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Lori Curley: My kid recently asked, "What color am I?"
Given the assignment of drawing a self-portrait in the fifth grade, my son was perplexed. He could not decide which crayon best matched his skin. Beige? Not exactly. White? No way. Gray? Nah. Brown? Nope. He settled on "burnt sienna," an off-brown/tan color, but it still wasn't right, either.
Skin color, I explained, is complicated. He agreed. "You are not exactly white, Mom," he said. "You are more like a dirty countertop or a bookshelf left in the garage." (I am covered in freckles.) I have friends who some may call black, but upon closer inspection (and after a flip through Benjamin Moore's color wheel), are actually more "wrought iron" or "winter velvet" instead. If I compared my friend Tanisha to coffee blends, she might be "jungle java." But Kay -- who is also black -- is more of an "English tea."
It would make a lot more sense if they assigned us color numbers to reference when we apply for jobs or fill out census forms. That way, the data crunchers would have a more accurate picture of the skin colors that make up this country. We are not simply black and white -- or yellow, or brown or red. They could borrow the descriptions from the nail polish and lipstick manufacturers. They know color best. To them, we are suede, dark roast, razzmatazz, fever, boiling point, sand in my suit, vodka, Nantucket mist, midnight in Moscow, baby seal, sugar cane in the morning sun, woodland snow, black raspberry, vintage wine, bronze heat and bittersweet chocolate.
Last weekend, after four solid hours in the Florida sun, my fair, cornsilk daughter turned lobster red. I was surprised and pleased to see her claw her way to school this week. Had it been my skin and my middle school, I would have faked a stomachache to avoid the boys. She is a trouper -- true blue. | <urn:uuid:a98c12a2-c478-428a-8bce-147e64af81b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.momlogic.com/2010/05/what_color_am_i.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954514 | 444 | 1.5625 | 2 |
M.S., Ph.D., Crop Science
Crop Science specialization areas include Plant Genetics and Crop Breeding, Crop Physiology, and Crop Ecology, Management and Production. While students may elect to specialize in one area, excellent opportunities are available for the development of graduate research projects integrating two or more areas.
Plant breeding and genetics research programs include improvement of spring and winter wheat, barley, oilseed crops, pea, lentil, and other legumes, as well as work on alternative crops like quinoa. Plant breeding and genetics faculty apply state of the art equipment and methodologies for genetic, genomic, molecular genetic, and phenotypic analyses, which are conducted in field, greenhouse, and laboratory settings. From model systems to participatory variety selection with small-holder farmers, our faculty apply integrated and comprehensive approaches to solve real-world problems in crop production.
Current research focuses on genetics, gene function, and physiology of water and nitrogen use efficiency, heat and drought stress tolerance, yield and its component traits, hormone signaling, germplasm development, polyploid evolution, grain end-use quality and nutrition, seed germination and dormancy, pest and pathogen resistance, and herbicide resistance. Crop production research includes investigation of weed control and ecology, seed production and technology, and turf management.
Crop or Soil Science degree programs can also be developed to study sustainability of alternative cropping systems such as organic, site-specific, biointensive and direct-seed systems that focus on crop productivity, economic stability, biodiversification, natural resource conservation, and environmental protection.
Crop Science academic program requirements are outlined in detail in the Graduate Student Handbook.
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Western Society of Crop Science awards
Congratulations on the great oral presentations at the annual meeting of the Western Society of Crop Science. Julia Piaskowski, first place received $200, Chelsea Walsh, second place received $175 and Alecia Kiszonas, third place received $150. | <urn:uuid:0cc37d89-2230-469b-ab4c-a4fed7d4ea84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://css.wsu.edu/graduate-studies/m-s-ph-d-crop-science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916438 | 472 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and it seems as though most folks around our area fared well. Certainly there are exceptions to that, but for the most part things locally in the outdoors are good. Even with the drought curtailing food growth for the deer, they continue to feed mostly at night. That has been the case, in my experience, no mater the moon phase. Even so, there have been some really fine bucks taken in East Texas, which is nothing unusual. Their body condition is not as good because of the drought, but all in all they are not in bad shape.
Some of the reports that I have gotten from the Hill Country are that many of the deer are sporting less body fat than during wet years and less evidence of yearlings. This same area of Texas has spotty reports of hunter success. One would believe that when the Texas Hill Country is mentioned, there would be a more uniform number of folks with the same opinions concerning deer sightings. Also, there is a big discrepancy as to the animals’ body condition. The ranches where there was easily available water are sporting the better numbers as well as condition of the deer this season.
The annual rut has not yet begun in South Texas, where the traditionally large antlered bucks are taken. That will usually begin after Christmas and get even more intense in January. The reports that I have received have indicated that the free ranging animals did better than was expected. That doesn’t mean that the prolonged drought had no effect. It did, but the South Texas whitetails are accustomed to dry weather, and they survive very well.
The deer on high-fenced smaller ranches fared well with water. Let me say here that smaller ranches in South Texas, in my opinion, would be those five or six thousand acres or less. Not all of the ranches with high fences contained sources that were sufficient to sustain water during a long drought. On those ranches that ran dry, the deer suffered from the lack of sufficient water. Therefore, there were some die-offs as well as deer with poor body condition and smaller antlers. Thank goodness these ranches were not the norm.
The hunters that are most familiar with the rut in South Texas are looking forward to heading out. In order to hunt on those ranches, arrangements should have been made long before. In fact, some of the more expensive hunt ranches are booked years in advance.
Now it is time for a Christmas gift selection. Whether the Christmas gift will be for a hunter or fisherman, I’m sure that the giver will need to consider the longevity of the gift as well as the cost. My recommendation for a present that will be remembered for a lifetime is either a guided hunt or fishing trip.
First, the giver must know which trip the receiver would most likely prefer. Second, they need to have an idea of the amount of money that they will pay for the trip. It is also important when booking with either a guide or an outfitter that employs several guides to check out references. By doing that, you can get a good idea just how satisfied the former customers have been. You can also know if they would consider their trip excellent, good, fair or poor and whether they use that service again.
Whenever a guide or outfitter is contacted. find out exactly what they provide and what you will need to bring along. Ask how long the trip will last, and if there are food and lodging accommodations included. Will the fish or game be cleaned or will their be an extra charge for that? There are some hunting outfitters that offer guaranteed kills or at least fair shots at the preferred game animals. The latter are usually hunts for the does or female animals. No matter, the experience will be well worth the cost in most cases. Just be sure to check references before agreeing to anything. | <urn:uuid:6e35fd9d-6d64-449a-9586-ee599f4e795e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theexaminer.com/print/4320?quicktabs_1=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980529 | 793 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Milk: The Transformation of Castro Street
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There's been plenty of documentation of the transformation of San Francisco's Castro Street for the Gus van Sant film Milk and I'll attempt to round up everything I've been sent here.
Above is a shot of Toad Hall reconstructed. The black-and-white shot here is how it looked outside Toad Hall in the 70's.
According to Uncle Donald's Castro Street, "Toad Hall was one of the most popular bars on Castro Street, definitely a major 1970's social institution and an exciting part of our neighborhood story. In fact, it may have had a significant influence on the influx of gays to the Castro. The bar was a trendsetter. The management was creative and innovative. Toad Hall was the first dance bar in the Castro and was one of the first bars anywhere to use taped music instead of a jukebox, not just taped music but well-planned programs of songs that flowed into each other seamlessly. When the other bars began to catch up, Toad Hall installed a booth and hired a DJ; another major step in providing the best entertainment for the patrons. At that time, most gay bars were governed by greed. Gays were happy to have ANY place to meet and were at the mercy of slumlords who would accept them. We learned to put up with rundown places in seedy locations, run by people who didn't care about us and were unwilling to make repairs and improvements. Toad Hall welcomed us with a warm friendly smile into a clean, well-decorated establishment. So it is not unrealistic to think that gays would flock to the Castro from all over the City (and beyond) to visit Toad Hall, and in doing so would become charmed by the beauty of the neighborhood."
It opened on May 28, 1971. The bar got its name, according to Uncle Donald, "after the home of 'Toad' in the childrens story Wind in the Willows written by Kenneth Grahame in 1908. Toad was a charming and respectable but wayward frog; a misfit who didn't quite fit into the community of quiet, hard-working, rural creatures, nor could he handle the fast-paced, hectic role of a city dweller."
Our reader David Corbell took these photos as well. You can view more of them on his Flickr page.
Much more AFTER THE JUMP...
Harvey Milk's camera shop, out of which he ran his campaign office. Quite a stunning transformation considering just weeks ago it was the gift shop Given we profiled earlier on Towleroad.
(photo source for the camera shop)
Castro Theater (source)
Retro-fitting [i'm just sayin]
Castro Milk transformation [flickr david78sf]
More MILK Pictures [gay cities]
Sprouting overnight, it's Toad Hall [castro shopper]
So Here We Go [the milk fanboys]
Increased Milk Production [castro shopper]
Gus Van Sant’s Milk Set Photos [/film]
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A Quote by Elizabeth Barber on design, garden, inclusion, meaning, reflection, traditions, and value
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.
Source: The Shiga Project: The Japanese Garden
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It's the kaleidoscope effect. Looks very distinct. I think it's pretty useful for generating interesting symmetrical patterns. After all the most interesting patterns come from maths and thus nature not human imagination. I've basically taken my own creativity out of the picture. The initial seed was only a small image around 256x256 pixels.
to be fair considering the scales, I'd rather see a meadow of flowers done using the same shader as the little pixies but less glowy more pastelly to fit in with the overall light. If done with the grass right coupled with the tree waveyness it would look like the grass is blowing in the wind to those who aren't up close
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.
Rendering of future Coast Guard headquarters, with green roof designed to capture and reuse water.
The project will bring together more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region, placing them on a 176-acre campus strewn with historic buildings in a long-neglected corner of Washington, five miles from the Capitol building.
Department leaders hope the $3.4 billion consolidation will help the department fulfill its core mission -- protecting the homeland -- in ways big and small.
"It will help us hold meetings," Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "It will help us build that culture of 'One DHS.'"
At the groundbreaking, political leaders shoveled dirt with care, but pitched historical references and metaphors with abandon.
"I do have a kind of paternalistic feeling towards DHS," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, an early advocate for creating the department. "I feel like we've finally given a home to this child we've created, which is finally reaching maturity."
