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I think it’s punctual because an attempt in my view is a specific action and not a process, but I’d appreciate your thoughts on it.
Is the following sentence correct to describe a young man? He should be seventeen. My colleague was absolutely sure it was correct. I disagreed, so we had a bit of an argument. I would agree on ...
What would be the correct name for the following formula: is + past participle. Would this be the present perfect? An example sentence would be- The meat is stored in the freezer.
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Minor in Speech, Theatre
The speech/theatre minor offers the opportunity to develop and expand speech or theatrical talents and skills as well as knowledge about the performing arts while pursuing a chosen major. Students can tailor the program to fit their particular interests in speech and/or theatre. Students will complete 12 credits of specified courses and then choose another 12 credits from a list of additional options. Students can also take advantage of the many performing opportunities available throughout the year.
There are no prerequisites to participate in the speech/theatre minor program.
Topics of Study
- voice and diction
- world theatre
- technical theatre production
- play analysis
- speech for business and the professions
- roles in national touring companies
- roles in regional professional theatres
- full-time work at local theme parks
Experiential Learning Opportunities
- musical theatre productions
- dramatic theatre productions
- in-residence workshops with established music theatre artists
- internship opportunities with a local theme park or theatre company
- Dance Happening
- Spring Dance Concert
- Alpha Psi Omega (dramatic fraternity)
COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Do you have to audition to become a speech/theatre minor?
No. You do not need to audition to declare a speech/theatre minor.
Are there scholarships available for speech/theatre minors?
Financial assistance is available to all students who meet the requirements. The University offers up to $30,000 in scholarship/gift assistance (that equals up to $7,500 per year). Students interested in more information should speak to their admissions counselor and/or the financial aid office.
How do I get involved in campus speech and theatre productions?
We produce three theatrical productions each semester: two on the Falk Theater main stage and one in the smaller Reeves Theater in the Vaughn Center. All students on campus are eligible to audition. Additionally, the Oral Interpretation of Literature class stages a performance each semester and the department sponsors a Speech Contest during the year.
What are speech/theatre minor students doing after graduation?
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The schools in Butler County, Pa., have hired retired state troopers to serve as armed guards at all 14 of their facilities.
The move by school officials is not unlike that in several other states where school districts have looked to beef up security, reported the Washington Post
The school board has designated $230,000 to pay for 22 armed guards — one at every school and every after-school event — and is only hiring retired troopers with at least 20 years experience who own their own gun and can pass a 60-round shooting test.
“We might not like it, but the modern reality is our kids are vulnerable, and they need our help,” said Frank Cichra, who already has been hired to patrol one of the schools. “Nobody’s doing this job for money.”
Superintendent Mike Strutt said he added the guards because he felt that security drills and lockdown plans would not be enough if an armed shooter approached one of the schools for which he is responsible.
With a similar thought, some groups in Utah are specifically training teachers to carry weapons, some in Tennessee are hiring “security specialists,” and the National Rifle Association is readying a program to help schools either train or hire armed guards across the country.
“This could happen here,” Strutt said about why he pushed the members of his school board to approve his plan. “Armed guards are the one thing that give us a fighting chance. Don’t we want that one thing?”
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As well as introducing new aspects to the character of the Evil Queen, the filmmakers of Mirror Mirror have re-created Snow White. Instead of the passive character of the traditional fairy tale, this Snow White is a brave, swashbuckling leader to the bandit dwarves, who rescues her Prince rather than waiting for him to rescue her!
- Look closely at the following images. What do these images suggest about the representation of Snow White?
- How does she appear different from traditional representations? Think about shot composition, mise en scène and the gesture, posture and expression of the actors.
- Why do you think the filmmakers have chosen to represent Snow White in this way? What does it suggest about audience expectations?
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Are you in the market for a fuel-efficient used car? Then you probably have competition—not just from other drivers, but from car dealerships.
The auto industry had a strong year of new-auto sales in 2012, and another huge year for car purchases is expected for 2013. Forecasts call for more than 15 million new-car purchases in the U.S. this year, up slightly from 2012 and a sharp rise compared to the 10.5 million new vehicles sold in 2009.
Rising new-car sales generally mean an increased inventory of used cars, thanks to trade-ins. Yet as the Wall Street Journal reported recently, there don’t seem to be nearly enough “gently used” cars around to keep up with marketplace demand. Dealerships have resorted to stalking Craigslist for owners interested in unloading used cars—especially those that are just a few years old. Used-car lot managers are paying good money for these secondhand wheels due to confidence that they’ll still be able to flip them quickly at a profit.
There are many reasons why there’s something of a shortage of used cars right now. Owners are hanging onto cars longer than ever not only because it’s obviously cheaper than upgrading to a new model, but because automobiles purchased over the last decade or so were built to last for at least 100,000 miles, and often upwards of 200K miles. Because the number of new-car sales dipped during the recession years, there are fewer vehicles than usual that are two or four years old right now. The government’s Cash for Clunkers program also took many used vehicles off the road a few years back.
There’s also just plain enormous demand for used vehicles, as the WSJ pointed out:
While new vehicle sales get a lot of attention because of their connection to auto makers, the used vehicle market is far larger. Last year, U.S. used vehicle sales rose 5% to 40.5 million.
Add all of that up and we’ve got a situation with a high demand and low supply of used cars, at least for the time being. Bizarrely, the situation is also one in which, as Kelley Blue Book noted, new and used versions of the same car model sometimes cost about the same, once dealership incentives for new vehicles are factored in. “Buying a one-year-old used Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic will only save consumers about $20 per month,” the experts at KBB estimate. Meanwhile, “Buyers interested in the Toyota RAV4 or Chevrolet Equinox will find just a $20 gap between new- and used-vehicle payments, while a brand-new Ford Escape commands a more sizable $60 per month premium from the slightly used variant.”
What’s interesting is that while used-car prices are fairly high nationwide, costs can vary quite a bit from region to region. The New York Times and others highlighted research by CarGurus.com, which indicated that used-car prices tended to be more expensive in mid-size cities with less dealership competition, such as Jackson, Miss., and Montgomery, Ala. Prices are generally cheaper in larger urban areas like Cleveland and Miami.
A Sun Sentinel article “boasted” that South Florida had the country’s least expensive used cars—running 7% less than the national average. Why are prices so cheap? “We have a large older population,” one economist explained, and as they pass away or stop driving, their cars flood the marketplace, driving prices down.
Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, an economics professor at Florida International University, also said that South Florida’s showy culture plays a role:
“It’s that kind of environment,” he said. “You have to show how well you are doing. Most people are never going to see the house you live in and so many people are trying to impress others by the kind of car they are driving.”
The more likely drivers are to want to impress neighbors and business associates, the more likely they are to upgrade their cars regularly—and, of course, to trade in their old cars. Dealerships in the region report that the market’s cheap used-car prices are attracting buyers from as far away as Texas and Alaska. | <urn:uuid:b0a79438-602b-4d52-a38d-4db66074f097> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://business.time.com/2013/02/27/the-smoking-hot-market-for-gently-used-cars/?iid=biz-main-lead%3Fxid%3Drss-topstories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96888 | 908 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Diquis Gold Pendant of a Frog - FJ.6248, Origin: Costa Rican/Panamanian Border Area, Circa: 500 AD to 1550 AD, Collection: Pre-Columbian, Style: Diquis, Medium: Gold. The goldsmiths of the Diquis border region delighted in creating frog jewelry. But few are as delightful as this very charming frog pendant. The detail on this little fellow is quite marvellous and was probably modeled on life. The rain forests of Costa Rica abound in a great variety of frog species, some of them colored in brilliant yellow-gold, and may only reach an inch in length. His great eyes protrude watchful and ever alert for insects, or just scanning his territory. There is even a suggestion of a tongue, a mere slip of gold, but very effective, as if he has just finished a meal and is licking his lips. The checkerboard pattern down his back adds texture and even a sense of color. The broad trapezoidal feet are typical of Diquis goldsmiths' stylization, and are similar to those of tree frogs. With his hind legs tucked tightly against his body he is ready to spring from his perch. Yet, he may rise to greater heights as a vigilant watcher of the world from his vantage point pinned to someone who wears him proudly. | <urn:uuid:8b18ece8-3b62-4d5b-94dc-d3a79d0c3e8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.antiques.com/classified/1073934/Antique-Diquis-Gold-Pendant-of-a-Frog---FJ-6248 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974105 | 280 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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Coming up on this week’s TechSNAP…
Researches have developed a way to tie your file sharing to your Skype account. We’ll share the details on how this works, and what you can do to prevent being tracked!
Plus we cover the Ultimate way to host your own email, and what happened when Chinese hackers took control of US Satellites!
All that and more, on this week’s episode of TechSNAP!
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- On four separate occasions during 2007 and 2008 US satellites were hijacked by way of their ground control stations.
- The effected satellites were Landsat–7 (Terrain Mapping and Satellite Photography, example 1 example 2) and Terra AM–1 (Climate and Environmental Monitoring, 2010 Hurricane Karl)
- While the US does not directly accuse the Chinese government in writing, these types of actions are consistent with known war plans that involve disabling communications, command and control, and GPS satellites as a precursor to war.
- In one incident with NASA’s Terra AM–1, “the responsible party achieved all steps required to command the satellite,” however the attackers never actually took control of the satellite.
- It was not until the 2008 investigation that the previous compromises in 2007 were detected
- This raises an important question, are the US military and other NATO members, too reliant of satellite communications and GPS?
- In a recent NATO exercise called ‘Joint Warrior’, it was planned to jam GPS satellite signals, however the jamming was suspended after pressure on the governments over civilian safety concerns. Story
- The tools developed by the researchers at New York University allow any to determine a strong correlation between bittorrent downloads and a specific skype user.
- Importantly, unlike RIAA/MPAA law suites, the researchers consider the possibility of false positives because of multiple users behind NAT.
- The researchers resolve this issue by probing both the skype and bittorrent clients after a correlation is suspected. By generating a response from both clients at nearly the same time and comparing the IP ID (similar to a sequence number) of the packets, if the ID numbers are close together, than it is extremely likely that the response was generated by the same physical machine. If the IDs are very different, then it is likely that the Skype and BitTorrent users are on different machines, and there is no correlation between them.
- This same technique could be made to work with other VoIP and P2P applications, and could be used to gather enough evidence to conclusively prove a bittorrent user’s identity.
- This situation can be mitigated by using the feature of some OS’s that randomizes the IP ID to prevent such tracking. (net.inet.ip.random_id in FreeBSD, separate ‘scrub random-id’ feature in the BSD PF firewall)
- The discovery could also be prevented by fixing the skype client such that it will not reply with its IP address if the privacy settings do not allow calls from that user. The current system employed by the researches does not actually place a call to the user, just tricks skype into thinking that a call will be placed, and skype then leaks the sensitive information by returning its IP address or initiating a connection to the attacker.
- Read the full research paper
- Directors Desk is a web application designed to allow executives to share documents and other sensitive information
- When NASDAQ was hacked in February, they did not believe that any customer data was stolen
- The attackers implanted spyware into the Directors Desk application and were able to spy on the sensitive documents of publicly traded companies as they were passed back and forth through the system
- This is another example of the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) as we saw with the RSA and South Korea Telecom hacks, where the attackers went after a service provider (in his case NASDAQ) to compromise the ultimate targets, the publicly traded companies and their sensitive documents.
- It is not known what if any protection or encryption systems were part of Directors Desk, but it seems that the application was obviously lacking some important security measures, including an Intrusion Detection System that would have detected the modifications to the application.
- The new guidance from the SEC spells out some of the things that companies may need to disclose to investors and others, depending upon their situation.
- Some of the potential items companies may need to disclose include:
- Discussion of aspects of the registrant’s business or operations that give rise to material cybersecurity risks and the potential costs and consequences
- To the extent the registrant outsources functions that have material cyber security risks, description of those functions and how the registrant addresses those risks
- Description of cyber incidents experienced by the registrant that are individually, or in the aggregate, material, including a description of the costs and other consequences
- Risks related to cyber incidents that may remain undetected for an extended period
- “For example, if material intellectual property is stolen in a cyber attack, and the effects of the theft are reasonably likely to be material, the registrant should describe the property that was stolen and the effect of the attack on its results of operations, liquidity, and financial condition and whether the attack would cause reported financial information not to be indicative of future operating results or financial condition,” the statement says.
- From the SEC guidance: The federal securities laws, in part, are designed to elicit disclosure of timely, comprehensive, and accurate information about risks and events that a reasonable investor would consider important to an investment decision”
- CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2 – Cybersecurity
- Q: Owning my own Email?
- Roundcube – Free webmail for the masses
- MailServer – Community Ubuntu Documentation
- Postfix – Community Ubuntu Documentation
- Setting up a Forwarding Account in the Email Control Center – GoDaddy Help Center (Remember to use the coupon code LINUX or LINUX20)
- Google apps for your domain (free)
It is definitely advantageous to own the domain that your email address is on. On top of looking more professional than a hotmail, or even gmail address, it also allows you to choose your host and have full control over everything. There are some caveats though, of course you must remember to renew your domain name, else your email stops working (just ask Chris about that one), you also have to be careful about picking where to host your domain, having your site or email hosted by a less reputable service can result in your domain being included on blacklists and stopping delivery of your mail to some users. The biggest problem with hosting your own email, from your home, is that you must keep the server up 24/7, and it must have a reasonable static IP address. If you are going to host from your home, I recommend you get a ‘backup mx’ service, a backup mail server that will collect mail sent to you while you are offline, and then forward it to your server when it is back up. Even if you are using a dedicated server or VPS, this is important, because email is usually the most critical service on your server. The other major issue with hosting your email from home, is that most ISPs block port 25 inbound and outbound, to prevent infected computers from sending spam. This means that you will not be able to send or receive email to other servers. Usually your ISP will require you to have a more expensive business class connection with a dedicated static IP address in order to allow traffic on port 25. Also, a great many spam filtering systems, such as spamassassin, use blacklists that contain the IP ranges of all consumer/home Internet providers, designed to stop spam from virus infected machines, because email should not be send from individual client machines, but through the ISP or Domain email server.
- Facebook to build server farm on edge of Arctic Circle
- Passwords of 93,000 Politicians, Reporters, Bloggers Leaked
- Stuxnet’s Son “Duqu” Removal Tool released by Bitdefender
- Japanese parliament hit by cyber-attack
- FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service
- Anonymous Attacks Child Porn Websites and Publish User Names
This week on, TechSNAP!
The UK Government is building a cloud of secrets, but can it ever possibly be secure enough?
Plus we’ll cover the FBI Arresting 16 suspected members of Anonymous, and being prepared when forced to decrypt your laptop!
All that and more on this week’s TechSNAP!
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- Files will be hosted on the UK internal cloud, the Government Secure Application Environment (GSAE)
- The system will allow civil servants, diplomats and other Government officials to share documents up to the secrecy level IL3, or Restricted
- “Information marked as Restricted is at a level where the release of the material will have effects such as significant distress to individuals, adversely affecting the effectiveness of military operations, or to compromise law enforcement.”
- The internal cloud will use SaaS software from established tech startup Huddle.
- Planned upgrades to the GSAE and Huddle software will allow it to support IL4 or Confidential information
- “The effects of releasing information marked as Confidential include considerable infringement on personal liberties, material damage to diplomatic relations, or to seriously disrupt day-to-day life in the country.”
- A possible obstacle to the deployment of a cloud based system for storing classified information is that policy states that the end users must have local disk encryption to be allowed to access the documents
- 14 of the arrests are related to the attacks on PayPal after they announced they would no longer accept donations on behalf of WikiLeaks
- The defendants are charged with conspiracy to intentionally damage protected computers
- The remaining arrests are related to attacks on InfraGard (Affiliated with the FBI) and a former AT&T Contractor who stole files from AT&T and gave them to members of LulzSec
- Similar arrests were also made in the UK and the Netherlands
- The charge of “intentional damage to a protected computer” is punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
- The Military and Defense Department use far too many proprietary systems
- During the 2nd invasion of Iraq, The Army and Marine Corps used different proprietary encrypted radios, and were therefore unable to communicate directly with each other, because of this, they had to be assigned to different areas of the country to avoid running in to each other
- Proprietary systems meet the states requirements, but are not flexible and require a long time to modify or adapt the hardware and software.
- The General places most of the blame on the procurement process, and contractors who design their systems to be proprietary.
- The Federal CIO worries about the IT Cartel, a small group of companies that understand the Government IT Procurement process better than other companies, and get a disproportionate share of contracts.
- A woman being accused of mortgage fraud is contesting a court order that she provide the decryption key for her laptop
- The laptop was seized during a raid of her home
- This case could set the president, as no Appeals Court has yet ruled on whether such an order would violate a defendant’s 5th amendment right to not incriminate themselves.
- The DoJ goes on to state that “Public interests will be harmed absent requiring defendants to make available unencrypted contents in circumstances like these”. Failing to compel defendants amounts to a concession to potential criminals (be it in child exploitation, national security, terrorism, financial crimes or drug trafficking cases) that encrypting all inculpatory digital evidence will serve to defeat the efforts of law enforcement officers to obtain such evidence.
- Prosecutors clarified that they were not asking for the pass phrase it self, and that the defendant would be allowed to enter the pass phrase on the computer without anyone looking over her shoulder
- The U.S. Supreme Court already affirms that defendants can be forced to provide fingerprints, blood samples, or voice recordings, however past rulings have affirmed that a defendant cannot be forced to disclose the contents of their mind.
- The EFF filed a brief supporting the rights of the defendant, stating “Decrypting the data on the laptop can be, in and of itself, a testimonial act–revealing control over a computer and the files on it“ and “Ordering the defendant to enter an encryption password puts them in the situation the Fifth Amendment was designed to prevent: having to choose between incriminating themselves, lying under oath, or risking contempt of court“
Submitted by: port-forward-podcast
- Anonymous and Lulzsec respond to FBI statements – Submitted by: Acidpunk
- Sony Insurer seeks relief from court to avoid paying out in 55+ class action law suites against Sony – Submitted By: Acidpunk
- Anonymous hacks ‘Sun’ newspaper site, redirects to fake Murdoch death notice – Submitted By: carlosf
- Anonymous hacks Military Contractor, discloses 90,000 email addresses – Submitted By: refuse2speak
- Open Access Advocate Arrested for downloading 4.8 million scholarly papers – Submitted By: Raventiger
Since the start of this show, one constant theme keeps coming to light, a new age of Cyber warfare has begun.
In this week’s episode we cover what critical targets hackers and foreign governments might target to wage Cyber Warfare
Plus what major attacks have already taken place? Some of which we are just now learning the ramifications of…
All that and more, on this week’s TechSNAP!
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Attacks on Government:
- As part of Operation Anti-Sec, Anonymous has compromised the Turkish governments network of sites, and locked the administrators out.
- A number of the sites appear to be for Hospitals and other medical facilities
- The group released a 20MB archive on ThePirateBay, a complete dump of the content of each of the compromised sites.
- Many of the sites were defaced
- In a Cyber Warfare type situation, these types of actions could disable critical government functions, everything from weather forecasts to tax filing.
Submitted by: Acidpunk
- The database contained the names, usernames and plaintext passwords of election workers and polling stations
- Username was first initial, last name, and password was first initial, last initial and 4 numbers. These passwords are too predictable and horribly insecure.
- Attacks that crippled South Korean (Republic of Korea) government websites in July 2009 and again in March 2011 might have been cyber warfare drills conducted by North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Attacks were likely reconnaissance to start building a detailed plan of attack in the event of war.
- Much of the attack came from within South Korea, it is speculated that the virus was left on a number of South Korean file sharing sites, and then the resulting botnet of infected computers was used to take down the government websites.
Attacks on Media:
- The Washington Post’s Jobs site was compromised on June 27th and 28th
- 1.27 Million Usernames and email addresses were leaked
- The Washington Post claims that no passwords or other personal information were stolen (were the passwords just hashed, and therefore ‘not disclosed’, or did the attackers not gain access to the passwords?)
- The @foxnewspolitics twitter account was hijacked and false news of US President Obama’s assassination was posted.
- As with all incidents of this nature, it is being investigated by the Secret Service
- BBC Coverage
- The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war
- Foreign directed hacker could pose as significant a threat to U.S. nuclear reactors, subways or pipelines as a hostile country’s military
- If a cyber attack causes significant disruption (for example, to the power grid), or death, then the attackers will be met with conventional armed force.
- New York Times coverage
- By reverse engineering a crashed EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane, the Chinese were able to begin intercepting encrypted US Navy communications
- A few weeks after President Obama’s election, the Chinese flooded communications links they knew were monitored by the NSA with unencrypted copies of intercepted communications, proving they had compromised American communications links.
- The attacks on RSA earlier this year were not conclusively linked to Cyber Warfare, they could have been the work of a lone hacker, a small group, or an organized government
- The RSA hack later led to the compromise of secure systems at Lockheed Martin and other US arms manufacturers.
- Earlier this year we also saw the compromise of a large number of email accounts belonging to government and military officials. This type of reconnaissance can be used to gather information that would allow attackers to break in to more secured systems over time.
- Many attacks go unnoticed, as the perpetrators keep the systems just to be used to launch future attacks from. As we saw in the RSA hack, the attackers used an offsite webserver they had compromised earlier to send the data to, to avoid connecting directly to RSA and possibly leaving a trail. They then destroyed the webserver, breaking the link back to them
- In the past was have discussed the similar tactic of Island hopping, compromising an outward facing system such as a web, mail or monitoring server, or the desktop of a secretary or other lower level employee, and then slowly gathering more and more information in order to compromise the true targets of the attack.
South Korea army, University to start Cyber Defense major – Submitted by: refuse2speak
Anonymous hacks apple server, leaks usernames and hashed passwords
The Fog of Cyber Warfare – A battle without borders? – Submitted by: Raventiger
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets and Source Code Leaked To China
Copies of vsftpd 2.3.4 downloaded from official mirrors contain backdoor – Submitted by: stmiller
Dropbox TOS gives them broad copyright license over your files – Submitted by: rakudave
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The new Dora Links Doll ($60, in toy stores last week, and at www.doralinks.com) from Mattel is the debut of big-kid Dora, designed to catch the eye of post-preschool, pre-Barbie 5- to 8-year old girls. It also raises a new set of questions about how 21st-century play experiences are bought and sold. You can get a quick idea of the doll’s features, here.
The bad news — at least for Mac owners or less tech-savvy parents of Dora lovers — is that these features are locked behind an hourlong installation on a Windows-only computer. A tour of a yard sale will attest to the high failure rate of past marriages between toys and Windows.
In this case, things aren’t helped much by the nonworking technical support number on the Dora Links site or the necessity to read the fine print in the minimum hardware requirements. One Amazon.com reviewer didn’t mince words, writing, “There’s a special reward in the afterlife for people that design toys that require software to be installed in computers, and then don’t provide support when it doesn’t work.”
If things work as planned, however, you can steer your Dora avatar around a virtual town on a one-player scavenger hunt that resembles a simplified Nancy Drew mystery. There are mysteries included, which require talking to people and collecting items needed to fulfill missions, like cleaning the beach or helping dolphins, in both Spanish and English.
Five mysteries come preinstalled, and 19 others are promised, delivered via automatic updates when you begin the adventure, a process that also plants a verbal reminder in your Dora doll. Each challenge sends you on a trip around town, and the narration provides informal exposure to Spanish and English.
Our testers, three girls in the target age range, headed toward the jewelry shop first, to adjust the doll’s hair, eyes and jewelry, and they liked trying to solve the mysteries. But they didn’t like how Dora’s new look was lost as soon as they went back outside the shop.
They also wanted a better map and more help when they couldn’t find a location. But the biggest gripe was that much of the world — 21 of the 27 games listed on the main menu — could be seen but not played. Places like the concert hall or the soccer field have padlocks over them, even though they sparkle when you put your mouse on them. In order to unlock them, you have a much more complex hurdle … persuade your mom or dad to drive you to the toy store to buy an additional doll or playset.
Has Dora Links, which already costs $60, crossed an ethical line, by exploiting a child’s love for a trusted character in order to shoehorn parents toward the toy store? Or is this simply business as usual, as more Webkinz-influenced toys become tethered to the Web?
There’s no doubt that Dora Links is a durable doll that kids will love long after the batteries have died, and it offers plenty of old-fashioned play opportunities. And the computer world, while hard to install, can teach a bit of Spanish, some logic and perhaps an unintended lesson: it takes money to get access. | <urn:uuid:77e16b2e-b136-416c-9fab-eae4cae68516> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/is-there-a-salesman-in-my-childs-new-dora-doll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95766 | 699 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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By Calvin Skaggs, Brad Lichenstein, and David Van Taylor
Caught in the Crossfire follows the lives of three Arab American New Yorkers after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
by Ran Tal and Amir Harel
Tracing Israel’s kibbutz movement, Children of the Sun follows members of the Zionist elite from their birth in the 1920s and 1930s to the crisis that weakened the movement
Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection
by Yun Suh
In the heart of Jerusalem, people of all nationalities, religious affiliations, and sexual orientations gather and find peace in an unlikely place: a gay bar.
by Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz, and Ross Kauffman
In this cinema verité film, a Palestinian family is torn apart by its patriarch's collaboration with Israel.
by Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan sit down with former President Pervez Musharraf, before he resigns from office, to address the army general’s plans to establish democracy in Pakistan.
Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection, Independent Lens
by Simone Duarte
En Route to Baghdad is a portrait of the peacekeeping career of former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose death in a 2003 Baghdad bombing attack became a tragic metaphor for the effort to bring stability to Iraq.
Global Voices, Independent Lens
by Jorgen and Malene Flindt
A Family at War follows one American family over the course of a year after their son’s combat death in Iraq, tracing their changing attitudes and views on the military and global politics.
by Yoav Shamir and Michael Sharfstein
Israel is struggling to deal with about 2,000 former soldiers every year who abuse hallucinogenic drugs until they become psychotic.
Global Perspectives Collection
by Mai Masri
Two girls living in refugee camps in Beirut and Bethlehem share the feelings and hopes of a new generation of young Palestinians.
by Tamara Gould and Bonnie Cohen
This intimate look at two candidates struggling to participate in Afghanistan’s constitutional convention shows how the road to becoming a delegate is almost as difficult as the country’s terrain itself; only a fraction of Afghans are elected to this landmark event.
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People living on desert edge catch water from fog
August 27, 1996
Web posted at: 12:40 a.m. EDT
From Correspondent Ronnie Lovler
CHUNGUNGO, Chile (CNN) -- It's the sight people have been
watching for all day in this small coastal village -- fog
rolling in. (811K QuickTime movie)
It's the start of a unique water-making system called "cloud
harvesting" or "fog catching."
When the fog makes contact with specially strung nets, it
will soon be converted to much-needed water.
"The idea was that in some parts of Chile, there are great
concentrations of vegetation that have no reason to exist
because there is no rainfall," said project director
Alejandro Cruzat. "The source of water is the fog."
To harvest fog, 82 large square nets trap the water that then
drips into a tube. The water passes through an attached hose
and pipelines to a holding tank.
The people of Chungungo, which sits on the edge of the vast
Atacama Desert, no longer have to depend on the water trucks
that would make sporadic visits to their community.
Daisy Sasmaya, president of the neighborhood council, boasts
of her new shower and shows off her garden. She says people
can now shower every day and water their plants regularly.
Another resident said she can now wash her clothes when she
needs to, rather than having to wait for long periods of
Chile's fog-catching project, one of the first in the world,
started with funding from the Canadian government a few years
Scientists come from around the world to see if they can
apply the techniques in their countries. Vilho Mtuleni, of
the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, said his priority
is finding ways to get water to people and livestock in arid
areas. (372K AIFF or WAV sound)
What he and other visitors see in Chile is that tiny airborne
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Throughout 2012, EDF's Energy Innovation Series will highlight around 20 innovations across a broad range of energy categories, including smart grid and renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency financing, and progressive utilities, to name a few. This series will demonstrate that cost-effective, clean energy solutions are available now and imperative to lowering our dependence on fossil fuels.
For more information on this featured innovation, please view this video on SCIenergy's Managed Energy Services Agreement here.
In our feature on Honest Buildings, we noted that the building sector is responsible for nearly half of CO2 emissions (transportation is a third) and that 75 percent of the electricity produced in the U.S. is used to operate buildings. However, the economics of making buildings more efficient can be tricky. Improvements often require significant capital, and since the tenants – not the building owners – pay the energy bills and reap the savings from efficiency upgrades, building owners often lack the incentive to invest in energy-saving measures.
Enter Managed Energy Services Agreement (MESA), the innovative financing structure from Dallas-based SCIenergy, which provides building owners and managers a way to cut their energy usage without incurring high up-front costs. It does so by allowing an investor to agree to provide energy to a building at a price based on the building’s historical costs. The investor pays for energy efficiency upgrades and then uses the savings to provide a return on their investment.
"We think about intelligence as a source of energy, just like we think of coal, nuclear, oil, and renewables as sources of energy," said Woolsey McKernon, managing director of SCIenergy. “Building operators are leaving billions of kilowatt-hours, and therefore millions of dollars, on the table because the expense is short-term and the payoff is long-term. We flip that model."
Tackling the energy challenge from the economic side of things is tough, because in many cases, saving energy dollars long-term requires up-front capital. Services like SCIenergy’s MESA remove that cost barrier and allow customers to reduce their energy use and cost.
Making this approach work requires a unique business model. Customers agree to purchase their electricity and gas from SCIenergy at a monthly cost based on their historical usage. SCIenergy then makes investments in system automation, energy management tools and other building improvements that are expected to save energy. SCIenergy uses the savings to finance their upfront investment at no cost to the property owner. If the savings are less than expected, SCIenergy absorbs the risk.
One SCIenergy customer, Corporate Office Properties Trust, is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns more than 20 million square feet of rentable office space, primarily in the Washington, D.C. area. SCIenergy applied its services and made $16 million in improvements to 26 office buildings, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in annual energy costs and more than an 11,000-ton reduction in energy-related CO2 emissions. In addition, there was an added benefit to tenants as well: the number of calls to building managers complaining about an office being too hot or too cold dropped 95 percent. | <urn:uuid:014cc18e-36dc-48e4-bc7c-e8c3d4e77f61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/tag/managed-energy-service-agreement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952853 | 654 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Office for Civil Rights
Revised August 1998
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities which receive Federal financial assistance. Title IX states that:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
The United States Department of Education (ED) maintains an Office for Civil Rights, with 12 enforcement offices throughout the nation and a headquarters office in Washington, D.C., to enforce Title IX.
Education Programs and Activities Covered by Title IX
Title IX covers state and local agencies that receive ED funds. These agencies include approximately 16,000 local school districts, 3,200 colleges and universities, and 5,000 for-profit schools as well as libraries and museums. Also included are vocational rehabilitation agencies and education agencies of 50 states, the District of Columbia, and territories and possessions of the United States.
Programs and activities which receive ED funds must operate in a nondiscriminatory manner. These programs and activities may include, but are not limited to: admissions, recruitment, financial aid, academic programs, student treatment and services, counseling and guidance, discipline, classroom assignment, grading, vocational education, recreation, physical education, athletics, housing and employment. Also, a recipient may not retaliate against any person because he or she opposed an unlawful educational practice or policy, or made charges, testified or participated in any complaint action under Title IX. For a recipient to retaliate in any way is considered a violation of Title IX. The ED Title IX regulations (Volume 34, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 106) provide a detailed discussion of discrimination prohibited by Title IX.
