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Middle School Camp
Coach Marble and his staff will give hands-on training in all the basics of volleyball for middle school players. Middle school camp is set for July 26-27 at the DCC Toepke Center gym from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a one-hour break at noon. Cost is $65 and includes a t-shirt.
High School Skills Camp
High School camp is set for July 28-30 at Toepke from 9 a.m. to noon and 1—4pm. each day. Beginners and advanced players alike will gain benefits from the chance to sharpen their skills in all areas of the sport and learn fun new techniques. The camp will cover basic skills work including setting, hitting , serving, passing, defense, blocking, serve receive and offensive systems . Advance skills in hitting, jump serving, and setting will also be covered. Cost is $85 and includes a t-shirt.
For more information contact Coach Marble at (406) 377-9498 or [email protected] .
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As a song from a little musical called Rent once suggested, there are plenty of ways to measure a year. Most of them are rather intangible, as time itself it invisible and untouchable. But the odd 365 Knitting Clock gives a different way to measure the passage of time: in knits, purls and lengths of yarn.The clock was designed by Siren Elise Wilhelmsen as a school project meant to visually, tangibly mark time.
Every thirty minutes a new stitch is knitted, every day a new round is completed and at the end of a year a six-foot-long scarf is completed. The scarf you wear this year is the measure of the previous year, and the scarf you will wear next year is the physical marker of the current year. An unconventional way to mark the passing years, maybe, but the scarves would make for some unparalleled reminders of the past.
At the beginning of each new year, a new roll of yarn is inserted to begin the knitting process all over again. There are no numbers or hands, there is no clock face and no real way to distinguish the actual time. But this exercise in time measurement is more about the long-term, anyway – and the long term is made even longer every day as row after row is added to the growing length of yarn. | <urn:uuid:fe943921-f771-4738-bd7d-522821204b0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gajitz.com/525600-minutes-measure-each-year-with-a-neck-accessory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964168 | 269 | 3.15625 | 3 |
School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy
Course Descriptions For:
- Leadership Studies (EDLS)
- Educational Administration and Supervision (EDAS)
- EDFI Courses Often Required for EDAS/EDLS Programs
- EDTL Courses Often Required for EDAS/EDLS Programs
EDLS 7010 Organizational Change (3).
This course is designed to analyze the fundamental behavioral concepts and process of organizations. The complex process of organizational change and how it can be managed through a collection of techniques. Issues such as forces related to creating the need for organizational change in human resource and educational organizations will be examined.
EDLS 7110 Moral and Ethical Leadership (4).
Examination, discussion, and application of the major moral and ethical theories and principles confronting organizational leaders. Includes a discussion of the ethical relationships among professionals and the potential conflicts between personal and professional ethics.
EDLS 7210 Leadership Theories (4).
An introductory examination of diverse philosophical and theoretical perspectives which have been used to study leadership and leadership theory as it relates particularly to educational and other human services organization from an interdisciplinary perspective.
EDLS 7310 Diversity and Cultural Leadership (3).
This course is designed to examine and bring to consciousness the social, cultural, and historical influences on leadership in a multicultural democracy. This will be done by investigating and making visible aspects of the social forces, cultural dynamics, and historical contexts which influence human experience. Discoveries to leadership roles and practices will also be applied, as well as used to question the ends or purposes of our leadership practices. The course involves both theory and practice with an emphasis on practitioner research.
EDLS 7410 Institutional Policy (3).
Institutional Policy has an emphasis on the balance between theory and practice. The students will examine various decision-making models, as well as the major stages in institutional policymaking and policy analysis, applicable to a variety of professions.
EDLS 7510 Leadership for Adult Development (3).
This course focuses on how adult learning and development processes are essential to effective leadership and can be nurtured by engaging in reflective exploration of personal and professional experiences and issues. The course addresses how the modern leader makes meaning of his or her personal, political, and professional dimensions in the context of social, cultural, and organizational environments. Life course issues, maintaining congruent personal and professional lives, theories of adult development, and finding the multifaceted “voices” that contribute to constructing meaning in our complex lives are explored.</.p>
EDLS 7610 Technology Trends in Institutional Leadership (3).
Investigation and analysis of technology factors and trends which influence organizations and institutional leadership. Areas include technology changes and effects on community formation, productivity, workflow and the workplace, megachange regarding epistemological/pedagogical possibilities, and an introduction to specific applications of chaos theory and complexity theory to organizations regarding leadership, governance, and technology.
EDLS 7710 Internship in Leadership Studies (2).
An advanced internship/practicum placement experience that is designed to be supportive of the experiential needs of each student as these needs relate to achieving that student's career goals. Prerequisite: completion of a minimum of 18 semester hours of EDLS "core" course work.
EDLS 7750 Proposal Development in Leadership Studies (3).
The broad purpose of this course is to provide students with experiences for the acquisition of skills needed to develop a dissertation proposal. Students will learn to use research to understand and investigate the connection between theory and practice in various areas of leadership. Students will (1) choose and refine a research topic, research problem, purpose statement, and questions or hypotheses, 2) review the literature and develop/choose a conceptual framework; and (3) develop methodological components of their study. Students are expected to enter the class with a topic focus.
EDAS 4090 Organization and Administration of Education in American Society (3).
Local, state and federal involvement in American education, current educational and legal issues, organization of schools, school finance, job placement, professional responsibilities of teachers. Prerequisite: EDFI 3020/EDFI 3030. C/F hours: 20.
EDAS 6210 Introduction to Organizational Leadership and Change (3).
An overview of administrative theory, tools, and technology; educational leadership; legal issues; organizational and community relationships; political structures; and program development, evaluation, and accountability.
EDAS 6220 The Contemporary Principal in a Technological Society (3).
Spring, Summer. An in-depth study of organization and administration of schools emphasizing programmatic styles and strategies, administrative policies, personnel concerns, communicative aspects, and decision-making options. The course will also address concepts, processes, and functions of various management models relative to the principalship and other administrative positions. Study of the use of technology, telecommunications, and information systems to enrich curriculum and instruction, school management/business procedures, and the evolution of technology applications that change how schools provide educational programs. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent.
EDAS 6230 Law,Ethics and Negotiation in School Administration (3).
Fall, Summer. The study of constitutions, statutes, and judicial decisions of federal and state government affecting schools; emphasis on Ohio legal authority, powers, and liabilities of school personnel; legal issues impacting school operations, contract management, collective bargaining, and employee-employer relations, and professional codes of ethics. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 6240 Fiscal Management and Resource Allocation (3).
Spring, Summer. A study of school resource identification and analysis, including allocation of resources, budget planning processes, and budget management functions reflecting district and/or school priorities. Awareness of current technology management tools and application will be an integral part of the course offering. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 6250 School Culture and Instructional and Professional Development (3).
Fall, Summer. The course emphasizes the organization and management of personnel functions in education as well as the role of the leader in implementing these functions in a manner that sustains the school culture and facilitates a shared vision. The course explores the various supervisory processes by which educational leaders promote instructional improvement that is conducive to student learning and exercise leadership in modern society. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 6300 Leadership Practicum/Internship I (3).
Fall, Summer. The practicum/internship includes a variety of substantial concurrent or capstone experiences in diverse settings, planned and guided cooperatively by university and school district personnel, conducted in schools and school districts over an extended period of time. Prerequisites: completion of 12 semester hours in EDAS including EDAS 6220 and EDAS 6250.
EDAS 7210 Information Management, Evaluation, and Student Personnel Services (3).
Fall. A focus on use of qualitative and quantitative data to inform decision, to plan and assess school programs, to design accountability systems, to plan for school improvement, and to develop and conduct research. Student personnel services will include programs to fulfill student developmental, social, cultural, athletic, leadership, and scholastic needs working with staff, students, families, and community. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7220 Diversity of School Communities and Political Dynamics (3).
Summer. An examination of the relationship and interaction of school communities and the diverse interest of stakeholders as it relates to equity, change, and policy development. Internal and external constituents that interact with the school community will be examined in addition to the political perspectives, structures, and decision-making entities that comprise the cultural content of the school community. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7230 Personnel Administration in Education (3).
An investigation of the underlying personnel functions and concepts with emphasis on policies related to selection, evaluation, and development of personnel. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7240 School Business Affairs (3).
A focus on establishing operational plans and processes to accomplish strategic goals utilizing practical applications of organizational theories. Acquisition and management of financial and material assets and capital goods and services, allocating revenues according to district or school priorities. Awareness of current technology management tools and applications will be an integral part of the course offering. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7250 Board of Education and Superintendent Relations (3).
Interrelationship of the school board and the superintendent, emphasis on professional roles and responsibilities within the school community. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7300 Leadership Practicum/Internship II (3).
Fall, Summer. The second practicum is a continuation of EDAS 630. The experiences, planned and guided cooperatively by university and school district personnel, will reflect increasing complexity and responsibility, and include some work in private, community, or social service organizations. Participants will have significant opportunities in the workplace to synthesize and apply the knowledge, and to practice and develop the skills required for Administrative Licensure. Prerequisites: completion of a minimum of 18 semester hours of EDAS course work, a master's degree, and a first practicum/internship experience.
EDAS 7310 Seminar: Educational Law (3).
Statutes and judicial decisions of federal and state government affecting schools, emphasis on Ohio. Legal authority, powers, and liabilities of school personnel; legal control; limitations of school finance, curriculum, and property. Prerequisites: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7320 Seminar: Business Applications in Education (3).
The study of techniques and strategies that may be used to manage effectively the business affairs of the educational enterprise with special emphasis on planning, systems analysis, forecasting, use of technology, and financial accountability systems. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7330 Seminar: Collective Bargaining (3).
The study of the collective bargaining process with emphasis on employee relations, negotiations, contract management, and other legal issues impacting school operations. Moral and ethical implications of policy options and political strategies will be an additional area of focus. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7340 Seminar: Educational Finance (3).
Financing public education in the U.S. with special emphasis on sources of support, methods of distribution, and problems and issues involved. There will be a focus on diverse school settings; understanding publics, ethics, and integrity; and the importance of collaboration and community engagement. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7350 Seminar: Integrated Leadership in Educational Organizations (3).
The examination of different theoretical empirical and experiential perspectives for understanding leadership in diverse educational organizations. Emphasis is upon developing an understanding of the diverse realities that characterize school culture and school climate. Prerequisite: 18 hours of EDAS graduate course work or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7360 Seminar: Educational Facilities Planning and Management (3).
Overview of the planning, modernization, and management of facilities in education; approached in terms of providing shelter that meets public health, sanitation, and safety requirements and provides the amount, distribution, and character of space, equipment, and furnishings. Prerequisite: EDAS 6210 or consent of instructor.
EDAS 7800 Graduate Seminar in Educational Administration and Supervision Topics (1-3).
Content varies from one year or semester to next. May be repeated on approval of student's advisor. Course may be considered for professional growth or certification.
EDAS 7840 Directed Readings in Educational Administration and Supervision (1-3).
Independent study, supervised study, selected problems, and tailored readings. Proposed program of study must be approved by instructor. May be repeated on approval of student's advisor for a total of nine semester hours.
EDAS 7960 Supervised Advanced Practicum in Educational Administration and Supervision (1-3).
Supervised experience designed to enable the student to develop and demonstrate effective leadership in a school or related setting.
EDFI 6000 Philosophy of Education (3).
Fall, Spring. Philosophical examination of issues pertinent to educational theory and practice. Readings of influential work in classical and contemporary philosophy, educational theory, and adjacent disciplines. Reading list varies depending upon the course focus. Approved for Distance Education.
EDFI 6010 Comparative Education (3).
Fall, Summer. Comparative study and critique of the role of education in national and global development. Emphasis on the interrelationship between cultural, economic, and political factors and the roles of education in selected developed and developing nations.
EDFI 6410 Statistics in Education (3).
Statistics as a tool in education and research, descriptive statistics, transformation of scores, sampling and probability, linear correlation and regression, introduction to statistical inference, basic tests of significance, and effect size. Approved for Distance Education.
EDFI 6420 Research in Education (3).
Identification and evaluation of research problems, research designs, use of library resources, data gathering, and writing research reports. Prerequisite:
EDFI 6410 or equivalent. Approved for Distance Education.
EDFI 6710 Human Growth and Development (3).
Fall, Summer. Study of basic knowledge and theories of human development and behavior from a multidisciplinary approach. Special emphasis placed on the socio-cultural nature of human development including the physical, intellectual, and socio-emotional growth patterns of individuals throughout the life span. Prerequisite: six hours of psychology, educational psychology, or consent of instructor. Approved for Distance Education.
EDFI 6730 Adolescence Development within Social Context (3).
Study of the physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development of adolescents in relation to their socio-cultural environments. Specific emphasis placed on adolescent behavior within the family, school, peer groups, and within the context of various historical and cultural settings. Prerequisite: six hours of psychology, educational psychology, or consent of instructor.
Practical application and utilization of basic research methods and statistical techniques. Specific emphasis is placed upon the development of a research proposal and data analysis using SPSS. Prerequisite: EDFI 6410 or equivalent.
EDFI 7540 Qualitative Research Methods (3).
Doctoral-level course that examines the history and theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research in education. Students will review a variety of qualitative studies and apply fundamental methods of data collection and analysis in conducting a small qualitative case study. Prerequisite: EDFI 6420 or EDFI 7500 or equivalent.
EDTL 6110 The Curriculum (3)
Sources of curriculum; foundational bases for contemporary curriculum; forces that shape design and development of curriculum; and factors related to implementing, modifying, and evaluating curriculum. Approved for Distance Education.
EDTL 7100 Curriculum and Instructional Design (3)
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Young adult literature is often thought of as a great abyss between the wonderfully exciting and engaging materials for children and those for adults--just as young adults are often ignored in planning library facilities and services. There is, however, a wealth of fiction created especially for teens that deals with the possibilities and problems of contemporary life as experienced by this age group. These contemporary problem novels reflect the troubled times in which young readers are coming of age, but young people also need to laugh at themselves and at their world and to escape that world in flights of fancy.
With greater freedom in both content and form, young adult literature is moving into a closer connection with adult literature, and fluent readers in this age group may read primarily adult books. Societal changes and the mass media have, in some ways, pushed young people to an earlier maturity, or at least a facade of maturity. What might once have been thought appropriate for a fourteen-year-old is now appropriate for a considerably younger reader. Often, however, what is perceived as knowledge or maturity is only at a surface level, and young readers need a great deal of time for the distancing and reflection possible through literature. Nicole St. John wrote about teenagers as "inexperienced adults," and literature provides a safe haven to accrue experience.
Through story a reader can confirm one's own life experiences, illuminate and gain insight into those experiences, and vicariously expand and extend them. Although each of us must walk alone, authenticate our experiences, and make our own meanings and sense of truth in the world we know; there is always that tension between the uniqueness of the person and the commonalties of the human condition. This tension is evident in everyday life but revealed most fully in story. Story has always been a very powerful way of venturing beyond the scenes we know to connect with people, places, ideas, and events beyond our normal range.
Those committed to an understanding and appreciation of young adult literature should be able to:
The Young Adult and SocietyIn order to work successfully with young adults, we must read widely to acquaint ourselves with the best and the most current thinking about young people and their literature from a variety of perspectives.
Young Adult Problems and ConcernsProbably one of the best means to explore young adult problems and concerns is to read the books created especially for this audience. This literature may also be useful in opening a dialogue between adults and young adults.
Young Adult Literature and Reader-Response CriticismReader-response criticism with its sensitivity to the meaning-making of the individual reader is an essential aspect of study for those interested in young people.
Young Adult Literature and Feminist CriticismMuch of feminist literary theory, as well as historical and other forms of research, lends itself to the examination of young adult literature.
Focus on Specific Works and/or Authors in Light of Feminist CriticismIt is useful to read female coming-of-age novels to explore the nature of this growth process. It is also worthwhile to engage with books that provide background for this exploration. Male-coming-of-age stories are listed that particularly reflect a multicultural world.
Traditional Literature for Young AdultsIn recent years, there have been many full-length novels based on traditional folk and fairy tales both for adult and young adult audiences.
Biographical & Informational Works for Young AdultsBiographical and other forms of information books and materials are important as a means of learning about self through the lives of others and about the world we live in.
Periodical Literature for Young AdultsNew and exciting periodicals are available for young people, and many teens who are not comfortable with books read these magazines.
Website Resources for Young AdultsNew and exciting websites are available for young people, and many teens who are not comfortable with books read these websites.
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By PAULINE ARRILLAGA
AP National Writer
(AP) - When gunfire erupted at an Oregon shopping mall last week, Shaun Wik knew instantly what to do: Run for the door. And so, when Wik heard a man he believed to be the gunman shout "Get down on the ground!", the 20-year- old fled instead. And he lived.
In Arizona, on a January day two years ago, Mary Reed reacted the way her reflexes told her to when Jared Loughner opened fire on a meet-your-congresswoman gathering at her local Safeway. Reed shielded her then-17-year-old daughter, taking a bullet in the back.
They were two responses that came from very different places. For Reed, 54, it was purely instinctive. "I didn't think about anything," she said. "Mine was just that mammalian part of your mind that protects your child."
Wik's actions, though, weren't merely a fight-or-flight response. As a sophomore in high school, he had learned about the Columbine massacre and was taught to always have an escape route. When it mattered, he did.
Even as we struggle to figure out what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School _ who did what and why _ the sad frequency of attacks by men with guns is creating a growing school of thought based on a simple premise: Be ready for the bullets. These mass shootings, but also bombings and terror attacks, have fueled a need, rational or not, to be prepared for the worst in whatever form it may come and know how to act when it does.
The city of Houston, one of the nation's largest, has even produced a video advising residents of what to do should they encounter an "active shooter." It is called "Run. Hide. Fight." and was released in the days after a gunman opened fire in July at a midnight "Batman" movie screening in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people.
After a spate of school shootings that included the 1999 Columbine massacre in Colorado and the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, schools heightened security, developed new guidelines for spotting potentially threatening individuals and implemented so-called "lockdown drills" to better help students know what to do in the event of an emergency.
And with Sandy Hook, it seems to have marched forward: Have we gone so far down this rabbit hole of mass murder in America that we must make sure our first- graders are ready with escape routes, too?
The response inside the school, authorities said, seemed to be a mix of the two notions of preparation and instinct _ as teachers, a school psychologist, a principal risked, and in some cases lost, their lives to protect the children in their care.
Lockdown drills were part of the routine for the nearly 450 kindergartners through fourth-graders who attended Sandy Hook. Earlier this year, principal Dawn Hochsprung tweeted a picture of an evacuation exercise, showing little ones bundled in winter coats standing outside the school, quietly in line behind their teachers. Hochsprung died Friday at the gunman's hand.
And while nothing can ever prepare children for what happened at Sandy Hook, having a specific procedure to follow probably did help keep the youngsters calm and focused _ and could potentially minimize the effects of the trauma down the road, said Stephen Brock, a professor of school psychology at California State University, Sacramento.
He recalled in recent days hearing a little girl in Connecticut on the radio "talking about how the teacher told them to go to the corner of the room away from the doors and windows so the animal couldn't get in."
"In her mind, it was probably a ... lion or a tiger," Brock said. Nevertheless, "they followed procedures that they had been drilled in before. By responding appropriately, it can make the situation appear less threatening if there's something that they can do to keep themselves safe."
Not unlike adult survivors of these awful tragedies, children also have their own innate tendencies that help influence their response. Even if they can't make their own decisions to hide or escape _ they know instinctively who can: the adults around them, to whom they look for cues about how to behave.
Think of a child at a park who falls off the swing set, Brock said. If they look over at Mom and she's upset, chances are the child will get upset, too. If not, "They'd wipe ... off their knee and go out and play some more," he said. "Young kids are going to have their threat perception significantly dictated by how the adults around them are behaving."
Scenes from last night's show and spectacle in Las Vegas.(Photos)
A funeral home offers a bicycle hearse and a casket that's a basket.
An 18-year-old creates a tiny device that charges a phone quickly. (Video)
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Click below for A sobering item from the US on waste as West Australia considers allowing uranium mining against the wishes of voters.
We need also to remember that in the years it will take to build any sparkling new nuclear power stations, the world economic dynamic will have changed so that truly clean and renewable alternatives are a lot more competitive and practical.
Please comment on whether we in W.A. should mine Uranium and send it overseas, sometimes to nuclear armed countries with unstable governments and with no clear direction on how to deal with waste that will still be deadly in thousands of years.
For other info on our “friend” uranium Google “depleted uranium Iraq” – be careful if you’re a sensitive soul – it’s not pretty and it’s very real for the children and families affected.
People in WA are now gearing up to remind the Barnett Govenrment why this state has been free from Uranium mining and nuclear power all these years – watch this space! You may also like to visit this youtube link
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Archive for reggae
Babylon by Franco Rosso
A film of sheer sound and fury, the uncompromising subject matter (it all but anticipates the race riots that engulfed inner cities soon after release) and classic reggae soundtrack helped cement Babylon’s reputation as one of the most powerful and historically significant documents about the black British experience ever made.
Babylon stands up today as a well crafted, convincingly acted, hard hitting piece of realistic drama. Babylon is a potent mix of music and social commentary. Franco Rosso’s incendiary drama about black Britain circa 1980 stars Aswad lead singer Brinsley Forde as Blue, the Ital Lion sound system MC who finds his lifestyle and culture under siege. Here, for the first time in British cinema, is a portrayal of British reggae culture and Rastafarianism at odds with the ‘multi-racist’ society and state.
“Dub Echoes” is a documentary that traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music.The film shows how the Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.
Featuring an incredible array of artists, both original Jamaican artists – U Roy, King Jammy, Lee Perry, Sly Dunbar, Bunny Lee (to name a few), alongside a similarly awe-inspiring array of artists who have been taken Dub into new directions in electronic dance music – Kode9, Roots Manuva, Howie B, Adrian Sherwood and many more. Directed by Bruno Natal. | <urn:uuid:5e07adf8-6f3e-4a08-8604-8be1f499e495> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.decibeldevils.com/?tag=reggae | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912033 | 357 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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advantage of Outlook's Rules, you're wasting time. More importantly,
in these days of Spam-O-Rama, using Rules is a good way to help you make
sure that your more important email doesn't end up in the dumpster.
Through MouseTrax.com, I get a ton of email requests. People ask for help,
have comments they want to make and also request quotes for my consulting
services. These are very important emails and I want to make sure that they
come to my attention the minute they arrive. So I've created a rule in Outlook
that displays a special message letting me know when anything arrives from
Granted, when developing our Contact page on the site, I made sure to include
a subject within the post so that anything coming from the site displays
a special prefix in the subject. Personally, I do this through programming
code in the background. But you can easily add a subject to any email hyperlink
you might use. You just need to add the syntax ?subject= and
then add the info you want to display as a default. Let's say your normal
link would be like this:
To add a special subject, you would modify the link like this:
Although, I generally add the special comment in brackets, like this:
mailto:firstname.lastname@example.org?subject="[TTrax Mail] "
The sender would still be free to add more details in the subject line, but
assuming they don't remove your prefix, you can then easily set a rule to
make special note of any mail arriving with the words [TTrax Mail] in the
Or, maybe you just want to make sure that email from your spouse or a
family member, or yes, even your boss, gets special attention. You can set
a rule to have that mail displayed to you with a special notice and even
have it moved to a special folder so it doesn't get mixed up with other email.
This will also save you from having to move the mail into a folder later.
Just make sure you check that folder often so new mail doesn't get shoved
in there and forgotten!
Setting up rules in Outlook is pretty simple. Outlook contains a Wizard that
walks you through the steps. You need only decide what you want to happen
and make the appropriate choices as you go through each panel of the Wizard.
Click Tools > Rules and Alerts to open the Rules dialog
box. Click New Rule to get started.
Now, Outlook will offer up a pile of predefined templates to allow you to
start with something almost finished, from which you can modify. Personally,
I prefer to start fresh with a blank rule and define my own preferences.
But this is just my choice...you can make your own decision here.
Let's assume you think like I do (poor kid!) and we'll go with the blank rule.
First decide if this rule should take affect when you are sending or receiving
Assuming you're going to go with the subject line notification, you would
select the option to have the subject line checked, upon arrival, for special
words. However, as you can see in the image below, there are many other options
from which you can choose.
As you make your selections from the top window that contains the options,
the rule is being built for you in the lower half of the dialog box. Just
make sure that wherever blue hyperlinked words are displayed, you make sure
to click on those words and specify your options.
When using the subject words as your special recognition, you need to click
on the words "specific words." The Search dialog will
then appear. Add in whatever words you want. If this was a rule for special
notice, you would add those subject words that are important to you. However,
if you were creating a spam rule, this list would contain those words that
you know spam to contain and then you could choose to have these emails passed
to a special junk folder. Whatever your motives, just make sure you complete
the rule by adding in your specific terms.
Move on to the next screen. There you will set the details about what you
want to happen when an email arrives with the above details in the subject.
In my case, I want a special message to pop up in my face to make sure I
don't miss it and can handle it the minute it arrives. So I choose to display
a specific message.
But again, make sure you move to the lower window now and click the hyperlink
for the message so you can create your custom message. If you wanted the
email moved to a special folder, or some other specific action to also
take place, be sure to check that option, too.
Once all your actions are selected and customized, you can move on to
the Exceptions windows. If there are any situations that would apply, check
those exception options and customize them.
Finally, a default name for this rule will be offered, but you are free
to change it to anything you like.
At this point, you can also choose to
run the rule now to move or otherwise organize any emails that may currently
be sitting in your inbox...although this action would be more suited
if you were having emails moved en masse to a folder, versus this particular
rule which would now cause a pile of messages to pop up in your face!
That's it! Click Finish and your rule is set. From now on, anytime an email
arrives with the details you specified, your custom actions will take place,
automatically, so you won't have to spend excess time handling more email
than is necessary.
Furthermore, if you create a bunch of rules on one computer you can easily
move them to another computer, or share them with others, by Exporting the
rules out to a special file. Move that file to the other computer and then
choose to Import these rules.
I support a lot of user groups. To help me save time from sorting through
tons of additional email in my inbox, I have each category of email moved
into specific folders when they arrive, i.e., Word VBA, Word Doc Design,
Word General Support, Office General, Excel, Dreamweaver, etc. By making
sure email gets viewed regularly, I can see how many new, unread emails have
arrived. But rather than being continually interrupted or distracted by new
support email questions, I can get to them when I have a little time to spare
and can concentrate on answering support issues.
However you decide to use Outlook's Rules, there's a good chance that you
can save a handful of time for each new rule you create to help yourself
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Phone scam warning
2:33pm Wednesday 6th March 2013 in News
TRADING Standards officers are warning residents about a phone scam.
In the scam, cold callers claim householders are eligible for discounts on their telephone, gas and electricity bills.
For the discount to be activated, the bogus caller asks for debit card details.
Clr Lynn Riley, executive member for community and environment, said: “This is a calculated and heartless scam to obtain financial information which the fraudsters could then use to take money from your bank account.
“Anyone who receives an unsolicited call from someone claiming they can save you money on your utility bills should not give out their credit or debit card details over the phone.”
Cheshire West and Chesrter Council’s Trading Standards officers urge residents to be wary of cold callers and never give out personal information such as name, address or bank or card details.
Officers also advise people to confirm what they are saying on the phone in writing or terminate the call.
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Amy E. Spaulding‘s The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths through Telling Stories (Scarecrow Press, 2011) divides into four parts: Telling Truth, Telling Stories; How to Become a Storyteller; Why Bother Learning and Telling Stories?; and Farewell. Spaulding writes in a conversational tone in which I felt as though she was speaking directly to me as she encourages readers to tell stories, especially traditional stories. She emphasizes getting to know not only the stories but to understand the culture from which the story comes so that the story/culture is treated with respect.
The book contains a Storiography, a bibliography of story collections and a webliography. At the end of each chapter, she includes exercises to help one on his/her journey to becoming a storyteller. | <urn:uuid:58f530c0-bbb7-44d4-a541-3647c16fc781> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2011/07/professional-reading-the-art-of-storytelling-telling-truths-through-telling-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9497 | 176 | 2.046875 | 2 |
At a coffee shop near Lake Calhoun, Sami Rahamim pulled out an iPhone photo of his late father, Reuven Rahamim, who was killed Sept.27 at the Accent Signage company he founded.
It’s a shot of Reuven in Washington, D.C. He traveled there last summer for a conference, and he was thrilled to see the Braille sign system he invented installed throughout the White House.
Sami carried the photo with him in February, during his own D.C. trip to hear the State of the Union address and take part in a survivor lobbying day.
“I took it with me to the White House [because] I was there, and he was there,” he said. “We could all kind of be there together.”
Upon signing up as an advocate against gun violence, Sami, age 17, has endured a whirlwind couple of months. He met with 120 survivors of gun violence, and worked on a public service announcement sponsored by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He met President Barack Obama in Minneapolis, and he met former U.S. Rep. GabrielleGiffords at a reception in U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office. A camera crew with Organizing for Action, a nonprofit that works to support Obama’s national agenda, is filming Sami to generate footage for a new video. Sami granted a live interview to CNN and many other media outlets, testified at the State Capitol, and spoke at a Feb. 18 rally to end gun violence.
Sami writes his own speeches, watching rallies to learn how speakers tap into broad values. In lieu of attending high school, a tutor visits the house to help with homework.
“I’m a little burnt out. I have my moments,” Sami said.
He said a December trip to meet mass shooting survivors in New York inspired him to speak out. He met other people who lost loved ones in Tucson, Aurora and Virginia Tech.
“It felt good to have the feeling that I was going to maybe prevent this from happening to someone else,” he said.
The gun violence prevention effort
Sami said he is particularly hopeful about a couple of state bills related to background checks and straw purchases that look like they have a chance of passing.
When Sami decided to join the gun violence lobby, he shadowed Heather Martens, executive director of Protect Minnesota: Working to End Gun Violence.
“We do know from national research that background checks do disrupt illegal gun supply chains,” Martens said.
At a recent neighborhood meeting in Kingfield, Martens said the Accent Signage shooter, Andrew Engeldinger, had been charged with criminal misconduct in the past, but it did not disqualify him from obtaining a conceal and carry permit.
“Law enforcement folks have told us that people who are potentially violent often do have contact with the police before they do something violent,” Martens said.
Background check legislation remains controversial, however. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), wrote in opposition to universal background checks in a Feb. 10 USA Today editorial.
“Criminals won’t participate in a ‘universal’ system,” he wrote. “They’ll always steal or get their guns, and everything else they want, on the black market. Reasonable people know that criminals will never be part of the ‘universe.’”
In the past year, the Minneapolis Police Department has stepped up efforts to trace guns seized during criminal investigations.
“We’re tracing every gun that comes in to the property room using resources available to the federal government,” said police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer. “It’s a huge undertaking, and it’s important to the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota.”
In September, a 31-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced in federal court for providing false information while purchasing firearms, many of which were recovered during criminal investigations. Ryan Thomas Sandoval was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, and prosecutors said he made at least seven straw purchases in a three-month period in 2011.
Grabbing a branch
Sami said gun violence was not dinner table conversation prior to September.
“It’s really kind of a shame, it seems like one of those things that until it affects you personally, you don’t get involved in,” he said. “But now is the time. You can’t go back and try to change the past, but we can definitely change the future.”
The gun violence lobby might be new territory, but Sami has long been familiar with Washington. Twice he traveled with Reuven to an AmericanIsrael Public Affairs Committee policy conference. And last fall, AIPAC also invited him to a summit for high school seniors to learn about pro-Israel lobbying work. He’s returning for another AIPAC conference in the coming weeks.
