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Tag Archives: Nelson Mandela
Editor’s Note: This is an edited opinion piece that has seemingly been rejected for publication for reasons unknown to me by two online publications and TIME Online. For two South African online publications, their motive(s) for non-publication is not clear at all to me nor were attempts made to do so. But for the TIME, […]
Last week Sunday morning I woke up to a group debate on Facebook that challenged (or did it invite?) people to share their views on whether Democratic Alliance leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille was “still” haunted by her 20 March tweet in which she referred to pupils from Eastern Cape province seeking better […]
Hey girl. I bet you had fun coming to this dark continent of ours,Africa that is, as that is how some Americans call it. It was good that you brought the two girls, Malia and Sasha, and their grandmother, Marian Robinson. Everyone was excited with your visiting us down south.
…but that is if you have been given the tools that would enable you to either listen and or read. Sometimes you do not need to be something to know something about something. You need to use your common sense, that’s if you know what that is or that you have any of it.
When former President Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie, reportedly said in an interview with The London Evening Standard newspaper in March last year that the old man “had let us [black people] down” and that he apparently agreed to a bad deal for us black people and that nothing seems to have changed as “economically, we [black] […] | <urn:uuid:c7ac27ba-7627-4b54-ae2d-37adc2b29b64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://akanyangafrica.wordpress.com/tag/nelson-mandela/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981015 | 342 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Unfortunately, the beneficial effects of antidepressants are always a bit delayed. Watch this video to learn how long your medication will take to work.
Your lapses in memory may not be coincidental. Learn more about the relationship between memory and major depressive disorder.
Imagine living your life afraid of food, or scared of people. While these phobias may seem irrational to some, to others, they're debilitating. Check out this intriguing group of phobias.
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Phobias are strong, irrational fears. Someone with a social phobia may be afraid of dating. A person with agoraphobia is scared of enclosed spaces. Some even fret over fear itself!
It's normal to be scared sometimes, but phobias are different.From agoraphobia to social anxiety, phobias can dominate a person's life. Luckily, learning about phobia symptoms is the first step toward recovery.
Occasional social anxiety is something everyone can relate to. For people with a social phobia, everyday situations can feel unbearable. Here are the basic facts about this common fear. | <urn:uuid:5511e90b-bd9d-4735-b34b-b21466ce4207> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nmu.edu/healthpromotions/healthguru?cp=/video/the-9-most-common-specific-phobias | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926419 | 225 | 2.765625 | 3 |
By way of defining the proper and legal use of The Great Seal, it must first be noted that the Michigan Constitution of 1963 provides in Article 3, section 3, "There shall be a great seal of the State of Michigan and its use shall be provided by law."
As a result of this constitutional provision, the use of the Great Seal is regulated at some length by state law. The Great Seal Act [1963 PA 19 (2nd Ex. Sess.), MCL 2.41 et seq.] provides that Michigan shall have a Great Seal, and that the Great Seal shall be comprised of the coat-of-arms around which appear the words "great seal of the state of Michigan, A.D. MDCCCXXXV". Section 4 of the Act [MCL 2.44] identified 15 types of state documents that are eligible to receive an impression of the Great Seal. The seal may not be used on any other documents. Indeed, the Attorney General's Office has opined that the executive departments of Michigan state government may not use a facsimile of the Great Seal on their departmental letterheads or bulletins.
Section 5 of the Act [MCL 2.45] further regulates the use of the Great Seal. This section states that no facsimile or reproduction of the Great Seal may be used in any manner unconnected with the official business of the state. Section 6 [MCL 2.46] indicates that a violation of the Great Seal Act is a misdemeanor.
On the other hand, use of the coat-of-arms is less regulated. The Coat-of-Arms and Flag Act [1911 PA 209, MCL 2.21 et seq.] describes the state coat-of-arms and flag. Section 6 of this law directs persons printing and circulating official state documents to place the coat-of-arms on those documents.
The Michigan Penal Code [1931 PA 238, MCL 750.1 et seq.] also addresses use of the coat-of-arms. Section 246 of the Code [MCL 750.246] prohibits mutilating the coat-of-arms. Section 245 [MCL 750.245] prohibits the manufacture and sale, or giving, of articles and merchandise upon which the coat-of-arms is reproduced, to call attention to the article for commercial purposes. Violations of both sections are misdemeanors.
Fortunately, there is statutory exception to the prohibition. Section 247 of the Code [MCL 750.247] indicates that the prohibition does not apply to stationery, printed documents, ornaments, pictures, jewelry, and other productions which depict the coat-of-arms but are unconnected with any advertisement and have no other designs or words thereon.
Based on this exception, private entrepreneurs frequently manufacture and sell a wide variety of products bearing the coat-of-arms. This would include key rings, flags, post cards, lapel pins, coloring books and bottle openers.
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We are pleased to have the opportunity to host the 29th ISTS in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on June 2-9, 2013. The ISTS is an international symposium on space technology and science, which covers almost all the fields of space activities. It first met in 1959 in Tokyo and has been held in Japan mostly every two years. This symposium has played an important role in sharing information, and in providing a significant world wide network of scientists and engineers, both for academic and industrial communities, in space technology and science. ISTS has also contributed in encouraging young researchers, and in providing education program for the next generation.
While we are just in the process of rapid and global economic development, we confront steadily growing problems of earth environment, population explosion, energy crisis, and severe disasters etc. The history of ISTS has been a process to tackle such respective issues from academic and engineering aspects. In the 29th ISTS we launch a theme, “WISH IT, DREAM IT, Do IT !”, from the center of aerospace industries in Japan, Nagoya/Aichi. All participants will get newest information through technical sessions as well as technical tours. Please join us and discuss space technology and science for the future aspects together. I look forward to seeing you in June 2013.
The 29th ISTS will be held in Nagoya, June 2013. Nagoya city is located at the center of Japanese main island Honshu. It is one of the five big cities in Japan with a population of 2.24 million. The message “WISH IT, DREAM IT, DO IT” was chosen as a main theme of the 29th ISTS symposium. Space has been a target of human’s wish or dream for many years, but it may be time to realize human activities in space after years of accumulation of space technologies. Almost all the fields of space technology and science are the topics of the symposium.
Most of the former technical sessions continue but highlights some of the recent trends. For example, there will be a special program “Future of Space Tourism”, new sessions “Small Satellite”, “Safety and Mission Assurance” and a renamed session “Science and Technology for Human and Robotic Space Exploration”. Nagoya has been playing an important role in the may field of industrial part of Japan and space is not an exception. The participants will have opportunities to feel it through technical tours and exhibitions. Your participation is very much welcome and we all hope the success of the symposium by having stimulating discussions on space technology and science in the 29th ISTS, Nagoya. | <urn:uuid:88dda3b3-a036-4008-b03b-4d296a97c10e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ists.or.jp/2013/about-ists/message/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945189 | 550 | 1.539063 | 2 |
We all disagree on a variety of things. Some people like Obamacare, some don’t. Some believe in an assault weapon ban, some don’t. That’s just how politics works, and I’m fine with the disagreement. However, Congress seems to be crossing the line, and it’s a line that I believe most will agree they have no business crossing.
First, Congress exempted themselves from Obamacare. It was supposed to be so great, and many people who are reading this may believe it is, but members of Congress? They exempted themselves from a law that most of them felt was good enough for the rest of us. I’m sorry, but this is worrisome for me. However, if it was an isolated example, I could probably stomach it.
Unfortunately, it appears that it’s not.
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapon ban has a lot of problems with it. Most of them are with the overall attempt to take away guns from law abiding citizens. However, what may be the most egregious problem is that it appears Feinstein’s bill exempts members of Congress from having to deal with pesky gun bans.
Folks, this is unacceptable. When this nation was founded, it had fought a long and bloody revolution against a nation that had a permanent ruling class. They didn’t want any such thing happening here. That’s why the requirements to run for office are very simple. You must be of sufficient age and a citizen for a sufficient amount of time (in the case of the President, that from birth). It meant that anyone could run for office and would help prevent a ruling class.
However, Congress exempting themselves from rules is simply a means of creating a ruling class. Is it intentional? Are they trying to create such a class? I seriously doubt it. However, that’s what they’re doing whether they mean to or not.
In addition, I can’t help but think that this is a violation of the Equal Protection clause. Laws are supposed to apply evenly. All Americans are supposed to be bound by the same laws. It’s actually one of the strengths of this great nation. The idea that government officials are held to the same standard as the lowest citizen isn’t universal. I wish it were, but it’s not. It’s actually an anomaly of the western world, and we were the ones to introduce it. It’s kind of our thing.
Those days are apparently coming to an end. Instead, our “betters” feel that we should be held to a different standard than they are. If that meant they would stop taking bribes, cheating on their spouses, sending pictures of various body parts over Twitter, or any of the other things members of Congress have been caught doing in recent years, then that would be great. Unfortunately, that’s not what’s happening.
I find it funny that while assault weapon ban supporters in Congress say that no one needs a so-called “assault weapon” for personal defense, they see no reason why they should have to go without as well. For me, this is just one more reason to fight to kill this misguided attempt at preventing madmen…the same madmen who will continue to kill no matter what we do unfortunately. | <urn:uuid:04d7be23-6342-456f-8144-7a6669086862> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thealbanyjournal.com/2013/01/a-ruling-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978837 | 696 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The Very Serious People have taken off the gloves. There are no rules when it comes to the battle over Social Security and Medicare as Brooks Jackson shows in his "FactCheck" on the use of the chained CPI to index the Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLA).
Jackson strongly endorses the use of the chained CPI, describing it in the first sentence as "a more accurate cost-of-living adjustment." The chained CPI would have the effect of reducing the annual COLA by approximately 0.3 percentage points. This reduction would be cumulative (e.g. 3 percent after 10 years, 6 percent after 20 years), leading to an average cut in lifetime benefits of approximately 3 percent for the typical beneficiary.
To push his case, Jackson seriously misrepresents the evidence. There is reason to believe that a chained index provides a better measure of inflation, since it takes account of the substitution between goods. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been producing an experimental elderly index (CPI-E) for almost three decades, which has generally shown a somewhat more rapid rate of inflation than the standard CPI currently being used to index Social Security benefits. The CPI-E would imply that the current COLA has been underadjusting for inflation, not overadjusting.
Jackson notes the CPI-E, but dismisses it as:
"an unpublished, 'experimental' index"
He then cites BLS's warning that:
"'any conclusions drawn from it should be used with caution.' BLS also concedes that the CPI-E has a number of shortcomings because it simply re-weights the price data collected for its regular price surveys, without attempting to collect some important data specific to seniors."
Given that this experimental index has shown evidence that the elderly see a higher rate of inflation than the population as a whole, it would seem that anyone concerned about having an accurate measure of the rate of inflation experienced by the elderly would want to see the BLS construct a full CPI-E. In fact, several hundred economists recently signed a statement calling on BLS to construct such an index. This would be the obvious route to go for anyone interested in an accurate index for the inflation adjustment of more than $10 trillion in Social Security benefits over the next decade.
In addition to belaboring the obvious, that the CPI-E is an experimental index, Jackson also misleadingly presents evidence. He tells readers;
"Another shortcoming [of the CPI-E] that BLS readily admits is that the “elderly” index takes no account of “senior discounts” available on such purchases as movie tickets, car rentals, train tickets, public transportation, chain restaurants and so forth."
While Jackson presumably wants readers to believe that this omission means the CPI-E would overstate the rate of inflation seen by the elderly, that implication does not follow. It is true that the elderly are eligible for certain discounts, which means that they would face lower costs on the discounted items than other consumers. However, the CPI is not measuring levels of prices, it is measuring changes in prices.
This means that the relevant factor for purposes of calculating the rate of inflation seen by the elderly is whether senior discounts are getting larger or smaller through time. The fact that such discounts exist tells us zero about the rate of inflation seen by the elderly.
Jackson also notes that the recent slowing of health care costs has caused the gap in the rate of inflation shown by the CPI-E and the standard CPI to disappear in the last few years. [The weight of health care in the CPI-E is close to twice as large as its weight in the standard CPI. More rapid growth in health care costs is the main reason that the CPI-E has shown a higher rate of inflation than the standard CPI.] While this is true, Jackson failed to draw out the logical implication of this comment.
If the slowdown in health care costs continues, then the official projections of spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs are hugely overstated. These projections assume that health care costs will increase far more rapidly than the overall rate of inflation. This means that either projections for government spending on these programs are overstated, and therefore projected deficits are overstated, or alternatively the closing of the gap in the inflation rates shown by the CPI-E and the overall CPI is temporary.
In other words, if the projections of large future budget deficits are accurate, then the CPI-E will show a higher rate of inflation than the overall CPI. This is not the only situation where Jackson fails to acknowledge the implications of his own claims. He also cites the Boskin Commission report that claimed that the official CPI overstates the true rate of inflation by 1.1 percentage point annually. (A 2000 survey of surviving commission members by the Government Accountability Office put the annual overstatement at 0.8 percentage points, after the BLS had made a number of changes in the CPI.)
If this overstatement is true, it means that living standards are rising much more rapidly than our data show and that official projections imply. For example, instead of average real wage growth being 1.1 percent annually, if the Boskin Commission is correct, average annual real wage growth has been almost 2.0 percent. This implies that young people will be far wealthier than we imagined. In 2042, the average real wage will be close to 80 percent higher than it is today.
This should hugely impact how we view intergenerational equity issues, since the Boskin Commission's claim on the overstatement of inflation also implies that older people were much poorer growing up than our data show. (If wages and income have been growing more rapidly than our data show, than the levels in the past would be lower than our current data indicate.) It would be rather perverse to use evidence showing that the elderly were poorer than we believed and the young will be richer as a rationale for cutting benefits for the elderly, ostensibly to improve the plight of the young.
The concluding statements in this "factcheck" are simply illogical. It tells readers:
"We take no position here as to whether benefits for seniors are too high or too low, whether future cost-of-living adjustments should be higher or lower, or how income-tax brackets should be adjusted in the future. ....
"But it’s just a fact that leading economists have said for many years that the current CPI overstates the true rate of inflation. So using it to index federal programs produces more spending and less revenue than a more accurate measure would justify."
The assertion in the last sentence that using the current CPI to adjust benefits, "produces more spending and less revenue than a more accurate measure would justify" is clearly taking a position on "whether future cost-of-living adjustments should be higher or lower."
Again, there is a simple answer for those who want a cost-of-living adjustment that accurately measures the rate of inflation for the elderly: have BLS construct a full elderly index. Brooks Jackson instead used FactCheck to argue for a reduction in Social Security benefits.
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I must admit that my first exposure to object oriented programming (OOP) was frustrating and difficult. As a hobbyist I have struggled through Z80 assembly and EPROM burners, BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Java, C++ COM and now C#. The move to event driven programming and then to object oriented programming presented major conceptual hurdles to my function driven sequential programming mindset. The “aha” moment when OOP made sense was most gratifying, but did not come quickly or easily. It has been a few years since I “got” the OOP mindset and I feel comfortable enough now to try to help fellow travelers with this journey. If OOP comes easily to you, feel free to skip this tutorial. If you are having problems getting your mind around objects and inheritance I hope this tutorial can help you. This tutorial does not represent a conventional teaching method. It assumes a passing knowledge of the C# language and familiarity with the Visual Studio .NET IDE. This is a work in progress and may require correction or revisions. | <urn:uuid:9d6dfda1-563a-466a-afd2-293a279a4cab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.developerfusion.com/article/3821/a-twisted-look-at-object-oriented-programming-in-c/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948857 | 214 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The skin needs antioxidant, concealers and moisturizers to remain glowing all the time; the only products that can provide all these is the firm skin vitamins (30 vegans). This product has all the elements that you will need to ensure that your skin does not grow old at a younger age. Having the firm skin vitamins helps in preventing people from buying so many skin products that at the end of the day they bring defects.
As the name suggests firm skin vitamins (30 vegans) are rich in vitamins and antioxidants. It is the best for people who are developing wrinkles faster and it can be used for any type of the skin but more especially the mature skin type. This come in pill that are supposed to be swallowed and the amount to be taken is written on the package. It contains the sea buckthorn which is an ingredient which the highest content of vitamin. This protects the skin from dangers like exposure to ultraviolet rays. It also has more of vitamin A which helps in reducing the rate or wrinkle development.
The firm skin vitamins (30 vegans) also comes with more of vitamin E protects the epidermis and other parts of the skin too. Other vital ingredients include the resveratrol and the grape seed which provide the skin with antioxidant and moisturizer. Taking the right amount of firm skin vitamins helps a lot in so many ways. This will prevent the buyers from spending a lot on other skin care products like concealers and toner because it has all that in it. It heals acne and prevents blackheads from developing because it melts too much fat within the skin surface. It is safe to use for any skin type because it is natural and healthy hence it cannot cause any side effects to the skin.
- Seabuckthorn: vitamin rich, nutrient rich; protective
- Vitamin A: refining; reduces fine lines and wrinkles
- Vitamin E: supplies direct antioxidants, protects the epidermis, and effectively combats free radicals
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- Quercetin: antioxidant flavonoid and anti-inflammatory
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Raising our children at home 24/7 is quite the vocation. It requires inner strength, or as we call it "God's Grace." Each child is taken as a seedling, planted and nurtured right here in our home garden, watered with God's graces. One day God can harvest the fruit and let it sweeten the lives of others.
As a child, I wore a mustard seed with a bible verse [Mark 30-32]around my neck. I pondered the fragility and potential of that little seed. What amazing potential did I have, and now what of the potential of our children!? In high school, my favorite quote was: "When you take the time to do the things you have to do when you have to do them; the time will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them!" - Zig Zigler
So we're taking the time to enrich our childrens' lives, so that they can someday be sent into the world not just as educated citizens - but more so messengers of God. It often takes all my energy and will power to get out of bed each day and have everyone at home depending upon me to entertain with lessons and activities. But I know the end result will be our confidence in knowing we did everything we could to give our children the best Catholic Education WE could provide.
I don't know that I'll ever retire from being a teacher to my family, and I don't want to wait until my husband retires and our children are all grown before we really live our life. Homeschooling allows us to live now, love better now, and give praise and thanks to God now for all that we currently enjoy.
Homegrown Catholics blog is a place for us to share this journey with you. Let it be a resource of renewal and inspiration!
God Bless, Melissa & Tom and our growing family
*Visit my other blog for more straight forward journaling about my life Growing in Grace, my Catholic Journey, and my take on world issues. My personal journey to evangelize despite opposition. *To view samples of what I sew and craft for homework and sale, go to Modest Mommies. | <urn:uuid:3af39453-f593-4b89-ad10-8369a1724644> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stbrigidsacademy.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96051 | 452 | 1.6875 | 2 |
“There came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind … and there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire”
These are wonderful words which capture the Pentecostal experience. More importantly, they are wonderful words which carry us into the mystery of Pentecost itself and into its meaning. They are about something more, though surely not less, than what the experience suggests. The language here is that of metaphor in the form of simile, a sound “as of a rushing mighty wind,” things that appear and are seen, “cloven tongues, like as of fire.” Pentecost, is seems, is all theatre, son et lumière, sound and light. But what a show, what a spectacle!
The language is powerful and instructive. The Holy Spirit, of course, is not wind and fire. Plenty of that about, of course; Synod is over but a provincial election is still underway! And, of course, you may say, there are the usual Rector’s ramblings! All wind, no doubt.
Yet, wind and fire are signs that point us to the presence and truth of the spiritual reality of God. The most elusive things of the natural world, wind and fire, tangible and yet not so tangible – after all, who can see the wind, who can touch the fire? – are used to signify to us the transcendent reality of God precisely in the moment of God’s intimate engagement with our humanity. | <urn:uuid:32763bfd-0402-4a48-9f04-2dc2504b8f5f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://christchurchwindsor.ca/2009/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958489 | 318 | 2.109375 | 2 |
WxTV: Entertainment-Based Learning
Ramping up the green-collar workforce will require a new set of training methods - WxTV picks up where traditional training leaves off.
Weatherization training and education has traditionally been offered to contractors and crews in the classroom and lab; at on-the-job, travelling training road shows; and during conferences. All of these methods are generally effective. But when an extremely large number of workers need to be trained in a very short time, the disadvantages of these traditional methods quickly become evident. Traditional training methods are limited by the size of the classroom. They generally do not accommodate rapid-response staff turnover. Due to supply and demand, most training programs are limited to in-house and local expertise and do not have access to the limited number of weatherization and green job experts. Finally, trainings are not offered consistently throughout the United States, and the cost per participant is high.
You’re Learning Without Realizing It
WxTV picks up where traditional training methods leave off. But the great thing is that you may not realize it until you reach your next job site. As you break out your tools to begin work, you suddenly feel compelled to roll out 6 feet of plastic in all directions, and you don’t even know why. It’s as if you learned how to do part of your job without being taught. . . or did you? Is it a coincidence that you just watched the WxTV episode on the fundamentals of lead-safe weatherization and the new renovation, repair, and painting rule? Perhaps it isn’t.
WxTV is a new show highlighting the latest developments in the world of weatherization. It’s like a vitamin-packed training supplement. In 45 minutes or less, the show takes you step-by-step through new rules, techniques, and products, or just about anything else that might be of interest to weatherization professionals. Guided by a weatherization trainer, the show consists of host commentary, videos, and animations that break down complex subject matter into easily digestible chunks. Experts and seasoned crews from around the country have the opportunity to participate by submitting video content, or by visiting the WxTV lab for on-screen interviews and hands-on demonstrations. This interaction gives viewers a chance to learn from veterans in the field, much like an apprenticeship. But make no mistake—WxTV is not just for beginners. There’s something for everybody, and every bit of content focuses on developing the competencies needed to improve the energy efficiency of a home safely and economically.
It’s Entertaining … and Educational
Sound dry? It’s anything but. And this is where WxTV diverges so much from traditional training techniques. You’re not sitting in an uncomfortable seat watching a PowerPoint presentation in some classroom. You may be sitting in your living room, your home office, or even a coffee shop. WxTV is based on the Web, so it is delivered at your convenience—whenever, wherever, and you can always come back for more later. It is a bit like weatherization’s version of an HGTV do-it-yourself show, entertaining and informative, and even more convenient. Little gems of information are inserted throughout each program. Experts share tips and secrets—the kind of information that you’d typically only get on the job. The experts are vetted and chosen from around the country to provide the most up-to-date information and to bring a national feeling to the broadcast.
Weatherization measures differ greatly based on local climate, and WxTV showcases those differences.
Between 30 and 40 episodes are planned for WxTV in the first year. Topics for episodes follow DOE’s core competencies for the Weatherization Assistance program. This list of competencies was created in 2007 and updated in 2009 by a group of trainers who wanted to establish and record the skills needed by each member of the weatherization team. An installer, for example, would need a different skill set than an auditor or a manager. Each episode focuses on one aspect of the core competencies, or one topic that relates directly to the competencies, and distills the most important information out of it into an enjoyable show.
Active Multifaceted Learning
From a weatherization training standpoint, WxTV is going in a new direction. You may be worried that the program diverges too much from standard learning practices. There’s no set schedule; there’s no instructor to ask questions. The creators have addressed these concerns from the onset, and WxTV is certainly not passive learning. Viewers are encouraged to participate by asking questions or posting comments in the real-time blog located below each episode. Often within minutes, the WxTV staff answer questions. The anonymity of using a forum like this inspires even more questions than would typically arise in a standard classroom setting. It creates discussion rather than a simple question-and-answer session. Questions tend to snowball, and once again, viewers and blog users are learning without even realizing it. In fact, this type of critical discussion represents the pinnacle of the learning process.
And the learning does not stop there. You can also follow WxTV on Facebook and Twitter. Social networking is not just for kids texting their friends. Used properly, social networking sites can significantly increase communication and sharing of weatherization techniques, material use, and training follow-up. According to a Harris Poll conducted online between March 31 and April 1, 2009, by Harris Interactive, 74% of Americans aged 18-34 (typical weatherization workforce age range) have Facebook accounts. Networks such as Twitter and Facebook have found their place in professional business and management as well. Tapping into this resource for the younger weatherization workforce is just one more way of ensuring that trainers are meeting the needs of the population we serve, linking people, ideas, and communities.
Ben R. Cichowski is the Montana Weatherization Training Center’s instructional designer and teaches various courses as well. Michael P. Vogel is a professor at Montana State University (MSU) Extension and the director of the Montana Weatherization Training Center based on the MSU campus.
WxTV is the brainchild of Mike Vogel and Ben Cichowski, who serve as the executive producer and writer/host respectively. Sitting in the director/editor’s chair is Vince Cusomato. And finally, Brad Eberspecher completes the team as the show’s production coordinator. All work originates from the Montana Weatherization Training Center in Bozeman, Montana. The Montana Weatherization Training Center is a joint effort of Montana State University Extension and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Since 1991, its mission has been to train the professionals who are on the ground weatherizing homes every day. Working closely with the Department of Energy, Montana’s Human Resource Development Councils, and tribal associates, the center focuses on safe, efficient, cutting-edge techniques to address the health, safety, and energy efficiency issues present in low-income housing. WxTV is one of nine projects funded through the National Community Action Foundation–ExxonMobil Weatherization Training Partnership, supporting advanced weatherization training models. The training models use creative curricula, innovative partnerships, and innovative technologies to train more skilled workers to meet the U.S. Administration's goal of weatherizing more homes.
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For a few days last October the Yorkshire mining village of Grimethorpe appeared to lose its composure. News of Grimethorpe colonised the front pages of the tabloids. It was a strange affair. On 17 October 1984 we were told the story of Coal Board property set on fire by ‘rampaging hooded mobs’, and of a woman police sergeant attacked and injured after the same mob had besieged the police station. The following day the Deputy Chief Constable of South Yorkshire was to be seen on the main news broadcast of the day giving the villagers an ‘unreserved apology’ for instances of police wrong-doing.
Grimethorpe is not the kind of place where an outsider blends into the landscape. When I went there the other day I was modestly dressed, almost demure. Not, I thought, a sore thumb. I got down from the bus. Two small boys cycled up to me. One of them asked: ‘Art thou poooof?’ ‘Art thou gay?’ clarified his friend. I was about to treat with them when the first boy offered to fight me. I made off up the hill. Everyone knows everyone else, at least by sight, in this village of six thousand people. One old man in the ‘Bullet’, the ex-servicemen’s club, sat with a friend born in the same street ten days after him. They had gone to school together, been miners at Grimethorpe pit, joined the same regiment, returned to ‘Grimey’, retired together, and were now, in their late sixties, supping half-pints and teasing the man at the next table because he was an outsider: he had come from the nearby village of South Kirkby over sixty years ago.
The pit is the reason the village exists. Eight hundred of Grimethorpe mine’s 1500 workers live in the village. Perhaps another eight hundred work in the brickyards and the Coalite and Pulverite factories adjoining the colliery yard and in the Coal Board’s Shafton Workshops. Other villagers are miners at neighbouring pits. Those small industries and businesses in Grimethorpe which do not depend directly on coal depend directly on the custom of miners and their families. ‘Grimethorpe is not called Grimethorpe because it’s dirty, though it is,’ one man told me. A Viking called Grima settled here. There has been commercial coal-mining within the parish boundary since the 16th century. The shaft of the present pit was sunk in 1894, and according to the locals, the area has been covered in coal-dust ever since. They claim to have to redecorate their houses twice as often as people living in Sheffield. Although Grimethorpe stretches across a small valley and reaches up two hills to form ‘the red city’ and the ‘white’, so-called after the colour of the houses, nevertheless the pit and its surrounding industrial complex dominate the village, giving the area a harsh, dramatic appearance. Beyond the winding-gear of Grimethorpe colliery lie the slag-heaps, and in between is the New Park Spring coal stockyard, scene of the 22 arrests of 14 October 1984, after which some rioting did indeed take place.
Not a single Grimethorpe miner who lived in the village returned to work before the mass walk-back last March. Two villagers working at other pits returned earlier. They were not from mining families and have been totally ostracised. They will probably move soon, for shops will not serve them or their families. The village is bedrock Labour (‘except for the old lady who lives in the big house up on the hill – she is independent Labour’), and was solid behind Scargill and the strike. It might be seen, then, as bizarre that some of the most serious off-the-picket-line violence of the entire strike should have occurred in such a united village. Indeed, the local vicar, Colin Patey, suggests that ‘because of the solidarity of the strike here, there’s probably been less bother, apart from that one notorious week, than in a lot of other places.’ The strike was discussed heatedly at the time, but the general belief that it was justified was rarely questioned. Arguments were about tactics, about the ballot and about mass picketing, and these arguments were private. Grimethorpe did not allow the press to split the village into factions.
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Vol. 7 No. 12 · 4 July 1985
From Hilary Gaskin
SIR: I have followed with interest your postmortems on the miners’ strike and have been particularly impressed with the way in which you have given a platform to such a wide range of views – for example, the three very different pieces in the issue of 6 June. What is still lacking is a critical, non-partisan piece on the important issue of media coverage.
For almost a whole year, from March 1984 to March 1985, the miners’ strike was given television coverage of a scale and frequency accorded to very few topics since the beginning of the television age. Throughout this time, with the possible exception of weekends, the television viewer could plug himself or herself in to a daily supply of reporting and analysis of the struggle. There was a whole crop of documentaries, special features on news reports, and analytical summaries (lasting in one case as long as three hours), which sought to present ‘an authentic view of the strike’, filmed ‘at grass-roots level’, to use the words of a researcher for Hatfield Main, a representative BBC documentary screened on 6 February. Now that the strike is over, it is time to examine this coverage, the quantity of which was never in doubt, and to ask some questions about its quality and its depth.
The predominant strategy of both news reports and documentaries was to obtain and present ‘authentic’ information by means of interviews. The reporter walked up to the striker on the picket line or in the soup kitchen; the reporter conversed with the working or striking miner and his wife in their living-room. The location might vary, but the format of the questioning was always the same. ‘How long are you prepared to stay out on strike?’ the interviewer asked. ‘As long as it takes,’ replied the striker. ‘Will intimidation ever drive you to rejoin the strike?’ the interviewer asked the working miner. ‘No, never,’ came the reply. Since both men were aware that they were being broadcast to the nation, it was hardly likely that they would answer, respectively, ‘Not much longer, because I don’t like suffering,’ or ‘Yes, it soon will, because I can’t stand it.’ Yet these patterns of question and answer occurred again and again, like a formalised series of meaningless gestures, an algebraic equation in which the two halves cancel each other out and leave nothing behind.
In sharp contrast to the treatment of the leadership on both sides, where no holds were barred, it seems that producers and reporters did not consider it worthwhile to put challenging questions to the rank and file. A rare exception occurred during a news report, when striking miners on a picket line told the reporter that they only wanted to be allowed to reason with the man who was crossing the picket line to work, and were then asked what they would do if, after discussions, he still wished to go in. ‘Well, that wouldn’t happen, because we would persuade him,’ they replied after some pause for thought.
