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We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.
Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)
Is this now a Moebius thread?
19 BMWMOA Nationals under my belt, and I have no idea what I am doing.
Sheesh -- a penny. Isn't that worth next to nothing?
Less in Canada, eh?
Soon the difference between a US and Canadian penny will be nothing.
Save the Earth--It's the only planet that has chocolate.
What's on TV tonight? Nothing.
'78 Euro-spec R100RS Motorsport
came over for a daily dose of nothing...done,thanks
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It's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away-D.Dillon/G. Strait
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Evaluation: Patient Requiring a Limited Evaluation of a Specific Problem
The American Dental Association developed these dental practice parameters for voluntary use by practicing dentists. The parameters are intended, foremost, as an aid to clinical decision making and thus, they describe clinical considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of oral health conditions. Evaluation in the context of these parameters includes diagnosis.
Additionally, parameters will assist the dental profession by providing the basis on which the profession’s commitment to high-quality care can be demonstrated and can continue to be improved.
The dental practice parameters are condition-based, presenting an array of possible diagnostic and treatment considerations for oral health conditions. Condition-based parameters, rather than procedure-based parameters, were determined to be the most useful because this approach recognizes the need for integrated treatments of oral conditions rather than emphasizing isolated treatment procedures. The parameters are also oriented toward the process of care and describe elements of diagnosis and treatment.
While the parameters describe the common elements of diagnosis and treatment, it is acknowledged that unique clinical circumstances, and individual patient preferences, must be factored into clinical decisions. This requires the dentist’s careful professional judgment. Balancing individual patient needs with scientific soundness is a necessary step in providing care.
It is understood that treatment provided by the dentist may deviate from the parameters, in individual cases, depending on the clinical circumstances presented by the patient. This should be documented and explained to the patient.
The elements of care that are described in the parameters were derived from a consensus of professional opinion. This consensus included expert opinion on the topic and the clinical experience of practicing dentists. In addition, the research literature, and parameters and guidelines of other dental organizations were reviewed.
The American Dental Association recognizes that other interested parties, such as payers, courts, legislators and regulators may also opt to use these parameters. The Association encourages users to become familiar with these parameters as the profession’s statement on the scope of clinical oral health care.
However, these parameters are not designed to address considerations outside of the clinical arena and, therefore, may not be directly applicable to all health policy issues.
Furthermore, these parameters are intended to describe the range of acceptable treatment modalities. They are intended as educational resources, not legal requirements. As such, the parameters are not intended to establish standards of dental care, which are rigid and inflexible, and represent what must be done; nor are they guidelines which are less rigid, but represent what should be done; nor are they intended to undermine or restrict the dentist’s exercise of professional judgment. In this context, considerable thought was given to the use of the verbs "may," "should" and "must." The verb "may" clearly allows the practitioner to decide whether to act.
The verb "should" indicates a degree of preference and differs in meaning from "must" or "shall" (which require the practitioner to act).
Throughout the parameter document, "dentist" refers to the patient’s attending dentist. Additionally, elements of the parameters concerned with patient consent refer to the patient’s parent, guardian or other responsible party, when the patient is a minor or is incompetent.
The Association intends to continually develop, revise and maintain parameters, in order to include all dental conditions and to accommodate advances in dental technology and science.
Adopted 1994, Revised 1997
The key element in the design of this set of parameters for limited evaluation of a specific problem is the professional judgment of the attending dentist, for a specific patient, at a specific time.
The patient’s chief complaint, concerns and expectations should be considered by the dentist.
The dentist should perform a limited evaluation when indicated in his or her professional judgment.
The patient should be provided with appropriate information by the dentist about the diagnostic procedure(s) to be performed prior to giving consent to a limited evaluation.
Any evaluation performed should be with the concurrence of the patient and the dentist. If the patient refuses diagnostic procedures, the dentist may decline to evaluate the patient. If the patient insists upon diagnostic procedures not considered by the dentist to be necessary for evaluation, the dentist may decline to provide those procedures.
Medications should be prescribed, modified and/or administered by the dentist to dental patients whose known conditions would affect or be affected by diagnostic procedures provided without the medication or its modification. The dentist should consult with the prescribing health care professional(s) before modifying medications being taken by the patient for known conditions.
In the process of diagnosis and treatment planning, the attending dentist should review the accuracy of the data collected as part of patient evaluation.
The dental and medical histories should be considered by the dentist to identify medications and predisposing conditions that may affect the prognosis, progression, and management of the oral health condition. (See: JADA article: New national guidelines on hypertension.)
The behavioral, psychological, anatomical, developmental and physiological limitations of the patient should be considered by the dentist in performing the limited evaluation and in developing the treatment plan.
The dentist should attempt to manage the patient’s pain, anxiety and behavior during evaluation to facilitate safety, efficiency and patient cooperation.
A limited examination should be performed by the dentist to diagnose and determine the treatment for a specific oral health problem.
Radiographs or images of diagnostic quality should be obtained. The number and type of radiographs or images required to provide the information needed for diagnostic purposes will vary according to the needs of the individual patient and should be determined by the attending dentist. (See: Professional Topic "Radiography/X-Rays," The Selection of Patients for Dental Radiographic Examinations [PDF].)
Additional diagnostic tests relevant to the evaluation of the specific oral health problem of the patient may be performed and used by the dentist in diagnosis and treatment planning.
When the dentist considers it necessary, (an)other health care professional(s) should be consulted to acquire additional information.
The dentist should refer the patient to (an)other health professional(s) when the dentist determines that it is in the best interest of the patient.
Relevant and appropriate information about the patient and any necessary coordinated treatment should be communicated and coordinated between the referring dentist and the health professional(s) accepting the referral.
The patient should be informed of the findings and observations of the limited evaluation.
The dentist may take this opportunity to emphasize the prevention and early detection of oral diseases through patient education in preventive oral health practices, which may include oral hygiene instructions.
The dentist may recommend that the patient return for further evaluation. The frequency and type of evaluation(s) should be determined by the dentist, based on the patient’s risk factors.
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NEW YORK (April 3, 2011) Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have developed a new way to stimulate neuron production in the adult mouse brain, demonstrating that neurons acquired in the brain's hippocampus during adulthood improve certain cognitive functions.
In recent years, scientists have been exploring whether stimulating neurogenesis (the formation of new neurons) in the adult brain has a beneficial effect on cognition or mood. Until now, studies have relied on interventions, such as exercise and enriched environments, that affect numerous other processes in the brain in addition to increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis.
The research, led by Ren Hen, PhD, professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, appears in the Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature. Amar Sahay, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, is the lead author on the study.
After boosting the number of neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved in memory and mood, the researchers tested the mice in both learning and mood-related tasks and looked for changes in behavior. The researchers found specific effects on learning tasks that involve a process called pattern separation, which is the ability to distinguish between similar places, events and experiences.
"This process is crucial for learning because it enables us to know whether something is familiar or novel," said Dr. Hen. "If it is familiar, you move on to the next bit of information; if it's novel, you want to be able to recognize that it's new and give it meaning. These mice, with just more adult-born neurons, and no other changes in the brain, basically learn better in tasks where they have to discriminate between similar contexts."
Earlier strategies for manipulating neurogenesis, according to the investigators, were broader and less s
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William Andrew Fuld
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William Andrew Fuld was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 1st 1893 to William Fuld and Annie Schmidt. He was the oldest son of seven children, five boys, and two girls. Listed from oldest to youngest; Carrie Anne, William Andrew, Katherine Bowie, Paul Ambrose, George Edward, Arthur Francis, and Hubert Harris. Their first born son William Andrew was named after his father William Fuld. William Andrew's youngest living sibling was Hubert Harris Fuld, twenty years his junior. As William's eldest son, William Andrew was the natural successor to his father's business. He not only had his father's name, but also his sense of invention and vision of marketing. He would take his father's Ouija board and Mystifying Oracle and make them the most popular talking boards in history. His campaign to have these boards carried in every toy and novelty store in America resulted in the crushing defeat of every knock off talking board manufactured. While some of these other talking boards would do well for a time, the Ouija board managed to outlive them all. Without William Andrew, the Ouija board would be a shadow of what it is today.
William Andrew attended public schools and for a short time attended Baltimore City College. By 1910 he left school to work full time for the family Ouija and toy business. It was William Andrew who sent out mailings to his uncle Isaac Fuld's customers citing potential infringements of Isaac's Oriole boards on his father's Ouija boards. Tragedy struck the Fuld family on February 24th 1927. William Fuld, while overseeing the replacement of a flagpole was tragically killed by complications falling from the roof of his three story Harford, Lamont, and Federal Street factory. William Andrew was thirty-four years old. He took over the business as president and became his youngest brother's mentor and surrogate father.
He and his sister Katherine Bowie would run the Ouija and toy business together until Hubert was experienced enough to take over. On April 5th 1921 William Andrew was assigned his first patent on a wheeled toy (No. 1,373,631.) His first Ouija related patent was granted on August 9th 1932 (No. 1,870,677) for his modern interpretation of the talking board, the electric Mystifying Oracle. Though this talking board would demonstrate William's vision for taking the talking board into the twentieth century, the Great Depression had other plans. The board cost $3.50, too much for a struggling public. WWII broke out and most of these boards were melted down for scrap metal. On May 2nd 1939 William Andrew was granted a design patent on the Ouija board doing away with the familiar stars on the bottom of the board and replaced them with depictions of people playing the board. It was William who actually drew those now familiar figures.
William Andrew Fuld married Tommye Hunt in the late 1930's. Tommye also worked for the family business. They didn't have any children and later divorced. He was a family man who loved his brothers and sisters deeply. He enjoyed singing and was a member of a local choir. Like his sisters, William Andrew attended the Peabody Institute Conservatory from 1923-1927 studying voice. He was forced to leave the school in 1927 following the death of his father.
Besides his family, his first love was the Ouija board. Even after naming his youngest brother Hubert Harris Fuld as president, he never stopped working at the business. After suffering a series of small strokes in the mid nineteen sixties, William Andrew, Hubert, and Katherine were forced to break their promise to their father. On February 24, 1966, they sold the entire business, including the Ouija board, to Parker Brothers.
Without the Ouija board William Andrew found solace in a beagle named Daisy given to him by his niece Kathryn Ann. He also spent time with his sister Katherine on Hubert's boat. William Andrew Fuld died surrounded by his family at the age of eighty-three on November 19th 1976 after suffering a massive stroke. | <urn:uuid:d8665e3d-0b11-4fee-97d5-d6ff2a56c9f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.williamfuld.com/familytree_people_williamafuld.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985921 | 927 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Register Hong Kong Offshore Company
The information below displays the requirements to register a Hong Kong Offshore Company (Hong Kong Limited Company). We provide details on the maintenance, shareholder requirements, the minimum capital requirements for Hong Kong company formation, along with the legal form, naming requirements, documentation required and director and secretary requirements.
The information below is a guide to help you with your Hong Kong company registration, this serves as a general guide and may be subject to the most recent changes of the legislation in various jurisdictions. We invite you to Contact Us for the latest update and free quotation.
Hong Kong Limited Company (Hong Kong Ltd)
There is no “offshore” legislation in Hong Kong. All companies are incorporated under the same legislation – HK Company Ordinance, 1997 version, as amended 2004, whether they are doing business locally or “offshore”.
Legal form: To do business in Hong Kong, one can set up a sole proprietorship, a partnership or register one’s own company incorporated elsewhere as an overseas company in Hong Kong. However, the most common form of business entity in Hong Kong is the private limited company, which limits the liability of the shareholders to the capital subscribed.
Name of the company: Hong Kong private limited companies must use the suffix Limited or Ltd. to denote limited liability. The following names to be used, require licensing: Bank, Insurance, Assurance, Re-Insurance, Trust, Trustee, Savings, Royal, Asset management, Fund Management, Investment Fund, Building Society, Municipal, Chartered, Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Association, Kaifong, Mass Transit, Underground Railway. Names denoting any connection to local, state or national Governments are generally prohibited.
Memorandum and Articles of Association: A company is incorporated in Hong Kong by application made to the Registrar of Companies. Memorandum and Articles of Association and Declaration of Compliance must be lodged with the Registrar. Memorandum specifies the activities in which the company may engage and Articles of Association specifies the rules governing the internal management of the company. A Notice of Situation of Registered Office is also required to be filed within fourteen days of the date of incorporation. Business registration fee has to be paid to the Inland Revenue Department within 30 days after the date of anniversary of incorporation, and then each year thereafter. Government fee is HK$2,600.
Shareholders: A minimum of one shareholder is required which may be an individual or a corporate body. Details of the shareholders must be filed and appear on the public file, but anonymity can be preserved by the use of nominee shareholders. Shares must be expressed in a fixed amount. “No par value” or “bearer” shares are not permitted. While it is usual for the share capital to be expressed in Hong Kong dollars, it can be expressed in any currency. A multiple currency share capital is also permissible.
The share capital: There is no specific minimum capital requirement. The standard authorized share capital is HK$ 10,000. The minimum issued capital is two shares of par value.
Directors of the company: Hong Kong limited company requires a minimum of one director and corporate directors are permitted. Details of the directors appear on the public file, but anonymity can be preserved by the use of nominee directors. There is no requirement to have resident directors.
Registered office and secretary: Every company, registered in Hong Kong is required to have a registered office and address there, which should be notified to the Registrar. Hong Kong registered companies must also have secretary, who can be corporate body or individual resident in Hong Kong.
Taxation: Hong Kong is one of the few countries in the world that tax on a territorial basis. Many countries levy tax on a different basis and they tax the worldwide profits of a business, including profits derived from an offshore source. Hong Kong profits tax is only charged on profits derived from a trade, profession or business carried on in Hong Kong. Consequently, this means that a company, which carries on a business in Hong Kong, but derives profits from another place, is not required to pay tax in Hong Kong on those profits. Hong Kong sourced income is currently subject to a rate of taxation of 17,5 percent.
Audit and financial returns: A Hong Kong company must keep accounting records, which may be kept at the registered office address or elsewhere at the discretion of the directors. Every company must appoint an auditor who must be a member of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants and hold a practicing certificate. Although there is no requirement to file accounts with the Registrar, there is a requirement to file accounts with the tax authorities. Annual return is required to be filed to the Companies Registry within 42 days after the date of anniversary of incorporation, and then each year thereafter. Government filing fee is HK$105.
Meetings: Company meetings need not be held in Hong Kong. An annual general meeting (AGM) must be held once in every calendar year and not more than 15 months after the last preceding AGM. However, a company need not hold its first AGM until 18 months of its incorporation. A company can dispense with the holding of AGM if everything that is required or intended to be done at the meeting is done by resolutions.
Time needed for Hong Kong company formation: Usually it is up to 10 working days.
Our fees and prices for the formation of Hong Kong Limited Company (Hong Kong Ltd)
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- Name check and approval
- Drafting and filing of Memorandum and Articles of Association and Declaration of Compliance
- One set of originals of all standard corporate documents
- Payment of the government license fee
- Provision of registered address
- Provision of company secretary
- Courier fees
- Rubber stamp
Optional services (to be chosen by the client)
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- Bank account opening in Hong Kong
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- Provision of registered office
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AT the same time that Florence was acquiring such fame by the works of Lionardo, Venice received no little honour by the talents and excellence of one of its citizens, who far surpassed the Bellini, who were held in such esteem, and every other who had up to that time painted in their city. This was Giorgio, born at Castelfranco in the Trevisan in the year I478, afterwards called Giorgione, from his fine person and the greatness of his soul, for he, though of low birth, was all his life distinguished for his gentle manners. He was brought up in Venice, and sang and played so divinely that he was often invited to musical entertainments, and received by noble persons. He gave himself, however, to drawing, and was so favoured by nature that he, falling in love with her beauty, would never use anything in his works which he had not drawn from life; so that he acquired the reputation not only of having surpassed Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, but of having equalled those who worked in Tuscany, and were the authors of the modern manner. Giorgione had seen some things of Lionardo's worked with great depth of shadow but blended and softened, and this manner pleased him so much that all his life he used it and imitated it when painting in oil.
It was in 1504 that a great fire destroyed the German Exchange near the bridge of the Rialto, consuming all the merchandise, to the very great loss of the merchants. The Signory of Venice ordered that it should be rebuilt, and it was speedily completed, with greater accommodation and magnificence and beauty; and the fame of Giorgione having by this time grown great, it was decided by those in authority that he should paint it in fresco according to his own fancy, provided he displayed his utmost powers, and made an excellent work of it, for it was in the best situation, and the finest view of the whole city. Giorgione, setting to work, thought only how he could design figures that would best display his art; and in fact there is no story in it, nor does it represent the story of any person, ancient or modern. I for my part have never understood it, nor ~ave I ever found anybody who did; for here is a woman and there a man, in certain attitudes, one with the head of a lion near him, and the other with an angel in the guise of Cupid. In short, his figures look well together, and there are heads very well drawn and coloured, and all he did was evidently from life, and not in imitation of any manner.
There is a story that Giorgione was talking to some sculptors at the time that Andrea Verrocchio was making his bronze horse, and they contended that because sculpture showed in one figure different sides, and could be seen all round, it surpassed painting, which only showed one part. Giorgione argued that a picture could show all sorts of views of a man at one glance, without his having to walk round it, and he undertook to show in one picture the back and the front and the two sides of one single figure, a thing which puzzled them; but he did it in this way. He painted a man, turning his back to the spectators, and having at his feet some smooth water, in which the front view was reflected; on one side of him was a polished corslet which he had taken off, on which was plainly reflected his left profile, while on the other hand was a mirror, in which might be clearly seen his other side--a fanciful conceit which was highly admired.
He made many portraits of different Italian princes, and painted from life Caterina, Queen of Cyprus. But while he was expecting still to add to his honours and those of his country, he fell ill of the plague, in the year 1511, and at the age of thirtyfour passed to another life, to the infinite grief of his many friends and with damage to the world who lost him. Nevertheless there remained his two excellent pupils, Sebastiano Veniziano del Piombo and Titian, who not only equalled him but greatly surpassed him. Sebastiano's first profession was not painting but music, which made him very acceptable to the nobles of Venice, with whom he lived on intimate terms. But when still young, desiring to learn painting, he studied first with Giovanni Bellini, who was then an old man, and afterwards, when Giorgione had introduced a more modern manner, he left Bellini and joined Giorgione, and stayed with him until he had acquired his style so accurately that many who have no great knowledge of art mistake his works for Giorgione's.
A rich merchant of Sienna, Agostino Chigi, hearing of his fame, sought to persuade him to go to Rome, being pleased not only with his painting but also with his music and his agreeable conversation. It was not hard to persuade Bastiano to go, for he knew that that city had always been the protector of men of genius. So when he was come to Rome Agostino set him to work, and he did some things in Agostino's palace in the style that he had brought from Venice, very different from that which the best painters in Rome employed. Afterwards, Raffaello having painted the story of Galatea in the same place, Bastiano painted by the side of It a Polyphemus. He also painted some things in oil, and having learnt a soft style of colouring from Giorgione, he obtained by them a great reputation.
Raffaello by this time had earned such honour by his paintings that his friends and adherents said that they were better than Michael Angelo's, being pleasant in colouring, fine in invention, excellent in expression, and good in drawing, while Buonarroti's had none of these qualities but the drawing. And so they said that Raffaello was at least equal to him in drawing, and surpassed him in his colour. But Sebastiano was not of these, being a man of exquisite judgment. So Michael Angelo being drawn towards Sebastiano, and being pleased with his colouring and graceful style, took him under his protection, thinking that, if he aided Sebastiano in his drawing, he could through him contend with those who opposed him. Sebastiano's paintings being therefore more highly valued through the praise that Michael Angelo had given them, a gentleman from Viterbo much favoured by the Pope gave Sebastiano a picture of a dead Christ to paint for a chapel in San Francesco at Viterbo. But though Sebastiano carried it out with great diligence, the design was by Michael Angelo. The work was held by all who saw it to be most beautiful, and Sebastiano gained great credit by it. And Pier Francesco Borgherini, a Florentine merchant, having taken a chapel in S. Piero in Montorio, entrusted the painting of it to Sebastiano, thinking, as was indeed the case, that Michael Angelo would make the design. Sebastiano carried it out with great diligence and care, and thinking he had found a way of painting in oil on a wall, he covered the plaster with a suitable preparation, and all that part which has the scourging of Christ he painted in oil. Nor will I conceal that many think that Michael Angelo not only made a little drawing for the work, but that the figure of Christ was put in altogether by him, there being a great difference between that and the other figures. When Sebastiano had uncovered this work his enemies' tongues were silenced, and few ventured to attack him. Afterwards, when Raffaello painted for the Cardinal de' Medici that picture of the Transfiguration which was placed after his death in S. Piero in Montorio, Sebastiano painted another picture of the same size, as if in rivalry, representing the raising of Lazarus, and this also was worked under the guidance of Michael Angelo, and in some parts from his drawings. The two pictures when they were finished were exhibited together, and both received great praise1 for although Raffaello's works have no equals for grace and beauty, yet none the less Sebastiano's efforts were universally applauded.
This man had to labour greatly at all his works; they did not come with the facility that nature and study sometimes give. So in the chapel of Agostino Chigi, where Raffaello had made the sibyls and prophets, there was a niche below in which Bastiano undertook to paint something to surpass Raffaello, and set to work to prepare the wall; but he left it untouched when he died ten years after. Sebastiano indeed could draw quickly and easily from life, but it was just the contrary in subject pictures. Indeed portrait painting was his true work.
When Cardinal Giulio de' Medici was made Pope under the name of Clement VII., he intimated to Sebastiano that he would seek occasion to favour him. Therefore, upon the death of Fra Mariano Fetti, the Frate del Piombo, Sebastiano reminded him of his promise, and made request for the office of the Piombo. And although Giovanni da Udine, who had served his Holiness long, preferred the same request, the Pope gave orders that Sebastiano should have the office, on the agreement to pay to Giovanni a pension of three hundred crowns. So Sebastiano assumed the habit of a friar, and at the same time his nature seemed to change; for having wherewith to satisfy his desires without using his pencil, he let it repose, and made up for his laborious days by rest and ease. Thus the magnificent liberality of Clement VII rewarding Sebastiano too highly was the cause that from a hardworking, industrious man he became slothful and negligent, and having laboured constantly when he was competing with Raffaello and his fortune was low, he ceased to work as soon as he had enough. He had a very good house, which he had built himself, and in this he lived in the greatest contentment, without any wish to paint. He used to say that it was just as prudent to live a quiet life as to be ever struggling restlessly to leave a great name behind. And he acted according to his words, having always the best wines and rarest dainties he could get, taking more account of good living than of art. Being censured by some, who said it was a shame that now that he had the means of living he worked no more, he answered, "Now that I have the means of living I do no work, because there are clever men in the world now, who can do in two months as much as I used to do in two years, and I think if I live much longer everything will have been painted; so as these men do so much, it is a good thing that there should be some who do nothing, that they may have more to do." And in pleasantries of this kind he would run on, and indeed there was no better companion than he.
As we have said, Bastiano was much beloved by Michael Angelo, but when the Pope's chapel was to be painted, where now is Michael Angelo's Judgment, there was some illfeeling between them. For Fra Sebastiano had persuaded the Pope to make Michael Angelo paint it in oil, whereas he would not do it except in fresco. Michael Angelo therefore saying neither yes or no, the wall was prepared in Fra Sebastiano's way; Michael Angelo left it untouched for some months, and when they implored him to begin it, he said at last that he would not do it except in fresco, for oil painting was an art for women and lazy people like Fra Sebastiano. So the plaster being taken down it was prepared for working in fresco, and Michael Angelo set to work upon it, but never forgot the injury Fra Sebastiano had done him.
Fra Sebastiano, having brought himself to doing nothing whatever except the work of his office, and living well, fell sick at last of a violent fever and died. Art lost little by his death, for he might have been counted among those whom it had lost from the time he put on the friar's habit; but many of his friends mourn him still for his pleasant converse. He had at different times many young men with him to study art, but to no great profit, for they learnt little from him but how to live well. | <urn:uuid:fea96510-5c5e-4306-85a1-52b328581dd5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari15.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993141 | 2,585 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Proffit Community Once Called "Egypt"
Land along the north fork of the Rivanna River was patented between 1730 and 1737 by a landowner named Major Thomas Carr. This was at a time when Northern Albemarle County was still part of Hanover County. The Proffit area was one of the first areas in Albemarle County to be patented. Another landowner in the area was James Minor who married a member of the Carr family. Descendents of the Carr and Minor families built the Estates know as Gale Hill (1770s), Red Hills (1797), and Glen Echo (1760s). All of these estates were located in Proffit. These early settlers in Proffit were farmers who grew tobacco, and wheat and other cereal grains.
Albemarle county experienced little hostile activity during the Civil War, which allowed the farms and the Proffit area to remain free from destruction and disruption. Following the Civil War some freed slaves stayed in the Proffit area and either worked as tenant farmers or bought property to establish small farms.
One of the former slaves was Ben Brown, the great-great-great-grandfather of Christopher Howard. (Christopher was an 8th grader at Burley Middle School who did some of the research about the Proffit area. Christopher's mother is Marsha Howard, an Assistant Principal at Burley Middle School).
In 1876 Ben Brown purchased seventy-five acres along Route 649 (the west side of Proffit Road). Ben laid out his property into lots and referred to the area as "Egypt". Another former slave who laid out his property on the east side of Route 649 was James Flanagan. The Brown and Flanagan families became the first African-American family landowners in the Proffit area. These families farmed their own "food and livestock, and did some sharecropping", according to the oral historical accounts of the day. A few of the original early structures built by Ben Brown and James Flanagan and their descendents have survived today.
In 1881 a railroad line opened between Charlottesville and Orange, Virginia. A white landowner and resident in the Egypt community, Samuel Proffit, sold some of his property to the Virginia Midland Railroad (later to become the Southern Railroad and now the Norfolk-Southern Railroad) for the right-of-way. The railroad depot became known as "Proffit" in honor of Samuel Proffit.
For a brief time Proffit was also known as 'Bethel". This was due to Bethel Church in Proffit. Members of the Brown, Lott, Payne, Turner, and Estes families organized the black congregation that founded the Evergreen Baptist church in 1888.
By the turn of the Twentieth Century Proffit had three stores, a post office, and a railroad depot. There were two schools. One school was for the white students and another for the black students. When the school for the black students was closed, black students began attending a school in Earlysville, Virginia known as the Rivanna Industrial School.
In 1932, Route 29 was built and replaced much of the business that was being conducted by the railroad. The last of the stores and businesses in the Proffit area closed in the 1960s.
There are many current residents who are descendents of the original Proffit families. The feel that the Proffit area is still a great place to live in. The community or "Village" as it is now called, organized several years ago the "Proffit Homeowners Association". This organization meets quarterly at the Evergreen Baptist church and holds an annual community picnic.
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From the Constitution of the United States, to the framework of modern law, to the vocabulary and ideas of everyday speech and writing, the classics exert a pervasive influence. The power of Greece and Rome extends into virtually every aspect of our modern lives. Western traditions of history, philosophy, science, religion, art, and, above all, literature draw their origins from the intellectual curiosity and colorful imagination of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Department of Classics provides a window into the lives, times, and ideas of the founders of Western society. Students of Greek learn the language of Homer, Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plato, while Latin classes learn the idioms of Cicero, Julius Caesar, Ovid, and Vergil. The debt we owe to the Greeks and Romans is so large and multifaceted that the study of classics is interdisciplinary by nature. For example, the classics curriculum includes courses offered by the Departments of Philosophy, Art, Government, and Science and Technology. Yet, all of these courses form part of a coherent whole for classics majors and minors. Colby students of the classics reap all the benefits of a liberal arts education, and at the same time, maintain a focus in their studies.
Here at Colby, the Department of Classics is thriving on a resurgence of nationwide interest in classical languages and cultures. Courses range from beginning languages to careful reading and analysis of major Greek and Latin texts, to general courses on tragedy and myth read in translation. Courses on ancient history and culture round out the department’s offerings. Students can choose to gain an overview of long periods of classical history, or study shorter periods in great detail. Often, course subjects are closely related to the research projects of the professors, so the class benefits from the most up-to-date insights, even before publication! In class, we apply various modern, even pioneering, theoretical approaches drawn from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism. Among the department’s offerings on language, literature, history, and culture, and the courses offered by other departments on, for example, ancient philosophy, classical art and architecture, and classical political thought, students choose from an extensive array of courses. They can emphasize different aspects of the curriculum to suit their individual tastes.
With such an array of courses in the curriculum, the Department of Classics offers majors and minors in two programs: one in classics, which concentrates on language and literature in Greek, Latin, or both, and one in classical civilization that encompasses all the facets of classical culture. Many students in both programs have taken advantage of the opportunity to study in Greece and Italy through programs especially designed for American students. In Athens, the cradle of Western democracy and the birthplace of Greek tragedy and Plato’s academy, Colby students can further their studies while familiarizing themselves with the Acropolis and Agora. In Rome, they can continue to pursue the ideals of a classical education while breathing the air that the Roman emperors inhaled, and walking the streets that for centuries saw triumphs over distant peoples. In recent years, our joint major in Classics/Classical Civilization-English has become popular, and we have recently added another joint major in Classical Civilization-Anthropology.
Outside the arena of course options and credit requirements, the department strives to emulate the intellectual curiosity of the Greeks and Romans. Our activities extend beyond the classroom to various social, yet educational, events. We have enjoyed showing movies and videos related to the classics from time to time. During the year, we sponsor picnic or pizza parties at our homes for all our students. We bring prominent experts from the U.S. and abroad to share new perspectives on topics of the ancient world. The department provides a seminar room, with its own book and periodical collection, as a study room and peaceful haven for majors and minors. We are proud to have state-of-the-art computer support for our students. By tapping a few keys, they can call up any Greek or Latin text, and search through the entire canon of classical authors in the original or in translation. Furthermore, we have bookmarked numerous sites of classical interest on the Internet. All of these resources are to be found in a room graced by reproductions of classical statues, vases, and paintings.
It is the department’s goal to foster keen intellectual curiosity and sound principles of analysis and problem-solving in all our students by providing academic stimuli and allowing our students to harness the power of the imagination just like the great thinkers, politicians, artists, and writers of Greece and Rome. In an age where effective communication skills are crucial to successful careers, our students develop and refine their speaking and writing through oral presentations and papers. Not surprisingly, graduates of the major are pursuing successful careers in law, medicine, teaching, academia, government, art, management, and other fields. The study of the classics trains the mind for much more than the translation of texts and the analysis of a culture. The study of classics also prepares you to meet life with the confidence of Achilles and the self-reliance of Odysseus. | <urn:uuid:152c366f-6913-45f3-ad88-5cc5921dac52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/lobby/?code=CL | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925512 | 1,084 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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Over the more than three decades that we have been farming our estate vineyards, we’ve learned that small areas within particular blocks consistently produce grapes with unique qualities of flavor and texture. A case in point is FAY Block 8. In its center is an irregularly shaped "sweet spot" that yields fruit of unusual expressiveness, characterized by voluptuous softness as well as concentration. Over the years this "sweet spot" has been a key component of CASK 23.
The association of wood and wine goes back a very long time. Herodotus recorded the use of wooden barrels as wine containers as early as seventh centuries B.C., and for most of wine’s history, barrels were the containers of choice for storage and transportation. Over time, winemakers began to also value barrels’ ability to change the taste of the wine inside. Oak barrels came to be favored for imbuing wine with tastes ranging from vanilla, spice, coffee, and caramel to cedar, smoke, and leather.
One reason people love large-format wine bottles is that they look so impressive on the table or displayed in the cellar. But good looks are merely a happy side effect of these super-sized wines’ real advantage: they allow the wines inside to age more slowly.
