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October 26, 2009.
The Vatican described the first study meeting between representatives of the Catholic Church and traditional Lefebvrists as "cordial, respectful and constructive.”Federico Lombardi
Director, Vatican Press Office“The novelty of this meeting is that the discussion of doctrinal issues by authorized representatives of both parties, at an approved venue has finally begun.”
Traditional Lefebvrists want to return to the Catholic Church and the Vatican has agreed to start to discuss the conditions for their potential come back.
In the first meeting, a study commission which will meet every two months, was established.
The Lefebvrists don’t accept certain points of the teachings of recent popes nor some principles of the Second Vatican Council, like religious freedom, the possibility of dialogue with other religions and churches and collegiality among bishops.
In January, Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of the bishops ordained irregularly by Marcel Lefebvre.
But since their status is still unclear they’re not considered part of the Catholic hierarchy.
According to their data, Lefebvrists have more than 400 priests, several hundred religious and seminarians and about 100,000 followers worldwide. | <urn:uuid:e0d5a4ca-5325-4065-84a5-f8a0b62f0f91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.romereports.com/palio/the-vatican-describes-talks-with-lefebvrists-as-cordial-english-1122.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959408 | 254 | 2.375 | 2 |
While Drakran philosophy is in ascendance today, many older works are still read and discussed throughout Lanjyr. Most popular are the writings of a clerical monk, William Miller, who in the run up to the Great Malice composed a treatise on hypocrisy, suggesting that it is better to admit you are uncertain of your beliefs than to act in contradiction with your stated values. The book, widely recognized as an attack on the Clergy, allegedly drove the monk to flee persecution.
Miller reappeared several years after the Great Malice with a new work of political philosophy that coincided with his effort to found a small nation, Pala, amid the chaos of the Malice Lands. In his multi-chapter book he examined possible social structures, comparing robustness and stability with various moral values. Early chapters allude to a conclusion that would detail a handful of ideal nations, but today there are no complete copies of the book.
In 18 A.O.V., the reconstituted Clergy branded Miller a heretic, invaded Pala, and sacked its capital. He was brought to Alais Primos, the new seat of the Clergy, where he was tortured in an effort to compel a confession. After he refused to recant, his captors made a pyre of his heretical writings and burned him alive upon it. Today, Miller’s incomplete writings are popular among the bohemian dockers in Flint and followers of the Panoply in Ber. Rumors say that copies of Miller’s final chapters are kept in a library vault in Alais Primos, where it shares shelf space with other “heretical” texts. | <urn:uuid:7a6e6290-cbe5-41a3-b612-914a54da7b4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=ZEITGEIST+Players+Guide:+Key+Religions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968547 | 344 | 2.34375 | 2 |
CHARLES E. BURROWS GRAVESTONE PHOTO
The Wichita Daily Beacon, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1909
Died: Dec. 27, 1909
“Charlie Burrows is dead.” This was the news that passed from lip to lip as the older residents of Wichita met on the streets this morning. Charles E. Burrows, desk sergeant at the police station, and formerly chief of police of Wichita, died at his home, 1153 University avenue, at 9:25 o’clock last night. He was taken with a chill at his work last Thursday, and went home feeling quite ill. No one thought his illness was serious at the time, but two or three days ago it became apparent that his condition was critical. He was in a stupor all day yesterday and finally breathed his last without pain, being apparently asleep at the time.
Mr. Burrows was born in Milford Center, Ohio, August 19, 1846. Although but a boy he enlisted in the Second Illinois cavalry and served during the Civil War. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois, where he was married, and where he lived till 1885, when with his family he moved to Cheney, this county.
Appointed Chief in 1889.
After living in Cheney three years where he was engaged in the lumber and coal business, he came to Wichita and was in the employ of the Santa Fe Railway company a short time. He was appointed chief of police of this city under the Metropolitan Police commission in 1889 and filled that position two terms, afterward serving on the force till Governor Morrill gave him a place to guard at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. This position he held six years and then returned to Wichita, where for six years he was rural mail carrier, resigning one year ago to take the place of desk sergeant at the police station, a position which his familiarity with the work of the department fitted him for.
Mr. Burrows was at one time a perfect specimen of physical manhood and he has always been noted as a man of excellent character. Few men were better known or more thoroughly respected by the pioneers of Wichita.
Mr. Burrows leaves a wife and four children, most of whom were at his bedside at the time of his death. The children are, Mrs. Ella Way, of Hutchison; Mrs. Maude Rotan, 408 South Water street, this city; Clarence R. Burrows, 1118 Texas avenue, this city; and Mrs. Jessie I. Benton, Sandford, Fla. He was a member of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, the local G. A. R. and the Fraternal Aid. Funeral services will be held at Trinity church tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in charge of A. B. Hestwood, the pastor.
Comrades of Garfield Post.
Another Comrade has passed away---Charles E. Burrows. A car will be at the Trinity M. E. church at 3:30, December 29, to carry the post and W. R. C. members to cemetery. The post will charge of the services at the grave. | <urn:uuid:c1ef0866-ba1f-4069-8dff-2c0ae236e6b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/civilwar/Charles_Burrows.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986725 | 652 | 1.976563 | 2 |
There were only two programming group projects I had when I was in school. One was software engineering (and that was our Junior year). We learned software engineering, development models, etc, etc... we were then given a list of requirements, verbally, that we had to write down.
I would have certainly preferred fewer group projects at the undergrad level. Of course, a certain amount of programming should be required in each course. There is no substitute.
In my experience, the biggest problem is that too many of the professors don't really know the tools, environments and (sometimes) the languages they're supposed to be teaching. With all of the online instruction available now, all of the top schools appear to be providing their students with the necessary background information (eg how to use emacs, NetBeans, whatever) and decent programming exercises. Its a bit sad that this level of instruction doesn't appear to filter down very far (eg SICP has been around for >10 years, but most AI/Lisp teaching is incredibly misguided).
We could of course ask questions, but the professor did not provide typed up requirements. I liked that. We were given a list of ins and outs, and had to come up with the rest.
Based on my experience working at one university and being a research assistant at another, you won't ever see that at the larger universities. The professors actually spend quite a bit of time creating/revising their classes and everything (AFAIK) has to be in writing and approved by some quality control type people prior to the start of instruction. I've been a (paid) guinea pig for this type of thing.
I imagine what happened in your case is that the professor did have all of the requirements written up in advance. He then graded you based on how many of those requirements you were able to extract. Having you extract the requirements from him verbally is certainly an excellent exercise (esp for small / medium sized projects). I just wish their was more "exploratory programming" (or extreme programming) going on outside of research labs.
One thing I have noticed with the program where I went (for easy of explanation, a satellite of the main campus that was hosted at a community college)
If life provides you the opportunity to attend a top school at some point, I would highly recommend taking it! Not only do the top schools provide you with more and better job/career opportunities, but the course content and selection is vastly superior. When I started at USC, I thought that I knew the basic outline of the rabbit hole (using the Alice in Wonderland cliche/analogy). I certainly didn't everything in detail, but I felt that I could at least be conversant in most areas of compsci especially in my main area of interest (algorithms / algorithm analysis). I had a general familiarity with most of it.
Boy was I wrong. Linear programming, semi-definite programming, PSPACE-Complete complexity class... I hadn't even heard of these terms... and this was only the first class! This wasn't supposed to happen after I had taken 20 or more CS courses, spent two years working part-time at a university, and three years in "industry". I had barely stuck my head into the cave thinking that I knew something... humility is sometimes thrust upon us (or perhaps through us)!
our problem is that all of us were very smart (as told my a professor) so we butted heads a lot. Like my other post, you get a lot of smart people in a room and you get lots of conflict.
Actually, I think the notion that too many smart people leads to conflict is wrong. I've worked with groups where I was certainly the smartest guy (>90% of the time at Boeing!) and where I was not even close to the smartest -- especially when Adleman and/or Kempe are part of the group! In my experience, a group of "truly" smart people tend to get along just fine (at least as well as the average group).
The problem is when you have a group with a couple of smart people, two or three people who think they're smart, and the rest are average or just hanging on to a job (and probably don't care). The problem here is that you can't convince the "I think I'm so damn smart" types that they're wrong, and invariably, they will somehow be the tech lead or the manager's friend. And if you haven't spent some time dealing with this type of person, you can often see problems with their idea (or you might have a better idea), but you are unable to convince people to change things. This is especially true when first starting out because you haven't spent much time articulating the pros and cons of various approaches or playing devils advocate.
Of course, all of this is exacerbated on your first big project because the diamonds in the rough are still rough. | <urn:uuid:e35bdfea-9a00-4929-b7b2-6b30ed897359> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=105463 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985644 | 1,014 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Lisa Nakamura is local. So local, in fact, that she has two homes: One in the Sand Point area, with her husband, and another in the San Juan Islands, where Nakamura owns a restaurant (Allium on Orcas) and an ice cream shop (Lily).
Both Allium and Lily feature as local of food and ingredients as possible, like Allium Blend coffee from Local Goods Coffee roasters, greens from Maple Rock Farm, ice cream from Lopez Island Creamery.
But being part of a community, especially one as small and close-knit as those on the San Juans, means even more than just “Buy Local.”
It also means “Care Local.”
In 2012, Nakamura published a little book about a dollar bill named Bucky (illustrated by graphic designer/illustrator/foodwriter/photographer Denise Sakaki). Bucky gets passed around in a local economy, and in the process does a LOT of helping: He’s used to by a book for a construction worker, groceries for a bookstore owner, and fulfill the dream of owning a day care for one couple receiving him (and other Buckys) as a micro loan. He travels the world for 14 years helping many, many people, all the while still being a humble dollar bill.
Why did a chef write a book about a dollar bill? Nakamura discusses the answer to that question on her blog, in a post where she recalls a local woman coming into her restaurant and asking for a job — NEEDING a job — when no job was available to give.
If you think you’re doing better [than this local woman] , that it’s all going to be great, think again. Your neighbors are still struggling. That trip to the locally owned store, the extra dollar you tip your server, the vegetables you buy from the farmer in the field, that’s what my book is all about.
You make a reservation and you no-show? Guess what? You just cost a small business money in labor and time. That server that was hoping for a good table and a good tip will now have to figure out some other way to make rent, to make ends meet. You decide to save a couple of dollars by shopping at a big chain store instead of the mom and pop one down the street? When that small store shuts down, you can take responsibility for it, because you helped its demise along.
Would you rather save a few bucks, and watch your local neighborhood wither away, struggle and scrape? Or would you rather spend with more thought and consideration, and watch your community flourish?
All our Buckies add up. Each one has its own story, as do the people we pass them to. Keep the cycle going.
Nakamura will be selling and signing copies of her book, “Bucky the Dollar Bill,” at the University Village Bartell Drugs (2700 NE University Village St) today, from 3:30-5:30 PM. She’ll also be signing at the Bellevue Village Bartell Drugs (10116 NE 8th St, Bellevue) on Tuesday the 23rd, also from 3:30-5:30 PM.
One buck from each “Bucky” sale goes to support the Orcas Island Family Health Care Center, a non-profit rural health center providing access to primary healthcare and related medical services to island residents regardless of their ability to pay. | <urn:uuid:664b1b9d-947a-4532-8ca1-60de3fecf04b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ravennablog.com/category/businesses-2/u-village-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960499 | 722 | 1.710938 | 2 |
[Paris May 17th. 1780
way in his Speech in the House of Commons, on the 6th. [of May,1 affirms that]
the Alliance between France and the United States is not natural. [Whether it]
is or not, is no doubt a great question. In order to determine, whether it is or [no,]
one should consider, what is meant by a natural Alliance. And I know of no better general Rule than this, when two Nations, have the same Interests in general they are natural Allies, when they have opposite Interests, they are natural Ennemies. The general Observes 1st. that Nature, has raised a Barrier between France and America, but Nature has raised no other Barrier, than the Occean, and the Distance, and this Barrier is equally great between England and America. The General will not pretend that nature in the constitution of American Minds or Bodies, has laid any foundation for friendship or Enmity, towards one nation more than another. The General observes further that Habit, has raised another Barrier between France and America. But he should have considered, that the Habit of Affection or of Enmity between nations, are easily changed, as Circumstances vary, and as essential Interests alter. Besides the fact is that the horrible Perfidy and Cruelty of the English, towards the Americans, which they have taken care to make universally felt, in that Country for a long Course of years past has allienated the american mind and Heart from the English, and it is now much to be doubted whether any nation of Europe is So universally and so heartily detested by them. On the contrary most of the other Nations of Europe have treated them with Civility, and France and Spain with Esteem, Confidence, and Affection, which has greatly changed the Habits of the Americans in this respect. The 3d. material of which the Generals Barrier is created is Language. This no doubt, occasions many difficulties in the Communication, between the Allies, but is lessening every day. Perhaps no Language was ever studied at once, by So many persons at a time, in Proportion as french is now studied in America. And, it is certain that English was never [so much studied in France, as since the Revolution, so that the difficulties of understanding one another are lessening every day. Religion is the fourth part of the Barrier—but let it be considered first, that there is not enough of Religion of any kind among the Great in England, to]
make the Americans, very fond of them. [2d. that what Religion there is in]
England, is as far
from being the Religion of America as that [of France.]
The Hierarchy of England, is quite as disagreable to America, as that of any other Cou[ntry.]
Besides the Americans knew very well, that the Spirit of propagating any Religion by Conquest, and of making Proselytes by force or by Intrigue is fled from all other Country of the World, in a great measure, and that there is more of this Spirit remaining in England, than any where else. And the Americans had, and have still more reason, to fear the Introduction of a Religion that is disagreable to them, at least as far as Bishops and an Hierarchy go, from a Connection with England than any other nation of Europe. The Alliance with France, has no Article respecting Religion, France neither claims nor desires any Authority, or Influence over America in this respect: whereas England claimed, and intended to exercise Authority, and force over the Americans, at least So far as to introduce Bishops, and the English society2
for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, has in fact for a Century sent large sums of Money to America to support their religion there, which really operated as a Bribe upon many minds and was the principal source of Toryism. So that upon the whole the alliance with France is in fact more natural, as far as religion is concerned than the former Connection with Great Britain, or any other Connection that can be formed.
Indeed whoever considers, attentively this Subject will see, that these 3 Circumstances, of Habit Language and religion will for the future operate, as natural causes of Animosity between England and America, because they will facilitate migration. The Loss of Liberty the decay of religion, the horrible national debt, the decline of Commerce, and of political Importance in Europe and of maritime power, which cannot but take place in England will tempt numbers, of their best people to emigrate to America, and to this fashions, Language, and religion, will contribute. The British Government will therefore see themselves obliged, to restrain this, by many Ways, and among others by cultivating an Animosity and Hatred in the minds of their People against the Americans. [Nature has already sufficiently discovered itself, and all the World sees, that the British Government have for many Years, not only indulged in themselves the most unsocial and bitter passions against Americans, but have systematically encouraged them in the People.]
[After all; the]
Circumstances of Modes, Language and Religion, have much less [Influence in deter]
mining the friendship and Emnity of nations, than other more essential I[nteres]
ts. Commerce is more
than all these and many more such Circumstances. Now it is easy to see that the Commercial Interests, of England and America will forever hereafter be incompatible. America will take away or at least diminish the Trade of the English in ship building, in Freight, in the Whale fisheries, in the Cod Fisheries in Furs and Skins, and in other particulars too many to enumerate. In this respect America will not interfere with France, but on the Contrary will facilitate and benefit the french Commerce and marine, to a very great degree. Here then will be a perpetual rivalry and Competition between England and America, and a continual source of Animosity and War. America will have Occasion for the Alliance of France, to defend her against this ill Will of England, as France will stand in Need of that of America, to <
aid her against the natural and continual Jealousies and Hostility of England.
The Boundaries of Territory, will, also be another constant source of disputes. If a Peace should unhappily be made leaving England in Possession of Canada, Nova Scotia, the Floridas or any one spot of Ground in America, they will be perpetually encroaching upon the states of America: whereas France, having renounced all territorial Jurisdiction in America, will have no room for <
The People of America therefore, whose very Farmers appear to have considered, the Interests of nations more profoundly than General Conway, are therefore universally of opinion that from the time they declared themselves independent, England became their natural Ennemy, and as she has been for Centuries and will be, the natural Ennemy of France, and the natural Ally of other natural Ennemies of [France, America became the natural Friend of France, and She the natural friend of the United States—Powers naturally united against a Common Enemy, whose Interests will] continue long to be, [reciprocally secured and promoted], by mutual friendship.
It is very Strange that the English should thus dogmatically judge of the Interests of all other nations. According to them the Americans are and have been many years acting directly against their own Interest; France and Spain, have been acting against their own Interests, Holland is acting against her own Interest—Russia and the northern Powers are all acting against their own Interests—Ireland is acting against hers &c. So that there is only that little Island of the whole World that understand their own Interest—and of the Inhabitants of that, the Committees and Associations and Assemblies, are all in the same Error with the rest of the World: So that there remains
only the Ministry and his equivocal, undulating Majority among all the People upon the face of the Earth who act naturally, and according to their own Interests.
The rest of the World however, think they understand themselves very well, and that it is the English, or scottish Majority that are mistaken.3
[salute] Your Friend
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Fishing in Antarctica’s Ross Sea Unacceptable Say Major Environmental Groups
January 18, 2012 – Washington, DC. In the wake of two major accidents involving fishing vessels in the Ross Sea, Antarctica in the past three weeks, ASOC1 criticized governments for allowing the unsafe vessels into the fragile and dangerous Ross Sea to fish.
“The history of fishing vessel accidents and losses of life in the Ross Sea since fishing was allowed there in 1997 is unacceptable,” said Cath Wallace (ECO-New Zealand). “Permitting fishing for Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea puts at risk human life and the biodiversity and special qualities of the Ross Sea ecosystem both directly and through accidents.”
One month ago – on December 16, 2011 – the 23-year-old Russian flagged fishing vessel Sparta hit ice in the Ross Sea near the ice shelf (3704km from New Zealand) resulting in a hole in her hull below the waterline, water ingress and a 13-degree list.
The Sparta was longline fishing for toothfish in the Ross Sea and was carrying 180 tons of light fuel oil. Eventually the South Korean icebreaker Araon was able to reach the Sparta and helped repair it – including transferring 103 tons of fuel oil to the Araon so that the area with the hole would float above the waterline to allow the repair operation.
The Sparta was then convoyed by the Araon to an ice-free zone on December 28, 12 days after she was first holed. The Sparta was able to make it to Nelson, New Zealand on January 10 to be repaired.
On January 10, 2012 the Jeong Woo 2, a 51-meter vessel fishing in the Ross Sea2, got into difficulty about 350 miles from McMurdo station, with a serious fire. Three seamen were killed and seven were injured. The blaze appears to have started in the living quarters before it quickly spread to the engine room and the ship's fish processing plant. It raged out of control, with the crew's firefighting teams unable to halt its progress. Some men were able to get into a life raft but the fire burned through the other life raft.
A U.S. research vessel, the Nathaniel B. Palmer, rescued the injured crewmen and a US Air Force plane airlifted them from Antarctica to Christchurch, New Zealand for treatment of their burns. The other surviving crew were rescued by the Jeong Woo 3, which plans to rendezvous with the ice-breaker Araon, which will take them to Lyttelton, New Zealand. They are expected to arrive around January 19. The Jeong Woo 2 remains on fire and its fate along with the oil on board is as yet unknown.
Neither vessel was ice-strengthened, nor were they carrying sufficient spare equipment needed to deal with an emergency in the inhospitable Antarctic marine environment. “Both were engaged in the ‘Olympic’ fishery established for the Ross Sea, which encourages vessels to go anywhere they want without regard to their vessels’ limitations or risks to their crews in order to get the maximum amount of the overall toothfish quota,” said Jim Barnes (ASOC Executive Director).
“In 2010 22 people were killed in the sinking of the Insung No 1, a Korean vessel also fishing in the Ross Sea for toothfish.”
ASOC recommends that the network of Marine Protected Areas being designated by the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Antarctic waters include the Ross Sea shelf and slope, which should be put off limits to fishing as a no-take marine reserve.
The Ross Sea possesses a high level of habitat diversity, with an unusually robust pelagic assemblage of numerous large fish, sea birds, penguins, pinnipeds and whales. It provides habitat for large percentages of the world’s populations of many higher trophic level species, including 26% of emperor penguins, 30% of Antarctic petrels, 38% of Adélie penguins, 45% of South Pacific Weddell seals and 50% of Ross Sea killer whales.
It is the type locality for over 400 benthic invertebrates. Important components of the Ross Sea’s upper trophic level fauna – penguins, toothfish, and Weddell seals – require the entire Ross Sea shelf and slope to complete their annual cycle.
“The Ross Sea is a scientific and ecological treasure for the world now and a legacy that we can leave for future generations,” said Jim Barnes, ASOC’s Executive Director. “Its largest predator fish – the Antarctic toothfish – is being fished down rapidly. The Ross Sea should not be sacrificed for the short-term gain of fishing companies and wealthy consumers in a few countries.”
ASOC also urges that the new Polar Shipping Code being negotiated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) should be expanded to cover fishing vessels, and that non-ice-strengthened fishing vessels be prohibited from entering dangerous Antarctic waters.
"We hope that the Polar Code will set higher standards for all vessels operating in remote and hazardous Arctic and Antarctic waters," said Sian Prior, ASOC's IMO representative. “At present the governments have decided to leave fishing vessels to a later phase of the negotiations, which would mean many years will pass before appropriate regulations are introduced for those vessels.”
For further information:
James N. Barnes, Executive Director, ASOC
Sian Prior, Senior ASOC Advisor
Claire Christian (Director of ASOC Secretariat):
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Video game emulators
From left to right, the Sega Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the GameBoy Advance emulators
running on an iPhone.
First, these emulators are for jailbroken iPhones only! I don't ever see these being released
officially on the App Store, even by their original manufacturers. There are many emulators out
there, and as far as I know, all but one (NES by NerveGas), were created by ZodTTD.
You can read about NES here.
You can read about all the other emulators: gameboy4iphone (GameBoy), genesis4iphone (Sega Genesis),
gpSphone (GameBoy Advance), mame4iphone (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), psx4iphone (Sony
PlayStation 1), snes4iphone (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), temper4iphone (NEC Turbo Graphix 16)
at ZodTTD's site here.
I have written two tutorials, this one for NES,
and this one for gpSphone.
I'm not going to make a tutorial for every single emulator. ZodTTD's emulator installations are all
essentially the same: you download the emulator via Cydia, Google for the BIOS (the heart of the
emulator, which is copyrighted), and Google for some games to play (ROMs as they are known, and
which are also copyrighted). You then use SSH to transfer the BIOS and the ROMs to the iPhone.
I do not link to any BIOS or ROM files. I will not supply these files, so don't ask. Use the power
There is also a homebrew ROM scene. This is where programmers have created their own games and
have made them available for free.
PDRoms prides itself on offering freeware, public domain, or ROMs that have otherwise been legalized
for free and unrestricted use by their authors. Check this site out
There was a class taught at Carnegie Mellon University by Professor Bob Rost in 2004, that was
about creating games for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. Many games are available
from that class. Go to Mr. Rost's site here.
To make it easier to play these games, an invention called iControlPad was dreamed up. It allows
the iPhone to sit in a craddle that has dedicated controller buttons on it. This is a mock up
image of what it will look like.
There is a video of it in action. The actual unit will be black, not white as demonstrated.
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The city of Franklin has never had a fully functional traffic signal, and even after decades of lobbying the only thing swaying above their city streets is a flashing yellow light.
Franklin residents have been pleading with the Texas Department of Transportation for years to have a traffic light installed at the intersection of FM 46 and US 79. The intersection has been the site of several car wrecks, but at the moment only an overhead-flashing beacon is in place.
Franklin mayor, Charles Ellison believes that a traffic signal is long overdue, but fortunately the city was finally approved this past May.
"I think that it will help more of the local people than anything else, it may slow down the highway a little, but it sure will make the intersection less dangerous," says Ellison.
However, the issue of the project's funding still remains. State representative Jim Dunham is currently looking for the state funds to solve Franklin's traffic problem.
"I think the challenge is we need to make sure that the money is allocated for and we're working on that right now," says Dunham
City officials expect state funding to come through by the end of the year.
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State funding to both schools is expected to increase over the next two years.
Both Cuyahoga Falls and Woodridge are big winners in state funding over the next two years. The Cuyahoga Falls school district is expected to get nearly $12 million in 2014 from state funding, according to preliminary numbers from the Ohio Department of Education. That is $1 million more than in 2013, when the district received just under $11 million, an increase of 10 percent. In 2015 the state is expected to dish out $12.7 million to the district, another six percent boost, resulting in another $690,000. Woodridge should receive more than $1 million in 2014, a 129% increase from the $472,000 they got in 2013. In 2015 they are expected to receive around $1.4 million, another 25 percent boost. In May, voters will decide whether or not to …
In this letter to the editor, Woodridge Local Schools Superintendent Walter Davis thanks the voters who helped pass Issue 71, and offers remarks on the future of the district.
- W. Davis
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Dear Community Members, Thank YOU! In these challenging times, we acknowledge the sacrifice that residents and businesses continue to make to provide the district with the tools necessary to give Woodridge students the opportunities that a first-class education requires. A new levy is, indeed, a sacrifice for all of you. This levy will enable the district to maintain programs, keep staff, and continue to meet the needs of our students. This levy will play a significant role in our ability to preserve the traditions of excellence that we have all come to expect. Even with these new funds, we will continue to operate with a keen focus on the bottom line. We will conserve where possible, share services with other entities, and seek additional… | <urn:uuid:d79c409a-b1e6-43f4-be29-3322d4cb6481> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cuyahogafalls.patch.com/topics/woodridge+schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949607 | 374 | 1.5625 | 2 |
If you're a healthy expectant mother having a normal pregnancy and you have no medical or obstetrical risk factors, giving birth at home may be an option for you.
Giving birth at home allows you to labor and deliver in familiar and comfortable surroundings. You'll have more control over your birth experience than you would in a hospital, and you won't have to endure routine medical interventions.
At home, as many family members or friends as you want can attend the birth, and you get to share the experience with them in the privacy of your own home, without interruptions from hospital staff. And all of your caregiver's attention will be focused on you and your baby.
For a sense of what a home birth can be like, read Julie Tilsner's funny and heartwarming journal entry describing how she delivered her son Jackson at home with the help of two wonderful midwives, and Roberta Rennie's story of her home birth in a tub.