Examples of the more thought-provoking type of question were not numerous, and tended to occur mainly in news reports. Documentaries, on the other hand, were apparently – and sometimes avowedly – made in a different spirit. Hatfield Main, made by Chris Curling, clearly laid claim to some stature within the genre. It was, characteristically, high on footage, relaively low on narrative, and completely non-judgmental, relying on occasional voice-overs and some low-key interviews to put the information across. It aimed by these means to present the pit community ‘as it really is’. Unfortunately it could not do this, for two reasons. First, any kind of outside presence must to a certain extent shape the response of those being filmed and interviewed. When the interviewer asks his questions, his choice of those questions inevitably directs the discussion and imposes a form on it, just as his interviewees, in turn, draw their verbal formulae from the media (hence the standard exchanges referred to above) and play the game according to the rules that the media lay down. There might have been more of a chance of presenting an ‘authentic view’ by removing the narrator/interviewer, by going down to the picket line or the welfare centre and simply letting the cameras roll, but even then their presence might have influenced behaviour.
Secondly, if an interviewer asks any questions at all, this produces, of necessity, an arbitrary stopping-off point in the questioning. In Hatfield Main, a striking miner told the interviewer, with the air of relating one of the facts of life, that certain miners who had been ‘scabs’ in the 1926 strike had been shunned by the community ever since. The next question might have been ‘And what do you think of that?’, but it was not asked. The makers of the documentary might reply that asking a striking miner to comment on something rather than just to state it as dogma would constitute interference with the ‘authentic view’, But if it is agreed that any kind of interview constitutes some kind of interference with the situation, then the problem of ‘Why some questions and not others?’ is a valid one. Inevitably it is a problem heavily bound up with politics, in that those of strong opinions on either side of the dispute would not wish the questions to become any more awkward.
Nobody could say that television gave the pit strike insufficient coverage. Yet in that large part of its coverage which engaged with ordinary miners, television stands convicted of a massive waste of opportunities. Fathers and sons divided by the struggle were never asked about forgiveness and tolerance. Instead of exploring ways of repairing the breaches between those who will still be living in the pit communities long after the strike, it helped to reinforce their stylised positions of difference.
From E. Barlow
SIR: I refer to the article by Sam Miller, ‘Grimethorpe Now’, in the London Review of Books of 6 June. He quotes, with almost lyrical satisfaction, how an 18-stone miner smashed a policeman’s head through a police-car window. Not just once: ‘he broke every window with the policeman’s head.’ He obviously approves of the fact that this man ‘has an alibi, a cast-iron alibi’. We, the readers, are meant to infer from this what wonderful people are the inhabitants of Grimethorpe. Sam Miller seems to get the voyeur’s flawed satisfaction from this. You describe him as a London journalist who specialises in Middle Eastern affairs: perhaps he would do better if he stuck to his specialty.
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Madam President, I was honored to participate in the events at Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute to Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving American World War I veteran and the representative of the lost generation of our ``Doughboys.'' It was a moving afternoon standing with so many on the knoll and seeing Frank Buckles buried in section 34, in sight of General Pershing's grave and among many other World War I veterans. I also thought about the American flags at half mast in our embassies in the countries of our World War I allies.
Honestly though, the way I want to remember Frank Buckles is in his study, surrounded by books and telling amazing stories about the adventures of his life. Frank Buckles' rich and colorful life is now part of our national history, our national consciousness and our national effort to pay tribute to the men and women who died in the most significant wars of the last century.
Frank's effort to join the Army was a deliberate commitment to join military service and he was eager to get to Europe. He loved the Army and his service in World War I as an ambulance driver which exposed him to some of the worst horrors of that conflict.
After his military service, Frank Buckles continued his efforts to engage the world. His life, a long sweeping arc across the last century, included an exciting and varied life where he traveled the world, working abroad and experiencing things that most of us can only read about. As if he hadn't endured enough suffering in the First World War, he would later spend 3 years as a civilian POW in World War II.
When his days of being an active participant in two World Wars ended, he eventually settled into a quiet existence in Charles Town where his tractor, his farm, as well as his friends and family were enough to sustain him.
As I got to know him, I learned that his deep appreciation for books and culture was an important part of who he was. He spoke multiple languages, enjoyed talking about culture more than he did war, and was thoughtful and interested to the end.
To most of us though, Frank in the end amounted to so much more than just a man who had lived a life that was as interesting as it was unpredictable.
Frank became a symbol for the entire war for the nearly 4.5 million U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who defeated the Central Powers in the first Great War.
As the last living connection to the First World War, his importance in our collective psyche grew with each passing year. He seemed impossibly stubborn and tough and his long and wonderful life made him all the more special.
Towards the end of his life, more and more people understood just how privileged we all were to keep company with the last surviving Doughboy.
He was a link to a long ago war, not forgotten but so far in the past that the pictures that we think of when we conjure up images are all grainy and tattered.
It made it all the more amazing that Frank was the only man who could honestly look any of us in the eye and say ``this is what the war was like.''
More than 116,000 Americans died in World War I. Frank was an adamant proponent of remembering these heroes by establishing a National World War I Memorial on the National Mall.
I agree and support him on that effort which is why I am the proud sponsor of the bipartisan bill to truly honor our World War I veterans. The bill would create a commission to plan for the upcoming centennial, and it would rededicate the DC memorial as the DC and National World War I memorial. It would also dedicate the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO. I agree with Frank Buckles on the importance of remembering our veterans and want to say again here today: I am more determined than ever to make this happen and will not give up until we get that bill passed.
Finally, I want to extend my sympathies again to Frank's daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan. She has lovingly looked after Frank and helped make sure his last years were lived with dignity and care.
Frank, you will be missed.
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National broadcaster NHK has tallied up the figures and believes around four hundred envelopes have been found -- the equivalent of 40-thousand dollars.We need someone kind and generous like him in Singapore. Then I will love going to public toilets here more often.
Various theories are springing up as to the motive for the random acts of financial kindness.
In nearly every case, the money was left in toilets on the ground floor of local or prefectural government offices.
And in each case, a note written in traditional Japanese calligraphy brush tells the recipient to take only one envelope, and use it for their personal development.
"Do only good deeds, the writer urges, and do not think of evil."
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Money does not grow on trees in Japan but it does flow in some Japanese toilets. Some rich dude has left traditional Japanese paper envelopes containing a hundred dollars, next to the handbasins in mens toilets all over the country. From Radio Australia:
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1955: Steve Jobs was born and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a machinist and an accountant, in Mountain View, CA.
1974: After one semester at Reed College, Jobs, at age 19, drops out and takes a job at Atari, but leaves shortly later to travel India. He did squeeze in one calligraphy course at Reed. "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts," he said.
1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple computer with a $250,000 investment from Mike Markkula, an angel investor who cashed in stock options from his tenure at Fairchild Semiconductor. Jobs recalled: "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.'"
1983: Steve Jobs recruited John Sculley, a VP at PepsiCo, to join Apple. To convince the PepsiCo executive to transition, Jobs famously asked Sculley: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
1985: The relationship between Jobs and Sculley, who had recently been named Apple's "Dyanic Duo" by BusinessWeek, began to sour. Jobs tried to go behind Sculley's back to get him ousted, but Sculley discovered Jobs' ploy. Jobs left the company soon after and launched NeXT, a company that tried to build a computer to revolutionize higher education.
1986: Jobs buys Pixar for $10 million from George Lucas. Jobs said: "We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life...Life is brief, and then you die, you know?"
1995: Jobs becomes a billionaire after Toy Story is released, and Pixar goes public. "I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money," Jobs said.
1996: Jobs returns to Apple to become interim CEO after Apple purchases NeXT. In 2000, he becomes the company's permanent CEO, and will remain in this position for over a decade. "My job is to not be easy on people," Jobs has said. "My job is to make them better."
2004: Jobs undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer. "So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know--just explore things," Jobs said.
2010: Apple releases the iPad touchscreen tablet, which quickly becomes one of the company's fastest-selling products. In less than two years, nearly 30 million units have been sold. "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes," Jobs has said. "It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
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Next Tuesday, for the first time in history, the world will have six billion inhabitants. It is with a certain sense of shock that I realize the world's population has doubled since I graduated from high school in 1960. The world seemed to me already full of people then, the cities crowded, spreading suburbs and smog everyday topics of conversation. Now I look around me, seeing a much more crowded world, and wonder "How long can this go on?"
Over 150 years ago the British economist Thomas Malthus predicted that human population growth is bound to outrun our ability to feed ourselves. The problem, he pointed out, is that human populations tend to increase geometrically. Eventually, inevitably, there will be too many people to feed, cloth, and house.
Why was Malthus so concerned about geometric growth? Geometric growth is what your money does in the bank, if left undisturbed. Every year a fraction is added to the total. The next year, the total for which the fraction is calculated is that much bigger. At first the money doesn't seem to grow much, but it is growing faster and faster as the total adds up. Eventually, if left undisturbed, the total will be growing very fast indeed. Compound interest, the bankers call it. If the Indians who sold Manhattan for $24 in beads had instead invested the money at 10% compound interest, they would have enough now to buy it all back, buildings and all.
Malthus warned that the human population will grow at compound interest, faster and faster, until something brings it into check.
Next Tuesday the world's population will be growing at a rate of 148 people a minute (247 births minus 99 deaths), and will equal 6 billion people.
How much is a billion? If this page of newspaper were filled with periods (69 dots per line in six 157-line columns) 6 billion of them would take up about 92,000 pages.
What will stop the human population from growing indefinitely, Malthus pointed out, is the finite capacity of the environment to support so many people. Biologists call this limit the "carrying capacity." As a population begins to approach its carrying capacity, resources become limiting, reducing the population's rate of growth. That's what scared Malthus, the slowing down process. He saw mass starvation as the human population grew beyond our ability to feed it.
Malthus didn't anticipate the impact of technological innovation -- who in 1850 could have imagined automobiles, or genetic engineering? The world did not in fact undergo mass starvation as Malthus had predicted, because as the human population grew, so did humanity's ability to feed it. A biologist would say technology has expanded the world's carrying capacity.
We live today in a world supported by continual economic growth. Economists have long ago written Malthus off as some kind of alarmist quack. On September 19 my favorite New York Times reporter Nicholas Wade wrote an article titled "Why Malthus was mistaken." Wade argued that the American population was "clearly not in doubling mode today," and that the "Malthus gospel" was a "consistent fallacy."
Do you see the discontinuity in what Wade is saying? He, and the many economists who largely structure the world we live in, are assuming that the world's carrying capacity can be expanded indefinitely. Any biologist will tell you that this just ain't so. Technology has expanded carrying capacity by borrowing against the future, damaging the environment and consuming resources it cannot replace. Most informed ecologists doubt whether the world can sustain a population of 6 billion, much less the billions of extra people that will be added in the future.
Technology can only delay the day Malthus feared, not repeal the basic laws of biology. We can only hope that as we enter the new millennium, fertility rates will gradually drop. In 1960 the world's population growth rate was about 2 percent. Today it is about 1.3 percent. The danger, unspoken by economists, is that at some point before growth rate falls to zero (that is, before we reach a stable world population size), we will have exceeded the world's carrying capacity. When this happens in animal populations studied by ecologists, population size often falls like a rock. One day there is just enough for everybody, the next, not quite enough for anybody. That was Malthus's warning, the nightmare that haunted him. Next Tuesday is not a date to celebrate, but to ponder. | <urn:uuid:dcd34098-27d5-4b51-989f-d8442a1ca7df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/6billionpeople.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96833 | 928 | 3.1875 | 3 |
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Award Description: The Ulster BOCES YouthBuild Partnership will enroll two cycles of 23 students each to participate in our education and hands on job training youth development program. All participants will be between the ages of 16 and 24 and will have dropped out of high school prior to completetion. The students will be placed on alternate weeks in education or on-site construction training and will receive regular Leadership Development/Life Skills Training. Anticipated out comes are: 90% of students entered as basic skills deficient will improve one level in literacy or numeracy as measured by the TABE test; 85% will receive a certificate of attainment (GED or Industry Recognized Occupational Skills); 80% will be placed in employment and/or higher education; 80% will retain placement for three quarters following completetion.
Project Description: Although this project is currently in the 'start up' phase, the Ulster BOCES YouthBuild Partnership intends to enroll two cycles of 23 students for the YB-18976-09-60-A-36 YouthBuild award program. In a safe, healthy and supportive environment, the students will be divided into two teams and will alternate weeks between the education classroom and/or the housing construction training site. In the classroom, students will work at their own personal pace under the direction of a BOCES-provided NYS certified teacher to prepare for the GED examination, which they will take once they demonstrate achievement of the required eligibility. Our current housing construction training project being completed under our 2008 YouthBuild grant award, is a totally 'Green Built' project. For the 2009 YB-18976-09-60-A-36 YouthBuild award we intend to continue our Green Building initiative, providing the Ulster BOCES YouthBuild students with a unique opportunity to learn the skills of green construction. We are able to provide this fantastic training as a result of receiving CDBG and Housing Rehabilitation funds from the City of Kingston Community Development Agency. Students will also receive full-time case management to assist them with barriers to their success, Leadership Development/Life Skills Workshops, and the Ulster BOCES YouthBuild Job Developer will work with each student to ensure they are prepared for a job and/or entrance into an institution of higher education, once they complete the program. As stated above our anticipated outcomes are: 90% of students entered as basic skills deficient will improve one level in literacy or numeracy as measured by the TABE test; 85% will receive a certificate of attainment (GED or Industry Recognized Occupational Skills); 80% will be placed in employment and/or higher education; 80% will retain placement for three quarters following completion.
Jobs Summary: N/A (Total jobs reported: 0)
Project Status: Not Started
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Atherosclerosis is a disease of the arterial system that is characterized by the accumulation of fatty deposits within arterial walls, known as 'atherosclerotic plaques'.
Atherosclerosis Research Product Areas
Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerotic plaques also contain cellular debris and, in advanced plaques, calcium deposits (in the form of hydroxyapatite) are often present. The plaque contents are highly thrombogenic and so are separated from the circulating blood by a fibrous cap, composed mainly of vascular smooth muscle cells and extracellular matrix proteins such as collagen, which are synthesized by these cells.
The exact cause of atherosclerosis remains unknown, but the initial process - termed 'atherogenesis' - involves the transmigration of monocytes/macrophages across the endothelium into the intima, where they scavenge oxidized lipid (ox-LDL), forming lipid-laden 'foam cells'. Expression of adhesion molecules by endothelial cells promotes this transmigration. Foam cells undergo apoptosis, forming a lipid-rich core within the developing plaque. The formation of a plaque within the arterial wall triggers an inflammatory response, propagated by the secretion of growth factors and chemokines by resident plaque cells.
Circulating macrophages, recruited to the atherosclerotic plaque through chemotaxis, are a major source of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) - zinc-dependent enzymes that degrade the fibrous cap, predisposing the plaque to rupture. MMPs may also degrade the elastic laminae between layers of the arterial wall, facilitating the migration of smooth muscle cells from the tunica media to the fibrous cap, thus helping strengthen it.
A thick smooth muscle-cell rich fibrous cap with a small lipid core is characteristic of a 'stable' plaque, that is, one which is less likely to rupture. Plaques with a thin fibrous cap and a large, necrotic lipid core are termed 'unstable' or 'vulnerable' plaques and are more susceptible to rupture. Any defect in the fibrous cap exposes the thrombogenic plaque contents to the circulating blood, triggering thrombosis. Ninety percent of these plaque ruptures are clinically silent, yet the remaining proportion trigger myocardial infarction or stroke, and can be fatal.
In addition to the recruitment of macrophages within an atherosclerotic plaque, other immune mediators are also present during atherosclerosis. The expression of a number of pro-atherogenic cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-6, are known to be upregulated in atherosclerotic plaques, and therefore targeting the receptors of these cytokines may hinder the progression of atherosclerosis. Whilst activation of the immune response within an atherosclerotic plaque may be detrimental, driving the progression and eventual rupture of a plaque, it may equally be beneficial in resolving the inflammation and clearing necrotic foam cells from the core of the plaque. Therefore, targeting the immune response in atherosclerosis may be a 'double-edged sword'.
Treatment of Atherosclerosis
Current therapeutics in atherosclerosis predominantly aim to reduce blood cholesterol, thereby limiting the expansion of an atherosclerotic plaque. Aside from lipid-lowering, a further potential avenue in the treatment of atherosclerosis is the coagulation cascade since it is the formation of an occlusive thrombus, not plaque rupture per se, which triggers the pathologies associated with atherosclerosis. Potential targets within the coagulation cascade include thrombin, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Other mediators involved in platelet activation are also potential therapeutic targets in the prevention and treatment of atherothrombosis.
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|2.4 Noise Transmission|
When a sound wave impacts upon the surface of a solid body, some portion of it's energy will be reflected, some absorbed and the rest transmitted through the body. The relative proportion of each depends on the nature of the material impacted. This particular lecture is going to concentrate in the transmitted component.
If we consider the transmission of sound through a partition, we can actually measure the sound energy on both the source side (Wsrc) and the receiving side (Wrec) to determine exactly what fraction of the sound is transmitted through. We can thus determine the transmission coefficient (t) for that partition as follows:
The term Transmission Loss (TL), or more commonly Sound Reduction Index (SRI) are used to describe the reduction in sound level resulting from transmission through a material. This is given by:
SRI = 10 log (Wsource / Wreceiver)= 10 log (1/t) = -10 log (t)
The Mass Law
Obviously, the greater the mass of the wall, the greater the sound energy required to set it in motion. The mass law states that every doubling of the mass of a partition will result in a 6 dB reduction in the level of sound transmitted through it. It is given by;
R = 20 log (2pfm / roc) dB= 20 log (fm) - 47 dB
where f is the frequency (Hz), m is the mass per unit area (kg/m²) and roc is the characteristic impedance of air (basically, density times the speed of sound: taken to be between 410 and 420 rayls for 20°C and 1 atm).
Resonance and Coincidence effects
The mass law applies strictly to limp, non-rigid partitions.
However, most materials used in buildings possess some rigidity or stiffness. This means that other factors must really be considered, and that the mass law should only be taken as an approximate guide to the amount of attenuation obtainable.
in ordinary building materials is the result of an interplay between mass,
stiffness and damping. In addition, the mass law is affected
by resonance at lower frequencies and coincidence at higher
frequencies (cf: Diagram 1.1).
Stiffness Controlled Region
At low frequencies (for most building materials below 10-20Hz), transmission depends mainly on the stiffness of the wall, with damping and mass having little effect. The effectiveness of stiffness in the attenuation of sound transmission decreases by 6dB for every doubling of frequency (one octave).
At slightly higher frequencies the resonance of the wall begins to control its transmission behaviour. Because every panel has a finite boundary and edge fixings, it will have a series of natural frequencies at which it will vibrate more easily than others. These are called resonant frequencies and consist of a fundamental frequency (having the greatest effect), and integer multiples of this fundamental called harmonics (having less and less effect). The fundamental resonant frequency of a panel can be calculated as follows;
where b is the panel thickness (m), l and h it's length and height (m) and vL is the longitudinal velocity of sound in the partition (m/s) [where E is Young's modulus of elasticity, s is it's Poisson ratio and p it's density]. To calculate harmonic frequencies, simply replace the number 1 in the first equation with the required harmonic number.
Mass Controlled Region
At frequencies well above that of the lowest resonant frequency, the wall tends to behave as an assembly of much smaller masses and is then said to be mass controlled. It is within this range that the mass law directly applies.
Critical Frequency and Coincidence
The critical frequency is the frequency at which the wavelength of bending waves in the wall match those of the incident sound. Bending waves of different frequencies travel at different speeds, the velocity increasing with frequency.
This means that for every frequency above a certain critical frequency, there in an angle of incidence for which the wavelength of the bending wave can become equal to the wavelength of the impacting sound. This condition is known as coincidence (cf: Diagram 1.2).
When coincidence occurs it gives rise to a far more efficient transfer of sound energy from one side of the panel to the other, hence the big coincidence-dip at the critical frequency. In many thin materials (such as glass and sheet-metal), the coincidence frequency begins somewhere between 1000 and 4000 Hz, which includes important speech frequencies.
The lowest frequency at which coincidence can occur is when the angle of incidence of the sound is at 90° (grazing incidence) and can be calculated from;
where c is the speed of sound in air (m/s), h is the panel thickness (m), vL is the longitudinal velocity of sound in the partition (m/s) and a is the angle of incidence.
Above the critical frequency, stiffness begins to play an important role again.
Altering the TL of a panel
Resonance and coincidence effects cannot be eliminated. If the designer aims to create the maximum SRI, an attempt should be made to get resonant frequencies as low as possible (preferably well below the audible range) and the critical frequency as high as possible (preferably well above the audible range). Whilst it is not possible to apply a generic solution to all panels, the following relationships do hold:
NOTE: The most common method of adding damping is to apply a thick layer of mastic-like material to one side of the panel. This type of treatment is only effective on materials that have low mass and an inherent lack of damping. It would be useless on thick concrete walls, for example, but very effective on metal automobile panels.
As just discussed, the insulation of a single-leaf panel can be improved in a number of ways, but this process can only continue up to a certain point given the exponential increase in mass required.
Consider the example of a single brick wall with an SRI of 22dB. To increase this to an overall 40dB in all regions, the mass must be increased to 8 times the original (2^3). This is clearly impractical from a building perspective.
Consider, on the other hand, the fact that the wall already has a 22dB SRI. If we were to build another brick wall right next to it, we could (in theory) achieve a further drop of 22dB (think about it).
A situation approaching this is possible if the two walls are completely separated from each other with no common links, footings or edge supports, and an air gap greater than a metre between them.
Unfortunately, this is often just as impractical as vastly increasing the mass of the wall. In practice, walls do have common supports at the edges. It is also rare to find a cavity wall with more than few centimetres of air gap.
On the other hand, it is possible to create composite or sandwich panels whose total SRI does approach that of a double wall, if the following points are considered.
NOTE: The very last point is quite important as it alludes to flanking. The highest achievable SRI value for a partition is about 55-60dB. Above 45-50dB, flanking paths become more and more important. This explains why multiple-layer (three or more) partitions do not offer any significant improvement over double-leaf construction.
There are often several other paths sound can follow apart from the direct path through the panel. These include air conditioning ducts, through ceiling spaces, around edge fixings, etc...
Thus, it is better to have a well-fitting light door than a loose-fitting heavy one. In the next session we will discuss why the SRI of a composite panel is dominated by it's weakest element.
For Those Interested
Some clarifying points [From Norton, M.P., Fundamentals of Noise and Vibrational Analysis for Engineers. Section 3.9].
(1) If Wn is the natural frequency of a panel and W is the frequency of excitation;
(2) If a panel is mechanically excited, most of the energy is produced by resonant panel modes irrespective of W.
(3) If a panel is acoustically excited by incidence, its vibrational response comprises both a forced vibrational response at W and a resonant response at all relevant natural frequencies which are excited by the interaction of the forced bending waves with the panel boundaries.
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(British women at work in the studios, 1930s-40s)
AHRC Funding Success
We are a small, informal Women’s Film History group and are pleased to announce the successful outcome of our application for funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to set up a Women’s Film History Network – UK/Ireland. The AHRC gave our proposal its highest grade and we gratefully acknowledge its recognition of this neglected area of women’s history. Equally we are grateful to the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland and in giving this award an institutional home.
Although funds are limited, they will support four interdisciplinary Workshops. These will draw on Network members according to expertise to form small working parties to address the conceptual and organisational issues involved in establishing the Network's longterm function and infrastructure. However, while the Workshops involve limited numbers, dissemination activities, including this Wiki and a Conference planned for April 2011, will enable participation by all interested in the development of Women's Film History.
Traditionally film history has paid little attention to the contribution of women to film history – other than as actresses. But from its beginning women have been active in and around cinema as directors, scriptwriters, designers, cinema owners, distributors, publicists, reviewers, audiences, campaigners and so on. Consequently in the late 1990s an International Women Film Pioneers Project was initiated in America to address this gap in historical knowledge. Now based in the Film Division at Columbia University, New York, it is paralleled by biennial conference ‘Women and Silent Screen Congresses,’ staged in different countries since 2000. These initiatives are supported by the umbrella organisation, Women and Film History International.
Till recently this work has had little impact in Britain. The Women’s Film History Network – UK/Ireland was therefore initiated to promote and support research into women’s filmmaking history in Britain and Ireland, from the silent period to the present. The Network collaborates with the American based initiatives in order both to draw from their worldwide connections, research sources, and expertise – especially Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship – and to contribute to the internationalising of research.
By such means the Network aims to extend knowledge gained through its research activities to educators, women’s professional media organisations, and film season and festival programmers in order to enhance the visibility of women’s film and media work, raise the aspirations of girls and young women as potential entrants to screen media professions and increase the availability of women’s films and television programming for general public enjoyment.
Further details concerning the Workshops and 2011 Conference will be posted on this site as soon as they become available. To make contact with the Steering Group please email christine.gledhill at gmail.com
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Learn at Lunch
Over the years we have featured talks by writers, historians, educators, environmentalists, politicians and artists. If someone is doing something of interest around the Chesapeake Bay, the chances are that he or she will give a Learn at Lunch lecture.
These informative lectures combine three ingredients. First, a serious and often provocative lecture by someone who knows the subject. Second, an excellent lunch currently provided by Washington College Dining Services in the pleasant atmosphere of the Hynson Lounge on the college campus. And finally, a varied and attentive audience from the surrounding Community, where one meets many people one knows, and new people one would like to know better.
The seven luncheons during the academic year begin at 12:00 noon. They are well-publicized and well attended. The cost is $15.00 for WC-ALL members, $20.00 for non-members. We accept paid reservations only; no telephone reservations accepted. Hynson Lounge in the Hodson Hall Commons is handicapped-accessible.
Parking for Learn at Lunch is allowed only in the parking lot east of Kirby Stadium.
COME BACK LATER THIS YEAR TO SEE THE EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR 2013-14
- September Learn at Lunch
- October Learn at Lunch
- November Learn at Lunch
- December Holiday Gathering
- January 2014 Learn at Lunch
- February Learn at Lunch
- March Learn at Lunch
- April Learn at Lunch
- May End-of-year Gathering
THE FOLLOWING LEARN AT LUNCH TALKS WERE HELD SPRING 2013
“Real Food: What We Can Learn about Diet from Prehistoric
Foodways” with Dr. Bill Schindler“An History of Religion and Politics in the Eastern Shore of
Maryland” with Dr. Joseph Prud’homme
“Call No Man Happy: What Literature and Art Can Teach Us
About What It Means to Be Human” with Dr. Phillip Walsh
“Towards the Greening of Our Minds” with Dr. Anne Marteel-Parrish
For Further Information Contact
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VERBATIM. our world. their words.
"To listen well is as powerful a means
communication and influence as to
- John Marshall
Listening...one quote at a time.
Our world is connected. The things we do, the people we meet and the words we speak can have unprecedented impacts. We are learning how to understand others and craft our messages.
As America continues to grow, we watch our leaders. By listening, we have an opportunity to explore this great nation through the echoes of our forefathers and the voices of today.
The events in North Carolina, from the Smokies to the shoreline, matter to all of us. We listen to the voices of our state, and hope to give back to a place that has given us so much.
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Each spring, Californians pay homage to a fallen hero: Cesar Chavez, a man who gave life and form to the farm workers movement. Although I welcome the speeches and fiestas honoring Chavez, I deplore the lack of understanding of what women contributed to the United Farm Workers, a thing recognized by the eloquent Chavez.
Little is known of women's activism in the UFW. And yet, was not the farm workers movement a family thing? Were not women such as Helen Chavez (Cesar's wife, who held the family together) and Dolores Huerta (chief negotiator and co-founder) equally responsible for its success? Why little mention of las mujeres, the women, who led the grape boycott and kept the home fires burning?
When teaching Chicano history, I focus on the women's contributions to the UFW. Most history books (even those by Chicanos) rarely cite the work of esposas, hijas, hermanas, mamas and tias who made the grape boycott a success.
In the early 1960s, when Cesar began to organize fieldworkers in the San Joaquin Valley, Helen Fabela Chavez was at his side. At that time, wages for farm workers were meager; working conditions were like those in the Third World. Housing, as described by Ernesto Galarza in "Spiders in the House & Workers in the Field," lacked sanitation, potable water and heat. Women like Helen Chavez worked the double day. They toiled in the fields, then at home eked out meals of beans and tortillas for their families.
At night Helen Chavez worked on union business: attended meetings, registered workers and kept dinner waiting. She became union bookkeeper, a job thrust upon her (which she disdained but excelled at) and went on to manage the UFW credit union, a full-time job that precipitated her leaving the fields. She mothered seven children. Without Helen at his side, Cesar Chavez could not have fulfilled his dream of a union to serve farm laborers.
Dolores Huerta was equally important to the unionization effort. Although her role was more visible, she, too, worked long hours alongside the indefatigable Cesar. She possessed the education and language skills that proved crucial to the UFW. She organized voter registration drives and taught citizenship classes.
During the grape boycott in New York (led by Huerta) women were forced to relocate; the men stayed behind. At that time, the union had little money. Organizers lived in substandard housing; the cold was unbearable, as was the lack of adequate clothing. Often their children went hungry. Yet they persevered. With their children at their sides, mothers passed out leaflets, picketed markets where grapes were sold and, in general, made the presence--and goals--of the union known. Many were booed, taunted and assaulted outright.
Historian Margaret Rose's study of UFW huelga (strike) women found that their participation has been invisible to the public at large. UFW women helped in traditional and nontraditional ways. And when it came to negotiating union contracts, none held a candle to Dolores Huerta, considered the most articulate in the group.
According to Rose, co-director of the California History Social Science Project at UC Santa Barbara, Chavez left the negotiations to Huerta. Like Emma Tenayuca, the formidable--and pretty--Mexican American woman who in 1938 organized pecan shellers in Texas, Huerta proved a formidable opponent.
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A) Jump In – At first it is shocking. But once you jump in and get over the initial shock, you acclimate to the temperature and before you know it… you are enjoying a swim and want to swim all day.
B) Dip a Toe – These Toe Dipper people test the waters, decide it is too cold and retreat back to the blanket on the beach.
Many people are Toe Dippers in life. A Toe Dipper is someone who does EVERYTHING but change. They never change because they only dip a toe in, decide it is too cold, hard, or scary and never fully commit to the change. They give themselves reasons to back out and justify in their mind so well why they retreated back to the beach. But all the while, their heart wishes they were in the lake.