Estate Wine Library
Visit our Estate Wine Library where we share the original tasting notes from the winery as well as notes and comments from our winemaking team and collectors based on tastings over the years. | <urn:uuid:49573648-9459-4671-a121-55a33570350c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cask23.com/collectorsCorner/articles/all/page:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956144 | 367 | 1.625 | 2 |
NYC Mayor To UN: Health Food Push Is 'Government's Highest Duty'
During a United Nations General Assembly summit on non-communicable diseases -- a discussion that included diet and eating habits -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option."
Speaking on the government's role in diet and health last week, Bloomberg told the UN General Assembly, “There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve. To halt the worldwide epidemic of non-communicable diseases, governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option. That is ultimately government’s highest duty.”
Earlier in his address Bloomberg lauded the past dietary efforts of NYC, “In 2009 we enacted the first restriction on cholesterol-free artificial trans fat in the city’s food service establishments. Our licensing of street green card producer/vendors has greatly increased the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods with high rates of diet related diseases. And we’ve led a national salt reduction initiative and engaged 28 food manufacturers, supermarkets and restaurant chains to voluntarily commit to reducing excessive amounts of sodium in their products. ”
Shortly after the address, the UN adopted a political declaration on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
Among the items included in the declaration are having governments intervene with the advertising of foods deemed unhealthy to “Promote the implementation of the WHO (World Health Organization) set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children, including foods that are high in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, free sugars, or salt,” according to the document.
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“I love teaching and clinical work. They're both challenging, and you're always learning something new.”
“LEADING RESEARCHER AND EDUCATOR IN GASTROENTEROLOGY”
Christina Surawicz grew up in a family of doctors, her father a cardiologist, her mother a psychiatrist. But as a newly minted English literature major out of Barnard College, she wanted to be a poet. Like for generations of nascent poets before her, that dream faded in the hard light of daily life. "I just wasn't a good enough poet," she recalls.
Instead Surawicz went to medical school and built a career in internal medicine and gastroenterology that has brought her to the peak of her profession. She is widely recognized as a clinician, researcher, educator and administrator and as a role model and mentor for medical students, residents and faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSM).
"I see my biggest challenge as supporting and valuing faculty and medical students," she says. "Styles have changed since I was in medical school. The old attitude was 'I did it, so they have to do it that way too.' The role models were of men who worked constantly. Women have had a huge impact in changing the way those of us in medicine live and work."
Surawicz also believes women have helped to shift the teaching and practice medicine to a better balance of personal and professional satisfaction, seen today's greater acceptance of parental leave, part-time work and children's day care, all of which have helped to bring more women into medicine.
Nominated as a Local Legend by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA-7), Surawicz came to the University of Washington in 1973 as a result of being matched for an available internship in internal medicine, a field which she knew little of. She remained to complete her residency and a fellowship in gastroenterology.
In 1981, she became the first woman faculty member of Seattle's Harborview Hospital gastroenterology department and has directed its program ever since. She is widely praised as a committed clinician who also gives much time and effort to serving the uninsured and underserved in the Seattle area.
As the first female president of the American College of Gastroenterology, and the first assistant dean for faculty development at UWSM, assuming leadership roles has become second nature for Surawicz. At the federal level, for example, she has chaired the Food and Drug Administration's Gastrointestinal Drug Advisory Council.
A member of the editorial boards of several gastroenterology journals, her work has appeared widely in numerous scientific journals and books. She is known for offering practical guidelines to physicians for improved patient care. For the past decade, she has been included in the list of "Best Doctors in America" and, from 2001 on, also in "America's Top Doctors."
A colleague has written of Surawicz, "She has never failed to amaze me with her profound scientific knowledge, her exemplary humanistic qualities, and her sincerity and generosity to her patients, students and peers."
Appointed Director Gastroenterology Department, University of Washington, and Director Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Harborview Medical Center Seattle
Named Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Harborview Medical Center
Elected President, American College of Gastroenterology
Named Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, University of Washington School of Medicine
Elected President, Western Association of Physicians
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Facts and Events
A possible relative, Robert de Tulloch, is listed as the Archdeacon of Moray in 1443. .
His brother's great grandson, Patrick Tulloch later also became Archdeacon of Moray from from 1613 to 1638.
His coat of arms was recorded in 1480 as follows:
A record of this coat of arms from Lerwick Town Hall is shown here
William de Tulloch (died 1482) was a 15th century Scottish prelate. A native of Angus, he became a canon of Orkney, almost certainly brought there by his relative Thomas de Tulloch, Bishop of Orkney. He was provided to the bishopric upon the resignation of his cousin by Pope Pius II at the Apostolic see on 11 December 1461. He had been consecrated by 21 July 1462, when he rendered an oath of fealty at Copenhagen to Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
In 1468 he was one of the ambassadors responsible for organising the marriage between King James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark, the daughter of King Christian. The marriage resulted in the formal transfer of Orkney and Shetland to the sovereignty of the Scottish crown. He was Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 25 June 1470 onwards. He was sent to England in 1471 as an ambassador. He became tacksman, i.e. held the administration of, Orkney and Shetland from 27 August 1472 until 28 July 1478, continuing the role entrusted to him earlier by King Christian.
On 12 February 1477, following the death of David Stewart, he was rewarded for his extensive services by attaining translation to the Bishopric of Moray. On 21 March, his proctors at Rome, William and John of Paris, paid 642 gold florins and 43 shillings, presumably as payment for the new bishopric. He retained his position as Keeper of the Privy Seal until at least 1481. Tulloch remained Bishop of Moray until his death on 14 April 1482. | <urn:uuid:0bbe3fc6-6d74-4ac2-9d26-60059974d55f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Tulloch_(13) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986225 | 436 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Last week’s shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, continues to garner immense news coverage worldwide. But the student press overall has not produced many stories or commentaries touching on the tragedy — simply because many outlets had already stopped publishing for the semester prior to its occurrence.
At the start of spring semester, college media should at last offer an array of related Sandy Hook reports and perspectives for their student readers. Here are five story ideas to help get them started on their coverage.
The ideas are tied to a few campus newspapers that — much to their credit — have already published news pieces and op-eds.
Mourners visit a streetside memorial for 20 children who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 20 in Newtown, Conn.
1. To start, tell the stories of any students, faculty, staff, alumni or nearby community members who are Sandy Hook grads or have a connection of any sort to the school or Newtown — including through a sibling or a friend. For example, The Daily Orange at Syracuse University recently tracked down three SU students and Newtown natives, providing glimpses into how they are dealing with news in which the word “horrifying barely even scratches the surface.”
As an SU senior from Newtown, whose mother is a teacher and younger sister a student at Sandy Hook, told the Orange, “I’m just hoping people realize that this town is a lot more than what’s been displayed on the news for the last day and a half or so. It still really is an idyllic New England town with good schools, and good athletics, and good people.”
2. Along with remembering and honoring the dead, do not forget those still in mourning. As Caleb Hendrich, the editorial editor of The Rocky Mountain Collegian at Colorado State University, writes, “In the coverage and discussion of shootings, and the eventual discussions surrounding gun policy, the lives of the victims and their families need to be held sacrosanct. These are not statistics to be used and exploited. These are not examples to be thrown around lightly. These are people’s lives; their grief and their loss must never ever be forgotten in the wake of these tragedies.”
Using the Newtown shooting as a foundation, explore the larger infrastructure and set of routines surrounding grief and mourning on your campus.
What related services and staff are available for students in mourning over personal and national tragedies? How do students and staffers of different faiths and from different parts of the country and world deal with their grief? And what is life like for those enduring post-traumatic stress disorder related to an event of this magnitude?
3. In the wake of the shooting, The Michigan Daily published a story on a University of Michigan alumnus — and a past graduate of Sandy Hook — who has raised more than $100,000 for the Sandy Hook Parent-Teacher-Student Association. As he told the Daily, “I immediately started this fund within like 20 minutes of finding out that this had happened, in order to try to pool some financial resources to help these families heal.”
The Daily‘s focus on his act of kindness is an appropriate complement to the larger coverage of murder, mental illness and guns. It is also a nice way to spotlight at least a sliver of positive news amid the tragedy.
Follow the Daily‘s lead by exploring the charitable and volunteer efforts carried out by individuals and groups at your school connected to Sandy Hook — and to other, perhaps more local, tragedies that have recently occurred.
4. Due to the enormity of their presence in Newtown and their endless stories dissecting various aspects of the shooting, the news media have inserted themselves into the Sandy Hook story — and prompted an impassioned public response.
As Calvin College junior Ryan Struyk writes for the Chimes student newspaper, “People on Facebook, Twitter and blogs have sounded off against these journalists, calling them insensitive and heartless, while calling the work they do intrusive and unnecessary.”
But in his view, the journalists’ work — while at times intrusive — is necessary and can bring about needed catharsis, conversation and change.
In his words, “[A]s I watch the coverage, I see parents willing to struggle to find words for the immense loss they feel. I see children trying to share their pain with a world that feels the brokenness of sin daily. I see [the press] reaching out for support from politicians, charities, and Christians across the country. I see them sparking a critical and much-needed conversation on gun control in America. I see them willing to do anything to make sure this never happens again. How could we not tell this story?”
Gauge the reactions of students and staff at your school about the post-shooting media coverage, possibly both in the immediate and long-term aftermaths. Determine whether they noticed a difference in the content or quality of the coverage provided by local and national outlets and among those in print, on TV and online.
5. The last idea is perhaps the most obvious — and most necessary — candidate for related coverage. As Molly Stazzone, news editor of The Impact at New York’s Mercy College, writes, “Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Colorado Cinema, and now Sandy Hook School in Newtown. What do all of these places have in common? These places and their communities have been destroyed by massive shoot-outs from deranged gunman [sic]. … For me the problem is gun control.”
Whether considered a problem or a solution by various factions of the public, it is fair to say gun control is a front-and-center issue that will undoubtedly spur high-profile debate throughout 2013.
From a reporting perspective, suss out the post-Sandy-Hook opinions of student gun owners and gun-control advocates.
Observe the activities of campus and community pro-gun and pro-gun-control groups. Check in on the campus concealed-carry weapons debate. And investigate and share the gun control stances and voting records of local legislators.
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Judicial decision on wolf hunt delayed
DNR: No authority to restrict wolf hunt dogs
A Dane County judge has postponed a ruling on a request to block hunters from training dogs to go after wolves until later this week.
A coalition of humane societies has filed a lawsuit challenging this fall's hunt. The group alleges the Department of Natural Resources failed to set up restrictions on the use of dogs, creating the potential for bloody wolf-dog fights.
The coalition wants Judge Peter C. Anderson to issue a temporary order blocking the DNR from issuing permits unless the agency notifies hunters they can't train dogs to go after wolves.
Anderson said during a hearing Wednesday he was still reading case law related to the lawsuit an hour before the hearing began and didn't want to rush into a decision. He said he would rule Friday.
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SolarCity Corp., a closely held installer and owner of rooftop power systems, was awarded a U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee that the company says will allow it to double U.S. residential solar installations.
The loan guarantee is intended to support installations on military residences and buildings in as many as 33 states. SolarCity, based in Foster City, California, is planning a $1 billion, five-year program to install 160,000 rooftop photovoltaic systems.
The Energy Department’s conditional commitment guarantees 80 percent of a $344 million loan to support part of the project. The loan is provided by USRG Renewable Finance, an affiliate of US Renewables Group LLC, in partnership with Bank of America Corp., the Energy Department said Wednesday in a statement.
The loan guarantee was necessary to make the initiative profitable, as SolarCity expands upon an initial installation at a military base in Arizona in 2009, according to Lyndon Rive, the company’s chief executive officer.
“We thought that we could scale this model onto all the other military housing,” Rive said Wednesday in a telephone interview. “As we looked at it, the economics just couldn’t pencil,” because the cost of energy for military housing is often lower than the traditional cost of energy, he said. The loan guarantee enabled SolarCity to “get a lower cost of capital” to help “make solar affordable.”
New Solar Generation
SolarCity’s SolarStrong project may create up to 371 megawatts of new solar generation capacity, Bank of America said Wednesday in a statement. Construction is underway on an initial 4-megawatt system in Hawaii, and installations are expected to follow on military bases in Nevada, Kentucky, California, and Texas, the bank said.
The project will help the U.S. Defense Department meet its goal of providing 25 percent of its energy from renewable resources by 2025, the Energy Department said.
The loan must close by September to meet the deadline for the Energy Department’s loan guarantee programs, which haven’t been extended by Congress. The remaining cost of SolarStrong will be financed by equity from SolarCity and other investors that haven’t been announced yet, according to Rive.
The government’s risk is “extremely low” because the loan only comes into effect after the systems are built and producing electricity,’’ Rive said.
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|Jacque Butler, CEO and founder of MedQuest Solutions|
Butler started out in real estate. She worked with her father after she finished college, and she had great success at first. She said she made a $1 million by the time she was 25. Around this time, however, the economy took a turn for the worse, and Butler’s bank account followed suit.
“I didn’t know what I would lose first: my house or my car,” Butler said.
She decided to become a waitress to pay off her debts. Then she realized she needed a graduate degree to become more marketable. While she was attending school during the day and working during the night, she realized she needed someone to help with her six children. After a frustrating experience trying to find a nanny agency that could deal with her situation, she decided she could do it better: she started her own nanny agency. Within the first year, it became the largest nanny agency in the U.S.
When her father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, she said it was difficult to watch him go through the downward slide of the disease. That fueled her desire to start her next successful venture, MedQuest Solutions. The company specializes in bio identical hormone replacement therapy and provides physicians and patients with pharmaceutical services, lab work and supplement manufacturing.
Butler said entrepreneurship is in her blood. She said she didn’t think there were any other options when it came to picking a career. And it doesn’t sound like she will be getting out of the game any time soon. During the question and answer session at the end of her lecture, a student asked what she saw herself doing in 10 years.
“I will have started two or three more companies.”
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About 20 kms south-east of Rangdum stands the Panzila axis, across which lies Zanskar, the most isolated of all the trans-Himalayan valleys. The Penzila pass (4,401m) is a picturesque tablet and surrounded by snow-covered peaks.
As the Zanskar road winds down the steep slopes of Penzi-la to the head of the Stod valley, the majestic " Drang-Drung" glacier looms into full view. A long and winding river of ice and snow, "Drang-Drung" is perhaps the largest glacier in Ladakh, outside the Siachen formation. It is from the cliff-like snout of this extensive glacier that the Stod or Doda tributary of the Zanskar River rises.
Zanskar is a tri-armed valley system situated between the Great Himalayan Range and the Zanskar mountains, the three arms radiating star-like towards the west, north and south from a wide central expanse.
Here the Zanskar River comes into being by the confluence of its two Himalayan tributaries, the Stod/Doda and the Lingti-Tsarap rivers. It is mainly along the course of this valley system that the region’s approximately 14,000 strong, mainly Buddhist population, live. Spread over an estimated geographical area of 5000 sq kms of mountainous territory, Zanskar is surrounded by high-rise mountains and deep gorges.
It remains inaccessible for nearly 8 months a year due to heavy winter snowfall resulting in closure of all access passes, including the Penzi-la.
This geographical isolation and the esoteric nature of Buddhism practised here have enabled its inhabitants to preserve their identity, so that to-day Zanskar is the least interfered with microcosms of Ladakh. Closer observation of the lifestyle evokes admiration for a people who have learnt to live in perfect harmony with the unique environment.
Within the mountainous ramparts of this ‘Shangri-La’ are a number of ancient yet active monastic establishments. Some of these foundations have evolved around remote mountain caves, which are by legend associated with famous Buddhist saints. These are in fact the main places of attraction for the visitors in the area, in addition to the haunting beauty of the spectacular landscape and the ancient culture.
Getting There - The 240-km long Kargil-Padum road remains open from early July to mid-October. The J&K SRTC operates a "B" class bus service between Kargil and Padum. But tourist groups can charter deluxe buses to visit Zanskar, including sightseeing within the valley.
Jeep and Gypsy taxis can also be hired at Kargil, but the charges are high due to the difficult road conditions. During June and early July, prior to opening of the road, it is recommended to walk into Zanskar from Panikhar or Parkachik. The week- long trek provides an opportunity to enjoy the unending grandeur of the Himalayas besides the experience of interacting with the inhabitants of the villages, which otherwise passes by fleetingly while travelling by bus or taxi. In June, summer is at its height in the region and the climate is ideal for trekking along a route free from vehicular traffic when the area is freshly rejuvenated into life during this period after months of frigid dormancy.
Where to stay in Zanskar - The Tourist Complex at Padum has 5 furnished rooms. There is catering arrangement within the complex and a camping place nearby for tourists travelling with personal tents.
There are also several small hotels in Padum where rooms with basic facilities are available at reasonable rates. At Karsha, basic accommodation is available in guest houses. In distant villages like Stongdey, Zangla, Sani, etc., accommodation can be sought from the villagers at negotiable rates. Some monasteries may also take in guests, though more as a gesture of goodwill than on commercial consideration. Of course, the guest is expected to compensate the monastery suitably.
Travel Tips - Zanskar experiences drastic fluctuations in the daily temperature even during the height of summer. While the days are pretty warm, even hot at times due to the desert effect, the evenings can become quite chilly and require additional clothing. It is advisable to be prepared with a pullover and a down jacket. Other essential items include a sturdy pair of walking shoes (with strong rubber or synthetic soles for grip), a good sleeping bag and a pair of woollen socks or some thick cotton socks. It is also essential to bring along a good quality tent if one intends to travel or trek around by oneself, and a good rucksack for back packing. It is also important to carry provisions from Srinagar, Leh or Kargil if a longer tour of the adjoining villages is intended. | <urn:uuid:81148d04-1953-4681-9a78-f05f93788915> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jammu.com/ladakh/zanskar.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946997 | 1,014 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country with both the Nixon and McGovern campaigns and witnessed the birth of modern campaign journalism. The Boys on the Bus is the raucous story of how American news got to be what it is today. With its verve, wit, and psychological acumen, it is a classic of American reporting.
Hunter S. Thompson
About Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 — February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He was known for his flamboyant writing style, most notably deployed in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction.
The best source on Thompson's writing style and personality is Thompson himself. His books include Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1966), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973); The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979); The Curse of Lono (1983); Generation of Swine, Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's (1988); and Songs of the Doomed (1990).
“All the secrets . . . the definitive story.” —The Washington Post
“Provokes, perplexes, illuminates and amuses.” —Newsweek
“An extremely insightful and provocative book.” —New York
“Crouse takes a big bite out of the hand that feeds news to America——a mean, funny, absolutely honest book!” —Hunter S. Thompson
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For situations where corner towers might provide an authoritative exclamatory emphasis, such as at the crossing of St. Nicholas Avenue and West 145th Street, the less costly expedient of a rounded corner was often used to excellent effect. Even without Theodore E. Thompson's drugstore and flats on the north-west corner rising to the occasion, much as occurred downtown, or in Paris, the round corners of the grander Westminster, planned by Charles Buke in 1895, the Majestic and Sadivian Arms gave this intersection deliberate distinction.
The Westminster, a turreted bastion-like apartment marked the entrance to the fashionable section of St. Nicholas Avenue at West 145th Street. Designed by Theodore E. Thompson and completed in 1893, it was ajoined by a contemporary 5 house row to the north, on St. Niholas Avenue and backed by a group of 10 houses on Edgecombe Avenue. In 1915, on Edgecombe, Judge and Mrs. John P. Cohalan resided at number 706. At 263 lived Mr. and Mrs. Maximillian D. Berlitz of the Berlitz School of Languages fame .
In 1956 all these buildings gave way to the Bowery Savings Bank Apartments, a 13-storey structure designed by York & Sawyer. Long home to song stylist Miss Dinah Washington and home for a short span for singer Sarah Vaghan, according to the New York Times, the Bowery Building was Harlem's first "unsubsidised housing since 1938 with the first new bank here in fotyy-eight years..."
Stamped sheet metal cornices and parapets were originally painted stone-color to be indistinguishable from masonry. Today frequently black or green, they detract from rather than enhance architectural compositions.
The Albertina, from 1896, a drugstore and flats has lost its impressive stamped tin parapet. To the north stands Schwartz & Gross' neo-Georgian Harvard Court built in 1906.
Retained by mason-builder Hugh Reynolds, in 1891, architects Thayer & Robinson designed a row of five houses, numbers 713 to 721 at the southwest corner of 146th Street. Here they devised a prominent corner tower like no other ever built. Buff-colored brick trimmed with agitated courses of red brick, they almost reach an A-B-A-B-A symmetry, until the corner house, which is, as historian Christopher Gray describes it, " a hot-air balloon of masonry."
The bulbous corner, two-thirds round, rises to what may originally have been a conical roof, later altered, or perhaps a top-floor observatory.
First adapted into the exclusive Heights Club, by 1897, and converted within two years into the respected Barnard School for Boys by William Livingston Hazen, as Thaddeus Wilkerson's photograph from 1909 shows, number 721 apparently never did have a conical, or any other conventional kind of roof. From about 1920 through 1964 it was occupied by one of the area's first speakeasies, the Silver Dollar Cafe.
Toward the end of the seventeenth century, the area above Harlem's central plain became known as Harlem Heights. Attracted by rich soil, cool breezes, panoramic views, sport and country pursuits some of New York’s wealthiest British families established estates here as comparable to English examples as they were able to produce. General John Maunsell, Dr. Samuel Bradhurst, wholesale druggist and shipping magnate Jacob Schiefflin, and Lieutenant Colonel Roger Morris, each established pleasant and much-admired country seats covering from 20 to one hundred and thirty acres. Salubriously positioned with prospects toward the Harlem and Hudson Rivers, they were retreats as varied and delightful as any in the United States. So favorably situated, comprising the ‘Hamptons’ of their era, the Morris’s Mount Morris, at 161stStreet, the Schiefflins’ Rocca Hall, at 144th Street, Alexander Hamilton’s the Grange at, 143rd Street and the Bradhurst’s Pinehurst, at 147th Street, must have seemed poised to endure for centuries. But by 1900 most, along with neighboring estates had vanished.
Ca. 1885: Koch's New Mount St. Vincents Hotel, originally Dr. Samuel Bradhurst estate called Pinehurst.
By the late 1840s, in acknowledgment of the first President of the United States' martial exploits here, residents like Dr. Samuel Bradhurst's son, Maunsell Bradhurst, signed correspondence and otherwise began to identify the district we now know as Hamilton Heights as Washington Heights. Quite slowly the area began to urbanize, as it did the Bradhurst and other members of the gentry started to sale land. The dispersal of Bradhurst-owned lots increased after the Civil War, fueled, in part, by proposals of the Board of Commissioners of Central Park to abandon the winding Bloomingdale Road and layout the "Boulevard," today known as Broadway. The closing of this road, which sliced diagonally to the northeast, from what is now Broadway and 140"' Street toward St. Nicholas Avenue and 146th Street, created a long uninterrupted block between 145th and 146"' Streets well suited to residential development.
Ca, 1887: Rudimentary stables at Koch's New Mount St. Vincents Hotel are indicative of its role as a roadhouse catering to sports who raced their Thoroughbred steeds from Central Park along St. Nicholas Avenue.
Created in 1866, St. Nicholas Avenue was extended three years later, to 150"' Street. Conceived to improve access to Central Park, it became a popular route for sports and their trotting horses heading to the Harlem Speedway and Jerome Park, where the American Jockey Club built a racecourse seating eight thousand spectators. In 1873 Henry and Anna T. Nicoll purchased several large tracts from the Bradhurst, which they subsequently divided into smaller parcels in anticipation of a new "elevated" railway on Eighth Avenue with service to 155th Street by 1879. With elevated railroads serving Second, Third, and Eighth Avenues by 1880, what had once been an oasis of estates and farmhouses, gave way to speculative construction, including long rows of single-family houses and multiple dwellings of varying quality, Locally the most impressive residential buildings were the villas and free-standing mansions built along St. Nicholas Place with its double row of arching elm trees. Households here were the region's most affluent, enjoying the quite pleasures of the New York Tennis Club, its successor the Heights Club and the Athenaeum, another private association devoted to dances, lectures and other social amusements.
West of Pinehurst, around 1842, Mary Elizabeth Bradhurst Field and her husband Hickson Field built this elegant villa where Broadway and 150th Street would one day cross.
Ca. 1845: Elizabeth Bradhurst Field and her husband Hickson Field, Esq.
The New York Tennis Club courts behind Theodore Minot Clark's remarkable houses at 727-731 St. Nicholas Avenue.
In 1885, William Thompson filed building applications for 17 large private houses on the posh part of St. Nicholas Avenue, working either in partnership with Nathan Hobart, a Leonard Street dry goods merchant, or perhaps as a nominee for him.
The earliest speculative residences constructed on the street that was West Harlem’s finest address were designed by Boston architect Theodore Minot Clark. A former associate of influential Henry Hobson Richardson, Clark was a key designer of Trinity Church. Later heading the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he also edited the prominent journal Architecture & Building.
Built for merchant Nathan Hobart’s occupancy, the impressive four-story northwest corner house was demolished by 1906, to be replaced by 723-727 St. Nicholas Avenue, a six-story Colonial Revival style apartment building, designed by Lorenz F. J. Weiher. Before it was unceremoniously swept away, the grand former 729 St. Nicholas Avenue was not after all ever inhabited by Mr. and Mrs. Hobart their two sons and four daughters. Instead, they lived next door, at 731, while their intended residence, boasting one of only two elevators private Harlem house, became a private club. First it served as the New York Tennis Club, and then as the elegant Heights Club.
As it turned out, erected between 146th and 147th Streets, only three of the envisioned houses were actually built. Two survive, at 729 and 731 St. Nicholas Avenue. The imposing facades were the most original and satisfying in all Harlem. Each residence featured picturesque massing, including the iconic domed or conical Norman turret, and tall, distended chimneys. Like the lost freestanding dwelling that once occupied the corner at 146thStreet, the two bow-fronted row houses which survive celebrate their definitive medieval vernacular architecture transferred to the city. Faced with rugged Manhattan schist, excavated from their foundations, articulated like Norman originals, with red brick, they are further distinguished by unglazed yellow terra cotta ornament and imbricated wood shingles. “In the catalog of New York City private house architecture, they could be masterpieces of an educated mind — or awkward works of folk art.” , was Christopher Gray’s effusive assessment in the Times.
Late in the 1890's the astonishing Hobart houses on St. Nicholas Avenue became even more extraordinary with the addition of a sensuously graceful new bronze railed stoop at number 331.
Frederick P. Dinkelberg's houses with iron s-scrolled bracketed parapets at numbers 401-409 West 147th Street.
Paul Franklyn Higgs' Italian Renaissance style for wealthy William Haigh built in 1890 at 412 West 147th Street.
Completed in 1893, architect Arthur Bates Jennings' seven-house row including numbers 718-730 St. Nicholas Avenue combine all of the elaboration and swager he habitualy displayed on the fifty-foot frontages of tycoon's mansions, on these twenty-foot houses built on speculation.
1909: St. Nicholas Avenue and Place looking north from West 148th Street showing Frederick P. Dinkelberg's numbers 757-775 St. Nicholas Avenue from 1896. The round tower at the center of Thaddeus Wilkerson's photograph anounces houses designed by Frank Wennemer, including 819-814 St. Nicholas Avenue and 11-19 St. Nicholas Place. The three houses on the east side of St.Nicholas Avenue are part of Paul Higgs' row comprising numbers 760-766 from 1895. Further north stands John P. Leo's dormered Purling Apartments at 768-770 from 1902 and Henri Fouchaux's Arundel Court at 772-778 from 1905.
Brick and brownstone tenements by W. H. Boylan from 1899, 783-789 were the most humble type of housing provided in this swell neighborhood. Yet 789 is significant as the home of Norman Rockwell and his family, from 1900 through 1902.
The engaged tower and bow window of Clarance True's 842 and 844 St. Nicholas Avenue, from 1894, correspond to the gifted designer's singular group of eight individualy treated speculative houses on St. Nicholas Place. Skillfully they reflect the ensemble to the north, built the same year from designs by John C. Bunre. More conventional, this swelled front brownstone group cost $25,000 each. African American engineer Leroy Frederick Florant, who studied at Howard and Columbia Universities, lived at 848 while working on the Manhattan Project from 1944-1946.
Clarance True's 842 and 844 St. Nicholas Avenue.
Frederick P. Dinkelberg's rythmic row, streching from 148th to 149th Streets, 757-775 St. Nicolas Avenue, unified by robust bowed fronts is subtly differentiated through contrasted materials and finely crafted detailing, including stone carving by Nugent & Doxey. The ten imposing five storey houses were built by local developer William Broadbelt, who like the family of Norman Rockwell was a parishioner of St. Luke'sEpiscopal Church where he led the vestry and Norman sang in the boy choir.
Splendidly detailed with bronze capitaled granite Ionic columns, 400 West 149th Street was home from the late 1920's onward, to Caribbean native and dentist, Dr. Charles Ford. A founder of the United Mutual Life Insurance Co. Ford became a wealthy property owner.
A remarkable entrepreneurial success Rose Morgan, though lesbian, married boxing great Joe Louis. Early in the 1940's she opened Rose Meta's House of Beauty, a pioneering day-spa-beauty salon catering to black women, on three floors of 401 West 148th Street, which was also known as 757 St. Nicholas Avenue. Late in the 1940's it caused a scandal when Miss Morgan was discoverd with singer Marion Bruce here in a situation of compromising intimatey
In 1943, famed stride pianist Charles Luckeyth Roberts, seen above, hat in hand, seated next to Willie 'The Lion' Smith, acquired number 753 St. Nicholas Avenue which had earlier been the Moonlight Bar and Grill. He opperated a nightclub here until 1947, before moving on to the ground floor of 773, which from 1935 to 1940 had served as the Poosenpahtuck Night Club. Robert's "Lucky's Renddezvous" was a gay-friendly club with a stellar clientelle. Clifton Webb, Lena Hornr, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorne and Billie Holliday all came here. One attraction was the waiters, classically trained artist who sang arias and ballads while delivering drinks. Evolving into the Pink Angel and the St. Nicks Pub, Harlem's oldest continuous jazz venue only recently closed.
Looking south at the towered row houses designed by Frank Wennemer, including 819-814 St. Nicholas Avenue and 11-19 St. Nicholas Place and W. H. Boylan's tenements from 1899, including 783 -789 St. Nicholas Avenue Number 789 is significant as the home of Norman Rockwell and his family, from 1900 through 1902.
Neville & Bagge's 828-834 St. Nicholas Avenue, also known as 31-37 St. Nicholas Place, were built in 1896. Written late in life, in his memoir Norman Rockwell recalls his family living here with his coal dealer grand father John William Rockwell from 1902 to 1903.
Number 464 St. Nicholas Avenue extends all the way through the blook to Edgecombe Avenue, incoperating numbers 313-317. Completed in 1901 the St. Nicholas Court Apartments were designed by prolific Henri Fouchaux boasting the areas most flamboyant cornice above an Ionic colonnade. Origionally this sheet metal projection would have been painted to match this stonwork. The entire complex cost $230,000. Durring the 1920's St. Nicholas Court was home to writer Arna Bontemps.
Henri Fouchaux's Arundel Court at 772-778 St. Nicholas Avenue, from 1905, by masking the newly mandated light-court with an arch and recessing fire escapes in subordinate archways, assumes a far more monumental presence than it might have otherwise. Operatic impresario Oscar Hammerstein was an early resident.
Featuring a canted square corner tower, 881-887 St. Nicholas Avenue and 411-425 West 154th Street, were designed as rental houses by James Stroud for retired City Comptroller 'Honest John' Kelly. Completed in 1885, this group with fanciful porches and roof tops was among the most semi-suburban in the area. By 1920, the towered corner house was replaced by a restrained neo-Classical six-storey brick apartment house by Rosario Candella, who was to gain fame devising luxury housing for the rich quite unlike this modest structure.