The Office for Civil Rights Enforces Title IX
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in ED is responsible for enforcing Title IX. OCR's responsibility to ensure that institutions which receive ED funds comply with Title IX is carried out through compliance enforcement. The principal enforcement activity is the investigation and resolution of complaints filed by people alleging sex discrimination. Also, through agency-initiated reviews of selected recipients, OCR is able to identify and remedy sex discrimination which may not be addressed through complaint investigations.
Given the large number of institutions under its jurisdiction, OCR is unable to investigate and review the policies and practices of all institutions receiving ED financial assistance. Therefore, OCR provides information and guidance to schools, universities and other agencies to assist them in voluntarily complying with the law. OCR also informs students and their parents, and those who apply for admission to academic programs, of their rights under Title IX.
OCR has investigated and worked with recipients to resolve many kinds of civil rights problems, including the following:
- the provision of less than a fair share of funds for athletic scholarships to females;
- inequitable pay for female teachers holding similar teaching positions to those held by male counterparts; and
- discrimination against female students on the basis of pregnancy.
Anyone who believes there has been an act of discrimination on the basis of sex against any person or group in a program or activity which receives ED financial assistance, may file a complaint with OCR under Title IX. The person or organization filing the complaint need not be a victim of the alleged discrimination but may complain on behalf of another person or group. A complaint should be sent to the OCR enforcement office that serves the state in which the alleged discrimination occurred. A complaint must be filed within 180 days of the date of the alleged discrimination, unless the time for filing is extended for good cause by the Enforcement Office Director. If you have also filed a complaint under an institutional grievance process, see the time limit discussed at the end of this section.
Complaint letters should explain who was discriminated against; in what way; by whom or by what institution or agency; when the discrimination took place; who was harmed; who can be contacted for further information; the name, address and telephone number of the complainant(s) and the alleged offending institution or agency; and as much background information as possible about the alleged discriminatory act(s). OCR enforcement offices may be contacted for assistance in preparing complaints. OCR keeps the identity of complainants confidential except to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of the civil rights laws, or unless disclosure is required under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act or otherwise required by law.
If an investigation indicates there has been a violation of Title IX, OCR attempts to obtain voluntary compliance and negotiate remedies. Only when it cannot obtain voluntary compliance does OCR initiate enforcement action. Enforcement usually consists of referring a case to the Department of Justice for court action, or initiating proceedings, before an administrative law judge, to terminate Federal funding to the recipient's program or activity in which the prohibited discrimination occurred. Terminations are made only after the recipient has had an opportunity for a hearing before an administrative law judge, and after all other appeals have been exhausted.
Prior to filing a complaint with OCR against an institution, a potential complainant may want to find out about the institution's grievance process and use that process to have the complaint resolved. A complainant is not required by law to use the institutional grievance procedure before filing a complaint with OCR. If a complainant uses an institutional grievance process and also chooses to file the complaint with OCR, the complaint must be filed with OCR within 60 days after the last act of the institutional grievance process.
Where to Request Additional Information or File a Complaint
Each enforcement office is responsible for enforcing Title IX in the states and territories designated for that office.
If you wish additional information about Title IX, or a copy of the regulations which detail the requirements of Title IX, write or phone the OCR enforcement office which serves your state or territory, or you may call 1-800-421-3481.
If you wish to file a complaint alleging sex discrimination by a recipient institution in your state or territory, write to the appropriate OCR enforcement office, or call, and follow the instructions stated in the preceding section: How to File a Discrimination Complaint with OCR. | <urn:uuid:d3faf946-e164-44aa-906f-b1c5605b69a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html?exp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945355 | 1,250 | 3.0625 | 3 |
First Aid Kits Buying Guide
Emergencies can happen anywhere at any time, so be prepared for the worst by putting together a first aid kit for at home, in the car and even for vacation . By making your own kits, you can tailor the supplies to your surroundings--hiking in cold weather may require special items, for instance--or to the medical conditions of your family members.
Take a look at these tips and basic supplies to help you get started.
- Categorize. Assemble and label plastic resealable bags for separate categories of kit items. Categories can include burn and blister kit, trauma, wound management, over-the-counter medications, prescription medications and topical medications.
- Containers are key. Choose a container that is durable, easy to carry and easy to open. Also make sure that it has enough space for everything you need--plastic tackle boxes are ideal since offer a lot of space while still being lightweight.
- Check your kit regularly, and replace any supplies that have expired or are running low.
- Buy one if you're short on time. You can purchase a first aid kit from your local American Red Cross, or your local drug store may carry them.
- Keep out of reach of children. Store first-aid kits in places that are only accessible to adults to avoid potential child injuries and overdoses.
No matter what, there are some things that every first aid kit should contain.
Many first-aid items can serve more than one purpose, depending on the situation and/or environment.
- Adhesive tape and bandages can be used for all sorts of repairs.
- Petroleum jelly-based ointments can be used as a lubricant for faulty mechanical devices.
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It is better to build a child than repair an adult
This has been the Ranch’s belief since its creation in 1976. Many of the children who come to the Ranch are often the product of a broken home of abuse and neglect, lacking the nurturing relationship of a loving family. The Ranch provides a healthy home environment filled with emotional support to help each child learn to trust those around them and cope with their emotions, all the while learning responsibility and building self confidence. The Ranch’s mission is to address, remedy, and prevent child abuse and neglect by creating safe, healthy, and permanent homes for children.
When children enter the Ranch, they are surrounded with individuals who care about their immediate needs and their future aspirations. It is the Ranch’s commitment to every child – a commitment that extends from the Board of Directors to management personnel, administrative staff, house parents, support staff and volunteers – to help them believe in themselves and lead fulfilling, meaningful lives. Residents may stay at the Ranch through post-secondary education until they are socially and financially prepared for independence and have stable employment. More than 900 children have experienced life at the Ranch, and for those and many in the future, the Ranch will always be a place to call home.
The Ranch began as two mobile homes on several acres in Independence County in 1976. Through the support of Arkansans and the state’s county sheriffs, the program has expanded to include campuses in Independence, Clark and Crawford counties, and a multitude of outreach programs. What began as a safe haven for two boys has provided more than 1,000 Arkansans a place to always call home. Read more on our history in the Arkansas History Encyclopedia.
The Sheriffs Support
Arkansas’s county sheriffs have played an important role throughout the Ranch’s history and continue that support today. The idea to begin the Ranch started with a couple of concerned and disappointed sheriffs who had helped place boys in residential homes that weren’t providing satisfactory care. Their idea grew and was soon presented to members of the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Association, asking for their support to develop a home for children that would rely solely on the generosity of Arkansans.
After much research, the ASA decided in 1974 that a separate, freestanding non-profit organization should be established as long as it had the full support of all Arkansas’s 75 county sheriffs. Supporters traveled to every county and met with each sheriff, earning their approval. In late 1975, an incorporation document with the signatures of all 75 sheriffs was presented to the ASA – the first and only document of its kind – and the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth Ranches was born.
The same enthusiasm and passion that helped create the Ranch 35 years ago continues with today’s sheriffs. Whether it’s hosting a golf tournament, recording a PSA, or speaking to local groups, Arkansas county sheriffs are committed to supporting the Ranch and making this state a better place to call home for our youth. Check out the Sheriffs in Action section on our News Page to learn more about their current efforts. | <urn:uuid:3acb0742-da79-4d93-b03a-3b7271011878> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.youthranches.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96615 | 640 | 1.828125 | 2 |
|In this article, we introduce a new practical toolârelative efficiency curve (REC)âfor comparison of two competing statistical procedures. While in other scientific areas the term of REC has been around for some time, in statistics it seems to be new. In estimation, the curve is constructed by employing asymptotic properties of quantile estimators. Suppose two consistent and asymptotically normal estimators of a fixed quantile of the underlying distribution are available. Plotting of the ratio of their variances versus quantiles at various probability levels yields an REC. Such a curve provides information about the accuracy of one estimator relative to another when both are designed to estimate the same (fixed but arbitrary) quantile of the distribution. Thus, depending on the objective of application, the REC can help one choose between parametric, robust parametric, empirical nonparametric or other method of estimation for the measure of interest. Further, other possibilities for defining (statistical) RECs are also discussed, and illustrative examples for (equivalent) Pareto and exponential, and lognormal and normal distributions are provided. Specifically, graphs of RECs of maximum likelihood, method of trimmed moments, and empirical nonparametric estimators of distribution quantiles are presented. | <urn:uuid:b6250526-6314-48f2-bdc6-390ffdd4d6df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metronjournal.it/volumi/riassunto_en.lasso?ID=1558 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908417 | 257 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Bob Fayfield is passionate about technology and pleasing customers. But he likes to spoil customers by delivering smart, simple-to-use products at the right price.
Design News: What's new in sensing technology?
Bob Fayfield: A large percentage of new presence sensors incorporate microprocessors, primarily for help in setup, but also to provide additional operating features. Once the decision is made to design an intelligent sensor, that is, to include a microprocessor, there are opportunities to make multiple small improvements such as operator feedback, automatic self-calibration, and certain timing and logic functions that otherwise would need to be done using PLC or PC overhead. I say small improvements, because even without microprocessors sensors are already viewed by most users as reliable and quite easy to use.
The job of the "smart-sensor" designer, therefore, is not to add features for their own sake, but to add only those functions that are truly useful to the end customer, who is often not experienced in sensor technology. We all know that we don't use most of the functions of, for instance, our VCRs. We put up with their complexity either because we have plenty of time to read the manuals and tinker with the controls, or because we just don't care if we use them or not. Contrast this with the plight of the factory-floor engineer for whom setup time costs hundreds of dollars per hour, and downtime thousands. You then realize that we must limit our "gee-whiz" features to those functions that work in the background, invisible to the operator, or that are, at the very least, totally intuitive.
Q: What are obstacles to growing the sensing market in terms of technology?
A: To really grow the market, and not just replace old designs with new, manufacturers must find ways to design sensors with vastly reduced costs. This does not mean the designer must take half the cost out of a sensor while leaving its performance intact. Rather, manufacturers should pursue growth areas where a sensor with reduced (but satisfactory) performance can replace, for example, a mechanical switch. There are also opportunities to use very inexpensive sensors in applications where no sensing is affordable until prices drop significantly. We have seen this happen with low-cost sensors being designed into automobiles, office machinery, and even home appliances. There is potential for it to happen on the factory floor.
Q: Are there pricing issues relative to advanced sensing technology?
A: Sensors with built-in intelligence, such as photoelectric sensors that learn their environment at the push of a button, are very close to reaching price parity with their older "screwdriver-adjusted" counterparts. One of our most popular sensor families, for example, now has smart-sensor equivalents for all older models, at exactly the same prices.
Q: What do customers need to know to implement these technologies?
A: At their worst, the newest sensor technologies require the customer to read an instruction sheet, and to get used to programming sensors the way one programs a digital alarm clock. This is not terribly difficult, but certainly aggravating when there are different clock brands at every hotel. But, at their best, sensors will be totally intuitive to program. My directive to our design engineers is to always work toward designing products that can be sold with no instruction sheet included.
Q: Can you give us a sneak preview of some new sensor technology developments?
A: Sensors are a surprisingly mature class of electronic products, so over the next few years customers will see refinement rather than revolution. Most sensor manufacturers are following the design principle of making "smaller-better-faster-cheaper" versions of existing products. Within the "better" category, you can expect more laser-based sensors, and many bus-compatible products, along with additional abilities for the sensors to learn and adapt to their environment.
Bob Fayfield founded Banner Engineering Corp. in 1966 with $10,000 in borrowed capital. Today, this Minnesota-based developer and producer of more than 12,000 different photoelectric sensors has net sales of more than $100 million. He also co-founded Turck, Inc., a magnetic sensor company with sales of more than $50 million and InterlinkBT, one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of factory-floor bus systems. Last year, Fayfield was named the National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He remains an active engineer and product designer with 14 patents and hundreds of product designs to his credit. | <urn:uuid:37c5515b-5dc3-480b-8921-285ea8f0707b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=225716 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958973 | 921 | 1.84375 | 2 |
News Releases - Faith-based
Energy Star Video Challenge Launched to Show Easy Ways to Save Energy and Money
Release Date: 04/21/2011
Contact Information: Stacy Kika, firstname.lastname@example.org, 202-564-0906, 202-564-4355
WASHINGTON – As Earth Day approaches, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a nationwide effort to help families learn about energy saving actions that can be taken while protecting the environment and their health. EPA is encouraging Americans to take part in the “Be an Energy Star” video challenge by picking up their home video cameras and documenting the energy-efficient actions they are taking in their home, school, workplace and community.
The videos will be featured on the Energy Star website and social networking websites where the public will view and vote for their favorite videos in the fall. The winning entries will be showcased on the Energy Star website during Energy Awareness month in October.
In addition to the video challenge, Americans can take the “Change the World, Start with Energy Star” pledge. The pledge is a way for individuals to commit to taking action on energy efficiency in their homes and daily activities such as switching to more efficient lighting, choosing Energy Star products, sealing and insulating homes, and using power management features on home computers and monitors.
To date, more than 2.7 million Americans have taken the Energy Star pledge, resulting in a reduction of more than 8 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to the emissions from using more than 400 million gallons of gasoline. In 2010, more than 400 local and national organizations led efforts to encourage their communities to take the pledge and do their part to protect the environment. The top five pledge drivers for 2010 are: Sears Holdings, Georgia Power Company, Ameren Illinois, Lockheed Martin and Nissan North America.
Energy Star was started by EPA in 1992 as a market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today, the EPA Energy Star label can be found on more than 60 different kinds of products as well as new homes and commercial and industrial buildings that meet strict energy-efficient specifications. Last year alone, Americans, with the help of Energy Star, saved $18 billion on their energy bills while preventing the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of 33 million vehicles.
More information on how to “Be an Energy Star”, the video challenge, and the pledge: http://www.energystar.gov/changetheworld
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DUBLIN (AP) — European Union foreign ministers displayed their divisions Friday over whether to start shipping weapons to rebels in Syria, with Britain and France isolated in their efforts to boost the opposition's firepower.
The two-day talks opened in Dublin Castle just hours after a suicide bomb killed at least 49 people in a Damascus mosque, including a senior cleric loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. Both Assad and the major opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, condemned the attack.
British Foreign Minister William Hague said the European Union's policy of providing only non-lethal equipment to the National Coalition must end if Syria's primary opposition forces are to oust Assad from power.
"In order to support a diplomatic and political settlement which is essential for peaceful transition, it will be necessary for us to increase the support that we give to the National Coalition on the ground," Hague said in comments mirrored by his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius.
Fabius said EU governments must agree on "how to stop Bashar Assad from continuing to bomb and massacre the Syrian population and the opposition."
But the other 25 EU ministers rallied behind the cautionary views of Germany, which argues that increased aid to rebel-held areas should be confined to improving their access to water, power, food and medical care.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said he accepted that Britain, France and the U.S. had "good reasons" for wanting to increase the ability of opposition forces to defeat Assad's military following two years of civil war.
But he warned that sending weapons was likely to have unintended and negative consequences. He said more civilians would be killed in crossfire, and Western-supplied weapons could end up in the hands of anti-Western jihadists, who are being blamed for Thursday night's mosque bombing.
"We are still reluctant on lifting the arms embargo," Westerwelle said, adding, "We have to avoid a conflagration and we have to prevent that aggressive offensive weapons come into the wrong hands."
Several other foreign ministers publicly backed Westerwelle's reservations as they entered the Dublin Castle talks, which conclude Saturday. All emphasized that the EU would not consider easing its arms embargo on Syria until the end of May, when the existing restrictions are due to expire.
Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore of Ireland, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, said European governments should focus on providing humanitarian aid, particularly medical help, to opposition-held parts of Syria.
"I think that the further militarization of the environment in Syria would certainly not be helpful. The more guns that go into Syria ... the more casualties there will be," Gilmore said.
Hague said Britain and France reserved the option of moving ahead on their own, but would greatly prefer to have a united EU position.
EU foreign ministers last month did amend the bloc's embargo rules on Syria to permit shipments of non-lethal equipment to rebels. Britain and France have begun shipping armored cars, night-vision goggles, body armor and other overtly military equipment under terms of that amendment.
The relatively lightly armed anti-Assad forces say they most desperately need ground-to-air weapons to deter Syrian government air strikes and helicopter gunships, as well as increased access to anti-tank weaponry. Iran is considered Syria's primary arms supplier.
The United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed in the past two years of fighting in Syria, a country of more than 22 million. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to neighboring Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
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Blowing bubbles is a great way to distract unhappy children and
get them involved and interested. It's also a fun way to wind down
the hour, distract an anxious child, or defuse crying.
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The UK's Fairtrade Foundation is an independent certification body that awards its Fairtrade mark to products that meet standards drawn up by Fair Trade Labeling Organizations International (FLO). These standards include a guaranteed fairtrade minimum price, which is agreed with producers
The survey was commissioned from TNS CAPI OmniBus by the foundation and conducted amongst 2082 individuals in the UK, aged 16 years and over, by face-to-face interviews.
It found that that 70 per cent of the population now recognise the foundation's fairtrade mark, up from 57 per cent in 2007.
There has been an increase in the percentage of consumers who now report buying fairtrade products regularly between last year and this year (from 18 to 24 per cent) and regularly (from 15 to 17 per cent).
The number of people who said they never buy fairtrade products was also said to decrease.
"This indicates that people are no longer buying fairtrade products as a one-off and are moving across sectors in their purchasing," said the foundation in a communication of the findings.
For the food industry, what now appears to be an enduring movement in the sector rather than a flash-in-the-pan trend, could be justification for a switch towards ethically sourced ingredients.
If consumers are actually starting to seek out fairtrade products and remain willing to pay the premium they typically carry, it follows that manufacturers that can cater to their needs will be at an advantage.
Retail sales of fairtrade products in the UK rose 72 per cent between 2006 and 2007, according to TNS, from £286m (c €400m) to £493m (c €620.5m). The Fairtrade Foundation has certified some 3000 products.
The Fairtrade Foundation, which expressed surprise itself in the scale of the findings, said that the uptake of fairtrade by "big and mainstream companies" has contributed to making the mark well known.
But while Harriet Lamb, executive director, praised progress to date, she said there is still a way to go:
"The challenge us now set for UK business to male more fairtrade products available… but there is a long way to go as producers in the developing world line up to be able to supply the UK fairtrade market and UK consumers show their willingness to buy fairtrade goods as they become available across all sectors."
The survey showed that coffee is still the best-known Fairtrade product, but awareness of fairtrade tea, chocolate, coffee and cotton has also increased significantly.
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Let’s say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when you download a movie using its high-speed Internet service.
Time Warner said on Wednesday that it was going to start testing a new rate plan in Beaumont that would limit the amount of bandwidth each customer can use each month before additional fees kick in. Alexander Dudley, a Time Warner spokesman, said that the exact terms had not been set, but that packages would probably offer between 5 gigabytes and 40 gigabytes a month. The top plan would cost roughly the same as the company’s highest-speed service, which typically runs between $50 and $60 a month.
Mr. Dudley said the company was still working on what to charge people who exceed their limits, but he pointed to Bell Canada, which has imposed bandwidth limits on its customers. According to its Web site, Bell Canada charges as much as 7.50 Canadian dollars ($7.42) for each gigabyte when customers exceed the 30-gigabyte limit on a plan that costs 29.95 Canadian dollars a month. Since the average high-definition movie is 4 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, that would mean a charge of at least $30 a download for customers on a plan like that who were over their limit.
On more expensive plans, the over-limit charges at Bell Canada are as low as 1 Canadian dollar a gigabyte. That would represent a $4 to $5 charge for an HD movie for people over their monthly limits. Standard-definition movies are typically 1 gigabyte to 2 gigabytes.
Mr. Dudley said that Time Warner wants to test bandwidth limits to crack down on a minority of customers who are heavy downloaders. Indeed, only five percent of customers use half of its total bandwidth, he said.
I spoke to Dave Burstein, the editor of DSL Prime, and one of the most knowledgeable people around on the economics of high-speed Internet service.
He argued that Time Warner’s interest in bandwidth caps had little to do with its own costs and a lot to do with the emergence of movie downloads and streaming television programs over the Internet.
“The smart people at Time Warner are scared of people watching TV directly over the Internet,” he said. “‘Lost’ and ‘Desperate Housewives’ look better over the Internet than they do on digital cable.”
Moreover, the marginal cost of extra bandwidth is very small, he said. For broadband Internet service, 80 percent to 90 percent of the costs are fixed regardless of use. And the all-in cost of a gigabyte of use is about 10 cents or less. Most cable and phone systems keep their costs secret. Mr. Burstein cited an interview he conducted two years ago with Tony Werner, then the chief technical officer of Liberty Global, John Malone’s collection of European cable systems. Costs in Europe, he added, are likely to be a bit higher than in the United States.
Mr. Dudley disputed this view. “This is not targeted at people who download movies from Apple,” he said. “This is aimed at people who use peer-to-peer networks and download terabytes.”
Reaction to Time Warner’s test has been somewhat mixed. Some, of course, see this as a price increase that gives mainstream users the added stress of keeping track of bandwidth use.
Others suggest that it is a more straightforward pricing system that does make heavy users pay more, especially since some Internet service providers are quietly slowing down or otherwise restricting some service, most notably to users of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. That’s why Public Knowledge, a group that is certainly not afraid to criticize telecom companies, put out a statement praising the test:
Time Warner’s pricing test could be a welcome development for consumers and for the cable industry. Consumers will have a better idea of how they are using their Internet connections and will have the flexibility to adjust according to the rates. Cable companies could be able to better manage their networks and costs, so they won’t have to resort to cutting off customers for exceeding phantom usage levels or throttling some applications.
Whether cable users agree, or they start to complain because of occasional surprise bills for $30 movie downloads, depends on how Time Warner actually structures its rate plans.
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From the Publisher: Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. Larry Tagg's The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln is the first study of its kind to concentrate on what Lincoln's contemporaries thought of him during his lifetime, and the obstacles they set before him. Be forewarned: your preconceived notions are about to be shattered.Torn by civil war, the era in which our sixteenth president lived and governed was the most rough-and-tumble in the history of American politics. The violence of the criticism with which Lincoln had to deal came from both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and was overwhelming. Indeed, the breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Mr. Lincoln was deeply reviled by many who knew him personally, and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him. His rise to greatness was in spite of their vitriol.Boisterous and venomous enough to be good entertainment, The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln rests upon a wide foundation of research. Tagg includes extensive treatment of the political context that begat Lincoln's predicament, riding with the president-elect to Washington and walking with him through the bleak years of war up to and beyond assassination. Throughout, Tagg entertains with a lively writing style, outstanding storytelling verve, and an unconventional, wholly against-the-grain perspective that is sure to delight readers of all stripes.Lincoln's humanity has been unintentionally trivialized by some historians and writers who have obscured the real man behind a patina of bronze. Tagg's groundbreaking book helps all of us better understand the great man Lincoln was, and how history is better viewed through a long-distance lens than contemporaneously. The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln will be the "must-read" title for general readers and scholars alike.
Early Reviews: "This is a well-written and edited book. Much to its credit, it is devoid of an author's opinion and presents the information in a straightforward manner and is a valuable addition to the Lincoln library, and a must for serious students." Civil War News.
"The author has done an impressive amount of research. . . . an impressive work." Sacramento Book Review
"This is a tour de force demonstration of writing, reading, and thinking that never lets the reader down. Easily the Lincoln book of the Bicentennial of his birth and the best Lincoln tome I have seen in 15 years of compiling and reviewing Civil War book releases." - Dimitri Rotov, Civil War Bookshelf | <urn:uuid:187c122b-e7a0-4eb6-ab78-684c5bc5c254> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://civilwarlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-and-noteworthy-lincoln-haters-club.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96565 | 543 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Real Estate Glossary
There are many different terms and phrases that people use within the world of real estate. Anyone who is looking to engage in Miami real estate should make it a point to become familiar with these terms and phrases to ensure that they fully understand what needs to be understood.
We have put together a list of terms and phrases to provide you with a clear idea on what you can expect as you venture into the property market. Nevertheless, if you have any questions and/or concerns, you are welcome to get in touch with us so that we can provide you with personal assistance.
The ratio of sold properties against the number of properties that remains available on the property market. It is used to measure the volatility of any given market.
A method which is used to estimate value for property by using similar properties within the same market in order to determine the value of a specific property.
A provision which grants the lender the right to seek immediate payment for any outstanding loan balance in specific conditions such as borrower’s default.
An infrastructure which is separate from the main building on any given property. Examples include garages, storage rooms, workshops and tool sheds.
The growth of land which comes as a result of natural forces.
A measurement of area that is equivalent to 43,560 square feet.
The measurement of time which has passed since the property was built.
The date when interest rates are set to change on adjustable rate mortgages.
Ad Val Orem Tax
Taxes based on the value of the land as well as improvements to the land.
Additional documents which contain information that is considered to be pertinent to the subject. Often used by appraisers to explain any items in the event that the space provided in the standard appraisal form is insufficient for all details.
Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)
A specific type of mortgage with interest rates that tend to vary depending on an actual index which is usually the prime lending rate for any given market.
The value of an asset which is inclusive of the original price plus the the value of any applicable improvements as well as deductions on any applicable depreciation factors.
Adjusted Sales Price
The sales price for a property after price adjustments have been granted for existing differences between one property and another similar property.
The value of a property which is gained based on its appearance.
A statement of declaration regarding the truth of any given set of facts.
A method which helps to determine whether or not an individuals will be able to meet the corresponding obligations of a mortgage for specific property.
An individual that has been appointed to act on behalf of someone for a specific transaction process.
Features which increase the value of any given property. Examples include natural amenities such a location as well as man-made amenities such as swimming pools.
The method of paying for a mortgage loan over a regular period of payments.
The actual breakdown of payments over the duration of an amortized loan which enlists principal contribution as well as interest fees.
The period of time wherein an amortized loan is paid for. More often than not, mortgages are amortized over a term of fifteen or thirty years.
A measurement of electric current pertaining to magnitude.
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
The interest rate charged each year for any given loan.
Refers to a sum of money which is paid on a regular basis.
AQ form which is to be filled out by borrowers in order to acquire a mortgage loan. It contains personal information regarding the applicant’s income, savings, assets, debts, and more.
An opinion of property value which is derived through recent sales of similar properties which is carefully assessed by a licensed appraiser.
A non-profit organization established in the United States in 1987. It promotes professional valuation and improvements for the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice within the country.
An international organization focused on real estate appraisal education.
The basic factors in the property valuation process which includes inspection of the property, market analysis, as well as basic economic ideas.
A report which is intended to convey the opinion of value of any given property with supporting documentation and information regarding the property.
A developed opinion regarding the market value of any given property which has been derived upon observance of accepted appraisal principals.
A certified professional that is knowledgeable when it comes to real estate markets, values, as well as practices. Usually an independent party which has no vested interst in the value or sales price of the subject property.
The term used to describe the natural increase in property values which is influenced by market conditions.
Arms Length Transaction
Any given transaction wherein parties involved are not connected to one another. Transactions of this nature are known to demonstrate the true market value of real estate.
The value that is assigned to any given property based on jurisdictional tax assessment.
The process of assigning value to any given property for the purpose of taxes.
The relationship of a property’s assessed value against its actual market value.
The jurisdictional representative who conducts the assessment on property value.
Any valuable item belonging to an individual.
The act of transferring ownership of a mortgage.
A specific type of mortgage on property which can be taken over by a person once the property has been sold.
The handing over of a mortgage from one person to another after a sales transaction has been completed.
A series of homes that are attached physically despite being occupied by a variety of people.
The slope of ground that surrounds a home property.
Ball Cock Valve
The valve found on the inside of a toilet tank which regulates the flow of water into the tank.
The percentage which is used to in order to determine what portion of an individual’s income can be utilized for the purpose of paying any debts which is inclusive of all necessary expenses. It is used by lenders in the mortgage approval process.
A specific type of mortgage loan wherein monthly payments are not big enough to cover for the loan which leads to a single large payment for the remaining balance at the end of the agreed term.
The state of inability of any person or group to settle their debts for which they seek protection from the state. It can prevent a person from securing a loan and can remain on their records for up to a decade.
A supporting structure.
Bill Of Sale
A physical receipt that indicates the sale of any given property.
A specific type of mortgage wherein borrowers are required to settle payments every two weeks as opposed to making payments on a monthly basis. It equates to thirteen monthly payments which helps to reduce the period of time that will be needed in order to settle a thirty-year mortgage.
An area which has grown undesirable due to conditions that cannot be fixed.
A genuine offer that is made with good intentions.
The environment wherein debt securities are issued and traded. It serves as a mechanism for long-term funding of both public and private expenditures.
A specific type of loan which is made in order to facilitate the purchase of a new home even before the buyer’s current home has been sold. Its equity is then utilized in order to fund the new home purchase. Bridging
A supporting structure that is used between beams.
Any person who brings together a buyer and a seller.
British Thermal Unit (BTU)
A measurement used to describe heating or cooling capacity.
A segment of land which is located between two municipal zones. Usually utilized to separate residential communities from commercial areas.
A set of regulations which looks into the safety and material compliance of new constructions. They are typically localized to look into common hazards.
The distance between infrastructures and the property line as imposed by local municipalities, homeowners associations, or other applicable agreements.
Any items which are installed into a property as an improvement such as built-in appliances.
A single-story style of home which dates back to the early twentieth century.
Additional money which is paid in one sum in order to reduce the interest rate of a fixed-rate mortgage over time.
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The library at Jefferson Elementary School was packed with excited kindergartners and first-graders as they waited for folk singer-songwriter Dennis Warner to start his first song.
“Inch by inch, row. Gonna make this garden grow.” he sang as the children chimed in.
Warner, author of the children’s book and song “Beads on One String,” entertained all of the kids and staff at Jefferson on Friday. Finally, after several songs including one about his best friend’s biscuits, Warner got up and started to read “Beads on One String” to the youngsters, most of which already knew and loved the book and song.
“Do you know why the people here are in silhouette,” he asked pointing to the first page as it was projected onto a SMART board. “It’s so we don’t see their skin colors.”
Last week, Warner performed two concerts at Jefferson, and another at the Hi-Liner Activity Center for families. He tours throughout the United States giving family concerts and concerts for children where he talks about tolerance and peace.
Warner wrote the song “Beads on One String” to teach children that people are “more alike than we are different.” They laugh, they cry, they eat and they bleed when they’re cut. Later, he put his lyrics in the form of a book that was illustrated by Allison Love Unzelman. The book has been used in schools all over the country for their anti-bullying and tolerance programs.
The book “Beads on One String” features a string of beads that embellishes the entire book. None of the beads are alike, yet they are still beads and still alike.
Warner started singing for children and families in the mid-1980s when a friend asked him to perform at a library function. One show turned into many as other organizations learned about the entertainer.
Later, Warner, who hails from Clearwater, Minn., was asked to author an anti-bullying curriculum for St. Cloud State University to use in schools.
“Kids weren’t born hating. They’re taught to hate,” he said.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced last week a $40 million commitment to the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health to build capacity for population and reproductive health programs in the developing world, where unintended pregnancies and unsafe childbearing are a major cause of illness and death.
The grant will significantly increase funding for the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, which trains leaders of reproductive health programs in developing countries; conducts reproductive health research; and transfers program technology, models and practices.