My blog and website gets a lot of Toe Dipping visitors. They think, research, dream, journal, and complain about the life they want but never pull the trigger. Toe Dippers surf around the internet, read a ton of articles and self-help books, peruse my coaching facts page, think about how nice it would be to SOMEDAY quit the job they hate, leave the relationship that drains them, get their office organized or seek expert help.
Sometimes when a BIG change is needed, the best way is make it is to just JUMP in. It is either SINK or SWIM – there is no turning back. Odds are in favor of that you will learn to swim, acclimate and make the best of the situation.
Jumping in, at first, will shock the hell out of you, make your squirm in your skin, and scream like a little school girl!!! But before you know it, the change feels good, refreshing and comfortable.
If you just dip a toe in, you often get scared off and retreat.
My Coaching Advice to Toe Dippers:
- Go within your heart and ask yourself what you really, really, really want.
- Write it down. Now ask yourself why you don’t have it.
- Notice the excuses you come up with.
- Write those down. Notice now silly and unreasonable some of those excuses are. Ask your self if that is really true. For a great process on how to change your limiting beliefs, check out Byron Katie’s The Work Turnaround Process.
- Now tell yourself you are going to make the change anyway because you know in your heart it is what you want.
- Also ask yourself how you will feel 10 years from now if you don’t make the change and your life is still the same. If the answer is “pretty crappy or regretful” then go directly to #7 and follow the instructions.
- Then JUMP into the lake or contact me to push you into the lake.
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CHESAPEAKE BOUY TO TALK VIA VERIZON WIRELESS DATA NETWORK.Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay, inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, c.200 mi (320 km) long, from 3 to 30 mi (4.8–48 km) wide, and 3,237 sq mi (8,384 sq km), separating the Delmarva Peninsula from mainland Maryland. and Virginia. watermen have long relied on buoys to help guide them through the Bay's channels and tributaries. A unique partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and (NOAA NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Noun 1. NOAA - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; ) and Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. is making a new generation of high-tech buoys "talk," helping even those far from the Bay's waters to experience the historic and environmental wonders of America's largest estuary.
On Thursday, July 26, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office will deploy its third "smart buoy" as part of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail is a series of water routes in the United States extending approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) along the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, and its tributaries in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and in the District of -- the nation's first water-based national historic trail and newest national park. The buoy will be positioned at the mouth of the Patapsco River near Baltimore and will collect water-quality data as well as information on waves and currents via a system of sensors. That information is transmitted in real time via the Verizon Wireless, high-speed data network to websites being used for science and education. The collected data, along with historical and cultural information about the Bay, can be accessed over the Internet at "http://www.buoybay.org" or by calling (877) BUOY-BAY.
The Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System will help scientists, educators and park visitors learn more about the Bay and the importance of preserving it as a vital natural resource. Peyton Robertson, acting director of the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office said, "Verizon Wireless' technology makes it possible for the buoys to provide real-time observations to the public via the Internet. Providing current observations along with historical information will enable us to further illustrate the need for stewardship of the Bay."
The system currently consists of two other stationary buoys which are located at Point Lookout, where the Potomac River meets the Bay; and in the James River off the coast of Jamestown, Virginia, where America's first permanent English settlement was founded by Captain John Smith.
Complementing the buoy system is the Shallop shal·lop
1. A large heavy boat, usually having two masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lugsails.
2. A small open boat fitted with oars or sails, or both, and used primarily in shallow waters. , the 28-foot, open wooden vessel that replicates one used by Captain John Smith and his crew to explore and map the Chesapeake in 1608 and 1609. The Shallop and its crew of 12 set out from Jamestown on May 12, 2007 for a 121-day journey to recreate Smith's travels to virtually every Chesapeake Bay tributary. Like the smart buoys in the Cheasapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System, the Shallop has been outfitted with Verizon Wireless' high-speed broadband service which sends the data collected by its onboard water-quality monitoring system to the web for analysis and interpretation.
Information about the Shallop's location is also being constantly transmitted over the Verizon Wireless network, which enables followers to track the boat's journey on the Web at http://www.johnsmith400.org/map.
In addition to the talking buoy technology, the Shallop crew maintains voice communications using Verizon Wireless ruggedized G'zOne phones, which are built to withstand the harshest of weather conditions and even immersion in water. The crew also uses these tough devices to capture and transmit pictures and videos to the web to share their expedition as it happens. With built-in GPS chips, the phones also provide VZ Navigator service to help the crew navigate to the nearest hot shower and cold beverage whenever the Shallop makes landfall land·fall
1. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.
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Keep track of the Shallop's progress and schedule, and view photos, videos and crew journals at http://www.johnsmith400.org/map.
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Freedom, in Scotland and elsewhere, isn’t something that is given by governments or other authorities. It’s something that’s practiced. And not just in social movements or halls of power. It’s part of everyday life.
This month I respond to Davie Park’s comment on last month’s column:
Having only a tenuous grip on the idea(s) of anarchism / anarcho-syndicalism, it seems to me that the fundamental problem is that, whilst the capitalist system wouldn’t be undermined by even many thousands of people living an anarchist lifestyle, anarchism could be completely undermined by even just a few people whose primary motive is profit and personal enrichment.
Also, unrealistic as they may be, the dreams of the freedoms that huge personal wealth can bring sustains many of us in hard times. Nearly all of us play the game of ‘What would you do if you won the lottery?’ Asking people to give up on these dreams will be one tough job.
Thank you taking the time to share your thoughts! These are great questions which I’m sure many Bella Caledonia readers can relate to.
For many people on the Left, there is a belief in a capitalist system that should be smashed, undermined or at least reformed. And those who believe that capitalism is good and necessary are talking about how it has to change in order to maintain growth.
I’m coming from a different perspective from either of those. I want to question the belief that there is a capitalist system. Of course, there is a pattern of relationships characterised by belief in the legitimacy of debt, individualism, infinite growth and social inequality. We could call that pattern a system and say that it exists. We could then either support it, fight against it or try to reform it. But remember, the ‘it’ is an abstraction, an idea, a way of seeing things. It’s not the truth.
So I don’t invite people to be anarchic in order to undermine capitalism. I’m not overly worried about that particular fantasy. I invite a certain vitality that comes out of stillness, a love that comes from peace, an equality that comes from a recognition that we are all part of the same life. I welcome this into every relationship, with ourselves, our work, our intimate relationships, our economics, our politics, our ecology, with life itself.
And is this love really powerless in the face of ‘capitalism’? I don’t think so. Just look what happens when people get together and support each other, refusing to do what they think they are supposed to do and actually listening to what is right for them in that moment, listening to each other. We can be too quick to give credit to abstract forces (states, corporations) instead of noticing the ways in which people all the time are demonstrating that there are other ways to relate. Yes, control and greed happen. But there is so much more to life.
Is this really so fragile that it could be undermined by greed? Again, I don’t think so. In my experience, greed is fragile and love fundamental. Sure, people might create a beautifully anarchic event or community which does not last forever. Does love need to last forever in order to be real? We might well grieve the loss of particular spaces, particular relationships; that isn’t the same as undermining anarchy, or love, itself.
Nor do I ask people to give up their dreams of personal wealth. I have those fantasies. What would I do if I won the lottery? I don’t know. I do know that I would still face many of the same fears, anxieties and challenges that I do now. I’ve moved up and down the class system a bit in my life and see that money makes some things easier, but it certainly doesn’t bring the freedom it’s advertised to bring. I also notice that when I have selfish thoughts — how can I get ahead, how can I be ok, how can I experience pleasure? — well, I end up suffering all the more. My body and mind grow tight, clinging to desire. I miss seeing the vitality inherent in life. But when I see that I’m already ok, whatever I’m experiencing, there is a lightness, an openness, a joy in simply being alive. Like this, it’s much easier to connect with others, to cooperate, to sustain something very different from individualism.
So when you say the dreams of private wealth sustain people, I wonder. Perhaps the dreams distract them. I suspect what really sustains people is the warmth of human kindness. Don’t give up your dreams, but do question them. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the authority of your own experience. Are dreams of wealth really sustaining you? What is? Find that which sustains you and those around you and nurture it. You can call that process anarchism if you want. I don’t mind. The label isn’t important. The experience is what matters.
The official economy isn’t working that well for most of us. Rather than worry about that too much, let’s focus on what does work for us. Yes, our alternatives might not work out as we plan. Some of them may be destroyed by people caught up in selfishness. So part of our practice of developing alternatives, of making them sustainable as well as sustaining, is learning to notice selfishness in ourselves and letting it go. Again and again and again. Another part is inviting other people to notice for themselves to what extent a profit-centred existence works for them and for others. I don’t think it really serves anyone, even the chief executives of banks. But telling someone that won’t work — we all have to experience it for ourselves. I know for me, it’s very much an on going learning process.
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INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE FOODBORNE PATHOGENS IN SWINE AND CATTLE
Location: Food and Feed Safety Research
Title: Development of an immunochromatographic strip test for rapid detection of melamine in raw milk, milk products, and animal feed
| Li, Xiangmei - |
| Lui, Pengjie - |
| Tang, Shusheng - |
| Wu, Xiaoping - |
| Yang, Lili - |
| Li, Yanwei - |
| Xiao, Xilong - |
Submitted to: Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: April 28, 2011
Publication Date: May 6, 2011
Citation: Li, X., Lui, P., Tang, S., Beier, R.C., Wu, X., Yang, L., Li, Y., Xiao, X. 2011. Development of an immunochromatographic strip test for rapid detection of melamine in raw milk, milk products, and animal feed. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 59:6064-6070.
Interpretive Summary: In the last few years, melamine has been used intentionally and illegally in food and food-related products to provide a false indication of increased protein content during testing procedures for the food item. High or continuous exposure to melamine can cause renal stones and urinary bladder tumors. Melamine contaminated food led to kidney failure in dogs and cats in 2004, and resulted in illnesses and deaths of pets in the United States during 2007. In 2008, milk powder contaminated with melamine in China led to infant hospitalizations and deaths. In this study, an immunogold chromatographic strip test was developed to test for melamine onsite. The strip test is based on a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds melamine. Antibodies are substances that are produced by the immune system in response to foreign substances which enter the body. Once the antibodies to a foreign substance are isolated, they can be used in a method to detect the presence of that foreign substance. The melamine strip test is similar to the common pregnancy test, and is as simple to use. The melamine strip test was evaluated for raw milk, milk products, and animal feed samples. The limit of detection was 2 µg/mL (or 2 µg/g) for milk drinks, yogurt, condensed milk, cheese, and animal feed and 1 µg/g for milk powder. Sample pretreatment was simple and rapid, and the results can be obtained within 3–10 min. The results demonstrate that the developed method is suitable for the onsite determination of melamine in a large number of samples.
A simple, rapid and sensitive immunogold chromatographic strip test based on a monoclonal antibody was developed for the detection of melamine (MEL) residues in raw milk, milk products and animal feed. The limit of detection was estimated to be 0.05 µg/mL in raw milk, since the detection test line on the strip test completely disappeared at this concentration. The limit of detection was 2 µg/mL (or 2 µg/g) for milk drinks, yoghourt, condensed milk, cheese, and animal feed and 1 µg/g for milk powder. Sample pretreatment was simple and rapid, and the results can be obtained within 3–10 min. A parallel analysis of MEL in 52 blind raw milk samples conducted by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry showed comparable results to those obtained from the strip test. The results demonstrate that the developed method is suitable for the onsite determination of MEL residues in a large number of samples. | <urn:uuid:f0f61134-d365-4a8d-a667-71b3fcb62578> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?seq_no_115=267701 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929288 | 769 | 2.59375 | 3 |
- Research the country you plan to visit beforehand and visit a travel doctor to make sure you're adequately vaccinated.
- Travel insurance is vital. Some countries have reciprocal healthcare agreements but they should never replace comprehensive travel insurance.
- If you can, cook, peel and/or boil food before eating — and drink bottled water in areas of poor sanitation.
Australians love to travel — they take more than five million trips to overseas destinations every year. But our adventurous streak has its downside. Each year the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) deals with around 20,000 cases of Australians in some form of trouble overseas, including over 700 hospitalisations and over 100 evacuations for medical treatment.
Which?, CHOICE’s sister publication in the UK, conducted a survey on 'holiday injury hotspots' in which members related their experiences of a total of 21,230 holidays. It found that 11% of respondents had fallen ill or were injured while travelling in the last twelve months — with stomach problems taking the number one spot
he ill-health hotspot award went to India, with 52% of visitors travelling there falling ill, followed by 47% of travellers to Peru, and 42% of those who visited Sri Lanka.
Please note: this information was current as of November 2007 but is still a useful guide today.
Do your research
Before you go, you’ll need to suss out potential health risks — and don’t rely on your travel agent. A Swiss study published in the Journal of Travel Medicine found an investigator posing as a traveller was given no spontaneous health information by half the travel agents he visited, despite malaria being high risk in the country he was asking about.
While your travel agent may be more forthcoming, it’s also wise to seek independent advice on the country you wish to travel to. Some countries are on the government’s 'not to travel' or 'advised against' lists, which are updated on a regular basis with new threats and health alerts.
These can be found on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade travel website: www.smartraveller.gov.au.
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Internship season is coming up and as college students around the nation are beginning to get accepted into the internships of their dreams, they will also have to deal with some of the pesky terms and conditions of unpaid internships.
Though interning is an invaluable experience, according to the College Employment Research Institute, three-fourths of the ten million students in college will work as interns at least once before graduating.
One-third and a half won’t be compensated for their efforts.
Most employers require that students receive college credit for the internship, regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in formal classes for the summer. Many students are forced to pay the credit fees, which can go up to $2000 in some schools.
While many are just thankful for the work opportunity and can afford to brunt the costs, others are not so lucky.
Thankfully, there are loopholes to drive the price down:
1. Community colleges:
Instead of paying for credits at your local university, enroll in a Cooperative Education Program at a community college program for one semester or quarter. Although some of these programs require tuition, the fees tend not to be as hefty.
However, be sure to start your search early. Many community colleges have a capped number of students that can enroll.
2. Alternative Programs:
There are a handful of alternative programs, like Dream Careers, that offer both internship placement and credit services. But the price tag on these programs (Dream Careers is over $8000) can be just as hefty, sometimes more, as university credit fees.
Be on the look out for smaller programs that won’t make such a big dent in your wallet.
Programs like the UCLA Extension Film and Television Internship Program offer internship credit for students pursing an internship in the media or entertainment industry. Just fax over some forms and pay $550.
3. Letters of Support:
Finally, ask before you fork over the money.
Companies like NBC Universal accept “letters of support” from colleges, which are letters from career counselors acknowledging that they are aware the student is taking an internship with the company.
Request a letter from your college that states that you are a student in good standing and the internship experience is considered applicable to your degree program.
Though this does not constitute academic credit for an internship, it may satisfy an employer’s requirements.
Full Disclosure: Clarissa Wei, currently a junior at New York University, has held 11 separate internships and has used all of these methods at one point during her college career. – Ed.
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A radical environmental group that has torched ski resorts in Colorado and luxury homes in New York is suspected of setting one of the costliest fires in San Diego history.
Courtesy KGTV Channel 10
"If you build it – we will burn it. The E.L.F.s are mad," reads a 12-foot banner at the site of Friday's condo complex fire.
A 206-unit condominium project under construction in University City was destroyed yesterday in a 3 a.m. blaze that caused damage estimated in excess of $20 million.
"If you build it, we will burn it," read the 12-foot banner left behind. It was signed: "The E.L.F.s are mad."
The banner "is a legitimate claim of responsibility by the Earth Liberation Front," according to an e-mail sent to The San Diego Union-Tribune yesterday.
The cause of the blaze at the La Jolla Crossroads development near University Towne Centre has not been determined.
The probe has been put on hold for the weekend to give a response team from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms time to arrive from several Western states, said Fred Herrera, an investigator with the local Metro Arson Strike Team.
The investigation will be massive. Twenty investigators, photographers, evidence technicians and engineers are being flown in to assist 10 San Diego-based ATF investigators, FBI agents and the local arson team.
The inferno sent flames 200 feet into the air and could be seen for miles.
While no one was injured in yesterday's three-alarm fire, the impact was dramatic.
More than 100 firefighters worked through the early morning to protect nearby structures.
Hundreds of residents were evacuated from adjacent apartment buildings in the densely populated area. Windows cracked and blinds melted. Roads were closed and freeway exits blocked.
Dozens of people gathered at the site off Interstate 805 before dawn to watch the five-story building burn.
"It looked like a big fireworks show," said Mike Holleran, a student at the University of California San Diego.
Flames leapt 200 feet into the air and could be seen for miles. Grapefruit-sized fireballs landed in courtyards and patios of adjacent buildings, and burning embers swirled in the night.
"An enormous orange glow covered the entire sky," said San Diego fire Chief Jeff Bowman, describing the scene as he drove northward toward it. "It looked like sunrise."
A 100-foot, $7 million construction crane toppled and was destroyed during the fire. A 500-gallon fuel tank exploded.
Hours later, cars parked more than a mile away were covered in a layer of soot.
The Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for four fires this year, according to its Web site. The group, dedicated to fighting urban sprawl, claims to have set dozens of fires in North America since 1997 that have resulted in nearly $50 million in damage.
A statement from the Earth Liberation Front read: "The ELF Press Office has received no communique for the UTC San Diego fire that took place August 1, 2003 and thus can not answer any questions as to why this location and city was chosen for the latest ELF action."
Sometimes it takes a few days, or even weeks, for members of the organization to let the larger organization know about the fires they set. ELF describes itself as "an international underground movement consisting of autonomous groups of people who carry out direct action according to the ELF guidelines."
The FBI labels the group a terrorist organization.
The condominium building destroyed yesterday was the first of five planned phases for a 1,500-home project called La Jolla Crossroads. Framing was nearly complete on the condos, and workers said they were preparing to install the roof, plumbing and electrical wiring.
"You put your heart and soul into this, and look," said one worker, Rod Fink, staring blankly at his destroyed work.
Other workers gathered in small groups, angrily venting about the hardship that had been inflicted on them. "I'm out of work now," one said. "Thank you, arsonist."
Workers said there had been no picketing or demonstrations at the site.
Environmentalists said the devastation was pointless.
"You can go and burn something down, but it's just going to get built again," said Debby Knight, president of Friends of Rose Canyon, a local preservation group.
The City Council approved the La Jolla Crossroads project in November 2000 despite opposition from nearby residents. The project is being built south of La Jolla Village Drive and west of Interstate 805.
Some members of the University City Planning Group said the project would add more traffic to what is already one of the most congested neighborhoods in the city.
Environmentalists complained that building homes and a research center on the vacant property would destroy some of the last remaining wetlands in San Diego.
But there has been little opposition since the project was approved.
"I haven't really heard much about it at all," said City Councilman Scott Peters, who represents University City.
The project was approved during the tenure of his predecessor, Harry Mathis.
Peters said he has received letters from people concerned about development in the area, "but those are people involved in the democratic process."
After surveying the damage yesterday morning, Peters spoke with Stuart Posnack, the representative of the developer, Garden Communities.
"He looked pretty low," Peters said. "I just told him I was sorry it happened."
Officials at Garden Communities did not return messages requesting interviews.
Developers across the region said they were astonished the fire was set. Some worried the arson attack might mean that activists are raising the ante when protesting projects.
Donna Morafcik of the Building Industry Association of San Diego, which represents about 1,400 companies, said demonstrations at construction sites are relatively uncommon.
"It's rare that we hear of this," she said. "Some folks over the years may have protested, but it's not a routine occurrence."
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THE HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC
VII. 1991 And Beyond
By Michael Casano
By 1990, different genres of music began to emerge due to the influence of industrial music: dark wave, techno, metal, and neo-prog to name a few. These genre crossovers make classifying music rather difficult. However, classifying music according to genre is really a feeble attempt to easily define and label a band. If nothing comes out of this series of articles other than the fact that every genre of music is a blend of many different forms, and that all great art is great due to the sincerity of the artists, then this series was a success. By reading these articles, the reader might ask, “What does classical music have to do with industrial music, or why mention the Velvet Underground, or bands like the Cure?” My answer would be that these bands or classical music have nothing really to do with industrial music. The whole point of these articles was to establish a basis of influence that made the world of potential sound possible. If you were a young person growing up in the fifties and happened to be interested in electronic music, the only place you could turn to was the academic world of classical music. The sixties offered pop music, garage bands, and the free jazz movement, the seventies had punk, the eighties offered a largely ignored underground scene due to the commercialization of music at its most perverse pinnacle. As far as the nineties goes, if you think that most of the bands that you like were not listening to Adam and The Ants’ first two albums (Dirk Wears White Sox, 1979, and Kings Of The Wild Frontier, 1980) with excitement then you are quite mistaken. Great art breeds great art. My own reason for wanting to write these articles was to establish the fact that rock music, in general, is a legitimate form of art. Most music educators would scoff at such an idea, but I truly believe that taking such a contemptuous stance like that is completely off the mark. Industrial music is not for everyone. It deals with a lot of subject matter that is very unpleasant and its conveyance can be rather crass. As far as I am concerned, industrial music is no more unpleasant than going to work everyday, watching television, driving your car, or other mundane activities of life. It has always been my contention that what makes you most uncomfortable and what challenges you the most is what makes you grow as a person. Staying quiet and comfortable and listening fluffy to pop music might make you feel good, but is it truly helping you?
My other reason for writing these articles is to stimulate others to do more research, write their own articles, and offer a different approach to examining music. There are some great music journalists out there: Jon Savage and Dave Thompson to name two. These two writers have influenced me with their overwhelming knowledge and ability to translate that knowledge into something readable. I have learned tremendously from reading their work, and from writing these articles. I would like to thank Electrogarden for taking a chance and letting me do this project. I would also like to thank those who took the time to read the articles. But without the music, there would be nothing to write about. I would like to thank all of the musicians mentioned in the articles and those I forgot to mention or I am just not aware of. The independent music scene is a very precious resource, and there are a lot of bands that deserve a tremendous amount of credit and recognition. Ultimately these articles are dedicated to these musicians with the spirit and courage to get themselves heard.
By 1991, the underground scenes in Seattle and the American Midwest were plundered by corporate record executives. Nirvana’s Nevermind was touted as the next Never Mind The Bollocks and terrible radio creations such as grunge and alternative dominated mainstream rock stations. Music was in a sad and sorry state, similar to what had happened in the early eighties as new wave had become a marketable form of punk. Alternative had become the new market buzzword, and the major record companies were exploiting all aspects of this market by slavishly attaching the alternative tag to any band that came along with long hair and guitars. Industrial music began to get some mainstream recognition, but mostly it was left alone. Front 242’s Tyranny For You album is a good example of a great album not being touted as such. Another example is the Legendary Pink Dots’ The Maria Dimension. These albums were largely ignored by radio, and undeservedly so. Other albums from 1991 were Lab Report’s Figure X-71, Skinny Puppy’s Last Rights, Coil’s Love’s Secret Domain, Cop Shoot Cop’s White Noise, Die Warzau’s Big Electric Metal Bass Face, Frontline Assembly’s Caustic Grip, the Hafler Trio’s Kill The King, and X-Marks The Pedwalk’s Freaks.
1992 offered the release of two Nocturnal Emissions’ reissues from 1983, Viral Shredding and Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss. Glenn Branca’s Symphony No.2, originally recorded in 1982, was released in 1992. Percussionist Z’eV and Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth played on the Branca recording. Nine Inch Nails’ popularity increased with the release of the Broken and Fixed Eps. Ministry continued their aural assault with Psalm 69, and bands such as KMFDM (Money) and Meat Beat Manifesto (Satyricon) also released important albums. Other albums of note released in 1992 are Curve’s Doppleganger, Frontline Assembly’s Tactical Neural Implant, Fear Factory’s Soul Of A New Machine, Murder, Inc.’s self-titled album, Excessive Force’s Conquer Your World, Lassigue Bendthaus’ Cloned and Binary albums, the Swamp Terrorists’ Grow-Speed-Injection, the Boredoms’Wow2, the Prodigy’s Experience, Pigface’s Fook, Godflesh’s Pure, and the Vampire Rodents’ Premonition album.
1993 witnessed the emergence of KMFDM as the new kings of industrial music. Throughout the nineties, KMFDM would consistently release good to great albums. Angst was one of these albums. Front 242’s 06:21:03:11 Up Evil and 05:22:09:12 Off were also prominent releases that year. The band Tool, despite being a metal/prog hybrid, also appealed to the industrial metal crowd. Their Undertow album drew great critical acclaim. Bands such as Sister Machine Gun (Sins Of The Flesh) and Spahn Ranch (Collateral Damage) also began to emerge as prominent shakers within the industrial scene. Other albums making their mark that year were 16 Volt’s Wisdom, Stabbing Westward’s Ungod, the Hafler Trio’s How To Reform Mankind, the Machines Of Loving Grace’s Concentration, Mentallo and the Fixer’s Revelations 23, Zeni Geva’s Desire For Agony, the Boredoms’ Pop Tatari, :wumpscut:’s Music For The Slaughtering Tribe, Cop Shoot Cop’s Ask Questions Later, and Einsturzende Neubauten’s Tabula Rasa.
1994 was completely dominated by the release of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral. This album managed to procure radio play, videos on MTV, and reviews and articles in every major music magazine you can think of. Another interesting release was Portion Control’s The Man Who Did Backward Somersaults. Portion Control released some very interesting albums in the early eighties: I Staggered Mentally, 1982, Hit The Pulse, 1983, and Step Forward, 1984, but never managed more than a cult following. Killing Joke once again reminded everyone that they were one of the most underrated bands of the eighties, releasing the Pandemonium album. Other 1994 releases were Chemlab’s Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar, Econoline Crush’s Purge, 16 Volt’s Skin, Lassigue Bendthaus’ Render, Penal Colony’s Put Your Hands Down, Sister Machine Gun’s The Torture Technique, Prong’s Cleansing, the Boredoms’ Chocolate Synthesizer, Crash Worship’s Triple Mania II, Babyland’s Total Letdown EP, and Leaether Strip’s Solitary Confinement.
1995’s genre crossovers were abundant, as the parameters of industrial music began to blur. Battery’s NV album had elements of industrial and dark wave, releases from Fear Factory (Demanufacture) and White Zombie (Astro Creep 2000) were more metal based bands who tapped into the industrial sound. The Prodigy’s Music For A Jilted Generation possessed hardcore techno elements as opposed to industrial, yet the album appealed to the industrial crowd. One of the most interesting and hardest to define albums of 1995 was Six Finger Satellite’s Severe Exposure album. Somewhere between industrial, new wave, and noisecore lies the bizarre and criminally overlooked world of Six Finger Satellite. Another overlooked band, Zoviet*France had released great albums since 1983’s Norsch album. In 1995, Zoviet*France released the Collusion album. Big Block 454 released the experimental Rough As Sausages album. More commercially successful releases such as Filter’s Short Bus, Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down The Spiral EP, and KMFDM’s Nihil confirmed the prominence of industrial music. Other albums released in 1995 were Blok 57’s Animals On Speed, Armageddon Dildos’ Lost, Crocodile Shop’s Celebrate The Enemy, Kill Switch. . .Klick’s Beat It To Fit Paint It To Match, the Machines of Loving Grace’s Gilt, Spahn Ranch’s The Coiled One, Sister Machine Gun’s Burn, Zeni Geva’s Nai-Ha and Freedom Bondage albums, Babyland’s Who’s Sorry Now, Prick’s self-titled album, and Die Warzau’s Engine.
In 1996, KMFDM’s XTORT and Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich were two of the best industrial albums released that year. Progmetal bands like Tool (Aenima) and Neurosis (Through Silver In Blood) also released albums that year. Yet, no other album enjoyed such outrageous publicity as Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar. Combining elements of metal, industrial, goth and glam, Marilyn Manson’s self-proclaimed antichrist superstar persona drew nothing but notoriety, which in turn translated into record sales. In The Nursery, who’s 1986 Twins album is often overlooked, released The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari soundtrack. Other releases that year were Z’eV’s Heads And Tales, Gravity Kills’ self -titled album, Die Form’s L’Ame Electronique, Download’s The Eyes Of Stanley Pain, Six Finger Satellite’s Paranormalized, Battery’s Distance, Skinny Puppy’s The Process, Merzbow’s Pulse Demon, Funker Vogt’s Thanks For Nothing, 16 Volt’s LetDownCrush, Econoline Crush’s Affliction, haujobb’s Solutions For A Small Planet, and Stabbing Westward’s Wither Blister Burn & Peel.
By 1997, industrial music in general was being accused of flogging a dead horse, as the genre began to be flooded with retreads and Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails copycats. There were some bright spots, however. Led by Spahn Ranch’s Architecture and Deathline International’s Arashi Syndrome, the genre was not indeed dead, but in the process of redefining itself. Other releases that year were Sister Machine Gun’s Metropolis, Death And Horror, Inc.’s Transmissions From The Chemical Land, Yeht Mae’s eaM theY, the Hafler Trio’s Fuck, and KMFDM’s self-titled album.
Merzbow, from Japan, and Rammstein, from Germany, released the most interesting albums of 1998. Merzbow’s 1930 and Tauromachine were reminiscent of Merzbow’s experimental past. Rammstein’s Sehnsucht, best described as operatic industrial metal, certainly sounded like no one else. Other releases that year were Apoptygma Berzerk’s 7, Econoline Crush’s The Devil You Know, 16 Volt’s SuperCoolNothing, Spahn Ranch’s Beat Noir, Orgy’s Candyass, Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals, Lull’s Moments, Die Form’s Duality, Fear Factory’s Obsolete, Meat Beat Manifesto’s Actual Sounds And Noises, and Stabbing Wetsward’s Darkest Days.
As the century was coming to an end, one of the most important albums of the industrial genre was released. Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile (1999) was an astounding display of musical depth and versatility. KMFDM’s Adios (1999) and Attak (2002) and Tool’s Lateralus (2001) were some of the best albums released in recent memory. 23 Skidoo’s 2001 reissue of their 1982 release Seven Songs was also an interesting listen nearly twenty years after its initial appearance. Kevorkian Death Cycle’s A+O(M) (1999), Hate Dept.‘s Technical Difficulties (1999), Neurosis’ Times Of Grace (1999), Coal Chamber’s Chamber Music (1999), VNV Nation’s Empires (1999), 16 Volt’s Demography (2000), Fear Factory’s Digimortal (2001), and Stabbing Westward’s self-titled 2001 release are some other albums of note. The future sound of industrial music is uncertain. Nevertheless, the music that has been created will certainly influence that which has yet to come forth.
And that will be good enough.
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Though the scheme has never been formally marketed, Jamkesmas has enrolled more beneficiaries than any other Indonesian health insurance plan. Its target population is defined using an annually administered national survey known as the SUSENAS according to daily household consumption estimates. P.T. Askes is the administrator of membership in the Jamkesmas program and has operated the program since 2005. P.T. Askes obtains a list of the number of persons eligible each year from the Central Bureau of Statistics which is a part of Bappenas (the national planning agency). It then distributes the cards and registers enrollees into the program.