Community Hospital at 8 St. Nicholas Place.
Built originally as two imposing residences for prosperous merchants, the picturesque Queen Anne style John W. Fink house, on the left, started as number 8. Jacob P. Baiter’s residence next door, on the right, was number 6. Designed by Richard S. Rosenstock, the Fink house was completed in 1885. Despite an abundance of vacant lots still available in 1892 when Baiter commisioned Theodore G. Stein to design his house, it was optomistacally given the form of a conventional townhouse. A yeast manufacturer, Baiter had an elevator, employed eight live-in servants and had patronized the Linspar Decorating Company.
In his great novel The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington's anti-hero George A. Minafer puzzles over the quandary that faced many as to the proper way to build in the absence of zoning codes,
"Well, for instance, that house----well, it was built like a townhouse. It was like a housemeant for a street in the city, What kind of a house was that for people of any taste to build out here in the country?"
Minifer's love interest trys to explain how her father and others feel that soon houses being built in the city towards this very allotment, will merge it with the teaming metropolis only further confuse him. On St. Nicholas Place, the two magnate's houses were joined together in 1912, by Dr. Henry Lloyd as a private clinic. By 1927 Dr. Lloyd's Sanitorium was re-established as the interracial Peoples Hospital. Langston Hughes’ mother was a paitent here, as was local photographer Thaddeus Wilkerson, who died at People's Hospital in 1943.
1890: St. Nicholas Place.
The picturesque Queen Anne style John W. Fink house built in 1885 to designs by Richard S. Rosenstock incoperates a terra-cotta griffin on the crest of the roof's jerkin headed gable.
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National Trust For Historic Preservation Names Greater Chaco Landscape in New Mexico to Its 2011 List of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places®
Posted June 14, 2011 | Contact email@example.com or 202-588-6141
Washington, D.C. (June 15, 2011) – Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named Greater Chaco Landscape in New Mexico to its 2011 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This annual list highlights important examples of the nation’s architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage. Members of the public can show their support for saving the endangered places by texting “PLACES” to 25383 to donate $10, which will go towards saving historic places through National Trust outreach programs.
Across a swath of northwestern New Mexico are hundreds of sites that help unlock the mysteries of the Chacoan people, prehistoric farmers who inhabited this area for six centuries starting in 700 A.D. Today these great innovators are represented by descendant Pueblo and other Native American groups. The architecture and engineering prowess of the Chacoan people suggest a highly developed culture, known for magnificent multi-storied buildings. Using masonry techniques unique for their time, the Chacoan people constructed massive stone buildings – or Great Houses –often containing hundreds of rooms. Although some of the Chacoan sites are now in ruins, many others are remarkably intact. The legacy of the Chacoan people includes thousands of ancient pueblos and shrines, along with an extensive road network that provided a physical and cultural link for people across the region.
Sites within Chaco Canyon itself and some on nearby mesas are protected as part of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, which is managed by the National Park Service. The international significance of this region, which includes Aztec Ruins National Monument and Salmon Ruins, is exemplified by the designation of the Park as a World Heritage property, which is one of only 20 in the United States. It is the natural and cultural landscape as a whole, and not just individual sites, that make this Chacoan region worthy of protection and yet, most Chacoan sites and roads located on federal lands outside the Park and World Heritage boundaries are at risk from a variety of human activities including, most significantly, energy development. Many of these sites and roads rival those located within the Park. For example, the recently mapped culturally significant Great North Road, which runs dozens of miles towards the New Mexico–Colorado border, remains vulnerable to development and other land-disturbing activities.
“The Greater Chaco Landscape has tremendous religious and cultural significance for many Native American tribes, and is recognized around the world for its historic and cultural significance” said Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. “In a densely populated and developed country like ours, it is hard to imagine that there is still a place where someone can walk in the footsteps of the Chacoan people through a landscape that has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. We cannot stand back and witness insensitive energy development and the permanent scarring of a place that holds deep significance for hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.”
Today, the Greater Chaco Landscape of northwestern New Mexico is experiencing a boom in energy-resource exploration and extraction. The oil and gas industry continues to push for development on federal lands outside the Chaco Culture National Historical Park and has recently nominated several Bureau of Land Management parcels within this area for oil and gas lease sales. In addition, many subtle and fragile Chacoan roads are greatly endangered as modern roads are being built and planned to serve the heavy truck traffic associated with energy extraction.
The Greater Chaco Landscape was nominated to the list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the Solstice Project, a non-profit organization based in New Mexico.
Members of the public are invited to learn more about what they can do to support this and hundreds of other endangered sites, experience first-hand accounts of these places, and share stories and photos of their own at www.PreservationNation.org/Places. Local preservation groups across the nation submitted nominations for this year's list; the nomination for Greater Chaco Landscape was submitted by the Solstice Project.
The 2011 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places (in alphabetical order):
Bear Butte, Meade County, S.D. – Bear Butte, the 4,426-foot mountain called Mato Paha by the Lakota in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is sacred ground for as many as 17 Native American tribes. A place of prayer, meditation, and peace, this National Historic Landmark is threatened by proposed wind and oil energy development that will negatively impact the sacred site and further degrade the cultural landscape.
Belmead-on-the-James, Powhatan County, Va. – A little-known landmark of African American heritage, the 2,000-acre site along Virginia’s James River was transformed by Saint Katherine Drexel from a slave-holding plantation into a pair of innovative schools for African American and Native American students. Closed in the 1970s, the historic buildings set in rolling hills and wooded glades of the riverfront campus, including a striking Gothic Revival manor house designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, are deteriorating and need emergency repairs.
China Alley, Hanford, Calif. – In 1877, Chinese immigrants settled in this San Joaquin Valley town and found strength and community far from home in China Alley, a vibrant rural Chinatown. Today, most of its historic buildings are suffering from deterioration and disuse and are vulnerable to insensitive alteration as there is no local historic preservation staff or commission to enforce preservation protections.
Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Ala. – A place of spectacular beauty and stirring history, Dauphin Island is home to Historic Fort Gaines, a nationally significant fortress that played a pivotal role in the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay. Today, Fort Gaines' shoreline is eroding as much as nine feet per year, and continued erosion threatens this significant historic treasure.
Greater Chaco Landscape, N.M. – Located across a broad swath of northwestern New Mexico are hundreds of Native American archaeological and cultural sites that help unlock the mysteries of the prehistoric Chacoan people. These sacred sites, and the fragile prehistoric roads that connect them, are in jeopardy due to increased oil and gas exploration and extraction.
Isaac Manchester Farm, Avella, Pa. – For more than two centuries, this 400-acre farm—with a stately brick Georgian manor house and historic outbuildings—has been home to eight generations of one family. A remarkable time capsule of colonial farm life, Manchester Farm is threatened by longwall coal mining.
John Coltrane House, Dix Hills, N.Y. – One of America’s most widely acclaimed jazz artists, John Coltrane lived with his young family in a ranch house in Long Island, N.Y., until his untimely death in 1967. Today, the home where Coltrane wrote his iconic masterpiece, “A Love Supreme,” deteriorates due to lack of funds. Although a local group has taken ownership of the property and hopes to restore and interpret the site as an education center, the effort sorely needs broader attention and support.
National Soldiers Home Historic District, Milwaukee, Wis. – With its bucolic setting and diverse collection of historic buildings, Milwaukee’s Soldiers Home offered welcome refuge for generations of American veterans. Today, the campus is threatened by a pattern of deferred maintenance, which has left historic buildings unused and on the verge of collapse.
Pillsbury A Mill, Minneapolis, Minn. – A masterpiece of industrial architecture and the largest and most advanced facility in the world at the time of its completion in 1881, the Pillsbury “A” Mill Complex stands vacant and is in danger of piecemeal development, which could strip this National Historic Landmark of its tremendous potential for re-use and rehabilitation.
Prentice Women’s Hospital, Chicago, Ill. – A concrete and glass cloverleaf-shaped icon, Prentice Women’s Hospital has added drama and interest to the Chicago skyline for nearly four decades. Despite its cutting edge, progressive architecture, Prentice Hospital faces imminent demolition.
Sites Imperiled by State Actions, U.S. – In state legislatures across the country, cuts to preservation funding and incentives imperil hundreds of thousands of historic places. If key sources of funding and incentives are lost across the United States, thousands of irreplaceable sites and national treasures may suffer untold consequences.
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Submitted by acohill on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 08:07
The iPod is ten years old today. The iPod was the brainchild of Steve Jobs. There were plenty of other MP3 music players at the time; most of them were much less expensive and smaller than the iPod, but the iPod was easy to use, both from the interface of the iPod itself, but key to the music player's success was the way the iPod synced with iTunes on your computer--a layer of complexity was completely eliminated, and that made all the difference.
The emergence of the iPod was also the death of the music store, but it was neither Jobs nor Apple that was the death of that anachronism, it was the inevitable march of history, or as Schumpeter calls it, "creative destruction." Ancient Greeks decried written language as the ruination of memorization. In the Middle Ages, the printing press was seen by some as a loss of control over knowledge. Time and technology move on. As we speak, tablet-based devices like the iPad are completing the creative destruction of most paper-based materials, especially magazines and newspapers. I think there will always be a place for some paper-based books, but really, paying less than ten bucks for the latest best seller in ebook format is much better than chopping down trees, making energy-intensive paper, and then engaging in the energy-intensive process of printing and hauling millions of tons of those books around. That's also true of music--music used to require enormous amounts of energy to deliver to the buyer, because music was heavy; it had weight. Today, we buy music as a stream of weightless photons.
What else has changed? In the old days, ten years ago, when music was still heavy, you needed a well-designed road system for the trucks and cars that hauled music around. Today, you need a well-designed digital road system to haul music, books, magazines, movies, TV, health care, business services, and hundreds of other emerging services. Is your community building those digital roads?
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Another favorite song of mine and the group's is the well known song of The Allman Brothers called Melissa.
I didn't know the story behind the song until recently and am passing the Wikipedia entry along for any readers who were wondering, as well:
"Melissa" is a song written in 1967 by Gregg Allman and Steve Alaimo. It was first recorded by The 31st of February – an early band comprising the Allman brothers, Gregg and Duane – in September 1968 at TK Studios, Hialeah, United States for the their second album produced by Alaimo, which was never completed. The result of those sessions were subsequently released in May 1972 on an album entitled Duane & Gregg Allman. In the meantime it had been re-recorded by Gregg and Duane's new band, The Allman Brothers Band and released on the Eat a Peach album in February 1972. The song was again recorded at TK Studios, this time produced by Tom Dowd and engineered by Richard Finch, TK's budding teenage recording studio prodigy and future co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band.
The song was not written for a woman named Melissa. The song was written before Gregg came up with the name. He said he was standing in line at a grocery store when he overheard a woman yelling to her young daughter who had scampered off, "Oh, Melissa! Melissa, come back, Melissa." He liked the name and decided it was a perfect fit for the song.
Our version is much more piano-centric than the original (and instrumental only) which is one way to add our own personal touch to not only this song but many others we have presented here in the last year:
Here's a live version with Gregg, Dave Matthews, and The Dave Matthews Band:
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When it comes to easy ways to save money, there is no better place to start than your cell phone bill. After adding two cell phones to our account for our teenagers and a wireless card for my business, I got nauseous the first time I open our new monthly cell phone statement. So we looked into ways to cut our bill and found several steps that just about anybody can take to lower the cost of their cell phone service. Some of these ideas take a little effort, but in the long run, you can really save a bundle.
[Slideshow: 10 Inventive Ways to Save]
1. Consolidate: If you have more than one cell phone provider for the mobile phones in your home, consolidate. Every cell phone carrier offers discounts for multiple phone lines. You also get the added convenience of one monthly bill. We consolidated our lines about a year ago and reduced our overall cell phone costs significantly.
2. Employer Discounts: Many employers have worked out special pricing with major cell phone carriers. My employer offers discounts to AT&T, for example, which can save us about 10 percent off the regular cost of service. If you are not sure whether your employer offers these discounts, check with your human resources department or consult your benefits plan.
3. Promo Codes and Specials: Cell phone carriers continually run specials and offer promotional codes for new service. Many of these deals are available only if you purchase your phone and service online. So if you are in the market for a new phone, take advantage of these offers. Some of the more popular carriers with regular promotions include Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
4. Get Unlimited Texting (Or Not): Particularly with teenagers in the house, it’s important to assess your texting plan. Most cell phone carriers offer multiple plans, including plans with a set number of text messages and plans with unlimited texting. With plans offering a set number of text messages, you will be charged for any messages over the limit. If you go over the limit regularly, an unlimited plan may be the best option. We upgraded to an unlimited plan for our children and make them pay the extra monthly cost of about $10 each.
5. Rethink Data Plans: Data plans are expensive. I carry the iPhone, and there are plenty of times when I question whether the data plan is worth the cost. The time to decide whether you need the added expense of a data plan is when you buy the phone. Smartphones generally require a data plan. But if e-mail and surfing the net are not a necessity, consider saving a bundle by skipping these expensive options.
6. Examine Your Bill: A service offered by Validas can automatically evaluate your monthly cell phone bill and recommend ways to cut costs. You simply upload your monthly statement, and Valida will analyze your bill to determine if you have the most cost effective cell phone plan. You can see the potential cost savings for free, and there is a small fee to get access to the complete report.
7. Consider a Quad-Play: You may have heard of a triple play, which is when you get TV, Internet and phone service from the same provider. By bundling these services, you can save a significant amount of money. Last year, Verizon began offering a quad-play, which adds wireless phone service to the package. Last month, AT&T introduced a quad-play option. The savings can be substantial, and you get the benefit of having to deal with just one monthly bill. | <urn:uuid:f27e6c5c-ea9b-4be2-b858-81a63316913b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/my-money/2010/06/18/how-to-slash-your-cell-phone-bill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925479 | 723 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Predictions are vague estimations of what people who study a specific area think may happen. Looking back retro-actively at the predictions made is sometimes an event of true comedy. For several years now experts who have studied trends, analyzed data, and put their own intuition into predictions have said the
Home prices are estimated to rise this year with the median forecast of a 3% gain. Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, is so optimistic to say that he predicts a 7.2% gain and that prices could rise 39% above the current market value by 2017.
What do all these predictions mean to people who are looking to buy/sell. The reality is that although I will always encourage clients to read the news and stay up-to-date on the national economy, real estate is a hyper-local venture. Talk to a Realtor and see what the stats are in your area and get a feel for the reality behind the predictions. | <urn:uuid:e4a5f3c1-967b-4138-b56d-47c9b73ed7c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.athomeinbozeman.com/Blog/Archive?tag=honest%20real%20estate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958692 | 196 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Legality of Peyote
Recreational use of peyote is prohibited in all of the states and territories and by federal law. Recreational users of peyote may face large fines or even jail time if caught. Additionally, the sale and production of peyote for non-religious purposes is also against the law in the United States. Although not discovered nearly as often, peyote growers are usually treated the same way by law enforcement as marijuana growers.
Although ceremonial use of peyote was also illegal at one time, the United States now exempts this type of peyote use as legal. However, legal peyote use is restricted to the Native American Church. The distinction does not extend to other Native American groups that use peyote in religious ceremonies. As such, a number of religious peyote growers and users have been targeted and prosecuted by local law enforcement agencies. For example, the Peyote Foundation in Arizona was raided by local officials in 1998. Other Native American groups continue to strive for the legalization of peyote, but have not been successful thus far.
Native American Church of New York v United States (1979)
In 1976, Alan Birnbaum, founder of the Native American Church of New York petitioned the Drug Enforcement Agency to allow peyote use in religious ceremonies. His petition was quickly denied, so Birnbaum decided to sue. He believed that the denial of his petition went against his First Amendment right to freedom of religion. After all, when peyote use was banned in the Controlled Substances Act of 1965, and exemption was provided for users from the Native American Church. The Drug Enforcement Agency argued that the Native American Church of New York had not been exempted in the legislation, and were therefore not allowed to use peyote in their ceremonies. In this case, the Supreme Court decided in favor of the Native American Church of New York, announcing that it too would be protected under the Controlled Substances Act.
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
This Supreme Court case was a step backwards for the Native American Church and other Native American groups that used peyote for religious purposes. The case revolved around Alfred Smith and Galen Black, who had been fired for using peyote while working at a drug rehabilitation clinic. When the two filed for unemployment benefits, they were denied, as their loss of employment was deemed a result of professional misconduct. The Oregon Court of Appeals and the Oregon Supreme Court decided that Smith and Black had been in the right, having only consumed peyote in a religious ceremony. However, the United States Supreme Court reversed this decision. The decision was based on the justices' belief that Oregon's anti-peyote law did not go against First Amendment religious rights, as it prohibited peyote use in all people, not just Native Americans
The decision reached in Employment Division of Oregon v Smith was reversed in 1994 with the passing of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. This legislation legalized peyote when used in religious ceremonies by the Native American Church.
People v. Woody (1964) 61 Cal.2d 716
[3b] We have weighed the competing values represented in this case on the symbolic scale of constitutionality. On the one side we have placed the weight of freedom of religion as protected by the First Amendment; on the other, the weight of the state's "compelling interest." Since the use of peyote incorporates the essence of the religious expression, the first weight is heavy. Yet the use of peyote presents only slight danger to the state and to the enforcement of its laws; the second weight is relatively light. The scale tips in favor of the constitutional protection.
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Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D), who was yesterday named to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D), wants to tackle an issue that has largely disappeared from Washington’s political agenda in recent years: climate change.
Speaking briefly after being named to the seat by Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D), Schatz voiced his concern over the threat climate change poses to the world if nothing is done:
“For me, personally, I believe global climate change is real and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation,” Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D), whom Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) tapped for the seat, said in brief comments Wednesday.
While climate change poses a threat to everyone, it is particularly dangerous for the Hawaiian Islands. Sea level rises could drown its beaches and the communities around them, and two of the state’s major industries — fishing and tourism — would feel an especially large impact.
Across America, industries and the environment have been devastated by droughts and natural disasters that a changing climate has exacerbated, but little has caught the attention of policymakers. While climate change-related legislation has stalled in the U.S. in recent years, the United Nations climate summit ended earlier this month with only “modest” movement toward a deal to address the problem on a global level. | <urn:uuid:2b6e5616-216f-48dc-b0f4-6cf6bd1ac718> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/27/1378241/new-hawaii-senator-climate-change-the-most-urgent-challenge-of-our-generation/?mobile=nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962704 | 294 | 2.125 | 2 |
Breast cancer is actually the consequence of the mutational procedure or even the actual irregular modifications happening within genetics, that manage the actual improvement as well as working from the cellular material. The actual cellular material within our entire body maintain altering all through our own living along with brand new cellular material exchanging the actual aged cellular material. Occasionally because of mutation, genetics tend to be impacted therefore generating abnormality within the program. This particular aberration leads to the actual development associated with growths, that is possibly the foundation associated with severe malignancy illness. Hereditary issues may be the main danger aspects with regard to Breast cancer. The signs and symptoms consist of thickening round the breasts region, irregular form of the actual nipple, release associated with a few liquid through the hard nips, as well as modify within the dimensions of the actual breasts.
You will find simply the two circumstances associated with this kind of malignancy; harmless as well as cancerous. The actual cancerous cells are thought much more harmful as well as dangerous, compared to harmless cellular material. Harmless cells tend to be much less dangerous, simply because they avoid distribute towards the other locations as well as their own price associated with development is actually sluggish. However, cancerous tend to be correct cancer cellular material, that distribute towards the other areas. The actual cancerous cells develop quick and they are hard to handle.
Breast cancer is actually brought on by the actual out of control development associated with cancerous cellular material inside the breasts cells. These types of cancerous cellular material in some instances create protuberances or even growths. Whenever a lady discovers a unique bulk within the girl breasts, it may be possibly cancerous or even non-malignant, even though 80% from the protuberances present in the actual breasts tend to be non-malignant as they are not really cancer. Nevertheless, when the analysis implies that the actual bulk is definitely cancerous, additional therapy should be carried out. Or else, the actual malignancy cellular material may distribute in order to some other parts of the body as well as can result in demise. Females are encouraged to learn how to identify Breast cancer to avoid the actual most severe through occurring. Because of superior healthcare technologies, you will find methods to identify the actual malignancy within the initial phases as well as prior to this begins displaying signs and symptoms.
Females older 45 as well as old are encouraged to obtain a mammogram and really should carry on carrying this out so long as they may be within a healthy body. Even though this particular analysis method requires the usage of xray, the amount of rays is actually reduced. With the ability to discover malignancy cellular material actually prior to they will begin displaying signs and symptoms. Another, easier approach to how you can identify Breast cancer is actually simply by executing Breasts Self-Examination (BSE) monthly. This process is perfect for females within their 20s and really should become carried out per week right after time period. Begin by prone on the back again, place your own correct hands at the rear of your head, as well as push softly about your own correct breasts utilizing the suggestions of the hand within a little round movement. Perform exactly the same left breasts through placing the actual remaining hands at the rear of your head. Females within their 20s as well as 30s will also be recommended to find out a physician for any Medical Breasts Examination (CBE) as soon as each and every a few many years. Within the some other fingers, all those within their 40s must have the CBE each year.
Breasts cancer is really a cancerous development provided by the actual breasts cells. It really is identified utilizing self-examination or even via mammograms, breasts ultrasound or even biopsy. These types of exams tend to be suggested for ladies over age 30 many years. They must be carried out annual or even because recommended with a physician. The condition could be living intimidating otherwise identified with time as well as therapy began instantly. Therapy often takes among 6 months as well as 12 months. Numerous survivors can reside a complete living right after finishing therapy. Additionally, recurrences usually are not quite typical in support of occur in some instances.
Right after effective therapy, you need to sit in living like a Breasts cancer survivor. Numerous modifications happen in your lifetime as well as entire body right after therapy what type must understand to cope with. Hair starts to develop back again on the mind along with brows as well as sexy eyelashes that you experienced dropped because of therapy. You might be additionally prone to are afflicted by times associated with memory space reduction as well as insufficient focus. Additionally, because of the electric battery associated with assessments you had research, the body is actually fatigue and can get quite a long time to recuperate. Which means that, in spite of finishing therapy, you are going to nevertheless not really have the ability to return to actions which you carried out effortlessly prior to.
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Posted: November 01, 2009
The Economist: What is the best way to measure a country’s happiness?By Tucker Hart Adams
There has been lots of talk recently about the shortcomings of Gross Domestic Product, the most widely used measure of a country's output of goods and services.
Various pundits have argued that it is an incomplete measure of how well a country is doing, since, for example, it excludes unpaid work and includes the cost of treating illness.
A couple of years ago, I spent several weeks in Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom approximately the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined, tucked between India and China in the eastern Himalayas. The country spreads from east to west, while the mountains run from north to south, which means there are two directions - up and down. One paved road bisects its length, too narrow for cars to pass except at an occasional turnout, with an average of 22 sharp curves per mile.
Its 700,000 people are mostly subsistence farmers (93 percent), scratching a living off of the 2.3 percent of the land suitable for growing crops. Every Bhutanese family has at least five acres (but no more than 25 acres) of ground, granted to them by their king. Guest workers are imported from India and Nepal to do roadwork and other heavy construction, since few Bhutanese apply for these jobs.
The country is a constitutional monarchy in the midst of a gradual transition to a parliamentary democracy, and its king measures his people's wellbeing by Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The basic concept is difficult to argue with - there is more to progress than the increase in the monetary value of the goods and services a country produces; we need a more holistic measure of how we are doing.
The devil is in the details. GDP measures the output of goods and services produced by labor, land and capital goods located in a country. GNH adds and subtracts various components based on value judgments made by the person or group making the calculation.
Some economists argue that such things as additional vacation time, shorter commutes and/or more time to interact with friends increase happiness. Yet Americans, who work about six hours a week longer than Europeans, spend far longer commuting and have less vacation, seem to be quite happy.
The Pew Research Center reports than 84 percent of us are either very happy (34 percent) or pretty happy (50 percent), and the Harris Poll finds that 91 percent are pleased with our social lives. As someone who went from working in a downtown office to working in an office in my home, I can tell you that shortening your commute time to 90 seconds isn't all good - you are never away from your job.
A friend who has been out of work for six months has plenty of time to interact with friends, but she isn't happier than she was when she had a steady income.
Most surveys show that the rich are happier than the poor and that people in wealthy countries are happier than those in poorer countries. Polls by the Pew Research Center indicate that 49 percent of Americans with annual incomes of more than $100,000 say they are very happy, but only 24 percent of those earning $30,000 or less.
However, when everyone becomes richer in tandem, reported happiness for the two groups doesn't change. Perhaps it is relative wealth, not absolute wealth that is important. Or perhaps it is how well off you are relative to your expectations. Another study points out that Norwegians, who usually rank as the happiest Europeans, have very low expectations and hence are easily satisfied.
All of which leads me to conclude that, as appealing as it is, we can't yet measure Gross National Happiness. We have to hope that most of us behave rationally most of the time, spending our money and energy on what makes us happiest. Gross Domestic Product, flawed as it is, is going to be our best yardstick for the foreseeable future.
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The Twitter account for USA Today was hacked this weekend by new hacking group the Script Kiddies. A security professional said in a blog post that Twitter should increase its internet security to help avoid future occurrences of hackings such as these.
In an effort to help defend U.S defense contractors, The Associated Press reports that the Pentagon is extending a pilot program to help protect the country's prime suppliers' internet security. The AP said the report could eventually serve as a model for other government agencies.
Donna Goddard, a resident of New Brunswick, Canada, recently received a scam phone call with an attempt to hack into her computer by having her install a harmful fake firewall. She said had she not thought twice, she wouldn't have thought the scam was trying to sell her a fake internet security program, according to the Telegraph-Journal.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has warned citizens about an internet security scam that has been reported in other areas of Florida, according to WINK-News.
The FBI has arrested two alleged members of online hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous this week in San Francisco and Phoenix, Arizona. Search warrants are also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana for those who have breached internet security on a personal, corporate and government level.
Three Japanese computers were part of a large cyber attack on South Korean government websites' internet security earlier this year, according to a National Police Agency investigation, news sources say.
Jeff Gelles, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes that in order to stay away from virus, worm, phisher, bot and Trojan free, people must install antivirus programs and be vigilant about internet security.
The Massachusetts Attorney General's office said the personal information of about 2 million Boston residents, or one of every three people that live in the state, have been compromised through electronic data and internet security breaches over the past 20 months, news sources say.
Heightened business security software and antivirus programs may be needed in Oakdale, California, as news sources report that a virus was used to steal $118,000 from a city bank account.
An increase in security software may be needed after attacks on Japan's top defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries took place this week. U.S. government officials say these cyber attacks need to be taken very seriously.
Two companies may be asked by the U.S. federal government to set an industry standard for fighting against computer viruses known as botnets, according to a proposal by U.S. regulators, Reuters reports. Currently, individual users must decide what kind of antivirus software they want to use for their computer.
A scammer contacted multiple Skype users with automated messages and tried to get them to purchase fake antivrius software, according to news sources.
With more hackers and computer criminals online everyday, the average person has a lot to defend against when going online, Dennis O'Reilly of CNET writes. O'Reilly said if users keep up with the latest version of the antivirus software they use and be aware, that should keep away malicious programs, such as malware and adware.
Trading Standards North West, a collective of 22 Trading Standards services within the northwest region of England, has warned residents in Cheshire, England to be aware of a scam phone call going around right now. Those who have given information to the scammers or who are wary should install security software or antivirus software. | <urn:uuid:e337f953-e08e-4ec9-8ef6-b1b34b282a2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bitdefender.com/security/category/0/2/2011/9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961471 | 699 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Providence and Worcester Railroad Company (P&W) is a class II regional freight railroad that operates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. P&W serves as an interstate freight carrier in the State of Rhode Island and possesses the right to conduct freight operations over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border. P&Wservices a double stack intermodal terminal facility in New England in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Company transports a variety of commodities for its customers, including automobiles, construction aggregate, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, construction and demolition debris, processed foods and edible food stuffs, such as corn syrup and vegetable oils.
P&W is a regional freight railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. The Company is the only interstate freight carrier serving the State of Rhode Island and possesses the exclusive and perpetual right to conduct freight operations over the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and the Massachusetts / Rhode Island border.
The company began independent operations in 1973 and throught a series of acquisitions of connecting lines, has grown from 45 miles of track to its current system of approximately 545 miles. the largest double stack intermodal facilty in New England are operated by the P&W in Worceater Massachusetts, a strategic location for regional transportation and distribution enterprises.
The Company transports a wide variety of commodities for its customers, including automobiles, construction aggregate, iron, and steel products, lumber, coal, ethanol, chemicals, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, processed foods and edible food stuffs, such as frozen foods and corn syrup. P&W 's customers include Global Industries, Inc., GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Lehigh Cement, Cargill Inc. The Dow Chemical Company, Northeast Utilities, Exxon/Mobil, Frito-Lay, Inc., International Paper Company, Nucor Steel and Tilcon Connecticut, Inc. | <urn:uuid:bf679d12-8cd8-43f9-8bef-d38e93e0a95d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Providence_and_Worcester_Railroad_Company_(PWX) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919591 | 408 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Council members Debi Rose (D-North Shore) and James Vacca (D-Bronx), chair of the council's Transportation Committee, sponsored the legislation to get a better handle on the economic impact fare beaters have on the MTA.
Fare beaters not paying to ride buses or subways cost the Metropolitan Transportation Authority around $100 million a year, MTA officials estimated.
Scofflaws arrested will be charged with theft of services and issued a $100 summons.
The legislation, if approved, would also require the NYPD to submit the number of summonses issued and the number of officers specifically assigned to address the problem.Back in May the Advance conducted an informal survey of several bus routes on Staten Island and found that one in five riders did not pay. And if that is the case citywide then the MTA could be getting burned much more than its estimated $100 million annually.
From the start of the year to the end of July, the NYPD inspected 996 buses throughout the city and made 1,205 arrests for fare evasion.
"No one rides for free, and I want all those who are evading fares to know that your free ride is over; your days of stealing from your fellow New Yorkers have come to an end," said Ms. Rose. "We must address this issue now and this legislation is the first step in ensuring that everyone pays their fair share."
Allen P. Cappelli, the Island's member of the MTA board, threw his support behind the legislation: "The City of New York and the MTA need to monitor this effort regularly to minimize lawlessness and maximize revenue," he said. | <urn:uuid:6d18fb61-5740-4dac-85ac-c841cef4f349> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/staten_island_council_member_w.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965447 | 334 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Sin, sin, sin. Morning and night, that was all they talked about in the little frame house in the California poor-town where Norma Jeane Baker lived in the early years of the Depression. ‘You’re wicked, Norma Jeane,’ the old woman used to shrill at the little girl. ‘You better be careful, or you know where you’ll go.’ Norma Jeane was careful, especially not to talk back. If she did, she got whaled with a razor strop and told that a homeless girl should be more grateful to folks who had put a roof above her head. One night, when the child went to sleep in her cot, she had a strangely exhilarating and frightening dream: ‘I dreamed that I was standing up in church without any clothes on, and all the people there were lying at my feet on the floor of the church, and I walked naked, with a sense of freedom, over their prostrate forms, being careful not to step on anyone.’
On May 14, 1956 Marilyn Monroe graced the cover of TIME. In a cover story titled, “From Aristophanes and Back,” the blond bombshell spilled the secrets of her abused childhood for our readers. It wasn’t the first, or last time Monroe would appear in the pages of TIME. In fact, TIME mentioned her in nearly one hundred stories from 1953 to 1956.
