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As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.
One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written,
"As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God." So each of us shall give account of himself to God.
One of the questions raised by Missions Week is how the cause of frontier missions relates to the diversified domestic ministries of the local church.
What Are They and How Do They Relate?
By frontier missions I mean the effort of the church to penetrate an unreached people with the gospel and establish there an ongoing, indigenous church which will apply the love and justice of Christ to that culture. By domestic ministries I mean the diversified efforts of a local church to apply the love and justice of Christ to its own culture. (In both of these I include individual and his personal conversion to Christ as part of the goal.)
How do these two relate to each other? Or you can put the question differently. Since missions and ministries are the efforts of extremely diversified people, how does the singling out of frontier missions for special emphasis relate to the tremendous diversity of people in the church and the great variety of personalities and interests and abilities and callings that they have? Should everyone have the same level of interest and involvement in frontier missions? If not, how does what each of us does relate to that cause? Or should it?
If we want to make the question more complex, we can add the observation that even within the cause of frontier missions itself, there is immense diversity. Besides our Baptist General Conference Board of World Missions, there are over 3,000 foreign missionary societies in the world.
Our Commitment to the BGC and Other Agencies
I don't want to get off track, but let me just make a passing comment about Bethlehem's commitment to the Board of World Missions of the Baptist General Conference in relationship to our commitment to other agencies like Wycliffe and SIM and HCJB, and to the U.S. Center for World Missions.
- God willing, Bethlehem will become an increasingly strong support and influence for Baptist General Conference World Missions.
- Bethlehem's influence for the cause of world missions will continue to grow beyond the Baptist General Conference.
- The greater our impact is beyond the Conference, the greater our influence will be within the Conference. If your heart and energy are large enough to reach out beyond your own family, your family will be the better for it.
When we began our missions week with a veteran BGC missions statesman like Virgil Olsen, and ended the week with the Director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, Ralph Winter, we were saying in effect that our commitment is to the Conference Board of World Missions and to the wider and larger efforts in the evangelical community which can be of great benefit to our Conference mission.
The USCWM is not in competition with any mission agency. It is the great friend of all independent and denominational mission agencies. If it folds, we will all be the lesser for it. Therefore I hope that Bethlehem will be one of the strategic support churches for this center.
In the meantime Bethlehem has tripled its giving to the BGC in the last four years. We were the seventh largest giver to the BGC last year out of 800 churches. In the last year we have sent out four of our most promising young people to the Philippines and Japan under our Conference Board. And the Board has asked me to bring the messages next summer when our returning and departing Conference missionaries gather for their annual retreat.
These are our three commitments: commitment to the BGC world mission effort, commitment to the wider evangelical cause of frontier missions, and commitment to the conviction that these are not in competition but strengthen each other.
Romans 14, Frontier Missions, and Domestic Ministries
But that is not what I want to talk about this morning. I want to talk about the relationship between our commitment to frontier missions and our commitment to all the diversified domestic ministries that are possible for our church.
The basis for my convictions is seen in Romans 14.
Three Points of Diversity in the Roman Church
First, notice that there are at least three points of diversity in the church at Rome.
1. What to Eat
One is that some Christians in the church felt free to eat anything, probably including certain foods that the OT had forbidden, or foods that had been offered to idols. Others in the church only felt free to eat vegetables. Verse 2: "One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables."
2. Special Days
A second point of diversity in the church is that some of the believers were strongly in favor of keeping certain holy days, while others felt no need to set off special days probably since all days were holy in Christ. Verse 5: "One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike."
3. Drinking Wine
The third point of diversity was that some evidently felt free to drink wine, while others thought it was not God's will for them. Verses 20–21: "Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make others fall by what he eats; it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble."
Five Principles About Such Diversity
Meat eating, wine drinking, and day keeping were all points of diversity in the church at Rome. So Paul was writing to instruct them and us how to handle this kind of diversity. I see five principles that will, I think, apply to our question at least indirectly.
1. The Existence of Diversity in Understanding
Diversity in understanding God's will for our lives exists and will continue to exist in the church. The reason I say it will continue to exist is that Paul makes no effort to obliterate it. Instead he gives instruction how to live with it in love, for Christ's sake.
Not all diversity has to be understood in terms of good and evil. That is, your conviction about what you should eat and drink and how you should celebrate your Christmas holiday does not force you to call someone else's different customs bad.
Now it is true that Paul calls one habit weak and one strong. But he refuses in this case to treat these differences the way he treated the disagreement in the churches of Galatia. There the nature of saving faith was at issue. Here he believes that both convictions are coming from saving faith. One person's faith frees him to eat meat, while another person's faith expresses itself in a more rigorous interpretation of what God requires of his children.
Personally Paul thinks that the freeing faith is the stronger, but he will not condemn the behavior of the weaker brother. Both behaviors come from faith and are therefore expressions of the lordship of Christ. Verse 23: "But he who has doubts is condemned, if he eats, because he does not act from faith, for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin." So Paul will not call either side of this disagreement "sin" because sin is what does not come from faith. There is a way to talk about much of our diversity without charging each other with sin.
2. Our Attitude Toward Such Diversity
Therefore we must not despise or condemn our brothers and sisters who sense the leading of the Lord differently than we do in matters where the Word of God is not decisive. Verse 3: "Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls."
There are many times when we choose differently than someone else, but we must not condemn them. Instead we must trust that the sovereign Master of them and us will settle the matter wisely for his name's sake.
3. Our Responsibility Regarding Our Own Understanding
Everyone of us should go hard after God until we can be fully persuaded in our own mind that our choice is a genuine expression of trust in him and obedience to his Word. God does not want his people to be immobilized by the fear of doing something wrong. Yes, he thinks some decisions are the result of being weaker or stronger in faith, but notice what his challenge is in verse 5: "One man esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind."
He does not say: Now watch out lest you make a choice from weak faith and do something less than perfect! He says: I know you are sometimes going to choose differently from each other, but by all means be confident in what you choose. Be settled. Don't be forever tilting back and forth. Evidently indecisiveness is a bad thing in Paul's mind. Verses 22–23 give some reason why: "The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves . . . for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin." People who can't come to a settled conviction about what God wants them to do are forever subject to a guilty conscience, and are in constant danger of acting against their conscience and thus sinning. So principle 4 is to pray and study until you arrive at a settled conviction about your course of action.
5. Our Ultimate Goal in Everything
Finally do everything you do for the honor of Christ and a heart full of thanksgiving to him. Verse 6: "He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God." In other words, God accepts a range of different choices on an issue as obedience if the choices really aim at the honor of Christ and come from a thankful heart.
- There will always be diversity in the church, even diversity of conviction about what the will of the Lord is for some areas of behavior.
- Many of these differences we should not distinguish as good and evil. Sin is what does not come from faith. But our varying perspectives and varying degrees of faith, give rise to differing choice which may both honor Christ as acceptable choices.
- Therefore, we must not despise or condemn our brothers and sisters, but trust their Master and ours to deal with his servants wisely.
- We should all seek to be fully persuaded in the convictions we follow so that we are not immobilized by indecision or plagued with a guilty conscience.
- We should do all we do for the honor of Christ and with a heart full of thanksgiving to him.
The Situation at Bethlehem
Now let me step back from the text and try to describe the situation here at Bethlehem in which these five principles are very relevant.
The Ultimate End and the Means to That End
We have just come through a week of emphasis on frontier missions. Many people say during such a week that the ultimate goal of the church is missions. We have never said that because we don't believe it. The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end. Missions exists because worship and obedience don't. In the age to come there will be no missions. It is not our ultimate end. It is a means to that end.
As Many Means as There Are Different People
But there are other means to that end as well. Indeed, there are almost as many different means as there are different people. If your heart is gripped by the love of Christ and your sense of justice is shaped by the will of God, then there are innumerable ways to apply his love and justice to our own sick culture to display the glory and worth of God—ways that are not frontier missions but are crucial in our ultimate goal of glorifying God.
Just take a few examples. The love and justice of Christ might burden you for the urban plight of the homeless, or the victims and perpetrators of crime, or the unemployed and hard-to-employ.
Jesus might stir you to engage yourself in the issues of poverty, medical care, hunger, abortion, unwed mothers, run-away kids, pornography, family disintegration, child abuse, divorce, hygiene, education at all different levels, drug abuse and alcoholism, environmental concerns, nuclear proliferation, the peace movement, terrorism, prison reform, moral abuses in the media and business and politics.
The Lord might lead you to give yourself to a ministry of promoting and encouraging prayer or Bible study or friendship evangelism. He might move you to pour your life into junior high boys in Sunday School or into GMG or music ministries or visitation of the shut-ins or MOMS or the Marie Sandvig Center. And that just scratches the service of the kinds of domestic ministries in which a believer can display the love and justice of Christ for the glory of God.
Which Is Most Important?
Now what is the relationship between these crucial domestic ministries and the cause of frontier missions? Is one more important than the other? Is one a means to the other?
Let me try to answer this first in relation to the whole church, then in relation to your individual life.
In Relation to the Whole Church
First in relation to the whole church, my answer would be that domestic ministries are a means and a goal of frontier missions. Here is what I mean. Ralph Winter sat at my kitchen table last Sunday night, and as he looked out the window toward the city he said, "You know, the best thing you might be able to do for frontier missions is remake Minneapolis."
Domestic Ministries as the Means to Frontier Missions
What he meant was that it is very hard to take a gospel message from America to an unreached people if America has the reputation of being just as corrupt as other countries. The engagement of the church in the transformation of its own domestic front may go a long way to creating some credibility for the messengers we send to the frontiers with a gospel we say is transforming. So domestic ministries are a means to the credibility of frontier missions.
Domestic ministries are a means to frontier missions in two other senses. 1) If you view your secular job as a kind of domestic ministry—as I hope you do, because in it you can glorify Christ and apply his love and justice there—then the ministry of your job is a means to frontier missions because it earns the money without which the missionaries can't go. 2) And the third way that domestic ministries are a means to frontier missions is that domestic ministries win new recruits to the cause of Christ and give them invaluable training.
So domestic ministries serve frontier missions by creating the funds, the personnel, and the cultural credibility that frontier missions need to be successful.
Frontier Missions as the Means to Domestic Ministries
If we stopped here, there would be a fundamental misunderstanding. Frontier missions would appear to be the goal of domestic ministries. That would appear to subordinate domestic ministries to be the servant of frontier missions. But that is not the best way to put it.
Remember the goal of frontier missions? Frontier missions is the effort of the church to penetrate an unreached people with the gospel and establish there an on-going indigenous church which will apply the love and justice of Christ to that culture. The goal of frontier missions is domestic ministries. The goal of a missionary is to help start an indigenous church that will do in its own culture all the life-changing, culture-transforming domestic ministries that the American church ought to be doing here.
To put it another way, frontier missions is the transportation and adaptation of domestic ministries to people groups where they don't exist because Christ is not known. The surprising conclusion is that frontier missions is the servant of domestic ministries.
This means that the people who ought to have the greatest burden for frontier missions are the people who have the biggest heart for domestic ministries. The same love of Christ and sense of justice that burdens a person for housing and unemployment and hunger and health care in Minneapolis will also burden a person for these very same needs in people groups where no Christian impulse for transformation exists at all.
In Relation to Your Individual Life
Now let me close by applying all this to your individual life. For all our similarity we are a very diverse group of people in the church. There are followers and leaders, emotional and stoical, organized and unorganized, thrifty and lavish, intelligent and unintelligent, readers and non-readers, planners and drifters, curious and uninterested, expressive and non-verbal, people-oriented and task-oriented, contemplatives and activists, serious and humorous, dignified and casual, etc. We are very diverse.
Add to this that God usually calls us each to the ministry that suits us best so that we can feel satisfied in it. This means that our involvements in domestic ministries and frontier missions are going to be tremendously diverse. And my prayer and goal is that we see the interrelatedness of these so clearly that we will all feel free to do what God is calling us to do without guilt or defensiveness.
The Five Principles of Romans 14 Applied
Let us apply the five principles of Romans 14 to the diversity of our personalities and the diversity of our domestic and frontier callings.
- Affirm and rejoice in diversity. It is here to stay, and we must get beyond our defensiveness.
- Don't distinguish differences of this kind by saying one is good and another is evil.
- Don't despise or condemn someone because he doesn't feel called to your ministry or mission. Try to see how your mutual callings complement each other in Christ's overall purposes.
- Be fully persuaded in your own mind. Pray, study, know yourself. Settle it before God that this is your ministry for now and relax and put aside the need to defend yourself or criticize others. God accepts a wide range of choices as obedience when we have humbled ourselves and sought his will in Scripture and stepped out decisively for him.
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The Bicycle Library - solving falling cycling rates in Copenhagen, of all places
We talk exclusively to the people behind Denmark's free try-before-you-buy bike service
Copenhagen: the city where cycling has peaked
"Copenhagen is the only city in the western world where cycling levels are falling, not rising.”
Getting more people on bikes is a complex issue. There's road safety, percieved and real danger, bike theft and security, training for children and the under confident and integration with other modes of transport to consider, and that's before anyone's even thought about owning a bike.
Contrary to what you might think, Copenhagen is one of the places in Europe that's most concerned with getting more of its inhabitants on bikes. The cycling capital's number of riders has peaked, and the Danes are busy working out exactly why that is.
Mikael Colville-Andersen, of Copenhagenize Consulting says that cycling has peaked in the city.
"Copenhagen is a constant source of inspiration for cities around the planet, not least because of our bicycle culture, which has peaked at 37% of our citizens on bicycles," he says.
"Our politicians have promised us that 50% of Copenhageners will use the bike in 2010... then 2012... then 2015 and now 2025.
"Since the promises were made, cycling levels have fallen to 35%."
The Bicycle Library
"Bicycle Innovation Lab is a response to a Danish cycling culture that has stagnated."
"The bicycle library, which opened in November 2011, is a 'velotheque', where you can borrow new types of bikes and experiment with their use in your everyday life," says Lasse Schelde, project manager at Bicycle Innovation Lab, creators of the Bicycle Library.
''In the bicycle library you can, for a refundable deposit, borrow a bike for free. You simply book the bike online and go and pick it up on the day you have chosen to book the bike.''
Bike loans last 3-4 days. What that means in practice, is that you can see how a bike fits into your life. Not sure you've got space for a whole bike? Try a folder. Got kids? How about a cargo bike with seats for them? Bit unfit? There's an electric bike with your name on it. You're getting the idea.
"Other examples of bikes that can be borrowed are the bicycle sculpture, The Conversation Bicycle - which takes three people to ride – or what about catching a ride in a velomobile - the Danish Leitra, that is so fast and easy to ride that it can take you on a summer holiday from Copenhagen to Paris and back again," says Lasse.
It's not just a lending library; Bicycle Innovation Lab holds informative events and also features an on-site workshop facility, where seminars can be held and prototypes are being developed.
Take your pick
"A bike is not just a bike and everyone has their special needs for transportation."
Lasse talks us through just a small selection of bikes on offer at the Bicycle Library:
"The cargo bikes are immensely popular among young parents living in the city with need to transport their kids to and from daycare or kindergarten. Other users of the cargo bikes are people who needs to transport waste to the recycling plant or who has lots of shopping to do. Of the cargo bikes the Sorte Jernhest which can take the most load and the Bullit with auxiliary engine are equally popular."
"Another sure hit is the Leitra velomobile and our recumbent bikes which are hard-to-come-by bikes which most Danish people have seen in traffic at some point, but few have had the opportunity to ride, the Leitra especially seems to appeal to the more serious bicycle enthusiasts or long distance commuters."
"The electric bikes, the racing bikes and the folding bikes are often borrowed by commuters considering alternative means of transportation for their daily work commute. The electric bikes takes out the bite of hills and hard headwinds."
"The racing bikes give you a faster, easier ride and provide you with exercise."
"Folding bikes are allowed to be carried along on public transportation."
"The funkier of the bikes, the tandem and the three person bicycle sculpture are mostly used for celebrations, picnics or demonstrations so even though they are quite eye-catching they don't get ridden all that often."
Not a tourist attraction
The Bicycle Library is a service by locals, for locals. It's not a tourist attraction. Says Lasse: "It is good for tourists who are staying for a while. Our bike loans last 3-4 days.
"But the library is not made for the purpose of catering to tourists who need transport. It is an opportunity to try different bike designs
in the city or on long trips to the countryside."
Food for thought
Could the Bicycle Library translate to British cities? Lasse thinks it would be perfect. "We see no problem in that," he says.
"Our version of a bicycle library is for anyplace or anyone. We try to offer our loaners bikes that fit any situation. All bikes that serve different purposes in a diverse city."
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Marriage and Sexuality: Biology or Theology?
The unitive and procreative are inseperable in the expression of marital love in the conjugal act
Shortly thereafter the Anglicans gave in, allowing contraception. Since then, all other Protestant denominations followed the example of the Church of England.
Today, the Catholic Church stands alone in opposition to contraception. However, even though the Catholic Church affirms that contraception is intrinsically evil, the majority of Catholics in America completely reject and ignore the Church's teaching on procreation.
The first cries for change within the Catholic Church came about in the late 1950's and the early 1960's with the availability of the birth control pill. In July of 1968, Pope Paul VI published an encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) which reaffirmed the constant teaching of the Catholic Church that artificial birth control is intrinsically evil.
The encyclical was confronted by a massive revolt within the Catholic Church and it is believed that 96% of Catholics in this country completely reject Humanae Vitae.
Why does the Catholic Church affirm that contraception is intrinsically evil? The reason is founded on this principle: every marital act must keep together "the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act." (Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, 12)
This fundamental principle contained in Humanae Vitae is true because the nature of sexual intercourse, which is both life-giving (pro-creative) and love-giving (unitive), reflects the plan of God for marriage.
A man and a woman must not intervene to separate their fertility from their bodily union in the marital embrace. To do so is to disrupt the plan of God for marriage, sexuality and married love. Therefore, the Church's teaching is not only affirmed by Divine law, but by natural law as well.
Sexual pleasure within marriage becomes unnatural, and even harmful to the spouses, when it is used in a way that deliberately excludes the basic purpose of sex, which is procreation. God's gift of sex must not be abused by frustrating its natural end-procreation, which is always integrally connected to the unitive dimension and the mutual expression of the gift of self which reveals the heart of the meaning of the marital embrace.
However, this does not mean that married couples only have sexual intercourse when they want to conceive a child. Mutual love or the good of the spouses, one of the three purposes of marriage, indicates that sex is good, sex is holy and that the sexual union between the spouses enhances, in a very deep way, the intimate love between husband and wife.
Nevertheless, we must keep in mind that the three purposes of marriage: the good of the spouses, the procreation of children and the education of children, are equal and form one single entity. The first purpose of marriage is not superior to the other two.
The Catholic Church continues to affirm that every conjugal act must be open to the transmission of life. The Catholic Church continues to affirm that all forms of contraception are intrinsically evil. However, the Catholic Church does teach that there is a moral, ethical way to regulate births. The moral way to regulate the procreation of children is through the use of Natural Family Planning.
Humanae Vitae explains this clearly with these words: "If therefore there are well-grounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that married people may then take advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only during those times that are infertile, thus controlling birth in a way which does not in the least offend the moral principles which we have just explained." (Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, 16)
True Christian love is what makes a marriage a good marriage, a happy marriage and marriage filled with joy.
Married couples that are imbued with Christian love would never consider using artificial birth control or Natural Family Planning for selfish reasons.
Furthermore, husband and wife cooperate and participate in the on-going miracle of God's creation. The fundamental task of marriage and family life is to be at ...
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January 23, 1925
New York City, New York, U.S.
|Died||August 19, 1995
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|Cause of death||Heart failure|
|Resting place||Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery|
|Residence||Los Angeles, California|
|Occupation||Producer, screenwriter, director, actor|
|Spouse(s)||Joanne Gilbert (m. 1955–1956)
Donna Arnold (m. 1961–1995)
Early life
Born Arnold Rothmann in New York City, he started his career acting in summer stock and doing comedy in vaudeville. During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps in the South Pacific. He later moved to Hollywood to continue a career in show business.
Arnold appeared in films as an actor opposite the comic duo Martin and Lewis, and also wrote the screenplay for the Martin and Lewis vehicle The Caddy (1953). In 1956, Arnold started writing for such television series as The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and The Rosemary Clooney Show. In the 1960s, he began writing and producing episodes for such sitcoms as Bewitched. Regarding Bewitched, which he produced for its first season, Arnold noted, "With this show, I saw a great opportunity to accomplish something. Fantasy can always be a jumping-off place for more sophisticated work."
Though his subsequent work was popular with audiences, Arnold frequently butted heads with TV executives regarding issues of content and fair shooting schedules. Television sitcom writer/director Ken Levine described Arnold as "brilliant, unpredictable (a nice term for bi-polar), demanding, and kind." Tapings on Barney Miller became legendary for lasting into the wee hours as Arnold worked on rewrites; due to these extended tapings the show in its later seasons ceased having a live audience. While working on Barney Miller, Arnold became so sick of the constant network battles that he founded his own distribution company Pro-Synd, Inc., so he could syndicate shows as he wished, but with the cancellation of his subsequent series Joe Bash and Stat, his plans with Miller never came to fruition. He eventually sued regarding what he felt was the unfair sharing of the profits from Barney Miller and got a $50 million settlement.
On August 28, 1986, Danny Arnold sold his production company Four D Productions, Inc. to Coca-Cola's Columbia Pictures Television Group for $50 million after Arnold dropped the federal and state lawsuits against Columbia Pictures Television accusing them of antitrust violations, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.
Over the course of his career, Arnold won two Emmy Awards, one for My World and Welcome to It and one for the series for which he is most famous, Barney Miller. This latter show also won Arnold a Peabody Award. He was honored with the Paddy Chayefsky Award in 1985 by the Writer's Guild of America to celebrate his lifetime of achievement.
Personal life
Arnold met his second wife, Donna, while he was working as a writer on The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and she was appearing as a singer and dancer on the program. The married in 1961 and had two children, David and Dannel. The couple remained married until Arnold's death.
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- Arnold uncredited cameo on That Girl
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Computers and Geotechnics
The role of computer orientated techniques in analysis and design of geotechnical structures has been firmly established in recent years. New techniques are being rapidly developed and applied in the fields of offshore, nuclear, dam, mining and transportation engineering. Using these techniques it is now possible to check the validity of various empirical rules that have become prevalent in geotechnical engineering practice.
Computers and Geotechnics provides an up-to-date reference to the engineers and researchers engaged in computer aided analysis, design and research in geotechnical engineering. The journal is intended for an expeditious dissemination of new developments in the broad areas of soil and rock mechanics. Static, cyclic and transient loading situations are relevant. Contributions on constitutive models of geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete, masonry, ceramics, etc.), computer analyses of physical models and adequately monitored prototype structures and application of computer techniques to design are especially welcome. Computer codes are not published but novel features of a code can form appendices.
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If you take a 1 pound batch of starter and use it once a week, each time removing half then replenishing the missing half with flour and water, in 1 year, there will only be 10 trillionths of a gram of the original starter in your 1 lb batch of starter.
Of course, as you are adding the flour, the original organisms will proliferate in the replenished starter, causing them to continue on. However, the yeasties and lactos contained in the flour which you are replenishing your starter with, will have a huge affect on the starter. In fact, you could end up, eventually, with a starter that has none of the original organisms. Unlikely, but it is possible. Temperature has a huge affect on which organisms will win out in the end. | <urn:uuid:6875879d-0a4a-4532-94ed-4fc0a5b30317> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=18283.msg177773 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956787 | 160 | 2.75 | 3 |
Say what you will about international law and international organizations, but it is undoubtedly a good thing that Charles Taylor, the murderous former dictator of Liberia, was just sentenced to 50 years in prison by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He thus becomes the first head of state convicted of crimes by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials of the post-World War II era.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. The New York Times sums up his gruesome record by noting that he was found guilty “of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his part in fomenting mass brutality that included murder, rape, the use of child soldiers, the mutilation of thousands of civilians, and the mining of diamonds to pay for guns and ammunition.”
Sure, it’s possible to criticize the international court for Sierra Leone, or the one for the former Yugoslavia, on the grounds that they are slow and unwieldy in delivering justice. And, sure, the international legal system theoretically could be abused to generate politically motivated indictments of Israeli or American generals and politicians—but so far that’s been more of a problem in national courts such as the Turkish court, which just issued indictments against various Israeli soldiers. By contrast, international courts are delivering justice at the end of the day for at least some war criminals. That’s more than national courts can say.
Far from this being an infringement on individual liberty, as so many conservative critics of the UN fear, this is actually a great enhancement of liberty by delivering justice for the victims of criminal states. Perhaps if such trials become a regular feature of the international community, then in the future dictators may actually think twice before committing fresh atrocities. | <urn:uuid:b13152d1-5fd2-4001-9ed6-d01c5f5e90c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/30/justice-finally-served-for-liberia-warlord/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960093 | 351 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The most well-known of all Japanese directors, the great irony about Akira Kurosawa's career is that he's been far more popular outside of Japan than in Japan. The son of an army officer, Kurosawa studied art before gravitating to film as a means of supporting himself. He served seven years as an assistant to director Kajiro Yamamoto before he began his own directorial career with Sanshiro Sugata (1943), a film about the 19th century struggle for supremacy between adherents of judo and jujitsu that so impressed the military government, he was prevailed upon to make a sequel (Sanshiro Sugata Part Two).
Following the end of World War II, Kurosawa's career gathered speed with a series of films that cut across all genres, from crime thrillers to period dramas. Among the latter, his Rashomon (1951) became the first postwar Japanese film to find wide favor with Western audiences, and simultaneously introduced leading man Toshiro Mifune to Western viewers. It was Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954), however, that made the largest impact of any of his movies outside of Japan. Although heavily cut for its original release, this three-hour-plus medieval action drama, shot with painstaking attention to both dramatic and period detail, became one of the most popular Japanese films of all time in the West, and every subsequent Kurosawa film has been released in the U.S. in some form, even if many -- most notably The Hidden Fortress (1958) -- were cut down in length.
At the same time, American and European filmmakers began taking a serious look at Kurosawa's movies as a source of plot material for their own work. In 1964, Rashomon was remade in a Western setting as The Outrage, while Yojimbo was remade by Sergio Leone as A Fistful of Dollars. The Seven Samurai (1954) fared best of all, serving as the basis for John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (which had been the original title of Kurosawa's movie) in 1960; the remake actually did better business in Japan than the original. In 1985, an unfilmed screenplay of Kurosawa's also served as the basis for Runaway Train, a popular action thriller.
Kurosawa's movies subsequent to his period thriller Sanjuro (1962) abandoned the action format in favor of more esoteric and serious drama, including his epic-length medical melodrama Red Beard (1965). In later years, despite ill health and problems getting financing for his more ambitious films, Kurosawa remained the most prominent of Japanese filmmakers until his death in 1998. With his Westernized style, Kurosawa always found a wider audience and more financing opportunities in Europe and America than he did in his own country. A sensitive romantic at heart, with a sentimental streak that occasionally rose forcefully to the surface of his movies, his work probably resembles that of John Ford more closely than it does any of his fellow Japanese directors. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi | <urn:uuid:171ee918-8e14-416b-ab32-d1e88c049155> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spill.hollywood.com/Actor/ActorDetails.aspx?Name=Akira%20Kurosawa&PersonId=98309&view=bio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979276 | 626 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Philippine Reef & Rainforest Project
This is a completed project.
The Philippine Reef & Rainforest Project, launched by David Bellamy OBE, was the third project of the World Land Trust, and gave everyone a unique opportunity to become a 'founder owner' of the tropical paradise island of Danjugan.
Danjugan is an extremely important island as it is one of the few islands in the area that still has its original tropical forests, which are literally teeming with wildlife. Additionally, the island is surrounded by a beautiful coral reef that was in urgent need of protection. The aim of this project was to perminantly protect Danjugan's forest and wildlfe by purchasing the whole island to be managed by PRRFCI.
Other projects in The Philippines:
The former owners of Danjugan Island had been seeking to sell, and WLT were alerted to the fact that developers were waiting in the wings to move in and begin clearance. This really was a 'Window of Opportunity' - and in order to purchase and start to protect Danjugan and save its natural resources from inappropriate development, the WLT had to commit to raising £250,000. In 2000, all the loan had been repaid and the fundraising for the land purchase successfully completed, thanks to the generosity of individuals, companies and groups.
This is a successfully completed project, however, PRRFCI still needs funds for ongoing reserve management. If you would like to make a donation to this project:
- Specify "Philippine Reef & Rainforest Project" in the comments box to earmark your donation for Danjugan.
Coral Cay Conservation Volunteers surveyed a 100 acre (40 ha) area of coral reef in 1996 and identified 190 species and 73 genera of corals. The Great Barrier Reef, stretching some 1,600 km, is known to contain approximately 80 genera of corals and it is truly astounding that the Danjugan Reefs contain, in small areas surveyed, as much diversity as the whole of the Great Barrier Reef.
- An important resting-place for migratory speices, such as swallows, swifts and several species of kingfisher;
- Sea eagles, fish eagles, Mangrove Heron (Butorides striata) and Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) frequence the mangrove swamps;
- The forests are alive with warblers, flycatchers, bulbuls, weaverbirds and sunbirds.
Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are also seen occasionally in the crystal clear waters, while whales, including the large Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus), are seen off shore.
Marine turtles include: the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). Both species are Endangered and numbers continue to decline due to illegal collecting of eggs, meat and, in the case of the hawksbill, its shell.
Danjugan Island was saved from inappropriate development that would have threatened the forest and the surrounding reefs. Between them, tropical forests and coral reefs contain the world's richest and most diverse environments, but both have suffered from a wide range of destructive human activities.
- Forests: threatened by clearance for timber, agriculture and development
- Coral reefs: threatened by pollution, quarrying, over-fishing and exploitive tourism.
- Mangroves: threatened by extensive cutting to produce charcoal, for fish farming and infill development. They are important as they form a barrier between land and sea, are nutrient-rich breeding grounds for fish, birds and other wildlife, as well as providing vital 'shock absorbers' for hurricanes.
- Communites: Island communities are particularly fragile and vulnerable to disturbance.
Total acres saved by WLT: 106 acres (43 ha)
Danjugan is a small island, 1.5km long and 0.5km at its widest point (1 mile x 1/3 mile). It lies in the Sulu Sea, 3km west of Negros Island, in the Visayan Island Group, and is surrounded by coral reef. Unlike the majority of smaller islands in the Philippines it still has almost all of its original forest cover.
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- With such a meager share of global oil, no amount of domestic drilling will make a dent in our dependence on foreign imports, despite what Big Oil would have us believe. The only way to take back control over our energy future is to move toward more efficient cars and trucks, cleaner fuels, and more transportation options for Americans.(Photo Credit: Jen Henry) Read more »
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California is a land of stereotypes, but as we all know, those are grounded in certain unalienable truths. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the Toyota Prius has replaced the Volkswagen Bus Great Equalizer of surf bums, fashion victims, Valley girls, and bros everywhere. Toyota has sold 46,380 Priuses to California alone so far this year, or 25 percent of all the Priuses sold in America. That includes the Prius c, the Prius v, and the Prius Plug-in that’s still not sold in much of the rest of the country.
Yes, the perennially popular Ford F-150 sells the most across the rest of the country, but here in the People’s Republic of California the Prius is king. It’s no surprise, too, seeing that as of 10 minutes ago the Chevron down the street from our Los Angeles office saw a price of $4.67 per gallon.
Drill, baby, drill? Buy, baby, buy a Prius and drive on, which is what Californians are doing—car sales rose 26.3 percent over the past nine months in California. Across the nation, Prius sales are estimated to top 230,000, a steady amount over last year’s total Prius sales of 136,463. However, that was for just the original-flavored Prius during a year rife with natural disasters and low supplies; the Prius c and v are expected to carry this figure to new heights.
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I don't have any experience with GIS and mapping (other than drawing polygons in Google Earth). I need to create custom territory boundaries on a map, with county lines and street/highways as boundaries. These territories that I want to create will be next to each other, so I want to prevent empty spaces between them also.