Giving birth at home isn't for everyone, of course. Moms-to-be who are more likely to have complications during childbirth should give birth in a hospital. This includes women with:
If you choose to have a home birth, it's important to be flexible and understand that if complications arise, you might have to transfer your care to another provider or give birth in a hospital.
You'll also need to be committed to giving birth without medication, preparing your home for the birth (including getting whatever supplies your caregiver recommends), and making plans to ensure that you have good support available to you in the days after you give birth.
Another consideration: Not all insurance companies and HMOs cover the cost of home births.
For healthy women at low risk for complications who choose skilled and experienced caregivers and have a good system in place for transfer to a hospital when necessary, a number of studies show that giving birth at home is just as safe as giving birth in a hospital. There is also research showing that moms who planned to give birth at home (regardless of where they actually had their babies) ended up with fewer interventions, such as episiotomies and c-sections, compared with a group of equally low-risk women who had planned hospital deliveries.
But home birth remains controversial in the United States. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Medical Association (AMA) oppose home birth. They contend that the hospital is the safest place to give birth because capabilities of the hospital setting and the expertise of the hospital staff are immediately available if a complication arises suddenly.
On the other hand, both the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association support the choice of women who are good candidates to give birth at home. They say that qualified caregivers, along with appropriate arrangements for backup and transfer, should be available for moms-to-be who want this option.
If you're not sure whether you have medical or obstetrical problems that would keep you from having a home birth, contact a home birth provider and share your concerns over the phone. If there are no obvious reasons to rule out a home birth, you can make an appointment for a first prenatal visit.
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My Problem With Your Interviews
This article comes right after Facebook rejected me after 3 phone interviews, but it is not going to be a hate-post. In fact, I’ve been planning to write it for a couple of months. But now onto the topic: tech companies (Google, Facebook, VMWare, at least, but certainly many more) are all trying to find the best technical talent. (So they contacted me and asked if I’m interested in “exploring opportunities” with them). But how do they do that?
The typical interview (be it a phone screen, or an onsite interview) consists of solving a problem. Some call these problems “puzzles”. They are usually non-real world problems that aim to verify your algorithmic skills and your computer science knowledge. The simple ones include recursion, binary search, basic data structures (linked list, hasthable, trees). The more complex ones require red-black trees, Dijkstra, knowledge of NP-completeness, etc. If you are on the phone, you write the code in a shared document. If onsite – you write it on a whiteboard. So, these puzzles should verify your computer science and algorithm skills. But let’s step back a little and see the picture from another angle.
- what you do on these interviews is something you never, ever do in real life: you write code without using any compiler or debugger. You do that in a limited time, with people watching you / waiting for you on the line. But let’s put that aside for now. Let’s assume that writing code without being able to run it is fine for interview purposes.
- the skills that these puzzles are testing are skills that the majority of developers have never needed. Most people are writing business software, and it does not require red-black trees. What was the last time you used recursion in your business software? So the last time you’ve done anything like that is in college. And many of these problems are really simple if you are a freshman, you did them as a homework just the other day. But then it becomes a bit more tedious to write even things as simple as a binary search. Because you just didn’t do it yesterday. Of course you will be able to do it, but for a little more time, so that you can remember, and for sure by using a compiler. (By the way, the puzzles at facebook were really simple. I didn’t do them perfectly though, which is my bad, perhaps due to interview anxiety or because I just haven’t done anything like that for the past 3 years)
- the skills tested are rarely what you will do in your daily work anyway. Even in these cool companies like Google and Facebook, there are still pretty regular projects that require coding to APIs, supporting existing code, etc. I don’t think you will be allowed to tweak the search engine in your first week, no matter how great you did on the interview
- interview preparation is suggested and actually required before these interviews. Exactly as if it is a college exam. But that’s dumb – you don’t want people to study to match your artificial interview criteria. You want them to be…good programmers.
- focusing on these computer science skills means these companies will probably miss good engineers that are simply not so interested in the low-level details.
Btw, here’s an excerpt from my feedback after my first phone interview with Facebook:
On the other hand, I don’t think having 1st year CS homework problems on interviews for senior developers is a great idea. One thing is – most people (including me) haven’t done this since university, and it looks a bit like trivia questions rather than actual programming.
The problems outlined above are what I don’t like about these types of interviews. And that’s obviously because I don’t like solving these sorts of puzzles. I just don’t like them, they are not interesting for me. You could argue that in addition to your daily job, you can participate in programming competitions (like TopCoder) in order to keep your algorithm skills trained. I’ll give a short story about my high-school years. There were two student competitions – one was about exactly these types of programming puzzles – you are given a number of them for a fixed period of time, and you must submit a solution that covers as many of the pre-defined (but unknown to you) test cases as possible. The other competition was about creating a piece of software at home, and then presenting it in front of a jury. I was a top-competitor in the latter, and sucked quite a lot in the former. Why? Because I hated solving useless, unrealistic problems for the sake of solving them. I liked building software instead. I would probably be good at solving puzzles if I liked them. I just don’t. And these are not two levels of skill – one who can solve complex algorithmic puzzles (superior), and one who can’t, therefore he builds some piece of software (inferior). These are two different types of skills. And both of them are very useful in the process of creating good software. One writes the low-level stuff, the other one designs the APIs, the architecture, the deployment scheme, manages abstraction in the code. So, to get back to the question what I do now in addition to my daily job – I build stuff. I’ve worked on a few personal projects that I enjoyed. Way more than I would’ve enjoyed a TopCoder competition.
Unfortunately these cool companies are hiring primarily the TopCoder-type of people. Which probably works for them, because they have a lot of candidates and they can afford a lot of “false-negatives”. But many smaller companies adopt these interview practices, and so they fail to get the best technical talent. The best article on software engineer interviewing I’ve read appeared just a few weeks ago. Jeff Atwood advised how to hire a programmer, and I completely support his approach.
And my problem with interviews is that they don’t actually verify if you can do real programming work. And obviously my problem is that I don’t like low-level and algorithmic stuff, so I wouldn’t be able to work for cool companies like Google and Facebook.
Important note: I’m not saying you should not know what computational complexity is, how a hashtable works, or how to write recursion. You should, because that is basic stuff that you need in order to be able to write good code. But focusing too much on these things is what I consider irrelevant to day-to-day programming. (And for the trolls: I wouldn’t have passed the 2 phone screens if I was a complete dumbass who can only write websites in PHP and thinks a hashtable is some sort of furniture)
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Oct. 24, 2012 ESA's quartet of satellites studying Earth's magnetosphere, Cluster, has discovered that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously believed.
Earth's magnetic field is our planet's first line of defence against the bombardment of the solar wind. This stream of plasma is launched by the Sun and travels across the Solar System, carrying its own magnetic field with it.
Depending on how the solar wind's interplanetary magnetic field -- IMF -- is aligned with Earth's magnetic field, different phenomena can arise in Earth's immediate environment.
One well-known process is magnetic reconnection, where magnetic field lines pointing in opposite directions spontaneously break and reconnect with other nearby field lines. This redirects their plasma load into the magnetosphere, opening the door to the solar wind and allowing it to reach Earth.
Under certain circumstances this can drive 'space weather', generating spectacular aurorae, interrupting GPS signals and affecting terrestrial power systems.
In 2006, Cluster made the surprising discovery that huge, 40 000 km swirls of plasma along the boundary of the magnetosphere -- the magnetopause -- could allow the solar wind to enter, even when Earth's magnetic field and the IMF are aligned.
These swirls were found at low, equatorial latitudes, where the magnetic fields were most closely aligned.
These giant vortices are driven by a process known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) effect, which can occur anywhere in nature when two adjacent flows slip past each other at different speeds.
Examples include waves whipped up by wind sliding across the surface of the ocean, or in atmospheric clouds.
Analysis of Cluster data has now found that KH waves can also occur at a wider range of magnetopause locations and when the IMF is arranged in a number of other configurations, providing a mechanism for the continuous transport of the solar wind into Earth's magnetosphere.
"We found that when the interplanetary magnetic field is westward or eastward, magnetopause boundary layers at higher latitude become most subject to KH instabilities, regions quite distant from previous observations of these waves," says Kyoung-Joo Hwang of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
"In fact, it's very hard to imagine a situation where solar wind plasma could not leak into the magnetosphere, since it is not a perfect magnetic bubble."
The findings confirm theoretical predictions and are reproduced by simulations presented by the authors of the new study.
"The solar wind can enter the magnetosphere at different locations and under different magnetic field conditions that we hadn't known about before," says co-author Melvyn Goldstein, also from Goddard Space Flight Center.
"That suggests there is a 'sieve-like' property of the magnetopause in allowing the solar wind to continuously flow into the magnetosphere."
The KH effect is also seen in the magnetospheres of Mercury and Saturn, and the new results suggest that it may provide a possible continuous entry mechanism of solar wind into those planetary magnetospheres, too.
"Cluster's observations of these boundary waves have provided a great advance on our understanding of solar wind -- magnetosphere interactions, which are at the heart of space weather research," says Matt Taylor, ESA's Cluster project scientist.
"In this case, the relatively small separation of the four Cluster satellites as they passed through the high-latitude dayside magnetopause provided a microscopic look at the processes ripping open the magnetopause and allowing particles from the Sun direct entry into the atmosphere."
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- K.-J. Hwang, M. L. Goldstein, M. M. Kuznetsova, Y. Wang, A. F. Viñas, D. G. Sibeck. The first in situ observation of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at high-latitude magnetopause during strongly dawnward interplanetary magnetic field conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2012; 117 (A8) DOI: 10.1029/2011JA017256
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Previous worst case scenarios estimated the spill to be pumping 2M gallons of oil a day into the gulf, but new numbers paint a much darker picture.
Here’s how the two leaks shake out…
Leak A: 70,000 barrels a day +
Leak B: 25,000 barrels a day =
95,000 barrels a day
One barrel of oil is roughly 42 gallons of oil…so 95,000 x 42 = 3,990,000 gallons of oil…PER DAY!
Now…let’s remember that this has been going on a month now. That means that nearly 120,000,000 gallons of oil has contaminated the Gulf since this all began.
Let me repeat that…120 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL!
You know how much the Exxon Valdez spilled? 11 million.
So this spill is already 10 times worse than the worst oil spill in our nation’s history.
And next week…hurricane season starts.
More as it develops…
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|I think Lucy would see honor as a weakness
Written by amytat
(10/22/2012 5:59 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, honour, penned by Stephanie
she can exploit in others. Therefore she must recognize it as a characteristic. The same way she is able to recognize many characters susceptibility to flattery and Mrs. Jenkins generosity and then use these things to get what she wants from the person. Unlike Mrs. Ferrars Lucy seems to be able to figure out the most effective way of manipulating people.
If Elinor were more like Lucy I think there are ways she could betray the secret without Edward blaming her too much. She could claim to be concerned about Edward, go to Fanny for advice and beg her not to reveal what she knows (yet knowing she will), or she could “accidently” let something slip and then go to Edward in tears and beg his forgiveness. Edward isn’t the sort of person to suspect anyone of malicious intent so he would probably forgive her quickly. She might even find some way of using the trouble to get closer to Edward under the guise of helping him and Lucy.
Lucy must know how she would act if things were the other way around. So I think Lucy must recognize that Elinor is not like her and that forcing a confidence on her is the best way to stake her claim and keep Elinor from revealing her secret at the same time.
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|What is Technical Analysis|
What is Technical Analysis
Technical analysis is the study of charts and price trends.
The basis behind technical analysis is the idea that the current market price reflects the total knowledge/opinion of all players in the market. Technical analysts also believe that market prices are not random as suggested by "the random walk theory" (which has been largely discounted) and that market prices will/can trend.
If prices can trend (and there is plenty of evidence of trends) then a technical analysis main focus is to identify the direction of that trend and to react upon the changes of that trend. (ie: if the trend stops going up then sell, if the trend stops going down and starts moving up there is potential for a new uptrend and one can buy).
While some technical analysts believe that only technical analysis is required (based on the idea that the current market price already reflects the sum knowledge of fundamentals) the ChartFilter philosophy is that understanding the fundamentals of a company will dramatically improve the potential for finding/defining a potential long term trend. Technical analysis is then used to ensure the profit potential of that trend. | <urn:uuid:1147ae05-89d8-45da-beea-e6cce50c711b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stockdiamond.com/Beginners-Guide/what-is-technical-analysis.html?enable_sifr=disable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92692 | 232 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Radiation readings at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant grounds were unchanged Monday after workers opened the doors to reactor unit 2.The doors were opened gradually between Sunday night and Monday morning, Japan time, to minimize airborne dust. Readings on plant grounds afterward did not show a rise in radiation, the Asahi Shimbun reported.Tokyo Electric Power Co. undertook the operation to reduce high humidity levels complicating work in the unit. The utility reported humidity has dropped from nearly 100 percent to below 70 percent. Four workers took readings inside the unit after the doors opened. The next step will be to adjust gauges in the building as part of efforts to control reactors that lost safety systems following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.TEPCO told regulators it expected opening the doors to unit 2 would release 1.6 billion becquerels of radioactive contaminants, with radiation levels on plant grounds increasing by a maximum of 0.0014 microsieverts per hour. Earlier, TEPCO has opened the external doors to the unit 1 reactor building, which was expected to release less radiation into the environment than unit 2.
(Photo: Partially opened airlock at Fukushima Daiichi unit 2, shown at 5 a.m., June 20. Source: TEPCO)
If you call 1.6 BILLION Barquels a small amount then your rite.
1.6 billion barquels? That Is the new safe level for exposure. Stand by for updates.
I'm suprised they didn't send in children wearing dosimeters.
One gram of naturally occuring radium 226 emits 37 billion becquerels(1 curie) , the average human being emits between 4,000 to 6,000 becquerels and 1 kg of granite emits about 1,000 becquerels.
So Tepco released the equivalent of less then 1/10th of a gram of radium, or 400,000 people or about the same as 1800 metric tons of granite.
harrywr2 Tue, Jun 21 2011 3:31 PM
"One gram of naturally occuring radium 226 emits 37 billion becquerels(1 curie) , the average human being emits between 4,000 to 6,000 becquerels and 1 kg of granite emits about 1,000 becquerels.
So Tepco released the equivalent of less then 1/10th of a gram of radium, or 400,000 people or about the same as 1800 metric tons of granite."
Really....I've never read anything like that before...source of this info please.
Please see any decent modern physics textbook, or
If I recall correctly "Nuclear Engineering" by LaMarsh should have a fairly good table of activity levels.
By the way, as we all know bananas have an affinity for absorbing potassium. Natural potassium (due to the K-40 isotope) has an activity on the order of 31 or do Bq per gram (recall: 1 Bq equals one disintegration per second, this is a VERY small unit of measurement). One banana has about half a gram of potassium. This yields a dose of about 0.078uSv/banana, call it 0.1uSv/banana rounded up. Therefore we're talking about releasing a bit over 106 million bananas into the environment.
(sarcasm on) For a sense of scale, Per UN numbers, something like 16 million tons of these highly radioactive sources were wantonly produced and exported worldwide. I can't remember the mass of a banana offhand, but gee - 16 megatons of bananas is a lot more than 106 million. Obviously we must eliminate this scourge! (sarcasm off) | <urn:uuid:6307845e-7e05-44ac-9061-0109415dc08a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2011/06/21/humidity-drops-as-doors-open-at-fukushima-unit_2c00_-radiation-release-small-062202.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926052 | 769 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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A tooth patch may be just what many people are looking for to improve their smile.
Japanese scientists have come up with a tooth patch that could be applied to make one’s teeth whiter. The patch could also aid people that suffer from any type of tooth sensitivity.
The sheet, which is just 0.004 mm, is made of hydroxyapatite, the main mineral in tooth enamel.
To formulate the patch, lasers were pointed at compressed blocks of the mineral in a vacuum to make individual particles pop out. The particles then fell onto a separate block of salt. This was later heated to crystallize the components.
After the salt cube was dissolved in water, the dried tooth patch was left.
The patch is also invisible, so people wouldn’t notice it when it’s in the mouth. The patch, however, can take an extensive period time of time—possibly a full day—to stick to the teeth in an optimal fashion.
The patch won’t be ready for usage for a while, however. It will be at least three years before the patch could even be used for cosmetic purposes. | <urn:uuid:c7b896a3-94ed-4184-b3ed-93fbb7b0deef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dentistrytoday.com/todays-dental-news/8144-tooth-patch-may-aid-whitening | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971688 | 257 | 2.921875 | 3 |
17-foot pregnant python with 87 eggs found in Florida everglades
A 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python found in the Florida Everglades set a state record for both its size and the 87 eggs it was carrying, according to an official at the national park.
The 164.5-pound (74.6-kilogram) snake was found, tagged and released in March as a part of a program to study invasive species in the Everglades. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida's Gainesville campus recaptured the python in April and discovered the eggs during an examination Friday, said Linda Friar, public information officer for Everglades National Park.
"One of the important facts about this animal is its reproductive capability," said Skip Snow, a park wildlife biologist. "There are not many records of how many eggs a large female snake carries in the wild. This shows they're a really reproductive animal, which aids in their invasiveness."
A species is found to be invasive if it causes economic damage, environmental harm or threatens human health, according to the Agriculture Department. The Burmese python was deemed an injurious species this year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The designation prohibits importation and interstate transportation of the animal without a permit.
Florida's invasive reptile and amphibian crisis is the world's worst, according to the statement. Burmese pythons are known to feed on large animals, including alligators and deer.
The snakes are indigenous to Southeast Asia and are believed to have entered the Everglades through both intentional and accidental pet releases, according to the statement. About 50 Burmese pythons have been removed from in and around Everglades National Park in 2012.
"This snake has adapted to this ecosystem and is reproducing," Friar said. Given the large area covered by the Everglades, chances of eradicating the species are not good: "There's no clear strategy." | <urn:uuid:2a767908-84ad-43ef-8bc8-a08a00323a44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/17-foot-pregnant-python-with-87-eggs-found-in-florida-everglades-1.3904567 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95767 | 413 | 2.96875 | 3 |
SECRET footage of Fraser Island's World War II commando school has turned up 65 years later.
The historic colour film, shot between February and July 1944, includes never-before-seen footage of Australia's Z Special Unit in training. The commandos are seen handling foldboats, demolitions, weapons, signals, parachuting and exercising jungle craft.
“I've been working on restoring this rare footage over 18 months,” said Craig Brown, senior research analyst with the Australian Bunker and Military Museum, which until recently shared premises with Maryborough's McMillan Lighthorse and Military Museum under Mavis Bank house.
The museum at Mavis Bank has closed and the curator, Rob McMillan-Kay, has the displays in storage while he searches for new premises.
“The Z Special Unit film is now complete and we've put it on to a DVD that runs for more than an hour,” Mr Brown said yesterday.
“We will use the money we get from marketing the DVD to help fund new museum premises.”
During the war Fraser Island and Hervey Bay were used as training grounds for the famous Z Special Unit.
Embarking on an old Japanese fish carrier, Kofuku Naru, which was renamed Krait, Z Special Unit managed to get into Singapore Harbour where they attached limpet mines to Japanese vessels. In one night in September, 1943, they blew up more than 38,000 tons of Japanese ships and managed to return to Australia.
At Dayman Point a memorial dedicated to the Z Special Unit men draws hundreds of visitors.
The museum's director, Daniel Hultgren, said wartime maps of the Fraser Commando School and training manuals had also been turned up.
Not one of the Z Special Unit veterans knew the footage even existed. On Anzac Day Mr Brown took copies of the DVD to a Sydney Z Special Unit dinner and presented the handful of veterans there with a copy each.
“They were very very moved,” Mr Brown said. “It was the first time since a special screening on Fraser Island in 1945 that they had seen the footage.”
A former Z Special Unit trainer on the island, Frank Doyle, who now lives on the Sunshine Coast, said he had received a phone call from Mr Hultgren a month ago, telling him about the discovery.
“I couldn't believe my ears.”
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To the Discussion Leader
Questions given below are suggested to help you, but don’t feel that you necessarily must follow this breakdown. This is only one way of planning your discussion or forum talk. As a matter of fact, you will probably find enough discussable material in each of the sections below to fill an hour’s meeting. You ought to keep in mind the possibility of holding two or three meetings based on material in this pamphlet.
If you are not already familiar with EM 1, GI Roundtable: Guide for Discussion Leaders, get a copy for ready reference. It contains practical suggestions for organizing discussion and forum programs as well as many common-sense hints on how to conduct discussion meetings. EM 90, GI Radio Roundtable contains valuable material on how to broadcast -forum and discussion programs.
Have a wall map of the Western Hemisphere put up somewhere in a place visible to everybody in your meeting. Draw a rough one on wrapping paper if necessary. It will help you clear up many important points: for example, that Latin America is by no means all tropical or that many of its nations are nearer neighbors to Europe than to us.
Questions for Discussion
What is the Good Neighbor policy? Has it a long or a short history? Has the Monroe Doctrine something to do with it? Is it likely to be a permanent basis for our relations with Latin-American countries? Why? Have Latin-American nations reasons for questioning whether our Good Neighbor attitude toward them will continue? Was there justification for our interventions in Latin America after the Spanish-American War? Has the Good Neighbor policy helped our current war effort? Has Latin-American cooperation with us increased between the two World Wars? Why? Can the policy be properly called “enlightened selfishness”? What do you think is its chief objective? Do you think that most United States citizens believe it is a good policy? Do you think it is necessary for Latin Americans and North Americans to like each other in order to cooperate for hemisphere security?
Are Latin-American countries alike? How many countries are there in Latin America? To what extent do they differ from each other? Are there similarities between them? What do the people do for a living? Do you think United States citizens have a pretty good idea about what these South American nations are like? Why do you think so? Do South and Central Americans like to be called Latin Americans? Do you think we ought to stop using the term? What should we use in its place? Are there some American republics that try to dominate others? Will there be a future for American business below the Rio Grande after the war? If there are obstacles to this, is it possible for them to be removed? Why do some people think that an industrialized Latin America would be a more democratic Latin America?
Should the United States government continue to foster cultural relations with its southern neighbors? Are these republics more our neighbors than they are neighbors of Europe? Have they close ties with Europe? Blood ties? Economic ties? What have we done to foster understanding between us and citizens of Latin-American republics? Have our efforts produced greater international understanding? Why are inter-American economic relations difficult to develop? Do the same reasons apply to political relations? Why? If it is hard to maintain close relations, why do we try? What is the extent of German influence in South America? Is Argentina pro-Nazi or pro-Argentine? Is success in fostering cultural relations between us and other American nations essential to the Good Neighbor policy? | <urn:uuid:36c9d7cb-8571-4bb9-8637-cd65f712d186> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.historians.org/projects/GIRoundtable/Good_Neighbor/GoodNeighbor_Discuss.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950385 | 715 | 3.171875 | 3 |
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News & Events
July 23, 2012
Some 250 physical education teachers and administrators from across the country will gather at UNC Asheville for a five-day institute designed to help schools use limited resources to improve physical education and obesity prevention programs for grades K-12. The N.C. Center for Health & Wellness at UNC Asheville will host the National PE Institute, July 30-August 3, at the Sherrill Center.
"Typically, there is so much focus on star athletes and the sports they play," said Artie Kamiya, National PE Institute co-chair. "At this inaugural event, we want to start a new chapter in the battle against childhood obesity by helping PE teachers activate all of their students with a wider variety of games, sports and exercises that can be continued through life."
"Obesity and unhealthy lifestyles can negatively impact not just health, but academic performance, and is an economic drain on North Carolina and the entire nation," said David Gardner, N.C. Center for Health and Wellness executive director. "The institute's goal is promoting activity for all children, and we are pleased to have state and national leaders participating, including June Atkinson, State Superintendent of N.C. Public Schools, and Shellie Pfohl, executive director of the President's Council for Fitness, Sports and Nutrition."
The National PE Institute, modeled on practices and strategies promoted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Association for Sport and Physical Education, will include participatory workshops and demonstrations as well as discussions and presentations by physical education leaders from across the United States. Jump rope, dance, juggling, cup stacking, geomotion and exergaming are some of the activities that will be featured at the institute. Click here for schedule highlights. | <urn:uuid:a30dd309-ec9e-485f-a787-8097b501cfca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unca.edu/news-events/news/2012/7/national-physical-education-institute-unc-asheville-focus-obesity-prevention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957647 | 355 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Lance Armstrong is losing the seven cycling titles that made him a legend.
The International Cycling Union announced Monday that Armstrong is being stripped of his Tour de France titles.
"Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling," said the union's president, Pat McQuaid, announcing that Armstrong is banned from the sport.
The decision follows this month's finding by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that there is "overwhelming" evidence that Armstrong was involved as a professional cyclist in "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program."
McQuaid said he was "sickened" by the report.
But he emphasized, "Cycling has a future."
Armstrong's story -- that of a cancer survivor who tamed the grueling three-week race more than any other cyclist before or since -- had made him a household name. But allegations of doping long dogged his career.
Then came this month's finding by the USADA.
The agency announced it would ban Armstrong from the sport for life and strip him of his results dating from 1998. The decision wiped out 14 years of his career.
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Definition: similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things
Definition: similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things
Sentences Containing 'analogy'
Photo Neurdein -RRB- There is some analogy between straight lines and flat tones, and curved lines and gradated tones.
And the graceful charm of curved lines swinging in harmonious rhythm through a composition has its analogy in gradated tones.
Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.
The hardiness of their ordinary life prepares them for the fatigues of war, to some of which their necessary occupations bear a great analogy.
Lamarck seems to have been chiefly led to his conclusion on the gradual change of species, by the difficulty of distinguishing species and varieties, by the almost perfect gradation of forms in certain groups, and by the analogy of domestic productions.
He argues from the analogy of domestic productions, from the changes which the embryos of many species undergo, from the difficulty of distinguishing species and varieties, and from the principle of general gradation, that species have been modified; and he attributes the modification to the change of circumstances.
Referring to such cases, he remarks, "It is difficult to comprehend the meaning of such facts as these, if we suppose that each species of animal and plant, or each great type of organisation, was formed and placed upon the surface of the globe at long intervals by a distinct act of creative power; and it is well to recollect that such an assumption is as unsupported by tradition or revelation as it is opposed to the general analogy of nature.