On the 50th anniversary of her death, Richard Corliss revisits TIME’s 1956 cover story on Monroe. Read it on TIME.com here. | <urn:uuid:22d8bcdd-a284-4be4-a611-818f3e5415d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://timemagazine.tumblr.com/tagged/marilyn-monroe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96801 | 335 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Russian NGOs Fear Fate of HIV Harm-Reduction Programs as Planned Exit of Global Fund Occurs
February 16, 2012
The Moscow Times examines a potential shift in Russia's public health priorities as programs funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria begin to phase out. "While the Global Fund's eight-year presence in Russia was long expected to end, officials with regional non-governmental organizations (NGOs) largely dependent on the group's financing say the country is now turning its back on widely accepted harm-reduction strategies and will let independent HIV-prevention groups wither and die," the newspaper writes.
"In the wake of the Global Fund's exit, the Russian government assumed full responsibility for funding the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and has pledged more money than ever accordingly," but "[p]rograms such as handing out condoms to sex workers, needle exchanges and methadone treatments that are internationally seen as successful methods to prevent the spread of HIV have been frowned upon or outright banned in Russia, where health officials argue they fuel drug-taking and other risky behavior that breeds higher infection rates," according to the newspaper. "Health experts and NGOs agree that a change in strategy is needed if Russia is to come up with an effective response to its HIV epidemic," the newspaper writes (Winning, 2/15).
Russian Government's Censorship of Websites With Harm Reduction Methods for Drug Users Helps Fuel HIV Epidemic, IPS Reports
This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.
John Englund practically grew up from early boyhood on a farm in Saline County, and instead of going to some distant city he took the opportunities which were right at his door and had become financially independent as well as a citizen of wide esteem in the locality which he had known and which had known him for upwards of half a century. Mr. Englund was born at Smolan, Sweden, May 5, 1858. That province sent many of its sturdy men and women to Saline County in the early days, and the Englund family did their full share in making this country blossom as the rose. Mr. Englund is a son of Peter S. and Anna C. (Swenson) Englund. His father was born in 1832 and died at Falun, Kansas, in 1889. It was in 1869 that he brought his family to America, and after one year spent in Henry County, Illinois, he journeyed out to the large Swedish colony in Saline County. Here he homesteaded a tract of Government land in Washington Township and made that the scene of his progressive farming enterprise until his death. He was always very active in the Swedish Lutheran Church. In 1855, in his native country, Peter Englund married Miss Anna Swenson, a daughter of C. J. Swenson. She was born in Sweden-in 1839 and died in Kansas in 1904. They were the parents of thirteen children. The names of the four now deceased were August, Selma, Matilda and Selma, second. The nine surviving children are John, Ida, Christine, Clara, Emma, Lena, August, Nathaniel and William.
John Englund was eleven years of age when he accompanied his parents to America. In the meantime he had acquired some instruction in the Swedish schools. He grew up on a Kansas homestead, attended local schools briefly, and prepared for his life's vocation by performing the duties assigned to him by his father. At the age of twenty-one he started out for himself and acquired a tract of land which he still owned and occupies, less than three miles north of Falun. No man ever accomplished as much in life unless he had both purpose and persistence. Mr. Englund was resolute as well as industrious when a young man, and year after year had seen a material increase in his possessions. He is now owner of 520 acres of the valuable and fertile soil of Saline County. The value of this land is largely a profit that he himself had earned. He had cultivated it wisely and had kept adding improvements as his means justified them until the Englund farm is now spoken of as one of the most complete in the county. Mr. Englund had long been a breeder of Hereford cattle and he also keeps a number of blooded hogs.
He is an active member of the Salemsburg Swedish Lutheran Church and for many years officiated as a deacon. At different times his fellow citizens have called him to positions of trust and responsibility in the township and in the management of the local schools.
On January 25, 1883, Mr. Englund married Miss Emma Christina Larson. They were married in the old Salemsburg Lutheran Church and the ceremony was performed by the venerable pastor, Rev. A. W. Dahlstead. Mrs. Englund was born in Sweden March 18, 1859. Her father, L. J. Larson, was born in the old country in 1831 and came to America with his family in 1869, locating Government land in Falun Township. He was a successful farmer there and lived in that community until his death in 1915. Mr. Larson's wife Mary Josephine was born in 1835 and died at the old homestead in 1909. They were the parents of eight children. Three are now deceased, named Constant, Carl O. and Emma C. Those still living are John, Louise, Minnie, Albert and Emil.
Mrs. Englund besides being diligent in looking after her home and children was also an active worker in both church and Sunday-school, and gave much of her time to church affairs. Her death was widely regretted in the community where she had lived for so many years. She died April 7, 1916, at Falun. Mr. and Mrs. Englund had nine children, five sons and four daughters. All this large family are still living. Briefly, their names are as follows: Sigrid Anna Mary, born March 29, 1884; Edna Elenore, born March 1, 1886; Paul J., born February 22, 1888; Edith Miriam, born April 12, 1890; Martin William, born June 4, 1892; Roy Elmer, born September 20, 1894; Arnold Joseph, born July 20, 1897; Victor John, born January 7, 1900; and Alice Josephine, born June 4, 1903.
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Melanoma Introduction (cont.)
What are risk factors for melanoma?
No one knows the exact causes of melanoma. Doctors can seldom explain why
one person gets melanoma and another does not.
However, research has shown that people with certain risk factors are more
likely than others to develop melanoma. A risk factor is anything that increases
a person's chance of developing a disease. Still, many who do get this disease
have no known risk factors.
Studies have found the following risk factors for melanoma:
- Dysplastic nevi: Dysplastic nevi are more likely than ordinary moles to
become cancerous. Dysplastic nevi are common, and many people have a few of
these abnormal moles. The risk of melanoma is greatest for people who have a
large number of dysplastic nevi. The risk is especially high for people with a
family history of both dysplastic nevi and melanoma.
- Many (more than 50) ordinary moles: Having many moles increases the risk of
- Fair skin: Melanoma occurs more frequently in people who have fair skin that
burns or freckles easily (these people also usually have red or blond hair and
blue eyes) than in people with dark skin. White people get melanoma far more
often than do black people, probably because light skin is more easily damaged
by the sun.
- Personal history of melanoma or skin cancer: People who have been treated for
melanoma have a high risk of a second melanoma. Some people develop more than
two melanomas. People who had one or more of the common skin cancers (basal cell
carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma) are at increased risk of melanoma.
- Family history of melanoma: Melanoma sometimes runs in families. Having two
or more close relatives who have had this disease is a risk factor. About 10
percent of all patients with melanoma have a family member with this disease.
When melanoma runs in a family, all family members should be checked regularly
by a doctor.
- Weakened immune system: People whose immune system is weakened by certain
cancers, by drugs given following organ transplantation, or by HIV are at
increased risk of developing melanoma.
- Severe, blistering sunburns: People who have had at least one severe,
blistering sunburn as a child or teenager are at increased risk of melanoma.
Because of this, doctors advise that parents protect children's skin from the
sun. Such protection may reduce the risk of melanoma later in life. Sunburns in
adulthood are also a risk factor for melanoma.
- Ultraviolet (UV) radiation: Experts believe that much of the worldwide
increase in melanoma is related to an increase in the amount of time people
spend in the sun. This disease is also more common in people who live in areas
that get large amounts of UV radiation from the sun. In the United States, for
example, melanoma is more common in Texas than in Minnesota, where the sun is
not as strong. UV radiation from the sun causes premature aging of the skin and
skin damage that can lead to melanoma. Artificial sources of UV radiation, such
as sunlamps and tanning booths, also can cause skin damage and increase the risk
of melanoma. Doctors encourage people to limit their exposure to natural UV
radiation and to avoid artificial sources.
|Doctors recommend that people take steps to help prevent and reduce the
risk of melanoma caused by UV radiation:
- Avoid exposure to the midday sun (from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) whenever possible.
When your shadow is shorter than you are, remember to protect yourself from the
- If you must be outside, wear long sleeves, long pants, and a hat with a wide
- Protect yourself from UV radiation that can penetrate light clothing,
windshields, and windows.
- Protect yourself from UV radiation reflected by sand, water, snow, and ice.
- Help protect your skin by using a lotion, cream, or gel that contains
sunscreen. Many doctors believe sunscreens may help prevent melanoma, especially
sunscreens that reflect, absorb, and/or scatter both types of ultraviolet
radiation. These sunscreen products will be labeled with "broad-spectrum
coverage." Sunscreens are rated in strength according to a sun protection factor
(SPF). The higher the SPF, the more sunburn protection is provided. Sunscreens
with an SPF value of 2 to 11 provide minimal protection against sunburns.
Sunscreens with an SPF of 12 to 29 provide moderate protection. Those with an
SPF of 30 or higher provide the most protection against sunburn.
- Wear sunglasses that have UV-absorbing lenses. The label should specify that
the lenses block at least 99 percent of UVA and UVB radiation. Sunglasses can
protect both the eyes and the skin around the eyes.
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A new consideration for a career and one that is slowly gaining recognition in South Africa is that of the Medical Transcriptionist (MT). A medical transcriptionist as defined by the US Department of Labor as follows: "Use transcribing machines with headset and foot pedal to listen to recordings by physicians and other healthcare professionals dictating a variety of medical reports, such as emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries.
It also involves "Transcribing dictated reports and translating medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms. Editing them as necessary and returning reports in either printed or electronic form to the dictator for review and signature, or correction."
In essence, a MT takes the digital record made by a doctor, physiotherapist, or other medical professional and transforms it into an accurate written representation of the encounter between medical professional and patient.
Being a medical transcriptionist is not an easy field to be involved in. Doctors are often required to dictate in places that are far from ideal for doing so making it harder for the transcriptionist to turn the file into an accurate record.
Particular care and attention is required to be taken when transcribing medical records as an error in transcription could potentially lead to serious complications. Imagine if you are typing a pre-operative medical report and the doctor inadvertently switches from the right to the left side of the body.
If the MT is not paying attention and continues to type the report incorrectly then a patient could have surgery on the incorrect side.
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5 Steps To Dazzling Daffodils
Daffodils,Narcissus species, are quite easy to grow, but there are a few things you can do to insure that the bulbs you plant produce a dazzling display of spring bloom year after year.
- Be sure you plant your bulbs in a place that gets enough sunshine. Daffodils like at least part sun to bloom well. If they have orange or pink colorations they prefer part day sunshine to full sun, but they will not bloom if they are planted in too much shade. If your daffodil bulbs aren’t blooming this is the first factor to check.
Daffodils are wonderful multipliers under normal circumstances, which means you easily will have plenty of flowers, but it can also mean they get crowded and need division. If you have a plethora of leaves and few flowers, it is time to dig up your stand of bulbs to divide and replant. You can replant right away or dry the bulbs and store them over summer (my mom used those mesh bags they sell apples or oranges in) and plant in the fall. If you lift and store, keep them in a cool, shady place- my mother hung the bag in the garage away from the light.
Being long lived plants, Narcissus can use some feeding. I like to plant the bulbs initially with some handfuls of bone meal dug into the bottom of the planting hole or trench. Every so often it is a good idea to give them a 5-10-10 formulation of fertilizer. The initial number is small because you don’t want large amounts of nitrogen- that would produce more leaves; typically bone meal has a high middle number (phosphorus) which promotes rooting and setting flower buds.
Leave the leaves! This is one of the most important things to remember with plants that grow from bulbs. The bulbs are food storage units, but the way they get fat and sassy is through the photosynthesis action of the leaves. If you cut those off prematurely that limits the amount of nutrients available for the flowering for the next year. Allow the leaves to yellow and wither before removing them. This also means that bulbs growing in a naturalized manner in the lawn should be allowed to grow until well into June. A little mussiness is the price we pay for beautiful spring pictures.
Like most bulbs, daffodils like moisture but good drainage: don’t let them sit in water to rot. If you have heavy clay soil, some recommend sand or Perlite spaded into the bed, but I have grown them in clay soils with no diminished health or blooming (attributing it to that handful or so of bone meal). Just make sure they aren’t planted in wet spots or deep shade.
a small and early variety
Follow these five steps and I’m sure you will have a brilliant show of daffodils each year. It is fun to grow the different types with their varied forms and close harmonies of color -daffodils don’t clash! And another thing going for them is that they are poisonous, a real plus when you want something to deter rodents, which are bulb eating machines. Try interplanting daffodils with crocus, with daffodils 6-8 inches deep and a layer of crocus overplanted about 3-4 inches deep. The scent of the daffodils discourages pests from eating the crocus.
Daffodils can stretch your bloom season, with the many varieties of named daffodils listed.
See Daffodil Variety List
When to buy bulbs, and what to look for.
Dutch Bulb FAQ
For even more
growing information for Daffodils and other spring blooming bulbs: Tulips and Daffodils
Originally posted in my Garden Journal.
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The media coverage of the latest Oxford Dictionary online update has reversed the usual trend. Newly-added words tend to dominate the headlines. But on this occasion, it is a redefinition that has captured people’s attention.
Previously, biker has been defined as: ‘A motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang: a long-haired biker in dirty denims’. However, OED lexicographers have bowed to pressure from the biking community and removed the reference to grubbiness, with the new definition emerging as ‘A motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang or group: a biker was involved in a collision with a car.’
While bikers are understood to be pleased with the decision, they may now have to deal with the fact that their mucky tendencies have been replaced in the definition by a slight on their safety record. I look forward to a future definition with the example ‘A clean-cut respectable-looking biker rode along the street and nothing of note happened at all’.
Mind you, if the OED wants to think about redefinitions, maybe it should start to ponder the meaning of the word ‘new’. After all, these quarterly updates always trumpet the new words being given status and inevitably, many of them are not that new, and I end up venting my anger about archaic words being celebrated for their novelty.
But I do feel that this quarter’s update has hit a new temporal low. As a cricket fan, I know that Baggy Green has become popularised in the last 20 years. But Australian cricketers have been donning them since time immemorial once they make the national team, so to acknowledge it now seems bizarre.
Even more bizarre is the arrival of Torch Relay and Olympic Flame. I know these really hit public consciousness during the London Olympics in 2012, but there were genuine new words associated with the torch relay such as Mother Flame, rather than terms, and indeed an event, that have been around for decades.
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Hurleyville, New York is a hamlet in the Town of Fallsburg, New York in Sullivan County, New York. The town lies along County Road 104 and was originally developed because it was on the main route between the Villages of Liberty and Monticello. The zip code for Hurleyville is 12747. Hurleyville is bordered by the Town of Thompson, the Town of Liberty, the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake and the hamlet of South Fallsburg. Hurleyville was originally settled by William Hurley. The local economy was originally centered around dairy farming, but gradually became part of the Catskills Borscht Belt resort area. During its heyday as a resort Hurleyville was home to many popular summer hotels, bungalow colonies and boarding houses, the biggest and best known was the rather grand Colombia Hotel located atop Colombia Hill. Hurleyville was a railroad stop along the Ontario and Western Railroad. Due to its mail getting frequently mixed up the the Town of Hurley, New York, during World War II Hurleyville was temporarily renamed by the postmaster as "Luzon Station". This name was chosen because the postmaster had a son stationed at Luzon Island in the Philippines. Neiderman, Andrew (1976). The Sesquicentennial History of Fallsburg Township, 1826-1976. Town of Fallsburg, South Fallsburg, New York. There is currently a restaurant in the hamlet named Frankie and Johnie's as well as numerous antique shops. | <urn:uuid:9267736f-7623-47d8-86f0-2cb45e43af3a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openjurist.org/law/bus-accident-litigation/new-york/hurleyville | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976928 | 311 | 1.632813 | 2 |
President Barack Obama has joined the 15-or-so million people in the iPad nation. He was recently photographed carrying the iPad with an Apple smart cover.
Last month, the President told Univision’s Jorge Ramos that he owns an iPad, and joked that of course he has his own computer (reportedly a MacBook Pro).
And it seems Obama’s iPad may have come with a presidential perk. A CNN photographer says he saw the president using an iPad in the Oval Office not long after he had dinner with Steve Jobs... way back in February. The iPad 2 wasn’t released until March 11.
It took the tech-savy president a little long to get on-board with the iPad though. Just last May, during a commencement address at Hampton University, Obama said, “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, none of which I know how to work, information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”
Obama’s history with the iPad continued last October, at a rally in Seattle. Waiting in the audience was Sly Cann, who got Obama to autograph his iPad screen.
Obama’s use of the iPad makes sense, as he is truly a president of the 21st century. He is the first sitting president to regularly use email (Bill Clinton sent two emails in office, George W. Bush sent none) or a smartphone (his beloved, specially secure BlackBerry), he tweets (to over 7.5 million followers) and his Facebook page has over 19 million fans. | <urn:uuid:0bcba671-e669-41fb-97fe-b47d0c43621c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/7771-the-ipad-gets-the-presidential-seal-of-approval | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975822 | 335 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Petraeus' resignation was as honorable as it was necessary. He didn't lose his job over infidelity. He had to either resign or be fired because he exercised poor judgment. It's that simple.
Petraeus' surreptitious extramarital affair was investigated for fear he might have been the target of blackmail or revealed national secrets. As a long-time Washington insider, Petraeus was no naif about the consequences if the affair became public.
The moment the man in charge of the world's most powerful spy agency engaged in the affair, he took a risk that had repercussions well beyond his personal life. His self-indulgence invited an inevitable media circus that has undermined his credibility and distracted his organization at the critical moment it faces an inquiry into the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Petraeus knew that his ability to stand tall before his co-workers at the CIA, the Congress or the American people had been compromised. To enable the CIA to get on with its business, he accepted the need to step aside so that his personal life didn't become the focus.
Organizations are built on trust and shared values. When leaders exercise bad judgment and take actions that risk the well-being of their constituents -- even if it happens in their personal life and is not criminal -- they compromise that trust and have to go.
In the business world, CEOs or top leaders at Best Buy, Stryker, Highmark and Lockheed Martin have lost their jobs in recent months because of sexual affairs. Most companies have explicit rules or require disclosure of relationships within a company. These policies are to protect employees from managers who might leverage their power to sexually harass subordinates or engage in favoritism, creating intolerable work environments. Such rules apply to all employees, but these business leaders failed to acknowledge their affairs. Some simply kept secrets from their boards of directors, while others took deliberate steps to conceal them, no doubt to protect their reputations and marriages.
To Petraeus' credit, he reportedly never asked for special treatment and knew that public knowledge of his lapse in judgment would inevitably lead to his removal. Let's applaud Petraeus and thank him for his invaluable service to our country.
As Americans, we seem to love redemption stories and have been so often willing to give our leaders a second chance after they demonstrate their fallibility. Petraeus will no doubt resurface in coming years and, we hope, continue to contribute to our nation's welfare. It just won't be at the CIA.
Noel M. Tichy and Chris DeRose are co-authors of "Judgment on the Front Line: How Smart Companies Win By Trusting Their People." The have advised CEOs around the world and worked with Royal Dutch/Shell, Ford Motor Company, 3M and HP.
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Emergency rooms to experiment with artificial blood
If successful, fake blood offers several advantages
February 17, 1997
Web posted at: 9:20 p.m. EST
(CNN) -- Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
is about to become the first hospital in the United States to
experiment with using artificial blood in the emergency room.
The chemically derived product has already been tried in
elective surgery cases, and there have been no serious
problems. But it has never been used for emergency cases.
The plan is to use it on those who have been injured severely
and are thought to have a 50-50 chance of dying due to loss
In addition to getting the standard first aid, including
human blood transfusions, half will also get the blood
Because time is of the essence in such cases, neither the
patients nor their families will be asked for permission to
use the artificial blood. They will, however, have the option
of shifting to human blood later.
Use of the blood is being permitted under new U.S. Food and
Drug Administration rules. The premise is that in emergency
situations, the artificial blood can't hurt and it might very
If successful, blood offers several advantages
It will take a few years to find out if the blood works. Use
of the artificial blood is to be expanded into a number of
emergency rooms across the country, and at least 850 patients
who have been treated with the blood will be studied before
any conclusions are reached.
If the blood is successful, it offers several advantages over
For one thing, it will take some of the pressure off blood
banks, which often run low in their supply of human blood.
Also, since it does not need to be refrigerated, it could
easily be carried on ambulances.
And since it has not come from a human donor, there is no
risk of spreading disease.
Finally, there is no need to match blood types. One type, as
the saying goes, fits all.
Correspondent Dan Rutz contributed to this report.
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Leeches have in earlier times been widely used in medicine as a way to remove “bad blood” from patients and to restore the balance of the humours or bodily fluids. After a century and a half in which they fell almost totally out of use, they are returning in some specialised areas, a practice called hirudotherapy, a term formed from hirudo, the Latin name for the little beasts.
So it would be reasonable to assume that that’s where leechcraft comes from. But this is a case where language trips us up. There have been two meanings for leech in English. The other one, long defunct, refers to a doctor or healer, from Old English læce, of Germanic origin. So leechcraft is the art of healing.
Though it’s hardly an everyday word, you stand a good chance of coming across it in modern works of fantasy, to which it lends the necessary feeling of ancientness or otherworldliness, as in the late André Norton’s Wizard’s World of 1989: “But she was renewed in mind and body, feeling as if some leechcraft had been at work during her rest, banishing all ills.”
At one time a dog-leech was a vet, though that term could also serve as a pejorative name for a quack doctor. The ring finger was once called the leech-finger (also the medical finger and physic finger), a translation of Latin digitus medicus. We’re not sure how it got that name, though some writers say it was because the vein in it was believed to communicate directly with the heart and so gave that finger healing properties, for example in mixing ointments. Engagement and wedding rings are traditionally put on that finger of the left hand for the same reason, which is why the vein became known as the vena amoris, literally “vein of love”. | <urn:uuid:b276a106-77ff-472a-9b72-349acc522c79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-lee1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972419 | 408 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Seeking to draw attention to this designated month, my mind skipped through a variety of things I could write about. Teapots, teacups, gawan porcelain bowls, and three-tiered trays all came to mind. But finding the obscure or unusual to celebrate this cozy past-time seemed important.
I decided to share with readers about a very interesting and out-of-the-way place in Death Valley, California. Located twenty miles from Ubehebe Crater, eighteen miles from Hunter Mountain, and six miles from Racetrack on a remote and rugged road is a junction named Teakettle. A hundred years ago, miners in search of wealth and adventure would pass this way and mark the junction by placing a teakettle in it's spot. First one, then more teakettles have been added until it's become quite famous as a place to leave one's mark by adding a teakettle of one's own to the stash. Visitors leave a teakettle, signed and dated for others to see at this remote junction. It appears that teakettles serve a serious place in American history, even in remote desert places! If you decide to add a teakettle of your own, be sure to take a spare tire or two with you. The road is very rough and scattered with sharp and jagged rocks! A Death Valley mule might be a better, albeit slower mode of transportation!
A visit to this historic spot allows the imagination to travel back in time, wondering who passed this way before and what type of delicious hot tea they served around a campfire and with whom it was shared.
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Didn't need to look it up. Engraved on my memory.
You could start by looking here:
Nobody knew how for sure much ash was coming out of the volcano
Nobody knew for sure how it was dispersing
Nobody knew for sure how it was dissipating
Nobody knew for sure how and in what concentrations it affected the engines.
So for each of these unknowns, a hefty safety margin was applied, which accumulated into the totally over-the-top decisions which were taken.
The world is divided into regions controlled by Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres. The London VACC has responsibility for UK, Ireland and Iceland (that's all ...). Because it happened on their patch, they called all the shots, without having to draw on expertise from elsewhere, including places which actually have experience of flying around active volcanoes, like Italy...
At one stage, the Toulouse VACC, which looks after the rest of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, overrode the London advisories and reopened French airspace because they believed there was no threat ...
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, Realist
The former U.N. ambassador's neoconservatism looks quaint today.
The Iraq Study Group's report contains the following stinging rebuke to the neoconservatives who guided the U.S. invasion and occupation of that country:
Most of the region's countries are wary of U.S. efforts to promote democracy in Iraq and the Middle East. … Although most governments in the world are, as they always have been, autocracies of one kind or another, no idea holds greater sway in the mind of educated Americans than the belief that it is possible to democratize governments, anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances. This notion is belied by an enormous body of evidence based on the experience of dozens of countries which have attempted with more or less (usually less) success to move from autocratic to democratic government. Many of the wisest political scientists of this and previous centuries agree that democratic institutions are especially difficult to establish and maintain—because they make heavy demands on all portions of a population and because they depend on complex social, cultural, and economic conditions.
Ah, the tonic of foreign-policy realism. Let's deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. That has always been the view of the panel's two former secretaries of state, James Baker and Laurence Eagleburger. What a relief from the neocons' dangerous delusions about the reach of American military power and moral suasion.
Except I just tricked you. The first sentence of the passage quoted above is indeed from the Iraq Study Group's report. But the rest of it is from a magazine article that provided the theoretical framework for neoconservative foreign policy during the final years of the Cold War. Titled "Dictatorships and Double Standards," it was published in Commentary in November 1979. Its author, Jeane Kirkpatrick, died on Dec. 7. The former United Nations ambassador under President Reagan was 80.
Like a lot of neoconservative thought, "Dictatorships and Double Standards" made a categorical pronouncement about the laws governing human affairs that was later proved wrong. "[T]here is no instance of a revolutionary 'socialist' or Communist society being democratized," Kirkpatrick wrote, blissfully unaware that a decade later only a handful of Communist countries would be able to resist democratization. Nicaragua, a particular focus of Kirkpatrick's argument, would in 1990 hold elections that threw the Marxist Sandinistas out of power for the next 16 years. This was something Kirkpatrick had judged impossible. One could argue that the Soviet bloc gave way to democracy only because the Reagan administration's arms buildup forced the Soviets to spend themselves into oblivion. But if you'd asked Kirkpatrick during the 1980s whether she thought a Soviet arms buildup was something Americans should root for, she most certainly would have said "no." In her famous 1984 "they always blame America first" speech to the Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick condemned the Carter administration for inadequate spending on defense specifically because itencouraged "an unprecedented Soviet buildup, military and political."
On the other hand, Kirkpatrick's skepticism about the United States' ability to bring democracy anywhere and everywhere in the world looks prescient today. It has also been widely ignored by Kirkpatrick's fellow neocons. As James Mann observes in Rise of the Vulcans, his 2004 group portrait of the Bush administration's Iraq hawks,
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the neoconservative movement had come to espouse ideas directly contrary to those in "Dictatorships and Double Standards." Whereas Kirkpatrick had ridiculed the notion that it is possible to establish democracy "anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances," during the George W. Bush administration neoconservatives argued that the United States should seek democratic reforms wherever possible, from Saudi Arabia and Egypt to Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Kirkpatrick had suggested that democratizing third world countries might take decades or centuries, but by 2002 neoconservatives were seeking democratic change among the Palestinians and in Iraq within no more than a couple of years.
Writing about this doctrinal shift in April 2005, Slate's former editor, Michael Kinsley, observed, "This is quite a reversal by America's most influential group of intellectuals, yet it has received surprisingly little comment or explanation." Kirkpatrick, to her credit, never abandoned her skepticism about the ease of spreading democracy abroad, even after it became unfashionable in her set. Although she supported the Iraqi invasion, she never bought into President Bush's notion that it would cause undemocratic regimes in the Middle East to fall like dominoes. Here is what she told Nicholas Lemann of TheNew Yorker on the eve of the invasion in 2002:
"I have myself come to believe that culture is the main determinant of successful transition to democracy," she said. "It's almost never easy. In the Middle East, the best chances would be in Jordan, and maybe Lebanon, which have some background of experience. I don't think, frankly, that it's very likely that a regime such as Saudi Arabia, which has a highly traditional culture and no tradition of democracy, can make its transition in one or two steps."
Let it be said of Jeane Kirkpatrick, on the occasion of her death, that she didn't have to wait to see an Iraq fiasco unfold to know that the invasion was wildly oversold. It's a legacy of humility that her fellow neocons would do well to consider.
Timothy Noah is a former Slate staffer. His book about income inequality is The Great Divergence.
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The African-American Woman's Guide to Physical and Spiritual Well-Being
By Melody T. McCloud and Angela Ebron
A Fireside Book - 2003
ISBN: 0-7434-1042-4 (Standard Print)
Reviewed by Angela Evans - February 6, 2003
Blessed Health is a timely, and beneficial book written expressly for African-American women - although women of any hue will benefit from this book. Blessed Health was written by Dr. Melody T. McCloud and Angela Ebron, both are African-American women. McCloud is an obstetrician / gynecologist who founded the Atlanta Women's Health Care, and Ebron is a senior editor at Family Circle.
In this book the authors explain how a woman's body works, and how it can break down. They also explain how you can help prevent it from breaking down. If a problem should arise, they offer guidance on how you can help correct common problems. Besides covering topics related to physical health, the authors also highlight the importance of spirituality as an aspect of overall health.
The information in Blessed Health is organized into easy to navigate chapters, which include:
What Makes Sisters Unique?
Understanding Your Body and Soul
Take Time to Take Stock
The Doctor's Office
Common Illnesses, Simple Cures
A Woman's Body - Dealing with Serious Illness
If You Need Surgery
Back to Basics - Nutrition and Exercise
Caring For Your Breasts
The ABC's of Pregnancy
Not for Men Only - Diseases That Strike Sisters, Too
One of the most important elements of this book is that it acknowledges that we often overlook our own health, while at the same time taking great care of those around us. Even if you feel that you are a superwoman, you must remember that if you take ill, you'll not be able to take care of those around you! Our health is truly a blessing. When we neglect to take care of it, it is as if we were thumbing our nose at God - yet the only one we are really hurting is ourselves. As the authors point out, "African-American women are 38 percent more likely to suffer a fatal heart attack than white women." and "Sisters have the fastest-rising rate of increase for contracting HIV, and we are dying of AIDS at a rate ten times that of white women." (Pg xii) These are but two of the heart-bounding statistics that you will find in this life changing book.
Blessed Health is written in easy to understand language, yet the authors do not talk down to the reader. Rather they speak as if they are speaking to a friend, a friend whom they wish only the best for. In addition to the main text, this book includes a glossary that explains the technical and medical terms that you will encounter in the text. There is also a list of resources where you can go to for more information on the topics covered in the text.
The only fault that I found with this book is that they barely touch upon risk posed by glaucoma. This is an eye disease that can cause damage to optic nerves, and it can rob you of your sight without you ever being aware that anything is wrong - until it is too late. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, "Studies show that African-Americans between ages 45 and 65 are 14 -17 times more likely to go blind from glaucoma than Caucasians with glaucoma in the same age group." This is a threat shared by both African-American men and women, and proper vision screening is essential to detect any potential problems. If caught early, glaucoma can be treated.
Other than this one oversight, this book provides solid information that could, literally, save your life. By following the advice given within the pages of the book will also help you to become a more healthy and fit person. It will also help you to reduce your stress levels while also increasing your levels of spiritually. Blessed Health should be read by every African-American women!
Editor's note: Currently, this book is only available in a standard print edition.
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Vatican City, 10 June 2012 (VIS) - "Today Italy and many other countries are celebrating Corpus Christi, the solemn Feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord ... which every year renews Christians' joy and gratitude at Jesus' Eucharistic presence among us", said the Pope to faithful gathered at midday in St. Peter's Square to pray the Angelus.
This feast "is a great public act of worship of the Eucharist, the Sacrament in which the Lord's presence is extended beyond the time of celebration, to remain among us always, through the hours and the days. St. Justin, who left us one of the most ancient descriptions of Eucharistic liturgy, affirms that, after the distribution of communion to those present, the consecrated bread was taken by deacons to those who were absent. For this reason the most sacred place in churches is where the Eucharist is kept.