Are there free tools that will allow me to do this? I attempted to do this using Google Earth's polygon tool, but tracing the county lines along with major highways over a large area is a massive task, and the result is not clean (i.e. my traces don't "snap" to the streets perfectly). | <urn:uuid:5e8f0f99-460c-4ab2-8576-a3a9024acf9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/34256/mapping-territory-boundaries-based-on-county-lines-and-street/41681 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950254 | 135 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Eight from Harvard headed Down Under
Eight from Harvard headed Down Under Researchers awarded fellowships from Harvard Club of Australia
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation has announced fellowship awards to eight accomplished Harvard researchers intending collaborative scientific research in Australia during 2012, and to two Australian researchers headed to Harvard. The foundation’s grants assist with travel and living expenses, and take the form of donations to their host Australian institutions.
Fellows from Harvard:
Paul Allen, professor of anesthesia, Harvard Medical School (HMS), aims to identify new approaches to the treatment of steroid-resistant asthma and airway hyperreactivity. He will bring new technology for transgenic mouse models to the University of Newcastle and develop classroom demonstrations on developments of transgenics to study models of human disease. During his 10 weeks in Australia, Allen will continue collaborations with Cristobal dos Remedios at the University of Sydney and Paul Foster at the University of Newcastle.
Laura K. Barger, instructor in medicine at HMS, associate physiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a founding member of the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group, will extend her research on the association between work hours, sleep deficiency, and motor vehicle crashes through collaborations with researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Austin Hospital, and interstate universities. During two months in Australia, she will teach Monash students and lead a workshop on drowsy driving to develop a research strategy in this area, working with Shantha Rajaratnam and several others.
Ron Kikinis is Robert Greenes Distinguished Director of Biomedical Informatics and professor of radiology at HMS. After presenting workshops in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane and meeting with neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists there, Kikinis will work with Karol Miller at the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory and deliver a master class organized by the University of Western Australia’s Institute of Advanced Studies, as well as lead research seminars for staff and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Mathematics, and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and to deliver a hands-on workshop on 3D Slicer for neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He will spend nearly one month in Australia.
Christopher P. Landrigan, director, Sleep & Patient Safety Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics, HMS, will spend two months in Australia. He will conduct a pilot patient safety surveillance study with Peter Cameron at Monash University in Melbourne, then visit Sydney Children’s Hospital to discuss patient safety with health services researchers, clinicians, and safety scientists. He will also visit Sydney University’s Centre for Integrated Research & Understanding of Sleep to speak with research groups about his previous work on resident clinicians’ sleep deprivation and medical errors; followed by work with the government’s Clinical Excellence Commission to collaborate on translating research initiatives into policy and practice.
Soroosh Radfar, research fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and HMS, conducts immune system research between is aimed at a little-studied white blood cell component — the regulatory thymus cell known as CD8 Treg — to define its potential contribution in regulating infectious disease. During Radfar’s nearly five months in Perth, he will exploit the recent identification of the inhibitory Ly49F receptor on CD8 Treg, coupled with another doctor’s research on the Ly49H receptor located on the killer cells that play a major role in the rejection of tumors and virus infections.
Vicki Rosen, professor of developmental biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, will present lectures in two areas of research: the role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) in bone and joint development, and the use of BMPs in bone and joint repair and regeneration in the adult skeleton. Also she will host seminars with postgraduate students and fellows from the schools of Surgery and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Western Australia (with Jiake Xu), and in Sydney at various faculties of the University of Sydney (with Hala Zreiqat) and related institutions. She is to be a key speaker at Sydney University’s Tissue Engineering Symposium (SuTEN-August 2012).
Rima E. Rudd, senior lecturer, Department of Society, Human Development & Health, Harvard School of Public Health, has been invited to the University of Adelaide on a visiting professorship to raise awareness in the area of health literacy, to facilitate discussions among researchers, to develop research proposals, and to provide opportunities for exploring efficacious change in practice and in policy. She will also visit and develop proposals in health literacy with others including the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, and the New South Wales Government’s Clinical Excellence Commission. Rudd expects to spend at least three months in Australia.
Joao Seco, assistant professor of radiation oncology, HMS, will collaborate, initially for two months, with Andrew Fielding at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, on the development of Monte Carlo and optimization techniques for use in radiation therapy for lung cancer using arc beam delivery and multi-criteria optimization.
Australian fellows visiting Harvard:
Associate Professor Diane Fatkin, laboratory head, Sister Bernice Research Program in Inherited Heart Disease, Molecular Cardiology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI) in Sydney, will pay a six-month visit to the laboratory of Professors Christine and Jon Seidman at the HMS Department of Genetic Studies, where Fatkin aims to utilize next-generation sequencing technologies to identify genetic variants in a cohort of families with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and then to generate a cohort of genotyped family members for genotype-phenotype correlations and clinical trials in familial DCM. On her return to Australia, Fatkin will train Sydney lab staff and students in these new technologies. Studies will have direct benefits to the families that are being studied at VCCRI.
Professor Paul S. Foster, Laureate Professor and director, Priority Research Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, will work for four months at the laboratory of Professor Richard L. Stevens at HMS to identify the roles of certain mast cell proteins (mMCP-6) and ribonucleic acids (RNAs) in the control of antiviral immune responses and allergic inflammation of the airways. He will also test the hypotheses that the roles of MCs and their proteins in promoting protective or damaging host responses in the lung are governed by the nature of the inflammatory stimulus and the subsequent immunological milieu, and that mMCP-6-dependent responses in mice are controlled, in part, by specific RNAs.
About Harvard Medical School (HMS)
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“Since 1872, Harvard Medical School has been the incubator of bold ideas—a place where extraordinary people advance education, science and health care with unrelenting passion.
Whether training tomorrow’s doctors and scientists, decoding the fundamental nature of life, advancing patient care or improving health delivery systems around the world, we are never at rest. Allied with some of the world’s best hospitals, research institutes and a University synonymous with excellence, the School’s mission remains as ambitious as it is honorable: to alleviate human suffering caused by disease.”
### About Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public’s health through learning, discovery and communication. More than 400 faculty members are engaged in teaching and training the 1,000-plus student body in a broad spectrum of disciplines crucial to the health and well being of individuals and populations around the world. Programs and projects range from the molecular biology of AIDS vaccines to the epidemiology of cancer; from risk analysis to violence prevention; from maternal and children’s health to quality of care measurement; from health care management to international health and human rights.
### About Harvard University.
Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers an unparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education.
‘Universities nurture the hopes of the world: in solving challenges that cross borders; in unlocking and harnessing new knowledge; in building cultural and political understanding; and in modeling environments that promote dialogue and debate… The ideal and breadth of liberal education that embraces the humanities and arts as well as the social and natural sciences is at the core of Harvard’s philosophy. ’/ Drew Gilpin Faust
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Patients with cancer may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial. Cancer treatment clinical trials are research studies designed to find better ways to treat cancer. Clinical trials often compare the most accepted cancer treatment ( standard treatment ) with a new treatment doctors hope will be better. Clinical trials test many types of treatment, such as new drugs, new approaches to surgery or radiation therapy, new combinations of treatments, or new methods such as gene therapy. What doctors learn in these trials helps people with cancer now and in the future. | <urn:uuid:2573312f-5b97-44d8-b430-fd88944ab312> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.planetreesanjose.org/ptcancerInfo/clinicalTrials.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944535 | 167 | 2.09375 | 2 |
When you design a logo, you must understand and plan something good about your logo, You need to imagine now and see the final logo design out put and think what this logo supposed to do in near future. A logo is not just a sign, it really care about a brand identity. Your designed logo must be inspiring and stand out from other logos. You must design a good logo to satisfy your clients business needs. If you design a wrong logo ,then it will seriously hurt your client. So you need to be very careful while you design a logo.
You Need to Keep a Few Things in Your Mind While You Design the Logo
- Logo Must Narrate a Brand
- Logo Must be Easily Memorable
- Logo Must be Good In Multi Colors
- Logo Must be Scalable in Vector Format
- Logo Must be a Print/Web Friendly
- Logo Must be in CMYK Format
- Logo Must be Good In Small Space
Do a Detailed Study About Other Successful and Failed Brand Identities
Yes you need to learn and find about other successful and failed logo design ideas. Try to understand what criteria helped a logo to be successful. In the same way, find out the failure aspects of a brand. Try yourself to resolve the issues in that specific brand identity. This will help you in a better way while you plan and design your logo.
What Software will Help Me to Create a Good Logo
You can use Illustrator and Coreldraw , the best logo design platforms I have ever seen. You can also use FREE open source software like Inkscape. I used to create logos in all software.
Designing Process of a Logo
Here are a few tips on how you need to plan and start your logo design process. Carefully read and understand yourself these tips and follow these simple rules. Good luck
- Think and plan about your logo
- Make quick sketches of your logo design ideas
- Make a creative visual view in your mind
- Imagine how your logo will look in a final stage
- Choose your logo design software
- Create Your logo design
- Try to give a variety of logo options
- Send watermarked logos to your clients for final approval
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The vision of Duduza is to see orphaned and vulnerable children, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, restored to a place of permanency where they can identify a significant other and develop into everything that God has for them.
Duduza has changed from being a children’s shelter to a more open and far-reaching community project seeking to identify and support orphans infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Operating alongside a number of foster mothers around the city, Duduza is looking to develop in its new role to help more children than ever. Since its inception and through its previous form, Duduza has cared for and protected over 60 children.
Our priorities are
Healthcare and access to Anti-Retroviral Treatments
Access to education and child development
Training and empowerment of foster parents
Adoption and reintegration
The vision of Project Gateway is to see churches mobilised in the areas of education and training, care and sustainable livelihoods, and to provide a model and resource base for the city of Pietermaritzburg and its surrounds. Project Gateway has always been intended as a ‘Gateway’ both in and out for projects and individuals and in line with this, Duduza, a ministry of NCFChurch, has decided to establish itself as an independent project and leave through the ‘Gateway’ to allow others in so that they can also be mentored and developed. Therefore, in April 2009, Duduza moved from the care of Project Gateway to the sole care of NCFChurch . It is a prime example of a project that has grown, been nurtured and is now fully under the leadership and oversight of a local church, thus freeing up space for a new project to be developed.
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Al Gore is at South by Southwest. You can tell by the length of the line. The former vice president is so popular here that hopeful attendees are stretched around two sides of Austin’s cavernous convention center. A docent inspects the ranks, explaining to those at the back that the hall is already full. But the crowds don’t care — they join and wait anyway, chatting idly among themselves and sending their youngest members on the beer runs. In the end, the event’s staffers are proven correct: Gore makes his speech to a ballroom packed to the rafters, and the thousands who had been warned camp outside the closed doors, watching the simulcast on their iPhones.
The title of Gore’s speech is “The Future,” and he draws the main themes from his book of the same name. As one might imagine, scaremongering about climate change weaves in and out of his presentation. From time to time, the usual enemies are brought out for applause: Congress is impotent and “does nothing” until it “gets the okay from special interests”; shadowy groups run the country, he claims, having “hacked” its democracy and corrupted its “operating system,” the Constitution. And the NRA, which defends a key part of that “operating system”? “A complete fraud,” Gore explains, “because it is financed by the gun manufacturers.”
Gore’s progressivism is orthodox, but his solutions are not. “We need to move everything to the Internet as quickly as we possibly can. If we do that, the future will belong to a well-informed citizenry.” One is left wondering how the United States coped for the greater part of its history.
As for the future, will the Information Age really lead to an Informed Age? In truth, most pertinent political information is already online, but, rather than having flung open the doors of the Library of Alexandria to a grateful populace, the primary consequence has been a rise in cheap sensationalism. Aldous Huxley worried, in an under-noted opposition to George Orwell’s prediction of information’s becoming rare, that the future would bring “the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant.” Do we doubt that so many of those who speak of technology as a panacea have, as Huxley warned, “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”?
And “informed” in what? An atomized media environment by no means helps to heal our polarized political environment. We have, as Roger Simon argues, “been digitally Balkanized.” Whatever were the limitations of the 1950s, politically and culturally there was something to be said for having three television channels that everybody in the country was forced to watch. One suspects that Gore understands this at one level. Having laid out his vision of an Internet-centric world, he shifts emphasis, articulating libertarian worries about government, stopping a few inches short of endorsing Rand Paul’s anti-drone filibuster, and griping convincingly about our “stalker economy.” People, he claims, are reaching the “gag point” with surveillance. He specifically criticizes the construction of a $2 billion data-storage facility in Utah that will allow the National Security Agency to look through e-mails and texts. The crowd, libertarian on privacy but little else, goes wild.
Al Gore is an unlikely rock star, but a rock star he is. In the twelve years since he lost his bid for the White House, he has amassed a cult following and a fortune of over $300 million. Red-faced and bloated, he has a peculiar air. When he is insistent or excited about an idea, his eyes flame and his face rearranges itself into anger. He is easily mockable, but he knows his audience and he holds his crowd. Still, like many an established celebrity, Gore has grown unaccustomed to being challenged. This is made painfully obvious when his interviewer, the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, rather frankly asks Gore about the propriety of his selling Current TV to the government of Qatar. Why, Mossberg presses, did you sell your company to “basically a big, nothing but an oil producer” of the sort you routinely lambast as destroying the planet? “How could you do that?” | <urn:uuid:97c7757d-55ed-43aa-96e3-88783fc54d93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mailto:klopez@nationalreview.com/articles/343026/gore-s-traveling-salvation-show-charles-c-w-cooke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969419 | 962 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Lesson 4: Constructing Wind Turbine & Designing Blades, High School
This unit contains many visual elements and reading requirements, which may pose challenges to students with vision impairments, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Students will need to access images and videos and therefore made need assistance accessing that content. In addition, some activities involve manipulation of small objects and may require accommodations for students with upper body mobility or fine motor impairments. Have students work with partners or in small groups so that each student can contribute according to his or her strengths. For information on suggested accommodations, select an activity below.
- Warm Up and Motivate
- Review Homemade Anemometer
- Scientific Method and 5 Key Steps
- Wind Survey
- Scientific Method and Lab Report
- Construct A Wind Turbine
- Math Connection: Collection of Gear Ratio
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‘From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing’
The muse of epic poetry
Some of my students find it outrageous that I would ask them to actually walk into a library and find print sources for their research. They believe that they can find everything they need to know online — and in some cases they might be correct. At eHow.com, you can learn “How to Build a Concrete Storm Shelter” or “How to Clean Your Coffee Maker With Vinegar.” Using the information collated there, a friend of mine renovated an entire house to ready it for sale. But wait, there’s more: should you decide to write an epic poem, eHow breaks the process down into seven easy steps. Here are steps one through three:
1) Write a brief statement of the poem’s purpose before you begin recounting the story — say, to detail your dog Champ’s heroic crusade against backyard birds — followed by an invocation of the Muse.
2) Give a short, general outline of the action of the poem in the statement of the poem’s purpose.
3) Invoke the Muse next by first praising her, then by asking her to aid you in the writing of your poem. The Muse of epic poetry was Calliope, but you can also invoke Thalia (Muse of comedy) or Melpomene (Muse of tragedy).
Praise and invoke:
As ye may se,
Regent is she
Of poetes al,
Whiche gaue to me
The high degre
Laureat to be
Of fame royall ;
— John Skelton, “WHY were ye Calliope embrawdered with letters of golde?”
“Calliope,” whose name comes from the Greek and means “having a beautiful voice,” is sometimes pictured with a harp, and sometimes with tablet and stylus. According to The Theogony of Hesiod, of the nine Muses who dwell on Olympus, Calliope “is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and behold him as they pour sweet dew upon his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words.” So blessed, the singer becomes a servant of the Muses, “For it is through the Muses and far-shooting Apollo that there are singers and harpers upon the earth; but princes are of Zeus, and happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his mouth.” The singer “settles causes with true judgements” and “chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus.” Given this gift of singing “at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all.”
While in the Classical tradition, the Muses serve as an intermediary between the supernatural and the singer/poet, in other traditions, such as that of the griots in West Africa, the poet possess supernatural powers him- or herself. In my series of commentaries, I will be exploring the manifestations of the epic in different cultural and historical contexts. And I wonder, poets out there, what epics do you consider to be part of your own lineage? I’ll be contacting some of you to ask.
From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes (1568).
“Calliope.” A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Edited by Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of Pennsylvania. 1 September 2011.
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McCain Campaigns In Phoenix High School
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
As for John McCain, gone are the days when a presidential candidate took the week off during the other party's convention. Senator McCain spent some of the weekend dealing with his gaffe regarding how many houses he owns. And today, he was on the trail speaking to what could be a pivotal group of voters: young Hispanics.
NPR's Ted Robbins has our story.
TED ROBBINS: Over the weekend, John McCain was still dealing with the bruise he got last week when he couldn't remember how many homes he and his wife own. Saturday, he told CBS' Katie Couric that he is proud to own any home.
Senator JOHN McCAIN (Republican, Arizona; Presidential Candidate): I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair. And I know what it's like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation.
ROBBINS: He was, of course, referring to his years as a POW in Hanoi. While he was imprisoned, his future wife, Cindy, was a student at Central High School in Phoenix. And that's where McCain appeared today. It was build as a news conference. Instead, McCain made a few remarks to a roomful of students and urged them to vote.
Sen. McCAIN: So, I hope you'll be involved, but most importantly, I know why you are sitting here, and that is not to listen to me so much, but I brought a special friend along with me today.
ROBBINS: That special friend got a far bigger reaction than John McCain.
Sen. McCAIN: His - one of his most famous songs - I know you're very familiar with "Gasolina."
(Soundbite of crowd)
Sen. McCAIN: Well, it means - here he is, Daddy Yankee.
(Soundbite of cheering)
ROBBINS: Daddy Yankee is a Latin music star from Puerto Rico, born Ramon Ayala. He sings reggaeton - a blend of hip-hop and Caribbean styles. His biggest hit is the song McCain referred to "La Gasolina."
(Soundbite of song "La Gasolina")
Mr. RAMON AYALA (Daddy Yankee): (Singing) (Speaking foreign language)
ROBBINS: Those lyrics in part, she likes gasoline. Give me more gasoline. How she loves gasoline. Give me more gasoline. According to a number of online discussions, the lyrics are Puerto Rican slang, which can be interpreted as speed, racing, alcohol and sex, or all of the above.
Dressed in black and bling, Daddy Yankee talked about another issue in his endorsement.
Mr. AYALA: He's been a fighter for the Hispanic community. And I know that me personally, I chose him as the best candidate because he's been a fighter for the immigration issue.
ROBBINS: Of course, that issue cuts two ways. For years, McCain worked with Democrats to find a compromise that would allow illegal immigrants to legally remain in the country. He was opposed by members of his own party and dropped that position in favor of enforcement first. Arizona Republican leaders who are anti-immigration still chastise McCain for his earlier position.
None of which matter to Central High School student Eduardo Gutierrez(ph), he'll be 18 and eligible to vote in a month.
Mr. EDUARDO GUTIERREZ (Student, Central High School): Let's say not a lot of people listen to the politics, but then (unintelligible) Daddy Yankee, so then that's like a big influence on them to vote, too.
ROBBINS: In his brief remarks, Daddy Yankee noted that he is a man not of word but of action. John McCain no doubt hopes Daddy Yankee's words will move young Hispanic voters to action, too.
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My aunt recently died. When I asked about the funeral details, I was told that there would be no graveside service because my aunt had donated her body to science. Nobody seemed to know the details, so I turn to you. How do you donate your body to science? Who wants it and what do they do with it? When whoever got your body is done with it, how do they dispose of it?
'Codaflex, via e-mail
Good for your aunt, and for anybody else who agrees to become a body or organ donor. (I confess I signed the organ-donor form on the back of my driver’s license only recently'just never got around to it before.) Body donation is vital to medical training and research, and it’s not like you’ll have any further use for the old hatrack once you ship out. That said, donation isn’t a pretty business and abuses do occur, so you may as well know the facts before you decide.
Most donated bodies go to medical schools. The how-to is pretty straightforward. Googling “willed body program” plus your state or poking around the Website of your favorite med school will turn up detailed information and often a donor form. The institution may send you a wallet card to notify authorities of its claim at the time of death. Be sure to discuss the matter with your family and doctor so they’ll know what to do (and won’t freak) when the time comes.
What do med schools do with cadavers? Pretty much what you’d expect'dissection, surgery practice, etc'but a few details might not have occurred to you. Those of weak stomach may want to fast-forward through the following, mainly gleaned from Mary Roach’s Stiff (2003) and Kenneth Iserson’s Death to Dust (1994):
• Bodies may be split up, with the head sent to students learning brain surgery or nose jobs while the legs are packed off to students learning knee surgery.
• At the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, researchers in criminal forensics expose cadavers to various environments and observe how they rot.
• Cadaver research in automobile crash tests contributed to the development and testing of such devices as lap-shoulder belts, air bags, dashboard padding, and safer windshields. Most current crash-testing uses dummies, but some experts question whether the dummies accurately reproduce the damage done to a real human head, for instance.
• Corpses are used to test military equipment such as body armor. Testing footwear designed to protect against land mines has been controversial'apparently some people are offended that a body donated to science would be blown up rather than patiently sliced into tiny pieces.
• Medical-instrument firms find corpses helpful for instructing doctors in the use of new devices or procedures; the training process involves learning from mistakes, which works out better when the subject is already dead. Artificial joints are often tested on cadavers; meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies pick up the odd gland for hormone extraction and the like.
• Then there’s the occasional special project. Surely few will forget Gunther von Hagens’s Body Worlds, in which the human cadaver is repurposed as bizarro educational display. Straight Dope readers may also remember Pierre Barbet, the French surgeon who researched crucifixion techniques by nailing up amputated arms in various ways (through the wrist, through the palm, etc) to see whether the nails could support a person’s weight.
Most schools don’t allow you to donate your body for a specific purpose'you give them the body and they decide how to use it. The school can refuse to take a body, depending on condition, e.g., extensive burns or obesity; cause of death, such as infectious disease; or other factors such as autopsy or amputation spoiling the body for dissection purposes. After use (usually two to three years following donation), the remains are typically cremated. You can usually request that the ashes be returned to your family; otherwise, they may be buried in a university plot (sometimes in a common grave), generally at an annual commemoration ceremony.
The prototype legislation governing body and organ donation in the U.S. is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, but details vary from state to state. While payment for body parts intended for transplantation or therapy is illegal, “processing fees” are permitted, and body-part trafficking for research and education is largely unregulated. This has led to some abuse: the head of the willed-body program at the University of California, Irvine was fired in 1999 for allegedly selling spines on the black market, and the director of UCLA’s program was arrested on similar charges in 2004. In a recent exposť, USA Today claimed there was a “lucrative, underground business driven by growing demand for human bones and tissue?'you’ll recall that an unscrupulous embalmer pilfered the bones of Alistair Cooke. I suspect more stringent regulation, no doubt accompanied by bar codes and parts tracking, isn’t far down the road.
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The Key West ordinance that officials say bans parking of boats on city rights of way also includes restrictions on trailers and various types of commercial vehicles.
But the city commissioner who most vigorously opposed the boat ban says a lack of enforcement on trailers indicates unequal application of the law, and the city attorney said he is researching how the law can be better worded to take care of the glitch.
"There is an obvious problem," City Attorney Shawn Smith said at Tuesday night's commission meeting. "In light of the parking ordinance, the question is, do you want to give those individuals the opportunity to come into compliance within a reasonable amount of time?"
"No, not exactly," replied Commissioner Tony Yaniz.
The solution -- in his opinion -- is to eliminate enforcement of the boat-parking ban until the city attorney's work is done and the ordinance rewritten.
Yaniz was unable to muster support from fellow commissioners.
"I don't think it's necessary to do a moratorium," said Commissioner Clayton Lopez. "We need to just give the city attorney time to construct an ordinance that can do exactly what we are saying needs to be done."
To understand the position of both Yaniz and commissioners who have locked horns with him over the parking ordinances, a review of the history is needed.
The boat-parking ban is not new. It is part of a 1997 set of ordinances that includes a ban on the parking of "commercial vehicles ... including trailers and the like." It says they shall not be parked "at any time in any residential district unless actually engaged in temporary work or service on the premise ... . There shall be no more than one commercial vehicle of any type parked overnight at any one residence in any residential district.
Advertising signs with letters more than six inches in height on commercial vehicles parked within residential districts shall not be visible to the public from the property."
A review of city ordinances shows little relating specifically to boats, but does turn up references to trailer parking.
The rules are found in two different sections of the code, increasing some of the confusion.
"It's convoluted, it's being enforced selectively and it is arbitrary," Yaniz said. "You either enforce all of it or you enforce none of it."
Police and zoning officers have been "red-tagging" boats, requiring they be removed from the streets within three days or potentially be towed.
Complicating matters, however, is that some construction trailers are exempted for certain periods of time. In addition, many people have business names or advertising on their company trucks, and park them overnight near their homes.
These could also be in violation of the law. People whose boats have been tagged called Yaniz and have complained that while they must comply with the law, their neighbors with construction trailers or work trucks do not, or at least that's how it appears to them.
A trailer belonging to Commissioner Teri Johnston's company, Affiliated Design and Construction, has been parked for an extended period of time at a job site on First Street near Fogarty Avenue.
Johnston did not return a message seeking clarification on the status of the trailer.
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," Yaniz has said in reference to his colleague's trailers.
The issue is more complicated because Johnston was a particularly vocal supporter of the practice of tagging boats.
"Given my interpretation of the current ordinance, Johnston is in violation of the ordinance she is trying to push," Yaniz said Wednesday. "This is not a personal vendetta; I am trying to prove a point."
Yaniz said he supports the idea of allowing Johnston or anyone else park their trailers in front of their homes or businesses.
"It is their livelihood," he said, faulting the way the ordinance was written as broad and subject to misinterpretation.
The city's legal staff is in the process of trying to unravel the questions that keep coming up about the parking ordinances.
What is clear for now is that boats and campers can be parked in private driveways or yards, following the stripping of a law that had required all such items to be covered or screened from public view.
Smith maintains the problems can be clarified with a little bit of legal work.
"I hope to clean everything up from the 1997 ordinance," Smith said.
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You are happy that your child is going to school and studying well. But one day the child comes back with few marks on his body. Not just that he is even bleeding. You ask him, how it happened and the child gives a reply that somebody has beaten him in the school. This painful and dreadful act is called school violence and it is creating a lot of trouble among people.
If you are thinking that school violence is a new problem then you are totally wrong! It has its roots in the ancient time as well. The bath school disaster is a popular incident that happened on 18 May 1927. After that, other incidents like
These incidents received a great amount of media coverage and they were on the newspaper headlines for a large number of days as well. Though media covered all aspects of these incidents but it is important that they should focus on other aspects as well. They should tell ways by which these things can be controlled and reduced. It is the responsibility of the media to see and present things clearly in front of the world. In addition they should also try to tell the solutions of these problems. Media should help parents and schools in combating school violence.
If schools are unable to solve the problem of violence on their own then they can take external help as well. This external help can be taken from the counselors or psychiatrists. These people are having the specialization on child’s psychology and they understand the behavior of the child very well. Schools can adopt the techniques of student profiling that can tell you about the student’s violent acts in advance. Thus with the help of this technique, schools can prevent the occurrence of school violence.
Considering the fact that children are innocent and they really don’t know that what is right or wrong it becomes the duty of the schools and parents to teach them about all these aspects. If schools are unable to do so, then they are not serving the purpose of their existence. Schools are accountable for providing all three kinds of learning to the students- academic, social and emotional. It is important to note that children will learn what they will see. If they get a good environment then they are sure to groom their personality in the right manner. However as against this, if they will see a bad environment then they will learn the same which is indeed a very bad thing. Prevention or reduction of violence is the dire need of today’s society. Violence cannot be controlled by killing or going for methods like mass extermination. It can only be controlled by giving proper education that includes civic sense and by giving proper guidance, love, care, affection and support to the violent students. So it is the duty of the media, schools and parents to reduce violent acts in schools and by this way school violence can be prevented in all schools in all areas. | <urn:uuid:c88fa0af-65ea-4215-8f0f-7ae050ee4dbe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nssc1.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98372 | 564 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Shoulder Pressing Pose - Bhujapidasana
About Shoulder Pressing Pose
This asana may look complicated, but it is actually a very fun pose to practice! It is also referred to as the arm balance pose. Successfully executing the pose depends on finding that critical balancing point with your buttocks and your feet. Be sure to practice some stretches and warm up poses before attempting the shoulder pressing pose.
Step by Step Instructions
Now that your yoga mat is in place and you are mentally and physically ready, let’s get started.
- Squat on your mat with your knees wide open and feet positioned at a shoulder length distance.
- Now lean forward, tilting your upper body forward between your inner thighs. Lift your hips up, so that your thighs rest almost parallel to the mat.
- Thread your left arm under the left thigh and place your hand on the floor with your fingers pointing towards the front. Repeat this sequence with the right arm.
- Press firmly against the yoga mat and begin to shift your body weight onto your hands. Then slowly straighten your arms and allow your feet to lift off the mat.
- Press your outer arms against your inner thighs as you cross your right ankle over your left.
- Maintain this pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute, as you gaze straight ahead and focus on deep breathing.
- Lower your body onto the floor to exit the pose. Repeat the entire sequence except this time cross your left ankle over the right in step 5.
Health Benefits of Shoulder Pressing Pose
The shoulder pressing pose holds numerous benefits for your body!
- Tones and strengthens the abdominal muscles.
- Enhances the body’s sense of core balance and stability.
- Strengthens the arms, shoulders and wrists.
- A great pose for stamina and endurance.
Things to Remember!
Individuals with shoulder, lower back, elbow and wrist injuries should consult their health practitioners before attempting the shoulder pressing pose. Beginners can place yoga blocks under their buttocks for additional support. | <urn:uuid:c9e01f9b-30a1-4377-be73-b4c681f23632> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fitnessrepublic.com/yoga/poses/shoulder-pressing-pose-bhujapidasana.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904513 | 423 | 1.929688 | 2 |
As the whole world knows by now P-i-R's very own spoof poem (see item: Arthur Roberts - Spoofer!) is being currently considered for a mega-bucks cash prize and a whole heap of honours. The date when the fate of the poem - 'Searching for Euterpe' by Bill Jackson will be announced is less than a month away. Only trouble is that Jackson alias Williams alias Poet-in-Residence hasn't ordered a boxed set of coffee table anthologies or even one hardback book containing the poem, hasn't even ordered a gold pin, or a silver star, or a bronze wall plaque, or a crystal vase, or a cd set featuring the poem and others set to baroque music, and hasn't even booked any seats for himself and his much beloved at the annual poetry jamboree bash to be held sometime in some faraway celebrity studded location even with the temptation of cheap last-minute airline tickets and an advantageous €uro/$ollar exchange rate. It is therefore more than likely that 'Searching for Euterpe' won't make it to the mega-bucks cash prize stage, and so here it is free, gratis, at no cost for all to read, share and enjoy. And not even an expensive bound leather coffee-table book with feelgood paper for you to buy:-
'Searching for Euterpe'
In 1810* in the University of Vienna
they opened Joseph Haydn's large head
and found in there a lot of music
104 symphonies for a start
and then delving deeper they discovered
the sonatas and the masses and the concertos
and even beyond them in dark corners
they discovered innumerable lesser pieces
or pieces they believed to be of less worth
shall we say - it was all quite a performance
all those professors and their instruments
measuring the skull's bumps and working out
the cranial index but in the end the whole thing
was futile and Haydn's great head was returned
not to his body in the mausoleum
but to the jar of formaldehyde with its label
along with lesser heads lined-up like notes
on shelves along the cellar walls
where it remained in peace and pungent gas
obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol.
*The date is uncertain. Haydn's head was stolen by grave-robbers
who took it to the science department at Vienna University.
It's theft was only discovered some years later when it was decided
to move Haydn's body from its grave and take it to the mausoleum in
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As Washington, D.C. prepares for Inauguration Day, museums, galleries, and historical attractions are putting presidential history — from the first campaign speeches to everyday life after the White House — front and center.