Jamkesmas offers a comprehensive benefits package, including both inpatient and outpatient care, as well as maternal and preventive care. In terms of medication, enrollees are only entitled to coverage for drugs from specific formularies and must opt for generic drugs when filling prescriptions.
Overall, free access to many providers—both private and public—and a comprehensive benefits package make Jamkesmas more attractive to the majority of the population—even those covered under Askes and Jamsostek, two of Indonesia's other public insurance programs. Jamkesmas beneficiaries are able to seek care at both public and private outlets, though covered ambulatory services are solely public. The scheme contracts with 926 hospitals for service provision, including 220 private hospitals for certain procedures.
The Jamkesmas scheme is funded by the central government from general tax revenue. Beneficiaries are not responsible for premium payments nor are they charged a copayment at the time of visit.
While there are no formal evaluations of the Jamkesmas scheme, the Indonesian government and many international organizations, including the World Bank and GTZ, are collaborating to improve the program to address both policy and implementation challenges. Data from the government suggest that Jamkesmas has made a significant impact. A high level of coverage has been achieved within less than 2 years, reaching 76 million poor and near poor enrollees. Total utilization of services has also increased by 50% for ambulatory care and about 106% for inpatient care and the rates of service use between the most affluent and the poorest have nearly equalized. | <urn:uuid:9307b9b8-67e7-4294-8a04-3178084594ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://healthmarketinnovations.org/program/jamkesmas-scheme?display=default | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950569 | 442 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Discover the story of our 42nd president
Start in the northwest corner of the state in Fayetteville
Visit the Clinton House Museum, a 1930’s English-style bungalow that was the first home of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and they married in its living room in 1975. The house now showcases the life and times of the Clintons during their Fayetteville years through photographs and memorabilia, including Hillary’s wedding dress and vintage campaign materials. Stop by Waterman Hall, home to the University of Arkansas Law School, where Clinton taught constitutional law from 1973 – 1976. Hillary joined the faculty in 1974 teaching criminal law.
For 16 years – 12 as Arkansas governor – Bill Clinton and his family called Little Rock home. Start with a tour of the Governor’s Mansion, built between 1947 and 1950. The mansion is a symbol of the state’s rich history, beautiful natural resources, and the spirit of the dedication to serving others, and has been the home to eleven of Arkansas’s 45 governors.
Head south to Arkansas’s capital city, Little Rock, to get an in-depth look at the Clinton years.
Next, tour the Arkansas State Capitol. Clinton served as Arkansas governor from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Designed in the Neo-classical style, the capitol was built over a century ago as a replica of the US Capitol and has been used in many movies
a stand-in. The capitol features Arkansas granite, six bronze doors and three chandeliers crafted by Tiffany’s of New York. Go just a few blocks to the Old State House Museum and relive history from the balcony where Clinton announced his bid for the presidency in 1991, and later delivered his acceptance speeches in 1992 and 1996. The building served as Arkansas’s first state capitol and is now a museum of Arkansas history. Next, drive by the 1908 Arkansas Gazette Building in downtown Little Rock. This historic structure served as President Clinton’s campaign headquarters during the 1992 presidential election.
Then, on to the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park, the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and the Clinton Museum Store. Experience the nation’s newest and most innovative presidential library. It houses the largest collection of presidential artifacts in history. In addition to the archival collection and research facilities, the library features interactive exhibits, exact replicas of the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room, and other permanent exhibits. See photographs, videos and interactive stations that include a 100-foot-long timeline presenting the day-to-day work of the president and alcoves highlighting domestic and foreign policy efforts and achievements. Traveling exhibits to the library have included the Emancipation Proclamation, White House in Miniature, Art of the Chopper, Peter Max Paints America, and many others. The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service offers a master’s degree program in public service. Each month the school lecture series hosts free public forums featuring discussions led by distinguished speakers. The Clinton Museum Store, located just down the street in Little Rock’s River Market District, is stocked with unique gifts, presidential memorabilia, and apparel.
‘A Place called Hope’: Birthplace and early boyhood home
Continuing southwest on U.S. Interstate 30 from Little Rock, head to Hot Springs and find Clinton’s boyhood homes, former high school, and his family church. Bill Clinton was eight when his family relocated to Hot Springs. There are two well-known homes that the Clinton family lived in during their time in Hot Springs. Park Place Baptist Church was the location of Clinton’s baptism, the Arlington Hotel ballroom hosted his junior and senior proms and Hot Springs High School is where Clinton first began his career of public service as an active member of the Key Club, Beta Club, National Honor Society and the chorus.
End your Clinton Arkansas journey in Hope, Arkansas, where it all began. Tour Clinton’s birthplace and first home museum featuring extensive photographic exhibits about his early childhood. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 and the site includes the Virginia Cassidy Blythe Clinton Kelly Memorial Garden in honor of the president’s mother. You can also stop by his boyhood home, offering exhibits visible through the porch windows. Next stop by the Hope Visitor’s Center, which is housed in a 1912 train depot and displays artifacts and photos showcasing his life. | <urn:uuid:fcd1d069-ba38-4d40-a69f-dd56006ae5c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.littlerockmeetings.com/tool-kit/pre-post-tours/african-american-history/billgrimage-clinton/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961335 | 921 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Until the late 1980s, Hamilton Standard Electronic Manufacturing Center (HSEMC) used an MRP-based manufacturing strategy. However, in an effort to reduce cycle time and improve responsiveness to its customers, HS initiated a strategy to improve its factory that is still in place. At the heart of this strategy is a continuous flow manufacturing (CFM) technique and a multi-faceted approach that has changed the entire organization.
To improve its overall manufacturing process, Hamilton Standard made various changes to the Farmington, CT factory. Teams were formed consisting of assemblers, technicians, production control planners, engineers, and supervisors. These teams reviewed virtually every process to determine what measures could be taken to decrease cycle time and improve test yields, while eliminating non-value added operations. Teams were responsible for other metrics such as reduction in rework and repair, conformance to schedule, and linearity of production. In addition, associates were cross trained for department flexibility, and an operator certification program was developed to help reduce separate inspection processes.
Equipment improvements were also made in areas with major impact. Surface mount assembly was accomplished faster with fewer errors by the addition of an automated pick and place system that measured the value of passive components prior to placement. New soldering systems reduced solder defects in through-hole assemblies. The introduction of water soluble cleaning technologies reduced hazardous waste, eliminated the use of ozone depleting chemicals, improved cleanliness on assemblies, improved cycle times and reduced conformal coat defects.
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Benjamin Munn Ziegler, a Harvard trained professor of international law, explained the term “unoccupied lands” meant “occupied by Indians, but unoccupied by Christians.” International law scholar Henry Wheaton examined the papal bulls and royal charters of England. Through direct quotes, he demonstrated that those charters were aimed at “heathen and barbarous lands, countries, and territories, not actually possessed by any Christian prince of people,” and the colonizers were authorized “to hold, occupy, and enjoy the same, with all their commodities, jurisdictions, and royalties.”
Based on that history, Wheaton said it “became a maxim of policy and of law, that the right of the native Indians was subordinate to that of the first Christian discoverer.” When representatives of Western Christendom arrived to non-Christian lands, the non-Christian Indians were to exist in law and policy subordinate to or beneath the level of Christian Europeans. This is the little understood Christian religious basis of the doctrine of domestic dependent nationhood in U.S. law.
Rather than saying “that’s just the way things are,” what we need in Indian country are men and women who are willing to expose the Christian bigotry at the root of non-Indian federal Indian law and challenge those outmoded religiously racist doctrines starting with Johnson v. M’Intosh, which traces back to Vatican papal bulls and royal charters of the English crown. | <urn:uuid:4d9a0f63-93eb-4883-8d96-7373477bf8b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2009/05/papal-bull-led-to-cherokee-rulings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953161 | 313 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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Nothing new. Here's a quote form Peter the Hermit, in 1274:
"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
I could quote Plato, too. You can blame video games today, you can blame TV in the 60s, you can blame radio in the 20s, and so on. People are affected by all media and always will be. The world didn't suddenly go bad with the advent of video games. And, by comparison, the world (in many ways) is better off in the present. I'm sure Peter the Hermit would think so after spending time in the good ole days of the 13th century.
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There would be a lot less crowd-killing gun mayhem if there were a law requiring gun-owner’s insurance. The law requires car drivers to have liability insurance, so why not require gun owners to have the same thing? With their money on the line, insurance companies would want to know who they were insuring. Mental health, medication history, income level, job stress, children’s access, post -traumatic stress, whether or not they were picked on in high school; all the factors that contribute to gun tragedy could be screened. Then require proof of gun insurance before any weapons purchase. This idea has the added benefit of providing a private-sector, market-based solution to the problem of guns in the wrong hands. Psychological and income screening alone would price the pathetic loser category right out of the market, which could only help to prevent some of the more terrible gun-related atrocities that we have to live with in order to respect everyone’s 2nd Amendment rights.
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Let me take a few core foundation stones and tenants of Hinduism as practiced today and explore the difference between what the Vedas teach and our daily practice.
a) The caste system
• Attempts at reformation by various Gurus and God himself (Vishnu as in the dasha avtara)
• Divisions between Vaishnavits, Shaivaits and the non-existent Bhramanites.
CASTE- The biggest divider and discriminator in Hinduism
We are all aware of caste system. We wear it proudly on our shoulders if we come from the higher ones, and hide it when we do not belong to the elite casts. We are born’ into it, live and die by it. Did our ancient wise forefathers sanction the way we practice it today? Here are some excerpts from the Vedas -
Chapter IV, verse 13 (above) in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna, depending upon a person’s guna (aptitude) and karma (actions), there are four varnas (castes). As per this shloka, a person’s varna or caste is determined by his guna and karma, and not by his birth. Chapter XIV of the Bhagavad Gita specifies three gunas viz. satva (purity), rajas (passion and attachment) and tamas (ignorance). These three gunas are present in every human in different proportions, and determine the varna of every person. Accordingly, depending on one’s guna and karma, every individual is free to select his own varna. Consequently, if their gunas and karmas are different, even members of the same family can belong to different varnas.
Notwithstanding the differences in guna and karma of different individuals, Vedas treat the entire humanity with the same respect and do not sanction any birth-based caste system.
If the interpretation of caste in Bhagwad Gita as related by Krishna is yet not yet clear to some of us. Here is Madhwacharaya the founder of the Dwaita Madhwa bhramins
Madhwacharya’s interpretation of Chapter 4 verse 13 Bhagwad Gita
Lord Krishna is the origin of the four classifications in Vedic culture as spoken here. Those of sattva guna or the mode of goodness are designated as Brahmins or priestly class. Those of mixed sattva guna and rajas guna or the mode of passion are known as ksatriyas or warrior class. Those mixed with rajas guna and tama guna or the mode of ignorance are the vaisyas or mercantile class and those in tama guna are the sudras or service class.
Guru Madhwacharya is clear in his description. It’s YOUR aptitude, YOUR attitude and YOUR actions in this life that determine your cast. If you do business, like I do, you are a vaishya, If you are a monk you become a brahmin irrespective of your birth circumstances. . If you are in the military, you are a kshatriya. If you spend your time doing nothing or perhaps you are involved in administrative functions in society, or as a way of living, you are a Sudra.
If the point is yet not clear, let me go on………
Rig Veda mantra 10-13-1 addresses the entire humanity as my divine children. Shrunvantu vishve amrutsya putraha
Mantra 5-60-5 in Rig Veda, the divine poet declares, “All men are brothers; no one is big, no one is small. All are equal.”
In any society, for the safety and prosperity of society 4 basic functions are performed. Those who are the knowledge keepers are the brahmins. Those who defend the society are the kshatriyas, those who bring it prosperity by generating money are vaishyas, The ones who maintain day to day administrative functions are sudras. Since every role is equally important in the maintenance of a healthy society, everyone is treated equally in a Vedic society. . People can at any time of their choosing switch cast. For e.g. Parsurama choosing to become a Kshatriya after being born a brahmin.
Mantra 16.15 in Yajur Veda reiterates that all men are brothers; no one is superior or inferior.
Mantra 10-191-2 in Rig Veda calls upon humanity to be united to have a common speech and a common mind.
Mantra 3-30-6 in Atharva Veda commands humankind to dine together, and be as firmly united as the spokes attached to the hub of a chariot wheel.
I wonder when was it cooked up that sudras should not enter others kitchens (no puns intended) or enter temples.
All over the scriptures it’s written repeatedly that it’s a sin to discriminate. YOUR caste is based on YOUR actions. Your birth and family means nothing.
Shloka (6) of Chapter 2 in Manu Smriti, “Veda is the foundation of the entire Hindu Dharma.” Shloka numbered 2(13) of Manu Smriti specifies that whenever Shruti (Vedas) and Smritis differ, Vedas will prevail over smritis. In view of this position, anything discriminatory in Manu Smriti or anywhere else is Anti-Veda, and therefore, is not sanctioned by Hinduism and has subsequently been inserted with unholy intentions, and deserves to be weeded out.
This paragraph above was written for those who quote lower scriptures as superior to the Vedas to justify their own vested interests. Manu was pre-empting them.
Manu Smriti X: 65
As the son of a Sudra can attain the rank of a Brahmin, the son of Brahmin can attain rank of a sudra. Even so with him who is born of a Vaishya or a Kshatriya.
The verse above is a clear sanction for vocational caste system as against the hereditary caste system. Vasistha the guru of Rama was born a sudra but was treated as a brahmin as he lived the life of a monk and a guru.
Paramahansa Yogananda also opposed what he called to the un-Vedic caste system as we know it today. He taught that the caste system originated in a higher age, but became degraded through ignorance and self-interest. Yogananda said:
"These were (originally) symbolic designations of the stages of spiritual refinement. They were not intended as social categories. And they were not intended to be hereditary. Things changed as the yugas [cycles of time] descended toward mental darkness. People in the higher castes wanted to make sure their children were accepted as members of their own caste. Thus, ego-identification caused them to freeze the ancient classifications into what is called the ‘caste system.’ Such was not the original intention. In obvious fact, however, the offspring of a Brahmin may be a Sudra by nature. And a peasant, sometimes, is a real saint.”- Conversations with Yogananda, Crystal Clarity Publishers, 2003.
It is astounding that in spite of such an avalanche of clear instructions in all Hindu Holy Scriptures and repeated reminders by gurus the caste system is allowed to continue by vested interests. Nearly 95% of Hindus are not aware of this consistent clear message being transmitted by all genuine Hindu religious sources. This is literal proof of our absolute ignorance of the scriptures.
Here are some more interesting highlights on the issue of caste. It is a fact that more than 70 per cent of the ancient Hindu Rishis, or enlightened masters of India, belonged to the lower castes.
Valmiki who was a low cast robber became the first man to record a sloka in sanskirta and then he went on to write the Ramayana. Vyasa the author of the Mahabarata was the son of Satyawati, the daughter of a fisherman and a wandering sage Parashara, Narda the great saint, was the son of a maid servant of a group of bhramans in a ashrama .Krishna was a Yadav (cowherd). Drona was a Kshatriya. Buddha was a Kshatriya. Vasistha the guru of Rama was born a sudhra. Vishwamitra the author of the mandala in the Rig Veda was a Kshytria who tried to steal the cow Kamadhenu and Nandi from the asrama of Vasistha.
So why are we still hanging on to something that is being repeatedly mentioned as wrong over and over again?
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Improved care for elderly could 'free up 7,000 hospital beds'
5:01pm Thursday 9th August 2012 in Health News By
The BBC has reported that if urgent care services in England were better organised this would “free up 7,000 beds - 6% of the total - saving the NHS nearly £500m a year”. This headline is based on a think-tank report that looked at how people over the age of 65 in England used urgent care services.
The report found that there was a four-fold difference between the number of beds used after emergency admissions and length of stay between the areas at the top and bottom of the scale.
Some of this difference can be put down to demographic factors, such as some areas having a largely rural environment, the report said. However, its authors suggested the marked difference may be caused in part by differences in the way care services work in different areas.
The authors suggested that if areas that had the largest acute care usage reduced their emergency admissions and lengths of stay to the levels seen in areas with the lowest use, there would be 7,000 fewer beds needed across England. It is worth pointing out that if the NHS had 7,000 fewer beds, it could spend the money it saved on other parts of the health service, such as on medical research or keeping prescription costs down.
This, the authors said, is an opportunity to reduce the overall usage of urgent and emergency care by elderly patients without compromising quality of care. They have advocated a greater emphasis on “joined-up care”, in other words, more effective co-ordination between local healthcare services, GPs and community care. The authors said that there is evidence that such co-ordination and integration can lead to both good quality care and lower usage of emergency beds.
What is the story based on?
This story is based on a recent report by the King’s Fund, a charitable health policy think-tank that examined the use of in-patient urgent care services by elderly people in England. The report specifically looked at variation in the use of services across the country, and examined the many complex factors that influence this variation.
What was the report considering?
The report examined patterns in the use of urgent and emergency care by elderly people across hospitals in England. The authors emphasised that such admissions are often a “disruptive and unsettling experience, particularly for older people”. In order to avoid these negative experiences, the authors examined the factors, both patient and organisational, that influence the amount of in-patient urgent care beds used. It then considered how much urgent care use could be reduced by reducing variation in these driving factors.
What kind of data were the researchers looking at?
The report used England’s national Hospital Episode Statistics database, as well as data from the Office for National Statistics from 2009 and 2010. This was the most recent available, but the authors do point out that there may have been a change in services in many areas since that time.
What did the researchers find?
The report found that there are over 2 million unplanned hospital admissions each year among elderly people, and that this accounts for 68% of total hospital emergency bed use. However, the patterns of care are not uniform throughout the country, with a four-fold variation in urgent care bed usage between areas. The lowest usage of hospital emergency beds was seen in Torbay, with an approximate average of 1 bed-day per person over the age of 65 each year. The highest rate was seen in Trafford, with each person over the age of 65 using an average of 4 bed-days each year.
The report found that this variation is due to two main factors:
- differences in the rate of urgent and emergency care admissions
- differences in the number of days admitted patients remain in hospital
The report found that people over the age of 65 spend an average of nine days in hospital when admitted through urgent and emergency care, compared with around three days for those under the age of 65. The authors said that if those areas with the highest use of acute care beds were able to reduce their admission rates and average lengths of stay to the levels seen in the PCTs with the lowest usage, they would expect that 7,000 fewer beds would be needed.
The report said that several variables combine to determine the number of urgent and emergency care admissions and length of stay. While older patients tended to be in hospital more often and for longer, there are other changeable factors that may help reduce emergency bed usage, said the authors.
These changeable factors include community services. However, the authors said that their findings contradict previous reports suggesting a link between local community health and social services and the number and duration of emergency hospital stays among elderly people. The King’s Fund report did find that in areas where hospital is used as a transition service between living at home and in a supported setting, the length of stay tended to be excessive.
The way hospitals are set up is another potentially changeable factor, the authors argued. They found that:
- Rural location was associated with lower bed use, and older patients who lived closer to A&E services were more likely to use them.
- Internal hospital policies on admission, treatment and discharge policies can also influence the admission rate and length of stay. They cited previous evidence suggesting that hospitals with a senior clinician present in the emergency department can lead to a reduction in admissions.
- The length of stay has been found to be reduced by frequent review, co-ordination of care with specialists, and patient or carer involvement in making decisions about their care.
What are the wider implications of the report?
The report suggested that there is room to reduce the number of urgent care admissions as well as the length of stay in acute care wards. While this is true, it is impossible to entirely eradicate differences in patient care between areas – there will always be a “best” and a “worst” area.
The report found that areas with a higher proportion of elderly people tended to have lower rates of acute bed usage. They said this suggested that “in areas with a relatively high proportion of older people more attention may have been paid to service improvements [for older people]”.
The authors concluded that an integrated approach to care for elderly people emphasises four points across the entire system of care, not just within an urgent and emergency care setting. Those advisory points are:
- Only admit those older patients who have evidence of a life-threatening illness or need for surgery.
- Provide early (with 24 hours of admission) access a clinician specialising in treating elderly patients.
- Discharge patients as soon as possible, and plan post-discharge care in the patient’s home.
- Complete a comprehensive review of the patient after discharge in order to identify any need for longer term care.
It is unclear from the report to what extent the NHS in different areas has introduced this integrated approach. The authors pointed out that such integration and co-ordination may be difficult. They authors said: “The key to improvement lies in changing the ways of working across the whole system rather than piecemeal initiatives.”
‘Organise urgent care better, NHS told’. BBC News, August 9, 2012
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The filming of the BBC documentary Museum of Life, which starts next Thursday, has helped to solve a 120-year-old mystery in the beetle collection.
With BBC cameras looking on, Museum scientists and forensics experts discovered that a beetle from the collections, Goliathus goliatus, had small circular holes in its armour and must have been shot.
The goliath beetle in the Museum's collections
Museum forensic scientist Heather Bonney confirmed the unusual discovery after curator Max Barclay showed her the beetle. She identified the entry and exit wounds, and used X-rays to reveal a shotgun pellet still inside its body.
The entry wounds in the wing cases do not match up with the holes in the wings, proving that the insect was in flight when it died.
However, the forensic evidence also reveals that the insect wasn’t shot from underneath but in its back, presumably while performing one of the displays of aeronautics that makes these beetles so notoriously hard to catch.
Many forensic scientists work at the Museum and are consulted by the police in a range of cases, including murder investigations and discoveries of smuggled goods like ivory. The BBC Two documentary, Museum of Life, shows some of this work in action.
The Museum is home to over 70 million specimens and there is much still to be learned from them.
Beetle curator Max Barclay said, ‘Our collections are full of mysteries and every year scientists are discovering more about them and using them as evidence to help understand the world around us.
‘The number of new discoveries just waiting to be made in these collections is astronomical.’
You can hear more about the mystery of the shot goliath beetle in the BBC Two documentary Museum of Life.
This 6-part series shows scientists at work behind the scenes in the Museum and on fieldwork trips around the world.
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Arlington National Cemetery
A member of the Third US Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places flags in front of graves at Arlington National Cemetery on May 23, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia ahead of Memorial Day. Memorial Day is in honor of those who died while serving in the armed forces of the US.
I'm also proud of the work our PwC people have done to serve veterans in our communities and to help recruit them into our firm. PwC is honored to join the Memorial Day Flowers organization in placing flowers at Arlington National Cemetery to honor and remember those who have given so much for our nation, including the families who support their service.
we recognize and celebrate the service and sacrifice of all of our serving men and women past and present, and to have an event here at Arlington National Cemetery means that, on a sadder note, we also honor those who went before us ... They celebrate the day with us in spirit only.
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WORLD BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS; Peru: Shining Path Shoots Down Copter
By SIMON ROMERO
Published: September 4, 2009
Guerrillas from a faction of the Shining Path terrorist group on Wednesday shot down an MI-17 helicopter operated by Peru's Air Force in the country's main coca-growing region, killing three members of the military and wounding five, according to Peru's joint command. The crew was on a mission to rescue soldiers wounded in an earlier attack by the rebels. Violence in the remote area, the Apur?c and Ene River Valley, has flared since the army began an operation in August seeking the capture of Jorge Quispe Palomino, a leader of the faction, which has financed its activities from Peru's cocaine trade. | <urn:uuid:abe90080-e9fc-498b-a73b-7b4a5ca393a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E7D71730F937A3575AC0A96F9C8B63&ref=shiningpath | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957029 | 164 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Think wool is harmless? Think again! Most of the world’s wool comes from Australia—and the most commonly raised sheep in that country are merinos, who are specifically bred to have wrinkly skin (which means more wool per animal).
This unnatural overload of wool causes many sheep to collapse and even die of heat exhaustion during hot months. The wrinkles collect urine and moisture, which attract flies and cause a maggot infestation known as “flystrike.” In a crude and cruel attempt to prevent flystrike, farmers mutilate lambs with “mulesing.”
Mulesing is a barbaric procedure in which Australian ranchers force live lambs onto their backs, restrain their legs between metal bars, and, sometimes without any painkillers whatsoever, carve huge chunks of skin off the animals’ backsides.
Many lambs who have undergone the mulesing mutilation still suffer slow, agonizing deaths from flystrike. The deep wounds from mulesing can also become infected. Even if they make it through flystrike and mulesing, many lambs are still sent to slaughter once their bodies are worn out and they stop producing as much wool.
Humane methods of flystrike control are available and in use by some farmers. Lambs can be spared maggot infestation through humane methods such as diet regulation, spray washing, and simply breeding types of sheep who are better suited for the Australian climate and less susceptible to flystrike.
How can you help? Purchase cruelty-free clothing, including cotton, cotton flannel, polyester fleece, and synthetic shearling. Oh, and now that you know—don’t forget to tell everyone you can about mulesing.
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Benefits of Writing
Writing is the hardest way to communicate but, it is also the most used method. Communication is the key to any successful career, business or otherwise.
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Becoming a better writer should be a priority to us all. Filling our minds with inspiration from other authors can help us create amazing literary works of art. Many people, such as storytellers ...
... by the words that they write. That is every writers dreams. Success comes when someone is moved by something you have written. That is the ultimate pleasure of writing.
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Oklahoma's largest Civil War battlefield may become National Park
The Honey Springs Battlefield Park in Oklahoma may become a new addition to the National Park Service, the Tulsa World reports.
The U.S. Department of the Interior said in a report that there's "potential action" for "support designation of Honey Springs as a National Battlefield Park." Now Oklahoma history buffs are scratching their heads over just what that means. The Tulsa World couldn't get an answer. Hopefully that government-speak translates into real action. The Battle of Honey Springs was the largest Civil War battle in Oklahoma, which was the Indian Territory back then. The battle was notable in that white soldiers were a minority on both sides.
On July 17, 1863, a Confederate army was gathering at Honey Springs in order to attack the Union position at Fort Gibson. About four or five thousand rebels had assembled, mostly Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw. More reinforcements were coming, so the Union troops at Fort Gibson, which only numbered 2,800, decided to attack before it was too late. The Union side was mostly black and Indian troops, some from the same tribes as the rebels.
After a night march, the Union army attacked the Confederate position in a pouring rain. The rain ruined much of the rebel gunpowder, and this helped decide the battle. Nonetheless there was enough powder left for the rebels to put up a hard resistance. After a few hours they were forced to retreat, having to burn part of their wagon train to keep it out of Union hands.
The Confederates lost 150 men killed, 400 wounded, and 77 taken prisoner. The Union lost only 17 killed and 60 wounded. The rebels lost control of the Indian Territory north of the Arkansas River. This helped open up Arkansas for invasion and led to a Union army capturing Little Rock that September.
Prominent in the fight on the Union side was the First Kansas Colored Volunteers, a black unit of mostly escaped slaves that was the first American black regiment to see combat when they defeated a larger force of rebel guerrillas at the Battle of Island Mound in Missouri on October 29, 1862. The victory made headlines across the country and helped dispel a widespread belief that black soldiers wouldn't fight.
The First Kansas Colored Volunteers fought in several engagements in Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas yet they aren't very well known. The justly famous 54th Massachusetts has inspired books, a monument, a movie, even a rap video, but the First Kansas remains largely forgotten. I've been sending a book proposal on the regiment around to publishers for a few years now, and despite being an established Civil War author I keep getting told there's an "insufficient market" for the subject. Apparently the American public can only deal with one group of black heroes at a time.
Here's hoping the Honey Springs battlefield will become a National Park and the First Kansas will get some of the recognition they deserve. Thanks to Jane Johansson over at the The Trans-Mississippian blog for bringing this to my attention. Jane blogs about all aspects of the Civil War west of the Mississippi and is worth reading.
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By Brendan Conway
Puerto Rico’s shaky fiscal situation makes its bonds look like a hidden value to some fund managers. To others, this is a danger zone.
Morningstar fund analyst Eric Jacobson has a list of bond funds with surprisingly heavy Puerto Rico weightings. “Surprising,” at least, in that investors wouldn’t immediately know by the fund’s names.
Top of the list is the Franklin Double Tax-Free Income Fund (FPRTX), at 67% of the portfolio. The Oppenheimer Rochester NC Municipal A (OPNCX) and Oppenheimer Rochester MD Municipal A (ORMDX) are next at nearly 32%, while the Oppenheimer Rochester VA Municipal A (ORVAX) is 30%. The list goes on. Eighteen mutual funds have Puerto Rico weightings of 20% or greater.
Here’s how Jacobson parses matters:
There are a few ways to look at this phenomenon. The most charitable explanation is that managers invest in Puerto Rico when they can’t find enough opportunities in the local state market. …And while Puerto Rico’s finances are clearly troubled, it’s definitely possible that some managers do their homework and decide that the payouts on the territory’s bonds are sufficient compensation for their risks. Some try to insulate themselves from bigger trouble, meanwhile, by sticking with bonds tied to the revenues of specific projects or essential services. Most of the Oppenheimer funds with large Puerto Rico weightings, for example, focus on electric utilities, highways, and higher education.
A Yield in Sheep’s Clothing
A more cynical reading of the situation would suggest that some managers sprinkle Puerto Rico issuance into their portfolios simply to boost yield. With agency ratings in the BBB range, the debt of Puerto Rico is technically investment-grade but tends to trade alongside the issuance of high-yield muni sectors, with fat payouts relative to higher-quality debt. As of Oct. 5, 2012, for example, the subset of Puerto Rico bonds tracked by Barclays carried a yield of roughly 3.9%, while the broader national index was paying out 2.2%. Moreover, a comparison of Morningstar yield data versus fund exposures to Puerto Rico shows a strong correlation between the two, such that funds with larger exposures to the Commonwealth are likely to be among the market’s higher-yielding portfolios.
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Purchase cataloguePainted with Words is a compelling look at Vincent van Gogh's correspondence to his young colleague Émile Bernard between 1887 and 1889. Van Gogh's words and sketches reveal his thoughts about art and life and communicate his groundbreaking work in Arles to his fellow painter.
Van Gogh's letters to Bernard reveal the tenor of their relationship. Van Gogh assumed the role of an older, wiser brother, offering praise or criticism of Bernard's paintings, drawings, and poems. At the same time the letters chronicle van Gogh's own struggles, as he reached his artistic maturity in isolation in Arles and St. Rémy. Throughout the letters are no less than twelve sketches by van Gogh meant to provide Bernard with an idea of his work in progress, including studies related to the paintings The Langlois Bridge, Houses at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Boats on the beach at Saintes-Maries, The Sower, and View of Arles at Sunset.