"At this point my thoughts cannot but go to the many churches seriously damaged by the recent earthquake in Emilia Romagna", the Holy Father added, "to the fact that in some cases Christ’s Eucharistic Body in the tabernacle has been buried under the rubble. With great affection I pray for the communities forced with their priests to gather for Mass in the open air or in tents. I thank them for their witness and for their efforts in favour of the entire population. This situation highlights the importance of being united in the name of the Lord, the strength that comes from the Eucharistic Bread, also called the 'bread of pilgrims'. Sharing this Bread creates and renews the capacity to share our life and goods, to carry one another’s burdens, to be hospitable and welcoming".
Benedict XVI also noted how the Solemnity of Corpus Christi calls our attention to the importance of Eucharistic adoration. "The prayer of adoration can be performed individually, kneeling before the tabernacle, or as a community with psalms and songs, but always laying the emphasis on silence so as to hear the Lord speaking within us, the Lord Who is alive and present in the Sacrament. The Virgin Mary is our guide also in this prayer, because no one better or more than her was able to contemplate Jesus with the gaze of faith, and to welcome in her heart the intimate echo of His human and divine presence".
Following the Marian prayer the Pope greeted, among others, a group of Polish faithful and the inhabitants of the the Polish cities of Krakow, Lodz, Bydgoszcz and Gdansk who, in the presence of Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., are currently commemorating the apostolic pilgrimage made by John Paul II twenty-five years ago. "One fruit of that visit", the Holy Father said, "is the Feast of the Eucharist being celebrated today in Lodz, where a Study Centre dedicated to Blessed John Paul II is being inaugurated. Tomorrow in Bydgoszcz a meeting will be held to examine the contents of the Encyclical 'Caritas in veritate'. I express my thanks for the Study Centre there dedicated to my own name. May these meetings strengthen your bond with Christ, Who loved us unto the end". | <urn:uuid:18d758fd-bbd6-4d9e-ab08-59fab157efec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.news.va/en/news/dividing-the-eucharistic-bread-renews-our-capacity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949557 | 678 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Origin of species
The focus of this heart-rending photograph is not the act itself, but the way it captures the lioness’s non-gaze.
The bandaged, bleeding ear of this lioness, the hypodermic syringe on the right that is meant for her, the small bald spot in her shoulder fur, her large paw, the reddish triangle of her nose. The lioness is anesthetized. Two rubber-gloved hands are dealing with her, but one of them has for a moment placed the box and its blue plastic cover on her long spine.
This superb photograph, taken by Nir Elias on January 19, documents the implanting of a device that secretes hormonal contraceptives into the bloodstream of a 2-year-old lioness named Savanna at the Ramat Gan Safari. The handlers explained that unlike other means of controlling the reproduction of lions, the effect of this material wears off after two years and does not adversely affect the animals’ social behavior, as happens when male lions are neutered permanently.
But the focus of this heart-rending photograph is not the act itself, but the way it captures the lioness’s non-gaze. This is not only the glazed stare brought on by the anesthetic, but a look that lies one notch below the gaze of a stuffed animal and one notch above the dazed look of an animal in a zoo. Why is the gaze of caged animals so empty?
The Safari loves its animals. A visit to the open section, where zebras and rhinos can socialize, is different from a visit to the cage area. It’s a merrier experience, without the unease that is always felt on seeing the dislocation and paralysis of wild creatures confined to cages with asphalt floors and a “setting” that simulates nature − like the rock garden behind the tempered glass, behind which is a tiger that has nowhere to run. The Safari aspires to remove animals from cages and distance itself from the model of 19th-century European zoos. But can it do so totally, in the heart of a city?
In his essay “Why look at animals?” − which should be read in Israel’s schools rather than nationalist pamphlets − the photography critic John Berger writes that ignoring animals and caging them for display led to the development of the market for toy animals − to the point where there is no child in the Western world today without a collection of soft furry creatures. Visiting a zoo, then, is meant to show the child the “original” of his toy, but the animal is lethargic, apathetic, separated from other species. It’s unnatural.
“Why look at animals?” is the first article in “About Looking,” a collection of profound and surprising essays (also published in Hebrew). “However you look at these animals,” Berger writes, “even if the animal is up against the bars, less than a foot from you, looking outwards in the public direction, you are looking at something that has been rendered absolutely marginal; and all the concentration you can muster will never be enough to centralize it.”
A zoo experience can only disappoint, because the animals are oppressed, controlled by arrangements that, though aimed at maximizing visitors’ enjoyment, have nothing to do with natural instincts. The animal has no place in capitalist life other than as a product. And in this photograph, in which a lioness is being treated and its well-being looked after, that awareness is reflected in her one wide-open eye | <urn:uuid:420ad14a-088f-4b0f-ba22-00a3d18615fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/origin-of-species-1.415755?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.212%2C2.213%2C | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952569 | 754 | 2.578125 | 3 |
| 1 ¶ Now there were in
the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas,
and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which
had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
.2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
|3 - Laid their hands on them The is the Bible example for setting aside people for a special work of ministry. Notice in verse 1 that the men already had the gifts. They did not receive them by being touched. The modern movement of giving what is said to be the Holy Spirit by laying on of hands and which initiates unconsciousness or hysteria is foreign to the Bible.|
¶ So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia;
and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
.5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
.7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
5 - Salamis Port city of Cyprus. See map.
5 - John He would have been "John Mark" or "Mark." He was their minister, that is, "assistant." ac1225. The Greek word is also used for ministers of the gospel lu0102, ac2616. In that sense, servants of Christ.
6 - Paphos In Western Cyprus.
Image from The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, 1871
| 9 Then Saul, (who also
is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
| 9 -
his eyes From atenizo. Paul is not here dealing with
a vision problem as some have suggested. See how Luke uses this Greek word.
10 - Mischief This word meant something different in older English. "You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery" (NIV).
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in
Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
.14 ¶ But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
- John [Mark] departing Because of this, Paul held him in
low esteem. ac1538.
But Mark later became a beloved worker and companion. We must be slow to
reject people in whom we see defects.
13 - Pamphylia A costal area in the center of the Asia Minor map.
14 - Antioch See the Asia Minor map, partly off east edge.
14 - Synagogue ... Sabbath Paul and friends went to the assembly of Sabbath keepers to worship. This was their habit. Then they were invited to speak.
15 - After the reading The sermon was often based on the texts read. Verses 17 and 18 have clues that indicate that the texts may have been is0102 and de0131.
15 - Exhortation Or "consolation."
16 - Beckoning Should read "signaling."
16 - Ye that fear God These may have been pagans or those who came out of paganism.
17 - God of this people History was important in any approach of the gospel because confidence in Jesus as the Messiah was essential.
18 - Forty years The time of wandering in the wilderness because of rebellion when it was time to enter ex1635, nu1433, de0801.
| 19 And when he had destroyed
seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by
20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
.22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
- Seven nations See de0701.
The word Chanaan is without the "h" in the
20 - Judges God's original plan. Later the people demanded a king 1sa0805.
22 - Found David Paul merges several verses as was customary for rabbis in his time. Compare ps08920 and 1sa1314.
22 - After ... heart David was chosen because his heart was in harmony with God's 1sa1314. At the times of David's sinfulness, the term did not apply. We must never claim this statement as justification for a sinful lifestyle.
23 - Saviour Jesus The name itself means "Yahweh is salvation."
| 26 Men and brethren,
children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God,
to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
|36 - Sleep David didn't go anywhere when he died. He experienced "corruption" or rotting. "Sleep" means death. Compare ac0234|
| 30 But God raised him
from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
- God raised him See on ac0232.
33 - Fulfilled From ekpleroo meaning "to fulfill completely," "to make good." a promise.
33 - Raised up Jesus again Or "raised up Jesus." This could mean several things: It could indicate the resurrection. de1815, re0105, lu0135. The quotation from Psalm 2 implies that there is more ps00207. It could point to fulfillment of OT promises v32. It could refer to Christ's incarnation (coming in flesh) he0105, v34. It could indicate His presentation to the world jn0316. Theses are all good thoughts so we don't need to choose just one.
34 - Corruption The body of Lazarus had begun to decay. Jesus will always be human as well as divine 1ti0205, he0209 but glorified 1co1520, ph0209.
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy
One to see corruption.
.36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
|35 - Thine Holy One From ps01610. See context and compare Peter's statement ac0225-31.|
| 40 Beware therefore,
lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
¶ And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought
that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
.43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
.45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
- When the Jews were gone out Or probably "as they were going
out." In other words, They all asked for more instruction, not just the
43 - Broken up They would have started to move around and toward the exits at the end of the service.
43 - Religious Should read "worshipping." The "proselytes" may have been Greeks who had earlier converted to the Jewish religion.
43 - Persuaded Rather "urged."
45 - Jews Apparently few compared to "almost the whole city." These were perhaps the Jewish leaders.
| 46 Then Paul and Barnabas
waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first
have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
.47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
- The word of God The basis of truth, jn1717.
A great mountain of tradition had obscured the simple teaching of the word
The Jews had chosen to reject "everlasting life."
47 - I have sent thee The reference is is4906. The messianic interpretation of the prophecy about Israel had developed before the advent of Jesus.
48 - Word of the Lord Or "word about the Lord Jesus."
48 - Were ordained The Greek text means "appointed themselves." The Jews in v46 had "judged themselves unworthy of eternal life." In contrast, the Greeks showed themselves ready to accept that gift. Nothing in the text implies that God had fixed the destiny of anyone. Any could change jn0316, ro0829.
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief
men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and
expelled them out of their coasts.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
- Coasts In modern English, "boundaries" or "regions."
51 - Shook off the dust As Jesus had commanded the twelve disciples. The gesture was more symbolic than as a curse. See on mt1014. Here the Jews had rejected Christ.
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Have we told you how much we love Argentina? It's a dream... at least for an economist with an 'I-told-you-so' bent and a sense of mischief. For everyone else, it is a nightmare.
Argentina is to the economist what a corrupt small town must be to the novelist, where he can see who's sleeping with whom, who's drinking too much, who's not paying his bills, and who's getting too fat. Who's doing right... who's doing wrong... so much inspiration... !
You see, Argentina is naturally a rich country. It is big. It has huge potential... with the richest farmland in the world... plenty of water... plenty of minerals and other resources. It's a European country - well, it is inhabited by immigrants from Sicily, which probably explains a lot.
As such, it is heir to all the science, experience and philosophy of the Enlightenment... and all of the technological progress of the Industrial Revolution... and all the claptrap theories and perversions of the European and American intellectual elites of the 20th century.
So, what do Argentinians do with their good fortune? They sabotage it, of course. The fifth richest country in the world in 1900... today, it is in 50th place. Buenos Aires has more people in psychotherapy than any other city; a fact which might also explain a lot.
Is there is any policy so wrongheaded that the Argentinians haven't tried it at least twice?
Well, yes... They haven't followed the path of the Bolsheviks... or the Maoists... They haven't engineered mass famines... mass murder (just a few thousand victims, during the military junta years)... or mass land expropriations. But... there's always the future!
What we like about Argentina is that we can observe the mistakes and the dysfunction and still live reasonably well - at least in our mountain fastness.
It was only a few months ago that the Argentine government expropriated the country's biggest oil company. Now, it has taken over the private company that prints its pesos! Here's that latest from the Buenos Aires Herald Tribune (we like the little paper so much, we're thinking of trying to buy it!):
"... on Thursday the Senate voted by a margin of 44-20 votes to expropriate the Ciccone money-printing company (eight other senators, including ex-president Carlos Menem, remained on the sidelines), all 64 senators could be said to have sound reasons in favour of their stance. Who could argue against the principle of monetary sovereignty underlying this bill (since not even the world's most free-market economies would think of privatizing the coinage)?"
But here is where it gets interesting. When the government expropriates... it pays compensation. It might take over the company printing its money for some sort of deformed patriotic motive. Or, it might do so because insiders have gotten control of the company and are now going to cash out at the taxpayers' expense.
"Whatever the irregularities within Ciccone preceding this move and however justified the suspicions that this nationalization is one vast cover-up, all the shady details of the case are not the concern of Congress, strictly speaking, but of the court investigating the scandal..."
That's what makes everything in financial life on the pampas so darned interesting - you know it's corrupt... but it's usually even more corrupt than you realise. There's often a corruption within the corruption... a back-story... a scam on the scammers...
In short, it is delightful to watch... as long as you're not too close.
Now that the Argentine government has taken control of the company that prints its money, what will happen? You can expect that it will do about the same thing as other government-controlled enterprises. Expenses will rise; output will decline. It will be like the US Post Office... Amtrak... or the Social Security Administration. Even at printing money, Argentina will be ... hapless... and incompetent.
Already, a peso printed in 2012 will lose a third of its value by 2013. Soon, with the money-printer run by the government, a peso will have lost all its value even before it is printed!
Back in the US, the feds are still stuck in Tokyo-mode. They print money. They lend a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy). They bail out key industries. But the cash doesn't go into the economy. It doesn't push up consumer prices - at least, not yet. It goes into bank vaults... where it is used to buy US Treasuries. That is, it is lent back to the people who printed it in the first place!
Nice system. Nutty. Pointless. Dopey. Very Argentine.
And it must be just a matter of time until people in the US begin to anticipate the same sort of shenanigans - with the same sort of results - as have plagued the pampas for half a century. According to Larry Summers, the government will grow, no matter who wins the White House.
Why? Because more old people mean more demands for pensions and health care. Second, higher debts mean higher debt service payments. Third, the things that government buys - health care and military hardware - are getting much more sophisticated and expensive.
Compared to TVs, the price of a hospital stay has increased 100 times since the early '80s. And fourth, the feds will have to spend more on infrastructure... and more to offset the effects of growing inequality of incomes, says Summers.
As it grows, the government will make more quirky interventions in the economy... redistribute more wealth... depress the rate of real economic growth... and make people poorer... just like the government of Argentina has done since the '50s. And then, it will crack up and go broke from time to time, again, just like south of the Rio Plata.
Government services will cease working. Government cheques will cease having value. Government agencies will collapse and government employees will become the enemies of the people.
But at least the Social Security Administration, headquartered in Baltimore, is getting prepared. Here's an item from the Economic Policy Journal:
Social Security Administration To Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds Of Hollow Point Bullets
What does the Social Security Administration fear?
The SSA is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country, Infowars is reporting.
Hollow point bullets are designed to expand as they enter the body, causing maximum damage by tearing apart internal organs.
A solicitation posted by the SSA on the FedBizOpps website asks for contractors to supply 174,000 rounds of ".357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition".
An online ammunition retailer describes the bullets as suitable "for peak performance rivaling and sometimes surpassing handloads in many guns," noting that the ammo is "a great personal defense bullet".
The ammunition is to be shipped to 41 locations within 60 days of purchase. A separate spreadsheet lists those locations, which include the Social Security headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland as well as major cities across the country including Los Angeles, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle.
The DHS also recently purchased a number of bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include 'stop and go' lights, says Infowars.
The US is still a long way from Argentina... but it is getting there.
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The argument that it is helping holds that the credit crisis has made returns from venture capital investments more favorable than returns from other types of private equity. The high returns to private equity in the past few years were driven by inexpensive credit so taking away that cheap credit has brought private equity returns back into line with other investments.
Maybe. But I’m not so sure that the credit crisis is helping venture capitalists. There are several reasons to think not.
1. Exit through M&A: The main exit route for venture capitalists is through acquisition of the start-ups they fund. While some acquirers of start-ups use cash to buy companies, others use their stock or raise debt to fund acquisitions. With the stock markets in turmoil, it’s harder for companies to purchase other companies with stock (which might drop in value). And with credit getting more expensive, borrowing to purchase companies is getting more costly. So at the margin, there are probably fewer buyers of VC-backed start-ups and those buyers who remain are likely to pay less for companies, lowering VCs’ returns.
2. IPO Drought: In a recent survey of 660 VCs conducted by the National Venture Capital Association (PDF), 64 percent attributed the IPO drought, at least in part, to the credit crunch/mortgage crisis. IPOs are less in demand if investors’ appetite for risk decreases, as it appears to have done recently. They are also less attractive if the stock market is falling or gyrating all over the place, as it has been.
In addition, it’s hard to take companies public if the investment banks that do the IPOs can’t focus on normal business because they are consumed with going under or getting bought out. If the credit crisis is adversely affecting the IPO market, then VCs are losing their most attractive exit route, lowering their returns.
3. VC Firm Operations: Some venture capital firms themselves are getting hit by the credit crisis. The private equity firms that do both venture capital and leveraged buyouts are getting hit because the disappearance of cheap credit has hurt the leveraged buyout market. At companies where leveraged buyouts are a much bigger part of their operations than venture capital, the investors could face enough problems that they start exiting the market.
Venture capitalists also raise money from limited partners. While some argue that those investors will shift their asset allocation toward venture capital in their search for higher returns, an alternative scenario is that some of those limited partners, like pension funds, will lose so much money from their other investments that they will have to cut back on all their investments, including those allocated to venture capital.
4. Portfolio company performance: The companies in which VCs invest could be adversely affected by the credit crisis. A slowdown in the real economy that results from the credit crisis would hurt young companies’ efforts to sell new products and services. Also new high growth companies need debt, and if lines of credit and debt financing aren’t available to them, that could hurt their performance. Finally, the portfolio companies need to manage their own cash, and there have been some reports that they have put that money into Auction Rate Securities (ARS) rather than into checking accounts. The problems in the ARS market have kept some startups from getting to their own cash.
Maybe VCs are escaping the credit crisis unscathed. But I think there are several reasons why they won’t in the long run.
* * * * *
About the Author: Scott Shane is A. Malachi Mixon III, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of eight books, including Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths that Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By; Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures; Technology Strategy for Managers and Entrepreneurs; and From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Drive the Growth and Profits of Your Company. | <urn:uuid:b7e15edb-9218-448e-bb76-db2102313376> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/09/credit-crisis-venture-capital.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969786 | 824 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Together for Short Lives is a national charity working to help sick children and families get the most of their limited time together. You can help this very worthwhile charity simply by buying the X Factor single. Every copy of the single bought means more money for children's hospices and charities providing at-home services for children with life-limiting conditions. You can see pictures of the X Factor finalists below visiting a children's hospice. The single is currently number one in the charts and it would be great for the charity involved if it could stay there for a while longer. Do your good deed for the day by scrolling down and clicking through to buy the single !
Together for Short Lives is the only charity representing the estimated 23,500 children and young people across the UK who are unlikely to reach adulthood. The charity works to ensure that every one of these children and their families get the best possible care and support whenever and wherever they need it.
The X Factor Charity Single is a unique and extraordinary opportunity to tell the public about the issues faced by these children, young people and their families.
Providing care - often 24 hours a day, seven days a week - can place families under enormous emotional, physical and financial strain. Relationships can suffer; careers may have to be abandoned; well brothers and sisters can feel left out; and normal family activities become almost impossible.
Many remarkable organisations, including children's hospices embrace not only the physical, but the emotional, social and spiritual elements of care, focusing on quality of life for the child or young person, and practical support for the family.
However, while there are some excellent services available, many families struggle to access co-ordinated care when and where they need it.
Together for Short Lives is here to help. It could be as simple as signposting a parent to a place that can take care of their ill child while they take their well sister to Brownies, or providing them with a ‘family companion’ booklet to help families work through what to expect, and where they can find help.
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As the quality of life in general improves, the attention of consumers is shifting more and more towards the integration of green building materials for the construction of new homes, and renovations of existing ones. The focus shifts from the mere cost of building, to more effective usage of so called green building materials that are designed to be environmentally friendly, and geared towards conserving energy.
Opting to build with environmentally friendly and sustainable materials may prove to be more cost effective in the long term than building with initially cheaper, but less sustainable or environmentally friendly building materials, that never make effective use of natural resources.
Building in a sustainable way involves using materials that are sustainable in their nature, and recyclable or easily replenished if needed be. An example of use of green building materials would be construction of modern buildings using metal for the building envelope. Metal is a sustainable building material that is fully recyclable at the end of its service life. Metal possesses rigidity and durability required to construct buildings that can withstand sun, wind, hail and years of abuse to prevail in harsh environments.
Building with Metal was known to result in a long lasting and durable building a long time ago:
Although, the concept of green building was not prevalent in the 1930s, metal such as steel was in wide use for the construction of great buildings such as Chrysler Building. Completed in 1930, this great building uses a metal frame, and incorporates stainless steel cladding to attain longevity, sustainability and energy efficiency. It is not in the least surprising that this great building is still here, standing the test of time.
Metal coated with solar reflective coatings can reduce energy consumption by drastically reducing the amount of energy required to cool the building, as metal reflects solar heat requiring less energy to cool the building. This also helps mitigate the heat island effect associated with buildings attracting the solar heat, and then releasing the heat into the surrounding environment.
Thus, metal, a green building material, helps in the construction of an energy efficient building that is built to last while being safe for the environment, as well as its occupants is what green building design is all about.
The Environmental protection Agency (EPA) has been assigning energy star ratings to the buildings for many years. The energy star ratings for buildings’ energy efficiency sanctioned by EPA have helped prevent the release of nearly 120 million metric tons of C02 into the atmosphere.
Energy Star buildings typically use 35% less energy and emit 35% less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than average buildings.
The Chrysler building uses 40% less energy, and generates 35% less Co2 than the average building. It underwent some systematic upgrades to replace old systems with green building compliant elevators, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, fire, electrical, and energy efficient lighting upgrades.
Bamboo – Natural Green building material
While metal is a sustainable, energy efficient and fully recyclable building material, there are other natural green building materials such as bamboo that grow fast and can be easily replenished. For instance bamboo flooring is considered a green building material.
Green Building means Health and Comfort for the building occupants.
Using green building materials offers many advantages over the traditional materials used for building and renovating, as green building materials are environmentally friendly, which leads to better health, while the construction of so called green buildings can be more attractive for perspective buyers. Green buildings are designed to last, providing safe, healthy, and pleasant environment for the building occupants. They emphasize the efficient use of natural resources such as water, and energy. Examples of energy efficient use of resources include: water sinks with auto shut off, automatic doors, automatic lighting, and use of energy efficient and environmentally safe components such as LED lighting.
Another example showcasing the use of metal in modern green building is Cornell University’s new building outfitted with zinc and tin coated steel wall panels designed to provide superior protection against the elements and help make the building more energy efficient. The metal cladding is expected to last well over a 100 years offering durability, and energy efficiency.
Green Building design
Commercial buildings are not the only ones benefiting from green building design. In fact, residential homes, even the ones that are already in place can be outfitted with energy efficient upgrades, such as energy efficient metal roofs, metal wall panels, solar panels, geothermal energy, energy efficient windows, siding, LED lighting, and energy efficient appliances.
Green building is actively promoted by the US Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1993, with the mission to promote the construction of green buildings, by endorsing sustainable building. The US Green Building Counsel is best known for its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system (LEED), which is used to certify so called green buildings.
The use of green building materials, and construction of green buildings, represents an important step forward to creating a sustainable environment, for generations to come. Sustainable buildings, use none-polluting building materials that are Eco-friendly, and are designed for energy conservation, which in turn leads to less waste and less energy consumption. This is not only cost effective, but also provides a positive boost to lowering the amount of emissions produced, while burning fossil fuels in order to produce energy.
Green building products are becoming more and more common in modern day construction, and are used for for new construction and renovation of the existing homes. With the increase in the usage of green building materials, the cost is rapidly decreasing, making green building products a realistic option even with the immediate budget in mind.
Overall, green building materials and sustainable buildings save money and energy in the long run. Green building practices help preserve the environment. They also create a type of living environment that is healthy, stable and sustainable for future generations. Investing in green building materials is therefore an option that is certainly worth considering for anyone who is in the process of building or renovating their home. | <urn:uuid:e168406b-55f6-429c-adaf-72ea893e50b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greensolarcafe.com/green-construction/eco-green-building-materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953404 | 1,194 | 3.625 | 4 |
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Mary Sarah Bilder's important reinterpretation of early U.S. constitutional history, The Corporate Origins of Judicial Review, has been published in the Yale Law Journal and is available on-line here. Here's the abstract: This Article argues that the origins of judicial review lie in corporate law. Diverging from standard historical accounts that locate the origins in theories of fundamental law or in the American structure of government, the Article argues that judicial review was the continuation of a longstanding English practice of constraining corporate ordinances by requiring that they be not repugnant to the laws of the nation. This practice of limiting legislation under the standard of repugnancy to the laws of England became applicable to American colonial law. The history of this repugnancy practice explains why the Framers of the Constitution presumed that judges would void legislation repugnant to the Constitution—what is now referred to as judicial review. This history helps to resolve certain debates over the origins of judicial review and also explains why the answer to other controversies over judicial review may not be easily found in the history of the Founding era. The assumption that legislation must not be repugnant to the Constitution produced judicial review, but it did not resolve issues such as departmentalism or judicial supremacy that arose with the continuation of this repugnancy practice after the Constitution. | <urn:uuid:461ad1b4-dd12-469e-a3eb-878093923dbd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bilder-on-origins-of-judicial-review.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935686 | 283 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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It starts out as a multi-colored band plays the "Norman Normal theme song." Norman closes the door on the band and tells us, "Hi, I'm your hero. That music was the opening number and you'll hear it again at the end." Norman also shows us it's behind another door is what the cartoon is all about. He walks in and his boss asks him to make a client sign a contract by getting him drunk. "Eveybody's doing it, Norm!" Norman is uncomfortable about the request. "Nobody'll ever know." "I'll know." While arguing, the cartoon demonstrates how immature the argument is. Finally, Norman gives in, but really won't do it. "I'll go to his office and I'll say, look here B.B. we got a good ball bearing and we haven't. You don't buy favors with alcohol. Basically a psychiatrist is sorta a father image." With this, Norman asks his dad what's right and wrong, but instead, his dad rambles on and on of his times, and also tells Norman to "not make waves and fit in." Norman opens another door and ends up in a business party. There, he meets his friend Leo, who wears an lampshade on his head and asks for approval. Norman approves of him. Another one of Norman's friends starts telling him a joke about "the traveling salesman." But Norman asks him if the joke is "going to be about a minority group, And after you tell it, we're all gonna laugh and feel superior?" The bartender, Hal, insults Norman after Norman selects ginger ale as his beverage of choice instead of getting an alcoholic drink. Norman leaves and apologizes for the confusion back at the party and reopens the door to the multi-colored band again. We zoom out, and we see that the door is on his forehead. He closes it.
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This title might seem a bit shocking, but considering China’s total population, 30 million really isn’t very much. Still, millions of people living in caves in this modern era is kind of strange, wouldn’t you say?
According to a report by The Los Angeles Times, millions of Chinese people have gone underground, to live in caves. So I guess calling someone a caveman in China really shouldn’t be taken as an insult, especially if you consider many of these burrowed dwellings have all the facilities of modern homes. Because they take advantage of the existing landscape, China’s cave houses don’t require too many other building materials, and since the hills and mountains they are dug into act as natural insulation all year round, they are more energy efficient than most conventional family homes.
But don’t imagine you can see this kind of cave dwellings all around China. Most of them are found in the Shanxi province, where the porous yellow soil is relatively easy to dig into. Called “yaodong” these inhabited caves have semicircular entrances covered with rice paper or hanging rugs which act as makeshift doors. Most of them aren’t very fancy, but modern amenities like plumbing, electricity and phone service can be set up if the inhabitants have enough money to spend. The majority of China’s cave dwellers can do without all these expensive features, though, and prefer to enjoy their homes’ natural bonuses – high ceilings and lots of space with a nice yard out front where you can exercise and sit in the sun.
Photo: Tour Beijing
A 2007 report showed most of China’s cave houses were inhabited by the elderly, while the young population migrated toward the big city and moved into concrete homes, but there are some young people who dream of going back to their childhood caves, at some point. “When I get old, I’d like to go back to my roots,” says Ren Shouhua, who grew up in a cave, but moved to the city in his 20s. As for the older cave dwellers, they wouldn’t dream of abandoning their ancestral homes for the comfort of modern residences. “Life is easy and comfortable here. I’ve lived all my life in caves, and I can’t imagine anything different,” says 76-year-old Ma Liangshui, who lives in a one-room cave with a bed, a fire pit for cooking, and electricity to power a single light bulb.
Photo: James L. Wright
Believe it or not, China’s cave homes are actually in high demand. A lot of people come here looking to rent our caves, but nobody wants to move out,” says one owner. The ones that are for sale cost around $46,000, and for people who just want to experience life as a modern caveman, burrowed dwellings are rented for about $30 a month. It’s no Ritz-Carlton, but you definitely won’t forget the experience. | <urn:uuid:9aba04dd-8454-4403-99f8-2376dcf319fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/21st-century-cavemen-30-million-chinese-live-in-caves.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964309 | 641 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Herbert Edson, son of U.S. Marine hero of World War II, Gen. Merritt A. Edson, stands aboard the ship named for his father. Mr. Edson was visiting the ship in 1983 and supports the vessel's move to Bay City.
Destroyer Edson May Not Arrive Here Until Late Summer, Fall, Say Officials
April 29, 2012
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By: Dave Rogers
Officials of the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum (SVNSM) are hoping to raise another $200,000 to help fund towing the former USS Edson from Philadelphia to Bay City.
About 60,000 gallons of diesel fuel at $4 per gallon is required for the tugs, an approximate cost of $240,000, said Richard Janke, SVNSM vice president.
Arrangements are underway to have the ship towed directly here from its present berth in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, a naval facility being converted to commercial use. Previous plans were to have separate tugs tow the ship from Philadelphia to Quebec and from Quebec through the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Great Lakes and the Saginaw River.
Installation of a water line and mooring apparatus according to a plan approved by the U.S. Navy are slated to get underway at the mooring site near the Independence Bridge in Bangor Township in the near future, he said.
A mobile office for ticket sales and day-to-day business operations has been donated by James Dobson and is on site but is not yet equipped with water or electricity.
A major welcoming event will be held upon arrival of the ship, probably in 60-120 days which would be mid to late summer or early fall, according to Mr. Janke.
The Edson, a 418 foot long warship that was on display in at the Air-Sea-Space Museum in New York City for 15 years, has received complete hull repairs and is considered nearly ready for public viewing as opposed to most warships which require major renovations before display. Mr. Janke and Michael Kegley, president, SVNSM, have said they will begin to accommodate public tours soon after the ship's arrival.
Following is the official news release of the Navy regarding donation of the ship to the Bay City group.
From Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate Communications
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy announced April 24 that the destroyer ex-Edson (DD 946) will be donated to the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum, a nonprofit organization, for permanent berthing and public display in Bay City, Mich.
Formal transfer of title and ownership of ex-Edson to the Museum occurs when the Museum removes the ship from the Navy's custody in Philadelphia, which in approximately two months.
"The Navy is thrilled that Edson has found a new home at the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum," said Capt. Chris Pietras, the Navy's Inactive Ships Program manager. "This ship has served her nation in wartime and peace for more than 50 years, and we're pleased that the ship will continue to serve as a museum and memorial."
USS Edson was launched Jan. 4, 1958, and its first deployment was to the western Pacific in January 1960. It served during the Cold War and was deployed to Vietnam three separate times, during which it earned three Meritorious Unit Citations.
Following its decommissioning Dec. 15, 1988, ex-Edson was donated to the USS Intrepid Foundation in 1989 and served as a museum ship at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City from 1989 to 2004. The ship was designated as a National Historic Landmark June 21, 1990.
In October 2003, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum formally requested to return ex-Edson to the Navy due to extensive pier repairs that would have rendered the ship's berthing area uninhabitable for an extended period. The Navy accepted this offer, and the ship was again advertised for donation in June 2004.
Two other ships of the Forrest Sherman class of destroyers are on public display. Ex-Turner Joy (DD 951) is owned by the Bremerton Historic Ships Association for public display in Bremerton, Wash., and ex-Barry (DD 933) is owned by the Navy for public display at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
The Navy donates historic ships to promote public interest in the defense of the nation, to commemorate naval history and heritage, and to honor the men and women who built and sailed these ships.