“It gave me a huge advantage in being able to do all this, because AIPAC is the largest and most successful lobbying organization in Washington,” Sami said. “They’re bigger than the NRA, bigger than the AARP. They’re huge. They believe that we have the most pro-Israel Congress right now in history, and that’s not something that happens on accident.”
As this reporter wrote in The Line, Reuven immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1974. He launched Accent Signage in the basement of his home, and he invented “Raster-Braille” in the late ‘80s as part of a project for St. Kate’s. The university was offering a degree program for the blind, and staff wanted to include Braille on their signs.
“This country has so much opportunity if you apply yourself,” Reuven told The Line in July. “I don’t know many people who have died of hard labor or studying too much in school. You need to be industrious.”
“He worked harder than anyone I’ve ever known. And that’s not necessarily 100 percent a compliment,” Sami said, laughing. “But he really believed in what he worked on.”
To weather the downturn in the construction industry, Accent expanded its international business and promoted an environmentally-friendly line of sign materials. Reuven was excited about the growing publicity of his work, Sami said. The afternoon he died, he told Sami about an interview he had just completed with a Star Tribune business writer.
“He was so ecstatic. Totally atthe top of his game,” Sami said. “He said it was a great interview, went really well. He was excited for it to come out.”
Community members in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood are working with an architect to create a memorial for Accent Signage. The community has so far raised $19,000 for the victims’ families.
“Me and my mom were both pushed off a cliff, and we had to grab onto something so we wouldn’t hit the ground,” Sami said. “The branch that I grabbed was the political advocacy, and what she was able to grab was working at the company. It’s been really beneficial for us to have that and start to climb back to the top.”
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"The new survey reminds teens and parents that road safety begins with a good night's sleep," said Dave Melton, director of Transportation Technical Consulting Services at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, Mass.
"As parents we tend to equate safe teen driving with sober driving, but fatigue should be an equal cause for concern," said Melton. "Together we need to raise awareness of the risk factors and symptoms of drowsy driving in our communities and schools, to ensure our children are getting the rest they need and provide them with the tools to know what to do if they are on the road and tired."
Sufficient sleep is the best antidote to drowsy driving. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that teens should be getting between 8.5 and 9.5 hours of sleep to be fully rested, but due to classes, after school activities and social lives most teens are getting much less. The Liberty Mutual/SADD study found that teens get an average of 7.4 hours of sleep per night, the least amount (7.2 hours on average) coming on school nights (Sunday-Thursday). | <urn:uuid:b37691e9-4945-4a3e-8492-1deb8fd52703> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/liebelt/sleep-deprived-teens-more-likely-to-fall-asleep-at-the-wheel-11595650.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955734 | 229 | 2.859375 | 3 |
North Shore (Montreal)
The North Shore (French: Rive Nord) is the general term for the northern suburbs of Montreal. The North Shore is located in southwestern Quebec on the northern shores of the Rivière des Prairies and the Rivière des Mille Îles, opposite the Island of Montreal and the Island of Laval. It consists of twenty municipalities that belong to the Laurentides and Lanaudière administrative regions. While the city of Laval is commonly associated with the North Shore, it is not considered part of the North Shore because of its status as an island.
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Sci. STKE, 13 September 2005
CHANNELS EGF Is Connected Through PIP2 to PKD2
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is caused by mutations in either the pkd1 or pkd2 gene. Targeted deletion of the gene encoding the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in mice causes a similar phenotype as that of ADPKD. Thus, Ma et al. investigated whether there was a signaling pathway connecting EGFR to PKD2, which is a member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of channels. The authors studied the currents induced by application of EGF to a pig proximal tubule kidney cell line LLC-PK1 and cells transfected with human PKD2 and various PKD2 mutants or tagged forms. Increased abundance of PKD2 enhanced currents stimulated by EGF, and these currents were abolished in cells in which PKD2 (native and transfected) was silenced with RNAi. A pathogenic variant of PKD2 (PKD2-D511V) also inhibited EGF-stimulated channel activity, consistent with this mutant acting as a dominant negative. Pharmacological manipulation indicated that the tyrosine kinase activity of EGFR and phospholipase C (PLC) activity were required for stimulation of channel activity by EGF. Although application of a diacylglycerol analog to the cells stimulated a current, this current was not enhanced in the cells overexpressing PKD2, which suggests that DAG is not responsible for the EGF-mediated increase in channel activity. When purified phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) was added to the recording electrode, EGF failed to stimulate an increase in whole-cell current. Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibited both basal and EGF-stimulated whole-cell currents. These results suggest that PKD2 is inhibited by PIP2 and that EGF, through the actions of PI3K and PLC, decreases PIP2, thereby activating the PKD2 channel. This interpretation is supported by lack of EGF stimulation of current in cells transfected with PIP(5)Kα, which is a kinase that increases PIP2. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments with transfected HEK-293 cells suggested an interaction between EGFR, PLC-2, and PKD2. In the LLC-PK1 cells, in which PLC-2 is present, PIP2, EGFR, and PKD2 were colocalized in the cilium based on immunofluorescence. Thus, this complex may allow localized changes in PIP2 abundance, which regulate the activity of the PKD2 channel. EGF, which is abundant in human urine, may decrease the threshold required for fluid shear stress to activate PKD2 in the kidney.
R. Ma, W-P. Li, D. Rundle, J. Kong, H. I. Akbarali, L. Tsiokas, PKD2 functions as an epidermal growth factor-activated plasma membrane channel. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25, 8285-8298 (2005). [Abstract] [Full Text]
Citation: EGF Is Connected Through PIP2 to PKD2. Sci. STKE 2005, tw327 (2005).
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Squatters still survive in Hudson, NY!
Eighteen riverside squatter shanties remain in Hudson, NY. The occupants have fended off the government for decades--and public officials concede they've achieved a stalemate. "They're clearly squatters on city land and don't pay taxes, but they're not bothering anybody," Hudson Mayor Rick Scalera says. "There's no potential development plan for the land anyway. They're tucked away next to a sewer treatment plant and an abandoned sewing factory. I consider it a case of out of sight, out of mind." Here's an Albany Times Union profile of these two throwback communities, one in the lagoon at North Bay, the other on Middle Ground Flats, an island in the Hudson River. Great historical detail: back in the 1930s and 40s, when Hudson had a hard core working waterfront, bar owners posted an illuminated sign in the river to lure passing boaters to the town's 68 taverns. | <urn:uuid:ecdecf29-3de4-4d47-a798-2abae885e717> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2005/07/squatters-still-survive-in-hudson-ny.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951622 | 207 | 1.695313 | 2 |
|Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind|
|Written by Justin Newman, medical student|
An elderly gentleman went to his doctor to get checked out for the pain that he had in his back for some time. After a quick examination, the doctor said, “I can’t find a cause for your complaint. Frankly, I think it’s due to drinking.” “In that case,” said the elderly gent, “I’ll come back when you’re sober.”
Your spine is made of 33 separate vertebrae. Each is slightly different with a slightly different role to play. Between each of these bones, there are intra-vertebral disks. These disks account for about 30 percent of the height of the spine. While these disks help to keep the vertebral bones apart, they also help with the motion of the back and act as shock absorbers. The bones of the spine are strong, which makes them unable to change with the weight that we put on our backs each day. The disks are needed to adjust to the compression on the spine. These disks are made of a strong ring around the outside. This is a strong fiber ring that sticks to the vertebral bodies above and below. Trapped inside the fiber ring is a thick fluid. This is a jelly that helps to give flexibility and accommodate changes in motion and weight. This jelly is made mostly of proteins that soak up a large amount of water.
When your back is carrying a heavy load, pressure squeezes these jelly disks. The disks then function like a shock absorber and some water is pushed out of the jelly as the load is increased. When the load is removed, the jelly absorbs the water again and the disk returns to its original size. The disks help with structural support and motion. For example, when you are lying down, one of the disks in the back will have about 60 pounds of pressure on it. However, when you stand and lift 40 pounds, the pressure on a disk in the lower back can be greater than 600 pounds. Did you know that you are at your tallest when you first wake up in the morning? Your height can change a couple of centimeters over the course of the day. During the day, your back is put through a rigorous workout. As fluid is pushed out and reabsorbed by these disks, they are strained.
Not all of the fluid is able to be reabsorbed while weight remains on the spine. This is why you are taller in the morning. After a night of lying down, the disks are able to recuperate and become fully recharged for the next day. As we age, the jelly material in the disks changes. With increasing age, there is less water and more fibrous material. This makes the disks stiff. The ring around the outside of the disks also stiffens, which can result in small cracks. This is one reason for the lack of motion and stiffness in the backs of the elderly.
Justin Newman is originally from Holyoke and is attending medical school at the University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine. This column is about health related issues with a focus on a rural community. The purpose of this column is to be informative and to comment on interesting medical and health related topics. Any questions or concerns that may arise regarding topics covered by this article should be addressed to your primary care doctor. | <urn:uuid:16624b18-5f80-461c-8eb4-9cf3125d6eea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.holyokeenterprise.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54%3Ajustin-newman&Itemid=63 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96511 | 701 | 3.109375 | 3 |
by John Paul Lederach
What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach has spent three decades mediating peace and change in 25 countries — from Nepal to Colombia and Sierra Leone.. He shifts the language and lens of the very notion of conflict resolution. He says, for example, that enduring progress takes root not with large numbers of people, but with relationships between unlikely people.
by John Paul Lederach
Conflict is, among other things, the process of building and sustaining very different perceptions and interpretations of reality.
Pertinent Posts from the On Being Blog
Do you haiku? John Lederach shares 12 haiku based on a three-day dialogue with Krista Tippett and others. These conversational poems capture the tension, promise, and paradox of moral action and meaningful language.
About the Image
In Kanchanpur, Nepal, two facilitators take part in a community process to work on a conflict between Forest User Groups (young woman standing) and several groups of "encroachers" including a landless group and a Kamaiya (young man standing), or bonded laborers.
Voices on the Radio
Host/Producer: Krista Tippett
Managing Producer: Kate Moos
Senior Producer: Colleen Scheck
Associate Producer: Nancy Rosenbaum
Associate Producer: Shubha Bala
Technical Director/Producer: Chris Heagle
Senior Editor: Trent Gilliss
Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier. But, instead of clinging to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the other side — Israeli and Palestinian — by sharing their pain and their humanity. They tell of a gathering network of survivors who share their grief, their stories of loved ones, and their ideas for lasting peace. They don't want to be right; they want to be honest.
The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the U.S. spends most of its time, resources, and weapons fighting the symptoms of this threat, not the cause. The diplomacy of the future, he is showing, must engage religion as part of the strategic solution to global conflicts. | <urn:uuid:e1826d7f-c8fd-42de-966b-bd5e946a19ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onbeing.org/comment/2970 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932303 | 490 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Anancus sp. , Photo: Michael Lahanas
The jaw of Anancus, an extinct gomphotheriid elephant.
Anancus is an extinct genus of gomphothere that lived in the late Miocene and early Pleistocene, from 3 to 1.5 million years ago. Their fossils have been found in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Anancus stood around 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall, and closely resembled a modern elephant. It had two tusks, whereas most other gomphotheres had four. Aside from its somewhat shorter legs, Anancus was also different from modern elephants in that its tusks were much longer, up to 4 m (13 ft) in length. The tusks were probably defence weapons. The molars were not composed of lamellae like those of true elephants, but had cusps, like tapir and pig molars; Anancus appears to have lived in forests, eating from trees and shrubs and digging out tubers and roots in the forest floor, and it died out when these forests gave way to grasslands.
Although not as famous, Anancus was at least as big as its cousins the mammoths.
1. ^ a b Palmer, D., ed (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 241. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.
* Benes, Josef (1979). Prehistoric Animals and Plants. Prague: Artua. p. 263.
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Several years ago, I ran into a friend who had just finished a one-month silent meditation retreat. When I asked about her experience, she pointed to her forehead and traced an imaginary label as she replied, “It’s written here. Now I know, the story is extra.”
I know exactly what she meant. I used to live in stories. There was drama about what people should and shouldn’t have done. There were emotions spilling out everywhere based on these dramas. There was brooding, stewing, worrying, and gossiping.
Finally, I learned the transformative life lesson: The story is extra.
The Nature of Stories
A story is a series of thoughts strung together. It is a layer of mental activity that we place on the reality of what is happening. And here is where the trouble starts. When we inhabit our stories, we:
- Add meaning
We view the world through the lens of our minds – our ideas about things, rather than the actual reality of things. And these stories rarely bring us peace. They divide the world into good and bad, should and shouldn’t. When we focus on our internal story-telling, we are setting ourselves up for unhappiness and turmoil.
Over and over, we tell ourselves we aren’t good enough or the past shouldn’t have happened the way it did or that someone we know should behave differently. When we resist reality, as it is, we feel frustrated and hopeless. These mental whirlwinds sap our energy and keep us stuck in a narrow perspective. They are a form of violence we do to ourselves. They alienate, divide, and hurt.
The Value of Letting Go
It is a revolutionary choice to let go of the story and see things as they are. But when you do, here is what is in store for you. How do I know? These are the benefits I have realized:
- Moving past grudges and putting down old baggage from the past. When I stopped torturing myself with these stories, I was able to see things with fresh eyes. Forgiving and letting go became the obvious choice.
- Well being. I feel calmer, happier, more relaxed, and less stressed.
- Clarity. I realized the stories I was telling myself were just a small part of the whole reality of things. I was missing a lot. Letting go of stories led to deeper insights about my motivations and the intentions of others. My next step became crystal clear.
- Easier problem solving. When I stopped trying to solve problems in my mind based on the stories, practical and creative solutions appeared effortlessly.
- Better relationships. As I stopped believing stories I told myself about how other people should change, I brought less friction into my relationships.
- Quiet mind. Once I stopped paying attention to the mental chatter, I began to experience a spacious, open, quiet mind.
- Compassion. We always play the starring role in our stories. When I shifted my focus away from what I wanted and what I thought was right, compassion for others flooded in.
When our stories are activated, we are in a fight with reality. Reality is as it is, then we try to mold, change, or resist it, making our daily experience a very bumpy road. Relaxing into the flow of things smooths out the kinks. Without the stories, we are available to shift and respond as needed. The opposition of “no” turns into the surrender of “yes.”
I have learned a very valuable phrase: “Oh, this.” My plane is three hours late? Oh, this. My father ends up in the ICU with pneumonia? Oh, this. A client no-shows? Oh, this.
“Oh, this” is not about resignation or putting up with anything. It is an alive acceptance of circumstances without reservation.
I no longer put any stock in the stories that show up in my mind. They don’t serve, and they are essentially insubstantial and untrue. Not only do I accept reality, I relish it. I appreciate what happens, even if I don’t like it, and let my heart open over and over to things exactly as they are.
As Jesus said, “then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” I have discovered that the truth does set you free. When you abandon stories and welcome reality with no resistance, you meet this magnificent world just as it is in all its glory.
How about you? What stories do you tell yourself? What would happen if you let them go? I’d love to hear…
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It's not often that medical researchers receive floods of emails accusing them of wholesale murder, and expressing the devout wish that they should die painfully of cancer (unless they use animals in their research, of course).But it happened recently in the States. The hysteria was provoked by the apparently innocuous issue of health screening. Screening is the use of diagnostic tests to discover disease before the patient experiences any symptoms, in the expectation that early treatment is more likely to result in cure, and UK readers will be familiar with the national cervical and breast cancer screening programmes which have been going for some years now.
There is a general assumption that screening is a 'good thing', and that if it is possible to screen for a disease, then we should screen for it. But it's not that simple. Take prostate cancer. There is a blood test to detect a chemical (prostate specific antigen - PSA) which is released into the bloodstream by prostatic cancer cells. It is therefore theoretically possible to offer a blood test to the at-risk population (men over 50, say) to check their PSA level. However, not all men with a raised PSA will have cancer, so an abnormal result triggers a further series of tests. The patient will have an ultrasound examination of the prostate gland, using a probe introduced into the rectum, with up to ten or more needle biopsies (removal of cells for microscopic examination) of any suspicious areas. If cancer is confirmed, the treatment is likely to involve radical surgical removal of the gland, an operation that carries a significant risk of complications, including impotence and incontinence. 'So what?' you say - 'it's better than dying of cancer'. Well yes, but the trouble is, we don't know how many of these men would have died of their cancer. If you look at the prostate glands of men dying in their seventies and beyond of other diseases, up to 40% will contain cancer cells. In other words, more men die with prostate cancer than die of it. The introduction of an expensive screening programme may result in the even more expensive investigation and surgical treatment of many men who would never have been troubled by their slow-growing prostatic cancer had it been left alone. A small but significant proportion of them will suffer the harmful effects of surgery. So suddenly, screening for prostate cancer looks less attractive, and the jury is still out on whether a national screening programme would be worthwhile.
Which is where our unfortunate American medical scientists come in. The Editor and Deputy Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine raised these issues in the San Francisco Chronicle, presenting the arguments against prostate screening. Immediately, a host of special interest groups produced advertisments in the national press villifying the researchers, and calling on their university employers to sack them. The language used was vehement, accusing the hapless scientists of 'geriatricide' - condemning hordes of innocent men to a painful and unnecessary death. Of course, the reaction might have been partly due to the fact that, in the US privatised healthcare system, screening is big business. It's becoming big business in the UK too, with people prepared to pay good money to private healthcare providers for 'health checks', despite the absence of any proof of real benefit.
There is even doubt about the established screening programmes. Some workers question the robustness of the evidence of reduced breast cancer deaths in the screened population, and there is a continuing debate as to whether the huge amounts of money consumed by the screening programme could be better spent elsewhere. Of course, try telling that to the husband and children of one of the many women whose life has been saved by the early detection of a breast cancer. But in a cash-limited healthcare system (and state-funded or private, they are all cash-limited), some hard decisions have to be taken. | <urn:uuid:5c95ef4c-6b3e-414e-a80a-cef06eebb8e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/bobburycolumn2.htm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96523 | 776 | 2.671875 | 3 |
“I can’t believe this is even a thing” of the day”: Community furious over Bronx bus company’s ‘Ghetto’ tour
May 20, 2013
A bus company that bills one of its tours as a real-life ride through an actual inner-city ghetto has been packing the seats, as tourists from Europe and Australia have flocked for the up-close-and-personal glimpse into one of America’s crime-ridden areas.
The Real Bronx Tours offers the trip three times a week, billing it as “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’ ” complete with stops at food-pantry lines and “pickpocket” park, The New York Post reported.
The tour is $45, The Post said.
A sampling of stops: Tour guide Lynn Battaglia singles out a housing project, before idling nearby a historic church and citing crime and poverty statistics from the South Bronx in 1970, The Post reported. Then on to East 140th Street, where Ms. Battaglia gives a history of the word “pig” as a reference to police officer.
“The policeman, his name is Patty, and he would walk up and down that street, and if he ran into an alcoholic, he’d beat them mercilessly,” she said, in The Post. “So they’d call him ‘Patty the Pig.’ “
Other sources actually say the reference to cops as pigs began in London in 1811, The Post said.
Area politicians aren’t happy with the theme of the tour.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz called the guide “the biggest fool on the planet,” in The Post. “They should tell people about The Bronx that we all know, and that’s The Bronx that’s had the lowest crime rate since 1963 last year. To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that … is pretty disgusting.” | <urn:uuid:18d11736-bc11-4041-817e-fb6fe4decf42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sigfodr.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960635 | 447 | 1.53125 | 2 |
"Banks under a free-banking system, like banks with fractional reserves under any other system, are susceptible to runs. Free-banking theorists maintain that the option clause would be one effective means of dealing with runs on banks. The option clause, printed on banknotes, would allow banks to defer redemption of their notes provided they pay interest for the period of deferment. The clause would enable banks to protect their liquidity in the face of an unexpected increase in demands for redemption, and allow them time to adjust their portfolios. To make the clause notes acceptable to the public, banks would likely promise to pay interest at a rate higher than the market rate for the period of deferment. This penalty rate would dissuade banks from misusing the option clause. The clause therefore could serve as a crucial stabilizing mechanism for a free-banking system." | <urn:uuid:2ce17c86-e530-4219-969b-aff2a45d80ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.strike-the-root.com/option-clause-in-free-banking-theory?mini=calendar%2F2013-04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954799 | 173 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Good news amid Japan’s ongoing problems and fears about radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant – radioactive levels in the water have dropped to safe levels and the lights in the Number 1 reactor are back on, which may mean that the cooling system can soon be restored and nuclear catastrophe averted. Still, there’s plenty of work to be done.
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Bond's creator, author Ian Fleming, worked in British Naval Intelligence in the Second World War and based his characters - including his villains - on real-life people.
But who exactly were the models for the likes of Miss Moneypenny, M, Q and 007 himself?
Fleming got the name for his most famous character from a book called Field Guide To The Birds Of The West Indies by ornithologist James Bond which was on the shelf in his study when he sat down to write his first spy novel. He got the 007 code number from the German diplomatic code 0070, which was cracked by British Intelligence in the First World War.
However, the basis for Bond has been much disputed over the years. A new biography claims the inspiration was Wing Commander Forest "Tommy" Yeo-Thomas, one of the greatest spies of the Second World War whose code name was The White Rabbit. Yeo-Thomas was parachuted into occupied France three times but was captured by the Gestapo and tortured.
I belong to a secret order which has representatives all over the world
He was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp but escaped.
In her research, author Sophie Jackson discovered a link between The White Rabbit and Fleming: a memo from 1945 in which the author, who worked for British Intelligence during the war, briefs colleagues on Yeo-Thomas and his escape from the Nazis. "It shows Fleming was interested in the case of Yeo-Thomas and had been following it," Jackson says.
Jackson claims that Yeo-Thomas had the same attitude towards women as Bond and that some of the 007 storylines are based on actual events involving Yeo-Thomas. He once found himself on a train behind enemy lines in France sitting next to the head of the local Gestapo, the notorious Klaus Barbie. The British agent started talking to Barbie in French and pretended that he was a supporter of the Nazi occupation. Barbie did not recognise him and The White Rabbit escaped.
The story, Jackson points out, is similar to the scene in Fleming's From Russia With Love, in which Bond has lunch with an enemy agent on a train who pretends to be an ally.
It has also been claimed that Bond was based, at least partly, on real-life spy Sidney Reilly whose incredible story was told in the 1983 TV series Reilly, Ace Of Spies. He was a Russian Jew who spied for British Intelligence and was shot by the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union in 1925.
"Like Fleming's fictional creation Reilly was multilingual with a fascination for the Far East, fond of fine living and a compulsive gambler," says his biographer Andrew Cook. "He also exercised a Bond-like fascination for women. His many love affairs stand comparison with 007's."
In 1953 Fleming told a colleague he had created Bond after reading about Reilly's exploits in the archives of the British Intelligence Services.
And we mustn't forget Fleming himself as a model for Bond. Like his great creation he worked in espionage, was a ladies' man and a heavy smoker. "Bond gave at least fictional form to Ian's frustrated urge to have been… a full-time secret agent rather than a competent staff officer sitting office-politicking and dreaming in Room 39 of the Admiralty," says Fleming's biographer Andrew Lycett.
Several names have been put forward as the likely model for the secretary with whom Bond loves to flirt and who was played by Samantha Bond four times. Victoire Ridsdale was an assistant in the directorate of Naval Intelligence in the Second World War - the only woman working for seven male officers, one of whom was Fleming.
She recalled him coming back from a mission with silk stockings and scent as presents for his lady friends but she resisted the temptation to be one of his many girlfriends.
Joan Bright Astley ran the Secret Intelligence Committee for Winston Churchill during the war. She dated Fleming and said later: "I thought he was awfully attractive and fun but elusive. I think he was a ruthless man. He would drop somebody if he didn't want them any more."
Fleming's secretary when he worked for a Sunday newspaper was Una Trueblood. She remembers him as a "kind and generous" boss. He named one of his characters in Dr No Mary Trueblood after her and apologised to his secretary when the character was killed off. He would also inscribe first editions for her, putting in one: "To Una, who wrote all the books."
It is claimed that the fictional head of MI6 was based on Admiral John Henry Gregory, the director of Naval Intelligence whom Fleming worked under during the war. Gregory, who had a lifetime of distinguished service, was not too pleased, saying after Fleming's death: "He turned me into that unsavoury character M." Another possible model was William Melville, the head of Britain's Secret Service Bureau, the forerunner of MI5 and MI6. Melville was known in government circles as M and once recruited Bond inspiration Sidney Reilly to be a Special Branch informer.
MI6's gadget master (played by Desmond Llewelyn until 1999) was based on Charles Fraser-Smith, a wartime contact of Fleming's. Offi-cially, Fraser-Smith was just a temporary civil servant working at the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War but as historian Andrew Cook writes, his job was of great importance: "In reality Fraser-Smith provided the intelligence services with a range of fascinating and ingenious gadgets such as compasses hidden inside golf balls and shoelaces that concealed saw blades."
with a range of fascinating and ingenious gadgets such as compasses hidden inside golf balls and shoelaces that concealed saw blades."
Auric Goldfinger, the gold-obsessed megalomaniac, was named after Erno Goldfinger, a Hungarian-Jewish architect who moved to London during the Thirties. He became GOLDFINGER Auric Goldfinger, the gold-obsessed megalomaniac, was named after Erno Goldfinger, a Hungarian-Jewish architect who moved to London during the Thirties. He became famous for designing tower blocks and he crossed Fleming's path when the Bond author objected to the architect knocking down cottages in Hampstead to build a modern house.
famous for designing tower blocks and he crossed Fleming's path when the Bond author objected to the architect knocking down cottages in Hampstead to build a modern house.
When Goldfinger heard of his name being used in Fleming's book, he threatened legal action. A business associate, who had read Goldfinger, said to him that he could only find one difference between the character in the book and in real life: "You're called Erno and he's called Auric."
being used in Fleming's book, he threatened legal action. A business associate, who had read Goldfinger, said to him that he could only find one difference between the character in the book and in real life: "You're called Erno and he's called Auric."
But another model suggested for Goldfinger was the American mining and minerals magnate Charles W Engelhard Jnr, who had substantial business interests in South Africa, South America and Europe. He was also a successful racehorse owner, and owned Nijinksy, one of the greatest flat-racing horses of all time.
Unlike Erno Goldfinger, it is said that Engelhard delighted in being suggested as the model for the character in the film.
Addicted to Coca-Cola, Engelhard died in 1971, aged just 54.
The villain in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, (the film heralded Daniel Craig's debut as 007 and featured Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre) was based on the British occultist, mystic and magician Aleister Crowley. Once labelled "the worst man in the world" Crowley was a habitual drug user who wrote the novel Diary Of A Drug Fiend. He was accused of practising black magic but wrote: "I belong to a secret order which has representatives all over the world. We are all working for the good of humanity, not for its downfall."
It is claimed that Fleming's and Crowley's paths crossed in the Second World War when the future 007 author and his colleagues proposed a bizarre plot in which Crowley would supply leading Nazi Rudolf Hess, who had a keen interest in astrology, with faked horoscopes.
The villain in three Bond novels and six films - the white cat-stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of SPECTRE - is said to be have been named after Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer who had been a contemporary of Ian Fleming's at Eton, and was later a fellow member of Fleming's London club, Boodle's.
The real Blofeld was also the father of Daily Express cricket correspondent and BBC Radio Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld.
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The term "música tropical" has been used historically to refer to any music with a "tropical" flavor, that is, any music identified with the tropics, usually the Afro-Caribbean rim. In the present instance, it is not an entirely accurate label, since the ensemble that represents this type of music — the grupo tropical/moderno — is not necessarily "tropical" in character. Aside from the fact that one of its musical mainstays is the cumbia, a dance originally from the tropics of Colombia, the grupo tropical/moderno need not feature any of the percussion instruments normally associated with tropical, that is, Afro-Caribbean, music. And, in fact, the grupo tropical is known today as much for its emphasis on another popular genre, música moderna (or romántica), as it is for the cumbia.
The grupo tropical originated in Mexico in the 1960s and then spread to the United States via the heavy Mexican immigration that has occurred during the last 25 years or so. It originally featured instruments such as the conga drums and the güiro, or scrapergourd. As it has evolved in recent years, however, the grupo tropical/moderno often features four instruments — keyboard (originally an electric organ, later synthesizer), electric guitar and bass, and trap drums.
The grupo tropical's mainstay, the cumbia, was originally a Colombian folk dance that in the twentieth century became urbanized and diffused commercially throughout Latin America. Upon reaching Mexico in the mid-1960s, the cumbia was appropriated by the working-class masses at about the same time that the four-instrument ensemble was emerging as a favorite dance group among urban working-class Mexicans. This ensemble came to be associated with cumbia music (música tropical) in Mexico and the American Southwest. At about the same time, however, a slow-dance genre, influenced by American rhythm and blues, surged in popularity in Mexico — the balada (from the American pop "ballad," a lyrical love song). Popularized by such groups as Los Angeles Negros (The Black Angels), Los Terrícolas (The Earthlings), and others, the Mexican balada came to be known generally as "música romántica" (or "moderna" — the two terms are interchangeable), and in time most grupos tropicales/modernos began to alternate between the cumbia and the balada to fill out their repertories.
Besides Los Angeles Negros (who seldom performed the cumbia), the best-known exponents in the relatively short span of música tropical/moderna in Mexico and the United States have been Rigo Tovar (who is of Afro-Caribbean ancestry), Los Bukis (The Bukis), Los Sonics, Los Yonics, (The Ionics), and Los Temerarios (The Fearless). Besides their reliance on record sales for financial support, most of the commercially popular grupos tropicales/modernos also rely on personal appearances at large public dances. Colombian musicians like La Sonoro Dinamita and Joe Arroyo have avid followers throughout Latin America who want to dance to their lively cumbia. At these dances the cumbia reigns supreme, although, again, most groups depend to one extent or another on the balada, which, with its slow 4/4 or 6/8 meter, offers a contrastive alternative to the usually up-tempo, lighthearted spirit of the cumbia.
Little has been written about the Mexican grupo tropical/moderno, which for the past 25 years has been undisputed king among certain working-class segments of Mexican society. By musical standards, it is an unspectacular style, one that has been dwarfed by both salsa and La Onda Chicana. But it exerts a powerful influence on the millions of Mexican proletarians who subscribe to it. In the United States, one has only to attend certain ballrooms in cities such as Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, or El Paso to observe the enormous drawing power that groups such as Los Bukis, Los Yonics, and others command, especially among the undocumented and recently documented immigrants from Mexico.
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Jack Daniel's Legacy by Ben A. Green. Nashville, TN. Rich Printing Co., 1967. Foreward, Contents, Appendices, Illustrated, pp. 210.
This book tells an entertaining story of Jack Daniel that includes all of the legends mentioned in their advertising and on their label. The author creates a very light mood that makes the book a very quick and interesting read. He also provides several black and white photographs of people and places mentioned in the story. While reading this book Jack Daniel is a hero in the whiskey world that makes good despite all opposition and his legacy is equalled by the Motlow family after his death.