Lieberman likened the creation of the department's headquarters to the creation of the Pentagon. Ground was broken on the Pentagon on September 11, 1941, exactly 60 years before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he noted.
President Franklin Roosevelt planned the defense consolidation, Lieberman said, because he knew war was imminent and felt it could be coordinated more efficiently from one location. The Department of Homeland Security also will benefit by consolidation, Lieberman said.
The site today has the appearance of a sprawling college campus -- although one stuck in time. Established by Congress in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane and later renamed St. Elizabeths, the campus has 62 buildings built between the 1850s and 1940.
The federal government plans to preserve 52 of the historic buildings, which are in varying stages of decay. Of the 10 buildings to be destroyed, eight are greenhouses that have major structural damage.
Some $650 million in Department of Homeland Security and General Services Administration federal stimulus money is expediting some of the rehabilitation, the latter agency said.
The project also includes large amounts of new construction. The first building, a 1.8 million-square-foot U.S. Coast Guard headquarters, will cost about $435 million and is scheduled for completion in 2013. The building will include "green roofs" and landscaped courtyards to capture and reuse surface water.
Former Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend said the department is right to consolidate its facilities but cautioned it won't make the huge differences some people claim it will.
"For one thing, what we know is St. Elizabeths is not big enough to hold all of their headquarters components," she said. And while the department needs to be far enough away from downtown Washington to survive an attack, it "suffers from not having a presence on the National Mall just like all the other major agencies," she said.
City officials were ebullient Wednesday about the prospect of a blighted area being transformed. The gated campus borders some of Washington's most violent streets.
"They're going to try us, and they're going to like us," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress.
Councilman Marion Barry, who has long complained the area is ignored by the federal government, tweaked visitors at the groundbreaking.
"I hope most of you had your GPS's working," he said.
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Warren Buffett MidAmerican Energy Investment. Why Warren Buffett invested in MidAmerican Energy. Buffett acquired 76% of MidAmerican Energy for $2 billion in 1999. MidAmerican Energy is a utility company based in Iowa.
Investments such as MidAmerican Energy are examples of investments in companies that generate stable but not spectacular returns. They have high capital expenditure requirements in order to continue to generate returns, but that creates barriers to entry that deters competition and makes it difficult for others to share in the returns.
Warren Buffett Investment in MidAmerican Energy
Buffett liked this investment for several reasons:
First, it was a strategic investment with good growth potential. Buying MidAmerican Energy gave him a toehold into the utility industry in its early stages of deregulation, and could give him an early-mover’s advantage in establishing market dominance.
Second, it allowed him to deploy large amounts of capital. Buffett speaks of investments in utilities as investments that do not necessarily generate the highest returns on invested capital, but that allow him to put large amounts of capital to use at fair rates of return that beat the zero return from sitting on piles of cash.
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On October 12, 1973, Dolores Madrigal arrived at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles (USC-LA) Medical Center to give birth to her second child. She would later report that while she was in labor and under medication, staff members from the medical center coerced her into giving consent to an operation. These doctors explained that they had to perform this operation, (mis)informing her that she would die if she became pregnant too soon after the birth of her child (Madrigal 41-42). Because of the advice she received and her distressed state due to labor pains, Madrigal signed a “consent to sterilize” form written in English, even though Spanish was her primary language, and received a tubal ligation – a virtually permanent sterilization procedure in which the fallopian tubes are cut and cauterized. Madrigal maintained that when she received this operation, “No one at the Medical Center informed me that a tubal ligation operation was going to be performed on me. No one at the Medical Center informed me of what tubal ligation operation consists nor of its permanent effects” (49).
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Dog arthritis symptoms are basically a result of joint inflammation. Arthritis is a painful and progressive condition that affects people and also animals. In most cases, this is a degenerative and permanent deterioration of cartilages, but there are some types of arthritis that are generated by some joint infections or immune mediated diseases, which can be treated with success.
Not all dogs develop this condition. However, this is a common problem; one out of five dogs is affected by arthritis during his/her lifetime. Arthritis is usually seen in older dogs, but it can strike young animals as well, especially those that have inherited an orthopedic disease, such as osteochondrosis.
Types of dog arthritis
Two categories of dog arthritis are of primary importance: degenerative joint disease and inflammatory joint disease. These diseases are represented by various symptoms and changes in a dog’s behavior, as we will see next.
The first category includes acute traumatic arthritis and repeat trauma-induced arthritis, and the second one – infective arthritis and auto-immune arthritis. These forms of arthritis lead to specific dog arthritis symptoms.
Dog arthritis symptoms generated by degenerative arthritis
The clinical signs of arthritis in dogs that suffer from traumatic arthritis appear gradually, and even the most caring dog owners could be misled by them – or they might not even see them. A high number of factors influence the pace in which the disease progresses; these factors include: the dog’s breed, age, weight, genes and nutrition.
Know that the symptoms that indicate arthritis are not specific to it and only a veterinarian can tell you for sure if your dog suffers from this condition or not.
Acute traumatic arthritis is characterized by lameness, accompanied by swelling and pain. Other symptoms seen in dogs that suffer from degenerative arthritis are: irritability, depression, visible joint deformities, aggression, lack of appetite, lethargy, prolonged sleeping time and exercise intolerance.
Repeat trauma-induced arthritis is characterized by basically the same symptoms as the acute traumatic arthritis, but this condition is developed more often by dogs that have an intense activity that generates joint instability.
Dog arthritis symptoms generated by inflammatory arthritis
Because your dog cannot tell you what is wrong with him/her, it is important to know his/her behavior and take even minor changes seriously. And in case of inflammatory arthritis, these changes are far less common than those encountered in the case of degenerative arthritis, so it is vital to observe them early.
Infective arthritis can be generated by a direct penetration of the joint, caused by a sharp object or bite, or by a microorganism, such as Staphylococcus, B-hemolytic Streptococcus, hemolytic E. coli, Corynebacterium and Erysipelothrix. The symptoms of infective arthritis are represented by sudden sore joints or acute lameness, depending on the source of infection.
Auto-immune arthritis affects several joints, which can be clearly seen as swollen. Also, a dog suffering from this condition has severe inflammation of the synovial membranes.
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Authentic Leadership: Having the Courage to Be YourselfOthers will respect and admire you, and you will have a sense of congruence that is both powerful and calming to others.
Leading from authenticity is not all warm and fuzzy. It takes making the effort to know yourself and summoning the courage to live by your values.
“I find that change often compromises basic important principles, institutional, professional and personal,” Dr. Alicia Chavez, assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of New Mexico, told WIHE.
“Being authentic is a constant, daily struggle,” said Dr. Peggy Jablonski, recently VP for student affairs at the University of New Haven CT and now head of Miss Hall’s School for girls in Pittsfield MA, where authenticity is one of its core values. “We are confronted with pressures from all sides that challenge our ability to act from an authentic core.”
They spoke in a panel “Influencing Change from a Foundation of Authenticity” at the NASPA annual conference in Phoenix in March 2012.
Also speaking were Dr. Marilee Bresciani, professor of administration, rehabilitation and postsecondary education at San Diego State University CA; Dr. Lori Reesor, VP for students affairs at the University of North Dakota; and Dr. Susan Longerbeam, associate professor of educational psychology at Northern Arizona University.
When we lead from an authentic center, we think carefully about our vision and values. We communicate our ideas effectively to others and face challenges in a consistent manner. Authenticity sets a purposeful framework for our work and brings out the best in others.
Being an authentic leader can be difficult for women, whose voices, communication styles and life stories or metaphors are different from men’s. Cultural emphasis on women’s physical appearance and the dismissal of women for showing emotion further complicate the challenge to be authentic.
Abiding by your core values
To influence and impact others, upholding core values is essential. “Others will respect and admire you, and you will have a sense of congruence that is both powerful and calming to others,” Dr. Peggy Jablonski said.
That doesn’t mean it is easy. To be consistent in facing ethical issues takes a thick skin. For example, refusing to make a disciplinary exception for a star athlete won’t make you the most popular person on campus, she said.
Views of sexual assault were just starting to change in the 1980s, when she was in her 20s and working on a doctorate. She filled the new position of victim assistance coordinator with the Boston University campus police.
When the son of a prominent university donor sexually assaulted a female sophomore, Jablonski supported the victim in dealing with the hospital, the police and the district attorney’s office. Three days before the court hearing, a senior BU administrator asked her to help convince the student to withdraw her complaint.
She replied that her role was to support the student in whatever decision she made and not to interfere in the legal process. Two weeks later she was laid off, allegedly because they needed someone with a counseling degree.
After consulting a lawyer, she decided not to sue but negotiated a good severance package. As part of the deal, she agreed not to speak about the matter during the year her benefits continued. She soon got a better job and her career in student life took off. “I lived to continue the fight another day,” she said.
After much soul searching, she eventually wrote a column about the incident for the student newspaper. Others appreciated her strong advocacy for women and students in a difficult culture. “By being true to yourself, your core values and principles, you will be able to lead a purposeful life and find fulfillment and happiness,” she said.
When your core values are challenged, she suggests:
Bringing your whole self
“For me, authenticity is bringing our whole selves to our work, our hearts, minds, bodies and spirits,” Dr. Alicia Chavez told WIHE. Engaging our complex selves engages the complexity of others, bringing out rich possibilities for growth. As American society becomes increasingly diverse, it is more important than ever to engage with different perspectives. We need wisdom and not just knowledge.
Women and minorities often face backlash when they bring heart, body and spirit to the office, while white men get praised for doing so. As a Mestiza (Native American and Spanish American), she finds it normal to bring her whole self to work. In addition to backlash, misunderstanding results from lack of cultural and gender awareness.
She was dean of students at the University of Wisconsin– Madison in 2000 when the school inadvertently stirred up a hornets’ nest. Unable to find a photograph to show student diversity, they doctored a photo of white football fans by inserting an African American student’s face into the crowd without his permission. Media nationwide mocked the school’s Photoshop diversity.
As dean she offered support and assistance to the student, who was being hounded by reporters. She also met with groups of students of color who were upset. She heard calls for the resignation of the white male leader who had authorized the doctored image.
Lunching with the man a few weeks later, she could see he was discouraged. His misguided action had aimed at a laudable goal, increasing diversity on campus. He told her that he had met with minority students and felt that they hated them.