For more information, visit www.navy.mil, www.facebook.com/usnavy, or www.twitter.com/usnavy.
For more news from Naval Sea Systems Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/navsea/.
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Four decades ago, the Arab oil embargo consigned Americans to gas lines. Odd-even rationing became routine, and everyone with a passing interest in energy policy heard regular predictions that the planet was nearing "peak oil."
Weve been told forever that were running out of resources, that were facing a future of shrinking options, that wed better change our ways and oh, by the way, our friends in the green movement will tell us exactly how our ways must be changed.
Which is why last week, the greens no doubt reacted in horror at the International Energy Agencys latest forecast on oil production.
Forget about peak oil. What the future portends is energy abundance. Within eight years, the IEA says, the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the planets largest oil producer. All those predictions about running out? The ever-gloomy greens ignored the most important resource-production factor of all: human ingenuity.
New drilling techniques involving hydraulic fracking have produced a gusher of oil and natural gas from shale formations in several states including Kansas, but mainly in Texas, North Dakota, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The boom has added tens of thousands of new jobs and more revenue for state, local and federal government.
True, the IEAs prediction could be too optimistic, just as the environmental-disaster scenarios of the last 40 years have been too pessimistic. And one risk is that the Obama administration will do everything in its power to curb the new drilling techniques, denying much of this new bounty to the nation.
Yet while theres no way of knowing how long production can increase at the current exponential rate, the new oil and gas is already creating geopolitical waves.
The big thing is a change in the dynamic, said economist Chris Kuehl of Kansas City, Kan.-based Armada Corporate Intelligence. Back in the embargo days, OPEC was responsible for about 70 percent of world oil. I think OPEC is now supplying 35 percent globally. They still have a role to play and the Saudis can always ramp up production. But now its harder for them to throw their weight around.
With the nations oil-import bill falling from 60 percent of U.S. energy demand in 2005 to nearly 40 percent, theres a lot less fear about embargoes or arbitrary price increases imposed by malodorous regimes. The Irans and Venezuelas, says Kuehl, are almost becoming nonentities when it comes to oil.
For those concerned about climate change, the shale revolution also brought unexpected benefits in the form of lower carbon emissions. Since 2008, the use of coal in U.S. power generation has dropped from 50 percent to about 34 percent, while the share of natural gas, a cleaner-burning fuel, has risen to almost the same level. The nations CO emissions have dropped to levels not seen since 1991.
Naturally, some greens see in the shale revolution cause for lamentation. Economist Frank Ackerman, writing at a blog called Triple Crisis, called fracking a disaster in the making.
Greens worry about the threat to ground water or the release of methane. While these are real concerns, Im betting the attendant problems will fall far short of the potential catastrophe some predict. To me, that seems a reasonable bet, given the apocalyptic hogwash environmentalists have put out for the last 40 years.
Lets recognize that there arent any environmentally cost-free ways to produce energy. And while the shale revolution entails risk, the risks must be balanced against its considerable benefits.
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The movement of these currency pairs to some extent reflects the basic currency pair EUR / USD. For example, currency pair Japanese yen JPY U.S.dollar USD are of great importance. Read more: CURRENCY FORECAST
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Forex forecasts are something that everyone is probably interested in. Forecasts of monetary exchange are quite common. If you search the Internet for Forex forecasts you will certainly find many. But you should not trust them immensely, but use them as an auxiliary tool.
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Hello. Today I bought a core 2 quad q8400 cpu. I used to have no overheating issues with my old cpu(intel pentium 3.00ghz 3.00ghz) I'm using a zalman 9700 cooler. However when I installed the new cpu I instantly got overheating warnings and the cpu temp was at 100C and that's the temperature I get when I use no cpu cooler at all. I tried using the cooler that came in the cpu box but still had the same problem. I also tested it on the old cpu and there were no temperature problems so I don't think that I haven't placed it correctly or something. I also get a message that I need to update my bios. I think I read somewhere in those forums that that might have something to do with the overheating problems. So is that bios update related to the problem? Are there any other solutions? Please help me with this one I'm getting desperate. Thanks in advance.
By the way, I repeated the whole process many times to make sure...
The boxed CPU cooling unit comes with compound already on the base plate of the heatsink. If you have been taking it off and putting it back on repeatedly, however, you will be loosing some of this compound each time and thus need to replace it. This doesn't sound like a BIOS issue at all; it sounds more like the cooling units are not being attached properly, have too much compound or not enough compound, or there is an issue with airflow in the chassis. At the times when the temperature is reaching this level, what is the speed of the fan? It should be maxed out...
The speed is maxed out by default. I had this prob with my zalman cooler so i tried the one that came with the cpu because it's easy to install so that i could make sure. But for some reason it still overheats and the other cpu doesn't have that problem. Not only does it not overheat but it also has a completely normal temperature. Is there a chance that the cpu itself is faulty and overheats for no reason?
Try a good spray on flux cleaner all over the problem cpu chip. This stuff can be found at a good auto supply store. CRC QD electronic cleaner.
Red can. Spray it outside. Inspect the bottom of the cpu chip for any defects to the lands.
Look over the mb cpu pins in a good light to see if you have any bent pins. Take care. Since you have a working cpu- mb combo, don't destroy the mb.
If the cleaner doesn't work, and I'd say you had a 50 -50 chance of it working, I'd rma the chip.
And this cleaner won't hurt the mb if you use it there too.
"Maxed out by default"? Does this Zalman cooler have a 3-wire or a 4-wire connector on its fan cable? If it is a 3-wire connector, then the fan is always going to run at full speed if it is plugged into the (4-pin) CPU Header. On most motherboards, unless it says otherwise, this header is specifically intended for a fan with a 4-wire connector; it is the 4th pin that provides the PWM control signal to the fan; no voltage scaling circuit is present on the motherboard to support the slowing of 3-wire fans (which have no internal capability to do this themselves (based upon PWM signal)).
We haven't talked about your motherboard. I presume, before you installed the new processor, that you ensured that the latest version of the BIOS was installed (to ensure support for latest processors), right?
Presuming that you are absolutely sure that you are properly attaching the cooling unit to the processor and using sufficient thermal compound, I can't think of anything else to try. Perhaps it is time to have your dealer test the processor (and mounting process) in their environment - or simply replace it if they don't...
Your motherboard is not recognizing the processor temperatures correctly.
Contact your motherboard manufacturer and confirm that the new processor is indeed supported and using the old processor update your BIOS to the latest version. The stock Intel(R) Heat Sink should make your processor run around 40°C.
I took it to the shop and they found a solution. Guess what. All they did was updating the bios. And I blame asus for that. I had already updated it using that option that lets you use the internet to update and it said that updating was complete but it never was. I had to d/l the update file to make it work. But the asus update software didn't mention that anywhere. So I had to pay 30 whole euros to fix a prob I would have fixed if I had been given the correct info. That's frustrating but at least everything works now... Life must go on lol. Thanks for trying to help I'm still frustrated btw :/ jesus.....
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As a passionate environmentalist and public health advocate, I am deeply concerned about the stress placed on our oceans due to our ever-increasing demand for seafood. Couple this with the fact that many fish we eat, while healthy and delicious, also happen to be seriously contaminated with industrial pollutants like mercury, led me to stop eating fish altogether in recent years. Luckily, there are now many handy guides available that provide recommendations on how to make fish choices that are best for the oceans AND best for our health.
My Top Three
- Environmental Defense Fund’s Guide to Seafood Eco-Ratings, for its straightforward approach. Note also the sushi-specific list.
- The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, for being such a consistent and excellent source of information on making ocean-friendly choices. Be sure to browse their Super Green List, which recommends the healthiest and most environmental options.
- Fish Wise, for making on-the-spot purchasing decisions at the grocery store easier. Prioritize green options, but yellow is OK in a pinch. Hopefully your grocer won’t have any of the red/unsustainable fish on offer. If they do, explain why they should reconsider this! | <urn:uuid:6dc95953-2663-4dbd-b908-f16ae96d6005> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://happiermeal.com/sustainable-ingredients/sustainable-seafood-options/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931928 | 251 | 2.5 | 2 |
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Uganda’s fertile land and climate provides an excellent environment to develop self-sustainability through agricultural and livestock farming. On the journey to continued peace and restoration in northern Uganda, Watoto is practical on the ground with sustainable projects like the development of a technical and agricultural college.
Following the civil war that lasted more than 20 years, there’s an urgent technical and vocational skills need for many former child soldiers - young adults - who have missed the opportunity to receive formal education.
David Ochola 20 years old, is a former child soldier who came into Watoto in 2008. Together with other teenagers from Gulu, northern Uganda, David was enrolled at Watoto’s Hope Senior School in Suubi Children’s Village. In December 2011, he graduated from the vocational school.
"I want to become an engineer. I need not to think for myself alone. I need to think about other people also. What I need to do is to create jobs for people who didn't have time to go to school... I see skilled men and ladies and we're going to develop our country," he says.
Watoto's Technical and Agricultural College will focus on farming and other technical skills like Carpentry & Masonry. This project will also provide an opportunity to enhance existing and new vocational training programmes by affording employment for Watoto students and the rest of the community that has born the brunt of senseless civil war instigated by Joseph Kony and the LRA.
Land has already been purchased in northern Uganda and plans to set up the technical and agricultural college are underway.
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Report by Pacific Institute found most companies don’t examine water use outside of their direct operations
According to a recent report from the Pacific Institute, a majority of companies do a poor job of assessing their water footprints across the entire business supply chain, leading to risks associated with water scarcity, E&E Daily reported.
Researchers at the Oakland, Calif.-based think tank surveyed 110 companies in 11 sectors and found that only 15% had approached water scarcity issues in a comprehensive manner. Sectors studied include the beverage, mining, food product, pharmaceutical and forestry industries.
The United Nations' CEO Water Mandate commissioned the report. The Water Mandate is a program established by the U.N. secretary general to help the private sector address the water resources management. The program is meant to prepare the business community for future water supply shortages.
The report found that most of the companies did not examine how water use affects them outside of their direct operations, ignoring overall supply-chain performance and regional or local effects of water use.
James Morrison, a program director at the institute and co-author of the report, said corporations should look at how their products consume water in other parts of the manufacturing process, not just in direct operations.
For example, he cited Levi Strauss & Co., which recently determined that most of the water use associated with making a pair of their 501 blue jeans was associated with cotton production, not direct manufacturing.
Levi Strauss "would be well served to think about where it's sourcing its cotton," Morrison said, taking steps to ensure efficiency.
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The Chester Harvey Rowell papers measure 1.25 linear feet and date from 1882 to 1937. The
collection predominantly consists of correspondence to Rowell's family, in particular, to
his sister, Cora. These are personal letters in which he reveals his feelings about his
current place of employment or his opinions about the various places he has traveled.
Also included are Rowell's marriage announcement and editorials from the Fresno
Morning Republican and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Chester Harvey Rowell was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1867. In his youth, he went
to Europe to study and travel. After his return, he taught at a small college in Kansas
for a year and then came to Fresno, California, to be a high school instructor in
mathematics and German. After two years in Fresno, Rowell joined the faculty at the
University of Illinois, where he remained for a year. He returned to Fresno in 1898 to
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he maintained for twenty-two years. In 1912, on the death of his uncle Dr. Chester Rowell
the founder and president of the board of directors of the newspaper, Rowell became
president of the board. After leaving Fresno, Rowell became the editor and director of
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Lutefisk tradition lives on, but interest might be declining
JANESVILLE Lutefisk might be one of the funniest foods on the planet, but it has its serious side as a cultural symbol for Norwegian-Americans.
The traditional dish is still a must for many at Christmas and other festive occasions. More than 500 Norwegians and guests were expected for the annual Lutefisk dinner Saturday at the Sons of Norway Nordland Lodge in Janesville.
But interest might be flagging.
“Lutefisk dinners are dying,” said Bonnie Forslund, who along with Pat Mahlum is co-chairwoman of the annual lutefisk feast.
The fish starts out as cod in the North Atlantic. It is caught, cut into filets and dried. Then it’s rehydrated and soaked in lye. The lye is rinsed out before cooking, and if you’ve heard anyone complaining about the smell, it’s probably the smell that comes naturally from fish.
All the processing gives the fish a gelatinous texture, which is probably why lots of people can’t stomach it. But the gleam in the eyes of the hundreds of diners on Saturday showed that Lutefisk has undeniable charm.
“It’s one of those things. You either love it or hate it,” said Doug Mahlum, Pat’s husband. Doug was one of a handful of men who prepared the fish Friday and cooked it Saturday.
Whether you love it or not might depend when you were first exposed to it.
“I grew up with it back on the farm,” said Mahlum. The farm was in Rock County’s Luther Valley, a Norwegian stronghold.
Norwegians who settled in the Midwest at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century can still be found in large numbers in a broad swath from northern Illinois through Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Millions claim Norwegian descent today, but will traditions like a lutefisk supper continue further into the 21st century?
Forslund and Mahlum, two white-haired ladies, spend the year planning the meal. They’ve been doing it for 15 years. This year they ordered 350 pounds of lutefisk and with an army of dedicated helpers prepared 5,000 meatballs and 75 dozen Norwegian cookies, among other delights.
Women do a lot of the work, but the fish is the men’s domain.
And because it’s a guy’s club, the lutefisk jokes can be off-color. Here’s one that can be told in a family newspaper:
“One guy told me he tried to feed it to his cat, and the cat took one whiff of it, and they couldn’t find it for three hours,” Doug Mahlum said.
There’s a Lutefisk Hall of Fame online, where in which features plenty of humor, including a lutefisk-tossing contest in Minnesota.
Farmer Orlando Kjernes of rural Edgerton, 87, grew up speaking Norwegian and eating lutefisk.
“It’s got to be cooked right,” he said.
It can turn to a jelly if overcooked.
“It’s got to be flaky,” Kjernes added.
“You gotta put a lot of butter and salt on it,” Kjernes advised a first-timer.
“It’ll keep you living longer, like me,” Kjernes said with a twinkle in his eye, so it wasn’t certain whether he was joking.
“I think lutefisk shows you how hard up the Norwegians were when they came here,” said one of the lutefisk chefs, Sam Niehans, who like several of the meal preparers is Norwegian by marriage.
White hair is the norm for the meal, although there is an occasional younger person. Norwegian is spoken here and there, mostly for greetings before the conversation returns to English.
The wait staff is Norwegian, teen-aged and younger. They work for tips and absorb the culture.
Thirteen-year-old Brandon Teadt of Algonquin, Ill., said he could see himself running the dinner 30 years from now.
“I don’t know if I could, but I would want to,” Brandon said.
Brandon’s sister, Alissa, 16, likes lutefisk, while fellow server Aly Niehans, 14, Oshkosh, does not.
“It’s like slimy and gross,” Aly said.
“I’ve learned to love it. I think it’s something you have to have a couple times and have it forced down your throat,” Alissa said.
Diners on Saturday could be seen going back for seconds and thirds.
“One guy last year got six (helpings),” Aly said. “We had to tell him to stop.”
Pat Mahlum said the ladies don’t make lefse, the traditional flatbread, anymore. Most lodge members are 75 and older, and they’re not up to it. So the lefse is purchased.
“But we do have some younger people, our nephews and nieces just love this kind of stuff, but they’re so busy with their children,” Pat said wistfully.
Still there’s hope. Mahlum even has a 12-year-old niece who has been making the pastry known as krumkake since she was 6.
Pat wonders every year, after a 12-hour day at the Saturday lutefisk dinner, how long she and Forslund will be able to go on.
“We always say, this is it—this is the last time,” Pat said. “Then Sunday I call her and say, ‘OK, I’m ready.’”
And the planning begins.
More Norwegian treats
The women of the Sons of Norway hold an annual sale of traditional pastries. If the pastries consumed on Saturday are any indication, these goodies are works of art for the eye and the tongue. The sale is set for 8 a.m.-noon Dec. 8 at the lodge, 418 W. Milwaukee St., Janesville. | <urn:uuid:7980a25b-9ca2-44bd-b0dc-e2194c965685> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2012/nov/11/lutefisk-tradition-lives-interest-might-be-declini/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962092 | 1,401 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The photo of your setup reminded me of a piece I read recently at the website theartisan.net about constructing an oven within an oven (a standard home oven). To see the photo of the setup (as used in an electric oven), go to the above-referenced website, click on the link Bread Basics in the frame menu to the left and then the link Oven Humidity & Simulation of a Professional Oven. In the meantime, I have have cut and pasted the text of the article below (in quotes).
"Simulation of a More "Complete" Masonry Oven
Using both a high quality mercury calibration thermometer and a "contact" thermometer of the sort used to measure the surface temperature of a wood stove, Mr. Sole had determined that he can achieve temperatures of about 700° in a standard home oven set to 500°. How is this achieved?
A ring of fire bricks are stood on end on a soapstone baking sheet. An opening is left in the front wide enough for the peel. The oven heats until the oven thermostat tells it that the air within is 500°. It then shuts off the gas, and start to cool. The air cools much more rapidly than the mass of bricks. Assume that the oven thermostat has a "swing" of 50°. When the air in the oven drops to 450°, on comes the gas to heat the oven once again. At that moment, the bricks would be significantly hotter than the air. The gas keeps cycling on and off in this fashion, each time increasing the temperature of the bricks.
At the point when the bricks and air reach the temperatures defined above, the dough goes into the oven. Mr. Sole states, "...The results astounded me. I have used today's recipe for years, but the spring this time was perhaps 50% greater than ever before..."
The Artisan Baker has built and used this simulated masonry chamber in an electric oven, and it works as well in this situation as in Mr. Sole's gas oven. The photo depicts the setup in an electric oven. As can be seen, the weight of the bricks on the rack causes the rack to sag a bit toward the enter. We suggest that prior to using this setup, a call be made to your oven manufacturer to ascertain the estimated weight load that your rack can handle. Lighter refractory brick may be used to obviate this problem, but they are more difficult to obtain. Half thickness brick are available, and would probably work as well if they are not thinner than the spacings on the rack itself. For example, in the oven depicted here, the rack spacings are approximately 1 inch, but the thinner bricks are about 1/16" narrower, and fall through the spacings.
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Software Craftsmanship risks putting the software at the centre rather than the benefit the software is supposed to deliver, mostly because we are romantics with big egos. Programming is about automating work like crunching data, processing and presenting information, or controlling and automating machines.
Non-programmers don’t care about the aesthetics of software in the same way non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing – they just want their information in the right place or their hot water to work. (Although it’s fair to say they appreciate decent boiler controls.)
Motivation for software craftsmanship
It would be great if programming were a proper profession, but it isn’t. A profession has a structured model for advancing through levels of skill and ability, be it studying for a law degree and articles (working for a legal practise) or the years of undergraduate and medical training a doctor undertakes before specialising. The latter has clearly-delineated ranks, from junior doctor, via a brutal regime of 80-hour weeks, to consutant.
Conversely there is no minimum entry requirement for programming. Some people naturally have a flair for it (two of the best programmers I know never went to college), some teach themselves out of books, others just tinker until they get something working. A programmer’s skill and ability is only as good as their personal reputation: there isn’t an accepted, transferable ranking like there is in a “proper” profession.
To illustrate how low the bar can be, the mission statement of Visual Basic (whether explicit or not) was to democratize programming. Anyone who could drag and drop controls around and understand a modicum of technical stuff could throw together a solution to a problem with relatively little effort. Wizards and other utilities enable power users to create sophisticated spreadsheets in Excel with no practical programming knowledge. Language guru Erik Meijer has spent the last few years talking about democratizing the cloud, i.e. making it as easy to string together online services and utility computing as VB made it to string together other applications. In other words, there are people actively working to lower the already low barrier to entry for programmers. (These are Microsoft-specific examples, but then Microsoft has done more than most to dumb down programming, or make it accessible to the masses, depending on your point of view.)
The IT industry is relatively young – only a couple of generations old in fact. (As an experiment, go and find out how many of your coworkers have a parent who worked in IT. See?) It is also something of a gold mine. Compared to a lot of industries it is relatively well paid indoor work with no heavy lifting, and remember the thing about no minimum entry requirement? This means entire economies have grown up looking at IT as a numbers game: if you throw enough bodies at a problem you should be able to make it go away, and if you can get bodies for cheap enough (yet still relatively well paid compared to the alternatives) then you can throw a lot of bodies at a problem.
I spoke to someone once who told me he was currently engaged in a public sector project to provide online tax credits for builders. As a builder you would have an account online where you would log in and buy tax credits that were offset against your end-of-year tax bill. In other words, it was a site that had user accounts and a (third party) card payment facility, and not much else. This project had 400 programmers working for three years. That’s more than a person-millennium of effort. For a web app! That I’m paying some consortium for out of my tax money. But that’s a rant for another day.
So from a purely demographics perspective we can see that the vast majority of people in the IT industry are there because a) it’s a well paid alternative to other white collar office work or even manual labour, and b) there is no incentive to make it anything other than a commodity numbers game.
Then there are the others. The minority of people who genuinely love programming and choose to excel at it. They understand software development is a skill, in fact a whole portfolio of skills: understanding and modelling a problem domain, understanding programming languages, libraries, paradigms and idioms, choosing which to apply in a given situation, learning and understanding algorithms, mastering the “path to production” (build, deployment, release), monitoring and availability, process automation, Lean theories of supply, production and product development, utility and cloud computing, concurrency and parallelism, I could go on. Those guys want a way to differentiate themselves. The oft-quoted figures of tenfold increase in productivity of expert versus novice programmers are wrong by orders of magnitude in my experience. A really great programmer (and I’ve been lucky enough to work with a handful over the years) can out-perform a doing-it-for-the-money programmer by orders of literally hundreds, delivering in hours or days what would take an average developer weeks or months.
How are those guys supposed to differentiate themselves? And how can they help others in the industry who have a real love and appreciation for the software they write? We need some sort of apprenticeship model, and a way to identify masters, both to apprentices and other masters. That sounds like the sort of model that craftsmen use. And it also appeals to the average alpha geek’s romantic streak, possibly incorporating a system of secret signs and handshakes.
The thing is, at one level software can be described by the utility it provides. It doesn’t matter how ugly it is under the hood as long as it delivers the goods. A programmer can show beautiful software to another programmer, but that’s where the appreciation stops for software per se.
Seeing the negative space
My wife is an artist, and one of the things she studies is negative space. This is the space between the obvious shapes or objects in a picture, as opposed to the objects themselves. An understanding of negative space is critical to being able to faithfully render a composition. As the model sits sideways on, notice the curved triangle bounded by the upper and lower arm and the side of the body. See how the space between the front of the face and the window frame in the background is nearly rectangular and quite narrow, and see how the outline of the nose creates a dent in the left-hand side of the rectangle. Look at the chin, actually the space below the chin, to observe the angle between the bottom of the jawline and the front of the neck. And through the window, notice the colour of the sky in the space between the winter tree branches. It’s different from the grey-white cloud above the trees. All of these shapes and colours – the space between the obvious stuff, the negative space – these are the shapes that determine how faithfully you represent the image on a canvas. But mostly you don’t notice them – especially in a good painting.
So what does this have to do with software? Well it seems to me the most succesful programmers I’ve encountered don’t craft software; they write software in order to move information around, in order to get something done. Information is the real deal – the software just defines the space that it moves around in. For those programmers, success is about getting information from point A where it’s currently languishing to point B where it’s going to actually be useful, as quickly and effectively as they can. Success in a UI is about rendering or capturing exactly the information that will be useful – no less and certainly no more – in a succinct, obvious way. The software is incidental, a detail, hidden away in the wings, and it is ultimately entirely disposable.
Why programming is not a craft
With a craft, the product has intrinsic beauty in its own right. A cathedral is really a big hut for people to meet in and worship. Make it from stone by all means, so it lasts longer than a wooden hut, but why all the fancy decorative stuff? Of course it is there to engender a sense of majesty and wonder, and cause us to engage the part of ourselves that appreciates beauty and magnificence, so we enter the cathedral reverently and humbled, ready to worship. What makes it a craft is the work above and beyond its basic utility to give it intrinsic, aesthetic beauty.
If I use the same stone to build a traffic bridge over a railway line, I care about its utility and structural effectiveness. If it’s a good, simple bridge I won’t even notice it’s there! We don’t notice most of the engineering that goes into the roads we travel on or the railways we use until something goes wrong! (There’s a really cool word for this phenomenon – when you only become fully aware of something when it fails – but I can’t recall it right now.)
There is a difference between the mindset of a master stonemason sculpting the expression on the face of a gargoyle and someone using the commodity blocks that make up a multi-storey car park. In the latter case the last thing I want is someone’s “personality” causing some of the blocks to be different sizes and no longer interchangeable, never mind the added expense of having someone manually hew the stone rather than using machine tools. In the former the stonemason’s attitude is indulgent. He is putting his signature (and his ego, and his reputation) into this magnificent representation of Hell’s best. If you just wanted an oil-pouring spout you could get one from a DIY store.
Software practitioners – especially, ironically, the good ones – often lose sight of this. They fall in love with the software itself and start thinking of themselves as craftsmen of software.
The easiest qualification in the world
So here’s my concern with the idea of Software Craftsmanship. It’s at risk of letting programmers’ egos run riot. And when that happens… well, the last time they went really nuts we got Web Services, before that J2EE. They convinced the British government that they wanted an uber-database to store Everything Ever About Everyone. You see where I’m going?
When I looked at the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, something inside me died. (Something else inside me burst out laughing and told the other thing to stop taking itself so seriously, so we’re all better now.) Apart from being, well, bland, it is just so self-evidently an oxymoron. If its message is that we need to think of ourselves as software craftsmen and that this is somehow special, then what a spectacularly easy bandwagon it is to jump on.
Do I need to demonstrate any kind of skill? No. Any specific credentials? No. Any kind of experience working in the field? Nope (and as the Pragmatic Programmers are happy to remind you, ten years experience is very different from one year repeated ten times). In fact, all I have to do to associate myself with Software Craftsmanship movement is to fill in my name on the website. Woohoo! I’m now associated with the Manifesto of Software Craftsmanship! Is no-one else seeing the irony here?
The (original) travelling salesmen problem
Back in the day – while the West was busy being Medieval – Japanese warlords used to hire bands of mercenaries called Samurai to, well basically beat up other bands of Samurai. Your life expectancy as a Samurai warrior was usually pretty low, and dropped dramatically if you came off your horse. In such times the martial art of jiu jitsu was born. The premise with jiu jitsu is that you have come off your horse in battle: you are unarmed, outnumbered and your opponents have both a height and weapons advantage over you. You’re pretty much stuffed unless you can pull some cool moves out of the bag.
As Samurai moved around, hiring themselves out to different warlords, they would want to join the local martial arts school to continue their training. Now you can imagine, if you learn jiu jitsu in one dojo up to a certain standard (we’ll call it a black belt) and then turn up at another school, it’s pretty tricky to get any kind of calibration without involving some life-threatening fighting with the new kid. And without calibrating, you can’t know whether someone is any good.
Ever resourceful, the jiu jitsu schools developed a sort of dance, called the nage-ne-kata, comprising five groups of three techniques. For each technique you both execute the technique and have it done to you, to demonstrate not only your fighting skills but your falling and rolling abilities. All senior students would learn the nage-ne-kata, and if they went to a new school, the sensei would ask them to demonstrate it for them. It is still taught today in some ju jitsu schools.
You can tell a lot about someone’s jiu jitsu from their nage-ne-kata: how they stand, how they hold their stance, how they move, how graceful they are, how well they understand balance, how well they respect their uki (the partner), how well they roll and fall (and how quickly they get up!), whether they favour one side over the other, their spatial awareness. Just from one little dance.
Let’s be craftsmen then
So, back to the plot, I’m reassured by the kinds of people I see involved in the Sofware Craftsmanship movement, the likes of Kevlin Henney, Bob Martin, Corey Haines, Glenn Vanderburg. These are pragmatic, sensible, down-to-earth and above all genuinely humble people. My concern is that the glamour is overtaking the intent, as evidenced by the sheer number of people wishing to align themselves with the Software Craftsmanship movement.
I would love to see someone rewrite the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto in terms of getting results and delighting customers. I don’t want “steadily adding value,” I want “amazing their customers every day!” Software craftsmen should be egoless, humble, with a focus on the outcome rather than the code or the process. I’d like a call to arms to stop navel-gazing and treat programming as the skilled trade that it is.
No-one wants your steenking software – they want the capabilities it gives them, and they want those yesterday. (I’ll specifically exclude the User Experience folks. Theirs is genuinely a world of aesthetics and human understanding. They, to use a bricklaying term, do the face work – the fancy stuff people actually see.)
Maybe there should be a Software Craftsmanship Council, that confers membership in a collegiate yet transparent way, in just the kind of elitist model that desperately upsets the folks who have systematically dumbed down the education system in the UK (but that’s another rant for another day). You only get to join if those already there believe you will be a credit to the notion of Software Craftsmanship, just like Ph.D. viva boards do today.
A truly skilled programming team can deliver amazing business results in insanely short amounts of time. Let’s go after some of that! I want your experience. I want your knowledge. I want you to show me “the simplicity the other side of complexity,” to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes. It takes a real expert – a real craftsman – to see the elegant simplicity buried away inside the mess we call enterprise software, for instance, and tease it out.
Calling programming a trade takes nothing away from the desire for professionalism, experience and expertise. In the same way I want an expert electrician wiring up my house rather than a cowboy, I want an expert programmer enabling my business. What I don’t want, however, is a prima donna plumber who insists on talking about the elegance, beauty or art of plumbing, or who insists that I appreciate the aesthetic beauty of his joinery, or will “only work with other rock star plumbers, who only practise copper-driven plumbing.” The best software should be understated and unobtrusive (as, maybe, should be the best programmers). I don’t want to hear the clanking of information as it rattles from one poorly-implemented system to another, through ill-conceived interfaces.
So what now?
While I was formulating this article I made a few comments on Twitter about it and I received some interesting responses. One person suggested a programmer is a craftsman not unlike a silversmith. I would argue that the value of silver or gold jewellery is intrinsic to the jewellery. I don’t use the item for anything other than for others to admire its beauty (and by association my significant-yet-understated wealth and taste).
If we’re going to use gold or silverwork as an analogy it would be in something like a speaker cable, where the properties of gold contacts improve the quality of the sound. In this case, however, I want the gold connector to be identical to a cheaper one. If the cable manufacturer wants to demonstrate their aesthetic abilities, I’ll be a lot happier if they do it by making the cable look fancy than by messing around with the shape of the connector!
If you’ve read this far, then thank you. Now here’s what I want you to do. I do think there should be a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, but not the thing that’s currently out there. I think it should be a call-to-arms, feisty, opinionated, brash and everything that a good manifesto should be (I’m channelling Kevlin Henney here). I also think there should be a way for passionate, skilled programmers to differentiate themselves from the mainstream commodity bodies, and also to recognise one another, and demonstrate their value to potential employers. What could that be, and how could we make it work?
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The Department of Special Collections has a small collection of oral history tapes. Most of the tapes document the history of the college. These tapes discuss campus administrations, faculty, students, and traditions. They also document the programs that have defined the college, including the First-Year Seminar program and the Independent Study program. Some of the tapes appear to be part of a project that Kenneth Goings, assistant professor of History (1976-1988), began in the early 1980s. These tapes complement the College Archives Collection. The department also has a small collection of tapes that document the lives of missionaries who did missionary work in the Middle East and Africa during the first half of the twentieth century. These tapes appear to be a part of a project initiated by Judy Simmons, who interviews the missionary workers. This collection complements the Missionary Collections.
Since the time of the inventory project (Summer 1999), the department has initiated an oral history program to further document our campus history. Students are encouraged to be part of this program via the independent study process, tutorials, and course requirements.