The translations used in this presentation are from the catalogue for the exhibition: Vincent van Gogh
Painted with Words, The Letters to Émile Bernard and are reproduced by kind permission of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Major support for Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Émile Bernard and its accompanying catalogue was provided by the International Music and Art Foundation. Generous support was also provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Vincent van Gogh, letter to Émile Bernard, Arles, 30 July 1888, Letter 13, page 4
This fully understood, ALL this glorious republic, represented by these two prolific portraitists,
re-created in broad strokes, we retain very wide margins for landscapes, interior scenes, animals,
But I beg you, carefully follow this straightforward argument, which I am doing my utmost to
present to you in a very very simple way.
Get him into your head, this Master Frans Hals, painter of various portraits of a whole selfassured
and lively and immortal republic. Get into your head the no less great and universal master
portrait painter of the Dutch republic, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, a broad and naturalistic
and healthy man, as much as Hals himself. And after that we'll see flowing from that source, Rembrandt,
the direct and true pupils, Vermeer of Delft, Fabritius, Nicolaas Maes, Pieter de Hooch, Bol;
and those influenced by him, Potter, Ruisdael, Ostade, ter Borch. I mention Fabritius to you there,
by whom we know only—two canvases—I don't mention a heap of good painters, and especially
not the paste of these diamonds, paste firmly embedded in ordinary French skulls.
Am I, my dear old Bernard, terribly incomprehensible this time? I'm trying to make you see
the great simple thing, the painting of humanity, let us rather say of a whole republic, through the
simple medium of the portrait. This first and foremost; later———if, on the subject of Rembrandt,
we're dealing to some extent with magic, with Christs and nude women, it's very interesting—but
it's not the main thing. Let Baudelaire hold his tongue in this department, they're resounding
words, and how hollow!!! Let's take Baudelaire for what he is, a modern poet just as Musset is
another, but let them leave us alone when we're talking painting.
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In the first part of this series, we discussed time positions (positive, negative, and neutral) and addressed our first three major considerations for timing:
(1) understanding the scoring (and what implications that has for timing)
(2) per-question timing and tracking your work
(3) reflecting on your results so that you can improve
If you haven’t already read the first part, do so now before you continue with this article. Today, we’re going to talk about our final three major timing strategies.
(4) Develop your “1 minute” sense
While keeping a single-problem time log will help you become aware of your pacing on all question types, you can’t check the clock after every problem on the real test. You’ll drive yourself crazy before the test is over! What to do, then?
What we’re going to do is develop a “time sense” so that we can make appropriate, timely decisions as we move through the test. Let’s talk first about why and how we use this time sense; then, we’ll talk about what we need to do in order to develop it.
Note: Most people find it takes three to four weeks of regular practice with this in order to develop a time sense that is reasonably accurate most of the time.
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Talk looks at learning outside the classroomWritten by Admin
Dr. Karen Kandl, associate director at the Highlands Biological Station, will speak on “Biodiversity of the Southern Appalachians: Learning outside of the classroom” at 7 p.m. on Aug. 23.
Kandl has extensive experience teaching outside of the classroom and believes that people learn best when they actively explore, discuss and construct concepts, relationships, and explanations that involve relevant problems and projects. She will discuss examples of place-based learning at the biological station, and how teachers can use these methods with students of all ages.
The Aug. 23 discussion is part of the regular Zahner Conservation Lectures that take place very Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Highlands Nature Center. Free and open to the public.
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Treatment Appears to Provide "Significant Improvements" in Salivary Flow
By Michael Devitt
Xerostomia, more commonly known as dry mouth, is a clinical condition that can lead to a decrease in (or in some cases, a complete lack of) the production of saliva.
Although it occurs in approximately 40% of all adults 50 and older, it is most commonly seen in cancer patients, whose salivary glands may be affected by radiation or other medications. In addition to general discomfort, dry mouth can lead to difficulties in speaking, chewing and swallowing, decreased or altered sense of taste, and an increase in cavities.
The most common forms of combating dry mouth are the use of saliva substitutes and stimulation of the salivary glands by sucking lozenges or chewing gum. These therapies have several disadvantages, however, in that they must be used constantly, and that their effects are often short-lived.
Although acupuncture has been discussed in the United States as an alternative therapy for dry mouth for nearly two decades, few large-scale studies have been conducted, and even fewer have been conducted on cancer patients. In one of the largest studies to date, a pair of researchers from Sweden tested the long-term efficacy of acupuncture on 70 patients with dry mouth and found that treatment resulted in "significant improvement" in saliva production for up to six months, with additional treatments maintaining this improvement up to three years.
Drs. Maria Blom and Thomas Lundeberg conducted the study, which was published in the journal Oral Diseases. In addition to cancer patients, Blom and Lundeberg measured the effects of acupuncture on groups of patients with Sj˜gren's syndrome (a systemic disease that causes dry mouth) and other conditions such as menopause and depression. Every patient received an initial course of 24 acupuncture treatments, with individual treatments given twice a week over a four-month period. After the first course of treatment, the patients were observed for a minimum of six months, then offered additional acupuncture treatments as needed.
All acupuncture treatments were performed by Dr. Blom, a certified acupuncture practitioner with more than 14 years of experience. Acupuncture points in the head, hands and legs were stimulated, including: ST3; ST5; ST6; ST7; SI17; LI18; TE17; GV20; H7; P6; LI3; LI4; LI11; TE5; ST36; SP6; GB41; LR3; K3; and K5. Other points were used if the patients complained of nausea, stress or other conditions.
In general, the needles were inserted bilaterally; additional needles were used in patients who had other disease or complaints. Needles were inserted manually until de qi was obtained, at which time they would be left in place for 20 minutes.
Patients were tested objectively by measuring their salivary flow rate (SFR) before and after every additional course of treatment, and on as close to an annual basis as possible for three years. Both stimulated (by chewing paraffin) and unstimulated saliva flow were measured using strict protocols to avoid any variation among subjects. Patients who chose not to have additional acupuncture treatments were also checked on a yearly basis to measure saliva flow.
Figures I (above) and II (below): Mean unstimulated and stimulated salivary flow rates in patients grouped by condition. SS = Sjogren's syndrome; AP = acupuncture treatment.
Results of the study showed that acupuncture treatment appeared to produce an increased flow of both stimulated and unstimulated saliva. Sample tests showed that all three groups of patients had "significantly higher salivary flow rates" in unstimulated saliva after 12 and 24 acupuncture treatments, with the greatest increase being reported in the group of irradiated cancer patients. These increased saliva rates continued well after the last acupuncture treatment had been delivered.
Stimulated saliva rates were also "significantly higher" for each group after receiving acupuncture, with the greatest increases occurring after receiving between six and 12 treatments. These increases were still seen as much as six months after treatment.
Additional acupuncture care also appeared to benefit patients for several years after their initial course of treatment. Long-term observation revealed that "patients who chose additional treatment had consistently higher median SFR than patients who chose not to continue acupuncture treatment" and that "the median SFRs were consistently higher at each time point up to three years" for both stimulated and unstimulated saliva flow.
While Lundeberg and Blom were unable to determine exactly how acupuncture led to an increase in saliva secretion, they theorized that needle stimulation may lead to the release of neuropeptides, substances that act as signals to control a variety of bodily functions, including blood flow and the production of saliva. Neuropeptides are also known to affect the autonomic and sympathetic nervous systems, which are both involved in the salivation process.
Given the possible symptoms it may cause, it is quite clear that xerostomia can have a negative impact on one's quality of life. It is also quite clear, based on the Blom and Lundeberg study, that acupuncture can help relieve these symptoms, and that it can do so for a much longer duration (and with less frequent treatment) than most of the conventional therapies currently available. As the researchers state in their conclusion:
"This study shows that 24 acupuncture treatments result in statistically significant improvement in SFR in patients with xerostomia in the long-term up to six months. It suggests that additional appropriate acupuncture treatment can maintain this improvement in SFR up to three years."
Blom M, Lundeberg T. Long-term follow-up of patients treated with acupuncture for xerostomia and the influence of additional treatment. Oral Diseases 2000;6(1):15-24. | <urn:uuid:519fdb37-924c-4e0d-8a1f-de02f245d4b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=27653 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970135 | 1,202 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Microsoft's bulletin confirms that this vulnerability applies to all the main versions of Windows: Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
They also list the REGSVR32 workaround. It's a good idea to use this while waiting for a patch. To quote Microsoft's bulletin:
Un-register the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw.dll)
1. Click Start, click Run, type "regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.
2. A dialog box appears to confirm that the un-registration process has succeeded. Click OK to close the dialog box.
Impact of Workaround: The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer will no longer be started when users click on a link to an image type that is associated with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
To undo this change, re-register Shimgvw.dll by following the above steps. Replace the text in Step 1 with “regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll” (without the quotation marks).
This workaround is better than just trying to filter files with a WMF extension. There are methods where files with other image extensions (such as BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JFIF, DIB, RLE, EMF, TIF, TIFF or ICO) could be used to exploit a vulnerable machine.
We got several questions on our note on Google Desktop yesterday. Bottom line is that if an image file with the exploit ends up to your hard drive, Google Desktop will try to index it and will execute the exploit in the process. There are several ways such a file could end up to the local drive. And this indexing-will-execute problem might happen with other desktop search engines too.
And finally, you might want to start to filter these domains at your corporate firewalls too. Do not visit them. | <urn:uuid:7cb1b411-1401-4612-857c-7f46114d2f01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00000754.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902603 | 428 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Is Icon spraying really effective?
On August 13, the government started a program of spraying the insecticide Icon in people’s homes, in the context of the fight against malaria. However, people whose houses have already been taken care of, are not entirely convinced that the product is working.
Claudine Kinyanza, who lives at Gikondo Ruganwa 1, says that she was surprised to see the mosquitoes again, as she was told that after two hours every small insect would be dead.
“I did indeed find dead cockroaches, but in the evening the mosquitoes just came back,” she explains. “This makes me wonder: if the mosquitoes are still there, then they will spread malaria as usual. But they have sprayed our house! I am really anxious about this, and want to get more information about how this Icon works.”
Marcel Mutsizi, a resident of the same area, has the same experience. “I really believe Icon can work, because after the sprayingI did indeed find some dead mosquitoes.
However, in the evening it was business as usual. Maybe the people who are doing the job are not well trained in how to prepare
the spray, or maybe in some houses they spray too little… I don’t know”, Marcel speculates.
And he has another problem: a day after the spraying, his skin started to itch and he developed an allergy. So now he is in doubt whether Icon cannot be harmful.
In Ruganwa 11, Nelson Rwema is also not sure about the effectiveness of the product. In his case, he says, it hardly worked, and he cannot believe that the chemical will still have effect after a long time.
Emmanuel Hakizimana, an entomologist of PNLIP (the national program for the fight against malaria), recognizes that there might be a problem of mosquitoes returning. “The fact is, however, that due to the spraying, the mosquitoes can no longer lay eggs. Thus, with time they will disappear altogether. That is the purpose of the program.”
He insists he should not be worried about Icon. “Of course, this is a chemical spray, so it might cause skin allergy with some people.
However, this is temporary, and it is a common allergy which is not harmful. For example, there are people who react in the same way to the chemicals we use to impregnate mosquito nets. So, don’t worry, you can certainly not die from it.”
It is also important, according to the insect specialist, to differentiate between various kinds of mosquitoes. “The reality is that, in Kigali, most mosquitoes are of the ‘culex’ species, which do not spread malaria. The ones that carry over malaria are called ‘anopheles’. So people should not be anxious if they see mosquitoes coming back,” he says.
As to complaints from people that the teams do not spray all around the house, Hakizimana replied that Icon is a very expensive product, so that they have to limit the quantity used per house. | <urn:uuid:091474ff-5699-4567-8450-61fdf161ad78> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://focus.rw/wp/2007/11/is-icon-spraying-really-effective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978637 | 659 | 2.671875 | 3 |
As of the date of this article, very few coffee espresso centers are truly “one-touch” units. The Jura-Capresso Impressa Z5 and Jura-Capresso Impressa Z6 are both true one-touch coffee centers, as is the Saeco Primea Touch Plus.
But just what makes these units different from any other machine considered a "super automatic espresso coffee center"? After all, all super-automatics can brew coffee and espresso at the push of a single button. What’s more, most super-automatics can also be programmed, so that the coffee or espresso that is produced is curtailed to meet the strength and volume preferences of the user(s).
The difference between "one-touch" machines and other super-automatics is that a one-touch will brew not only coffee and espresso at the touch of a button, but also cappuccinos and lattes. That is, a one-touch will not only grind, tamp, brew coffee, and dispense of used grounds at the press of just one button, but it will also do all that plus add foamy milk or steamed milk. In addition, just as most super-automatics are now capable of being programmed for user preference, so too can one-touch units be programmed to produce a certain amount of foamed or steamed milk per cycle. The Jura-Capresso Impressa Z5 and Jura-Capresso Impressa Z6 both come with a thermal milk container which maintains milk at a serving temperature for many hours. That way, you don't have to pull milk out of the refrigerator and replace it immediately.
In addition to one-touch machines, certain machines, like all Jura-Capresso Impressa super-automatics, and many Saeco super-automatics, can have a separate milk foaming device hooked up to them. For instance, a Jura-Capresso S9 Avantgarde comes with a Froth Xpress Plus, which, once attached to the steam wand, is able to foam milk and deposit the foamed milk into a cup at the push of a button. However, since the user must push a button once to foam milk, then once to brew espresso, this is technically not a true one-touch unit.
No matter what type of super-automatic you are considering, each one will cut down not only brewing times, but also the number of trips to your local coffee house! If you are a cappuccino or latte enthusiast who is keen on convenience, a one-touch unit may be for you. If you are mostly a straight espresso, Americano, or crema coffee drinker, the added features of a one-touch may not be necessary for you. In any case, JL Hufford has a wide range of super-automatics to suit any coffee drinker’s needs.
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News Analysis: If you're shopping on Black Friday, be sure to follow these tips to get the most out of your day and out of your Christmas gift budget.
year Black Friday is a major event for consumers around the United States. They
get up early, check their gift lists and determine a shopping strategy before
setting off to spend a significant share of their annual earnings. It's a
ritual of sorts that has been going on for years.
unlike previous years, consumers today have far more tools and strategies at
their disposal to make Black Friday shopping as easy and successful as
possible, especially when it comes to buying technology goodies.
help shoppers, here are some tips that consumers should keep in mind before
heading to the store to buy
technology and home entertainment
. Sure, there will be good deals all over town, but having the
right strategies in place to find the best options is something that consumers
just can't miss.
on to find out how to get the most out of Black Friday shopping sprees.
1. Download shopping apps
of the best things about bringing the smartphone along on Black Friday is
the ability to download applications that will help find great deals
are several applications that list all Black Friday deals in one place. Even
better, some applications will allow users to scan a barcode and compare
pricing around town. Mobile apps are a key component in shopping on Black
2. Check out deal sites
consumers head out to the store, it might be a good idea to check out the
countless Black Friday deal sites on the Web. They offer a collection of all
the deals retailers are offering, and in some cases let users shop by whatever
product they're looking for. Black Friday deal sites, like BlackFriday.info
, among others, are a
great resource to have handy.
3. Check Amazon before you go
last thing consumers should do before heading out to the stores is forget to
check Amazon.com. Over the last couple weeks, Amazon has been holding special
deals on its products, and the company will be doing the same on Black Friday.
So, while brick-and-mortar retailers might have some solid deals, Amazon might
still win out.
4. Consider Cyber Monday
this talk of Black Friday might make some folks
forget about Cyber Monday
, the first Monday after Black Friday when online
sites offer all their deals. Over the last couple years, Cyber Monday sale
offerings haven't been all that impressive, but every now and then, retailers
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Nondegradation Determinations & Mixing Zones
The Water Quality Act (Montana Code Annotated (MCA)) requires the Department of Environmental Quality to protect high quality state water from degradation. The nondegradation rules (17.30.701 et seq. Administrative Rules of Montana (ARM)) were adopted to implement the Act. The nondegradation rules apply to any activity that may affect the quality of surface or ground water.
Nondegradation determinations are typically associated with a mixing zone. A mixing zone is a limited area, within a surface water or ground water, where dilution of a discharge may occur. All applicable water quality standards and nondegradation limits must be met at the end of a mixing zone. There are numerous restrictions on the size, the location, the changes that are allowed within a mixing zone, and if the Department may grant a mixing zone. Please read the mixing zone rules (ARM 17.30.501 et seq.) for more details.
Application: Simply put, the purpose of the nondegradation rules are to protect high quality state ground and surface waters. High quality waters are those waters whose quality is higher than the established standards (high quality state waters are defined in 75-5-103(10), MCA). Some nondegradation limits are set at definite concentrations called trigger levels (listed in Department Circular DEQ-7) or at a percentage of the lowest applicable water quality standard. Other nondegradation limits are qualitative, such as those for nitrogen and phosphorus in surface water. Whenever a person conducts an activity that may impact water quality, they must comply with the nondegradation requirements (this applies whether the activity is or is not regulated by the Department). If the activity is regulated by the Department, the Department will ensure compliance with the nondegradation requirements prior to issuing its permit, license or other authorizations. A person may also request a nondegradation significance determination and submit information to the Department to demonstrate the activity will cause nonsignificant degradation of state waters. The proposed activity may not begin until the Department has determined the activity will cause nonsignificant degradation or has issued an authorization to degrade (authorizations to degrade are explained later).
The Water Quality Act (75-5-317, MCA) exempts certain activities from the nondegradation requirements (i.e. automatically classifies them as "nonsignificant"). Exemptions are based on the activities low potential for harm to human health and the environment, and must meet the criteria listed in 75-5-301(5)(c), MCA. The nondegradation rules only apply to "new or increased sources" as of April 29, 1993 (ARM 17.30.702(16)). This clause exempts discharges that were existing or permitted, authorized or approved by the Department (or its predecessor) prior to April 29, 1993. These exemptions only apply to the nondegradation requirements, they do not apply to the state water quality standards which include the human health and aquatic life standards listed in the surface and ground water standards and in WQB-7.
A new community wastewater treatment system for a small town or subdivision would be an example of an activity requiring a nondegradation significance determination. One of the constituents of concern in domestic wastewater is nitrate. In this example, the system consists of a lagoon and an infiltration/percolation (IP) cell. The IP cell allows the treated wastewater to infiltrate into the ground water at a certain rate. A mixing zone would be specified starting at the IP cell and extend in the direction of ground-water flow for a specified distance.
The entity proposing the activity must demonstrate that the nitrate (as nitrogen) concentration at the end of the mixing zone will remain below the nondegradation trigger level, 5 milligrams per liter (mg/L), when the wastewater system is operating.
Many dischargers are required to monitor their discharge quality or the water in the mixing zone to ensure long-term compliance with the nondegradation requirements. This is a simple example, many mixing zones include multiple parameters with more complex water quality limits.
Significance determinations in surface water can be similar to the example described above. However, different limits often apply to the same constituent depending on whether the constituent is discharged to ground water or surface water. For example, the trigger level for nitrate (as nitrogen) is 5 mg/L in ground water, but is 0.01 mg/L in surface water.
If the Department determines a proposed activity will cause significant degradation of state waters, the applicant has the options of submitting more information to change the determination, appealing the decision to the Department Director or the Board of Environmental Review, or submitting an application to degrade state waters. An application to degrade state waters recognizes that the activity will degrade state waters, but must demonstrate the reasons why the Department should allow the activity. The information required to request an authorization to degrade is in 75-5-303, MCA and ARM 17.30.701 et seq. Anyone may submit comments or information to the Department regarding a significance determination or a request to authorize degradation.
Fees: The Subdivision Section charges a fee for the nondegradation review pursuant to ARM 17.36.802(1); the rest of the Department includes the review as part of other fees. The fee schedule for reviews of authorizations to degrade are listed in ARM 17.30.201(3)(b)&(c).
Other Information: The Department’s Pollution Prevention Bureau supports many practices that help ensure the nondegradation of state waters. The bureau’s Source Water Protection Program is directly responsible for identifying the susceptibility of public water supply systems to potential contaminant sources and provides technical assistance in the development of local water resource protection plans. The bureau also provides reviews of certain proposed activities in watersheds of surface water based public water supply systems.
The Department’s Technical and Financial Assistance Bureau works in conjunction with the Permitting Section of the Water Protection Bureau in assuring the nondegradation standards will be achievable in the Montana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES) permit or the Montana Ground Water Pollution Control System (MGWPCS) permit. | <urn:uuid:99d83203-4ba9-43f0-860b-c23bc4ece171> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deq.mt.gov/wqinfo/nondeg/default.mcpx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918007 | 1,299 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Some countries' governments don't seem that keen on backpackers, while others are opening up and becoming more accessible for intrepid budget travelers. Tom Coote reveals five places that - because they are inexpensive and still relatively undiscovered by mass tourism - may be the next big destinations for backpackers.
If you're looking to get off the beaten track and experience a place less traveled this year, Victoria Brewood has compiled a list of some of the countries that are less visited by tourists but still very much worth visiting.
The Basics Country: Algeria Where is it?: Algeria sits in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Morocco and Tunisia Why do people go here?: People generally don’t visit Algeria as a result of a decade long civil war What are the main entry points?: You can reach Algiers, the capital, from plan via Europe. [...] | <urn:uuid:8de2cf72-838f-48e9-9384-6bd12519c50e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/tags/algeria | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944629 | 176 | 1.671875 | 2 |
If there’s one piece of economic wisdom I hope people will grasp this year, it’s this: Even though we may finally have stopped digging, we’re still near the bottom of a very deep hole.
Why do I need to point this out? Because I’ve noticed many people overreacting to recent good economic news. What particularly concerns me is the risk of self-denying optimism—that is, I worry that policymakers will look at a few favourable economic indicators, decide that they no longer need to promote recovery, and take steps that send us sliding right back to the bottom.
So about that good news: Various economic indicators, ranging from relatively good holiday sales to new claims for unemployment insurance (which have finally fallen below 400,000 a week), suggest that the great post-bubble retrenchment may finally be ending.
We’re not talking “Morning in America” here. Construction shows no sign of returning to bubble-era levels, nor are there any indications that debt-burdened families are going back to their old habit of spending all they earned. But all we needed for a modest economic rebound was for construction to stop falling and saving to stop rising—and that seems to be happening. Forecasters have been marking up their predictions; growth as high as 4% this year now looks possible.
Hooray! But then, again, not so much. Jobs, not GDP numbers, are what matter to American families. And when you start from an unemployment rate of almost 10%, the arithmetic of job creation—the amount of growth you need to get back to a tolerable jobs picture—is daunting.
First of all, we have to grow around 2.5% a year just to keep up with rising productivity and population and, hence, keep unemployment from rising. That’s why the past year-and-a-half was technically a recovery, but felt like a recession: GDP was growing, but not fast enough to bring unemployment down.
Growth at a rate above 2.5% will bring unemployment down over time. But the gains aren’t one for one: For a variety of reasons, it has historically taken about two extra points of growth over the course of a year to shave one point off the unemployment rate.
Now do the math. Suppose that the US economy were to grow at 4% per year, starting now and continuing for the next several years. Most people would regard this as excellent performance, even as an economic boom; it’s certainly higher than almost all the forecasts I’ve seen.
Yet the math says that even with that kind of growth the unemployment rate would be close to 9% at the end of this year, and still above 8% at the end of 2012. We wouldn’t get to anything resembling full employment until late in Sarah Palin’s first presidential term.
Seriously, what we’re looking at over the next few years, even with pretty good growth, are unemployment rates that not long ago would have been considered catastrophic—because they are. Behind those dry statistics lies a vast landscape of suffering and broken dreams. And the arithmetic says that the suffering will continue as far as the eye can see.
So what can be done to accelerate this all-too-slow process of healing? A rational political system would long since have created a 21st-century version of the Works Progress Administration—we’d be putting the unemployed to work doing what needs to be done, repairing and improving our fraying infrastructure. In the political system we have, however, senator-elect Kelly Ayotte, delivering the Republican weekly address on New Year’s Day, declared that “job one is to stop wasteful Washington spending”.
Realistically, the best we can hope for from fiscal policy is that Washington doesn’t actively undermine the recovery. Beware, in particular, the Ides of March: By then, the federal government will probably have hit its debt limit and the GOP will try to force President Barack Obama into economically harmful spending cuts.
I’m also worried about monetary policy. Two months ago, the federal reserve announced a new plan to promote job growth by buying long-term bonds; at the time, many observers believed that the initial $600 billion (Rs.26.76 trillion) purchase was only the beginning of the story. But now it looks like the end, partly because Republicans are trying to bully the federal reserve into pulling back, but also because a run of slightly better economic news provides an excuse to do nothing.
There’s even a significant chance that the Fed will raise interest rates this year—or at least that’s what the futures market seems to think. Doing so in the face of high unemployment and minimal inflation would be crazy, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
So, back to my original point: whatever the recent economic news, we’re still near the bottom of a very deep hole. We can only hope that enough policymakers understand that point.
©2011/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Have you heard about this site called I Write Like? It's a site where you can see which famous writer you write like. You simply copy-paste any of your (English) written works on the space provided and the site will instantly tell who you write like. Galing, no?
So I took a writing sample from my blog and placed it on the box. After analyzing my sentence structures and word usage, the site claims I write like Cory Doctorow.
Honestly, I've never heard of the guy. Wikipeda says he is a Canadian blogger and journalist who is also co-editor of Boing Boing. I decided then to check some of his works and saw some very eerie similarities with our writing styles. So does this mean I Write Like actually works?
|This is the guy. Gotta love those glasses.|
I tried placing one of my short stories instead of an article and H.P. Lovecraft, one of my ultimate idols, came up. I also tried posting another essay and came up with H.G. Wells. It's not a surprise that the site comes up with different writers each time you post something new, so I can only suggest that you post a written work which you think fully encapsulates or defines you as a writer, a piece which you are a hundred percent comfortable with.
For fun, I tried copy-pasting an excerpt from Harry Potter and the site does come up with J.K. Rowling, and Dan Brown for an excerpt of Angels and Demons.
Give it a shot. Go to iwl.me and in the comments section below, tell us who you write like. I have a feeling there are gonna be a lot of Cory Doctorows out there. | <urn:uuid:8505aa24-ea4e-4d57-a16e-d63e25375576> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.melikesart.com/2011/01/find-out-who-you-write-like.html?showComment=1311837310335 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965764 | 355 | 1.515625 | 2 |
BASICS: Brief Alcohol Screening
and Intervention for College Students
What is BASICS?
BASICS stands for Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students. It is a free program offered by the SCU Wellness Center and is appropriate for anyone who uses alcohol and/or other drugs, whether you are concerned about your drinking or drug use or just curious to learn about how your use compares to others. BASICS will provide you with a structured opportunity to assess your own risk, identify potential changes that could work for you, and help you to reduce your risk for developing future problems.
Some students attend BASICS to fulfill a judicial sanction as a result of an alcohol-related offense, while others come because they have concerns about their alcohol use. The program is designed to assist students in examining their own behavior in a judgment-free environment. The program coordinator will provide objective feedback based on a one-on-one assessment and questionnaires filled out by the student, to encourage positive changes in drinking behavior. Essentially, BASICS will provide the information and guidance, but what a student chooses to do with it is entirely up to the student. The BASICS sessions are entirely confidential, and we will not disclose any information from the sessions to anyone, including a student's parents, without the student's permission. CLICK HERE to read more about the BASICS program.
BASICS IS NOT a "Just Say No" or abstinence-only program. It is NOT the same thing as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) nor will it necessarily fulfill a court-mandated sanction.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1) How much does it cost?
- The BASICS program is free for SCU undergraduate students.
2) How do I schedule an appointment or make referral?
- Scheduling: Students may call the SCU Wellness Center at 554-4409 or e-mail Dr. Alison Bateman (ABateman@scu.edu)
- Mandatory Referrals: Send a completed referral form to Dr. Alison Bateman via e-mail (ABateman@scu.edu) or campus mail. For those students who need BASICS to fulfill a judicial or legal sanction, please keep in mind that two weeks' notice to schedule a session is preferred.
- Voluntary Referrals: Send a completed referral form to Dr. Alison Bateman via e-mail (ABateman@scu.edu) or campus mail.
3) Why participate in BASICS?
BASICS is appropriate for anyone who uses alcohol and/or other drugs in a high-risk manner, especially if you are concerned about your drinking or drug use and how it compares to other students. BASICS will provide you with a structured opportunity to assess your own risk, identify potential changes that could work for you, and help to reduce your risk for developing future problems. While BASICS does touch on other drugs besides alcohol, its primary focus is on alcohol use. BASICS is primarily an alcohol assessment, and nothing more. It is not necessarily administered by a licensed counselor or substance abuse professional, so if students require a definite diagnosis, treatment, or more intensive care, we refer them to SCU Counseling Center or off-campus resources.
4) What should I expect?
BASICS is administered by the trained BASICS facilitators at the SCU Wellness Center. All BASICS sessions are one-on-one with a program coordinator and the student. It takes two sessions, typically two weeks apart, to administer.
- Session I:
60 - 90 minutes: Introduction to program coordinator, orientation to the program, completion of questionnaire packet and assessment tools.
- Between Sessions:
Student will complete the online alcohol education assessment program e-CHUG and complete alcohol monitoring cards.
- Session II:
45-60 minutes: Based on the information obtained from the questionnaires and assessments filled out in the first session, the student will receive a personalized feedback profile that provides information about his/her use of alcohol and other drugs and how it compares to other SCU students. The student will review the feedback profile with the program coordinator and if necessary, identify potential changes that could work to help reduce the risk for developing future problems.
5) How do I know if I have an alcohol problem?
Alcohol use, like most human behaviors, exists on a continuum from No/Low Risk to Severe/High Risk. The potential negative consequences of alcohol use also exist on a continuum with the most negative consequences occurring as you move toward alcohol dependence. See the figure below for more information.
6) What have other SCU students reported after completing the BASICS program?
- “My BASICS facilitator was very open and inviting. She opened my eyes to a lot of information"
- "I like that the program was more of a conversation, not a "lecture". The facilitator understands college drinking and how to talk about this issue."
- "I felt comfortable being here, and I learned about myself and think others could absolutely benefit from this.”
- “The interaction was great and I talked about my habits without being labeled.”
- “It is a safe and private environment.”
- “I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk with a professional in a confidential manner without repercussions. It was done in a very non-judgmental way and was extremely helpful for me.”
- “The feedback profile was very interesting."
- "I think the best part about it was going over the SCU statistics and seeing where my drinking is compared to others here at school. Also, I enjoyed learning more about my family history of alcoholism and how that places me at higher risk."
- “I feel BASICS is a great way to go about handling drinking in college.”
Dimeff, L. A., Baer, J. S., Kivlahan, D. R., & Marlatt, G. A. (1999). Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS): A harm reduction approach. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
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FirstGov.gov Renamed to USA.gov with New Features
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Posted January 18, 2007
GSA has announced a name change for the government’s official Internet site.
