tricks.
The magician David
Copperfield Born in Metuchen, New Jersey
on September 16, 1956. His most distinguished illusions
have been flying on a stage, making the Statue of
Liberty and an airplane disappear,
teletransportation. He holds
in the Guinness Book of World Records, and more.
The magician Juan Tamariz
Born in Madrid, Spain on October 18, 1942.
The magician Lance Burton
Born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 10, 1960.
The magician David Blaine
Born in Brooklyn, New York on April 4, 1973.
The magician Criss Angel
Born in East Meadow, New York on December 19, 1967.
The magician Amazing Johnathan
Born in Detroit, Michigan on September 9, 1958.
Raymond Joseph Teller
The magician Born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 14, 1948.
Penn Jillette the magician
Greenfield, Massachusetts on March 5, 1955. | <urn:uuid:247da246-bfcb-4cb6-aecc-6324343d160b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cardsmagictricks.com/magicians.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927918 | 462 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The Clock is ticking. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight — from 6 minutes to midnight to 5 minutes. Midnight means catastrophic destruction for humanity. But don’t worry (well, maybe a little), this is no “Judgment Day” and there is no “Rapture” coming. The Doomsday Clock is figurative and monitors “the means humankind could use to obliterate itself.”
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have maintained the Doomsday Clock since 1945. They cite issues in nuclear disarmament and climate change as reasons we are inching closer to a global disaster.
In their announcement on Tuesday, the scientists stated, “two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed.”
According to USA Today, Robert Socolow of Princeton University said during a press conference in Washington, “There are still 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world, enough to kill all of humanity many times over.”
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded by scientists, engineers, and other experts involved in the creation of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. They felt a responsibility to warn the public of its danger.
The closest the clock has ever come to midnight is two minutes away. This was in 1953 after a successful American test of a hydrogen bomb. | <urn:uuid:c126f19e-5978-45cf-af42-3da1f55d0240> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/11/doomsday-clock-pushed-one-minute-closer-to-midnight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956036 | 298 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The headlines in the financial industry are full of stories about the battle on debit card interchange regulations. The untold story about store-issued debit cards may eventually have even more impacts on your interchange income and your ACH transaction processing.
Although store-issued debit cards have been around for several years, they have recently become more popular as merchants attempt to reduce their costs for payment processing. These debit cards route transactions through the ACH network to the consumer’s checking account, and bypass the traditional card networks (VISA, MasterCard, etc.) and their interchange fees. Transactions are posted as ACH debit entries to your members’ accounts.
Many grocery stores, department stores, and gas stations around the country are the originators of the entries. Because the ACH entries are much less expensive to process than traditional debit card transactions, the merchants are passing on the savings to consumers in the form of merchandise discounts or rebates. These rebates are the primary attraction for your members to use the new store-issued debit cards.
In addition to the interchange income impact, these new debit cards may also require some training for your staff and members. Credit union employees need to be able to distinguish the ACH debit postings from the normal VISA / MasterCard debit card postings, and explain the differences to your members. ACH debit postings probably appear in a different format on your members account. Disputed entries are processed under the ACH rules using the Written Statement of Unauthorized ACH Debit form. Keep in the mind that the expanded warranties and chargeback rights under the VISA and MasterCard networks will not apply to any ACH processed debit card entry.Now is the time to learn more about these new debit cards before they can cause confusion or misunderstandings for your staff and members. Check your ACH postings for debit entries from retailers with the POS (Point-of-Sale) entry class codes. You may be surprised on the volume of these debit card entries that you are already posting to member accounts. Expect that volume to grow. Take this opportunity to educate your staff and members on this new development in the payments industry, and the implications for your credit union.
Credit unions continue to suffer losses from check fraud despite declining check usage. Many of these losses are caused by counterfeit or altered checks presented for deposit to your front line staff. Increased access to sophisticated technology has made this type of check fraud an easy crime to commit. Scanners, check printing software, and quality printers are just a few of the tools available to anyone. Here a few suggestions to combat check fraud on your check deposits.
Check printing companies help to deter check fraud by including common security features that make it difficult for criminals to produce counterfeits. Tellers should be familiar with watermarks, micro printing, pantographs, and security screens. These features can assist your staff to verify the authenticity of checks received for deposit.
Other signs of possible counterfeit checks include invalid routing numbers, missing or mismatched check numbers, misspelled preprinted words, and the lack of perforations. Some obviously invalid signatures should alert you to a counterfeit as well. We have seen several counterfeit cashier’s checks lately signed by George Washington or Benjamin Franklin – among the many signatures available from Internet sites like Wikipedia!