All tapes are catalogued on CONSORT as part of the Oral History Collection. Copies of the oral history tapes are available for listening in the Media Library. A finding tool is available for consultation in the Media Library and in Special Collections. Each entry includes available biographical information on the interviewee, a brief description of each interview, and an index of each interview by five-minute intervals.
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What you Need
What to do
Add about 1cm of milk to the bottom of your bowl.
Pour a few drops of each colour of food colouring onto different places on the surface of the milk.
Add a drop of washing up liquid somewhere in the bowl.
After a minute or so and everything has stopped moving, add another somewhere else.
What may happen
You should find that at first the food colouring moves away from where you added the washing up liquid, and then it starts welling up from below the surface of the milk, forming beautiful patterns.
Here is a video of the effect speeded up by a factor of 25.
Why does it happen?
Milk is mostly water, and water has a property called surface tension, this is because all the water molecules are strongly attracted to other water molecules, but not to air, so they try to get away from the surface of the drop, making the surface as small as possible, this is why raindrops are approximately spherical - the shape with the least surface for its volume.
This means that the surface of water, or milk, is always trying to shrink.
Something else you may have noticed is that the food colouring seems to float on the surface of the milk, this is because the milk has lots of substances dissolved in it such as Calcium making it more dense than the food colouring which is almost entirely water.
Washing up liquid is designed to break up the surface tension so water can dissolve fats and grease. This means that where you add the washing up liquid the surface tension is much weaker than everywhere else, so this surface gets hugely stretched by the milk which hasn't met the washing up liquid yet.
Because the rest of the surface is shrinking it must be getting thicker, this pushes the food colouring downwards, and there is a current below the surface flowing back towards the washing up liquid pulling the food colouring along. It then floats back up to the surface producing beautiful patterns.
Why does washing up liquid reduce surface tension?
A washing up liquid molecule is made up of a water loving head and a water hating tail, so when you add it to water the molecules arrange themselves over the surface - head inwards. The water is strongly attracted to the heads of these molecules, so is now stops trying to reduce its surface area, and the surface tension is far weaker.
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MyFi is a new partnership between the Media Arts Council and the Media Youth Center. where Center Director Brent Hill says, "The hope is to harness some of the energy young people have for digital arts and the internet and help them channel it into meaningful film projects." New classes start this spring in Media. Completed student MyFi films will be screened for the public as part of the 6th annual Media Film Festival in April 2013.
MyFi instructor, local filmmaker and professor of communication at Villanova University, Hezekiah Lewis was impressed with the diligences and creativity of the students. "Filmmakers are essentially storytellers and I believe every kid has a compelling story to share with the world." A graduate of the prestigious UCLA Film School and an award winning producer-director, Lewis says it all comes down to kids having their voices heard, "Film is more to me than a technical medium. It is an artistic vehicle for young people to express themselves internally. What are they really thinking and what message do they want to put out there for future generations to watch and learn from?"
MyFi students wrote a narrative film called Imagine about the importance of High School friendship. Students participated hand-on as crew members. They also learned screenplay writing, acting and directing, plus technical aspects like camera operation, set lighting, design and film editing.
Classes meet Wednesdays from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Media Youth Center, today, February 27th through May 8th 2013. Tuition is $225.00 and there are scholarships available thanks in part to a grant from the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Council. For registration or more information contact the Media Youth Center at (610) 566 5877 or visit www.mediayouthcenter.com and www.mediaartscouncil.org.
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San Andrés (island) is a coral island among the Colombian islands in the Caribbean Sea; it is the largest island of the southern group of islands. Together with the nearby islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina (which, with some smaller islets and shoals, form the northern group of the Colombian archipelago), San Andrés forms the department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. The island’s location in South America has been aptly described as “Geographically near Nicaragua, past historically tied to England, and politically part of Colombia.”
While San Andrés island is located 50 km (31 mi) to the south of Providencia, the Colombian archipelago is approximately 750 km (470 mi) from the Colombian main land and about 230 km (140 mi) east of Nicaragua. This archipelago encompass a total area of 57 km2 (22 sq mi), including the outer cays, reefs, atolls and sand banks with 45 km2 (17 sq mi) being the area of the islands. In 2000, it was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, named “Seaflower Biosphere Reserve”, which not only includes the islands but also about 10% of the Caribbean Sea, amounting to a vast marine area of 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). The purpose of this declaration is to ensure that the ecosystem which has a large biodiversity is well preserved and conserved.
Located on the northern end of the island, the department’s capital, also named San Andrés but nicknamed El Centro, is the main urban center. Along the 30 km (19 mi) road that circles the island, there are many picturesque beaches, coral reefs, cays, geysers, and coves. Also of note are La Loma, the town of San Andrés, the Baptist Church, Seaquarium, the large pond of La Laguna, and a fresh water lake amidst mangrove forests. There are coconut palm plantations, lush pastures, and tall native trees reaching 20 meters (66 ft). Surrounded by the warm Caribbean Sea, all of these features have made the island an “exotic holiday destination”
The full Article can be read on Wikipedia
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Learning an early artPublished 10:00pm Saturday, October 6, 2012
From candlemaking to fur trading to ax throwing — students were learning many different facets of the lives of early settlers at Education Days at the Big Island Rendezvous.
Middle-schoolers were excited to learn the art of candlemaking from Rita and Art Briant, of Portage, Wis. The couple have been coming to the Rendezvous for 19 years and enjoy teaching youngsters the ins and outs of creating candles.
“The kids get to make them and take them with them,” Art said.
They explained to the students how to get the beeswax and that it takes around 30 to 40 dips to make a whole candle. Each student gets to make their own candle and take it home, but on Saturdays and Sundays the couple charges $1.50 for the public to make candles.
Education Days is always the Thursday and Friday before the weekend Rendezvous festival at Bancroft Bay Park in Albert Lea. Students from all over the state visit the Rendezvous to receive special presentations.
A sixth-grade teacher, Janece Birch, was a chaperone Friday for students from Southwest Middle School. She said her group of students was scheduled to see a blacksmith, the New Ulm Battery, a shoemaker, gravedigger and other presenters.
“It’s such a great experience for our sixth-graders,” Birch said. “Their questions have been good and thoughtful.”
Birch said that while students can come with their families on the weekend, presenters give longer and more in-depth demonstrations on Education Days where there are scheduled times each group will come by.
One presenter, Pierre Uebe, has been coming to the Rendezvous every year but one since it started. He’s from the Crookston area and enjoys coming to the Rendezvous each year, as well as visiting schools and other festivals. He focuses on teaching about trappers and Native Americans in the time before the Louisiana Purchase, which was in 1803.
“I’ll ask them why people moved west and they’ll say things like gold,” Uebe said.
He said it’s a big surprise when he tells them that fashion was a big cause of westward expansion. He tells them that furs became fashionable to wear in Europe and so trappers were able to find many buyers for the pelts they found.
Uebe show students the traps and then explains how to skin the animal and stretch and dry the hide to preserve it. He said the students are usually most interested in the traps. Uebe also trys to impress on the students how the history relates to today and that they should talk with their grandparents who are full of history lessons.
The Big Island Rendezvous is in its 26th year, and Education Days started about 23 years ago. Almost 75,000 students have attended Education Days since the event started. There were around 50 presentations this year for classes to visit.
Perry Vining, founder of the Big Island Rendezvous, said students stay for the entire day, arriving anywhere from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and staying until 3 p.m. Most students are in fifth or sixth grade, but there are groups as young as third grade. There is no live entertainment on Education Days, but the entertainment is added for the public on Saturday and Sunday of the event. The festival was open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. | <urn:uuid:ecf37761-28c3-45a1-97a8-8918e37cb0e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albertleatribune.com/2012/10/06/learning-an-early-art/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9774 | 748 | 2.28125 | 2 |
When Debra Campbell talks about urban planning, she sounds a little like Mr. Rogers. "Neighborhoods are the most important part of a city," she says. "They're where it all happens. They're the building blocks of a community."
As the planning director for the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and surrounding Mecklenburg County, Campbell has brought her career- long focus on strengthening neighborhoods to a new level. In her nearly two decades with Charlotte, the 50-year-old Campbell has helped steer the city through a population boom and a massive economic expansion. She has worked doggedly to make Charlotte a model for urban growth, encouraging new development while maintaining and enhancing the character of the city's neighborhoods.
Born and raised in Chattanooga, Campbell worked briefly for the Tennessee state planning office before returning to her hometown in 1988 to focus on growth policies there. "Then the real planning itch got into me," she says. "I had read lots of newspaper articles about Charlotte and what they were doing with neighborhood organizations there. Charlotte has a unique approach to planning. There's a respect for the unique identification of smaller geographies."
As a senior planner, Campbell set to work cataloging the city's neighborhoods and looking for ways to improve them. She helped develop and manage Charlotte's City Within a City program, a revitalization effort for residential areas and distressed business communities within a 60-square-mile urban core. Campbell also created a system for the planning commission to rate the neighborhoods most in need of help. The city then allocated its resources and attention based on those ratings. She played a major role in crafting most of the policy documents that provided a framework for the city and county's future growth, including large-scale land-use plans and smart-growth strategies.
"Debra set up a planning process that's very collaborative," says Pam Syfert, who recently retired as the city manager of Charlotte. "She has a real passion for the city and its neighborhoods." Four years ago, when the planning director retired, Charlotte conducted a national search to replace him. But officials soon decided that the best candidate was already there. In May 2004, Campbell became the city's planning director.
Since taking the helm, Campbell has focused mostly on transit planning, helping manage the development of the city's new light-rail system. The rail lines, stations and surrounding transit-oriented development comprise a $5 billion project, the largest single infrastructure endeavor in Charlotte's history. But Campbell still sees it in terms of neighborhoods. For her, transit isn't about getting people to work on time. It's about using transportation patterns to shape the city's growth. "Transit is a means; it's not the end," Campbell says. "The end is high-quality development and a way for us to promote better development to make sure we're better stewards of our community and the environment."
It's not always easy. Like those in many growing Sun Belt cities, Charlotte's suburbs have sprawled farther and farther into the North Carolina countryside. Campbell often has to combat the deep-seated notion that the best thing Charlotte could do to accommodate new growth is to keep building more roads. This fall, mass-transit opponents mounted a high-profile campaign to repeal the half-cent sales tax that has funded Charlotte's light-rail project. Arguing that the money could be better spent on new highways, opponents of the tax gathered enough signatures to put the tax repeal on the November ballot. Campbell's work is cut out for her. "We're trying for a redirection of growth," she says. "It's about taming this approach that we have had for decades."
In large part, though, Campbell has won people over to the idea that Charlotte should be guided by broader smart-growth policies. "She's able to articulate a vision for the community and help people understand where we're going," says Syfert. "She doesn't lecture. She just lays out the facts. But she does it in a way that makes people listen." While Campbell has been adamant on enforcing the city's planning policies, she's largely remained a behind-the-scenes player. A year and a half into her tenure as planning director, the Charlotte Observer called her "the most powerful person in local government you've never heard of." | <urn:uuid:f0281664-0ca7-454e-9ac3-cf62ed4cca2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/housing/Guiding-Growth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975564 | 881 | 1.570313 | 2 |
June 20 – Happy Birthday Bill Werber
When he died in January of 2009, today’s Pinstripe Birthday celebrant was 100 years old. He had become the oldest living MLB player and his book, Memories of a Ballplayer, co-written with baseball historian, Paul Rogers in 2001, represented his eye witness account of what playing in the big leagues was like back in the 1930s.
Werber’s Major League career actually began back in 1927, when he was a freshman at Duke University, where he was a brilliant athlete (the first Duke basketball player to be named All American) and a brilliant student (he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.) The legendary scout, Paul Krichell signed the first year collegian to a Yankee contract and had him spend a couple of weeks during that ’27 season sitting on the bench of the famed Murderers Row team to pick up some knowledge of the game. According to Werber, he hated those two weeks because everybody simply ignored him.
He didn’t make it back to Yankee Stadium until 1930 when he got called up in June and appeared in three games at short and one at third for Manager Bob Shawkey’s team. He went 2-3 in his first big league start and also became Babe Ruth’s bridge partner on the train rides during Yankee road trips. Werber and Ruth would play partners against Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey and Werber remembered in his book, how Babe used to drink a bottle of Seagrams during those contests, gradually getting drunker and nastier as the game progressed.
Werber spent the 1932 season back in the minors and then was promoted back to the parent club when the ’33 season started, but not for long. The Yankees had a ton of left-side infielders in their organization back then, so they sold the native of Berwyn, Maryland to the Red Sox. That was the break Werber’s career needed. By 1934, he had become Boston’s starting third baseman and that year he reached the 200 hit mark for the first and only time of his career and led the AL with 40 stolen bases while batting .321. He ended up winning a total of three AL stolen base titles. Werber played until 1942 and finished his 11-year career with a .271 batting average and 1,363 career hits. He won a World Series ring in 1940 with the Reds. He was instrumental in Cincinnati’s victory in that seven game Fall Classic, as he smacked ten hits and batted .370. | <urn:uuid:34625ab2-7fb6-4909-a401-79eaec6440ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pinstripebirthdays.mlblogs.com/2012/06/20/june-20-happy-birthday-bill-werber/?like=1&_wpnonce=274c59a080 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987441 | 527 | 1.828125 | 2 |
This collection of poems evolves as a network and satellite of an expressive pursuit of justice with a difference. For, though this poetry simultaneously shapes global and grassroots smiles and tears, its corpus is no matter for laughter or weeping. In familiar but not identical voices, the poet tackles social evils as parasites while cross-examining cultural assumptions in the same vein. Triple form -title poem, Letters to Ethiopia and Some Random poems, explores nightmares of colonial mission civilisatrice by dint of two decades of inspirational events from 1965 as invitations into a more serene world emerging from post-discoveries.
ISBN 9789956616046 | 104 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2010 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback
‘‘The title poem relates to most important poetry of all ages: it reveals how, in the search for right images, metaphors and most apposite expressions, we often find ourselves listening to the voice that ‘bids us return to our own sources.’ Since the poet has discovered the right idioms, he has, throughout the poem, undergone the process of depersonalization, has indeed obtained objectivity: little of himself is felt in the poem. He obtains this effect by the use of the appropriate voice – that of the priest at the ceremony.”
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Environment, Safety & Health
People and the environment – two of the most important areas in aiding Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in the performance of its business. By their nature, some of our activities can introduce hazards into the workplace or pose risks to the environment if compliance to established policies is not strictly observed. That's why Environment, Safety & Health (ESH) policy focuses on continual improvement.
“ESH is everyone’s responsibility!” Simply, this means our company commits to:
- Protecting our employees, the environment and local communities
- Assuring full compliance with legislation, regulations and requirements, to include corporate and customer requirements
- Preventing pollution, conserving natural resources, reducing waste and recovering or recycling resources where economically feasible
- Preventing injuries and ESH incidents and continually progressing toward zero injuries
- Integrating ESH consideration into business capture, product and service design, and program operations
- Developing ESH performance objectives and targets to promote continual improvement of the ESH Management System and reduce adverse impacts and risk
Aeronautics is committed to two important corporate initiatives:
- "Target Zero" aims to foster a workforce that strives for zero injuries and promotes a culture where all employees have a "zero injury/accidents" mentality
- "Go Green" seeks to eliminate adverse environmental impact from Aeronautics operations by reducing carbon emissions, waste to landfill and water usage
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is committed to providing a safe workplace and protecting employees, customers, contractors, communities, visitors and the environment from the potential hazards of company activities, products or services.
The company’s executive leadership commits to compliance, prevention of pollution and injuries and continual improvement of our management system. ESH program performance is a direct responsibility of each program and functional organization. | <urn:uuid:8e6e243e-fab4-4079-b9f4-2a54cc40ab4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/aeronautics/about-aeronautics/environment--safety---health.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919908 | 370 | 2.421875 | 2 |
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or “the bends.” As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and, if the ascent is too rapid, can cause bubbles to form in the body. DCS causes many symptoms, and its effects may vary from joint pain and rashes to paralysis and death.
But how do marine mammals, whose very survival depends on regular diving, manage to avoid DCS? Do they, indeed, avoid it?
Stranded Dolphins Exhibit Bubbles, and Ability to Recover (Oct. 24, 2011)— Scientists know that the blood and tissues of some deceased beaked whales stranded near naval sonar exercises are riddled with bubbles. It is also well known that human divers can suffer from … > read more
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Just as the internet has opened new doors for entrepreneur opportunities it has also provided a way for two special children: Aidan and Carly to express themselves online.
Aidan loves monsters. In fact, Aidan loves monsters so much that his family sells his prints on his website. However, this is because he was diagnosed with Leukemia in September 2010 and his monster drawings help the family. The idea worked so well that the orders piled up to 2,500 prints. The character of Aidan’s family is best described with an excerpt from their “About” page:
“We are all heartbroken that he has to go through everything that goes along with chemo, but as his father, Wylie, has said it is a tragedy that will ultimately be defeated by love. We are confident that after all is said and done Aidan will have his health back, but first we must take this journey through leukemia.”
Carly Fleischmann has lived with autism all her life with her symptoms include the inability to speak, making odd noises and hitting herself. About four years ago after working with symbols and pictures on a keyboard, Carly began to express herself via her computer. What has happened since has been a remarkable breakthrough in not only the case of Carly but for autism patients around the world. Today, she has written several articles about what it’s like to live with autism and appeared on Larry King.
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Educators gathered in Houston Friday to congratulate the University of Houston for receiving a National Math and Science Initiative grant that will help prepare more college students to become math and science teachers.
UH is one of a dozen schools receiving five-year, $2.4 million grant to start a program similar to the University of Texas at Austin’s successful UTeach. (The University of Texas at Dallas is also receiving one.) Over the last decade, UT’s program has produced about 400 certified math or science teachers, and the program recently earned the state’s flagship a spot on Newsweek’s list of hottest campuses.
With the help of the grant, teacher candidates will be identified earlier in their college experience, ideally in the freshman or sophomore years. The College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics and the College of Education will create degree plans to allow students to complete their degree and certification requirements more efficiently. Additionally, teachHOUSTON will provide early in-classroom teaching experiences for the candidates and enhanced study with “master” teachers.
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Balancing access and preservation is a continuous problem in every archive. The Museum’s Archives Division’s mandate is two-fold; to make collections accessible for researchers, and to preserve the collections for future generations. These two goals came into conflict while processing the Lee Ya-Ching Collection.
Lee Ya-Ching (1912-1998) was a Chinese aviatrix. During World War II she visited North and South America on a goodwill tour to raise money for the Chinese war effort. After the war, she returned to China. The collection of her papers from her stay in the Americas was buried for safekeeping. Many years later the collection came to light and was eventually donated to the National Air and Space Museum Archives Division. Years of being buried caused numerous conservation issues.
As a processor and the archives conservator, it was my job to determine how these materials are handled. As an archivist, I want the researcher to have access to as much of the collection as possible. As a conservator, I want to protect the materials. When moldy items were found, they were immediately removed from the collection, as mold is a known health hazard to staff and researchers, as well as being detrimental to the collection itself.
Other issues were not as easy to handle. One of these was a large number of sealed envelopes in the collection. Some of these were opened by Lee Ya-Ching and had become resealed by years of storage in damp conditions. The dilemma came when deciding what to do with envelopes that appeared to have never been opened. Should these letters be opened so that researchers can read the contents, or should they be left sealed? Arguments on both sides of the debate had me conflicted as to what to do. Sealed envelopes speak to the character of the individual. Information not received can influence decisions as much as information received. We as processors are obligated to process without influencing the story. Opening these letters alter the interpretation of this woman’s experiences.
Conversely, opening these envelopes gives the researchers access to more information. If these envelopes aren’t opened, researchers would have to be cautioned to leave them intact. Without opening the envelopes, we don’t know what types of materials are inside. Photographs, film, even certain inks and papers could be harmful to the collections.
After much discussion with colleagues, both in and outside the Museum, a final decision has yet to be made. The majority of archivists polled feel the envelopes should be opened, but that they should be segregated and marked as being sealed envelopes opened by the archivist. This would allow access by archivists for conservation and by scholars for research; however, they will know that Lee Ya-Ching did not have the information contained in these envelopes during her lifetime. Please let us know what you think by posting a comment below.
Here’s more on Lee Ya-Ching – an article from Air & Space/Smithsonian Magazine, a blog post that includes a scene from a Hollywood film, Disputed Passage (1939) featuring Lee Ya-Ching, and a comic book (PDF format) on her wartime adventures.
Jordan Ferraro is an Archivist in the National Air and Space Museum Archives Division. | <urn:uuid:947424a3-67cb-4bf6-b9e3-5789126ea306> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.nasm.si.edu/tag/letters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973931 | 673 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Being passionate is a way to make a difference, get attention and to connect with others who have similar values. Hiding your passion serves nobody, but often that’s just what we do out of fear. Not sure what you’re passionate about? Watch this video for 3 tips for discoving it. Passion is something that really brings your role in the world into focus. We all are here to make a difference and to live our values with passion. | <urn:uuid:82555d57-95bb-4af5-9c9b-0b65d571f455> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theindigoconnection.com/blog/?p=752 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9537 | 94 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Jatayu, Bali painting-banner E74240
Jatayu attempts to rescue Sita
The mythical bird Jatayu plays an important role in the Ramayana story. Jatayu is a good friend of Rama’s father, Dasaratha, the King of Ayodhya. When demonic king Rawana abducted goddess Sita, the bird Jatayu hears her cries as she is being carried away in Rwana’s flying chariot. The bird attacks Rawana, destroying the chariot and rescuing Sita. However Jatayu has difficulty flying, so Rawana strikes back and cuts off one of his wings.
Rama then discovers the broken wing and fallen chariot in the forest. Nearby lies badly wounded Jatayu. Before he dies he tells Rama what happened. Jatayu is cremated by Rama and his brother Laksmana.
This banner is from a temple in Gelgel, Klungkung district, and was painted around 1900. It was hung on a pole outside the temple. Banners like this, kober, are normally produced in pairs to depict similar but opposed mythological characters or a complementary male and female.
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Sri Lanka concerned over Indian n-plantsApril 8th, 2012 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 8 (IANS) Concerned over nuclear power plants located in south India, the Sri Lankan government plans to raise the issue before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
According to Sri Lankan minister for Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka, the issue would be raised at the next International Atomic Energy Agency confabulation scheduled in September, Xinhua reported Sunday.
Sri Lankan is concerned over the impact a nuclear disaster in one of the plants located in southern India could have on Sri Lanka, he said.
Talking to reporters, Ranawaka said that his ministry has already raised the issue with India and called for talks on reaching a disaster mitigating process in the event of a disaster in one of the nuclear plants on the south Indian coast.
Sri Lanka is seeking an agreement with India on nuclear disaster management and India had responded positively, he said.
In the event of a nuclear disaster in India, the Sri Lankan authorities feel their northern town of Mannar will be the hardest hit.
Sri Lanka’s power and energy ministry is currently conducting a survey of the coast of Mannar as well as Jaffna also in the north to identify the areas to conduct radiation tests, the minister said.
Sri Lanka wants to be prepared for a nuclear disaster following the incidents in Japan last year where a nuclear plant was damaged as a result of an earthquake and a tsunami.
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- Sri Lanka to set up body to monitor N-radiation from India - Jun 23, 2011
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- India signs $416-mn deal for railway track in Sri Lanka - Nov 26, 2010
- Sri Lanka set to erase colonial name 'Ceylon' from state institutions - Jan 03, 2011
- India raises stone-pelting on Indian fishermen with Sri Lanka - Jan 23, 2012
- India cannot abandon nuclear power programme: Ramesh - Mar 19, 2011
- India, Sri Lanka to jointly develop fisheries - Jan 15, 2012
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- Kudankulam reactor may get one year operational licence - Sep 08, 2012
- Emergency safety drill held in Kudankulam - Jun 09, 2012
- Jaffna festival to promote reconciliation - Mar 23, 2011
- No increased radiation in India: atomic panel - Apr 12, 2011
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Ronnie Musgrove on Immigration
2008 Senate challenger; previously Democratic MS Governor
Say no to businesses that hire illegal aliens
We need a senator who will say no to those businesses that continue to hire illegal aliens instead of U.S. citizens. Roger Wicker voted for weaker penalties for hiring illegal aliens and voted five times against funding for tougher border security.
Roger Wicker will look the other way when it comes to hiring illegal aliens, but he's voted time after time against the interests of middle class American workers.
Source: Candidacy Announcement Speech
Jan 7, 2008
Share costs of legal immigration between states & federal.
Musgrove adopted the National Governors Association policy:
The Governors urge Congress to consider the following principles regarding immigration policies.
- The decision to admit immigrants is a federal one that carries with it a firm federal commitment to shape immigration policy within the parameters of available resources we as a nation are determined to provide.
- The fiscal impact of immigration decisions must be addressed by the federal government. The states, charged with implementing federal policy, have shared and are sharing in the costs; however, there should be no further shift of costs to the states.
- A basic responsibility of the federal government is to collect and disseminate timely and reliable statistical information on immigration and its consequences for the United States.
- Federal immigration policies should ensure that new immigrants do not become a public charge to federal, state, or local governments.
- The federal government must provide adequate information to and consult with states on issues
concerning immigration decisions that affect the states.
- States should not have to incur significant costs in implementing federal laws regarding immigration status as a condition of benefits.
The Governors urge the following regarding Legalization and Naturalization:
Source: NGA policy HR-2: Immigration and Refugee Policy 01-NGA3 on Feb 15, 2001
- States require maximum flexibility in determining and allocating resources to meet the needs of newly legalized aliens.
- The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) must be diligent in its efforts to ensure that felons are not naturalized and being given the benefits of citizenship rather than being deported.
- The naturalization process should be streamlined to be more efficient and accessible to eligible applicants wishing to become citizens, with all the rights and responsibilities thereof.
- The INS must take aggressive action to eliminate the backlog of naturalization applications, which is now approximately 800,000 nationwide.
Federal government should deal with criminal repatriation.
Musgrove adopted the National Governors Association policy:
[Regarding illegal immigration], the Governors continue to call on the federal government to negotiate and renegotiate prisoner transfer treaties to expedite the transfer of criminal aliens in the United States who are subject to deportation or removal. The negotiations for such agreements should focus on:
- ensuring that the transferred prisoners serve the balance of their state-imposed prison sentence;
- removing any requirement that the prisoners consent to be transferred to their countries of origin;
- structuring the process to require that the prisoners serve the remainder of their original prison sentence if they return to the United States; and
- considering economic incentives to encourage countries of origin to take back their criminal citizens.
Additionally, the Governors believe the federal government should:
- increase the use of interior repatriation with countries contiguous to the United States;
- place INS officials in state and local facilities for early identification of potentially deportable aliens - nearer the point of their illegal entry - to ensure formal deportation prior to release; and
- upon the request of a state Governor, place INS officers in state courts to assist in the identification of criminal aliens pending criminal prosecution.
Finally, the Governors are concerned about the large number of deported felons that are returning to the United States. A significant number of the criminal alien felons housed in state prisons and local jails are previously convicted felons who reentered the United States after they were deported. The Governors urge the federal government to provide sufficient funds for proven positive identification systems, like the Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (AFIS), to allow for the expanded use of these systems in the rest of the nation.
Source: NGA policy HR-2: Immigration and Refugee Policy 01-NGA4 on Feb 15, 2001
Import farm workers from Mexico.
Musgrove signed the Southern Governors' Association resolution:
Source: Resolution of Southern Governor's Assn. on 2002 Farm Bill 01-SGA6 on Sep 9, 2001
- Whereas, agriculture, which has critical importance in the South not only to our economy, but to our regional and cultural identify and way of life, is facing rapid changes in technology and an increasing global economy; and,
- Whereas, the cost of government commodity programs has varied in recent years between $5 billion and $26 billion in nominal terms, and removed acreage from production thus reducing the cost effectiveness of the program; and,
- Whereas, global trade is crucial to the survival of American agriculture, calling for fair application and enforcement of current and future trade agreements to secure a level playing field for exporters of U.S. food and fiber; and,
- Whereas, agricultural labor shortages, complicated by U.S. federal immigration policy, continue to plague the South, now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Southern Governors’ Association, with respect to the 2002 farm bill, urges Congress
and the Administration to:
- Make commodity program payments, production agreements, limitations, and quotas, belong to and follow the producer, rather than the landowner — taking care not to violate WTO agreements;
- Continue Loan Deficiency Payments and marketing assistance loans to protect farmers against price levels below the Marketing Loan rate.
- Enact agricultural federal tax incentives — reducing local property taxes for small producers in high tax areas — so farmers can continue to farm rather than sell land for other uses as well as other tax provisions for environmental/conservation improvements, agriculture research and donations of commodities to charitable organizations;
- Work together to ensure fair application of current and future trade agreements that will open the door to new foreign markets;
- Implement a farm labor system, based on the agreement between Canada and Mexico, which will provide an orderly, efficient way to import farm workers.
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Most recognize that public relations is important, but is it more than just writing press releases?
As defined by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), “it is a communications discipline that engages and informs key audiences, builds important relationships and brings vital information back into an organization for analysis and action.”
In fact, PR involves much more than getting press coverage, and because social media is tailor-made for communicating and engaging with your public, it’s increasingly part of the PR toolbox.
You’re probably already using some forms of social media to help meet your PR goals, build your business and grow your thought leadership online.
But now there’s evidence that even the most traditional of PR roles – the targeting of traditional media – is being impacted by the social media space. A national survey has found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories:
- 89% said they turn to blogs for story research
- 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn
- 52% to microblogging services such as Twitter
Research and references with a difference
What does this mean? For example, a journalist now will often look at recent blog posts to get a feel for an organization’s positioning before writing a story. If you are in a consulting business, they may review your LinkedIn profile to get a feel for your qualifications, or research Twitter to see what others say about you.
This means that even when you’re trying to get attention from traditional print and broadcast media, social media plays a critical role in your visibility and outreach.
For those of us running our own businesses and interested in obtaining new clients and customers, social media is no longer optional. A single home base –which, depending on your business, could be a blog, a LinkedIn profile, or maybe even a presence on a review site like Yelp – is necessary at a minimum to spread the word.
Are you at a loss as to where to begin?
If you’d like some more background on social media and the role it now plays in promoting your business, check out these resources:
- Luckie’s 30-Day Social Media Makeover
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff (book)
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR: by David Meerman Scott (book)
- Social Media Trends for 2010, by Jeremiah Owyang (excellent slides for intermediate and advanced social media “learners”)
- The Modern PR series (on Solo PR Pro)
What role do you think social media will play in public relations (agree or disagree)? What resources would you add to the list?
- Women Grow Business guest blogger Michelle Tennant on how the Internet changed publicity
- Regular contributor Lori Saitz on the myth of control and how social media creates transparent customer service
- Get cozy with this video recap of integrating traditional marketing with social media from the 2009 GrowSmartBiz conference
Image: Josh Kenzer, Creative Commons
Kellye Crane is an accomplished, award-winning communicator with more than 20 years of experience in strategic public relations, social media, and marketing communications. An in-demand speaker, Kellye addresses the intersection of social media and PR on her Solo PR Pro blog, which serves as a resource for those working as independent consultants — and those who’d like to be. She’s frequently listed as one of the top 100 PR pros to follow on Twitter.Google+ | <urn:uuid:031ea7fe-ddd2-4d5b-8cc7-14f08d4e0857> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://womengrowbusiness.com/2010/03/bffs-how-pr-and-social-media-go-hand-in-hand/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938072 | 739 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Kavi Mailing List Manager Help
Table of Contents
This document describes the kinds of aliases in use on your web site and provides information on tools used to create, manage and troubleshoot aliases. Aliases are quite simple, but this document does assume you're familiar with information introduced in the >Concepts documents Introduction to Mailing Lists and Aliases.Back to top
An alias is an email address that automatically forwards every email message it receives to a set of subscribed addresses, also called the alias list.