Lincoln fans, or should I say, Lincoln fans, will be especially charmed. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and guess what? Visitors can check out the final signed version, and even the very first draft Honest Abe penned at his summer home.
Headed to Washington, D.C. for this historic event? Make your visit count with these ten must-do activities around town:
1. Address the nation from the White House press podium. So presidential, but so very unlikely, right? Well, yeah, so get to Madame Tussauds to make your remarks from a look-alike podium instead. Meet and greet all 43 U.S. Presidents (made of wax, of course), conduct official business from the replica Oval Office, dress up like Abe Lincoln, and test your knowledge of presidential history at touch-screen quiz kiosks.
2. Review Lincoln’s first take on the Emancipation Proclamation. Through February 18, the Library of Congress will have on display the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, handwritten by President Lincoln himself (the final version can be seen at the National Archives). Take a free, one-hour walking tour and ask about family-focused itineraries, which are offered during peak times.
3. Get to know America’s “First Dogs.” The popular Newseum has the scoop on presidential pooches, including Bo, President Obama’s Portuguese Water Dog. Get to know the nation’s leaders through the eyes of their beloved best friends, then check out artifacts from the campaign trail at the “Every Four Years: Presidential Campaigns and the Press” exhibit (now through January 27).
4. Stand where Lincoln was assassinated. No trip to D.C. is complete without a visit to Ford’s Theatre, particularly now that the fateful event has been dramatized anew in Lincoln. If you rent an Acoustiguide (they have versions for both kids and adults) for your self-guided tour, you’ll get the added benefit of character voices and sound effects.
5. Read the Charters of Freedom. The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — collectively known as the Charters of Freedom – are on display year-round at the National Archives. Kids can even go online, choose a pen, and add their names to the Declaration of Independence alongside those of the Founding Fathers.
6. Visit Lincoln’s summer home. Head north from the White House to President Lincoln’s Cottage to see where Lincoln was living when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Take a basic guided tour, or sign up for specialty tours, like the Emancipation Tour and the Running for Re-election Tour, for an even deeper look at the man who ended slavery in the United States.
7. Learn which indian chiefs attended Roosevelt’s inauguration. The National Museum of the American Indian will feature a photo exhibition (now through February 25) focusing on President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural parade, including the six indian chiefs who rode in the parade to represent the needs of their people.
8. Visit the only presidential library in D.C. Head to the Woodrow Wilson House in the heart of Embassy Row for a video presentation followed by a walk through our 28th president’s office, kitchen, and chef’s pantry. Few rooms are roped off, so feel free to play the piano or even billiards on your way to see the paintings, tapestries, and statues given as gifts by dignitaries worldwide.
9. Take the Oath of Office. Presidential hopefuls can visit George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon, just a half-hour drive outside the city to place their hand on a replica of the bible America’s first president used to take his oath of office (once you lift your hand, the crowd cheers). Kids, enjoy the George Washington Presidential Scavenger Hunt as you poke around the estate looking for clues.
10. Get a good look at every U.S. president. Only at the National Portrait Gallery (and the White House) can you see a portrait of very single U.S. president. Be prepared to do more than walk from painting to painting, too. There are loads of engaging family programs, including Portrait Story Days, designed to educate visitors about the presidents in a fun, kid-friendly way.
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Angela Newell is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas studying the innovation and security potentials of big data, how to leverage the mobile platform in federated organizations, and cross border cyber security. Her larger research body focuses on the innovation outcomes of government provided big data, the organizational impacts of interactive and mobile technologies, and cyber security. Dr. Newell is a co-author of a successful National Science Foundation Science of Science and Innovation Policy grant and is an author in the book "The Internet in Everyday Life," edited by William Aspray and Barbara Hayes and published by the MIT press. For her doctoral research, she worked with Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer, and Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Information Officer, of the United States to conduct an analysis of the Open Government directive and the technologies and innovations associated with the directive. Her work has been used by and published through the White House. Prior to attending the University of Texas, Dr. Newell was a scientific researcher contracted to the Department of Energy. She received her Master of Science in Public Policy and Information Systems Management from Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a Cooper Scholar and a recipient of the Lauble Fellowship.
Angela can be contacted at <email@example.com>
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Hours after the 9/11 attacks, three firefighters had spontaneously used a U.S. flag taken off a yacht and raised it in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. A newspaper photographer Thomas Franklin captured the scene, creating one of the most memorable flag raising scenes since Iwo Jima. Franklin was working for The Bergen Record newspaper of Passaic, New Jersey. When the first hit hit the Twin Towers, his editor sent him to cover the event, but it was only in that evening that he captured this iconic image.
It was 5:01 p.m., eight hours after the attack. Three firemen (left to right, George Johnson of Ladder 157, Dan McWilliams of Ladder 157, and Billy Eisengrein of Rescue 2) — unaware they were being caught on film — were raising an American flag amid the ruins. Franklin, who had just 30 digital frames left in his camera, captured the moment which instantly came to symbolize American resilience in the face of the murders of 2,819 innocent people.
The photograph has appeared on the covers of many publications, including Newsweek, USA Today, Parade Sunday Magazine, and People magazine. It was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of countless awards, and used for a special U.S. Postal Service stamp released in March 2002 to raise funds for families of emergency workers killed or permanently disabled as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Franklin has been a guest on radio and television shows many times, including the Today show (three times), Good Morning America, CNN, Fox Cable Network, and Oprah.
A year after the attacks, Franklin reunited with three firefighters for a new shot of the men for his newspaper and Newsweek magazine, this time using the Statue of Liberty as the background. The flag, the day’s most famous artifact, has been missing for five years, so they had to do without.
Above, at the stamp unveiling on 11 March 2002. From left to right, Postmaster General Jack Potter, Eisengrein, Johnson, President Bush, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), McWilliams, and Franklin. | <urn:uuid:659ce03c-a998-4fc8-bde3-ef34a67e7e83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/911-firemen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974391 | 440 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Mobile employees have been worrying IT managers for years. It all started with pagers, PDAs, and the first cellular phones. Now iPads, smartphones, and a slew of other Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices are on track to outnumber desktop computers. The local area network (LAN) that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, computer lab, or office building is fading fast. Most enterprise networks are moving to wireless as the primary way to connect. In the same way that video killed the radio star; Wi-Fi enabled devices and the BYOD trend are killing the LAN. Mobile devices that were restricted by IT managers are now considered indispensible for everyday operations.
Do you think the BYOD trend is not real, or a fad? According to ZDNET, about 75% of enterprises now have a “bring your own device” policy in place. That’s nearly three-quarters of companies surveyed—so yeah BYOD is for real.
A quarter of organizations give employees a whitelist of allowed devices, while almost half let employees bring in and use any device.
Bring Your Own Device? It’s real. Nearly three-quarters of companies allow employee-owned smartphones and/or tablets to be used at work, according to Aberdeen data (mix of late 2010 and 2011 surveys). A quarter give employees a whitelist of allowed devices, while almost half let employees bring in and use any device.
Here are four trends that motivate companies to try BYOD:
Employee gratification: device lust is no longer just for tech geeks. Employees love BYOD at work. Allowing BYOD can be a real motivational tool. Employees, particularly younger, on-the-move employees, see the brand of a laptop or smartphone as a lifestyle choice and an important part of who they are. Of course Apple is at the epicenter of this movement.
Tech developments: the days of compatibility problems and sharing issues from Mac to Windows are ancient history. A few anti-trust lawsuits got everyone’s attention and a solution was found. The compatibility problems were one thing. In the past the size, weight, and cost of computers made mobile computing an oxymoron. In 1983 BYOD would not have been possible. This 29 pound BASF 7000 computer would have been nearly impossible to bring to work. Today’s shinny mobile devices are easy to transport and don’t weight a ton.
Telecommuting and mobile workers: some of the same technical developments listed above enable more and more workers to work from home, remotely, or on-the-go. Other technical developments like secure file transfer and secure collaboration allow external employees to be productive and secure.
Cost: back in the good old days a computer like the BASF 7000 would have hurt your back and strained your IT budget. At $2800 ($6000 at today’s dollar) this beast of burden cost an arm and a leg. Just think about that next time your fingers are deftly gliding across your light weight tablet or smartphone. With the cost of laptops and tablets around $500 the cost factor, like the BASF 7000, is a thing of the past.
At Accellion we see the BYOD trend as a shift in the increasing demand for mobile access to file sharing. If you haven’t already tried out the Accellion mobile apps here is the link.
Aberdeen 2011 Wireless Expense Management: Control International Roaming and the BYOD Revolution. The multimedia content can be viewed at: http://www.aberdeen.com/aberdeen-library/7240/RA-wireless-expense-management.aspx
Lai, E. (2011). 75% of enterprises have ‘bring your own device’ policies. what that means. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/75-of-enterprises-have-bring-your-own-device-policies-what-that-means-charts/1025
The Buggles. (1979). Video killed the radio star [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ
- Beyond the Glitz and Glamour: Mobile Collaboration
- Accellion and MobileIron Announce Partnership
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School of Medicine Wraps Up Third Annual Mini-Med School for Kids
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Dr. Yvette Rooks found plenty of right answers to her questions about nutrition and exercise.
More than 30 children between the ages of 5 and 16 had a taste of medical school throughout July and August when the University of Maryland School of Medicine held its third annual Mini-Med School for Kids at the Salvation Army's Franklin Square Boys & Girls Club summer camp in West Baltimore.
"Mini-Med School for Kids targets children from our underserved community in hopes of delivering key messages about important, and very relevant, health and lifestyle issues," explains Heather Graham Phelps, Manager of Public Relations in the School of Medicine's Office of Public Affairs. "It’s our intent to reach these kids while they are still young and healthy in order to instill valuable information about taking care of their bodies and making smarter health and lifestyle choices."
Things kicked off July 8 with a lesson from Dr. Yvette Rooks, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, about the importance of eating well and exercising. The campers, many of whom have participated in previous sessions of Mini-Med School for Kids, impressed Dr. Rooks with their ready answers to her questions about nutrition.
Mini-Med School for Kids continued each Wednesday over the next five weeks. Dr. Mary Beth Bollinger, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, spoke with campers about allergies and asthma. Dr. Gina Perez, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, tackled stress relief and anger management, with some help from Truman the Dragon, mascot of The Baltimore Times’ Kidsville newspaper. Dr. David Pumplin, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, got the kids moving with a presentation on the human body and how it works. And Dr. Corrine Erickson educated them about skin care, particularly protecting themselves from the sun during these hot summer days.
The final session brought the campers to campus, where they had a hands-on session in the Department of Medical & Research Technology. McGruff the Crime Dog also paid the children a visit, during a presentation from the UMB Police about safety. Things ended with lunch, where the children were presented with graduation certificates for successfully participating in this year’s program.
"We've formed a partnership with the School of Medicine that is really amazing," said Deborah Tyson, director of the camp. "The children go home and tell their parents about eating healthy, exercising, not using drugs or selling drugs, not smoking or drinking, and I hear back from the parents that they are so impressed by everything their children have learned. It's been so wonderful, and we hope to have the chance to do it again next year, because it is an excellent program." | <urn:uuid:4ca17d0f-8a37-4ebb-853e-9eb14b337675> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://somvweb.som.umaryland.edu/absolutenm/templates/?a=832&z=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963824 | 563 | 1.929688 | 2 |
In a recent delivery in my family, the lady has to undergo an operation. The doctor initially said that the birth will be through normal delivery, but at a very last stage she said:
We tried our best to avoid operation, but we are helpless as the baby's head size is much more than the passage for bringing him out. The baby's head is stuck in between the two bones, above the opening. The opening is wide enough now (approx 10 cm), which is wide enough to bring the baby's head out side, but the issue is before that opening the passage is very narrow as the two bones are very close and it is impossible to widen the gap between these two bones- shall we apply force there?. If we force the baby to come out through this passage, we fear that we might damage the baby's brain. also we cannot wait any more because the baby is now not in the fluid, we broke that while trying for normal delivery. so we are going for operation now.
The doctors also gave the lady some injections for giving her pains-induced delivery.
The lady said she felt immense pain because of this.
Also the lady had gone for ultrasound several times, and the doctor herself said everything was normal.
Why are cases of normal delivery reducing day by day. Till about 10 to 15 yrs back we used to hardly hear about birth by operations. But now this is very common.
Is it true that the doctors might go for operation because it is easier for them (i.e for doctors), and they can make more money?
Up to what extent the doctors argument about the proportionally narrow passage can be true? Is there no way to bypass/avoid/widen this passage? Why such cases were not prevalent 10-15 years back?
The induced delivery pain is more than the normal pain?
Post birth the mother and the baby both are fine. But what are the risk involved post operation, and what best can be done to avoid such births in future (e.g some exercises?).
I can see something fishy in Doctors arguments (though, I am not a biology student).
Update One of the argument I am getting from the first 4 answers is: "now a days bigger babies are born as compared to earlier, while the women hips are not widening at that proportion" and thus c-section is the only way for delivery in most cases. Can someone please put some authentic references in support of this argument? In fact I have read the opposite that 100s of years back people used be taller as compared to now, and they lived longer. | <urn:uuid:122d4862-e235-4a48-8923-fcd0160ab0d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/6326/why-was-this-c-section-necessary/6333 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971978 | 532 | 2.125 | 2 |
the field, the only really good place to see dinosaur footprints is
Hanover Point, on the southwest
coast. The best time to see the footprints is after a storm, as the
ones that have been buried will be uncovered, and more will be washed
out, although if there has been a collapse of the cliff then they
may be obscured.
As I've said
before, the National Trust protects these footprints, so please
leave them where you find them. Teachers often use these footprints
for field demonstrations, and everybody uses Hanover
Point, from Prehistoric Island
to the University
understand all the terminology? visit the Glossary)
three main types of footprints known on the Isle of Wight, the Large
from the Wessex Formation and
the base of the Vectis, slightly
smaller "Theropod" footprints from thin limestone beds
in the Vectis Formation, and four-toed
from the Wessex Formation. There
are also some reported "Iguanodon"
manus prints and sauropod tracks. Of all of these, the "Iguanodon"
tracks are the easiest to find, due to their unusual shape.
of the Wessex Formation are generally
trifid (three pronged) boulders, about 50 cm long with an
average angle of 42° between digits II and IV, preserved in
sandstone overlying a mudstone substrate. There are also imprints,
in a reddish-orange mudstone bed on the foreshore at Hanover
Point. These were buried under the overlying mudstone beds,
which have since been eroded away. There were also several trackways
at Chilton Chine, but dinotrackers
beware, they've eroded away since the 1970's, and there is nothing
In the Vectis
Formation, there are many sandstone-preserved footcasts, of
both "ornithopod/theropod" and "sauropod" dinosaurs,
in the White Rock Sandstone, but there are also footprints preserved
in shelly limestone beds, the footprints being infilled with unionid
bivalves (Radley et al., 1998). The preservation of the unionids
would suggest that the tracks were made in the substrate, then the
bivalves settled on the surface (Radley et al., 1998). Many
of these footcasts, attributed to theropods, have what appears to
be a claw impression at the tips of the digits (Radley et al.,
1998); whether these are actual claw marks or artefacts of the substrate
after the foot was removed is unknown.
of the problems with dinosaur footprints is that there is
no way of knowing exactly what dinosaur made which footprint.
So when a footprint is described as being Iguanodon
or Tetrapodosaurus, that name is not the name of a
dinosaur (The ichnotaxa Iguanodon is based on association
of fauna and footprints, and is generally considered to be
made by Iguanodon, although
some scientists want the name changed, and there is no dinosaur
called Tetrapodosaurus), but the name of the footprint
shape. For example, there is an ichnotaxon called Tyrannosauripus,
which to the uninitiated would seem to suggest that it was
made by Tyrannosaurus. However, it isn't certain that
it did. It is possible that Tyrannosaurus may have
made Tyrannosauripus tracks, but not all Tyrannosauripus
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This June, Californians will be asked whether cigarette smokers should subsidize research to treat diseases related to smoking cigarettes.
California’s Proposition 29, if passed, would levy an additional tax of $1 on every pack of smokes sold in the state beginning in October 2012. The tax would generate an estimated $615 million in 2012/2013, and $735 million in 2013/2014. Funds would be expected to decrease annually, in relation to declining cigarette consumption, but would remain substantial. Is this a good idea?
How is the money spent?
Revenues would be deposited into the California Cancer Research Life Sciences Innovation Trust Fund, and dedicated to “the support of research on cancer and tobacco-related diseases,” according to California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). Money would be further divvied as follows:
- 60% would be used for research grants and loans around prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and potential cures for cancer and other tobacco-related diseases.
- 15% would be used for grants and loans for equipment and facilities
- 20% would be used for tobacco prevention and cessation programs
- 3% would be given to state agencies for law enforcement efforts to reduce illegal tobacco sales, cigarette smuggling and tobacco tax evasion
- 2% would be used to administer the plan, most of which would go to the Board of Equalization for tax collection costs
The proposition would also create a nine-member governing board – the Cancer Research Citizen’s Oversight Committee – empowered to distribute the funds.
UPDATE 5/14/12: The Altria Group (Philip Morris, US Smokeless Tobacco, and John Middleton) has more than doubled its opposition funding since this article was first published in March, to nearly $27 million, according to MapLight.org. For its part, the Reynolds American Corp. (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, American Snuff Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company) has upped its contribution to over $12 million in an effort to sway voters against the law. Proponents of Prop 29 have contributed roughly $5.5 million to date, of which the American Cancer Society and the Lance Armstrong Foundation together have contributed almost $4 million. With a total spend to date of $39.9 million, the opposition parties are outspending proponents of Prop 29 by nearly eight to one.
For and Against
It’s not a huge surprise that Big Tobacco is against this tax. As of February 29, the Altria Group (Philip Morris, US Smokeless Tobacco, and John Middleton) had contributed $10.8 million to oppose Proposition 29, and Reynolds American had added another $4 million. The California Taxpayers Assocation (CalTax) also opposes Proposition 29, arguing that additional cigarette taxes will cause an increase in tax evasion, an increase in “national security and public safety threats” related primarily to smuggling cigarettes. Cigarette smuggling is a key source of funding for active terrorist groups operating in the U.S., CalTax claims, citing the State Department. CalTax also argues that cigarettes disproportionately impact low-income families, who shouldn’t be made to shoulder an additional tax burden.
So far, the opposition is outspending proponents of the measure by roughly $10 million. Top proponents as of February 29, in terms of contributions, are the Lance Armstrong Foundation, at 1.5 million; The American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and the American Heart Association, at a combined $1.3 million, and the Voters Organized For Community Empowerment (VOICE), at $152,188.
Yesterday, Steven Burrill, CEO at Burrill & Company, and Duane Roth, CEO at Connect, sent a letter to colleagues asking for industry to support Proposition 29, which would make “all California-based research institutes as well as California-based companies eligible to apply for funding, which could provide much needed research funding as well as support for early product development.” With respect to intellectual property, Propostion 29 “follows the National Institute of Health process…there are no required direct paybacks to the state,” according to the letter. “We can think of no greater return on investment to California and our leading edge research institutes and industry than investing in winning this ballot initiative,” the letter says. Given the prevalence of life science companies in California, should industry trade associations pony up to equalize the campaign spending mismatch? As Burrill and Roth argue, a “one-time $10 million investment can return more than $500 million a year indefinitely to fund life saving research.” | <urn:uuid:c01ef829-9dfd-4680-8253-114f78d5ac4e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.pharmexec.com/2012/03/30/should-smokers-cough-up-money-for-cancer-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947916 | 957 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Once upon a time (almost half a century ago, to be exact), there were two Soviet pianists who were, because of the reputations that preceded them, the subjects of intense curiosity in the United States. One was Sviatoslav Richter. The other was Emil Gilels. Eventually, both of them arrived in America. Until that time, pianophiles and record collectors had to content themselves with muffled Soviet recordings, and with tapes from live concerts. The latter, in particular, were passed from fan to fan with a mixture of secrecy and awe, as if the tapes were suppressed relics, icons from Russian Orthodox churches.
This CD preserves a recital that Gilels gave in Florence, Italy on November 6, 1951. At that time, the pianist was in his mid-30s, and still four years away from his first appearance in the United States.
It is easy to hear what all the excitement was about. Gilels was a pianist who inspired awe in his audiences. One is reminded of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, where Isabella exclaims, "O, it is excellent/To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/To use it like a giant." Gilels had the technique of a giant, but the moderation of a philosopher. His power came from what he restrained as much as from what he expressed.
His Mozart sonata is full of manly pathos. Animated but not nervous, and rapt in the long middle movement, Gilels's straight-ahead interpretation represents modern-style Mozart playing at its best. The Beethoven "Appassionata" is similarly free of hysterics, and Gilels lets the phrases breathe without deforming them. A few missed notes, unacceptable on a studio recording, are understandable here, given the difficulty of the writing. (I've heard this sonata sound like a train-wreck live.) Best of all is the Prokofieff, which is witty and coolly lyrical. Gilels's performance of this sonata is more clear-headed and seductive than any I've previously heard. The recital ends with what I presume were encores. The Rachmaninoff is played with impressionistic half-tints, and the Balakirev brings the house down with its power, accuracy, and, above all, musicality.
The sound-quality, while not up to modern standards, never hides what a memorable occasion this recital was.
This disc is easy to recommend to admirers of Gilels, and to pianophiles in general.
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Florham Park, NJ (PRWEB) February 27, 2013
The United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Osphena™ (ospemifene) tablets, Shionogi Inc.’s treatment for moderate to severe dyspareunia (painful intercourse), a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy (VVA), due to menopause. VVA is a chronic and progressive condition caused by decreased estrogen due to menopause in women.
Dyspareunia is one of the most common symptoms of VVA. Although approximately 32 million postmenopausal U.S. women experience the signs and symptoms of VVA, up to 70 percent of women who live with symptoms remain undiagnosed because many are not proactively addressing the condition with their healthcare professionals (HCPs).
Many women do not associate VVA with menopause and, because it is not a topic that is frequently discussed, they are unaware of how common this condition is among postmenopausal women. As a result, the symptoms of VVA, such as dyspareunia, are often unanticipated and may go untreated. However, while many symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes or flushes, lessen or disappear with time, VVA usually persists and may even worsen without treatment.
“Women tend to accept dyspareunia as part of getting older, but they do not have to live in silence with the condition,” said David J. Portman, M.D., OB/GYN, Director of the Columbus Center for Women’s Health Research. “As a convenient once-daily oral medication, Osphena is an important treatment alternative for millions of women living with painful intercourse due to menopause.”
Prescription therapy is often required for symptomatic women. Osphena, as an estrogen agonist/antagonist with tissue selective effects, is the first and only oral treatment alternative to vaginal or oral estrogens for women with dyspareunia due to menopause. Osphena demonstrated significant improvements in painful intercourse as well as on the physical changes of the vagina associated with menopause.
Osphena is an estrogen agonist/antagonist with tissue selective effects. Serious risks of estrogen-alone therapy or Osphena can include increased risk of endometrial cancer, stroke, and deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Osphena should be prescribed for the shortest duration consistent with treatment goals for the individual woman. Women considering treatment for dyspareunia are encouraged to discuss the potential risks and benefits of Osphena with their healthcare provider. Please see below for additional Important Safety Information.
For more information about dyspareunia, VVA and Osphena, please visit http://www.WhatIsDyspareunia.com.
Important safety information for osphena™ (ospemifene) tablets:
Boxed warning: endometrial cancer and cardiovascular disorders
Osphena is an estrogen agonist/antagonist with tissue selective effects. In the endometrium osphena has estrogen agonistic effects. There is an increased risk of endometrial cancer in a woman with a uterus who uses unopposed estrogen therapy. Adding a progestin to estrogen therapy has been shown to reduce the risk of endometrial hyperplasia, which may be a precursor to endometrial cancer. Adequate diagnostic measures, including directed or random endometrial sampling when indicated, should be undertaken to rule out malignancy in postmenopausal women with undiagnosed persistent or recurring abnormal genital bleeding.
The women’s health initiative (WHI) estrogen-alone substudy reported an increased risk of stroke and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 7.1 years of treatment with daily oral conjugated estrogens (CE) [0.625 mg], relative to placebo. Osphena 60 mg had cerebral thromboembolic and hemorrhagic stroke incidence rates of 0.72 and 1.45 per thousand women vs. 1.04 and 0 per thousand women for placebo and a DVT incidence rate of 1.45 vs. 1.04 per thousand women for placebo. Osphena should be prescribed for the shortest duration consistent with treatment goals and risks for the individual woman.
Warnings and Precautions
Cardiovascular Disorders: In the WHI estrogen-alone substudy, a statistically significant increased risk of stroke was reported in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) receiving CE 0.625 mg per day relative to placebo (45 vs. 33 per 10,000 women-years). The increase in risk was demonstrated in year 1 and persisted. In Osphena clinical trials of up to 15 months the incidence rates compared to placebo for cerebral thromboembolic and hemorrhagic stroke were 0.72 Osphena 60 mg vs. 1.04 placebo and 1.45 Osphena 60 mg vs. 0 placebo per thousand women. Should thromboembolic or hemorrhagic stroke occur or be suspected, Osphena should be discontinued immediately.
Coronary Heart Disease: In the WHI estrogen-alone substudy, no overall effect on coronary heart disease (CHD) events (defined as nonfatal MI, silent MI, or CHD death) was reported in women receiving estrogen-alone compared to placebo. In clinical trials, a single MI occurred in a woman receiving Osphena 60 mg.
Venous Thromboembolism: In the WHI estrogen-alone substudy, the risk of VTE (DVT and PE) was increased for women receiving CE 0.625 mg alone compared to placebo (30 vs. 22 per 10,000 women-years), although only increased risk of DVT reached statistical significance (23 vs. 15 per 10,000 women- years). The increase in VTE risk was demonstrated during the first 2 years. Incidence rate of DVT was 1.45 Osphena vs. 1.04 placebo per thousand women. Should a VTE occur or be suspected, Osphena should be discontinued immediately. Osphena should be discontinued at least 4 to 6 weeks before surgery with increased risk of thromboembolism or during periods of prolonged immobilization.
Endometrial Cancer: There is an increased risk of endometrial cancer in a woman with a uterus who uses unopposed estrogen therapy. The risk appears dependent on duration of treatment and estrogen dose. Adding a progestin to estrogen therapy has been shown to reduce the risk of endometrial hyperplasia, which may be a precursor to endometrial cancer. However, studies suggest a possible increased risk for breast cancer in patients receiving estrogen plus progestin therapy.
Breast Cancer: Osphena has not been adequately studied in women with breast cancer; therefore Osphena should not be used in women with known or suspected breast cancer or with a history of breast cancer.
Severe Hepatic Impairment: Do not use Osphena in women with severe hepatic impairment as it has not been studied.
Adverse Reactions: In clinical studies, the more commonly reported adverse reactions (greater than or equal to 1 percent) in patients treated with Osphena 60 mg compared to placebo were: hot flush (7.5 percent vs. 2.6 percent), vaginal discharge (3.8 percent vs. 0.3 percent), muscle spasms (3.2 percent vs. 0.9 percent), hyperhidrosis (1.6 percent vs. 0.6 percent), and genital discharge (1.3 percent vs. 0.1 percent).
Indications and Usage for Osphena™ (ospemifene) tablets
Osphena™ (ospemifene) is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe dyspareunia, a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy, due to menopause.
Shionogi Inc. is the U.S.-based subsidiary of Shionogi & Co., Ltd., headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Shionogi & Co., Ltd. is a major research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to placing the highest value on patients. Shionogi’s research and development currently targets three therapeutic areas: infectious diseases, pain, and metabolic syndrome. In addition, Shionogi is engaged in new research areas such as allergy and cancer. Contributing to the health of patients around the world through development in these therapeutic areas is Shionogi’s primary goal. For more details, please visit http://www.shionogi.co.jp. For more information on Shionogi Inc., headquartered in Florham Park, NJ, please visit http://www.shionogi.com. | <urn:uuid:3beb0976-ff16-4b13-ba22-7d340223a393> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10456310.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924049 | 1,858 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The New York State Department of Health issued the following tips for New Yorkers in preparation of the effects from Hurricane Sandy, according to a news release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office:
Have plenty of non-perishable food and water supplies on hand. Make sure battery-operated radios and flashlights are available and have an ample supply of batteries. Hand-cranked flashlights and radios that do not need batteries may also be useful. Have a first-aid kit available and make sure there is an adequate supply of medicines on hand for those who require it.
Know how to contact all family members at all times. Identify an out-of-town friend or family member to be the "emergency family contact," then make certain all family members have that number. Designate a family emergency meeting place where the family can meet in case you can't go home.
Pay particular attention to relatives with special needs, small children and pets. Know where to relocate pets during a storm because many shelters are not able to accept pets. Shelters often only accept "service animals" that assist people with disabilities.
Prepare an emergency phone list of people and organizations that may need to be called. Include children's schools, doctors, child/senior care providers and insurance agents.
Follow the news and emergency broadcasts of local radio and television stations that will provide up-to-date official information during a storm emergency, including recommendations to evacuate specific areas.
Find out what emergency plans are in place in your community and how you will be notified in the event of an emergency.
Know the hurricane risks in your area and learn the storm- surge history and elevation of your area.
Store important documents such as insurance policies, medical records, bank account numbers and Social Security cards in waterproof containers. Also have cash (in small bills), a checkbook and credit/ATM cards readily available.
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Typhoid Fever Treatment
Antibiotics used for treating typhoid fever can kill the typhoid fever bacteria. People undergoing treatment should wash their hands often and refrain from serving food. When treatment is started early, the prognosis is often good. However, even with treatment, 20 percent of people have another episode of typhoid fever, although this is usually not as severe as the first infection.
Typhoid fever treatment involves antibiotics that can kill the typhoid fever bacteria (Salmonella typhi). Treatment goals are also focused on providing relief of symptoms as the body and antibiotics fight the typhoid fever.
There are several antibiotics that can be used for typhoid fever treatment. These antibiotics can shorten the course of typhoid fever and reduce the risk of death. The specific antibiotic the doctor recommends will be based on:
- The strain of typhoid fever bacteria and its sensitivity to specific antibiotics
- The age and general health of the patient
- The symptoms of typhoid fever the person is experiencing and their severity.
Many of these antibiotics are given by mouth. In more severe cases, treatment can involve hospitalization and intravenous (IV) antibiotics.
If you are being treated for typhoid fever, it is important to do the following:
- Keep taking the prescribed antibiotics for as long as the doctor has asked you to take them.
- Wash your hands carefully with soap and water after using the bathroom, and do not prepare or serve food for other people. This will lower the chance that you will pass the infection on to someone else.
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An effort to create a state-sanctioned advisory group to increase community input on the cleanup of the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory is under way, but the attempt has revealed deep divisions among local activists.
Proponents for a Community Advisory Group said a forum for residents to discuss issues surrounding the cleanup of the 2,850-acre former rocket engine and nuclear test site is needed. They submitted a petition to form the group in November to the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. The department signs off on CAGs, as they are called, and provides technical assistance to them.
“I felt our voices were not heard and there really wasn’t a venue for people to talk openly about their concerns and have their concerns answered,” said Christina Walsh, co-founder of the Aerospace Cancer Museum of Education, who helped circulate and submit the petition to form the group. “I think it is important to have a place, where what is happening now is being discussed.”
Rick Brausch, Santa Susana project director for the Department of Toxic Substances, said the department is verifying signatures on the petition.
The field lab, which is polluted with chemical and radiological contaminants, is the focus of ongoing cleanup negotiations with the state; the property’s owners, the Boeing Co. and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration; and the U.S. Department of Energy, which contracted for nuclear research at the site. The Department of Toxic Substances has oversight of the cleanup through a state law, which is currently being challenged in federal court by Boeing.
The tenuous state of cleanup negotiations, coupled with the fact that the responsible parties would be required under state code to fund a Community Action Group, has riled long-time activist Dan Hirsch of the nuclear watchdog group Committee to Bridge the Gap.
“I think the problem here is a Boeing-funded and Boeing-influenced group that will be perceived as close to the responsible parties,” said Hirsch. He also serves on the Santa Susana Interagency Work Group, a panel of community members and representatives from NASA, the Energy Department and regulatory agencies that hold public quarterly meetings.