In very many cases, however, one form is ranked as a variety of another, not because the intermediate links have actually been found, but because analogy leads the observer to suppose either that they do now somewhere exist, or may formerly have existed; and here a wide door for the entry of doubt and conjecture is opened.
When he comes to study allied forms brought from countries not now continuous, in which case he cannot hope to find intermediate links, he will be compelled to trust almost entirely to analogy, and his difficulties will rise to a climax.
We have seen that there is no infallible criterion by which to distinguish species and well-marked varieties; and when intermediate links have not been found between doubtful forms, naturalists are compelled to come to a determination by the amount of difference between them, judging by analogy whether or not the amount suffices to raise one or both to the rank of species.
In all these respects the species of large genera present a strong analogy with varieties.
This is certainly not the case if we look at the two whole faunas; with respect to the insects alone, Schiodte has remarked: "We are accordingly prevented from considering the entire phenomenon in any other light than something purely local, and the similarity which is exhibited in a few forms between the Mammoth Cave (in Kentucky) and the caves in Carniola, otherwise than as a very plain expression of that analogy which subsists generally between the fauna of Europe and of North America."
That habit or custom has some influence, I must believe, both from analogy and from the incessant advice given in agricultural works, even in the ancient Encyclopaedias of China, to be very cautious in transporting animals from one district to another.
Let the climate and vegetation change, let other competing rodents or new beasts of prey immigrate, or old ones become modified, and all analogy would lead us to believe that some, at least, of the squirrels would decrease in numbers or become exterminated, unless they also become modified and improved in structure in a corresponding manner.
It is generally admitted that there exists between these organs and ordinary muscle a close analogy, in intimate structure, in the distribution of the nerves, and in the manner in which they are acted on by various reagents.
Judging from analogy, the tendency to distortion would no doubt be increased through the principle of inheritance.
Hence, in order that a new species should suddenly appear in the manner supposed by Mr. Mivart, it is almost necessary to believe, in opposition to all analogy, that several wonderfully changed individuals appeared simultaneously within the same district.
And analogy would lead us to believe that the young thus reared would be apt to follow by inheritance the occasional and aberrant habit of their mother, and in their turn would be apt to lay their eggs in other birds' nests, and thus be more successful in rearing their young.
In the simpler case of neuter insects all of one caste, which, as I believe, have been rendered different from the fertile males and females through natural selection, we may conclude from the analogy of ordinary variations, that the successive, slight, profitable modifications did not first arise in all the neuters in the same nest, but in some few alone; and that by the survival of the communities with females which produced most neuters having the advantageous modification, all the neuters ultimately came to be thus characterized.
It is, for instance, almost certain that our dogs are descended from several wild stocks; yet, with perhaps the exception of certain indigenous domestic dogs of South America, all are quite fertile together; but analogy makes me greatly doubt, whether the several aboriginal species would at first have freely bred together and have produced quite fertile hybrids.
On the supposition of the fossil horse still existing as a rare species, we might have felt certain, from the analogy of all other mammals, even of the slow-breeding elephant, and from the history of the naturalisation of the domestic horse in South America, that under more favourable conditions it would in a very few years have stocked the whole continent.
Now this bird must often have flown with its stomach thus well stocked to distant ponds, and, then getting a hearty meal of fish, analogy makes me believe that it would have rejected the seeds in the pellet in a fit state for germination.
It is, however, often difficult to distinguish between rudimentary and nascent organs; for we can judge only by analogy whether a part is capable of further development, in which case alone it deserves to be called nascent.
Rudimentary organs may be utterly aborted; and this implies, that in certain animals or plants, parts are entirely absent which analogy would lead us to expect to find in them, and which are occasionally found in monstrous individuals.
Analogy from the consideration of dimorphic and trimorphic plants clearly leads to the same conclusion, for when the forms are illegitimately united, they yield few or no seed, and their offspring are more or less sterile; and these forms belong to the same undoubted species, and differ from each other in no respect except in their reproductive organs and functions.
Most of the varieties which have been experimented on have been produced under domestication; and as domestication (I do not mean mere confinement) almost certainly tends to eliminate that sterility which, judging from analogy, would have affected the parent-species if intercrossed, we ought not to expect that domestication would likewise induce sterility in their modified descendants when crossed.
But this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted.
Such events, as bear little analogy to the common course of nature, are also readily confessed to be known only by experience; nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments _a priori_.
It is confessed, that the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce the principles, productive of natural phenomena, to a greater simplicity, and to resolve the many particular effects into a few general causes, by means of reasonings from analogy, experience, and observation.
All our reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on a species of Analogy, which leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we have observed to result from similar causes.
Where the causes are entirely similar, the analogy is perfect, and the inference, drawn from it, is regarded as certain and conclusive: nor does any man ever entertain a doubt, where he sees a piece of iron, that it will have weight and cohesion of parts; as in all other instances, which have ever fallen under his observation.
But where the objects have not so exact a similarity, the analogy is less perfect, and the inference is less conclusive; though still it has some force, in proportion to the degree of similarity and resemblance.
Were this doubtful with regard to men, it seems to admit of no question with regard to the brute creation; and the conclusion being once firmly established in the one, we have a strong presumption, from all the rules of analogy, that it ought to be universally admitted, without any exception or reserve.
One may sometimes conjecture from analogy what will follow; but still this is but conjecture.
And it must be confessed, that, in the present case of freezing, the event follows contrary to the rules of analogy, and is such as a rational Indian would not look for.
The Deity is known to us only by his productions, and is a single being in the universe, not comprehended under any species or genus, from whose experienced attributes or qualities, we can, by analogy, infer any attribute or quality in him.
But, besides that the ordinary course of nature may convince us, that almost everything is regulated by principles and maxims very different from ours; besides this, I say, it must evidently appear contrary to all rules of analogy to reason, from the intentions and projects of men, to those of a Being so different, and so much superior.
But this method of reasoning can never have place with regard to a Being, so remote and incomprehensible, who bears much less analogy to any other being in the universe than the sun to a waxen taper, and who discovers himself only by some faint traces or outlines, beyond which we have no authority to ascribe to him any attribute or perfection.
If experience and observation and analogy be, indeed, the only guides which we can reasonably follow in inferences of this nature; both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and resemblance to other effects and causes, which we know, and which we have found, in many instances, to be conjoined with each other.
I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover the least analogy between the two sciences; unless those people suppose, that because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest, therefore the regulation and management of the world require no more abilities than the handling and turning of a globe; but I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.
The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?
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Overview of the Survivor Benefit Plan
Retired pay stops when you die!
The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) helps make up for the loss of part of this income. It pays your eligible survivors an inflation-adjusted monthly income.
You must pay premiums for SBP coverage once you retire. Premiums are taken by reducing retired pay, so they don't count as income. This means less tax and less out-of-pocket cost for SBP. Also, using conservative fiscal assumptions, the overall plan is partially funded by the government, so the average premiums are well below cost. This subsidy means an attractive plan for most people. The subsidy is an average and should not be considered to apply in every case.
Basic SBP for a spouse pays a benefit equal to 55 percent of your retired pay.
Eligible children may also be SBP beneficiaries, either alone or added to spouse coverage. In the latter case, the children get benefits only if the spouse dies or remarries before age 55. Eligible children equally divide a benefit equal to 55 percent of your retired pay. Child coverage is relatively inexpensive because children get benefits only while they are still your dependents.
You may choose coverage for a former spouse or, if you have no spouse or children, you may be able to cover an "insurable interest" (such as, a business partner or parent).
SBP As Insurance And Other Estate Planning Information
We buy insurance as a way to cope with major financial risks. We buy it to protect us from the financial hardships of events we can't foresee, like car wrecks and house fires. It protects our valuable assets.
Your retired pay is one such valuable asset. Since it stops when you die and you can't foresee when that will be, it may be useful to insure it.
SBP is a way to do this; it is a form of life insurance for part of your retired pay. But SBP premiums and benefits differ from those of most other insurance plans.
Like life insurance, SBP protects your survivors against complete loss of financial security when you die. But, SBP does more! It also protects your survivor against the possibility of outliving the benefit. Many insurance plans pay only a fixed benefit that may run out years before the survivor dies.
Besides long life, another unpredictable reason your survivor may outlive the benefits is INFLATION! SBP protects against this risk through the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). Inflation may be the biggest financial uncertainty of all. It erodes the value of fixed incomes, making them worth less and less as time goes by. Few, if any, private insurance plans will fully insure your survivor against the ravages of inflation.
In fact, no known insurance company has guaranteed to match SBP benefits at equal cost or less. One reason is SBP premiums have a built-in discount, making the plan a good buy for most people. Plus, a private insurer needs to cover administrative expenses and make a profit and these are not accounted for in SBP premiums, thus increasing the subsidy.
And, SBP premiums reduce your taxable income and cut your out-of-pocket cost for coverage. SBP benefits are taxed as income to the survivor, but the tax rate should be less than you now pay. Most insurance plans are the reverse; premiums are paid from after-tax income, while survivors are not taxed on the proceeds.
In effect then, SBP protects part of your retired pay against the risks of:
Still, SBP alone is not a complete estate plan. Other insurance and investments are important in meeting needs outside the scope of SBP. For example, SBP does not have a lump sum benefit that some survivors may need to meet immediate expenses upon a member's death.
On the other hand, insurance and investments without SBP may be less than adequate. Even if they could duplicate SBP, investments may be much more risky and rely on a degree of financial expertise many don't have. Consider everything carefully. Don't expect SBP to do it all, but give it full credit for what it does.
Is SBP a Good Buy?
Given the expected subsidy, the answer to this question for most retirees is yes! Whether SBP is a good buy for you depends on personal preferences and your age, sex, and health compared to your beneficiary's. Beyond this, the answer lies in three questions you should ask yourself.
First, is SBP a product I can use? Personal preferences may control your answer, but a subsidized lifetime inflation-protected income is very attractive to most people.
Second, how much SBP can I use? If you know when you'll die, how long your survivor will outlive you and how much inflation will occur, you have the answer. The unknown future is the problem, but SBP meets the need! Even if you die shortly after you retire and your spouse lives for 50 more years and if inflation is higher than expected, SBP will still be paying. It will probably be paying a lot more than anyone ever expected because inflation has such a strong impact over a long period of time. In fact, survivors who began to get SBP benefits in the early 1970s have seen their benefits more than tripled through annual COLAs!
Third, how much SBP can I afford? The benefits do carry a price tag, but due to the subsidy and lack of administrative costs and profit, the plan should be attractive for most members. And remember: The tax advantage on premiums reduces your out-of-pocket cost.
Caution! Some people think they can join SBP years after they retire, during a so-called "open season." In the 25-plus-year history of SBP, only four times have retirees had a second chance at SBP. Each time was after major plan improvements. The second time, premiums were raised for new joiners to help make up for the missed premiums. The third time, new joiners were required to pay all missed premiums with interest, plus an additional amount to protect the solvency of the Plan. Open enrollment elections have typically required a period of time (two years) before the election is actually effective. This prevents too much adverse election (people joining with short life expectations).
Don't count on an open season. Although an open season may be enacted by special law, they are not part of the regular Plan. No more are expected, and it won't give your survivors any peace of mind.
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Term insurance is a type of life insurance policy that is incredibly complicated but also very important. What you may not have known is that when you take out a life insurance policy you must think about how long you want it to last for. This may seem strange, since most people think life insurance policies are a lifetime commitment however this is not always the case.
Unemployment insurance is a great form of insurance to take out in the current economic climate. The main benefit of it is that it gives short term income for workers who are currently unemployed through no fault of their own. However in order to be eligible for unemployment insurance, you need to be registered at the fund and ready and willing to work. One example of when this type of insurance would come into play is if someone is injured due to a work related situation and unable to work for a longer period of time.
Unemployment Insurance in New York
What are Roth IRAs?
IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account which is a retirement plan specifically for United States citizens and taxation on the plan demands certain criteria that need to be obliged to. This usually means that contributions will not be taxed. Roth is derived from the chief legislative sponsor, Senator William Roth, of the Tax Payer Relief Act of 1997.
Roth IRA Contribution Limits
Life insurance is one of those necessary evils in life that everyone knows they need, but few people actually understand. When it comes to your life insurance, there are so many options available that it can often be overwhelming. All you are concerned about is making sure that your loved ones are taken care of should anything ever happen to you, but it gets very complicated very quickly. Term life insurance is a great option to have in place if you are young and healthy or even just for a simple policy that gives you the basics without all the bells and whistles. Read more »
Whole life insurance, as its name implies, is a life insurance policy that is put in place for the policy holder’s entire life. The policy is not in place for a limited time and premiums are generally paid on a yearly basis. This type of policy is generally favored by those who are older and more concerned about their loved ones being taken care of once they are gone. Read more »
When you’re getting life insurance put together, the only thing more confusing that the insurance itself is the number of companies offering it. There are so many companies, that looking up quotes online is often difficult; you just don’t know where to start. There are a few companies whose names you are probably familiar with, and this is often a good place to start. Read more »
While each one of us leads a very different life, each filled with different memories, trials, and lessons, there is one thing that we can all agree on; life is unpredictable. Tomorrow is never a guarantee and the older we get, the more we become concerned about what happens to our loved ones after we are gone. Nobody can predict what will happen, so it is never too soon to make sure that the necessary finances are in place to ensure that our loved ones are taken care of, even after we are gone. Read more » | <urn:uuid:8cd29918-42f9-45ce-b14f-2fa2e36d4746> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://insurancequotesby.com/life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974575 | 648 | 2.078125 | 2 |
1 For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel. 2 But in the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to see the king of Israel. 3 The king of Israel had said to his officials, "Don't you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?"
4 So he asked Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?"
4 Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 5 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "First seek the counsel of the Lord."
6 So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, "Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?"
6 "Go," they answered, "for the Lord will give it into the king's hand."
7 But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no longer a prophet of the Lord here whom we can inquire of ?"
8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah."
8 "The king should not say such a thing," Jehoshaphat replied.
9 So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, "Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once."
10 Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them. 11 Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, "This is what the Lord says: 'With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' "
12 All the other prophets were prophesying the same thing. "Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious," they said, "for the Lord will give it into the king's hand."
13 The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably."
14 But Micaiah said, "As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what the Lord tells me."1Ki 18:10,15
15 When he arrived, the king asked him, "Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?"
15 "Attack and be victorious," he answered, "for the Lord will give it into the king's hand."
16 The king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?"
17 Then Micaiah answered, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, 'These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' "
18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?"
19 Micaiah continued, "Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the hostMt 18:10; Heb 1:7,14 of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. 20 And the Lord said, 'Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?'
22 " 'By what means?' the Lord asked.
22 " 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said.
22 " 'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the Lord. 'Go and do it.'
23 "So now the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you."
25 Micaiah replied, "You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room."
26 The king of Israel then ordered, "Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son 27 and say, 'This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' "
28 Micaiah declared, "If you ever return safely, the Lord has not spoken through me." Then he added, "Mark my words, all you people!"
29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead. 30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
31 Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, "Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel." 32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, "Surely this is the king of Israel." So they turned to attack him, but when Jehoshaphat cried out, 33 the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel and stopped pursuing him.
34 But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told his chariot driver, "Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded." 35 All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died. 36 As the sun was setting, a cry spread through the army: "Everyone to your own town; everyone to your land!"
37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried him there. 38 They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),[b] and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.
39 As for the other events of Ahab's reign, including all he did, the palace he built and inlaid with ivory, and the cities he fortified, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? 40 Ahab rested with his ancestors. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.
41 Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. 43 In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 43 +0This sentence (22:43b) is numbered 22:44 in Hebrew texts.+1 43 The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. 43 +022:44-53 is numbered 22:45-54 in Hebrew texts.+1 44 Jehoshaphat was also at peace with the king of Israel.
45 As for the other events of Jehoshaphat's reign, the things he achieved and his military exploits, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 46 He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa. 47 There was then no king in Edom; a provincial governor ruled.
48 Now Jehoshaphat built a fleet of trading ships[c] to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail—they were wrecked at Ezion Geber. 49 At that time Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my men sail with yours," but Jehoshaphat refused.
50 Then Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Jehoram his son succeeded him as king.
51 Ahaziah King of Israel
51 Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. 52 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, because he followed the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 53 He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.
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10.22.12 Gone To Seed
photos by gluttonforlife
A recent visit to our friends' farm
up near the Vermont border yielded several delightful items from their bountiful garden, including a curvaceous butternut squash and a great big, beautiful sunflower head. Birds (or mice?) had already had their way with some of the purplish seeds but there were still plenty left. I lopped the yellow-fringed head off the tall, top-heavy plant, ferried it home and left it to dry in the porch for a few days. Then I turned it upside down, banged and clawed all the seeds out and looked into the proper roasting technique.
It suddenly came to me that I had eaten a lot of sunflower seeds in junior high. They were sort of a craze then. Maybe this was just in hippie Santa Cruz? I remember my mother saying it was not ladylike to spit out the shells. Classic. My affection for these seeds has been renewed. I enjoy the complicated dance tongue and teeth must do to winnow out that little nugget of roasted deliciousness. And if the shells are imbued with some addictively salty flavor, so much the better.
Sunflowers are small masterpieces, from afar and up close. One day I would like to see a whole field of them, stretching away like a blanket of sunshine. The seeds make a great snack. They're full of polyunsaturated oil and are an excellent source of vitamin E. This is the body's primary fat-soluble antioxidant and it helps prevent cardiovascular disease. They are also rich in phytosterols, plant-based compounds that have a chemical structure very similar to cholesterol but actually help reduce it, as well as enhance immune response and decrease risk of certain cancers. All in all, nothing to sneeze at. The little yellow protuberances are the stamens, which are evidently edible, if you believe Atera's chef Matthew Lightner (see image #6 in this article
). Sadly, I discovered this too late to sample them.
field of seeds
It's recommended that you soak sunflower seeds in a brine overnight before roasting them, so they are imbued with salt. I did that, but I also added a bit more seasoned salt after roasting. The whole thing is a very simple process, once you've gone through the slightly arduous task of removing them from the flower head.
A batch of roasted sunflower seeds is like money in your snack bank. They travel well, especially by car, as you can spit the shells out the window.
the essence of bacon
After a half hour or so in the oven, I removed my seeds and sprinkled them with a vibrant bacon bbq salt
, which actually contains no bacon whatsoever. It's a scintillating blend of smoked salt, brown sugar, smoked paprika, chipotle and a bunch of other non-animal stuff that mimics the taste of smoked pig. Go figure.
Consider rediscovering the sunflower seed. If they seem like too much bother, you can always buy them already roasted, shelled and salted, and snack on a handful now and then, or toss them into salads and stir-fries. Or get some shelled raw ones and make this sunflower seed butter
, which seems like just the thing to spread on toast or stir into your oatmeal on a cold, foggy morning. And that, my friends, requires absolutely no unladylike spitting.
Sunflower Seeds, Roasted & Seasoned
— raw sunflower seeds in the shell
— sea salt
— seasoned salt
Place your sunflower seeds in a large bowl and make enough brine to cover them, combining 1/4-1/2 cup sea salt to every 3 cups water. Soak overnight.
In the morning, drain well and spread out in a single layer on a baking sheet, patting the seeds dry with a paper towel. Roast in a 300-degree oven for about 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. Test a seed to make sure it's done to your liking.
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by Michelle Sutton-Kerchner
“See you later!” is often followed by “Stay hydrated!” on these 100-degree days. With summer’s baking temperatures, cool yourself from the inside out …
Hydration is essential for our health. It helps prevent fatigue (including of our organs), eliminates toxins from the body, and quenches thirst. You can also maximize your fitness routine by staying hydrated. Proper hydration allows your body to perform at its best. In hot months, we need to be especially diligent about replacing fluids lost through exposure to the heat. This loss is compounded during exercise.
How Dehydration Affects Exercise
Exercising while dehydrated compromises performance. Your heart rate increases eight beats per minute for every liter of sweat lost. Hence, the suggestion to consume two cups of water for every pound of fluid lost during your workout session. This can be accomplished by weighing yourself before and after exercising during high-intensity and long-duration workouts.
The body cools itself through perspiration. Without enough water in your body, perspiration becomes impossible and you overheat. After only 30 minutes of exercise, an increase in heart rate combines with this insufficient cooling and causes elevated body temperatures. In addition to sacrificed performance through muscle weakness and fatigue, you become susceptible to heat-related illnesses.
Avoid dizziness, fatigue, and, ultimately, having to cut your workout short as a result of these and other symptoms of dehydration. Bring your water bottle along.
In addition to sipping water throughout your workout, two to three cups of water are recommended pre- and post-workout. Experts also suggest starting each day with a large glass of water, regardless of activities planned for that day.
How Fluids Help
Water allows muscles to remain toned. It helps them in their natural ability to contract. Well hydrated, the body can function properly by keeping fluids in perfect balance. This harmony allows more fat to be used as fuel so each workout is optimized.
Many rush to the Center without having anything to drink or eat, especially some dieters who mistakenly think skipping a meal and exercising accelerates weight loss. The opposite is true: The body needs fuel and fluids to function properly and efficiently.
Common Signs of Dehydration
If you suspect you’re becoming dehydrated, it’s important to act quickly. Heat-related illnesses can strain the body’s performance to the point of needing emergency care. Common signs of dehydration include:
- Infrequent urination or dark yellow, sometimes brownish urine. The clearer the urine, the better hydrated.
- Extreme thirst and dry mouth.
- Lack of tears when crying.
- Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting.
Whether experiencing these symptoms during a workout or otherwise, immediately consume clear fluids, preferably in a cool location. The Center’s nurse can check your vital signs and assist you in becoming hydrated during such an occurrence. Exercise often requires replenishment of glycogen stores and electrolytes, along with the fluids. Sports drinks are recommended in these cases. Consider diluting sports drinks with water if sugar content is high. High sugar content can delay absorption.
Did You Know?
Humidity adds to the risk of dehydration. Humid air prohibits effective evaporation of sweat so it can’t cool you as it normally would. This leads to increased body temperature and the need for more fluids.
Foods to Quench Your Thirst
Water can be boring. Many even find adequate water consumption to be a daunting task. Retail capitalized on this distaste. You can now purchase flavored water, water with and without vitamins and minerals, and even flavored powders promising to jazz up any random cupful. Although you won’t find this selection in a crisp mountain spring, it might make consumption tolerable for those who’d rather sip Snapple.
Consider replenishing fluids with foods. Not often thought of as an option, many fruits and veggies contain sufficient amounts of water. They’re also refreshing when temps are high and hunger is evading you. Fruits high in water content include watermelon, plums, cantaloupe, kiwi, grapefruit, berries, and apples. Broccoli, cucumbers, celery, and peppers are good hydration vegetables. If hydrating with vegetables, it’s best to crunch on them raw. Cooking absorbs their natural moisture. Buying in-season produce results in less packaging time and more hydration benefits.
Heavy foods and dairy can make you feel queasy and more sluggish in the heat. Dense foods generate more heat. If you can’t do without your favorite summer scoop of ice cream, try replacing it with dairy-free sorbet.
Nuts and other salted snacks (in moderation) keep sodium levels stable. Complement these handfuls with a long drink of water. Almonds are loaded with benefits, including heart healthy ones, with nutrients that help keep up energy levels.
Soup is a great way to boost fluid level with the added benefit of nutrients. Choose broth-based varieties as opposed to chowders and bisques. Gazpacho is ideal for hot summer days, with its chilled, light tomato-based broth and fresh raw veggies. Its unique combination of crunchy solids and cool broth quenches hunger.
Avoid alcoholic and caffeinated beverages. Although an iced coffee or cold beer might seem like a satisfying solution on a hot day, these can actually dehydrate you. Be especially cautious if consumed during outdoor activities in the hot sun. If you do indulge, follow up with an equal serving of water.
Not Just from Sweating
The heat and humidity of summer, and any physical activity performed during it, increases opportunities for dehydration. However, hydration can also be an issue in other instances. Stomach illnesses that cause vomiting or diarrhea, fever viruses, and flu can leave one susceptible to dehydration. Monitor occasions when fluid intake does not adequately replace what is lost throughout the day. You may simply have gotten too busy and forgot, or lack access to safe drinking water during a hike or trip. Take preventative action.
Here’s to You
Never deny your body’s thirst. Whether you quench it with a piece of juicy fruit or a tall glass of water, heed the need. Cheers!
American Council on Exercise.
“Dehydration,” at www.mayoclinic.com.
“How Much Water Should You Drink?” by Elizabeth Quinn at www.about.com.
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Another finding, which appears to contradict a previous post:
While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that the advantage comes from girls’ superior verbal skills.
“People have always thought that males’ advantage is in math and spatial skills, and girls’ advantage is in language,” says Xinlin Zhou of Beijing Normal University, who cowrote the study with Wei Wei, Hao Lu, Hui Zhao, and Qi Dong of Beijing Normal University and Chuansheng Chen of the University of California-Irvine. “However, some parents and teachers in China say girls do arithmetic better than boys in primary school.”
Zhou and his colleagues did a series of tests with children ages 8 to 11 at 12 primary schools in and around Beijing. Indeed, girls outperformed boys in many math skills. They were better at arithmetic, including tasks like simple subtraction and complex multiplication. Girls were also better at numerosity comparison—making a quick estimate of which of two arrays had more dots in it. Girls outperformed boys at quickly recognizing the larger of two numbers and at completing a series of numbers (like “2 4 6 8”). Boys performed better at mentally rotating three-dimensional images.
Girls were also better at judging whether two words rhymed, and Zhou and his colleagues think this is the key to their better math performance. “Arithmetic and even advanced math needs verbal processing,” Zhou says. Counting is verbal; the multiplication table is memorized verbally, and when people are doing multiple-digit calculations, they hold the intermediate results in their memory as words.
“Better language skills could lead to more efficient verbal processing in arithmetic,” Zhou says. He thinks it might be possible to use these results to help both boys and girls learn math better. Boys could use more help with verbal strategies for learning math terms, while girls might benefit from more practice with spatial skills.
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In the fall of 2005, the Dalai Lama gave the inaugural Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC. There were over 30,000 neuroscientists registered for the meeting, and it seemed as if most of them attended the talk. The Dalai Lama’s address was designed to highlight the areas of convergence between neuroscience and Buddhist thought about the mind, and to many in the audience he clearly achieved his objective. There was some controversy over his being invited to deliver this lecture insofar as he is both a head of state and a religious leader, and for that reason he largely stuck to his prepared text. But he strayed from the text at least once, reminding the audience that not only was he a Buddhist monk but also an enthusiastic proponent of modern technology.