The problem with this book is that it relies almost completely upon the oral traditions of the Motlow family and distillery workers without other sources to back up this information. Oral history is great up to a point and then it would be nice to see some footnotes with other sources backing up the oral tradition. Unfortunately this book has no footnotes or even a bibliography. The writer was more interested in tell a story than doing history, thus the book is of limited value to the historian. Even so, it makes a good read and should be part of a good distilling library. | <urn:uuid:33e400ee-654f-48ff-adcd-52f154b70f52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bourbonenthusiast.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2448&p=8266 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967203 | 247 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The outbreak of dengue in Madeira has evolved rapidly since its onset on 3 October 2012. As of 4 November, according to an update from the Portuguese Ministry of Health, 1 148 cases of dengue infection have been reported from the public health sector of which 517 were laboratory confirmed. During the outbreak, 57 people have been hospitalised for observation and no deaths or cases of severe dengue have been reported. Three patients remained in hospital.
Almost all reported cases refer to the resident population. However, a small number of visiting tourists have been diagnosed with dengue infection after developing symptoms back in their home countries. The United Kingdom has reported six cases imported from Madeira, France and Germany two cases each and Sweden one case. None of these persons have had serious disease. In addition, eight cases were diagnosed after returning to mainland Portugal.
The updated figures indicate that the outbreak has not yet peaked and more cases among the island’s population as well as returning tourists should be expected. The peak mosquito breeding period, including the dengue vector Aedes aegypti, will continue until the beginning of next year and coincides with a peak in the number of visitors to the islands over the Christmas holidays.
Enhanced surveillance and new case definition
ECDC is providing technical assistance to the health authorities in Madeira in their efforts to control the outbreak. The epidemiological case definition has been revised and an automated surveillance system has been set up with the support from ECDC. The system, which is based on unique identifiers and reports from the public health services, allows for timely monitoring of cases by date of onset, age, sex, place of residence and area of daily activities. Private providers are encouraged to report via a web-based system.
The changes that were put in place meant that additional cases were identified retrospectively. The entomological and epidemiological findings from the ECDC mission are currently being analysed and will form the basis for ECDC’s recommendations for dengue control in Madeira in the short and long term. It is still too early to predict if this outbreak signals the start of endemic dengue on the island. | <urn:uuid:9865f107-5d3c-4cff-8bac-e33325e84058> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/Lists/News/ECDC_DispForm.aspx?List=32e43ee8-e230-4424-a783-85742124029a&ID=776 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966986 | 439 | 2.90625 | 3 |
African pride is a quality that BOABW (Beauty Of All Black Women) House knows well. Founded and created in 2003 by Khadijah Jamila Unity Shabazz, it’s mission is to bring peace amongst the African community by creating a new cultural love for the mother of civilization.
What was to be a magazine art poetry book celebrating the beauty of black women, became something greater. The hand-painted earrings come in various different colors, shapes, sizes and designs, guaranteeing all women will be locked in to their culture. The collection inspires natural beauty and unity and is definitely worth taking a browse through.
View the collection here:
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Costa del Sol area guide
Learn more about the Costa del Sol and its town and municipalities
The Costa del Sol, which translates into english as Coast of the Sun, is a region of Southern Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. As the name implies, the region consists of the coastal towns and communities along the Mediterranean coastline found in the province of Malaga. The Costa del Sol is situated between two lesser known costas: Costa de la Luz to the west and Costa Tropical to the east.
The Costa del Sol includes the city of Malaga, which the province takes its name from, and the towns of Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola, Mijas, Marbella, San Pedro de Alcántara, Estepona, Manilva, Velez Malaga, Rincon de la Victoria, Nerja, Torrox, the community of Sotogrande, San Roque and La Linea de la Concepcion.
The region also has a long history with settlement dating back to the Bronze Age, and it has been colonised and ruled by many cultures such as the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths and Moors, before the Reconquista by the kingdom of Spain.
Formerly made up of the city of Malaga plus a series of small, quiet fishing and mountain villages, the region has been completely transformed during the latter part of the 20th century into a world renowned tourist destination.
Discovered and developed to meet the demands of international tourism from the 1950s onwards, the Costa del Sol has since become a popular destination for foreign tourists not only for its beaches but also for its local culture, with the quintessential flamenco playing an important role. The area is particularly famous for its towns like Marbella, which provides the Costa del Sol with its reputation for being a playground for its super-rich and famous visitors.
This popularity, combined with funding from the central government and the EU has led to an expansion in the level and quality of hotels and tourist facilities to cater to the international tourists who have made the Costa del Sol their second home.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, the region became known as the “Costa del Crime”, due to the trend for British gangsters to escape from legal trouble at home by moving there to live their lives in luxury. This was followed in the 1990s with the title of “Costa del Golf” due to the large amount of golf courses having been created..
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Pier 25 is unmistakeable on the Hudson side of lower Manhattan. I posted fotos of Lilac moving to Pier 25 aka “historic ships pier” back a year and some months ago. On some of those fotos, you can see bowsprite catching lines from the Miller’s Launch crew assisting Lilac’s arrival. Bowsprite also goes by the name “Christina Sun,” who is half of the art show proclaimed on the dockside sign below.
Here she was hanging the show last weekend. If you’ve looked at her site much, you’d have seen her rendering of RB 45614 (below) on her artblog here.
The other half of the art show (up til the end of August!!) is Frank Hanavan. I’ve painted with Frank, like here on this bowsprit at least six years ago, and posted on this blog here back in 2007. This foto and the next by Maggie Flanagan.
But besides painting in places that require a harness, Frank also paints
en plein air with an easel. In fact, this piece, part of his show, he did ON Pier 25 back in May when Picton Castle docked there for a few days. Click on that link (scroll through) and you’ll
see what message was printed on the square sail on the foremast. Frank’s art is all contained in one room on Lilac, but
bowsprite’s 38 prints are spread through Lilac, leading the observer on a treasure hunt . . . even through the engine room!
But I can’t look at a piece like this and NOT remember the delightful story on her blog about excavator dredge J. P. Boisseau with remembering the whale that appeared in Lower NY Bay, no doubt coming to check who was scratching the harbor’s bottom . . . and why.
Lilac is a unique vessel open to the public Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Hours are here. In fact, this Saturday evening, besides art, you can also see the world premiere of a documentary about MV Liemba, the nearly century old steam ferry (I believe very recently dieselized but still running) on Lake Tangayika. For a press release about the film from Lilac Museum director, Mary Habstritt, click here.
Historic ships, art, film, music, drinks, warm summer evening on the Hudson in Lower Manhattan . . . . . . see you there!! Bring some $$ too and take home some beautiful marine art for your walls.
Unrelated: Here’s a 13-minute interview I did with John Doswell of Working Harbor Committee (WHC) back in 2010. I’d never heard it until today. And remember . . . here’s info on the WHC-sponsored 20th annual tugboat race coming up in NYC’s sixth boro in less than three weeks!! | <urn:uuid:87d455de-bc31-4d30-8532-e7599eafc686> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tugster.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/pier-25-marine-art-show/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932756 | 628 | 1.546875 | 2 |
College Student With Cystic Fibrosis Inspires Those Around Him
Twelve years ago, Kevin Bauereis was a 17-year-old kid attending Conner High School in Hebron, KY. Like many teenagers, he had big plans for his future: he wanted to become a doctor.
However, the odds were not in his favor—Bauereis was diagnosed as a baby with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening disease that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs, digestive tract, and other areas of the body. At the time, the life expectancy of a cystic fibrosis patient was only about 18 years of age. In a 2000 interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, the young Bauereis said he wasn't sure if he would live long enough to make it through his medical training.
But with the help of many medications and treatments, Bauereis earned an undergrad degree at Northern Kentucky University and a medical degree at the University of Kentucky (UK). Now 29 years old, Bauereis just completed his second year of an anesthesiology residency at UK.
Despite his disease and the already-difficult demands of a residency, Bauereis never wanted any special treatment, says Randall Schell, MD, director of the anesthesiology program at UK.
"Cystic fibrosis has never defined Kevin as a person," Schell says. "He asked that I not make any special alterations to his training schedules, call assignments, or educational responsibilities. He just said that when the time came that he could no longer carry out his usual duties, he would let me know."
That time came earlier this year, when Bauereis' lung function deteriorated to the point of needing transplantation. In June 2012, he was officially put on UK's transplant list for a double-lung procedure. While a transplant does not cure cystic fibrosis, it can significantly improve both life expectancy and quality of life for patients.
Bauereis officially went on medical leave at the end of July and is waiting at home for his transplant. Posttransplant, he hopes to recover quickly and pick right up where he left off in his residency. He wants to pursue a career in pediatric anesthesiology, he says, because as someone who was often sick as a child, he knows what his young patients are going through. He even makes a point to try to visit new pediatric cystic fibrosis patients when they come into the hospital, just to let them know that someone out there understands.
"When I would be in the hospital growing up, the adults around me would say, 'I know how you feel' or 'I know what you're going through,' when really, most of them didn't. But now, I do understand how these kids feel, because I've been there," Bauereis says. "Plus, I don't know if it's because I'm kind of small or what, but the patients seem to be a lot less intimidated by me than some of the other doctors!"
Schell wasn't the only one touched by Bauereis' personal story. Fellow anesthesiology resident Dr. Lori Kral began working with Bauereis more than two years ago when he began his residency, but only learned about his condition earlier this year. His perseverance and dedication inspired Kral and others in their department to organize a fundraising group in his honor to help with medical costs.
"Kevin has never advertised his condition, and there haven't been any special allowances made for him," Kral says. "The last thing he would ever do would be to ask for help. But once you've met Kevin, it becomes obvious why we would want to help him."
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LG is set to demonstrate its Wireless Ultra High Definition Transmission technology at Mobile World Congress 2013 for the first time ever. With this technology, users will be able to wirelessly display the content from their smartphone, such as a game, to an Ultra HD television. According to the announcement, this transfer method is smoother and faster previous offerings.
The Wireless Ultra HD Transmission technology works by compressing video for optimized wireless transfer to a corresponding Ultra HD TV, with LG promising very little data loss and lag between the two devices. In order to avoid wonky graphics, the video that is being transferred from the mobile device is automatically set to match the TV’s resolution.
LG’s President and CEO Jong-seok Park had this to say: “Thanks to our innovative Wireless Ultra HD Transmission technology, users can now enjoy their favorite mobile content on today’s most advanced Ultra HD TVs. With the development of this cutting-edge technology, LG again confirms its industry leadership in the area of display and mobile convergence for a truly enjoyable viewing experience.”
In addition, the technology is reported as using up less than 50-percent of the power used by competing technologies. Because of this, the transfer process is easier on the smartphone’s processor and associated hardware. Those who attend MWC 2013 will be able to check out this process is action at LG’s booth in Hall #3.
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●The more budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Austerity = poverty and leads to civil disorder.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
In the previous post, I compared Mitt Romney to Casper the Ghost, a creature with no substance.
I mentioned the ghostly positions Romney has taken, or not taken, as like an undefined fog. He repeatedly has switched beliefs on minimum wage, stem cell research, health care mandates, citizenship for immigrants, pro-choice for women, the Bush tax reductions, gun control, global warming and same-sex marriage.
I felt that any person wishing to be President of the United States, perhaps becoming the most powerful man on earth, should at least offer solid and consistent plans for the country — and Romney seems to have no plans, solid or consistent.
Well, perhaps I was unfair. This is “Mitt Romney’s Plan for a Stronger Middle Class,” taken directly from his web site, together with my comments in [brackets].
• Increase access to domestic energy resources [Drill and mine in ecologically sensitive areas?]
• Streamline permitting for exploration and development [Less oversight of drilling and mining?]
• Eliminate regulations destroying the coal industry [More pollution? Less oversight of mining safety?]
• Approve the Keystone XL pipeline [Reckless and controversial. See: Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the central U.S.]
The Skills To Succeed
• Give every family access to a great school and quality teachers [Specifically, how?]
• Provide access to affordable and effective higher education options [Specifically, how?]
• Focus job training programs on building valuable skills that align with opportunities [Specifically, how?]
• Attract and retain the best and the brightest from around the world [Specifically, how?]
Trade That Works For America
• Curtail the unfair trade practices of countries like China [A trade war with China?]
• Open new markets for American goods and services [Specifically, how?]
• Build stronger economic ties in Latin America [Specifically, how? ]
• Create a Reagan Economic Zone to strengthen free enterprise around the world [Specifically, how?]
Cut The Deficit
• Immediately reduce non-security discretionary spending by five percent [How? Cut Social Security? Cut Medicare? Medicaid? Infrastructure repairs? Aid to education? Poverty aid? Food & Drug regulation? Bank regulation?]
• Cap federal spending below twenty percent of the economy [This is called "austerity," a program that already has destroyed Europe. Cutting the deficit always causes a recession or a depression.]
• Give states responsibility for programs that they can implement more effectively ["Responsibility" is a code word for cutting federal aid to the already cash-strapped states, requiring increased local taxes.]
• Consolidate agencies and align compensation of federal workers with their private-sector counterparts [Cutting federal employment and salaries will increase U.S. unemployment and increase competition for private jobs, while reducing the U.S. savings rate.]
Champion Small Business
• Reduce taxes on job creation through individual and corporate tax reform [If tax "reform" means cutting business taxes, I'm for it. But since he wants to cut the deficit, business tax cuts may require personal tax increases.]
• Stop the increases in regulation that are tangling job creators in red tape [How will reducing business regulation benefit consumers? Specifically, which businesses are over-regulated?]
• Protect workers and businesses from strong-arm labor union tactics [Note to white, middle class workers with no college education: Labor unions are your protection against unfair employers.]
• Replace Obamacare with real health care reform that controls cost and improves care [Obamacare is Romney care, and specifically what is the reform you didn't do in Massachusetts?]
Most of “Mitt Romney’s Plan for a Stronger Middle Class” is just generalized, pie-in-the-sky posturing. That’s the good part. The rest is truly dangerous.
Reducing the federal deficit absolutely, positively will return us to recession if we are lucky, and a depression if we are not. Europe has taught us all we need to know about austerity.
Reducing federal oversight of food manufacturers, drug manufacturers, banks and other financial institutions, our land and water and the myriad other businesses with potential to harm us, is foolish. Which agencies would he like to eliminate?
So perhaps it was unfair to compare Mitt Romney with a ghost. While most of his plans are misty, foggy and nebulous, those few with substance are economy killers.
And there are people who believe this man will be an improvement?? Yikes!
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia. Two key equations in economics:
Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
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For the private sector, making money isn’t enough anymore.
It’s not enough for Walmart to have a market capitalization of $200 billion — more than the GDP of 147 countries worldwide. Or for Nokia to sell 420 million new phones in a year — increasingly to developing countries in Africa and Asia. People expect global brands to use their vast resources to make the world a better place. Now more than ever, consumers are making decisions based on companies’ social agendas — and market share hangs in the balance.
While Walmart supports everything from women’s empowerment to disaster relief through its foundation, the public is expecting even more from major tech companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon. Not only do they have some of the most visible wealth, they’re also intrinsically innovative — capable of solving some of the world’s hardest engineering problems and creating sustainable solutions.
As investment in social enterprise becomes more common, major brands and venture capitalists alike are learning how to make a difference without sacrificing their profit-driven missions.
Nokia is a prime example. With 51% of the mobile market share in Africa, it’s one of the continent’s most recognizable brands. Lacking televisions, computers — and, in some cases, electricity — many people throughout Africa access information and communicate solely through their mobile phones. Nokia has not squandered this opportunity — it’s using it to extend affordable, life-changing services and tools to African farmers.
Through its Ovi application store, Nokia offers Ovi Life Tools, an SMS-based app available on extremely cost-effective handsets that provides farmers with timely weather and agricultural information to optimize preparedness and crop yields. Nokia partners with organizations like the Kenya Meteorological Department, agriculture NGOs, and more to serve up tips, techniques and market stats that could help them prevent food shortages and get the best prices for their goods. Life Tools is also being used to deliver lesson plans to teachers, learning games to kids and accounting services for small businesses.
Facilitating connections between people and expanding access to global networks is one major way tech companies are doing their part for social good. Both Twitter and Facebook exploded last year during Arab Spring, becoming primary platforms for coordinating rallies, organizing protests and disseminating news and information quickly among millions of young people. Nine in 10 Egyptians and Tunisians surveyed by the Dubai School of Government said they organized or found out about protests on Facebook alone.
These social networks found themselves playing huge roles in historical democratic movements, and gaining users by the millions. The number of Facebook users in the region jumped by 30%, and tweets from Egypt jumped from 2,300 to 230,000 in the week before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation. It might seem counter-intuitive for platforms essentially created for entertainment to be playing key roles in geopolitical events, but in this case, revolution was also good for business.
Like Twitter and Facebook, Google also provides tools that have helped people around the world communicate, organize, and be more productive. But its made a more concerted effort to not just promote social good, it’s investing in it too. In 2009, it created Google Ventures, a venture capital investment arm that funds for-profit tech startups. And while its investments are financially motivated, many of the companies it backs have strong social missions.
All six of Google Ventures’ energy-related portfolio companies are pursuing clean, efficient and renewable energy solutions. They include Nest, maker of the world’s first learning thermostat that helps users become more energy-efficient, and attracted a lot of buzz for its sleek, Apple-esque design. Its life science portfolio is stacked with companies pursuing innovative cancer therapies and genetic diagnostic systems to make medicine simpler, leaner and more affordable. And even some of its mobile picks have a social bent, like Miso Media, which creates entertaining educational software to make learning fun and easy.
Google may be more overtly philanthropic through Google.org — it gave away $115 million in grants and over $1 billion in in-kind support to nonprofit and educational orgs last year alone — but, in many ways, Google Ventures is more indicative of the future of tech brands and social enterprise. It combines doing good with doing well, a hard balance to strike.
That said, it’s a balance pursued not only by big names in tech, but also by the VCs trying to find and fund the next generation of big names. More and more, venture capital firms in Silicon Valley are seeking out socially-minded startups that have the potential to make money and a positive impact at the same time.
Marquee firms like Khosla and Kleiner Perkins are investing heavily in cleantech startups like Ecomotors, Stion, Sundrop Fuels, and Fisker Automotive. Kleiner even launched what it calls its Green Growth Fund to support later-stage greentech ventures that have gained traction and have the potential to slow climate change.
On the far end of the spectrum, you have firms like social enterprise incubator Hub Ventures and Omidyar Network, which exclusively seek out companies looking to do good in the world. The latter not only gives grants to a slew of nonprofits, it funds for-profit microfinance organizations and consumer tech companies focused on connection building and information sharing like Digg, Meetup and Wikia.
Across the board, Silicon Valley seems to be waking up to the reality that having resources and brainpower obligates them to do more for the rest of the world. With consumer eyes fixed on which brands do what — whether it’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg giving $100 million to Newark Public Schools, or Amazon launching an environmentally-friendly packaging initiative — it’s more important than ever for tech companies to do their part.
That said, if recent examples prove anything, it’s that making money and a difference don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Finding these ideas that sit at the intersection of impact and profitability is what the Grand Challenges Exploration program is all about. A grant program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the program is looking for bold, creative ideas to solve the biggest problems in global health. People from all disciplines, age groups and professions are encouraged to apply. In the past, the program has seen groundbreaking submissions come from unexpected sources, from astrophysicists to mechanical engineers to students.
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School is out… Hooray!!! But in Douglas County, Colorado’s third-largest school district and a true hotspot of education reform, the summer months still give us plenty to which we can look forward. First, this month of June represents the final 30 days before the collective bargaining contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT) expires. What happens after that, no one knows. It’s going to look much different, though, that’s for sure.
Groundbreaking open negotiations kicked off there more than seven weeks ago. I applauded the bold proposals set forth by the Douglas County school board, some of which also caught the favorable attention of Denver Post columnist Vincent Carroll.
Previously, my Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow had raised the question of how serious DCFT was about embracing open union negotiations. Transparency has seemed to suit everyone just fine, even as a few hundred teachers showed up at the last session to send a statement.
It’s good to listen to the voice of teachers. Especially the best teachers. And an organization doesn’t necessarily have to be recognized by a government body as exclusive bargaining agent to ensure that happens. Are the teachers in Colorado’s 137 non-bargaining districts (as large as El Paso County’s Academy 20) without a voice? They can still belong to various professional associations and participate in influencing decisions, even if no particular group has specially-sanctioned privileges.
Furthermore, one of the Douglas County Board’s proposals, to end union dues collection — reform item number 2 in this 2011 report — would help ensure the organization more directly hears its member teachers’ voices. And another proposal to allow wider selection of individual educators’ representation enhances teachers’ choices.
Next week is the marathon of final negotiations between DCSD and DCFT. Where the two sides end up is beyond me. How the board and union leadership choose to respond remains to be seen. Will someone take it to court or to the ballot box? If the school board and their team succeed in making significant changes to move toward a more performance-based district, no doubt some change and turnover will occur. Even so, the Board also has focused on giving small raises and retention bonuses across the board to show appreciation.
Some tuned-up rhetoric suggests a cataclysmic outcome. Yet leaders would be beyond foolish to ignore or punish good teachers. And many protections still exist for educators, through provisions in state and federal law, not to mention their continued access to support from various membership options. Even if there’s no collective bargaining agreement. But what would an agreement look like if teachers could join a local union only without the larger political agenda? That’s a conversation for another day.
Getting beyond June brings our attention back to the legal appeal of Douglas County’s one-of-a-kind choice scholarship program. Plaintiffs (those who sued the district and the state of Colorado to enjoin the program) reportedly have been granted an extension until July 13 to issue their written response briefs.
Five different appellate briefs were submitted on the defendants’ side back in April, which you can find on the “Legal Information” section of the Education Policy Center’s comprehensive “Douglas County vouchers” page. Don’t know if we’ll get to the Court of Appeals hearing before school starts up again, but stay tuned.
Put on your shades and your sunblock. Head for the beach or the fishing hole or the ball diamond. But don’t forget to keep an eye on what’s going on in Douglas County. You can bet I’ll be taking a peek there once in awhile. | <urn:uuid:9fb2557a-94d9-48d5-832e-0ed2de1d20c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ediswatching.org/2012/06/schools-out-but-douglas-county-summertime-happenings-worth-watching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947598 | 767 | 1.523438 | 2 |
It’s that time of year again. Cold weather, gift shopping, twinkling lights and… “holiday” trees? What happened to Christmas trees?
At a Lowe’s store in Austin, Texas, there is a banner advertising fresh-cut “holiday trees.” This caused quite an uproar in the community, and it brings about a valid point: are we trying to be too politically correct about the holiday season?
It turns out that most studies find that people don’t mind the word “Christmas.” They simply want other holidays to be recognized also. A recent PRWeek article by Rob Webb mentioned that according to the last census, 72 percent of Americans consider themselves to be Christians. So why are people trying so hard to snuff out words that might exclude people?
The problem rests in poor communication. Most policies are well-meaning. A town near my home in Pennsylvania recently mandated that the traditional nativity scene be moved from the town square and placed in front of the church. They did this not because they did not want people to enjoy the scene, but because other groups then began petitioning the town for permits to place displays in the square. There were too many groups who wanted to be included, with not enough room for all. Therefore, better none than some. Unfortunately, due to lack of good external communication, some people saw it as an attempt to “ban Christmas.”
The Lowe’s “holiday” tree incident falls in this same category. The store was not trying to ban Christmas, but was rather trying to include others. But as Lee Odden questioned in his Media Relations Blog, “Are people really more likely to buy a tree if it is labeled ‘holiday tree’ instead of ‘Christmas tree’? While ‘holiday tree’ is certainly more inclusive, ‘Christmas tree’ follows centuries of tradition. Furthermore, does a Christmas tree cease to be a Christmas tree just because it has a different name?”
The current holiday campaign for the Gap, a international clothing manufacturer, focuses on including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and any other holiday consumers could want to celebrate. According to the Gap corporate Web site, “The campaign offers a fresh voice featuring choreographed dancers and models belting catchy holiday cheers about defying convention, and captures the essence of the Gap’s roots but also looks forward with an optimistic eye on America.” However, the commercials caused controversy because some groups felt that the ads were making fun of religion, and some groups are even planning to boycott the Gap.
The Gap practiced effective communication when dealing with this, stating that the Gap “is and has always been an inclusive, accessible brand in which everyone can participate and we embrace diversity across all of our customers, and more importantly respect their beliefs as individuals… We focus our marketing on the joys of the holiday season as a whole.” The Gap and its sister companies, Old Navy and Banana Republic, are standing by the ads.
A recent Dave Fleet blog post entitled “If I Were Santa’s Public Relations Guy” took a more lighthearted approach to the holiday. Fleet jokes that “the merchandising is pretty neat but there’s a lot more potential there” and goes on to discuss how Santa could capitalize on his abilities and improve communication. But his amusing insights could be taken seriously when viewing the holiday as a whole. Christmas is an important part of American tradition, and in order to prevent people from feeling that they need to ban it to include everyone, communication needs to improve.
So let’s stop worrying about being all-inclusive in our language. It’s okay to talk about Christmas – it’s been around for as long as public relations itself! Let’s just make sure that we’re talking about every other view, religion and holiday also. Everyone should get their little piece of the publicity, without having to worry about using the “C” word (Christmas), the “H” word (Hanukkah) or the “W” word (winter solstice). You get my point.
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Ok, I admit that I don't know of an "official" name for this algorithm.
I did hear that it is the same method as what a scytale employs.
Basically, if you are given the encrypted text, you start at a given letter
and then count N letters (wrapping around from the end to the beginning)
forward to the next letter. It can be used for the third part of the
Kryptos statue. I can also
pre-load the K3
information for you.
If you do use this for decoding the Kryptos, you will see that you need
to just count every 192nd letter. Additionally, I have made 5
characters lowercase: The "s" and the "l" are the first two characters, in
case you wanted to count by hand. The "y", "a", and "r" are the three
letters that are offset from the rest of the text.
Spaces are NOT ignored and will be moved around appropriately as though
they were letters. Newlines (enters / returns) will be ignored.
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Body of ‘Ugliest Woman in the World’ returns to her birthplace in Mexico for burial more than 150 years after her death
A woman branded the ‘ugliest woman in the world’ after a rare disease left her body covered in hair has finally returned to her birthplace in Mexico for a proper burial - 153 years after her death.
Julia Pastrana was exploited as part of a traveling exhibition through Europe until she died from complications of childbirth in 1860. Even after her death, her body was exhibited across the world.
It eventually ended up in a storage room at an Oslo research institute, and after learning of the body’s whereabouts, visual artist Laura Anderson Barbata campaigned to have it returned to Mexico.
‘I felt she deserved the right to regain her dignity and her place in history, and in the world’s memory,’ Barbata, who learned Pastrana’s story while working on a play about her life, told the New York Times.
‘I hoped to help change her position as a victim to one where she can be seen in her entirety and complexity.’
Barbata, who lives in New York but hails from Mexico City, eventually won her decade-long battle and on Tuesday, Pastrana’s body will finally be buried in Sinaloa de Leyva.
Pastrana was born in Mexico in 1834 and suffered from congenital terminal hypertrichosis, which left her face and body covered in thick hair.
She also suffered from gingival hyperplasia, which made her lips and gums thick. She was not diagnosed with either condition in her lifetime.
In 1854, she was bought by a Mexican customs administrator and he began exhibiting her through the U.S. and Canada. While in New York, she married Theodore Lent, who became her manager.
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Jessica Ping, daughter of Dennis and Connie Ping, is an accomplished dancer, a straight "A" student, and is one of 60 people worldwide that has CHILD syndrome (Congenital Hemidysplasia with Icthyosiform Erythroderma and Limb Defects).
It is a condition that affects the development of several parts of the body. In Jessica's case, she has a shortened limb and is missing one leg. In addition, she has a skin condition that is characterized by patches of skin that are red and inflamed (erythroderma) and covered with flaky scales (ichthyosis).
… And she is my hero. She is an amazing young person.
The limb abnormalities occur on the same side of the body as do the skin abnormalities. According to Genetics Home Reference, "the condition occurs exclusively in females and is caused by a mutation in the NSDL gene, a gene that provides instruction for making cholesterol. It is not known why or how a disturbance in cholesterol production leads to the specific features of CHILD Syndrome."
Jessica said she does not know much about the syndrome, because not many people have the condition. She has not met another person with similar development problems but her doctor has seen others and helps her by telling what has worked for the other patients she sees. "I go to the Shriners Hospital in Chicago and a skin doctor in Chicago."
"I have a mild case of CHILD," she said.
Jessica has worn a prosthetic leg, but found it uncomfortable. "When I am 18, I can get a more permanent prosthetic leg. I will have to go and have it fitted then."
This pretty, blonde-haired, shy young lady does not have time to ponder the inconveniences of her disability, although she admits she has gone through phases of "challenges."
"When I was younger, I would ask why do I have to work so much harder than other people? When I was younger, I felt like people judged me because I was different on the outside. On the inside, I was the same as everyone else."
"In elementary school, I had a problem making friends, because I am shy. I wanted to yell, 'I am here!!" All of that went away when I got in middle school. As I got older, little by little, I accepted having CHILD syndrome. You have to decide what are you going to do — meet the challenges or not."
When asked if there was ever anything that she always wanted to do but could not due to CHILD, she said, "When I was in second grade, I wanted to play softball, but my dad talked me out of it. I focused more on dance and now I am glad. I think, at the time, I just wanted to play softball, because everyone else was playing softball."
At the high school, Jessica uses a motorized vehicle to get around. When that is too cumbersome, she has developed a highly balanced hop. In crowded high school halls and tricky classroom situations, nothing seems to faze this young woman (personally, I would want to tell a few people about the importance of not getting in my way), but not Jessica. She is a serious student, always with a smile on her face, dressed in the latest fashion and in the center of conversations with friends. She never appears frustrated or angry about the difficulty she has getting around.
And frankly she is just too busy doing things she wants to do, to think about things she might not be able to do. Since she has been in high school, she has been active in the PTHS Marching Band, playing mallet instruments like bass drum and bells, also playing trombone. “Usually, someone pushes me in a wheelchair, while I play during parades,” she said.
In addition, she has also been involved in Concert Choir, Concert Band, Scholastic Bowl Team, Dance Team, The Chief school newspaper, Speech Team, Student Council, CAPTAINS, a school leadership club, Tri-M, the P2D2 prescription drug program, Operation Endangered Species and Thespians.
Outside of school, she attends various church youth groups, has been active in Vermillion Players since she was 7, and had a lead role in “Lil Abner” and “Annie.”
Also, one of the things she is passionate about is dance. She has been in dance since she was 3, took a few years off, and then returned to the Dance Center in fourth or fifth grade, she said.
Presently, she has three teachers, Anita Nangel, Stacy Kolojay and Becky Nangel. She has danced under the watchful eye of all three teachers and said, “They are all wonderful.”
“I like how for once I can be like everyone else. I can express myself and have fun at the same time. Between the movements and the music I get to just breathe, it’s a great stress reliever. It’s just a great feeling when you step onto that stage to perform.
Anita Nangel, who owns and instructs at the Dance Center, said, “When Jessica is performing, she has an amazing stage presence. Her joy comes from within. She has so much talent and she loves to be on stage. She passes that joy on to others.”
“When we first started working with her in fourth or fifth grade, we were scared to death to teach her. We had not worked with a special needs person before. You can’t choreograph a dance number around her disability, but she is a joy to teach and handles everything so well. During dance competitions, new judges are amazed at her balance.”
Because of her disability, Jessica may have opted out of softball, but she has had some exciting opportunities because of her disability. One event dealt with her 10th birthday
“My parents drove me to Texas to see a Radio Disney’s 10th year anniversary. It starred Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers. Because they were not going to be in the area, my parents drove me to Texas. Back then, the arena did not have any handicap accessible seating, so we got moved to the front row. It was great.”