"We are tremendously grateful to the Gates Foundation," said Alfred Sommer, dean of the School of Public Health. "The foundation's vision and generosity will enable the institute to continue the next phase of its important work of training and strengthening the reproductive health leadership of the developing world."
Experts estimate that 120 million women who want and need access to family planning services don't have it. Every year, there are approximately 66 million unwanted pregnancies and 20 million unsafe abortions, the majority of which are in developing countries.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health was established at the School of Public Health in 1999 with a $20 million grant from the Gates Foundation, following a successful pilot grant awarded to the school in 1997. Since its launch, the institute has actively pursued its primary mission of developing and strengthening the capacity of individuals and institutions in the developing world to address their most pressing and overarching problems related to population, family planning and reproductive health.
Helene Gayle, director of HIV, TB and Reproductive Health for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said, "Improving reproductive health services in developing countries could save millions of lives, but it requires stronger in-country human and institutional capacity. We're delighted to be able to help continue and expand the institute's pioneering work."
With the funding an-nounced on June 5, the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health will continue developing core leadership in family planning through organized collaborative research and leadership forums in the United States and in developing countries. The forums will address cutting-edge family planning issues and strategies in the context of other health challenges.
The institute also will continue to invest in sustainable partnerships with key academic institutions in the developing world. The goal is for these institutions to provide training that will build local leadership with a strong commitment to population and reproductive health and to carry out research on significant policy issues. The institute plans to collaborate with up to 25 institutions in 23 priority countries.
According to Amy Tsui, director of the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and professor in the school's Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, "The need for individual and institutional leadership focused on sustained commitment to family planning, sexual health care and maternity care has never been greater. An investment in building that leadership capacity now will produce future dividends by enabling families and communities to improve and protect their health."
With the grant from the Gates Foundation, commitments to the Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World campaign total more than $1.09 billion, which is 54 percent of the campaign's $2 billion goal. To date, $261 million has been donated to the School of Public Health. Priorities of the fund-raising campaign, which benefits both The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, include strengthening endowment for student aid and faculty support; advancing research, academic and clinical initiatives; and building and upgrading facilities on all campuses. The campaign began in July 2000 and is scheduled to end in 2007.
"We are greatly appreciative of the Gates Foundation's continuing support of Johns Hopkins and the very important work of researchers and professionals in the field of public health," said university President William R. Brody. "This grant--the sixth-largest in the entire history of Johns Hopkins--provides particularly critical support for a very important public health initiative."
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When I arrived on the home page, I was interested in one of the images in the top left hand box ("The Math Images Project"/"Welcome students..."). But they weren't linked to articles or image pages, so I couldn't find out where they were from. There's nothing more annoying than an image you like, but can't track back for a description or article. Can someone please make sure these images are linked (and do it globally across the site for all images?) twilsonb 00:38, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
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I can see the projection from the sphere to the plane as a visual graphic, but I'm trying to understand the detail of all the surfaces of the unit sphere and the plane.
How are positive and negative real and positive / negative imaginary numbers mapped over the surfaces, and what are the scales / units / number categorisations along the projection lines? Or are the projection lines just pointers linking loci on the surface of the sphere and the plane?
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How does the 'unit sphere' work?
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Folsom man builds a free library on a stick, sort of
Take a book, leave a book, it's free
Kelly Friesen was struck the moment she saw it at the intersection of Stoney Hill Drive and Gable Street in Folsom.
"Wow. What a great idea," said Friesen, a Folsom resident.
A 6-year old girl took a few looks and expressed satisfaction.
"Yeah, I like it," said Alison, who lives down the street.
Duane Samples watched it all from across the street this week and smiled.
"It's a great feeling," Samples said.
Last week, Samples built a free, mini-library perched atop a wooden post at the corner of his front yard.
"It's named a Little, Free Library," Samples said.
The two-shelf box, with a wood-framed glass door, was built to hold books for anyone to take or leave, at no cost or obligation.
"A lot of times, neighbors don't know neighbors anymore," Samples said. "Hopefully, this will help bring our community a little closer."
Samples said he got the idea for a mini-library in his yard after seeing a news story from another part of the country.
"It's part of a worldwide effort to promote literacy and build community," Samples said.
Samples is planning an official ribbon-cutting, which is open to the public, set for 10 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Stoney Hill Drive and Gable Street in Folsom.
"Any child that comes can put their painted handprint on the library to show this is library for everyone," Samples said.
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Japan In Crisis
Japanese Youth Step Up In Earthquake Aftermath
Amid the destruction and devastation left by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, Japanese youth have stepped up in volunteering to help.
Aided by social media, young people unused to pitching in are streaming toward the devastated northeast coast, eager to deliver relief supplies and clean up.
Kenta Umeda arrived in the town of Ishinomaki last weekend from Tokyo to help haul garbage out of neighborhoods that were destroyed by the tsunami. For the trip, he loaded some new music into his iPod, hung an alarm whistle around his neck and tucked some drumsticks into his backpack.
"I thought it would be cool," the art student, 25, says with a smile, wearing a raincoat and work boots. "Because we're all Japanese, that's why I came. In terms of myself as an artist, I want to share the emotion of the people affected by this disaster and take that experience back with me."
Umeda is part of a wave of Japanese young people who say they feel needed in this crisis.
Many Japanese in their 20s have had their career ambitions blunted by an economy that no longer offers job security. While their parents found their identities in their work, this generation has been criticized as self-absorbed and materialistic by social commentators and older Japanese.
Then along came the events of March 11 — Japan's greatest calamity since World War II.
"Instead of having this kind of derisive discourse where young people are negatively judged for choices they make, they may be lauded for volunteer activity they're contributing at this time of need," says Kyle Cleveland, a sociologist at Temple University's Japan campus who studies Japanese youth culture.
Volunteers of all ages, as well as nongovernmental organizations, have come from across Japan to this tent city on the campus of Ishinomaki Senshu University. Six thousand volunteers are helping out in Ishinomaki, where the tsunami shredded houses and hurled cars into cemeteries.
Friends Naoya and Satoko are both 23 and recent college grads looking for work. They're dressed in raincoats and rubber boots, relaxing in the tent village after spending the day shoveling muck.
They say the bad economic situation has left them with time on their hands and since they can't afford to help with money, they chose to help with time.
The aftermath of the tsunami is very different from Japan's last epic disaster — the Kobe earthquake in 1995. Not only were there fewer volunteers, because the scale of the destruction was limited, but there were no social media to link up like-minded individuals.
Futoshi Sato, who works at Betty Tattoo Parlor in Sendai, says his friends have been using a social media website called Mixi, the Japanese equivalent of Facebook, to coordinate aid.
"Here in Miyagi prefecture, people used Mixi to ask the victims who live in the tsunami-hit cities of Ishinomaki and Kesennuma how people could help them and what they needed, he says. "And they told us how they wanted us to help."
A group of volunteers is scraping mud out of a flower bed at an elementary school in Ishinomaki, to allow the spring bulbs to bloom in a few weeks.
Kawamura Koji, a 20-year-old economics student at the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo, is spending his spring break in an orange work coat pushing a wheelbarrow.
"I'm going to work as a volunteer for two weeks or three weeks," he says.
Koji is asked what he thinks about the characterization that Japanese youth are apathetic. He disagrees adamantly.
"Ah no, no, no, no. That's a lie," he says. "Many people are really concerned about Fukushima so they really want to work as volunteers."
He says the unfolding nuclear crisis has energized many of his friends, who now believe nuclear power is dangerous and worry radiation is poisoning Japanese soil.
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Brachytherapy has a significant role in the management of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), largely due to the importance of locoregional control and the desire to minimize treatment-related functional deficits and preserve quality of life. In addition, the ongoing risk of second malignancies and locoregional recurrences in the head and neck requiring reirradiation make brachytherapy implants particularly appealing.
The use of a brachytherapy implant affords a unique approach to local dose intensification, improving the likelihood of functional organ preservation and minimizing treatment morbidity as a result of reduced irradiation to the surrounding normal tissues. In early-stage lesions, where the risk of nodal metastases is low, brachytherapy may be employed definitively or in an adjuvant fashion following surgery. In more advanced lesions, it is often combined with external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) of the head and neck. The ability to provide specific, intensive local irradiation also permits the selective use of brachytherapy in the setting of recurrent or second head and neck SCC occurring within a previously irradiated region.
The optimal delivery of a brachytherapy implant necessitates a collaborative multidisciplinary team approach. This should involve a radiation oncologist trained in brachytherapy techniques, a head and neck surgeon and an oncologic nurse familiar with issues specific to brachytherapy implants, a physicist trained in brachytherapy treatment planning, and a dental surgeon experienced in radiation complications and the fabrication of spacers and lead-embedded prostheses. Such a team permits a smooth and efficient integration of treatment modalities, which may influence local control rates.
This review will elaborate on the current indications for brachytherapy in the head and neck, highlighting multidisciplinary issues pertinent to achieving these therapeutic goals. Technical aspects of brachytherapy are beyond the scope of this review, and the reader is referred elsewhere.[2-7]
Appropriate application of a brachytherapy implant begins with patient selection. This requires assessment of the patient’s understanding and ability to comply with the inherent radiation precautions associated with brachytherapy implants, especially for continuous low-dose-rate implants. Patients should be selected for their ability to provide baseline self-care needs in addition to treatment-related needs, such as the care of a tracheostomy, nasogastric feeds, and a patient-controlled analgesic pump, as indicated.
Patients subject to periods of confusion and disorientation may not be suitable for this mode of therapy. The potential for alcohol(Drug information on alcohol) or narcotic withdrawal should be addressed to avoid complications with the delivery of the implant. Age alone is not a contraindication, but associated comorbidities may preclude the older patient from complying with the additional responsibilities noted.
Considerations of the indications and the relative risk-benefit ratio of an implant require an assessment of not only the location, size, and extent of the tumor volume, but also of organ function, and hence, the appropriateness of an organ-preserving strategy. For the head and neck, attention to the status of oral/dental hygiene is important, with particular regard to the risk of mandibular osteoradionecrosis. Evaluation by a dentist familiar with these risks is mandatory. Other factors associated with an increased risk of severe soft-tissue complications include severe diabetes, liver failure, and compromised arterial status.
Permanent vs Temporary Implants
The provisional technique should then be selected to enable appropriate planning and preparation. Several considerations influence the decision as to a permanent or a temporary implant.
Permanent ImplantsPermanent implants, emitting radiation over the lifetime of their radioactivity, use sources that provide low-dose-rate irradiation. Suboptimal placement of a permanent implant and the potential adverse dosimetric effects of organ swelling and movement pose potential risks for an unfavorable therapeutic ratio. However, a permanent implant affords the delivery of a very high total dose of radiation and may be advantageous when implanting complex, irregular surfaces that are not amenable to the placement of temporary catheter-based implants, ie, where chinking of the catheters is a significant risk. The judicious use of permanent radiation sources with low-energy photons, such as iodine-125, may be advantageous when critical normal structures, such as the spinal cord, are adjacent to the implant.
Temporary ImplantsTemporary implants are more commonly applied in the head and neck, as they permit a more deliberate and accurate placement of the applicator system without the radiation exposure concerns associated with a permanent implant. Typically, nylon catheters are used to mimic the desired position of the radioactive sources, which are subsequently afterloaded with low-dose-rate radioactive seeds embedded at defined positions within a nylon strand.
This technique affords optimization of the implant dosimetry following placement of the implant applicator system. Commonly, this involves obtaining orthogonal plain x-rays of the implant, with dummy seeds placed within the selected applicator system and digitization of the relative seed positions into treatment-planning software. Variations in the activity, number of radioactive sources, loading durationand for high-dose-rate computer-guided remote afterloading systems, variations in the dwell time and positionallow for dosimetric optimization. However, optimization cannot obviate the adverse dosimetry associated with poor implant geometry.
Temporary low-dose-rate implants also offer several radiobiologic advantages, including a reduced treatment time, the ability to irradiate a potentially less hypoxic tumor bed early in the postoperative period, a reduced adverse influence of hypoxia itself, and exploitation of cell-cycle-specific radiosensitization. This technique further exploits the differential repair capacities between tumor and normal tissues, reducing the risk of normal late complications. However, the risk of exposure to staff necessitates good source handling skills and strict radiation precautions.
High-Dose-Rate ImplantsAlternatively, high-dose-rate sources with computer-guided remote afterloading significantly reduce the radiation exposure risks and required precautions. Fractionated radiotherapy is delivered with a single iridium-192 source fixed to the end of a guidewire that may be variably stepped along the length of each catheter.
High-dose-rate implants have greater flexibility in conforming the implant dosimetry to the target volume and yield a relatively more homogeneous dose distribution, compared to that of low-dose-rate implants. Moreover, as the delivery of the radiation occurs over a shorter time, it is less subject to the effects of organ movement. This precise geometric sparing may yield a lower complication rate. However, concerns remain regarding the risk of increased late complications from the higher dose rate of radiation. This has prompted studies to define optimal fractionation schedules to reduce this risk.
Pulsed-Dose-Rate ImplantsThe use of pulsed-dose-rate radiation has been studied as a technique to exploit the logistical advantages and reduced radiation exposure of remote afterloading and the low-dose-rate biologic advantages that may be mimicked by this technique.[10,11] The physical delivery system is analogous to high-dose-rate systems but with reduced source activity. Typically, a medium-dose-rate source is afterloaded to deliver radiation every hour for 10 to 30 minutes over several days. The optimal pulse size and pulse interval remains to be determined. Between pulses, radiation precautions do not need to be in effect, thereby facilitating improved treatment compliance. This technique remains promising but investigational to date.[1,12]
Intraoperative Radiation TherapyAn appealing alternative to the use of temporary implants is the use of high-dose-rate intraoperative radiation therapy. This technique has the advantage of accurately delivering radiation to the surgical bed and areas at risk of tumor recurrence, as defined at the time of the resection. In addition, intraoperative irradiation may optimize the cytotoxicity of the irradiation, as the tumor burden is at its lowest and the adverse effects of hypoxia are likely to be less influential than during the postoperative period. Optimized implant geometry results from the use of prefabricated commercially available applicator systems that maintain a uniform plane of catheters, which may then be molded to conform to curved and irregular surfaces. This modality remains investigational and limited to centers with expertise in the technique.
Surgical support is integral to the care of the implanted patient. Assessment and management of the upper aerodigestive airway is fundamental, particularly if the implant involves the pharyngeal airway or the base of the tongue, due to the potential for edema and bleeding. Coordination of the surgery and the planned brachytherapy implant is crucial for a successful implant. For permanent implants, surgical exposure of the area for implantation may be required.
Coordination of surgical approach and implant technique is required not only to optimize the implant geometry but also to reduce the risk of wound complications. For temporary implants, surgical drains and wound dressings must be placed so as not to preclude the loading and unloading of any catheters. The placement of catheters and the wound-closure technique must also be coordinated to ensure minimal tension and potential distortion of the implant geometry.
In the setting of a neck dissection or when other surgical wounds lie near implant catheters, we prefer to delay the implant loading for a minimum of 5 days postoperatively. This is due to concerns of increased wound complications resulting from irradiation of the wound before sufficient fibroblast proliferation has occurred, as has been observed in the treatment of extremity sarcomas. Although these concerns remain to be validated in the head and neck, this time is often required for treatment planning and for the patient to acclimatize to the increased self-care needs related to the surgical procedure(s), to maximize their adherence to radiation precautions. | <urn:uuid:aef59ca9-9d92-48ab-9ad8-b8d44af35644> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cancernetwork.com/display/article/10165/73123 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913954 | 2,041 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The Company has passed from father to son and remains a family owned business even today: Owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder.
It has come a long way over the past almost 80 years – from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise.
The LEGO Group is a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company is still owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family who founded it in 1932.
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City of Roanoke
In 2011, the City of Roanoke adopted an arts and cultural plan as part of the city's comprehensive plan. One of the goals of the arts and cultural plan is to bring performing and visual arts directly to city neighborhoods.
The Roanoke Arts Commission, housed in the City of Roanoke's Office of Economic Development, will work with the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and the Taubman Museum of Art to coordinate with city residents, local musicians, dancers, and visual artists on a series of performing and visual arts activities in six neighborhood parks with their Our Town grant. Local arts organizations and individual artists will be invited to submit ideas for educational and participatory activities that will bring together diverse audiences, support artists, build community, rejuvenate underutilized parks, and strengthen the collective identity of Roanoke's cultural institutions. The six selected sites will engage the full spectrum of the city's demographics by bringing community arts resources to where the citizens live, as more than half of Roanoke's 97,000 residents live in poverty.
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Those who wish to expand the current system of bringing temporary workers to the United States via guest worker programs might want to heed the warnings of The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and their new report, “Close To Slavery.” The report documents the abuses experienced by workers in this flawed system, something former House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rengel called “the closest thing I’ve ever seen to slavery.”
Two of the most used types of guest worker visas are the H-2A for agricultural workers and H-2B for non-agricultural workers. Both systems have deep flaws that lead to a pattern of abuse though some regulations have been put in place to prevent abuse of the H-2A. These include a “three-quarters guarantee” ensuring workers will get to work at least three-quarters of the hours stated in their contract, prevailing wages determined by the DOL, and reimbursement of expenses.
H-2A workers also are legally entitled to:
• Receive at least three-fourths of the total hours promised in the contract, which states the period of employment promised (the “three-quarters guarantee”);
• Receive free housing in good condition and meals or access to a cooking facility for the period of the contract;
• Receive workers’ compensation benefits for medical costs and payment for lost time from work and for any permanent injury;
• Be reimbursed for the cost of travel from the worker’s home to the job as soon as theworker finishes 50% of the contract period. The expenses include the cost of an airline or bus ticket and food during the trip. If the guestworker stays on the job until the end of the contract or is terminated without cause, the employer must pay transportationand subsistence costs for returning home;
• Be protected by the same health and safety regulations as other workers; and
• Be eligible for federally funded legal services for matters related to their employment as H-2A workers.17
H-2B workers are not afforded the same protections. The Department of Labor recommended new regulations for H-2B Visas in 2012 but they have yet to be implemented as they have been met by resistance from employers and members of Congress who wish to keep the H-2B program as a cheap labor supply chain. A series of lawsuits have even challenged the DOL’s authority to regulate the H-2B program.
If allowed to be put in place, the suggested regulations would limit several of the widespread abuses of workers:
Under the 2012 regulations, H-2B workers:
• Would be reimbursed for the cost of travel from the worker’s home to the job as soon as the worker finishes 50% of the work period provided in the job order;
• Would be reimbursed for any visa processing fees in the first work week;
• Would receive the “three-quarters guarantee”;
• Could not be charged recruitment fees, which decreases the likelihood of working conditions akin to debt servitude; and
• Would be expressly protected from human trafficking and retaliation.
Regulations that would require employers to pay for visa and travel-related fees were suggested to prevent temporary workers from starting off in debt that leaves them just as exploitable as they were from whence they came. This is one of the most common complaints about guest worker programs. The SPLC study shows that guestworkers arriving in the United States typically face a fee-related debt ranging from $500 to well over $10,000. Much of the debt comes from exploitative practices of recruiters in the workers’ home countries. The debt often comes at high interest and often leaves the worker in a situation where they can not make enough money during their contract to pay off the debt accrued in taking the job. It is shameful.
Further, the recruitment of temporary workers in both programs is often mired in dark ties to political power in developing regions. Before being exploited in the United States, temporary workers have often been exploited several times over back home. Workers often face threats of violence along their path to the United States. The SPLC looked into the example of workers supplied to Candy Brand, an Arkansas agriculture company which began hiring Mexican temporary workers from the Tabasco region in 2003:
In Michoacán, a powerful, local family controlled the recruitment of Candy Brand workers. According to workers’ testimonies, the recruiters routinely charged them between $275 and $375 in fees just to have their names placed on a list of eligible workers. Workers from the Mexican state of Tabasco were not only required to pay a similar fee by their local recruiter, but were further extorted by one of the Michoacán recruiters. This recruiter met the workers in Monterrey after their visas were issued and demanded that they pay him an additional $1,000 just to have their visas and passports returned to them.
“He held my passport up in the air and threatened to cut it if I didn’t pay him. I didn’t have all of the money he asked for but he gave me back my passport on the condition I would pay the rest of the money to his son in the United States after I started working for Candy Brand. The recruiters threatened to kill my wife and children in Mexico if I didn’t pay,” said Juan Pablo Asencio Vasquez, a worker from Tabasco.
Nor did arrival in the United States represent a positive change of fortune:
Many workers arrived in Arkansas deeply in debt. On top of that, their U.S. employer failed to reimburse the workers for their travel and visa expenses and did not pay them overtime or the applicable wage in accordance with the law.
With limited economic opportunities in their hometowns in Mexico, many workers knew that they were being cheated by the company year after year but felt they had few other viable options for making a living, enough money to repay their debt, or leave their employer and become undocumented,risking their ability to return to the United States in the future to work. Tethered to a single employer and often unable to return home due to crushing debt, guestworkers are extremely susceptible to debt servitude and human trafficking.
One of the main problems with the temporary workers program is that employers often misclassify these workers in order to pay them lower wages. With no legal representation or recourse, the temporary worker often has no way of fighting back. SPLC gives examples of how employers misclassify temporary workers in their report:
This (misclassification) occurs most often when workers who should be characterized as H-2A workers (because, for example, they are picking produce in the field) are instead brought in as H-2B workers (and labeled as packing shed workers, for example). This results in workers being paid substantially less than the wage rate they should lawfully be paid. It also results in the workers being denied the substantially better benefits and legal protections afforded to H-2A workers, such as free housing and eligibility for federally funded legal services.
In another common form of misclassification, employers simply misstate the kind of work
H-2B employees will be performing, so that the prevailing wage rate is set for one kind of work, such as landscaping, when the workers actually will be doing work that warrants a higher prevailing wage rate, such as highway maintenance.
Again, there is virtually no recourse for a worker in this circumstance because the DOL generally under-enforces these kinds of abuses and H-2B workers are ineligible for federally funded legal services.
These exploitative practices have a net negative effect on the American economy. Employers fail to pay workers standard wages and workers frequently wind up making less than the $7.25 minimum wage. One of the flaws of the H-2A program is that even when correct wages are paid they are often set too low due to the USDA and DOL’s “adverse effect wage rate (AEWR).” The SPLC details the process that leads to the AEWR.
“First, the USDA survey that DOL uses for the AEWR measures the average wage rates. Employers that have a hard time finding U.S. workers should compete against other employers by offering more than the average wage to attract and retain workers.
Second, the AEWR is based on the previous year’s wage rates and does not reflect inflation.
Third, the USDA surveys of the average wage include the 55% or more of farm workers who are undocumented, so the wages are depressed compared to what they would be if only U.S. citizens and authorized immigrants had the job. In addition, the AEWR’s, by themselves, also do not prevent employers from imposing very high productivity standards that desperate foreign workers will accept but that would cause U.S. workers to insist on higher wages.
In addition, the AEWR’s, by themselves, also do not prevent employers from imposing very high productivity standards that desperate foreign workers will accept but that would cause U.S. workers to insist on higher wages.”
The recommendations that come from the SPLC report are broken into three main sections:
1) A call to strengthen federal laws and regulations protecting workers from abuse.
– Congress should limit employer use of guestworker programs, particularly during periods of high unemployment. As long as guestworkers are available to employers regardless of the stability of the U.S. economy, employers will have a disincentive to hire
– Congress should expressly authorize the Department of Labor to oversee and regulate all guestworker programs, and should expressly authorize the Department to issue regulations with the force of law to conduct such oversight.
– Congress should regulate the recruitment of foreign workers. There is virtually no oversight of international recruitment activities, and the result is rampant fraud and abuse. To combat those abuses, Congress should create a federal agency or commission to monitor international recruiters and the recruitment of foreign workers. Congress also should require that employers bear all the costs of recruiting and transporting guestworkers
to this country, including workers’ passport expenses.
2) A call to strengthen Federal Agency’s ability to enforce guestworker protections.
– Congress should require that all employers report to the Department of Labor, at the conclusion of a guestworker’s term of employment and under penalty of perjury, on their compliance with the terms of the law and the guestworker’s contract. There currently is no mechanism that allows the government to ensure that employers comply with guestworker contracts
– Employers using guestworkers should be required to post a bond that is at least sufficient in value to cover the workers’ legal wages. A system should be created to permit workers to make claims against the bond.
3) A call for Congress to provide guestworkers with meaningful access to the courts.
– Congress should make all guestworkers eligible for federally funded legal services. H-2B workers, except those in forestry occupations, are currently not eligible for legal aid services.
– Congress should lift the restriction on federally funded legal services that prohibits class action representation. Class actions are the most effective legal tool to change abusive employment practices. They are particularly important as a tool in guestworker cases, where workers are fearful of retaliation if they assert their legal rights.
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Kentucky State Senate Passes Hemp Bill
The state Senate has passed a bill aimed at creating a hemp industry in Kentucky, though the bill still appears to lack the support of key government leaders.
The Senate's 31-6 vote sends to the House a measure establishing oversight for Kentucky industrial hemp farmers if the crop is legalized at the federal level. The Senate vote comes on the heels of a poll stating that most Kentuckians believe legalized hemp would create jobs.
High-profile opponents remain unmoved.
And the hemp bill's fate in the state House isn't so clear.
The poll, conducted by RunSwitch Public Relations and Harper Polling, stated that 65 percent of Kentuckians believe that hemp would create jobs—and that only 16 percent believed that law enforcement concerns about hemp should take priority.
Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, a Republican, is championing the hemp bill, saying the plant can be used in a variety of products and would lead to job growth. Kentucky law enforcement—including Kentucky State Police—worry that marijuana plants could be sneaked into hemp fields, complicating eradication efforts and overwhelming state labs that test the plants.
Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth and Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie spoke in support of the hemp bill to the state Senate agriculture committee. Massie is sponsoring federal hemp legislation in the U.S. House, while Paul and U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell are sponsors of the legislation in the U.S. Senate.
But Gov. Steve Beshear isn't among the supporters.
"We may be yelling about things very loudly—that don't really mean too much right now," Beshear said, when asked about the poll.
Beshear said law enforcement concerns also give him pause on the hemp issue. He said the hemp industry seems to be marginal in other places where it is legal and was undeterred by the new poll numbers.
And House Speaker Greg Stumbo, like the governor a Democrat, is also siding with law enforcement on the matter.
Recent studies, Stumbo said, show that hemp production would be minimal across the U.S.
"It's hardly what people are saying it is," Stumbo said of hemp's economic potential.
Still, that didn't stop a bipartisan block from voting out of the state Senate. After it passed, Comer released a statement praising the vote.
“I am extremely proud of the Kentucky state Senate for its commitment to job creation in Kentucky,” Comer said. “Today’s bipartisan vote is the first step toward more opportunities for our farmers and jobs for Kentuckians.”
And Bill sponsor Paul Hornback says hemp supporters should be given a chance to prove the industry's worth.
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Illinois students’ vocabulary skills on par with nation
BY LAUREN FITZPATRICK email@example.com December 6, 2012 8:06PM
Lake Bluff Middle School eighth-grader Anthony Ferretti (center) and other students work on homework prior to the start of the school day while in the school’s library media center in Lake Bluff. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media file
Updated: February 5, 2013 2:11AM
Most of Illinois’ fourth-graders know what the words “suggested” and “underestimated” when reading them in stories, but not “prestigious” and “barren.”
Eighth-graders for the most part recognize the meaning of “motivate” and “specialty,” but few understand “permeated.”
And while the vocabulary of Illinois’ young readers is right on par with the rest of the nation, the state’s poor children still lag behind.
That’s according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which for the first time Thursday reported vocabulary scores pulled out from the reading tests it gives to a sample of fourth- and eighth-graders nationwide and 12th- graders in 11 states.
Which is troubling, experts say, since vocabulary is so key to reading comprehension, and poverty continues to rise in Illinois. More than half the state’s 1.95 million schoolchildren qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2012.
“There are a lot of students in this country who are not reading up to the level they need to be and one of the problems is vocabulary,” said Margaret McKeown, a senior scientist at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education who was involved in developing the test. “What we need vocabulary for is to make sense of what we read and to integrate words into an overall text to give context, and not just to memorize definitions.”
The results overall showed “a consistent relationship between comprehension and vocabulary,” she said.
NAEP broke down by state the vocabulary results out of the reading tests taken every two years by fourth- and eighth-graders, and every four years by 12th-graders. The tests, considered more rigorous than Illinois’ achievement exam, are given nationwide as a common yardstick to measure students’ learning.
Illinois mirrors the national average — “historically with where we fall in line with these NAEP tests,” said Mary Fergus, a spokeswoman for the Illinois State Board of Education.
Illinois students in eighth grade scored an average 266 out of a possible 500, a bit above the national average of 264 in 2011.
Fourth-graders scored an average 219, just below the national average of 220.
But in 2011, low-income Illinois fourth-graders scored just 196 points out of 500, 6 points below the national average, and almost 40 below their wealthier counterparts.
In eighth grade, the difference was 30 points.
Nor did the gap shrink from 2009 to 2011.
“The state’s race gap remains a mixed bag.
African-American and Hispanic children still lag significantly behind white and Asian children.
African-American in Illinois even lost a few vocabulary points in fourth grade from 2009 to 2011, but gained a few in eighth.
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Human population is growing day-by-day. Continuous increase in population caused an increasing demand for natural resources. Due to urban expansion, electricity need and industrialization, man started utilising natural resources at a much larger scale. Non-renewable resources are limited.
They cannot be replaced easily. After some time, these resources may come to an end. It is a matter of much concern and ensures a balance between population growth and utilisation of resources.
This overutilisation creates many problems. In some regions there are problems of water logging due to over irrigation. In some areas, there is no sufficient water for industry and agriculture. Thus, there is need for conservation of natural resources.
There are many problems associated with natural resources:
Forest resources and associated problems
1. Use and over-exploitation.
3. Timber extraction.
4. Mining and its effects on forest.
5. Dams and their effects on forests and tribal people.
Water resources and associated problems
1. Use and overutilization of water.
2. Floods, droughts etc.
3. Conflicts over water.
4. Dams and problems.
Mineral resource and associated problems
1. Use and exploitation.
2. Environmental effects of extracting and using minerals.
Food resources and associated problems
1. World food problems.
2. Changes caused by agriculture and over grazing.
3. Effects of modern agriculture.
4. Fertilizer-pesticide problems.
5. Water logging and salinity.
Energy resources and associated problems
1. Growing energy needs.
Land resources and associated problems
1. Land degradation.
2. Man-induced landslides.
3. Soil erosion and desertification.
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~The information needed for permit application varies according to the complexity of the project. Many projects like reroofing, residing, replacement windows and similar work do not involve issues that require plans or plan review. The building permit can be issued over-the-counter, or on a next-day basis.
~More involved projects, which affect the structural aspects of a house, additions, enlargement the footprint of your home, or new homes, require more information to ensure that all zoning and building code requirements can be met. The City of Pullman Complete IRC Submittal document is designed to help you put information together in a way which will ensure the most timely plan review possible.
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The only instance in which the city is permitted to issue a building permit without a registered contractor being listed is when the job will be performed by the property owner and a waiver is signed which states that the contractor/property owner understands the contractor registration laws and will not hire unregistered contractors to perform any work.