Tellers should also examine checks for possible alterations of dollar amounts or payees. A cloudy or bleached area, or erasure marks on the check are common signs of alteration. Other signs are irregular printing of either payees or dollar amounts. Also make sure that the courtesy amount agrees with the legal amount.Finally, if your tellers don’t discover the counterfeits or alterations, your check imaging system for processing deposits may alert them to possible problems. Investigate any warnings or cautions provided by your system. Rather than just overriding these messages from your system, remind tellers to manually inspect the checks again before proceeding with deposit processing. It may add some time to the processing tasks, but it may also prevent a significant loss to your credit union. | <urn:uuid:c352aab5-c2f6-42c0-8aae-fa4a50bf0a72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.suncorp.coop/eNewsletter/2011/March/correspondent.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940546 | 818 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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1737 From a ship that had just arrived from South Carolina, the Trustees in London learned that Spanish forces in Havana, Cuba, were finalizing plans for a naval and land attack of Georgia.
1750 The Trustees named Henry Parker vice president of Georgia. By October 1750, he was performing the duties of president William Stephens (who was incapacitated due to advanced age and illness). In early 1751, the Trustees appointed Parker as president of Georgia.
1806 Former Georgia governor James Jackson died in Washington, D.C. He had been born on Sept. 21, 1757 in Moreton-Hampstead in Devonshire County, England. In 1772, his parents sent him to Savannah, where he lived with John Wereat while reading law. Jackson became a Whig and served in the Georgia militia during the American Revolution. After the war, he practiced law while continuing militia service, ultimately rising to the rank of major general in 1792. Jackson had extensive political experience, serving in the Georgia General Assembly during the 1780s and 1790s, in the U.S. House of Representatives (1789-1791), as governor (1798-1801), and in the U.S. Senate (1793-95 and 1801-06).
After the Yazoo Land scandal, Jackson resigned from the Senate to return to Georgia to fight for repeal of the legislation and defeat of those who had supported it. Because of his role, the General Assembly named a new county in his honor in 1796. Reelected to the Senate, Jackson helped negotiate an agreement in 1802 whereby Georgia ceded its western territories to the U.S. in return for a payment of $1,250,000 and the national government's agreement to extinguish all Indian claims to land within Georgia.
1937 Gov. E.D. Rivers signed an act of the General Assembly creating the state Department of Public Safety. The agency had two divisions (which still exist today) – the Bureau of Investigation (today known as the G.B.I.) and the Georgia State Patrol.
1947 In a 5-2 decision in the case of Thompson v. Talmadge, Georgia's Supreme Court ruled that earlier that year, the General Assembly had exceeded its power in electing Herman Talmadge governor during the "Three Governors Affair."
The legislature had justified its action because of a state constitution provision that in the event no candidate for governor received a majority of all votes cast, the General Assembly shall elect the governor from the two candidates that received the highest number of votes and "who shall be in life." The high court, however, ruled that the state constitution provided that the governor's term was "four years, and until his successor shall be chosen and qualified." When governor-elect Eugene Talmadge died before taking the oath of office, the court ruled that departing governor Ellis Arnall had no successor – so he remained governor until he resigned on Jan. 18, when newly elected Lt. Gov. Melvin Thompson succeeded to the office.
Georgia cities and towns first incorporated by acts approved by the governor on March 19:
1869 Cochran (then Pulaski, now Bleckley County), Drayton (Dooly County), and Kingston (Bartow County)
In Their Own Words on This Day. . .
1739 While at sea on his return to Georgia, George Whitefield maintained his duties as Anglican minister -- preaching on this day, then performing a wedding which did not run as smoothly as he wished:
Source: [no author or editor cited], Our First Visit in America: Early Reports from the Colony of Georgia, 1732-1740 (Savannah: Beehive Press, 1974), p. 284.
1841 William Bacon Stevens' 1847 work, A History of Georgia, is generally considered the first scholarly history of this state. It came about after a committee of the Georgia Historical Society wrote the University of Georgia professor on March 11, 1841 asking if he would write a new and complete history of Georgia. On March 19, Stevens wrote back indicating his acceptance of the task but pointing out some of the difficulties that he would face:
Source: William Bacon Stevens, A History of Georgia (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1847), Vol. I, p. xi.