FirstGov.gov will now be USA.gov -- an easy-to-remember name that was created based on citizen input. The Spanish language counterpart for USA.gov has also been renamed to GobiernoUSA.gov, which already serves some 43 million Hispanic-Americans with government information.
Both sites have added new features that bring services to citizens faster than ever before. “Web Chat” is a personal online assistance service that lets visitors ask questions online and get an immediate response. USA.gov also has an enhanced search engine and a new gateway for Visitors to the U.S., which provides information about conducting business, getting educated, or traveling in the U.S.
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Fewer Heart Attacks at Boston?
A week or so ago, Dr. Bill Roberts (RW's "Sports Doc") published the latest in his ongoing studies on heart-attack deaths in U.S. marathons. Since the Boston Marathon was approaching fast, it immediately made me wonder: Is the death rate any different at Boston, with its qualifying standards, than in other marathons that don't deny slow runners?
Two hypotheses immediately came to mind: Boston would have a lower death rate, because its runners are faster, fitter, more experienced, yada, yada. Or, conversely, all those years of running hard marathons could cause Boston runners to have more heart problems, as has been proposed by several preliminary studies, particularly those from a German cardiology group.
Roberts's newest paper found a heart-attack death rate of about 1 in 128,000 marathoners. The sample size was 1,411,000 marathoners, and 30 of 31 deaths were male runners (of average age 46.7). This was slightly lower than his earlier findings and also the 1 in 80,000 reported by the London Marathon. (I suspect the lower death rates might be a result of more and better medical care at marathons, including more defibrillators on the course.)
Anyway, the question is: How does Boston compare with this 1 in 128,000 figure?
To find out, I first contacted Boston Marathon medical officials. From them, I learned that there has been only one known heart-attack death at Boston in the last 34 years. This event occurred in the massive 100th running in 1996, and the stricken runner was a Swedish man of 62.
So I had my numerator, 1. But how many runners have finished the Boston Marathon in the last 34 years? The best, most available number is entrants. When I added them up, I got about 439,000. I then subtracted 15 percent for no-shows and non-finishers. This gave me 374,000 finishers.
So, by my unofficial tally, the heart-attack death rate at the Boston Marathon is 1 in 374,000, or roughly one-third the rate at other marathons. I don't know enough about statistics to make any big claims here, but I'm impressed. (I do know that statistics are wacky, and that events sometimes happen in strange clusters. I'm also worried that I'm jinxing this year's Boston.)
Nonetheless, it appears that fast, fit, veteran marathoners have a lower heart risk in marathons than the less fast and fit.
While I'm at it, here's a summary of the most important heart-attack-deaths-while-running studies. I find it interesting that no one has compiled data for shorter, non-marathon distances. You can speculate that the duress of a marathon is more dangerous than a 5-K. Or you can just as intelligently speculate that the higher heart rates achieved in 5-K races would be more likely to trigger a heart attack. We don't seem to have an answer to this question.
Note, finally, that all experts acknowledge that running and other vigorous exercise increase the risk of a heart-attack by about 5 to 7 times while you are actually exercising.
Nonetheless, regular exercisers have an overall heart-attack rate roughly 30 to 50 percent lower than non-exercisers. This is the catch-22 of exercise. The risk goes up when you get off the sofa to exercise; however, if you spend all your time on the sofa, that dramatically raises your risk of going straight to the big pine box.
2011: One heart-attack death per 128,000 marathoners. Roberts. N=1,411,000. 30 of 31 deaths are men. Average age at death: 46.7
2007: One heart-attack death per 125,000 marathoners. Redelmeier. N=3,292,000 (by newspaper reports).
2007: One heart-attack death per 80,000 marathoners. Pedoe. London Marathon. N=650,000
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We have compiled a number of case studies that give you an idea of our work in various areas of consultation and engagement. Some of the case studies also go on to explain what we have learned which may be of value to others.
Dialogue by Design were early pioneers of online public and stakeholder engagement. Our innovative work in this field has given us a long track record both in the United Kingdom and further afield, and we have worked for organisations in every sector and on a huge range of projects.
The case studies below outline a series of online consultations which we have undertaken. Although each project is approached in a similar manner the delivery and reporting is specific to the project.
It is worth saying that despite all the excitement about online engagement and eDemocracy initiatives, sometimes there is just no substitute for sitting down with people and talking with them.
Sometimes however, we sense a degree of reluctance to do this: getting people to complete a questionnaire or participate in an online process can seem more efficient and offer less opportunity for embarrassing confrontations. We can help deliver smoother outcomes when organising a meeting appears like a challenge, be it in the area of event design, managing conflicting stakeholder interests or logistics. The case studies below illustrate the different ways in which face-to-face meetings can be used.
When we speak of 'integration', it can stand for two different tasks:
We strive to achieve integration of online and offline responses, and integration of stakeholders with a number of engagement methodologies.
Many of the case studies outlined under 'electronic' involved the integration of online and offline responses. The case studies below, however, focus on the integration of a number of engagement methodologies for a particular project.
To find out more about some of our current projects please go to the Current projects page.
FEATURED CASE STUDY
A two-year project testing ways to cut emissions at the community level.
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There no longer exists any doubt that Mitt Romney intends to win the White House by conducting the most dishonest, unscrupulous and reprehensible campaign ever devised, in mere whimsy. The unethical stench of this man is not only breathtaking, it's meteoric. I have never seen anything like it, never heard anything like it, never imagined anything like it.
All you American political history books, move over; there's a new king of demagoguery in town, and future history will never see his malevolent depths of dishonor again.
What triggered this outburst? Today in St. Louis, just today, in just this one day, mind you, this despicable wretch of a man called President Obama's economic policies a "moral failure of tragic proportions"; and he threw in, just for the hell of it, I guess, that "There is nothing fair about a government that favors political connections over honest competition and takes away your right to earn your own success. And there is nothing morally right about trying to turn government dependence into a substitute for the dignity of work."
Observed ABC News: "Romney used the word 'moral' or a variation of it five separate times in pushing the idea that Obama's policies have been a failure for the country." Moral.
It's only June, and Mitt Romney has already exhausted all the hideous possibilities of a Dorian Gray mentality that would make even Oscar Wilde blush. Moral. That's this pathetic, vile little pol's new favorite word. Moral. Here's a man who leads a party that endorses torture as well as unprovoked war, and coddles the rich while showing indifference to the poor. Moral.
Combine Gray with Elmer Gantry and you'd still come up short of the "moral" abomination that calls itself Mitt Romney. | <urn:uuid:d1899fb7-e5dc-4888-8bc7-f81a438f80ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2012/06/a-moral-abomination.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955378 | 370 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Hi DIYDrones Community!
I am looking to put together a comprehensive post with links to all subject matter (starting with very Newbie all the ways to very technical). The idea is NOT to give the answers in this post, but to link to great articles/books/websites/etc. There is great information out there, but people have very different varying degrees of knowledge and difficulty finding it. I think we need a one-stop-shop to get people going instead of relying on them to "Search". Maybe if this turns out good enough, they will add this to the "Getting Started" portion of DIYDrones. I DO NOT want people to have to sort through the comments. I have done a test and I can edit this post after publishing. So any good links shared will be put into this original post.
The entire DIYDrones project is a part of the Arduino project. The APM is built from Arduino hardware. The APM hardware will change as Arduino hardware itself changes.
(Anyone have a link to the ARM 2.0 Hardware manual? For some reason I can't find it right now)
RC uses wireless communications to bridge the gap between devices. Higher Frequencies can send more data, have less range, and cannot penetrate objects. Lower frequencies can send less data, have greater range, and can penetrate objects better. The most common hobby frequences from highest to lowest are 2.4Ghz, 900Mhz, 400Mhz.
RC uses wireless communications for the following reasons: control, telemetry data, FPV
(Need some great links on each of these)
An RC build is usually composed of the following hardware components: Flight Controller, Electronic Speed Controller, Power Distribution Board, Transmitter(s), Recievers(s), PC, USB to Serial adapter, DC Motor(s), Servos, ....
Great links ...
More to come. I should keep modifying this. I want to see reaction too. The more interest and help then the more time I will personally put into this post.
Replies are closed for this discussion.
You are nearly addressing a question of mine. I am not an RC-anything expert. I am looking at integrating the ArduPilot into an existing multicopter frame, but the info on the power connections and requirements is a bit sketchy in the documentation (http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/APM2board).
My question is this: If I have an existing copter and I want to install the ArduPilot, where to I get the power from? Will I be able to get it from the existing batteries of the copter, which I think will result in an unstable voltage? Or do I install an additional power distirbution board (https://store.diydrones.com/Quadcopter_PDB_p/ac-pdb-01.htm) to get the power from the batteries, or do I install my own battery?
Unfortunately, I don't have the answer for you. I also did not see very much interest at all in my post from the knowledgable individuals of the community. I am not the expert to do it all by myself.
Lastly, I have downsized (rightsized) my life. This project/hobby has been pushed to the side to make sure I get my "own house in order" before I reach out to other items. Eventually, I hope to pick it back up.
Sorry that I could not be of further help at this time.
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The history of snow sports is one of tragedy, folly and regret. But some things hurt more than others.
I’m not talking about that Yugoslavian dude who characterized the opening “agony of defeat” sequence on ABC’s Wide World of Sports in the 1970s. Or the Marine Corps jet pilot who slashed a gondola line with his wing tip in Italy and turned 20 jolly skiers into a gravity-assisted mess of blood and bones in the cold snow. Or Bode Miller talking himself up at the Winter Olympics before choking like a kitten tangling with a nuclear hair ball. And I’m definitely not talking about Taos opening up its slopes to snowboarders last year.
No, I’m talking about the Angel Fire ski resort killing its shovel racing event in 2005 after 30 fun-filled years of mayhem and drunken horror. I’m not one to reduce issues to the juvenile, but—seriously—what boners.
And all because of “liability.”
When a legal adult cannot take a sharp-edged tool with a long, hardwood handle, sit on it and hurl down a mountainside at speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour, we can be certain that America is not what it used to be.
Our legal system may be able to rightfully claim credit for significant advances in civil rights and the occasional turn of actual justice, but the whole idea of the United States as the land of the free and the home of the brave died with the first frivolous lawsuit. The notion of liability has been whittling our fighting spirit into gooey unpalatable slop ever since.
It’s true the British coined the term “nanny state,” but they are an island of people whom God has punished by making them pasty, politically inept and confused by snow sports. No, the US is the true nanny state—we carry riders on our homeowners insurance in case our friends sue us for slipping on our doorsteps. We suspend Cub Scouts from school for packing their knife/fork/spoon sets into the classroom. We ban gel insoles from being worn on airplane flights. If we could bolt training wheels to young pedestrians, we would do it. In fact, failure to do so would be punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
But to create an environment in which it’s financially untenable for ski resorts to allow us to race our buddies down steep, icy hills while sitting on shovels is just inexcusable.
Fortunately, there’s one American attribute that lawyers can never take from us: the instinctual knowledge that if you can’t do something stupid and dangerous in public, you can always sneak off into the woods and do it far away from boring safety nazis and emergency rescue services.
At this point, you may be asking yourself if racing shovels is really a good idea. A snow shovel is a handy tool, no doubt. But its blade is supposed to go down into the snow rather than downhill handle first, right? Well, that’s the kind of attitude that’s rotting this nation. Shovel racing is the working-class sport of our forefathers. Rocky Mountain coal miners in 19th century Colorado used to descend from a hard day at the mines by hopping on their shovels and letting precipitous drops do the work for them, ice glistening in the dim glow of their mining lanterns all the while.
Modern shovel racing was popularized after lift operators at Angel Fire Resort discovered what their coal-mining forebears had: a fast way down the mountain. Lifties, of course, are notorious stoners, so naturally the shovel racers competed in the Winter X Games as part of an assault on the Winter Olympics. Shovel racing was never invited back. Depending on whom you talk to, it’s because the sport was either too extreme or too boring.
John Schrader, aka, Shovelmeister—shovel racing’s most notorious record holder, advocate and speed aficionado—once reminded NPR’s Scott Simon that America’s first mass-media encounter with shovel racing was in the opening sequence of Jimmy Stewart’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life. Anyone who thinks there’s something more American than coal mining and Jimmy Stewart should just admit that they’re working with the Taliban right now.
Here’s the kicker. A quality snow shovel, say an Ames Co. Steel Scoop, is going to come in at approximately $42. Compare that with a snowboard or a set of skis or even a child’s toboggan. Some may argue that a large rubber inner tube is even cheaper and can double as a lazy-river navigating tool in the summer months. True enough, but you can’t shovel your walk or build an igloo with an inner tube, and no self-respecting coal miner would be caught using one to finish off a wintry shift.
Don’t be tempted by a cheaper plastic or aluminum shovel. You’ll want the steel, not only for its keister-coddling strength, but also because the classic speed-increasing waxes—like ski wax, car wax or pork fat—adhere better. Don’t try to stand on the shovel, it’s not a magic carpet. And don’t try to straddle it like Harry Potter does with his magic sex broom; instead, point the handle downhill with the shovel head’s flattest surface on the snow. Sit down in the scoop of the shovel with one leg on either side of the handle and your heels dug in to keep you from sliding. Fight the instinct to grab the handle as some kind of steering lever or phallic security splinter. Lay backward as though you are reclining on a luge. Take a deep breath. Point your feet down the hill. Go.
At this point, you might suddenly recall that people routinely achieve highway speeds while sitting on shovels. If you see that you are heading for trees, cliffs, traffic-filled roads, angry pit bulls or someone who’s going to give you a talking to, use your hands as outriggers for gentle steering inputs. If you oversteer and end up sliding headfirst, chances are the shovel blade will dig in and flip you over backward and the hardwood handle will smack you on the head. Then your friends will laugh at you, as will the spirits of coal miners past. In fact, America will laugh at you.
That’s OK, though. You can laugh too. It’s just riding a shovel down a hill.
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Wayne Curtin first got involved fighting for motorcyclists' rights in 1983 as a member of Freedom of Road Riders (FORR), the state motorcyclists' rights organization in Missouri. There, he served as a tenacious volunteer lobbyist at the Missouri statehouse from 1985 to 1988.
In 1988, he went to work as vice president of government relations for the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF), a national motorcyclists' rights group in Washington, D.C. He served on the AMA Board of Directors for three years beginning in 1992. He left the MRF in 1998 to pursue a master’s degree in public administration. He then joined the Harley-Davidson Motor Company in 2000, where he served first as manager and later as director of government affairs for more than eight years.
Rob Rasor, former AMA vice president for government relations, notes that Curtin "worked hard and he worked smart. Innumerable motorcyclists benefited from Wayne's leadership and expertise on Capitol Hill."
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This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, it provides an overview of trends in the magnitude, location and nature of rural poverty, with emphasis on least developed countries. Secondly, it offers new evidence that advances our understanding of rural poverty, by presenting quantitative analyses of the determinants both of rural activities and of income from farm- and non-farm sources drawing on data from FAO's Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) data base of 15 countries, complemented by demographic, health, production and income data from other sources. In order to reduce rural poverty, policies should concentrate both on improving household activities already available - most prominently farming - and on expanding the range of potential activities of family members. The lesson from experience and much of the rural development literature is that the income generating potential - the ability to access and take advantage of activities - depends crucially on access to assets, such as education, land, and infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:0b8a6fd8-e0dc-4797-9de0-ca18f478f569> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fao.org/economic/riga/riga-publications/pubs-detail/en/c/43767/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94911 | 187 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Ronald Dworkin, often labeled as the most important legal philosopher of his time, died on February 14 in London at age 81.
Ronald Dworkin, philosopher who linked morality and the law, dies at 81
The National Law Journal
February 14, 2013
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Purity Hut, Ruahine Forest Park
The Ruahine Forest Park covers an area of 94,000 ha which consists of tussock tops, craggy peaks, bush covered ranges and picturesque rivers. It offers considerable recreational opportunities including tramping, hunting, cross country skiing, kayaking, fishing, swimming and camping. There is a network of tracks and huts.
View the Western Ruahine Forest Park brochure (PDF, 1890K).
No vehicle access to Kawhatau Base
Previously there has been vehicle access to Kawhatau Base through private land but this access is no longer available. Alternative access is available by walking up the Kawhatau River from the Rangitane road bridge across the Kawhatau River. Note this route may not be accessible during times of high river flow.
During the 1930s the rounded open top of the Whanahuia Range in Ruahine Forest Park beckoned to ski enthusiasts. Rangiwahia Hut is on the site of the old skifield.
You can enjoy walking, hunting, snow skiing, fishing, rafting and canoeing in the Western Ruahine Forest Park.
A network of huts are provided and maintained by the Department of Conservation throughout the park.
Ruahine Forest Park is characterised by a cool, cloudy climate with heavy rain at times. The area is renown for strong winds especially in the southern ranges.
Ruahine Forest Park and its neighbouring parks form an almost continuous chain of protected lands along the central North Island ranges. Recreation opportunities include hunting, mountain biking and tracks for both experienced trampers and day walkers.
The Manawatu Rangitikei Area Volunteer Programme aims to build capacity in our communities by providing a range of opportunities for people to get involved in conservation and recreation activities.
Find businesses that are DOC-approved to provide activities and services in Western Ruahine Forest Park.
DOC maps: Discover the outdoors - DOC's key places, campsites, tracks and huts, and visitor centres on a map
Check, Clean, Dry between waterways and stop the spread of didymo.
Follow the Outdoor Safety Code:1. Plan your trip2. Tell someone3. Be aware of the weather4. Know your limits5. Take sufficient supplies
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In some cases, the distinction between popular and art music has been blurred, particularly in the late 20th century. As a matter of fact, minimalist music and postmodern music in particular got closer to popular music and rejected older cleavages. Reversely, some popular experimental musicians also developed a special interest in the minimalist and postmodern approach and so they have converged with art music with regard to certain aspects of their music. Therefore some may consider certain forms of popular-based music such as art rock art music. However, in the strict, original sense these forms of music cannot really be regarded as pure erudite music because they do not match most of the criteria. Besides, it must be noted that many fans of experimental popular music (such as art rock and avant-garde metal) tend to mistake the sense of the word art music. They tend to use it in another sense. In their conception the art music concept is used to refer to authentic and creative music as opposed to commercial music. Hence, use of the term “art music” sometimes leads to misunderstandings.
However, other cultural classical traditions may refer to oral transmission. For example, Indian classical music is transmitted mainly orally from master to disciple, despite its typically greater sophistication of rhythmic and melodic frameworks than western classical music. Reliance on notation alone is believed insufficient to capture the exact pitches or finely nuanced ornaments demanded of classical Indian musicians, who typically act as composers as well as performers of preserved compositions. Notation in Indian music is regarded as only an aid, not a substitute, to oral transmission from master to disciple. Treatises on the structural and theoretical considerations underlying Indian classical music have been available for millennia, notably the Natyashastra of Bharata, dated to between 200 BC and 200 AD. Some Western classical composers, notably Messiaen, relied on Indian rhythmic frameworks for their rhythmically more sophisticated compositions.
In some western modern or experimental forms, the written notation of art music may depart from standard musical notation and use a variety of new types of notation to facilitate the exploratory nature of these new forms of music. The inclusion of the new forms within the definition of "art music" is based upon the intention of the composer for the experience created by the music and upon the method of the composer in communicating the substance of the music to the performer. In other words, while the notation may not be formal or traditional, there remains an element of formality or intellectual discipline to the construction and communication of the content of the work.
Indianism in Latin American art-music composition of the 1920s to 1940s: case studies from Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.(Art Music Studies)
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President Bashar al-Assad has met on Sunday October 21 with international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi who is pressing for a temporary ceasefire in Syria's civil war Syrian state television says
In a statement after the talks with Mr Brahimi, Mr Assad said: "Syria is open to any sincere efforts for a political solution to the Syrian crisis based on respect for Syria's sovereignty and the rejection of outside intervention." while peace envoy said "All the opposition members we met outside the country as well as the officials in the neighbouring countries said that it is a good idea,", according to BBC
Last week Brahimi called on Iranian authorities for helping him in achieving a ceasefire during Eid al-Adha made the call in talks with Iranian leaders during a visit to Tehran, as part of a regional tour .
"I appeal to everyone to take a unilateral decision to cease hostilities on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and that this truce be respected from today or tomorrow," Brahimi told reporters,
The United Nations and activist groups place the death toll of the Syrian conflict between 20,000 and 30,000 people have been killed in the uprising against Assad has been going on for 18 months . An estimated 100,000 refugees mostly women and children, have sought refuge in Turkey since the start of the conflic in Syria are now housed in Turkish camps.
Russia is one of the biggest allies of President Bashar al-Assad ,Russia used the right of veto against three previous resolutions which condemning the government of President Bashar al-Assad, and diplomats say it is likely that the UN Security Council takes action against Syria at the moment while selling his armed forces nearly $1 billion in arms last year
In another development, U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch said Syrian government planes and helicopters had dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battled to reverse rebel advances In a report published Sunday New York-based Human Rights Watch said cluster bombs designed to kill as many people as possible. More than 100 nations have banned their use under a convention which became international law in 2010, but Syria has not signed it, nor has Russia, China or the United States.
Meanwhile , UN rights chief Navi Pillay called on the world at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva October 18, 2012 to prevent another slaughter like that of 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995 ,Srebrenica was the worst massacre happen on European since World War Two
Also She stressed of what happen in Syria of killing women and children like of what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said “The memories of what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be sufficiently fresh to warn us all of the danger of allowing Syria to descend into an all-out sectarian conflict,” she told reporters “It should not take something as drastic as Srebrenica to shake the world into taking serious action to stop this type of conflict,” .
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A Community of Exceptional Nurses
Sen. Inouye introduces bill to protect patients, hold hospitals accountable for RN staffing.
Washington, D.C. — The American Nurses Association (ANA) today applauded the introduction of the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2003, federal legislation that aims to ensure that patients receive safe, quality nursing care in hospitals and other health care institutions. The legislation mandates the development of staffing systems that require the input of direct-care registered nurses (RNs) and provides whistle-blower protections for RNs who speak out about patient care issues.
The bill, S.991, was introduced by Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) yesterday. Today marks the start of National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12 each year.
ANA, which worked closely with Sen. Inouye's office on the bill, lobbied for this legislation to protect patients and registered nurses, given the absence of enforceable standards for nurse staffing in hospitals and the widespread practice of healthcare facilities stretching their nursing staff with unsafe patient loads, mandatory overtime, "floating" to specialty units without training and orientation and other practices that undermine the delivery of safe, quality care.
"Inappropriate nurse staffing is the number one concern of nurses today," said ANA President Barbara Blakeney, MS, APRN, BC, ANP. "More than a decade of research has shown that RNs make the quality difference in patient care and that when RN care is insufficient, patient safety is compromised and the risk of death is increased."
"We applaud Sen. Inouye for his leadership on this issue and for his commitment to protecting patients and nurses from practices that are dangerous," said Blakeney. "Furthermore, this legislation is needed to improve the work environment for nurses, to enhance retention of practicing nurses and recruitment into the profession."
In July 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services released data confirming that a nursing shortage already exists in the United States and that it is expected to grow. According to the HHS study, in 2000, there was a shortage of 110,000 nurses (6 percent).
Without changes in the system, the HHS study predicts that shortage will grow to 12 percent by the year 2010, 20 percent by 2015 and 29 percent by 2020.
The RN Safe Staffing Act amends the conditions of participation in the Medicare program and establishes a requirement for minimum staffing ratios. Rather than establishing a specific numeric ratio, the act requires the establishment of a staffing system that "ensures a number of registered nurses on each shift and in each unit of the hospital to ensure appropriate staffing levels for patient care."
Specifically, the staffing system must:
In addition, the act requires public reporting of staffing information. Hospitals must post daily for each shift the number of licensed and unlicensed staff providing direct patient care, specifically noting the number of RNs.
In addition, the act provides whistle-blower protections for RNs and others who may file a complaint regarding staffing. The RN Safe Staffing Act incorporates ANA's Principles of Nurse Staffing. Rather than recommending specific numeric ratios, ANA developed the principles in 1999 as a tool for nurses to better gauge appropriate staffing.
The principles not only take into account the number of patients, but also look at other important staffing considerations, such as the experience level of nurses on the unit, the severity of patients' conditions and the availability of support services and resources.
"ANA has long been supportive of establishing nurse-to-patient ratios," said Blakeney. "However, ANA has not supported the approach of legislating specific numeric ratios, because that approach fails to take into consideration the multiple variables that affect nurse staffing at the unit level. Staffing systems can only be effective if the direct care nurses who work on a specific unit have input into the system. This legislation provides a comprehensive solution to the complex and urgent problem of insufficient nurse staffing."
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The hidden curriculum refers to the unspoken and unofficial norms, behaviors, and values that kids learn at school in addition to the official curriculum of math, reading, science, and so on. These can include expectations about how to act in public (standing in line), how to interact with non-parental authority figures, patriotism (saying the Pledge of Allegiance each morning), and messages about social hierarchies (who it’s ok to ridicule, what it means to get different grades), and so on.
Gender is an important element of the hidden curriculum. Schools reinforce larger cultural messages about gender, including the idea that gender is an essential characteristic for organizing social life.
Marissa P. sent in a great example of this. Steve Bowler tweeted a photo of an assignment that his 8-year-old daughter’s teacher said she did incorrectly. The homework assignment had a list of toys or activities, and the kids were supposed to categorize them based on whether they were for boys, girls, or both, with equal numbers in each box. The assignment takes for granted the gendering of toys, and that there is a “correct” answer to the question of which gender they are appropriate for.
Bowler’s daughter did the assignment differently. After placing 3 items in the “boys” category and 2 in the “girls” group, she made additional boxes to add more things in the “both” column:
But at the bottom, the teacher notes that the assignment wasn’t done correctly. The point of the assignment is to categorize; the implicit message — that boys and girls are different types of people who like different types of things — isn’t questioned. A child sees this list of items and doesn’t gender them in the way the lesson took for granted; the reaction wasn’t to acknowledge her innovation and perhaps question the gendering, it was simply to say she did it wrong.
It’s one small example of the way that the hidden curriculum reinforces gendered messages, teaching kids expectations for gender and that gender itself is a coherent, meaningful characteristic.
Bowler, for the record, said he was proud his daughter failed the assignment and just wished she’d done even worse on it.
UPDATE: Reader Kama notes that the assignment accompanied a reading about a girl who wasn’t allowed to play basketball. The overall message of that story challenged the idea that girls can’t play basketball, requiring kids to categorize the toys and activities by gender as part of the lesson:
…this was assigned following reading a book about a girl who wanted to play basketball but was told it’s a boy’s sport. She kept at it, got better, and earned the respect of the boys who were telling her off earlier. According to the guy who posted the picture, the teacher was trying to discuss gender bias. Did the teacher go about it the right way? No, not really – especially when your end goal is showing that these biases are wrong. That being said, this particular assignment doesn’t really fit with the idea of a hidden gender curriculum. The teacher wasn’t trying to say that these are boy and girl toys, the teacher was trying (and failing) to point out that we are biased in our thinking about what’s for boys and what’s for girls.
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I really really really want to know why. Why do people say we can’t use adverbs? I’ve read books and they use adverbs. What’s with adverbs really? By the way, i love you blog—it’s been said many times already but there’s nothing else I could do to make you happy but know it. - drowningchimes
Do not believe anything that tells you you can’t use this or that in your writing. There is not, by any means, a right way to write. You can use adverbs in your writing. Adverbs are a fundamental part of speech, no different than any other.
The problem comes when people use them a lot. When you use any word or type of word continuously, it shows. It gets repetitive. It gets annoying. They also happen to be the part of speech most likely to clutter your sentence to no avail. They can weaken your prose:
- They can be reduntant. E.g: “I hate these idiots!” He yelled angrily. You have a strong verb right here, no need to use “angrily”, I got the idea he was angry.
- They can prop up a weak verb. Let’s take a look at “to boldly go”. Okay, split infinitive. What I mean is that just saying “to go” sorta sounds bland. You may think the adverb is necessary. But no. The verb just happens to be weak, generic, bland. How about replacing the verb? “To venture”, “To explore”. These verbs are more specific, more evocative so to speak.
- The speech tags deal. We go back to talking about “said”. Instead of picking some pompous word to replace said, we spice it up with an adverb. This is often (yet, not always) unecessary. Most of the time, you can let the dialogue speak for itself. Or you can use more things to explain how the characters are saying it, if it’s not clear. “I am dying here!” Kyle waved his arms in the air, trying to make his friends notice him.
- You (probably are) telling instead of showing.
Before using an adverb, you can ask yourself these questions:
1) Does it change the word it modifies? Does it make the verb or adjective mean something drastically different?
2) Does it convey some vital piece of information in a way that’s better or more evocative than real description or a stronger verb by itself?
It’s a thing on style, however. If you like to use lots of adverbs, and feel like they’re necessary, go for it.
In the end, yes, books have adverbs. You can use adverbs. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t. Do ask yourself if the message you’re trying to get across with your writing is being sent the best way it can be.
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.
1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel your pain. This word means, “I accidentally ate the whole thing.”
3. Tartle (Scots)
The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.
4. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)
This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.
5. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
A face badly in need of a fist.
Mi papá tiene 47 años= my dad is 47 years old
Mi papa tiene 47 anos= my potato has 47 assholes
I love spanish
Teach me more my Jedi master!
hahahaha you think this is difficult? try fucking Latin!
Alright – this needs to be prefaced with the fact that I honestly don’t know much about Texan English. I know it’s an incredibly dialectically diverse area and I wish I knew more about it, but I don’t have the time right now to look into it as rigorously as I’d want to.
That being said, all of this wordvomit on language use in Supernatural has been building up in my head for a long time.
do you ever get weirded out by the fact that everyone around you is constantly within their own mind and thinking a million secret thoughts and battling internal struggles just like you and that you’re not the only one who thinks these things and that the people around you aren’t just faces meant to fill up your life but they’re actually really deep people who have a lot more to them than you ever actually even think about
hahaha in finland we dont have to worry about using wrong pronouns because we have only one gender neutral pronoun “hän” and we dont even use it. usually we use “se” (it) when when talking about other people unless someone want to sound really formal or mocking
TEAR AND TIER ARE PRONOUNCED THE SAME BUT TEAR AND TEAR ARE PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY
im glad english is my first language because if i had to learn it as a second language id jump off a bridge
someone reminded me of my favourite welsh word today
the colloquial term for microwave is “popty ping” which just translates to “oven that goes ping”
what a wonderful word
think of this when you are sad
holy dicks, that’s useful
reblogging for future reference
reblogging for future essays
reblogging for future roleplays
Reblogging for future family get togethers
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This is useful to everyone, especially in a career world that is so overwhelmingly global.