Kamara Sams, a Boeing spokeswoman, said the company is open to funding the group.
“As far as Boeing’s involvement, we have said we are supportive of financially supporting a Community Advisory Group,” Sams said. “That also means we would not be overseeing that group. That group would be run independently of Boeing.”
Hirsch said he was concerned a CAG would draw the responsible parties away from the Work Group. The time needed to draft a charter and select membership would distract cleanup advocates from staying on top of cleanup negotiation developments, he argued.
Hirsch charged the creation of one CAG would lead to the formation of other CAGs because of personality clashes.
Adding a member to the Work Group from the San Fernando Valley side of the hill should be examined, Hirsch suggested. He said the Department of Toxic Substances also provides forums at community technical meetings and they should be expanded to address community issues.
Walsh commended the Work Group but said it didn’t provide a forum for broader discussions.
Brausch said in an interview last week that a CAG would not impact the Work Group. But he noted one challenge could be the department’s ability to get representatives to all of the groups that request information, particularly in light of fractures among those following the issue. He said the department is looking at how to get information out to the larger community.
“It would be easier if we had a single group we engaged with,” Brausch said. “Santa Susana is anything but normal or a run-of-the-mill thing. We are extremely sensitive to the nature of relationships between folks right now. Our desire in the grand scheme of things, our hope is the community grows back together.”
At a meeting Monday night hosted by Aerospace Cancer Museum of Education, the guest speaker urged residents to work for a consensus and possibly use the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s community meetings as a framework for a CAG.
“I would work hard to see if there is some kind of compromise or some way to work together,” said Lenny Siegel, of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight.
Siegel, who helped found a similar group for the cleanup at Moffett Field in northern California, added, “For people to feel part of a campaign, I think a new structure needs to be created.” | <urn:uuid:a9e4b9e9-a841-4cb1-b5f2-80cfa24c57a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/12/santa-susana-field-laboratory-activists-split/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967452 | 956 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Do you know if there is a linux program (possibly nautilus plugin) to transfer file from/to an android device? What is in my mind is a program which does "adb push", "adb pull", and "adb shell ls" in the background and has a GUI.
There's QtADB which uses adb.
You can also install an SSH or ftp server on the phone and then use Nautilus with ssh://ip-or-name-of-your-phone/ or ftp://ip-or-name-of-your-phone/ URLs (you can create bookmarks in Nautilus). The cool thing about a standard SSH or ftp server on your phone is that you don't have to install anything special on the computer.
I use QuickSSHd on the phone, but there are also other SSH servers available (search the market, please).
If you install Eclipse with the Android SDK there is a perspective called DDMS that includes a file explorer. You can easily copy files from/to the device with this tool, which uses adb push/pull in background.
Another way is to simply unmount the SD card from the phone and use it as a mass storage. But in this mode you can access only the SD card and the debug mode must be disabled which can be annoying if you need the device to stay in debug mode for development. | <urn:uuid:71c926d0-b3f6-490f-8810-b2accd79fa54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/9363/linux-program-to-transfer-file-from-to-an-android-device/28850 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930063 | 292 | 1.5625 | 2 |
July 18, 2007
Ritual Art of India
By Ajit Mookerjee
Publisher: Inner Traditions (September 1998)
Pages: 176 - Price: $29.95
Review by Lee Prosser - email@example.com
I was delighted to receive a review copy of this Ajit Mookerjee book, having heard of it in recent times as one of the finest examples of ritual art found in India. It is a pleasure to review it.
For those interested in the paranormal and supernatural, this book will be a nice reference on the ritual uses of gods, goddesses, and others in the afterlife and other world and physical reality of India, for it contains an excellent text to accompany the abundance of fine photographs, and illustrations. The story of Durga is revealed in finely detailed artwork, and her encounter with demons, and overpowering the demons by her and others is shown in ritual art. The role of religion is always of interest when it comes to dealing with demons and the afterlife, and those figures sought for help in times of need.
Every culture has its demons and monsters to contend with, and that includes ghosts, and whatever other entities are seen as evil. India has its fair share.
The charm of this fine book is the text, and the illustrations and photographs. Fertility rites and nature worship are other topics covered. Death and Rebirth is covered.
The detail work of the art is splendid, and noteworthy. There are more than one-hundred color photographs. Worth your time to read and enjoy!
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Annually since 2006, the JLHB has joined over 200 other Junior Leagues
in four countries to address the urgent issues surrounding childhood
obesity and poor nutrition. Childhood obesity is a global health issue
that has grown at an astonishing rate. One in four Canadian children
is overweight. Obese children are more likely to have longer-ranging
health problem such as high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, type 2
diabetes, asthma attacks and kidney problems. Overweight and obesity
are also associated with poor self-esteem and depression. Kids in the Kitchen
is a unique and interactive program, designed to empower children to
make healthy lifestyle choices. Spearheaded by the Association of Junior Leagues International
, it builds upon a heritage of impact
Junior Leagues have had on family nutrition for the past 108 years. The
program, which the Junior League of Calgary
started as Junior Chefs in 2001, is now being offered by the JLHB and
other independent Junior Leagues in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Proudly, in 2011, Canada's 'Looneyspoons Sisters', Janet and Greta Podleski, have joined the Canadian campaign. Read more about their involvement.
As kids are more likely to eat meals they have had a hand in preparing. Kids in the Kitchen involves children in the preparation of meals that are tasty and affordable, by making it fun and giving them tasks they can handle. The program also promotes the benefits of family dining. Recent studies indicate that family dining improves the dietary habits of children.
Junior Leagues also offer a comprehensive Kids in the Kitchen website that features kid-friendly, nutritious recipes from celebrities, chefs and athletes and an educational interactive game provided by Cartoon Network. Kids and their parents can also access nutrition and exercise tips and nutritional quizzes.
JLHB Local Activities
April 16, 2011
Members of our Junior League, together with Kids Can Cook
, headed to Halton Women's Place, a local shelter for abused women and their children, to teach the children and moms about the importance of proper nutrition and regular exercise.
With Easter around the corner, Chocolate Banana Muffin with Chocolate Drizzle were on the menu. Healthy eating and cooking techniques were emphasized as the muffins were made from scratch and each participant meticulously measured and combined the fresh ingredients. While the muffins baked and to round out the day, the children painted wooden spoons to create chicks or bunnies with glue, feathers and sparkles. The children also received goody bags with skipping ropes, other fitness items and additional healthy snacks.
During the mornings activities, a teenage boy whose mother had never baked with her son was overhead saying "Mom, we can make muffins at our new place"
. Another mother tried some veggie chips, which were on hand as a snack item and commented "I thought I wouldn't like then, but they were good!"
The JLHB New Members were creative and compassionate whether feeding a baby a bottle or helping to stir muffin mix. The comments heard throughout the morning made it clear that their the women and children staying at the shelter enjoyed working along side the Junior League in the kitchen. Halton Women's Place
is the ONLY emergency shelter serving Halton Region. They operate 52 beds on a daily basis and have a 24 hour crisis line. There were many times last year that the shelters operated at over capacity. They assisted over 1000 women and 1300 children through their residential and transitional support programs. They rely on community partners to help raise awareness and keep their programs running.
April 21, 2010
Hess St. Elementary School children joined Chef Jason Gibson
(Jason Gibson Personal Chef Services) in The Hamilton Spectator kitchen for the Junior League of
Hamilton-Burlington's 5th Annual Kids in the Kitchen
Grade 5 and 6 children rolled up their sleeves to make a
nutritious meal and learned how to re-create these meals at home with their
families. With the assistance of Hoopappeal, the children practiced the art of dance with hula-hoops to
reinforce the value and importance of regular exercise and a healthy
'Brenda' and 'Zack', two of the Leagues Kids on the Block®
puppets were on hand to share their message of "Don't Just Sit There, Do Something!"
March 2009Kids in the Kitchen
"cooking up" a delectable event at the Eva Rothwell Resource Centre in
Hamilton, Ontario. Guest chefs included Chris Haworth, an Executive
Chef from Spencers at The Waterfront
in Burlington and Jason Gibson a Personal Chef; Jason Gibson Personal Chef Services
New Member Group of the Junior League Hamilton-Burlington planned an
exciting day of fun activities for the children to help them learn more about healthy
living and how to make healthy lifestyle choices. The children
visited a variety of stations throughout the day, each with a specific
theme: cooking, fire safety, fitness, farming and nutrition.
chefs engaged the children, ages 6-15, in the food preparation,
creating a healthy meal of chicken quesadilla's, salad and apple tarts. All the major food groups were included as the menu in the
selections. As positive role models in the
community, our local firefighters spoke to the children about fire
prevention and personal safety; a certified trainer, Matt Green with Freestyle Fitness
, took the children through a fitness routine they could do at home; the Hamilton Eat Local Grow
organization taught about the benefits of consuming a diet of locally
grown foods; each child received a plant to cultivate at home. The
day was fun and interactive.
had an opportunity
to enjoy the food they prepared sitting down to eat together as a
community family. Recent studies indicate that family dining improves
dietary habits of children. At the end of the day, children were
provided with products and information to assist them with creating
the same type of meal in their own home.
Chris Haworth, with Spencer's at the
Waterfront, states "We have to re-teach ourselves (starting with our
children) the lost art of cooking a homemade meal, and more
importantly, to eat as a family at the table. In recent years, we have
lost this simple pleasure to the fast food TV nation we now live in.
That's my motivation.
" Chef Jason Gibson, with Jason Gibson
Personal Chef Services, quoted "it is very
important to me that children get a chance to learn how to prepare food
for themselves. Part of our problem as eaters is that we never learn
how easy it is to prepare simple healthy meals. We tend to lean on fast
food for our daily intake, when really good healthy food is even
faster! I hope the children will come away with some knowledge of how
important it is to feed your body good stuff!"March 2008Kids in the Kitchen "
cooked up" a delectable event at the Eva Rothwell Resource Centre in Hamilton. With the assistance of Liaison College Chef, Lindsay Vandekamp, the children participating made their own healthy meals. The kids had the opportunity to discuss healthy eating tips with a Registered Dietician and there was vigorous physical activity to round out the March Break day of fun.
This was the first event held in the Centre's newly renovated kitchen,
with Junior League members assisting in providing various items to
equip the kitchen. The Eva Rothwell Resource Centre, operated by the Robert Land Community Association
is home to an ever-growing number of innovative programs and services
that are helping to improve the quality of life and enhance social
well-being for an entire North Hamilton neighbourhood. Some of the
city's best kids are being inspired to bigger dreams and realizing
unlimited potential. The Community Centre strives to provide access to
community resources important to healthy living. Quoting Don MacVicar,
Robert land Community Association Board Chair: "There couldn't be a
more perfect time in life for the Junior League to connect with the
children of the Rothwell Resource Centre. They have created a new and
exciting vision to engage children in an interactive learning
workshop. That will not only be fun, but create dreams for the
children and help to make their dreams come true." 2007
The Junior League of
Hamilton-Burlington focused on educating the young and expectant
mothers of Hamilton's Grace Haven on how to plan meals both
economically and nutritiously, enabling them to teach their young
families, by example, about the importance of making healthy food
event, organized by JLHB New Members as their community impact
project, was held at Fortino's on Main Street West in Hamilton. The
young women from Good Shepherd's Grace Haven were given a tour of the supermarket and offered
suggestions and tips on how to choose ingredients that are economical
and fall within Canada's Food Guidelines. With the guidance and
direction of Junior League members, the young ladies prepared several dishes suitable to
serve at their child's first birthday party. Each teen and their babies
left with a parting gift - kitchen gadgets, healthy eating information
including a copy of Canada's Food Guide and healthy recipes for the
moms; feeding bowls, books and toys for the babes.
Salvation Army's Grace Haven in Hamilton is a multi-agency partnership
offering residential and day programmes in a compassionate environment,
with educational opportunities and individualized social and parenting
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They're starting revolutions, opening schools, and fostering a brave new generation. From Detroit to Kabul, these women are making their voices heard.
With her recent release from captivity, Judith Tebbutt may soon be able to close a grim chapter of her life. Her ordeal began just past midnight on Sept. 11, 2011. That’s when six gunmen abducted the 56-year-old British social worker from the luxury grass hut where she and her husband were staying at Kenya’s Kiwayu Safari Village, 25 miles from the Somali border. She would spend the next six and a half months as a prisoner in a pirates’ den near the Somali coastal town of Haradheere. After two weeks her captors let her speak by phone to her son, Oliver. He had to break the news that her husband, 58-year-old David Tebbutt, had been shot dead during the attack.
Video footage of Mrs. Tebbutt from the day of her release shows a stoic if dazed survivor, malnourished by an unvarying diet of goat meat and plain spaghetti. She spoke kindly of her captors, saying they had treated her well. To some observers it sounded like a classic case of Stockholm syndrome. And yet compared with some of the other hostages still languishing in Somalia, she was relatively fortunate to get home so soon. One South African couple has been missing for the past 18 months since being kidnapped aboard their yacht off the Tanzanian coast in October 2010. Altogether, hundreds of foreign citizens are currently held hostage in Somalia, mostly crew members belonging to captured merchant ships.
Few of them can expect salvation to drop from a moonless sky, as it did for Jessica Buchanan last month. On the night of Feb. 25, members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 seized a window of opportunity to rescue the American aid worker and her Danish colleague, Poul Thisted, who had been kidnapped on Oct. 25. Tebbutt could only have wished for such an ending. Instead the job of gaining her freedom fell to “Ollie” Tebbutt, the couple’s only child, who led efforts to raise the $1.2 million reportedly demanded by his mother’s captors. In theory, at least, the surprise factor of “pinprick” operations by elite forces should discourage abductions of aid workers and tourists. At least eight of the aid workers’ captors were killed in the rescue. At the same time, there’s little doubt that giving in to the hostage takers’ demands can only lead to more kidnappings. But what else could Judith Tebbut’s son do?
That’s the dilemma that plagues anti-pirate policy—and the problem in Somalia just keeps growing. From 2005 to 2010, the average ransom for a captured commercial vessel catapulted $150,000 to $5.4 million, according to a study by the antiwar foundation One Earth Future. Between 2009 and 2010 alone, the figure jumped 60 percent. “Ransoms for ships have gone up fourfold since 2008, when the current phase of ship hijackings began,” says Capt. Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Center. “I do not recall individuals being kidnapped then. In both cases these are despicable crimes against weak and helpless victims and should be condemned.”
At an international conference in London last month on rebuilding Somalia, British Prime Minister David Cameron denounced ransom payments. “In the end they only ensure that crime pays,” he said. His words are echoed by a spokesman for the British High Commission in Nairobi. “We believe that paying ransom encourages future kidnappings,” the spokesman has said, emphasizing that the government is working on the problem: “At the London conference, the U.K. announced the creation of an international task force on pirate ransoms… to better understand the ransom business cycle and how to break it”.
That may be a comfort to the owners of captured ships, especially if they have good insurance. But what is a hostage’s family supposed to do, other than hand over the money? “I do not believe that refusing to pay ransom is an acceptable alternative for those involved,” says Captain Mukundan. No one seems to have a better answer. “You either have to pay ransoms and perpetuate the system or you have to be willing to take direct military action on land, risking the lives of all involved, says a U.S.-based authority on piracy and international crime. “Unfortunately there’s not much in the way of middle ground—at least for those already captured.”
Although Judith Tebbutt is safely home, residents and business operators in areas along the East African coast worry that the mere mention of a hefty ransom payout will encourage further piracy. The truth is that Somalia's thugs don't need The Daily Beast to tell them how the ransom market is doing. Still, the tourist economy has been hit hard by the kidnappings. Perhaps even more disturbing is that Tebbutt's abductors apparently remain at large. So far, the only arrests in connection with the crime have been two men who were charged with stealing Ms. Tebbutt's handbag, which contained her passport and other belongings. The suspects, Ali Babitu Kololo, 25, and Issa Sheikh Saadi, 37, denied any responsibility for the kidnapping of Judith Tebbutt or the murder of her husband. Kololo testified in court that the gunmen had forced him to take them to the resort. He turned himself in to police the next day, he told the court. Kololo remains in custody in a Mombasa prison. Saadi was freed for lack of evidence.
According to a senior intelligence officer who is not authorized to speak to the press, Kenyan authorities know the names of the seven gunman—five of them Kenyan nationals from Kiunga—who came by boat from the town of Ras Kiomboni in Somalia to the Tebbutt's beach resort on the night of Sept. 10. The officer says he has hard evidence that the alleged ringleader of her kidnapping was Kahale Famau Kahale, a former lobster fisherman from the town of Kiunga, a town 44 kilometers (26 miles) north of Kiwayu, just inside the Kenya border. "The moment the hotel was attacked, we knew he must be the one responsible because from the look of the issues, the attackers must be people conversant with the facility," Lamu West's district commissioner, Steven Ikua, told a reporter with Kenya’s Daily Nation shortly after the Sept. 11 murder-kidnapping. Now in his early forties, Famau is believed to have been associated with the al Qaeda-aligned Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab since 2006. He is nicknamed Mfalme, or "King," apparently for his arrogance.
Authorities in Kenya would love to get their hands on him. “We have sufficient evidence to charge [Kahale] with murder, abduction and robbery in connection with both the Tebbutt and Dedieu incidents,” the intelligence officer told The Daily Beast yesterday. He was referring to Marie Dedieu, a 66-year-old disabled Frenchwoman who was abducted from her beachfront grass hut in the early hours of Oct. 1. The retired journalist, suffering from cancer and deprived of her medications, fell into a coma shortly after her capture and died soon afterward in southern Somalia. At the time of the Dedieu kidnapping, Kahale was holed up in southern Somalia’s port town of Kismayu. Still on the run more than six months later, he is believed to be in hiding near Mogadishu.
Kenyan law-enforcement officials confidently predict that eventually they will ask Tebbutt to come back and testify in court against her erstwhile captors.
The kidnappings and the war across the border in Somalia have plunged Kenya’s coastal residents into their own version of a post-9/11 world. Business operators in East Africa’s tourist areas struggle to deal with circumstances that seem increasingly random and unpredictable. Hotel owners assert that foreign embassies are unfairly singling out Kenya with a blanket ban on travel along the country's north coast. One peeved manager of upscale villas in Lamu complains of having received as many as 500 cancellations. “There are grenades going off in Nairobi, murders in Mexico, lunatics in France and Sweden,” the manager fumes, presumably thinking of Anders Breivik’s deadly rampage in Norway. “No one is suggesting travel bans there." If it’s any comfort to the resorts’ proprietors, representatives from the U.S., Australian, Canadian, and British embassies have visited the region in recent weeks to reassess security. “We are modifying our warning at the moment and should have text soon,” a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy has said.
Can Judith Tebbutt expect to see justice done? British authorities aren’t ready to give up. The Independent says Tebbutt is to begin interviews with Scotland Yard “once she has acclimated.” So far there’s no telling what information she might be able to provide. Did she see the face of her husband’s killer? Does she remember the faces or voices of the men who dragged her down the long, sugar-white beach under the full moon, and into the skiff that disappeared into Somali waters? Her story may not end at Scotland Yard. Kenyan law-enforcement officials confidently predict that eventually they will ask her to come back and testify in court against her erstwhile captors. At present, however, those criminals are on the loose—and almost certainly planning their next big score.
CORRECTION: In the original post, the alleged ringleader's name was given as Famau Kahale Famau.
Inspiring women from around the globe will convene in April for the 2013 Women in the World Summit. See who’s coming!
From invisible Iranians to dealing with an overweight body, see works from female photographers to watch.
Newsweek and The Daily Beast are excited to announce the 2013 Women in the World Summit on April 4 and 5. Get your tickets today.
DINKs, DILDOs, and other readers respond to Joel Kotkin and Harry Siegel’s Newsweek story about America's declining birthrate and share their reasons for remaining child-free.
Gail Sheehy looks at the new, strategic feminism, as PBS prepares to air the documentary ‘Makers: Women Who Make America’ tonight.
The mother of a domestic abuse victim speaks out
As Melanne Verveer departs, who could be Obama’s new champion for women and girls? By Katie Baker.
Diane von Furstenberg joins GMA's Robin Roberts to talk about the annual DVF Awards and reveals the courageous anchor will be honored at this year's event on April 5th.
“Fatshion” is a popular community on Tumblr, where plus-size bloggers post pictures of themselves as a way of celebrating their size. Judy McGuire reports.
The film, which will be released March 7, advocates for the education of girls around the world. Eliza Shapiro reports.
Three feminists from different generations revisit Friedan’s classic. By Jessica Bennett, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Alisa Solomon.
A new CDC study is just the latest news to buoy the pro-breastfeeding camp, reports Eliza Shapiro.
Ping Fu talks to Katie Baker about the online backlash to her new memoir, ‘Bend, Not Break.’
She changed the game irrevocably, and now she’s about to transform it again—by walking away. Plus, read the full transcript of her farewell speech.
Tina Brown and Angelina Jolie announce gathering strength for an education fund in her honor.
How two women’s online plea is pushing the lingerie giant to the ‘survivor bra’ market. By Nina Strochlic.
See locations of the country’s 724 clinics and distance to the closest clinic in different areas. By Michael Keller and Allison Yarrow.
When companies support women, write Melanne Verveer and Kim Azzarelli, their businesses and communities win.
Veteran Anthony Woods recalls a brave lieutenant who lost her life in Afghanistan.
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PITTSBURGH, December 11-Supporters of the House of Hope, a unique shelter and counseling center for chemically-dependent, pregnant woman, rallied today at UPMC Braddock, calling on UPMC, the largest hospital corporation in Western Pennsylvania, to keep the facility open, to expand its services in Braddock, and to replicate these services in other low-income communities throughout the UPMC service territory.
UPMC has announced its intention to close House of Hope on January 2. In 2005, UPMC “challenged its community partners to develop new ways to address health care disparities in the localities served by [UPMC Braddock].” One of those new ways was supporting the House of Hope, which led to a dramatic decrease in the percentage of low birth weight babies. In 2007, UMPC boasted that “a robust and sustainable program that brings together UPMC, local clinics, government agencies, and other organizations is in place [in Braddock] to improve the care in the community.”
Ed Grystar, Vice President of the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare noted, “The tragedy surrounding the cut in funding for the House of Hope amplifies the crying need for a total reordering of the nation’s health care delivery system away from the current insurance run profit first approach. Under a single payer plan embodied in [US House of Representatives bill] HR 676, citizens would receive heath care services based on their need and funding would be earmarked based upon the needs of the communities, not on the whims of profiteering health care corporations.” | <urn:uuid:979e78c1-4e15-4c5d-89b3-22b644d5331d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beavercountyblue.org/2008/12/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956293 | 336 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Kirk Douglas' recently published his tenth book, "I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist."
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. I've been thinking a lot about my parents, Russian immigrants who came to this country in 1912 – exactly one hundred years ago.
For them, the United States was a dream beyond description. They couldn't read or write, but they saw a better life for their children in a new country half a world away from their tiny shtetl.
Against all odds they crossed the Atlantic. And like millions of people before and after, they passed close to the Statue of Liberty as they entered New York Harbor. Perhaps someone who could read English translated the beautiful words of Emma Lazarus, etched in bronze on the pedestal:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
A century ago, America was a beacon of hope to the world. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were ideals not clichés. Any boy could still grow up to be president. Today, few boys–or girls, for that matter–dream of that. The American dream has become about quick fame and easy fortune, not public service and hard work.
I know something about this. I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. When I threw off the wrappings, I wrapped myself in the character I was playing.
My change came suddenly when I heard these words spoken by President Kennedy in his Inaugural Address in 1961:
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
It was a moment of clarity for me – like somebody had flipped a switch and the lights came on.
I had been lucky. Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. My luck hadn't come without a lot of hard work, but I now realized that it carried a responsibility along with it. JFK's call to conscience made me understand that.
His words also reminded me of something my mother taught me.
For years we lived in a little town called Amsterdam, New York. We had a house near the carpet mills and the railroad tracks. We were very poor and often didn't have enough to eat. Although we had nothing to spare, the hobos from the trains still came knocking on our door in the evening, asking for food. It scared me to look at them–disheveled, dirty. My mother was never frightened. Somehow she always found a little extra food to give them.
Then she said something I never forgot: "Issur,"–that was my name then–"even a beggar must give to another beggar who needs it more than he does."
The fight against oppression and tyranny depicted in Spartacus is still going on all over the globe from Syria to Egypt to Iran.
I was an American movie star whose pictures were seen all around the world. This gave me the opportunity to do something for my country that most Americans couldn't do. So I became an Ambassador of Goodwill for the State Department and traveled to 40 countries talking about America. I wasn't viewed as a Democrat or a Republican. They only saw me as an American. By the way, I paid all my own expenses–I didn't want anyone to say that Kirk Douglas traveled abroad on the taxpayers' dime.
But you do not need to be a movie star to stand up for basic human freedom. The fight against oppression and tyranny depicted in Spartacus is still going on all over the globe from Syria to Egypt to Iran. Even the Russians are once again facing the threat of a popular uprising.
I believe much of the divisiveness in the world is caused by religious fanaticism, even in the time of Spartacus when they worshipped many gods. As you study history, you find that millions of people have been killed because of religious divisions based on false orthodoxy, not genuine spirituality.
After 95 years on this planet, I have come to the conclusion that the human spirit can never be crushed, no matter how cruel the oppressor or fanatic the belief. If we remember that simple truth–and act on it every day in small ways and sometimes in large movements–then freedom will ultimately win.
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Groundwater remediation in New Mexico
|Location:||Española, New Mexico, US|
|Client:||New Mexico Environment Department|
|Value:||(Project) US$4 million|
|Scope:||Pilot testing, construction, operation, maintenance, monitoring|
|Date:||May 2005 – October 2008|
In the city of Española, New Mexico, 250 million gallons of groundwater was contaminated when a local business released hazardous solvents into the soil. The resulting contamination forced the closure of two
municipal wells, which had supplied drinking water to the city and the neighbouring Santa Clara Pueblo, a Native American community.
We have been working with the State of New Mexico for 30 years, providing expertise on large-scale environmental and geotechnical projects."
Senior Project Manager
The scale and location of the problem means that the concerns of many different stakeholders need to be addressed. These include the US Environmental Protection Agency, the State of New Mexico authorities, the city of Española and the Santa Clara Pueblo tribal government.
AMEC’s environmental services business has worked with the State of New Mexico for 30 years on large-scale environmental and geotechnical projects. We are acting as the prime contractor for all aspects for the remediation project to remove the solvents from the groundwater.
This requires the construction and operation of a groundwater treatment system, and the testing and implementation of a range of bioremediation technologies, which will use bacteria to break down the contaminants into harmless products.
As a result of this project, millions of gallons of groundwater will be returned to constructive use, restoring the primary water supply of the citizens of Española and the Santa Clara Pueblo. | <urn:uuid:d583ff9c-db43-4a8c-952e-4d8510fc914b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amec.com/aboutus/projects/water/groundwater_new_mexico.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90393 | 368 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Volcano eruption: Flight cancellations leave thousands strandedMay 25th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 25 (IANS) Thousands of passengers were stuck at airports across Britain as 500 flights were cancelled due to the Icelandic volcano eruption.
Passengers were stranded at different airports, including Heathrow, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh, reported The Sun.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said airports in Britain should return to normal Wednesday as the ash cloud went down from 12 miles to just two.
He said a special aircraft had been bought to test the intensity of ash levels. The aircraft, however, would not be operational until next month or early July.
Airlines which axed flights to and from Scotland Tuesday included British Airways, bmi, Aer Lingus and KLM.
The ash cloud was likely to clear out of most of British mainland Wednesday.
The towering ash cloud had forced visiting US President Barack Obama to leave Ireland for Britain one day ahead of schedule over safety concerns.
Xinhua quoted Europe’s air traffic control organization Eurocontrol as saying that around 500 flights have been cancelled from the approximately 29,000 that would have been expected Tuesday across Europe due to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano.
Area of high ash concentration were over northern Britain, the Brussels-based organization quoted the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in London as saying.
According to VAAC predictions, there is a “strong possibility” that the ash may impact parts of Denmark, southern Norway and southwest Sweden by Tuesday, said Eurocontrol.
The Grimsvotn volcano, which lies beneath the ice of the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004, shooting ash, smoke and steam up to 20 km into the air.
Although the eruption was much stronger than the one at a volcano further south in 2010, experts said they saw little chance of a repeat of last year’s six-day closure of airspace.
Volcanologists said the ash cloud’s content was heavier and less likely to spread this year.
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- Iceland volcano ash could reach Britain: Report (Lead, changing dateline) - May 23, 2011
- European no-fly zone shrinks, but remains subject to change - Apr 20, 2010
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- Volcanic ash cloud grounds 1,000 flights in Europe (Second Lead) - May 17, 2010
- Eurocontrol says about 500 European flights cancelled due to volcanic ash cloud on Monday - May 10, 2010
- Ash cloud closes Heathrow, Gatwick airports again - May 17, 2010
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Spinal Cord Disease
Severe pain and/or persistent muscle spasms from a spinal cord disease are approved Health Canada Category 1 MMAR condition
Medical marijuana is NOT for everyone and is often a last resort for people that have tried a variety of pharmaceutical medication with little relief or too many side effects. Strong evidence exists that support the use of medical marijuana in treating symptoms associated with spinal cord diseases. We strongly suggest speaking with your doctor and discussing the potential benefits of medical marijuana in regards to your condition.
The spinal cord is a tubular bundle of nervous and supporting tissues that extend to the brian and together make up the central nervous system. The spinal cord functions as a transmission to the brain for motor information, sensory information and co-ordinating reflexes.
There are two make ups of abnormality in disease of the spinal cord: longitudinal and segmental. They correspond to motor neurons. Both forms are present together. Longitudinal damage produces function loss of the entire motor or sensory systems. Segmental damage produces limited signs in the single segments. There is segmental motor losses, sensory losses and autonomic losses that lead to atrophy weaknesses in a myotomal distribution.
Some examples of spinal cord disease include but are not limited to:
- ALS or Lou Gehrig disease
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Niemann Pick Disease
- Progressive Supra-Nuclear Palsy
- Huntingons Disease
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Transverse Myelitis
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Congenital Brain Defects
- Post Traumatic Syringomyelia
- Extreme Cases of Injury to he Spinal Cord
- Spinal Cord Tumors
- Spinal Stenosis
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitits
- Spinal Bifida
- Degeneration of Spinal Cord
- Pena Shockeir Syndrome
- Dana Syndrome
- Balo Disease
Benefits of Medical Marijuana in Spinal Cord Disease
Muscle Twitching, Jerking and Spasticity - THC has been shown to relieve symptoms and show significant beneficial effect on twitching, jerking and spasticity. It has been suggested that medical marijuanas cannabinoids are similar to a body s natural chemical called anandamide. This switches on nerve receptors that effect motor functions in the central nervous system to aid in the relief of muscle spasms. Medical marijuana is a understandable choice for someone experiencing these conditions. It allows to experience minimal side effects and an increase in motor function.
Pain - Marijuana acts as a analgesic or natural pain killer in the bodies basic operational system. There is a role for the cannaboids founds in marijuana for the body s pain and movement receptors. A number of areas in the brain that produce sensing and processing receptors respond to the analgesic effects of cannabis. Cannaboids are often successful to treat pain that is resident to the opiate treatment plans. Acting as a pain killer and anti-inflammatory medical marijuana is far less addictive than many other pain killing medications.
Sleep Aid - A common side effect of marijuana is drowsiness. It is thought to be used for patients who have difficulty sleeping due to their condition or treatment method. Patients experience a more restful sleep and wake up feeling more refreshed. Medical marijuana is not toxic to major organs like many other sleep aids and has very few side effects. Marijuana causes the body to drop temperature by half of a degree. This allows for a human to become more relaxed and stress free allowing you to fall asleep faster.
Increased Appetite - Marijuana produces an over all desire and want for food. It can allow for the bodies pain receptors to become reduced and allow for for consumption to become desirable. This effect is considered " the munchies ". Marijuana stimulates taste buds and allows for food consumption to become even enjoyable. The molecules that act as receptors in the brain are called endocannabinoids they ultimately make humans hungry and increase appetite.