Elaborating, he shared a confidence with the audience, telling the audience of scientists that meditating was hard work for him (even though he meditates for 4 hours every morning), and that if neuroscientists were able to find a way to put electrodes in his brain and provide him with the same outcome as he gets from meditating, he would be an enthusiastic volunteer. It turns out that a recent set of experiments, from researchers at MIT and Stanford, moves us a step closer to making his wish a reality.
The Dalai Lama’s interest in neuroscience has been reciprocated by at least some members of the neuroscience community. Reasoning that studying the brains of people who meditate might lead to novel insights about the human brain, investigations of long-term meditators has been fertile ground for scientific investigation, with some of the more rigorous work emerging from Richard Davidson’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. From the perspective of neuroscience, meditation can be characterized as a series of mental exercises by which one strengthens one’s control over the workings of their own brain. The simplest of these meditation practices is ‘focused attention’ where one concentrates on a single object, for example one’s breath. When expert meditators practiced focused attention meditation, demonstrable changes were seen using fMRI in the networks of the brain that are known to modulate attention. A second set of experiments studied long-term meditators practicing ‘open monitoring meditation’, a more advanced meditation practice which in many ways is a form of metacognition: the objective is not to focus one’s attention but rather to use one’s brain to monitor the universe of mental experience without directing attention to any one task. The unexpected result of this experiment was that the EEG of long-term meditators exhibited much more gamma-synchrony than that of naive meditators. Moreover, normally human brains produce only short bursts of gamma-synchrony. What was most remarkable about this study was that long-term meditators were able to produce sustained gamma-activity in a manner that had never previously been observed in any other human. As such, sustained gamma activity has emerged as a proxy for at least some aspects of the meditative state.
But what causes gamma rhythm? And are there any potential benefits of sustained gamma-activity? The strongest hypothesis for the cellular mechanisms underlying generation of the gamma rhythm is that it is due to the activation of fast-spiking interneurons in the cerebral cortex. In two new papers to be published in Nature, the laboratories of Christopher Moore and Li-Huei Tsai at MIT and Karl Deisseroth at Stanford tested this hypothesis directly. The experimenters utilized optogenetics, developing custom-designed viruses to infect only the fast-spiking interneurons of either the prefrontal or barrel cortex in mice with genetically engineered, light-sensitive cation channels. Then, they inserted fine optical fibers into the relevant region of the cortex, allowing light to be delivered to the infected neurons and thereby activating only the fast-spiking interneurons. (In essence, this allowed them to switch particular brain cells on and off.) In both experiments, selectively stimulating the fast-spiking interneurons evoked gamma oscillations, thereby confirming the hypothesis that these neurons drive the gamma rhythm. | <urn:uuid:87f47178-ed82-4e5e-8f65-e0ccb7a172fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meditation-on-demand | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958289 | 854 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Asthma and Allergies – Preventative Maintenance For Asthma and Allergy Sufferers
There are multiple ways you can lessen your suffering to Asthma and Allergies. They are really very simple and simple to implement. Maintenance is the resolution to most problems and needs to be done on a regular basis. It is incredible how many problems I find all through an Environmental Inspection that could have been prevented by the homeowner or lessee. We will focus on the following areas:
4 Duct Work
1. Look at your filter in place and see if air is bypassing the filter. You can tell that by dirt lines around the edges of the filter. If so, the filter is the incorrect size or rated too high.
2. Check to see if the replacing filter changes the airflow of the system. It could be too high a rating.
3. Replace filter if it is affecting the airflow.
Do not store any chemicals in your home. It is vital that you properly dispose of any chemicals that have expired. Each City has a place to take expired chemicals and paints.
2. Always dispose of any chemicals that you don’t anticipate using before their expiration. Remember that chemicals at a snail’s pace leak out the container via the air. A note to the consumer, once the seal is broken, it can leak into the air.
1. Check bottom all sinks for leaks or dripping faucets.
2. Look behind the toilets for leaking toilet or water supply lines. Is the exhaust fan exhausting properly to the outside.
3. Check the edges of the shower door around the bath/shower for any moisture or toxic mold.
4. Look at your ceiling on a regular basis for any moisture stains or visible toxic mold stains.
Check the attic and crawl spaces for any moisture or staining that can lead to toxic mold. Do you smell any musty odors in house?
1. Check to see if any duct work is sweating with condensation on the exterior.
2. Check to see if any supply grills are sweating with condensation.
3. Check to see if any duct work is leaking.
1. Is there any pooling of water around the foundation? This is serious.
2. Keep the gutter system clean of leaves and debris.
3. Check gutter downspout extensions and make sure they are moving water away from the foundation.
4. After a rain storm, check for water pooling on window sills.
5. Check for cracks or any discoloration of the exterior walls. Fix cracks immediately.
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What is 36 feet tall and made out of hay? No, not a giant scarecrow.
The fine folks at Snugburys Ice Cream Farm, in Hurleston celebrate summer each year by building something gigantic. It started in 1998 with a giant Millennium Dome sculpture, then a replica of the Lovell telescope. Last year was a huge Big Ben clock and now this massive sculpture of a meerkat.
Chris Sadler and his wife Cheryl are the ones that come up with the design every year. A man named Mike Harper is the one that builds these sculptures. First he builds a steel skeleton that is then stuffed with hay.
"Everyone loves meerkats, especially my wife, so we thought it would be a good idea. We start planning it in January and then have a big push stuffing it at the end which takes about a month. People absolutely adore it – it says that it cheers them up, and it doesn’t cost them anything," says Harper.
I wonder what they do every year when it needs to come down. Do they pay some local arsonist to set it on fire and watch it burn? Do they bring in hundreds of horses and have a hay-eating party?
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Q. I am the mom of an 11th grader. I grew up and went to school outside of the United States, so it is very challenging for me to understand the whole U.S. higher education system. Would you please explain to me what the SAT and ACT are? What is the difference between those two? Which one does my daughter need to take in order to apply to a 4-year college?
A: Most colleges and universities in the United States require either the SAT or ACT (with writing) for admission as a first-year student. These are nationally administered examinations, each one about three hours long, which provide a general assessment of a student’s skills in mathematics, reading and vocabulary, and writing. The tests are structured differently and scored differently.
The SAT comes from the Educational Testing Service, headquartered in New Jersey, while the ACT comes from a company in Iowa. Originally, most students on the East Coast took the SAT, while in the Midwest and West the ACT was the preferred exam. It was merely a matter of geographic preference. But now that all information is online, students in all areas are trying both tests.
There are numerous differences between the tests. The ACT includes a section of questions related to science, but it is really about interpreting data. The ACT is also more straightforward in its knowledge-based approach. I suggest that you and your daughter look at the websites of each exam and try the sample questions. Some students simply feel more comfortable with one format than the other. Your daughter could also take both tests, and then compare her results. Colleges truly do not care which test an applicant takes! You can find complete information, plus practice questions, at the SAT and ACT websites.
Some students do well on these tests with minimal preparation; others score better after tutoring. Students may have tutoring and prep courses and still obtain modest scores. Some people are just better test-takers than others. While many colleges and universities value a standardized, objective test score in addition to an applicant’s academic record, other institutions find these tests of limited value. Those schools have made the submission of standardized test scores OPTIONAL. See a list of test optional schools on the FairTest website.
High school students usually take these exams in 11th grade and/or in the first semester of 12th grade. The city offers the PSAT (a practice test) to all sophomores and juniors free of charge in city schools. This year it will be given on Oct. 17. SAT and ACTs may be taken more than once (though three tries should be the limit!). The SAT has three sections, and colleges will add the three highest section scores if a student has taken the test more than once. The ACT has a “composite” score, and colleges will use the highest composite if an applicant submits more than one ACT result.
Despite all the hype about these scores, and all the advertising by test prep companies, the ACT or SAT result is NOT the most important factor in a student’s application. What really matters is the student’s academic performance - the school transcript. This record of curriculum and grades is always considered more strongly than a test score. Solid test scores are good to have – but a powerful transcript is more significant. Of course, the more selective the college or university, the higher every factor will need to be.
You might also want to make an appointment with your daughter’s college counselor at school to discuss which test might be more suitable, and how your daughter’s academic record might indicate which colleges are within reach. Most high schools start preparing students for the college search process in the middle of 11th grade, so you have plenty of time! | <urn:uuid:6539f62e-89b0-4d32-a40d-6c4654f6ae91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://insideschools.org/blog/item/1000454-college-counselor-act-vs-sat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965239 | 768 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Despite some rain in the forecast, another Spare the Air alert has been issued for Wednesday.
The edict prohibits the burning of wood, manufactured fire logs and other solid fuel indoors or outdoors throughout the Bay Area all day and all evening Wednesday.
It's the eighth such alert issed by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District since Jan. 1.
The ban comes even though the National Weather Service is forecasting rain during the day on Wednesday and possible showers Wednesday evening.
Air quality officials say particulates have built up in the air during the past few days and are threatening to reach unhealthy levels on Wednesday. Officials say tomorrow's rain will not be enough to reduce pollution levels.
“The region will again experience high particulate pollution levels,” said Jack Broadbent, the air district's executive officer. "Due to the Winter Spare the Air Alert calls, we have not yet exceeded the federal health standard, which is exactly what the alerts are designed to do."
First-time violators are given the option to take a wood smoke awareness class, online or by mail, in lieu of paying a penalty. Second violations result in a $500 ticket and subsequent ticket amounts are higher. | <urn:uuid:c6c1d6c1-de6f-437c-a019-75ccfd5332d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://berkeley.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/spare-the-air-alert-issued-for-wednesday-473024c3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945634 | 244 | 1.992188 | 2 |
My daughter’s concern for one tiny lost fish made me think of someone for whom we are never lost and never insignificant.
Lessons from an Aquarium09209_000_044
A member of our bishopric knew that my nine-year-old daughter kept an aquarium and one day asked if she might want some more fish. His family was going on vacation and needed to empty their aquarium. The offer was immediately accepted, and to my daughter’s delight, a pregnant female guppy was among the group.
Upon coming home from church one afternoon, my daughter did her routine check on the aquarium to see if each fish was happy and healthy. To her surprise, she saw four tiny, newborn fish. The mother guppy had begun to deliver. Acting quickly, she moved the babies to the safety box that would protect them from the bigger and more aggressive fish. In all of the excitement, however, one baby guppy was lost. Crying with disappointment, my daughter located it lying among the tiny rocks on the bottom of the aquarium. She tried to scoop it into her net to be placed in the safety box, but she couldn’t move the tiny guppy without injuring it.
All the other tiny guppies were caught, and although the safety box teemed with dozens of new babies, my daughter’s attention was still intently focused on the one fallen among the stones. She sat ready to help it into the box as soon as it could move. She even refused dinner as she sat attentively by her aquarium for about four hours.
Watching her struck some familiar and tender chords. I thought of the Good Shepherd, who leaves His ninety and nine to look for the one who is lost (see Luke 15:3–8; John 10:11–14). All of us know how it feels to be lost or afflicted or spiritually sick. Yet our Savior never gives up on us. He is always there with outstretched arms, ready and willing to rescue us, strengthen us, and bless us.
Though we may not always realize it, our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, tenderly and closely watch over us night and day, deeply concerned about our well-being and the roads we choose to walk. With love unbounded, They give Their angels charge concerning us, waiting for us to gather enough strength and faith to find safety and peace in Their arms.
Later that day my daughter’s concern for that guppy paid off. After her long, tedious hours of waiting and hoping, the tiny fish finally wiggled and then slowly swam out of the rocks. Carefully she placed it in the comfort and security of the safety box. That was witness enough for me of the sustaining power of love.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
A new weather record for the United States could have been set last week in South Dakota. A hailstone that appears to be 8” in diameter fell in Vivian, South Dakota Friday
afternoon and this would break the record of 7” with fell in Aurora, Nebraska in 2003. Forecasters from the National Weather Service out of Aberdeen, SD will make the drive to Vivian to see if the hailstone officially will break the record. Damage reports range from busted car windows to holes punched through the rooves of houses, even reports of large hail landing on the floor of one resident’s living room.
But the 8” stone may not have been the largest from this day. According to the Rapid City Journal one resident of Vivian, Punk Strom, found a stone that had been outside for over and hour and a half and still weighed 1.8 pounds when he weighed it at the Vivian post office. This would break the record for heaviest hailstone in the United States of 1.6 pounds which fell in Coffeyville, KS in 1970. We should know later today whether or not this hailstone sets a new record for the United States.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
A new tropical depression has formed southeast of Miami, FL and could become Bonnie as early as this evening. This system has been struggling to develop over the past couple of days due to an upper level low pressure just east of the surface low. This upper low has been shearing the western side of the circulation keeping it from developing faster. It looks as though this upper low will move off to the northwest but remain close enough to this depression to keep it from developing into a hurricane. The current forecast brings this system into the Texas Gulf Coast late Sunday early Monday as a tropical storm.
The forecast also brings this storm into East Texas providing a chance for cooler weather and the possibility of heavy rains but it must be noted that the average error past four days is over 200 miles. So a lot could and probably will change between now and Monday morning.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Dangerous heat is expected across East Texas today as mostly sunny skies warm temperatures in to the middle and upper 90s this afternoon. Combine this heat with the relative humidity across East Texas today and heat index values will range between 103 and 108 degrees. Because of this, heat advisories have been issued for East Texas through tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow will be very hot as well with highs in most places ranging between 97 and 100 degrees with the heat index approaching 110 degrees at times. Once the heat index reaches 105 degrees, the human body has a very hard time cooling itself. Please postpone strenuous outdoor activity until the cooler morning or late evening hours. If you have to be outdoors, wear light weight light colored clothing and drink plenty of water. Heat exhaustion will set in very fast during the afternoon heat. This could lead to heat stroke and possibly death. On average 162 lives are lost due to heat in the United States each year, about the same amount of deaths caused from floods, lightning, and tornadoes combined! Please take the heat seriously and stay cool. | <urn:uuid:d52c45d8-7e51-428e-b257-dc295d388e73> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gdadeblog.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962422 | 645 | 1.875 | 2 |
For the sixth year in a row, Logan Goodwin, 10, and his grandmother, Diane Goodwin, have given the Anson County Sheriff’s Office a new supply of stuffed animal and figures, to be given out to kids in crisis situations.
The Sheriff’s Office uses them and distributes them to other law enforcement agencies, the Department of Social Services (DSS) and Anson County’s Domestic Violence Coalition. These agencies, along with the Sheriff’s Office, give the toys out to children at accident scenes, police calls, domestic violence or any situation where small children are frightened and need something to “hug” or hold on to.
Anson County Sheriff Tommy Allen said, “Sometimes children are in the middle of very harsh situations. Life’s not always fair and little children seem to be where it’s the most unfair. I’ve seen these stuffed animals dry up tears and give a trembling child something secure to hold on to. I want to thank Logan and Diane for starting this project six years ago.”
“Logan told me he wanted to thank us for letting him and his grandmother help on this project because, as Logan said, ‘there are children out there that need something to hold and love on in times of needs,’” Sheriff Allen added. “Logan also wanted me to remind the public that if they have any good used bicycles to contact the Sheriff’s Office for our Christmas Bicycle Program for Kids. Now that’s a lot of thought and insight for a 10-year-old.”
Since this project began six years ago by Logan, churches, civic organizations and many individuals now help keep a good supply on hand at the Sheriff’s Office.
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Volunteers have been actively involved in Northumberland National Park since 1960. The current Volunteer Service comprises an inner core of Voluntary Rangers supported by other Volunteers.
Voluntary Rangers are required to carry out a minimum number of duties each year and attend any training deemed by the Park Authority to be necessary for their role. Voluntary Rangers carry out a wide range of duties, including:
- Providing general support and advice for visitors to the National Park;
- Developing and carrying out conservation projects and improvements to physical access (including access for those less abled);
- Participating in educational and promotional activities to increase awareness and understanding of the Park.
Volunteers can get involved in any of the above depending upon their interests and experience.
There is no minimum requirement in terms of duties for Volunteers and they can contribute over a fixed period or for a specific project or activity. Once involved, Volunteers can consider making the extra commitment necessary to be a Voluntary Ranger depending upon the needs of the Park.
The Volunteer Service is continually seeking to broaden its engagement by seeking to include under-represented groups in volunteering activities. If you feel you have something to offer the Volunteer Service you will need:
- No particular qualifications, just a love of the countryside;
- To know about the background, aims and objectives of National Parks in general, and basic knowledge of Northumberland National Park in particular.
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National Cycle Network
The National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom was created by the charity Sustrans (Sustainable Transport), aided by a £42.5 million National Lottery grant. In 2005 it was used for over 230 million trips.
Many routes try to minimise contact with motor traffic, though 70% of them are on roads. The NCN uses pedestrian routes, disused railways, minor roads, canal towpaths and or traffic-calmed routes in towns and cities.
Total national mileage
The original goal was to create 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of signed cycle routes by 2005, with 50% of these not being on roads, and all of it being "suitable for an unsupervised twelve year old." By mid 2000 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of route were signposted to an "interim" standard, and a new goal was then set to double that to 10,000 miles (16,000 km) by 2005. August 2005 saw the completion of that goal. At mid-2011 there were 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of signed cycle route to NCN standards.
Numbering system
NCN routes beginning with numbers 1 to 6 are generally in England, with 7 start in the far north of England and Scotland, with 8 are generally in Wales, and 9 in Northern Ireland. The main routes have one digit (1 to 6 radiate clockwise from the south of England); other routes have two digits, starting with the number of the relevant main route.
There are also many regional routes, reaching smaller towns and cities within ten designated regions. Each region is divided into a maximum of nine areas. Regional route numbers comprise the area number 1 to 9 followed by another digit. (An exception is in the Scottish Borders council area, where regional routes are numbered 1 to 9.) This means that across the UK there could be 10 regional route 12s, for instance, as well as the national route 12. To reduce confusion, identically numbered areas in adjacent regions do not abut, and routes with the same number are widely separated.
In 2009 regional routes were being renumbered with 3-digit national numbers.
Routes are occasionally numbered to match the motorways and major roads that connect the same destinations; examples include NCN Route 62, which by connecting the two sides of the Pennines mirrors the M62 motorway.
The network is signposted using a white bicycle symbol on a blue background, with a white route number in an inset box, but with no destination names or distances. National Route numbers have a red background, Regional Route numbers have a blue background. The system of symbols is based on that used by the Danish Cycle Network.
1000 Millennium cast iron mileposts funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network, and found along the cycles routes through the UK.
There are four different types, "Fossil Tree" (designed by John Mills), "The Cockerel" (designed by Iain McColl), Rowe Type by Andrew Rowe, and "Tracks" (designed by David Dudgeon). The four artists are from each country of the UK, though all posts can be found in all four countries.
Main routes
See also
- The National Byway - an alternative 4,500-mile (7,242 km) sign-posted cycle network around Britain
- Segregated cycle facilities
- List of rail trails
- Hesdin, Farah (2011-11-29). "The UK on a bicycle: the National Cycle Network". Bikenet.com. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
- "National Cycle Network". Essex Council. 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
- Beds for Cyclists, 2012. National Cycle Network Popularity." Accessed 2012-05-05.
- Route Numbering system - Sustrans
- National Cycle Network Mileposts [131 photos] :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!
- Mileposts | Sustrans
Further reading
- Sustrans, 2002. The Official Guide To The National Cycle Network, 2nd ed. Italy: Canile & Turin. ISBN 1-901389-35-9.
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Chinese or the Sinitic language(s) (汉语/漢語 Hànyǔ; 华语/華語 Huáyǔ; 中文 Zhōngwén) is a language family consisting of languages which are mostly mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speak some form of Chinese as their native language. Internal divisions of Chinese are usually perceived by their native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and Sinologists.
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Working Part Time in Data Entry
There are tons of opportunities available on the internet for those who want to do part time data entry work. However, you need to make some efforts to select the most suitable one. In the fast growing business world, many organizations are becoming flexible and they are ready to provide part time job opportunities for data entry operators in order to run their businesses smoothly. Therefore, part time data entry jobs are in great demand in all parts of the world.
Home based data entry jobs are becoming common in the field of secretarial and typing work. In most cases, the home based data entry operators need to prepare reports, mail labels, letters and other data entry work. Most of the companies either big or small are in tremendous need of information processing work and so they involve home based part time data entry workers in these jobs.
In turn, if they employ traditional data entry operators, they need to train them and to provide equipments and other facilities in order to accomplish data entry processing works. Hence the companies find it useful to employ home based data entry operators to do these jobs. The home based employees can also enjoy the flexible part time work and earn some decent income.
Part time data entry work requires no special skill or previous experience. The persons need to have good typing skill and good grammar knowledge. The basic computer knowledge and ability to access internet are also important for this job. The home based data entry operators need to have computer with internet connection at home. They need to accomplish the data entry works as per the instructions provided by the company. They are required to deliver the final output accurately and error free.
Any type of data entry jobs can be allocated to part time workers. The employee may be required to type the documents written in manuscripts or heshe may be required to type the payrolls, bills, reports and so on. Once the part time data entry operator gets enough practice, then heshe may be appointed as senior employees. Then heshe may be provided technical or administrative data entry tasks.
Part time data entry works are ideal for stay at home moms, disabled people, college students and those who want to earn some extra money other than they earn from normal job. Most of the companies would provide flexible part time options where you can select either day shift or night shift. This helps people to earn smart income without compromising the time they need to spend with the family.
Normally Organizations like to hire employees for part time data entry if they meet the basic requirements like keyboarding speed, accuracy, ability to follow instructions correctly and so on. Hence if you want to get a data entry job, you need to develop your typing speed, grammar and spelling.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sugar Crusted Viennese Nut Bread - Outdoor Wednesday
A footpath leading through the Vienna Woods to the banks of the Danube River.
A romantic bend in the pastoral Salzach River in Salzburg.
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This lovely sweet bread was the inspiration for what I had planned to be a walking tour of old Vienna. I just couldn't bring myself to edit the assortment of monuments and landmark buildings I'd collected to share with you. So, the walk, instead, will be a simple stroll through the Vienna Woods and along the banks of the Danube, which coincidentally, may sometimes actually appear to be blue. This nut bread is typical of the barely sweet confections of Austria and Germany. It's simple to prepare and ages well. It has a lovely butterscotch flavor and the crisp sugar crust sets it apart from other breads of this sort. It's a modernized version of Viennese sweet breads leavened, before the advent of baking powder, with sourdough or stiffly beaten eggs. Chemically leavened quick breads originated in America towards the end of the 18th century, when it was discovered that pearlash, a byproduct of woodash, produced carbon dioxide gas in dough. I have no idea why someone would take hearth or kiln ash and put it into food, but I'm guessing it was an accident that caused the pot to boil over when ashes inadvertently fell into it. Baking powder, as we know it today, was not developed until after the American Civil War. Breads made with it are called "quick breads" because baking powder releases carbon dioxide at a faster rate than yeast fermentation. I love the simplicity of this bread. Like all nut breads, it's flavor improves with aging. I love a deep, rich butterscotch flavor, so I use dark brown sugar to make the bread. I've made this with golden brown sugar as well, so I leave the choice of sugar to you. Here's the recipe.
Sugar Crusted Viennese Nut Bread...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
3 tablespoons, buuer melted
2 large eggs
2 cups brown sugar
4 cups flour
1-3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
2 cups toasted pecans, chopped
1/4 cup ground toasted pecans
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pans. Set aside.
2) Place eggs in large bowl of an electric stand mixer. Beat until frothy. Gradually add brown sugar, beating at low speed just until blended. Blend in melted butter.
3) In another large bowl, place flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; whisk to combine.
4) Add flour mixture, alternately with buttermilk, to egg mixture. Mix just until blended after each addition. Fold in chopped pecans. Pour into prepared loaf pans.
5) To make topping, mix ground pecans, sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle over each loaf.
6) Bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until cake tester inserted into center of loaf comes out clean. Remove from oven. Let sit for 15 minutes. Remove from pans and finish cooking on a rack. Yield: 2 loaves.
Other quick breads can be found at these sites:
Cookie Madness - Carrot Pecan Bread
Recipe Girl - Mom's Banana Nut Bread
Peanut Butter & Julie - Toasted Coconut Macadamia Bread
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It got out of hand. It was supposed to be a bicycle parade, or maybe a walk on the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail. That's all.
But "it just grew," said Muriel Carter, president of the Glen Burnie Improvement Association.
What it grew into is a five-hour health and safety fair set for Saturday at the GBIA carnival grounds, featuring a melange of events, demonstrations and exhibits.
The fair celebrates the opening of the nation's 500th rails-to-trails project, the conversion of unused train beds into hiking and cycling paths. The milestone trail is the Minuteman Trail in Boston, officially opening on Saturday, said county Park Superintendent David Dionne.
The original idea was to have a low-key walk or bike parade for children on the 13.3 mile Baltimore and Annapolis Trail. But plans changed radically over the summer. The GBIA is pumping $2,000 into the fair; dozens of stores and organizations, as well as three county agencies, will be represented.
"I hope we'd get around 500 people. I'd be thrilled if we'd get more," said Katherine DeGrange, fair co-chairman with Ms. Carter.
"The way it's turning out, we hope we can do it again next year," Ms. Carter said, admitting that she'd like to see this become an annual community event.
The day will begin at 9 a.m. with a one-mile fun walk, featuring prizes for the most colorful attire, funniest hat and most unusual socks. Prizes are $60 certificates toward shoes at the Athlete's Foot at Marley Station mall.
At 10 a.m., a bike parade will take children up the trail, from M Street to the GBIA building. Prizes for the best-decorated bike will be given in two age groups, under 6 and 6 to 12. Helmets, knee pads and reflectors will be given.
Starting at 10 a.m. and running throughout the day will be free raffles for a $200 certificate toward a bicycle at the Pedal Pushers Bicycle Shop in Severna Park, a child safety seat and a certificate for a bicycle tune-up at Pedal Pushers, Ms. Carter said.
"We are promoting bike safety," Mr. Dionne said. "Kids can get their bikes checked for free."
Bolt-tightening and other minor work will be done courtesy of Old Mill Cycles Inc. in Millersville, the Pedal Pushers and the Bike Doctor Inc. in Arnold, he said.
County police will check bikes for safety and test cycling skills in a bike rodeo.