She asked why. He described behavior that looked like hatred to him but not to her. His cultural upbringing had discouraged public displays of emotion, so he did not know what to make of them. She suggested meeting with some of the students, sharing how he was feeling, asking for their help and applying as many of their ideas as possible.
Crossing cultures successfully requires us to be authentic. Now in the Southwest, she and Longerbeam are co-leading a faculty development project on culture and college teaching. “We regularly converse about why we do things culturally and as women,” Chavez said. Sharing openly about their different cultural backgrounds lets them partner successfully to address complex issues of gender, ethnicity, identity and privilege.
To bring your whole self and encourage others to do likewise, she suggests:
Heeding your inner voice
Her yoga instructor told Dr. Marilee Bresciani that “being authentic was the willingness to be with what we felt and thought and to be OK with those feelings and thoughts.” Authenticity means recognizing when we’re angry or bored without trying to talk ourselves into feeling differently.
Feeling guilty about our thoughts or feelings is inauthentic and unconstructive. So is making up stories in our heads about what other people are thinking about us. Getting caught up in an agenda of personality and control leads to manipulative behavior, the opposite of respect.
Suppose you are invited to serve on a prestigious committee. To decide whether to do it, pause to listen to the still small voice within. Does the invitation resonate with you? Will it help you move in directions that fit you now or in the future, or will it pull you off course?
When outside pressures push you toward choices that may feel inauthentic, she suggests:
The message from these women is that being authentic leaders is one way that women bring themselves and their values to the table.
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Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010
Effective from 1 October 2010
The law affecting residential landlords and tenants comes under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (RTA). Important changes are contained in the amending legislation which came into force on 1 October 2010. We summarise some of the amendments below.
The RTA imposes responsibilities on both landlord and tenant. Any breach of these obligations can be brought before the Tenancy Tribunal which can make a decision penalising the party in the wrong. This legislation also contains mandatory residential tenancy provisions that cannot be changed, even by agreement between landlord and tenant, for example, a bond payment must be held by the Bond Centre. A new and very important provision in the RTA is:
A landlord who is out of New Zealand for longer than 21 consecutive days must appoint an agent in New Zealand. The landlord must notify the tenant of the agent’s details and, if a bond is held, the Bond Centre.
Some of the other more significant changes in the new legislation are explained below.
The definition of letting agent has been expanded beyond real estate agents to include property managers and any other person who is in the business of arranging the rental of residential property. A letting agent can charge a fee.
Address for service: landlords and tenants must supply a physical address in New Zealand as an address for service. They may supply an additional address in the form of a post office box number, e-mail or fax.
Tenancy agreements on unit title properties are now subject to the body corporate rules.
Refund of bonds: new provisions apply to obtain a refund from the Bond Centre, for example, applications for the payment of a bond without the agreement of the other party.
Landlord’s right of entry: expansion of the grounds for a request by the landlord for entry. For example, entry with the prior consent of the tenant, for showing the premises to prospective tenants, purchasers, a registered valuer, real estate agent or building inspector. The penalty for a breach by the landlord increases from $500 to $2,000.
Death of sole tenant: whether there is a fixed or periodic tenancy it can be terminated by 21 days written notice given either by the landlord, or by the next of kin or the personal representative of the deceased tenant.
Unlawful acts by a tenant:
»» A tenant’s failure to quit the premises at the end of the tenancy without reasonable excuse
»» Interference with the means for fire escape
»» Use of the premises for an unlawful purpose
»» Harassment of other tenants or neighbours
»» Exceeding the maximum number of residents as stated in the tenancy agreement, and/or
»» Assigning or subletting a tenancy without the landlord’s consent.
Unlawful acts by the landlord:
»» Failure to comply with obligations regarding cleanliness, maintenance and repair, relevant building, health and safety regulations
»» Interference with supply of services such as gas, electricity, water and telephone, and
»» Unlawful acts can be grounds for applying to the Tenancy Tribunal for exemplary damages, the amounts of which are set out in a schedule to the Act.
Abandonment of goods: new extensive provisions apply which set out the procedure for dealing with goods left by a tenant.
Boarding houses are now covered by the RTA with provisions specific to these. A boarding house is defined as residential premises occupied by six or more tenants who each have exclusive rights to particular sleeping quarters in the boarding house.
The Tenancy Tribunal’s jurisdiction is increased to $50,000. There are also various increases in other financial penalties, as well as changes in notice periods. There are also changes to termination provisions, which should be read in detail.
It would be wise for any landlord to obtain a reprinted copy of the RTA, which will include the amending legislation, in order to become familiar with the new provisions. Luckily the RTA is one of the easier statutes to understand. Help is also available from various sources including the Department of Building and Housing, Tenancy (www.dbh.govt.nz), community law centres and bodies representing landlords.
The right to have a lawyer represent you at Tenancy Tribunal hearings is limited. We can, however, help you with your understanding of the facts and the matters that can be argued before the Tribunal, as well as assisting in writing your submission.
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Hello OO posters!
I hope I have posted this in the right section. If not, moderators please move me to the right one.
My question pertains to Coptic iconography: I have noticed that in Coptic icons, both older frescoes (such as the Pantocrator at St. Anthony's Monastery in Egypt) and newer icons of Christ (in the neo-Coptic style) white often seems to be used for His inner robe and red for the outer one, whereas the EO iconographic tradition uses blue and red.
So, my question to you is: what exactly do these colours symbolise and for what reason do the OO's and EO's use different colours for what (please correct me if I am wrong) seems to be the same symbolism (divinity and humanity)?
(Edited for clarity)
I hope I haven't confused you too much. All answers are greatly appreciated. :]
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What is Tichon Sinai?
Tichon Sinai will help 8th, 9th and 10th grade teens experience joy in Jewish learning, pride in being Jewish, and a commitment to participation in Jewish life.
When our teens are connected to Temple Sinai they learn about Jewish life by actively experiencing it! Tichon Sinai combines the best of classroom-based and experiential education in a cohesive program that fosters Jewish identity development and community-building.
The goals of this program are to meet students where they are and to provide appropriate challenges for growth; to build leadership among our teens; to give them ownership of their learning; to provide multiple points of entry into Jewish life and to promote Jewish identity formation. Most of all, it will bring our kids together to have fun!
Activities will include:
Cooking, Improv, Ethics and Contemporary issues, Hands-On/Tikkun Olam experiences, Trips to NYC, A fall weekend retreat
DATES: Sunday, September 30th through Sunday, May 19th.
It will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for 8th, 9th and 10th graders.
10th graders will meet with Rabbi TelRav for confirmation class at this time.
Lunch is included and will be from 12:30 to 1:00 pm each week.
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Study of the arts is an essential element of every student's experience at Foothills School. As educators, we know that the study of the arts enhances student learning in every domain and we will not relegate our arts experiences to rare electives programs or after-school experiences. The arts are relevant and critical to student achievement and every Foothills student receives instruction several times a week in fine art and music. Both of these core curricular areas are further enhanced by formal dance instruction, creative writing, handcraft and culturally-diverse folk art instruction, and film-making, all offered by guest instructors and experts in their fields in our CHOICE Electives Program.
Every student at Foothills learns about movements in art history, and methodologies and material in fine art creation. Additionally, art experiences are tied directly to the inquiry-based "big questions" that students are asking in the academic classroom. Students learning about the body dissect it through figure drawing and exploring Cubism. As children explore the animal world, photography and line-drawing become a new way of seeing. Pottery, glazing, fiber art, batik, print making -- and so much more -- are all part of the art curriculum.
The presence of performance experts who are also trained in education marks the school's performance arts program as exceptional. While the early grades focus on the building blocks of music (rhythm, musical styles and forms, the basics of "reading" music), the demands for music education increase for students at the Intermediate level. By creating an opportunity for every student to explore vocal performance and instrumental work, each student can explore what is possible in his or her musical future. By the time students reach their Senior level of studies, they elect to follow their passions -- vocal performance, band and orchestra, strings, or even independent studies in music and technology. | <urn:uuid:0887a216-1bb0-4d46-8b96-19c65acbe2f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foothillsschool.org/page.cfm?p=278 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954936 | 375 | 2.78125 | 3 |
AS STUDENTS continue their HSC exams this week, thoughts of future career paths will be prominent.
But while in years gone by a healthy proportion of those students may have been considering agricultural studies, particularly those from regional areas, startling new statistics tell us in 2012 that’s simply not the case.
A conference in Armidale last week attended by 300 agronomists from around the country heard the number of students choosing to study agronomy at our universities was at its lowest level in more than 15 years.
So critical is the problem that it formed the basis of a special roundtable discussion at the conference involving five of our leading experts in agricultural education and recruitment.
It’s yet another plank in the raft of issues challenging the future of agriculture in this country: climate change, the encroachment of mining and gas exploration into Australia’s farming heartland, foreign ownership, a high Australian dollar, government policy, imports of produce and water access, to name a few.
All of this has contributed to a fall in the number of farming properties – one statistic suggested the loss of more than 30,000 farms across Australia in the past 15 years.
However, those decreasing numbers of farms are contributing an increasing value of production, thanks largely, you’d have to think, to greater efficiencies, improved technology and scientific breakthroughs, much of this expertise delivered to our farmers via highly skilled and motivated agronomists.
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) tells us in 2010/11, the contribution of our agricultural sector to total gross domestic product – including the value-adding processes that food and fibre go through after they leave the farm – averaged about 12 per cent, or $155 million.
The NFF says Australian farmers produce almost 93 per cent of Australia’s daily domestic food supply.
But NFF president Jock Laurie, in his address to the Armidale conference, made it clear the threat to Australia’s food security from dwindling agronomy ranks was only part of the story.
Our nation has a vital role to play in the projected 70 per cent increase in world food production needed by 2050, Mr Laurie said.
Rather than be fearful of such high domestic and global expectations, we should be excited by it and we should be getting our students excited about it.
The contribution of agricultural experts has never been so important and that will only grow in the challenging decades to come.
The opportunities for agronomists have surely never been so great, something any young person is looking for when considering future career paths.
Governments on all levels have a role to play, with Mr Laurie telling the conference it was vital to secure a long-term strategic government policy that recognised the agricultural sector’s role and contribution.
A commitment to realistic education budgets is vital, too, so subjects like agriculture are not relegated to second-class status, but indeed thrive and inspire high school students to consider a career on and of the land.