Depression - Since depression can be a build up of many other emotional triggers such as fatigue, insomnia, appetite changes and restlessness it is understandable why medical marijuana can be seen as effective in aiding. With appropriate use of medical cannabis patients may be able to eliminate depression causing opiates, sleeping pills, antidepressants and other psychiatric medications. The power of cannabis to treat depression is perhaps the most important property.
- Transverse Myelitis and Medical Marijuana; An Alternative Treatment August, 2010
- Medical Marijuana and Lou Gehrig's Disease
- The Benefits Of Medical Marijuana For Chronic Pain Sufferers March, 2010
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"Everything is in suspended animation," said Marian Schweighofer, executive director of the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance, a coalition of 1,800 landowners that leased 140,000 acres to Newfield and Hess. Most of those leases are in Wayne County.
Newfield and Hess told the landowners they would make good on a planned January payment totaling about $50 million. But payments scheduled through 2015 are now in doubt.
In May, the DRBC, a multistate agency that governs water use in the environmentally sensitive watershed, suspended new permits for all production wells, but allowed operators to continue to apply for exploratory wells while the regulatory review was under way.
Exploratory wells are designed to capture core samples of the deep shale formation so geologists can study the rock and determine whether it is worth developing. The leaseholders say that exploratory wells require little water, and that the DRBC has no business banning them because they don't pose a threat to the river.
But environmental activists, fearful that the exploratory wells could be converted into production wells, pushed the DRBC to extend the ban to all wells.
That put the property owners in a difficult position. The Northern Wayne Alliance has an unusual lease arrangement that provides its members with graduated payments over several years, rather than a lump payment up front. The drilling companies pay the landowners the bulk of their money only after they are able to complete exploratory wells.
Schweighofer said more than $200 million in payments is thrown into doubt because of the continued ban - as are any royalties the landowners would receive from production.
"All of that is now in jeopardy," she said.
Last week, the alliance said it would ask the DRBC to hold a hearing to reconsider the ban on exploratory wells.
Katherine O'Hara, a DRBC spokeswoman, said the agency had not yet received a formal hearing request and had no comment on the companies' decision to suspend the leases.
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Did you know that, on average, children under the age of 3 catch six to eight colds per year?
While researchers will tell you this ultimately helps strengthen your growing child’s immune system, surviving the cold and flu season can seem like an overwhelming challenge for working parents who are faced with taking days off and adjusting busy family schedules.
According to Beverly Anderson, Executive Director of Ebenezer Child Care Centers with locations in Milwaukee, Mequon, Greenfield, Oak Creek, and Wauwatosa, “When children have runny noses, it is really critical for parents to exercise caution, and keep them away from other children.”
This is because the cold virus usually tends to end up on their hands, clothing, and toys--where it can live for up to 30 minutes. “If another child touches a toy with an infected virus on it, and then rubs her nose or eyes, she can easily catch the cold,” says Anderson.
Here are some tips to help your family through the cold and flu season.
Wash Your Hands
Anderson says everyone needs to wash their hands frequently for at least 30 seconds with anti-viral soap and hot water. Because the typical cold lasts six to 14 days, and viruses are easily transmitted on your hands.
While this tactic is simple, it has been proven effective. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that children who regularly use a hand sanitizer have 50 percent fewer absences from school than those who don't.
Avoid Touching Your Eyes and Nose
According to Anderson, “You also want to avoid contact as much as possible with your eyes and nose, only touching them when your hands are freshly washed and clean.”
Slow Down and Get Plenty of Sleep
Anderson says another important thing you can do to survive the cold and flu season is slow down, de-stress, and make sure that you and your children are getting the proper amounts of sleep.
She says the reason why so many people get sick after the holidays is because they are worn down and exposed to other sick people who are out and about when they should be at home resting. Research has also proven that stress hormones actually break down a person’s immune system, so watching your family’s stress level is important.
“Look at January as the perfect time to slow down, recharge, and focus on staying healthy,” says Anderson. “After the busy holiday season, it actually feels good to force yourself to slow down and take it easy.”
Ebenezer Child Care Centers is a not-for-profit, locally based agency committed to providing early childhood programs from the heart. The agency prides itself on being different from other child care providers in that it offers a home-like atmosphere; individualized, nurturing care; and a structured curriculum that is virtues-based for every child’s developmental stage.
Every Ebenezer Child Care Center focuses on all aspects of a child’s development: cognitive, physical, emotional, and social. In addition to providing quality care, the agency also offers a variety of free Family Fun Nights and other educational programming all aimed at helping parents.
The agency has locations in downtown Milwaukee, on Milwaukee’s southside, in Greenfield, Mequon, Oak Creek, and Wauwatosa. The agency’s main office is located at 1496 South 29th Street, Milwaukee. For more information, please call 414-643-5070 or visit the agency’s website at www.ebenezerchildcare.com. | <urn:uuid:86015c4a-1925-4fbd-9e88-f9483d5348d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.milwaukeemoms.com/usersubmittedstories/185933791.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959223 | 742 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Lagarde urges direct support for European banks
Friday, April 20, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says the officials managing Europe’s debt bailout fund should consider providing financial support directly to European banks that need more capital reserves.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Thursday that supplying more capital directly to European banks could help ease the debt crisis.
Speaking at a news conference to open three days of meetings on the global economy, Lagarde noted that the banks can now receive bailout money only from European governments. She said that officials should change that so banks could receive money directly from the European bailout fund.
She said this would provide more flexibility in combating the financial crisis and move the European economy “towards stronger and better integration.”
At the same time, Lagarde said she thinks the IMF’s resources to help Europe manage its debt crisis and other financial threats will be “significantly increased” because of pledges that countries have been making.
In a TV interview later, Lagarde said she’d received commitments of $320 billion in additional support so far. She told Bloomberg Television that she expected more commitments before Saturday, when the IMF’s spring meetings will end.
The boost to IMF resources is a major issue for the spring meetings of the 188-nation IMF and its sister lending agency, the World Bank. Before policy committees of both agencies meet Saturday, finance officials and central bank presidents of the Group of 20 major economies will hold two days of talks starting Thursday night.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will represent the United States at the meetings of the G-20. The G-20 includes traditional powers such as the United States, Japan and Germany and fast-growing emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India.
Last week, Lagarde scaled back her IMF fundraising target. She said that a $500 billion goal she had set in January could be reduced because of steps Europe has taken and stronger growth globally. She declined to specify how much less funding the IMF needs.
Japan said this week that it’s prepared to contribute $60 billion. And three European countries — Denmark, Norway and Sweden — promised a combined $26 billion.
Europe had previously set a target of providing $150 billion from the 17 nations that share the euro common currency and $50 billion from non-eurozone nations.
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Published on August 19, 2011 at 2:03 AM
"As insiders, health care workers understand what's missing in our medical system. They're more educated than others about orthodox and alternative medicine," said Joya Lynn-Schoen, M.D., a psychiatrist by training who instead practices alternative medicine, offering patients homeopathy, nutrition and chelation therapies. "Mainstream medicine will say, 'Here's a pill' or 'Have an operation" or 'There's nothing wrong with you. You're just tired.'
"We may be opening Pandora's box by disclosing utilization of CAM by conventional providers," Knutson said. "I prefer to believe that this will create an opening for both provider and patient in optimizing health for the whole person." Knutson added that consumers ought to know that providers use CAM and that health care workers should know that their peers use CAM, although perhaps without discussing it.
How shocked consumers would actually be by their doctors' use of CAM is questionable, however. The researchers used a broad definition of CAM that includes practices as commonplace as deep breathing, meditation and massage, and ones as complex as biofeedback, hypnosis and chelation therapy, which involves administration of chemicals called chelating agents to eliminate heavy metals such as lead, arsenic or mercury from the body. To discover the depth of doctors' and nurses' involvement with the more esoteric approaches will require further research.
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School Of Library and Information Science | Information Inquiry for School Teachers
S574 | 18641 | Lamb
This course is intended to be an opportunity for teachers and future
teachers (including school library media specialists as teachers) to
practice methods in critically thinking about information/media, and
to use that process as a means to teach their students to be
critical reviewers and communicators as well.
Class will be taught through the WWW. Students should email Annette
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How opensource works for commercial game developers
The alien preaches… about open source.
A typical example of an industry where people tend to “sit” on their intellectual property (IP) is game development. If you have a fantastic game concept and built a real good engine around it, it will potentially generate a lot of money for you and your publisher, as long as your game has an uniqueness or credibility that attracts potential players.
Because the process of development for a commercial triple-A kind of game may take years and millions of dollars of investment capital, it is no wonder that a game developer is not happy at all to let outsiders peek in their laboratory. Copy protection measures try to minimize the risk of pirating the software after it has been released, in order to lose as little of revenue as possible – highly anticipated games create their own demand market.
Now I totally agree with the fact that those game developers deserve to earn their money and pirating software is bad. If you create something beautiful for other people to enjoy, you are entitled to financial returns.
But, it is not set in stone that you have to sit on your properties in order to generate a good revenue!
The prime example of this idea is idsoftware, the company that became famous with titles as Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM. Since the early days, the people at id Software have made parts of their games available for free (distributed as shareware) without limitations. This concept proved incredibly succesful thanks to the high quality of the games they release. People would download and play the shareware levels for free and then decide if it was worth the money to buy the complete game. This, and the vision of the code masters at id Software, made them to a game company that everybody respects and looks at to see how game engines evolve.
It was once considered a daring move to give away your games for free and trust your product’s quality so much that you expect people to buy it nevertheless. Nowadays, this is common and nobody thinks twice about releasing “demo” versions – but not so 15 or more years ago.
And id Software went one step further even. They made it a point to release the full source code to their games (excluding the copy-righted artwork and music) after a while, when the game had made enough money. With source code released under the GPL license, other people were able to modify and expand on it, and as a result we have seen DOOM, Hexen and other game ports and derivatives appear for Linux, handheld devices and more.
This in itself shows a lot of confidence in the quality of their code and the rapid adances the company makes with every iteration of their graphics and game engines. Their current games are always huge steps further than the code that is released for the older games. The fact that idsoftware cares for the Linux community shows through their Linux versions of several of their past games. The port to Linux is apparently relatively easy because of the program code’s high level of abstraction from the underlying operating system and even hardware. This is being inherited from the days of their DOS games. Id Software did their software development on UNIX (they used Silicon Graphic high-end workstations) and then built DOS versions to be released to the public.
While you can argue that releasing the source code of old software may be a gimmick, and old code is just that (old), history actually proves that it has given them a lot of credit not only by fanatic followers of their games but also by” rival” game developing studios. Their commitment to open source is a shining beacon in commercial software development – not just game development.
And now this philosphy is actually paying off for them!
What happened? John Carmack, who is the lead developer at id, bought an iPhone (that piece of Apple hardware which is more gadget than phone) and decided that it would be fun to port a few of the old games to that device. The fact that people had picked up the original GPL-ed source code and improved on it, gave him a head start by using the code from Wolf3D Redux for the Wolfenstein game.Early 2009 they released it as an iPhone game. You can read more about the process here at Voodoo Extreme.
The DOOM port to iPhone went similar because code from the high-quality open source enhanced DOOM port: prboom could be re-used. The result is DOOM Classic for the iPhone, and you should go and read John Carmack’s developer blog about this particular port, it is highly entertaining.
The source code for the iPhone games Wolfenstein and DOOM Classic have been released, as required by the terms of the GPL. Isn’t this a perfect example of how commercial software development and the open source movement mutually benefit?
And yes: I have bought all the games of id Software that I’ve ever played, most often after enjoying the shareware version for a while. And to be homest, I have not bought a lot more games than those (I have the Half-Life boxes on my shelf, and Prey, and even those are derived from original id Software game engines). | <urn:uuid:1fcf642e-158a-4d27-81a1-8e5e7e9086be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/how-opensource-works-for-commercial-game-developers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967704 | 1,075 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Fisherman G.M. Veerappan and three of his children survived the tsunami by clinging to the remnants of his demolished home: a pole stuck in the ground.
"My eldest daughter climbed on my back. I took the younger two in my arms and climbed onto the lone pole that remained after our house was destroyed," he said.
As the water roared around him, Veerappan clung on desperately. But the fierce waves pounded against him, pummeling him with debris.
"There was no proper grip and I was slipping. After one hour, I lost all strength and dropped the two younger kids. I cried and cried, thinking I had killed my children," he said, shuddering at the memory.
After a few hours, rescuers reached Veerappan, and pulled the father and his 6-year-old daughter to safety as the waters began to recede.
When Veerappan came ashore, rescuers told him they had also found his two younger sons, ages 4 and 2. Unconscious and barely breathing, they had been discovered at the water's edge, half buried under sludge.
The family, now reunited, is staying at a makeshift shelter at a marriage hall. His wife and two other children were safe at a relative's home.
"Nobody can explain how my children survived," he said. "I am still wondering why God chose to save my children when he chose to let so many other children die."
PORT BLAIR, India
At 80 and with a career in the British colonial army and India's military behind him, Sheetla Prasad thought he was through with marches.
Then on Sunday, as Prasad was having tea with his wife, his tea cup began shaking -- and the Asian tsunami sent him on a backbreaking trek for survival in India's remote Campbell Bay islands.
"It was like the old days, in the army -- but my body was not the same. I thought I would die," said Prasad, a frail man with thick white stubble.
When he saw the sea roaring toward him, he shouted at his wife, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren to run uphill. He grabbed a machete and a few precious possessions and followed them up.
Within minutes, the waves had flattened his home, and he faced a stark choice: Die there with his family, or lead them through mountains covered in thick, dark foliage.
"I used my machete. I started hacking the bushes. I didn't even look back to see if my house was there or gone," he said at a relief camp in Port Blair, the territory's capital, his family at his side.
For two nights, the family took shelter in the huts of farm workers. On the third day, they dragged themselves through the forest, walking more than 10 miles with blistered feet.
They stopped only to have fruit plucked from trees, coconuts and water from natural sources.
On the third evening, they reached the docking site of a relief ship.
When the waves hit, the baby girl's parents were flushed out of the restaurant they owned on the beach of this northwest Malaysian resort.
Suppiah Tulasi, not yet a month old, had been taking a nap when the calamity struck. She was found hours later floating on a mattress inside the restaurant.
"We know this was a real miracle, thanks to God," said her mother, Annal Mary. "So many other children who died, but our baby was OK. She could have been swept out to the sea."
Mary and her husband found Tulasi when they swam back into the wrecked restaurant.
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Today is the day we honor the men and women who died in our nation’s wars. I’d like to honor three very different World War II vets today by telling you my recollections of them.
I don’t remember Mr. Roberts’ first name, and only learned it at his funeral while I was in college. I don’t recall how I met him – it was probably because he and my dad shared an interest in woodworking, and Dad took me up two doors to meet him one day. I was fascinated by this man who built simple but beautiful wood jelly-bean dispensers, and I spent hours watching him turn wood for his dispensers on the lathe in the back of his garage. Mrs. Roberts used to let me pick strawberries from their strawberry patch when they were ripe, and that’s probably why no house has ever felt like a home without a strawberry patch.
Mr. Roberts had been a pilot, navigator, or bombardier in B-17′s over Europe during World War II. I don’t recall which of the three, and like most veterans of WWII, he usually got quiet when I asked him about it and didn’t talk much about the war. I do recall having the opportunity once to look through his log book while I was in high school. It had every run he was ever on, and while he was never shot down, he wrote down whenever he lost men out of his plane, or equipment. He wrote down how many planes went out and how many came back – and the returning number was never the same as the leaving number. He flew over France, softening up the German emplacements before D-Day. He bombed industrial targets all around Germany, and while I seem to recall that he was one of the bombers over Dresden, I can’t be sure that my memory isn’t just playing tricks on me so many years later.
Poppy was my aunt’s father, related to me by marriage. I didn’t really know him that well, and I’m embarrassed that I can’t remember his first or last name – everyone just called him Poppy. But after my junior year in college, I went to the family beach cottage in Fairfield, Connecticut for a couple of weeks of my summer vacation. I’d just finished a class that changed my life in ways I’m still discovering: HIST143 – The History of Fascism and Nazism, taught by renown historian of Nazi Germany Jackson J. Spielvogel. I happened to mention my class and how angry I was after reading about Holocaust deniers in a New York paper. Poppy overheard, and there began a couple of days of connecting with a man who I’d not been friendly with before and on a level I never expected.
You see, Poppy spoke Italian, and he’d been in the Army moving up through Italy, and once Italy fell, his unit was sent on into Germany. And he was with one of the battalions who liberated one of the camps. I don’t recall which one it was or where, but I will never forget him talking about how he felt looking at the few emaciated survivors, the showers, the ovens – the smell. And I was spellbound as he gave me a piece of his personal history that made my life-changing class seem to pale by comparison. It seems he had a camera with him, and he took pictures of the camp himself. And he’d given presentations in his high schools (he was the superintendent of schools in a New Jersey district for decades) on his own personal experience upon liberating the camp. And once he even had to bring in the Holocaust-denying parents of a Holocaust-denying student who had become disruptive in a World History class to educate them about the reality of the history that he himself had seen. Partly because of that class and partly because of Poppy I have zero patience for Holocaust denial.
My grandfather, Ed Bachman, is still alive, but he’s 95 or so and suffering from terminal dementia. But before he grew senile and demented with age, he told me a few stories of his time in the Navy in the Pacific. He told me about training to jump ship in basic training – you jump straight down feet first with one hand covering your crotch and the other plugging your nose, and as soon as you hit water and your head breaks the surface, you swim away from the ship lest you get sucked down with it.
Before the war he was an undertaker and embalmer, but in the war he was a Pharmacist’s Mate aboard ship, probably because he already knew his way around chemicals and needles. He said that never saw much action, and if I remember correctly, he was aboard a tender. But toward the end of the war as the marines were preparing to assault Japan’s main islands, he’d been reassigned to a hospital ship in preparation for the invasion. Then Truman dropped two bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki, and the war in the Pacific was over. Grandpa came home and went back to work in the funeral business.
I remember telling Grandpa when I was in junior high or high school and fascinated by The Manhattan Project that I thought it was horrible that Truman would nuke Japan. Grandpa didn’t get angry, but he told me why I was wrong before quietly leaving the room. You see, Grandpa was sure that, while he was still technically a Pharmacist’s Mate on the hospital ship, he wasn’t there to dispense medicine to wounded marines – he was there to embalm the dead for the long trip home. He pointed out that the allied military expected to lose at least a half-million men in the process of invading Japan, more than had been lost in Europe and the Pacific combined up to that point. He pointed out that, if dropping two bombs saved a half-million American marines, then it was worth it even though he agreed that it was horrible what had happened to the civilians who’d been in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These three men all taught me something that informs my opinions on war today. Don’t go to war if you can at all help it, but if you absolutely have no choice but to wage war, do it completely and without hesitation. War is mechanized murder and it’s immoral even if it is sometimes necessary. Innocent people die. But if you allow fear of killing the innocent or of the “political fallout” from asking your citizens to sacrifice for the war effort to slow your execution of the war, you only make the war worse. Geneva conventions aside, there are no rules in war save one – win fast and win completely. The only thing less moral than war is allowing it to continue forever.
On this Memorial Day, I honor Mr. Roberts, Poppy, and my grandfather for all they taught me over the years.
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United States Holocaust Museum (Dachau crematorium with human remains)
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Kitsap County approves updated Shoreline Management Program
February 1, 2013 · 2:53 PM
PORT ORCHARD — Shoreline regulations for Kitsap County have been approved by the county Board of Commissioners.
The Shoreline Management Program, or SMP, is a state-mandated document that regulates uses near shorelines. The SMP must meet three goals for shoreline management: no net loss of ecological value or function, protect public access to the shoreline, and prioritize water-dependent uses. The plan’s jurisdiction covers 292 miles of marine, lake, river and stream shoreline in the county.
Shoreline in North Kitsap — outside of Poulsbo, which has its own SMP awaiting approval of the Department of Ecology — is zoned either shoreline residential or rural conservancy. The zone affects how large the buffer is, separating development from the ordinary high water mark.
In the Poulsbo/Keyport area, the zones are mainly shoreline residential (85-foot buffer) with spots of rural conservancy (130-foot buffer). Keyport town is zoned urban conservancy (100-foot buffer).
Suquamish is zoned shoreline residential or rural conservancy.
Kingston is zoned rural conservancy, except where the ferry landing is, which is zoned high intensity (50-foot buffer). The Carpenter Creek estuary is zoned natural (200-foot buffer).
Port Gamble town is zoned urban conservancy, and the SMP no longer includes a reference to the master plan proposed by Port Gamble owner Olympic Property Group.
The shoreline along the Hood Canal is zoned shoreline residential. Hansville south to Kingston along Puget Sound is zoned rural conservancy. The Coon Bay residential neighborhood in Hansville is zoned shoreline residential, and a few locations at the tip of the peninsula, such as Foulweather Bluff, are zoned natural.
The latest draft also specified the SMP will be consistent with all applicable federal, state and local laws affecting Tribal rights.
The county last updated the SMP in 1999. However, in 2003, the state updated its guidelines for local jurisdictions to follow. According to the county, this is the first major overhaul of its shoreline regulations in nearly 40 years.
Once received by the county, Ecology will open a minimum 30-day public comment period while it reviews the document. Ecology must send all comments back to the county within 15 days of the closed comment period. The county then has 45 days to prepare a response, including any potential changes to the plan. Ecology has another 30 days to make formal, written findings on whether the SMP is consistent with the Shoreline Management Act guidelines. Ecology can then approve the document as originally submitted, approve with the possible changes made from comments, or direct the county go to back and work on the document more.
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NEW GENEALOGY WEBSITES DATABASES |
History of Snohomish County Washington Volume II - This is a 799 page book and I have two webpages up including the index pages for the book. New Year's Day 2009 and a good start. Unindexed
Presentation pages 501 - 600
Presentation pages 601 - 700
Presentation pages 701 - 799
History of the American Negro in the Great World War
His Splendid Record in the Battle zones of Europe including a resume of his past services to his country in the wars of The Revolution of 1812, The War of the Rebellion, The Indian Wars on the Frontier, The Spanish American War, and the late Imbroglio with Mexico. Lots of pictures. No Index yet.
Placed online December 2008
Great World War Service Roster
Berks Patriotic Order Sons of America, (Berks County PA), lists the names of men who belonged to the organization that fought in WWI. No pictures. Identifies those killed in action, were wounded, died in service, died in camp. No Index yet.
Placed online November 2008
Minidoka Relocation Center
located in Hunt, Idaho.
published by the residents for 1942-1943. No index. Placed online Oct 2008
Sons of the American Revolution
The Register of the Washington State Society - 17 Jun 1895 to 19 Apr 1916...
published by The Washington State Society
the complete book scanned (2007) with index. Placed online Mar 2008
GOVERNORS OF WASHINGTON
Territorial and State by Edmond S. Meany... the complete book scanned and placed online April 2007
Cemetery Records burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Everett WA ... scanned and placed online Mar 2007
Reunion Remembrance placed online May 2009
MORE OF MY GENEALOGY WEBPAGES AND DATABASES ONLINE
Everett's WWII Warriors
1499 clipped newspaper clippings from the Everett Herald (began November 2005 finished July 2006)
Washington High School, Portland Oregon Yearbook
Placed online October 2005
on Orcas Island lived quite a life.
This is the first part of webpages dedicated to her and her families life. Placed online July 2005
With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan counties 1917, 1918, and 1919. Washington U.S.A.
Compiled and Published by Louis Jacobin. Copyright, 1921 from the Press of Peters Publishing Company Seattle, Washington 1921.
It is a listing the young men who served in World War I from Whatcom, Skagit, and San Juan counties. It contains pictures and short biographies. Placed online June 2005
World War II Veterans
A Tribute to the Men and Women from Marysville who served in WWII Placed online May 2005
An Independent Snohomish County Website.
It contains different databases that I have created over the last 9 years relating to Marysville, Everett, and Snohomish County.
Placed online February 2005
their Warrior Alumni
I scanned 44 pages from the Tyee yearbook, University of Washington, 1919, Seattle WA. These pages include a list of University Alumni who died in service during WW1. Also included are snap shots and articles about the men and women who returned. It is one of two WW1 projects that I have finished in September 2004.
Vermont in the World War
I purchase this book to place it online but was disappointed to find that this 700 page book was mostly War history and not
the bios and pictures I was expecting. I scanned over 70 pages that contained list of Vermont men who served in the war, were killed in the war, or received medals. I ended up with an index of over 3800 names.
This website is one of two WW1 projects that I have finished in September 2004
What I know about Yearbooks (with lots of pictures)
In 2004 I spoke at several local societies about yearbooks and what I've learned over the past 16 years. I placed online 52 images from my yearbook collection along with my talk... OK... my talk is
pictorial. Placed online 7 Oct 2004
Mt Vernon High School Yearbooks
I've placed all of the 1935 Mt Vernon High School yearbook on line and the senior and teacher portions of 3 others. There is an combined index for all 4 books.
Placed online September 2004
Yale University 1909
Nearly 300 pages of the History of Class of 1909: 5th Year Reunion Book. Approximately 350 graduates and non graduates of Yale University report on the previous years between graduation in 1909 and 1915.
Marysville Globe Extraction MY STUFF
it's an extraction of all sorts of different events and historical articles for Marysville WA
an on going work.
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I mean for the genealogical and historical information on my over 20,000 webpages to be FREE. The USGenWeb Project is dedicated to that ideal... FREE Genealogy. More of my pages will be moved over to www.wagenweb.com (Washington State's portion of the www.usgenweb.org) because of their policy (FREE GENEALOGY) and to prevent my work from disappearing.
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CANCER AWARENESS DAY
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Janet Floyd, Guest Lectionary Commentator
Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Worship Center, Monroe, LA
Lection - Psalm 10:1-22 (New Revised Standard Version)
(v. 1) Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. (v. 2) Bless the Lord, O my soul and do not forget all His benefits (v. 3) who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, (v. 4) who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, (v. 5) who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (v. 6) The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. (v. 7) He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel. (v. 8) The Lord is merciful and gracious; slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. (v. 9) He will not always accuse, nor will He keep His anger forever. (v. 10) He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. (v. 11) For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him; (v. 12) as far as the east is from the west, so far He removes our transgressions from us. (v. 13) As a father has compassion for His children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear Him. (v. 14) For he knows how we were made; He remembers that we are dust. (v. 15) As for mortals, their days are like grass; (v. 16) for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. (v. 17) But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, (v. 18) those who keep His covenant and remember to do His commandments. (v. 19) The Lord has established His throne in the heavens and His kingdom rules over all. (v. 20) bless the Lord, O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His bidding, obedient to His spoken word. (v. 21) Bless the Lord, all His hosts, His ministers that do His will. (v. 22) Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
I. Description of the Liturgical Moment
Cancer Awareness Day was created to raise awareness in the African American community concerning the rapid spread of cancer and cancer-related diseases among African Americans. “Current statistics suggest that African Americans have the highest mortality rate of any racial and ethnic group for all cancers combined and for most major cancers.”1
Preachers utilize this day to inform their congregants about cancer prevention and early detection, to involve them in the various programs designed to disseminate this information, and to inspire individuals presently living with this disease to continue to live fulfilled and faith-filled lives.
Finally, this day initiates within the context of worship, an opportunity for congregants to memorialize those loved ones who have died of cancer, and invites them to release the anguish we experience when God does not choose to heal in the traditional sense.
II. Biblical Interpretation for Preaching and Worship: Psalm 103:1-22
Part One: The Contemporary Contexts of the Interpreter
As long as I could remember, cancer was a tragedy that always “happened” to other people. As an African American girl growing up in middle-class America, I had heard about cancer. To me, it was just another white peoples’ disease. However, in 1986 my father, my three siblings, and I met the adversary called cancer, and learned that cancer was not just a white peoples’ disease. That year, my mother was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. As children we could have surrendered to the fear of becoming “motherless” children. Instead, my family was encouraged to have hope by our faith in scripture. Through crying and chemotherapy, we learned to bless and believe in the God “that heals all our dis-eases.” We learned as we watched our white neighbor battle brain cancer. We learned as we tasted the “bitterness” of her death, and the “sweetness” of our mother’s life. We never learned however, who and when God decides to heal of that dreaded disease. Rather, we grew to be thankful for the lesson of learning to “bless” God despite it all.
Part Two: Biblical Commentary
Psalm 103, a “song of thanksgiving,” serves as the scriptural context used to discuss Cancer Awareness Day. David begins this Psalm speaking to himself, encouraging his own soul to “Bless the Lord Oh My soul and all that is within me, bless His holy name!” (v. 1) For most, the mere suggestion that one can render thanks while battling cancer raises countless queries.
Can we hope to talk ourselves into an attitude of thanks, while we seemingly walk through cancer’s “valley of the shadow of death?” How does one live in the “light” of Psalm 103 while experiencing the “dark night” of the soul?
David uses this Psalm to empower the believer battling cancer to “bless the Lord” by using various names for God to remind us who God is.
Jehovah-Tsidkenu, “the God of our righteousness” (“tsidek” - to make straight, declare innocent), is the God depicted in verse three. Here, David offers healing for the body by first providing healing for the soul. “He forgives all our iniquities,” David proclaims! Yet not only does He “restore” our souls, as David suggests, but, in the latter half of verse three He is Jehovah-Rophe, “The God that heals us;” he healeth all of our disease! (v. 3)
The question of healing is a profound one for those with cancer. Is the psalmist’s proclamation to be interpreted literally or figuratively? What is healing for the terminally ill? In verse four we see Jehovah-Nissi, “the Lord our Banner,” He who “wars” on our behalf and “redeems” our life “back from destruction.” Is healing the “redeeming of our life from ‘the’ destruction” of the disease itself, a type of remission; is it the “crowning of our heads with ‘the’ loving-kindness” of long life, and total recovery; or, is it the “tender mercy” of death that brings healing to the cancer patient? (v. 4)
When it seems that the final banner waving is more a solemn surrender rather than a sweet victory, how do we remember that his banner over us is love? When recovery does not come in the traditional sense, how do we admonish our soul to “bless the Lord?”
Because the idea of recovery is so subjective for the cancer patient, the idea of renewal is even more suspect. Jehovah-Rophi, the “Lord our shepherd,” is portrayed in verse five. It is the shepherd that “feeds the sheep or “who satisfies my mouth with good things” so that my “youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” While seemingly “sipping life’s bitter dregs,” what “good thing” can the cancer patient possibly “hope” to taste?
Or does the “hope” of the terminally ill lie in the eagle’s renewal? Likened unto the “spirit,” the eagle flies into the “eye of the storm,” shedding her old feathers and receiving new ones. Does the “Spirit” bring renewal for the cancer patient through the storm or at its end? Is it the “shedding” of the disease that brings renewal, or is it the “shedding” of life? (v. 5)
The theme of “remembering” who God is and “forgetting not all of His benefits” is reiterated through the entirety of Psalm 103. From God’s “unfailing love demonstrated to Moses and the children of Israel.” (vv. 6-7) to God’s “amazing grace” that flows to all of His children, this Psalm constantly reminds us of El-Shaddai, “the all sufficient, multi-breasted, mother/father God.” God is abounding in mercy and compassion, especially to those who are in crisis. (vv. 8-13)
But, most importantly, God is the God that remembers, “…that we are dust.” (vv. 14-16) Here lies the hope and healing for the cancer patient and every soul “wrestling” with the dis-eases of life: remembering that we serve a God that never forgets! Because God knows our days are “fleeting,” His ever-present compassion and everlasting love flows unfettered into the life of his children as a “balm in Gilead,” restoring, redeeming, and renewing in ways that amaze the human life and cause the once wounded soul to erupt in “total praise!” (vv. 17-18)
Consequently, we are able to “drink deep from the wells of His eternal love in the worst of times until our souls cry out. ‘He satisfies my mouth with good things!’” Despite how or when this “healing” manifests, we remain fully persuaded that “any way He blesses us, we will be satisfied!”