Once the permit application is made, allow two to three weeks for plan review. When the review is complete, the permit will either be approved so that you may start your project, or you will receive a plan-review letter notifying you of areas where the plans do not meet all of the minimum standards. While no one enjoys being told that their plans require further work, one benefit of the review is that changes can be made during the paper stage of the project, before you have invested time and materials into something that must be changed.
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The final part in this introduction to lighting mini-series is a look at when continuous light sources can be useful, and how to best deploy them.
I use continuous lighting primarily for food photography – specifically, large, high-CRI LED panels – because the low temperature of the source doesn’t interfere with the subject. (Try blasting sashimi with flash repeatedly, and you’ll soon see just how fast delicate fish can cook.) However, it’s also useful in other situations – obviously, to give clients an idea of what the end result will look like; for videography, when flashes obviously aren’t feasible, and less obviously, when you’re working in a dark environment and actually need a reasonably accurate representation of what the light will look like in order to compose and focus.
The rules for using continuous lights are pretty much the same, but with a few limitations:
1. Color temperature usually isn’t variable, and for large sources, you might not be able to find gels big enough – so you will probably have to go with almost 100% artificial light in your exposure. Note that you can also find continuous tungsten lights, but these run very hot and have a very low color temperature, which can lead to problems with blues.
2. LED panels aren’t that bright, so you will need to work with a tripod, and again, watch ambient light – it will creep in because the exposure times will necessarily be longer than for flash photography.
3. Subject motion – another consequence of longer exposures, especially with human subjects.
4. Heat. If you’re using tungsten light, be careful with things accidentally coming in contact with the bulbs or heads and catching fire or burning. That includes your skin.
5. Power. You’ll need to be plugged into mains or large batteries for lights of any consequential power. Ensure you take this into account when planning for a shoot – extension cables and power strips are your friend!
Let’s look at some examples, shall we?
Single small LED panel to the top; note the hot spot on the spoon. The problem with using panels is that they’re difficult diffuse without a significant loss in power; the only way to make it work is either live with the hot spots (not a major problem for food) or get bigger panels (very expensive). I wanted my panels to be versatile, so I’m now using 45x45cm models.
One large LED panel off to the right; since it was a test shot, I didn’t bother to clear the wire from the foreground…with human subjects, LED panels enable faster, more comfortable working as you don’t have to make as many trial and error adjustments with the flash, and it’s simply not as hot.
Part of a series from a food photography class I ran for Leica earlier in the year. I had two small LED panels for this, spread out around the top of the image and on even power; they provided definition and shadow. Image was shot top-down, obviously.
Two LED panels; one top left, one top right. Both slightly above the subject to highlight that moisty, oily sheen on the seared foie gras. LED panels are quite directional but yet with short throw; this means they’ve got to be fairly close to your subject, and you’ll need more than one to fill in the shadows.
This is an example of what you can do when you have 40 LED panels at your disposal – I demonstrated product photography using the mini-panels to create a ring of light around the subject, with some actually providing light on the subject, and some just there to provide background texture.
One medium panel from the top took care of lighting here – getting the height and angle right is the critical part, so that the subject is evenly lit but yet has definition to preserve the shape and texture of the fish. Panels were about 30cm above the subject in this case.
I used two panels here – one on full power from the right side, slightly elevated relative to the plane of the plate, and slightly behind; the other was to the left and running 1/8th power to provide fill and keep the food looking fresh and ‘bright’ rather than shadowy and ‘heavy’. Lighting is all about psychology and creating the desired mood in the viewer…
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Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices (IMAP) encompasses photo imaging, video, digital, sound, performance and related approaches to technology based art. This area embraces critical art practice from analog to digital, historical to cutting edge and everything in between.
Photography is an internationally renowned, progressive, future-oriented and coordinated graduate and undergraduate discipline that emphasizes the development of creative work, experimental research and teaching. The discipline conducts a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary cultural discourse. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. There is a strong emphasis on crossdisciplinary exploration.
The discipline provides a thorough grounding in traditional media as well as ample opportunities to explore new media forms and techniques in conjunction with historical photographic processes. Interaction with other areas in the department and across the campus promotes interdisciplinary studies. There is a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging students to question and expand the boundaries of the medium.
A vigorous art history component, supported by one of the finest photography book collections in the world, is required. Courses in all aspects of photography, alternative processes, video, digital media, Internet art installation and performance, bookmaking, desktop and online publishing, and new media theory are available to optimize personal growth, skills acquisition, and creative expression. Faculty show their art work internationally, including recent shows at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, and Videobrasil and have been recipients of major fellowships including NEA & Guggenheim. | <urn:uuid:aed94d12-8fc1-4257-a548-e3cc9db6577a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cuart.colorado.edu/programs/studio-art/imap/photography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932442 | 323 | 1.71875 | 2 |
African Beadwork Artist, South Africa
In a country where the unemployment rate is over 25% (www.statssa.gov.za), Alarice is one of the lucky ones who has a job. Working as a nurse drawing blood during the day (it all gets back to HIV somehow) she uses creating handmade beaded jewelry as a way to relax in the wee hours of the night when she cannot sleep.
Alarice generously donates a portion of the sale of her artisan jewelry back to the Bophelong Hospice.
To see some of Alarice's beadwork designs click here.
It was a Moment of Hope
In a country overwhelmed by sickness, poverty and unemployment, most South Africans suffering from the impact of HIV/AIDS have no way of supporting themselves or their families.
However, in a moment of hope, women from South Africa and America joined together to collectively battle the devastation of the AIDS pandemic.
By using education and employment, we hope to empower families in South Africa who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS.
It is our hope that...
...survival will no longer be a struggle,
...food will be prevalent,
...family units will be whole,
...and lives will be changed.
Our hope is that all this is possible through Beaded Hope.
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Murder on the Orient Express: culturevulture plays a new computer game
In my previous article, which explored computer adventure games genre (http://www.culturevulture.net/ElectronicArts/playsgames.htm), I mentioned that I was anticipating with pleasure Adventure Games’ release of Murder on the Orient Express, based on the famous Dame Agatha Christie mystery novel of the same name. I’ve just now finished the Murder on the Orient Express game and found it technically a big improvement over the first Agatha Christie game, And Then There Were None, and much more fun to boot.
The singular best feature of the game is the introduction of Christie’s character, Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective. Poirot is superbly voice acted by David Suchet, the actor who personified the role of Poirot in the British television series, aired by PBS and A & E networks. For Christie and Poirot aficionados, nothing could be better than Suchet playing Poirot.
The Murder on the Orient Express game essentiallyfollows the clever plot of the book and a copy of the book is included in the game’s packaging. The game’s action takes place in the 1930’s during a winter ride on the Orient Express train, where Hercule Poirot is a last minute passenger. A new character, Antoinette Marceau, takes a central role in the game. Antoinette is a young railroad company employee who has been assigned to ensure that the VIP Poirot is well treated.
When an odious man, Samuel Ratchett, is killed in his compartment, it doesn’t take Poirot’s genius to deduce that all the remaining passengers and crew are murder suspects. Unlike the book, the effete Monsieur Poirot’s ankle is slightly injured and he takes to his bed. He appoints Antoinette to do his legwork and, as she is a fan of the moustached detective, she willingly accepts his assignment.
By pointing and clicking, the player directs Antoinette to interview the passengers and collect and use the clues, passports and fingerprints in order to unravel the true identity of the passengers and their relationship to the murder victim. When Antoinette finds a clue, we hear praise from Poirot (“Excellent, Mademoiselle!”) and when she takes a misstep, we hear his gentle chiding (“Think, Mademoiselle!”). She can visit Poirot to convey information and ask for help during the game. He then uses his “little grey cells” to analyze the data and give advice about how she should proceed. If the player has chosen to take “Poirot’s Challenge” and solve the crime without clues from Poirot, points are awarded and subtracted depending upon whether his help is needed.
It’s always a bit dicey when a book is translated into a film or computer game. At the conclusion of thegame, three theories of the crime are proposed. One theory is new and supplements the two in the book. This new twist is definitively a plus for those of us who remember the surprise ending of the book. And Antoinette is a well developed character and her addition was successful. I would have liked Poirot to have had a more prominent role however.
Murder on the Orient Express has many operational positives. The player can review the list of suspects, their histories, alibis, passports and compartment numbers at any time, although keeping a pen and paper handy may be helpful. Getting around the train is made infinitively less tedious by a short-cut system…you can click your way from one car to any other, rather than having to direct Antoinette to walk back and forth through the train. The voice acting, music, character rendering and detail, scenery, and general operation of the program are far superior to those of And Then There Were None. There are only a few puzzles and they make sense in the context of the plot... a refreshing change.
I would have liked to have seen, however, a greater variety of settings. Although there are a few short scenes that take place in other locations, such as a marketplace, train station, and snowy woods, the bulk of the game is spent in the same five train cars.
I have played two other games with train locales, the Last Express, published in 1997 by Broderbund Software, Inc. / Havas Interactive and (I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit) Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon byHer Interactive. So, I can’t help but compare those games to Murder on the Orient Express.
The Last Express also takes place onthe Orient Express, but in 1914, during its last run before the outbreak of World War I. The Last Express, now out of print but available on the used market, is a very complex game that takes place in real time, so there are many actions and conversations that don’t immediately move the plot along, but add richness and interest to the game. The real time feature creates some problems however, since the player can fail to take an action in time and so have to go back to and re-do a previous part of the game. I remember making the protagonist wander back and forth endlessly through the train cars, either waiting for something to happen or trying to find something or someone. So, I really enjoyed the ease of use of Murder on the Orient Express.
Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, is designed for the pre-teen and above market and it is therefore a much simpler game, in plot, length and graphic complexity than either Murder on the Orient Express or the Last Express.
I enjoyed playing Murder on the Orient Express, though I wish I hadn’t known “who done it.” It’s a well-conceived, well-executed game; I’m primed for more Poirot games.
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With the nation's radar firmly on the problems facing Australia's Indigenous communities, the challenges faced in building strong Indigenous families will be tackled at an international conference at the University of Newcastle next week.
More than 400 people will attend the inaugural National Indigenous Family and Community Strengths Conference to be hosted by the University of Newcastle's Family Action Centre and the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Incorporated (SNAICC)
The Director of the Family Action Centre, Ms Judi Geggie, said following the Northern Territory intervention and the current Prime Minister's public apology, the country was standing at a historical crossroad.
"Never before has the discussion on how to build on the strengths of Indigenous families been so public or so urgent. This conference will bring to light the success stories emerging from Indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada."
Speakers include Mr Chris Sarra from the Indigenous Education Leadership Institute in Queensland and Mr Michael Yellow Bird from the University of Kansas in the United States. The Indigenous conference will be a prelude to the University's fifth Australian Family and Community Strengths Conference.
"The University of Newcastle is a recognised leader in the field of family research and has attracted a number of high profile speakers to present at the conference on the changing ways in which people are engaging with their communities.
"Speakers include Mr Tim Costello from World Vision Australia, Ms Lois Smidt from Beyond Welfare in the United States, and Professor Terry Lovat from the University of Newcastle," Ms Geggie said.
The first National Indigenous Family and Community Strengths Conference will run from Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 April 2008.
The fifth Australian Family and Community Strengths Conference will run from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 April 2008.
Both conferences will be held at the Newcastle campus (Callaghan). For more information visit: www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/fac/
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I really recommend reading the entire article. Trigger warning for discussion of rape and rape culture - it’s a tough article but very important.
(Thanks to byunbbi for submitting)
I think this quote also really captures what is happening when one is reported so much more than the other in American media:
“24,000 rapes in one year. That’s an epidemic. Brutal gang rape. Police doing nothing to protect or prosecute. Culture of rape. But something like that would never happen here in America, right? India is dirty and dangerous and overcrowded and backwards and misogynistic and this is just a third world problem, right? A really sad problem, but it would never happen here, right?”
It creates another false dichotomy where “we” feel bad for “them” that they have to live in those “conditions.” Definitely both situations are in need of address, but it’s worth examining why media leaps on framing India and its sexual assault issues as if they are a world different from ours- as if “our people” /culture really act better or respect women and victims more (they don’t.)
24,000 in a population of a billion vs 188,000 out of 300 million?
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A review of Antarctica’s largest kitchen.
Back in the mists of time, when the United States Government was feared by the better part of the known world and the U.S. Navy manned our small outpost at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, it was determined that the interests of all would be served best if the men at McMurdo were forced into a single facility for their periodic nourishment. The reasons given were many. Candybar hoarding and profiteering would be wiped out. Sugar and caffeine intoxication would be brought under control. Human slugs who were good for little more than obfuscation, paper-shuffling and low-order bullying would find work in this new facility rather than places where they might have access to weapons. Recruits who tested “too dumb to kill” could be made into cooks. The Navy would be a better place.
So the McMurdo galley was ordained. It was organized in a logical manner that really hasn’t been improved upon over the years – the raw materials and their origin, cleanliness, handling and preparation were well hidden from those consuming the end product, galley workers with exotic forms of skin eruption could be kept out of sight, and the consumers were segregated according to their rank in the organization, giving rise to the E-side on the left for the enlisted squids, and the O-side for the officers, NCOs, NSF types and Distinguished Visitors. This had many advantages. Those with dreams of money, sex, power, glory and gold stars were protected from those who might tend to pull them back into the swamp of large, fertile wives, unwashed kids, manual labor, bad teeth and the trailer park lifestyle where your TV is always worth more than your pickup. Those charged with running McMurdo were protected from the people, facts and things that actually made McMurdo run, a tradition still honored today. This segregation also allowed the dispersal of substandard nutritional materials among those least likely to have contact with high-ranking officers or visiting political bigshots. If some of the biscuits were nine years old and maggoty, they could be smothered in gravy and sent to the E-side. The 1955 Civil Defense cheese always went to the left. During Winfly, 1988, there were some meatless chicken bones left over from some chicken-salad project, and they were put out as one of the lunchtime entrees. They were taken, maybe out of duty, maybe as a challenge, or maybe because of the very real possibility that in twenty-four hours, chicken bones would be looking pretty good.
As civilians slowly infiltrated the US Antarctic Program, they distributed themselves between the E-side and the O-side according to rank and other proclivities. Those hoping for promotion to supervisor, those having the compulsion to force their religion on everyone else in the world, or finding themselves even subconsciously limp of wrist did not find any friendly faces on the E-side. Those too exhausted to change out of greasy Carhartts, or wanting to twist the head off the fool who ordered Ford Falcon parts for the Heavy shop and put the seven-year-old beer in the liquor store wouldn’t find anyone to talk to who had the slightest clue on the O-side. Females hoping to be mauled by someone who wasn’t totally shitfaced and had brushed his or her teeth sometime in the last twenty-four hours set up camp on the O-side, usually in tight little groups seething with a volatile mix of mutual defense and cutthroat backstabbing. The peace was kept in a fashion, and all was well in the cold world.
McMurdo Station is one place in the world where you can guarantee that, if something works, it won’t be left alone. The Navy, with all its faults, got the job done, but this wasn’t good enough and the civilians poured in. The galley, as shabby and gloomy and segregated as it was, was the devil we knew, and we were blissfully unaware that a too-cold non-sterilizing dishwasher was as effective as deep-toungue kissing everyone on base in spreading the annual plague known as the Crud. The bureaucrats with glorious but secret dreams took the first timid step by replacing the traditional, workable, paid-for and well-loved trestle tables with incredibly expensive and large round ones that had the effect of limiting the range of your complaints, conspiracies, and dirty jokes to the few in your immediate vicinity in the large circle. This merely multiplied the variations in rumor and smut, and tightened the groups of conspirators, making them doubly difficult to infiltrate, betray and expel.
With time, the table affair was supplanted by newer screwups and faded from the radar, but the Grand Plan was grinding away in some secret off-books Department of Improvements, and one winter an army of workers attacked and destroyed the old galley and replaced it with the wonder we enjoy today. Gone is the segregation, but not quite – the one large dining room is separated into a lower bullpen and a surrounding elevated level with windows to the real world, and there is a small separate dining room that renders some degree of freedom from the prying eyes of everyone on base three times a day as well as from supervisors looking for hiding workers. The presence of windows is a radical departure from the womb-like isolation of the old galley, where the entire contents of T-site could be flying overhead and you wouldn’t have a clue. Now you can look outside, see a little snow blowing around, and come up with a reason why you ought to get another coffee, piece of pie, or cereal bowl full of nutritious soft-serve before fighting your way across the road to your comfy office. The food-serving area is arranged in some sort of random self-service pattern designed to maximize confusion and loaded-tray collisions, and minimize both the number of galley workers and the consumption of the pricier foods like real meat and freshies. This subtle food-selection bias also can be used to lower the cost of shipping garbage to a landfill near Seattle by diverting unpopular, overstocked or slightly spoiled foodstuffs through our intestines into McMurdo Sound.
One hidden Galley feature that affects us all is the new dishwashing machine that actually kills the personal microorganisms with which we all slime our utensils, resulting in the virtual disappearance of the Crud at McMurdo. Before we all breathe a sigh of relief, there is a credible report that a committee has been formed to study the costs of disease-caused loss of worktime against the cost of heating the dishwasher water to sterilizing temperatures, with the intent of adjusting the sterilization process to optimize the disease level among us. The working hypothesis is that workers with a level of illness too low to qualify them for sick time will do their jobs less efficiently, but can be forced to make up for this by working extra unpaid hours, with the savings coming from lower water-heating costs. The United States Antarctic Program has never been short of cleverness.
But the crowning jewel of this edifice is the monster custom-made neon wall clock, which cost either three or thirty thousand dollars, depending on how much alcohol has filtered the information. It hangs high above us all three or four times a day, bathing us all in Obedience Rays, according to informed sources, and controlled by an unknown person with poor personal hygiene in a small dark control room in Denver, whose job it is to make the clock run faster during mealtimes and days off, and slower during work hours. It is assumed that the Control Clock is only one of the thousands of surveillance and control devices installed on base, but it is the large, constant and useful reminder of the fact that all aspects of our lives are monitored and channeled, and that the great mass of data gathered is used both to improve monitoring and to minimize the amount of cash expended for bonuses. As any annual report from the contractor to the NSF will attest, these goals are being met and exceeded every year. A recent example of this is the effective extension of official monitoring to our lives even before we dreamed of entering the Antarctic Program, in the form of exhaustive pre-employment credit and background checks.
So there’s your Galley (or Multipurpose Dining Facility in officialspeak), a truly wondrous and spectacular monument to bureaucratic ingenuity, managerial deviousness, and courageous committee decision-making, combining in one perfect opus the base business of stuffing fuel into our systems with minimal lost work time and expelling the waste, if you can find the right door, with the sublime purpose of bending our every thought, word, motion and gaseous expulsion to the furtherance of Big Science, big budgets, overseers unrestrained by the shackles of reason or decency, and generous incentive payments that, while paid to the contractor, mysteriously disappear before they reach the fingers of those doing the work. But before we all fly into a homicidal rage, let us count our blessings. Let us pray that someone doesn’t work out the savings in jet fuel if we all returned to civilization just as we left, but weighing thirty percent less. | <urn:uuid:c7ded3ec-1565-4558-8c00-6abe15aef7ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bigdeadplace.com/king-haakon-vii-review/the-mcmurdo-galley/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969106 | 1,920 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Several cities are pursuing highway removals, as a way to reclaim city space for housing, parks, and economic development. CNU has designated ten "Freeways without Futures" here in North America, and in this video, you'll hear about the benefits of tearing down the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, the Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx, the Skyway and Route 5 in Buffalo, and the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans.
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Over the last ten years (or more) just about every major city in the U.S. has added bike-carrying capacity to their buses. While cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Francisco can boast 100% of their bus fleet sporting bike racks, NYC comes in at 0% - the only one in The Alliance for Biking & Walking's 2010 Benchmarking report.
Streetfilms got to take a tour of the newest addition to Seattle's transportation network, the 13-station, almost 16 mile Light Link Rail which opened in mid-2009. The route features frequent service (as little as 7 minute headways during rush hour), has great multi-modal access, and can get you from the SeaTac airport to downtown in just over a half hour.
When Seattleites elected a new mayor at the end of 2009, they really went for a breath of fresh air. In the general election, Mayor Mike McGinn, who rides a bike to work daily, was outspent nearly four to one. The race was very close, but with an energetic volunteer base -- and a campaign [...]
Unfortunately, it's something I've seen even the most experienced cyclist do: wipe out while crossing a set of train tracks. As many of you know, you need to maneuver your bike's angle of approach so that you hit the rails as perpendicular as possible. But even knowing that, some demon riders don't slow enough to [...]
Along Seattle's historic waterfront, a new-ish pedestrian amenity has popped up: a crosswalk that lights up as you cross, and all you gotta do is tap the yellow-rectangle to activate it.
Seattle's South Lake Union Streetcar is a 1.3-mile line that opened in December 2007, the first leg in Seattle's commitment to new transit and light rail. It passed the half million passenger milestone in its first year, surpassing ridership projections. The streetcar features many top-of-the-line tech amenities, including real time arrival message boards, solar-powered ticket [...]
Carla Saulter, who lives car-free with her husband and young daughter, pens an awesome blog called "Bus Chick" on the Seattle Post Intelligencer's website. It's all about riding transit, chronicling her daily life doing it, and inspiring others to do it! | <urn:uuid:789c5442-02b6-403b-baa8-139b52c2de1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.streetfilms.org/tag/seattle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958679 | 589 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Tue February 7, 2012
Judge Throws Out New Kentucky Legislative Boundaries
A Franklin Circuit Court judge has thrown out new legislative district maps, saying they violate the basic principles of the Kentucky Constitution.
Judge Phillip Shepherd's ruling is based on the so-called five percent rule. It says new districts must be within five percent of their ideal size. Shepherd added that the maps of both the House and Senate districts divided too many counties.
Shepherd also extended the deadline for candidates to file to run for the General Assembly until Friday. Unless the ruling is overturned or new districts are drafted, candidates will run in the current districts.
House Republican Leader Jeff Hoover was one of the main parties challenging the maps. He says he’s happy with Shepherd’s ruling.
“Well we’re obviously very pleased with the judge’s decision," said Hoover. "He agreed with the argument that we’ve made now from Day 1, that the House plan divided two many counties and it was above the population variance and he agreed with that. He found it was a violation of Section 33 of the Constitution, that’s the argument that we’ve made from Day 1.”
Shepherd did not rule on whether the Senate's decision to move Senator Kathy Stein's district was constitutional…leaving it open to further challenge. Stein says she’s resigned to not running this year.
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Last surviving Negro Leagues ump recalls tough road
Motley overcame much to have long career but never got to work in Major Leagues
Byron Motley is still surprised that his father and many others who played in the Negro Leagues don't appear to harbor bitterness over being denied an opportunity to be part of the Major Leagues.
"I'm bitter about things that I haven't achieved in my life," said Motley, laughing. "And I certainly had more opportunities than my father had."
There's no doubt that the years before integration of the Major Leagues held fewer opportunities for black men than during the years afterward, but that didn't stop Motley's father, now 89, from dreaming grand dreams when he was younger.
And, oh, his dreams were grand: Bob Motley was a black man who wanted to umpire in the Majors.
The thought was laughable for most of the 1900s, and Motley, the last surviving umpire from the Negro Leagues, knew it as well as any other black man who grew up in those specks of towns in the Deep South. Yet segregation never stopped Motley from dreaming, because even if he couldn't get to the big leagues, he could build a career as an umpire elsewhere.
Bob Motley did.
Like most black youngsters of the 1920s and '30s, he got to watch baseball from the vantage point of Jim Crow. Motley and his peers, however, never looked at the Negro Leagues as a discount version of the bigs. They carried the same admiration for black baseball and its stars as white youth did for the stars for whom they rooted.
Motley's first dream was to make a living as a ballplayer. He was a pitcher, but as he's always told people, not a very good one. Given a tryout with a Negro League team, he didn't make the cut.
Not that it would have mattered much immediately, because Motley ended up having to go to war in 1943, joining thousands of U.S. soldiers in Japan. While overseas, he would umpire pickup games. He came home to the States in 1946 with a new dream in tow.
"I wanted to make a career as a Major League umpire," he said. "I knew I couldn't play, so the next step, if you wanted to be in the game, you had to be an umpire."
His experience in those pickup games led to opportunities in the Big 8 Conference. While he umpired college games, he tried to catch on with the Negro Leagues. Motley would hang around the Kansas City Monarchs' ballpark, asking crew chief Frank Duncan whom he should talk to about a job.
For almost two years, Duncan, a tough, former Negro Leagues catcher, gave Motley the runaround. But Motley was persistent.
"He had to have persistence, persistence and the desire to make the most of a bad situation," said Byron Motley, a filmmaker, historian and author.
Hanging around the ballpark got Bob Motley his break. One day in 1947, Duncan needed someone to work third base; he remembered Motley and decided to give him a shot.
It was all he needed. J.D. Martin, the league president, saw Motley's work and said, "You're a pretty good umpire. How'd you like to travel in the league?"
Motley didn't hesitate to say yes. He took the $300 a month that Martin offered and joined the league's crew of umpires.
Bob Motley spent the next 11 seasons calling strikes and balls. He was behind the plate to witness some of the greatest hitters in the history of the game. Motley watched Willie Mays, Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron break into pro ball; he was there when Monte Irvin and Willard Brown transitioned from black baseball to the bigs, and he was lucky enough, he said, to call games with Satchel Paige on the mound.
No one who saw Motley on the field could forget him. His style was purely his -- colorful, firm and decisive.
"A close play just got into my system," he said. "I'd jump over a player's head to call him out or safe. It just got into me -- a close play. I loved to call balls and strikes, too."
He brooked no nonsense, though. A ballplayer could scream, cuss, fuss, holler or display all sorts of crazy emotions, but none of it affected Motley.
"When he said that was the call, that was the call," said Byron Motley, whose book "Ruling Over the Monarchs, Giants and Stars: Umpiring in the Negro Leagues and Beyond" chronicled his father's life in baseball. "He stood his ground. He had to; he couldn't let those ballplayers push him around."
Just as in the big leagues, ballplayers would try to do that all the time, even ballplayers like Buck O'Neil.
O'Neil, known to be easy-going, was playing first base for the Monarchs. Motley, in his black uniform, was stationed nearby. On a popup, he signaled an infield fly. O'Neil disagreed. He exchanged words with Motley until ...
"He said the magic word," Motley said.
Umpires have long had a creed. They've generally given players and managers leeway in disputing a close call, but there are certain profane words one can never say and expect to stay around to witness the game's last out.
O'Neil said one of those words. Motley ejected him, the only ejection in O'Neil's long career.
In the Major Leagues, umpires pack up their gear, go back to his hotel and don't see the players until the next day. But it was different in the Negro Leagues. Umpires traveled from city to city on team buses, they ate at the same restaurants, and as was the case with Motley and O'Neil, sometimes shared hotel rooms.
"After the game, I had no place to stay," Motley said. "Buck, he wasn't mad; he didn't carry a grudge. He said, 'Well, Motley, you can stay in my room.' I said, 'OK.'"
O'Neil told Motley to head to the hotel. Motley got the key and went to the room ahead of O'Neil. Unable to sleep, Motley waited for O'Neil to show up. O'Neil came in a short while later, changed without saying a word, jumped into bed and fell asleep.
"The next morning I got up and got on out of there before he got up," Motley said.
That was how things worked in the Negro Leagues, where Motley spent a good chunk of his life. Yet, through all the years he spent in the Negro Leagues, he couldn't shake the dream he had held since the war.
He followed the exodus of black talent out of the Majors, hoping that he, too, could be a barrier-breaker like Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby were in entering the Major Leagues in 1947.
In his quest to do so, Motley learned the only way to get to the Majors was to attend umpire school in Florida. Turned down several times for admission, Motley persisted. He got an invitation to attend in 1959. He spent one spring in Daytona Beach, and although he was tops in his class, had to go back a second year when his first try didn't land him a position at any level of Minor League ball.
It was the late 1950s and early '60s, and baseball still wasn't ready for a black man to arbitrate a game. Even after Motley got an umpiring job in the Pacific Coast League, he wasn't seen as material for the Majors.
His dream eventually died a slow death, but it died absent of bitterness. Motley rolled seamlessly into a career with an automaker, hanging around baseball as a sandlot umpire, and, as one of the founders of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, playing a role in keeping the history of black baseball alive.
Bob Motley knew he was capable of umpiring in the Majors, and he still wishes that he had gotten that chance. He didn't, which is the hardboiled reality that men like him had to face for growing up a generation too soon.
"As far as carrying around a grudge or being disappointed, not in the slightest," Byron Motley said of his father. "If he had, he certainly wouldn't have lived to 90 years old. The bitterness would have ate him up inside."
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Alzheimer's drug from Pfizer, J&J may prove safer
* Brain swelling problem may decrease over time
* Drug well tolerated in long-term study
* Some cases of mild vasogenic edema were undetected
* Studies may build confidence in once-battered drug
By Julie Steenhuysen
PARIS, July 20 (Reuters) - Experimental Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab, from Pfizer (PFE.N) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), may be safer than originally thought, according to two studies by U.S. researchers released on Wednesday.
They said that a brain swelling condition called vasogenic edema, which caused a lot of worry over the drug's safety early on, may decrease over time.
"It looks like we can treat people for a number of years safely," Dr. Steven Salloway of Butler Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, told the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Paris.
Salloway looked at the long-term safety of 194 patients in a mid-stage trial of the drug that stayed on treatment after the initial phase ended. Of those, 86 patients got the drug for at least 3 years and 43 were treated for at least 4 years.
About 24 percent of the patients had side effects possibly related to the drug, and some 85 percent of these were considered mild to moderate.
Cases of vasogenic edema, now called ARIA-E or Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities with Parenchymal Edema, appeared to lessen over time.
The risk of developing ARIA-E dropped from 6.7 percent in the first three infusions of the drug, to 2.7 percent for the fourth through the 10th treatment.
"That is very encouraging to me," Salloway said in an interview. "I think this is a transient condition."
"We've treated a lot of patients at at our center. I think it is very well tolerated," he said.
Larger, late-stage clinical trials will be needed to determine whether the drug works. Those studies are expected to stop enrolling patients in mid-2012.
There is no current treatment for Alzheimer's, which affects nearly 36 million people worldwide.
SWELLING WITHOUT SYMPTOMS
In a separate study of the drug, a team led by Dr. Reisa Sperling of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston reviewed more than 2,000 MRI scans from 262 patients who participated in mid-stage studies of bapineuzumab.
She looked for cases of amyloid-related abnormalities on the scans that might represent vasogenic edema or tiny leaks in blood vessels.
The radiologists in the study were specifically looking for amyloid abnormalities in the brain that might have gone undetected because patients had no symptoms.
The team found 36 cases thought to be linked to treatment with bapineuzumab, including 15 new cases. None of these patients had symptoms of ARIA-E, which can include headache, memory loss, loss of coordination and disorientation.
Since these cases were not identified, many of these patients continued to be treated with bapineuzumab.
"They were treated through their ARIA and remained asymptomatic," Sperling said in an interview.
"For me that was reassuring. You see these changes in the MRI and they look a little frightening. The fact that they can potentially be treated and remain OK is reassuring."
The team also found that people treated with higher doses of bapineuzumab who have an Alzheimer's risk gene called APOE-4 tend to have more ARIA-E side effects, confirming the companies' decision to lower the dose of the drug in these patients.
Salloway said the mid-stage study he looked at was not meant to show whether the drug helped improve clinical symptoms, but the researchers were encouraged to see it appears to be safe.