Health-related features will include a toothbrush exchange, sponsored by the county Health Department and the Anne Arundel Dental Society. Anyone under 18 can exchange a used toothbrush for a new one. Free blood pressure checks will be done by the Glen Burnie Volunteer Fire Company. Exhibits will include spotlight prevention of sports injuries.
Safety exhibits will include pedestrian safety, fire prevention featuring Sparky the fire prevention dog, crime prevention featuring McGruff the crime dog, auto safety featuring crash dummies Vince and Larry, and "buckle-up bunnies" to teach children how to buckle seat belts.
The Oriole Bird will appear from 10 to 11 a.m.
Jazzercise instructor Millie Swenson will lead demonstrations to music; the Extension Service homemakers will present exhibits on nutrition; there will be rollerblading demonstrations; refreshments will be sold to benefit several community organizations.
In case of rain, some of the events, such as the fun walk, will be canceled, and the rest will be held in the GBIA building.
Also marking the 500th rails-to-trails project will be a seven-mile run mostly on the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail, starting at 9 a.m. Sunday, Mr. Dionne said.
The race is sponsored by North Arundel Hospital and the county Department of Recreation and Parks. The entrance fee is $13 in advance and $15 on race day; proceeds will benefit the hospital's pediatric unit.
When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Where: Glen Burnie carnival grounds at the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail, First Avenue S.E., Glen Burnie. (In case of rain, in the GBIA building.)
Scheduled events: 9 a.m., one-mile fun walk; 10 a.m., bicycle parade; 1:30 p.m., fire prevention poster contest awards.
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Re: Raising Queens by the light of the silvery moon
I recently read about farmers turning there field during the full moon . Doing it at night instead of during the day is supposed to keep weed seeds from germinating. The thought was that rolling the soil during the day gives more seeds a glimps of the sun and that can be enought to start germination. Hey I just read it.
I've never heard of a relationship between beekeeping, maybe full moon less clouds colder would have a slight effect on swarming
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Lovers of Truth and Justice, the great moment is upon us at last. The clouds have parted, trumpets are playing, Terry Gilliam-animated angels are singing, and somewhere in the afterlife Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan have paused their Sisyphean routine of aggressively jerking each other off for a moment to stand up and take notice. What could be the cause for all this? Simply the one and only thing that could actually advance the ‘creationism is bullshit’ argument at this late date: Bill Nye’s endorsement of it. To those of you born before 1988 or after 1996 this probably means nothing. To the rest of us, it’s a bit like if LeVar Burton came out against 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight, declaring both francises unfit for human consumption. Which is to say, monumentous. The theory of evolution, along with the imperial horribleness of the E.L. James canon are things most of us already believed in. But sometimes it takes a high-powered childhood icon who has remained mostly irrelevant since the ’90s to come out of hibernation to remind us that not everyone does–and that this is quite a big problem.
Of course, creationism isn’t something you have to ‘come out’ against so much as reiterate the complete lunacy of. At least, if you’re intelligent and enjoy basking in the supreme knowledge that you’re right, which most of us do. But Nye’s statement speaks to something more than logic. I can’t help but think it possible that Nye’s seminal 1993 television show, despite its liberal approach to hands-on education, might have gained him the trust of a Southern audience base, an audience of children who then grew up to be adults who had to go to school and sit in classrooms where a fictional history of the earth’s creation was told to them as fact, and that this audience today, instead of burning Bill Nye icons as the Putineers are so fond of doing with Madonna, will take what he’s said into account. Will Nye’s august presence on the viral internet bring about some kind of political sea change? Will there come a day in a liberally advanced future when we look back on the artifact of Bill Nye, as bow-tied and gaunt faced as he remains our fondest childhood memories, standing up against the surprisingly large legions of people who want their children to be at a mental disadvantage to say: “you’re holding America back”? Who, and what, in this great movement could be next? Jackée Harry staging a sit-in protest against Chick-fil-A? Tony Danza making some kind of combination Kony-Pussy Riot-Global Warming awareness video? None can say. I only know that with Nye setting the new groundwork for social change, the odds are in our favor. | <urn:uuid:43417671-69cb-4db2-95a0-bdd97d7585ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bullettmedia.com/article/bill-nye-comes-out-against-creationism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957816 | 617 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Velocity project – memcached by Microsoft?
9 June 2008 in Microsoft, Tools | Comments enabled
Reading over the last week shows that there is some strong interest in Microsoft’s new “Velocity” project. What is Velocity? It’s a distributed caching framework to aid in scaling out applications over many servers – for example, an ASP.Net website.
But, wait a minute, doesn’t this sound exactly the same as what memcached does? Almost the defacto standard for distributed caching and developed many moons ago, memchached powers sites like YouTube, Slashdot, Facebook, NYTimes.com to name a few.
I’m a big fan of what Microsoft creates, in fact I’m building a business that sits on top of what Microsoft builds. I appreciated that the initial blog post even referred to memcached and hints at some of what Microsoft might want to add to their caching system to create some differentiation.
What concerns me here is seeing posts popping up about how cool this framework is from various Microsoft geeks from the “ooo – distributed caching!” perspective. Do they not ever look outside the Microsoft world? Do they not realise this is not new? I think it’s an important discipline for developers to keep looking outside their comfort zone to learn new things. This is by no means something I’m perfect at – it’s a struggle when you’re comfortable with what’s already in front of you but, as the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know.
I look forward to the future of the Velocity project and I really hope it’s not just a me too project from Microsoft. You can keep an eye on it by subscribing to their blog.
As a mild plug, our LightSpeed object/relational mapping product has included a memcached provider if you’re building suitably large solutions since version 1.0 | <urn:uuid:14a779f5-0b6a-4603-a4b5-e911a33d287e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.bluecog.co.nz/archives/2008/06/09/velocity-project-memcached-by-microsoft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924418 | 413 | 1.5 | 2 |
Christ on the
Mount of Olives (above)
Denis Clark ’70's movie-poster discoveries led to an introduction to the organizers of this year's Passion Play in Oberammergau.
On the home page: Christ is condemned at the hands of Pontius Pilate
Passion Play photos courtesy of Passion Play Oberammergau 2010
Theatre alum connects with centuries-old tradition through an old movie poster
While satisfying a hobby-turned-business, one of St. Norbert’s first theatre majors stumbled across an artifact he won’t soon forget.
Make that two artifacts.
Denis Clark ’70 was an educator at Xavier University in Cincinnati before switching career paths, and turning passion into business. As an expert in motion picture advertising, Clark’s primary clients are collectors, film stars, curators and historians.
“Three years ago, I was going through a list of posters being offered by a friend,” said Clark. “On it was a poster entitled ‘The Passion Play.’ ” His brain clicked, remembering a trip he made to Oberammergau with a group of Xavier choral students years ago.
The Oberammergau Passion Play has been performed by the people of the village since 1634. After months of suffering from the bubonic plague, the town vowed that, if God spared them, they’d perform the play every 10 years. The play, now a major artistic event performed throughout the summer, still depends on its local cast.
Clark bought the 1898 poster and attributes finding the second poster, for a movie of the 1934 production, to “pure luck.”
“I was at a convention and had the title on my want list. A seller, who saw the list, was happy to sell the poster to me because most religious film posters are usually not collectable,” said Clark. Certainly the seller wasn’t familiar with Oberammergau: 1934 was the 300th anniversary of the play, and the production became controversial after it was exploited in Nazi propaganda.
In May, Clark exhibited at a German Filmboerse in Bottrop. He used the opportunity to visit Oberammergau and present the poster to Helmut Klinner, archive director of the Passion Play Museum, and was consequently invited to attend the opening performance of the Passion Play, May 15, in company with three German friends. | <urn:uuid:4a3f55df-d677-45ef-b2cd-a424ca5f2a8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.snc.edu/communications/enews/0510/oberammagau.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957684 | 513 | 2.4375 | 2 |
- Preferably interpolate initial profile data to a uniformly spaced mesh. This facilitates smoothing. I use a 10 meter mesh spacing. This step is optional.
- Smooth the initial profile, as needed, to reduce measurement noise (for example altimetric data from a Garmin Edge 500). I use convolution of a single period of a cosine-squared function with full-width-half-maximum of 50 meters.
- Calculate a "typical" time for each position point using a heuristic equation: dt/ds = (1 second/14 meters) ln [ 1 + exp(50 g) ], where t is time, s is distance, and g is the derivative of altitude with respect to s.
- Smooth grade versus time with a smoothing function. I use convolution with a single period of a cosine-squared with full-width-half-maximum of 30 seconds, yielding a smoothed function g*. This operation, if done properly, should reduce the grade at the start and finish of the climb, which reduces the eventual rating of very short climbs like Filbert Street (which gains 18 meters).
- Find the average value of f(g) = exp(g / g0) with respect to distance.
- Multiply this by the net altitude gained.
The key parameters in all of this are the smoothing time (I used 30 seconds here) and the scale rate of altitude gain g0. I initially proposed g0 = 10%, but then decided to use g0 = 8% instead. This latter choice placed increased emphasis on steep segments within a longer climb, for example if two climbs have the same net climbing and distance, the one with the more nonuniform grade will benefit from the lower g0.
Note the smoothing time I've changed from 15 seconds to 30 seconds. The choice of 15 seconds had been relatively arbitrary, based primarily on how far one could coast. But 30 seconds is the number used by Andrew Coggan in his power analysis metrics ("Training Stress Score" and "Effective Power"). So it makes sense to try and be consistent with that precedent. Note Coggan uses a square smoothing function rather than a cosine. Cosine is less prone to edge artifacts: the Fourier transform reveals a much more rapid attenuation at high spatial frequencies. But by matching the full-width-half-maximum of the two I yield similar smoothing at lower spatial frequencies.
An interesting aspect of this algorithm is the effect of descents on the final result. The algorithm isn't linear: the rating of two road segments is not the sum of the ratings of those segments. So you can't consider a descent segment in isolation. Rather it must be considered in the context of a full route profile. This is easy to see when the net climb gains zero altitude. You could argue the climbing section and the descending section have equal and opposite impact. But that means the contribution of the climbing segment depends on the details of the descending segment, and vice-versa. This is silly, so the notion that a segment of a total climb has a distinct contribution to the total rating is invalid. A rating is for a whole route, not a sum of parts from that route.
To test the algorithm, I'll consider a set of routes which have the same net climbing and net distance. Thus all of these routes have the same Fiets/Summerson rating, or the same rating using my simple formula, since each of these ratings depends only on net climbing and net distance. Additionally, each of the routes I'll consider has the same gross climbing (and gross descending).
I'll consider a "climb" which gains 300 meters at a climbing grade, then loses 100 meters at a descending grade, then climbs 300 meters at the climbing grade, all in 6 kilometers. Thus net climbing is 500 meters, gross climbing is 100 meters, and gross descending is 100 meters. The average magnitude of the rate of climbing with distance is therefore (gross climbing + gross descending) / distance = 11.7%. However, the climbing may be steeper if the descending is more gradual, or vice-versa.
Here's a representation of some of the profiles used:
I then calculated a rating for each of these profiles. To see if the rating behaves correctly, it's important to first say what "correct" is. It's fairly obvious that the rating should be harder the steeper the climbing portion. True, a more gradual descent provides more recovery than a steep descent ridden at the same speed, but more recovery isn't going to offset the increased difficulty of steeper climbing. Running the numbers yields the following:
As hoped, the rating increases as the grade of the climbing portion increases, while both Fiets/Summerson and the simple formula yield the same rating for all cases. So is this better? Ratings are always subjective, and maybe it could be argued the "merit" of increased climbing grade is cancelled by the "demerit" of a lower fraction of the total distance being uphill. But if rating difficulty is the goal, the full-profile scheme is on target. | <urn:uuid:5059286a-fa37-4b82-90eb-a128a3fc260f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://djconnel.blogspot.com/2010/07/rating-climbs-testing-new-formula.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926375 | 1,058 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Economic yearbook 2009
Focusing on high-tech companies and nurturing UF spinoffs.
"Making sure the dollars we do have are spent locally is going to make a big difference." — Dean Weaver, chairman of the North Florida Regional Chamber of Commerce
Gainesville / Alachua County
Dean Weaver and other officials are encouraging residents and business owners to “shop within a 15-mile radius of where you live.” [Photo: Jeffrey Camp]
Alachua County is weathering Florida’s economic storm relatively well because of a high percentage of jobs that are tied to healthcare, education and government. All three sectors have been hiring despite the downturn. That trend has slowed, however, and the sectors could shed jobs later this year. At the University of Florida, for example, President Bernie Machen has asked deans and department heads to prepare 10% budget cuts for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
See population, income and job statistics from this region.
The community’s oldest hospital, Alachua General, will close later this year, although its parent, UF-Shands, will open a major cancer hospital on campus around the same time. Business leaders here continue to work toward attracting high-tech companies and nurturing UF spinoffs. One big challenge: Alachua’s low unemployment rate — 5.8% — turns off relocating companies who believe they’ll have a hard time filling positions.
Business to Watch
» UF spinoff WiPower has developed a wireless charge pad for cell phones, PDAs and other small electronic devices. CEO Ryan Tseng, who invented the technology as his senior design project in UF’s electrical and computer engineering department, says consumers may have “wireless power” in the future, the same way they have wireless internet today.
Arup Sen’s GenoMechanix in Gainesville provides support for research and drug discoveries. [Photo: Jeffrey Camp]
Person to Watch
» Arup Sen, a former researcher at Scripps in La Jolla, Calif., who earned his doctorate in biochemistry from Princeton at 23, runs a genomics-services company in Gainesville called GenoMechanix and is chief scientific officer for Minerals U.S.A. of Reno, Nev., which produces a discovery by Sen that makes minerals highly water soluble. The science has applications not only for human health, but also for desalination. Sen also is CEO and chief scientific officer of a bioethanol company, Sustainable Cellulosic of Texas, and spinoff Sustainable AgroBiotech, which is working in Puerto Rico to create biodiesel fuel from algae. | <urn:uuid:84a184b2-fe96-4b70-8f3b-2f5693e9894e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.floridatrend.com/article/5899/north-central-fla-yearbook-2009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946079 | 558 | 1.679688 | 2 |
High school principals' school year previewJoe Nicklay, principal of William Kelley Schools and Brett Archer, principal of Two Harbors, look to the year ahead.
By: LaReesa Sandretsky, Lake County News Chronicle
A post-secondary technical program in the high schools and over ten new hires mean there will be a lot of new faces roaming Lake Superior School District hallways this year.
Jay Belcastro, a former teacher in the Proctor Public Schools, has filled the position of assistant principal at Two Harbors High School. Tuesday was his first day.
In May, Brett Archer, the current principal, requested permission to resume his former position as assistant principal. He was promoted to principal in 2010, but said he prefers working more closely with students. The assistant principal, or dean of students, typically has more direct interaction.
"I liked working with students. This job got me a little too far away from them," Archer said.
The board approved Archer's move, but then Phil Minkkinen's contract as superintendent wasn't renewed in June. Bill Crandall was hired as the interim superintendent by late July. Hiring a new principal was just too much administrative shuffle so the board and Archer decided he would remain in his position for some stability, Archer said.
The high school also hired a new special education teacher, Dean Holecek.
Between retirements and other employees moving on, William Kelley secondary and elementary schools hired an unusually high six new employees this year.
Pat Rendall from Grand Rapids took the dean of students position. Kris Peterson of Knife River was hired as a music teacher and Alan Harpson of Duluth will be a new English teacher. Kelly Fenstad, a WKHS grad who worked in Mora for the last six years will begin this fall as a science teacher. Lisa Malcolm, a Minnesota native who’s moving back from Fairfax, Vir.,will teach art, and Lili Goettl from Minneapolis will teach special education.
"I'm looking forward to the new staff. With every person you have a new opportunity and they bring different ideas," WKHS/WKES principal Joe Nicklay said.
Minnehaha Elementary School also has picked up some new hires. Karen Bailey-Finstad will be working in special education, Nadine Uremovich was hired for a Title 1 part-time position and Greg Sumner will be the new occupational therapist. A new custodian and another kindergarten teacher will be hired within the next few days, according to Principal Pat Driscoll.
THHS and WKHS will offer welding and millwright certification through Mesabi Range Community and Techncial College this fall. This was a new initiative intended to add more skilled workers to the work-force. Both programs were well received and have enrolled about 20 students.
Both Nicklay and Archer said they're hoping to get students more involved in club and extracurricular activities this year.
"We're working on school climate. I want us to be more of a community building," Archer said.
A number of teachers have come to him with ideas for new clubs to involve students and the community; though most are in the planning stage, he is hopeful that students will find a niche.
"We'd like to have all of our students involved in something," Nicklay said.
Students who need extra help paying for after-school activities or supplies should contact the district office or school administrators for possible confidential help.
"If a kid wants to play, we find a way,” Nicklay said.
Four-day week evaluation
2012-13 is the third year of the four-day week that the district implemented as a cost-saving measure. The schools have to reapply at the end of the year if they want to maintain the structure, so administrators will be taking a close look at how it has affected student performance.
Schools had to make some adjustments with the four-day week, especially with athletes, according to Nicklay and Archer. With schooldays extended to 3:30 p.m., students often have to leave class early for away games.
The schools have adopted flip days, meaning seventh and eighth period will come first on some days so athletes aren't constantly missing the same classes.
Overall, students seem to be handling the transition to four-day weeks well, Archer and Nicklay said, but it has been a significant leap for teachers.
"Teachers are tired. It's tough...to squeeze everything into four days," Archer said.
When the district reapplies to continue with four-day weeks, it will need to present surveys and test scores, among other documentation, to prove the four-day week is working.
The district has scheduled open houses for teachers, administrators and families. The THHS open house will be Aug. 28, 5:30-7 p.m., the Minnehaha will hold its event Aug. 30 5:30-7 p.m., and the William Kelley Schools' will occur on Sept. 18, 5:30-7 p.m. | <urn:uuid:dad921d0-5d76-47b7-9813-297889fceaa8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.twoharborsmn.com/event/article/id/23898/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972875 | 1,051 | 1.929688 | 2 |
To be vegan means not only not eating any animal flesh, so not eating
red meat, white meat and fish, but also no animal-based products.
Vegans don’t drink milk, or eat eggs, but also (consume) no products
derived from milk and eggs. Consequently, vegans don’t eat cheese. So,
in summary, vegetarians don’t eat any animal flesh and vegans don’t eat
any animal-based products.HOST (IN FRENCH):
Hallo, esteemed viewers, and welcome to today’s episode of Healthy
Living featuring French physician Dr Jérôme Bernard-Pellet, who will
discuss the tremendous health benefits of a plant-based diet.
Bernard-Pellet, who became a vegetarian at age 15 and a vegan at
30,found through his study of nutrition that consuming animal products
is detrimental to maintaining good health.
In 2008, Dr.
Bernard-Pellet and a group of other French physicians and dieticians
founded the non-profit group the Association of Health Professionals
for a Responsible Diet (APSARES), which seeks to enhance public health
by promoting vegetarian and the vegan lifestyles.
In our interview we asked Dr. Bernard-Pellet how a vegan diet can help guard against many common, chronic medical conditions.Bernard-Pellet (m):
Well, there are very many benefits to eating vegetarian, or better yet,
vegan food. The principal benefits are cardio-vascular. If you become
vegetarian, you are at less risk of developing a myocardial infarction
(heart attack) or comparable diseases such as coronary heart disease.
the advantages of vegetarianism are not limited to cardiovascular
diseases. Veganism is, from a nutritional point of view, extremely
powerful in diminishing the risk of developing cancers, in particular
colon cancer and prostate cancer.
It is also a very good way to fight obesity. We have found that vegetarians suffer far less often from obesity than omnivores. | <urn:uuid:2bb205f9-26d4-451f-9888-847bfb9200c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://suprememastertv.com/it/hl/?wr_id=116 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928052 | 443 | 3 | 3 |
This week I got a letter from a person who injured their back and ribs after they were thrown from their horse. They were seen by a Chiropractor but sounds as if they were never given an xray or diagnosed with broken ribs by xray, just a hunch. She asks, “can my ribs still be broken after a year and if not, what could be causing my pain to come back from time to time?”
Though I’m not a doctor and surely wouldn’t want to diagnose this, I will share some of my thoughts from a paramedics viewpoint.
The possibility that one or more of your ribs were broken is very likely, especially because it only takes a relatively small amount of pounds per square inch of pressure to fracture a rib.
You may have strained the intercostal muscles and even irritated some of the many nerves that run along the ribs. All of which could cause a great deal of discomfort and when that effected rib is pushed on, twisted or bumped again, it could even cause a re-injury of the same fracture point or muscle or cartilage.
Sometimes it turns out worse when we don’t get a good solid diagnosis from a doctor, because we can only guess what could be causing the pain and discomfort. Others may think we’re not really injured and insist on regular activities that could re-injure or aggravate the same injury.
If after a year, you are still feeling pain, pops, “crunchy” sounds on certain movements, I would strongly suggest that you get into your family doctor and let them know when this happened(how long ago), how it happened, how you were treated after it happened, any times where you may have twisted funny, landed wrong or re-bumped or re-injured the same painful area. I would imagine that they may want to take a series of xrays to get to the bottom of what’s causing the discomfort or pain.
I do think you’re justified in wanting to be seen. Pain is the way our bodies help us understand that something is not right and we should pay attention to it.
I hope this helps and I hope you get back to your normal functions without pain very soon!
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The County of Maui and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have agreed to a "win-win" settlement related to installation of a gas collection and control system at the Central Maui Landfill, said a statement released by the county.
"This agreement with the EPA is a win-win solution for Maui County," said Mayor Alan Arakawa. "We are pleased that a major component of the agreement is the installation of a small eight-turbine wind farm that both supports Maui County's commitment to clean energy and will act as the county's pilot project for small-scale wind energy facilities. As an additional benefit, the electricity produced by the windmills is anticipated to supply a significant percentage of the electrical requirements of the landfill."
The agreement resolves the EPA's allegation that the county installed and began operating a gas collection and control system (GCCS) later than the federal law allows. The system has since been installed and is operating as designed.
"The county is currently exploring options for using the landfill gas collected by the GCCS to produce energy," said Mayor Arakawa. "The current state of technology coupled with the high cost of electricity produce an ideal atmosphere for cost-effective waste-to-energy projects."
The consent agreement, which was lodged last week with the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai'i, will first undergo a 30-day public comment period. Upon entry of the agreement by the court, the county will pay $380,000 to the EPA--a sum based on costs avoided by the two-year delay in installation of the GCCS. | <urn:uuid:734549b4-fed6-45ce-9d54-f84d23bba41e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mauiweekly.com/page/content.detail/id/510529/Maui-County-to-Install-Small-Wind-Farm-at-Landfill.html?nav=5026 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969113 | 333 | 1.773438 | 2 |
LEESBURG -- Lee County Commissioner Bill Williams muttered his thoughts aloud, almost imperceptibly so, as he looked over the latest county garbage collection figures provided by Finance Director Heather Kittrell.
"We're getting closer," Williams said.
There was reason for Williams' optimism. The average number of monthly garbage customers billed by the county from July 2011 to April 2012 was at 9,124, while the average number of customers the county was billed for by the Crisp County Solid Waste Management Authority stood at 9,239.
A difference of only 115.
Figures one column further to the left, however, offered a summary of another part of the issue that has plagued the county since it started curbside garbage collection in 1994. The average number of customers who paid during that same period was 7,591.
Those 1,600-plus nonpaying customers are the reason the county has lost more than $9 million and counting in revenue over the past 18 years.
And they're the primary reason the commission is planning a new get-tough policy that might very well leave many in the county with uncollected garbage piled up around their homes.
"The message that has grown up around the garbage collection issue here over the years is that it's OK not to pay, that nothing will happen to you if you don't," County Administrator Tony Massey said Tuesday morning. "That's the wrong message
"In the next few weeks the Board of Commissioners is going to make one last effort to get (citizens who are behind in paying garbage pickup fees) to address the issue. If they don't, and then they put their garbage out and no one picks it up, they'll have no one to blame but themselves."
The commission, attempting to use a strategy now employed by 23 other counties in Georgia, voted in May of 2009 to place garbage fees on ad valorem tax bills. Tax Commissioner Susan Smith refused to comply with the ordinance after being ordered to do so, and the commission took her to court.
A Superior Court judge ruled that Smith must comply with the ordinance, she appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court and a high-court ruling was pending when the commission, facing a legislative recall petition that was delivered to Lee Probate Court Judge John Wheaton and an outcry by citizen groups in the county, decided to repeal the ordinance.
In its place, the commission passed a new ordinance that, among other things, allows the county to discontinue service to customers 60 days or more in arrears. The question became, though, who would pay the cost of removing garbage receptacles from the homes of customers whose service was discontinued.
The Solid Waste Management Authority initially balked at the suggestion that the county would remove as many as 300 names from its list of customers for which it is billed, and there were rumblings that a lawsuit might be considered.
But, as Commission Chairman Ed Duffy points out, the Lee contingent went armed with a potent weapon: a clearly worded contractual stipulation.
"What we planned to do is consistent with the original contract the county signed with (the authority in 1996)," Duffy said. "It says very specifically, 'Thereafter, and for the duration of the agreement, the participant (county) shall promptly inform the authority of any new or discontinued service, and the authority may rely upon the participant for such information.'
"We had discussed the possibility of the county taking those green receptacles from customers' homes, but we have no authority to do that. Those garbage bins belong to Veolia (Environmental Services, the Solid Waste Authority's collection agent), and they will determine whether they pick them up or just not collect the garbage in them."
Lee Utility Services Manager LeClaire Bryan actually rode the routes with Veolia representatives to verify garbage pickup at addresses presented by the company, and Kittrell did her own house-to-house audit to make sure the county's customer list matched Veolia's.
"That was step one," Massey said. "It started with our staff last summer. There were discrepancies with the numbers, so they did a physical inventory (of customers served). LeClaire, Heather and other staff members did a great job of verifying customers."
Still, the process was costly.
Bryan had sought to increase collections through the court system, filing 1,069 cases from 2010-2012. Of the $626,370.24 owed, the courts managed to collect $268,397.71, around 43 percent. An additional $85,226.19 was collected in consent judgments.
Still, the county had to pay $100 in court fees for each case it filed (some $70 of which was returned to the county upon collection), and the collection rate was not enough to signify success.
"There's been a really excellent effort by the county to get our arms around this issue," Kittrell said. "But people don't realize that it costs a lot of money to go after the people who refuse to pay their bills."