“We went to the JFK Memorial, too,” Jessica said.
“Another time, my dance group was at a competition that Abby Lee Miller from Dance Moms on television was at. She saw us dance and her security went to my dance instructors and said Miss Miller wanted to meet me. My mom and dad thought it was OK, so a friend and I were allowed to go to her dressing room and meet her dance group. Everyone was really friendly to me, but you could kind of feel some tension between the mothers like on the show. I wish I could have taken my whole group,” Jessica said.
“At that competition, we got high gold. Every competition is different, but this one scored you by platinum, gold, high gold, silver and high silver. We did pretty good,” she added.
A third exciting moment occurred this summer when Jessica and her friend Clair Baumann won second place at the Livingston County 4-H Fair talent show with a jazz number that Jessica helped to choreograph.
Jessica admits she has a very supportive family including her mom and dad and her grandmother, Lavonne Ping. “Everything I have done is because my parents are so supportive, allowing me to come home and rant about the day. They take me everywhere I want to go and ship me around to all my activities.”
"As Jessica's parents, we are extremely proud of her. There are so many areas that we could focus on. She has such an inner drive to achieve. Jess sets lofty goals and then attacks those goals with a vengeance. She works very hard to be as good of a person as she can be. We believe that is probably one of her greatest traits. We hope she will keep that forever," said her father Dennis Ping on behalf of himself and mother Connie Ping.
Jessica is a multi-talented individual who wants to go in several different directions after she graduates. “I would love to become a singer, but I have to be practical, that is pretty difficult to become successful. I am thinking about becoming a lawyer or maybe working in a forensics lab. I would love to go to Notre Dame or Stanford.
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September 28, 2006
Maersk to pay $500,000 fine in pollution case
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California says that the shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, A/S of Denmark pleaded guilty on September 26 to providing false documents to the U.S. Coast Guard during a routine inspection of one of its cargo ships, the M/V Jane Maers
The inspection was to ensure, among other things, compliance with the international MARPOL treaty, which limits oil pollution from ships.
Maersk owns and operates over 200 vessels worldwide, including tankers and cargo ships, and is considered to be one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
After accepting the guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel sentenced the company to pay the maximum fine of $500,000 and ordered it to follow an environmental compliance plan agreed to by the parties
"This prosecution stems from a national vessel pollution initiative aimed at stopping the discharge of waste oil from ships, a major source of pollution to ocean and inland waters," said U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan. "In addition, this prosecution is a result of our focused effort to prosecute companies that provide false documents to authorities to avoid compliance. Companies need to understand that there are criminal consequences for attempting to deceive their regulators.."
The government's investigation began on May 25, 2004, when members of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office discovered waste oil in the overboard piping of the M/V Jane Maersk during a routine inspection. Further investiga tion by the Coast Guard and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division also uncovered evidence of false entries made in the Oil Record Book (ORB), a document required by MARPOL,
MARPOL and U.S. law limit the oil content of discharges from ships to not more than 15 parts per million. To ensure compliance, MARPOL requires that all transfers of sludge, oil contaminated bilge water, and overboard discharges of bilge water, be fully and accurately recorded in the ORB.
According to court documents, the false entries presented to the U.S. Coast Guard aboard the M/V Jane Maersk concerned the sh'p's incinerator, which is used in part to burn waste oil sludge generated on the ship.
Crew members on the M/V Jane Maersk knowingly overstated the hours of the incinerator's operation in the ORB to avoid further questioning by authorities regarding the proper operation of the incinerator.
Further investigation uncovered that not only were false entries made in the ORB regarding the incinerator aboard the M/V Jane Maersk, but that the practice occurred on at least one other Maersk vessel.
Maersk fully cooperated with the government's investigation from its inception and immediately performed a comprehensive training for their engineers to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
The fine of $500,000 is the maximum a corporation can be ordered to pay for a violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001. In addition, the plea agreement, which was accepted by Judge Patel, requires Maersk to develop, fund, and implement a comprehensive, fleet-wide environmental compliance plan to ensure future compliance aboard=all of its vessels.
As part of the plan, Maersk will, among other things, designate a corporate compliance manager to oversee implementation of the plan, develop an environmental manual for all ships, fully train employees, and hire an outside environmental consultant who will conduct compliance audits of Maersk ships. The plan also applies to any ships that come under the ownership of Maersk.
"This agreement has resulted in a fleet-wide environmental compliance plan, which will help ensure the company's future compliance with oil pollution laws," said Wayne Nastri, the EPA's Administrator for the Pacific Southwest Region.
The plea agreement with Maersk occurs almost two months after the 2nd Engineer aboard the M/V Jane Maersk, Mr. Johnnie Nielsen, 35 of Copenhagen, Denmark, was sentenced to four months community confinement after pleading guilty to one count of destroying records, in violation of 18 U.S.C
In pleading guilty, Nielsen admitted to his role in concealing and later destroying key documents in anticipation of the pending Coast Guard inspection of the vessel M/V Jane Maersk. Nielsen further admitted that he had observed engineers on other Maersk vessels hidi ng the same key documents prior to a pending inspection.
Judge Patel stayed Mr. Nielsen's sentence pending the completion of the government's investigation of = Maersk.
Stacey Geis and Jim Keller are the Assistant U.S. Atto=rneys who prosecuted the case. The prosecution is the result of a 15 month investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Services and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Criminal Investigation Division, with assistance from the Coast Guard Pacific JAG Office. | <urn:uuid:b2cafbd7-7fe5-4d12-82fc-f925e641a55e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMV/2005sep0284.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944616 | 1,021 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Showrooming is the practice of examining merchandise in a traditional brick and mortar retail store without purchasing it, but then shopping online to find a lower price for the same item. - Wikipedia
With smartphones becoming the default mobile device, the process of showrooming is simplified with apps like Amazon Price Check, RedLaser, etc... In response to this growing threat, Target and Best Buy have taken drastic steps to directly price match leading online retailers. At a macro level the threat to brick and mortar retailers is clear, what has widely been ignored is understanding who is doing the showrooming.
In the largest showrooming study to date, Placed identified where Amazon customers who indicated they had showroomed in the past, shopped in January 2013. This population was further segmented by Gender. The results were significant, finding Male Showroomers were 39% more likely to visit Best Buy, 24% more likely to visit Home Depot, and 23% more likely to visit Lowe's than the US population. For Female Showroomers the top three were completely different with Kohl's at 49%, PetSmart at 47%, and Bed Bath and Beyond at 46%.
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Let Zimbabwe’s children bloom
My first year in Zimbabwe has flown by and spring is once more in the air as the jacaranda trees lining Harare's streets burst into bloom once more, in a riot of regal purple. The beauty of the garden suburbs is deceptive. Despite the steady economic recovery of the past 24 months, the levels of poverty are still very high and disproportionately affect the million-plus children estimated to have lost one or more parents to the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
Jacaranda in bloom
Almost exactly a year ago I witnessed the launch of a major textbook distribution programme that has now successfully completed its distribution of around 13 million books to all the estimated 2.6 million primary school students. A similar exercise is now underway to provide secondary textbooks using cost savings from the initial phase.
The Prime Minister at the launch
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend another major programme launch, efficiently organised once more by UNICEF and again presided over by the Zimbabwean Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai. We had gathered at the National Art Gallery where there was a striking collection of Shona and Ndebele cultural sculpture and a professional photographic display of today's Zimbabwean children – at work, at play and at school. Entertainment came courtesy of UNICEF's regional goodwill ambassador and musical superstar Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi, who was also joined in voice by the disabled singing sensation Prudence Mabhena.
Despite the lovely atmosphere the stark facts and figures kept everyone reminded of the purpose: 1 in 3 children suffers chronic malnutrition and 700,000 children live in extreme poverty – they suffer from hunger for most of the year, become physically weak, and are much more likely to die from infections that other people survive. Horrendous levels of violence and abuse are also suffered by children in Zimbabwe, especially girls (60% of reported rape survivors are children).
Holding the future
The children's representative present reminded the Prime Minister and other senior distinguished guests of the need for action: to protect, love and cherish children, allowing all to have access to food to eat, schooling and medical services when needed.
The government's national action plan to support orphans and vulnerable children for the coming five years was launched, supported by the Child Protection Fund (CPF). The UK (DFID) together with the Netherlands, Sweden and the Delegation of the European Union to Zimbabwe are supporting specific interventions through CPF, under UNICEF management.
In addition to BEAM school fee support for orphans, the CPF will scale up regular cash payments to 80,000 of the poorest households in the country, benefitting 300,000 of the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. Just last March I met the first grandparents to benefit, who were singlehandedly raising their dead children's children. By the end of this year, this pilot in one locality will have already scaled up to ten districts spread across all the provinces of Harare.
The words of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, quoted at the launch, are well worth repeating: "There is no duty more important than ensuring that children's rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want, and that they can grow up in peace." | <urn:uuid:e6c44615-52d7-40ea-a0ee-93103f123b2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2011/10/let-zimbabwes-children-bloom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963072 | 670 | 1.625 | 2 |
Welcome to your portal for 21st century science education. We are a national group of science educators working to expand STEM-related opportunities for K-12 teachers and students. Through Unlimited Success STEM Education you will find information about:
- How your school, district or organization can take part in educator training
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According to a Professor of Sacramental Theology
ROME, 15 JULY 2004 (ZENIT)
That the Church normally restricts access to holy
Communion to Catholics, who must fulfill certain conditions, has become a
debated issue in some sectors.
Some Catholics do not even know why the Church
maintains this custom, which dates back to the early Christian
To answer the question, ZENIT interviewed Father
Philip Goyret, professor of sacramental theology, ecclesiology and
ecumenism at the University of the Holy Cross. Father Goyret is also the
pontifical university’s director of studies.
Q: What is the theological and ecclesiological
significance of someone receiving Communion?
Father Goyret: Following biblical texts, especially
St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Catholics believe in the
profound existing nexus between the body of Christ, the Eucharistic body,
and the ecclesial body.
The language of the New Testament manifests this
reality using the same word “body” to speak either of the historical and
later glorious body of the Lord, or the Eucharistic body, or the ecclesial
It goes beyond a mere play on words, as, by
nourishing ourselves with the Eucharistic body of the Lord, which contains
substantially the now glorious body of Our Lord in heaven, we are
consolidated as members of his ecclesial body.
When receiving Eucharistic Communion, we receive
the body and blood of the Lord, which increases in our hearts our profound
union with him. And to be united to him also implies to be united with
those who are united to him. Thus we attain ecclesial communion.
This is what theology expresses with the phrase
“the Eucharist builds the Church.” By Eucharistic Communion we enter into
communion with the Lord and we are consolidated in ecclesial communion.
Looking at the “negative” side of things, it is
interesting to recall the original meaning of “excommunication.” Before
its juridical consequences were developed, to be excommunicated meant—and
still means—to be removed from Eucharistic Communion. Whoever is excluded
from ecclesial communion cannot take part in Eucharistic Communion.
However, the Eucharist is not “automatic.” The
effect mentioned above will not follow if Communion is received by a
Martian who has never heard about the Gospel. One must go to Communion
receiving the Eucharist for what it is, namely, the body and blood of
Christ, with intense faith in his real presence in the species.
To believe this takes great commitment, as it means
to believe in the complete truth revealed in Christ; as it is the complete
Christ who is present in the Eucharist. And the complete truth includes
all that the Church proposes as revealed, including about herself.
It means, moreover, to believe as we Christians do:
not only accepting specific knowledge intellectually, but also conforming
our life to this knowledge. This is why we speak of “intense” faith.
Hence, “to be in order” with the Catholic Church as
a condition to receive the Eucharist in a Catholic celebration is not
simply a question “of regulations”—as a tennis club that does not allow
the use of its courts to those who have not paid their dues—but an
internal exigency of the sacrament, as understood by the Catholic faith.
Therefore, between Eucharistic Communion and
ecclesial communion there is a relation which we could call “circular.”
The Eucharist consolidates us in ecclesial communion, while at the same
time exacting it as a first condition. Eucharistic Communion causes
ecclesial communion while at the same time signifying it.
Q: Denying Communion, whether to Catholics or in
some cases even to Protestants, is criticized as being a divisive measure.
What is your opinion?
Father Goyret: To understand this, suffice it to
develop the foregoing last lines.
Ecclesial communion as an antecedent condition to
access Eucharistic Communion consists, substantially, in the integrity of
faith and absence of grave sin. From the Catholic point of view, the first
includes, logically, to be a Catholic.
It also implies the absence of situations of
habitual sin—family irregularities, ideological positions that are
incompatible with the Catholic faith, professional conduct opposed to
Catholic morality, etc.—in addition to occasional sins.
The moral and pastoral norm followed by priests
when distributing Communion is to deny it publicly to those who are
publicly known as persons who cannot receive it. To proceed otherwise
would mean to cast aside the theological and ecclesiological meaning of
which we spoke earlier.
For Catholics, the eventual distribution of
Communion to a non-Catholic, within a Catholic celebration of the
Eucharist, implies a contradiction, as it would imply an ecclesial
communion that does not exist in its fullness. Something similar occurs in
the case of the eventual Communion of a public sinner.
Obviously, these ideas presuppose a strong
affirmation in faith in the Eucharist—not as a mere external manifestation
of a generic feeling of Christian fraternity, but as the sacrament that
truly contains the whole Christ, with his body, blood, soul and divinity.
It is important to see that the necessity of full
unity of the faith among the participants in the Eucharist is something
exacted by the specific content of this sacrament, namely the substantial
reality of the body of Christ—because in it is necessarily implied faith
in everything that Christ has revealed and that the Church teaches.
Therefore, Eucharistic Communion and communion in
truth cannot be separated. In this line, the Catholic Church denies
Eucharistic Communion to those who do not participate fully of its
ecclesial communion, as they cannot participate in the sign of full unity
who do not possess it wholly.
In short, according to the Catholic point of view,
access to Eucharistic Communion without full ecclesial communion is, first
of all, an absurd action, as it does not realize the significant aspect
characteristic of the sacramental dynamics; and by not signifying this, it
does not cause it either.
It must be added that the desire and spiritual need
to receive Communion is something profoundly personal, but never a
“private” event, precisely because we are before an ecclesial
good—ecclesial par excellence—of which we are not the owners.
Not to respect this discipline is not only a
contradiction in the one who goes to Communion, but also in the whole
Q: What are the key considerations that bishops are
grappling with regarding the debates? What is the bishops’ primary concern
over the Communion debate?
Father Goyret: I cannot say exactly; each episcopal
conference has its battles.
I would dare to say, however, that the key concern
is to make it understood that the denial of Eucharistic Communion—either
of Catholics in “public” situations that impede it, or of non-Catholics—is
not due to an indolent attitude or to lack of understanding, but is simply
consistent with our faith in the Eucharist.
If we go deeper, it is deficient formation in the
faith that does not make it easy to understand this matter, aggravated by
the loss of the sense of sin and of its consequences.
Just as it is very difficult to explain Pythagoras’
theorem to those who do not know the multiplication tables, the same can
be said of our subject in regard to those who are far from God.
We can conclude these considerations with an
example, more didactic than theological, which in its simplicity indicates
a useful moral.
I am referring to the feeling of corporal pain and
to our reaction to it. When we experience it, it is telling us that
something is not functioning properly in our body, that something is not
in harmony. It is the alarm bell that leads us to medical care and
eventually to treatment.
The simple elimination of pain does not produce
healing per se. It can entail only a certain relief, but it could also
make us forget the need for serious medical treatment. Pain, in short, has
the positive function of alerting us to a disharmony that must be cured.
The application of the moral to our case is
obvious. The impossibility of celebrating the Eucharist together among
different confessions is, certainly, a painful situation. But the intense
ardor of wanting to do something together does not always mean that that
is what is most appropriate. The elimination of pain in the face of
division, without the elimination of its causes, only makes things worse.
It is necessary not to lose sight of the fact that
the discipline of the Church that prohibits intercommunion is not the
cause of division, but its consequence.
The causes are discovered and removed through the
dialogue of truth: a process that is certainly longer and more exhausting,
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How To Be Safe Online – Internet Security/Safety For StudentsWritten by Christian Milsom on April 28, 2009 · Filed under How To, Internet
Yesterday I brought up the issue of technology giving us more than we can handle with the case of highlighting Swine Flu, but it can also have worrying implications with our safety and how susceptible we are to giving out our personal emails.
In a recent survey commissioned by ‘Get Safe Online’ it was found that internet users in full time education were far more vulnerable to online crime and security threats than any other demographic, which may be surprising as both the people in question and the general population see them as being ‘very computer literate’.
We have all got the spam emails from our friend who is stuck in Nigeria and needs £3000 to get back, and apart from the first time where we went through our phone book to find out if any of our friends were on holiday in Africa we delete them instantly. But although this may seem like the most prominent threat, and although it is so widely publicised, young people are still falling foul to the internet.
The most obvious analogy would be with driving – although young people are quick, aware and educated they are still involved in more accidents than other age group due to the fact that they are inexperienced and often over confident.
The same applies to the internet – although 51% of those questioned in full time education claimed to be ‘very internet literate’ far too high a percentage were still making some worrying errors; 10% consider there to be no risk on the internet, 30% do not see security software as being important, 28% have admitted to entering personal details from an unsecure computer and almost one in five post valuable personal details on social networking sites.
To put this into context the national average of people who consider themselves to be very internet literate is 28%, 4% consider there to be no risk on the internet, 18% percent do not see security software as being important and only 11% have entered details from an unsecure computer and/or posted valuable details on social networking sites.
Obviously this gap is something that is quite worrying, and it raises questions about the level of education on these fairly basic issues that the young people are receiving. Of course it could just be because they are ignoring the advice given by IT teachers, deeming it to be overly cautious and considering themselves capable enough to cope with it.
This is why Get Safe Online was set up: to help raise awareness of the dangers on the internet. It offers advice about basic security measures (such as having different passwords, not giving them away, blocking spam and spotting phishing scams) is a way that it easy to read and understand.
There is even a quick quiz which tests your knowledge on the basic things to look out for (irritatingly I managed to get one wrong!) and highlight things that you can look up – in my case how easy it isn’t to identify fake websites!
Although this will by no means halt the overconfidence of people in full time education or internet crime, it is at least a start and it does its job very well. So go on, have a look around, and check you know what you’re doing and encourage others (especially those in the most vulnerable age demographic) to do the same!
We’ll now leave you with some of the main Internet safety top tips:
- Block unwanted spam email – this will also block most phishing emails.
- Use a modern web browser that will warn you against known phishing websites.
- Don’t give away your password or any other personal information.
- Choose strong passwords – using a mix of several words, letters, numbers and punctuation. Use different passwords for different sites to make it harder for identity thieves.
- Be careful about giving away too much information on blogs and social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook or Bebo.
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1. What is parliamentary privilege?
Parliamentary privilege is a function of the separate constitutional roles of parliament and the courts which enable these institutions to go about their business without being subject to outside interference or control.
Parliamentary privilege is commonly described as a set of immunities from the operation of certain laws. The term includes powers to protect the integrity of parliamentary processes, for example, the power to punish contempts.
—Freedom of speech
The most significant immunity is freedom of speech in parliament whereby words uttered and acts done in parliament are not actionable in a court of law. For example, a person cannot take action for defamation against a member of parliament on the basis of words spoken in parliament.
However, the protection does not apply if a member of parliament repeats those words outside of parliamentary proceedings.
There have also been cases in recent years where courts (erroneously, on the parliamentary view) have allowed reference to be made to parliamentary statements for the purpose of defamation actions, to establish the meaning of statements made outside parliament. Members of parliament who have said words to the effect of "I stand by what I said in the chamber" or, "I do not resile from what I said in the chamber" have been sued for defamation on the basis that they have effectively repeated outside the parliament what was said inside. (see the 134th Report of the Committee of Privileges, Effective Repetition).
—"Proceedings in parliament" defined
Parliamentary privilege protects those who participate in "proceedings in parliament" from outside interference or suit. The basic protection is provided by article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689 which is incorporated into Australian law by section 49 of the Constitution and by section 16 of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987:
That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or place out of Parliament.
The 1987 Act defines "proceedings in parliament" to include:
all words spoken
and acts done
in the course of
or for purposes of
or incidental to
the transacting of the business of a House or of a committee.
the act of giving evidence to a House or committee
the evidence given
the presentation or submission of a document to a House or committee
the preparation of a document for purposes of or incidental to the transacting of the business of a House or committee
formulating, making or publishing a document by or pursuant to an order of a House or committee
the document formulated, made or published by or pursuant to such an order.
Examples of documents prepared for or incidental to the transacting of the business of a House or committee include:
submissions to parliamentary committees
draft questions to ministers (with or without notice)
questions briefs or possible answers prepared by departments or agencies for their ministers or for their own appearances at Senate estimates
letters from constituents which seek parliamentary action and which can be shown to have a direct connection with parliamentary proceedings such as a request from a constituent to ask a question or raise a particular matter in debate (but see below).
Examples of documents or actions not covered include:
general constituency correspondence, including with ministers, passing on concerns or issues raised by constituents such as problems with government agencies or programs (but a qualified privilege may apply see Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, page 45)
the circulation of petitions (see the 11th Report of the Committee of Privileges)
party or caucus meetings (including meetings of party or caucus committees).
Examples of documents formulated, made or published pursuant to an order of a House or committee include:
business documents such as the Notice Paper, Journals of the Senate and the Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
answers to Senate questions on notice
government reports ordered to be printed by a House
correspondence or documents authorised for publication by a committee.
Note that publication of Hansard attracts absolute privilege but not the publication of extracts, such as part of an individual senator's speech. Publication of "pinks" (subedited drafts provided to senators to check their speeches) by a senator to a journalist (for example) may attract qualified privilege, along with press reports of proceedings, or the use of extracts of speeches in senators' newsletters. For qualified privilege, see Odgers, page 54.
2. What is contempt?
A contempt is a breach of the immunities of a House or any action which improperly obstructs a House or its members or committees in the performance of their duties. The power to punish contempts is one of the major powers available to most parliaments to protect the integrity of their processes (the other main power being the inquiry power to require the production of persons and documents).
Whether a person has committed a contempt is determined by a majority vote of the Senate, taken after at least 7 days' notice (Privilege Resolution 8) and usually on the recommendation of the Privileges Committee after an inquiry has been conducted.
—Contempts by senators
Examples of contempts that may be committed by senators include:
failure to comply with the resolutions of the Senate relating to the registration of senators' interests (a serious contempt, see Resolution 1 of 17 March 1994, as amended)
unauthorised disclosure of draft committee reports, unpublished evidence or submissions, or committee deliberations
asking for, obtaining or receiving a benefit in return for discharging the senator's duties under outside influence
disobeying a lawful order of the Senate or a committee (for example, to appear before a committee or produce documents to the Senate).
Some of these matters are also covered by the criminal law (s.13, Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987; s.141.1, Criminal Code Act 1995).
—Contempts against senators
Examples of contempts that may be committed by other persons in relation to senators include:
obstruction of a senator in the exercise of his or her duties
improper influence of a senator
molestation of a senator.
These contempts may cover such actions as a threat of legal action against a senator to prevent him or her raising a particular matter in the Senate.
Since the first such case of alleged intimidation of a senator was investigated by a select committee of privilege in 1904, the Senate has taken a fairly robust view as to whether senators have been improperly obstructed, probably on the basis that senators are capable of looking after themselves. The greater emphasis has been on the protection of other persons, particularly witnesses before committees, and on the integrity of committee processes.
—Other common contempts
By far the most commonly investigated contempts involve conduct by or in relation to witnesses appearing before Senate committees, including:
Summaries of the many cases of possible contempt investigated by the Senate Privileges Committee are published online on the committee's website.
In the worst cases, contempt may be punished by a term of imprisonment or the imposition of a fine. The Senate has never imposed such a penalty. Other penalties include admonishment or, in appropriate cases, the withdrawal of access to facilities at Parliament House (for example, the Press Gallery).
3. How is a matter of privilege raised?
Matters of privilege unless they arise suddenly in relation to proceedings before the Senate are raised in writing with the President under standing order 81.
This process is covered in detail in Brief Guide to Senate Procedure No.13 Raising matters of privilege and the right of reply.
4. The Senate privilege resolutions
After the enactment of the Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987, the Senate agreed to a series of resolutions early the following year to establish certain procedures for the operation of the Senate and its committees, such as procedures to protect the rights of witnesses. The resolutions also set out procedures for the investigation of contempts and the criteria for determining matters relating to contempt. Resolution 6 sets out a non-exhaustive list of matters that may constitute contempts.
Resolution 5 establishes procedures for the protection of persons referred to in the Senate. The Senate was the first known legislature to provide persons referred to in the Senate with a right of reply where those persons felt adversely affected in reputation or in dealings with others, or injured in some sense, including by unreasonable invasion of their privacy. See Brief Guide No. 13 for details.
Resolution 9 enjoins senators to use their great power of freedom of speech responsibly and to take into account:
the damage that allegations made in parliament can do to the subject of the allegations and the institution of parliament
the limited opportunity available to persons other than members of parliament to respond to such allegations
the need for senators to have due regard to the rights of others
the desirability of ensuring that any adverse reflections on a person are soundly based.
5. Senators and the law
Apart from the immunities conferred by parliamentary privilege on senators in the exercise of their duties, senators are subject to the ordinary law like any other person. (See Brief Guide No.23 Provisions governing the conduct of senators)
Section 15 of the 1987 Act indicates that the police may exercise in the parliamentary precincts the powers which they possess under the ordinary law. Likewise, electorate offices are within the jurisdiction of the ordinary law.
Senators have no overall immunity from subpoenas, orders issued by courts or tribunals for the discovery of documents, or search warrants. However, the use before a court or tribunal of documents so obtained is restricted by the law of parliamentary privilege.
See Odgers, pp. 46-47, for a discussion of the case law supporting an effective immunity from compulsory production of documents where the documents are so closely connected with proceedings in parliament that their production would involve unlawful questioning or impeaching of those proceedings, contrary to section 16 of the 1987 Act.
In the only relevant Australian case involving the execution of search warrants on a senator's offices (Crane v Gething, see Odgers, p.46), the court said that it did not have jurisdiction to determine whether parliamentary privilege prevented the seizure of documents by the police because the issue of search warrants is an executive act, not a judicial proceeding. The matter was returned to the Senate to sort out, which it did by engaging an independent third party to assess the documents and determine which ones were covered by parliamentary privilege (on the basis that all parties would accept the umpire's determination).
Since then, the Presiding Officers have entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, endorsing an Australian Federal Police Guideline on the execution of search warrants in members' and senators' offices. A similar arrangement has been entered into with the Tasmanian government. Other states have not yet followed suit.
The guidelines provide an opportunity for senators to claim parliamentary privilege over particular documents uncovered in the course of the search, and for such documents to be sealed and provided to a neutral third party pending a determination of the claim of parliamentary privilege.
—Are there any other immunities that apply to senators?
In addition to the major immunity of freedom of speech in parliament there are some minor immunities that preserve senators' freedom to attend parliamentary business without interference from the courts.
These minor immunities (which, in practice, rarely arise or are of little significance) are:
—Detention of a senator
A resolution of the Senate of 18 March 1987 declares that it is the right of the Senate to receive notification of the detention of its members (and the cause thereof) including:
from a court, where a senator is held in custody pursuant to an order or judgment by the court
from the Governor-General, if a senator is held in custody by order of a court martial or officer of the Defence Force
from the police, if a senator has been arrested.
6. Need assistance?
Advice on any of the matters covered by this Brief Guide is available from the Clerk of the Senate on extension 3350. Advice on the operations of the Committee of Privileges is available from the secretary on extension 3360.
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Back in early February of last year, I noted that I heard Rep. Peter King (R-NY) saying that “the media is the enemy” on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, while I was driving around that night.
At the time, his statement, while containing much truth about how the media handled coverage of the war in Iraq, had a whiff of hyperbole about it. But that was before a brutal election year featuring a series of increasingly fabulistic big media reporting, culminating in RatherGate and its lesser-known but almost equally damning “NYTroGate” by the New York Times.
It was also before a Newsweek article based on shabby “source of a source” reporting led to 16 people killed in riots this weekend in Afghanistan–along with additional protests in “Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza” according to Reuters, because Newsweek reported that a US interrogator at Guantanamo Bay flushed a Koran down a toilet to intimidate a captured prisoner–the results led to 15 killed in riots in Afghanistan.
As Glenn Reynolds has noted, there’s two big elements to this story: one, that riots over a book–any book–would cause people to get killed. I remember back in 1988 walking past protestors in front of the Ritz Theater in Philadelphia to see The Last Temptation of Christ, but they didn’t try to stone me–or Martin Scorsese, for that matter.
But the other element is that Newsweek surely had to have considered that in the tinderbox atmosphere that is the Middle East, that something along those lines could have happened, when they wrote their story–if they didn’t, they need only ask Salman Rushdie.
But they ran the story anyway, even though they knew they didn’t have evidence to support it (heck, try flushing any book down a toilet–it’s not going to get far), and the result, as numerous bloggers have already somewhat drolly noted, “Newsweek Lied, People Died“.
I’ve written before that back in the old days, most people–including myself–believed that if it was reported in the news, an event was true, (“And that’s the way it is“) even if its ramifications and causes were often open to debate. But ever since 9/11, big media, thanks to the repeated fact checking by the Blogosphere, has turned the Gipper’s famous statement about the Soviet Union on its head: verify–and only then, trust.
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Aug. 2, 2009 Taking the most commonly-prescribed anti-diabetic drug, metformin, reduces an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer by 62 percent, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, published in the Aug. 1 issue of Gastroenterology.
"This is the first epidemiological study of metformin in the cancer population, and it offers an exciting direction for future chemoprevention research for a disease greatly in need of both treatment and prevention strategies," said Donghui Li, Ph.D., professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology.
An oral medication, metformin is the most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes. According to Li, more than 35 million prescriptions for the drug are filled annually, and it's most often given to type 2 diabetic patients who are obese and/or have insulin resistance.
"Metformin works by increasing the cellular sensitivity to insulin and decreasing its level circulating in diabetics. Insulin also seems to have a growth-promoting effect in cancer," said Li, the study's senior author. "Metformin activates the AMP kinase, which is a cellular engery sensor. Recent publications have described that AMP kinase also plays an important role in the development of cancer by controlling cell division and growth."
Li also cited a previous animal study showing that metformin prevented pancreatic tumor development, as well as numerous epidemiologic studies in the diabetic population that showed taking the drug reduced the risk for cancer overall.
"Given these earlier findings, and knowing that diabetes is a risk factor for the development of pancreatic cancer and that 10 percent of such cancers are associated with diabetes, we wanted to better understand the specific association between different anti-diabetic therapies and this lethal disease," explained Li.
For the case control study, the researchers enrolled 1,838 participants - 973 patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma treated at M. D. Anderson between 2004 and 2008 to compare 863 cancer-free individuals, all companions of M. D. Anderson patients. Of all participants, 259 patients and 109 controls were diabetics. The groups were matched by age, race and sex. Using a detailed questionnaire, personal interviews were conducted to collect such information as their smoking history, family history of cancer, alcohol use and body mass index throughout their lives. Diabetics were also asked about their anti-diabetic medication history, both the names and the duration.