You'll find "experts" on body language and rants about the meaning of this gesture or that one. Much of this is true, with one huge caveat: you have to be patient and carefully synthesize the totality of the gestures and mannerisms in order to develop some degree of accuracy.
If you are making a presentation, running a meeting, or in a management discussion, it may be more helpful to know what emotions are universal. This gives you a better chance at narrowing the possibilities of what kinds of responses you are really seeing. So, here goes.
The Seven "Universal" Emotions
These are common throughout all people and cultures:
There are 10,000 different facial expressions. About 3000 of these facial expressions are relevant to emotion and most people use only 50-60 in normal conversation. Those 50-60 do relate to the seven universal emotions.
These expressions can be "macro" expressions which last 1-3 seconds or even longer. An example would be a smile. The question: "Is the smile real or fake?" If fake, what does that mean? (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar; people simply want to be polite).
We also make micro expressions that give up our more hidden feelings. These are like reflexes, because it's very difficult to stop them from happening since they are part of our brain's hard-wiring. That's why we get a "feeling" when we watch small discrepancies between someone's words and their expression.
These expressions last only 1/25th of a second. (That is faster than an eye-blink). Most people can't pick up micro expressions consciously. When viewed on film and played as slower speeds, these expressions look just like macro expressions. Many homicide detectives do this. If you don't happen to be looking for a serial killer, it's still a great way to watch what signals you give off when you are speaking or running a meeting.
How to Use This
The seven universal emotions are the ones that are most important to you. You want to know whether someone is angry, happy, etc., with your interaction. Memorize the list (or carry a cheat sheet) and increase your awareness of these.
Do: When you think you have enough visual information to believe that the person--or people--are, say, "surprised", don't make the assumption that you are correct. Instead, matter-of-factly state your observation: "You know, I'm watching the response to this slide and am getting the sense that maybe you are a bit surprised. Is that so?" This will lead to affirmation or will yield other responses that will help you--and them--stay or get on track.
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Dan Cosgrove began shooting videos and then uploading them to YouTube in 2008 to fight crime and grime in Washington Village, the Southwest Baltimore City neighborhood also known as Pigtown. Now he has produced a 60 minute documentary about middle class-flight from the city, called: "Fleeing Baltimore: A Documentary About Middle-Class Flight".
According to Cosgrove, it is "the first time, the subject is approached from the point of view of former-city residents who fled to the safety of the surrounding counties".
Featured in the film are former Assistant State's Attorney, Page Croyder; former City-Council candidate, Adam Meister; former Baltimore Sun reporter and lecturer at Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, Eric Siegel, Marcus Dent, Chapter Commander of the Baltimore Guardian Angels; among others.
A screening of the film was scheduled for May 12, at the VFW Post 9083, 8123 Harford Road, in Parkville, but the event sold out in 48 hours, so it was canceled and will be rescheduled to accommodate more people, Cosgrove said. A future date for the showing has not been set. Cosgrove, a life-long Baltimore County resident, and a graduate of the University of Maryland Honors Program, in Political Science, owns property in Washington Village and was elected President of the Washington Village Development Association (WVDA) six years ago. During that time he shot videos highlighting the crime and grime in Washington Village and the failure of the city government to respond to the needs of the middle-class and urban homesteaders in the community.
(Visit the WVDA YouTube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/WVDAChannel.)
The following is a interview with Cosgrove that also appears on the Baltimore Examiner website:
Tully: How long did you work on "Fleeing Baltimore: A Documentary About Middle-Class Flight" ?
Cosgrove: It really started back in 2008 when I picked up a video camera and wondered if it could be used as a tool, to advocate for Pigtown. I've been filming a lot of the good, the bad and the very ugly, in this city, for more then four years. After years of releasing shorts, concerning a number of topics, it was time to put together a full-length documentary. It's currently going through the process of test screening and will be submitted to film festivals after the test screenings are complete.
Tully: What has been the general reaction of viewers who have seen the movie so far?
Cosgrove: This film is socially significant and needs to get out there. This may be the first time individuals who participated in middle-class flight, from Baltimore City, have been interviewed (on film) about their experiences.
Tully: Have you shown the movie to any city officials so far? Do they know about it?
Cosgrove: I've reached out to some city officials and some that ran for political office but lost. There appears to be a general interest building about the subject matter and the film.
Tully: You don't actually live in Baltimore City, so why do you care so much about it?
Cosgrove: I own property in Baltimore City and have spent the last six years advocating for better city communities as the President of WVDA. I have a strong vested interest, in the city, despite living in one of the surrounding counties. If I did not have a vested interest, I would not try to shed light on the city's problem of depopulation, its causes and consequences.
Tully: Why didn't you find a place in the city to screen your film?
Cosgrove: We chose the VFW in Parkville because John Waters used the location in several films. That said: "Fleeing Baltimore" has screened in Baltimore City three times at unadvertised test screenings. We wanted to open this screening up, to a small group of the public, so we put it on the web site. However, word of mouth (from the unadvertised test screenings) has caused an unexpected demand for tickets.
Tully: In your opinion, what are the main reasons people are fleeing Baltimore City?
Cosgrove: The main culprit causing city residents to leave the city is the government; it's dysfunctional. It can't provide the most basic services that only a government can provide. Furthermore, it's in direct competition with governments in the surrounding counties that can effectively provide those services at a much cheaper cost. People that are economically mobile are going to gravitate to good schools, safe communities, and governments that can properly bill their residents for water, for example.
Tully: How do you view Mayor Rawlings-Blake's goal of attracting 10,000 new families to Baltimore City within the next decade?
Cosgrove: It's not going to happen. In fact, there's a new trend in Baltimore City that needs to be reported: Good people with good jobs and good credit are walking away from their city homes, destroying their credit and allowing their homes to be foreclosed. The press hasn't picked up on this yet, but the city's already spinning it as being caused by the real estate bust. It's not. People are leaving the city, despite the personal cost, just to start over outside the city.
Tully: If you had it to do over again, would you invest in Baltimore City?
Cosgrove: No. This government doesn't function: It can't send out reliable water bills; it can't get the illegal dirt bikes off the street; its courts won't incarcerate repeat offenders; and its taxes continue to go up and the list of its dysfunction goes on and on. | <urn:uuid:db15d69c-da9d-41be-862f-e1c8b9546f1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://northbaltimore.patch.com/blog_posts/fleeing-baltimore-a-documentary-about-middle-class-flight?logout=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968733 | 1,186 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Smokers Are Increasingly Losing Custody and Being Denied Adoption - New Report
2012-02-23 16:18:50 - In a "growing trend," "if you are involved in a child custody dispute and you are a cigarette smoker, your chance of getting full or even joint custody might go up in smoke. . . . Maybe losing custody of your children should be added to the warnings on packs of cigarettes." Even if a smoker obtains joint custody, smoking is often prohibited 24 or even 48 hours before a child is due to arrive, says the man behind the movement.
Even where a smoker gets joint custody, judges in the great majority of states have issued orders prohibiting any smoking in the home, more than a dozen states have banned smoking in homes with foster children, many prospective parents have been unable to adopt if they are (or even have) been smokers, and a growing number of jurisdictions are banning
smoking in cars with children, says the public interest law professor who first developed the legal tactic of raising smoking as an issue in custody cases, and of arguing that smoking around a child can constitute "child abuse." www.prlog.org/11056831-smokers-will-not-be-able-to-adopt-scotlan ..
As the Washington Times has just noted:
* In at least 18 states, courts have ruled that subjecting a child to tobacco smoke is a factor which should be considered in deciding custody.
* No judge and no court has ever ruled that subjecting a child to tobacco smoke should be ignored in deciding custody.
* In thousands of cases, courts have issued orders prohibiting smoking in the presence of a child, especially in vehicles.
* In some cases the orders prohibit smoking in a home 24 (or even 48) hours before the child arrives.
* In some cases, parents have lost custody or had visitation reduced because they subjected a child to tobacco smoke.
* Existing court orders regarding custody, visitation, etc. can often be modified if a child is being subjected to tobacco smoke.
* Courts sometimes consider the smoking habits of others who may have contact with the child, such as grandparents, friends, and “significant others” when making custody decisions.
Public interest law professor John Banzhaf first began assisting nonsmoking parents to deny custody to spouses who smoke. Then, with a series of legal petitions, he began persuading states to prohibit smoking in homes where foster children were present; a movement which also led many states to begin prohibiting smoking in cars when children are present. He has also supported policies of rejecting smokers as prospective adoptive parents.
"Smoking kills thousands of children every year (including from respiratory infections), is also a major factor in SIDS, and causes millions of medical problems in kids each year ranging from asthmatic attacks (and new cases of asthma) to ear aches, so protecting young children from tobacco smoke is long overdue," says Banzhaf. Indeed, more young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined' reported The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, making it one of the most lethal forms of child abuse.
There are several other logical reason for preventing smokers from being granted custody or adopting young children, even if they claim to smoke only outside away from the children. The first is that the child is much more likely to grow up to be a smoker, and to face the enormous health hazards this imposes, if one or both parents are also smokers.
Also, thirdhand tobacco smoke - what the New York Times called "the invisible yet toxic brew of gases and particles clinging to smokers' hair and clothing," and Scientific American condemned as "the cocktail of toxins that linger in carpets, sofas, clothes and other materials hours or even days after a cigarette is put out" - has been reported by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to combine with a common indoor air pollutant to form very potent cancer-causing substances. This, the researchers say, places children at serious risk, even if parents smoke only outside the home, because they carry the residues inside with them.
Dr. Lara Gundel, a co-author of this study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warned: "Smoking outside is better than smoking indoors but nicotine residues will stick to a smoker's skin and clothing. Those residues follow a smoker back inside and get spread everywhere. The biggest risk is to young children. Dermal uptake of the nicotine through a child's skin is likely to occur when the smoker returns and if nitrous acid is in the air, which it usually is, then TSNAs [tobacco-specific nitrosamines] will be formed."
Third, a related study shows that the tobacco-residue chemicals in smokers' breath were by themselves sufficient to cause or aggravate respiratory illnesses - including asthma, coughs, and colds - among children in smokers' homes as compared with kids in homes with nonsmokers, even if the parents only smoked outside the home.
There is just no justification for unnecessarily exposing children to any level of toxic or cancer-causing chemicals, since there is no safe level of exposure to any human carcinogen like asbestos, benzene, or secondhand smoke, argues Banzhaf, echoing the U.S. Surgeon General's warnings that: "It hurts you, It doesn't take much. It doesn't take long. . . .There is no safe amount of secondhand tobacco smoke. Breathing even a little secondhand smoke can be dangerous."
JOHN F. BANZHAF III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Public Interest Law
George Washington University Law School,
FAMRI Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor,
Fellow, World Technology Network,
Founder, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
2000 H Street, NW, Suite S402
Washington, DC 20052, USA
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by S.A. Watt
Wounded continued to arrive in small but steady numbers. On 11 November the first two cases of enteric fever were received in the camp and this proved to be the start of an epidemic during which 1 700 soldiers contracted this fever. Dysentery appeared early, and, during the siege, there were to be 1 800 cases. Because of the ever-increasing numbers of sick and wounded at Intombi, the number of beds increased from 300 to 1 900 in less than three months. The constant expansion of the hospital without the commensurate expansion of staff and equipment necessitated a re-distribution of patients. Eventually convalescent hospitals became impossible and the equipment available for the new tents became less than that of the old camp. Trained nurses were also re-distributed and each part of the camp was prepared to receive a share of those requiring special attention. There was a shortage of hospital staff, which eventually totalled 890, and this was partially overcome by the services offered by patients who had recovered from recent illness, or by withdrawing some of the soldiers from the defensive perimeter in Ladysmith.
To feed so large a number of patients, unable to take solid food, under the conditions of a siege of unknown duration, became, towards the end, a problem which could not be satisfactorily solved. Most of the luxuries vanished towards the end of the siege and the daily ration for a fever patient then consisted of: cereals about 60 g; prepared extracts about 14 g; sugar 140 g; about 570 g beef to make beef tea, and spirits 56 g. Occasionally these patients were given an additional ration of about 230 g meat for beef tea; cereals 28 g; spirits 85 to 150 g; wine 14 g; meat extracts 7 g; milk 335 g. The staff and convalescent patients were issued with the following for the same period: fresh meat 335 g; mealie meal 170 g; bread 454 g; tea 7 g; sugar 110 g; salt 14 g; pepper about 1 g. The beef tea was made from horse extract for which 70 horses and mules were sacrificed daily. The 545 kg of meat obtained was boiled down daily to 36 kg of chevril capable of making 720 litres of beef tea for the sick.
The most serious trouble with regard to feeding the sick, however, occurred after the Battle of Spioenkop (24 January 1900). Preparations for a more extended siege had to be made and comforts were reduced, while essentials had to be supplied until the siege ended. Diets were evolved which were useful as a tentative measure in supporting the sick.
Initially the water supply was obtained from the Klip River. This fluid, of pea-soup consistency, was made drinkable by sterilization and the removal of mud in suspension. Later five hogsheads were sunk into the bed of the Intombi Spruit from which a constant supply of 67 000 litres of clear water was used daily.
For the sanitary work there were 250 Indians and 131 Blacks, including a washing gang of 21. The rate at which the patients died in hospital demanded the services of 44 grave diggers for burials.
When the siege of Ladysmith ended on 28 February 1900, there had been 10 673 admissions at Intombi. Of the 583 soldiers who died, 382 deaths resulted from enteric fever and 109 from dysentery. The remainder of the deaths resulted from other illnesses and wounds due to action. All the dead, together with 5 civilians who succumbed to diseases, were buried in the cemetery nearby.
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2. Black and White Budget. Vols III and IV.
3. Dooner, M.G. The Last Post, 1903
4. Graphic Magazines of 1899, 1902.
5. Illustrated London News Magazines 1899, 1900.
6. Kisch, H. and Tugman, H. St. J. The Siege of Ladysmith in 120 Pictures. (London 1900)
7. Local History Museum. Durban.
8. Maurice, Maj-Gen Sir F. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902. (Vol II. London, 1907).
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Lt. C Arkwright of the 5th Lancers died of enteric ( today called typhoid) fever on 9 March 1900. Born in March 1874 he entered the 5th Lancers in 1894. Lt Arkwright was in Natal with his regiment when war was declared and served in Ladysmith throughout the siege.
Farrier Quarter Master Corporal R. Holyland of the Royal Horse Guards died of enteric fever on 15 January 1900.
Lt F.O. Barker of the 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, but attached to the Army Service corps as a 2nd Lieutenant, died of enteric fever on 2 February 1900.
Lt R.W. Pearson of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade was killed in action at Ladysmith on 22 February 1900. Lt Pearson was born in May 1876 and entered the Rifle Brigade in July 1897. He served in the Sudan in 1898, and in October 1899 accompanied his battalion to South Africa and served in Ladysmith during the siege up to the date of his death.
2nd Lt W.A. Orlebar of the 19th Hussars died of disease on 17 February 1900. He was born in March 1879 and entered the 19th Hussars in May 1898. He arrived in South Africa with his regiment in September 1899 and took part in the defence of Ladysmith up to the time of his death.
Sgt P.E.O. Brind of the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders died of enteric fever on 4 March 1900.
2nd Lt C.S. Platt of the 5th Dragon Guards died of enteric fever on 5 January 1900. He was born in August 1877, and entered the 5th Dragon Guards in November 1898. 2nd Lt Platt accompanied his regiment to South Africa arriving in September 1899.
Lt C.P. Russell of the 1st Battalion Leicester Regt. died of enteric fever in the Intombi Field Hospital. Born in November 1875 he entered the Leicester Regt in 1896. He was in Dundee during the battle of Talana Hill (20 October 1899) and saw action at the battle of Lombards Kop (30 October 1899). He died on 5 January 1900.
A view of the British Field Hospitals, both military and civilian, near the Intombi Spruit. The military hospitals can be identified by the large cluster of tents lying to the right of the railway line which runs towards the upper right corner of the photograph. Those who died here lie buried in the cemetery which is visible on the right. The Klip River can be seen in the foreground.
A similar view in 1981. The tents have long since gone and the trees all but obscure the view of the cemetery.
A view of the military hospitals looking south-eastwards with Umbulwana in the background. The temporary markers indicating the graves in the cemetery can be seen to the left of the large marquee.
The site was visited in 1979. The tall trees and the headstones are all that remain to remind the visitor of the ravages of disease which took place here a long time ago.
Another view of the part of the Military Field Hospitals near the Intombi Spruit. Behind the right stands Umbulwana and Lombards Kop and Gun Hill on the left.
A similar view in 1979. Mr P. Terry-Lloyd stands in for the British Medical Officer.
A view of the cemetery near the Intombi Spruit. The hospital tents have been removed. Here lie buried 662 men. 15 officers, 630 other ranks and 15 civilians. A single grave of a Jewish soldier is located in a separate enclosure adjacent to the main cemetery. The first burial took place on 8 November 1899 and the last on 23 March 1900.
A view of the same site in 1979. The individual graves can no longer be located because all the headstones, together with the main British monument have been placed near the eastern boundary of the cemetery.
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100 years of the income tax
Sunday, February 3, is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, which makes it the one hundredth birthday of the income tax. It has grown rather ill-tempered in its dotage.
Americans for Tax Reform commemorated the occasion by publishing a few fun facts about the income tax. Among other interesting statistics, the initial top tax bracket was only 7 percent, and it didn’t kick in until income reached a whopping $11.6 million in 2013 dollars. Only 358,000 people had to fill out 1040 forms at first, because the standard family deduction was an adjusted $93,000.
Over the past hundred years, the tax code has swelled from 400 pages to almost 74,000. The top rate is 39.6 percent; add in state and local taxes, and you’ve got the government soaking up over half of every marginal dollar earned by the Evil Rich. And the top bracket crashes down on those who earn over $450k, which is the new functional definition of a “millionaire.” Every new tax – from the income tax itself, to the Alternative Minimum Tax and its prospective stepchild, the “Buffett Rule” – is sold as a small levy on the vast wealth of millionaires. The AMT was only supposed to affect a couple of hundred people when it was implemented in 1969, but now it’s on the verge of grabbing 50 million taxpayers, if it’s not “fixed.” In the early years of the income tax, Americans were likewise assured that it would only slip a few dollars from the bulging wallets of the wealthy.
Allowing the government to sink its feeding tubes into the veins of American income has fueled astonishing government growth. That first itty bitty tax levy brought in a paltry $16.6 billion in revenue, adjusted for the past century of inflation. Today the income tax brings in $2.7 trillion. Government inevitably grows to fill, and exceed, the space made available for it.
Perhaps the biggest problem with this tax is the way it is collected. As we were all reminded during the row over presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks about the “47 percent,” the “progressive” tax system has moved an increasingly large cohort of Americans out of the system entirely, while placing an ever-greater share of the burden upon a dwindling group of high wage earners. Remarkably, this group is perpetually accused of “greed” and refusing to pay its “fair share,” even though the relationship between its tax burden and the amount of income it earns has long since exceeded any reasonable definition of “fairness.” Even before the new Obama tax increases kicked in, the Heritage Foundation noted that the top 10 percent of income earners were carrying 71 percent of the federal income tax burden, even though they earned only 43 percent of all income. The bottom 50 percent, meanwhile, earned 13 percent of all income but paid only 2 percent of the income tax.
And that still isn’t fair, according to the Left. It never will be.
The Left would not be able to play these “fairness” games if income was not directly taxed, at a variety of arbitrary rates – an offense against the individual’s right to own property, which should not attenuate with income level. Meanwhile, assets, benefits, and other forms of wealth are taxed differently. It is a formula for endless strife, and it’s been working like a charm for the past hundred years.
The income tax is collected largely through payroll deductions, which makes the true cost of government almost completely invisible to the middle class. Uncle Sam quietly takes his cut before the first dollar lands in an employee’s bank account. If every worker was required to compute and pay his own taxes quarterly, in the manner of a small business, America would experience a taxpayer revolt that might sweep away a good deal of government bloat. Imagine the fortunes of tax-cutting small-government candidates if most of the electorate had to figure up quarterly local, state, and federal tax bills, and write checks to all three authorities, a few days before each election.
Instead, the government takes big, silent bites out of everyone’s take-home pay. The process has been made obscure and painless, in much the way that a mosquito numbs the skin of its victim before drawing blood. We might also add the bite taken by Social Security and Medicare, programs that no young person entering the workforce today will ever get to enjoy, not in any manner resembling the benefits paid to the current retirees they are supporting. Although taken for different purposes, that money has become fungible; it’s all part of the same river of cash, pouring into an irresponsible Leviathan that still borrows another 40 cents on top of every dollar it takes from us. When we gave the State first claim on our income, we conceded far too much.
Then you’ve got the nauseating spectacle of Tax Day, when some people do become momentarily conscious of the immense cost of government, and grow a bit irritable… while others dance in the streets waving their tax “refunds,” which they actually regard as a “gift” from the government. Free money! Yay! Thus are the citizens of this proud Republic made to dance like trained animals, as they celebrate the repayment of money the government unfairly took from them, without a penny of interest. And then you’ve got those who receive “tax refunds” exceeding anything they paid into the system, thanks to tax credits.
Throughout the year, the government exerts vast amounts of control over the populace through that 74,000-page tax code, rewarding some behaviors and punishing others. The mechanism for funding the government should not also be a mechanism for controlling the people, or purchasing their votes.
One of the key federal income tax deductions is an allowance for state income taxes paid. This comes as a great relief to people who live in high-tax states, of course… but it also means the rest of us are subsidizing some of the worst tax-and-spend state governments, providing them with a cushion that eases the pressure for reform.
“The deduction is Washington’s way of supporting states that support their most vulnerable citizens and neediest cities,” explained the New York Times last December, when the “fiscal cliff” battle seemed to threaten these state tax deductions. ”The seven states that account for 90 percent of state and local tax deductions (including sales and property taxes) — New York, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts — generally do a better job of providing for the health and welfare of their citizens, and are more willing to pay for institutions that are good for society as a whole.”
California? Illinois? They’re disasters perched on the verge of total financial implosion. How insultingly stupid to portray them as nirvanas of liberal compassion, which the rest of us across America are morally obligated to support by paying higher federal income taxes, so that their citizens can pay less! Maybe these blue-state basket cases wouldn’t have gotten so bad if their political machines hadn’t enjoyed so much tax redistribution for so many years.
Redistribution. Control. Deception. These are the hallmarks of the income tax, the power source for a vast engine of central government that exerts its power to control markets, build loyal voting blocs of dependents, and pit Americans against each other like dogs fighting for table scraps. And we’re paying several other layers of taxation we can perceive even less clearly than the complex, automatically deducted income tax! We should be paying for government, not sustaining it. Every American should carry a truly fair share of the burden, which they can easily comprehend.
Instead, the IRS figures we spend 6.1 billion hours a year complying with a tax code that changed more than 5,000 times over the past ten years. Would the 16th amendment have passed, if the people of 1913 truly understood what they were unleashing? And why are we willing to meekly accept that we can never correct their mistake? | <urn:uuid:1c859df1-c27b-4305-ae05-44912d163728> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/03/one-hundred-years-of-the-income-tax/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96499 | 1,718 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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"Bsharri (also spelled Becharre, Bcharre, Bsharre), is a Lebanese city at 1,650 m of altitude, near the Kadisha Valley. It is located in the Bsharri District of the North Governorate. Bsharri is just under the Cedar forest and is the birthplace of the famous poet, painter and sculptor [Gibran] Khalil Gibran.
Bsharri was the site of a Phoenician settlement in ancient times. Maronite Christians fleeing persecution sought refuge in its mountainous terrain in the 7th Century AD. The Kadisha Valley, below the town, became the spiritual center of the Maronite Church. The town was known as Buissera by the Crusades.
In Lebanon, Bsharri natives are characterized as very courageous and fiercely feudal. They are especially known for their distinct accent when they speak Arabic. Unlike other parts of Lebanon, Aramaic was spoken in Bsharri well into the 1800s. As a result, Bsharri natives developed an unmistakably strong accent which lasts to this day and which they are very proud of.
Today, the village is located in a highly touristic zone including such attractions as the Gibran Tomb and Museum, Kadisha Valley, the Kadisha Grotto, the Cedars of God forest, a ski resort and Bka'kafra (the birthplace of St Charbel).
Bsharri is home to a Lebanese Red Cross First Aid Center."
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Five Words That Spell Liberation
In ancient Greek legend, the kingdom of Phrygia found itself without a ruler and an oracle predicted that their next king would ride into town on a wagon. Sure enough, a peasant named Gordius rode into town on an ox cart, and the people crowned him as king. When the people of Phyrigia made Gordius king, he dedicated his ox cart to Zeus and tied it fast with a dense and intricate knot -- a Gordian knot. An oracle predicted that whoever eventually untied the knot would rule all of Asia.
Many men tried for many years to untie the Gordian knot to no avail. Finally, the ambitious conqueror Alexander the Great solved the knot challenge in 333 BC by cutting through it with his sword. He eventually fulfilled the oracle's prophecy by becoming ruler of Asia.
The time of oracles and monarchs with swords has passed, but Gordian knots remain very much with us. In our country, you can enjoy a great deal of freedom to rule yourself rather than have a dictator rule over you. But this freedom of action does not stop people from attempting to rule over you with their Gordian knots ... of argumentation. They want to bind you in their Gordian knots of argumentation. They want to deceive you into thinking you cannot move without their "permission."
They usually start by sticking their noses, uninvited, into your business. Some busybody sees you peacefully enjoying yourself and feels morally entitled to strut into the scene to hose your good time thoroughly:
It consists of five words: I do not need you.
So if someone tells you not to eat chocolate cake, or not to look at bikini women, or not to patronize Wal-Mart, you can swing the sword of liberation to bypass the arguing altogether. You can cut, literally cut, to the heart of the matter by simply noting the fundamental fact: I do not need you.
That's it. That's the formula: I do not need you.
They will, of course, try to lure you into their sticky Gordian webs:
"But you haven't answered my objection." I do not need you.
"That's not an answer!" I do not need you.
"You're just trying to duck the issue!" I do not need you.
Many speakers invite you to "make the connection" -- whatever that means. I invite you -- yes, I do mean you -- to make the disconnection. Disconnect yourself from the obstructionists, the life drainers, the destroyers. Set yourself free from the Gordian knots of troublemakers so that you can live your life your way.
So let me tell you all squarely to your faces that if you try to trap me in your Gordian knots of argumentation, you will feel the sharp edge of my Alexandrian sword of liberation. So talk to the hand because the face shall not listen. I do not need you.
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The Five Creepiest Castles in Europe
Next time you’re vacationing in Europe and would like to see some spine-tingling locations who are known for having spooks as their inhabitants, check out these terrifying castles. Who knows? That mysterious knock and the chill in the air may just herald the arrival of a long-departed resident. Come back now for a visit!
1. Leap Castle, Ireland
Known as the most haunted castle in Ireland, Leap Castle has a rather bloody history. Legend has it that brother turned against brother as a warrior killed his priestly sibling. The chapel’s name reflects this gruesome tale; it’s been known as “the Bloody Chapel” ever since. Rounding out the creepy vibe is an oubliette where prisoners were pushed onto the spikes down below. Enter this castle, if you dare!
2. Moosham Castle, Austria
This creepy castle is also known as the Witches’ Castle because that’s where Austria’s priests held the bloodiest witch trials that rivaled even the hysteria that would later take place in Salem, Massachusetts. Countless numbers of women were tortured into confessing that they were Witches and signed pacts with the devil before being killed in the dungeons and torture chambers themselves. Do their restless spirits still walk the halls? More importantly, would you even want to get close enough to find out?
3. Dragsholm Castle, Denmark
Much like Hamlet’s castle, spooks still roam the walls of this castle turned hotel. (Its most notable ghosts include the Earl of Bothwell, lover to the tragic Mary, Queen of Scots, and a White Lady and a Grey Lady.) Legend has it that the White Lady was once a young girl who fell in love with a common man working there, and when her father found out, he had her imprisoned in her room. She was never seen again, but supposedly workers found a skeleton wearing a white dress in one of the walls during renovations that occurred in the 20th Century. Would you be brave enough to come face to face with this heartbroken spirit?
4. Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Known as one of the most haunted places in Scotland, this 800-year-old castle has been a part of countless historical conflicts. Some of the most well-known ghostly legends surrounding this place say that piper had been sent down to investigate the tunnels but disappeared. However, if you listen closely, you’ll hear him tirelessly play as he roams the tunnels. There’s also an anonymous drummer boy who appears before a battle sans a head, and the dungeons are full of restless spirits as well. If you visit, be aware of who might be standing next to you in spirit!
5. Windsor Castle, England
This proud castle, one of the many homes to the current Queen of England, is also known for its ghostly inhabitants and creepy legends. One such tale says that a royal keeper named Herne saved King Richard II by throwing himself between an angry stag and perished in the process. His spirit is often seen with a pack of hounds roaming the grounds. There’s also a slew of royal ghosts too: Henry VIII is often heard moaning, and his daughter Elizabeth I likes to walk around dressed in black. King Charles makes an appearance, as well as King George III, who likes to peer out of windows. If you see one of these royal spooks, give them a wave or tip your hat as they pass! | <urn:uuid:e64b7e38-4fa5-41a6-bfcd-0ff1ae18e081> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mycountry955.com/creepiest-castles-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980514 | 724 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Teacher Education Students Make a Difference at York
Over the past summer and into the fall, York College’s Teacher Education Students have made a large and positive impact at York College and the community. They have been involved in the Teacher Explorers program, PESE Workshop, an abstract was accepted for the National Geological Society of America meeting, Mathematic and Science Teacher (MaST) Scholars visited Washington DC, and they made an impact on NY Cares Day.
Teacher Explorers and the SEMAA program
Congratulations to our Teacher Explorers that participated in the SEMAA program this summer. The Teacher Explorers program was designed for students who are just beginning to consider teaching. The program involved working as a classroom assistant in the Space Engineering Mathematic Aerospace Academy at York College. Several current MaST Scholars served as mentors to the Teacher Explorers. The SEMAA program has a long history of hands-on science, in which these lucky students gain exposure to the field of education. The students that participated in the program were Nneka Wallace, Neeta Sidat, Jason Pierre, Stephen Persaud, Jenell Mohamed, Victoria Lang, Akhtar Harrison, Juliet George, Fatima Flores, Suying Chang, Peter Carmichael, Fredy Calle and William Bailey.
Pathways to Earth Science Education (PESE): Exciting Adventure for Teens
Research by Teacher Education Students to be Presented at the National Geological Society of America Meeting
Under the mentorship of Dr. Leslie Keiler, the abstract written by Kathleen Robbins, Peter Carmichael, and Nneka Wallace was accepted to the annual Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. Their study focused on how to excite urban adolescent students about the wonders of Earth Science. The data was collected from the Pathways to Earth Science workshop held this past summer. Ms. Wallace, Ms. Robbins and Mr. Carmichael also taught successfully in these workshops. Kathleen Robbins and Dr. Keiler will be presenting the research on behalf of the research team in Denver, Colorado on November 2nd, 2010.