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Ambulatory care is an area where the clinical team provides patients with non-emergency treatment and care. Previously, ambulatory patients would receive care in the emergency department and could have longer wait times.
“This is a valuable and welcome service addition for the hospital,” said Debbie Lelievre, unit manager responsible for ambulatory care and the emergency department. “Having a separate ambulatory care space takes pressure away from other areas, including the emergency department. It will help reduce a patient’s wait time for non-emergency, ambulatory procedures because they will have specific appointments in a designated unit. There will also be more privacy. Staff are pleased and we expect patients will also see a difference.”
Scheduled procedures and treatments for ambulatory care will generally be booked through physician offices. Examples of procedures include: Dressing changes, injections, blood transfusions, IV therapies (including IV antibiotics) and phlebotomies. There are also 13 visiting physicians who have clinics and most will use the new unit space.
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Excerpt from The Star 5 Oct 2009:
80,000 youths going in for Change
NEW YORK: Inspired by US President Barack Obama’s Change theme, nearly 180,000 young people across South-East Asia have registered support for change in the run-up to the Youth Engagement Summit (YES) 2009.
The summit is the first of its kind in Asia and will bring together youth representatives from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Brunei.
Organisers briefed US State Department officials in Washington DC last week on details of the plans, which include inviting 10 of America’s most promising youth leaders to attend the event.
Expected to be the largest youth gathering in the region, the summit with the theme “South-East Asia Youth for CHANGE”, will connect young people via satellite link-up to giant screens across five South-East Asian leading universities with 6,000 summit participants in Kuala Lumpur.
“Youth of South-East Asia are more connected, ready for change and forward looking than before. These youth will lead their countries in the next five years. We have to engage them now,” he said.
Organising chairman Harmandar Singh said YES 2009 would begin immediately after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) conference in Singapore and he hoped to attract at least one more world-renowned agent of change as a keynote speaker.
“This movement was inspired by President Obama’s call for change during last year’s election campaign. His charismatic approach has influenced a dynamic shift in long-held perceptions, particularly for South-East Asia’s next generation of leaders.”
For more information, visit http://www.yes2009.asia.
So they’re basing their admittedly inspiring, positive and hopeful vision on President Obama’s CHANGE.
Well, here’s the CHANGE Obama’s been bringing in by the bucketful to his own country (click images for more):
$51 billion lost due to Stimulus – $340 billion spending power for $391 billion spent!
Update: Now it’s 10.2 percent.
26 percent jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year, the largest average increase since 1991.
52.2% youth unemployment – YOUTH unemployment, at record high since World War II! Still want to base your CHANGE on Obama, youths of YES?
Personal bankruptcies up 32% in 2009 compared to 2008.
Poverty level up to 14.3% of Americans.
That’s what you get for electing a person who has only 143 days of Senatorship of experience in leading.
And as for his much-vaunted ‘community organizing’ experience, here’s what it actually accomplished:
Still so sure we want that kind of CHANGE around here?
PS. Actually, Obama’s brand of CHANGE is just MORE OF THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD:
For nearly two years, economic issues have held the top spot in terms of importance among voters.
But the latest national telephone survey shows that 83% now view government ethics and corruption as very important, placing it just ahead of the economy on a list of 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. Eighty-two percent (82%) of voters see the economy as very important.
The new findings come at a time when 43% of voters say the president is doing a poor job addressing government ethics and reducing corruption, up five points from early September and the highest level measured since he took office.
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Tile Term GlossarySearch definitions for ceramic tile and stone.
A glazed tile with a body that is suitable for interior use and which is usually nonvitreous, and is not required nor expected to withstand excessive impact or the capillaries.
A concave or convex curvature of a tile so that the surface is not perfectly flat.
The ability to take up and retain water. Water-cement ratio. The ratio of the amount of water, exclusive only of that absorbed by the aggregates, to the amount of cement in a concrete or mortar mixture; preferably stated as a decimal by weight.
The water level is a piece of clear plastic hose 3/8" to 1/2" in diameter and usually about 50' in length. It is filled with water, from which all air must be removed.
A membrane, usually made of built-up roofing, to provide a positive waterproof floor over the substrate, which is to receive a tile installation using a wire reinforced mortar bed. (CTI)
A topping or surface treatment to increase the resistance of a concrete pavement or slab to abrasion.
Changes in color, texture, strength, chemical composition or other properties of a natural or artificial material due to the action of the weather.
A series of longitudinal and transverse wires arranged substantially at right angles to each other and welded together at all points of intersection.
Welded-wire fabric in either sheets or rolls, used to reinforce mortar and concrete.
Aggregate having a particle size distribution which will produce maximum density, i.e., minimum void space.
Interior or exterior tiled areas subject to periodic or constant wetting. Examples: showers; sunken tubs; pools; exterior walls; roofs; exterior paving and interior floors. (CTI)
See Pressing, wet. Wet process. See Process, wet.
The thorough impregnation of a material by a liquid. The more viscous a fluid, and the higher its surface tension, the more difficult it is for the liquid to "wet" materials. Certain additives, for example, water softeners, reduce surface tension, or viscosity and improve wetting properties, allowing the material to flow out more.
A substance capable of lowering the surface tension of liquids, facilitating the wetting of solid surfaces and permitting the penetration of liquids into the capillaries.
Calcium carbonate powder of high purity. (ASTM C 242).
See Welded-wire fabric.
The wood float is sometimes used in place of the flat trowel for floating mortar. It is good for smoothing small irregularities left on the mortar bed, working the surface of the mortar before troweling on the pure coat, or compacting floor and deck mortar.
The property of freshly mixed concrete or mortar which determines the ease and homogeneity with which it can be mixed, placed, compacted, and finished.
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The Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) program prepares students to become marriage and family therapists. Marriage and family therapists are trained to conceptualize mental health and behavior problems as existing within interpersonal relationships. Consequently, students are trained to treat problems within a person’s current interpersonal context. In addition to training in the most prominent marriage and family therapy theories, students are exposed to the biological and intrapsychic approaches to problem development and resolution. Students receive training in the assessment and treatment of the major mental disorders.
The MFT program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marital and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). The COAMFTE is the national organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for setting standards for marriage and family therapy education. USD’s MFT program is one of only six master’s degree-granting programs in California accredited by the COAMFTE.
Graduates of the MFT program usually work in mental health agencies. However, some set up their own private practices or go on to doctoral work. The degree fulfills the educational requirements for licensure in California as a Marriage and Family Therapist and usually meets the licensing requirements in the other 49 states with Marriage and Family Therapist licensure.
General Degree Requirements
The MA in MFT is a non-thesis degree program requiring the successful completion of 51 units of graduate coursework, 6.5 continuing education units, a written comprehensive exam, completion of an approved international experience, and the accumulation of a minimum of 500 client contact hours and 100 supervision hours. The majority of the students are full-time. Full-time students can complete the program within two full calendar years. Part-time students must take at least 6 units per semester.
Requirements For The Degree
I. Coursework (51 units)
MFTS 500 Research in Family Therapy (3)
MFTS 523 Family Therapy Theories I (3)
MFTS 524 Family Therapy Theories II (3)
MFTS 528 Psychopathology (3)
MFTS 529 Ethical and Legal Issues in Family Therapy (2)
MFTS 532 Human Diversity (3)
MFTS 533 Family Studies (3)
MFTS 541 Assessment and Treatment of Child/Family Problems (3)
MFTS 542 Psychological Testing and Evaluation (2)
MFTS 543 Developmental Psychopathology (3)
MFTS 544 Psychopharmacology (2)
MFTS 545 Families, Systems and Health (1)
MFTS 546 Couples and Sex Therapy (3)
MFTS 570 Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Problems (2)
MFTS 595P Practicum in MFT 1 (5)
MFTS 596P Practicum in MFT 2 (5)
MFTS 597P Practicum in MFT 3 (5)
II. MFT Continuing Education Courses
(6.5 units extension credit)
EDU 571 Child Abuse (.5 CEU)
EDU 572 Gender Issues in Family Therapy (1 CEU)
EDU 574 Domestic Violence (1 CEU)
EDU 577 Professional Issues in Family Therapy (1 CEU)
EDU 578 Spiritual Issues in Family Therapy (1 CEU)
Students are required to take two of the following CE courses:
EDU 573 Group Therapy in Family Therapy (2 CEU)
EDU 575 Special Topics in Family Therapy (1 CEU)
EDU 576 Self of the Therapist Seminar (1 CEU)
III. Comprehensive Examination
IV. Clinical Contact Hours
Students must successfully complete a total of 500 clinical contact hours (minimum of 250 relational hours) and 100 supervision hours (minimum of 50 with raw data) while enrolled in Practicum.
V. Completion of Prerequisite Requirements
Students must complete the two prerequisite requirements (Human Development, and either Counseling Theories or Theories of Personality) either prior to enrollment in the program or before the beginning of their second semester in the program.
Practicum In MFT
An important part of the training program is the practical experience and training students receive during the clinical practicum. The MFT faculty maintains a variety of sites that meet the rigorous clinical hour and supervision requirements. Practicum placements are typically non-paying positions.
Practicum (MFTS 595P, 596P, 597P) is a 12-month, three-semester sequence that is completed during the student’s final year in the program. During this clinically rich experience, students will be expected to complete 500 direct client-contact hours, 250 of which need to be with couples or families. Students receive a minimum of 100 hours of supervision from MFT faculty during this time, in addition to the supervision received from on-site supervisors. Faculty supervision is in both individual and group format, with live and videotaped data being used as the primary source of session information.
Marital and Family Therapy Program Courses and Seminars
MFTS 500 RESEARCH IN FAMILY THERAPY (3)
The course teaches students to be effective consumers of research so that they can use the research literature to enhance their clinical knowledge. The course introduces students to research concepts, quantitative and qualitative research designs, statistics and other issues common to family therapy research. Findings from the family therapy research literature are examined.
MFTS 523 FAMILY THERAPY THEORIES I (3)
Students are exposed to the fundamental assumptions and ideas of general systems theory and the basic premises of the various theoretical orientations within the family therapy field. Family Theories I covers Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy and integrative models.
MFTS 524 FAMILY THERAPY THEORIES II (3)
Students are exposed to the fundamental assumptions and ideas of general systems theory and the basic premises of the various theoretical orientations within the family therapy field. Family Theories II covers Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy, Bowen Family Systems Therapy, Contextual Family Therapy, and a variety of experiential family therapies, including Symbolic-Experiential Therapy, Emotionally-focused Therapy and the work of Virginia Satir.