Diabetics were categorized by their use of four common classes of anti-diabetic therapies - insulin or insulin secretagogues, metformin, thaizolidinediones (TZDs), and/or other common anti-diabetic therapies and the duration of use.
The researchers found that diabetics who took metformin alone or in any combination with other diabetic therapies had a 62 percent reduction of risk of developing pancreatic cancer, compared to those who never used the drug. When the analysis was restricted to those who never used insulin or those who had diabetes more than two years, the protective effect of metformin remained significant. Other diabetesassociated risk factors, such as history of smoking, overweight or obesity, and glycemic control, did not have a significant effect on the relationship between metformin use and pancreatic cancer risk.
In contrast, diabetics who had taken insulin or insulin secretagogues had a 4.99- and 2.52-fold increased risk for the disease, respectively, compared with never users.
Findings regarding TZDs and the other drug classes and the risk of pancreatic cancer were inconclusive because of the small sample size; a larger cohort is needed to understand the association between their use and pancreatic cancer.
Li noted the study is not without limitations, including the relatively small size of the study's diabetic population; she hopes the research will be replicated in a larger sample size. Still, the findings present the immediate opportunity to explore metformin as a chemopreventive agent.
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in men and women in this country. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 42,470 persons will be diagnosed and 35,240 will likely die from the disease in 2009. The median survival for patients with the disease is less than 10 months and the five-year survival rate is less than five percent.
"While further validation is needed, our findings show metformin's potential as a chemopreventive agent," said Li. "Currently, once pancreatic cancer is diagnosed, we have few successful therapeutic agents to offer our patients, so obviously, for those at greatest risk, a preventive mechanism such as metformin would be a welcome option."
According to the American Diabetes Association, in 2007, 1.6 million new cases of type 2 diabetes were diagnosed in people 20 years old or older. It's estimated that 23.5 million people older than the age of 20 have the disease.
In a corresponding editorial, Yu-Xiao Yang, M.D. of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine noted that the American Diabetes Association, as well as the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, have both recommended the inclusion of metformin for all type 2 diabetes patients without contraindications and notes that the possible chemopreventive properties of the drug "may provide an additional incentive for patients and physicians to follow this recommendation."
The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute, including Li's RO1 and M. D. Anderson's Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in pancreatic cancer, as well as from institutional funds.
In addition to Li, other authors on the all-M. D. Anderson study include: James Abbruzzese, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology; Sai-ching Yeung, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine, Ambulatory Treatment and Emergency Center, Manal Hassan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology-Research; and Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Leukemia.
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Hotline, Winter 2004
Many thanks to Marilyn Skolnick for her excellent article on automobile pollution (“Why is the Automobile Like a Smokestack?” in the Fall 2003 Hotline). I, too, cannot look at cars as benign any longer, so about three years ago I ditched my car in favor of a bike whenever I can. Mostly this involves commuting to work, but I’ve also outfitted my bike to haul groceries or small store items. I still have a car, but I use it as little as possible. This year I will have put more miles on my bike than on my car.
But with so many cars out there, my little contribution seems meaningless. So thanks for having the courage to write an article pointing out the bad habits of our “beloved car.” I would also like to share with you my own thoughts on the car, in the below article.
Joe Walko, Plum
Every time I ride by the destruction, my first reaction is rage. The crews show up with all sorts of heavy equipment — backhoes and dozers, pile drives and rock crushers. Dynamite and blasting caps ensure the destruction of what the heavy equipment can’t take down. The trees are stripped, and the hilltops are bulldozed into the valleys. Where once stood a wooded hilltop there is now a gaping hole. The mountaintop has been decapitated.
I’m not talking about some mountaintop in West Virginia, stripped bare of its timber, its soil plowed into the surrounding valleys to get the coal buried beneath it. I’m sure seeing the destruction of that magnitude would elicit even more rage. No, the destruction I’m talking about probably wouldn’t even qualify as a mountain. Hilltop is probably more descriptive. They are the hilltops right here in Pittsburgh, the east suburbs to be exact. Specifically, the hilltops that line each side of the Rt. 22/286 corridor between Monroeville and Murrysville.
These are the same hilltops that give our region its distinct flavor. The hilltops that are ablaze with color each fall. Having grown up in the area (and still living there), I know also that they house a network of trails and are the last wooded areas in the region untouched by suburban sprawl. Deer, turkey, fox and coyote roam the steep hillsides. Hunters prowl in the fall, and mountain bikers race down the steep slopes. They offer a place for a suburban kid to experience outdoor adventure, even if you never quite escape the din of the traffic below. And as an adult, they offer me a mountain bike route to and from work.
As I have grown older and learned of the pressure put on our remaining natural areas by sprawl, I have always assumed the hillsides would survive, if only because of the steepness of the terrain. Now I watch as the hillsides are cut and blasted away. It started with small cuts along Rt. 22 to put in a few furniture stores. Then a bigger cut was made to install a car dealership along Rt. 286. The destruction continued and culminated in the leveling of two hills and the filling of a valley to house the biggest auto dealership in the eastern U.S. Now stands a flattened glass and steel monument to the god of sprawl, the automobile.
I find it too ironic that this temple to sprawl houses a car dealership. The car makes all sprawl possible. I know that I’m tethered to my automobile, but I’m also aware of the hidden destruction they cause, like the fumes that spew from tailpipes, now the single largest source of air pollution in this country. Like the lengths we will go to to ensure our cars are kept well fed with cheap fuel, even if it means killing and war. Like the psychological changes that 2 tons of steel and safety glass induce, turning normally placid people into road-raged maniacs. Like the resources we use to maintain and build bigger roads and infrastructure to get us to our destinations a few minutes earlier, unless of course you’re stuck in a sprawl-induced traffic jam, which induces more road rage.
Displayed at the most prominent point of the gigantic car dealership is the ultimate offering to the gods of excessive consumption — the Hummer. A tank on wheels, getting less than 10 miles to the gallon. What does it say about where we are headed, about what we have learned, about the way that we live, about our personal choices, that this vehicle is even available? What does it say that we choose to bulldoze hilltops, widen roads, wage wars, excessively pollute our air, and destroy the few remaining wild areas left so that we can strut around in Hummers?
Inevitably, the initial rage subsides. I pedal on past the construction site, trying not to get hit while traversing the construction-narrowed road. Winter is coming and there is a chill in the air. I remember last year a female kestrel hunted the open hilltop that is now being transformed into a car dealership. I doubt she’ll find the hunting satisfactory at the asphalt-covered lot. She’ll have to move on. Sadness replaces rage.
We continue to move on also. We consume more and more open space, woodlots and hillsides. Our bigger cars need more fuel, our bigger houses need more furniture, our egos need bigger status symbols. Along the path to Bigger and More, where is the room for kestrels, clean air and wooded hilltops? | <urn:uuid:23a36da4-8480-48b8-b418-829fbc674f89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gasp-pgh.org/publications/hotline/win04-8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951 | 1,172 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Mexico City, D. F. May 28, 1942
Mexico News, Department of State for Foreign Affairs, Year II, No. 17, June 5, 1942.
I have come before you to comply with one of the gravest duties which the Head of a Nation has ever had to shoulder, that of presenting to the National Legislature the necessity of resorting to the very last of the resources which a free people can dispose of to defend their destinies.
As I already informed the nation during the night of the 13th of the current month, a submarine pertaining to the Nazi Fascist powers torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic, a Mexican oil tanker, the Potrero del Llano.
Nothing stopped the aggressors. Neither the neutrality of the country to whom the ship belonged nor the circumstance that it carried signals which could be readily observed indicating the nationality of the ship, nor the precaution taken that the ship had all the lights on in order that the colors of our flag, plainly displayed on the side of our ship, could be clearly observed, nor were there taken into consideration international and humanitarian rights of the duty to allow the crew of the ship an opportunity to save themselves.
Of 35 of the crew, all Mexican, only 22 were able to reach Miami, Florida, and one of them died a few hours later, a victim of the injuries suffered during the attack. Including these, 14 lives were swept away by the attack of the totalitarian powers. 14 young brave men gave up their lives, and before their deaths the nation bowed its head in mourning.
As soon as my Administration heard of the attack it framed an energetic protest which was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Sweden, a country which in December 1941, took charge of our interests in Germany, Italy and Japan.
In that document, Mexico stated that if within one week, starting Thursday, May 14th, the country responsible for the aggression should not render a satisfactory explanation as well as assuring us that proper indemnification would be given for the damage done and suffering incurred, if that was not done, we would be forced to take such measures as required by our national dignity.
The week has passed. Italy and Japan did not reply to our protest. Worse yet. As a gesture of disdain, typical of the aggressor, the German Chancellery even refused to receive our note.
But the totalitarian nations did not stop there. Seven days after the attack on the Potrero del Llano, a new attack took place. The night of Wednesday 20, another of our ships, the Faja de Oro, was torpedoed and sunk in front of the North American eastern seaboard, under identical conditions to those which occurred during the first sinking.
This time, we also had to deplore the loss of life of a valiant group of our countrymen. Six of the crew of 35 were lost and 29 were picked up by the Coast Guards of the United States, arriving at Cayo Hueso on the morning of May 22nd. One of them died while still on board a coast guard cutter and six were injured.
Diplomatic procedure has terminated and now we are faced with the necessity of arriving at a quick decision.
Before submitting to your consideration the proposals of my Administration, I wish to solemnly declare that no act of the Government or the people of Mexico could possibly justify the two-fold outrage perpetrated by the totalitarian powers.
A summary of international events that have taken place during these last two years is the most eloquent proof of the unassailable position of our country and of the iniquitous nature of the attack made on us. As soon as Japan and Italy launched their aggression on China and Ethiopia, we realized the fact that a period had begun in which we would all of us have to assume transcendentally weighty responsibilities. Before long the facts themselves made it clear that the very gloomiest forecasts were going to be fulfilled. In 1936 the Spanish war, an international coup d'etat that under the outward appearance of a revolution with Nazi and Fascist tendencies, sank the heroic Spanish people in a sea of blood.
In 1938 Austria's turn came. She was overwhelmed by the superior strength of an army before which she had no alternative but to accept the terms of a humiliating and ignominious annexation. In 1939 we witnessed the disappearance of Czechoslovakia and Albania. And shortly after that Poland was invaded. This last act, because of the political commitments violated by it, compelled England and France to declare themselves in a state of war with Germany.
From that time on, aggression succeeded aggression at an ever speedier and crueler tempo. Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg fell one after the other, within the space of a few months. Their neutrality was trampled down by governments to whom treaties are but a dead letter, rights merely a fiction and fulfillment of the pledged word an argument destitute of validity.
France's collapse and Italy's entry into the war afforded Germany an opportunity to swell her tragic list of injustices, by reducing to naught the virile resistance offered by Greece and Jugoslavia, by imposing a puppet government on Rumania, by bringing Hungary under the yoke of her aggressive policies, by binding Bulgaria to the imperialistic powers and thus brutally preparing the onslaught upon Russia.
The next step in line for execution, according to the Nazi and Fascist plan, was the crushing of the Russian people. But the offensive power of the German armies has broken down utterly against the fighting capacity of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. The courage of the defenders of Moscow and Leningrad allowed an enormous front to be set up. Along it, the most tremendous battle recorded in the history of humanity is now being fought out.
Meanwhile, in the dark, like Italy during the period that intervened between the breaking out of the war and France's defeat, the third actor in this drama was preparing to step upon the stage by attacking the United States, in the Philippines and Hawaii.
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and Manila still further enlarged the field of military operations. Then the conflict appeared in its true light, as what it had really been from the beginning-even to the most ignorant and ill-informed-that is to say, an attempt to conquer the whole world.
The Americans could not allow this provocation on the part of the totalitarian leaders to go unanswered. Mexico, which after voicing its sympathy for the cause of the people of China and opposing war with Ethiopia had held out a friendly and disinterested hand to Republican Spain. Mexico, which had protested against the annexation of Austria and the occupation of Czechoslovakia; Mexico, that condemned the violation of the neutrality of Norway, Holland, Belgium, and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, as well as the campaigns against Greece, Jugoslavia and Russia, this time also raised its voice, and Mexico, loyal to the spirit of the commitments assumed at the Panama and Havana conferences, forthwith broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan.
Before reaching that severance, Germany had already attempted to encroach upon our sovereignty, in several ways. This she had done by pressing us to adopt certain methods that were not in agreement with our national political tendencies. One example is the note, couched in imperious terms, sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when certain firms were included in the black lists drawn up by the American Government. Another instance is the exceedingly discourteous manner in which she ordered the closing of our Consulates in the occupied zone of France.
In both cases Mexico instantly reacted. The German Minister's note on the subject of the black list was answered by us rejecting his Government's interference. To the order closing down the Mexican Consulate at Paris we countered by suppressing all our consular offices in Germany and by canceling the exchequers extended to German Consuls in the Republic of Mexico.
These measures, that honorably upheld our dignity, clearly showed that our intentions were not warlike. We knew only too well what war really meant, and however deeply we might be offended by the injustices with which the totalitarian nations were acting, we considered that the measures taken preserved our honor intact and were consistent with the course recommended by the wisdom of our Government and the aims of our nation.
We were guided by those same standards of judgment, when we were notified that a state of war existed between the United States, on one side, and Germany, Italy and Japan on the other.
You, who well know the scrupulous care with which the Government has always endeavored to listen to the righteous aspirations of the public opinion, need make no effort to envision the tremendous problems facing the Executive. I had to choose between two different responsibilities which at that moment demanded my attention, as a ruler, and as a Mexican. Mexico then stood at the parting of the ways. One of them led to war. The other involved a cessation of all relations with the Nazi and Fascist States. When we chose the latter solution, we thought we had adequately interpreted the wishes of the Nation.
I may add, with a feeling of satisfaction, that the position taken by us coincided with that adopted by a majority of the republics of this continent, and that it met with general acceptance at the Rio de Janeiro Conference.
The picture I have just given you describes very accurately our situation on the 13th of May. We were united to the other free peoples of this Hemisphere by the ties of Pan American friendship. We had broken off our relations with the imperialist powers of Europe and Asia. We were working for close solidarity with the democracies. We abstained from all acts of violence whatsoever against the dictatorships. German, Italian and Japanese nationals dwelling within our Republic enjoyed all the guarantees which our Constitution grants to aliens. No Mexican authorities molested them in the pursuit of their lawful activities. No one persecuted or coerced them in any way. Under different circumstances we could have been sure that peace in our land was not directly menaced. And yet we had the feeling that Mexico might, when it least expected, find itself caught in that shameful web in which the history of the Nazi and Fascist Governments has been converted. This is why we took the action that was indispensable for increasing our production. And this is also why, in every speech, on every public occasion, we repeated our exhortation to be on the alert and ready to meet an attack that might be let loose upon us at any time.
The attack did come on the 13th of May. It was not an open and straightforward, but a disloyal, treacherous and cowardly aggression. The blow was struck in the dark and relied on impunity. One week later, the outrage was repeated. Face to face with such repeated onslaughts, that violate all the rules of the Law of Nations and involve a cruel affront to our country, a free people anxious to keep realities, we declare, as proposed by the Council of Secretaries of State and Chiefs of Autonomous Departments, assembled in this city on Friday the 22nd last, that as from that date a state of war exists between our country, and Germany, Italy and Japan.
These words, "state of war," have given rise to such unforeseen interpretations that we must explain their exact meaning. In the first place we must do away with all possibility of confusion. A "state of war" is war. Yes, war, with all its consequences. War, which Mexico desired to outlaw for all time from the methods of civilized existence, but which, in cases like this, and in the present state of world disorder, constitutes the only way of asserting our right to independence and of preserving unharmed the dignity of our Republic.
Now, if a "state of war" is actual war, our reasons for proposing that it be declared, instead of a declaration of war, is due to very important reasons, which I feel that I must here clarify.
These reasons are of two different kinds. In the first place, a declaration of war implies a spontaneous intention of waging it in the mind of him who makes it. Mexico would act inconsistently with its tradition of a peace-loving country, loving peace second to none, if it admitted, even if only as a matter of form, that it went to war of its own accord and not compelled by the force of circumstances and the violence of the aggression. In the second place, he who declares war implicitly recognizes this responsibility for the conflict. This, in our own case, would be all the more absurd in that we are the party attacked.
In view of the circumstances which I have explained, the situation facing the Executive is the same as that chosen in September, 1939, by the Governments of England and France when they went to war with Germany, and by the Government of the United States when war broke out with Japan, December 8, 1941. This qualification, which responds to the actual facts and is consistent with our spotless international record, leaves our legal principle intact, but does not lessen the significance of the act itself, nor reduce the inherent risks, nor must it either be deemed as detaching weight from our straightforward decision.
The State of war in which our country will find itself, if you approve my proposition, does not mean that Mexico is going to indulge in unjust persecution. The defense of our land is consistent with our Mexican traditions of decency and generosity.
Nor does it mean that our domestic life is going to be upset, by suspending those constitutional guarantees that can be kept in force without detriment to the spirit of national defense.
We must rely far more on patriotism than on repressive methods. We must trust to the civic sense of the nation, rather than to the arbitrary use of force.
Since pre-Hispanic days, and during the struggles of the conquest, our ancestors distinguished themselves by the epic courage with which they showed themselves ready to live and die in the defense of their rights. Their memory is a lesson in heroism that should constantly encourage us in the fight against every form of slavery. From the day of our political emancipation, Mexico's foreign record has also constituted a steady example of honesty, dignity and loyalty. We have always been faithful to the principles of democracy. We have always advocated material and moral equality of the peoples. We have always condemned annexation by force. We have always upheld absolute respect for the sovereignty of the States. We have always felt the urge to seek a peaceful and harmonious settlement for every conflict. In our experience sacrifices have often been demanded of us, but we have never been guilty of ignominy. Misfortune has often been our lot, but we have never faltered.
So noble a previous history imperatively enjoins upon us the duty of continuing it. Hence, as I now come before you, I shall not attempt to lessen the magnitude of the privations which the decision which I propose to your Sovereignty may make us realize, how great an effort this situation is going to demand of us.
If, however, we failed to put forth that effort, would we not, perhaps, forfeit something infinitely more valuable than our own tranquillity and lives, the honor of our land, Mexico's stainless name.
In the comparison drawn between the forces that strive to destroy the civilization of mankind the impression caused by the disparity between our power and those forces is counteracted when we realize that among the weapons at our command we have ideals, right on our side and love of liberty. These are what the democracies, large and small, of the world are also fighting for.
The position assumed by Mexico at the present juncture is based on the fact that our determination springs from the need of lawful self-defense. We well know the limitations of our resources for war and realize that in view of the enormous magnitude of the international elements involved in the struggle, our part in the present conflict will not consist in going into action outside our Continent, something for which we are not prepared.
Our forces will not, therefore, be dispersed. We shall, however, meet any attempts at aggression from our adversaries by upholding the integrity of our country at any cost and by strenuously cooperating in the protection of the Americas, to the extent allowed by our powers, our security and coordination of defensive action in our Hemisphere.
For years past we have striven to stay aloof from violence. But violence has sought us out. For years we have done our best to follow our own path, without arrogance or enmity, on a plane of concord and understanding.
But the dictatorships have, at last, assailed us. The whole country is aware that we have done our utmost to keep it out of the conflict. Everything, except passive acceptance of dishonor.
Whatever sufferings the struggle may have in store for us I am sure that the Nation will face and endure them. The illustrious men whose names are written on the walls of this bulwark of our democratic institutions are a safeguard as their pasts bear witness, for the austerity of our present, and the best spiritual pledge for our future.
From generation to generation they have handed down to us this flag which is the splendid symbol of our land. May it protect us at this solemn and serious hour, when Mexico expects each one of her sons to do his duty. | <urn:uuid:e12e9286-00b5-46e9-8273-55d5ce9cc37a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/1942-05-28a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974031 | 3,530 | 2.09375 | 2 |
U7, U8 & U9 program:
Stresses more development/less competition. Soccer at this age is about having fun with the ball and encouraging children to want to have the ball at their feet. At these young ages, the primary goal is to make the player’s experience so enjoyable that when he or she has a choice of activities, he or she chooses to play soccer on his or her own. Parents and coaches should be positive and encouraging of each child. This age stresses more development and less competition.
- U7 and U8 will play 6v6 including a goalkeeper (10 players on the roster)
- U9 will play 7v7 including a goalkeeper (12 players on the roster)
- No standings or scores are kept
- 12 minute quarters for U7 and U8
- 25 minute halves for U9
U10, U11 & U12 program:
Focuses on developing a relationship with the ball in a fun environment. Games are a forum for players to test their ball skills; game awareness is a means of development, rather than the objective. The game should be free flowing, coach-guided, not coach directed, and demands that all players on the field, regardless of their specified position, participate in defending and attacking.
- 8 v 8 including a goalkeeper
- Scores and standings are kept
- Maximum roster size of 14
- 25 minute halves for U10
- 30 minute halves for U11 and U12
Focuses on how ball skill and decisions influence success on the field. At these ages, ball skills, enjoyment and insight into the game, with a gradual introduction to fitness, mental toughness and results are the keys. Success in winning matches should begin to be the product of a consistent and systematic approach to the game that focuses more on player development than on team building.
- 11 v. 11 including a goalkeeper
- Scores and standings kept
- Maximum roster size of 18
- Maximum roster size of 22 (U17 only)
- 35 minute halves for U13 and U14
- 40 minute halves for U15 and older | <urn:uuid:32365b1b-a5fe-4c9f-8311-845b3e6a5cfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.samsoccer.org/Recreation/180570.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958349 | 434 | 2.390625 | 2 |
If you have a medical emergency, please contact your health care provider or go to the nearest emergency room.
Children and adolescents may suffer psychological trauma as a result of disease, specifically the type of disease, epidemic, or pandemic which arises suddenly, spreads rapidly and widely, results in death, and may not have a known cure. As there is daily news coverage regarding potential health risks from occurrences of H1N1(swine flu), SARS (severe acute respiratory disease), West Nile Virus, and others, the NCTSN will be compiling and providing information on several diseases to address the common questions of parents and families.
The Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide, 2nd edition (PFA), developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD, can assist mental health and other practitioners intervening with children and families exposed to disasters, including epidemics. Access PFA in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese by clicking here .
The CDC web site features comprehensive information on other infectious diseases, including influenza , SARS , bird flu , H1N1(swine flu) and West Nile Virus . The Department of Health and Human Services Pandemic Flu.gov site provides government-wide information on influenza outbreaks.
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|THERE ARE NO CASES of the type of fraud this bill would prevent.
WHY IMPLEMENT COSTLY PROCEDURES that would be a terrible hardship for many voters?
Many seniors, minorities and students may not have state issued IDs.
It would also be a terrible hardship on poll workers, who would be legally bound to deny our neighbors, friends and family members their right to vote if they do not have their IDs, even if we know them!
Also, it will cost millions of dollars to implement, at a time when this money could be better used to replace failing voting machines across this state, and so many other things to help our citizens in need, not to make it harder for them to vote and be represented by their government. | <urn:uuid:0c51c426-13c9-40aa-9044-acd55f1c93e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://concernedvoters.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973277 | 156 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Analysis Shows Namibia's Seals are Worth More Alive Than Dead
A new comprehensive study on "The Economics of Seal Hunting and Seal Watching in Namibia," commissioned by several international animal welfare organizations, demonstrates that seals are worth far more alive than dead. Comparing the most recent figures available for both industries, the report concludes that the annual Namibian seal slaughter poses a major risk to the far more lucrative seal-watching tourism industry.
The report was commissioned by Bont voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for Animals (RFA) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and produced by the Australia-based independent economics consultancy Economists at Large. It reveals that, in 2008, the seal hunt generated only $513,000 – a poor comparison to seal-watching, which netted $2 million in direct tourism expenditure in the same period.
"Each year, up to 85,000 seals are killed in Namibia to make just a few dollars from their furs, when they would be worth so much more to the Namibian economy alive," said Claire Bass, WSPA International oceans campaign leader. "Eco-tourism is a growing part of Namibia's identity, but tourists will be shocked to learn that a seal they photograph one day may be clubbed to death the next morning. There is a clear economic case for the government to protect these animals."
WSPA Celebrity Ambassador Leona Lewis added: "No price would ever be high enough to justify the killing of these harmless animals. This country has so much natural beauty to offer tourists. Why allow this brutal practice to tarnish its reputation forever?"
The report provides detailed insight into the seal slaughter by examining the monetary benefits attached to each part of the trade. Bull seals account for a large proportion of the profits, as their genitals are sold in Asian markets for alleged aphrodisiac qualities, for approximately $62 per pound. Seal pups are killed for their fur, with each pelt sold for as little as $5.70. Aside from the low income netted by the seal slaughter, the practice poses a real threat to the far more lucrative seal-watching industry, because large-scale killing could lead to a collapse of seal populations, as witnessed in the 1990s.
"Each year in Namibia, nursing baby seals are forcibly separated from their anguished mothers and beaten and stabbed to death for their fur," said Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International/Canada. "Fortunately, this report confirms that seal-watching has the potential to contribute far more to Namibia's economy than this outdated slaughter ever could. We urge the government of Namibia to act in the best interests of its citizens, and the seals, by ending the slaughter forever."
Seal watching, in contrast, is a popular tourism activity undertaken by about 10 percent of tourists to Namibia, which was just over 100,000 in 2008. Based on current growth trends, the report predicts that by 2016, as many as 175,000 tourists to Namibia will participate in seal-watching, generating more than $3.2 million in direct revenues. Seal-watching also delivers benefits to a far wider range of Namibian society than seal killing, helping boost tourism support services such as hotels and restaurants.
Strangely enough, seal-watching takes place on the very same beaches where killings are allowed: Cape Cross, Atlas Bay and Wolf Bay. During the hunting season, from July 1 to Nov. 15, hundreds of baby seals are clubbed every day between dawn and 8 a.m. at Cape Cross, a "Seal Reserve." At 10 a.m., the same beach opens to hundreds of tourists as a seal-watching attraction.
The hunts have been deliberately hidden from tourists' view for years. However, as they become increasingly exposed via the media and Internet, there's a significant risk that wildlife-loving tourists will not want to visit these doomed seals during their vacations, which would be disastrous for Namibian eco-tour companies.
"The Namibian seal hunt is clearly not sustainable. This report points to eco tourism as a long-term and highly consistent way forward for this beautiful part of the world," said Mark Glover, director of Respect for Animals.
"The Namibian seal hunt is a well kept secret for tourists and it's time to change that," added Nicole van Gemert, director of Bont voor Dieren (NL). "Especially from the Netherlands, there are many tourists going to Namibia each year. If they found out about the slaughter that takes place each day before the beaches open for seal watching, they won't be so eager anymore. We urge the government to read this report and then look again at its sealing policy." | <urn:uuid:a38e5e16-3fb7-4127-87e9-7ee566390acc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eponline.com/articles/2011/09/01/analysis-shows-namibias-seals-are-worth-more-alive-than-dead.aspx?admgarea=ht.ecosystemsecology.endangeredspecies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963837 | 982 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Science Institute Receives Grants
October 23, 2012
The Science Institute, part of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Science and Mathematics at Columbia College Chicago, has received two grants that will help fund the institute’s Junior Research Scientists program—an initiative bringing students from Chicago Public Schools to Columbia to work on renewable energy and biology projects. Both grants are renewals from last year.
The first grant, from Northeastern Illinois University (NIU), is for $10,000 and will support Upward Bound math and science students over the next year. The second grant is from the After School Matters program and spans three years. The institute was awarded $21,100 in funds for the first year, and similar funding is expected over the next two years.
Both grants come one year after the Science Institute received a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which has funded the enhancement and expansion of the institute’s Scientists for Tomorrow program. That initiative teaches young people in Chicago between the ages of ten and fourteen skills related to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and cultivates positive attitudes toward science and technology information.
“The Junior Research Sciences program aims to inspire Chicago's urban high school students to engage in studying subjects related to molecular biology, alternative energy technologies, and computer animation technologies,” said Constantin Rasinariu, chair of the Department of Science and Mathematics. “Under the supervision of faculty and staff, students gain experience in question-centered, project-based collaborative research that is practiced in scientific research laboratories. Thus, they become better prepared to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.”
As part of the Department of Science and Mathematics, the Science Institute seeks to stimulate interest in STEM subjects through its three programs: Junior Research Scientists, Scientists for Tomorrow, and Scientists for a Day.
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The Scottish Government said it was "disappointed" Transport Secretary Justine Greening's announcement, backing one of the most ambitious and controversial investments in the UK's railway network since Victorian times, did not include a commitment to bring high-speed rail to Scotland.
Giving the long-awaited go-ahead to the first phase of the £32 billion infrastructure project, Ms Greening said it would provide 26,000 extra passenger seats an hour on trains travelling at up to 250mph when completed in 2026.
Facing down critics of the controversial scheme, Ms Greening said there were "no credible alternatives" for adding capacity to Britain's congested railway network in order to meet future demand for rail travel.
Industry studies have suggested the West Coast Main Line, which connects London Euston to Glasgow and Edinburgh, is rapidly approaching its limit and that overcrowding will become a significant problem towards the end of the decade, forcing more people off trains and on to congested motorways.
Scottish business leaders called on Ms Greening to ensure a new route is built north of the Border in a bid to prevent Scotland being left at a competitive disadvantage to the Midlands and cities in the north of England.
A consultation on a second phase of High Speed Two (HS2), which will see the initial 140-mile route extended along two branch lines to Manchester and Leeds, will be launched in 2014 and a route chosen by the end of the year, with construction due to finish by 2032.
However, Scots are unlikely to see significant benefits initially, with the first phase of HS2 shaving half-an-hour off journeys between London and both Glasgow and Edinburgh, which currently take four hours and 30 minutes, and the second phase giving a further half-hour saving.
The Scottish Government signalled its intention to fund a route north of the Border – which could bring journeys from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London down below three hours – in December but this is subject to an agreement being reached with Westminster during phase two of the project.
The announcement was broadly welcomed by business groups, rail companies and trade unions. However, Jerry Marshall, chairman of Agahst (Action Groups Against High Speed Two), said the project was a "disaster waiting to happen". He added: "HS2 will cost every household in Britain £1700 and, based on Government figures, will never pay for itself."
Lesley Sawers, chief executive of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI), said: "To fully realise the benefits of high-speed rail to businesses and the economy, we now want to see the commitment to high- speed rail extended to Scotland.
"The benefits of high-speed rail increase significantly once the network is extended to Scotland. SCDI's survey of leading Scottish businesses demonstrated overwhelming support for high-speed rail connections, particularly for the reduced journey times, increased productivity and potential to travel by rail rather than air."
Labour, which first unveiled the blueprint for yesterday's high-speed rail plans in 2009, has subsequently questioned its own route plans but backed Ms Greening's decision yesterday.
Transport Minister Keith Brown welcomed the UK Government's commitment to work with Scottish ministers to develop a high-speed rail link north of the Border but added that Scotland must be represented "from the very earliest stages of the legislative process". | <urn:uuid:c7cb9820-81b5-404e-9c02-3b5fc7b449e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport/new-calls-for-high-speed-rail-link-to-run-to-scotland.16422122 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967537 | 678 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Healthcare Stories is a new video advocacy tool in DREDF’s ongoing campaign for healthcare justice for people with disabilities. We are deeply grateful to The Special Hope Foundation and The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation for their visionary support of the project, which began collecting stories in 2011.