Duffy and other county officials insist that the addition of the fees to tax bills would still be the most efficient way to assure garbage fees are paid, and he reminded citizens that they have been granted the authority to approve that method.
"Every citizen will have an opportunity to express their opinion July 31 on the nonbinding referendum (on primary ballots) putting trash bills on the tax roles," the commission chairman said. "That's the best way of ensuring that every citizen pays their fair share."
But Massey said the reality of the situation is that approval by voters is unlikely. And he's preparing to start aggressively pursuing new tactics that include nonpickup for delinquent accounts. He's meeting with the Crisp County authority next week to shore up plans, and the county will move forward with its plans a short time later.
"Essentially, our goal is to improve this process -- which has been a problem here for years now -- and make it as efficient and as cost-effective as possible," the county administrator said. "The only way we'll ever be able to do it is to stay on top of this issue. We owe that to the citizens of Lee County who pay their bills.
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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) filed a lawsuit this week against numerous companies who make fake organic product claims.
As you likely know, there are zero watchdogs within the USDA National Organic Program when it comes to body care products. That said, if you're a California retailer or manufacturers, you must abide by The California Organic Products Act of 2003, which says that if a product packaging uses the term "organic" on the front that the product must contain at least 70% organic ingredients. If a product contains less than 70% organic ingredients then the term "organic" is only allowed on the ingredient list. Not the best rules, but hey, better than nothing.
Recently CEH took some little shopping trips to Target, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Whole Foods, and local natural products retailers in the Bay Area, and found dozens of products made by 26 companies that were labeled as "organic" yet contain few or, in some cases, no organic ingredients. Hence the lawsuit. Nature's Baby Products, Hain Celestial Group, Aubrey Organics, Kiss My Face are just some of the companies coming under fire.
CEH notes that worse than the mislabeling is the fact that some of the "organic" labeled products contain ingredients linked to health concerns. CEH points out:
"For example, a "Kids Hair Softening System" made by the company "Organics by Africa's Best" contains BHA and cocamide DEA, chemicals that have been classified as cancer-causing by government agencies, triethanolamine, which has caused asthma in exposed workers, and parabens, chemicals that have disrupted hormones in laboratory tests. The package, colorfully decorated with images of young girls, warns: "Keep away from eyes. Can cause blindness...Serious injury can result...if ingested..." and "Keep out of reach of children."
Lovely. The worst part about this whole situation is that it makes organics look shady and breaks down consumer trust of organics and in many cases totally tricks consumers. For example, look at this little KTVU video clip about this situation and watch for when consumers say they think they can trust labels. Not in this case. All the more reason to get certified if you're not or to be honest with your organic product labeling.
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A Solution for North America’s Natural Gas Surplus
Dear Oil & Energy Investor,
Sometimes the most important impact on a raw material commodity comes less from its actual extraction and more from how product is introduced into new markets.
Indeed, that is becoming the next major development in North American natural gas. The expansion in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports may well hold the key to turning a glut into advancing profit.
The LNG process cools gas into a liquid form, allowing it to be stored and transported via tanker. The liquid is then “regasified” on the other end and injected into existing pipeline systems. This provides for the development of genuine spot markets, since the movement of gas is no longer limited by how far pipelines extend.
The prospect of a long-term natural gas surplus has caused some to ask whether the additional volume coming on-line will simply depress prices. As I have mentioned here several times, this is not a question of conventional, freestanding gas reserves. This is all about unconventional production – primarily shale gas – and where it is likely to be increasing overall availability.
With the gas glut turning into a more permanent energy fixture in North America, the market will progressively become (even more than currently) one in which production will primarily meet regional needs, with contract swaps acting to offset differences between regions.
We will be moving into a very different way of balancing the market. Henceforth (and probably for decades to come) that balance will be affected by the knowledge that there is more supply than required, and it’s easily able to move into the market.
In short, unlike crude oil – where we are beginning to see very early signs pointing to the development of a supply-constricted environment – gas will provide a supply-expansive environment.
Now the recent regulatory changes we discussed last week (“Two Non-Carbon Regulations About to Rock the Coal Sector“) are certain to spur on the accelerating transition from coal to gas and renewables for electricity generation. And that will require additional gas, as will its expanding use in the production of petrochemicals. A cold winter will also drain stockpiles. In storage volume, we are currently well below the levels at this time last year (although those were record levels). Nonetheless, gas out of the ground – but not in the market – still occupies most of the pipeline capacity in the U.S.
And that simply points toward a continuing surplus.
The Advantage of Two North American Plays
Once we consider the impact beyond fulfilling local requirements, some plays will have greater benefits than others. Two are particularly noticeable in North America, and we have discussed both of them in the past.
The first is the rapid development of the Big Horn, Montney, and related basins in western Canada (“Natural Gas Comes Roaring Back in Western Canada“). The second is the Marcellus in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia (“Marcellus Shale About to Take Off On One Sweet Ride“).
Both of these are quite likely to provide volume more cheaply than some other basins.
In a surplus condition, cheaper volume will displace more expensive – especially when you consider broader geographical applications (inter-regional trade). Both North American reserves, therefore, should see increasing drilling, even when prices in the market as a whole are going down and drilling is stagnating elsewhere.
And that is the case currently. Despite natural gas contract prices below $4 per 1,000 cubic feet, production and rig usage are increasing in both the Marcellus and western Canada.
But what does this do to the profitability of production companies and pipeline operators? Doesn’t feeding a glut always lead to a downward pressure on prices and a decline in profitability?
Not when a positive spread between production costs and market prices can actually be improved upon. And that’s done simply by moving the gas to locations where the demand is so great, it provides a premium on the return expected.
The development will benefit gas sourced from both conventional and unconventional North American basins.
But first, the current cost-pricing spread. The new shale and tight gas sources in British Columbia and Alberta are providing the likelihood of prices at a $1 to $1.25 discount to Henry Hub (the Louisiana location at which pricing for NYMEX gas contracts is determined). There are some additional costs for transport to distribution points, but recently completed spur lines to the TransCanada Mainline pipeline allow the gas to enter large markets.
In the Marcellus, wells are coming in cheaper than anticipated. The average well spud this year will come in profitable, at less than $3.60 per NYMEX contract, with a rising percentage coming in significantly below that level. Unlike western Canada, the Marcellus has the advantages of much closer proximity to end users and an increasing network of pipelines to serve both throughput and storage.
The concern, however, remains that the enormous amount of volume that both basins could put on-line would still flood the market and depress pricing, regardless of the additional demand for electricity generation or how cold our winters become.
Enter LNG… and two gigantic markets seeking additional gas for which they will pay a premium over North American prices.
Where the Demand Is
Asia needs the increased volume of natural gas to fuel its expansion. Europe needs it to wean itself from reliance on conventionally pipelined (and overpriced) Russian Gazprom volume.
Canada has already decided to move the new gas volume from western Canada to the Kitimat LNG terminal on the Pacific coast of British Columbia for export to Asia. Kitimat is scheduled to come into operation in late 2014. Already, there is a near certainty that its capacity will be doubled.
European requirements combine well with the rapidly expanding volume coming out the Marcellus. And on that count, there is Cove Point, Maryland.
Already in operation, Cove Point is the largest LNG facility on the U.S. east coast. As the need collapses for LNG imports into the U.S. – another result of our ongoing gas surplus – don’t be surprised if this terminal begins reversing operations to export volume. This is tailor-made to provide a major outlet for additional production from the Marcellus.
LNG trade is no flash in the pan. It is becoming the single most important advance in balancing the global gas market. Currently, 86 gasification or regasification terminals exist worldwide; there are another 246 in planning stages or under construction.
Which means, as additional volume comes out of the ground in western Canada, the Marcellus, or other basins in the U.S., it will be shipped to higher-paying markets abroad.
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Polish man wakes up to new world after 19 years in coma
June 3, 2007
A Polish man who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power.
Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said.
In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda.
"She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said.
Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He is now making the acquaintance of 11 grandchildren.
Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma.
"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot. Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead," said Getruda.
Poland's communist regime was still clinging onto power when Grzebski had his accident, only losing its grip the following year, in 1989.
On the brash neon-lit streets of new European Union member Poland, the period seems a distant memory.
"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski. | <urn:uuid:48cd5f60-47b9-43d6-a56b-fab19cef2a08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://strategypage.com/militaryforums/424-172.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982598 | 304 | 1.515625 | 2 |
“The key to Learning is Freedom”, but what does that really mean? It means, having the freedom to learn WHAT we want to learn and HOW we want to learn it, for each of us, which includes our children. The WHAT and HOW is controlled in classrooms, which it has to be to a certain extent as there’s lots of people, little time and stretched resources, however, the same need not be true for learning outside of school.
WHAT does your child want to learn about that doesn’t get addressed at their school? HOW does your child learn best?
If your child can’t tell you then you’ll need to find out through observation. We can find out a lot about our children when we watch and listen.
Having the freedom to learn helps your child become a lifelong learner, which will assist their life long term… as nothing in life is guaranteed and we all have times of reassessing what we do and how we’ll do it and we certainly don’t enjoy other people making those choices for our lives. Being a tutor is about assisting someone else’s learning by supporting, demonstrating and eventually becoming redundant. To tutor means to help a learner learn how to tutor themselves… even to teach themselves. We want our children to become independent of us… to live their own life, make their own way, do their own washing!
The freedom to learn in a class is not and can not be present; learning is compulsory or the student is punished. Learn and you are rewarded, which is also about not being free to learn, as students learn to work for an external goal, rather than focussing on the learning alone; learning for learning’s sake.
Students wait for the teacher to teach and they are trained NOT to teach themselves. Tutoring is giving back power, and the desire, to learn, for themselves by themselves. How many times do you hear the excuse “but the teacher didn’t tell us to ….” when you know your child should have proceeded without having to be told? Or “but the teacher told us to do it this way” when you yourself were taught another, better, easier, faster way? Does it feel like a battle between you and their teacher? Do you feel they have more control over your child’s learning than your child has over their own learning? Or even YOU over your child?
Did you know that YOU are legally responsible for your child’s education, not the school? Did you know that school isn’t even compulsory, only receiving an education is compulsory. You are using the school, you’re not suppose to ‘feel used.’
Did you know that the vast majority of teachers are in love with learning and dearly love children who want to learn, but the system and procedures of a classroom prevent them from teaching according to the very best standards? Standards and methods that have been well researched and documented, such as individual learning plans, multiple intelligences, real world experiential learning, self-correcting hands on manipulatives etc. Your child’s teacher/s should be your partner/s. They are with your child for a significant portion of their waking life for 13 years. Yes they are busy, yes you may still ‘fear teachers’ yourself, but if they didn’t like children they wouldn’t do the job. They don’t want to be feared, they want the children to learn. If you need their feedback then approach them and get it. It will help your child AND the teacher long term.
Assist, support, encourage, praise enough to keep them wanting to learn, however, the ultimate aim is to become redundant as your student, your child, rediscovers the ‘freedom to learn’ they had prior to attending school. As they do, they may view schools a little differently. You may too. Schools are NOT the only place where learning occurs, sometimes they even make it harder to learn, but here is a trick for you, if you encourage your child to learn ANYTHING outside of school (sport, art, music etc) and it’s something they love it will increase their desire to learn, their grades in school improve, as they transfer those ‘how to learn’ skills into their schooling.
Conversely if you force your child to learn something they don’t want to learn, thereby further limiting their freedom, their desire to learn reduces and their performance at school also goes down.
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Updated faculty development training materials now online
The recently updated training notebook Building the Team: Faculty, Staff, and Students Working Together is now available online.
The notebook was developed for those providing professional development to help faculty and administrators in postsecondary institutions become more aware of
- the rights, responsibilities, potential contributions, and needs of students with disabilities;
- the rights and responsibilities of postsecondary institutions;
- reasonable accommodations and universal design strategies for working with students who have disabilities; and
- campus resources that help provide equitable educational opportunities for all students.
These materials are for use in departmental and campus-wide presentations to stimulate discussion and action. Each presentation option can be tailored for meetings of administrators, departmental chairs, advisors, faculty, teaching assistants, and support staff. The presentations are intended for use in public and private; large and small; and two-year, four-year, and technical postsecondary institutions.
The materials were originally created and updated by DO-IT Prof and AccessCollege project team members, respectively. Individuals who participated included faculty, disabled student services staff, and administrators at institutions of higher education throughout the United States. The U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) funded both DO-IT Prof (grant # P333A990042) and AccessCollege (grant #P333A050064).
A comprehensive website of engaging materials to increase the success of postsecondary students with disabilities, funded by these and other projects hosted by the DO-IT Center at the University of Washington, can be found at http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/postsec.html. | <urn:uuid:1a750bbc-1a5e-47b3-844b-3219eae93a89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washington.edu/doit/Newsflash/nf.03.15.10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940084 | 340 | 2.0625 | 2 |
by Ryan Avent
The crisis in the Caucasus has led to a great deal of discussion concerning the wisdom of bringing Georgia into NATO. These debates are almost uniformly focused on geopolitical, strategic issues, and that's unfortunate. Two of the big lessons of the post-Cold War period are that economic reform and geopolitical issues go hand in hand, and that international institutions can provide powerful leverage in generating economic and political reforms in former Soviet bloc nations.
A colleague of mine at The Economist's Free Exchange blog discusses new research comparing the recent economic performance of Georgia and Estonia. He recalls the scene in 1990s Warsaw:
I remember back in the early 1990s when the central European nations were so desperate to join the EU. On a 1995 World Bank mission to Warsaw, I was shocked by the stress that the Polish policymakers put on geostrategic considerations. To me EU membership was all about the economics; to them it was all about making sure that the iron curtain came down east of them the next time Russia started acting imperial.
The European Union was about political security for many central and eastern European leaders. All the same, it was an economic boon.
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The NTP design is such that accidental or malicious data
modification (tampering) or destruction (jamming) at a time server should not in general result in timekeeping errors elsewhere in the
synchronization subnet. However, the success of this approach depends on redundant time servers and diverse network paths, together
with the assumption that tampering or jamming will not occur at many time servers throughout the synchronization subnet at the same
time. In principle, the subnet vulnerability can be engineered through the selection of time servers known to be trusted and allowing
only those time servers to become the synchronization source. The authentication procedures described in Appendix C represent one mechanism to enforce this; however, the encryption algorithms can be quite CPU-intensive
and can seriously degrade accuracy, unless precautions such as mentioned in the description of the transmit procedure are taken.
While not a required feature of NTP itself, some implementations may include an access-control feature that prevents unauthorized
access and controls which peers are allowed to update the local clock. For this purpose it is useful to distinguish between three
categories of access: those that are preauthorized as trusted, preauthorized as friendly and all other (non-preauthorized) accesses.
Presumably, preauthorization is accomplished by entries in the configuration file or some kind of ticket-management system such as
Kerberos [STE88]. In this model only trusted accesses can result in the peer becoming the synchronization source. While friendly
accesses cannot result in the peer becoming the synchronization source, NTP messages and timestamps are returned as specified.
It does not seem useful to maintain a secret clock, as would result from restricting non-preauthorized accesses, unless the intent is
to hide the existence of the time server itself. Well-behaved Internet hosts are expected to return an ICMP service-unavailable error
message if a service is not implemented or resources are not available; however, in the case of NTP the resources required are
minimal, so there is little need to restrict requests intended only to read the clock. A simple but effective access-control mechanism
is then to consider all associations preconfigured in a symmetric mode or client mode (modes 1, 2 and 3) as trusted and all other
associations, preconfigured or not, as friendly.
If a more comprehensive trust model is required, the design can be based on an access-control list with each entry consisting of a
32-bit Internet address, 32-bit mask and three-bit mode. If the logical AND of the source address (pkt.peeraddr) and the mask in an
entry matches the corresponding address in the entry and the mode (pkt.mode) matches the mode in the entry, the access is allowed;
otherwise an ICMP error message is returned to the requestor. Through appropriate choice of mask, it is possible to restrict requests
by mode to individual addresses, a particular subnet or net addresses, or have no restriction at all. The access-control list would
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“From our perspective, the more people who carry organ donor cards, the more people we can save,” said King's liver transplant consultant, Dr Varuna Aluvihare. "We have an excess of 100 patients on the list. One in five patients listed don't make it to transplant.”
As King’s marks National Transplant Week 9-13 July, some of our transplant patients are sharing stories to inspire people to become organ donors.
Beth Thomas from Southwark is celebrating 10 years after receiving an emergency transplant liver at King’s.
Beth was nineteen when she was diagnosed with Wilson’s disease – a rare genetic condition that causes a buildup of copper in the body. Within weeks of having swollen ankles and knees, she became very ill. Only five per cent of her liver was functioning and other organs were deteriorating. Beth had three days to live and on the last day a liver was available for transplantation.
"I am more thankful than can be described in words for the gift of life that my transplant has given me," Beth said.
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They talk and talk
Running in circles
Trying to make sense
Of what they have, between the two of them.
They both have a lot of baggage, I suppose
Old wounds that haven’t entirely healed
Memories that tug at them when they indulge in reminiscence
Tears they have never shed, anger they have never expressed.
They are a bit like wary children,
Meeting for the first time across a playpen
Wanting to play, but cautious too
Awkward and shy, not sure what will happen
If he isn’t good at peek-a-boo
Doesn’t like to color the flowers pink and blue
And many such things which she likes to do.
Or worse yet, what if he is mean and a bully?
Pulls her pigtails and makes her cry
Destroys her drawing, draws a mustache on her pretty butterfly?
So she is cautious, and quiet as a mouse
Peering at him through her lashes, too shy to tell him to come close.
He, on the other hand, tries to look bored and impressive
And like he has done this a million times
Like he knows a lot, lot more than he actually does
The alphabet, the spelling of his name, songs and rhymes.
He has met girls before; and thought they were silly
Squealed too much, wore clothes that were too frilly.
This girl was no different; she wore a pink bow and carried a dumb doll
But there was something about her, which made him think girls weren’t so bad after all.
She, on the other hand, had never talked to a boy before
Nor had she ever wanted to
Boys were aliens to her, those loud sweaty things
Who eat their nose boogies, and always have something naughty to do.
But this boy, with his big floppy bunny ears;
Something in his voice and his laugh, too
Made her want to sit next to him, and pat his hand when he got a boo-boo.
So they sit, on far ends of the playpen, sneaking peeks at each other,
Making up their minds to ask the other to play together
And changing their minds the next instant-
Maybe it’s not a good idea to be so blatant.
Maybe they will become friends, before the bell rings, before the day is over
Or maybe they will be strangers forever.
However it turns out, they will be okay
Because that is children’s way-
They always end up finding someone with whom to play.
Neither of them knows how they feel about each other
Or if anything at all
All they know is that they want the other to stick about
At least long enough for them to figure it out.
So that is the story, of two grown-up children
Trying to make life happen
Reaching out for something that looks golden
But then again
Even if it they end up mistaken,
They’ll eventually find the right person
Somewhere in this big wide playpen. | <urn:uuid:c5740f89-3f2c-4673-bb21-b4427942e267> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet_read.aspx?ID=15164 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982071 | 657 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Table of Contents
- Microsoft SQL Server Defined
- Microsoft SQL Server Features
- Microsoft SQL Server Administration
- Microsoft SQL Server Programming
- Performance Tuning
- Practical Applications
- Professional Development
- Application Architecture Assessments
- BI Explained
- Developing a Data Dictionary
- BI Security
- Gathering BI Requirements
- Source System Extracts and Transforms
- ETL Mechanisms
- Business Intelligence Landscapes
- Business Intelligence Layouts and the Build or Buy Decision
- A Single Version of the Truth
- The Operational Data Store (ODS)
- Data Marts – Combining and Transforming Data
- Designing Data Elements
- The Enterprise Data Warehouse — Aggregations and the Star Schema
- On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- Data Mining
- Key Performance Indicators
- BI Presentation - Client Tools
- BI Presentation - Portals
- Implementing ETL - Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
- Building a Business Intelligence Solution, Part 1
- Building a Business Intelligence Solution, Part 2
- Building a Business Intelligence Solution, Part 3
- Tips and Troubleshooting
- Additional Resources
Designing Data Elements
Last updated Mar 28, 2003.
It might seem a bit strange to begin talking about data elements this far along in my series on creating a Business Intelligence landscape. I've already covered the concepts of the sources where the data originates to the Operational Data Store (ODS), using the already explained the Extract, Transform and Load process, and also how to think about your Data Marts. All of those systems contain tables with multiple columns. Aren't they full of data elements already?
The answer is that these storage areas do have data in them, and you should have created their structures using the design information from the requirements gathering phase. But the data elements I'm talking about now are those that you will use in a Data Warehouse, or the collection of Data Warehouses that comprise an Enterprise Data Warehouse. The processes you use to design these elements are different than those used in a transactional reporting system.
It may be helpful to describe exactly what the Data Warehouse should store. There are two schools of thought on the purpose for the Data Warehouse. The first is that it should be exactly what it sounds like – a single place to house all of the data a company has.
The issue with this view is what to do with the system when you're done. In the last tutorial I explained that you will need to combine data from various systems into the Data Warehouse to be relevant. In a system that tracks clothing sales, your data might have the value "Jacket, Men's" in one source and "Men's Coats" in another. Often it's not a simple matter of making the values equal, because in certain cases they aren't. The end result of storing both descriptions is that your users would have to manually tally each set to come up with a grand total, assuming they knew the two were the same. That's just not possible, even though you've met the goal of storing all the company's data in one place.
So in the first system, you have to begin the arduous task of mapping or transforming the detailed data to come up with a single set of data that is relevant to the users. Even then, storing so much detail makes the system very large and slow to process queries. Not only that, this is a redundant use of data. You already have all that detail out in the Data Marts and the Operational Data Store. If you need a detailed report, you can always get it from there.
The second definition of a Data Warehouse is exemplified in the goal for a Business Intelligence landscape that I've been repeating in the previous tutorials. What we're trying to create is a set of consolidated, aggregated, strategic data presented in an analytical format to upper management. The Data Warehouse part of that system provides the aggregated, strategic and analytical parts of the definition. The sources, ODS and Data Marts are how we get the data staged in a meaningful way.
So that is how we'll proceed with the data element design process for the Data Warehouse. The outline for the process is to find out what aggregated strategic data we need, and the best way to format it. From our definition, we also have to think like upper-level management. What do they really want to see? Do they need to know how many paperclips someone in a regional office bought, or whether that office is adhering to the business supplies budget? Do they care about what supplier we used for parts, or that we are getting a 10 per cent reduction in costs for the same quality? And how are we measuring quality?
What this means is that we are really after only two types of data: Things that we want to measure, and the measurements. I'll explain the star schema that uses these concepts in the terms dimensions (for the things we want to measure) and facts (for the numbers showing the measurements) in the next tutorial, but for now, we need to concentrate on getting this data from our Data Marts.
So to begin our design we first ask the managers the question, what do we want to measure? I've given you a couple of examples already, and you can probably think of more for your own organization. For a pharmaceutical firm you might find dimensions such as chemicals, trials, marketing, efficacy, lifespan, sales and so forth. For a marketing company dimensions might include region, time, advertising method and the like. In all cases you care about time, since strategic analysis is rarely useful without it.
For the data involving the facts, examples include the number of items sold, moved, changed or produced. Other numbers might be customers contacted, amount donated, total fees charged and so forth. Any numerical aggregate that applies to the dimensions I mentioned a moment ago are applicable to the facts data.
Now that you know the type of data you're after, how do you find out what it is at your organization? You can use the same process as you did when you perform any requirements analysis, with a slight twist. In most requirements gathering exercise, the form is quite rigid. You ask the users what kind of reports they want, how they want them formatted and so on. You then decompose those requirements into tables and views. This is the process you followed for the ODS and perhaps even the Data Mart.
In the Data Warehouse, however, you're going to provide a tool to upper management that is more freeform in nature. You may still produce reports, but the main power of this type of system is in the ability to ask questions and flip them around, on the fly. Interview your upper-level management and ask them what they want to know. What are the reports that they ask their staff to produce every month? Once they get those reports, what do they do with them? You'll find that most of the time they are culling through the reports trying to ferret out one or two answers, so that they can base their strategy on sound numbers.
Rather than manually collating this data, wouldn't it be better for managers to ask the question they are really after, and be able to look at the number right away? That's what you need to design as the data element.
Once you have those dimensions and facts, you'll need to determine where they are buried in all the data sources you have. If you designed your ODS and Data Marts properly, you should be able to get the measurements from there, after summing and grouping the data.
But what if the elements aren't easily discerned from the data you already have? What if the manager is asking for something that you don't store directly? In the last tutorial, I mentioned that when you begin to combine and transform data, you are assigning meaning. That meaning should be defined by the business, not the technical staff. This is the crux of the design effort. You'll need to involve managers from the level just below the top and then work your way down to the line managers. Along the way, each will give you a more detailed description of the measures the top managers are looking for. From there, you can build your model.
While this sounds simple, there are a few problems you'll encounter along the way. The first is that aggregation and combination problem we discussed earlier. In reality, the primary issue there is one of definition, and you can overcome that by asking the managers to set a business owner for the element you're designing. Only that manager can state what the element means, which will give you the description of how to aggregate it.
The second problem comes when top management isn't aware that regions, locations or plants are doing things differently than other places. As the "data detective" you'll uncover all manner of unseemliness, and the only thing you can do in that case is have your Business Analyst diagram the business processes used at each location to vet the information from a business perspective. Let the managers sort that out; that's what they get paid for. Your job is to report the data, set up the elements in a cohesive fashion. Present the business process analysis to the managers, and explain the difficulty in combining disparate processes into a single meaning. Ask them how to proceed, get a Business Owner to sign off, and design the element with that definition.
In the next tutorial I'll show you a little more about dimensions and facts, and how you can design your Data Warehouse.
InformIT Articles and Sample Chapters
Jill Dyché has a great book in the bookstore called e-Data: Turning Data Into Information With Data Warehousing. It has a very clear description of Business Intelligence and how various firms can apply the data they've collected.
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The Globe Theatre opened on 16th December 1935, and is the third Globe cinema building on the site.
The first was a pre-war cinema of approx. 500 seats which was demolished in 1925 and replaced by the second Globe Picture House with 1,200 seats which in turn closed on 20th April 1935, and was completely demolished to make way for the existing Globe Theatre building which opened an amazing 8 months later.