MFTS 528 PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (3)
An examination of the developmental factors that lead to the emergence and maintenance of various psychological and interpersonal disorders. Emphasis is on developing skills in recognizing inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors and in selecting appropriate techniques for counseling and referral. The course focuses on integrating psychopathology and family diagnosis.
MFTS 529 ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN FAMILY THERAPY (2)
An examination of the most important areas of legal and ethical concern to marriage and family therapists and other mental health practitioners in California. Among the topics covered are: confidentiality; psychotherapist-patient privilege; child, elder, and dependent adult abuse; reporting laws; treating dangerous patients; treating minors with and without parental consent; dual relationship issues; selected areas of family law, licensing law and regulations, scope of practice issues; and ethical standards of the MFT profession.
MFTS 532 HUMAN DIVERSITY (3)
Issues related to various ethnic and cultural backgrounds are examined, including the influence of minority characteristics, racism and discrimination in the therapeutic process. Emphasis is placed on the interplay between social issues and the therapeutic process.
MFTS 533 FAMILY STUDIES (3)
This course uses a systemic framework to examine various topics central to families and their development across the lifespan. The course examines a wide range of topics important to understanding family functioning such as the family life cycle, family stress theory, family violence, mate selection, divorce, diversity in family types, cross-cultural comparisons of families, religion and families, children and families and socioeconomic factors. The course emphasizes the clinical application of the concepts.
MFTS 541 ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF CHILD/FAMILY PROBLEMS (3)
The study of the major methods used to assess and treat child and adolescent problems from an integrated systemic-developmental perspective. The treatment of both normative and non-normative developmental problems in children and adolescents is emphasized.
MFTS 542 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND EVALUATION (2)
The course introduces students to psychological tests that are commonly used to evaluate individual functioning in a number of domains such as cognitive, social, academic and occupational functioning. Students also learn when to make a referral for psychological testing and how to interpret the results from a psychological evaluation. Prerequisite: MFTS 500 or its equivalent.
MFTS 543 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (3)
This course presents key concepts and theories in child and adolescent development. The course addresses both normative development and developmental psychopathology. Developmental concepts are discussed in relationship to the family context and how these concepts can inform clinical work with children and families. Prerequisite: An undergraduate course in human development.
MFTS 544 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (2)
An introduction to medication and its use in treating mental disorders. Students learn how medications function in managing mental disorders and the positive and negative effects of these medications on human functioning. A psychoeducational perspective is used to integrate the family systems perspective with biological considerations. Prerequisite: MFTS 528 or its equivalent.
MFTS 545 FAMILIES, SYSTEMS AND HEALTH (1)
An introduction to the practice of family therapy within a medical setting. Physician-therapist relationship issues are addressed. Other topics covered include wellness and chronic illness, patient compliance, and family beliefs about illness.
MFTS 546 COUPLES AND SEX THERAPY (3)
The study of the major methods used to assess and treat couple problems, with an emphasis on sexual issues and the treatment of sexual disorders. Both behavioral and non-behavioral methods and strategies are presented. Prerequisite: MFTS 524 or its equivalent.
MFTS 570 TREATMENT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS (2)
A critical evaluation of the complex and sometimes contradictory information available in drug and alcohol abuse treatment. A biopsychosocial model of organization is presented along with both individual and family assessment, diagnosis and treatment techniques.
MFTS 579 SOLES EXPERIMENTAL TOPICS COURSE (1-3)
This course number is used by SOLES for experimental topics courses. The title and content of each 579 course will vary by topic and program/department. If more than one 579 course is offered during a single semester, section numbers will allow for identification of the course.
MFTS 595P PRACTICUM IN MFT 1 (5)
In the didactic portion of the course, issues relevant to the beginning clinician are addressed including refinement of interviewing skills and the application of treatments to specific problems. Students also receive group supervision and individual supervision based on either videotaping or live observation of their work.
MFTS 596P PRACTICUM IN MFT 2 (5)
Issues relevant to the treatment process are covered including client-therapist match, resistance and change, assessment, treatment planning and the self of the therapist. Students also receive group supervision and individual supervision based on either videotaping or live observation of their work.
MFTS 597P PRACTICUM IN MFT 3 (5)
Issues relevant to the involvement of schools, protective services and other groups and agencies during the treatment process are covered. Students also receive group supervision and individual supervision based on either videotaping or live observation of their work.
MFTS 598P PRACTICUM EXTENSION (1)
This course provides continuing group supervision for students who need to complete a substantial number of clinical hours after completing three semesters of Practicum.
MFTS 599 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1-3)
Independent study designed for individual student needs. Students must complete the Application for Independent Study or Research form and obtain the signatures of the faculty supervisor, Program Director/Department Chair, and the Associate Dean prior to registering for the course.
Note for MFT Program: In addition to the 51 units of courses, 6.5 units of extension seminars in Continuing Education are required for the MFT program. EDU 571, 572, 574, 577, and 578 are required. Students select two additional courses from EDU 573, 575, or 576.
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EmploymentSource™ Newsletter June Edition 2012 Edition
While blackberries and smart phones have exponentially increased the ability of employees to conduct business and perform work at any time or place, these emerging technologies have also drastically increased the potential exposure for employers for off-the-clock work performed by non-exempt employees. Specifically, e-mail, the use of smart phones, and other portable communication tools have challenged the traditional notion of overtime. As more employees use these devices, employers are faced with several critical questions regarding legal compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Technological advancements that enable employees to work from off-site locations have increasingly blurred the distinction between work and home and begs the question, when is time “off” really off? Requiring non-exempt employees to handle work-related emails, texts, and telephone calls without recording the time as worked could result in payment of lost wages, liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees.
The Fair Labor Standards Act is enforced by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. The FLSA provides that employers pay employees one and one-half times their regular wage for any hours worked over the standard work week. This general requirement for overtime compensation has many exceptions and “white-collar exemptions.” One critically important requirement running throughout the statute, however, is that non-exempt employees must be paid overtime “for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. 1 ” This includes all work that an employee “suffers” or is “permitted” to work. 2 Essentially, any activity that an employee performs for the primary benefit of the employer constitutes compensable work time.3
Working outside of a non-exempt employee’s scheduled work time is generally known as working “off-the-clock.” Employers’ failure to pay for off-the-clock work is one of the most common violations of wage and hour laws. Examples of common off-the-clock work are:
- Email or text communications outside of scheduled work hours.
- Work performed remotely on computers outside of scheduled work hours.
- Time spent checking emails and voice messages as required by employer.
- Performing online training outside of scheduled work hours.
It is not unlawful for non-exempt employees to perform these activities. What IS unlawful is the employer’s failure to compensate employees for this work time in accordance with federal and state wage and hour laws.
Before fully embracing these emerging technologies, employers are cautioned to weigh the risk of potential off-the clock violations. These electronic devices track the times they are used and the various activities performed and can easily be used as evidence of work performed in a wage claim. Resolution of an FLSA overtime claim can include civil penalties and fines, criminal prosecution, countless hearings, attorneys’ fees, back pay, and liquidated damages.
If employers are going to permit or require non-exempt employees to work remotely, they should be vigilant in ensuring full compliance with the FLSA’s overtime provisions. At a minimum, employers should take the following actions:
- Implement an “off-the-clock” policy which clearly outlines time-recording procedures for all time worked.
- Provide portable electronic devices sparingly to non-exempt employees and have them sign an acknowledgement of time-reporting procedures.
- Conduct regular audits of pay and work records.
- Ensure employees are properly classified under the FLSA.
- Train supervisors and managers on the proper administration of wage and hour laws.
- Instruct supervisors to refrain from ordering hourly employees to take and return business-related calls, emails and texts while off the clock.
By implementing the recommendations described above, employers will be in a better position to avoid violating federal and state wage and hour laws.
Technology is here to stay and has many benefits. By implementing some safeguards we can reap these benefits while respecting employee rights and complying with federal and state wage and hour laws.
1 29 U.S.C. §§206(a)(1) and 207(a)(1).
2 29 C.F.R. §785.11.
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TechnoServe's blog highlights the lessons and successes from our work with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries.
Training is critical to help farmers build skills that can lead them out of poverty. Our work in Kenya and Uganda is doing just that.
Project Nurture aims to help more than 50,000 small-scale fruit farmers double their fruit incomes, helping to prove that smallholder farmers can generate meaningful income through fruit production and be competitive suppliers in a market system.
Byagatonda Emmanuel and his wife Murerehe Speciose live in a prime coffee-producing area in Rwanda, but for years they produced low-quality coffee in small quantities.
Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tells the story of visiting a village in Kenya where Heifer International and TechnoServe partnered to establish a milk chilling plant.
Sam Koole, chairman of the Kainja Mango Farmers Association, remembers a time only a few years ago when the fruit from the Sena, a variety of mango native to eastern Uganda, was left to rot on the ground. Since launching Project Nurture in 2010, local farmers are no longer taking the Sena for granted. | <urn:uuid:f85717db-9329-44a0-8228-81b6be861417> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technoserve.org/blog/tag/Bill+&+Melinda+Gates+Foundation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938344 | 255 | 2.109375 | 2 |
From industrious high-schoolers to unstoppable golden retrievers, this year’s Making a Difference crew had many heartening stories to tell, and the magic kept happening long after their stories ran in this space.
Indie Landrum and Holly Hatfield helped the Critical Voice LGBT group throw one heck of a Gay Pride weekend dance. Craig McClain and the Boys to Men Mentoring Network started a new program at Monte Vista High School and netted $113,000 during its 100 Wave Challenge surfing fundraiser. Pieces made by developmentally disabled students in the Sophie’s Gallery jewelry-making class led by Barbie Bates made it into the Mingei International Museum’s gift store.
San Diegans can’t drive in the rain or deal with the Children’s Pool seal problem, but as I discovered while writing this column, we are very good at making a difference. Here are more uplifting updates from the volunteers who keep our region’s heart in the right place.
Sean Sheppard, founder of Embrace: Since June, Embrace’s high-school and college volunteers have delivered food, water, clothes and blankets to thousands of homeless people through their twice-weekly “Embrace the Streets” visits to the East Village. Volunteers for Embrace’s “Healing Our Heroes’ Homes” program just began restoration work on a disabled veteran’s house in El Cajon. Both programs got a boost from the $31,000 raised during the group’s “Ex for Vets” exercise marathon on the USS Midway Museum.