Our stories, dispatches from the front lines of health care, add an essential human dimension to a large body of research showing that people with disabilities experience both health and healthcare disparities and face specific, persistent barriers to care. We know firsthand that poor health care inevitably affects the quality and length of our lives as well as our productivity, autonomy and independence. Because we experience unequal healthcare every day, out of necessity we have become experts in what must be done to remove barriers and increase access to the care we need. We invite you to watch the videos, meet the people behind the stories, and learn what you can do to spark change.
Thank you to those of you who answered the call to share your stories. We hope your forthrightness will spark a long-overdue discussion about persistent barriers to care and how they can be eliminated.
The videos are downloadable. We invite disability and health advocates and others to use them to launch discussion and action on important solutions that will improve healthcare for people with disabilities. | <urn:uuid:fac7da8b-e60b-44ae-af67-6bd30672d378> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dredf.org/healthcare-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94981 | 265 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Hi -- recently, I've started to help maintain a website geared towards helping recently-arrived immigrants (ESL classes, social service referrals, etc.).
The website is scattered with links that say 'click here' -- normally, I would remove those and try to incorporate links directly into the text, but some of the potential users are at a very basic computer level (as in, "how do I use a mouse" and "how do I use Microsoft Word" level) and might be unfamiliar with the internet.
I was wondering if removing the "click here" links might confuse part of our user base -- is it better to keep them, or is there a better way of writing links that isn't as clunky but is equally clear?
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Ensuring fast economic recovery in the event of a major terrorist attack is critical, and insurance plays a central role in this respect. The OECD, in conjunction with the World Forum of Catastrophe Programmes, is setting up an international terrorism risk insurance E-platform.
The E-platform seeks to elucidate the evolution of terrorism risk and resultant financial protective measures by tracking the current terrorism insurance market and regulatory trends. Looking forward, this E-Platform will support national efforts, international exchange of information and the identification of good practices to enhance economic and financial resilience to terrorism.
Specialists in terrorism insurance and disaster management met at a conference hosted by the OECD in June 2010 to re-assess the state of terrorism insurance markets and promote renewed awareness of terrorism risks. At this meeting, the heads of terrorism insurance programmes decided to establish of a permanent international platform on the financial coverage of terrorism risk. They agreed that those in charge of terrorism risk insurance would benefit from cooperation to better manage their programmes in the light of the global terrorism threat.
This platform will monitor the evolution of national terrorism insurance programmes, the degree of government involvement, provides detailed analyses of private (re-)insurance market trends and allows closer collaboration on economic responses to terrorism. It also fosters the development of best practices on financial prevention, mitigation and compensation of terrorism risk to ensure fast economic recovery in the event of another attack.
This platform is managed by the High Level Advisory Board of the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes.
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First Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance, 1-2 June 2010, Paris, France
Terrorism Risk Insurance in OECD Countries, OECD (2005)
OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes
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Chapter VII The All in ALL
"While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in ALL. To him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge." -- The Kybalion
How often have the majority of people heard repeated the statement that their Deity (called by many names) was "All in All" and how little have they suspected the inner occult truth concealed by these carelessly uttered words? The commonly used expression is a survival of the ancient. Hermetic Maxim quoted above, as the Kybalion says: "To him who truly understands this truth, hath come great knowledge." And, this being so, let us seek this truth, the understanding of which means so much. In this statement of truth--this Hermetic Maxim--is concealed one of the greatest philosophical, scientific and religious truths.
We have given you the Hermetic Teaching regarding the Mental Nature of the Universe--the truth that "the Universe is Mental--held in the Mind of THE ALL" As the Kybalion says, in the passage quoted above: "All is in THE ALL." But note also the co-related statement, that: "It is equally true that THE ALL is in ALL." This apparently contradictory statement is reconcilable under the Law of Paradox. It is, moreover, an exact Hermetic statement of the relations existing between THE ALL and its mental Universe. We have seen how "All is in THE ALL"--now let us examine the other aspect of the subject.
The Hermetic Teachings are to the effect that THE ALL is Imminent in ("remaining within; inherent; abiding within") its Universe, and in every part, particle, unit, or combination, within the Universe. This statement is usually illustrated by the Teachers by a reference to the Principle of Correspondence. The Teacher instructs the student to form a Mental Image of something, a person, an idea, something having a mental form, the favorite example being that of the author or dramatist forming an idea of his characters; or a painter or sculptor forming an image of an ideal that he wishes to express by his art. In each case, the student will find that while the image has its existence, and being, solely within his own mind, yet he, the student, author, dramatist, painter, or sculptor, is, in a sense, immanent in; remaining within; or abiding within, the mental image also. In other words, the entire virtue, life, spirit, of reality in the mental image is derived from the 'immanent mind" of the thinker. Consider this for a moment, until the idea is grasped.
To take a modern example, let us say that Othello, Iago, Hamlet, Lear, Richard III, existed merely in the mind of Shakespeare, at the time of their conception or creation. And yet, Shakespeare also existed within each of these characters, giving them their vitality, spirit, and action. Whose is the "spirit" of the characters that we know as Micawber, Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep-- is it Dickens, or have each of these characters a personal spirit, independent of their creator? Have the Venus of Medici, the Sistine Madonna, the Appollo Belvidere, spirits and reality of their own, or do they represent the spiritual and mental power of their creators? The Law of Paradox explains that both propositions are true, viewed from the proper viewpoints. Micawber is both Micawber, and yet Dickens. And, again, while Micawber may be said to be Dickens, yet Dickens is not identical with Micawber. Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: 'The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me --and yet I: am not HE!" How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half wise, who fill the air with their raucous cries of: "I am God!" Imagine poor Micawber, or the sneaky Uriah Heep, crying: "I Am Dickens"; or some of the lowly clods in one of Shakespeare's plays, eloquently announcing that: I Am Shakespeare !" THE ALL is in the earthworm, and yet the earthworm is far from being THE ALL. And still the wonder remains, that though the earthworm exists merely as a lowly thing, created and having its being solely within the Mind of THE ALL--yet THE ALL is immanent in the earthworm, and in the particles that go to make up the earthworm. Can there be any greater mystery than this of "All in THE ALL; and THE ALL in All?"
The student will, of course, realize that the illustrations given above are necessarily imperfect and inadequate, for they represent the creation of mental images in finite minds, while the Universe is a creation of Infinite Mind--and the difference between the two poles separates them. And yet it is merely a matter of degree--the same Principle is in operation--the Principle of Correspondence manifests in each-- "As above, so Below; as Below, so above."
And, in the degree that Man realizes the existence of the Indwelling Spirit immanent within his being, so will he rise in the spiritual scale of life. This is what spiritual development means--the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us. Try to remember this last definition--that of spiritual development. It contains the Truth of True Religion.
There are many planes of Being--many sub-planes of Life--many degrees of existence in the Universe. And all depend upon the advancement of beings in the scale, of which scale the lowest point is the grossest matter, the highest being separated only by the thinnest division from the SPIRIT of THE ALL. And, upward and onward along this Scale of Life, everything is moving. All are on the Path, whose end is THE ALL. All progress is a Returning Home. All is Upward and Onward, in spite of all seemingly contradictory appearances. Such is the message of the llumined.
The Hermetic Teachings concerning the process of the Mental Creation of the Universe, are that at the beginning of the Creative Cycle, THE ALL, in its aspect of Being, projects its Will toward its aspect of "Becoming" and the process of creation begins. It is taught that the process consists of the lowering of Vibration until a very low degree of vibratory energy is reached, at which point the grossest possible form of Matter is manifested. This process is called the stage of Involution, in which THE ALL becomes "involved," or "wrapped up," in its creation. This process is believed by the Hermetists to have a Correspondence to the mental process of an artist, writer, or inventor, who becomes so wrapped up in his mental creation as to almost forget his own existence and who, for the time being, almost "lives in his creation," If instead of "wrapped" we use the word "rapt," perhaps we will give a better idea of what is meant.
This Involuntary stage of Creation is sometimes called the "Outpouring" of the Divine Energy, just as the Evolutionary state is called the "Indrawing." The extreme pole of the Creative process is considered to be the furthest removed from THE ALL, while the beginning of the Evolutionary stage is regarded as the beginning of the return swing of the pendulum of Rhythm-- a "coming home" idea being held in all of the Hermetic Teachings.
The Teachings are that during the "Outpouring," the vibrations become lower and lower until finally the urge ceases, and the return swing begins. But there is this difference, that while in the "Outpouring" the creative forces manifest compactly and as a whole, yet from the beginning of the Evolutionary or "Indrawing" stage, there is manifested the Law of Individualization --that is, the tendency to separate into Units of Force, so that finally that which left THE ALL as unindividualized energy returns to its source as countless highly developed Units of Life, having risen higher and higher in the scale by means of Physical, Mental and Spiritual Evolution.
The ancient Hermetists use the word "Meditation" in describing the process of the mental creation of the Universe in the Mind of THE ALL, the word "Contemplation" also being frequently employed. But the idea intended seems to be that of the employment of the Divine Attention. "Attention" is a word derived from the Latin root, meaning "to reach out; to stretch out," and so the act of Attention is really a mental "reaching out; extension" of mental energy, so that the underlying idea is readily understood when we examine into the real meaning of "Attention."
The Hermetic Teachings regarding the process of Evolution are that, THE ALL, having meditated upon the beginning of the Creation--having thus established the material foundations of the Universe having thought it into existence--then gradually awakens or rouses from its Meditation and in so doing starts into manifestation the process of Evolution, on the material mental and spiritual planes, successively and in order. Thus the upward movement begins--and all begins to move Spiritward. Matter becomes less gross; the Units spring into being; the combinations begin to form; Life appears and manifests in higher and higher forms. and Mind becomes more and more in evidence--the vibrations constantly becoming higher. In short, the entire process of Evolution, in all of its phases, begins, and proceeds according to the established Laws of the Indrawing" process. All of this occupies aeons upon aeons of Man's time, each aeon containing countless millions of years, but yet the Illumined inform us that the entire creation, including Involution and Evolution, of an Universe, is but "as the twinkle of the eye" to THE ALL At the end of countless cycles of aeons of time, THE ALL withdraws its Attention--its Contemplation and Meditation--of the Universe, for the Great Work is finished-and All is withdrawn into THE ALL from which it emerged. But Mystery of Mysteries--the Spirit of each soul is not annihilated, but is infinitely expanded--the Created and the Creator are merged. Such is the report of the Illumined.
The above illustration of the "meditation," and subsequent "awakening from meditation," of THE ALL, is of course but an attempt of the teachers to describe the Infinite process by a finite example. And, yet: "As Below, so Above." The difference is merely in degree. And just. as THE ALL arouses itself from the meditation upon the Universe, so does Man (in time) cease from manifesting upon the Material Plane, and withdraws himself more and more into the Indwelling Spirit, which is indeed "The Divine Ego."
There is one more matter of which we desire to speak in this lesson, and that comes very near to an invasion of the Metaphysical field of speculation, although our purpose is merely to show the futility of such speculation. We allude to the question which inevitably comes to the mind of all thinkers who have ventured to seek the Truth. The question is: "WHY does THE ALL create Universes" The question may be asked in different forms, but the above is the gist of the inquiry.
Men have striven hard to answer this question, but still there is no answer worthy of the name. Some have imagined that THE ALL had something to gain by it, but this is absurd, for what could THE ALL gain that it did not already possess? Others have sought the answer in the idea that THE ALL "wished something to love " and others that it created for pleasure, or amusement; or because it "was lonely" or to manifest its power;--all puerile explanations and ideas, belonging to the childish period of thought.
Others have sought to explain the mystery by assuming that THE ALL found itself "compelled" to create, by reason of its own "internal nature" its "creative instinct." This idea is in advance of the others, but its weak point lies in the idea of THE ALL being "compelled" by anything, internal or external. If its "internal nature," or "creative instinct," compelled it to do anything, then the "internal nature" or "creative instinct" would be the Absolute, instead of THE ALL, and so accordingly that part of the proposition falls. And, yet, THE ALL does create and manifest, and seems to find some kind of satisfaction in so doing. And it is difficult to escape the conclusion that in some infinite degree it must have what would correspond to an "inner nature," or "creative instinct," in man, with correspondingly infinite Desire and Will. It could not act unless it Willed to Act; and it would not Will to Act, unless it Desired to Act and it would not Desire to Act unless it obtained some Satisfaction thereby. And all of these things would belong to an "Inner Nature," and might be postulated as existing according to the Law of Correspondence. But, still, we prefer to think of THE ALL as acting entirely FREE from any influence, internal as well as external. That is the problem which lies at the root of difficulty --and the difficulty that lies at the root of the problem.
Strictly speaking, there cannot be said to be any "Reason" whatsoever for THE ALL to act, for a "reason" implies a "cause," and THE ALL is above Cause and Effect, except when it Wills to become a Cause, at which time the Principle is set into motion. So, you see, the matter is Unthinkable, just as THE ALL is Unknowable. Just as we say THE ALL merely "IS"--so we are compelled to say that "THE ALL ACTS BECAUSE IT ACTS." At the last, THE ALL is All Reason in Itself; All Law in Itself; All Action in Itself--and it may be said, truthfully, that THE ALL is Its Own Reason; its own Law; its own Act--or still further, that THE ALL; Its Reason; Its Act; is Law; are ONE, all being names for the same thing. In the opinion of those who are giving you these present lessons, the answer is locked up in the INNER SELF of THE ALL, along with its Secret of Being. The Law of Correspondence, in our opinion, reaches only to that aspect of THE ALL, which may be spoken of as "The Aspect of BECOMING." Back of that Aspect is "The Aspect of BEING " in which all Laws are lost in LAW; all Principles merge into PRINCIPLE--and THE ALL ; PRINCIPLE ; and BEING ; are IDENTICAL, ONE AND THE SAME. Therefore, Metaphysical speculation on this point is futile. We go into the matter here, merely to show that we recognize the question, and also the absurdity of the ordinary answers of metaphysics and theology.
In conclusion, it may be of interest to our students to learn that while some of the ancient, and modern, Hermetic Teachers have rather inclined in the direction of applying the Principle of Correspondence to the question, with the result of the "Inner Nature" conclusion,--still the legends have it that HERMES, the Great, when asked this question by his advanced students, answered them by PRESSING HIS LIPS TIGHTLY TOGETHER and saying not a word, indicating that there WAS NO ANSWER. But, then, he may have intended to apply the axiom of his philosophy, that: "The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding," believing that even his advanced students did not possess the Understanding which entitled them to the Teaching. At any rate, if Hermes possessed the Secret, he failed to impart it, and so far as the world is concerned THE LIPS OF HERMES ARE CLOSED regarding it. And where the Great Hermes hesitated to speak, what mortal may dare to teach?
But, remember, that whatever be the answer to this problem, if indeed there be an answer the truth remains that "While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All." The Teaching on this point is emphatic. And, we may add the concluding words of the quotation: "To him who truly understands this truth, hath come great knowledge."
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First, let me start by thanking YOU.
Thank YOU, Children's Minister. Thank YOU, Children's Ministry
volunteer. Thank YOU, Person Who Cares about Kids, whatever your
role in the church may be.
Thank you for the late nights planning lessons. Thank you for
the last minute trips to the grocery store to buy Mentos and Diet
Coke to illustrate the explosive love of Christ. Thank you for your
creativity. Thanks for your tears when you've got just too much to
do. Thanks for sticking with it anyway. Thanks for sharing
your love and your passion and your faith. Thanks for all of this,
and so much more.
Studies show that people who exhibit higher levels of gratitude
are healthier, happier and more successful. Wow, that's a lot of
mileage from that simple "thank you." Those studies
illustrate what we already know: God wired us to be a thankful
But how can your ministry help parents move beyond good manners,
and raise truly thankful children? How can your ministry help show
parents how to model thankfulness? IF we believe thankful children
come from thankful families, how can we help families develop
"attitudes of gratitude" in their daily lives?
Consider these ideas:
- November is the month when thankfulness is an expected topic
- Thanksgiving creates a great entry point. But work toward
helping families - and your ministry -- develop thankfulness as a
- Move thankfulness higher up in your own ministry priorities.
Find time for those thank you notes and those teacher appreciation
lunches. If there's just not time, invite a volunteer to serve the
role of "thankfulness coordinator." Thanking people matters.
- Challenge your leadership team to come up with 5 simple changes
you could make to incrase your ministries' thankfulness factor. It
may be as simple as:
- encouraging Sunday School teachers to say "thank you for
joining us today" to children as they enter the classroom.
- selecting select thankfulness songs for your Children's Choir
throughout the year.
- making a "Thank You, God!" bulletin board that kids are invited
to add to throughout the year.
- Find ways to equip families with easy thankfulness resources
that provide solutions -- not guilt. This may mean starting a
simple "I'm so thankful" email that you send to parents monthly,
where you can express your thanks and share thankfulness resources
- Send families a link to Group's "Thankful
Kids - Thankful Families" page (www.group.com/groupmusic) for a dozen
family-friendly thankfulness activities and free music
downloads. These activities were collected with today's
busy and diverse families in mind. Encourage your families to find
at least one activity to try.
- Invite feedback. Ask families to share their thankfulness
activities with you this November. Ask if you can share their ideas
or success stories with other families.
- Create thankfulness experiences for the whole family at church.
Again, there are some ideas on the www.group.com/groupmusic page that you can
adapt for use in your church.
If you think about it, all ministry is an expression of
thanks to God - when we engage kids in the wonder of God's love,
it's one way to express our thanks to God for sharing the same love
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[Already solved by OP: See answer.]
I had some code running on an old version of Ubuntu (Karmic Koala). Machine was rebuilt to Ubuntu 11.10, and now my code falls over.
It is doing the equivalent of this to change a file's group ownership to another group which I'm in:
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Why can't I change the group ownership of a file that I own? I thought that was allowed. I am missing something.
This account is a member of both groups.
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"DisplayPort", a technology meant to supercede DVI and VGA
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The survey of 12 to 18 year-olds in five countries (Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and the United States) found that nine in ten young people (88% overall and 85% or more in each country) agree that “World leaders should do whatever it takes to tackle climate change”.
Climate Change a Top Concern among Young People
Young people are clearly concerned about climate change. Concern is highest in Brazil (96%) and South Africa (91%), followed by India (85%) and the United States (82%), while significantly lower levels of concern are expressed in Russia (70%).
World Leaders Not Doing Enough
Young people in South Africa, the United States and Brazil are particularly critical of world leaders’ efforts to address climate change; seven in ten or more across these three countries say world leaders are not doing enough (South Africa, 82%; the United States, 79%; Brazil, 73%). Only in India are young people more likely to say world leaders are doing “too much” or “enough;” just 19 percent say they are not doing enough.
Necessary to Take Major Steps Very Soon
There is a great sense of urgency among youth in most countries, with a majority of young people in each country except India saying, “It is necessary to take major steps starting very soon” (Brazil, 88%; South Africa, 81%; Russia, 75%; the United States, 61%). When thinking about the human impact on climate change in India, most young people believe that modest steps should be taken over the coming years (53%). This reinforces their world view that enough is being done on climate change.
Young People Feel Empowered to Act
Four in five youths surveyed believe they can make a difference on climate for our future (89%); however, a majority also say they need more information about what they can do to tackle climate change (84%).
Those in Brazil, India, South Africa, and the United States are most enthusiastic about making a difference and wanting more information in order to do so, while those in Russia are less likely to agree (with 77% saying they can make a difference).
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP comments, “I am very pleased to note the high level of awareness on climate change among 12 to 18-year olds. These are the voices of the generation that will inherit the impacts of climate change if world leaders fail to act. It is clear from the survey that young people around the world are seriously worried about what climate change will mean in terms of their future on this planet. Through them, we can reach out to the approximately 3 billion people around the planet who are under 25. There are some 400 days to go before the crucial UN climate convention meeting in Copenhagen--world leaders have now heard the concerns of young people. This generation must now take responsibility for the next".
Chris Coulter,Vice-President of GlobeScan, comments, "This is a strong and important statement from the world's youth to world leaders. It is strong because the message to political leaders and policymakers appears to be: 'Do what it takes to tackle climate change, even if major steps are needed, and act urgently because we are affected and concerned by climate change.’ It is important because young people are not always well represented by world leaders, although their future is to be decided in upcoming climate agreements."
Notes to editors:
The online survey of 12-18 year olds across Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and the United States was conducted for UNEP and carried out by the international polling firm GlobeScan during the month of October 2008. The results are drawn from a survey of 1999 young adults, ranging in age from 12 to 18 years. In each of the five countries, 400 young people were polled. The margin of error is impossible to assess in online polling, but the results can be interpreted to be representative of the online community of youth with good accuracy.
This is the first of several press releases from the comprehensive survey on the hopes and fears of youth as they relate to climate change.
For more information or interviews, please contact:
Anne-France White, Associate Information Officer, UNEP, at mobile: (+1) 917 838 9985 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
Nick Nuttall, UNEP Spokesperson and Head of Media, on Tel: +41 79 596 57 37 or email email@example.com
Vice-President of GlobeScan Incorporated, at mobile: +226 338 6350,
office: +416 969 3088 or email Chris.Coulter@GlobeScan.com
UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNite to combat climate change is the United Nations campaign to support the call for a definitive agreement on a comprehensive global climate regime for the period after 2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires.
GlobeScan Incorporated is a global public opinion and stakeholder research consultancy with offices in Toronto, London and Washington. GlobeScan conducts custom research and annual tracking studies on global issues. With a research network spanning 60+ countries, GlobeScan works with global companies, multilateral agencies, national governments and non-government organizations to deliver research-based insights for successful strategies.
The results are drawn from a survey of 1999 young adults, ranging in age from 12 to 18 years olds, across five countries for UNEP by the international polling firm GlobeScan. The survey was conducted online between October 13and October 23, 2008.
While Internet panels cannot be thoroughly representative of a country's young adult population (the poorest of the poor and those living in remote areas without Web access are not included), it is felt that the objective of measuring young adult’s attitudes could be well met by the use of Internet research given the relatively high access and usage rates of the Internet of this age group in each country.
The demographic groups surveyed in each country reflect the demographic profile of each country and are a representative cross-section of young adults who have access to the Internet in their homes, workplaces, or in libraries, cafes or schools. Data from the online respondents were weighted according to the latest census data to reflect the overall demographic profile of each country in terms of age and gender.
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My options (thanks to everyone who contributed!):
Breena, Nixie, or Tianna
Rhom (Rhombus), or Adàmas. The shape of a diamond, or the Greek word for unbreakable.
Seppen which is snowflake in Japanese or Yuki which is snow.
Storm, breeze, frost, schiv, brre. Crystal, gail, faul, lait,
Lisette, Selaih, Anreid, or Linnenl
Wyntir or maybe Hadiil or Iclacr.
Serena, Angelica (messenger), Zephyra (west wind), Gwenllian (fair, white, flood)
Pretty awesome list!
So to weed it down, any names with meaning in Winter Queen come from Slovene, so that eliminates any names that come from other languages (even though I really liked some of them). I love Breena though! It's kinda a combination of breeze and freeze and burr. Yet it still sounds feminine and sort of soft, which is how I imagine this fairy. Thanks for the suggestion, Cheri Schmidt.
And on to the next fairy. Here's the list:
Strix, named after the great grey owl, or a variation like Strixy, Strixia, Trixie, etc.
Lillia : ) or Justine : )
Adiya~~~ meaning God's treasure or God's ornament
Carynn would be cool.
Or Laellana (ley-lana)
Or Laellana (ley-lana)
howler, cry, screatch, tallon, niel, fallon, crawler
Isanne, Eria, Alvara, and Maia. I looked up the meanings and I think that Isanne and Eria mean Ice, and Alvara and Maia have to do with warriors.
Margaux, Eviana, Aiden
Elvey or Brietta or Briana
Luana or Wilhelmina
Myrina (swiftly bounding), Imelda (all warrior), or Aellai (storm winds, whirlwind)
Ah! I wish I knew the base languages of some of these names, because I really like quite a few. Alas, I don't have time to look them all up. Verina, Leylana, Tallon, Fallon are my favorites. Hmmmm. . . Leylana is far too pretty, I think (though I may very well use it for another character). Being that this is a warrior fairy, I'm going to go with Tallon. Thanks for the suggestion, Luke!
If your name wasn't chosen, don't feel too bad. I'm going to use quite a few of these. For sure: Verina (she'll be a summer fairy because it sounds like vervain). Leylanna could be a main character name, I like it so much. Fallon might be Tallon's sister. I like that! Also, Myrina, Imelda, and Aellai all sound like pretty fierce warriors. Luana is pretty and I like Eviana. Isanne is a good one as well. Oh, I could go on and on, but I have writing to do!
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Pinwheels for Peace has grown substantially since its conception in 2005 by two Florida teachers. The organization estimates that children and adults from around the world planted 3.5 million pinwheels of all shapes and sizes in 2011.
"Pinwheels remind us of a time as children when things were simple, joyful and peaceful," said Head of School Jerri King. "Pinwheels for Peace isn't a political statement. It's a wonderful way for our students to visually express their feelings about what's going on around them locally and globally."
First grade through eighth grade students wrote their thoughts about war, peace, tolerance and living in harmony with others on one side of the pinwheel. On the other side, they drew, painted or made a collage of something that expresses their feelings.
Art teacher Theresa Dean coordinated the First Montessori School of Atlanta project.
Artist Gerald Holtom designed the peace symbol in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement. The International Day of Peace was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981. Sept. 21 was declared the permanent date in 2002.
First Montessori School of Atlanta is the Southeast's oldest Montessori school. It serves the needs of children ages 18 months to 14 years.
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Sep. 10, 2012 They were perhaps some of the most visible images of the end of each Apollo mission: Giant orange and white parachutes unfurled high above the spacecraft, gently descending toward the ocean. As NASA continues to build the Orion spacecraft and head toward its first unmanned test flight in 2014, it will once again descend under parachutes to a water landing. But even though the orange and white chutes remain, their design and testing is quite different than in the past.
Orion will be the most advanced spacecraft ever flown, and its parachutes have been designed with a return from exploration missions in mind. The spacecraft will weigh more than 21,000 pounds as it descends through the air. Each of the main chutes only weighs 300 pounds, so it is quite a feat of engineering that they are able to catch the heavy weight of the spacecraft underneath them.
"Because each of our main parachute chutes has a large diameter of 116 feet, it gives us a huge surface area to capture air and provide a smooth descent toward the ground," said Chris Johnson, NASA's project manager for the Orion parachute assembly system.
Johnson adds that safety of the crew is the key driver in parachute design and performance. Because of that, NASA's engineers have tested Orion's parachutes high above the Arizona desert at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. Each test has taken a look at different conditions or failures that could happen as each chute is deployed. The teams have basically pushed the parachute system to its limits to prove that -- even if things don't go according to plan -- Orion's parachutes will work as designed.
Orion's parachutes are deployed in a series. The first ones that appear are the drogue chutes, two smaller chutes that help stabilize and slow down the spacecraft. These drogues are deployed at approximately 20,000 feet and each one is 23 feet in diameter. Those are cut away after approximately 30 seconds, and three pilot chutes are briefly deployed, which help pull out and deploy the main parachutes.
For even more stability and safety, the main chutes inflate in stages, with what are called "reefs" keeping the canopy of the chutes bound until the proper time. Initially, the chutes are opened and held to 3.5 percent of their full capacity by the first set these reefs. They are cut, and the chutes are opened to 11 percent of their capacity and held there by another set of reefs. Once that second reef is cut on each chute, all three canopies open to full diameter.
At Yuma, the engineers have been testing what happens if a drogue fails to deploy, or if one of the reefing stages is skipped. In all cases, Orion's parachutes have performed well, and the spacecraft touched down as expected. This has demonstrated that not only is the design of the parachutes acceptable, but the models and analysis the engineers have completed are also working as expected and are reliable.
NASA's team also has been testing the actual material that makes up the parachutes. Orion's parachutes are made of Kevlar and nylon, and the goal has been to make them as rugged as possible, while still keeping them lightweight. Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have been ensuring that the parachute material holds up to the extreme environment of a spacecraft descent and that normal wear and tear on the material -- even in intense scenarios -- doesn't impact how they operate.
"The canopy itself is nylon, but the risers and other cords that attach to the chute are Kevlar, and the spacecraft is metal, so you have the potential for the material to rub and to degrade during the deployment process or even as Orion descends toward the ground," said Koki Machin, NASA's chief engineer for the Orion parachute assembly team.
"The chutes themselves are an extremely lightweight, delicate collection of pieces that absolutely must act together simultaneously or fail with disastrous results. They must assemble themselves in midair at a variety of possible velocities and orientations," Machin said. "They are amazing pieces of technology."
Another challenge: How do you pack these enormous parachutes into the top of the spacecraft? After all, Orion has to take its chutes with it on whatever journey it goes on. The answer to that question comes down to a technique anyone who has packed for vacation has learned: You just have to squeeze them in.
"The parachute manufacturer has this enormous tool that pushes and compresses the parachutes down to where we basically end up with a small square block of parachute with a density close to that of wood," Machin said. "We are then able to place each of the chutes into the parachute compartment at the top of the spacecraft."
NASA continues to practice recovery methods for Orion once it is in the water, but the teams are also looking at the best way to recover the parachutes after splashdown. The teams recently used NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston to examine how long the parachutes floated in the water, and the best ways to approach the chutes and get them out of the water.
"We verified that the drogues actually sink fairly quickly, with the main chutes staying afloat a bit longer," Johnson said. "We believe the best way to secure the chutes after landing will be for a small team to approach the chutes and attach a buoy onto the top of the parachutes to keep them from totally sinking. That allows for a larger team to come back later and attempt to recover all of the chutes from the water."
Eventually, the recovery teams will test the parachutes and the spacecraft in the open waters of the ocean to verify the best approach for recovering the crew and Orion and its chutes. All of this testing -- in the skies, in the water, and in the labs -- is helping ensure that Orion is the safest spacecraft ever designed in all phases of the flight -- launch, orbit and the return home.
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1. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. "What's your phase?" "I've been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I'm going to wrap around to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in "night mode". (The term "day mode" is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called "changing phase"; "phase shifting" has also been recently reported from Caltech.
2. "change phase the hard way": To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase.
3. "change phase the easy way": To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is *shortening* your day or night that is really hard (see wrap around). The "jet lag" that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without travelling.
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There are many potential sources of missing data in a systematic review or meta-analysis (see ). For example, a whole study may be missing from the review, an outcome may be missing from a study, summary data may be missing for an outcome, and individual participants may be missing from the summary data. Here we discuss a variety of potential sources of missing data, highlighting where more detailed discussions are available elsewhere in the Handbook.
Whole studies may be missing from a review because they are never published, are published in obscure places, are rarely cited, or are inappropriately indexed in databases. Thus review authors should always be aware of the possibility that they have failed to identify relevant studies. There is a strong possibility that such studies are missing because of their ‘uninteresting’ or ‘unwelcome’ findings (that is, in the presence of publication bias). This problem is discussed at length in Chapter 10. Details of comprehensive search methods are provided in Chapter 6.