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|Organization||ESA / NASA|
|Launch date||December 2, 1995|
|Launch vehicle||Atlas IIAS|
|Mission length||17 years, 5 months, and 16 days elapsed|
|Mass||1,850 kg (610 kg payload)|
|Orbit height||1.5×106 km (heliocentric)|
|Orbit period||1 Earth year|
|Wavelength||optical through UV, also magnetic information|
|GOLF||solar core oscillations
|MDI||oscillations and magnetic fields (Doppler imager)|
|EIT||low corona and photosphere
|UVCS||solar wind acceleration
|LASCO||low to outer corona
(two visible light cameras,
one imaging Fabry–Pérot interferometer)
|SWAN||solar wind density (UV camera)|
|solar wind ions (material samplers)|
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun, and has discovered over 2400 comets. It began normal operations in May 1996. It is a joint project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Originally planned as a two-year mission, SOHO currently continues to operate after over seventeen years in space. In November 2012, a mission extension lasting until December 2014 was approved.
In addition to its scientific mission, it is currently the main source of near-real-time solar data for space weather prediction. Along with the GGS Wind and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), SOHO is one of three spacecraft currently in the vicinity of the Earth–Sun L1 point, a point of gravitational balance located approximately 0.99 astronomical unit (AU)s from the Sun and 0.01 AU from the Earth. In addition to its scientific contributions, SOHO is distinguished by being the first three-axis-stabilized spacecraft to use its reaction wheels as a kind of virtual gyroscope; the technique was adopted after an on-board emergency in 1998 that nearly resulted in the loss of the spacecraft.
The SOHO spacecraft is in a halo orbit around the Sun–Earth L1 point, the point between the Earth and the Sun where the balance of the (larger) Sun's gravity and the (smaller) Earth's gravity is equal to the centripetal force needed for an object to have the same orbital period in its orbit around the Sun as the Earth, with the result that the object will stay in that relative position.
Although sometimes described as being at L1, the SOHO spacecraft is not exactly at L1 as this would make communication difficult due to radio interference generated by the Sun, and because this would not be a stable orbit. Rather it lies in the (constantly moving) plane which passes through L1 and is perpendicular to the line connecting the sun and the Earth. It stays in this plane, tracing out an elliptical lissajous orbit centered about L1. It orbits L1 once every six months, while L1 itself orbits the sun every 12 months as it is coupled with the motion of the Earth. This keeps SOHO at a good position for communication with Earth at all times.
In normal operation the spacecraft transmits a continuous 200 kbit/s data stream of photographs and other measurements via the NASA Deep Space Network of ground stations. SOHO's data about solar activity are used to predict solar flares, so electrical grids and satellites can be protected from their damaging effects (mainly, solar flares may produce geomagnetic storms, which in turn produce geomagnetically induced current creating black-outs, etc.).
In 2003 ESA reported the failure of the antenna Y-axis stepper motor, necessary for pointing the high-gain antenna and allowing the downlink of high-rate data. At the time, it was thought that the antenna anomaly might cause two to three week data-blackouts every three months. However, ESA and NASA engineers managed to use SOHO's low-gain antennas together with the larger 34 and 70 meter DSN ground stations and judicious use of SOHO's Solid State Recorder (SSR) to prevent total data loss, with only a slightly reduced data flow every three months.
The SOHO Mission Interruption sequence of events began on June 24, 1998, while the SOHO Team was conducting a series of spacecraft gyroscope calibrations and maneuvers. Operations proceeded until 23:16 UTC when SOHO lost lock on the Sun, and entered an emergency attitude control mode called Emergency Sun Reacquisition (ESR). The SOHO Team attempted to recover the observatory, but SOHO entered the emergency mode again on June 25 02:35 UTC. Recovery efforts continued, but SOHO entered the emergency mode for the last time at 04:38 UTC. All contact with SOHO was lost, and the mission interruption had begun. SOHO was spinning, losing electrical power, and no longer pointing at the Sun.
Expert ESA personnel were immediately dispatched from Europe to the United States to direct operations. Days passed without contact from SOHO. On July 23, the Arecibo Observatory and DSN antennas were used to locate SOHO with radar, and to determine its location and attitude. SOHO was close to its predicted position, oriented with its side versus the usual front Optical Surface Reflector panel pointing toward the Sun, and was rotating at one RPM. Once SOHO was located, plans for contacting SOHO were formed. On August 3 a carrier was detected from SOHO, the first signal since June 25. After days of charging the battery, a successful attempt was made to modulate the carrier and downlink telemetry on August 8. After instrument temperatures were downlinked on August 9, data analysis was performed, and planning for the SOHO recovery began in earnest.
The SOHO Recovery Team began by allocating the limited electrical power. After this, SOHO's anomalous orientation in space was determined. Thawing the frozen hydrazine fuel tank using SOHO's thermal control heaters began on August 12. Thawing pipes and the thrusters was next, and SOHO was re-oriented towards the Sun on September 16. After nearly a week of spacecraft bus recovery activities and an orbital correction maneuver, the SOHO spacecraft (bus) returned to normal mode on September 25 at 19:52 UTC. Recovery of the instruments began on October 5 with SUMER, and ended on October 24, 1998 with CELIAS.