Many researchers think patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease are too far gone to have any significant benefit from drugs like bapineuzumab.
Salloway says he is hopeful the drug will work, but he will not fret if the late-stage results do not improve symptoms.
"I don't think it would kill the drug or the amyloid hypothesis," he said. Drugs like bapineuzumab remove deposits of beta amyloid from the brain, on the theory that will help improve memory problems in people with Alzheimer's disease.
Despite several attempts, no anti-amyloid drug has shown a benefit, but all of them have been tried in people with more advanced disease.
Researchers are now looking for safe ways to test people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, in some cases even before symptoms appear.
J&J and Pfizer are developing bapineuzumab jointly. Elan Corp (ELN.I), one of the drug's original developers, still retains a financial stake.
(Editing by Bernard Orr)
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Ecorazzi reports that Linkin Park has joined many other musicians such as Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band, and more to form the Green Music Group.
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Green Music Group is a project of the non-profit organization Reverb. GMG is a large-scale, high-profile environmental coalition of musicians, industry leaders and music fans using our collective power to bring about widespread environmental change within the music industry and around the globe.
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|UNICEF works to save young lives in drought-stricken Horn of Africa||23 March 2006|
A searing and persistent drought in the Horn of Africa has put millions at risk of starvation – including 1.5 million children under the age of five.
More than 8 million people across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti are affected by the drought, a result of low rainfall in the region for the past several years. Crops have failed and livestock are dying. And with rain not due until April, the situation is likely to deteriorate further.
That’s why UNICEF is moving rapidly to alleviate the crisis. In February, we issued an international appeal for $16 million in aid to help children affected by the drought, and UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman made an urgent call to action.
“This is an area of Africa that often suffers from drought, and when drought occurs, it impacts the nutrition of children,” Ms. Veneman said. Because children are more susceptible to disease than adults, she added, “in these situations previously, we’ve seen mortality rates for children increase – so we want to get into the area early, so we can address the needs particularly of the children.”
In response to the crisis, UNICEF has dedicated resources that enable us to move quickly in getting aid into affected areas, supplying water, supporting health care and providing measles vaccine and vitamin A supplements to boost children’s immunity.
In addition, UNICEF has been working closely with the governments of the affected countries, along with the World Food Programme and other partner organizations. Feeding programmes have already been put into place in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
And this week, children from the drought-stricken region showed that they are part of the solution. The African children were among over 100 youth delegates from more than 30 countries gathered in Mexico City to discuss how the global water crisis is affecting them.
UNICEF will sustain its emergency response in the Horn of Africa for as long as the drought persists – doing all we can to fulfill our mission of meeting children’s basic needs and expanding their opportunities to reach their full potential.
Thank you for your continued support.
Below are two links that you may be interested in:
Children’s World Water Forum: Calling for change
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The visible transmittance (VT) is an optical property that indicates the amount of visible light transmitted..
The NFRC's VT is a whole window rating and includes the impact of the frame which does not transmit any visible light. While VT theoretically varies between 0 and 1, most values among double- and triple-pane windows are between 0.30 and 0.70. The higher the VT, the more light is transmitted. A high VT is desirable to maximize daylight.
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‘Racist’ Dog Bites 7-Year-Old Girl
A 7-year-old girl was bitten by a dog her mother described as “racist.”
Pam Nkosi said her daughter was playing with other children when Sean Norman’s bull terrier managed to sneak onto the property. The mother said the “racist” dog immediately went after her daughter and bit the child on the knee.
According to the Sowetan, Nkosi believes the dog went after her child because the animal is unfamiliar with other races.
“I feel that the dog is racist. The way it behaved. It shows that it was not familiar with other races.”
To add insult to injury, the girl’s mom said Norman didn’t bother to check on her daughter. He also hasn’t contributed to any of the child’s hospital bills.
“Since the owner was impossible, we had to get the police to intervene. We discovered that the dog’s owner had defaulted on vaccinations and this puts my child at risk.”
The Frisky explains that the owner of the allegedly racist dog initially denied that his pet had attacked the little girl. He said Nkosi’s daughter was injured after she fell into a hedge. Norman is also said to have blamed the bite on another dog.
A SPCA agent explained that it is currently unknown if the dog attacked the 7-year-old girl simply because of her race. However, an investigation into the incident is underway.
Warrant Officer Karen Jacobs confirmed with the Sowetan that officials are looking into the matter.
“The investigating officer is currently obtaining statements after which the case docket will be handed in for a decision at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court.”
“Although a dog may appear to be “racist”, that’s not possible. Racism requires complex thinking and other higher cognitive functions that canines simply don’t possess. A dog may react in fear-based aggression to a person of color for two reasons: 1. Insufficient positive associations in early socialization to people of all races 2. A traumatic incident with a person of color that has now generalized to all people of color.”
Do you think the “racist” dog attacked the little girl based on the color of her skin?
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Delta Dental working to get more infants to the dentist earlier
Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:20 AM
Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation is working to increase the number of infant visits at dentists across the state.
Although it is recommended that infants see a dentist six months after getting their first tooth, only 8 percent of children in Iowa see a dentist by the time they are 1 year old.
The foundation has started a new campaign, "Dentist by 1," to reverse that trend. Studies show that early dental treatment can save money in the long term and helps curb future oral health issues.
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Please help my terminology.....please.
I have some questions I need answered to better my "flyfishyness"..its a word.
what does CDC mean?
what is a Trico hatch and what is used to imitate it?
what does ISO mean?
whats the difference between a nymph and a midge...the size?
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Watching my share of college football bowl games and NFL games over the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed how crazy fans (i.e. fanatics) in the stands can get over their favorite teams. As a Husker fan myself, I can relate. We’ll shell out hard-earned cash for a seat at Memorial Stadium, to root for the guys in scarlet and cream.
NFL fans can be even more rabid. Tickets are expensive. Official sports apparel can be even more expensive, never mind the cost of a brat and a beverage. NFL players are well-paid athletes, but they are paid so well because what they do for a living provides an extremely entertaining past time for their fans. Football, at least for the fans of winning teams, provides a welcome respite from the doldrums and stress of everyday worries. Farmers understand stress, so football and other sports and hobbies are welcomed by farmers and ranchers too.
But what if farming was a spectator sport, like football? What if our nation’s farmers could garner the accolades and attentiveness of fans for their daily services of providing food and fiber for society?
I haven’t seen tractor driving or working cattle on a recent list of upcoming Olympic events. Yet, a few groups of farmers and ranchers, along with rural communities, have been able to cash in on a growing love of nostalgic rural life and an increasing awareness by consumers of where their food comes from.
Farmers’ markets in many rural towns have taken on a festival flare. There is often music, colorful booths and a fair-like atmosphere. How about rural festivals like the St. James Marketplace Heritage Fest each fall? The farm wives at St. James have entertained visitors with such high power contests as cow chip flipping, corn picking, straw bale throwing and my favorite (watch out), skillet throwing.
Rodeo, a long time Nebraska invention that dates back to Buffalo Bill Cody’s original 1882 “Old Glory Blowout” held in North Platte, now entertains fans and fanatics around the world. The original Cody rodeo was as much about pageantry and entertainment, as it was competition. Still, the competitions were important to the performances, and they included real life cowhands and ranchers. Many of today’s rodeo stars, particularly highly televised professional bull riders, got their start by roping cattle and riding horses on real ranches.
In the Great Plains, we take some of our assets for granted, like wide open spaces, grazing cows and starlit nights. Our daily routines involving the vistas and valleys around our own farms are probably valued by those who do not have access to those kinds of experiences regularly.
Farm festivals like threshing bees that hearken back to the days of steam tractors and real horsepower are savored by old farmers and folks who have just read about farm life. Some rural towns have embraced farm festivals and local crops and food, to draw new tourists to the area. Look at North Loup, where they still celebrate that valley’s heritage for raising and processing popcorn. It is amazing how a town with a few hundred people can give away around 30,000 bags of free popcorn over a two-day event. Of course, nothing draws a crowd like free food.
It is true that we take our fun and games pretty seriously. Farm policy and food systems are serious business too. And I doubt if tractor driving will ever find its way on the sports page, outside of the hometown newspaper. I can’t imagine that a local cow chip flipping champion would ever make it to the top story on Sports Center. But, maybe farmers and ranchers and rural communities can figure out other, more entertaining ways to raise the level of appreciation for the folks who put food on the table around the globe. When we make our positive farming message entertaining, that is when it is heard. | <urn:uuid:6e785f61-616f-4e5a-acb2-a97ea6528207> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://farmprogress.com/blogs-farming-were-spectator-sport-2910 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959132 | 809 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest national award that a Girl Scout in grades 6-8 can earn. Interested in learning more about the Girl Scout Silver Award? You've come to the right place!
GSLE stands for the "Girl Scout Leadership Experience," where girls discover, connect and take action to become leaders in their communities. Before starting work on your Silver Award under Pathway GSLE, you must:
To ensure that girls develop the planning, problem solving and critical thinking skills that they will need in order to create and complete a successful Silver Award project, GSCNC strongly recommends that girls follow the steps for each of the sample sessions outlined in the Advisor Guide for their chosen Journey. This includes completing a take-action project, which will serve as great practice for their Silver Award!
While it is possible to work through a Journey in a shorter amount of time, in order to be fully prepared to work on the Silver Award (and eventually the Gold Award), working through all of the sessions is advised.
Once you have completed your Journey, you must engage in a Take Action Project that addresses a root issue that you're interested in, has an impact outside of your immediate community, and is sustainable. It is suggested that you spend a minimum of 50 hours on the project. The 50 hour guideline does not include time spent on your Journey. Your troop leader can approve your Take Action project. You do not need council approval.
To complete your Silver Award using Pathway GSLE, please use the following resources:
- Silver Award Girl Guide (PDF) (Word)
- Silver Award Adult Guide (PDF) (Word)
- Silver Award Final Report Form--Pathway GSLE PDF|Word
Click here for Frequently Asked Questions about Pathway GSLE awards.
- The Silver Award can be earned by any registered Girl Scout Cadette.
- The project should meet a need in the community. The project can be someone else's idea, but it must be planned, organized and implemented by you.
- You must plan your project carefully, identifying those whom you will help, those who will help you, and those who will work with you to complete the project.
- You may design and complete a Silver Award project with one or more Girl Scout Cadette partners. Each of you must be responsible for doing one specific piece of the project, and each must spend the full number of required hours on your portion of the project.
- Projects must adhere to all GSUSA and GSCNC standards. You should consult Volunteer Essentials and the Safety Activity Checkpoints. Please remember to pay particular attention to the sections on permission slips, food allergies, and having a first aider present at your event.
- You may begin working on the prerequisites as soon as you bridge to or register as a Girl Scout Cadette.
- The Silver Award project can be approved by the troop advisor. It does not need council approval. However, if a troop advisor has questions about whether a project is appropriate or should be approved, she/he may contact the Teen Program Specialist at email@example.com
- Complete the Silver Award Report Form (PDF). You must use the current form.
- Return completed form to any GSCNC Shop to purchase the Girl Scout Silver Award pin. A list of girls who have completed the requirements for the Silver Award is published in the GSCNC Award Yearbook each spring. The deadline for submission of forms if a girl wishes to be listed in the yearbook is March 15 of each year.
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beta-Glucuronidase assay for the detection of Escherichia coli in foods
Enzyme assays were developed for the measurement of β-D-glucuronide (GUS) as a rapid detection method for E. coli in food. A fluorescent assay utilizing 4-methylumbelliferyl-β-D-glucuronide as substrate was optimized and tested with growth cultures of E. coli. A relationship between E. coli and the level of GUS activity was established. A chemiluminescent assay using a 1,2-dioxetene derivative as substrate was compared to the fluorescent assay, and was found to be 10x more sensitive. ^ Anti-E. coli GUS antibodies were covalently immobilized on magnetic beads and used in a 30 min immunocapture method. GUS was recovered from E. coli grown at 37°C in an induction medium containing p-nitrophenyl-β-D-glucuronide at 0.3 mM concentration. This method provided GUS measurement increases up to 81x compared to the chemiluminescent assay in culture filtrate, and permitted detection of 1 CFU/ml of E. coli within 9 h. ^ The effect of other microorganisms on growth and GUS production of E. coli was tested using Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli O157:H7 with initial inoculum ratios of 1:1 and 100:1 of each microorganism to E. coli. E. coli O157:H7 was the only one which caused 1.5 and 4 h delay in GUS detection time, compared to the control. ^ The specificity of the chemiluminescent enzyme capture was tested with GUS preparations from shellfish and raw liver. Immunomagnetic beads did not give cross-reaction with GUS from any of the samples. ^ The minimum detection time for GUS was determined when E. coli was inoculated into pasteurized milk, raw vegetable and ground beef samples at ∼2 CFU/ml. In milk samples with ∼102 and ∼10 3 CFU/ml background microflora, GUS was detectable after 9 h of incubation. In cut vegetables with background microflora of ∼107 CFU/ml, the detection time for GUS was 12 h. In meat samples having background flora of ∼104 and 105 CFU/ml, GUS was detectable with a 5 min centrifugation step after 10 h of incubation. These results for E. coli detection in food were equivalent to the standard procedure that required 24 to 48 h incubation for presumptive results. ^
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"beta-Glucuronidase assay for the detection of Escherichia coli in foods"
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Related BLS programs
February 2000, Vol. 123, No. 2
Analyzing the recent upward surge in overtime hoursRon L. Hetrick
From March 1991, the end of the last recession, to early 1997, average weekly overtime in manufacturing increased by 1.6 hours, reaching its highest level—4.9 hours—since BLS began publishing the series in 1956.1 Overtime remained at or near this high level over the next year, retreating slightly by the end of 1998. These data are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, a monthly survey of payroll, hours, and earnings collected from a sample of more than 400,000 of the Nation’s employers. The CES program defines overtime as hours for which premiums were paid because they exceeded the number of straight-time workday or workweek hours. Average overtime is computed by dividing the total number of overtime hours in a given industry by the number of production workers in that industry, including those that work no overtime at all.
Historically, average overtime has increased with recoveries and fallen with recessions, with the level never exceeding 4.1 hours. Average overtime fell from 3.7 to 3.3 hours during the 1990-91 recession, but the current expansion has seen overtime reach an unprecendented level. This article analyzes the striking growth in overtime from March 1991 to January 1998 and its relationship to employment.
This excerpt is from an article published in the February 2000 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The full text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF). See How to view a PDF file for more information.
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1 The "official" starting and ending dates of recessions and expansions are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)—a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. NBER identifies economic turning points—that is, dates when economic activity turned in the opposite direction. For more information, see NBER's website, on the Internet at http://www.nber.org/, accessed February 2000.
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[Haskell] How to use STM in GUI applications?
lemmih at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 17:31:15 EST 2006
On 12/4/06, Thorsten Seitz <thorsten.seitz at web.de> wrote:
> I'm very intrigued by the concepts of STM but I'm having difficulties to see
> how a TVar based model can be used by a GUI application (e.g. Gtk2hs):
> For example, I'd like to update the GUI (e.g. changing widget sensitivity)
> upon changes in the model.
> But changing the sensitivity of a widget is an IO operation which cannot be
> initiated atomically by a model change which is an STM operation. Therefore
> the GUI change cannot be executed atomically together with the model change.
> This means for example that I can still press a button although the model has
> changed such that the button action is not allowed anymore. All I can do is
> check the condition of the model when the button is pressed and then ignore
> the button press which is not very satisfying for the user.
> Is it simply not appropriate to use TVar based models in a GUI application?
> Maybe STM should be more used like a service for MVar based GUI models?
How about making a list of IO actions to be executed when the
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What makes yoga and running the perfect combination? They both benefit the body in completely different ways; they're the yin and yang of exercise. The cardiovascular benefits of running are unmatched, while the centering and sometimes vigorous practice of yoga not only strengthens and sculpts the muscles, but also brings the mind to a sweet, comfortable place, keeping that "runner's high" going all day long.
As the feet pound the pavement, running compacts and contracts the muscles, setting the stage for tight muscles, pain and even injury.
Runners, don't fret—just a wee bit of yoga is perfect for lengthening tight muscles. Many articles for runners address the ever-popular hip openers and knee strengtheners (which are very important), but tend to neglect some other crucial areas affected by avid running. Yes, you can still do your "runner's stretch," but follow it up with these three poses to loosen and strengthen the other important muscles.
More: 9 Yoga Poses to Improve Your Running
As a runner, this is one of my least favorite poses. It's just plain uncomfortable. However, we yogis believe that the most uncomfortable poses are often the most needed. The good news: The more often you do a pose you hate, the easier it gets. Additionally, quad stretches can help prevent a slew of injuries associated with running.
Come to the floor on both knees.
Step one leg out in front of you and come forward enough so you're not resting on top of the knee.
Reach behind you to grab the foot of the resting leg, using the same hand as leg.
For an added "twist," you can try a twisting quad stretch by reaching behind with the opposite hand.
Another fantastic option is to try this against the wall. Come on your knees as close to the wall as you can. Creep forward on one foot to come into a lunge while keeping the back of the shin against the wall. Remember to come forward enough so your weight isn’t directly on top of the knee. Take 5 to 8 deep breaths. | <urn:uuid:1422d952-e99c-4fed-9275-03a61d5a8654> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.active.com/running/Articles/3-Best-Yoga-Poses-for-Runners.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952871 | 427 | 1.703125 | 2 |
QX disease in oysters
Spores of QX disease as seen under a research microscope at a magnification of 1000 times.
'QX' stands for 'Queensland Unknown', the title given to this disease before scientists discovered the parasitic organism that we now know causes it. In 1976 Marteilia sydneyi was formally described as the cause of QX disease in oysters.
Marteilia sydneyi is a protozoan (single-celled) parasite that belongs to a small group of parasites that mostly affect bivalves (animals with two 'shells', such as oysters, mussels and pipis).
QX disease infects the Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata), which is the commercial rock oyster grown along the east coast of Australia from the NSW/Victorian border north to the Great Sandy Strait in southern Queensland.
Infections of oysters usually occur between January and April each year, with many diseased oysters losing condition and dying throughout the winter. This parasite has a life cycle which is thought to involve two hosts, the oyster and a marine worm, but the complete life cycle has yet to be confirmed by scientists.
The parasite enters the oyster through its gills and palps (mouthparts) and migrates to the digestive gland which surrounds the intestine. Here the parasite produces spores and in the process destroys the digestive gland so that the infected oyster can no longer take up nutrients. QX can cause oysters to lose condition quickly (within four weeks in severe cases, longer in others) as they re-absorb their gonads and deplete their stored reserves. Oysters then appear thin and watery (not very inviting as a dinner entrée!) and infection often continues until the oyster dies - the oyster effectively starves to death. Commercial losses have reached millions of dollars in some oyster growing estuaries.
The difference in condition between a healthy oyster (on left) and one infected with QX disease (on right).
Individual spores of QX disease are microscopic and cannot be identified without the use of high power microscopes. However, one indicator of the disease is the light brown to cream colour of the oyster’s digestive gland due to the presence of parasite spores. It should be stressed that these gross signs are NOT specific to oysters with QX disease and can be the result of other environmental and nutritional conditions.
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Annuities offer two key advantages that can come into play as you plan your estate: speed and privacy. Both of these derive from the fact that you can designate one or more beneficiaries for your annuity, rather than having your annuity made payable to your estate.
When you die, your annuity proceeds are quickly paid to your beneficiaries, usually without the delays and expenses associated with probate. Thus, if it is important to you to quickly pass money to your beneficiaries, an annuity can accomplish that for you.
Also, because the proceeds are passed to the beneficiaries, they bypass your will. If there are certain assets that you want to privately pass to certain beneficiaries rather than have them pass through the relatively public process of probating a will, an annuity can accomplish that for you, too.
So, you can see that naming beneficiaries is usually better than having an annuity payable to your estate and passing through your will.
There is an additional consideration if the annuity is an IRA. If it is payable to the estate, your heirs will be required to liquidate the annuity and pay the associated income taxes within five years of your death. If the annuity is instead payable to individual beneficiaries, those beneficiaries have the option to keep money in their inherited IRAs for many years, even up to their life expectancy, and thus delay the payment of taxes on the annuity.
If your beneficiaries are minor children, you may want to consider a trust to provide asset management until the children would be old enough to be financial responsible. Also, if one or more of your beneficiaries may lack the financial sophistication to preserve and manage a large windfall, many annuity carriers will allow your client to specify that one, some, or all of the beneficiaries must receive their share of the annuity proceeds in the form of a series of periodic payments over a specified period of time.
Last but not least, remember that annuities are subject to income taxes at death, and, if your assets are considerable, they may be subject to estate taxes as well. If you want to maximize what your beneficiaries will receive, consider using some of your annuity money to purchase life insurance. Life insurance can provide an immediate boost what the beneficiaries would receive, plus life insurance death benefits are paid free of income taxes. There are also ways, such as ownership by an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust, to minimize or eliminate estate taxes on the life insurance death benefit.
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She was the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons. Agnes Campbell Macphail won her seat in the first election in which women were allowed to vote. What was her profession prior to her election?
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From 11 May to 13 October 2012, the Patek Philippe Museum is hosting the Rousseau watchmaking dynasty
On the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary celebrations of the birth of Jean- Jacques Rousseau organised by the City of Geneva and in the context of its “2012 Rousseau pour Tous” (Rousseau for All) programme, the Patek Philippe Museum and the Comité Européen Jean-Jacques Rousseau (CEJJR) present an exceptional exhibition. “Timepieces Signed Rousseau” is taking up residence at the Patek Philippe Museum from 11 May to 13 October 2012.
The exhibition showcases horological masterpieces from the 17th century: some thirty precious and rare timepieces from the collections of the Patek Philippe Museum, prominent museums and private collections. Constituting a vibrant tribute to the Rousseau watchmaking dynasty, they bear witness to the extraordinary manufacturing expertise of the Geneva Fabrique, an institution that from the 17th century onwards made the City of Calvin the cradle of fine watchmaking. Accompanied by a selection of archive documents, the watches on display invite visitors to discover a fascinating century where time won its spurs through the hand of man.
Under the name of the “Fabrique” were organised all of Geneva’s jewellery and watchmaking industries, in the form of independent workshops based on the apprenticeship system and grouped together in the Saint-Gervais neighbourhood. Transmitting their know-how from generation to generation, the master watchmakers and jewellers, along with the goldsmiths, enamellers, miniaturists, engravers, chasers and other artisans of the corporation, were zealous in pursuing and developing their métiers. Jean Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's great-grandfather, belonged to this aristocracy of craftsmen. His seven sons followed in his footsteps, some as watchmakers, others as goldsmiths, engravers or lapidaries. Thus did the Rousseau dynasty occupy the horologically related trades.
Bottom : Charity
Round “bassine”-shaped watch
Painting on enamel on gold
Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1723) and Ami Huaud (1657-1724)
Berlin, circa 1690 / 1700
Movement with barrel, fusee, gear-train, verge escapement and balance spring
Rousseau (probably André, apprentice in 1664) Paris, circa 1700 Gold, enamel / gilt brass, steel
Movement signed: “Rousseau AParis”
From his youngest age, Jean-Jacques used to observe his grandfather David in his watchmaker’s atelier. It was there that he would realise the value of the craftsman's work. From this immersion into the precision of the act and of the mind, he developed a structural approach to thought as attested in this excerpt from Emile: “I am like a man who sees an opened watch for the first time and, although he did not know the use of the machine and had not seen the dial, should not cease to admire the result. I do not know, he would say, what all this is for, but I see that each piece is made for the others, I admire the craftsman in the detail of his work, and I am very sure that all these gears go thus in concert for a common end which I cannot perceive." (Book IV, OC p. 578)
Among the works shown here, more than twenty were signed by a member of the Rousseau family. Through the variety of shapes, decorations and mechanisms is revealed the astonishing freedom of creation of the 17th and 18th centuries. From memento mori to cross-shaped watches, coach watches to complicated timepieces, all are imbued with exceptional aesthetic and technical creativity. Here a miniature enamel painting embellishes a cover; over there, a finely chased decoration graces a case. Every detail crystallises the mastery deployed by the makers of time from past centuries. In the course of the exhibition, viewers can take a swath of history to heart through the saga of the Rousseau dynasty and immerse themselves in the Age of Enlightenment: the century that, beyond the realm of pure philosophy, consecrated the artisan as the emblem of reasoning with one’s hands.
Above : Cross Cross-shaped watch
Movement with barrel, fusee, gear-train and verge escapement
Jean (II) Rousseau (1606-1684) Geneva, circa 1630 / 1640 Silver, gilt brass, rock crystal / gilt brass, steel
Movement signed: “Jean / Rousseau”
Rousseau the philosopher, Rousseau the writer, Rousseau the politician, Rousseau the interdisciplinary sage… This man of greatness marked Western history and society for eternity. His convictions on liberty and intuitive conscience and on freedom of expression and thought, in addition to his analytical and contemplative sensibilities, have undeniably contributed to the aura of the city of Geneva.
The exhibition catalogue presents a collection of scientific and historical articles that provide a fresh perspective on the effervescent period of the 18th century. Highlighting the value of the Rousseau legacy, the authors portray a Geneva undergoing rapid expansion. A look at the Rousseau family tree reveals that Isaac Rousseau, the father of Jean-Jacques, worked as “watchmaker to the Sultan” on the banks of the Bosphorus. He studied the context of Calvin’s sumptuary laws of 1558 and the organisation of the famous Fabrique, and followed the aesthetic evolution of watches from their beginnings until the 18th century.
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Fire Preparation And Prevention
Fire Preparation And Prevention
Stacy Gerlich (Fire Captain & Paramedic) gives expert video advice on: What are common household fire hazards?; How can I prevent household electrical fires?; How can I prevent household fireplace fires? and more...
What is 'CERT'?
CERT is a program that is a nationally recognized program and it stands for Community Emergency Response Training. CERT is in the city of L.A. and it's a free seven week course. This course takes you through disaster preparation that covers anything from earthquake, to fire, to flood, to hurricane, tornados and terrorism. And then we have a chapter on fire suppression. We talk a little bit about fire chemistry at CERT, including how to use a fire extinguisher. Our third session is on triage. We talk a little bit about disaster psychology and the incident command system, which is how you run a large incident. Within our CERT agency we have this whole hierarchy in place, so if we have any incident, whether it is a fire or a medical incident, there's someone whose in charge, an incident commander. So we teach you the structure of how that works at CERT. And then the last chapter is basically what we call terrorism awareness. Things to look for when you travel, going into the websites of the councils and checking on if there are any alerts and those types of things. And then we do an exercise twice a year. We have a tremendously large exercise, where we have anywhere from between 250 to 300 people show up and we incorporate all those weeks of training and create scenarios for you, and you're working with people throughout the city to get tasks done. This is really just preparing you and giving you that information so that in the event of the next disaster you're going to fair much better.
What are common household fire hazards?
Most common fire hazards, as far as household objects are concerned, would be again appliances, such as curling irons which are a huge fire hazard! Hair-dryers as well, because what happens is on the back of the hair-dryer, there's a little screen, and that gets filled up with lint, and often people, they don't think about cleaning it up, and then it gets hot, overheats, and it could catch on fire. The other thing include clothes dryers, as indeed we see a very high incidence of single-family dwelling fires as a result of that, and that's because over time, there is this tremendous build-up of the lint that happens behind the appliance itself and the wall. Even though you have the vent tubing, it doesn't mean that this stuff doesn't seep out a little bit and collect. And it gets pretty bad and this is a really good source for fire to happen there. Those are the most common household fire hazards.
What kind of roof provides the most fire protection?
As far as single family dwellings and roofing materials go, the wood shake is out, it's obsolete. Actually now they have the light-weight concrete roofing, which would be better in terms of fire protection. So anything nowadays really that you are going to purchase, and that's going to be installed, will certainly meet the codes and standards that you need to adhere to. But I would definitely stay away from the wood shingle roofing, even though they are treated now, and they are the look which people usually go for, it's not necessarily the safest. So the lightweight concrete is really the safer way to go in terms of roofing providing the most fire protection.
How can security bars on my windows be dangerous during a fire?
Security bars on windows, again, are usually put on so that people cant get into the house. You see them in areas where there is potentially a higher rate of crime. But, we lose anywhere from 2,500 to 3,000 people a year because of these fire safety bars, or safety bars in general. That's because people don't remember, or even have an idea that there needs to be a safety release from the inside in order for you to get out of that building should it be on fire. Remember, if you cant get out, we cant get it and it's a pretty helpless situation. If you've purchased a home that had security bars on the windows, that were already installed, you need to make sure that you can open that bar from the inside in case of a fire.
What is the most important part of fire safety planning?
When you talk about fire safety planning, we have a nice little acronym that we use. It's called EDITH, which is Emergency Drills In The Home, and what we like to do is we like to educate the population on the matter. We say that if you have children, you sit down at the kitchen table and each has a piece of paper and a pencil, and you draw out sort of the schematic of the house, and then you say, as parents, if you are in this room or in this end of the house, this is the route that you should take to get out in case of a fire and this is where were going to meet. So the preparation aspect of fire safety is tremendous, and it saves so many lives, and it helps relieve the anxiety because everybody then knows what the expectation is, and where you're going to meet up with the rest of the family should something happen in case of a fire.
What fire precautions should I take if I have a second floor?
If you have a second floor, or even a third floor, the first fire precautions you should take is to always have a fire extinguisher on every level. That's a cheap insurance for the price we paid for our homes. Another consideration in fire precaution would be an escape ladder, so you can throw it out a window. Speaking of windows, make sure that they are not painted shut, that they are not nailed shut, and often times we put a bar in there to prevent a burglar coming in. So just know that these are the kind of things that could certainly prevent you from escaping a very serious situation if you were on a second floor.
What should I teach my children about fire safety?
Children are great because they love to learn, they think it's fun, so you can kind of make fire safety interesting and educating for them. You should talk about fire and if there's a fire in the house, then they should stay low to the ground because of the fact that there's usually cleaner and fresher air closer to the floor. Secondly is talk to your children about the stop, drop, and roll if they already catch on fire. Rather than running through the house frantically, stop, drop to the floor, and just roll back and forth, and then that way if they are on fire or their clothing is on fire, it will help suffocate that and smother the flames. But kids are great, they want the information, so you can make learning about fire safety sort of a game. And when you incorporate exit drills in the home, when you incorporate stop, drop and roll, then what they'll do conversely is usually take it to school, and then tell their friends, and then it will become sort of an educational period for them.
What is the 'StopDropAnd Roll' fire safety method?
The Stop-Drop-And-Roll is basically, instead of running while you're on fire, you stop where you are, drop to the floor, cover your face with your hands, and roll back and forth to try to extinguish the flames. That's really what it is and it's exactly what it says. You just stop, drop to the floor, cover your face to protect it, and then roll back and forth to combat the flames on your body. | <urn:uuid:4d690fe3-61f0-44b9-a8b0-d6a4814edd70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.videojug.com/interview/fire-preparation-and-prevention-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973943 | 1,607 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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Updated: Thursday, 14 Jun 2012, 7:03 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 14 Jun 2012, 7:03 PM EDT
(CNN) - Michael Dixon hasn't had a job since September, but he's definitely not relaxing at home.
Living at a friend's house without paying rent, he spends all day searching online for job opportunities and more short-term ways to make money, fearing that if he stops to watch TV, he'll miss something.