Some studies might not report any information on outcomes of interest to the review. For example, there may be no information on quality of life, or on serious adverse effects. It is often difficult to determine whether this is because the outcome was not measured or because the outcome was not reported. Furthermore, failure to report that outcomes were measured may be dependent on the unreported results (selective outcome reporting bias; see Chapter 8, Section 8.13). Similarly, summary data for an outcome, in a form that can be included in a meta-analysis, may be missing. A common example is missing standard deviations for continuous outcomes. This is often a problem when change-from-baseline outcomes are sought. We discuss imputation of missing standard deviations in Section 16.1.3. Other examples of missing summary data are missing sample sizes (particularly those for each intervention group separately), numbers of events, standard errors, follow-up times for calculating rates, and sufficient details of time-to-event outcomes. Inappropriate analyses of studies, for example of cluster-randomized and cross-over trials, can lead to missing summary data. It is sometimes possible to approximate the correct analyses of such studies, for example by imputing correlation coefficients or standard deviations, as discussed in Section 16.3 for cluster-randomized studies and Section 16.4 for cross-over trials. As a general rule, most methodologists believe that missing summary data (e.g. “no usable data”) should not be used as a reason to exclude a study from a systematic review. It is more appropriate to include the study in the review, and to discuss the potential implications of its absence from a meta-analysis.
It is likely that in some, if not all, included studies, there will be individuals missing from the reported results. Analyses of randomized trials that do not include all randomized participants are not intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses. It is sometimes possible to perform ITT analyses, even if the original investigators did not. We provide a detailed discussion of ITT issues in Section .
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Landing in Kuwait, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur was stunned by the massiveness of the American military base with its huge force of troops and equipment.
"I think I've seen a lot of things in my life and that was breathtaking," she said.
It is also hardly enough to make a positive, meaningful, lasting difference in Iraq, Miss Kaptur remarked yesterday, just hours after returning to Washington from a week in the Middle East.
The Toledo Democrat put the chances at "50-50, on a good day."
But if the United States would throw its efforts into diplomacy, sending a high-level, respected team with experience in the Middle East to have daily discussions with leaders of the countries surrounding Iraq on how to stabilize the region, Miss Kaptur said she would put the chances of success at 70 percent.
"The vacuum on the diplomacy side is mammoth," she said.
She'd also like to see Arabic- speaking people from Toledo, Detroit, and Dearborn, Mich., used as spokesmen for the United States in talking about the benefits of liberty and democracy.
It's an idea she said she long ago suggested to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. She felt it was one of many that were ignored in what she called "a botched operation" in getting out the United States' message.
And that's put too much of the burden on the U.S. military, she said.
Miss Kaptur, who is a member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, traveled with five other House members: Norm Dicks (D., Wash.), Steve Rothman (D., N.J.), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R., N.J.), Christopher Carney (D., Pa.), and Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.).
In addition to Kuwait, they visited Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Germany, escorted by the U.S. military on a trip that was paid for by the Department of Defense.
They met with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz as well as numerous generals and other top leaders, many of whom have had recent threats on their lives. They did not meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as anticipated.
Miss Kaptur said she asked for information about the costs and numbers of contractors working with the U.S. military, which she said was one of her goals of the trip. But she found one of the main presentations she requested from the Defense Department to be "dazzlingly uninformative."
She brought back far more lasting impressions from her visit to a critical care unit in Landstuhl, Germany, where she saw an Anthony Wayne High School graduate who was hurt too badly to speak.
A chaplain was with the young man, who had suffered a rifle shot to the neck so recently that doctors still were assessing the damage. He had a breathing tube and was barely able to communicate. But before Miss Kaptur arrived, he had somehow indicated to someone that he wanted to pray.
She found him with a chaplain. But the young man was Catholic and the chaplain was not. Both were quite grateful when she appeared and talked with him about his many relatives whom she knows in Lucas and Fulton counties.
The young man, whom Miss Kaptur did not identify, was able to click his tongue in response to her queries about his relatives.
When she prayed, he closed his eyes. "And then I made the sign of the cross on his forehead when I left," she said.
There were many more severely injured young Americans that Miss Kaptur only glimpsed on the trip. She said she felt the Defense Department attempted to shield the legislators from the wounded.
But Saturday as she and the other House members were on the tarmac, waiting to leave Baghdad, a plane just beside their own was being filled with the wounded for a flight to Germany. "And you could see ambulance after ambulance," she said. "That was a very vivid reminder of what is happening."
And if that doesn't stop soon, Miss Kaptur said the answer might be to separate Iraq into ethnic areas, assigning the warring sects to be with only their own and dividing the country's oil revenues among them.
That would be far from the goals the United States set for the region and terribly disappointing to many, but if other efforts fail, it might be a way to slow the killings, she said.
"We don't want a bloodbath," Miss Kaptur said.
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How your home loses heat through windows
By Sirena Rubinoff, Networx
But before you turn the thermostat up to accommodate the colder weather outside, you might want to learn a little bit about how the heating in your house actually works. Sometimes turning up the heat dial will only turn up your bill if your home is experiencing extreme heat loss. So, read on to find out how heat travels through your home and what you can do to keep it where you want it.
One of the laws of physics is that energy always flows from warmer to colder areas. This is called conduction: Heat is conducted away from hot objects and towards cold objects. For example, when you sit down on a chair, heat flows from your body into the chair. Then if you stand up and touch the chair cushion a few minutes later, it will feel warm. This happens because of molecular movement. When you sit down on the chair, your body heat causes the molecules in the chair to start moving faster. Once they start moving, they hit other molecules nearby until all of the molecules near the top of the seat are moving and transferring heat throughout the entire object. Heat conduction only works through direct contact of solid objects. An example of this in your home would be in your flooring. If your floors are warm or heated, they will help warm up any furniture, carpets, or other objects touching the floors, which will in turn stabilize the heated temperature you've set for your rooms.
When we conduct heat to air or water, it is called convection. This is how we heat our homes. Our heat sources (boiler, furnace, etc.) conduct heat into the air, which then moves away from the heat source towards cooler areas in the room. This phenomenon is called a convection current. If your room is sealed properly, the convection current will work in your favor to heat up your room quickly and cozily. If you have air leakage to the outside, convective heat loss will occur as your warm air seeks to flow out towards the cold air. This may occur through air leaks around windows, doors, floors, ceilings, and walls.
The third form of heat transfer is radiation, whereby a hot object emits infrared radiation at the speed of light. The radiation is absorbed by anything nearby that is cooler than the hot object and the absorption causes temperature to rise, without heating the air in between the hot and cold objects. You can feel heat radiation when you hold your hand near your stovetop burner or electric heater. In your house, heat radiation is often lost through the wall immediately behind a radiator if that wall is not insulated.
Main Forms of Heat Loss in a Home
If your home is not properly maintained to keep heat in, your heaters will have to work much harder and longer to keep you warm. This will result in a waste of energy and money. So, if you want to do something that's good for your wallet and the environment, check your home for ways to reduce heat loss. You'll want to start by looking for any air leakage near your windows, doors, floors, walls, and ceilings. If you can feel or see drafts coming in around plumbing vents, electrical outlets, window frames, baseboards, or recessed lighting, apply caulk or weather stripping to seal the leak. Also be sure to close the chimney damper, or else it acts like an open window sucking air up and out through the chimney. You could lose up to 30 percent of your heat through an open damper. If you have an attic that you access through a folding stair, check around the edges of the opening to see if warm air is leaking into the attic from the house. An easy way to test for this is to switch on the attic light with the door closed and then look for specks of light around the door. If you can see light, this means there is space for warm air to escape. Cover these spaces with weather stripping to keep heat inside where it belongs.
Once you've checked to make sure air is not leaking out of your home unnecessarily, you might want to consider adding extra insulation to keep even more heat inside. You can do this by simply adding wall hangings, thick curtains, and carpets. You can apply a double glazing to your windows and if you want to take on a bigger project, you might consider adding better insulation to your walls and attic. But be sure to check your home for air leaks before you take on any expensive projects. A few extra carpets and a little caulk and weather stripping can go a long way towards keeping you warmer and your energy bills lower.
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What do you consider genius?
|What do you consider genius?|
I've always been extremely jealous of public intellectuals and pioneers in academic fields. Guys like Chomsky, Einstein, Sagan, Pinker, Riesman, etc are what I'd consider 'genius'. Guys who develop their own theories and concepts. I'm a psych major, and I'll feel like a failure if/when I get my phd w/o doing any kind of groundbreaking research. Odd, I know.... but its whatever.
Whats your definition of genius?
|09-02-2009, 09:33 PM||away - #2|
Thats what genius is, intimacey with one's persuits.
The interest provides the rigour to continue.
I'd like to be a meaningful creator aswell!
|09-03-2009, 04:18 AM||away - #3|
^^exactly, theres geniuses of football, plenty of intelligent people arnet recognised as such because their interests arnet in the fields seen as particularly challenging or beneficial for society.
id also say that geniuses are often "odd" they see the world in a different way to most people.
but then i suppose most highly intelligent people react and percieve the world in a different way to less intelligent people, thats just my idea anyway.
|09-03-2009, 08:59 AM||away - #4|
Genius - Brilliance of mind; sagacious.
You shouldn't set the bar too high, my friend...
|09-03-2009, 04:29 PM||away - #5|
Devotion, perseverance, motivated by their failures, in whatever field they are in.
For example, not that I am comparing myself or implying that I am a genius, but when people say I am 'smart' in math, I tell them I am not smart. I just disciplined myself to practice the math and was devoted to it.
I'm no Einstein storming up theories and !!, but the principle of my little example can apply.
I'm not great in math by the way, but I can hold my on, if that even makes sense.
|09-03-2009, 08:09 PM||away - #6|
Exactly, if you practice something long enough, you'll be great at it, whether you actually enjoy it or not, but inevitably, you'll develop an interest.
People have a strong belief in inherent skill, its an especially destructive thought for a child to have, whats more destructive is the continual reinforcement of a belief, where science is considered abstruse and uncool.
|09-03-2009, 09:31 PM||away - #7|
And I think many many kids, myself included, have a very apathetic view towards science, or any kind of education. Pre-adoloesnce and well through-out adolescence. I, fortunately, have made a complete 180.
|09-03-2009, 10:08 PM||away - #8|
People consider a kid whose great a math "a natural", yet forget to acknowledge the part where this kid was reading mathematical literature when most kids were watching Pokemon.
Consequently, when he enters school, he's at a much more advanced level, and his peers will automatically characterize him as "naturally smart". That makes no sense, the kid didn't do anything that anyone else couldn't've.
This is related to the mathew effect.
A phenomenon was observed in hockey, most the great players were born on the first months of the year (Jan, Feb, March)...
This was theorized to be caused by the junoir hockey leagues, especially in Canada and their cut-off dates for age groups -- ex. the "barrier" between December and Jan would constitute a cut-off, in that Dec marks the end of an age group, and Jan, the beginning of a new group.
Obviously, those kids born on those intial months of the year are older, more matured, and thus more likey to dominate, plus they've had more time to train. Because these kids dominate, they recieve more attention from coaches and are placed in elite groups, which provides them with more training and conditioning, a positive loop ensues.
This isn't just for hockey, its been observed in almsot every sport, respective of age-group cut-off months.
Most believe Asians to be inherently good at math, they forget the part where the Asian have a completely different philosophy towards mathematics, which is illustrated in the phrase "Work hard"; many don't view math as something natural, they view it as any other skill, you work and you improve.
American philosophy is, "if I blow at it initially, then its obviously not for me", thats why most children fail at school. They have no drive, they allot a short amount of time to understanding a problem, and when things become difficult, they quit.
Gladwell touches on this extensively, in his book Outliers.
Of course, there are outliers amongst outliers, scenarios where young children are great at art (for example), for their age, there exists a certain degree of natural talent, which resides in their capacity to visualize -- Still, he worked very hard to develop the skill.
Check into the 10,000 Hour Rule.
Didn't mean to be verbose.
|09-03-2009, 10:18 PM||away - #9|
[quote=CHRONICLE;14341566]For the most part, I don't believe in inherent talent.
This is related to the mathew effect.
|09-03-2009, 11:01 PM||away - #10|
I don't think there was anything special with the guys you mentioned, scientific proficience can be achieved by most people, of course, some learn quicker than others, though learning occurs nonetheless.
IQ tests are ridiculous, imo.
It doesn't measure human intelligence, it tends to measure the depth of knowledge.
The prime benefit of an IQ test is positive reinforcement, its affords people confidence in their intelligence.
I guess IQ tests would be more effective, if they were specified to one's interests.
|09-03-2009, 11:12 PM||away - #11|
I want to say yes, there are other factors that might possibly play a role such as genes, but regardless I feel that the person still needs to be motivated and devoted to the subject matter.
I think we can all agree that no one is going to be successful aerospace engineer without practical application of the subject. One surely doesn't just have complete understanding of the topic. Rather if anything, that person is just ahead of the curb and keeps ahead of most, if not, everyone.
Those guys you mentions, Einstein, Sagan, Pinker, etc., have put in WORK. It's not like us who come home from class, bs around a little bit, later spend an hour or two and then done for the nights, and follow the same routine two days later.
Einsteins life essentially revolved around the theory of general relativity for nearly a decade. I still stand by my earlier post that dedication, motivation, devotion, perverseness
|09-03-2009, 11:23 PM||away - #12|
[quote=CHRONICLE;14341840]Yeah, of course.
IQ tests are ridiculous, imo.
I'll give an example with baseball since I'm very familiar with it. I quickly checked the birthdates of the top players, and they were scattered through out the year. They are mostly born in warm weather parts of the country which allows them to play/practice year round. This is obviously gives them an advantage over a kid from NY or Chicago. However, as you continue to draw from a larger pool of people, or weed out the inferior kids in the warm weather parts of the country the competition is going to get stiffer. Say out of the 10 top kids from Cali in a given time period maybe 3 make the MLB. All of these kids/men all had the benefit of learning from the top coaches going to the best school, putting in their 10,000 hours, but yet still only a select few make it. Why? Did one kid put in 10,500 while the other put in 10,430? ehh.... I donno.
In general I do agree, though. People often ignore others surroundings. Ironically my younger brother today told me how much he hates ignorant dumb people. I then told him most of the time it isn't their fault, it's their surroundings.
I do still believe natural talent does exist though.
|09-03-2009, 11:27 PM||away - #13|
BTW, I apologize if some of what I'm saying may not come out right, or is worded wrong. I'm !!ing blazed[pic]
|09-03-2009, 11:30 PM||away - #14|
On Babe Ruth
|09-03-2009, 11:38 PM||away - #15|
On Albert Pujols:
Asked to place a mark through a specific letter each time it appeared on a page of randomly positioned letters, Pujols used a search strategy that White had never witnessed in 18 years of administering the test.
"What was remarkable about Mr. Pujols' performance was not his speed but his unique visual search strategy," White said. "Most people search for targets on a page from left to right, much as they would when reading. In observing Mr. Pujols' performance, I initially thought he was searching randomly. As I watched, however, I realized that he was searching as if the page were divided into sectors. After locating a single target within a sector, he moved to another sector. Only after locating a single target within each sector, did he return to previously searched sectors and continue his scan for additional targets."QUOTE]
|09-03-2009, 11:44 PM||away - #16|
I guess it's possible to train his eyes in order for them to react so quick;y, but I don't know.
|09-04-2009, 07:21 AM||away - #17|
that said, if some1 of a greater intelligence invests that into schoolwork as opposed to knowing all u can about football, or cars e.g. when i was 4ish i was an odd child i used to recognise every make and model of car, look underneath as they drove past etc.
i then somehow explained to my teacher how a int. combustion engine works, she took this as an indicator of extreme intelligence, despite the fact i was probably reading some of my dads old car manuals the night before [pic]
i could probably pinpoint that as the moment i internalised that i was more intelligent than most of the people in my class, this gives u a greater confidence in education, and in pursuing knowledge, so u eventually seem cleverer than those around you.
but not meaning to sound boastful, but i do think im at least quicker than most other people, ive always been able 2 talk my way out of trouble, to make arguments out of dust [pic]
i also think a great indicator of intelligence, real intelligence is things like empathy, as what empathy is, is the ability to understand some1 elses suffering and place yourself in their position.
genius is at its basest level, the ability to understand things which most other people cant, to comprehend the workings of the stars, the patterns of nature, the dynamics of the soul.
|09-07-2009, 09:53 PM||away - #18|
it all just deals with in what sense.
you can be by definition a genious(i.q. s.a.t.)
but if you lack the ability to put it to use then it means nothing.
|09-08-2009, 07:18 PM||away - #19|
Arthur Schopenhauer said it best: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits targets no one else can see."
I believe that phenotypical evolutions put certain groups of people ahead of others. Such as a person with the physical adaption to run faster, or throw faster, such occurs with those whom thinker more indepth, or hold more memory than the average person.
True, perhaps it can be attained at their current level of advancement, but the same applies for gifted aswell, they make train to make their genius into levels unforseen
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Analytical discovery software determines the relevance of documents in a collection based on the contents of the documents rather than on the presence in them of specific words or phrase. According to discovery consultant Conor Crowley in Met. Corp. Counsel, Dec. 2010 at 15, three different capabilities are offered are on the market. Some software gathers similar documents into clusters, some make binary relevance determinations, and some rank the documents they find according to an algorithm for relevance.
According to Crowley, the newer generations of analytical software use sampling and iterative learning. The software becomes more accurate as human beings outline what it should evaluate and then repeatedly assess what it finds and refine the filters, rankings, terms and other elements of the software’s functions. Once tested and taught, the software applies that learning to cull relevant documents from the entire set.
An example of such software appears in the following article, by Randall Burrows of Xerox Litigation Services. He explains that CategoriX embeds learning from linguists and statisticians to most efficiently find the right documents from the training set. The result of improving the software over repeated runs – fine-tuning what it will seek in the larger documents set – is a “ranked value of where all those documents stand relative to that original training set.” | <urn:uuid:e6afdea3-d339-4c3a-b84e-fbcaa0ab4c99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lawdepartmentmanagementblog.com/law_department_management/2010/12/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920601 | 262 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Discover the dramatic scenery of the 'Land of Ice and Fire'
Iceland is a vast, evocative country, constantly evolving and changing through the sheer power of the geological forces that created it.
This week provides the perfect introduction to the southern half of the country, as we journey from the mountainous Snaefellsness Peninsula in the west across the dramatic lunar-like landscape of the Fjallabak Nature Reserve to the eastern side of the massive Vatnajokull National Park. Craters, hot springs, lava flows and thundering waterfalls dot our route, before we travel back along the south coast to Reykjavik.
This southerly loop contrasts magnificent coastal scenery with the imposing volcanic landscape further inland, creating a fascinating and awe-inspiring week.
Please note: This trip has had a name change for 2013 season, the trip was formerly called: Icelandic Highlights
What makes this trip responsible?
We use a locally based operator and have established a long-term partnership, assisting with local staff training in all aspects of their jobs, thereby investing in the people to help improve their knowledge and future prospects. During the trip we visit a number of national parks; we also see traditional crafts made at source ensuring that any money for purchases goes straight to the local community.
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Nowhere is Closer to Paradise Than Costa Rica
As my professor of South Pacific Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia once said, "There are no perfect paradises left". Costa Rica comes much closer than most nations, and has tended to keep the world's problems at arms length. It has had a slow, almost uneventful beginning leading to a relatively peaceful history. Today, the factors that historically limited the expansion of civilizations and empires are the very reasons that Costa Rica tourism receives in excess of a million visitors per year. Tourist arrivals and Costa Rica lodging revenues are on a general increase every year compared to the global average, maintaining a positive cash flow. Turtle hunters and egg gatherers can make more money as Costa Rica tourism guides explaining their nesting habits. Sharp-eyed guides now point out wildlife for visitors, rather than hunting and poaching or upsetting the environment in search for gold. The pre-Columbian art of pottery making is being revived in Guanacaste, and the Talamanca Indians are expanding the market for their natural medicinal rainforest products. Because of the quality of visitors, Costa Rica tourism have been mostly positive, making Ticos more aware of what they have and their need to protect it.
People who have proof read the above articles have indicated that I have taken some of their enthusiasm out of Costa Rica travel. It was not the intension of this article to dampen the reader's spirit about visiting or even living in Costa Rica. You would still be hard pressed to find a better, more fulfilling and interesting country. The purpose was to raise awareness of issues that have been swept under the marketing carpet, the other side of Costa Rica. With no perfect paradises left, a Costa Rica vacation comes closer than all the countries I have visited. That's why I live here. Costa Rica has its share of problems like anywhere, but with the richness of the land and the pride, resiliency and motivation of the Ticos to make the necessary changes, Costa Rica also has viable solutions, and an increasingly bright future. | <urn:uuid:58a35610-a9b1-49f1-81b0-b86cf6709402> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.adventure-inn.com/articles/costa_rica_paradise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957371 | 420 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Plane Wreck of the Author of Prince Is Discovered
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: April 7, 2004
MARSEILLE, France, Wednesday, April 7 - A French underwater salvage team has discovered the remains of the plane of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of "The Little Prince," six decades after his disappearance, government researchers said Wednesday.
The pieces of the Lockheed Lightning P38 aircraft, which vanished July 31, 1944 during a wartime reconnaissance mission, were found off the coast of the Mediterranean city of Marseille, the Culture Ministry's Department of Subaquatic and Submarine Archaeological Research said.
The discovery is a galvanizing moment for France, which had long speculated as to the fate of Saint-Exupéry, an aristocratic adventurer whose life and books turned him into one of the country's biggest heroes.
"The Little Prince," his edifying tale about a little interstellar traveler who recounts his experiences to an aviator he meets in the Sahara, brought him posthumous international fame. The book, first published in New York in English in 1943 and since translated into more than 100 languages, is one of the best-selling titles on the planet, after the Bible and Marx's Das Kapital.
Saint-Exupéry, a veteran pilot who helped establish Latin America's Aeropostale air delivery service in the late 1920's, went missing shortly after flying from his base on the French island of Corsica in good weather to photograph parts of southern France in preparation for the Allied landings there.
The pilot, then 44, never returned, and, until recently, it was not known whether his plane went down in the mountainous back country on the mainland, or somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea in between. In May 2000, a French professional diver found the remains of a P38 plane in 230 feet of water off Marseille - in the same area that a fisherman two years earlier had brought to the surface a bracelet inscribed "Saint-Ex."
"The zone containing the pieces was very large, one kilometer long and 400 meters wide," said the diver, Luc Vanrell.
Another diver who is also an amateur aviation expert, Philippe Castellano, said the combination of the bracelet and his information on the 42 P38-model planes that had gone down in southern France convinced him "it could only have been Saint-Ex's plane." But a state ban on further dives in the area delayed searches until October 2003, when a contracted salvage team recovered the pieces from the aircraft for the Culture Ministry's researchers.
One of them bore a manufacturer's number, 2734, that researchers finally confirmed corresponded to the military number given to Saint-Exupery's plane - 42-68223.
The head of the Culture Ministry department that announced the news, Patrick Granjean, said it was now formally established that the author's plane had gone down off Marseille. But, he added: "We don't know why. We probably never will." | <urn:uuid:c17c457d-624a-4190-8b69-96faf0024e36> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/international/europe/07france.html?ex=1396756800&en=9f00643a7a39af00&ei=5007 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966262 | 620 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Survey of the national question of Turkish Kurdistan with historical background
Ismet Chériff Vanly
Important events appear to be shaping themselves as well as taking place in Turkish Kurdistan and the whole Republic of Turkey. These events concern the democratic life and the system of government of the republic; they affect the present and the future of both the Turkish and the Kurdish peoples and are directly related to the Kurdish national question.- Before reviewing and analysing them, it is necessary to give some general data about Turkish Kurdistan and to have a look at its history.
Turkish Kurdistan is, naturally, a part of the territory of the Republic of Turkey, and the country of that part of the Kurdish people who live within the boundaries of this state. It covers what our Turkish friends call- nowadays - the "Doğu Anadolu" ("eastern Anatolia") and the "Guney Doğu Anadolu" ("South-eastern Anatolia"), or, to simplify, the "Doğu" ("The East"). In administrative terms, that represents roughly 19 out of the vilayets, or provinces ("il", plural "iller", in Turkish), of the state. With the exception of the western half of the vilayet of Marash (Maras), and, possibly, of some peripherical districts of those of Malatya, Erzurum and Kars, the 19 vilayets which constitute Turkish Kurdistan are the following: Adiyaman, Agri (Ararat), Bingöl, Bitlis, Diyar bekir (Diyarbakir), Elazig, Erzinjan (Erzincan), Erzurum, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Kars, Malatya, Marash, Mardin, Mush (Mus), Siirt, Tunceli (Dersim) Urfa and Van. But a part of the vilayet of Sivas, to the east and south-east of Zara, is Kurdish. | <urn:uuid:294d4cbb-ed6d-4fba-914d-ccbbf2033d7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bnk.institutkurde.org/catalogue/detail.php?pirtuk=1418 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907209 | 413 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Saint Euphrosyne lived in Egypt during the 5th century. Her father, Paphnutius, was a well-known and well-respected citizen of Alexandria.
Euphrosyne was a miracle child, in that she was born to aging parents as a result of their fervent prayers.
To avoid marriage and to embrace the spiritual life, Euphrosyne dressed as a man and entered a men’s monastery. She excelled in virtue, fasting and prayer.
Her widowed father longed to see his daughter again. His search for Euphrosyne led him to many women’s monasteries. At some point he sought counsel and comfort from the very monastery where Euphrosyne lived. The abbot sent him to Smaragdus, which was the name Euphrosyne had taken in her disguise. She encouraged him that in fact his daughter was well and living in a good place.
After thirty-three years, Saint Euphrosyne told Paphnutius that he would see his daughter one more time and that he should come again in three days. When he came, she was on her death bed. She revealed her identity. Paphnutius was astonished. He wept over her as she died. After burying her, he entered the monastery himself and lived in his daughter’s cell. Ten years later, he died.
We honor this Holy Virgin Saint on September 25.
The ancient Greek name “Euphrosyne” means “mirth, merriment, fair and good.”
Holy Virgin of the Lord, pray that we may be strong in virtue. By the
grace of God, may our light so shine that we may even become an example
and inspiration for others. Amen.
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The Administrator back-end of a Joomla website is the area where a user such as a Manager, Administrator or Super Administrator manages all aspects of a Joomla website, including the content, much of the behavior and functionality, and the look and feel of the front-end as well.
Tutorials, reviews, case studies and other tips to help website owners and website developers master the Joomla content management system.
In a Joomla powered website, the front-end is the area that visitors interact with, as opposed to the Joomla Administrator that is used by developers and site admins to manage and update the site from the back-end. The site Template is used to display the Modules and other content in the front-end of Joomla.
- Metadata is generally described as "data about data." On a very simple level, this means that it describes the actual data in some way. There are different types of metadata, but in relation to Joomla, we are talking about metatags such as description and keywords that are accessed by search engines and web browsers in order to learn something about the content on your website.
Metadata has been a very hotly debated issue over the years, and it is now thought of as quite a bit less important in terms of search engine rankings and overall Google performance. Tags such as description are still very useful, but the approach to metadata in web development has changed dramatically.
- In the Client-Server relationship, a server is the system that stores, manipulates and provides data to a client that requests it. Email servers, web servers and databases are all examples of different types of common servers.
In a Joomla setup, the server is the system including the web server, which is usually Apache, and a database. These are often on the same machine, but they can also be on different systems in a distributed server environment.
- In the Client-Server relationship, a client refers to whoever is requesting services from a service provider, or server. Web browsing, database access and email are all examples of client-server models.
In a Joomla setup the client would be the end user who is requesting web pages and information from the server that Joomla is stored on. However, you can also view the Joomla installation itself as a part of the server.
- The Joomla core provides both a wrapper module and a wrapper menu item available by default. The purpose of the wrapper is to display content from a third party on your own website through the use of iframes. In later versions of Joomla, the menu item is referred to as an iframe wrapper.
While iframes aren't used nearly as much as they were in the past, they can still be useful in situations where you are trying to display either an entire website or multiple pages of an outside website while keeping your users on your own site. With an iframe wrapper, even the navigation of a third party website will be displayed within the module or content area.
- In the Joomla world, the term Banner refers to a core component of the Joomla CMS that provides advertising image management and front end display.
Banners allow site owners to insert images into one or more module positions, and although this is mostly used for advertising, it can be used for any image.
- ACL (Access Control List):
- Joomla's ACL offers a way of securing content and "controlling access" to certain objects and functions within a website. There are two aspects to the ACL in Joomla, who can view things and who can do things in regards to content and various actions available to users.
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The Kitselas First Nation fishes with salmon nets for Food, Social and Ceremonial (FSC) purposes under the authority of a communal licence issued to the band by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Kitselas Fisheries personnel issue designation cards. The designation cards have no expiry and must be carried by the fisher while engaged in fishing operations and produced upon request of DFO personnel or band fisheries staff.
FSC fishing by Kitselas members is permitted in all traditional fishing areas within the Skeena Watershed. The traditional fish harvest areas of the Kitselas First Nation includes the Skeena Watershed downstream of Lorne Creek to the mouth of the Skeena River.
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Ptarmigan Peak is a high rounded massif if viewed from the south but it has a precipitous north side. This north side is seldom seen due to its location north of where most backcountry travelers go deep in the Pasayten Wilderness of north-central Washington. Ptarmigan is approximately the 40th highest peak in the state but is not a difficult peak to climb. The hardest part of climbing it may well be getting onto it (brush in the valleys and rough terrain on the ridge traverses). The peak is approximately 2.4 miles due north of Mt. Lago and can be reached via a long ridge traverse from the same. The treeless slopes between Ptarmigan and Dot Mountain to the south are reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands. Immediately north of Ptarmigan Peak the terrain subsides to a parkland region around Tatoosh Buttes.
Toponym note: Dot Mountain, Dot Lakes, and Dot Creek were named after Dot Wernstedt, Lage Wernstedt's wife. Mr. Wernstedt is one of the most notable figures in Northwest climbing history. He mapped many of the peaks in the Pasayten in the 1920's and is credited with many of the first ascents therein. He may have even been the first to stand atop Ptarmigan Peak. Ptarmigan Peak is itself named after the bird, not the Ptarmigan Climbing Club famous for the Ptarmigan Traverse from Dome Peak to Cascade Pass.
Ptarmigan Peak is a long way away from any road. The shortest approach is from the end of Eightmile Creek Road 10 miles to the southeast of the peak. This approach takes the Eightmile Pass-Hidden Lake Trail for approximately 15 miles to Ptarmigan Creek northeast of the Peak then 2 or 3 more miles to the base of the mountain. Another approach would be via the Lost River-Monument Creek-Ptarmigan Creek Trail (starts on Harts Pass Road at the Lost River/Methow River confluence), but this is about 22 miles to the the base of the mountain at Dot Creek. Alternately, one can get to the peak by starting at Slate Pass and taking the trail up the Middle Fork Pasayten River to Berk Creek then up to Freds Pass and across the head of Eureka Creek to Shellrock Pass for a good camp for doing Ptarmigan the next day. Still another route, which may be shortest of all, would be from a trail beginning in Canada where the Pasayten River flows across the border.
Permits are not required in this region of the Pasayten as far as I know. You won't be seeing many people back there. Those you do see are more apt to be on horseback than foot, as most of the valley trails are pack trails.
When To Climb
Ptarmigan Peak could probably be climbed in every season except winter. Access depends on conditions for getting to the trailhead. The Slate Pass trailhead is ~6,200 ft up. Eightmile Creek Road's end is <3,500 ft. The snowier the approach, the longer time you'll need to get in and out.
If you're going to go climb Ptarmigan Peak you could probably get in and out in three days. However, you might as well make it a multi-day trip and climb other peaks in the area from a base camp located somewhat closer to a road (such as near Shellrock Pass). Each peak (and the region in general) offers excellent vistas--especially for photography.