This powerful Psalm ends as it begins, challenging the soul to “bless the Lord!” (vv. 19-22)
Praise is the weapon, the “healing salve,” we used to heal the “dis-eases” of our lives. Be it “dis-ease” of mind, body, or soul, praise provides the strength for the believer under attack to rise over the enemy victoriously! There is no “ailment” that our God cannot heal! Our Lord is the God that restores, redeems, revives, and renews! Thus, my soul cries out, “Bless the Lord!”
The descriptive details of this passage include:
Sounds: (v. 1) As Psalm 103 would have been sung -- imagine the tone and tenor that would have given depending on the circumstance that urged the psalmist to command his soul to “bless the Lord.” If it was a moment of gratefulness that influenced such lyrics, perhaps a fast tempo, a higher pitch, an instrumental accompaniment. Or, if it was in sorrow that this Psalm was crafted, maybe the vocals deepened, the rhythm slowed and the lyrics were stretched long with the somber tonality of the Negro spirituals. How would a song to encourage your soul sound? and
Sights: (v. 14) God remembers that we are just dust. As a parent looks at his or her child with compassion, remembering the joy of the child’s birth and his/her undeniable connection to the child coming into being, envision God looking at humanity, remembering the joy that came when we were first formed from the dust of the earth. (v. 15) Also, see the pit, eagles, grass and angels doing God’s bidding.
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From Ohio History Central
Lincoln Ellsworth was an important explorer during the 1920s and 1930s.
Ellsworth was born on May 12, 1880, in Chicago, Illinois. He spent part of his youth in Hudson, Ohio, where his father participated in the coal industry. As an adult, Ellsworth became an explorer, focusing his energies on the North and South Poles. In 1925, Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, attempted to travel to the North Pole. They used two airplanes in their attempt, but they fell 150 miles short of their final destination.
In 1926, the two men launched a second attempt to reach the North Pole. They departed from Spitsbergen, Norway in the Norge, a dirigible, which was piloted by Italian Umberto Nobile. The Norge crossed the North Pole on May 12. The men continued across the North Pole, and eventually they landed in Teller, Alaska. The total flight was 3,393 miles in length. Unfortunately for Ellsworth and Amundsen, Richard E. Byrd and his crew had flown across the North Pole on May 9, making Byrd the first man to reach the North Pole.
During the 1930s, Ellsworth focused his efforts on Antarctica. Between 1933 and 1939, he made four separate trips to this continent. In 1935, he discovered the Ellsworth Mountains. Lake Ellsworth and Mt. Ellsworth, both located on Antarctica, were also named in his honor.
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Breastfeeding: How Does Nursing Impact Fertility Charting?
I have been exclusively breastfeeding my four month old and have not had a period yet. My doctor wants to put me on the mini pill but I'd rather not while I'm still nursing. I have heard that breastfeeding offers protection against pregnancy. Is this the case?Question:
While exclusively breastfeeding, nature will reward you with one of the simplest and most effective forms of natural contraception available. You'll benefit if you meet the following three criteria:
- Your menses have not returned.
- You are fully or nearly fully breastfeeding.
- Your baby is less than six months old.
The first criteria is that you have not resumed menstruating. What this means in practice is that any vaginal bleeding before the 56th day is almost always anovulatory (and therefore can be ignored), assuming you are fully or nearly fully breastfeeding. However, any bleeding after the 56th day should be considered a sign of resumed ovulation.
Full breastfeeding means that you are not giving your baby any supplements or pacifiers even if your breastfeeding is nearly full, meaning that you supplement no more than 15 percent of all feedings.
Of course the risk of resumed ovulation is on a continuum, so you should try to breastfeed as close to fully as possible. In addition, full or nearly full breastfeeding means that intervals between feedings should not exceed four hours during the day or six hours at night.
You don't need to chart your fertility signs at all if you meet the criteria above, since it is considered to be at least 98 percent effective. If you were to chart during this time, what you would probably find, though, is that your temps bounce around, never achieving a bi-phasic pattern of lows and highs, since you would probably not ovulate. Also, your cervical fluid would probably tend to be dry day after day until you start weaning and your cycles begin to try to resume their pre-pregnant pattern. | <urn:uuid:4a68b33c-d495-4ff1-a0c9-12bdb568ab21> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ivillage.com/breastfeeding-how-does-nursing-impact-fertility-charting/6-n-137128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964219 | 408 | 2.59375 | 3 |
retail and hotel development poses no health risks.
"I think the toxic issues were explained very well," Jackson said
after hearing from numerous consultants during Monday's nearly six-hour
Planning Board meeting.
The five-member panel will pick up its discussion of the massive
development at 5 p.m. Monday. The board will continue debating the merits
of the center even though the public input session was closed.
Jackson said he didn't see any major snags that would prevent the
board from recommending the project to the City Council, which is
tentatively set to consider it June 6.
In March 1999, Los Angeles-based Zelman Development Companies agreed
to pay Lockheed $69 million for the 103-acre former Plant B-1 property.
Zelman has proposed a commercial center with a mix of retail stores,
office space and two hotels for the site. Initially, Zelman planned to
put an auto dealership on a 12-acre section of the property, but that
deal fell through earlier this year.
On Monday, city planners presented a list of 145 conditions Zelman
must meet to build the project. The conditions require Zelman to soften
expected impacts that run the gamut from increased traffic to new
competition with nearby retail stores, City Planner Paul Deibel said.
To help alleviate congestion, Zelman has agreed to pay the city $10
million for traffic-related improvements.
Questions raised by activists about health risks -- several toxic
chemicals have been found at the property -- were put to rest Monday,
Jackson said, when consultants walked the board through the environmental
"I'm not a toxic scientist," Jackson said. "But it's the most thorough
EIR I've ever seen."
But Jackson said he was still concerned about the project creating
competition for existing businesses, including a proposed Staples office
supply store, which could draw customers away from the Office Depot on
"It's not our position to dictate what businesses come in (to
Burbank)," Jackson said. "But is there enough need for paper clips and
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This is such an important topic, i just had to post about this.
Last week on her show, Oprah talked about the sexual predators that seek to harm innocent children in America. Oprah mentioned The Adam Walsh Child Protection Act,
an act set up by John Walsh, whose son Adam was kidnapped and murdered
in 1981. The Act requires sex offenders to register within their state
so that anyone can access their names and addresses and protect their
families as best as possible. Unfortunately, in July 2009, the act will
have run out of funds, but there is a sample letter on Oprah’s website
you can download, sign and send to your states senate asking them to
comply with the Act. Download the letter here.
is sooo important that we do everything we can to make sure the Adam
Walsh Child Protection Act can continue. It makes me so sad and angry
to think about these monsters harming innocent children. Make sure you
tell your friends and family to download and send in the letter too!!
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[Pink Garden Roses]
Livy from A Field Journal recently mentioned her experiments with applying filters to her wonderful photos. The filters are designed to give the effect of the dust you would find when taking a photo of a plain white wall with a vintage camera. It gives the photo some grit.
[English Gardening Books]
You can find many filters in the Noise and Dust Through the Viewfinder group on Flickr. I loved the look and I used this one. [Update 4:30 pm] I didn't do this correctly until Livy told me exactly what to do and I have updated the instructions. [Note to self: books are meant to be read; the Photoshop book is 12" away!] Here are the correct instructions -
- Copy the filter and create a new layer in your image file.
- In the drop down menu near the top of the layer tray, change "normal" to "multiply" and it will clear the white background in the right places.
- That's it! I corrected all of my images and now they look cohesive. I'd really like to find a unique, recognizable style for my photos and this could be interesting!
[Vintage Drapes + Geranium]
Give it a try; it's so easy ;). And, be sure to take a look at Livy's photos, which are so moody and wonderful. Thanks Livy!
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Where was Sandro Botticelli born?
Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy in 1445
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Energy monitors: Plug-in energy monitors
Socket monitors, also known as plug-in energy monitors, allow you to measure the electricity usage of a single appliance. We haven’t tested plug-in energy monitors in our lab, but we’ve tried out three models to bring you our first impressions.
If you want to monitor the energy usage of your whole home then you’ll need a standard energy monitor (discover which are best in our energy monitors review).
However, if you just want to monitor the electricity usage of individual appliances then you might consider buying a plug-in energy monitor.
The three plug-in energy monitors we tried ranged from £10 to £25 and, while they all gave us the same readings in watts, the additional information they offered and how user-friendly they were varied from model to model.
The monitor that will best suit you depends on the type of information you want to see and how much money you are willing to spend.
Belkin Conserve Insight energy use monitor - £25
This was the most expensive plug-in energy monitor we tried and it was our favourite, thanks to its user-friendly design and clever features.
It is the only monitor we tried that has a display screen that is separate to the plug (attached by a cable). This makes it easier to read the screen as you do not have to bend down to look at the plug socket and it would be particularly useful if your plug socket is in an inconvenient place such as behind your fridge.
The instructions are clear and easy to follow and the display is easy to use and understand. It has just three buttons and displays your usage in terms of watts, pounds and carbon emissions. It’s easy to enter your electricity unit rate (you can find this on your energy bill) and doing this will give you a more accurate estimate of your costs.
We particularly liked the Belkin’s clever averaging function which, once an appliance has been plugged in for at least 45 minutes, will calculate estimated annual costs for the appliance – based on how you use it. It will continue to refine this estimate as long as it is plugged in.
One potential downside of this monitor is that it doesn’t supply as much additional information as the other two sockets in terms of extra measurements like voltage, current and power factor – but unless you specifically need this information, then we don’t think you’ll miss it.
Pros: Very user-friendly, easy to use and understand, clever averaging function.
Cons: Slightly more expensive than others, doesn’t give as much additional information.
Available from: Amazon, Currys, Dixons, PC World
Ecotek energy monitor - £20
This is a more standard-looking plug-in energy monitor, with the screen situated on the plug itself. We found it fairly easy to use although its small dark screen was quite hard to read without bright light.
It offers a lot more information than the Belkin monitor above. As well as giving your real-time usage in watts and cumulative usage in kWh it also offers readings of current voltage (Volts), electric current (Amps), Current mains frequency (Hz), Instantaneous Volt Amperes and Power Factor.
If you need this level of detail then you may find this monitor suits your needs – however we think that for the average consumer who wants to identify power-guzzling appliances in order to cut down their electricity usage, a monitor that simply provides an appliances electricity usage in watts/kWh will probably be enough.
Like the Belkin, this energy monitor has an internal battery so will save your data (such as the electricity unit rate you’ve set) if it is unplugged.
Pros: Gives lots of detail.
Cons: Small dark screen can be hard to read.
Available from: Argos, Homebase, Amazon
Efergy Energy Monitoring socket - £10
This was the most basic of the three plug-in energy monitors we tried. When we unplugged it, it appeared to reset itself and so each time we plugged it in again we had to re-enter our tariff unit rate.
Like the Ecotek energy monitor it offers a lot of information (on top of real-time usage in watts and cumulative usage in kWh) including current voltage (Volts), electric current (Amps), Power Factor and current mains frequency (Hz) - but again you should think about whether you would use all this information before you consider it a benefit.
We found the instructions quite vague but were able to work out how to access the different readings. The monitor has a nice large screen which is easy to read (as long as the plug is in an accessible place)
NOTE: Since we tried out this Energy Monitoring socket, Efergy has launched a new improved version. The new model promises a new LCD screen with clearer and more extensive information (including cost by day and cost by year) and costs £20 from Efergy.com.
Pros: Cheap, offers lots of additional information.
Cons: Loses all data when unplugged.
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Results Around the Web for Neenah
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Congress has seriously lost its way, and it has a terrible case of deficit spending disease that needs a visit to the emergency room or have a house call soon. Our lawmakers must now return to the basics and strive to adopt a balanced budget.
Tax revenue is just not keeping up with Congress’s quest to spend, the deficit is out of control and our nation’s small businesses are being bled dry. Larger businesses, multinationals and the government all have more options than small businesses to address the challenges and opportunities that come with globalization. The global marketplace may not have been fathomable to our forefathers but is reality to us. Over-the-top government spending does not make our small businesses more competitive to fully benefit from globalization.
The daily damage caused by indiscriminate spending and lack of a budget is far reaching and incalculable. Confusion, frustration and disbelief describe the sentiment among small business owners like me.
Deficit spending, pork and special interests make us all less competitive. Small businesses are counting on Congress to lower our costs as a nation.
Let’s start by cutting back on government-sponsored optional quality of life expenses. Quality of life expenses include park expansions, museums, federal grants for projects that make the public’s life more enjoyable, scenic overlooks, beautiful buildings, staff parties, government travel and conferences, study of animal excrement, excess international travel, monuments, holidays with pay, government sick time, government employee benefit programs, celebrations and grants for the study of plants in foreign countries.
Each and every expense should meet some criteria “acid test” as it is proposed. Why are we spending this money? Is there a return on investment (like technology, which ultimately can save money)? Does the investment pay for itself — like a bridge that improves commerce between two separated areas? The government would need to offer the American people an explanation of the benefits of the expense.
Let’s look at the population that receives public assistance in the form of food stamps, housing, transportation, training programs, welfare and unemployment subsidies. Ten percent of those on assistance — especially those who just barely qualify for it — should be dropped.
The government is taking care of more people than it should and employing too many people to serve them.
Our policy makers have the power to turn the tide, and I encourage the 113th Congress to re-explore their purpose, get back to basics, bite the bullet and propose a balanced budget.
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March 10, 2010
There's some irony in the fact that Santa Barbara's museum of historic carriages is surrounded by a parking lot.
All week long during the school year, SBCC students come and go from their cars at the Pershing Park parking lot, probably many of them never knowing that inside the building with the really nice BBQ out front are some of the vehicles that early Santa Babarians used to get around long before the Model T hit the streets. Can you imagine taking a carriage from Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos through the winding canyons below what is now Highway 154 to get to Santa Barbara, and arriving via the steep descent on Old San Marcos Pass Road. Yikes! That must have been a wild ride.
This wall sculpture of a get-up that looks like it could go really fast, but the journey would be bumpy, is on the front of the Carriage and Western Arts Museum, also known as the home of Old Spanish Days. It has a sweet collection of old saddles, including ones that were once owned by Jimmy Stewart, Will Rogers, and Clark Gable.
Even if you never visit the museum, which is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., you can see much of the contents hit the street during Fiesta each summer. Viva la!
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FAA grounds Boeing 787 Dreamliners over battery problemson January 16, 2013 @ 3:19 pm (Updated: 5:43 am - 1/17/13 )
The FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive because of the meltdown of a lithium ion battery and threat of fire on board an All Nippon Airways 787 early Wednesday in Japan that prompted an emergency landing and evacuation.
"Before further flight, operators of U.S.-registered, Boeing 787 aircraft must demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the batteries are safe and in compliance," the FAA said in a statement.
"The FAA will work with the manufacturer and carriers to develop a corrective action plan to allow the U.S. 787 fleet to resume operations as quickly and safely as possible."
The Japanese incident followed a similar one on board another 787 last week at Boston's Logan Airport.
"The root cause of these failures is currently under investigation. These conditions, if not corrected, could result in damage to critical systems and structures, and the potential for fire in the electrical compartment," the FAA said.
United Airlines is currently the only U.S. carrier operating the 787 with six of the new jetliners in service.
Japan's All Nippon Airways and Japan Air Lines both grounded their fleets of 787s earlier Wednesday after the latest incident.
The other airlines currently operating the 787 are Air India, Qatar Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, LAN of Chile and LOT of Poland.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, Boeing wrote:
The safety of passengers and crew members who fly aboard Boeing airplanes is our highest priority.
Boeing is committed to supporting the FAA and finding answers as quickly as possible. The company is working around the clock with its customers and the various regulatory and investigative authorities. We will make available the entire resources of The Boeing Company to assist.
We are confident the 787 is safe and we stand behind its overall integrity. We will be taking every necessary step in the coming days to assure our customers and the traveling public of the 787's safety and to return the airplanes to service.
Boeing deeply regrets the impact that recent events have had on the operating schedules of our customers and the inconvenience to them and their passengers."
"This is a very tough blow to the aircraft and Boeing," said former NTSB head and CBS aviation analyst Mark Rosenker. "Through this airworthiness directive they're going to keep these aircraft on the ground until they can prove to the FAA that the batteries are safe and in compliance with certification."
The FAA had already ordered a review of the 787's critical systems last week following a number of incidents.
Kevin Hyatt, President and CEO of the Alexandria, Va. based Flight Safety Foundation, told KIRO Radio while it was a difficult decision for the FAA, it was the right one to guarantee safety.
"Especially when you start to think about smoke or fire on board, that was probably the point then that more focus was going to be put on this area," he said.
Boeing shares fell two percent in after-hours trading to $72.80 after the FAA announcement.
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Qualcomm Atheros has announced its new QCA1990, a low-power NFC chip that holds the title of being the smallest ultra-low system-on-a-chip currently available. This NFC chip is 50-percent the size of its competitors, and aims to solve the current criticism regarding the battery usage of NFC technology. Samples will begin going out in Q1 of 2013.
The QCA1990 is integrated with the Snapdragon S4, and, according to the press release, creates “seamless user experiences” when used with Qualcomm’s WCN3680 wifi/Bluetooth chip. Also, and perhaps one of its best offerings, the QCA1990 supports antennas that are 8 times smaller than current standards.
What does this mean for consumer technology? While NFC has been generating a nice deal of buzz amongst adopters of the latest and greatest gadgets, many devices still lack the feature due to its energy drain, with many critics saying that Bluetooth 4.0 is a better option. This new chip by Qualcomm puts the kibosh on those arguments, however, and is certainly a step in the right direction.
Qualcomm’s Vice President of Product Management David Favreau offered this statement. “Qualcomm Atheros believes NFC will be another key element of an enriched experience for smartphone and tablet consumers. As consumers continue to adopt functions like mobile payments and contactless data exchange, Qualcomm intends to be at the forefront of delivering simple, easy-to-use solutions to OEM partners.” | <urn:uuid:c1b5842c-44bd-4b99-b2d0-c19901185cf5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-announces-ultra-low-power-nfc-qca1990-chip-06259751/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94414 | 312 | 1.828125 | 2 |
If anything represents the worst fears of Americans these days, it’s the sight of a school building full of police officers, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers. But not this time. President Barack Obama visited a former school in Minneapolis Monday to stand before more than 100 uniformed cops in the hopes of heading off another school massacre or other mass-shooting of the kind that has rocked the country in recent months.
Obama visited a Minneapolis police training facility in North Minneapolis — the building was Hamilton Elementary School until 2005 — to make an emotional plea for what he called “common-sense steps to reduce gun violence” in the hopes of saving lives.
The President, speaking to a small crowd of invited guests and media in the former school gymnasium — a wall still emblazoned with a graphic that said, “Hamiliton Hornets” — called for background checks on every gun buyer and a renewed ban on military-style assault rifles as well as ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. The country, he said, has an “obligation” to try to reduce the number of gun victims, and to make sure that the nation’s police forces are not “out-gunned on the streets.”
At the same time, Obama acknowledged that no number of new laws can entirely prevent the death toll produced by guns, estimated at more than 30,000 a year.
“We may not be able to prevent every massacre or random shooting,” Obama said during his 13-minute speech. “No law or set of laws can keep our children completely safe. But if there’s even one thing we can do, if there’s just one life we can save, we’ve got an obligation to try…We don’t have to agree on everything to agree it’s time to do something. That’s my main message here today.”
The president said that reducing gun violence is a bipartisan issue: “Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are working on a bill that would ban anyone from selling a gun to somebody legally prohibited from owning one,” he said. “That’s common sense. There’s no reason we can’t get that done. That is not a liberal idea or a conservative idea; it’s not a Democratic or Republican idea — that is a smart idea. We want to keep those guns out of hands of folks who shouldn’t have them.”
Despite those comments, the president’s visit featured a Who’s Who of Minnesota Democrats, from Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar to Gov. Mark Dayton, Mayors R.T. Rybak and Chris Coleman, assorted congressmen, state senators and representatives and even former Vice President Walter F. Mondale. There was not a visible Republican on hand — or a conservative, rural Democrat — despite the fact that important bi-partisan efforts in the capitols of Minnesota and the nation are about to begin in the effort to reduce gun violence, and despite Obama’s appeal to all Americans, regardless of political party or their positions on other issues.
“The only way we can reduce gun violence in this country is if the American people decide it’s important,” he said. “If you decide it’s important. If parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, hunters and sportsmen, Americans of every background stand up and say this time it’s got to be different — we’ve suffered too much pain to stand by and do nothing.”
Obama saluted the efforts of public safety officials in Minneapolis to reduce the carnage; the president said the city’s efforts have resulted in 40 percent fewer casualties among young people. He apparently was referring to a 2008 plan called “Blueprint for Action: Preventing Youth Violence.” That plan included four core principles: 1) Making sure all youth have access to trusted adults; 2) helping “at-risk” youths find employment through things like city job programs, 3) reintegrating violent offenders into the community; and 4) “seeking stronger penalties for people who sell and distribute illegal guns.”
Despite recent success at quelling the violence, new Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau, who introduced Obama yesterday, did not mince words: Minneapolis, she acknowledged, has had more than its share of horrors, including the shooting deaths of three small children, aged 2, 3 and 5, since December 2011.
“On a regular basis we see gun violence between rival gangs with several shootings happening just blocks from here,” she said. “And in the last 13 months we have seen horrific incidents right in this neighborhood that have shocked our community to the core.” The president, Harteau said, joined the police and the community in resolving not to accept that kind of continuing violence.
It perturbed at least a few community observers, however, that Obama was standing with uniformed police officers rather than with a combined presence of police and community representatives.
“I feel disappointed that we’re not actually going to the root of some of these problems,” activist Nick Mohammad said after Obama’s speech. “Until we begin to address issues of poverty and unemployment…these are root causes of some of the violence that happens, especially with the youth in these urban areas.”
When asked why Obama chose North Minneapolis as his destination in America’s heartland to push for gun control, Rev. Jerry McAfee of the nearby New Salem Missionary Baptist Church expressed bewilderment.
“To be honest I was confused,” said McAfee. “I’ve been working on violence in this area for quite some time, and if we’re the model for the country, the country’s gonna be in bad shape…The problem that’s hurting us is the proliferation of handguns in our community, and while law enforcement has been heavy-handed on the young man who has the gun, they’ve yet to do anything about how they get the gun.”
Gun violence is no stranger to the Camden neighborhood, where Obama visited. Jimmy Hodgeman, a 50-year-old painter, was shoveling snow on Dupont Ave. N. while waiting for the president to arrive, hoping to catch a glimpse of Obama. Hodgeman said he has seen shootings, break-ins and drug dealing, and often hears the sound of gunfire in the area. “There’s so much crap around here it’s getting ridiculous,” he said.
Hodgeman wasn’t exaggerating: The city’s “ShotSpotter” system recorded about a dozen incidents of gunfire during the last week of January within a mile of where Obama spoke Monday. The week before, there were two shooting victims in the same area.
Whether the President’s gun control initiatives succeed, at least one group of area residents is taking his proposals seriously: Two miles west of where Obama was speaking, at Bill’s Gun Shop and Range just across the North Minneapolis line in Robbinsdale, the store’s 22 firing range lanes were full, the store was crowded with gun shoppers, and business was brisk as the echoes of the muted range fire rang out.
“There’s been a kind of global panic — ‘What if this stuff goes through?’, ” store owner John Monson said, explaining the surge in gun sales since the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting and the unveiling of the president’s gun proposals. “Gun sales definitely are up — we’re being overwhelmed. We can’t bring in enough product to keep on the walls. And we have so many new people practicing on our gun range…it’s crazy.”
Monson agreed with Obama’s assertion that most Americans, including most gun owners, accept the need for background checks to be required before every gun sale. Such already is the case for gun shops like his — all sales require customers to pass a background check. Obama’s plan is intended to close the so-called gun show loophole, in which private gun sales often are conducted without background checks. But the background checks are only as good as the information about a person’s criminal and mental health history that goes into them, Monson said.
“The bad guys aren’t going to go through background checks,” Monson said. “It’s a touchy-feely concept that is not quite as comprehensive as they make it out to be. The kid who did the school shooting in Connecticut? He didn’t buy those guns. They were his mother’s. More background checks are not going to reduce the violence.”
Several models of one of the guns used in the Newtown massacre, a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-assault rifle, are available at Bill’s, priced from about $900 to as much as $1,400.
By the door to the gun shop, signs urged gun owners to attend gun control hearings being held by the Minnesota Legislature this week. Another sign, for sale for $5.95, said, “I’m just a bitter gun owner, clinging to my religion.” The sign mocks Obama’s 2008 primary election comment in Pennsylvania deriding some gun owners.
Still, back at the old Hamilton School, people hoping for an end to the ongoing bloodshed in the country were clinging to their hope that Obama will somehow help reduce the casualty count. One of them was a St. Paul mother named Leigh Block, whose 5-year-old daughter McKayla Nicole, was shot and killed by her ex-husband in 2004. He had borrowed the gun, a 9-millimeter pistol, from a friend, killed his daughter and then killed himself.
“I know not everyone will agree on everything,” Leigh Block said. “But like the president said, we have to do something — anything — to try to save someone.”
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|DOTNUVA: Kaunas county, Kėdainiai district|
Alternate names: Dotnuva [Lith], Dotnovo [Rus], Datnów [Pol], Dotnavos, Dotnava. Датново. 55°21' N, 23°54' E, 5 miles NNW of Kėdainiai (Keidan), in Kaunas district.. 1900 Jewish population: 233. This small town with a 2003 population of 775 in central Lithuania is the geographical center of Lithuania at the village of Ruoščiai, a few kilometers away.
Datnove was a rural town in the Keidan district in the middle of Lithuania, 11 km. from the district capital of Keidan on the banks of the small river, the Dotnuvele. Municipal rights were granted to Datnove in 1637 along with permission to hold market days twice annually. During the period of Russian rule (1795-1915) these lands were given to Graf Kroytz. In an administrative capacity, Datnove belonged to the district of Vilna and after 1843 to the district of Kovno.The railroad from Libau to Romania in the mid-19th century, a station was built next to Dotnuva that encouraged town growth. In 1895 and 1911, large fires occurred. An agricultural school began and enlarged after WWI during Lithuanian independence (1918-1940) Jews from various parts of Lithuania studied there. The Jewish community dates from the first half of the 18th century when the Jewish cemetery also served Keidan and towns in the surrounding area like Montevidova and Berzinski. In the cemetery was a wooden headstone marking the grave of the Vilna Gaon. More likely, the Vilna Gaon visited as a young man on Shavuot. The rabbi's house was in the synagogue courtyard with the Beit Midrash and a "shtibl" for travelers to stay. Nearly all children went to traditional "kheder". The community was known for being traditional. Most Jews engaged in commerce and tanning with some artisans and farmers. The local market day was Tuesday. 120 Jewish families were sent to the interior of Russia during WWI, but only a few returned after the war. Many emigrated to South Africa and America. At the beginning of Lithuanian independence (1921), about 50 Jewish families still lived in Dotnuva. The 1931 census shows businesses owned by Jews including two grain mills, a produce warehouse, fuel dealerships, mixed retail stores, a leather tannery, and a felt factory. In 1937 eight Jewish handworkers in the town included four tailors, a carpenter, a shoemaker, a barber, and a butcher. No Jewish school in town meant children went in institutions in the Keidan area. [March 2009]
Cemetery information. [September 2010]
MASS GRAVE: On June 25, 1941, three days after the German army invaded the USSR, German soldiers reached Dotnuva. While control of the town remained in Lithuanian nationalists' hands, Jews were attacked and forced into hard labor. In August, the Jews were driven from their homes (taking nothing with them) and imprisoned in a monastery next to the village of Kruk.On September 2 (10 Elul) all the Jews were killed along with the other Jews from the district and buried in a mass grave. Fiver years following the war, the survivors from these villages erected a monument over the grave. The Hebrew inscription says "Here Lie the Victims of Fascism," and in Lithuanian, "Those Killed by the German Occupiers." [March 2009]
MASS GRAVE: Near the village of Pestinukai, 1.5 km from Krakes at 55°24' N 23°44' E; 101; pic. # 110-111 US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
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Saturday, 25 February 2012
Our final 'heroes & heroines' themed family trip took us to the rather wonderful Florence Nightingale Museum based at St.Thomas Hospital in Westminster.
After a hectic trip across Westminster Bridge (where we saw Big Ben the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye) we were greeted by Florence Nightingale at the museum.
Children and parents were transfixed as Florence Nightingale told us her amazing story. During the Crimerian War 150 years ago, she changed the way injured soldiers were cared for in hospital. She described the awful conditions that soldiers suffered before she cleaned up the hospitals and made sure there was proper equipment and medication.
Finally, families took part in interactive activities which included dressing up! The trip was part of Stepney Partnership's holiday and weekend programme.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
What an amazing afternoon for Stepney Partnership families! IK Brunel (well, Robert, Director of the Museum who dressed up as him) met us on the platform at Wapping train station. He gave us a brief talk about the Thames Tunnel before taking us on a tour of the river and the Brunel Museum.
We did some excellent mask making with Lucy. Children and parents chose different 'characters' that would be part of the tunnel building process.
Finally, we went on an underground adventure, squeezing our way into a a huge and cavernous underground space which used to be the grand entrance to the Thames Tunnel. We did some singing in the dark, and made our way carefully above ground (the lights refused to come back on!).
Thanks to everyone at the Brunel Museum, we recommend that you make a visit there sometime! The trip was part of Stepney Partnership's holiday activities and linked to the family homework theme of 'heroes and heroines'.
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Stepney Partnership ran a 'heroes and heroines' storytelling adventure today with Rez Kabir. Rez had families spellbound as he told three stories from around the world about different heroes and heroines including 'Thesius and the Minotaur' and 'The Monkeys and the Haunted Bell'.
Families then got a chance to make up their stories which included mad characters including evil robots and superdogs! Families used musical instruments to help tell their stories.
Big thanks to Rez!
The workshops were part of Stepney Partnership's holiday activities and linked to the family homework theme of 'heroes and heroines'.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Well done to children across the five primary schools who took part in the Stepney Maths League earlier today. Thanks to Smithy Street for hosting the event, and well done to the children from Smithy Street for winning the heat. | <urn:uuid:a3beef3d-d3b1-487d-8858-97f4b23e89ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stepney-partnership.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970732 | 558 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Staff Development and Resources
At PSD everyone is a learner!
We offer an array of both human and material support services to ensure quality teaching and learning by our students and staff:
- Lead and mentor teachers work closely with classroom staff on planning and differentiation of instruction.
- An Educational Resource Center and various book/material repositories are available on campus to support instructional development and adaptations.
- Academic technology resources include PC and Apple laptops, iPads, interactive whiteboards (Smartboards), document cameras, and digital cameras for student and teacher use. Regular workshops and training sessions on use and applications are scheduled throughout the school year.
Professional growth at PSD is robust and comes in a variety of formats. Collegial and collaborative learning is an integral part of the culture of our school. In addition to a formal inservice program, PSD offers short courses, professional learning communities, vertical and content collaboration time, tuition and professional membership reimbursement, opportunities to attend and present at conferences and more. Each teacher devises an individually tailored professional growth plan every year. Para educators pursue state credential certification and annual training. | <urn:uuid:d27ccbfe-169e-4703-b8cf-29ae92308b03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psd.org/page.cfm?p=395 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946077 | 225 | 1.992188 | 2 |
This winged monster has the body of a lion, though two more heads flank its central feline one—a dragon and a horned goat.