MaST Scholars travel to Washington
In the beginning of July of this year, Fatima Flores, Kathleen Robbins and Dr. Keiler traveled to Washington D.C. for the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Scholarship Program conference. York’s Education Department presented a poster of their recruitment methods and current scholars presented their research along with other scholars attending the conference. They attended such workshops as Making the Most of Digital Learning Resources for STEM with the National Science Digital, Productive Classroom Culture Library and Using Public Representations of Students' Thinking to Drive Evidence‐Based Reasoning. Kathleen Robbins summed the experienced up best when she said:”What was really nice was the opportunity to hear from new teachers about their struggles and successes. It was nice to feel part of a larger community of like-minded educators where everyone is willing to help us fledgling teachers."
Future Teachers Help Revitalize P.S. 40
On Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 a group of future teachers took time out of their busy schedules to help revitalize P.S. 40 in Jamaica. The group of teacher felt it was hard work but it was also fun as they helped reorganize the school. Special thanks to Jazzmine Randolph, Douglas Wasserman, Ashley-Ann Cruz, Peter Carmichael, Neeta Sidat and Nneka Wallace for their effort. P.S. 40’s administration was very gracious to the volunteers as they provide lunch on the house for them.
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As the title states; I tried to do some treadmill running after yesterday's gym workout and felt a sharp pain on the outside of my right foot. If you place your foot on the ground in the normal fashion, and you run your finger from your pinky toe to midfoot, you'll know where the pain was. That area at midfoot was piercing pain with every footfall. I stress that it wasn't the 'top' of my foot but with the foot resting on the ground it was the 'side' of my foot parallel to the ground. I don't seem to see anything related to this online, all I see is arch and ball of foot issues. Anyone know of this pain?
Last year I had a mild peroneal strain and it felt something like that, just not as sharp at first. I wondered if my shoe was just too tight, but then the feeling got bad enough to send me to a pediatrist for diagnosis.
The biggest help was using a towel to stretch it out before going to bed. First I'd sit with my legs straight ahead. Then I'd loop a towel around the ball of the foot, with the ends of the towel crossing over to form an X. When I pulled on the end of the towel on the same side as my foot, the bottom of my foot would turn inward like it was "clapping" the other foot. I'd hold the stretch for about 30 seconds at a time, usually with two or three repeats, until the discomfort went away. Just be careful not to overstretch it, especially if there is some risk if tearing something.
All told it was about 3 weeks from diagnosis to being symptom free. I did not need to stop running, though I lowered the intensity and volume a bit to avoid aggravating it further. Your mileage may vary, of course.
I've got a similar problem in the same location on my right foot, although it isn't to the level of "piercing pain" yet. I first noticed it a day or two after my 5K race 11 days ago. It wasn't very painful compared to the other muscle soreness I had after the race. I put in a little over 30 miles jogging the following week, which is a bit more than my normal 20-30 weekly miles. By the end of the week the area was rather sore to the touch and I was noticeably limping around the house, especially when barefoot. I took 72 hours off of running. The pain decreased slowly, but didn't disappear completely, before I put 5 miles on it yesterday and 4 more this morning. It is sore again. I was hoping to get in one more run before another 5K race this coming Sunday, but I'm probably going to have to rest my foot instead. I'll give the towel stretch a try. Any more advice on what the problem may be and how best to treat it is appreciated.
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I tried taping with great success. I did 2 wraps of tape around my foot just under the ball. I was able to complete my max run with no pain; in fact 3 days later since I wrote that post, I feel no pain at all. The day after the injury however, just normal walking became problematic as the area felt 'weak'. I don't know perhaps it was less an injury and more like I tried to do too much that day. Thanks for the responses. | <urn:uuid:52d309d3-8766-4da0-8e08-98187ae016d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://community.active.com/message/839687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981321 | 771 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Spring/Summer 2002, Volume 15, Number 1
Hopkins is in the midst of installing a high-end intraoperative MRI scanner in the OR because "we've stopped believing surgeons," says Neurosurgeon in Chief, Henry Brem, M.D. At one time, surgeons said, "We got it all" after resecting a brain tumor. They'd close the patient's skull and hope for the best. A day later, the woozy recoveree would be wheeled into radiology for a shadowy CT scan that might or might not reveal a very real residual tumor. Three months later, the growth would return.
The new MRI flanks
neurosurgeon Jon Weingart.
MRI has changed much of that, with its soft-tissue capabilities, but the inability to scan patients until they're long off the surgical table has remained a major drawback. By August that should change when a new, roughly 3 foot-by-3 foot intraoperative MRI is in situ in OR-5. "We'll be able to get instant feedback on an operation," says Jon Weingart, M.D., neurosurgery's point person in the endeavor. "We'll be able to tell if we've missed a sliver of tumor and can go back and clean it up."
Moreover, surgeons will be able to get constant, real-time updates during surgery, to compensate for small shifts the brain may make during an operation.
In addition, he says, the new system can swing into place just before the start of a craniotomy or biopsy to help plan the best approach to the target tumor. Surgeons use a specialized pointer, touching it to the skull at spots of potential entry, then eyeing a nearby monitor to view brain structures on the proposed surgical path. All of this occurs in real time.
Few institutions in this country have intraoperative MRI, though the system is more common in Israel, where it was developed. The company manufacturing Hopkins' $1,134,000 version says it's most valuable in tackling oligodendrogliomas, pituitary tumors, low-grade astrocytomas, intraventricular or skull-base tumors and subdural bleeding.
"We'll be selective in choosing patients," Weingart explains. "Those with tumors in certain locations would more likely see maximal removal. We believe we're talking about major differences in outcome." The MRI is a joint venture of the neurosurgery and neuroradiology departments. | <urn:uuid:5b0fb614-f838-4477-8aa7-57295e9a2284> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/brainwaves/mri.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951361 | 514 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Gordon Brown is absolutely right in his proposal that the G7 offer state guarantees, on ‘commercial’ terms (really terms that provide the state with an adequate risk-adjusted return on the funds it commits) to restore life to interbank lending. Banks today don’t lend to each other without high-grade security at any but the shortest maturities. When banks don’t lend to each other, they don’t lend to the real economy – non-financial businesses and households. That is the road to economic disaster.
If French officialdom believes the interbank lending market in the eurozone to be in materially better shape than in the UK, it is detached from reality. In addition, the euro area member states, the rest of the EU member states and indeed the US are well behind the UK as regards putting in place the fiscal underpinnings for the survival of their banking sectors. The notion that the ECB and the rest of the Eurosystem can play the role that is played in the UK by the fiscal authority, is a dangerous delusion.
The only quasi-fiscal resource available to the ECB and the Eurosystem is seigniorage – the ability to extract real resources through the issuance of fiat money. The ECB and the Eurosystem are, by Treaty, forbidden from imposing that quasi-fiscal tax if it threatens price stability. The ECB and the Eurosystem therefore can only provide financial support when the problem is illiquidity rather than insolvency. In much of the euro area, the banking system is now threatened by insolvency. This means that only the true fiscal authorities, that is, the national governments capable of raising taxes and cutting public spending, can step up to fill the banking system’s solvency gap.
With a series of bold moves, and the promise of more to come should more be needed, the UK authorities have, for the first time since this global financial crisis started in August 2007, got ahead of the game and put themselves in a position to shape events rather than just respond to them. The leading contintental European nations are in denial about the gravity of the situation, despite the warnings provided by the collapse of Fortis and Dexia. The US authorities hope/pray that the $700 billion TARP facility will do the job. It won’t. Even if it is used in its entirety to recapitalise the US banking system, it will only fill a small fraction of the solvency gap.
Large-scale fiscally financed injections of capital into the bankings systems of the US and the EU (sans UK) are required immediately. Where border-crossing banks are involved, fiscal burden-sharing formulae will have to be designed. This is impossible if the political will is absent; it is a trivial task if the political will is there.
In addition, there is an urgent need for direct interventions in the financial markets, targeted directly at the blockages/distortions preventing these markets from functioning. That means either unsecured lending by the central bank to the banks (i.e. the central bank interposing itself as counterparty of last resort in the interbank market) or Treasury guarantees of interbank transactions.
The banks participating in the interbank markets are inherently border-crossing institutions. Only if all EU members, the EU orphans (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland), the US, Japan and Canada decide on a common approach to getting interbank lending going again is there a realistic chance of success.
It is time for the continental European governments and for the US authorities to stop hoping for a miracle. When the going gets tough, only fiscal solutions will do. When systemically important markets fail comprehensively, only the coercive power of the state, backed by taxation and regulation – the power to prescribe and proscribe – offers a way out. Politics now drives economics. I hope our political class is up to the job. | <urn:uuid:3dc0fe53-137c-4c8a-9b66-38fe753a3138> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2008/10/unfreeze-the-interbank-markets-by-guaranteeing-interbank-lending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936398 | 809 | 2.09375 | 2 |
On a Wednesday evening in April, the community of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, took cover as a tornado approached from the west. When they emerged from their homes a short time later, the devastation was simply unfathomable. The April 27th tornado was a massive F-5 - the second most deadly tornado in history - and demolished whole neighborhoods and communities with its mile-wide destructive path that went on for 200 miles across Alabama. By the time all the homes were searched, the death toll had risen above 350 people.
I shot this film two weeks after the tornado occurred. The people of Pleasant Grove, as well the other cities affected, will be picking up the pieces for months to come.
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- With more than 300 oddities on exhibit, from a statue of Marilyn Monroe made from shredded money to torture chamber devices, this museum is a curiosity and a record of all things strange. The original Ripley's in Orange County displays similar items, but the Hollywood version overlooking the Walk of Fame is much larger, and therefore, much stranger. For example, a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex with a backwards-running clock in his mouth looms on the roof (his feet are inside the building), and a stuffed two-headed goat awaits guests inside. Although this is a fun museum, some of the exhibits might be too grotesque for younger children.
- © wcities.com 2013
Ask a local about Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum
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Homeowners in Cumbria could consider comparing energy companies as new figures suggest that high prices have contributed to an increase in winter deaths.
The News and Star reports new research has revealed that nearly 300 additional deaths were reported in the region during the winter of 2006/07 than in the previous summer.
Fuel poverty is viewed as a contributing factor, with over 14,300 Cumbrian homes having to allocate more than ten per cent of their annual income towards paying energy bills.
According to the paper, the report stated: "Whilst the county as a whole appears relatively affluent, this masks high levels of deprivation affecting specific neighbourhoods and communities."
Cumbria county council has responded to the data by approving an anti-poverty strategy designed to provide assistance for low-income families and to offer more comprehensive advice.
Part of the scheme will also involve encouraging more households to apply for benefits to which they are entitled.
All the UK's major energy companies have announced price reductions in recent weeks, although they fail to match the scale of increases implemented throughout 2008.
Mark Todd, of energyhelpline.com, said: "UK households can fight back. Using a switching service, they can compare energy prices and switch gas and electricity to a much cheaper option. The average customer can save up to £378 in a few minutes."
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I’m a big fan of Colleen McDannell’s Material Christianity (1995). It tackles physical materials of religious activity such as art, bibles, cemeteries, Christian retailers, and sacred clothing. While interesting on their own, together these investigations comprise a serious argument for weakly differentiated categories of sacred and profane. She famously says that sacred and profane are scrambled–with yolk and egg white blended beyond recovery. Contrary to Durkheim or Eliade, McDannell says the materiality of sacred culture means it cannot be effectively distinguished from its profane contexts: Bibles live in homes full of non-religious activities, Christian bookstores find themselves full of secular books to make ends meet, cemeteries become locations for picnics and Sunday strolls. These compromises make a hard-and-fast distinction between sacred and profane all but impossible.
McDannell doesn’t mince words when she establishes the sacred and profane as human-designated categories–”material culture in itself has no intrinsic meaning of its own.” From this perspective, even a church is only religious because we intend to use it religiously. [I'm not sure quite how far I'd be willing to take this line of reasoning, but I do agree that sacred and profane are human-generated and human-assigned categories. The idea of semi-autonomous or self-generating categories (as in Eliade) or wholly oppositional categories (as in both Eliade and Durkheim) strikes me as decidedly unsupportable.]
I find the work helpful today because it seriously addresses the challenges of religious materiality. She splits material culture into artifacts, landscapes (cultivated nature), architecture, and art–and each gets their turn in her work–but the broader context of this material focus is the rejection that religion is all about what people “think” or “believe” rather than what they do. It’s a profoundly functionalist religious examination–not only because the material objects have meaning in relation to the religious work they do, but because belief is dissected at the level of action. When beliefs are concerned, they are non-abstract. Even irrational beliefs emerge functionally as a product of material exchange and interaction.
It’s also helpful as I struggle to understand a subculture of evangelicals that take “doing” very, very seriously (and are routinely attacked because what they do doesn’t reconcile easily with what others do or believe). Part of the challenge of understanding spiritual warriors is that they are doing in a way that isn’t precisely material or immaterial. It’s physical, surely, and bodily, but it doesn’t have an external material substance. It’s not a book or a building. In the spiritual warfare I study the body is a temporary material extension into the immaterial space of the clash of the kingdom of God with the kingdom of Satan. It often feels like bodies are used as a impromptu bridge to bring materiality to immateriality.
Of course, McDannell doesn’t deal with any of this. It’s my work to try to see my subjects in a fashion that jives with her model. The discord keep me busy even as the harmonies make me optimistic. I’m sure we all have texts like that–ones that we keep mulling over and over again in our minds and our work as we try to figure out why they aren’t wholly satisfying. Feel free to share your own.
[P.S. Hope you enjoyed your holiday! I took a few sick days with a winter cold before in-laws came to visit. I've got a week to get back to speed for the AHA. Be sure to check here on Friday for a quick last-minute religious studies guide to the AHA. -Dave] | <urn:uuid:aeb72113-0d77-40b3-8f41-9401dceb1e8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mcconeghy.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/material-christianity-and-sacred-space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954813 | 809 | 1.757813 | 2 |
DoD Supports Counterdrug Operations
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 8, 1996 In the vast jungle hinterlands of Central and South America, money and might rule the land and drug lords are the richest, most powerful of all.
Throughout Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Mexico, drugs mean big money, corruption and violence. Drugs destroy countless lives, and according to U.S. defense officials, the illicit trade can also destroy nations.
"In my view, cocaine trafficking is the greatest threat to democracy in this hemisphere," Brian Sheridan, deputy assistant defense secretary for drug enforcement policy and support, said during a recent trip to Central and South America. "If cocaine flows through a country long enough, it is virtually inevitable that it will corrode law enforcement mechanisms, political institutions, and in some cases, the very highest levels of government."
DoD helps law enforcement and military officials in the region fight the drug flow. Defense officials provide intelligence data and excess equipment such as helicopters and night vision gear. DoD also helps train foreign pilots and law enforcement officials in the United States and abroad for interdiction operations in their homelands.
Peru and Bolivia account for about 90 percent of the 800 or so metric tons of cocaine produced in South America each year, Sheridan said. In 1994, officials seized about 300 metric tons worldwide, of which nearly 100 metric tons were seized in South America.
Trains, planes, boats and automobiles ferry the addictive white powder to market. Drugs flow north through Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and every other country along the way to the United States, Sheridan said. Originally, drug trafficking was perceived as a North American problem, he said. Now, it is acknowledged as a major problem shared by all nations in the hemisphere.
"A couple of years ago when we would visit our Latin American friends and talk to them about the cocaine problem, they would say this is a 'gringo problem,'" he said. "They would say, 'You guys are putting this stuff up your nose and you ought to stop it.'"
Sheridan said it is 180 degrees different today. "They come to us and say, 'Holy cow! My democratic institutions are in trouble. We are scared.' When Colombian and Mexican traffickers show up, you can be sure they're going to bring a high level of violence with them. Many of the island nations in the Caribbean are scared to death. They simply do not have the capability to resist the power of these drug traffickers."
Drug money corrupts low-paid local officials, Sheridan said. This is a danger any country must face that finds it has a cocaine transiting problem, he said.
"There are huge amounts of money to be made in this business, Sheridan said. "The employees of any of these government services are typically not paid as well as they could be. When a narcotics trafficker arrives and says 'I'll give you $50,000 to disappear for a few minutes' or asks them not to take action against an air strip, this is a big problem."
Controlling large land areas and air space with limited resources is the greatest challenge facing these nations, Sheridan said. The countries are large, infrastructures are underdeveloped, and the terrain is difficult, he said. Brazil, 3.3 million square miles in size, for example, is larger than the continental United States.
"It's staggering how large they are and just how rough the terrain is," Sheridan said. Frequently the borders are not marked and few people live in vast remote areas. In addition to drug trafficking, illegal mining and illegal logging plague remote areas outside the capitals and a few major regional cities. In many ways, Sheridan said, the area is like America's Wild West in the days of sheriffs and posses vs. outlaws and cattle thieves.
"I've been down in Bolivia where one minute they're talking drugs and the next they're talking about illegal logging going on," Sheridan said. "Loggers go for miles into Bolivia chopping down huge swaths of timber. It's illegally harvested and pulled out through Brazil."
Helping nations control their territory is where DoD comes in, Sheridan said. "We help them get control of their air space by providing radar support from ground-based radar and from airborne systems. We help them get control of their land mass by providing mobility assets, principally helicopters.
The United States has provided helicopters to Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and, most recently, Mexico. U.S. and Mexican officials agreed in late April to a framework for transferring 20 American UH-1 helicopters to Mexico's armed forces to help fight drug traffickers.
Officials use the aircraft to transport apprehension forces, Sheridan said. "If you have good intelligence -- radar information -- telling you where a plane is going to land, you can take the helicopter right to the air strip," he said. While it's hard to catch drug traffickers in the act, he said, helicopters can be used to bring in forces to destroy airfields and processing laboratories and set up road blocks on routes where drugs are being moved, he said.
Drug trafficking is an enormous problem and presents a significant challenge for all nations in the hemisphere, Sheridan said. "That's why we all have to work together to address this problem." | <urn:uuid:2da6a262-480c-45f3-9379-53a7b905ad6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=40834 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960658 | 1,094 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Local Governance in England and France
Published June 28th 2001 by Routledge – 208 pages
Local Governance in England and France addresses issues at the cutting edge of comparative politics and public policy. The book is based on extensive research and interviews, over 300 in total, with local decision makers in two pairs of cities in England and France: Lille and Leeds; Rennes and Southampton. No other Anglo-French comparative project has ever gone into such depth - based on actual case studies - making this book an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike. The book poses key questions about the changing role of the state, the difficulties of policy coordination in a fragmented institutional context, and about the relationship between governance, networks as well as political and democratic accountability. It will be of great interest to the professional research community, and practitioners in Britain, France and beyond, as well as to students of comparative politics, European public policy, British / French politics, European studies, public management and local government studies.
'…this is a book that provides sufficient comparative insights and would be a good addition to teaching and research libraries.' - Urban Studies, Mike Raco, University of Reading.
'…this book is already a 'classic' comparative book in the field of local government/local governance in Europe. It has no equivalent in Europe. It is the most rigorous and carefully designed comparative research in the field of local government published for quite a long time. It is essential reading for comparative government courses, a useful tool with the extensive bibliography and the depth of the research makes it also crucial for postgraduate and advanced researchers.' - Patrick Le Galés, CEVIPOF-CNRS/Sciences Po Paris, West European Politics.
1. The Age of Governance
2. Local Politics and Policy-making in England
3. Local Politics and Policy-making in France
4. The Governance of Local Economic Development in England and France
5. The Governance of Education in England and France
6. Governing British Cities
7. Governing French Cities
8. Local Governance in England and France
Alistair Cole is Professorial Research Fellow at Cardiff University. His many publications include Franco German Relations, French Politics and Society, and Francois Mitterand: A study in political leadership.
Peter John is Anniversary Reader in Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London. He chaired the Political Studies Association Research Sub-Committee, 1999-2000, and worked closely with the Economic and Social Research Council as an adviser. He is the author of Analysing Public Policy. | <urn:uuid:934f6445-1ca7-4156-9bf6-41e3e9b6171d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9780415239424/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928971 | 528 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Funeral planning information and tools
Urns, Caskets & Coffins Bel Air MD
Depending on how a person wishes to be cared for after death, there are a variety of ways their remains can be contained. Urns, caskets and coffins are some of the most common ways remains are stored, and these articles have information on these different types of containers.
Most caskets can be shipped to any U.S. location in a day or two. Really, you don't have to purchase a casket from a funeral home. The law requires funeral homes to receive, store (for a reasonable time).
This article introduces several different and uinique urns. Read on to find out more about them.
What of the body that contained that spirit? For those who have lost a loved one, it is a practical question that must be answered almost immediately. The choice to cremate or to bury is a very personal one, based on family traditions, religious practice, and individual preferences. In either case, one must find a container to hold that which remains. | <urn:uuid:1676671f-3c46-40aa-8f95-73643722995e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://local.thefuneralsite.com/Urns_Caskets_Coffins_Bel_Air_MD-t7166_Bel+Air+MD.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957088 | 224 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Chauncey Bailey Project
For 15 years, journalist Chauncey Bailey was a constant presence in Oakland, Calif., newspapers, radio and television.
In August 2007, journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in broad daylight, in downtown Oakland, Calif., by a masked man armed with a shotgun.
Bailey was an editor at the Oakland Post, a newspaper that primarily serves Oakland's black community. His associates claim he was killed because he was writing an expose on the financial problems of a local bakery and the renegade Black Muslim group that ran it.
The owner of the now-shuttered Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusef Bey IV, is currently on trial, along with associate Antoine Mackey, for allegedly masterminding Bailey's murder. Devaughndre Broussard, who confessed to doing the shooting, is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
A day after Bailey's murder, police raided Your Black Muslim Bakery, which employed ex-cons who converted to Islam. Police recovered a shotgun and a spent shell linked to the fatal head wound Bailey suffered after already being shot twice in the torso.
Police also arrested Broussard, then 22, a janitor at the bakery who had a criminal record.
Initially, Broussard denied killing Bailey, but then he confessed, saying that he had acted alone. Then, in a 2008 interview with the TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes, Broussard recanted.
Source: The Chauncey Bailey Project
LANGUAGE ADVISORY: This video contains language some might find offensive.
"I never heard about Chauncey Bailey," Broussard told 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper. "I never met him. I never seen him. The first time I heard about Mr. Chauncey Bailey was that night I got arrested."
About a year later, Broussard again changed his story. He confessed in a plea agreement to killing not only Chauncey Bailey but also another man, Odell Roberson, just a few weeks before shooting the journalist — and he said he had acted on the orders of Yusef Bey IV.
Recording The Conspiracy
Bey's attorney, Gene Peretti, says his client is innocent and that Broussard's plea agreement means he has a motive to lie.
"It's fundamentally his word," Peretti says. "He is a person who finds himself in a situation where he has, in essence, confessed to two murders, and he starts thinking about it and he gets an attorney and all of a sudden he's gonna cut a deal."
But Peretti's client, the defendant Bey, has his own credibility problems.
When Bey was arrested in 2007 on a separate kidnapping charge, he told police he had no knowledge of Bailey's murder. Then police put him in a holding room with two underlings and secretly videotaped their conversation.
The resulting video was obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project, a collaboration of San Francisco Bay Area news groups created to investigate Bailey's murder.
Robert Rosenthal of the Center for Investigative Reporting leads the project and says the video points to a conspiracy.
"The video shows Yusef Bey IV in a holding cell basically describing the murder of Chauncey Bailey," Rosenthal says, "with the detail of even laughing about sort of the way his head would jerk back when ... the second or third shot from the shotgun hit him."
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Early Actions by the 112th Congress
A prolonged struggle to set government spending levels has highlighted ideological and pragmatic differences within the 112th Congress. The new Congress inherited a budget impasse from the last Congress, which was unable to pass legislation to allocate funds for government operations for the full 2011 fiscal year (FY). Instead, before adjourning, the 111th Congress enacted a series of continuing resolutions to maintain most government agencies, including NIH, at FY 2010 appropriations levels. The last of these stopgap funding measures, Public Law 111-322, which was passed on December 21, provided funds through March 4 and ceded appropriations responsibility for the remainder of FY 2011 to the 112th Congress.
The new Congress, with a narrowed Democratic majority in the Senate and a new Republican majority in the House, is divided on budget management strategies and the role of government in American life. In line with Republican priorities, the House introduced a long-term continuing resolution (HR 1) to fund the government through the remaining 7 months of the fiscal year. Floor debate began on February 15 with an unusual open rule that allowed members to offer amendments within specified limits. After sorting through hundreds of amendments, voting on 153, and adopting 67, the House voted mostly along party lines to pass HR 1 in the early hours of February 19. The bill contains more than $60 billion in cuts from FY 2010 spending levels, including a $1.6 billion reduction for NIH, and includes several provisions that block funding associated with the implementation of health care reform.
Senate Democrats have joined their colleagues in the House in opposing the deep spending cuts described in HR 1, and President Obama has also expressed opposition to the bill. On March 4 Senate appropriators proposed an alternative version of the bill that features approximately $6.5 billion in cuts. The Senate version would freeze funding for many government agencies, including NIH, at 2010 levels.
Both the House and Senate versions of the year-long continuing resolution could significantly constrain NIH’s ability to support new research. The proposed reductions in the House version span all NIH Institutes and Centers, and are based on projected total funding and projected funding for non-competing research project grants. At the same time, the bill would require NIH to fund a minimum of 9,000 new competing research project grants and would place a $400,000 cap on the average annual cost for competing research project grants.
The Senate version maintains funding at FY 2010 levels and does not impose requirements about numbers of grants or funding levels. However, the rising costs of biomedical research and commitments to research projects already underway could reduce the level of support available for new grantees in FY 2011, although less dramatically than the House version would.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced his intention to hold test votes on both versions of the continuing resolution this week. Neither version is expected to pass; the maneuver is designed to demonstrate the necessity for bipartisan compromise.
Lawmakers now have less than 2 weeks to find some common ground and reach an agreement about FY 2011 appropriations. The Congress imposed a new deadline by quickly passing a 2-week continuing resolution just as the last one was set to expire. This latest stopgap measure (H J Res 44; PL 112–4), which was signed by President Obama on March 2, contained $4 billion in spending cuts palatable to both parties. Many government agencies, including NIH, will continue operating at FY 2010 levels until this continuing resolution expires on March 18 or until an agreement for either a long-term solution or another stopgap reprieve can be reached. | <urn:uuid:de99a217-bf36-4f9b-bb7e-b6577aba5974> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/030811/page9/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962556 | 722 | 2.078125 | 2 |
What causes immune deficiency conditions?
Many immune deficiency conditions are genetic. Some can be traced to a single gene, while others result from multiple abnormal genes. Genetic immune deficiency conditions are called primary immune deficiencies.
Immune deficiency conditions can also be acquired. These can result from cancer treatments that decrease the production of immune cells, medications that suppress the immune system, and infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that affect the immune system.
What are the risk factors for immune deficiency conditions?
A number of factors increase the risk of developing immune deficiency conditions. Not all people with risk factors will get immune deficiency conditions. Risk factors for immune deficiency conditions include:
- Certain chemotherapy drugs
- Family history of an immune deficiency condition
- Intravenous drug use
- Multiple blood or blood product transfusions
- Radiation therapy
- Steroid use
- Unsafe sexual practices
- Use of immunosuppressants to prevent rejection of transplanted organs or tissues or to control an overactive immune system
What are immune deficiency conditions?
The immune system is composed of multiple types of cells, tissues, organs and proteins. The primary function of the immune system is to distinguish between self and non-self (foreign). When something that is non-self, or foreign, is encountered, the immune system attacks it to help prevent infection or other injury. Immune deficiency conditions occur when the immune system is unable to do ... Read more about immune deficiency conditions introduction
What are the symptoms of immune deficiency conditions?
Immune deficiency conditions weaken the body’s ability to fight off infection. Symptoms include frequent infections, severe infections, infections that don’t respond to treatment, and recurrent infections. Repeated infections in children can interfere with nutrition, leading to failure to gain weight, weight loss, slow growth, and slow development. Chronic sinusitis and bronchitis are also commonly associated with immune deficiency conditions.... Read more about immune deficiency conditions symptoms
How are immune deficiency conditions treated?
Treating existing infections and reducing exposure to other infections are important steps in managing immune deficiency conditions. Several primary immune deficiencies can be treated with replacement of defective immune system components. Treatment of acquired immune deficiencies varies depending upon the underlying cause of immune deficiency.... Read more about immune deficiency conditions treatments | <urn:uuid:277bf429-037b-4900-96f1-38d30dcec299> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.localhealth.com/article/immune-deficiency-conditions/causes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915817 | 466 | 3.65625 | 4 |
An Alabama teenager spent four years after the Civil War searching for Jeff Darter—the man who shot his father.
[Geraldine Locke] said Joseph Moor heard Darter tell people he was going west to escape the Moor family and justice.
"Joseph spent years chasing Jeff Darter until they bedded down at the same campsite," Locke said.
In the middle of the night, Moor cut Darter's throat, got on his horse and rode back to Alabama.
Moor never told family members where he had been or about his actions until he was on his deathbed in January 1937. [Link] | <urn:uuid:964b4544-27f9-42bd-a6f7-37998d95fd84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genealogue.com/2007/06/typical-case-of-teenage-angst.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990635 | 127 | 2.25 | 2 |
Disinfection & Control of C. difficile Infection
C. difficile spores resist dessication for months and are known to persist on hard surfaces for up to 5 months. Spores persist even after exposure to air. Epidemic strain B1/NAP1/027 is known to hyper-sporulate, a virulence-associated characteristic of outbreak strains.
Healthcare workers are an important vector for transmission as they may carry the spores on their hands or clothing. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are very effective against non-sporulating organisms but do not kill C. difficile spores or remove the organism from the hands. The CDC recommends thorough hand washing using soap and water for care givers and family members alike.
Patients with C. difficile infection (CDI) should be isolated to a single room with a bathroom or cohorted (roomed) together.
Staff treating infected patients should use PPE (gowns & gloves) and wash hands after removing gloves. The use of gowns helps to prevent contamination of clothing.
Surfaces should be decontaminated using a solution of 10% sodium hypochlorite (bleach), this is effective in reducing environmental contamination in hospital rooms. The CDC recommends the use of bleach for cleaning patient and staff rooms during outbreaks.
Control strategies involving reinforcement of Infection control practices rather than drug restriction are more effective. These practices include:
- Proper education of staff members involved in care of CDI patients
- Better isolation compliance
- Use of gloves
- Frequent and thorough hand washing
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