Sheppard plans to restore at least six more homes next year, and he will be unveiling a new Embrace program that could have national impact. He says it will be a blockbuster.
Ricochet the surfing therapy dog: Where to start with this busy, four-legged philanthropist and owner Judy Fridono? In the past five months, Ricochet has met animal-lover Betty White at an American Humane Association fundraiser, received her therapy-dog certification from the American Kennel Club and raised enough money ($65,000) to equip every fire station in Colorado with a pet oxygen mask.
Fridono and her ebullient golden retriever still work with military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and Ricochet is learning to take voice commands from an iPad, the better to assist people with verbal disabilities. This month, Ricochet mobilized her more than 113,000 Facebook followers to help buy 700 Guardian Angel teddy bears for the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after the shooting massacre there.
Katarina Stapleford, Del Norte High dynamo: The Do Something Del Norte service club that Stapleford founded last year is doing plenty. The group’s recently completed “Operation Fuzzy Feet” drive collected more than 100 pairs of socks and slippers for homeless children, and despite losing their matching-funds sponsor, Stapleford and her fellow club members still plan to assemble more than 20,000 high-protein meals for hungry children during next April’s food-packing event.
Stapleford aims to travel to Haiti in March, where she will help build an orphanage. The Del Norte senior has been accepted into Point Loma Nazarene University starting in fall 2013, and she is waiting to hear from the University of San Diego. She still makes time for cheerleading and shopping; average human beings still wonder how she does it all. | <urn:uuid:10a96f3c-5559-4aa8-a1ed-978e34831ec1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/29/san-diegans-who-keep-our-heart-in-the-right-place/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93428 | 731 | 1.5 | 2 |
Health Highlights: June 27, 2008
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Working While Tired May Harm Heart
Doing mental or physical work while fatigued may lead to hypertension and heart disease, suggests a U.S. study.
It included 80 volunteers who were told they could win a prize by memorizing, in two minutes, a number of meaningless three-letter sequences. Their blood pressure and heart rate were monitored while they tried to memorize the information. Those with moderate fatigue showed stronger blood pressure increases than those with low fatigue, United Press International reported.
The study appears in the July issue of the International Journal of Psychophysiology.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers said their findings support a theory that a fatigued person's cardiovascular system has to work harder when trying to complete tasks, UPI reported.
"Individuals who experience chronically exaggerated cardiovascular responses are believed to be at greater health risk than individuals who do not. Thus, the implication is that chronic fatigue may pose a health risk under some performance conditions," said study leader Rex Wright.
DNA Repair Capacity Affects Lung Cancer Risk in Non-smokers
A lack of DNA repair capacity may be a cause of lung cancers that occur in non-smokers, say researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. About 15 percent of lung cancers occur in non-smokers.
The researchers found that non-smokers with less efficient DNA repair ability were almost twice as likely to develop lung cancer, compared to non-smokers with normal DNA repair capacity, United Press International reported.
Non-smokers with the lowest DNA repair capacity were more than three times more likely than average to develop lung cancer.
"Our findings demonstrate that suboptimal DNA repair capacity together with secondhand smoke exposure are strong lung cancer risk factors in lifetime never smokers," UPI quoted lead author Olga Gorlova as saying in a prepared statement.
The study appears in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
Unsafe Water Causes Many Diseases, Deaths: WHO
More than 9 percent of diseases and 6 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by unsafe water, says a World Health Organization report released Thursday. Dengue fever and diarrhea are among the diseases that can be transmitted via water.
Developing countries are disproportionately affected by water-related health problems. For example, unsafe water causes less than 1 percent of deaths in developed countries, compared with an average of 8 percent in developing countries, Agence France Presse reported.
Death rates in certain poor countries can be much higher, such as 24 percent in Angola.
"In the 35 most affected countries, over 15 percent of diseases could easily be prevented by improved water, sanitation, and hygiene," said report author Annette-Pruss-Ustun, AFP reported.
Low-Fat Milk May Benefit Kidney/Heart Health
Low-fat milk may offer protection against poor kidney function linked to heart disease, according to American and Norwegian researchers.
They measured the kidney function of more than 5,000 adults, ages 45 to 84, and found that those who consumed at least one serving of low-fat milk or milk products a day were 37 percent less likely than those who had little or no low-fat milk to have poor kidney function related to heart disease, United Press International reported.
The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The authors noted that previous research suggests that milk protein, vitamin D, and magnesium may contribute to milk's potential heart health benefits, UPI reported.
Maker of Anti-Flu Drug Seeks Corporate Stockpiling
The maker of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu has begun a program to encourage company stockpiling of the drug -- for an annual fee.
The plan announced Thursday by Roche Holding AG coincided with an effort by the U.S. government to begin encouraging corporate stockpiling of anti-flu drugs, since government reserves wouldn't include enough medication to treat every person in the United States in the event of a widespread flu outbreak, the Associated Press reported.
Experts have long warned that the virulent strain of bird flu that has been largely confined to Asian fowl over the past several years could mutate into a form that's more easily passed from animal-to-person and person-to-person, sparking a human flu pandemic.
Roche's plan includes provisions to substitute new supplies when older doses of Tamiflu expire, the wire service said.
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Where to philosophise
A Place for Thought
Today, I met a taxi driver who told me that he often philosophised. He didn’t share any of his philosophy with me -- all he wanted to talk about was a pet budgie in Japan (I didn’t know they had pet budgies in Japan) which had gone missing and then recovered by the police because his owner had taught him to recite his name and address -- but I don’t doubt that he did it. Everybody does it in that everybody reflects on life and some of us feel the urge to put our idle thoughts into some sort of rational order.
But where do you do it? Well, I don’t recommend a taxi, especially not if you’re driving me (I want care and attention on the part of people upon whose skills my life depends). A favourite place these days is the university, but is that the best place? Philosophy should be a response to deep intellectual and emotional needs: there’s something unphilosophical about clocking in for a day as a philosopher, a lot of which consists of admin work.
You could do it just walking the streets, of course, especially if you talk to anybody you bump into. Sometime around 399 BC, Socrates, who normally hung out at the Lyceum, a gymnasium and public meeting place, bumped into a guy called Euthyphro outside the portico of the king archon (or king-magistrate). The resulting dialogue, set down (and perhaps invented) by Socrates’s student Plato gave us, among much else, the Euthyphro dilemma: 'Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?' This is a question that will be with us as long as people want to found their morality on a belief in God, so it’s a pretty good argument for taking philosophy to the streets.
Or you could try philosophising in as much silence and solitude as you can find. On a November night in Bavaria in 1619, René Descartes was sitting, he tells us, alone in a stove. He means a room heated by a stove but the point is that the open end of a stove, by which the heat is fed with wood, is on the other side of a wall separating the room from the kitchen; so to sit here is to enjoy a solitude, rare in the seventeenth century, undisturbed by the comings and goings of servants tending the fire.
He had potent dreams in the heavy fug and emerged with a plan: might not a single man, he asked, reform philosophy by reforming his own mind a step at a time, proceeding like one who walks alone in darkness?
But it’s not always good to be lonely. The great twentieth-century German contemporary Martin Heidegger really was a lonely thinker. For him language was fundamental but it was to be engaged with not in the Socratic dialogue of the marketplace but in the solitude of the mountains, amidst the raw reality of nature.
From 1922, Heidegger spent a lot of his time at a cabin in the Black Forest Mountains. It was made of timber and had just three rooms.
'Strictly speaking I myself never observe the landscape,' he said. He experienced it in its hourly and seasonal changes, and his philosophical work was one with the work of the peasants among whom he lived.
Heidegger wrote in two places: the city (he was rector of the University of Freiburg) and the hut in the mountains. It is difficult not to see a tension here between the urban and rural, difficult not to be reminded by the great scandal of Heidegger’s life: his membership of the Nazi party and opposition to Jewish influence in university life. Can we not see in this love of nature, this identification with the simple ways of the rural peasantry, a sharp contrast with the world of the city, which to the fascist eye looks cosmopolitan, argumentative, noisy and Jewish?
Heidegger argued otherwise. The ambition to rule the world emerged, he said, from the will to mastery over nature, the 'metaphysical essence of modernity.' It is in the realm of the city -- where this will finds its most forceful expression -- that fascism arises, not in that of the hut.
Delivered at the height of Nazi power, this explanation cannot, perhaps, be seen as special pleading. Nonetheless, Heidegger’s implausible attempts to identify his work with that of the peasant, his preference for the inarticulate opposition of nature to the complexities and ambiguities of human argument, curiously deprive his philosophy of any sense of his own agency. He shared a preoccupation with place and region common in German romantic thought as far back as the eighteenth century: it is as though he believes that the landscape speaks through him in the way that it speaks through Wagner’s Siegfried..
He invoked the world of his cabin in 1934 when declining the chair of philosophy in Berlin. Was there in Germany, or anywhere else in Europe at the time, a city that better represented modernity than Berlin? Yet, faced with the prospect of working there, Heidegger writes: 'my whole life is sustained and guided by the world of these mountains and their people.'
Building was for him 'the basic character of Being', and when he sought an example of it, it was a farmhouse in the Black Forest, in which 'earth and sky, divinities and mortals' entered into things ordered by the house. For good or ill, and probably for both, the timber cabin was inseparable from what he thought and the way the thought it.
Ultimately, then, I think that doing philosophy means meeting people who might disagree with you, as Socrates did, people who might even get bored -- Euthyphro: 'Another time, Socrates; for I am in a hurry, and must go now.' I don’t know about taxis, though. | <urn:uuid:4ec039f1-cd2a-4c47-9d5b-5889deb40404> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/blog/4028946 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975253 | 1,257 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Australians may join UN force in Sudan
A home of sorts ... Sudanese refugees ride their horses through camp Iridimi in Chad. Even more refugees may flee fighting in Darfur as heavy rains begin. Photo: Reuters/Radu Sigheti
Australia is looking to send troops to restore peace to Sudan, more than a century after 750 New South Welshmen arrived in the west African nation as Australia's first military expeditionary force.
The move may come in the wake of a declaration by the US Congress that the killings in Sudan's Darfur region constitute genocide. The United Nations has been reluctant to use that term, which in law has a specific and narrow definition.