This was a variety theatre and had no film programming until 1937 when it was bought by Associated British Cinema(ABC) – however a projection suite was part of the original design. ABC continued to present live shows on regular occasions amidst the film fare.
Opera, Ballet and an annual pantomime featured strongly together with touring variety, musicals, and latterly pop concerts.
The Globe Theatre was re-named ABC in 1967. It was closed on 15th June 1974.
A very short-lived attempt was then made to restore it as a theatre before bingo took over from 1978 to c.1996.
It has remained unused since then.
The Globe Theatre was designed by Percy L. Browne & Son of Newcastle Upon Tyne for brothers Charles and Alfred Lewis and was constructed by local firm Arthur McLeod Ltd of Thornton on Tees. Fibrous plasterwork was by Messrs Webster Davidson & Co Ltd of Sunderland. The building cost a reported 75,000 pounds.
The imposing facade has four sets of double doors in the wide frontage with 10 large metal framed windows (by Messrs F Braby & Co of Glasgow) on 1st and 2nd floor levels – five on each floor, grouped 1-3-1.
In-between the groupings are two squat towers with ornamental iron grills running up both levels. There is a further window at the top of each tower and between the towers is a 3rd floor housing the projection suite which windowless expanse once contained the simple lettering GLOBE.
The frontage is almost symmetrical – the left side has an extra small bay containing two small windows. There are three circular plaques between the 3 central windows the central one of which depicted comedy and tragedy. The whole is enlivened with fluted plaster typical of the period. A square canopy ran over the street from tower to tower.
Two shop units are incorporated, one on either side – at some point shortly before 1996 these wese bricked in and the lower frontage tiled, the facade was also repainted at this point.
Apart from the removal of the lettering, the replacement of the canopy, the tiling and the addition of some railings on the roof the facade is unaltered and appears to be in good condition.
The doors give access to a small vestibule and four further pairs of doors – some with etched glass – lead into the main foyer and box office. This is actually, as at the Manchester Opera House, located in the circle void but is surprising large.
It is totally as built not having been spoiled by false ceilings. Good plasterwork of square ceiling recesses edged with fluted plaster but replacement of original lights by unattractive ‘Mecca’ fittings.
At one side is an office. Pleasing amount of natural light gives the area a rather more spacious feel than is actually warranted. Concrete stairs down in each outer corner lead to a small stalls foyer, doors give direct access to the lower circle and stairs up (above the stalls stair) lead to the rear circle foyer which is lit by the three central 2nd floor windows and is now converted into a bar.
The shop space is not incorporated into the theatre.
The auditorium is on two levels and seated, depending on the source 2,574, 2,429, 2,400 or 2,372. A huge stalls floor retains its original saucer rake and now has bingo tables instead of rows of seats. The circle is also vast with 19 rows of tip up chairs.
However the sightlines from both areas are outstandingly good as the circle is somewhat higher than average meaning that the entire proscenium is visible from the stalls back row.
The circle front is almost plain with a geometric cube design along the lower portion and is curved but not returned to the proscenium wall.
The expanse of wall is instead filled by an rectangular recess containing a fountain of light. Above this are two large bas relief panels depicting sight and sound – the right hand side one has been badly damaged by what looks like the insertion of a loudspeaker.
The proscenium is rectangular and has plaster strapwork together with concealed lighting still containing coloured bulbs at the upper levels, these were like the light fountains and the two deep rectangular ceiling recesses connected to a holophane lighting board which gently varied the colours when the house was lit.
The whole of the anti-proscenium is richly decorated with angular plasterwork and has the general feeling of say the Stockport Plaza (Grade II Listed). The ceiling over the front stalls is divided into sections and contains a large rectangular recess with concealed lighting.
A similar recess exists above the circle also with hidden lighting and containing the projection ports for film presentations. The plasterwork is again of an outstanding quality and is again, panel excepted, intact.
Indeed given that the building has been unused since 1996, it is in a very good state. Damp and with obvious signs of water penetration but no falls of or bulging plaster. <br><br>The original colour scheme (painted by Messrs Fred A Foster (Nottingham) Ltd of Mapperley) had a deep jade carpet with lighter seating and shades of green, fawn and gold on the walls and ceiling.
It currently sports a subdued ‘Mecca Bingo’ colour scheme – not as garish as some of their halls but similar style of colours and lights.
The stage is large, raked though not steeply and has adequate, but not generous, wing space. The get-in doors have been bricked up but were awkwardly 3 metres above stage level as the stalls are so extensively sunk below ground level.
The only false ceiling in the place is above the stage making examination of the grid impossible. It is likely that the safety curtain and machinery are intact above this as it would make no sense to strip them when so little else has been altered.
An orchestra pit has been covered over and replaced by bingo paraphernalia but otherwise the stage is unaltered with no access to the bingo players as has happened at so many other halls.
Dimensions from the British Theatre Directory state the proscenium width to be 49'2" with a height of 37' to 40', depth of stage 39'2", height of grid 60' with 26 counterweight and 13 hemp lines.
Descriptions of the building have often mentioned the peirrot and pierrette theme which looking at contemporary reports seem to have consisted of four large decorative mirrors edged in a deep green glass depicting pierrot, pierrette, columbine and harlequin. These were designed by Stanley M. Scott and manufactured and fitted by Reed Millican & Co of Newcastle upon Tyne. There is now no trace of these – if they were situated in the auditorium, as is likely, they must have proved very distracting for films and could well therefore have been removed at an early stage.
This is an excellent example of its type which has been so very little altered as to be considered intact. The condition is good, a return to live use would not be prohibitive and with a good catchment population with no other large theatre nearer than a hour away (Sunderland Empire) should meet with success. It is unusual to see such a good example of a saucer raked floor.
— From Ian Grundy’s report which was instumental in getting a Grade II Listed building status for the Globe in 2001.
In March 2010, it was announced that the Globe Theatre would be renovated for live theatre use, work began in early-2011, for a planned 2012 re-opening.
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NOAA: “Mermaids Do Not Exist”
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Sorry guys, it appears there’s nothing “Under the Sea” after all.
According to CBS News, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a report stating that there are no such things as mermaids.
Technically they wouldn’t even call them mermaids. Instead they called them “Aquatic Humanoids”. Most readers at this point are wondering why NOAA felt this report was necessary. It’s because of a new television show on Animal Planet called “Mermaids: The Body Found,” while the show is fictional it’s filmed in a “documentary-style” format. As a result, some viewers are now starting to question whether mermaids could exist.
According to the Discovery Channel, the show faked footage sprinkled with bits of scientific speculation.
“As with all good science fiction, there’s a grain of science and truth to it: the so-called “aquatic ape” idea it touted (suggesting our evolutionary ancestors may have lived in marine environments) is a real hypothesis, but has nothing to do with mermaids,” they wrote.
However in NOAA’s news release they do not elaborate on exactly why the theory of mermaids is false, other than mentioning the fact that no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.
Therefore mermaid fans can remain optimistic, because that means if you could somehow find and catch a mermaid, showing they exist you could prove NOAA wrong.
For the mermaid skeptics this report will hopefully affirm the lack of mermaid existence. However avid mermaid fans will likely now be grabbing their nets, because if there’s anything a good fisherman likes it’s a challenge.
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“I mean nothing so silly!” I answer, with lofty petulance. “I am a great deal too old for any such nonsense!”
“There I go with you,” says Algy, not without grandeur. “I believe that it is the greatest humbug out, and that it rarely occurs between the ages of sixteen and sixty.”
“Father’s and mother’s was a love-match,” says Bobby, gravely. “Did not Aunt Williams tell us that they used always to sit hand-in-hand before they were married?”
A shout of laughter at our parents’ expense greets this piece of information.
“All married people grow to hate one another after a bit,” say I, comprehensively; “it is only a question of time.”
“But if you do not love him now, and if you are sure that you will hate him by-and-by,” says Barbara, looking rather puzzled, “what makes you think of taking him?”
“It would be such a fine thing for all the family: I could give all the boys such a shove,” say I, with homely shrewdness.
“They killed seven hundred head of game on his big day last year; I heard him tell father so,” says Bobby, with his mouth watering.
“He has a moor in Scotland,” throws in the Brat.
“He must ride a stone heavier than I do,” says Algy, thoughtfully, “his horses would certainly carry me: I wonder would he give me a mount now and then?”
“I would have you all staying with me always,” I cry, warming with my theme, and beginning to dance, “all except father: he should come once a year for a week, if he was good, and not at all, if he was not.”
“What will you call him, Nancy?” asks the Brat, inquisitively. “What shall we call him?”
“He will be Tou Tou’s brother” cries Bobby, with a yell of delight.
“Hush!” says Barbara, apprehensively, “he will hear you.”
“No he will not,” I answer, composedly. “A person would have to bawl even louder than Bobby does, to make him hear: he has gone away for a week; he said he did not wish me to decide in a hurry: he has given me till this day week; I wish it were this day ten years—”
“This day week, then,” says Algy, walking about with his hands in his pockets, and smiling to himself, “we may hope to see him return in triumph in a blue frock-coat, with the ring and the parson: at that age one has no time to lose.”
“Haste to the wedding!” cries the Brat at the top of his voice, seizing me by both hands, and forcing me to execute an uncouth war-dance, in unwilling celebration of my approaching nuptials.
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As the snow starts to pile up, check out this radar image from 8:09 a.m. this morning (obtained here). The radar image shows that within a broad area of relatively light snow over the Northeast, two separate, nearly stationary snow bands are producing locally moderate to heavy snow. The locations of the north-to-south oriented snow bands are indicated by where radar reflectivities are locally higher – on this particular image, where you see the darker greens and even some yellows.
One of the snow bands has developed over eastern New York – including the Capital Region – and is producing snow at the rate of about 1 to 3 inches an hour. The other snow band, located farther to the east, is more intense and covers a larger region, stretching all the way from southern Vermont, across the Berkshires, and into Connecticut. This second band is producing snow at the rate of about 2 to 4 inches an hour.
These types of snow bands typically don’t last for more than a few hours, but in a big snowstorm like this, they play a very important role in determining how much snow a particular location will get. Places where a band stays overhead the longest will wind up as the big winners from today’s storm in terms of total storm accumulations. In Berkshire County, where the snow band has been particularly intense and long-lived, places like Adams and Great Barrington have already received about a foot and a half of snow! | <urn:uuid:877e6ad6-a8c5-47ac-852e-638fb1f50ed7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.timesunion.com/weather/snow-bands-in-action/557/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957959 | 300 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Facebook Linked to Divorce Rates in Recent Survey
Facebook has been linked to 66 percent of divorces in the U.S. according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML).
The survey found that 81 percent of the nations top divorce lawyers said more clients have cited using social networks as evidence in the past five years. Married people are using Facebook to meet others, while spouses are finding out about it because the communication is freely available online.
Marlene Eskind Moses, the president of AAML, warns against using Facebook to reveal facts about your personal life.
If you publicly post any contradictions to previously made statements and promises, an estranged spouse will certainly be one of the first people to notice and make use of that evidence, said Moses in a press release about the study.
A couple and marriage counselor says that social networks can lead to marital affairs whether intended or not.
I dont think these people typically set out to have affairs, said Steven Kimmons, a clinical psychologist of Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois in an interview with Newswise. A lot of it is curiosity. They see an old friend or someone they dated and decide to say hello and catch up on where that person is and how theyre doing.
Kimmons said it comes down to how much time you are spending with your spouse versus people on Facebook. The more time you spend on Facebook connecting with other people, the more likely you are to develop feelings for them.
If Im talking to one person five times a week versus another person one time a week, you dont need a fancy psychological study to conclude that Im more likely to fall in love with the person I talk to five times a week because I have more contact with that person, Kimmons said.
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UN Women in partnership with UNICEF is co-leading the UN Development Group Global Thematic Consultation on Inequalities and facilitating a series of e-discussions that addresses a wide spectrum of inequalities.
The online platform for the e-discussion on addressing inequalities launched at the beginning of October with the first discussion focusing on gender inequality, and is followed by an e-discussion on gender-based violence, starting on 17 October. The website http://www.worldwewant2015.org/inequalities is open to the public, following a simple registration process.
The e-discussions is a series of time-bound, co-moderated dialogues designed to seek the views of a broad range of stakeholders including governments, UN and other development agencies, civil society, philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and most importantly, the general public.
UN Women aims to bring together a wide range of views on a variety of topics related to inequalities to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals and discuss the options for reflecting and addressing inequalities in the post-2015 development framework.
These e-discussions are meant to stimulate a “global conversation” on the various forms of inequalities, identify policy options and responses and look at how these might be deployed in the context of the post-2015 development agenda and look in-depth at the structure, content and implications of major forms of inequalities, as barriers to development and social justice.
The e-discussions will specifically focus on the following issues, with these key constituencies: gender inequality, gender-based violence, minority groups, indigenous people, urban/rural disparities, children and young people, and people with disabilities as well as other forms of inequality that may be raised during the discussions.
The Consultation on Inequalities is supported by the Government of Denmark, and is one of 11 consultations on different but inter-related issues such as population, health, education, growth & employment, conflict & fragility, governance, environmental sustainability, food security & nutrition, water, and energy.
The recommendations emerging from the e-discussions, and other discussions on gender within and outside the inequalities track, will be part of a synthesis report that will be presented to a high-level meeting in Denmark in February 2013 on Inequalities. The report will also be provided to the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda appointed by the UN Secretary-General. | <urn:uuid:55884c8d-d9d6-494c-a3d2-8f27336c2036> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unwomen.org/2012/10/un-women-launches-e-discussions-on-inequalities-as-part-of-the-consultations-on-the-post-2015-agenda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941319 | 498 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Mainline churches in India have prepared a suggested version of anti-corruption legislation and sent it to the government, which is drafting comprehensive anti-corruption legislation to be presented in Parliament in early December 2011 - writes Anto Akkara.
"We want the government to take into consideration the views of the Christian community," Samuel Jayakumar, executive secretary of the Commission on Policy, Governance and Public Witness of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), told ENInews in an interview from New Delhi.
The NCCI, which groups 30 Orthodox and Protestant churches along with the Catholic church, and YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association), prepared the draft after several rounds of consultations among Christians and presented it to the government on 16 November.
The campaign for strong anti-corruption legislation has been a top issue in India since April, when activist Anna Hazare launched a fast against corruption.
Though the government appointed a joint drafting committee with Hazare's team, both disagreed on their version of the anti-corruption draft, causing Hazare to stage a hunger strike in August. Hazare withdrew the fast 12 days later after the government agreed to present comprehensive legislation by December.
"Corruption adversely affects the whole system of governance, having a negative influence on the relationship between those who govern and the governed, especially the poor and marginalised communities," said the churches in their draft.
[With acknowledgements to ENInews. ENInews, formerly Ecumenical News International, is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.] | <urn:uuid:626606d4-4648-44fd-8f2f-1a5d3dad5f82> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/15780 | 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 | 0.959189 | 336 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The Body Covers:
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
September 13-16, 1997
In 1997, the Society's Scientific Program Committee presents its first stand-alone annual meeting which provides new opportunities for expanded programming and participation. Included in this year's program are plenary sessions, various concurrent symposia, slide and poster sessions offering opportunities for oral presentations of abstracts, and professional workshops and training courses.
The Society's Scientific Program Committee has attempted to cover the broad field of infectious diseases in a way that will be useful to academicians, clinicians, public health practitioners, and all others interested in infectious diseases.
Following are selected conference summaries are reported exclusively for The Body by Kenneth H. Mayer, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown University, the Director of the Brown University AIDS Program, and Chief of the Infectious Disease Division, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island (Pawtucket).
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Any sacrifice performed without regard for the directions of scripture, without distribution of prasadam [spiritual food], without chanting of Vedic hymns and remunerations to the priests, and without faith is considered to be in the mode of ignorance.
Commentary by Srila Prabhupada
Faith in the mode of darkness or ignorance is actually faithlessness. Sometimes people worship some demigod just to make money and then spend the money for recreation, ignoring the scriptural injunctions. Such ceremonial shows of religiosity are not accepted as genuine. They are all in the mode of darkness; they produce a demoniac mentality and do not benefit human society.
Commentary by Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur
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Congress voted to pass a budget bill that includes a record $38 billion in spending cuts today. Now it heads to the White House, where experts say there's another cut the president should be worried about ... to the Endangered Species Act.
A rider on the budget bill will lift federal protections for the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf. It's the first time Congress has voted to remove a species from the endangered list.
Is it a uniquely necessary end-run around a prickly judge who wouldn't lift protections for recovered population of gray wolves?
Was it a foot in the door to more political influence over endangered species protections?
And if the president endorses the vote, what will it mean for the future of the Endangered Species Act?
Two views via the AP:
The endangered act has long been reviled by conservatives who see it as a hindrance to economic development. Now, the administration's support for the wolf provision signals that protections for even the most imperiled animals, fish and plants are negotiable given enough political pressure, experts said. ...
"The president could have used some political capital to influence this and he didn't," said Patrick Parenteau, a professor of environmental law from the Vermont Law School. "The message to the environmental community is, don't count on the administration to be there" for the protection of endangered species.
And from another corner:
J.B. Ruhl, an expert in the Endangered Species Act at Florida State University, warned against reading too much into the wolf provision, which was latched onto a must-pass bill needed to avert a government shutdown.
"It seems to me the planets had to be aligned just right to make this happen," Ruhl said. "There might be a wing of the Republican party that would love to see the Endangered Species Act reformed, but I don't think they are going to be able to ram that through anytime soon." | <urn:uuid:8af87d51-40cc-4b6a-8fce-64ad1062ffb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.opb.org/news/blog/ecotrope/endangered-species-now-up-for-negotiation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962345 | 397 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Harry Potter and the Cliffs of Moher
“Being me has its privileges.” Dumbledore wasn’t joking. His job as headmaster of Hogwarts does come with benefits
One such perk Dumbledore enjoys is the enviable ability to “apparate” himself and Harry Potter to an unrivaled vantage point. This particular point is before a set of sea cliffs on the west coast of Ireland.
Harry is on the hunt for horcruxes. Huge black cliffs are sulking behind mist from a dark sea. Behind his glasses are a set of eyes so stunned you’d think he’d seen He Who Must Not Be Named. Harry’s life and Dumbledore’s life are on the line. As scenes go, as set pieces go, this is big – and only the epic will do.
But cliffs can be found on any island. They can even be imagined in CGI. So why Ireland? Why Clare? Why Moher?
Katherine Webster, director of the Cliffs of Moher visitor centre, has an idea: “What sets the cliffs apart from many of the others is how sheer they are. That, and those eight dramatic headlands rolling off into the distance.”
Film commissioner of the Irish Film Board Naoise Barry agrees. “Simply put, they're unique,” he says. “You won't get it anywhere else. When cliffs like that hit the big screen it just blows you away.”
From "action!" to awesome
Of course, it’s a long way from "take one" to the big screen. Blustery clifftops, crashing seas and a whip of Atlantic air in the face are awesome in real life. How can you be sure that it'll translate to the movie theatre?
Dave Davin is an Irish cameraman and producer and thinks he knows why the cliffs look so good on screen. “The Cliffs of Moher would offer the director of photography an astonishingly beautiful, full-scale real set. From above or below through the lens, the images are spectacular. No need for huge green or blue screen sound stages with the actors having to imagine a computer generated image fed to them via the director.”
Keeping it real
Wherein lies the secret: the Cliffs of Moher are real. Nearly 13km of real length. Two hundred and 14 metres of real height. A place so real that it can be seen up close and in person, whenever we like.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomos proposed changes to the states hunting and fishing licensing system received mixed reviews at an informational meeting Thursday night hosted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
A small but passionate group of outdoor enthusiasts gathered on the 11th floor of the Dulles State Office Building to hear a presentation about the new system from DEC regional fisheries biologist Russell D. McCullough and senior wildlife biologist Andrew J. MacDuff.
The goal of the proposed changes, which were included in the 30-day amendments to the governors 2013-14 executive budget, is to foster the recruitment and retention of hunters, anglers and trappers both from New York and out-of-state by reducing the types of licenses offered from 17 to eight and lowering fees across the board.
The changes, if adopted, will go into effect Feb. 1.
Opening the floor for questions, the DEC representatives were bombarded with an array of concerns, including several associated with the drop in revenue the lower fees would yield.
While representatives acknowledged that the $51 million per year now generated by hunting and fishing licensing would drop to $46 million if the changes were adopted, they said conservation funds will remain solvent through 2018-19.
Burnie V. Haney, chairman of the Jefferson County Sport Fishimg Advisory Board, voiced his concerns both during and after the meeting.
The reduction in funds were going to collect here, hows that going to translate to sustainment? How would that impact maintenance for fish hatcheries? Mr. Haney asked.
Mitchell L. Franz, another member of the Sport Fishing Advisory Board and vice president of the Henderson Harbor Guides Association, said the state already has many sportsmen coming in from out of state and should not be giving its natural resources away.
New York ranks third in the nation in the number of hunters and ninth in the nation with the number of nonresident hunters. Are we going to give our good hunting and fishing away? he asked.
Carl F. Fitzsimmons, Theresa, a volunteer hunter safety trainer, presented a counterargument, saying that his friends from Connecticut who own land in New York state come here often to hunt and give business to restaurants, motels and area residents even when they dont walk away with a deer.
According to Mr. Haney, looking for innovative ways to foster interest and participation in hunting and fishing may be the only way to ensure the sports continue to enjoy a place among the treasured pastimes of north country residents.
As we continue to see a decrease in participation, a decrease in fees may not be a bad idea in a down economy, he said.
DEC will host more meetings in the coming weeks. Residents with concerns about the new system are encouraged to attend or send their comments to the DEC public affairs office at email@example.com. Times and locations of meetings will be forthcoming. | <urn:uuid:128a1099-6ae8-478f-89c2-f93d3df8a48e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://watertowndailytimes.com/article/20130301/NEWS03/703019869/1039 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959868 | 594 | 1.5 | 2 |
JERUSALEM, Israel - The Israel Air Force (IAF) hopes to have its newest computerized missile warning system up and running within a year and a half.
The system will accurately pinpoint where a missile will land, allowing the Home Front Command to order people in the affected area to take cover rather than issue a broader command.
When the system is ready to deploy in approximately 18 months, the country will be divided into 100 districts, instead of the 10 large districts as it is now. By next year, the Home Front Command will divide the nation into 27 districts as an interim designation.
The idea behind the new system is to prepare the nation to cope with long-range missile attacks, which are sure to play a much bigger role in the next war.
The ability to pinpoint where a missile will land will save lives, in the event that anti-missile defense systems don't neutralize the missile en route.
The Home Front Command is also upgrading the siren warning system so it can be heard in communities throughout the country. | <urn:uuid:5c255212-3197-44ed-a818-6dc667d31751> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2008/October/Air-Force-Improving-Missile-Defense-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952699 | 215 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Do Federal Agencies Belong in Cloud Computing Networks?
title=Security and Barriers to Federal Cloud Computing} Other agencies are also considering a move to cloud computing. After an October cloud computing seminar for government IT agencies, Cohen said more than 20 agencies approached Booz Allen for further insights on life in the cloud. "Cloud computing gives the ability to go out and try things," Cohen said. "The cloud offers the opportunity to unlock new ideas. A lot depends on the IT problems they are trying to solve. The rate of adoption [for cloud computing] depends on how and when they are taking up the problem."The U.S. government's march to cloud computing faces steep barriers to adoption, particularly in the areas of security and privacy, but nothing insurmountable, Cohen said. "There are already vulnerabilities in our existing infrastructure that are not in the cloud," he said. "In the cloud it is harder to exploit these known vulnerabilities."Government regulations are also a problem that must be addressed. FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act), which dictates what federal IT managers can and cannot do with their data, was written before cloud computing developed. The ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) is already exploring what standards the feds might use in cloud computing. Overall, Cohen predicted, federal agencies will take up cloud computing sooner or later. Given the slow pace of government agencies, though, "sooner" can often be much later. | <urn:uuid:2e30b2ae-7dfc-4a3f-a605-87793b1c18c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Should-Feds-Climb-on-the-Cloud/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950535 | 293 | 2.203125 | 2 |
By Sharon Ko
MEDFORD, Ore. – Gold, usually thought of as jewelry or money is now a possible cure for deadly cancers.
A recent study published in a national science journal shows that a combination of gold nano-particles and components from tea, stopped tumors from growing in mice, as much as 70 or 80 percent of tumors were reduced.
Experts found that when a gold-tea component was injected, it did not spread throughout the rest of the body; unlike chemotherapy, which can harm vital organs. A local acupuncturist, Teresa Bresnan, says alternative medicine has proven successful in some cases, but it should not substitute chemotherapy.
“In my experience, we usually work in conjunction with the medical system. You know because, cancer is very tricky. It’s a big leap,” says Bresnan.
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JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum
, Jerusalem, today announced the gift of 200 photographs by the pioneering French documentary photographer Eugène Atget (1857 1927), donated by Pamela and George Rohr, New York, and by an anonymous donor, New York. These works add an important new dimension to the Museums exceptional photography holdings, encompassing over 55,000 works from the earliest days of photography to contemporary times.
Seventy of these newly gifted works will be presented in Eugène Atget: As Paris Was, an exhibition at Ticho House, the Israel Museum s historic venue in downtown Jerusalem , featuring Atgets images of Paris from the mid-1890s until 1927. On view from March 23 June 30, 2012, the exhibition marks the first ever presentation of the photographers work in Israel . The exhibition is curated by Nissan Perez, Horace and Grace Goldsmith Senior Curator in the Museums Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography.
French photographer Eugène Atget is recognized internationally for his integral role in the canon of documentary photography. After working as a sailor, actor, and painter for almost thirty years, he embarked on a self-assigned mission to document French life, culture, and history in and around Paris . He chose houses, streets, parks, and castles as his subjects, capturing interior and exterior details of architecture being transformed by modernity. Without any official recognition, this enterprise yielded a massive visual compendium of nearly 10,000 photographs that Atget loosely designated as documents pour artistes (documents for artists), created by means of anachronistic technology and an antiquated camera.
We are deeply grateful to our donors for this generous gift of so important a trove of works by Eugène Atget, a pivotal figure in the history of photography, said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum . We are proud to be sharing Atgets unique vision with Israeli audiences for the first time and in the resonant setting of our historic Ticho House, which also juxtaposes turn-of-the-last century Jerusalem with its encroaching modernity.