Only one gyro remained operational after this recovery, and on December 21 that gyro failed. Attitude control was accomplished with manual thruster firings that consumed 7 kg of fuel weekly, while ESA developed a new gyroless operations mode that was successfully implemented on February 1, 1999.
The three main scientific objectives of SOHO are:
The SOHO Payload Module (PLM) consists of twelve instruments, each capable of independent or coordinated observation of the Sun or parts of the Sun, and some spacecraft components. The instruments are:
Observations from some of the instruments can be formatted as images, most of which are also readily available on the internet for either public or research use (see the official website). Others such as spectra and measurements of particles in the solar wind do not lend themselves so readily to this. These images range in wavelength or frequency from optical (Hα) to extreme ultraviolet (UV). Images taken partly or exclusively with non-visible wavelengths are shown on the SOHO page and elsewhere in false color.
Unlike many space-based and ground telescopes, there is no time formally allocated by the SOHO program for observing proposals on individual instruments: interested parties can contact the instrument teams directly via e-mail and the SOHO web site to request time via that instrument team's internal processes (some of which are quite informal, provided that the ongoing reference observations are not disturbed). A formal process (the "JOP" program) does exist for using multiple SOHO instruments collaboratively on a single observation. JOP proposals are reviewed at the quarterly Science Working Team ("SWT") meetings, and JOP time is allocated at monthly meetings of the Science Planning Working Group. First results have been presented in Solar Physics, volumes 170 and 175 (1997), edited by B. Fleck and Z. Švestka.
As a consequence of its observing the Sun, SOHO (specifically the LASCO instrument) has inadvertently allowed the discovery of comets by blocking out the Sun's glare. Approximately one-half of all known comets have been spotted by SOHO, discovered over the last 15 years by over 70 people representing 18 different countries searching through the publicly available SOHO images online. Michał Kusiak of the Polish Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) discovered SOHO's 1999th and 2000th comets on 26 December 2010. As of 2013[update], SOHO has discovered over 2400 comets, with an average discovery rate of every 2.59 days.
Amateur astronomer Mike Oates' discovery of over 140 comets in the SOHO data resulted in the minor planet "68948 Mikeoates" being named after him; this was used by lexicographer Erin McKean in her TED talk as an example of how Internet users can contribute to collections.
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research contributed to SUMER, LASCO and CELIAS instruments. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory built the UVCS instrument. The Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) built the MDI instrument in collaboration with the solar group at Stanford University.
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Mahdi Milani Fard, Peng Sun, Joelle Pineau
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes have been studied widely as a model for decision making under uncertainty, and a number of methods have been developed to find the solutions for such processes. Such studies often involve calculation of the value function of a specific policy, given a model of the transition and observation probabilities, and the reward. These models can be learned using labeled samples of on-policy trajectories. However, when using empirical models, some bias and variance terms are introduced into the value function as a result of imperfect models. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the bias and variance of the value function in terms of the statistics of the empirical transition and observation model. Such error terms can be used to meaningfully compare the value of different policies. This is an important result for sequential decision-making, since it will allow us to provide more formal guarantees about the quality of the policies we implement. To evaluate the precision of the proposed method, we provide supporting experiments on problems from the field of robotics and medical decision making.
Subjects: 12.1 Reinforcement Learning; 12. Machine Learning and Discovery
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When a disease as devastating as cancer comes into your life, the threat is real, frightening and oftentimes isolating. The need for information, expertise and support is acute, as is the need to pool together the forces needed to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Ideally, as the medical community intervenes, a social network of families and friends convenes.
Even if we aren't affected by the disease on a personal level, every case of cancer should become a concern for each of us because no community and no family is immune. And no cancer victim should feel isolated in the battle.
One person can make a difference.
This is the principle on which Relay For Life was founded. Since then it's become a life-changing event that helps communities across the globe celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved loves lost to the devastating diseases and fight back.
Our community will join the effort on Friday at the Sistersville City Park, and everyone is encouraged to attend to support this worthy cause. Registration beings at 6 p.m., with opening ceremonies kicking off around 7 p.m. Activities will continue throughout the night.
There are many moments that create the Relay experience including the survivors' lap around the relay course to celebrate victories in the fight against cancer, and the poignant Luminaria Ceremony to remember those who confronted this disease so valiantly and with such courage - but not all moment are solemn. Relay is also about having fun. This year's event - A Carnival of Hope - will feature music, food, games and a Cornhole tournament to keep Relayers entertained.
The goal of this year's committee is to raise at least $32,000 - this is money that can be used to support friends, families and neighbors locally who are battling cancer.
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