Sudan Government-backed Janjaweed militia have killed thousands and displaced millions of non-Arabs in recent months in Dafur, in the west of the country.
The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, said the terminology used to describe the killings was less important than fixing the problem. "Whatever you call it, it's a catastrophe," he said after meeting the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, last week.
USAID projects a death toll of 300,000 to 1 million from violence and starvation.
Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, joined his New Zealand counterpart, Phil Goff, yesterday in pledging more aid, condemning the violence and calling for a Security Council resolution to back a peacekeeping mission. Australia could send troops to join a UN force, but no decision had been made, he said.
"It would be appropriate for us to make a small contribution to such a peacekeeping force if such a peacekeeping force would eventuate," Mr Downer said.
"Whatever happens there, we can't let people in Sudan die at the rate they've been dying."
Sudan is shaping as a test for the UN to prove its peace-keeping credentials. It also presents a chance for the US to repair bridges with allies estranged by the Iraq war.
Earlier Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria opposed a threat of sanctions against Sudan in a US-drafted UN resolution aimed at keeping the pressure on Sudan until atrocities against civilians in Darfur stop, diplomats said.
The Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, says a decisive UN intervention could succeed.
A spokesman said: "It is too late to prevent substantial ethnic cleansing, but if the UN Security Council acts decisively - including by preparing to authorise the use of force as a last resort - there is just enough time to save hundreds of thousands of lives directly threatened by Sudanese troops and militias and by looming famine."
Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has asked officials to draw up plans for possible military intervention, but the country's immediate focus is on supporting the African Union, which is deploying 60 ceasefire monitors backed by a 300-strong protection force in Darfur.
How to help
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently signed legislation to designate the state Route 76 bridge crossing Interstate 86 in Sherman as the Alfred F. Jones Memorial Bridge.
"Alfred Jones was a true New Yorker, leaving his home to fight against oppression during World War II, and then returning to our state to build up communities in Western New York," Cuomo said. "The new Alfred F. Jones Memorial Bridge will help keep his memory alive and encourage all of us to follow his example to serve our nation and make an impact in our communities. He is a hometown and national hero who should not be forgotten, and I commend the bill sponsors for taking the lead in renaming this bridge to commemorate Mr. Jones' service."
Alfred F. Jones served in the military as a World War II tank commander in the 751st Tank Battalion. After serving his country, Jones returned to Mayville, where he devoted most of his adult life to the promotion and development of Western New York.
"As a World War II U.S. Army tank commander, Alfred F. Jones was a great representative of his generation,'' said state Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean. "He successfully fought to help save the world from oppression, and returned home to contribute to his community. Mr. Jones was a tireless advocate for completing Route 17, later Interstate 86, as a Chautauqua County legislator. His service to his country and community is recognized by naming a bridge crossing Route 76 on that highway in his honor."
His crowning achievement was the completion of I-86. Starting in 1990, then Chautauqua County Legislator Alfred F. Jones and his colleagues began an advocacy campaign for the completion of what they referred to as the "Missing link," a 20-mile stretch of I-86 that remained a two-lane highway.
"Alfred F. Jones accomplished a great deal for Chautauqua County, as a county legislator, dedicated volunteer and tireless public servant. He devoted most of his adult life to the promotion and development of Western New York," said state Assembylman Andrew Goodell, R-Chautauqua County. "His efforts on our behalf are best illustrated through his successful campaign for the designation of the Southern Tier Expressway as Interstate 86. Sen. Young and I were glad to sponsor this tribute and are especially thrilled to see it come to fruition." | <urn:uuid:421ca355-81d3-4a13-87b5-932175676900> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.westfieldrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/518249/Sherman-Bridge-Named-After-Former-County-Legislator.html?nav=5004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980115 | 491 | 1.90625 | 2 |
It's Lent, time to pick up the good book! Here are five things "everyone should know about the Bible."
Five Things Everyone Should Know About The Bible, Believe It or Not
By Kristin Swenson in The Huffington Post
The Bible is a peculiar book, and it's hard to get straight information about it. If you're one of those people with a nagging feeling that you should know more about the Bible than you do -- or even if you can recite chapter and verse (but don't know that those chapters and verses come from a 13th century archbishop of Canterbury and a 16th century Parisian, respectively) -- then these five basic things will catapult you to a new level of biblical literacy. Though I might be handing you clunky corrective eyewear instead of sexy kitten glasses, I promise that they will change the way you look at the Good Book, clarifying and focusing your understanding.
1. Every Bible is actually a collection of books. The word itself means something like "little library." Many of the Bible's books developed over a long period of time and include the input of a lot of people (ancient Israelites, Babylonian Jews and Greek pastors, to name a few), reflecting particular places (urban Jerusalem, the northern Galilee, rural Judah and ancient Persia, for example) and times (spanning as much as 1,000 years for the Old Testament and a couple of centuries for the New Testament). Plus, the collection as a whole developed over centuries. This helps to explain the tremendous variety of theological perspectives, literary style, and sometimes perplexing preoccupations (which animal parts go to which parties in which categories of sacrifices, e.g.), as well as why some texts disagree with others.
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Why did Instagram's founders dilute their own stake in the company just four days before finalizing its acquisition?
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Instagram.
A mere 551 days after its founding, the photo-sharing startup sold itself to Facebook for a very cool billion dollars. Even Sean Parker would be impressed. But one part of the sale has confused rather than impressed people. Why did Instagram close a second funding round just four days before it finalized its acquisition?
Let's back up. There are three ways a startup can fund itself: (1) debt, (2) equity, or (3) some hybrid of the two. Most companies sell stock, although hybrid instruments like convertible debt -- that is, debt that gets turned into equity at a later date -- are also common. Founders love hybrid financing because it lets them stockpile their most valuable asset, which is shares in their company. After all, any time a startup does sell stock, its founders get diluted. Their shares make up a smaller piece of the pie, which means they're worth less. In Instagram's case, their Series B round -- which, again, came four days before today's sale -- raised $40 million at a $500 million post-money valuation. Whatever the size of the pie, the founders has reduced their slice by 8 percent. Meanwhile, the value of the Series B investors doubled.
Instagram was already beating Facebook in mobile photos -- a space Facebook thinks is critical to its future success. With a swelling war chest, Instagram could keep growing and beating Facebook in this space. Maybe Facebook panicked a little bit. Maybe they made a savvy deal. Regardless, it looks like Instagram's venture funding kicked Zuckerberg into making them an offer they couldn't refuse. | <urn:uuid:bf19ee2a-2b0a-457d-bb60-a6ca8cef66c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/the-weirdest-thing-about-the-instagram-deal/255638/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965718 | 360 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Commoditization and economies of scale drive cloud computing. We've seen before what commoditization means to the IT industry: It stimulates standardization and consolidation to serve a volume market. The success of x86-based CPUs, which dominate everything from data centers to high-performance computing, is a common example. In the software industry, commoditization raised standards and led to the commercial adoption of open source.
It is impossible to imagine a corporate data center without Linux. Even if it’s not used under the core applications, Linux is present in web servers, routers, firewalls, and storage appliances. Upcoming cloud computing providers face increasing price pressures and must therefore provide greater economies of scale than the majority of corporate data centers. They use Linux heavily as an operating system today.
But open source goes beyond Linux for cloud providers. Many providers of public cloud services (or the more local flavor of virtual private clouds) have realized that developing a full cloud computing management stack requires significant software development efforts. Some of the leading midrange cloud providers, such as Rackspace, as well as several cloud component vendors (such as cloud billing systems) support an open source initiative called OpenStack. The goal is to provide a full cloud management stack based on open source for cloud providers and large-scale corporate data centers, such as NASA. What a Linux distribution was for a traditional server, OpenStack is for a full cloud provider business model, regardless of privacy level — public, private, or virtual private.
The Nebula appliance announced today jumps right into this space and provides a standardized hardware configuration for OpenStack implementations. It offers scaled-out compute power based on commoditized x86 CPUs and standardizes a configuration of switches and other components to glue a large number of these CPUs together. The new VC-backed startup will thus compete head to head with EMC’s Vblock and Microsoft’s Azure appliance; neither of these are based on open source, and the latter isn’t really on the market yet.
But Nebula is more than just a hardware deliverable. Its mission is to transparently standardize the cloud hardware stack. Basically, it’s nothing more than the complex specification Microsoft worked out with its hardware partners (Dell, Fujitsu, and HP) to deliver the Azure appliance to local cloud providers and large-scale private clouds. However, Nebula’s openness is the differentiator; it reminds me a bit of IBM’s approach around the original personal computer back in the 1970s. Sure, it enabled hardware competitors to produce compatible PCs — but it also brought mass adoption of the PC, outperforming Apple over four decades.
If Nebula delivers a compelling price point, it has an appealing approach that could gain significant share in the growing cloud hardware market. If the new company aims to spur a revolution similar to that of the PC, its founders need to tweak their strategy soon:
What does this mean? Mobile, video-communicating, iWorkers will be able stay connected easily and affordably later this quarter when all of these components are generally available. Using the PC client, a very portable codec (about the size of a half-notebook at 8” x 5” x 1”) and camera, and a hosted bridging service, these iWorkers can connect to many standards-based, open video endpoints at HD resolutions. The required components are:
LifeSize Connections service - $360/year.
LifeSize Passport Connect codec and camera - $1,000 up front.
Mirial ClearSea client account - $480/year (this is available today, and it worked well when I tried it).
I just returned from Las Vegas where my meetings with Cisco executives, including John Chambers, Gary Moore, David Hsieh, Murali Sitaram, Kara Wilson, and OJ Winge, clearly demonstrated that Cisco is still moving forward. John Chambers and his team were in lockstep talking about two things: corporate strategic imperatives and organizational foundations for success
I believe that Cisco is sounding very much like a mature market leader as it balances risks and rewards in the rapidly changing markets for networking and collaboration. Precise financial measures got little talk time, but there were plenty of mentions that forward-looking statements do not supersede financial guidance given at regular updates — the team was focused on Cisco's plans to fuel future innovation, maintain its market position, and continue working on strategic relationship development with its most important customers.
John and the entire Cisco management team are focused on five corporate strategic imperatives:
Core routing/switching innovation and optimization.
Virtualization (including data center and cloud) technologies.
Video as a primary communication medium and IT task.
Architecture — defining and delivering IT architecture for businesses and service providers.