"It's kind of like a feeling of 'I can't believe this is happening to me,' and a sense of hopelessness," said Dixon, a 38-year-old Seattle resident. "You really, really, truly start to question who you are."
Dixon, an experienced software test engineer, knows he's not alone in his jobless turmoil. The unemployment rate in the United States is at 8.1%, but that doesn't include people who haven't been looking for a job recently or have lost unemployment insurance.
Deceptively, the unemployment rate will likely drop this summer, but that's because federal extended unemployment benefits are running out for an additional 115,000 people . That statistic doesn't capture just how many Americans have been desperately wishing for a job for a long time.
Psychologists point out serious mental health consequences of being in Dixon's situation for a long time.
It's common for people who have been unemployed for six months or longer to show signs of depression, says Diane Lang, psychotherapist based in Livingston, New Jersey. Eating habits focus on comfort foods, leading to binging. Stress, anxiety and negative thoughts make it hard to get a good night's sleep, resulting in fatigue and lethargy.
"Being unemployed is actually one of the most difficult, most devastating experiences that people go through," said Robert L. Leahy, director of the American Insitiute for Cognitive Therapy and author of "The Worry Cure."
Research suggests that being unemployed doubles a person's chance of a major depressive episode and that unemployment is also highly associated with domestic violence and alcohol abuse, Leahy said. Unemployment is also associated with an increased risk of suicide, often because of the link to depression, according to the Suicide Research and Prevention Center .
Men with children tend to view unemployment as more a defeat than women with children, Leahy said, perhaps because women might be more likely to view a lack of a job as a chance to spend more time with family.
Physical health may also suffer: new medical conditions such as hypertension and diabetes may follow the loss of a job, Leahy said. There are suggestions that unemployment can even lead to cardiovascular disease, although it is difficult to prove that job loss causes heart damage .
Strains on intimate relationships might result from being unemployed, since frustration between partners can result from financial worries, Leahy said. But divorce rates have been shown to be lower among the unemployed, perhaps because it's harder to make big decisions such as where to move and how to sell a house while also looking for jobs.
Feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed about their situations, some unemployed people isolate themselves socially and don't find enjoyment in the activities they once did, Lang said. They may feel hopeless, confused or overwhelmed. Physical symptoms can also include joint and body aches.
And even if you're trying to get yourself out of unemployment, the job search itself brings significant stress: Research suggests that unemployed workers who actively engage in job-search activities are more likely to have worse mental health, according to a 2005 study .
Not everyone gets clinical depression as a result of unemployment, but it's a concern, Lang said. Friends and family of unemployed people should look for warning signs , such as sadness, lack of energy, insomnia and irritability.
Dealing with unemployment, mentally
Perhaps the first thing to do if you're unemployed is: Validate your right to feel miserable, says Leahy. "You're a human being. You have a right to feel unhappy."
But instead of ruminating, you could take a proactive role in searching for a new job and taking care of yourself. Try to acquire new skills or network if you can.
Keeping a consistent schedule helps people who are feeling overwhelmed about the prospect of another day without a job, experts say. Chart out what times of day you will be looking for jobs, when you will be sending out resumes and when you will eat your meals.
Structured time and physical activity have been linked in research with higher mental health. Make sure you also get exercise, Lang said. Simply walking a few times a week can help give you a natural high when you're feeling down. Dixon has felt much better since he started doing 20-minute exercise videos.
Another strategy is to find unemployment groups, which bring in speakers and provide networking opportunities among people who are not judgmental
if you are out of a job, Lang said. Support from family and friends is crucial and, if the person becomes seriously depressed, he or she should seek counseling.
"You can look at it as a time in between that last job and the next job," Leahy said. "How do you make the best of this time?"
You might find it fulfilling to do volunteer work, which may help you make connections that could eventually lead to a job, or new friends, and build self-esteem by helping others.
It's also worthwhile to think about career flexibility. If you can't go back to the industry in which you were trained, could you try something else?
One of Leahy's former patients was an unemployed actor; Leahy encouraged him to think about what else he might do. The actor went back to school to become a nurse. Leahy still gets a Christmas card from the former patient describing his work as a psychiatric nurse.
"Being flexible and open is extremely valuable," Leahy said.
How real people are coping
Dixon has thought about trying for jobs in a different field temporarily, but he's worried that prospective employers will pass him over if he tries something else outside his field. And he gets the sense that he's getting rejected in favor of others who already have jobs or more training from overseas.
"The more you're out of work, they think there's something wrong with you," he says. "It's a really nasty cycle that plays on you psychologically. It makes me doubt myself."
Jannet Walsh, 48, of Murdoch, Minnesota, feels the mental strain of unemployment, too. A photojournalist, she's been out of a job since she was laid off from a small publication in August 2011. Since then, she has faced countless rejections from other positions.
She doesn't feel depressed per se, but is looking for different ways to stay upbeat. A few weeks ago, she walked to a field at the edge of her small town and painted a watercolor of the sunset. She's also trying to revamp her website.
"You're focusing so much on this 'gotta find a job, gotta find a job' -- you've got to create something positive out of all the negative you're getting," Walsh said.
And there are dark moments. She cried when a state workforce counselor told her to take her advanced degree and other prestigious experiences off her resume (including participating in CNN iReport) since she's overqualified for local opportunities.
Dixon picks up one-time sources of income when he can by participating in focus group and academic studies.
A friend has let him live in her house for the past six months, but not without tension. They sometimes argue, and Dixon has no family in Seattle to turn to -- he'd probably be homeless if not for his friend.
In the meantime, Dixon cooks and cleans the house to help ease his sense of dependency and continues to look for employment.
"I'm doing the best that I can," Dixon said. He adds: "You can't put this stuff in stuff in context until it happens to you."
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Her son’s Bris.
A friend of ours helped arrange for a bris at the house, because we couldn’t go [to a hospital for the procedure]. The mohel [a person trained in the practice] came to us. You have never seen adults more panicked about what was about to happen to their son, but the celebration and the amount of love we felt and the pride in the little man whom we love so, so much became the greatest moment I have ever had in my life.
A bris is not the same thing as a regular circumcision. It is a religious ceremony within Judaism to welcome infant Jewish boys into a covenant between God and the Children of Israel through ritual circumcision performed by a mohel.
Is Sandra Bullock Jewish? My sources (i.e. Google search results) tell me probably not. And I’m guessing from the photo that little Louis isn’t either.
So the question is: why on Earth would she decide to give her son a Jewish tip-off?
Perhaps the answer is found in this article on the phenomenon of non-Jewish Brit Milahs.
When his son was born, Reverend Louis DeCaro Jr. was dismayed to learn that none of the doctors on call at Manhattan’s Allen Pavilion hospital had time to perform the circumcision. At a loss, the DeCaros turned for advice to their Manhattan pediatrician, Andrew Mutnick, who offered a simple solution: Hire a Jewish ritual circumciser, known as a mohel.
Mutnick put the family in touch with Cantor Philip Sherman, an Orthodox mohel working in the tri-state area. Sherman says he has performed more than 18,000 circumcisions in his 30-year career. There were no piles of bagels and lox waiting in the next room, no family members on hand to celebrate, but the DeCaros developed an admiration for the ancient tradition informing Sherman’s work.
“When [a circumcision] is done by a mohel, you appreciate the gravity, the beauty of the religious connotations,” DeCaro said in an interview with the Forward.
Although commonly recognized as performers of the brith milah, or Jewish circumcision, an increasing number of mohels are finding themselves handling the rituals for non-Jewish babies (even when, as in the DeCaros’ case, the father happens to be an ordained minister). Sherman, 51, may be one of the most prolific circumcisers in the tri-state area, but others — including Emily Blake in New York and Joel Shoulson in Philadelphia — have also found their services called upon by non-Jewish families. While it’s not clear exactly how many mohels offer nonritual circumcisions, the practice is, according to Shoulson — an Orthodox-trained mohel who has circumcised Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists and Hindus during his 50-year career — very widespread.
“Almost everybody else does it,” he said.
According to Blake and Shoulson, non-Jews make up between 2% and 5% of their clientele. Some, like the DeCaros, are motivated initially by practical circumstances, but others seem drawn to the mohels for spiritual reasons, if not explicitly religious ones. Both Blake and Sherman have even been approached by “Torah-observant Christians” — those dedicated to observing Old Testament commandments — seeking to have their sons circumcised on the eighth day after the birth. In all cases, families say they are drawn to the intimacy and convenience of a nonritual circumcision performed at home.
Manhattan pediatrician Susan Levitsky makes a point of recommending non-Jewish patients to mohels. Levitsky said she’s been passing out Sherman’s number more often these days, because concerns over hospital-bred infections are rising. “Why would you want to be around an environment with germs?” she asked.
That’s precisely the question posed at www.holisticcircumcision.com, a site that Sherman set up for non-Jewish parents. On it, he describes a “quicker, gentler, and more humane” circumcision carried out without the use of “drugs, injections or creams” (he suggests sugar water or wine) in an environment that’s “spiritual and meaningful” instead of “clinical and cold.”
Certain families have been won over by this nonritual gospel, despite the added cost.
While fees for hospital circumcisions are absorbed by the family’s health insurance, mohels charge between $700 and $750 for circumcisions performed in the New York area.
Two months ago, Nate Sadeghi-Nejad and his wife, Janine Foeller, were denied a circumcision at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital because of a staph outbreak. After the first mohel the couple contacted refused to operate because they weren’t Jewish, Foeller’s postpartum doula gave them Sherman’s number.
Their son’s circumcision was a success. Foeller was comforted that Sherman used sugar water as a mild anesthesia instead of a topical pain reliever, while her husband — who worried about the “see one, do one, teach one” circumcision practices at hospitals — was impressed by Sherman’s know-how. “I’m a firm believer that any procedure, minor or major, should be done by the person who does it the most,” he said.
Mohels aren’t always second choices. Nearly two years ago, Jeannie Noth Gaffigan and Jim Gaffigan gave birth to their first son at home through the assistance of a nurse-midwife. Though the decision to circumcise wasn’t a religious one, as Catholics the Gaffigans wanted more than a simple medical procedure. “We felt a mohel would lend a high level of dignity and significance to this very important moment in our lives,” Noth Gaffigan said in an e-mail to the Forward.
Blake, 52, arrived at a house packed with food, drink and family — a gathering that, were it not for the priest in the corner, would have looked like nothing less than a Jewish bris. While James waited for his big moment — his gauze pacifier soaked in sugar and Manischewitz — Jeannie read a passage from the New Testament describing Mary and Joseph dedicating the infant Jesus to God. After this, the priest gave a common Catholic benediction, known in Judaism as the Priestly Blessing, followed by Blake’s rendition in Hebrew.
Noth Gaffigan attributed the evening’s success to its cooperative efforts. “The fact that there was a priest and a mohel giving blessings side by side was such a celebration of unity in what can be a very divided culture,” Noth Gaffigan said.
As a former obstetrician/gynecologist, Blake said she saw her work as a commitment to her patients as well as to her own faith. “I feel a calling to be a mohel; I feel a calling to do God’s work on Earth,” she told the Forward. “But I feel a human calling to do a good job for anyone I’m doing a surgery for.”
Alternatively, she is getting back at her soon-to-be-ex husband who seems to have a thing for Nazis.
And Nazi skanks.
Whatever the reason, mazal tov Sandra and Louis!
About the AuthorAn Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
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May 17th, 2013
IPS is organizing together with ASCA and two Italian NGOs, Cospe and Un Ponte Per, the conference “Information for fair and sustainable development: a new way of cooperation between news agencies and civil society”, on May 18, 2013, during the X international conference-exhibition on sustainability best practices, to be held at Fortezza da Basso, in Florence, Italy. Read more »
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November 16th, 2012
As part of an ongoing partnership with IFAD to raise the voices and concerns of smallholder farmers in West and Central Africa, IPS Africa is reporting this week from the IFAD regional forum in Banjul. A bi-lingual English / French TerraViva publication will be shared with all the delegates, telling the stories of young farmers from across the region. Features on new cassava varieties, continuing food security concerns, coffee production, solar power and irrigation schemes, and urban farming are contributed from Yaounde, Dakar, Kampala, Ouagadougou and Abidjan.
Read more features and listen to podcasts at our sites Africa’s Young Farmers Seeding the Future and Jeunes Agriculteurs d’Afrique Ensemencer l’Avenir
The latest stories are also available to read on your mobile phone using the www.ipsnews.net address.
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October 16th, 2012
IPS Asia-Pacific led a team of journalists that produced in-depth coverage of the 2012 Annual IMF-WB meetings, Oct. 9-14, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The team produced an on-line TerraViva in English and Japanese that provided independent reporting and analysis, from Asian perspectives, about key development issues around the meetings, including disaster planning and sustainable development. Read more »
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IPS Africa was awarded The Africa Media Prize EXPO MILAN 2015 at the recently concluded Expo Milano 2015 International Participants’ Meeting that took place from October 10 – 12.
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October 1st, 2012
Journalists, trainers and logistics personnel.
Last week 11 journalists from all over Africa attended the Reporting on Rural Poverty and Agriculture workshop in Arusha, Tanzania, which was held in conjunction with the biannual African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). The workshop was the third in a series of training workshops organised by Inter Press Service – IPS and Thomson Reuters Foundation in a partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), following events in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro earlier this year.
In addition to the training the participants attended a press conference with Kofi Annan and Melinda Gates, reported on keynote speaker Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of IFAD, live tweeted from the conference with the hashtag #AGRF2012, and visited two IFAD projects in rural Tanzania. Read more »
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|Archbishop of Canterbury|
|Reign ended||14 December 1715|
|Born||29 September 1636|
|Died||14 December 1715|
Thomas Tenison (29 September 1636 – 14 December 1715) was an English church leader, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. During his primacy, he crowned two British monarchs.
He was born at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and educated at the free school in Norwich, going on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a scholar on Archbishop Matthew Parker's foundation. He graduated in 1657, and was chosen fellow in 1659. For a short time he studied medicine, but in 1659 was privately ordained. As vicar of St Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge, he set an example by his devoted attention to the sufferers from the plague. In 1667 he was presented to the living of Holywell-cum-Needingworth, Huntingdonshire, by the Earl of Manchester, to whose son he had been tutor, and in 1670 to that of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.
In 1680 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and was presented by King Charles II to the important London church of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. Tenison, according to Gilbert Burnet, "endowed schools including Archbishop Tenison's School, Lambeth, founded in 1685 and Archbishop Tenison's School, Croydon, founded in 1714, set up a public library, and kept many curates to assist him in his indefatigable labours". Being a strenuous opponent of the Church of Rome, and "Whitehall lying within that parish, he stood as in the front of the battle all King James's reign". In 1678, in a Discourse of Idolatry, he had condemned the heathenish idolatry practised in the Church of Rome, and in a sermon which he published in 1681 on Discretion in Giving Alms was attacked by Andrew Poulton, head of the Jesuits in the Savoy. Tenison's reputation as an enemy of Romanism led the Duke of Monmouth, to send for him before his execution in 1685, when Bishops Ken and Turner refused to administer holy communion; but, although Tenison spoke to him in "a softer and less peremptory manner" than the two bishops, he was, like them, not satisfied with the sufficiency of Monmouth's penitence.
Under King William III, Tenison was in 1689 named a member of the ecclesiastical commission appointed to prepare matters towards a reconciliation of the Dissenters, the revision of the liturgy being specially entrusted to him. A sermon he preached on the commission was published the same year. He preached a funeral sermon for Nell Gwyn in 1687, in which he represented her as truly penitent – a charitable judgment that did not meet with universal approval. The general liberality of Tenison's religious views won him royal favour, and, after being made Bishop of Lincoln in 1691, he was promoted to Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1694.
Archbishop of Canterbury
He attended Queen Mary during her last illness and preached her funeral sermon in Westminster Abbey. When William in 1695 went to take command of the army in the Netherlands, Tenison was appointed one of the seven lords justices to whom his authority was delegated. After Mary's death, Tenison was one of those who persuaded the King that his long and bitter quarrel with her sister Anne must be ended.
Along with Burnet he attended the King on his deathbed. He crowned William's successor, Queen Anne, but during her reign was in less favour at court : the Queen thought that he inclined too much to the Low Church, and clashed with him over her sole right to appoint bishops. Only with great difficulty did he persuade her to appoint his nominee William Wake, as Bishop of Lincoln.Increasingly he lost influence to John Sharp, Archbishop of York, whom the Queen found far more congenial. He was a commissioner for the Union with Scotland in 1706; but in the last years of the Queen's reign was very much a secondary political figure, and from September 1710, though still nominally a member of the Cabinet, ceased to attend its meetings. A strong supporter of the Hanoverian succession, who shocked many by referring to Anne's death as a blessing, he was one of three officers of state to whom, on the death of Anne, was entrusted the duty of appointing a regent till the arrival of George I, whom he crowned on 20 October 1714. For the last time at a coronation, the Archbishop asked if the people accepted their new KIng: the witty Catherine Sedley, mistress of James II, remarked "Does the old fool think we will say no?" Tenison died in London a year later.
The personal coat of arms of Archbishop Tenison consist of the arms of the see of Canterbury impaled with the Tenison family arms. The former, placed on the dexter side of honour, are blazoned as: Azure, an archiepiscopal cross in pale or surmounted by a pall proper charged with four crosses patee fitchee sable. The arms of Tenison, placed on the sinister side of the escutcheon are blazoned as: Gules, a bend engrailed argent voided azure, between three leopard's faces or jessant-de-lys azure. In standard English: a red field bearing a white (or silver) diagonal band with scalloped edges, and a narrower blue band running down its centre. This lies between three gold heraldic lion's faces, each of which is pierced by a fleur-de-lys entering through the mouth.
These arms are a difference, or variant, of the mediaeval arms of the family of Denys of Siston, Gloucestershire, and may have been adopted by the Tenison family because its name signifies "Denys's or Denis's son". The arms were originally those of the Norman de Cantilupe family, whose feudal tenants the Denys family probably were in connection with Candleston Castle in Glamorgan. St Thomas Cantilupe (d.1282), bishop of Hereford, gave a reversed (i.e. upside down) version of the Cantilupe arms to the see of Hereford, which uses them to this day. A version of the Denys arms was also adopted by the family of the poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, not known to have been a descendant of Archbishop Thomas Tenison.
See also
- Archbishop Tenison's School, Croydon
- Archbishop Tenison's School, Lambeth
- List of Archbishops of Canterbury
- Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Tenison, Thomas". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Gregg, Edward Queen Anne Yale University Press 1980 p.102
- Gregg p.206
- Somerset, Anne Queen Anne Harper Press 2102 p.224
- Gregg p.146
- Gregg p.141
- Somerset p.540
- "Tenison, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- "Tenison, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- George Stanhope, A Letter from the Prolocutor to the Reverend Dr. Edward Tenison, Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1718
- Somerset p.224
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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On this day in Reds history, former Red Lip Pike died and the Big Red Machine rolled in Philadelphia.
On this day in 1883, former Louisville Grays pitcher Jim Devlin died in Philadelphia. I am well aware that Louisville is not in Cincinnati, but there is no major league team in the Derby City. The Reds have a minor league affiliate there, so I am claiming the history of the Louisville Grays for Cincinnati for the purposes of this segment.
Devlin pitched for the Grays in 1876 and 1877, putting up ridiculous numbers in both years. He led the National League in games, complete games, innings, batters faced, and losses in both seasons. In addition, he led the league in strikeouts in 1876 with 122 and ERA+ in 1877 with a 147 figure. However, Devlin and several other Grays were involved in a game-fixing scandal down the stretch of the 1877 season. NL president William Hulbert banned all of the involved players for life. Devlin petitioned for reinstatement every remaining year of his life, but Hulbert refused to reverse his decision. After his expulsion, Devlin found work as a police officer in Philadelphia before dying of tuberculosis at age 34.
On this day in 1893, former Red Lip Pike died in Brooklyn. Pike played for the Reds in 1877 and part of 1878. (The Reds club from 1876-1880 was actually not related to either the 1869 Red Stockings or today's Reds.) Pike was a fascinating character. One cannot grasp his legacy by simply poring over his Baseball-Reference page. He was baseball's first accepted professional player and first Jewish player and star. Pike played second base for the Brooklyn Atlantics team that broke the Cincinnati Red Stockings' 93-game winning streak. He played many games at second base even though he was left-handed. New York City's infamous Boss Tweed supposedly admired Pike's play. In 1873, he raced a horse and won. You pretty well get the idea. He is the sort of player and figure that deserves a modern biography and a long look from the Veteran's Committee.
On this day in 1905, former Red Wally Berger was born in Chicago. Berger is best known as the Boston Braves' slugging centerfielder of the 1930s. Berger led the league in home runs (34) and runs batted in (130) for the Braves in 1935. He joined the Reds in the middle of the 1938 season and played for the Reds through the first part of the 1940. Berger slashed .285/.348/.472 for the Reds while playing predominately left field.
On this day in 1967, the Reds traded Deron Johnson to the Braves for Jim Beauchamp, Mack Jones, and Jay Ritchie.
On this day in 1976, the Reds defeated the Phillies in the second game of the NLCS, 6-2. Pat Zachry tossed five innings for the Reds, allowing two runs on six hits including a solo shot by Greg Luzinski. Pedro Borbon picked up a four inning save as he allowed no runs on four hits.
On this day in 1997, the Reds released pitcher Pete "Cy" Schourek.
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Leaving Alsace for North America
In order to understand the historical aspect of Alsatian emigration, it is necessary to consider it as being part of the great exodus from the southwestern regions of Germany that consisted of Baden - Württemberg, Hessen and Palatinate. Usually named "Palatine" in the colonial America, these immigrants, nearly all of them were Protestant, escaped an economic distress that was amplified by the frequent war destructions. The Alsatians often mingled with the other candidates to the emigration during their coming down of the Rhine and the crossing towards America.
It is not possible to determine precisely how many Alsatians arrived in America before 1775. The "Palatine" emigrant lists often mention people coming from Alsace, from Alsatian cities or villages. Most of them got settled in the East of Pennsylvania, but some scattered in other regions, like those who founded in 1719 a colony on the Mississipi to some kilometers of the New Orleans, named the "German Coast". The colonists of Louisiana were joined by a group of Alsatian Lutherans about 1750. As a victim of religious persecution in France, this group was exiled in Louisiana by the French government. But the Alsatian immigrants of the 18th century in Louisiana, as elsewhere, melted among more important German groups and lost their distinctive features.
Between 1775 and 1825, few European emigrants arrived in north America. But later, the flow from the southwestern regions of Germany enlarged in a significant way and about 1850 it took the proportions of an invasion. Alsatians took part in this movement and Alsace became a region of important French emigration. In Louisiana a great majority of the French immigrants of the decade that preceded the Civil War were for example, Alsatians. As during the colonial period most Alsatian immigrants got settled in German enclaves, there was an important number of marriages inevitably between them, especially among the people who shared the same religious convictions.
The reasons for the emigration
The most serious local problems were met in the regions of Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté. During the Napoleonic Empire, these provinces had become important centers for trading with the regions of central Europe that had fallen under French military control. However, the invasion of 1814 and the military occupation of the region in 1815 had not only interrupted this trade, but they had ravaged agriculture in the region (in 1815, between September 23 and December 5, 288,634 soldiers and 93,938 riders settled in the departement of Bas-Rhin). By the end of the military occupation, the once flourishing border cities discovered that they had been supplanted in their position of trading centers by the newly created harbors of the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea.
The resulting economic crisis had been aggravated by an important increase of the population that brought to the young people growing difficulties to find an occupation and a home. The growth of the Alsatian population was especially important, changing from 800,000 in 1814 to 914,000 in 1830, then to 1,067,000 in 1846. The important increase of the population always generated a growing number of people who could not get any land in this mainly agricultural region. Even those who were lucky enough to be able to cultivate some land underwent an implacable decline of their life style because of the restriction of access to the once common forests and because of the increase of the fines for wood 'poaching' that entailed some supplementary expenses for the heating of their homes.
Leaving and suffering to survive.
Unscrupulous captains of ships were expeditious in taking advantage of the misery of the Alsatian population. From 1817, Alsace was visited regularly by Russian and American recruiting agents - who were in fact agents of various shipowners - feigning they were English, Dutch or French travelers and spreading fabulous accounts about the economic opportunities that waited for the Alsatians who were impatient to leave to the United States, or to Poland that was occupied by the Russians and to Ukraine. Anxious to take advantage of these promises, which were unfortunately only fictional, and to give up waiting for a long time a passport that was sparsely delivered by authorities that were reluctant to let them leave, scores of Alsatians left their province for the home ports of the employers of these recruiters. When they arrived to these harbors, the Alsatian emigrants, that a contemporary observer described as people who had reached "the extreme deepness in poverty" or who "were hardly in better condition", were at the mercy of the captains of ships who let to the fugitives only a choice between the arrest because of illicit journey, or the crossing in return for a contract of true slavery. Created to provide a new source of workers to the planters of Louisiana after the end in 1807 of the African slave importation, this system had been used with so much abuse in 1816 and 1817, that in 1818 the Assembly of Louisiana decreed laws that specifically protected the rights of the immigrants who were brought in the country as "redemptioners". "A law for liberty and for protection of people brought in this State as redemptioners", for example, gave some power to the "guards" who were paid by the State to protect the immigrants who had been forced to sign some contracts and to pursue the captains of ships who were guilty of the extortion of their signatures.
The endeavours of the State in order to inflect the unbridled exploitation of the immigrants were crowned with success, but they dragged new efforts from the shipowners that tempted since 1818 to request exorbitant sums for the journey to third class passengers (steerage).
Scores of Alsatians left towards Russia and the United States between 1817 and 1839. In fact, official numbers that include only a tiny part of all Alsatian immigrants, indicate that 14,365 authorized departures towards the United States took place from the departement of Bas-Rhin between 1828 and 1837 -11,069 of them were from the areas of Wissembourg and Saverne.
The unending Alsatian emigration was fed by the continuous instability of the economy of the province. A lot of Alsatians who had first fought against the temptation to leave their home had to regret their decision soon, because after a light improvement of the economic situation in the beginning of the 1820's, the local economy was ravaged by a panic in 1825. In their fruitless tentatives to adjust their economic problems that were getting worse, some Alsatian peasants - many of them were finally forced to emigrate - borrowed money periodically to Jewish peddlers and to lenders of the cities and villages. These lenders - who were often called usurers by the borrowers - became the scapegoats of the decline of the peasantry life style, and periodic crises of anti-semitism drove a big number of Jewish Alsatians to emigrate during the Restoration and the Monarchy of July.
Life was not much better for the workers of the textile factories and the heavy industry of the region. Thanks to the local resources of coal, of ore of iron and to the availability of a workforce that was easily exploited (more particularly women and children), Alsace had become one of the most heavily industrialized regions of France in the beginning of the nineteenth century. In fact, in 1840, one industry worker out of ten was Alsatian. But the life of these industry workers was often more difficult than the one of the peasants, especially in the cotton factories, where women and children worked during long hours in dangerous conditions and for scanty wages. The Alsatian factory wages had increased very little between 1815 and 1848, but "the smallest seasonal or general crisis provoked the unemployment that threatened the life of these workers". [André Jardin and André - Jean Tudesq, Restoration and Reaction, 1815-1848] Like Jardin and Tudesq noted it, " when some factories closed, a whole group of the population was reduced to begging ".
[sources: Harvard Encyclopedia
of American Ethnic Groups, Stephan Thernstrom (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1980), p. 29-31. article de Frederick C. Luebke
/ Foreign French: Nineteenth century immigration
into Louisiana, de Carl A. Brasseaux Lafayette, LA: Center for
Louisiana Studies, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, c1990-1992;
vol. 1: 1820-1839; vol. 2: 1840-1848.]
And in Lorraine?
The neighboring Lorraine faced less problems in its adaptation to industrialization, merely because this more mountainous border region could only support a less important industrial development. The basic lack of industrial implantation had created socioeconomic problems in this province. The limited agricultural resources of Lorraine, already burdened at the time of the Restoration, could not support the increase of the local population of 1,406,000 in 1821 to 1,648,000 in 1846. The impossibility for the economic infrastructure of the region to absorb the peasants who were chased away of the land by the population increase, as opposed to a greatly industrialized and generally prosperous corridor, situated at the north along the Belgian border, that had a very superior population density (in some places nearly twice the national average) and a bigger demographic stability than the whole France, triggered an obstinate emigration of Lorrainers toward the other regions of France and to other countries.
Reasons for the emigration from Moselle
- Misery: begging, wages and expenses, crises, loans to the Jewish that one cannot reimburse.
- Lack of land: (land is rented to the lord), lack of work and forest offense repression.
- Climate: long and rigorous winters, natural calamities.
- Epidemics: smallpox in 1826 and 1827, cholera in 1832 and 1849.
- Wars: were frequent during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Between 1804 and 1814, one tried to dodge the drawing that threatened of a 7 year military service.
- Religious and political persecutions: Anabaptists and mennonites are among the first arrived in north America, a refuge for the sought-after people, unmarried mothers, former convicted, Mennonites of the canton of Sarrebourg, the region of Dabo and the town of Lorquin who refused to carry weapons.
- Adventure : appeal of the unknown.
[source: Viva America, by Marie-José Marchal]
French Lines -Le Havre-New York
Compagnie Générale Transatlantique - Lists of passengers (1864-1945)
Germans To America
Lists of passengers who arrived in the American harbors, 1850-1893, A. Glazier and William Filby
For genealogists and for those that are interested in the history of their families, Germans-To-America is the main source for the immigrants or German origin. This source concerns the period of 1850 to 1893. The collection of the published volumes reproduces the information that was recorded on the original lists of passengers of all ships arrived in the harbors of the United States from abroad. Included: the ships that had left from German harbors or those that carried passengers declared of German origin. For every emigrant, one can find the given name and surname, age, sex, occupation and province or village of origin (when it is available). A complete index of surnames is available at the end of every volume.
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Intro to Geomorphology: Mountains, Rivers, Deserts
University of Utah
University with graduate programs, including doctoral programs
This is a course that is listed BOTH as a General Education Physical Science Class, and as an upper level course for majors and graduate students.
Resource Type: Course Information:Goals/Syllabi
Special Interest: Complex Systems
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Course Type: Entry Level:Earth System Science
This is an intro-level survey class with no prerequisites and will satisfy the General Education requirements of undergraduates. There are no labs or exercises required. There is a field trip with the class, and although it is required, only 60% of the students attend. The class is crosslisted as an upper-level Geography class that is suitable for advanced and graduate students. More than 80% of the enrollment are undergraduate students majoring in social science, humanities, fine arts, languages, or business.
This course will address how various
PROCESSES have affected the MATERIALS comprising the Earth's surface over
various spatio-temporal SCALES, and those CYCLES that subsequently create and
I do care about these kinds of goals, and they certainly do play into my course. For example, I assign "break-out groups" that discuss some local controversial issues.... but at present I have to say that I don't have a scripted statement on how my courses affect attitudinal goals...
How course activities and course structure help students achieve these goals:
I do care about these kinds of goals, but at present I have to say that I don't have a scripted statement on this.
Exams, take-home, individual accomplishments as sussed by the students themselves.
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Tracking Change with RFID1 April 2010 Dr John Zaleski
As workloads continue to increase and cost pressures persist, organisations are investigating RFID technology. It has the potential to improve patient care and safety through the effective management of resources, time and costs, as John Zaleski explains.