An alias can provide some significant advantages over simply addressing messages to a specific target mailbox or set of mailboxes.
An alias provides a stable, persistent email address for use the system. Once the alias is created, the address used by senders remains constent and only the subscribed addresses change. Users continue to send messages to the same alias address, the only thing that changes is the set of addresses to which the messages are forwarded.
When subscribed addresses need to be updated, the changes are made in one place only: the alias list. Without an alias, each user would have to maintain their own individual list of email addresses.
When sending an email to an alias, users just enter the alias address in the To field. Without an alias, the user would have to enter every individual recipient's email addresses in the 'To:' field.
The two principal types of aliases managed through Kavi Mailing List Manager tools are default aliases and custom aliases. You can view all aliases installed on the organization's web site through List/Alias Name Lookup.
Several Kavi applications install default aliases and others are installed by qmail and ezmlm. Many of these aliases represent support positions, such as the administrative alias, which is used on outgoing email by applications, and on incoming email by users seeking support. Most websites use the 'email@example.com' format for this alias. Most Kavi applications install one or more support aliases, depending on configuration. All these aliases can be viewed and managed through the
The qmail email management software installs a set of aliases so that mail received by the main .qmail directory is forwarded to the home directory and from there to other aliases identified by the naming convention '.qmail-ALIAS'.
The ezmlm mailing list management software creates a set of aliases for every mailing list installed on the site. Many of these aliases handle email commands.
For information on system aliases, see Default Email, Mailing List and System Aliases.
Besides these default aliases, organizations can define any number of custom aliases. An alias can be added any time there's a set of users who need certain kinds of information being distributed through the system via email, and anytime information needs to be routed from one place to another. Custom aliases can be created to serve a long-term or temporary need.
Here are the key aspects of aliases that you need to know in order to implement and manage aliases successfully.
Messages sent to aliases aren't screened for spam, so they are more vulnerable than mailing lists. When troubleshooting user complaints about spam, check whether an alias may have been used as the distribution mechanism. To protect your aliases from spammers, select alias names that differ from the most commonly used names, because spammers sometimes use software to "guess" or test for common alias names. The most famous spam magnet alias name is 'firstname.lastname@example.org'. Many organizations base their alias names on common alias names, adding a prefix to foil probes from spammers. For example, 'email@example.com' could be given a short prefix such as 'firstname.lastname@example.org'.
You can subscribe an alias to other aliases or to mailing lists. Aliases can be used any time you want to direct mail from one alias or mailing list to another alias or mailing list. There doesn't have to be a single human-owned email address on the subscriber list.
Aliases are used to distribute information to a relatively small number of subscribers. Mailing lists may have thousands of subscribers, whereas aliases may have only one. Aliases are often created to serve small groups of users performing tasks that don't need to be logged or recorded for posterity, such as an alias created for the committee working on the decor for an upcoming banquet. The alias can be deleted as soon as these users are done with this task. Other custom aliases may be in existence throughout the life of the organization.
Aliases don't support email archives, so if messages sent to an alias are stored somewhere, it's usually in some individual's mailbox, on their personal hard drive or on a subscribed mailing list. When an alias is added for a specific position in a startup organization and one person fills this position, the alias is often all that's required until it's time for the responsibilities of this position to be shared with others. At this point a mailing list of the same name can be created to replace the alias so that the archives can serve as a pool of information for all who need it.
Alias lists are managed by administrators, so users cannot add or remove these subscriptions for themselves.
Now that you understand aliases, here are links to the tools you use to manage them.
Links to alias management tools:
To view all aliases installed on your organization's web site, use the List/Alias Name Lookup tool. From here you can click links to tools used to manage each alias and subscribed addresses.
To view and manage all Kavi Mailing List Manager aliases, use the Manage Aliases tool.
To add an alias, use the Add an Alias tool.
As mentioned, aliases are sometimes used to distribute spam. While it isn't possible to completely protect the alias from spam, there are a couple of things that can be done about it. You can forward the full email header to Kavi so the sender can be identified and possibly added to the Kavi blocklist.
Another common issue with aliases arises from the fact that users can't remove or update the alias list. A user who wants to unsubscribe from all organization email can remove all or most of their own mailing list subscriptions, but can't remove their alias subscriptions. If a user reports having problems unsubscribing, check for alias subscriptions. For more information, see Troubleshooting: Help, I Can't Unsubscribe!.Back to top | <urn:uuid:234801fb-9023-43bb-bf21-592cf7111d2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nfc-forum.org/khelp/kmlm/user_help/html/managing_aliases.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900443 | 1,301 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Free Flu Vaccine for Patients, Parents and Families at Doernbecher
OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital is offering free flu and Tdap (whooping cough) shots to its established patients' parents and close family contacts.
The "Free Vaccine for Parents Cocooning Project" is intended to protect OHSU Doernbecher's youngest and most vulnerable patients. Babies younger than 6 months, for example, cannot receive the flu vaccine. The next best means of protection is to “cocoon” the infants, or insulate them from infection, by immunizing their family members.
Few children's hospitals offer free vaccinations to their patients' family members
Providing free vaccine to pediatric patients' close contacts is a key infection control metric, according to U.S. News World Report's Best Children's Hospitals national survey. But Judith Guzman-Cottrill, M.D., an OHSU Doernbecher pediatric infectious disease specialist, recently conducted a national survey that revealed less than half the children's hospitals she polled vaccinated their patients' families free of charge.
OHSU Doernbecher now is in the midst of its second "Free Vaccine for Parents" campaign for its established patients and their families, funded by the OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation. This year, the campaign is being organized and executed by a group of OHSU Doernbecher pediatric residents who are working together with nurses, students, pharmacists and physicians to deliver even more vaccines to OHSU Doernbecher patients and their family members.
The workgroup hopes that this pioneering work may become the standard of care for children's hospital nationwide.
Vaccinations are administered to patient family members Monday through Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. in the OHSU Doernbecher lobby
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Cash-strapped Optometry Students Give Back in a Big Way
Illinois College of Optometry students receive a Jenzabar Foundation grant
to impact underserved communities around the world
February 13, 2009 (CHICAGO)— Even in this uncertain economy, Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) students are opening their hearts and wallets to volunteer for domestic and global humanitarian missions through Student Volunteers in Optometric Service to Humanity (SVOSH). These missions to underdeveloped communities around the world provide life-changing care for thousands of people in need and allow students to participate in restoring or improving vision while also exposing them to different cultures and diverse eye conditions. The cost of participation limits the number of students who can get involved, but The Jenzabar Foundation announces today that it will award a grant to aid ICO’s student chapter of SVOSH in an effort to subsidize the cost and support the humanitarian work of ICO students.
“When you think about it, here are students that are thousands and thousands of dollars in debt making a decision to volunteer and put together whatever resources they can to join a medical mission trip,” said ICO-SVOSH President Michelle Crist. “We feel very fortunate to receive this grant from The Jenzabar Foundation as it will allow more students to participate in an experience that not only broadens our clinical knowledge, but will also carry over to when we are practicing optometrists.”
This weekend, 25 ICO students will depart for Honduras, the last of nine mission trips for the 2008-2009 academic year. With limited resources and equipment, this group of students will join practicing optometrists and other health care professionals to perform eye/health examinations on an expected 4,000 patients over four days of clinic. The students will not be working in ideal conditions or have state-of-the-art technology available to them. In fact, Crist says that in the past, they have had to use black trash bags to cover up the windows in order to provide more appropriate lighting to conduct the exams. Prior to the mission, students gathered gently used or new glasses, checked and labeled the prescription powers, and prepared the glasses for distribution to patients in Honduras.
“One of our key principles is to extend the role of the Illinois College of Optometry through community service,” said Illinois College of Optometry President Arol Augsburger, O.D. “I am proud to see our student volunteers bring much needed eye care to people in need here in the Chicagoland community, as well as around the world.”
Typically, students become a member of SVOSH their first year and work toward a mission, which they can go on during their third professional year. From fundraising to personal appeals to family and friends, students do what they can to raise the necessary funds to participate in a mission trip. The cost per student can range from $1,000 to $3,500 depending on the location. Students who complete 40 service hours for ICO-SVOSH prior to their trip will receive $500 from The Jenzabar Foundation grant to offset their expenses. The grant will impact mission trips for both the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, making it possible for more students to volunteer and provide service to thousands of people in need.
“The Jenzabar Foundation recognizes and supports the good works and humanitarian efforts serving others across the global community,” said Robert A. Maginn, Chairman of the Jenzabar Foundation and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Jenzabar, Inc. “Illinois College of Optometry students are certainly deserving of this grant to help them provide better vision to individuals less fortunate and we are proud to assist ICO with these services.”
Editor’s Note: Images available upon request
About the Illinois College of Optometry
The Illinois College of Optometry (ICO) provides excellence in optometric clinical education and is one of the world’s leading urban optometric institutions. Since its founding in 1872 by Dr. Henry Olin, ICO has offered aspiring optometrists the education and experience needed to meet the challenges of a changing health care environment and become leaders who will advocate for patients and the profession alike. Located in Chicago, ICO has a long and distinguished legacy as the oldest continually operating educational facility in the world dedicated solely to the teaching of optometrists. For more information about the Illinois College of Optometry, visit www.ico.edu.
About The Jenzabar Foundation
Founded by Jenzabar, Inc., The Foundation issues grants to institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations with similarly aligned missions, and helps promote the activities of grant recipients within their communities and on a global level. Foundation grants are managed by the Foundation itself or through partner organizations. For more information about The Jenzabar Foundation, visit www.thejenzabarfoundation.org. | <urn:uuid:b6cf89ec-9e1f-485b-933a-922163385e9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ico.edu/leadership/item/209-news-press-releases-cash-strapped-optometry-students-give-back-in-a-big-way | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94496 | 1,014 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Al Ain Souk
Al Mina Fruit and Vegetable Souk
Discover the real bargains in the markets of Mina
Souk is Arabic for 'marketplace.' Historically, dhows from the Far East and
India would offload their cargo and the goods would be haggled over in the
nearby souks. Over the years the goods on sale have diversified dramatically;
today alongside the spices, silks and perfumes you'll find electronic goods,
souvenirs, clothing and household items. Abu Dhabi's souks are worth a visit
for their bustling atmosphere, eclectic variety of goods, and to observe the
traditional way of doing business.
Every morning, fishermen load their catch on to the quayside and prepare for a
day of haggling. Take a trip to the Fish Souk at Mina Zayed, near Abu
Dhabi’s main port area, and experience a fascinating insight into the way
traditional business is done.
Across the road from the Fish Souk, the Al Mina Fruit & Vegetable
Souk market is bursting with colour as each seller arranges his produce
outside the shops. The choice is amazing, and you can buy by the kilo or the
box. Even if you are not buying, this area provides excellent photo
Yemeni mattresses and machine made carpets dominate Abu Dhabi’s Carpet Souk,
but bargains can be found if you know what you are looking for. Some of the
sellers will make up Arabic majlis style cushions for a very reasonable price.
The souk is based on Mina Road, near Abu Dhabi’s main port area.
Also known as the Central or Old Souk, the Al Ain Souk is a great place
to explore, savour the local atmosphere and practise your bargaining skills.
The souk itself is a rather ramshackle affair but it is certainly different
from many of the modern, air conditioned markets found elsewhere.
The two outdoor markets - Souk Al Bawadi & Souk Al Qaws
are attached to the huge Bawadi Mall in Al Ain. Souk Al
Qaws features shops of a practical nature set among unique architecture,
with over 40 service outlets including banks, money exchanges and
travel agents, while Souk Al Bawadi has more of a heritage feel, with
over 50 shops selling traditional items and souvenirs.
Souk Al Zafarana (+971 3 762 1868) is a jewel of a find which reflects true Emirati culture and tradition while being new. Whether you're looking for traditional garments, incense or spices, henna or oud, or dallah (Arabian coffee pots) this is the marketplace for you. This is the new home of Al Ain's old souk and features Mubdia Village, a section exclusively for women that is staffed by female shopkeepers. Around the corner from Al Jimi Mall in Al Ain, the souk is open 10am to 1pm and 8pm until midnight.
Guides, maps and wallpapers
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Marr, Liz and Forsyth, Rachel
Identity Crisis: Working in Higher Education in the 21st Century.
Stoke-on-Trent, U.K.: Trentham Books.
Workers in higher education live in a world seemingly directed by league tables, targets, widening participation, competition at regional, national and international levels, student loans, variable fees, technology renewal and an everincreasing staff-student ratio. The demands on managers, administrators and academics are diverse and complex.
This book offers a counter to these external pressures, providing readers with an understanding of the context in which academic work is undertaken and practical guidance for those trying to make sense of their place in the HE world.
The first half of the book examines the changing landscape of higher education in the UK, where successive policy developments in education over the last twenty years have radically transformed the context in which university education is designed and organised. The second half identifies what is expected of an academic in this rapidly changing environment and offers practical suggestions for teaching, assessing and evaluating in an era of widening participation.
Although Identity Crisis focuses on the responsibilities of the 21st century academic, it will be of much interest to service providers and administrators in HE, and also to teachers. It aims to reinvigorate the practice of established employees as well as to enthuse staff who are new to HE.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Morton, Oliver Perry
|←Morton, Levi Parsons||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18
Morton, Oliver Perry
|Morton, Thomas (bishop)→|
|See also Oliver P. Morton on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.|
MORTON, OLIVER PERRY (1823-1877), American political leader, “war governor” of Indiana, was born in Salisbury, Wayne county, Indiana, on the 4th of August 1823. After studying for two years (1843-1845) at Miami University, he practised law at Centerville, Indiana, and in 1852 was judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Indiana. In February 1856 he was a member of the Pittsburg convention which led to the organization of the national Republican party, and in the same year he was a candidate for governor of Indiana; he was defeated, but his campaign resulted in the effective organization of the new party in his state. He was elected lieutenant-governor in 1860, and when Henry S. Lane (1811-1881), the governor, resigned, on the 16th of January 1861, Morton became governor. In 1864 he was re-elected. In meeting all the extraordinary demands resulting from the Civil War he displayed great energy and resourcefulness, and was active in thwarting the schemes of the secessionists in the neighbouring state of Kentucky, and of the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Order of American Knights, and the Sons of Liberty (secret societies of Southern sympathizers and other opponents of the war) in Indiana. In 1863 a hostile legislature sought to deprive him of all control over the militia, and failing in this, adjourned without making the appropriations necessary for carrying on the state government. In this predicament Morton appointed a bureau of finance, and appealed for financial aid to private individuals, bankers, the counties, and even the Federal government. The response was so prompt that he was able to conduct affairs practically single-handed until 1865, when a legislature more favourable to his policies assembled. In 1865, when Morton had a paralytic stroke and went to Europe for treatment, the president entrusted him with a confidential mission to Napoleon III. concerning the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico. Morton resigned as governor in January 1867 to accept a seat in the United States Senate, in which he served during the rest of his life. He was recognized as one of the leaders of the Radical wing of his party, voting in favour of Johnson's impeachment, and being especially active on behalf of negro suffrage. In 1870 Grant offered to appoint him minister to Great Britain, but he declined the honour on perceiving that a Democrat would succeed him in the Senate. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1876, and at the national convention of his party received 124 votes on the first ballot; the nomination, however, finally went to Rutherford B. Hayes. He died at Indianapolis on the 1st of November 1877.
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BREWER — There’s a certain symmetry in a former school becoming a library.
The School Street School, on the corner of School Street and South Main Street, now houses the Brewer Public Library. The library moved there in 2007 after out-growing its former space at 24 Union St.
One result of this change is that children now have a new place to further their education.
Shelley Arnold, children’s and programming librarian, explained that, unlike in the old building, children now have a designated area, made up of two rooms, for their activities. These include Story Time and a summer reading program.
The library now has more reading rooms and has gone from three to 12 computers. All it takes to use them is a Brewer library card.
Next up is an archive composed of historical documents now stored in the basement. The archive will be installed in the former boiler room.
Patrons aren’t limited to the thousands of books on the shelf. Their library card entitles them to use Maine’s inter-library loan system, which once a week delivers books from libraries throughout the state to Brewer.
In addition to the computers and Wi-Fi access, the library offers many forms of electronic entertainment. There’s shelves of books on CDs and movies and TV series on DVD. Access is offered to Ancestry Library Edition for amateur geneaologists. EBooks and audio books can be downloaded through a link at www.brewer.lib.me.us. Patrons can also renew books or place a hold on a book through that Web site.
Library Director Donna Rasche estimated that 80 percent of the library’s usage is material items such as books and magazines while the other 20 percent is electronic items.
When asked what the library’s biggest needs are, Arnold pointed not to equipment, but more programs.
“The library needs to be a center for the community,” she said.
Since the move, the library has added a book club and a knitting club, with computer programs for seniors a future possibility. Also it’s a U.S. passport acceptance agency.
“We’d like for the library to be the communications and information center for Brewer,” Arnold said.
Rasche explained what was necessary to make that happen. “Our biggest need for the future would be staffing to allow more programs and classes,” she said.
The Brewer Public Library (100 South Main St.) is open 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday and Wednesdays; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday. For more information, call 989-7943. People who live or pay taxes in Brewer and senior citizens, regardless of residence, are eligible for free library services. All other non-residents pay an annual fee or $25 per family. | <urn:uuid:f68fc339-7805-469e-8111-0491f7094bdf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/02/the-weekly/larger-space-gives-options-to-brewer-library/?ref=relatedBox | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960606 | 614 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Today this poster is your starter for ten.
The question is, what’s so unusual about it? (Other, that is, than it’s Manchester Piccadilly Station looking quite spruce; I regularly used to get the last train home from there in the early 80s, and it was a dump. Always)
The answer is that it’s a railway poster depicting Manchester. They are rarities indeed, don’t you know. As are posters of Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham too. Although I did manage to find Perry Barr looking quite bucolic in 1928.
But generally the point remains: should you happen to map the world by railway poster, the industrial heartlands of Britain are pretty much invisible. I can only find one exception and that’s this Norman Wilkinson poster of the Manchester Ship Canal.
Now I put this point to Mr Crownfolio, and he looked at me as though I was in pursuit of the blindingly obvious to no apparent purpose. I can see where he is coming from with this. Birmingham, Manchester and their ilk are not pretty, they are not by the seaside: in short they are places that you come from rather than travel to. So why would the railway companies want to make posters of them?
But this is a point which is actually worth making, so bear with me. Because there were several series of railway posters which could quite easily have taken in points in the industrial north. Like Norman Wilkinson’s depictions of schools, for example.
Or indeed they could have been included in the endless series of churches and cathedrals. Liverpool alone gets a chance here, and twice – posters by Fred Taylor and Keith Elleston respectively.
But Liverpool is, in all probability, a special case. Having only been built a decade before, Giles Gilbert Scott’s cathedral was a modern marvel, built just ten years before, as well as simply a landmark to be visited.
Why this matters beyond just northern pride is that the railway posters are reflecting an important part of British culture. When we think of Britain, it is a southern landscape we see in our mind’s eye. Perhaps the most potent representation of it ever made is Frank Newbould’s wartime poster for ABCA.
And of course Newbould is a railway poster artist, so he knows exactly what he’s doing there. This isn’t just a piece of countryside you want to visit, it’s a landscape that you need to believe in.
The writer and academic David Matless has called this vision of the countryside ‘Deep England’, and I have mentioned this idea before in passing. Matless articulates the idea in a very good book called Landscape and Englishness, which I will revisit one day in a post when my copy finally re-emerges from storage. To summarise a subtle and well-documented argument in the meantime, Deep England is a version of Britain which has its greatest potency between the wars, and one of its many uses is to represent an eternal image of Britain to set against the forces of modernity and change. And this timeless country is very firmly based in the south.
All of which adds some additional reasons why railway posters don’t mention the North. Yes, it might not be somewhere you want to go to, but it is also, in a wider sense, not somewhere you want to see either. Because railway posters weren’t just about suggesting you travel to a different place by train. As David Watts suggests in his very interesting essay (discussed on here in the post I have already linked to above), they also rely for their impact on the implicit contrast between the bucolic idea that they represent, and the forces of modern industrialism, in the form of the railway, which surrounds them. So sticking a picture of Mancunian cotton mills in there simply doesn’t work.
Although this does go some way towards explaining a small sub-genre of northern and midlands posters, which are designed to celebrate the modernisation of the railways.
Because of course it’s fine to mention these cities if you are actually enthusing about industry. The Manchester Piccadilly poster at the top probably fits into this category too (these tend, as a rule, to be post-war).
All of which is not only important because of what it tells us about railway poster design and prevailing British culture. To flip it on its head, it also reveals a great deal about why people like railway posters. As I’ve said before, railway posters are a refuge, a form of Safe Art in a world of abstraction and conceptualism. But there’s more to the railway poster than simply nice old-fashioned landscapes. By omitting the problematic north and Midlands, these images also tap into some of our deeper feelings about Britain and what we want to see. No wonder they are so popular.
Now, some of you may be on the side of Mr Crownfolio and thinking that this is still, to some degree, a statement of the blindingly obvious. But I think it matters now. Because one thing that has been bothering me for some time is that the North has disappeared from our consciousness, taking Birmingham and Stoke with it on the way. Back when I was a teenager and travelling in and out of Piccadilly Station, there was a very definite sense of their being a Northern culture and sensibility, taking in everything from The Smiths to Boys from the Blackstuff and all points in between. Hell, I was proud to come from the North, even if they wouldn’t let me belong there.
But where is that now? I can’t seem to discover its like anywhere. Eighty years after its supposed heyday, Deep England has finally triumphed. We all think like southerners, act like southerners and see like southerners. And thus a whole swathe of Britain and its history has been made invisible.
This isn’t healthy. But it also isn’t true. We can’t help our railway posters, we probably can’t even help liking them. But we can pay attention to what we see elsewhere. For a whole set of reasons, both social and political and just sensible, we need to make sure that we look at the whole of the country, not just the easy, prosperous, reassuring parts. So beware the lure of the deep landscape. By all means look at it; but make sure it isn’t the only thing you see.
Two small addenda to that. The first is that one of the very many wonderful things about the Olympics Opening Ceremony was the fact that it took a long hard look at Britain’s industrial heartlands, and what’s more saw something to celebrate as well as fear. Something that makes us British.
The second is a bit of a tangent but still worth noting, and that’s the way in which the north still has – or certainly had last time I looked – its own very distinctive visuals. Fifty years after the railway posters, Factory Records set the style which made Manchester look different.
I was very surprised to arrive in London and discover that not everything worth finding out about happened in sans serif. Or that the clubs were nowhere near as interesting.
But this is worthy of a whole post of its own on another day. In the meantime, don’t forget the factories. | <urn:uuid:1d5a1ae8-82c0-4feb-a6e6-8f99be5915a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://vintageposterblog.com/2012/11/21/hit-the-north/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97497 | 1,549 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Strategies and Policies for Adapting to Global Change
IFPRI’s research on global change seeks to identify and evaluate policy and investment options that can help global change benefit poor people. Global change includes both natural and human-induced change such as climate change, globalization, and demographic changes. Over the coming decades, global change will significantly affect the food and water security and livelihoods of poor workers. Scenarios will help determine expected risks and patterns of change, as well as potential response options. | <urn:uuid:5f09e5c6-34fd-4e26-844a-db04cce40702> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ifpri.org/book-735/ourwork/program/global-food-and-natural-resources | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928259 | 103 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Posted at: 01/10/2013 7:39 PM
Updated at: 01/10/2013 7:40 PM
By: Joy Lim Nakrin
Concerns Over Blood Shortages Due to Flu
The flu outbreak is triggering a new concern that there could be a shortage of blood.
The Red Cross typically sees a drop in blood donations during winter, according to Sue Gonsior of Red Cross Twin Cities. Now, she explains, there is a fear that with more people too ill to give blood there will also be a bigger drop in donations.
In response, the Red Cross is urging healthy people to donate while they can. Gonsior said, "if the flu gets worse we will have a shortage of blood so we are encouraging people while they are healthy to make blood donation appointments."
Gonsior added that there were similar concerns during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. But they shortage was overcome by an aggressive push for donations from the healthy. | <urn:uuid:57c890b7-2d30-43fc-826e-7800972e6868> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S2892471.shtml?cat=10728 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961403 | 199 | 2.40625 | 2 |
ARIANRHOD (Aranrhod, Arianrod) [silver wheel]: a renowned beauty of Welsh literature whose story may be based on that of an earlier moon goddess. Assumed to be the daughter of Dôn, she was the sister and lover of Gwydion; in the Triads her father is given as Beli. She claimed to be a virgin so that she might become the footholder of Math. When the asserted virginity was tested, she gave premature birth to twins, Dylan, who escaped into the sea, and Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who became the object of his mother’s scorn. Gwydion rescued the child and reared him carefully. According to folk tradition, a reef off the coast of Gwynedd (formerly Carnarvonshire) called Caer Arianrhod is the remains of an island castle where Arianrhod was tricked into giving Lleu the arms she intended to withhold. This reef is only visible at very low tides, such as the neap tides in the first and third quarters of the moon. Caer Arianrhod is also a popular Welsh name for the constellation Corona Borealis, an asterism which resembles a waxing crescent moon. Arianrhod had other brothers, Gilfaethwy and Caswallon, with whom she did not have intimacies. R. S. Loomis suggested that Arianrhod may be a counterpart of the Arthurian figures Lunete and Morgawse.
I see people reblog Ganesh all of the time and I’m just going to give a brief description of the story of Ganesh.
Ganesh is a Hindu god and is known as the gate keeper.
This is because while Lord Shiva was away to war his wife Pavarti wished to bathe. Having no one to guard the door she created a son, Ganesh, who would do this duty for her.
Ganesh was to give nobody entrance to Pavarti’s apartment unless she gave him the okay to let them in. This posed a problem when Lord Shiva returned from war and tried to enter. Not having the approval from Pavarti, Ganesh refused him access.
Shiva was enraged by Ganesh’s impudence and used his sword to cut off Ganesh’s head.
Once Pavarti emerged and saw Ganesh was beheaded, she flew into a rage. Shiva swore to make amends by taking the head of the first living thing he found to replace Ganesh’s head. The first animal he came across was an elephant.
Accordingly he took the head from the elephant an placed it on Ganesh’s body.
This is why Ganesh is depicted with an elephant’s head. Also, because of his role as protector of Parvarti’s door he is associated, in Hindu culture, with protecting entrances.
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."- Margaret Atwood (via oniverse)
"The medieval idea of sigils pertinent to planets and their spirits and intelligences is still useful to a certain extent but only insofar as they can be incorporated into a personal sigil originated, for the most part, by the magician himself. There is no virtue in incorporating traditional ideas into a sigil if the operator considers them to be glib or ineffective. Every aspect of the sigil must be relevant from his point of view. Otherwise he is wasting his time and energy. It is his own subconscious (reactive mind) and not some gaseous invertebrate which brings about a result…"-Ray Sherwin- The Book of Results (via iseesigils)
Me thinks it’s time for some yoga… It cures anything… :D #yoga #yogini #yogi #health #spirituality #lifestyle #ilovemylife (Taken with Instagram)
anarchadyke asked: Cuz if u gay, then u not b w/ wiff bf. Instead u b wiff gf. Preferably moi. ^_^
Hahahahha amber, ily lol
anarchadyke asked: U so smexy. Y u no gay? ;_;
As much as I hate talking about my sexuality, Im not gay, no, but I am pansexual, which is essentially the same thing, I just have more choices :)
Omg… I don’t know why but when I look at this I automatically think Willow and Tara… Every time | <urn:uuid:52035556-48d7-47b0-8c55-16f9729df5c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ramblingsofamadwitch.tumblr.com/page/4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966787 | 1,038 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) Leaves and Fruit: in album plants
|Aug 13th, 2003, by Alex Zorach|
This is a photo of a bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) plant, growing on the forest floor in Maine. I find this plant fascinating as it is so closely related to dogwood trees (other members of the Cornus genus), and resembles them so closely in terms of flower, fruit, and leaf shape, but this plant is not a tree, just a tiny plant growing on the forest floor, with a single flower and single bunch of fruit. Bunchberries are native to both North America and Northern Asia, and tend to grow in cooler, northern forests.
The fruit of bunchberries are edible, starchy (surprisingly filling), and nearly tasteless. If you find a large patch of these plants with fruit, they can make a good emergency food due to their high starch content and ready availability. | <urn:uuid:5eb631c9-51fa-4661-80c7-c44646b9de85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cazort.net/photos/bunchberry-leaves-fruit?tag=plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951909 | 197 | 3.421875 | 3 |
We recently lost a most beloved entertainer, Art Linkletter.
With more than his share of obstacles and tragedies in life, he remained optimistic, and through the course of personal hills and valleys, he climbed to the pinnacle of success.
Linkletter hosted the Golden Age TV shows of the 1950s and ‘60s, “People Are Funny” and “House Party,” the latter of which had Linkletter’s best-known segment called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”
A pioneer of a different kind of reality show, he had the uncanny ability to elicit surprise statements from ordinary folks, especially kids. He was brilliant at what he did, making children feel relaxed enough to be themselves and say whatever it was that was on their minds. The gift he had would produce consistently hilarious spontaneous programming.
Linkletter’s wholesome programs would have few venues in our present-day culture. Branson, Mo., might welcome him, but I’m hard-pressed to think of too many others. Can you even imagine a show today with a title that used the word “darndest” in it?
The intellectual elite and many of the television critics of his day hated Linkletter and his shows. But Middle America couldn’t get enough.
“People Are Funny” was on NBC on radio and television for a combined 19 years. The show was in the Top Ten for more than a decade. “House Party” had a combined 25-year run on CBS radio and television and stayed at the top of the daytime ratings for its entire run.
Linkletter’s real-life story sounds as if someone may have made the whole thing up.
Born on July 17, 1912, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Arthur Gordon Kelly could have been a poster child for the “Choose Life” crowd, if there were such a dilemma back then.
His unwed mom put him up for adoption when he was just a newborn. A middle-aged couple that had tragically lost two children took him in. It wasn’t until he was 12 years old that young Art, while rummaging through his father’s desk, would discover that Fulton and Mary Linkletter were not his birth parents.
Linkletter’s adoptive father was a one-legged street preacher. Neighborhood corners provided the family’s stage and pulpit. It’s where they all performed and prayed together. He would later say that the religious faith instilled by his dad had been a wonderful gift.
At 16 years of age, Linkletter became what used to be called a “hobo,” hopping freight trains across the country and working odd jobs. He eventually took employment in a bank on Wall Street, right before the 1929 crash.
San Diego would later be the place where he would start his radio broadcast career. He and quiz show producer John Guedel would come up with an audition tape of a program with a rather generic title, “People Are Funny.” The rest, as we say, is television history.
Art and his wife Lois had five children. With his own kids, though, unlike his TV alter ego, Linkletter would have to deal with a tremendous amount of heartache. In 1969 his daughter Diane leapt to her death from her sixth-floor flat. Drugs were said to be involved. In characteristic form, Art used the tragedy to become an anti-drug advocate.
Linkletter’s son, Robert, died in a car accident in 1980. Another son, Jack, died of lymphoma in 2007.
“Life is not fair . . . not easy,” he said in an interview. “But I'm an optimist. Even though I've had tragedies in my life, and I've seen a lot of difficult things, I still am an optimist.”
No doubt he still is.
James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in media psychology, is a New York Times best-selling author, commentator, media analyst, and law professor. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. Hirsen is the co-founder and chief legal counsel for InternationalEsq.com. Visit Newsmax TV Hollywood.
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