There are numerous campsites en route to the peak. The terrain in the valleys is not rugged, which is conducive to many camps being available. However, the Forest Service does request that you use designated campsites along the trail. I do remember seeing a large though uninspiring camp in the deep woods along Ptarmigan Creek perhaps two miles north of Butte Pass. Also, unless the Forest Service has done some work, the Ptarmigan Creek Trail between Butte Pass and Dot Creek is heavily windfallen. Trees of all sizes lay across the trail practically every 100 feet.
When I climbed Ptarmigan Peak in August 2001, I was snowshowered on lightly for one night at my 7,500-ft camp and then intermittently throughout the day. Knowing this, plan your clothing appropriately. It can be hot or cold or in between in the Pasayten. Ordinarily, you won't get much rainfall as the wilderness is far east of the Cascade Crest. However, when I was there, it rained for 36 hours straight. I stayed in my tent nearly the whole time. | <urn:uuid:939a4250-94d6-4e1d-bd47-33b3437e16da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.summitpost.org/ptarmigan-peak/151489 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959192 | 957 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Planck Project Scientist: An interview with Jan Tauber
What is it that you personally most await from this mission?
Personally I hope that with Planck we find features that we cannot readily explain with current theories of the formation and evolution of our Universe. That would be vastly more stimulating than a simple, more definite confirmation that all our current ideas are still valid!
And what, according to you, does the scientific community most await?
The community of cosmologists is hoping that Planck will be able to detect the signature of primordial gravitational waves, which would give important support to the idea of inflation. But Planck offers great science not only to cosmologists but to a wide variety of astronomers. So there is a range of different expectations in different fields.
What do you think the greatest scientific challenges will be, once the mission is in place and starts collecting data?
The greatest challenge will be to demonstrate that any significant signature we find is real, and not just some spurious non-cosmological signal. It will require painstaking detective work and the will not to succumb to the temptation to get our results out there, quickly.
Would you share with us what fascinates you most about this particular field?
What I find most fascinating is the fact that out of such a simple object as the Cosmic Microwave Background we can derive so much information about the origin and evolution of our very complex Universe.
Is the spacecraft and the mission, now that it is ready, vastly different from what you imagined when it was first proposed more than 15 years ago?
The overall design is not very different. But at that time it wasn’t much more than a concept. All the engineering work carried out since in order to implement the concept has changed it quite a bit at a detailed level. And it is way more powerful now than we thought we could make it 15 years ago!
You, as other scientists here at ESA, are an inspiration to young kids out there wanting to study science and about space. Did you ever dream about this? What would you tell all of those aspiring scientists out there?
Scientists are responsible for repeatedly changing the world view. For me, it is for me the most intellectually stimulating enterprise of all. If you are curious and enjoy using your mind, get into science!
ESA Planck Project Scientist
Born: 1 June 1960, in Djakarta, Indonesia
Jan studied for a BSc. in Physics and a BSc. in Electrical Engineering in Bogota, Colombia.
He worked for industry in Scotland (UK), and Quito (Ecuador), before starting a PhD in radio astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, which he completed in 1990.
Until 1992, Jan worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (USA), where he worked in astronomical millimetre-wave interferometry.
He joined ESA as a scientist in October 1992 initially working with balloon-borne experiments, and was assigned Study Scientist for Planck in 1993 (the mission was called COBRAS/SAMBA back then). Jan has been the Project Scientist for Planck since its selection in 1996.
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Imperial County is a county located in the Imperial Valley, in the far southeast of the U.S. state of California, bordering both Arizona and Mexico. It is part of the El Centro, California Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Imperial County. The population as of 2000 was 142,361. The county seat is the city of El Centro. Established in 1907, it is the newest-created of California's counties.
The Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is divided administratively into Kasai-Occidental and Kasai-Oriental. It shares its name with the Kasai River. After the independence of Congo, it seceded for a while under influence of Belgium and became an independent kingdom. After the elimination of Patrice Lumumba, Kasai came back to Congo.
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Photography & Text by Jules Hovee Steffen
Discovery is the moment in time when there is confirmation of pregnancy, a highly critical time for a prenate. For some, it’s a wonderful time of celebration, but for others, it’s a difficult journey. There may likely be intense feelings on the part of the pregnant mother as she absorbs and integrates this new development into her existing life, and the level of support she may or may not have from her parents, the prenate’s father, his parents, and the surrounding significant others. Often alone when discovering that she is pregnant, a mother may likely be flooded with the many consequences of being pregnant and Dr. William Emerson’s long-standing research and regressive material from countless individuals, reflects some of the feelings, experiences, musings, and fantasies, that mothers have, and could be felt by the embryo: anxiety, terror, despair, shame, guilt, rejection, abortion ideation, abortion attempts, death, suppression, manipulation, narcissistic wounding, and conditionality shock. (Prenatal Stage Manual: Part 1, Emerson) In order for us to heal the woundings that we may carry, delving into this critical time of our prenatal development, may likely be of paramount importance. An earlier blogpost entitled The Boundaried Branch, offers an initial perspective of this specific stage called Discovery. It may feel like we are uncovering our experience, just as this young girl is attempting to do in this photo, lifting the fallen leaves to expose the brown rich earth beneath.
The following is from Dr. Emerson’s research and may bring forward essential pieces that speak to the woundings that we may carry specific to our prenatal existence and presence: The embryology and biology are clear when we consider the building blocks for all of the critical systems and developing structures that are set within the three week time frame following conception: Epidermis, Nervous System, Linings of Digestive and Respiratory Tracts, Muscle, Connective Tissues, Notochordal Process which initiates the development of the mouth and anus, Vertebral Column, Ribs, Sternum and Skull, Brain and Spinal Cord, Cartilage, Bone, Blood Vessels, Urinary Bladder, Cardiovascular System. The following italicized material are excerpts from Dr. Emerson’s research and regressive information: Trauma and shock during this time of development can have far reaching impacts on the strength, health and vitality of the developing systems and the integrity of the structures within the body. Common feelings and subsequent life attitudes resulting from trauma and shock during the time of Discovery include:
- Anxiety = feeling ambivalence at what predicament pregnancy creates.
- Rage = feel rage of parents at being placed in such a dilemma
- Depression = being unwanted, rejected
- Conditional love = being accepted for certain roles, qualities
- Unconditional love = being accepted for just being, no conditions
- Gender bias = being loved for hated for gender…adult sexual preferences
- Longing = acceptance for doing nothing (late adolescent complexes)
- Confusion = not knowing what to do (live or die)
- Self disorders = common in children who are not wanted
Based on the spectrum of physical structures that are developing at the time of Discovery, resolution of those developmental agendas requires unconditional love. That is not to say that if unconditional love is not present that those structures will not develop, rather that development of those structures can be impeded, truncated, weakened, incorrectly directed, and sometimes even missed and/or incomplete. In the realm of the psyche, the impact of what is thought and felt about the confirmed pregnancy has tremendous consequences. Until Discovery, no one could have known, for certain, that you existed. Any thoughts and/or feelings about your existence would have been merely speculation, and although those thoughts may be damaging, they do not compare to the depth of wounding that occurs once your presence is verified. (Prenatal Stage Manual: Part 1, Emerson)
We may read the above information and not fully understand its meaning, and yet, there may be parts of us that resonate with the material in some way. We may feel a physical or emotional charge of some sort or make a concerted effort to push back and be numb from any response, any of which may mean that there may be some meaning for us in this material. It may be that for most or all of our life, we have experienced some of which is described above, and now some pieces may be falling into place, yet there may be a nebulous wonderment about how this might be happening. And so it is with the healing path that we may be on for ourselves, the walk that may be guiding us to the next step, what may feel like a random piece of information that may hold meaning that may bring up the feelings that have long been lodged deep within us, or the ones that remain numb and seemingly locked away.
This time of Discovery may be a time in our historical existence when we experienced a level of wounding that profoundly impacted the ways in which we live, love, and have our being. If we are not wanted in some way, we may hide inutero and hide in life, finding ways to not show up because of our perception that it’s not safe to be present. This knowing may be an important key that begins to open a door such that we may have compassion for what our prenate self may have experienced. We may begin to claim, embrace, and offer caring support for the parts of ourselves that longed for this so long ago. It’s not about blame – it’s all about taking responsibility for our lives and owning our truth. If we respond negatively toward ourselves with this knowing, we continue to wound ourselves in the same way that we were previously wounded prenatally. Finding ways now to welcome and embrace ourselves – the ways in which we as a prenate longed for – is now an essential journey for our healing. As we find our footing and the unwavering steadiness that comes to us when we have compassion for the wounds that we may carry, we may realize we are already making strong strides in our steps on the Middle Ground: Where Sages Dwell. As a result, we may experience a sense of belonging that is accompanied with rest and relaxation. May it be so.
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One month ago, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in prison for non-violent disobedience. The sentence was harsher than those handed down to people who burned churches and threatened black leaders. It was a sentence intended — like so many disproportionate sentences against activists — to send a message. But what message?
Environmental activists could have responded to this case in the way that corporations and politicians (who called DeChristopher an “eco-terrorist”) had intended. They could have scaled back their organizing to only milquetoast tactics that are 100% “safe”; they could have responded with fear.
Instead, we’re seeing something quite different as attention has shifted to the creation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would draw oil from that tar sands of Canada to East Texas (this NPR story has a good overview). Already, more than 800 people been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience in Washington, D.C. Some of the arrests that have made headlines have included a top NASA climate scientist, Jim Hansen.
What has been even more inspirational is the response of young people who have been radicalized by both the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher and the Obama administration’s deference to corporate interests. A letter from student groups and youth leaders at the Tar Sands Action said in part:
Big corporations are using their financial influence to corrupt our democracy and deepen their pockets at the expense of Americans. And it’s not just related to energy and the environment; they are threatening the very foundations of our democracy, working to disenfranchise voters, attack workers’ rights and the middle class…The Keystone XL decision is a significant test of President Obama’s commitment to our generation, but it’s not the only one.
The letter astutely taps into what is so significant about the mass civil disobedience taking place in Washington right now. It has drawn national attention to a dangerous, misguided plan that President Obama should shut down. More broadly, though, I think these 800+ arrests represent something bigger than this particular campaign. As Tim DeChristopher recently wrote from prison: “By its very nature, civil disobedience is an act whose message is that the government and its laws are not the sole voice of moral authority. It is a statement that we the citizens recognize a higher moral code to which the law is no longer aligned, and we invite our fellow citizens to recognize the difference.”
I would go even further: the government is not the sole voice of moral authority, and it is not any voice of moral authority. I don’t think most Americans would even consider that a radical statement at this point. Do you? We’ve watched bankers get bailouts while the environmental crisis worsens and unemployment increases. I think we need to remind ourselves that this is a sentiment that environmentalists in D.C. understand just as viscerally as pissed off Texans. | <urn:uuid:142c2a25-f71f-49c0-9326-9086c7cf6c21> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/tar-sands-xl-pipeline-civil-disobedience-arrests/5080/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971749 | 594 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Garvey, Marcus, 1887–1940, American proponent of black nationalism, b. Jamaica. At the age of 14, Garvey went to work as a printer's apprentice. After leading (1907) an unsuccessful printers' strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama. During a period in London he took law classes and became interested in African history and black nationalism. His concern for the problems of blacks led him to found (1914) the Universal Negro Improvement Association and in 1916 he moved to New York City and opened a branch in Harlem. The UNIA was an organization designed "to promote the spirit of race pride." Broadly, its goals were to foster worldwide unity among all blacks and to establish the greatness of the African heritage. The organization quickly spread in black communities throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Central America, and soon had thousands of members.
Garvey addressed himself to the lowest classes of blacks and rejected any notion of integration. Convinced that blacks could not secure their rights in countries where they were a minority race, he urged a "back to Africa" movement. In Africa, he said, an autonomous black state could be established, possessing its own culture and civilization, free from the domination of whites. Garvey was the most influential black leader of the early 1920s. His brilliant oratory and his newspaper, Negro World, brought him millions of followers. His importance declined, however, when his misuse of funds intended to establish a steamship company that would serve members of the African diaspora, the Black Star Line, resulted in a mail fraud conviction. He entered jail in 1925 and was deported to Jamaica two years later. From this time on his influence decreased, and he died in relative obscurity.
See Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, compiled by A. J. Garvey (2d ed. 1967, repr. 1986); biographies by E. D. Cronon (1955, repr. 1969) and C. Grant (2008); studies by A. J. Garvey (1963), T. Vincent (1971), E. C. Fax (1972), E. D. Cronon, ed. (1973), J. H. Clarke, ed. (1974), and J. Stein (1985).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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(TRENDS in CHRISTIANITY – continued)
In the late 1950s, the Reverend Jerry Falwell (1933-2007) was pastor at the Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia. He spoke of doing God's work and not engaging in politics – except that he criticized his fellow Christian, the Reverend Martin Luther King, for his political activism. He began slipping into political involvement, saying,
If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never had been made. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line. (link)
In 1960, another young Christian Pat Robertson, three years older than Falwell, established the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach Virginia. He was ordained as a minister of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1961. And he too saw himself as apart from temporal affairs, including politics. But events in the 1960s attracted him as well as Falwell into the political arena.
From 1965 there was the Vietnam war which stirred passions and anti-war activism, and among teenagers there was the somewhat apolitical counter-culture of flower children, drugs, dropping out and what became known as the hippy movement.
The PBS documentary "God in America" has Pat Robertson explaining it. We believed, said Robertson, in "rendering to Caesar what was Caesar's and to God what was God's." Robertson described his allegiance to Jesus Christ and concerned with "eternal things" rather than "temporal things."
It was the Jehovah's Witnesses who were removed from the world of politics and Caesar: no flag saluting (a Roman salute until 1942), no voting, no serving in the military). Both Falwell and Robertson were not about to remove themselves to the extent that Jehovah's Witnesses did. Jehovah's Witnesses viewed the world as heading toward Armageddon and were willing to wait for it. Falwell and Robertson saw wanted to defend what they saw as their territory from the forces of wickedness. They saw their forces as weak to the point of vulnerability. "Secular forces," Robertson said, "had invaded the province of the church." Robertson described evangelicals as saying essentially,
We don't want you imposing your values on us. We don't want you taking our children away from us and imposing on them a secular worldly view that is contrary to what we believe as Christians.
In the mid-1960s, the Reverend Falwell continued his support of segregation – a political, temporal matter whether he realized it or not. He regularly featured segregationist politicians like Lester Maddox and George Wallace at his church. And about the Reverend King he said:
I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations. (link)
Then in 1973 came another Supreme Court Decision: Roe v. Wade. Like most things social, it was a political issue, and it intertwined with the faiths of Falwell and Robertson and inspired them to more political involvement.
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New Talavan Times
BY: ISKCON New Talavan Community
Jul 27, USA (SUN)
Weekly Bulletin of the ISKCON New Talavan Community
"Protecting the Heart of Vedic Dharma"
Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Temple President: His Grace Yogindra Vandana das Adhikari
Editor: His Grace Dasanudas Vanacari
31492 Anner Rd. • Carriere MS 39426 • 601 749-9460
Please always chant the mahamantra:
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Srila Prabhupada's Vision
Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission is that paropakara, benefit of the human society. All living entities within this material world, they are in ignorance, all 8,400,000 different forms of life. So all living entities, they are ajnah: they have forgotten what is the value of life. So in the human form of life, where there is chance of getting the real light, if they spoil in this way like cats and dogs, the whole world, what is the position of the world? Very precarious condition. So paropakara. Therefore those who have got enlightenment, they should try to raise these rascals who are in ignorance. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission. Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore says, bharata-bhumite manusya janma haila jara: “Anyone who has taken birth in Bharata-varsa, India, as human being, not cats and dogs,” janma sarthaka kari, “first of all make your life successful,” then paropakara, “then distribute the knowledge.” This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission. How? Why He is stressing on Indian? Now, because it is in India you will find these sastras, the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam and many others, not in other places. The four Vedas; then the explanation of the Vedas, Upanisad; summarization of the Vedas, Vedanta-sutra; then historically explanation, Puranas; then actual history, Mahabharata, Ramayana-so these things are available in India. And one should take advantage of this sastra and make his life successful and then preach all over the world.
- Class on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.49, August 1, 1975, New Talavan.
Thursday, July 28 to Sunday, July 31 is the New Orleans/New Talavan Srila Prabhupada 30th Anniversary Festival. A wonderful celebration of Srila Prabhupada's visit to New Orleans and New Talavan temples in 1975. Everyone is invited to participate. For details see our web site. To publicize the Festival and create a unique souvenir, Dasanudas Prabhu assembled a graphic with 30 famous portraits of Srila Prabhupada shown at right. This graphic will be printed on a souvenir T-shirt. Also, prints of Srila Prabhupada's famous picture while cooking at New Talavan will be available. To download a larger version of Thirty Faces of Srila Prabhupada, click here.
Sunday, July 31 is also Kamika Ekadasi-fasting from grains and beans (Break fast next day 05:20-09:51). “Observing Kamika Ekadasi bestows the same merit as donating a milk-cow and her auspicious calf, along with their feed. On this all auspicious day, whosoever worships Lord Sri Sridhara-deva, Visnu, is glorified by all the devas, Gandharvas, Pannagas, and Nagas. Those who are afraid of their past sins and completely immersed in sinful materialistic life should at least observe this best of Ekadasis according to their ability and thus attain liberation. This Ekadasi is the purest of all days and the most powerful for removing sins of the native. O Narada, Lord Shri Hari Himself once said about this Ekadasi, “One who fasts on Kamika Ekadasi attains much more merit than one who studies all the spiritual literatures.” Anyone who fasts on this particular day and remains awake throughout the night will never experience the anger of Yamaraja, the king of death personified. It has been seen that whoever observes Kamika Ekadasi will not have to suffer future births, and in the past too, many bhakti-yogis who fasted on this day went to the spiritual world. One should therefore follow in their auspicious footsteps and strictly observe a fast on this most auspicious of Ekadasis. [For the rest of this story from the Bhavisya-uttara Purana, click here.]
Sunday, July 31 is also the New Talavan Sunday Feast, beginning at 11:30 AM. For directions, call 601 749-9460 or visit our web site.
A new arrival has come to Mother Tulsi Maharani, one of our dear cows: a new calf, as yet unnamed. The bull calf was born on July 20. Mother and boy are doing fine. Here's a picture of the happy mother and child.
How to put New Talavan in Your Will
After providing for their families and loved ones, congregational members may want to put New Talavan in their wills, thus helping to assure the long-term viability of Srila Prabhupada's uniquely wonderful Krsna-conscious spiritual community. In the USA, bequests are free from estate tax and can substantially reduce the amount of your assets claimed by the government. You can give needed support to New Talavan by simply including the following statement in your will: "I give, devise, and bequeath to ISKCON of Mississippi, Inc., 31492 Anner Rd., Carriere MS 39426, [insert the amount to be given here] to be used to support the New Talavan Community and its related activities, including preaching, cow protection, construction etc." A bequest can be a specific cash amount, a piece of real estate or other property, a percentage of an estate, or all or part of the residue of an estate. You can also name New Talavan as a contingency beneficiary in the event someone named in your will is no longer living. It is recommended that a lawyer help in drafting or amending a will.
Many thanks and blessings to Mother Shanti for her kind donation of a 1995 Toyota Tercel DX. This will greatly help our preaching in the Mississippi Gulf area!
New Talavan needs your spare automobile! As an vital part of our expanding preaching program, we have an immediate need for one more vehicle for making contacts, home visits and attending Bhakti-vrksha meetings in our large preaching area. We cover Mississippi, western Florida and southern Alabama from New Talavan, and Louisiana and Arkansas from New Orleans. We provide tax-exemption receipts up to the Blue Book or resale value of the vehicle. It's magic: turn that old clunker rusting in the garage into a nice tax-refund check!
Also, if anyone would like to donate a digital video camera, we want to make videos of interviews with devotees about Srila Prabhupada's visit to New Talavan, and many other applications. Contact us right away at 601 749-9460.
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Arkansas River Rafting
|On Colorado's Arkansas River, get your feet wet in Brown's Canyon before hitting The Narrows, which is that bit more challenging and continuous. (courtesy, Wilderness Aware Rafting)|
"The Arkansas River is one of the nation's ten most popular recreational boating rivers. Highly valued for its diverse recreation, this 100-mile stretch is used by more than 400,000 rafters, kayakers, fishermen, campers, and wildlife viewers each year. Trips vary in difficulty and length, allowing flexibility.
The internationally renowned ""numbers"" rapids lie a short distance below Leadville, surrounded by the Collegiate Peaks. These are world class kayaking waters. The river continues through narrow Brown's Canyon. At Brown's Canyon, the river flows away from the highway and is adjacent to a BLM Wilderness Study Area. Although paralleled by the railroad, its remote character and quality rapids make this the most popular segment.
With space at a premium, from Salida to Parkdale, the sinuous river threads its way across pools, riffles, and huge boulders, creating excellent whitewater and trout fisheries. U.S. Highway 50 parallels much of the lower river, providing fishing and boating access, family picnicking, viewing opportunities, and great spots to photograph friends rafting on the river. Fishing on the Arkansas is highly valued and quite pleasurable as one is surrounded by beautiful landscape while enjoying the day's catch.
The 1,500-foot sheer rock walls of Royal Gorge ascend above the last segment as it flows into Canon City. Rapids such as Sunshine and Sledgehammer, make running this stretch an adventure."
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As countries worldwide search for ways to make deep cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is being recognized by governments, research institutions and industry as a potentially key tool for such emissions reduction.
The world's leading body of experts on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,1 believes that CCS is among the most promising tools to control GHG emissions. In Canada, with the recent re-election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the development of CCS is expected to proceed as planned as a cornerstone of the government's green plan.
What is Carbon Capture and Storage?
CCS technology involves capturing high-volume CO2 from large industrial sources before it is emitted into the atmosphere and then compressing, transporting and injecting it into deep underground geological formations where it is intended to remain permanently trapped. In some cases, CO2 can be utilized in a process termed enhanced oil recovery (EOR) which entails pumping the gas into declining oil fields where it dissolves into the remaining oil, thereby reducing its viscosity and pushing it into production wells, resulting in increased oil production.
Why adopt CCS?
In Canada, proponents believe the potential of CCS to reduce the environmental footprint of both the oil sands industry and electrical generation plants powered by fossil fuels is vast. New facilities could be built "capture-ready", and the technology could also be retrofitted into existing industrial plants. However, while the individual components of CCS are all being deployed at an industrial level, the safety of the entire process has not been definitively proven and its commercial feasibility is reportedly still many years away.
Although CCS has yet to be implemented on a large scale in Canada, research at numerous demonstration plants has indicated that when applied to an industrial facility, CCS is capable of reducing CO2 emissions by approximately 80-95%. Moreover, Canada has an abundance of fossil fuel reserves located in close proximity to suitable underground storage sites with potential for EOR, providing ideal circumstances for CCS development.2 The world's first CO2 measuring, monitoring and verification initiative, Weyburn-Midale, was launched in Saskatchewan in 2000. The demonstration project, in its second and final phase, is a government-industry partnership sanctioned by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Test results indicate that long term (i.e., 5,000 year) underground CO2 storage is safe, and the second phase is planned to result in a best practices manual to guide both technical and policy components of future CCS projects.
CCS regulation in Canada
CCS implementation, which would cover CO2 capture, pipeline transportation and injection, is expected to fall under the authority of provincial agencies that regulate oil and gas and power generation. Similarly, while responsibility for water management and regulation is shared by the federal, provincial and municipal governments, provincial agencies would presumably address the potential for leakage and conduct environmental impact assessments in respect of groundwaters that lie solely within a province's boundaries.
Existing federal and provincial oil and gas legislation covers certain aspects of CCS, including capture and transportation-related issues such as construction and health and safety. However, in most Canadian jurisdictions, CO2 storage activities such as access rights and legal characterization, and injection and post-injection activities such as monitoring and liability, have yet to be adequately addressed.3
Encouraging CCS deployment
In April 2007, the federal government released its "Turning the Corner" plan for reducing GHG emissions. The proposed regulatory framework includes mandatory and enforceable targets for emissions reduction from all major industrial sectors. Details of the plan were released in March 2008 and will effectively require the use of CCS or equivalent technology by 2018 in order to meet these targets. The federal government has committed $250 million in funding for the development of CCS and recently announced a call for proposals under a new $125 million fund to advance CCS technologies. In addition, various provincial measures to encourage or mandate GHG mitigation are being developed, including an existing $2 billion fund to advance CCS projects in Alberta.
Challenges and the road ahead
Notwithstanding these developments, a number of technical, regulatory and policy impediments cast a shadow of uncertainty on the future development and implementation of CCS in Canada. According to some experts, CCS will not be commercially viable for at least a decade - and even then large scale implementation will still be many years away. The IEA recently warned that the G8 countries must immediately make $20 billion available for CCS funding if the technology is to become established by 2020. In addition, regulatory uncertainty may discourage private investment in the technology, while environmental groups concerned with the safety and experimental nature of CCS argue that government investment should be directed instead toward proven renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar and wind power.
Clearly, several measures will be necessary to facilitate the successful adoption of CCS technology. Monitoring, reporting and verification guidelines must be developed and safety concerns, such as leakage, must be addressed. Further, Canadian governments will need to continue to provide research and development incentives to advance demonstration projects, akin to the U.S. industrial tax credit for CCS implementation included in the recently enacted Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
According to proponents, the development of an effective, harmonized regulatory system in Canada is a key first step toward developing both industry and community confidence in the technology. Moreover, CO2 storage needs to be demonstrated rapidly and at a wider variety of locations in order to assess the potential for CO2 retention in varying geological formations and develop criteria for site selection. Proponents believe that expanded demonstration will also provide critical data to enable the development of CO2 monitoring and verification processes and risk management practices. This, in turn, is expected to accelerate the deployment of CCS and facilitate the progress required for large-scale commercial emissions reductions in the future.
1 The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization and by the United Nations Environment Programme, established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change.
2 This storage potential is particularly immense in the rock formations of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Fasting proinsulin concentrations predict the development of type 2 diabetes.
OBJECTIVE: The development of specific assays allows the different molecules in the proinsulin processing pathway to be measured separately. 32,33 Split proinsulin is the predominant form of proinsulin and accounts for the disproportionate hyperproinsulinemia seen in individuals with prevalent type 2 diabetes. This study was established to examine whether the concentration of this molecule predicts diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A population-based longitudinal cohort study was conducted in Ely, Cambridgeshire. At baseline, 1,122 individuals completed a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). At the 4.5-year follow-up study, repeat OGTTs were performed on 937 of the cohort of 1,071 individuals who had been nondiabetic at baseline. RESULTS: A total of 26 people progressed to diabetes as determined by the OGTTs. The risk of progression was strongly related to the fasting glucose concentration (relative risk [RR] comparing top with bottom quartile 17.6 [95% CI 2.4-130.4]) and fasting 32,33 split proinsulin (RR 16.4 [2.2-121.9]), but less strongly to the fasting insulin (RR 4.41 [1.5-12.9]) or intact proinsulin (RR 5.2 [1.5-17.3]). In multivariate analyses, these associations were independent of age, sex, BMI, and baseline glucose tolerance category. Subjects in the top quartile for fasting glucose and total proinsulin with a family history of diabetes were a high-risk subgroup (incidence 65.8 per 1,000 person-years of follow-up [pyfu]); 30% of them progressed to diabetes at follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Fasting 32,33 split proinsulin independently predicts the development of diabetes. This prediction was better than that observed for either the insulin or intact proinsulin concentrations. The combination of family history, fasting glucose, and total proinsulin identified a subgroup of individuals at high risk of progression who might benefit from targeted interventions. | <urn:uuid:9dcece37-d9db-4905-825a-82effc3f7ff4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/22/2/262 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910377 | 450 | 1.6875 | 2 |
We witnessed another one of Barack Obama’s oddities with the Muslim Brotherhood. The first anomaly was when Obama was almost giddy when the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt,Mohammed Morsi,ascended to power. The Muslim Brotherhood had openly called for the destruction of the United States “from within”,most recently apparent in Muslim Brotherhood front groups like CAIR calling for the purging of any training materials within the FBI and CIA that “offended” Muslims. Barack Obama of course dutifully complied.
The most recent oddity,however,is Obama calling on Morsi to “broker a truce” between Hamas and Israel. Hamas has fired on average one thousand rockets per year at Israel from the Gaza strip;and for eight days,Israel did something that they should have done a decade ago:fight back.
Keep in mind that the Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of Hamas. Keep in mind that,like Hamas,the Muslim Brotherhood has called for the annihilation of Israel. So for Obama to call on Morsi to “broker a truce” is ridiculous.
The so-called “truce” amounts to Israel ceasing to defend herself and the opening up of the Gaza strip blockade that has kept Iran and other extremists countries (now Egypt) from shipping more powerful weapons to Hamas.
Furthermore,Obama colluding with someone who is part of an organization that has openly called for the destruction of the United States amounts to treason in my book.
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By Shelley Grieshop
Marijuana plants with a street value up to half a million dollars were recovered during a recent airplane search in Auglaize County.
The 372 plants that were confiscated mainly in the north and northeast portion of the county is more than triple the numbers found in recent airplane fly-overs in neighboring counties of Mercer and Van Wert.
The approximate value of a single mature plant is $1,000-$1,500 after it is dried, processed and sold on the street, Auglaize County Sheriff Al Solomon said.
"I think it puts a dent in the marijuana problem here, and anything we can do to make it tougher on drug dealers, we'll do," he said.
Solomon said the fly-overs to eradicate marijuana growing in area fields have become an annual program for local sheriff departments, members of the Grand Lake Task Force and agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (BCI&I). "I'd like to do more of them," he said.
The two-day search this week was conducted with the use of a helicopter owned by BCI&I. Solomon and Chief Deputy Mike Eberle assisted with the search and helped pull the plants from the fields where they were found growing.
"Typically marijuana is planted in farm fields by subjects trespassing," Solomon said, adding that farmers and/or property owners usually have no idea the plants are growing on their property.
"Subjects go to great lengths to plant and care for the crop that hopefully we end up harvesting for them," he added.
The most plants found this week in one location was 80.
According to Narconon, a national drug rehabilitation program operating in Ohio, the rural areas of the Buckeye state provide an adequate environment for the outdoor cultivation of marijuana, which continues to be the most prevalent drug throughout the state. It also is the most abused illicit drug in Ohio, and treatment records indicate its abuse is still increasing.
Most marijuana found in Ohio is shipped here from Mexico, Narconon studies indicate. Outdoor cultivation may be decreasing with indoor growth operations on the rise -- some producing high-quality marijuana, according to the studies.
A similar marijuana search operation was held in Mercer County on Aug. 10 with 110 plants discovered in Butler and Hopewell townships; that total was down from 272 found in 2004.
A fly-over in Van Wert County on Aug. 18 alerted officials to 73 plants in rural farm fields. That number was up from last year, reported a detective from Van Wert County Sheriff's Department.
Allen County held two fly-overs, one on Aug. 10 and another Wednesday. Deputies and BCI&I agents tallied a total of 268 marijuana plants in the sweep. Lt. Tom Myers of the special operations division at the Allen County Sheriff's Department said the number was down from last year. It certainly was much lower than the fly-over three years ago when 1,300 plants were located, he added.
All the plants seized in Auglaize County this week will eventually be destroyed by the sheriff's office.
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