Chimera CR 7
CE Large magical beast
AC 19, touch 10, flat-footed 18 (+1 Dex, +9 natural, –1 size)
hp 85 (9d10+36)
Fort +9, Ref +7, Will +6
Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. (poor)
Melee bite +12 (2d6+4), bite +12 (1d8+4), gore +12 (1d8+4), 2 claws +12 (1d6+4)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attacks breath weapon (usable every 1d4 rounds)
Str 19, Dex 12, Con 17, Int 4, Wis 13, Cha 10
Base Atk +9; CMB +14; CMD 25 (29 vs. trip)
Environment temperate hills
Organization solitary, pair, pride (3–6), or flight (7–12)
Breath Weapon (Su) A chimera's breath weapon depends on the color of its dragon head, as summarized on the table below. Regardless of its type, a chimera's breath weapon is usable once every 1d4 rounds, deals 6d8 points of damage, and allows a DC 17 Reflex save for half damage. The save DC is Constitution-based. To determine a chimera's head color and breath weapon randomly, roll 1d10 and consult the table below.
|d10||Head Color||Breath Weapon|
|1–2||Black||40-foot line of acid|
|3–4||Blue||40-foot line of lightning|
|5–6||Green||20-foot cone of acid|
|7–8||Red||20-foot cone of fire|
|9–10||White||20-foot cone of cold|
Chimeras are monstrous creatures born of primordial evil. Hateful and hungry, they hunt on the ground or in the air. A chimera's dragon head may be of any evil dragon type, with the corresponding breath weapon, and its wings usually match the scales on its head. Chimeras speak with three overlapping voices, but rarely do so, typically only when playing toady to a more powerful creature. A chimera is 5 feet tall at the shoulder, nearly 10 feet long, and weighs 700 pounds.
Chimeras prefer meat but can subsist on vegetable matter if necessary (although being forced to do so generally leaves the beasts more ill-tempered than usual). Their flight means they can pick and choose their prey, and they usually hunt a large area in search of easy food. They are too stupid and belligerent to acquire followers, though sometimes a tribe of kobolds might give them offerings. Conversely, they are just intelligent and stubborn enough that they make poor pets, and only a significantly more powerful creature can keep them submissive. They may form equal partnerships with a respectful humanoid or similar creature, and even consent to be used as a mount. A pride of chimeras is very leonine in its hierarchy, with a dominant male leading the group and most of the hunting done by the females. A solitary chimera may be a young male or a female with cubs nearby. | <urn:uuid:a13fee50-c7da-4a8b-b694-d936c3aefe98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/chimera.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905814 | 701 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Barber of Seville : Work information
- Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Compagnia d'Opera Italiana, Antonello Gotta (Conductor)
- Work name
- The Barber of Seville
- Work number
- 1816-01-01 02:00:00
- Recording date
Gioachino (Antonio) RossiniRossini’s parents were both musicians, and lived in Bologna, Italy. His father was a horn player and his mother was a singer, and they both taught their son. It is known that Rossini sang in at least one opera when he was a boy. His career as a composer began early in his life, when, at age 18, he wrote a one-act opera which was performed in Venice. He soon began to receive commissions from all over Italy, including Bologna, Ferrara, Venice and Milan. Rossini’s first big success was at La Scala in Milan, with La Pietra del Paragone (1812). He wrote seven operas in 16 months, and all but one of them were comic.
Rossini’s first international success came in 1813 when he was still in his early twenties, when he wrote several operas for Venice. These include L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian in Algiers), one of his most enduring comic operas. He also wrote operas for performance in Milan, but these were not quite so successful. In 1815 Rossini went to Naples and became Musical and Artistic Director of the Teatro San Carlo. While there, he wrote some comic operas for other opera houses, such as Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber Of Seville) (1816). This was a failure at first, but later became very popular and was acclaimed by such composers as Beethoven and Verdi .
In 1817 Rossini also wrote La Cenerentola, but his prestigious post prompted him to write more serious operas, and these are some of the most complex of his works. They include Otello (1816) and Maometto II (1820). It was also around this time, in 1822, that Rossini married the principal soprano at Naples, Isabella Colbran. She was the mistress of the impresario Barbaia, and the marriage quickly became unhappy.
Rossini left Naples and returned to Bologna, and shortly afterwards left for London. He then went to Paris in 1823, and took on the directorship of the Théâtre-Italien, composing for that theatre and the Opéra. It was here that he wrote Guillaume Tell (William Tell).
At the age of 37, Rossini retired from composing opera. He lived with Olympe Pélissier, and in 1837 left Paris to live in Bologna once again. He became ill and hardly composed at all. His estranged wife Isabella died in 1845, and the next year he married Olympe, with whom he had now lived for 15 years. One notable composition from this time is his Stabat Mater.
Rossini, by now an respected musical figure, was often called upon to give his opinion of new works, and so it was that during this period that he is said to have remarked, "One can't judge Wagner 's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
In 1855 Rossini returned to Paris much healthier, and began to compose in earnest once again. It was in Paris that he wrote the highly popular Petite Messe Solennelle (1863), scored for piano, harmonium and singers. He died in 1868, a very popular figure and one who had brought a great deal of lyricism and wit into both opera and other forms of music.
Rossini's masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is generally regarded as the finest of all comic operas. Composed in just three weeks under the title Almaviva, ossia L'inutile precauzione to distinguish it from Paisiello's opera of the same name, Il barbiere di Siviglia was comissioned by the Teatro Argentina to close the Roman carnival season.
Hurried preparations meant the first performance of the opera on 20 February 1816 was a disaster. However, the only item altered was the overture; Rossini simply substituted the overture from his earlier opera Aureliano in Palmira. Popular and critical acclaim soon followed, with Beethoven and Verdi, in particular, voicing their approval.
The excellent libretto by Sterbini was based on Beaumarchais' 1775 play, and provided Rossini with some wonderful characters and dramatic situations. Highlights of the opera include the rapid patter of Bartolo's A un dottor della mia sorte; Basilio's La calunnia, which features the famous Rossini crescendo; and Figaro's popular Largo al factotum. | <urn:uuid:276f1447-745b-4dca-b05b-1fb0d27e90ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.classical.com/work/2147487070 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982831 | 1,091 | 2 | 2 |
My "belt-and'suspenders" way of avoiding valve problems is as follows.
In Addition Douglas Tate said on Mon Jan 29, 2001: Further to Vern's post about the teflon valves. Vern is quite right in what he quoted me as having said. When these valves are well fitted they stay FLAT... they just DIE in place. Quite frequently this stuff comes in rolls. Inevitably, when you unroll it there is some curvature left. You can try to take the curve out completely of the whole sheet but we wait until the material is cut into 1/8" wide strips. After a LOT of experimenting we have found that a strip about 6 1/2" long is great... (the sheet is 13 inches wide.) We cut a couple of dozen strips and keep them in a stoppered tube (easy to slide them out and they lay flat in there). To get rid of the curve in the material, if there is one, do this. On a piece of white paper draw a black, thin, straight line. If you now look down on the paper and hold the end inch or so of the strip on edge a few inches above the line you can see if it is straight because it will disappear into the line. For even more accurate 'measuring hold it a tiny bit to one side of the line... it is easier to judge the straightness by the amount of white between the teflon and the black line! If you see that it is curved smooth out the curve between thumb and forefinger. and check again... ONLY work with a bit more than a reed length... then glue the whole strip onto the reed plate. When the glue is dry slice off the unwanted bit. **Tip** Slice it level with the corner of the reed pad next to the reed you are doing in the same hole. That is where the end of the slot is. This sounds fiddly... and is. We have been putting these valves on Renaissance harmonicas for two years now. We have one VERY wet player who finds that they last many times as long as standard or micropore flaps before needing washing... and he finds them easier to wash. If you are a wet player you will stick ANYTHING in time. I have got one valve that is starting to stick after two years and will wash it ...... tomorrow ... maybe. This information may be used in any non profit making way. Any alteration to the wording MUST be approved by me. I have to repeat our debt to Vern for pointing us to this material and being kind enough to send us a sample in the first place. Douglas Tate Partner with Bobbie Giordano. ILUS Harmonicas.
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Cardinal Elementary School is located in Maquoketa, IA and is one of 2 elementary schools in Maquoketa School District. It is a public school that serves 299 students in grades PK-2.
Cardinal Elementary School made AYP in 2007. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of Iowa in terms of student performance and other accountability measures. See Cardinal Elementary School's test results to learn more about school performance.
Student Economic Level (2011)
In 2011, Cardinal Elementary School had 67% of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch programs. Iowa had 38% of eligible students for free or reduced price lunch programs. Eligibility for the National School Lunch Program is based on family income levels.
The Maquoketa spends $9,903 per pupil in current expenditures. The district spends 66% on instruction, 29% on support services, 4% on other elementary and secondary expenditures. More about Maquoketa District
In 2011, Cardinal Elementary School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Iowa average is 14 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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The Romance of the Middle Ages
The Romance of the Middle Ages
28 January — 13 May 2012
Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library
Old Schools Quad
Curator: Dr Nicholas Perkins
In Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford, 2010), James Simpson argues that the post-Enlightenment museum neutralizes its contents as well as preserving them. Objects preserved in the archives of research libraries, however, are subjected to a different kind of ideological neutralization. The immensely important collections of libraries such as the Bodleian are, for the most part, kept out of sight and only made available to researchers. All too often when such collections are exhibited, only the most beautiful and richly-illuminated objects are chosen – a tendency which reflects the primarily art-historical focus of most manuscript exhibitions.
The Bodleian’s current exhibition, The Romance of the Middle Ages, is unusual: it places objects usually available only to researchers in a gallery setting. Even more importantly, it chooses not to focus only on aesthetic beauty, offering instead a narrative of a literary mode’s transmission and development through more than 800 years of history. While some of the objects on display are beautiful and ornately decorated, many of them are not – but they are all culturally significant.
The exhibition consists of thirteen cases in a fairly small room, but this initial impression of a modest offering is immediately refuted by the cases’ contents. The first case contains the earliest surviving copy of the Old French Chanson de Roland, a text which became a keystone of French national identity in the nineteenth century, and which now occupies a position in the French literary canon analogous to that of Beowulf for the British.
Other treasures abound: these include the Vernon Manuscript, one of the largest surviving medieval vernacular codices, and MS Arch Selden B. 24, an immensely valuable anthology of texts including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. Remarkably, the British Library has lent both the Percy Folio, a unique collection of ballads and popular poetry, and one of their most important medieval books, the sole surviving copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. But this embarrassment of riches is not displayed as a collection of treasures only worth seeing for their rarity. The most impressive achievement of the exhibition is to organize all of these literary monuments into a coherent narrative. Pieces of text accompanying the objects give an accessible, but never reductive account of the development of medieval romance and its cultural significance, both in the Middle Ages and afterwards. Manuscripts and printed books form the core of the exhibition, but are supplemented by objects – rings, ivory caskets, and tiles – as well as illustrative pre-Raphaelite paintings and engravings. The exhibition’s final case contains objects revealing medieval romance’s influence on twentieth-century fantasy texts, from the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien to Monty Python.
The ideological purpose of The Romance of the Middle Ages is one of education and access. A generous programme of free public lectures and tours took place earlier in the run, and the exhibition’s website is a rich supplementary resource. These supporting materials make sure that the objects on display are as accessible and comprehensible as possible during their brief stay outside their protective – but also culturally isolating – archives. The exhibition runs until May 13th – once it closes, many of the objects displayed will not return to public view for a long time: have a look while you still can.
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Xikomba Oil Field, Angola
ExxonMobil's Xikomba deepwater development in Angola, West Africa, is located in the north-west corner of Block 15, approximately 230 miles (370km) north-west of Luanda in water depths of up to 4,850ft (1,480m). The field was discovered in 1999. Recoverable reserves have been put at around 100 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Xikomba's development is divided into two parts - Xikomba A and B. First oil from Xikomba A was achieved in 2004, with a production plateau of around 80,000 barrels a day. First oil from Xikomba B was achieved in 2005.
In addition to Esso (operator, 40%), other participants in Block 15 are BP Exploration (Angola) (26.67%), Agip Angola Exploration (20%) and Statoil Angola (13.33%). Sonangol is the concessionaire.
Xikomba is a light, low-sulphur crude. Crude characteristics are:
- API: 34.7°
- SG: 0.8514
- Sulphur: 0.39mass%
- Pour point: 3°C
- TAN: 0.16mg KOH/g
- Nickel: 12.0wppm
- Vanadium: 5.0wppm
- Viscosity (50°C): 4.71cSt
In May 2011, ExxonMobil announced that production at the field will cease, as the reserves have depleted. A peak production of 90,000 barrels a day has been achieved at the field. Exxon is currently in the process of decommissioning the field.
Construction and development of the West African oil field
Xikomba has been developed by subsea wells tied back to a combined floating production and storage ship. FPSO Xikomba has deadweight of 257,000dwt and a storage capacity of 1,700bbl. The FPSO is owned by Sonasing, a joint venture between SBM and Sonangol. It is based on the conversion of the former VLCC tanker Mosocean.
The oil is stored in twelve crude oil tanks, although the vessel also has two slop tanks for the cleaned produced water, as well as three water ballast tanks. Crude is transferred every three to four days to a shuttle tanker approaching the FPSO from the stern, where the two vessels are connected by floating hose.
FPSO Xikomba's accommodation facilities can house 85 people in one and two bed cabins. The facilities also contain the central control and radio rooms.
With the end of operations at the field, FPSO Xikomba is planned to be upgraded and relocated to Eni's block 15/06.
Nine-well subsea development at Angola's Xikomba field
Xikomba is a nine-well subsea development - four production wells, four water injection wells and a gas injection well. The subsea facilities are connected to the surface by two 10in production risers. There are also two 8in water injection risers, an 8in gas injection riser and three umbilicals.
These enter the FPSO at the swivel stack in the bow. The swivel stack consists of a 6in gas injection, HP utility, electric, LP utility, 6in pigging and 10in water injection swivels. There are also two 12-production lines and two 12in test lines.
In total, the processing facilities have a capacity of 20 million ft³/d, a water injection capacity of 90bbl/d and a gas injection capacity of 95 million ft³/d.
Topside processing modules linked to ExxonMobil's deepwater oil development
The topsides consist of 16 main modules varying in weight from 170t to 1,100t, all of which were fabricated in the UAE. These include the HP separator (module 1) and the low pressure and electrostatic treater (module 2).
Module 4 is the gas injection / gas lift facilities and the gas is dehydrated in module 6. The water is treated in module 9 and then pumped out at high pressure by two dual fuel turbine driven water pumps on module 10, before being routed through the swivel path to the water injection wells.
Module 11 has the heating cooling and electricity services. The heating uses steam from the vessel's boilers. Cooling is by seawater.
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The New City Beautiful
On a brilliant blue sky day in May, a shining silver fish jumps the rapids of Whatcom Creek past the old marble city hall building in Bellingham, Washington, darting amid the rivulets under the Holly Street Bridge and making its way to the sea. Standing with sketchbooks in hand, schoolchildren and teachers cheer wildly as it passes beneath them.
Cheering, also, farther upstream, is a group of stream restoration volunteers, who have spent many cold, grey days ripping out Himalayan blackberry vines and knotweed to restore the riverbanks with native grasses—so they can see salmon return.
“Got a big white thing on his nose!” yells Wendy Scherrer, director of the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association.
Mike McRory, one of the founders of the 15-year old organization, confirms its identity: “It's a steelhead!” While not leaping 10 feet in the air like the legendary salmon of a century ago, this wild steelhead has returned to spawn in a creek that once suffered from a legacy of logging, milling, and dumping.
“In the past, we straightened the creek, channelized it, buried it, and used it as a sewer and garbage dump,” says Scherrer. “Now we're bringing salmon back into the heart of downtown.”
Better habitat and the return of a cultural icon are just some of the city's successes, she says, which have extended to the whole landscape. The city also closed down an old sewage treatment plant, turning it into a fish hatchery, and transformed the site of an old town dump into an environmental learning center, where the students today are learning the salmon cycle.
This spot is also specially sanctified. Just a few miles upstream, tragedy struck the city in June 1999 when a pipeline bringing gas from Canada ruptured, spurting nearly a quarter million gallons of fuel into the creek. Minutes later, the fuel ignited and exploded, engulfing parts of Bellingham in a fireball and killing three boys fishing in the creek.
One of the boys was 18-year old Liam Wood. Soon after, his mother established a memorial fund in his honor that went toward further creek restoration. Now, as people walk along Whatcom Creek, they can pass through “Wayside Park,” built in Liam's honor.
Time spent restoring the creek helped the community channel their grief and anger over the pipeline catastrophe into something productive and beautiful, says Scherrer. The creek also served to bring the community together around a vision of building a sustainable city.
A corner of the city hall parking lot has been retrofitted with a small “rain garden” to collect and filter storm water. There's a “buy local” campaign here called “Sustainable Connections” that promotes local farms and industries. Most importantly, the city is embracing “smart growth,” channeling new growth into city neighborhoods instead of rural areas, as an answer to its growing problem of urban sprawl. When Bellingham showed up in USA Today ranked eighth in the nation among smaller cities for sprawl, it came as a shock to this city of 70,000 residents.
But look at most towns across America and you see the hand of sprawl across the landscape, in traffic congestion, air and water pollution, loss of farmland, and a crying need for parks and open spaces.
We're finding also that the suburban development model is linked to our physical diseases and mental stress—everything from heart disease to depression to obesity—says Lawrence Frank, a researcher at the University of British Columbia.
But there's hope. Just as the “City Beautiful” movement at the turn of the 20th century transformed America's ideas of urban design, today's planners and designers are turning to new models for reclaiming cities and retrofitting suburbs. A century ago, planners tried to lift America's newly industrialized cities out of their congestion and squalor by infusing them with Beaux Arts architecture and civic planning borrowed from Europe and building parks to provide places of fresh air and sunlight. That movement died with the birth of the automobile age after World War I, when planners reshaped cities to accommodate cars and promoted development of residential areas in the suburbs—thought at the time to be the “healthy” antidote to urban life.
Today, an urban sustainability movement is inspiring architects and city planners to shape new visions of city life, whether it's remaking old downtowns and industrial wastelands, incorporating green space, or channeling new growth smartly. Community activists, too, are coming up with new ways of making neighborhoods and cities healthier—ecologically as well as socially. Here are some tools they're using.
The life of downtown
Vancouver, Canada, always rates high in surveys gauging cities for livability and quality of life. Blessed with a mild climate, it is surrounded by majestic mountains and sea. But it was good planning that enabled the city to capitalize on its virtues—and views—with massive downtown redevelopment projects that created a lively mix of high- rise towers, shopping districts, and urban parks.
Starting in the 1950s, says Gordon Price, a former city councillor and planner, Vancouver focused on keeping its downtown neighborhoods alive and housing affordable. To this day, it draws a widely diverse population to its West Coast brand of high-rise living, with an outdoorsy lifestyle of walking, biking, and using public transit.
Its “Livable Region Strategic Plan” stresses not just “smart growth” development of compact, mixed-use neighborhoods, but also what it terms “complete neighborhoods” designed to promote “jobs closer to where people live and accessible by transit, shops, and services near home, and a wider choice of housing types.” This strategy also protects from development “green zones,” including parks, watersheds, ecologically vital lands, and farmlands.
Vancouver's history provides many lessons, says Tom Hauger, a planner for the city of Seattle. “First, they decided, ‘there will be no freeways in our city,' and second, they sold vast tracts of land to developers with strict conditions,” he says. That allowed the city to design a mix of densities and heights of buildings, street connections, walkways, and public space in one attractive package.
Vancouver continues to inspire planners with the longest of long-term planning. A few years ago, Greater Vancouver drafted a 100-year plan called “Cities Plus” (Cities Planning for Long-term Sustainability) that anticipates handling global warming, air pollution, sprawl, overflowing landfills, water shortages, disease, and terrorism through strategies to conserve energy and water.
Forests, waterways and watersheds, parks, and other green spaces have often ended up as casualties of planning. As cities lose more trees and open space, community leaders are uniting around the idea of viewing green space as not only essential to replenishing the human spirit, but also as a form of essential infrastructure like roads, water lines, or sewers. In fact, they have begun calling trees and other vegetation “green infrastructure” because they are so valuable to the economy and functioning of cities.
Trees provide vital services in a globally warming world. They absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. They prevent the “urban heat island effect,” the phenomenon by which cities run higher temperatures because they are paved over with concrete and other surfaces that absorb rather than reflect the sun's heat. And trees absorb and clean storm-water that runs off streets.
And green infrastructure often does the job better than anything human-built, for much less money, as groups like the Tree People in Los Angeles and Cascade Land Conservancy in Seattle argue. Take storm-water management. With conventional approaches, runoff from roofs and roads is channeled into underground pipes and into lakes and streams, an expensive process that also causes too much water to flow too quickly, disrupting habitat for fish and picking up pollutants from city streets and yards, spoiling water quality for all. Trees and vegetation slow, collect, and filter flowing water, and replenish aquifers.
Enter the “green street” concept. In this, Seattle, the city of rainstorms, is leading the way. The city constructed the Street Edge Alternative (S.E.A.-Street) pilot project with a group of citizens. In this innovative streetscape, designers wove winding landscaped areas along the road edge to filter and slow the runoff into nearby Piper's Creek.
Some of these projects rise to the level of a new artform. The “Growing Vine Street Project,” designed by Carlson Architects and Peggy Gaynor, which carries storm-water over eight blocks of Seattle's downtown, features a streamlet coursing downhill over a series of water and plant terraces that act as biofilters for stormwater, as well as walkways and gardens to be enjoyed by passersby. On one building hangs artist Buster Simpson's playful gutter system, the “Beckoning Cistern,” with a downspout shaped like an outstretched hand.
A green street can vary with locale. While a street may sculpt waterfalls of rain in Seattle, another might celebrate a sun shower over adobe in Santa Fe.
Taming the car, unleashing feet
Cars take 40,000 lives each year in the United States and are the leading cause of death of young people. In 2003, 4,827 Americans died while crossing the street, walking to school or work, going to a bus stop, or strolling to the grocery store, among other daily activities. Yet simple measures like crosswalks and speed-limit enforcement helped reduce that death toll.
At the same time, not walking is also dangerous to one's health, because it contributes to obesity. Research shows that Americans walk so little not out of laziness, but because of the popularity of suburban living, which dictates car travel and sedentary behavior. Not surprisingly, research shows people are more likely to walk if it's convenient for them and if it is an aesthetically pleasing experience.
Across the country, cities are establishing new traffic-calming measures, from round-abouts to chicanes, which curve the street to slow traffic. Some are adopting European-style traffic-calming road forms, like the Dutch woonerf (“Living Yard') in which cars defer to pedestrians, bicycles, and other human powered forms of transport.
A woonerf typically features winding paths and street furniture, along with play areas, unusual paving stones, and signage to indicate that non-motorized transport rules the space. Berkeley's “slow street,” a six-block area combining speed bumps and weaving, shifting travel lanes, may be the closest official version in the United States. Seattle's city planner Tom Hauger says that the streets feeding the city's Pike Place Market, where shoppers, strollers, and itinerant street musicians freely walk amidst parked vehicles, might be considered an ad hoc woonerf.
Bicycles, as author John Ryan writes, are the most energy-efficient form of travel ever invented: “Pound for pound, a person on a bicycle expends less energy than any creature or machine covering the same distance.” And, of course, bicycles, without burning any fossil fuels, are great burners of human calories. While European cities are miles ahead of us in terms of bike lanes, signage, bike rentals, and bike parking, there have been some improvements here. Witness the rise of the “Bike Station,” which has popped up in a number of cities on the West coast. These offer secure bike parking for people riding bikes to public transit or to offices and shops. Many are staffed and offer commuting tips; others offer bike repair. The Cadillac of bikestations in the U.S., however, is Chicago's, which offers shower facilities. In Holland, Germany, and France, where there are many more services for bicyclists, 30 percent of the population regularly cycles to get from place to place, say researchers.
From brownfield to green
Despite its peerless view overlooking the Olympic Mountains, Seattle's industrial waterfront is fouled by a century of logging, shipping, refining, and toxic dumping. But, like many cities that find their cores riddled with contaminated sites, its community leaders are coming together to remake the waterfront. They hope to tear down a post-war, earthquake-vulnerable viaduct that carries truck traffic through the city and redevelop the land as a big civic park.
Re-using former industrial sites, called “brownfields,” can be an important strategy for economic development. Although hundreds of brownfield sites still litter the landscape, federal policies now encourage their redevelopment. Some are redeveloped along ecological lines. One of the most exciting examples is Chicago's Center for Green Technology, designed by Doug Farr. Built on the former site of an illegal garbage dump, the Center now houses a solar panel factory, as well as community landscaping and job training programs. A further bonus: the Center boasts that it is the only brownfield redevelopment in an urban district accessible by transit.
One way to build sustainability into cities is to design green buildings. That's important because buildings, in their construction and operation, use half the energy we expend as a nation—more even than the fuel burned by cars and trucks.
At the same time, construction demolition and disposal generate a quarter of the waste in landfills.
Under a self-certifying rating system called LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), building developers accumulate credits for saving energy and water and using recycled materials. Already, the green building movement has created a shift in the way architects and planners go about their work, says Lynne Barker, a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, the non-profit council that manages the certification process. In the five years since the council created its standard, more than 3 percent of all new construction uses it.
When it comes to “green urbanism,” extending sustainable practices beyond buildings to neighborhoods and cities, there are few examples in the United States, but a growing number in Europe. London, for example, has its “Bed Zed” (Zero Energy Development), 100 densely packed but attractively designed apartments with roof gardens. The complex generates energy from on-site solar and renewable sources, adding zero carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
Across North America, however, despite its daunting challenges, the quest for urban sustainability is extending to cities big, mid-sized and small. Chicago bested Seattle by building a “green roof” on its city hall a few years before Seattle did, proving that a roof planted over with hardy, drought-resistant, native plants could effectively cool the building and lessen the city's heat island effect. Cities like Vancouver are pragmatically preparing for “unthinkable” global warming scenarios while trying to imagine their best options. What would it take for your city to become a green city beautiful?
Francesca Lyman is a Seattle journalist writing a book on cities. She thanks the CASE Media Foundation for a fellowship to Western Washington University last year that helped support the research for this article. Send further suggestions on urban innovations to her at chicha19 @ comcast.net.
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An E. coli outbreak linked to tainted lettuce has sickened at least 19 people in Ohio, New York and Michigan, including students on at least two college campuses, prompting a recall throughout much of the country.
Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, says it is recalling romaine lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Federal health authorities say 12 of those sickened were hospitalized and three reported life-threatening symptoms. The CDC says it is looking at 10 other cases probably linked to the outbreak.
College students at Ohio State in Columbus and Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y., are among those affected, according to local health departments in those states. Nine of the 10 confirmed cases in Michigan were in Washtenaw County, where the University of Michigan is located. It could not be determined immediately, however, whether that school was affected. | <urn:uuid:bc3d9279-2260-49e9-9287-796790696546> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Lettuce-Scare-Outbreak-of-E-Coli-in-NY-93033779.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976673 | 177 | 2.203125 | 2 |
"This is where all the skaters go," said Alvin Parker last week, as he rode his board up the side of a portable wooden skateboard ramp in Gentilly. Parker clarified his remark: Well, it used to be the premier destination for skaters, said Parker, 21, a photography and design student at Delgado Community College. The freestanding wooden ramp is the only piece that remains of what for two years was the Peach Orchard, a thriving, do-it-yourself skateboard park with its own Facebook page that drew boarders from all over the state.
On weekends, young skaters from all over the city rolled and walked, sometimes with parents in tow, or took buses and rolled down city streets to reach the park, which was tucked between the Interstate 610 overpass and the railroad tracks, near the intersection of Paris Road and Pleasure Street. But earlier this month, heavy equipment from Norfolk Southern Railway rolled onto the concrete slab, a segment of Humanity Street left from before the freeway was built, neighbors say.
As the park gained in popularity, it drew a mix of black, white and Hispanic skateboarders. Some were young people in their first real jobs, others were professionals like doctors and lawyers. A good number were students from elementary school-age on up, including a growing number of young girls. What they had in common was a love of skateboards.
In recent months, the park attracted 30 or 40 people at a time. Train engineers blew their whistles and waved as they rode by. Skateboarders routinely drove from Mandeville and Slidell and occasionally from even farther away.
The backhoe left behind only the portable wooden ramp that Parker had skated last week and a skateboardable wooden picnic table that artist Skylar Fein made for them with reinforced angles and iron on the edges. But it smashed away at the quarter-pipe ramps that lined the ends of the park, obliterated the corner pocket and ruined the long rectangular grind box that skaters could jump onto and off.
Railway spokeswoman Susan Terpay said that the railroad owns 100 feet on both sides of the track and confirmed that railway heavy equipment tore down the park earlier this month. "It was built on Norfolk Southern property," she said.
"It took them 40 minutes to undo two years worth of work," said Joey O'Mahoney, 28, one of a group of friends who wanted to learn how to skateboard but found the wooden ramps too flimsy. So they found the Humanity Street slab and began to build a place to learn that was made of sturdier materials, usually rubble covered with about three inches of concrete, some decorated with bright paint with wildstyle graffiti on top, others with peace signs and smiley faces. "Every single patch of concrete is a work of art to us," he said.
Terpay said that the park "was frequented by teenagers and people in their early twenties" and that recently, a Norfolk Southern police officer gave chase after spotting a young man, suspected of painting graffiti on railcars, straddling two cars above the park. The man threw spray paint cans at the officer and tried to get on a bus, but he was detained and handed over to the New Orleans Police Department, she said.
Should anyone attempt to rebuild the park, the site will be under surveillance, Terpay warned.
But O'Mahoney pointed at the area next to the tracks, which was hardly so pristine that additional garbage would be noticed. Plus, he believed that skateboarders cleaned up more garbage than they left.
He stood by the remains of a quarterpipe painted with the word "Peach!!" and recalled how, almost immediately people loved the park, so the friends built more. "It just snowballed," he said. "There was nothing like it in the whole state."
It was also a safe place, unlike city streets, said Parker and other skaters who said that even on side streets in the city they had been stopped by police and threatened with expensive citations. O'Mahoney said that experience is common.
Neighbor Alberta Metoyer, 72, who lives on a corner near the Peach Orchard, said that she often talked to skateboarders -- "they're decent children" and liked the way the park looked. "It was nice. I gotta give it to them," she said. "I'm just sorry it turned out like it did."
Her little dog Sassy barks whenever the little wheels went by on the street, Metoyer said. Sometimes on weekends, it got so busy that Sassy barked nearly all day long.
Metoyer saw it as keeping kids out of trouble. Her children played sports, she said, and she has always been supportive of the St. Bernard Center across the street, run by the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission. "But everybody don't want to play football. And everybody don't want to play basketball," she said. "I think these children need somewhere to play too."
If nothing else, Peach Orchard's wild popularity proved that there is a great desire for a skateboard park in the city. After Red Bull hosted a skateboard tournament in New Orleans, the company donated some prefabricated ramps to the city, which will use them in a skateboard park planned for the Lafitte Greenway, at a site located between North Broad Street and North Dorgenois, said mayoral spokesman Ryan Berni.
O'Mahoney said that's a good start but that they hope for something better. The Peach Orchard was cheaper, better to skate on and more durable. "It's all about custom concrete," he said.
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The U.S. intelligence community is preparing an update to their consensus 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, that concluded Iran had halted weaponization work in 2003, Newsweek reports:
U.S. intelligence agencies are quietly revising their widely disputed assertion that Iran has no active program to design or build a nuclear bomb. Three U.S. and two foreign counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK that, as soon as next month, the intel agencies are expected to complete an "update" to their controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Tehran "halted its nuclear weapons program" in 2003 and "had not restarted" it as of mid-2007. The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive information, say the revised report will bring U.S. intel agencies more in line with other countries' spy agencies (such as Britain's MI6, Germany's BND, and Israel's Mossad), which have maintained that Iran has been pursuing a nuclear weapon.
Yet two of the U.S. sources caution the new assessment will likely be "Talmudic" in its parsing. They say U.S. analysts now believe that Iran may well have resumed "research" on nuclear weapons--theoretical work on how to design and construct a bomb--but that Tehran is not engaged in "development"--actually trying to build a weapon. "The intelligence communityis always reluctant to make a total retreat because it makes them look bad," says the third American. | <urn:uuid:9097cf0e-2ab5-4e7f-8974-510fcb0cbfc1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0110/Intel_comty_prepares_update_to_Iran_nuclear_estimate.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962327 | 313 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Last month we looked at the mistakes investors make and, after reading the awful story of chickens eating each other when an income generation project went wrong, we wondered whether there were also common mistakes in development. Turns out there are. GreaterGood’s Sophie Hobbs canvassed causes and SASIX evaluators to learn more about the failures.