Hospitals have experienced an increase in patient acuity levels in line with an increase in the number of critical care monitored beds, emergency room visits and surgical cases, according to research. Due to this increased number of patients on monitoring, quantity of alarms and an ever-increasing equipment inventory, hospitals are struggling with the issue of information overload which threatens to introduce missed information and errors that can directly affect patient safety.
Over the last several years, medication errors have been gaining much attention. Some reports indicate that one in five doses are incorrectly administered and that as many as 98,000 annual deaths may have resulted from these errors.
Many of these can be attributed to process errors or discontinuities in the identification and association of drugs to patients. These trends are so significant they have raised high levels of concern within regulatory agencies and accreditation organisations, such as The Joint Commission, which has established guidelines to address errors, the need for improved identification and association processes, improved validation and verification processes and enhanced communication capabilities between staff-to-staff and patient-to-staff dialogues.
This rapidly changing technology coupled with increasing workloads and cost pressures have moved healthcare organisations to investigate and capitalise on new and evolving technologies to augment and enhanced clinical applications. One of the most promising technologies is radio frequency identification (RFID) providing real-time location information which has the potential of improving patient care and safety through the effective management of resources, time and costs.
RFID enables critical resources such as patients, staff, critical equipment and assets to be dynamically located and tracked. When combined with patient care processes and other clinical applications, this tracking capability provides opportunities for optimisation, process improvement and enhancement of patient care, safety and satisfaction. However, while the benefits are clear, RFID represents an institutional solution of non-trivial cost which dictates a clear understanding of the requirements, applicable technologies and implications on the delivery of service.
Tradeoffs and considerations
Before addressing the solutions and enhancements RFID can provide, one must have an understanding of the technology and potential impact these technologies can have on a healthcare facility. RFID is a wireless technology operating over a broad range of radio frequencies (3Hz to 300GHz) that provides location information of transmitting tags relative to the known position of receiving antennas.
There are two common types of RFID tags: active RFID tags, which contain a battery and transmit signals autonomously; and passive RFID tags, which do not have a battery and therefore require an external power source to provoke signal transmission. The advantages of passive tags include small size, price and the absence of internal power requirements, along with their flexibility to be moulded into many different forms. However, they require installation of a dedicated infrastructure to function.
Active tags have a greater potential for global or institutional applications and in many cases can utilise a facility's existing wireless infrastructure; however, they are typically larger, more expensive and are dependent on battery power. Requirements for device association, including RFID tags, with an institution's access point infrastructure can introduce an unbalanced load-reducing performance of the wireless network in certain configurations.
Some consideration and analysis of over-air and network traffic associated with the use of active RFID tags is prudent especially as the tag numbers start to increase to the 1,000s or 10,000s. In addition, recent articles have highlighted the concern that RFID and its supporting infrastructure may introduce electromagnetic interference (EMI), affecting operational integrity of medical equipment.
While these articles are inconclusive, they have raised concern among healthcare practitioners that widespread adoption of RFID may introduce unexpected hazards into the patient care environment. It is recommended that some due diligence be exercised by adapters of RFID to ensure patient safety within the environment of care.
Many factors influence the tradeoffs in determining which technology is best suited for a particular healthcare environment, most importantly the intent of the application, the number of tags projected, whether the applications are projected as an institutional solution or a localised application, location resolution or granularity, and whether the tags are reusable or single use.
Healthcare applications for RFID
RFID represents an enabling technology that permits identification of institutional assets.
Assets can be broadly defined as almost any resource in a medical centre requiring identification and location information, but these technologies are most commonly used to identify and track patients, staff, equipment, instruments and pharmaceuticals.
Coupling this information with existing processes and applications can further help to characterise and optimise the workflow processes used in healthcare delivery. Within the healthcare environment, RFID applications commonly fall into two basic categories, one focusing on inventory management and control and the other on workflow and process optimisation.
Applications may be required to function across an institution for tracking critical or mobile resources throughout a facility or localised to identify resources in a specific location, such as pharmaceuticals at the bedside or devices within central supply or the operating room.
Since both types of applications can co-exist within an institution, it is probable that multiple RFID technologies or real-time locating solutions (RTLS), along with legacy systems (barcode, IR), will be integrated as part of an overall RTLS.
Inventory control and management
Inventory management is perhaps the most obvious application for location-based technologies, which can be used to detect and locate critical resources and optimise processes that are inventory dependent, such as preventive maintenance compliance and device distribution.
RFID-based inventory applications can take many forms, ranging from simple audit functions used to verify presence of equipment, staff or any resource to the more dynamic real-time location tracking of a hospital critical resources including patient beds, infusion pumps, wheelchairs, stretchers and C-arms. As a caution, the use of RFID becomes dependent on the accuracy of the input and can represent additional overhead costs and a need for staff resource to manage these relationships and associations.
The uses of RFID or RTLS go well beyond the simple identification, location and tracking, and involve the integration of this location data with information from other clinical systems. Institutionally shared resources, such as infusion pumps, benefit from RFID location tracking identifying available resources used for the delivery of patient care.
In addition to providing the state of availability, other metrics such as utilisation rates can be determined to redistribute critical resources or optimise capital expenditures. Several RFID tags integrate a mechanical switch enabling changes in state, such as "in use", "clean/dirty", "requiring repair", or "preventive maintenance (PM)" to be identified; however, these techniques are dependent on user compliance and are historically prone to significant error.
Integrating pump status information from the infusion pump system and corresponding location from the RFID system provides a consolidated report, which accurately defines a system-wide picture of pump distribution and utilisation, identifying areas with high volumes of unused pumps and enabling pump redistribution to areas having shortages. The information also provides metrics on device-use requirements which can translate into an optimised purchasing plan potentially reducing capital expenditures.
Infusion pump formulary update
The current generation of infusion pumps has bi-directional communications capabilities via the hospital's wireless network, which enables the automated update of drug libraries. The purpose of the libraries is to establish drug-delivery guidelines and monitor any potential undesirable variations as the pump is configured for patient-specific drug delivery.
This feature enables potential delivery errors to be identified and controlled, which positively impacts drug-related errors. One of the challenges in a large institution is to confirm or validate that the latest formulary has in fact been uploaded into the individual pumps and is working properly.
Despite the on-board capability of these systems, a number of devices (estimated at 1 to 2%) typically do not receive the upload in a timely fashion due to loss of connectivity, communications cycle time, being in the repair cycle, or not being powered.
This requires that these pumps be identified, located, and manually updated to ensure the consistency of the formulary. By combining the formulary information from the pump or server with the real-time location from RFID enables the process to correct this missed update and minimise potential errors.
Workflow and optimisation
The ability to quantify workflow processes and the corresponding impact on patient care and safety provides valuable data and establishes a pathway for process improvement. Using RFID to study and develop these workflow metrics enables a precise representation of existing processes, identifying where critical resources are dedicated and pinpointing redundant or overlapping functions. These findings can then be used to develop new or enhanced processes to be incorporated into the patient care workflow.
Specifically, the identification and association of patients with clinical equipment, care providers, pharmaceuticals, etc, is a process of significant concern. This process is required by many clinical applications, such as medication administration and sample collection, and is required for most clinical devices used in the patient care environment.
Consequently, this process is repeated many times over for each patient, requiring valuable time and resources and has the potential to introduce inconsistencies and errors.
In most cases, the staff member enters patient demographics (name, medical record number, date of birth) along with care-provider identification into each of the systems and applications. This information is typically entered at a central location, such as the nursing station, which removes the staff from the patient care environment and from identifying features or components such as wrist bands, device ID barcodes and so on.
Ideally, development of a patient-centric identification and association system using RFID/RTLS-based technologies would provide a standardised, consistent and institution-wide approach to identify and associate patients, staff, devices and pharmaceuticals, within the patient's environment of care (bedside) and will establish process optimising workflow and minimising translation errors.
Association can also take many other forms and integrate into a variety of operational processes. It can be used to document and verify devices and staff participating in or required for surgical procedures or other treatment protocol. It can cross check specific electronic health records belong to the specific patients in question.
To justify expense, any RTLS solution must be proven as being mature and capable of reliably enabling and enhancing the processes within a healthcare environment. However, the cost of an RTLS or RFID solution is not trivial, and therefore the potential optimisations and projected cost savings need to be evaluated and developed by each institution separately, establishing their independent and individual return on investment and benefits.
The opportunities for process improvement and cost savings associated with RFID are numerous and cross many processes and organisational boundaries which can make justifying RFID deployments and developing the associated ROI difficult. RFID is an enabler of many small applications, most of which cannot justify the cost of start-up alone. It is typically difficult to pool together these smaller projects to develop a larger return on investment.
A common approach is to examine device utilisation and use the potential reductions in capital expenditure for an optimised inventory. Alternatively, enhancements in patient safety could also drive the justification processes.
Reductions or optimisations in staff time to perform specific tasks are typically not well received as an ROI, since it is unlikely that staff would actually be eliminated. However, a well-documented reallocation of staff time to patient care may provide justification. Consequently, designing an institutional approach is fundamental to justifying, developing, and deploying an RFID or larger-scale RTLS solution, combining cost benefits and return on investment, along with impacts on patient care and safety.
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Did you know? - In 1887, a german named Adolf Fick was apparently the first to successfully fit contact lenses, which were made from blown glass
The optometrist typically determines an individual's suitability for contact lenses during an eye examination. Corneal health is verified; ocular allergies or dry eyes may affect a person's ability to wear contact lenses successfully. After the age of 40 years dry eyes may make wearing contact lenses difficult, especially soft lenses. Refer to the disease signs to learn more about dry eyes.
Complications due to contact lens wear affect a small percentage of contact lens wearers each year. Excessive wear of contact lenses, particularly overnight wear, is associated with most of the safety concerns. Problems associated with contact lens wear may affect the eyelid, the conjunctiva, the various layers of the cornea, and even the tear film that covers the outer surface of the eye | <urn:uuid:baca0474-8a3a-431d-9210-4e499c9a19d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mellins.co.za/page.aspx?pTID=16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954999 | 190 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The City of Tulsa website is taken down after an apparent attack by hackers.
City spokesperson Michelle Allen said information on one of the City's computer servers,was targeted by an unknown source. Technology officers with the City have taken the web sites temporarily offline while they work to identify the extent and nature of the incident.
"City officials have confirmed that no City of Tulsa water or refuse utility customer information was ever accessed," Allen said. "We can assure our customers that no financial information associated with their accounts was involved."
Allen went on to explain that the server in question does not house that information, and there is no indication that the City's trusted network was accessed. The city's e-mail system was also unaffected.
Customers who need to pay a bill or fine today in order to avoid late fees, should call the Customer Care Center at 918-596-9511 or visit City Hall cashiers, 175 E. 2nd Street.
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Food for the Skin - Why Use Certified Organic Skincare?
With words like 'natural' and organic' being slapped on just about everything you can buy in the stores these days, its vital that we become educated about truly 'organic' products. It really hits a nerve with me when names get trademarked with the word 'organic' and then I go and read the label, straining my eyes to find anything that might actually be anything other then some carbon based deriviatives of something that once resembled a plant about 10 generations ago.
You can compare it this way - Will you find apples in your apple computer? No. Its just a name.) Don't just go by the name - read that label!
The word organic brings with it a lot more than just - 'a compound containing carbon' - which unfortunately is the way a lot of people commercially get away with selling organic or natural products - "Well, it's derived from nature - it has organic matter (carbon molecules)". Its not a comforting thought for me to think that the fuel I put in my car and what I put on my skin all come out of the same hole in the ground - just different processes. (Yes...'Use our lovely lotion...we have taken herbal leaves that have rotted for thousands of years....brought to you in this chemically-derived-from-oil form....yum....Sounds good - no?? well it's true)
If you are truly interested in anti-aging and want a healthier life, healthier body then you do need to consider what you feed your body. This includes what you put on your skin as well as what goes in your mouth and what you breathe into your lungs.
I am particularly interested in the skin application of products. I am amazed at the lengths people will go to clean their insides and detox yet will still apply things to their skin which are accumulatively toxic.
The skin is a permeable membrane - toxins can be released out and toxins can be absorbed, just as nutrients can be released and absorbed. Yes, each product only has a little bit of methyl paraben - but have you ever counted up how many things you come into contact with over a whole day, and then multiply it by 365 or so and then multiply it by 20 years or so?
Its just a matter of time because over time toxins accumulate. They add to our environmental burden of waste within our body, just more things our body has to deal with. This puts the body under stress. Stress and the accumination of chemicals in our body brings about aging (the average person now comes into contact with about 80 000 chemicals in a life time).
The regeneration of healthy body tissues cannot keep up with the onslaught - nutritional poor foods, alcohol, medications, drugs, environmental pollutions, pollution of your space with electrical stimulation, phones, computers, machines humming away, artificial lights, synthetic clothing and home furnishings, all of these things bring more stresses for your body to have to deal with. They all interfere with the body's natural flow of energy/blood and it's mineral/vitamin balance.
So putting something on your skin which is inferior - meaning it has been so over processed and tainted with industrial processes that the goodness of the original essence of the thing is gone - means you are doing just one more thing that your body has to deal with, has to process
The world wide turn towards certified organics is not a fad. Its a trend. A trend because as a collective we are becoming more and more educated about our bodies and our environment and seeing how we are at the top of the food chain. What we do in the environment will eventually reach us - its just a matter of time.
There is a real danger to your health when you use synthetic skin products, day in and day out for say 20 years or more.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For the first time, individuals and companies that do not themselves make anything -- commonly known as "patent trolls" -- are bringing the majority of U.S. patent lawsuits, according to a study by a California law professor.
The sharp increase in this type of lawsuit serves as a milestone likely to exacerbate the tension over patent issues and increase calls for patent reform and scrutiny of the system.
This year, about 61 percent of all patent lawsuits filed through Dec. 1 were brought by patent-assertion entities, or individuals and companies that work aggressively and opportunistically to assert patents as a business model rather than build their own technology, according to a paper by Colleen Chien, a law professor at Santa Clara University.
That compares with 45 percent in 2011 and 23 percent five years ago.
"It's pretty dramatic," Chien told Reuters via email. "It means more suits are being brought by entities that don't make anything than those that do."
Chien also spoke on the matter on Monday at a patent workshop held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
Increasingly, the lawsuits are hitting startups.
About 35 percent of startups that have raised $50 million to $100 million have been sued on a patent, Chien said, as have 20 percent of the companies that have raised $20 million to $50 million.
Many patent demands are settled before reaching the lawsuit
Many in Silicon Valley deride patent-assertion entities as "patent trolls." The unflattering nickname arose because of their habit of suddenly demanding licensing fees from unsuspecting businesses, much like mythical trolls that lie in wait under bridges to extract tolls from travelers.
But even if others perceive them as trolls, many patent litigants who do not make products or develop technology think of themselves in a better light. Many of them represent inventors, sometimes university researchers, who often cannot afford to defend patents on their own.
Many technology companies are eager for reforms that would make it harder to assert patents. Some would like to see the cost of asserting patents rise, for example. Many patent holders sue based on contingency, meaning they pay only if they win an award.
But technology companies also frequently sue each other over patents. One of the higher-profile cases involves Apple's (AAPL) fight with Samsung. In August, a U.S. jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the Cupertino tech giant $1.05 billion in damages. | <urn:uuid:7b7bf665-7b53-4b9a-877a-3255d99b3262> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22162755/patent-trolls-filing-majority-u-s-patent-lawsuits?source=most_emailed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969719 | 524 | 1.914063 | 2 |
- With Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist
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Michael F. Picco, M.D.Michael F. Picco, M.D.
Dr. Michael Picco has been with Mayo Clinic since 1999. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Picco is an assistant professor of medicine at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, and a consultant in gastroenterology at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
He has authored numerous publications in the area of gastroenterology, including original research, editorials and textbook chapters. He works with a team of gastroenterologists that takes care of complex gastrointestinal conditions and has a particular interest in diarrheal illnesses and inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). He is also active in medical education in training new gastroenterologist and internists.
"Mayo Clinic's website is an invaluable resource for patients and their families," Dr. Picco said. "Informed patients are better able to participate in their own health care. A patient's participation is vital to the treatment of his or her disease. I hope to assist in helping patients understand their digestive problems and current treatments that are offered. This will allow for better communication between patients, their physicians and other health care professionals."
Dr. Picco serves as a reviewer of new research for several medical journals in the area of gastroenterology and is an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. He serves on numerous committees that address physician training, research and clinical practice in gastroenterology, both at Mayo Clinic and at the national level.
"Patients need to know about their disease, what to expect, the latest treatments and side effects so that they can make informed decisions about their health care. Gastrointestinal disease affects not only patients but also their families. My goal is to assure that our website provides accurate, reliable information and resources for patients. We must always provide the latest, most cutting-edge information to assist patients in dealing with their medical problems," Dr. Picco said.
Swallowing gum: Is it harmful?
My 6-year-old daughter accidentally swallowed a wad of chewing gum. Should I be concerned?
from Michael F. Picco, M.D.
Although chewing gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, it generally isn't harmful if swallowed. Folklore suggests that swallowed gum sits in your stomach for seven years before it can be digested. But this isn't true. If you swallow gum, it's true that your body can't digest it. But the gum doesn't stay in your stomach. It progresses relatively intact through your digestive system and is excreted in your stool.
On rare occasions, large amounts of swallowed gum combined with constipation have caused intestinal blockage in children. It's for this reason that frequent swallowing of chewing gum should be discouraged, especially in children.
- Rimar Y, et al. Chewing gum bezoar. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2004;59:872.
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The automation and electronics (A&E) is one of the leading manufacturing sectors in all industrialised and newly industrialising countries of the world. Due to its pervasive applicability, the industry is strongly linked to macroeconomic conditions and is also considered a leading indicator of the health of an economy.
Poland has the highest population amongst the eastern European countries and several multinational corporations have chosen Poland as a location for their R&D centres. In addition to the availability of highly qualified labour force, the presence of universities and favourable Government support, Poland is the biggest market in central Europe and possibly has the lowest labour costs on the continent. There are 40 R&D centres belonging to foreign investors in Poland, employing over 4,500 people with the biggest centres are located in Warsaw, Cracow and Wroclaw.
Production facilities are minimal, most top multinationals in the A&E industry have sales, marketing and support centres in Poland. The key presence of this industry in Poland, where it adds strategic value, is in the area of R&D. Poland has already emerged as the leading R&D centre in CEE and that several top corporations have chosen Poland as a location for their R&D centres. ABB, number one in the automation industry,and Intel, leaders in semiconductors have Poland as an R&D hub. | <urn:uuid:29a6f58c-129d-494f-9174-a642f2d3f9b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.computescotland.com/poland-now-home-to-40-rd-centres-for-automation-and-electronics-1045.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963046 | 273 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A couple of recent posts by Linda Braun and Scott McLeod have got me thinking (not always a good thing) about the concept of the ‘digital divide’ in my school/community and how that impacts my library program as well as student learning.
Typically when people discuss the issue of the ‘digital divide’ they are referring to rural vs. urban access to computers and the Internet. In Linda Braun’s post, “The Other Digital Divide,” she refers also to the ‘digital divide’ in software access (typically MSOffice products) between what is available at school (or not) and in students homes. She makes the argument that these technologies and access should be made available, not limited or eliminated, in our libraries BECAUSE they aren’t available to teens at home – this includes access to social networking sites like Facebook, to iPods/mp3 players, and to audiobooks/electronic materials!
Scott McLeod‘s post asks “would you send your child to school with a laptop from home?“ His concern seems to be would the child feel awkward if they were the only one with a laptop? Which is a high probability in my school! Comments on the post are mixed and bring up interesting points. The ones that caught my attention:
- laptops are/can be a distraction and detract from student participation in class
- puts the responsibility and care of the technology on the student/parents instead on the school for up keep and reduces tech cost to the school
- concerns for damage/theft/liability
- teacher buy-in and training on how to integrate the tech in the classroom
- educating students in the appropriate use of the tech during school
- if it’s just one more thing in a kids backpack it’s just another burden – however, if all of his/her textbooks were on it instead of hardcopy – how cool would that be!
- wireless access? server security issues?
While most of the comments seem to bring up more concerns than positives, I have to say I lean on the side of why not let them bring them to school? Of course the point is pretty much irrelevant in regards to my school, since we are a very rural and low socio-economic community – desktop computers and dial-up are are the norms. I would be more interested in our district/schools developing policies/guidelines for using cell phones in the classroom – as I believe that the vast majority of our students have those mini computing devices instead! Add iPods & MP3s in the mix and now we’re talkin’! Unfortunately, all personal electronics are verboten.
Still what I take away from these discussions are that I need to push for technology, no transformative access for my students. I need to look into the possibilities of iPods/MP3 players and downloadable materials, audiobooks/Playaways, relevant software, online access or cloud computing alternatives, filter overrides/unblocking of resources, etc. be made available in our school library. Maybe I’m out of touch with my students and their needs. Maybe it’s time for me to run a student tech and interest survey?! Shoot, I should have done this last month before Teen Tech Week! *sigh*
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This time, in concrete terms. A recent study argues that Americans are sicker than Brits:
The United States spends more than twice as much per person on health care as Britain and yet, according to new data released today, older Americans are "much sicker" than their English counterparts.
The conclusion, in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, surprised some in Britain, where American private health care is widely perceived as highly effective, if expensive. It also seemed to confirm mutual stereotypes, tossed across the Atlantic, that Americans are prone to obesity while Britons drink too much.
Sir Michael Marmot, the professor who is a co-author of the report from University College London, said the research showed that the differences in health could not be ascribed to the "usual suspects" such as smoking, obesity or alcohol abuse. Indeed, he said, neither could the disparate nature of health care systems in the United States and Britain be blamed for the difference in levels of health.
"I'm arguing that it's due to the differences in the circumstances in which people live," Sir Michael said in a telephone interview. "Work, job insecurity, the nature of communities, residential communities, et cetera — I think that's the place we should try to look."
There is a small chicken-and-egg problem with the first sentence of this quote: "The United States spends more than twice as much per person on health care as Britain and yet, according to new data released today, older Americans are "much sicker" than their English counterparts." The author seems to argue that the United States is not getting value for money if it spends so much and its citizens are still less healthy than those of Britain. But another way to look at the same relationship is to assume that the United States needs to spend twice as much because Americans are less healthy. The only way this problem could be sorted out would be with the use of time-series data: If the ill-health precedes large expenditures on medical care the second explanation would be correct, for example.
The study results are fairly hard to interpret in any other way than the one suggested by Sir Michael Marmot. For example:
"The researchers found that U.S. citizens in late middle age are much less healthy than their English counterparts for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, heart attack, stroke, lung disease and cancer," the press release said. For instance, it said, the prevalence of diabetes was twice as high in the United States as in England and hypertension was 10 percent more common in America.
Comparing the habits of older people, the article said "smoking behavior was similar in both countries, with about one in five people between the ages of 55 and 64 years currently smoking."
But it observed: "Obesity rates were much higher in the U.S. and heavy drinking was more common in England."
The article concluded that wealthier and better-educated people in both countries were much healthier than poorer and less-educated people. "Differences in socio-economic groups between the two groups were so great that those in the top education and income level in the U.S. had similar rates of diabetes and heart disease as those in the bottom education and income level in England," it said.
(I believe that the second "groups" in the last sentence should be "countries" to make the sentence meaningful.)
International comparisons have for a long time shown similar findings when mortality rates are used as a very crude measure of extreme ill health. The United States has shorter life-expectancy and higher infant mortality rates than countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany or Canada. The advantage of this new study is that it uses measures of illness rather than measures of death. That rules out the influence that higher murder rates have on the American mortality statistics.
If it indeed is the case that Americans are less healthy because of "work, job insecurity, the nature of communities, residential communities, et cetera" we end up smack in the middle of politics. For it is politics that has created a society where workers are expected not to take more than a week or two off out of every year and politics that makes jobs so insecure. Indeed, one recent political strategy tried to strip Americans of their Social Security benefits, too. Imagine how many heart attacks that plot may have caused. | <urn:uuid:ce64881a-f52f-4be2-b8a2-22a077561ebe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2006/05/american-malady.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977401 | 895 | 2.34375 | 2 |
NLI exhibitions in Waterford
Power and Privilege: photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858-1922
View photographs of life in Ireland's 'Big Houses' during the mid 1800s and early 1900s. A selection of photographs taken between 1858 and 1922 show gardens and landscape; employees; transport; entertainment and recreation; the arts and sciences; and family life.
The exhibition will be in Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan between 2 August and 8 September 2012.
The Coast Guard Station Arts Centre, Tramore, Co Waterford between 9 September and 2 October 2012.
Gallant Sons: Irishmen and the First World War
The exhibition also tells the stories of some of the families who were left behind: their accounts of their own experiences bring home the huge human cost of the war and tell us something about life in Ireland between 1914 and 1918.
This exhibition is on display in Waterford City Library from the 1 August to 27 September.
Visit Waterford City Library website
Find out more about our travelling exhibitions.
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I have a sort-of philosophical fascination with the chicken-and-egg aspect of right-of-way allocation on roadways. Should projects reflect the fact that most people still choose to drive as their primary mode of transportation, with facilities for transit, bikes, and the like being added to the mix only as demand for them materializes? Or should planners try to induce demand for alternatives by allocating capacity for them in advance of demand, hoping to prove the sagacity of that old mantra from Field of Dreams?
I certainly tend to think the latter notion is the smart one, and as the concept of complete streets grows more popular, I think a large majority of people who plan transportation projects for a living probably agree with me. But politically, such things can be more easily said than done, as controversy over the proposed reallocation of right-of-way on North Williams Street has clearly demonstrated in recent months.
With that in mind, I think the folks responsible for the design of the new-and-improved Sellwood Bridge deserve a big pat on the back. For cars, the new bridge features the same lane configuration as the old one–one lane in each direction. But for bikes and pedestrians, the itty-bitty sidewalks on each side are now wide, comfortable paths, clearly demarcated to separate the bikers from the walkers. In addition to the off-road bike path, there’s also an on-road bike lane in each direction. The project clearly anticipates (and intends to induce) heavy usage from cyclists, essentially providing them a fast lane and slow lane in each direction.
It gets better. A few miles downriver, construction continues on the Caruthers Bridge, which will carry nearly every mode of transportation you can think of except for single-occupancy vehicles across the Willamette. The Caruthers (or whatever it will be called when it’s completed) will serve light rail, bus, streetcar, bikes, and peds. Combined with the new Sellwood Bridge, that’s a lot of additional capacity for alternative modes to cross the Willamette without adding a single new lane for cars.
This is something that I really can’t see happening in too many other American cities, and I hope these bridges rightfully become points of civic pride as their construction continues. | <urn:uuid:6c2c4fe9-a9e7-4c22-a208-cbe12a9f35a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://halfthefun.net/tag/new-bridge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960657 | 481 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Here is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) relating to different types of harmonicas. Take a look, you are likely to find your question(s) answered on this page or one of the blue-linked pages above.
- Which harmonica (brand) should I buy to follow the lessons on this site?
You'll need a good quality diatonic type harmonica to learn and practice on with hole numbers imprinted above each hole. The standard 10-hole diatonic harmonica is used for most blues, folk, rock, and country styles (of course you would need a standard chromatic harmonica if utilizing our chromatic harmonica instruction).
You can't go wrong with the Lee Oskar Major Diatonic or the Hohner Special 20 (preferably in the key of "C"), both are great for players just starting out.
The Hohner Marine Band Crossover and the Suzuki Manji Diatonic and the Seydel 1847 Classic are also excellent choices, a bit more pricey, but great quality, tone, and playability with a wood comb. (Can't decide? Pick one, and try another when you need to buy different key.) The Lee Oskar harmonicas also feature the 1st Position and 2nd Position keys printed on the ends for easy reference. See our Which Harmonica Do I Need? page for more suggestions and information.
Recommended harmonica: Lee Oskar diatonic in the key of "C".
- What kind of harmonicas won't work for the lessons on this site?
Any harmonica that does not have 10 holes (i.e. 8, 12, or 20 holes) will not work for the lessons on this site. The harmonicas that have two rows of holes, one on top of the other, are generally tremolo harmonicas and will not work for these lessons. Tremolo harmonicas are primarily used for special effects, and they are not made to play blues, bend notes, or play anything other than the most simple 1st position melodies. Chromatic harmonica is the exception, but has it's own section at Harmonica Lessons.com. For Chromatic Instruction, songs, and information, visit the chromatic harmonica portion of this website.
If you have what appears to be a standard diatonic harmonica but it doesn't have any numbers over the holes, it is most likely a very inexpensive one and it would be to your advantage to upgrade to a better quality diatonic (see above question for recommendations). See the Recommended Harmonicas For This Site page for more information.
- Are there many types of harmonicas?
Yes, quite a few, but none are used as much as the diatonic and chromatic harmonicas. Some of the other types include: bass harmonica, chord harmonica, tremolo and echo effects harmonicas, etc. See the Recommended Harmonicas For This Site page for more information.
- What is the difference between a harp (or blues harp) and a standard diatonic harmonica?
Nothing. The term harp is short for "blues harp" and they are both slang for harmonica. Yes, it is a bit confusing at times when people use the term "harp" to refer to the harmonica since there is another instrument called harp that is used in classical music (and made popular in the movies by one of the Marx Bros). That's slang for ya. Other slang terms for harmonica include: mouth organ, tin sandwich, French harp, short harp, and Mississippi saxophone.
- Hohner makes a harmonica called a 'Blues Harp'. Is this better for playing blues than a standard diatonic harmonica like the Lee Oskar or Special 20?
Absolutely not. The 'Blues Harp' is just a name for a wood combed diatonic that is made by the Hohner Company. It is no better for playing blues than any other harmonica that has 'Blues' in it's name. This is just smart marketing by the world's largest harmonica company. If anything, because it is made of wood, it can be much more difficult to play whether you are trying to play blues or any other style of music.
- What is the difference between a chromatic and diatonic harmonica?
They are really two different instruments. See our General Overview section for an in-depth look at the two. Most good players specialize in one or the other. It is less common to find players that excel on both, but they are out there.
- Is it possible to play blues on an instrument like chromatic harmonica where bending is very limited?
It sure is. If bending was a prerequisite for playing the blues, then there would be no such thing as blues piano.
- My interest seems to lie more in playing songs and melodies (like you would on a piano), rather than accompaniment or blues jamming. Would a chromatic harmonica be better for me than a diatonic?
Yes. Since a chromatic harmonica has all the notes available, not unlike a piano, you might be better off with the chromatic for what you want to
do. Visit our Store for chromatic harmonica recommendations.
- Are wood harmonicas better than the plastic ones?
No. Quality-wise it can to be just the opposite. Many of the wood harmonicas leak quite a bit of air and are not recommended for beginners. In terms of the sound or tone, the choice between wood and plastic (or metal) combs comes down to personal preference. Any reasonable quality harmonica in the hands of a good player will sound good. The Hohner Marine Band Crossover is an example of a high quality diatonic harmonica with a sealed bamboo comb that plays and sounds great.
- I have a four hole harmonica. Do you have any tips for 4 hole harmonicas?
This refers to the mini-harmonicas (sometimes made into a necklace) or a real simple kids harmonica. In most cases, the first hole (lowest note) is equivalent to the hole 4 on a standard diatonic harmonica. Any songs that would start on hole 4 on a standard diatonic would now start on hole 1. Hole 1 is the beginning of the major scale. Playing options are limited, but they can be fun.