Atgets photographs of Paris , including those featured in Eugène Atget: As Paris Was, do not depict the city as a bustling modern metropolis, said exhibition curator Nissan Perez. He trained his lens on the older, often decaying buildings and parks. The scenes he captured, mostly devoid of human presence, express desolation and solitude, reminiscent of an empty stage awaiting the actors entrance.
The Noel and Harriette Levine Department of Photography at the Israel Museum
Since its opening in 1965, the Israel Museum has maintained a focus on the exploration and exhibition of photography. By the early 1970s, New York photographer Arnold Newman had begun acquiring photographs for the department, which was formally established in 1977, and in 2006, he bequeathed to the Museum seventy works by other photographers from his personal collection.
Over the years, the department has developed several areas of expertise, including important examples by the mediums pioneering 19th-century practitioners, and photography of the Dada and Surrealist movements. It also features in-depth representations of such historically significant artists as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Andre Kertész, and Man Ray; and the 1998 gift of The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art added works of unequaled importance, further securing the Museums place among the leading such holdings in the field. The department also promotes contemporary Israeli photography through an active program of acquisitions as well as through individual and group exhibitions dedicated to the work of Israeli photographers.
In 2008, longtime patrons Harriette and Noel Levine donated their extensive photography collection to the Israel Museum , encompassing 125 photographs spanning over 160 years of the history of the medium. Their collection, considered one of the finest private holdings in the world, comprises works ranging from 19th-century British calotypes, to modernist masterpieces, to recent examples of contemporary work.
In 2009, the Israel Museum together with the Shpilman family and the Shpilman Art and Culture Foundation launched the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, with the joint objectives of stimulating, encouraging, and cultivating international research projects in photography and of broadening the range of photographic investigations which integrate theoretical issues with practical ones. The $40,000 prize is awarded by an international jury once every two years, resulting in a publication by the Israel Museum , and if suitable, an exhibition. Nominations for the 2012 prize are being accepted until September 1, 2012. For more information, visit http://www.imj.org.il/shpilmanprize/. The department also awards the Gérard Lévy Prize for a Young Photographer, and the Kavlin Photography Prize for life achievement. | <urn:uuid:de1e8b52-b5e8-4f5b-bfb6-cb0d2774cfc3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/section/lastweek/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54294&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943994 | 987 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Friday, January 26, 2007
Fort on the Origins of Equity Defenses and Indian Law Claims
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak
Kathryn Fort, Michigan State, has posted a paper, The (In)Equities of Federal Indian Law, forthcoming in The Federal Lawyer. Here's the abstract: In 2005, the Supreme Court used the equitable defenses of laches, acquiescence and impossibility to dismiss the Oneida Indian Nation's request to remove its land from city tax roles. Later cases have extended the use of these defenses into other New York land claims. This article traces the historical origins of these three defenses, the origins of equity in England and the United States and provides some suggestions to Indian law practitioners bringing either land claims or treaty rights cases. | <urn:uuid:d02455e3-2392-448c-a253-078e37fa003c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/fort-on-origins-of-equity-defenses-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902126 | 155 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Specific treatment for allergies will be determined by your child's physician based on the following:
The three most effective ways to treat allergies are avoidance, immunotherapy, and medication.
Avoidance is staying away from a substance that causes an allergic reaction.
Your child's physician will also have suggestions for avoiding the allergens that cause reactions.
Immunotherapy is a type of treatment for allergic children with hay fever and/or asthma. It is also called desensitization, hyposensitization, and allergy shots. A mixture of the various pollens, mold spores, animal danders, and dust mites to which the child is allergic is formulated. This mixture is called an allergy extract. This extract contains no medication such as antihistamines or corticosteroids.
Immunotherapy is given by injection under the skin usually into the fatty tissue in the back of the arm. It is not painful like an injection into the muscle, such as a penicillin shot.
Injections may be given weekly or twice a week until a maximum dose is tolerated. This is called the maintenance dose. It may take about one year to reach the maintenance dose. At this point, the frequency of injections may be decreased to every other week and finally to once a month. Your child's physician will establish the appropriate schedule of injections to meet your child's medical needs.
About 80 to 90 percent of children improve with immunotherapy. It usually takes from 12 to 18 months before definite reduction in allergy symptoms is noticed. In some children, a reduction in symptoms is evident in as soon as six to eight months.
Immunotherapy is only part of the treatment plan for allergic children. Since it takes time for immunotherapy to become effective, your child will need to continue the allergy medications, as prescribed by his/her physician. It is also important to continue eliminating allergens (such as dust mites) from your child's environment.
There are two types of reactions to immunotherapy: local and systemic. The local reaction is redness and swelling at the injection site. If this condition occurs repeatedly, then the extract strength or schedule is changed.
A systemic reaction is one that involves a different site, not the injection site. The symptoms may include nasal congestion, sneezing, hives, swelling, wheezing, and low blood pressure. Such reactions can indeed be serious and life threatening. However, deaths related to immunotherapy are rare. If a systemic reaction occurs, your child may continue taking shots, but of a lower dosage.
If you have any questions concerning immunotherapy, always consult your child's physician or allergist.
For children who suffer from allergies, there are many effective medications. This is a brief overview of the most commonly used types of medications. Always consult your child's physician before giving your child any over-the-counter medications.
Antihistamines are used to relieve or prevent the symptoms of allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and other allergies. They prevent the effects of histamine, a substance produced by the body during an allergic reaction. Antihistamines come in tablet, capsule, liquid, or injection form and are available both over-the-counter and by prescription.
Decongestants are used to treat nasal congestion and other symptoms associated with colds and allergies. Decongestants cause the blood vessels to narrow, thus, leading to the clearing of nasal congestion. Decongestants are available both over-the-counter and by prescription. The most commonly used forms are liquid and tablet. However, nose sprays or drops may be prescribed by your child's physician.
The use of medications for asthma or respiratory symptoms from allergies is highly individualized based on the severity of the symptoms. The following are the most commonly used medications:
Consult your child's physician for more information concerning allergy medications.
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08:00 PM ET
By Paul Root Wolpe, Special to CNN
Every four years, we go through a long and tortuous process of winnowing down a field of candidates to the two that are presumably best suited to lead us. We make our decision by focusing on two things: the candidates’ position on issues and their character.
We seem to spend the bulk of our time on the issues, debating endlessly the details of a candidate’s policies on immigration, health care, foreign affairs or the economy.
Yet the deciding factor, the one that tips the undecided voter, is perception of a leader’s character. We talk about character far less but it weighs upon us far more.
Every age believes it has a deficit of great leaders, and ours is no exception. We are convinced that we lack the caliber of leaders from our past, and it does not help to see the dispiriting parade of sex scandals and financial misbehavior that confronts us in the media almost every day.
At the same time, there has never been more attention focused on teaching about leadership.
Amazon lists almost 2,000 books on leadership that have been released just in the last 90 days. Leadership programs abound in colleges and universities, and even elementary school children are taught leadership skills.
True leadership takes many qualities, which the leadership books are happy to list for you: mastery of skills, vision, knowing people, being a good listener, transparency, accountability and so on.
But what has emerged more and more in the literature on leadership is a focus on values. What makes a great leader is a strong sense of connection to their deep-set values, and a commitment to use those values as a touchstone in decision-making.
“Principled leadership,” “values-based leadership,” “ethical leadership” - the new buzzwords of leadership are about self-knowledge, the need to understand and clarify one’s beliefs, to demonstrate genuine humility, to lead with an open mind and heart.
I teach ethics, and my first task with new students is to challenge the common view that ethics is primarily about deciding what is “right” and “wrong.”
Ethics is the expression of our deepest values, how we manifest what we believe in through our actions. Almost every action we take, except for the most trivial, reveals something about our ethical preferences.
One of the key goals of Emory University’s Center for Ethics is training students in “servant leadership.” It requires challenging them to consider and articulate their values: What do they really care about? What are they dedicated to? And how do they plan to realize the things they care about through action in the world?
All the other skills of leadership are important, too. But leadership at any level has to begin with an authentic commitment to who we are as individuals, self-knowledge of what we care about, a sense of the nature of our connection to the people and environments around us, and a decision to realize our values through action.
Using that standard, we can begin to look at those who want to claim leadership roles – political candidates, for example – in a new light.
When we care about a candidate’s character, we are really asking, Is this person authentic? Are their positions a true reflection of their inner values, or are they politically expedient? Is a change of opinion on an issue a result of the candidate listening to others, learning and making a principled decision, or is it a response to pressure, polls and popularity?
As we look over our choices in this election year, we need to ask ourselves about who the candidates really are.
What does Mitt Romney’s flip-flop on universal health care, his management of Bain Capital and even sticking his dog on his car roof say about who Romney is as a person, as a leader?
What does President Obama’s delays on "don’t ask, don’t tell" and same-sex marriage, his alleged policy of targeted assassinations and his failure of campaign promises like closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay say about his fundamental character?
Sometimes, our European friends think we are politically naïve. They care less about a leader’s character, and more about what they call “realpolitick,” politics based on power and on practical considerations, not ideology or ethical premises.
It is why the Italians seemed little concerned with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sexual proclivities, or the French for former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s three marriages.
Looking over European politics in the last century or so, perhaps it is naïve to think that results are all that matter in politics.
Much of the history of 20th century Europe was written by leaders whose values were suspect, to say the least.
The policies of Chamberlain, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and others whose decisions devastated Europe were not totally surprising, given what was already known about their character when they assumed office. A leader’s policies may change, but the set of core values that generate them remains constant.
It is in the American character to care about our leader’s values. We should be proud of that.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Root Wolpe.
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Speaking in Dimnent Memorial Chapel Wednesday evening, Paul Rusesabagina didn't only share a message. He exemplified it.
Rusesabagina, the real-life hero of the Academy Award-nominated film "Hotel Rwanda," risked his life to protect others while their countrymen were slaughtered. He asked the members of his audience on Sept. 14 to make a difference themselves.
"It's you, especially you young people, tomorrow's leaders, who can make this world what you want it to be," he said. Noting the millions who are victims of genocidal conflict, he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, all of these people need you."
An overflow audience of more than 1,600 attended his address, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned." They included not only members of the Hope community but guests to campus who had traveled hours to hear Rusesabagina speak.
Anticipating strong interest, the college had arranged to have a live feed run to the college's Knickerbocker Theatre on Eighth Street. Both the 1,100-seat chapel and the 536-seat theatre were filled to capacity. Even the chapel's choir loft was pressed into service to accommodate more listeners.
For two months, Rusesabagina held insanity at bay as he watched his country fall into the grips of genocide in 1994. A Hutu manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali, he sheltered more than 1,200 people, including his own Tutsi wife and children, saving their lives at a time when extremists massacred more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi and moderate Hutu tribes in just 100 days.
While militants threatened and surrounded the well-groomed grounds of the hotel, he spent hours on the phone, pleading with influential leaders, his international connections his only defense against attack. He bartered luxury items for the lives of strangers seeking refuge. No one housed at his hotel died during the massacre.
During his talk, Rusesabagina traced Rwanda's contemporary struggles back to the nation's European colonization in the latter 1800s, noting that the tribal tensions began when the German rulers found it useful to play one group against the other - a practice that continued, he said, when the country became a Belgian protectorate following World War I and resulted in ongoing strife when Rwanda won its independence.
After next recounting his own story, he emphasized that the tragedy of ethnic conflict and genocide is not limited to Rwanda alone and challenged the international community to call the killing what it is and to do something to end it, decrying the lack of action taken to help Rwanda and elsewhere.
"What does it require to call a genocide a genocide?," Rusesabagina asked. "In Rwanda, just like the Sudan and Darfur, the whole international community did not call a genocide by its name until the time it had ended."
"Ladies and gentlemen, almost the whole of the Sub-Saharan Africa is burning," he said.
Rusesabagina's own efforts are continuing. After the hotel was successfully evacuated in June of 1994, he sought out his broader family. He discovered that many had been killed, and took in widowed spouses and their orphaned children.
Recalling the horrors of finding many of his family members murdered, including his mother-in-law, her daughter-in-law and six of her grandchildren while together at her home, he said, "That sad experience had opened very wide my mind to what a disaster the genocide had been in the whole country, for the whole nation."
He initially went back to work managing the hotel, but after being threatened in 1996 he relocated to Belgium.
He is today a businessman, and has also established the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation (HRRF), to, as noted in literature available at the address, "combat the horrors of genocide inflicted upon children by providing assistance and education."
The HRRF began, he noted, with his extended family's experience.
"That is how I started helping people," he said. "From the family the foundation, which was not existing, extended to many people now."
In anticipation of Rusesabagina's talk, the college had shown the film "Hotel Rwanda" at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Monday-Saturday, Sept. 5-10, and Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 12-13.
Both the film and Rusesabagina's visit were scheduled as an introduction to the annual Critical Issues Symposium (CIS), which will be held this year on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 27 and 28, and is titled "From Auschwitz to Darfur: Genocide in the Global Village." The symposium will feature keynote addresses by Haruun Ruun, an RCA world mission program associate who serves as executive director of the New Sudan Council of Churches, and James Waller, a psychologist who recently published the acclaimed book, "Becoming Evil: Why Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing," in addition to featuring several concurrent and departmental sessions.
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On not repeating Gone with the Wind
Iteration and Copyright
Iterative poetics can serve as a mode of questioning political authority while remaining conscious of the danger that one might be merely repeating what one seeks to overthrow. But some contemporary modes of iteration seem more concerned with contesting other forms of authority. These forms of authority include, as we have seen with Prigov’s 49th Alphabet, the cultural authority of classic writers, as well as the economic authority of copyright and intellectual property. These two forms of authority are sometimes, as in the examples I turn to today, intimately linked.
Take, for example, appropriation artist Richard Prince’s recent work The Catcher in the Rye, in which Prince seemingly demands to be sued by publishing a copyrighted classic that has sold millions under his own name. Iterative strategies have also been used to challenge the copyright of another fiercely protected US classic: Gone with the Wind. Iteration here also becomes a way to respond to a more pernicious form of cultural copying: stereotyping.
In 2001, the estate of Margaret Mitchell took the publisher Houghton Mifflin to court to prevent the imminent publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. In The Wind Done Gone, Randall rewrote Gone with the Wind from the perspective of an imagined mulatto half sister to the original book’s white protagonist Scarlett O’Hara. Randall’s book appropriated some lines from Gone with the Wind as part of a story that attacked––and sought to overcome by rewriting––the racial stereotyping of the original. The Mitchell estate took Randall to court, and the district court judge found in favor of the estate, condemning the rewrite as “unabated piracy.”
In The Wind Done Gone case, the Mitchell estate sought to use the protection of copyright to silence a work that was critical of Gone with the Wind, illustrating the dangerous line between protecting copyright and limiting free speech. The appeals court recognized this problem, overturning the decision on the grounds that one of the tests for fair use is whether there is sufficient creative contribution from the appropriator––such as parody––and finding in favor of the defendant in this case.
The Wind Done Gone case not only highlighted how copyright law can threaten free speech; it also underscored the broader stakes of copying as a social practice. If Gone with the Wind has become emblematic of nostalgia for the antebellum south, then the book has achieved this status through its mimetic claim to conjure up or to describe that historical moment––to present a copy of historical reality. In making this claim, Gone with the Wind also repeats––and so arguably legitimizes––the racial stereotyping of African Americans within US society. Copying Gone with the Wind, then, becomes a highly charged question of history and racial politics.
We can see this even more clearly in the writer Vanessa Place’s more recent appropriations of Gone with the Wind. Place has produce at least three works based on Gone with the Wind. Place’s “Miss Scarlett” has been discussed by Brian Reed elsewhere. And Place is currently broadcasting Gone with the Wind tweet by tweet through her Twitter feed. Here, I want to note yet another iteration: Place’s “White Out” of the text, which you can watch below.
Apart from signaling that she is rewriting Gone with the Wind by reading aloud the novel’s famous final line, Place’s performance is a non-reading, erasure, or “White Out” of the entire novel, in which she stands silently in front of her increasingly uncomfortable audience for two minutes. Of course, “white out” might also refer to the original text’s racist, white supremacist ideology and its silencing of other voices. The silence, then, is ambiguous: it could mark Place’s attack by deletion on Gone with the Wind’s racist ideology, or it could be a performance of that racist ideology’s stifling of other voices. Or the silence could refer to the copyright case over The Wind Done Gone. Just as the Mitchell estate sought an injunction to stop Randall’s rewriting being published, Place performs the violence of this muzzling as a non-reading, as silence. Through the indeterminate meaning of these two minutes of silence, Place highlights ethical questions about copying Gone with the Wind, indeed about reading it at all. | <urn:uuid:ced0419a-66d3-4fe3-9e33-c90200c74e3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jacket2.org/commentary/not-repeating-gone-wind | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948116 | 908 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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General George Crook was one Civil War general who didn’t win his reputation east of the Mississippi River. To him, the Civil War was just an interlude. Before and after this great conflict, Crook was an Indian fighter.
Crook fought the greatest of the Indian chieftains; served at frontier posts from the Columbia River to the Rio Grande, from Illinois to the Pacific. Yet he was as good at defending Indians as he was at fighting them. Crook understood and sympathized with them. He spoke plainly and often against injustices in the treatment of the Indian. And when he died, Red Cloud, chief of the Sioux, gave him his epitaph: “He, at least, had never lied to us.”
General George Crook: His Autobiography first came into print when Martin F. Schmitt, working in the archives of the Army War College in Washington, made the startling rediscovery of the Crook papers, which had been presented to the library of the War College by the widow of Walter S. Schuyler, one-time aid to General Crook. The existence of the autobiography had apparently not been previously suspected by any writer on the West, not even by the General’s friend, Captain John G. Bourke, who wrote the only existing sketch of his life.
A West Point graduate of 1852, General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the four Civil War years, 1861 to 1865, on the frontier. His life paralleled western expansion during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1890, at the time of this death, he was commanding general of the Department of the Missouri, the largest and most active of all frontier commands. The Rogue River and Yakima wars in the eighteen fifties, Paiute pacification in the late sixties, the Apache campaigns of the seventies and eighties—all found Crook actively involved, fighting, counseling and making peace with the Indians.
His Civil War experiences, while not uniformly successful or profitable, brought him into close contact with the great military figures of the day. He was a favorite of Grant’s and a close associate of Sheridan, who had been in his class at West Point. His blunt, sometimes caustic opinions of his associates and the conduct of campaigns are new and often refreshing.General Crook’s autobiography covers the period from Crook’s graduation from West Point in 1852 to June 18, 1876, the day after the famous Battle of the Rosebud. The editor has supplemented it with other material, some from the Crook diaries and letters and contemporary clippings, on the other years of the General’s life.
General George Crook was one Civil War general who didn’t win his reputation east of the Mississippi River. To him, the Civil War was just an interlude. Before and after this great conflict, Crook was an Indian fighter. General Crook’s autobiography covers the period from Crook’s graduation from West Point in 1852 to June 18, 1876, the day after the famous Battle of the Rosebud. The editor has supplemented it with other material, some from the Crook diaries and letters and contemporary clippings, on the other years of the General’s life.
General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the distinction of being the lowest-ranking West Point cadet ever to rise to the rank of major general.
Crook’s autobiography covers the period from his graduation from West Point in 1852 to June 18, 1876, the day after the famous Battle of the Rosebud. Editor Martin F. Schmitt has supplemented Crook’s life story with other material from the general’s diaries and letters and from contemporary newspapers. Critics have been warm in their praise of this western Americana classic:
"A story straightforward, readable, accurate, and interesting, packed with detail and saturated with a strong western flavor.... The importance of this book lies not merely in its considerable contribution to our knowledge of military history and to the intimate and sometimes trenchant remarks made by Crook about his colleagues, but more particularly in the revelation of the character and aims of the general himself." - Chicago Tribune
"When Red Cloud, the Sioux chief, heard of the death of his old antagonist, the Army officer the called Three Stars, he told a missionary, ’...He, at least, never lied to us.’ ...General Sherman called Crook the greatest Indian fighter and manager the Army ever had. Yet this man who was the most effective campaigner against the Indians had won their respect and trust. To understand why, you ought to read General George Crook: His Autobiography, edited and annotated by Martin F. Schmitt." - Los Angeles Times
"No student of the Civil War or of the West can afford to ignore it." - New York Times Book Review
"The frank analysis of situations and blunt, occasionally caustic, judgements of men and situations make interesting reading. Students of this period will find much material in this objective and lively book." - Cavalry Journal
"A valuable book for the serious student of history...it also should prove stimulating to the casual reader who has a liking for adventure." - Western Folklore
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Colonel P.G.T. Beauregard assumed command of West Point and superintendency of the United States Military Academy on January 23, 1861. He resigned on January 28, 1861, after his native Louisiana seceded. Two days later, Colonel Richard Delafield, Beauregard’s predecessor and successor, sent this letter to Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten, about Beauregard’s resignation. | <urn:uuid:fc27d228-641b-430b-9b00-196abe801c22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digitalvaults.org/record/6620.html?page=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923486 | 99 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Though the field outfit now presented a lively appearance, all was kept as quiet as possible in and near the camp, for neither Mr. Thurston nor Mr. Blaisdell knew what was going on about them. Both were still delirious, and very ill.
“Now I see why you could afford to ‘fire’ me and let the work slack up for a while,” sneered Black, meeting Reade after dark.
“Do you?” asked Tom.
“These boys will spoil the whole business. You don’t seem to have any idea of the numbers of fool mistakes that boys can make.”
“They’re good fellows, anyway, and honest,” Tom rejoined.
“Give some of ’em leveling work out on Section Nineteen,” suggested ’Gene, apparently seized with a sudden thought. “Then compare their field notes with mine, and see how far out they are.”
“I happen to know all about your leveling notes on Nineteen,” Reade retorted rather significantly.
“What do you mean?” flared Black.
“Just before Mr. Thurston was taken ill, as it happened, Hazelton and I took a leveling instrument out on Nineteen one day and ran your sights over after you.”
“So that’s why you ’fired’-----” began Black, his thoughts moving swiftly. Then, realizing that he was about to say too much, he went on: “What did you find wrong with my sights on Nineteen?”
“I didn’t say that anything was wrong with your work,” Reade rejoined. “What I was about to say was that, if I put any of the students at leveling on Nineteen, by way of test, I shall have my own notes with which to compare theirs.”
“Humph!” muttered the fellow. Then shaking with anger, he walked away from the young chief.
“Now, Black knows that much against himself,” smiled Reade inwardly. “He doesn’t yet know, however, that I heard him talking with Bad Pete.”
Though he was pretending to take things easily, Tom’s head was all but whirling with the many problems that presented themselves to him. To get away from it all for a while Tom strolled a short distance out of camp, seating himself on the ground under a big tree not far from the trail.
Five minutes later the young chief heard halting footsteps that struck his ear as being rather stealthy. Someone, from camp, was heading that way. Stealth in the other’s movements made Reade draw himself back into the shadow.
’Gene Black halted not far from the tree. Turning back toward the camp, the fellow shook his fist violently in that direction.
“He’s certainly thinking of me,” grimaced Reade.
“You young cub, you may laugh for a day or two more!” muttered Black, with another shake of his fist.
“If that’s meant for me, I’m much obliged, I’m sure,” thought Reade. “Laughing is always a great pleasure for me.”
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Unless shore towns get a big influx of aid from the state and federal governments, which are themselves strapped for cash, they might have no choice but to raise taxes on homes and businesses that survived to make up for the loss. Some snapshots of Sandy-related budget concerns in New Jersey shore counties and communities:
The once-raucous party town, which has become more family-oriented in the past two decades, is expected to approve $26 million in spending Monday to rebuild its boardwalk and install a sea wall. It’s also raising daily and seasonal beach badge prices to help pay for the work.
Mayor Stephen Acropolis said 109 homes on his town’s section of barrier island burned after the storm; he estimates Brick will face $50 million in cleanup and rebuilding costs, including $20 million to rebuild beaches, parks and roads. He warns residents that non-damaged properties will be called on to shoulder a larger share of the tax base, tactfully calling it “a transition of the ratable base.”
The county government wants New Jersey to let it keep all $31 million in real estate transfer tax fees it collected last year instead of turning two-thirds of it over to the state.
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Mayor Vincent Barrella has long wanted the state to let it impose tax surcharges on parking lots and alcoholic drinks as a way to deal with the seasonal influx of tourists and their stress on borough services. He renewed that call this week as a potential storm recovery mechanism.
Toms River, where 5,000 residents are still out of their homes, recently passed a $35 million emergency appropriation; debris removal alone is costing it $1 million a week. The township’s Ortley Beach section, where property values and taxes were highest, saw 225 homes destroyed.
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Two worn Civil War flags set to be saved
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Cliff Eckle, a curator at the Ohio Historical Society, prepares two Civil War flags to be restored as a result of donated funds. The top flag is an 1863 flank marker for the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry; the other is the regimental colors of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
Two more flags that flew as Ohioans fought and died during the Civil War are being repaired and restored to their former glory thanks to private donations.
Although flags from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry and the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry will be saved, hundreds of others are falling to pieces at the Ohio Historical Society because of lack of funds to preserve them. Nearly 150 years later, the smell of gunpowder still clings to some.
The small "flank" flag from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry, the first black troops to be organized in Ohio, and the regimental colors of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, a unit from Cincinnati that participated in many major battles, were carefully packed away Monday at a Historical Society warehouse.
They will make a short trip to Textile Preservation Associates of Ransom, W.Va. There they will undergo a delicate restoration process: They will be bathed in distilled water, dried and encapsulated between layers of a see-through fabric. The edges will be carefully sewn closed, and the flags then will be ready for mounting and display.
Preserving a historical pennant is not cheap: $11,496 for these two small flags, from donations from the Gordon Chandler Memorial Fund of the Columbus Foundation and Ohio Society Children of the American Revolution. The price tag for a full-size flag can be $20,000 or more.
This effort will bring the total number of flags preserved to 19, but more than 500 remain - most from the Civil War. Some are too far gone to save.
Officials at the Historical Society said restoring flags is important because they are "an integral part of Ohio and American history" that came to "represent family, home and community" because soldiers were often recruited from the same geographic area.
Flags were displayed in the Statehouse Rotunda until the mid-1960s when officials recognized that they were deteriorating. They were moved to the Historical Society and eventually removed from display.
The website Fight for the Colors, describing the state's battle flag collection is at www.ohiohistory.org/fightforthecolors.
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