Non profits spend a lot of time trying to prove their value and impact to potential funders. For obvious reasons, they rarely reflect and report on their failures. The problem with this, of course, is that it means we are doomed to continue making the same mistakes; sometimes with devastating consequences.
Mistake #1 Not listening to the community
Development practitioners are passionate and motivated people but sometimes they think they know what communities want and need. Even if they turn out to be right, projects that don’t get community buy-in will fail.
“A large international NPO came into an area where I was running a development programme in rural Swaziland and asked if they could build a dam to help with the poor water supply,” recounts Janine Ward on our Facebook page. “They identified a place between two ridges, but the local people told them the water didn't run there when it rained, and showed them where the rain ran. The "experts" felt they knew better and built a dam wall - and guess what happened?”
“With the first rains, the water ran EXACTLY where the community residents said it would and left the newly-built dam empty. Indigenous knowledge is GOLD!"
Mistake #2 No route to market
SASIX evaluators have seen many great income generation ideas which involve the community but give no thought to access to markets. Without a ready and consistent market for your product or service, your great idea will be just that and nothing more. And it can sometimes even do more harm than good by building expectations that are never met.
This seems to be precisely what happened with the chickens in Mbombela. Around 3 000, part of a government income generation scheme, had to be euthanased by the SPCA after they were left to starve to death. The project leader said that even though the government and beneficiaries had an agreement with a local hospital to buy the chickens, the hospital bought them only once and didn’t place another order. So the owners of the chickens ran out of money and could not buy chicken feed.
So angry were the community about what had happened, that the police had to escort the SPCA for their protection. I very much doubt the people of Mbombela will be interested in any more income generation projects in the future.
Mistake #3 No exit strategy
What will happen when the intervention ends? Who will take over? Are they properly trained? Will the community accept them as the new leaders of the project? Is there some sort of mentorship programme in place to guide beneficiaries once the ‘experts’ have left?
Food gardens seem to be a prime example of this, with complex irrigation systems that break down and no-one knows how to fix. Or school food gardens with no plan in place for who will tend and guard the garden during school holidays.
These sound like simple problems, easily solved with a bit of thought and planning, yet we see them again and again. These are the things that make the difference between success and failure and in development, the stakes are high.
Sharon White (@pioneersharon), executive director of Re-Action! gave us her three biggest mistakes on Twitter:
“1. Learn to push back
2. When the answer comes too easy – it may be wrong
3. Humility - people know the answers.”
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YORK (AP) — A central Pennsylvania lawmaker says a father’s plea has prompted him to propose a ban on human branding procedures on young people.
Rep. Keith Gillespie said the measure was prompted by his conversation with the father of a 14-year-old boy who branded himself twice on the torso with a red-hot three-inch nail under the instructions of an 18-year-old during a sleepover.
Gillespie, R-York, told The York Dispatch (http://bit.ly/Thh0QH ) that the action, which the 14-year-old’s parents discovered several days later, left third-degree burns on the boy. The father approached the lawmaker after learning that nothing in Pennsylvania law bars branding of young people without parental consent, he said.
“Anyone who has had this done to them is essentially physically marked for life, in addition to having had to undergo what I can only imagine to be a very painful experience,” Gillespie said in announcing the bill.
The measure would amend the criminal code regarding tattooing and body piercing of a minor without consent of a parent, making the offense a third-degree misdemeanor for a first offense and a second-degree misdemeanor if a second offense is committed within a year.
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Building on the success of the living wage movement, cities searching for ways to help the working poor have begun to enact broad new laws to raise the minimum wage at the local level. Unlike living wage laws, which only cover businesses that receive contracts or public subsidies from cities, these citywide minimum wage laws are more comprehensive in that they cover most or all employers in a city. The minimum wage levels under these laws are often higher than the state and federal minimum wages.
NELP works with local coalitions to develop citywide minimum wage laws by providing legal support and technical assistance. Our policy brief, Citywide Minimum Wage Laws: A New Policy Tool for Local Governments, provides more background on these new laws, comparing them to other wage legislation and summarizing emerging research findings on their economic impact.
Researchers have studied the effects of citywide minimum wages on local economies. The findings have been largely promising for both low-wage workers and the business climate:
University of California researchers studied San Francisco's restaurant industry in 2007 and found that the city's minimum wage improved low-wage workers' earnings without slowing employment growth.
University of New Mexico researchers found in 2006 that even after Santa Fe's citywide minimum wage increase, the city sustained relatively strong growth in sectors that employ predominantly low-wage workers, including accommodations and food services.
Santa Fe enacted one of the nation's first citywide minimum wage laws in 2003 with legal assistance from NELP staff. We then defended the law against a legal challenge and won a landmark ruling confirming that municipalities have the authority to establish minimum wages that are higher than the federal and state levels. The Santa Fe Minimum Wage, now $9.50 an hour, was expanded in 2007 to cover most of the city's businesses.
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Clock ticking on NASA’s low-cost X-ray stargazer
NuSTAR launch postponed
NASA has set March 18 as the soonest revised date for the launch of its NuSTAR X-ray satellite observatory, after delaying the “flight readiness review” it had scheduled for March 13.
According to NASA’s mission page , NuSTAR is now on a six-day countdown (at the time of writing).
NuSTAR is a belt-tightening novelty for the big-spending space agency: although it’s designed to catch hard X-rays from distant galaxies, it’s working to a shoestring budget of just $US165 million.
Artist impression of NuSTAR. Source: Caltech
Part of the low cost comes from an unusual launch approach. NuSTAR will be carried by a Pegasus XL vehicle which itself will be released from an Lockheed L-1101 aircraft over the Marshall Islands (where it now awaits lift-off).
NASA says the delay is “to allow time for a review of data and simulations to qualify software associated with a new Pegasus flight computer.”
NuSTAR – the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array – is designed to detect “hard” X-rays at energies between 5 and 80 kiloelectronvolts.
This radiation penetrates mirrors, which make it hard to focus onto a detector. The design team has created a sandwich of thin films, each of which is tuned to reflect photons of a specific energy. These films are arranged as nested conical shells.
The mirrors are arranged so that instead of trying to capture X-rays striking them directly, they capture X-rays that are nearly parallel to the mirror surface. This, however, means there’s a much smaller collection area – a problem overcome by the nested mirror arrangement used in NuSTAR.
The other design challenge, according to Nature, was to build a low-cost structure with a long focal length, and make it small enough to fit inside the Pegasus rocket. The solution was to create a 10-meter folding truss which will have to be deployed after NuSTAR reaches orbit.
Once in space, NuSTAR will be able to detect galaxies – in particular, the active galactic nuclei, which give off X-rays as energized particles orbit black holes – that are hidden from current instruments by dust and gas. According to mission partner Caltech , the instrument will be “100 times the sensitivity of previous missions that have operated in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum.”
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Operation HOPE announced this week a 3.5 million South African Rand commitment from Sanlam. The commitment came last week during the launch of the Sanlam Foundation on September 7 in Johannesburg. The Foundation will help to further HOPE’s financial literacy and economic empowerment initiatives and recruit hundreds of its employees as HOPE Corps volunteers to deliver the Banking on our Future – South Africa program in high schools throughout the Gauteng and Western Cape.
The announcement came on September 8 as Sanlam Limited launched its new Sanlam Foundation, which will focus on improving the financial situation of communities in which Sanlam operates. Operation HOPE is the first signature partner of the newly announced Sanlam Foundation.
Operation HOPE Founder Chairman and CEO John Hope Bryant traveled to South Africa this week, where he delivered the keynote address at the launch of the Sanlam Foundation, highlighting the need for improved financial literacy for youth and women and goals to expand the program’s reach.
“After the 1992 riots, I realised that people were really revolting against the economic conditions that kept them in poverty,” Bryant said. “We started Operation HOPE with the aim to boost economic opportunity in under-resourced communities through education and empowerment. Our partnership with the Sanlam Group will allow us to reach many more communities in South Africa and improve the quality of life through economic empowerment.”
“For Sanlam, corporate social investment goes beyond compliance to a genuine attempt by the company to transform the broader South African society, thereby ensuring its own sustainability. Operation HOPE is one of the many projects that we are launching through the new Sanlam Foundation,” explained Lulu Letlape, Group Head of Corporate Affairs at Sanlam. “The Foundation will ensure that the business contributes to the social development and environmental imperatives of our society, thereby helping to improve the financial situation of the communities with which we work.”
HOPE’s award-winning program, Banking on Our Future, is the anchor for the Sanlam Foundation’s education initiative and will offer financial literacy education to 20 schools in the Western Cape and Gauteng over the next three years. Through this program Sanlam and HOPE will reach some 4000 pupils at an average of approximately 200 pupils per school. All financial literacy classes are presented by Sanlam employees. Since May nearly 100 Sanlam employees from the Western Cape and Gauteng offices have signed on as HOPE Corps volunteers as part of Sanlam’s “National Start Something Day”.
Operation HOPE SA has been successfully delivering financial literacy education to youth, women and children throughout South Africa, empowering more than 26,000 youth and adults, since June 2007. The Banking on Our Future (BOOF) program is a six-part financial literacy curriculum designed to help youth and adults take control of their financial destinies.
The Sanlam Foundation was created to ensure that disadvantaged communities have equitable access to the economy and to generally improve the economic situation of the country. In addition to the financial literacy aspect, the Sanlam Foundation will also focus on education as a key area of intervention with specific attention to Maths, Science, Technology and English education at secondary school level; environmental awareness and education; and HIV/AIDS education and awareness.
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Drunken driving, traffic crime deportations way up
WASHINGTON (AP) Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country, documents show.
The U.S. deported nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, half of whom were considered criminals. Of those, 27,635 had been arrested for drunken driving, more than double the 10,851 deported after drunken driving arrests in 2008, the last full year of the Bush administration, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data provided to The Associated Press.
An additional 13,028 were deported last year after being arrested on less serious traffic law violations, nearly three times the 4,527 traffic offenders deported two years earlier, according to the data.
The spike in the numbers of people deported for traffic offenses as well as a 78 percent increase in people deported for immigration-related offenses renewed skepticism about the administration's claims that it is focusing on the most dangerous criminals.
President Barack Obama regularly says his administration is enforcing immigration laws more wisely than his predecessor by focusing on arresting the "worst of the worst." He promised in his 2008 presidential campaign to focus immigration enforcement on dangerous criminals. As recently as May 10, Obama said in a speech in El Paso, Texas, that his administration was focused on violent offenders and not families or "folks who are looking to scrape together an income."
Most of the immigrants deported last year had committed drug-related crimes. They totaled 45,003, compared with 36,053 in 2008. Drug-related crime — described as the manufacture, distribution, possession or sale of drugs — has been the No. 1 crime among immigration for years. Drunken driving was third in the number of offenses last year.
An illegal immigrant from Bolivia, Carlos Montano, is awaiting trial in Virginia on charges of involuntary manslaughter in a drunken driving incident that killed Benedictine nun Denise Mosier and injured two other nuns. The case fueled national debate over deportations of criminal immigrants because Montano had two previous drunken driving arrests, in 2007 and 2008. He was not held by ICE or deported after the arrests. An ICE report concluded that new federal immigration policies would have prevented Montano's release.
But the rise in traffic offenders in the deportation statistics and in some other categories worries immigration advocates, particularly because traffic stops are largely made by police, sheriff's deputies and state highway patrol officers. Local law enforcement has become more involved in immigration enforcement because of new programs that encourage it.
Officers "are using their new authority to remove as many unauthorized people from their jurisdictions as they can, and that frequently means going after traffic violators instead of serious criminals," said Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute's office at New York University Law School. The institute is a Washington-based think tank on migration.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano noted that most people in the United States are arrested for misdemeanor offenses. But she told the AP that the percentage of felons deported will change over time.
"The more serious offenders are still in prison," she said in an interview Thursday. "We're not going to see them reflected in the numbers until we can begin to remove them."
The issue is one Obama is trying to carefully navigate in his bid for a second term as he relies on the record deportations numbers to bolster his tough-on-enforcement stance while trying to convince immigrant and Latino voters he deserves more time to get a comprehensive immigration bill through Congress.
Marshall Fitz, immigration policy director at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank, said some of the people being counted as criminals have committed traffic violations that would usually draw a traffic ticket. But when the driver can't produce a valid license, the officer pursues questions about immigration status.
Illegal immigrants caught in traffic stops often are pressured into signing an agreement to leave the United States and to pay a fine or somehow acknowledge responsibility for the traffic offense and thereby end up in the statistics as criminals even though they never went to court, Fitz said.
Kumar Kibble, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy of immigration, said in some cases people picked up on traffic offenses are found to have committed other crimes. But ICE attempts to categorize each deported immigrant in its statistics based on the worst crime in the person's record. ICE says the statistics involve only people who have been convicted of a crime.
Darrel Stephens, executive director of Major Cities Chiefs Association, an organization of sheriffs and police chiefs, said the data show ICE is deporting criminals. He noted that even though traffic offenses have more than doubled, they are just 7 percent of the total criminal deportations. Meanwhile, dangerous drugs and drunken driving deportations comprised 23 percent and 14 percent of the criminal deportations, respectively.
The drunken driving deportations are particularly important, he said. Fatal drunken driving accidents involving illegal immigrants often cause outrage in communities where they occur.
"That's a crime that people look at in a very serious way right now," Stephens said.
There are an estimated 11 million people in the country illegally, 7 million to 8 million of whom are believed to be adults.
Kibble said the numbers show his agency's system of giving priority for deportation to people who pose a public threat is working. Last year, 36,178 criminals were deported as a result of the Secure Communities program, now in place in more than 1,400 jurisdictions, up from 14 in 2008. It's expected to be in more than 3,000 jurisdictions nationally by 2013.
Secure Communities is the Homeland Security Department's system of identifying immigrants for deportation through fingerprints taken by local officers when booking people on criminal charges. The local law enforcement agencies routinely send the prints to the FBI for criminal background checks. The FBI shares the fingerprints with Homeland Security to look for potentially deportable immigrants, who can be in the country illegally or legally.
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The State Theatre was located on Locust Street between 2nd Street and 3rd Street, a little ways down from Capitol Park. The site had been occupied by theaters since approximately 1900. First on this site was the Lyceum Theatre and then the Orpheum Theatre, the latter was demolished in 1925 to make way for the State Theatre.
The State Theatre was housed in a large stone building and featured a wide, narrow rectangular marquee with small display panels on each end. A large vertical sign towered three stories at one end of the marquee.
An ornate stand-alone ticket booth was in a wide but narrow exterior space with several entrance doors. The interior of the State maintained the most overtly theatrical ambiance of any Harrisburg theater.
There were two lobbies, the first a kind of arcade, and the second an elaborate, palatial affair with chandeliers and much architectural detail. Restrooms were downstairs at opposite ends of the second (main) lobby that also included several display frames for posters and a refreshment stand. I seem to recall a second-floor balcony (mezzanine) space over this lobby that led to the actual seating balcony.
The State Theatre had one of the largest auditoriums and screens in the city. It certainly had the largest screen when it was renovated for CinemaScope in 1953. Fox’s "The Robe" kicked off the wide-screen revolution in Harrisburg with a huge curved screen and a state-of-the-art 4-track stereophonic sound system.
During the first phase of this era the State Theatre alternated 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope films with the Senate Theatre on Market Square but they were much more impressive at the State Theatre.
During the 1940’s and 1950’s the State Theatre alternated Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Columbia releases. A relative also recalls big bands and stage shows at the State Theatre in the 1940’s. In the 1960’s films such as "The Wild Bunch, " “Barbarella," "Such Good Friends”, and "2001, A Space Odyssey" were screened.
Alas, "2001" did not prove prophetic for the State Theatre which was razed in the early-1970’s to make way for an office building. Poor choice for Harrisburg. It would have made a wonderful downtown performing arts center.
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Abu Dhabi, Oct 12 (IANS/WAM) Philanthropy should not be limited to one race or religion, but should flow out to all mankind according to their needs, a UAE newspaper said Friday, citing a speech by Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
When someone is able to give to others less fortunate or in desperate need, their giving should not be restricted to one particular type of person, the Gulf News daily said in its editorial, based on the prince’s speech.
In the speech on the necessity of giving beyond boundaries, the prince said that 20 years ago, he visited Tanzania and saw people dying of famine, but did not do anything as they were not Muslims.
He returned to Abu Dhabi and told this to his father, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who pointed out: “The one who created you created them as well.”
Since then, Sheikh Mohammad has made it a point to remember the overall humanitarian impact of any philanthropy.
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The Federalist (The Gideon Edition), Edited with an Introduction, Reader’s Guide, Constitutional Cross-reference, Index, and Glossary by George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001).
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A review of the principal objections that have appeared against the proposed court for the trial of impeachments, will not improbably eradicate the remains of any unfavourable impressions which may still exist in regard to this matter.
The first of these objections is, that the provision in question confounds legislative and judiciary authorities in the same body, in violation of that important and well established maxim, which requires a separation between the different departments of power. The true meaning of this maxim has been discussed and ascertained in another place, and has been shown to be entirely compatible with a partial intermixture of those departments for special purposes, preserving them, in the main, distinct and unconnected. This partial intermixture is even, in some cases, not only proper, but necessary to the mutual defence of the several members of the government, against each other. An absolute or qualified negative in the executive, upon the acts of the legislative body, is admitted by the ablest adepts in political science, to be an indispensable barrier against the encroachments of the latter upon the former. And it may, perhaps, with not less reason, be contended, that the powers relating to impeachments are, as before intimated, an essential check in the hands of that body, upon the encroachments of the executive. The division of them between the two branches of the legislature, assigning to one the right of accusing, to the other the right of judging, avoids the inconvenience of making the same persons both accusers and judges; and guards against the danger of persecution, from the prevalency of a factious spirit in either of those branches. As the concurrence of two-thirds of the senate will be requisite to a condemnation, the security to innocence, from this additional circumstance, will be as complete as itself can desire.
It is curious to observe with what vehemence this part of the plan is assailed, on the principle here taken notice of, by men who profess to admire, without exception, the constitution of this state; while that very constitution makes the senate, together with the chancellor and judges of the supreme court, not only a court of impeachments, but the highest judicatory in the state in all causes, civil and criminal. The proportion, in point of numbers, of the chancellor and judges to the senators, is so inconsiderable, that the judiciary authority of New York, in the last resort, may, with truth, be said to reside in its senate. If the plan of the convention be, in this respect, chargeable with a departure from the celebrated maxim which has been so often mentioned, and seems to be so little understood, how much more culpable must be the constitution of New York?*
A second objection to the senate, as a court of impeachments, is, that it contributes to an undue accumulation of power in that body, tending to give to the government a countenance too aristocratic. The senate, it is observed, is to have concurrent authority with the executive in the formation of treaties, and in the appointment to offices: if, say the objectors, to these prerogatives, is added that of determining in all cases of impeachment, it will give a decided predominancy to senatorial influence. To an objection so little precise in itself, it is not easy to find a very precise answer. Where is the measure or criterion to which we can appeal, for estimating what will give the senate too much, too little, or barely the proper degree of influence? Will it not be more safe, as well as more simple, to dismiss such vague and uncertain calculations, to examine each power by itself, and to decide on general principles, where it may be deposited with most advantage, and least inconvenience?
If we take this course, it will lead to a more intelligible, if not to a more certain result. The disposition of the power of making treaties, which has obtained in the plan of the convention, will then, if I mistake not, appear to be fully justified by the considerations stated in a former number, and by others which will occur under the next head of our inquiries. The expediency of the junction of the senate with the executive, in the power of appointing to offices, will, I trust, be placed in a light not less satisfactory, in the disquisitions under the same head. And I flatter myself the observations in my last paper must have gone no inconsiderable way towards proving, that it was not easy, if practicable, to find a more fit receptacle for the power of determining impeachments, than that which has been chosen. If this be truly the case, the hypothetical danger of the too great weight of the senate, ought to be discarded from our reasonings.
But this hypothesis, such as it is, has already been refuted in the remarks applied to the duration of office prescribed for the senators. It was by them shown, as well on the credit of historical examples, as from the reason of the thing, that the most popular branch of every government, partaking of the republican genius, by being generally the favourite of the people, will be as generally a full match, if not an overmatch, for every other member of the government.
But, independent of this most active and operative principle; to secure the equilibrium of the national house of representatives, the plan of the convention has provided in its favour, several important counterpoises to the additional authorities to be conferred upon the senate. The exclusive privilege of originating money bills, will belong to the house of representatives. The same house will possess the sole right of instituting impeachments: is not this a complete counterbalance to that of determining them? The same house will be the umpire in all elections of the president, which do not unite the suffrages of a majority of the whole number of electors; a case which it cannot be doubted will sometimes, if not frequently, happen. The constant possibility of the thing, must be a fruitful source of influence to that body. The more it is contemplated, the more important will appear this ultimate, though contingent power, of deciding the competitions of the most illustrious citizens of the union, for the first office in it. It would not perhaps be rash to predict, that as a mean of influence, it will be found to outweigh all the peculiar attributes of the senate.
A third objection to the senate as a court of impeachments, is drawn from the agency they are to have in the appointments to office. It is imagined that they would be too indulgent judges of the conduct of men, in whose official creation they had participated. The principle of this objection would condemn a practice, which is to be seen in all the state governments, if not in all the governments with which we are acquainted: I mean that of rendering those, who hold offices during pleasure, dependent on the pleasure of those who appoint them. With equal plausibility might it be alleged in this case, that the favouritism of the latter would always be an asylum for the misbehaviour of the former. But that practice, in contradiction to this principle, proceeds upon the presumption, that the responsibility of those who appoint, for the fitness and competency of the persons on whom they bestow their choice, and the interest they have in the respectable and prosperous administration of affairs, will inspire a sufficient disposition, to dismiss from a share in it, all such who by their conduct may have proved themselves unworthy of the confidence reposed in them. Though facts may not always correspond with this presumption, yet if it be in the main just, it must destroy the supposition, that the senate, who will merely sanction the choice of the executive, should feel a bias, towards the objects of that choice, strong enough to blind them to the evidences of guilt so extraordinary, as to have induced the representatives of the nation to become its accusers.
If any further argument were necessary to evince the improbability of such a bias, it might be found in the nature of the agency of the senate, in the business of appointments.
It will be the office of the president to nominate, and with the advice and consent of the senate to appoint. There will of course be no exertion of choice, on the part of the senate. They may defeat one choice of the executive, and oblige him to make another; but they cannot themselves choose . . . they can only ratify or reject the choice he may have made. They might even entertain a preference to some other person, at the very moment they were assenting to the one proposed; because there might be no positive ground of opposition to him; and they could not be sure, if they withheld their assent, that the subsequent nomination would fall upon their own favourite, or upon any other person in their estimation more meritorious than the one rejected. Thus it could hardly happen, that the majority of the senate would feel any other complacency towards the object of an appointment, than such as the appearances of merit might inspire, and proofs of the want of it destroy.
A fourth objection to the senate, in the capacity of a court of impeachments, is derived from their union with the executive in the power of making treaties. This, it has been said, would constitute the senators their own judges, in every case of a corrupt or perfidious execution of that trust. After having combined with the executive in betraying the interests of the nation in a ruinous treaty, what prospect, it is asked, would there be of their being made to suffer the punishment they would deserve, when they were themselves to decide upon the accusation brought against them for the treachery of which they had been guilty?
This objection has been circulated with more earnestness, and with a greater show of reason, than any other which has appeared against this part of the plan; and yet I am deceived if it does not rest upon an erroneous foundation.
The security essentially intended by the constitution against corruption and treachery in the formation of treaties, is to be sought for in the numbers and characters of those who are to make them. The joint agency of the chief magistrate of the union, and of two-thirds of the members of a body selected by the collective wisdom of the legislatures of the several states, is designed to be the pledge for the fidelity of the national councils in this particular. The convention might with propriety have mediated the punishment of the executive, for a deviation from the instructions of the senate, or a want of integrity in the conduct of the negotiations committed to him: they might also have had in view the punishment of a few leading individuals in the senate, who should have prostituted their influence in that body, as the mercenary instruments of foreign corruption: but they could not, with more or with equal propriety, have contemplated the impeachment and punishment of two-thirds of the senate, consenting to an improper treaty, than of a majority of that or of the other branch of the national legislature, consenting to a pernicious or unconstitutional law: a principle which I believe has never been admitted into any government. How, in fact, could a majority of the house of representatives impeach themselves? Not better, it is evident, than two-thirds of the senate might try themselves. And yet what reason is there, that a majority of the house of representatives, sacrificing the interests of the society by an unjust and tyrannical act of legislation, should escape with impunity, more than two-thirds of the senate sacrificing the same interests in an injurious treaty with a foreign power? The truth is, that in all such cases, it is essential to the freedom, and to the necessary independence of the deliberations of the body, that the members of it should be exempt from punishment for acts done in a collective capacity; and the security to the society must depend on the care which is taken to confide the trust to proper hands, to make it their interest to execute it with fidelity, and to make it as difficult as possible for them to combine in any interest opposite to that of the public good.
So far as might concern the misbehaviour of the executive in perverting the instructions, or contravening the views of the senate, we need not be apprehensive of the want of a disposition in that body to punish the abuse of their confidence, or to vindicate their own authority. We may thus far count upon their pride, if not upon their virtue. And so far even as might concern the corruption of leading members, by whose arts and influence the majority may have been inveigled into measures odious to the community: if the proofs of that corruption should be satisfactory, the usual propensity of human nature will warrant us in concluding, that there would be commonly no defect of inclination in the body, to divert the public resentment from themselves, by a ready sacrifice of the authors of their mismanagement and disgrace.
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Why Do We Recite the Apostle’s Creed?
I’ll never forget the first time I worshiped in a Presbyterian church. I had been raised in independent Bible churches where it was a given that Christians believed the Bible, while Roman Catholics relied on tradition. We had “no creed but Christ.” You can imagine how I was taken aback when the Presbyterian faithful recited the Apostles’ Creed with great gusto, including the line that, at the time, I could not bring myself to repeat: “I believe…in the holy catholic church.”
I soon learned that many Pro-testants still recite this ancient creed. In fact, the creed serves an important purpose in many of those churches whose roots are deeply planted in the Reformation. The Heidelberg Catechism (the beloved catechism of the Reformed branch of the Christian family in which I am now a minister), even utilizes the Apostles’ Creed as a basic summary of those things that every Christian must believe. If you were to ask, “What is it that defines Christianity?” the answer would be “the definition of Christianity is given us in the creed.”
The articles of our “catholic, undoubted Christian faith,” which question 22 of the Heidelberg Catechism introduces, are unpacked in questions and answers 23–58 of this catechism. This “unpacking” amounts to an exposition of the various doctrines set forth in the Apostles’ Creed. Protestants do not believe that creeds, confessions, and catechisms are infallible — that can only be said of Scripture. But confessional Protestants do believe that creeds, confessions, and catechisms are authoritative insofar as they accurately summarize the teaching of Scripture, which is their primary purpose.
Zacharius Ursinus — the primary author of the Heidelberg Catechism — tells us why the Apostles’ Creed was chosen for his own distinctly Reformed catechism as the summary of what it is that Christians must believe in order to be truly Christians: “It signifies a brief and summary form of the Christian faith, which distinguishes the church and her members from the various sects” (Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, p. 117).
In other words, if you are to set out those things that differentiate Christianity from all other religions, including monotheistic ones (for example, Judaism and Islam), the Apostles’ Creed would provide an excellent summary of those doctrines unique to Christianity. The creed sets forth the doctrine of the Trinity. It sets forth the basic economy of redemption — the Father is the creator of all things, Jesus is the only Savior, and the Holy Spirit is the one who gives us faith and then unites us to Christ. The creed also affirms the basic historical facts of the gospel — our Lord’s virgin birth, His suffering, death, and bodily resurrection. Furthermore, the creed affirms Jesus’ descent into hell (which the Reformed believe refers to Jesus’ suffering the wrath of God upon the cross), His bodily resurrection, and His ascent into heaven where Jesus now rules over all until He returns at the end of the age to judge the world and raise the dead.
Next, the creed affirms the person and work of the Holy Spirit, the existence of a “holy” (those whose only hope of heaven is in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ) and “catholic” church, a reference to the universal church (the body of Christ) that will exist from the time it was founded until Jesus returns. The creed affirms the communion of saints (the fellowship of justified sinners with the risen Christ), the forgiveness of sins (Christ’s work in fulfilling all righteousness and dying for the sins of His people), the resurrection of the body at the end of the age (as Jesus was raised bodily on the third day, so will we when He returns) and life everlasting (new heavens and earth).
Ursinus chose the Apostles’ Creed as the skeletal structure for the section of his catechism dealing with God’s grace because the creed so effectively summarizes the basics of the Christian faith that no non-Christian could possibly recite it. In this sense, the creed defines what is Christianity and what is not.
But as Ursinus expounds upon the Apostles’ Creed, he also endeavors to demonstrate how Reformed Christianity differs from Roman Catholicism on such essential doctrines as justification by faith alone, the nature of the work of Christ, as well as the sacraments. So, while the creed may set forth what is essentially and uniquely Christian, Protestants contend that the Roman Church sadly defaults on these same doctrines at a number of critical points.
Because there is great need to summarize the teaching of Scripture and to identify with the faithful who have gone before, many Protestant churches still recite the Apostles’ Creed. This is why the Reformed churches consider the Apostles’ Creed to be the best summary of the basic doctrines of the Christian faith, and this is why an exposition of the creed lies at the heart of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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The outer layers of the Sun|
The outer layers of the Sun may be observed directly, but ordinarily it is only the thin, visible surface that may be studied in detail from the ground. With the space age quite new possibilities also arrived for studying the Sun in other types of radiation than visible light.
A number of strange and amazing phenomena take place in the outer layer of the Sun. Here we are going to look more closely at these phenomena.
|The outer atmosphere of the Sun is called the corona. From the surface of the Earth we may only see this very spacious, hot and strange gas during total solar eclipses.|
|Why is the solar corona so hot?|
|How does the solar corona become so hot, one million °C or more?
It cannot be heated by the radiation from the surface of the Sun where the temperature is “only” 6000 °C.
|The solar wind|
|The stream of particles out from the Sun is called the solar wind. Even if the solar wind may seem intense, it is only an insignificant part of the Sun that disappears. |
|The solar wind and its impact on the tails of comets|
|Comets are huge, dirty snowballs 6-16 kilometres long visiting from time to time the inner parts of the solar system.|
|The heliosphere and the heliopause |
|Between the stars there is almost empty space, but only almost.|
|Pioneer 10 heading towards the stars|
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WATCH: Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich Think Obama's Inaugural 'Shouted At Supreme Court'
BY Sunnivie Brydum
January 23 2013 2:38 PM ET
Last night's episode of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show featured the out anchor conjecturing that President Obama's second inaugural speech was a pointed message directed at the Supreme Court justices who are due to rule on marriage equality and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act this summer.
Because the president mentioned the 1969 Stonewall riots alongside major civil rights victories in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and Selma, Ala., Maddow and New York magazine editor at large Frank Rich said his speech was moving and historic, but also aimed directly at the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who Rich believes might be swayed to rule in favor of LGBT equality and find himself on the right side of history.
"I think he's appealing, particularly, to John Roberts," said Rich. "I've always felt … that [Roberts] has, like the president, an eye on history, and his role in it, and his stature within it."
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Congressman George Miller
A Congressman from the East Bay co-introduced legislation in Washington on Tuesday that calls for increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
On Election Night 2012, many Californians found it hard to understand why people in Florida and Ohio had to stand in line for up to eight hours to vote.
The nearly $15 million grant will be used to train unemployed workers for jobs in high tech manufacturing and engineering.
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The Assembly presented the Intrepid with a resolution to promote the Museum, which they hope will do the trick. Executive director Susan Marenoff also made a plea.
“We have over 45 million tourists,” she said. “If NASA wants eyeballs to see it, here’s the place for it to land.”
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