- I have recently acquired an unusual harmonica. How can I get some information on it?
Check out some of the sites on this page-
http://www.harmonicalinks.com/others.html. Someone at one of these sites should be able to help you out.
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Spotted Wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii: A New Pest in California
Provisionary Guidelines: Management of Spotted Wing Drosophila in Home Garden Situations
DESCRIPTION OF THE PEST
Spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, has recently been found in many California counties infesting ripening cherries, and in coastal areas infecting ripening raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, and strawberry crops. It has also been observed occasionally attacking other soft-flesh fruit such as plums, plumcots, nectarines, and figs when conditions are right. Adults and maggots closely resemble the common vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and other Drosophila species that primarily attack rotting or fermenting fruit. The spotted wing drosophila, however, readily attacks undamaged fruit. See the identification key to Drosophila suzukii from Oregon Department of Agriculture for help distinguishing this pest from other flies, and the Male/Female Identification Card for additional photos of adult males and females.
Adults are small (2-3 mm) flies with red eyes and a pale brown thorax and abdomen with black stripes on the abdomen. The most distinguishable trait of the adult is that the males have a black spot towards the tip of each wing. Larvae are tiny (up to 3.5 mm), white, cylindrical maggots that are found feeding in fruit. One to many larvae may be found feeding within a single fruit. After maturing, the larvae partially or completely exit the fruit to pupate.
The spotted wing drosophila can be distinguished from the western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens, by comparing anatomical features of the maggots and wing patterns of adult flies. Western cherry fruit fly adults are much larger (5 mm) than the spotted wing drosophila adults and have a dark banding pattern on their wings. Adult spotted wing drosophila females also have a very prominent ovipositor. The western cherry fruit fly, which is a quarantine pest, occurs in Washington and other states but has not established in California. If you suspect you have a western cherry fruit fly, take specimens to your local agricultural commissioner's office.
Research studies to define the life cycle in California are still under way; however, like other vinegar flies SWD appears to have a short life cycle (one to several weeks depending on temperature), and may have as many as ten generations per year. This rapid developmental rate allows it to quickly develop large populations and inflict severe damage to a crop.
In Japan and in coastal California the adult flies may be captured throughout much of the year. In California’s inland valleys the adult flies are most active during spring and fall when temperatures highs are between 60 and 80º F, especially when temperatures are humid and food is available. In laboratory studies at constant temperatures, they are most active at 68°F; activity becomes reduced at temperatures above 86°F, and adult males become sterile.
Unlike other vinegar flies that occur in California, spotted wing drosophila attacks healthy ripening fruit as well as damaged or rotting fruit. The female ovipositor is very large and serrated, so it is able to penetrate the skin of soft-skinned fruit and lay eggs just under the skin, creating a small depression ("sting") on the fruit surface. Each clutch of eggs is from one to three, and the female will oviposit on many fruit. Multiples of larvae within a single fruit are quite possible because many females may visit the same fruit to oviposit. Once fruit integrity is compromised by spotted wing drosophila's activities, common vinegar flies (i.e., Drosophila melanogaster) may also oviposit in the damaged fruit.
Eggs hatch and the maggots develop and feed inside the fruit, causing the flesh of the fruit to turn brown and soft; sunken areas that exude fluid often appear on the surface of smooth skinned fruit like cherries and blueberries. Damage can provide an entry site for infection by secondary fungal and bacterial pathogens, but this is not always the case.
Spotted wing drosophila attacks ripening fruit and unfortunately is often not noticed in backyard fruit crops until fruit is being harvested. Sprays at this time will not protect the crop, because maggots are already in the fruit. If only some fruit are infested, you can salvage some of the crop by harvesting the crop immediately and sorting, to remove fruit with stings on the surface. Place infested fruit in a sturdy, sealed plastic bag and dispose of it in the trash. Several cultural practices may be useful for reducing problems on trees and berries. If using insecticides, it is important to monitor for flies to be sure treatments are made before fruit is attacked.
Varietal Susceptibility. Some cherry varieties may be more susceptible to SWD than others but more research is required. Usually the earliest harvested cherries get the least damage. Among the berries, raspberries appear to be the most susceptible; blackberries and strawberries are also susceptible in coastal climates under very moist conditions when fruit is not harvested frequently. Blueberries are also quite attractive to SWD in moist, coastal environments but less so where moisture is lacking and temperatures are high. All blueberry varieties appear to be susceptible.
Sanitation. Eliminating any fruit that has fallen on the ground and any infested fruit remaining on plants in the garden may reduce populations of flies that might infest next year's crops or later ripening varieties. Infested fruit may be placed in a sealed bag in the trash, or it can be buried. Composting may not be a reliable way to destroy eggs and larvae in fruit.
Netting. Netting may be useful to keep flies from attacking fruit on blueberries and other small fruit or possibly branches on small trees. However, the netting must be applied before fruit begins to ripen so that flies will not be caught inside the net. Netting must be secured at the bottom so flies cannot enter, and the mesh size should be very small.
Early Harvest. Early harvest can be important in reducing exposure of fruit to the pest. Begin harvest as early as you can and continue to remove fruit as soon as they ripen.
Trapping. Trapping as discussed below under "monitoring" has not been shown to effectively reduce populations of SWD in backyard trees. Trapping is important for monitoring for the pest.
Monitoring for SWD. It is very important to observe your fruit regularly as it begins to ripen. In some cases, this will allow you to harvest before problems are serious. Monitoring will also help you time insecticide applications for greatest effect. On cherries and blueberries start checking fruit for damage (punctures created when the female lays eggs in fruit, prematurely rotting fruit) as soon as fruit begins to develop any pink color. SWD stings are tiny—a magnifying glass may help you to see them. You can gently squeeze the fruit to see if juice leaks from the small punctures—this can indicate presence of the pest. Pull open suspect fruit to see if there are larva inside. If you find infected fruit you should either harvest all the fruit immediately or spray to prevent the damage from increasing before harvest. The infestation level can increase quite rapidly if left untreated/unharvested. Remove and destroy infested fruit as you monitor. Stings are not readily visible on berries so it is difficult to detect an early infestation by monitoring the fruit for damage.
You can also use homemade traps to monitor for SWD. Make traps out of one quart plastic yogurt (or similar) containers (with a lid). Drill 16 holes that are 3/16 inch in diameter around the top of the container. Bait the trap with about 1 or 2 inches of white wine or apple cider vinegar; add a drop of unscented dishwashing soap to break the surface tension so the flies will drown. Hang the trap in the shade in your cherry tree or near your berries in early May or well before fruit begins to ripen. Check the trap weekly for small flies with dark spots at the tip of their wings floating in the fluid. These are male SWD and will confirm that you have the pest. Put fresh apple cider vinegar or wine and a drop of soap in each week.
Insecticides. Because this pest is so new to California, there has been limited research on treatments to manage SWD. Sprays must be timed to kill adults before they lay eggs as they will not control larvae already in the fruit.
The organophosphate insecticide malathion will control SWD, but malathion is very toxic to bees and natural enemies of other pests in the garden, so care must be taken to keep the application on the target plant and to avoid drift and runoff. Improper application can also result in injury to cherry trees. If monitoring indicates a need to spray, the application should be made as soon as the fruit just begins to turn from yellow to pink. This should be about 2 to 3 weeks before cherry or berry harvest. In the case of indeterminate fruiting berries such as raspberries or strawberries, sprays may need to be repeated to keep SWD populations low during their prolonged fruiting period in summer and fall. Because of the potential negative impact of malathion in the garden, use it only where you are certain you will have a SWD infestation, either because you had a problem last year or from trapping and positively identifying insects as SWD this season.
An alternative to malathion with fewer negative environmental effects is spinosad (Monterey Garden Insect Spray); however, it is not quite as effective against the fruit fly adults as malathion. To get satisfactory control two sprays may be required; the first applied as the fruit just begins to turn pink and the second applied 7 to 10 days later. Additional sprays may be needed for berries with a prolonged fruiting period. Be sure to wait the interval specified on the label before harvesting the fruit. Some spinosad products are sold to be applied with a hose-end sprayer, but a compressed-air sprayer will give more reliable coverage.
Contributors to the first edition: W.W. Coates, UC Cooperative Extension, San Benito County; F. G. Zalom, Entomology, UC Davis
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The U.S. Postal Service gets well-deserved criticism for closing small post offices and running deficits. But it is also one of the best sources of outstanding art that anyone, even children, can afford to collect. And 2012 has some exciting new stamps in production.
On Jan. 20, a five-stamp series will be issued featuring birds of prey: northern goshawk, peregrine falcon, golden eagle, osprey, and northern harrier. Each is depicted in a colorful portrait from the neck up against a white background. Previews of these and other 2012 stamps can be viewed at www.beyondtheperf.com/2012-preview.
Other nature-themed stamps coming in 2012 include a stylized Baltimore checkerspot butterfly and a forever-stamped envelope featuring purple martins, one perched and one in flight.
I began collecting stamps when I was in graduate school because it was the only form of art I could afford. One of my favorite sets is a matted group of three 20-stamp panes featuring 1 cent American kestrels (1991), 2 cent red-headed woodpeckers (1996), and 3 cent eastern bluebirds (1996). My total cost for all 60 stamps was just $1.20 at the post office.
I limit my stamp collecting to wildlife and nature-related themes. My oldest stamps date back to 1956, gifts from relatives. That wildlife conservation series featured wild turkeys, pronghorn antelope and king salmon, all valued at 3 cents. A year later a 3-cent whooping crane stamp appeared. Thereafter, wildlife appeared on stamps every few years. If we broaden the category to include plants, national parks and nature in general, it's unusual when no wildlife stamp appears.
In 1968 a 6-cent waterfowl conservation stamp (not a duck stamp) caught my eye. It featured two wood ducks in flight. In 1970 it was the bison's turn (6-cent).
In 1971 a wildlife conservation series of 8-cent stamps became one of my favorites. A trout, an alligator, a California condor and a polar bear with two cubs starred. The next year another 8-cent conservation series featured fur seals, a cardinal, a brown pelican and a bighorn sheep.
In 1978 a wildlife conservation series featured four American owls -- great horned, great gray, saw-whet and barred. I suspect it was one of the most popular series the USPS ever issued.
In 1981, a monochromatic series of American wildlife appeared. Though absent color, it remains an impressive set depicting bighorn sheep, puma, harbor seal, bison, brown bear, polar bear, elk, moose, white-tailed deer and pronghorn. Later that year, an 18-cent "Preservation of Habitats" series featured a great blue heron (wetlands), badger (grassland), grizzly bear (mountains) and ruffed grouse (woodlands). | <urn:uuid:83344ebe-7b91-4bb4-a4b9-672521103078> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wvgazette.com/Outdoors/ScottShalaway/201201060133 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946232 | 630 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Every year, injuries hospitalize more than 95,000 Hoosiers. About 5,000 of those patients don’t survive their injuries.
In many trauma cases, the difference between life and death is a matter of time. To meet the need for prompt care of the injured patient, St.Vincent developed the Trauma Center at the Indianapolis campus. With our StatFlight helicopter fleet, the St.Vincent Trauma Center is equipped to provide patients age 15 and older the specialized lifesaving care they need as quickly as possible.
More than half of all trauma cases involve orthopedics. Therefore, it’s important to trust a trauma team that can tackle even the toughest orthopedic cases. In Indianapolis, that means trusting the St.Vincent Trauma Center. All eight OrthoIndy trauma surgeons are now aligned exclusively with the St.Vincent Trauma Center. The OrthoIndy trauma specialists bring decades of combined experience to St.Vincent. Over the years, they have treated some of the toughest trauma cases in the country. We’re happy to have their expertise in providing excellent, compassionate care for our patients. So when you bring a patient to us, you’ll know they will be treated by the most experienced and skilled orthopedic trauma surgeons in Indiana.
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Hit at home, China’s ghost fleet sails high seas
LONDON, July 5 — China's huge fleet of coastal ships, usually confined to plying the Chinese seaboard, has sailed out of the shadows to seek international business in yet another sign that China's economy is slowing.
The fleet, previously unnoticed by the global market, is suffering from a slowdown in China's coastal trade amid weaker domestic demand from utilities and steel mills and a growing glut in Chinese coal and iron ore stockpiles.
The vessels are now being forced to seek new business such as in the Indonesian coal trade, dealing a further blow to the depressed global dry bulk shipping market.
“There are many more ships lying idle at Chinese ports now – the environment for making money is not so good,” said a source at one of the big five coastal shippers, who asked not to be identified.
The slowdown of the Chinese economy has been among the main worries for global markets in general and commodities markets in particular.
China, the world's biggest coal producer, is also the biggest single coal and iron ore importer and freight user and a small change in its buying or freight use sends ripples around the world markets.
China's coastal trade existed for decades on a small scale, but began to boom when power generation needs in the country's south took off due to mass industrialisation and coal was urgently needed from the northern mines.
China's coastal coal trade soared by 88 percent from 2006 to move 639 million tonnes in 2011, according to securities group Jefferies. Shipbroker Clarksons estimates China's coastal trade of coal, steel, grains and fertilisers at over 1 billion tonnes.
But in the first four months of 2012, coastal coal trade shrank by 3 percent versus last year, says Jefferies.
“The iron ore and coal inventories at Chinese ports are very high,” said Moses Ma, a Hong Kong-based shipping analyst at ICBC International, a subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. He says he has a bearish view on the dry bulk and the coastal trade markets this year.
High coal stocks
China's economic growth is expected to slide to 7 per cent this year, the weakest since 2009. On an annualised basis, China still seems set for record imports of coal for steelmaking and power generation this year.
But as power demand dipped with the slowing economic growth high stocks have amassed at ports.
This has in turn led to delays in cargoes discharging and pushed coal prices to a two-year low, prompting Chinese buyers to renegotiate contracts.
“China seems to have reached its limit for bringing in imported and domestic coal to the south and until that clears, they are not buying,” said a veteran coal supplier to China.
At the same time as renegotiating import deals, Chinese utilities and traders were also pulling out of domestic supply deals, leaving increasing numbers of coastal ships at anchor.
“There have been defaults and deferrals to imports but also around 20 per cent of our domestic sales to utilities have been canceled or delayed for months because of high inventories – there are more ships idle,” a Chinese coal supplier said.
The troubles on the Chinese shores have pushed its coastal fleet further afield in a development that has generated more pain for the already depressed shipping industry.
“We've seen these Chinese vessels in the market, attacking the Indonesian coal business and undercutting everybody,” said an Asia-based shipbroker with RS Platou.
The Chinese involvement in Indonesia, the world's biggest thermal coal exporter, happened at the worst possible time as rival shipping companies were betting on coal to help replace the lost nickel ore volumes from Indonesia.
Exports of nickel ore from Indonesia have fallen after it imposed a 20 per cent tax on shipments as part of its strategy to limit exports of raw commodities.
Indonesia is also considering curbing coal exports, meaning Chinese ships may have to sail to new destinations again.
The global shipping industry has been crippled by low freight rates in recent years and the emergence of vessels from China could aggravate the downturn, which has already led to bankruptcies and ship seizures worldwide.
The scale of the impact might be very large, say experts as the industry is awakening to the fact the Chinese fleet has become relatively modern in recent years, including by absorbing new ships unwanted by the oversupplied international market.
The total number of vessels involved in China's coastal trade is estimated at 1,500-2,000 with deadweight ranging between 10,000 and 50,000 tonnes. Many of the 20,000-tonnes or smaller ships are unregistered and unclassified anywhere.
“These smaller ships don't get released into the spot market, they're often very old and only fit to hug the coast,” said one shipping source.
Two-thirds of the fleet are up to 20 years old but it is the remaining third which worries industry players as they are newer, bigger and more fuel-efficient vessels.
Those Supramax and Handymax vessels with deadweight of 50,000-60,000 and 40,000-50,000 tonnes are mainly owned by large Chinese firms such as China Shipping, COSCO , Fujian Guohang Ocean Group, DeQin Group Corporation and Sinotrans Ltd.
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Welcome to the Pinewood Derby.
A little Pinewood Derby History:
The Pinewood Derby event was founded in 1953 by Cubmaster Donald Murphy of Manhattan Beach CA. Murphy’s idea for the Pinewood Derby formed out of a desire to devise a wholesome, constructive activity that would foster a close father-son relationship while promoting craftsmanship and good sportsmanship through competition.
An employee of North American Aviation, Murphy asked his employer to sponsor a miniature racing event for his Cub Scout pack. The company agreed to cover the expenses and Murphy wrote the rules for the race and designed a miniature car that could be carved out of soft pinewood.
The derby was an instant success and within a year was adopted for use by all Cub Scout Packs. Since 1954, an estimated 43 million Cub Scouts and their parents or adult helpers have participated.
In 46 years the rules for the pinewood derby have changed very little. Of the 11 rules in the derby today, eight are the same as they were originally, and one is amended to change the maximum length of the car from seven and three-eighths inches to seven.
Two rules have been added: the requirement that the car be made for the current year, and that no loose material of any kind is allowed in the car.
The objective of the Pinewood Derby race is:
- To teach scouts the fundamentals of woodworking and tool use.
- To promote healthy competition through fair play and good sportsmanship.
Good sportsmanship involves the principals of winning humbly and not bragging. Good sportsmanship also involves loosing gracefully. The most important thing is that every Cub Scout participated, showed good sportsmanship, and most importantly, lived up to the Cub Scout Motto; “Do You BEST!” | <urn:uuid:09f57cef-b475-4b19-9e45-c1c26bc22d84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pack60sudbury.org/pinewood-derby/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968648 | 370 | 1.921875 | 2 |
[Reid] was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama --After apologizing to the President, he hastily spread his contrition around:
a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.
An aide to the senator told CNN that Reid offered apologies to several prominent African-Americans, including House Democrats Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Barbara Lee of California; the Rev. Al Sharpton; CNN political contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; NAACP chairman Julian Bond; and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Wade Henderson.My reaction was similar to Ward Connerly's. The popular right does those who hold freedom of expression in the highest regard no favors by being leftist-lite in their hysterical seizures over such inconsequential remarks. The next Trent Lott episode has now been cued, and the stupid omertas that support the perpetual fear people have of saying the 'wrong thing' are strengthened instead of sustaining welcome cracks in their foundations. A little candidness is refreshing. Everything Reid said is at least plausible, and in my judgment objectively true.
While many whites pay scant attention to the social consequences of differences in black skin tone, it's salient in the black community. But even in popular culture, melanin matters. Caramel-colored black women tend to rise to the top (Beyonce, Rihanna). When the rare jet does so, it's often by way of association (Michelle Obama) or through sheer merit (the Williams' sisters). And there are reasons nearer the ground for why people tend to associate lighter skin with greater competence. The following table shows the estimated mean IQ (converted from wordsum scores, under the assumption that the average black IQ is 85 with a standard deviation of 15) for three subgroups of black respondents as assessed by interviewers in 1982:
As listening to the radio makes clear, black vocal inflections are usually easily detectable. Obama's strong frame and emphatic delivery are obvious political assets. If his public presence was akin to Ron Paul's, he wouldn't be in the White House.
Finally, "negro" is an antiquated but not necessarily derogatory term to use in describing people of African descent. The US Census uses it alongside "black" and "African-American", as older blacks apparently prefer it to the newer labels.
My brother was incredulous about the last point. I explained to him that "negro" used to be favored over "black". I wasn't sure when the swapping of acceptability occured, but guessed it was sometime in the seventies. Fortunately, Agnostic's clever method of tapping the New York Times' archives to gauge the popular presence of ideas, people, and phrases over time offers the chance for greater precision.
The following graph shows the percentage of total articles containing the word "negroes", "blacks", and "African-Americans" by decade from 1851 to 1959, and then by individual year thereafter*. The blue line tracks "negroes", the black line "blacks", and the red line "African-Americans":
There was a spike during the 1860s as the US Civil War was fought. A century later, focus again shifted to blacks as a separate group of Americans, and stayed there up through most of the previous decade. It's difficult to tell whether or not the decline in reference to blacks as a group has settled around 1 of 100 articles, or if it will drop further still. The decrease in usage may be due to the increasing attention given to Hispanics, leading to the substitution of "blacks" or "African-American" with the broader "minorities".
"Negro" was clearly the word of choice until 1969, the year of the 'culmination' of the black civil rights movement and the year following MLK's assassination. By 1972, "negro"--viewed as having an ugly association with slavery--had essentially fallen out of the respectable media's lexicon, thoroughly replaced by "black". The 20 to 30 articles using the word from that time are mostly referencing historical quotes from books or people.
In the late eighties, Teddy Roosevelt's dreaded hyphenated Americanism was given semantic legitimacy. Up to that point, it had never been used to describe American-born blacks. I was in preschool at the time, and given how inchoate politically correct phraseology doesn't seem to benefit from the most meticulous of record-keeping, I am not sure of the impetus for the third-generation descriptor. Please enlighten in the comments if you are able to [Xenophon has kindly done just that]. It looks as though "African-American" will assume primacy over "black" in the next few years.
Reid was thirty when "negro" went over the precipice. He grew up using it just as I use "black" to describe people today. God forbid that, in my seventies, I momentarily forget an update to the most current version of newspeak and say something I would've innocently said as a young adult. I hate political correctness.
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Probability theory has grown from a modest study of simple games of change to a subject with application in almost every branch of knowledge and science. In this exciting book, a number of distinguished probabilists discuss their current work and applications in an easily understood manner. Chapters show that new directions in probability have been suggested by the application of probability to other fields and other disciplines of mathematics. The study of polymer chains in chemistry led to the study of self-avoiding random walks; the study of the Ising model in physics and models for epidemics in biology led to the study of the probability theory of interacting particle systems. The stochastic calculus has allowed probabilists to solve problems in classical analysis, in theory of investment, and in engineering. The mathematical formulation of game theory has led to new insights into decisions under uncertainty. These new developments in probability are vividly illustrated throughout the book.
Uniform Random Spanning Trees. Random Walks: Simple and Self Avoiding. Some Connections between Brownian Motion and Analysis via Stochastic Calculus. Can You Feel the Shape of a Manifold with Brownian Motion? Some New Games for Your Computer. Cellular Automata with Errors: Problems for Students of Probability. Metropolis-Type Monte Carlo Simulation Algorithms and Simulated Annealing. Random Graphs in Ecology. How Many Times Should You Shuffle a Deck of Cards? Stochastic Games and Operators. "Decisions, Decisions": The Bandit Model for Decision Processes, Optimal Strategy, and Computer Implementation. Three Bewitching Paradoxes. Index. | <urn:uuid:57080645-d03e-49a2-bb1f-edf2a2bb21ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780849380730 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916159 | 323 | 3.28125 | 3 |
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Police forces warned on complaints
Almost two-thirds of appeals to the police watchdog over ignored complaints were upheld last year, figures have shown.
Forces "urgently need to examine their own practice to ensure that they are not blocking access to the complaints system", the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
Some 1,374 appeals over a force's decision not to even record a complaint were made, up 16% from 2010/11, and almost two-thirds (61%) of these were upheld, with the watchdog telling forces to look at the complaints again.
Eight forces were told to reconsider complaints in three-quarters or more of appeals.
Overall, 6,339 appeals were made over complaints to police in 2011/12, up 3% from the previous year, with 38% of these upheld, up from 30% or less in the three preceding years.
In two forces, Northumbria and North Wales, more than half of appeals over complaints were upheld by the watchdog.
But the IPCC warned there was a wide variation between areas, with three forces upholding more than one in five complaints and seven upholding fewer than one in 10.
It also "still takes too long to resolve many complaints", IPCC chairwoman Dame Anne Owers said.
"It is of concern that not only has there been an increase in the number of appeals to the IPCC from those dissatisfied with the way their complaint was handled, there has also been a considerable increase in the proportion of appeals that we uphold," she said.
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A common mixing up of similar words is lose vs. loose. If you often mix these up, try these hints.
From the Copyediting newsletter’s Tip of the Week email (my additions in red):
As Joyce Cheney, professor of English at Santa Monica College, advises her students:
1. Loose with its two o's should remind you that there is too much space[,] so something is loose as in a pair of loose (or roomy) pants. Loose also can refer to a handful of coins [think of the o’s as coins] that are unrestrained[,] as in loose change. Similarly, a person may be described as loose if he or she functions with few rules or boundaries.
2. Lose with only one o should remind you that something is missing[,] as when one loses or becomes unable to find or keep something or fails to achieve, as in to lose a game.
Try to remember just the first part—that loose has room in it, so it requires two o's—and see if that helps. You can even [test yourself] with Cheney's Loose or Lose? quiz. | <urn:uuid:044d30d5-26db-4a73-9290-98a29581287a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://copycurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-not-to-lose-loose-your-mind.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979204 | 242 | 2.515625 | 3 |
At Shift Happens, the annual conference on Art, Learning and Technology. The keynote address was by Sir Ken Robinson, beamed in live from LA via a mostly wonderful Skype videocall. Sir Ken gave a distinctly critical take on the tsunami of techonological innovation unleashed since Sir Tim Berners Lee and Mosaic launched the modern interent in 1993. First fact: those turning 18 this year will have lived their entire lives in the prescence of the interent.
He started from the standpoint that there are several processes unique to human history happening now. Firstly, since 2000 more than 50% of the population are living in cities. In transport, or in communications, transformative technologies such as the car and the phone have arrived at an ever-more rapid pace and are driving evolution. Certain inventions, such as the telescope or the clock, reposition our sense of who we are, and the internet has this transformative power. Physical evolution however carries on extremely slowly and we are still very much like animals in physical evolutionary terms. Mental evolution (or culture) is happening extremely fast and is separating us the natural world extremely quickly. Technology is a key tool driving this cultural change.
One of his worries is that imaginative, physical and social knowledge will be eroded by technology-driven entertainment. His agenda for tackling this revolution, which is chasing our sense of our own identities and abilities:
The arts and sciences, though still distinct, are converging again.
There is unprecedented growth in access to information
Environmental change is real and growing – the earth cannot sustain ten billion plus people without competition for resources
There is an ageing population, and with increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Children born today may actually expect to die earlier than their parents.
There is a shift to greater spiritual awareness.
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JACKSON, Tenn. – Nov. 6, 2012– Mobility has been a problem for Steve Perry for months. The Jackson resident has a lung disease that requires him to be on oxygen for 24 hours a day. Last year he fell off his porch while using a cane.
Perry now uses a mobilized wheelchair to get around, but without a ramp at his home for easy access, he has been dependent upon neighbors to help lower him to the ground when he needed to leave the house.
That all changed for Perry on Nov. 6, when a team of nine Union University students, in partnership with the Jackson Center for Independent Living, helped construct a ramp at Perry’s home as part of the 10th annual “Campus and Community: A Day of Remembrance and Service.” About 1,000 Union students, faculty and staff participated in the event at 72 service projects in Jackson and West Tennessee.
“It means the world to me,” Perry said. “If it wasn’t for them out there, I wouldn’t be able to get out of the house. This means a lot of freedom now to me.”
Campus and Community Day serves as a chance for the Union family to express its gratitude to the local community for the ways residents helped the university following tornadoes that damaged the Union campus in 2002 and 2008.
“My hope is that the service projects today would be a tangible way to let people know we are grateful for them,” said Keely Hart, Union’s director of discipleship. “I also hope that there are more lasting results. I would love for this day to be the start of long-lasting relationships between students and non-profits in the area. Service should not just be once a year. It should be a crucial part of our lives.”
Most classes were cancelled for the day to allow for students to participate. Many campus organizations were assigned to specific projects at schools, churches and local non-profit organizations, doing a variety of tasks such as yard work, renovation or even giving makeovers to senior citizens.
At the Perry home, Union students helped a contractor secured by JCIL to build the ramp, with about $1,000 worth of materials donated by Lowe’s and Home Depot.
“I think it’s a great way to serve our community and to give back to them, not only with how they’ve helped us in the past, but also it’s a great way to share the love of the Lord with them,” said Nick Fleming, a Union sophomore from Cleveland, Tenn., who helped with the project at Perry’s home. “I think it’s a great opportunity to bond with our community.”
Courtney Searcy, a senior from Hendersonville, Tenn., spent the day at the local Salvation Army, sorting and bagging supplies that will be distributed during the holiday season.
“It is just good to be able to come and serve on this day, whether it be with a friend, Life Group or even people that you don't know,” she said. “Regardless of what you are doing, you know you are serving your community and giving back to them.”
At St. Mary’s Manor, a senior housing facility, Union students spent the morning playing bingo with residents, while another group taught residents how to use computers.
“The things that they’re doing today give the residents a chance to interact with people other than those that they see every day,” said Dana Holmes, service coordinator at St. Mary’s Manor. “Some of them don't have families or the family support to help them with things like simply cleaning off the top of the refrigerator that they aren’t able to reach -- little things that don’t seem like a big deal to us, but really are to them.” | <urn:uuid:85cf7fcd-8c04-40f7-b747-c50bca3eabde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uu.edu/news/release.cfm?ID=2050 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969749 | 823 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Nov 2, 2012
Keith, I have hereditary Hemochromatosis, for which the prevailing treatment is drawing blood. However, blood tests also show chronic anemia, with the consequence that draws are often postponed. My HIV doc believes the anemia is not caused by my HIV meds, basing her opinion on recent literature, while the doc treating the Hemochromatosis thinks otherwise, also basing his opinion on the research literature. I've read that the early drugs did cause anemia in some patients, but that is no longer true. Can you shed some light on the subject for me? Whom am I to trust?
| Response from Dr. Henry
Which HIV and other drugs are you taking (AZT is the main drug associated with anemia) and what other medical conditions you are being treated for. Your current HIV status and results of recent iron/bone marrow tests would also be useful to be able to comment further. KH
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The cost of ground beef has sky rocketed lately. I was shocked to pay $10 for a 2.25 lb. package and my incentive to learn to stretch that burger was just as high as the price tag.
I made a recipe of meatballs for the freezer. My original recipe makes about 88 meatballs. I made a half recipe, which would have yielded 44 meatballs, but I used brown rice to stretch the meat. I was able to get 69 meatballs. That’s a whole extra meal! (New recipe at the bottom of this post.)
As a bonus, I think these meatballs are better than the original. They are more tender and have a great flavor. The kids did notice the rice in them and asked about it, but they were fine with it.
I think you could do this with meatloaf or meat patties too. And I want to try adding rice to ground beef that I brown for tacos or spaghetti. If you’ve tried that, please leave a comment and tell me how it worked.
Use Less or Skip the Beef
Of course, another way to stretch beef is to just use less than a recipe calls for. In casseroles and soups, try cutting the amount you normally use in half.
Mommy’s Kitchen used beans to stretch a taco meal. This Chili Rice Skillet Dinner from Lynn’s Kitchen already has beans and rice, along with the ground beef. You could increase one or both of those, while decreasing the beef and still have a tasty dish.
Unfortunately, it’s not just ground beef that is going up in price. Mara, from Kosher on a Budget has an excellent post on How to Prepare for Rising Food Costs.
- 2.25 lbs. lean ground beef
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- 4 eggs
- 3 1/2 cups cooked brown rice (1 cup dry rice will yield this)
- 1/2 of an onion, diced
- 2 Tbs. worcestershire sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
- Mix all ingredients in a stand mixer or by hand in a large bowl.
- Roll into balls.
- Bake at 350 degrees on foil lined pan for 20-25 minutes.
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