I am starting a report looking at the social capabilities that will be of use to business and how those integrate (or don’t) with existing unified communications and collaborations solutions (UC&C). One truism that I am incorporating into my thinking is that engagement — users want to come back and use a tool because it was easy, useful, and (gasp) fun — will drive adoption, and thus penetration and ultimately business value. This seems to be the way that Mark Zuckerberg is thinking about Facebook growth as well. In his discussion of the integration with Skype yesterday, he posited that user volume is not the metric to watch for Facebook right now — despite its attainment of 750 million users. So what does Facebook see as its strategic imperative, and how does Skype help it attain that?
It’s not the absolute number — it’s the ubiquity. If it is reasonable for people to find information or people on Skype, it will accelerate the momentum of adoption. Something Forrester has been saying since 2008.
It’s not the people — it’s the activities you do jointly with the people. “Farmville,” “Friend,” “Group,” “Like,” “Stalk,” “Status,” and “Wall” are all words with new or special meaning to users because they describe what they do on Facebook. This is the engagement point from above — it’s not who you connect with, but what that connection enables you to do with them.
Many non-US organizations operate under privacy regulations that require that customer data remain within their countries or jurisdictions. In response, US cloud providers build data centers and host their applications inside countries that they're selling their solutions to.
However, all this is nothing but theater. These requirements are far more useful as a local jobs program rather than as an effective privacy practice. I've warned about this before: Any US vendor is going to be handing over data under a US subpoena, and most certainly under a National Security Letter. It doesn't matter if it resides in a data center on US soil, in the EU, or even in outer space.
So it's refreshing to see a vendor openly admit this, as Microsoft has.
Maybe now that we're all starting to be honest with each other this issue will gain some traction, and vendors will begin to incorporate some real data protection measures into our cloud environments, such as encrypting the data in such a way where only customers - not the cloud providers - have the keys. I suspect we'll start to see such requirements begin to show up in a lot of RFPs. | <urn:uuid:00fa3d95-0c03-4365-aeec-4e56887e8de8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.forrester.com/archiver/201107/2?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943971 | 1,539 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The role that Google Webmaster Tools plays in the daily lives of many Web workers is a significant one.
From monitoring the health of a website (e.g. crawl errors), to understanding the queries that users employ to find a website, the most savvy ‘Net professionals make the information available through the platform a key driver of their decision making. For many however, the process is just too time intensive.
Fortunately, Google over the past year has introduced features into Webmaster Tools that help keep Webmasters (or anyone responsible for Web success) in the know about a site’s performance and prominence in the search engine’s index without forcing them to analyze all the data and identify the most important issues on their own.
Google previously rolled out alerts for Crawl Errors for example, but this week introduced alerts for Search Queries data. And the SEO community cheered!
The Search Queries feature in Webmaster Tools as you may well know shows the impressions and clicks of a website’s top pages over time. When there is a spike or a drop in either, Google will now post an alert in the account (there is a ways to set up forwarding so the message can be received via email) making it quite a bit easier to know about the most significant shifts occurring.
Know that spikes or drops are actually quite routine or common and that many factors can be at play and cause these alerts. For example, there may be technical issues caused by a storm one day, an on-site SEO update may have caused some redirects to break, or it may even simply be related to “differing demand for your content” as Google so sublimely stated. Whatever the reason, it's not hard to agree that the alerts will prove useful and be welcomed by users. | <urn:uuid:ae16c31a-bdef-445e-883d-cf6a841b074c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/08/22/search-query-alerts-from-google.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944189 | 365 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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I'd like to learn more about why the wind is so much more favorable at dawn. It is clear that is the best time for the surf, but I am trying to learn to balance that with the favorable tides. Any ideas on how best to understand this? Thanks!
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Well, Jack, if you hadn't become a lifeguard, you would have remained in synch with the ocean (Big Wednesday allusion) and would already know the answer.
Generally winds are calmer at dawn and it usually has to do with pressure gradient. Land heats and cools roughly 5x faster than water. The same sunshine beats down on the land and the water, but the land reacts to it more quickly. When the water is significantly cooler than the land (ie, the land has warmed up significantly), the air pressure above it is higher. the air (wind) moves from high pressure (over water) to lower pressure (over land). this onshore push turns the waves into poo. This phenomenon usually kicks in on days I plan to work in the morning and knock off early to go surfing in the afternoon.
On days, where there is little macroscale (large scale) atmospheric system influence in a region, microscale processes such as the land/sea breeze phenomenon come into play. The land/sea breezes occur from temperature gradients between the ocean and land, especially right along the coast line.
Dawn, can often be the coolest time of day on land. So, if at this time, the land is much cooler than the ocean, the difference in temperatures, creates an atmsopheric flow (pressure gradient) from the land to the ocean. This is when we have calm or offshore winds in the morning - land breezes.
Then, during the day, when the land heats up, and becomes warmer than the ocean, the opposite occurs. A pressure gradient sets up that creates a wind flow from the ocean to the land - sea breezes.
Today, for example, would not be a good example for the east coast, since we had a major frontal system move off the coast. These macroscale systems general have much more influence over the local winds then the small scale land/sea breezes.
As stated by Mikey, the land heats/cools much faster then the water, which allows for such temperature gradients.
On a large scale scope, temperature gradients are responsible for all weather systems. It is the differential heating of the sun on the earth that drives all atmospheric flow or pressure gradients.
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Diagrams - awesome! Thanks and @ Mikey - now I have to watch Big Wednesday! I know I am not the only one always checking and trying to fit in a session, balancing with work and other responsibilities. And I have a right brain, so I like to understand things.
Check out the link below. If you need help learning the forecasting side of things, it will certainly help you get out there a lot more when it's the best conditions. I wrote this up last year and it's helped quite a few of our friends: http://www.heatedwetsuits.com/reading-swell-charts/
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The Upper Delta Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Shooting Range near Stockton, Ala., in Baldwin Co., has new sod thanks to a partnership between the Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) and local Boy Scouts and volunteers.
Recently scouts from Troop 47 Fairhope, Troop 28 Mobile, Troop 78 Bay Minette, Troop 87 Daphne, Troop 76 Mobile, their scout leaders and local volunteers assisted WFF staff install new sod between the shooting line and targets. The sod was installed to improve aesthetics and as part of standard shooting range lead management practices. The Stockton Volunteer Fire Department also donated their resources to water the sod twice since it was laid in August.
WFF Assistant Supervisor and project coordinator Steve Barnett said the scouts helped install the half-acre of sod in three hours during the grueling South Alabama heat. “We sincerely appreciate all those that gave of their time considering the hot and humid conditions.”
According to Garrett J. Tirpak, Baldwin Co. District Training Chairman for the Mobile Area Boy Scout Council, the scouts jumped at the chance to fulfill the Scout Slogan to do a good turn daily. “Department of Conservation Hunter Safety personnel have been instrumental for the past three years in the Mobile Area Council annual High Adventure Scout Weekend,” Tirpak said. “This project was a way we could return the favor.”
Opened in 2006, the Upper Delta WMA Shooting Range offers eight covered shooting stations for pistols or rifles. A 20-foot long steel tube that bullets travel through controls the trajectory of the bullet and prevents errant rounds from impacting outside of the earthen berm. A shotgun range is directly adjacent to the pistol and rifle range. The Upper Delta WMA range was constructed using funds from the sale of state hunting licenses and a federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition.
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The peninsula of Yucatan is a paradise of white sandy beaches washed by turquoise warm waters; an emerald green land amidst the Mayan jungle. In this marvelous setting, windows open up to discover the un-earthly world of the Ancient Gods.
The Mayans considered the “Dzonot”- today known as Cenotes, as sacred. Indeed, these subterranean rivers and sources of fresh water were home to their Gods and refuge to their oldest customs and traditions.
Exploring the crystalline waters of these caves is a unique adventure. The amazing fossils testify of an ancestral sea and thousands of stalactites and stalagmites add to the magic of the place. Any visitor can sense it; these places are out of this world!
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|Big Bang Nucleosynthesis|
None of the "counting" arguments described above are capable of telling us much about the nature of the dark matter. In particular, these arguments don't help us figure out whether the dark matter is baryonic matter (like gas or dust) or something more exotic. To decide that question we need more information, and one of the strongest pieces of evidence that the dark matter is exotic is Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).
Some of the lightest chemical elements in the universe - in particular, deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), helium-3, helium-4, and lithium-7 - are created in the early moments of the universe, when the whole universe was hotter than the interior of a star. The amounts of each of these nuclei that were formed depends critically on the conditions in the early universe - in particular, the balance between baryonic matter (protons and neutrons) and non-baryonic matter (neutrinos and exotic particles). Based on these ratios, astronomers have concluded that, in the universe as a whole, dark matter outmasses baryonic matter by a factor of almost 10.
The basis for this line of argument comes down to a question: how did the various chemical elements of the periodic table form? It turns out that these elements are made in several different ways. Helium is made from hydrogen by nuclear fusion in the core of stars. In the most massive stars, heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and even iron are formed in later stages of the star's lifetime. Elements heavier than iron are formed by the heat of exploding stars (supernovae).
These processes do not, however, account for the very lightest elements - helium (not all of it can be accounted for by the stars), deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), lithium, and beryllium. The last three on this list are particularly troublesome because they are actually destroyed within stars, not formed. Where did these elements come from?
According to the Big Bang model, the universe began in an extremely hot and dense state and has spent the last 13 billion years expanding and cooling. For the first second or so of its history, the universe was so hot that atomic nuclei could not form - space was filled with a hot soup of protons, neutrons, electrons, and photons (as well as other, short-lived particles). Occasionally a proton and a neutron may collide and stick together to form a nucleus of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), but at such high temperatures these clusters will be broken immediately by high-energy photons.
When the universe cools off a bit more, these high-energy photons become rare enough that it becomes possible for deuterium to survive. At this point, a race begins. These deuterium nuclei can keep sticking to more and more protons and neutrons, forming nuclei of helium-3, helium-4, lithium, and beryllium. This process of element-formation is called "nucleosynthesis". The denser protons and neutrons are at this time, the more of these light elements will be formed. As the universe expands, however, the density of protons and neutrons decreases and the process slows down.
It turns out, however, that neutrons are unstable (with a lifetime of about 15 minutes) unless they are bound up inside a nucleus. After a few minutes, therefore, the free neutrons will be gone and nucleosynthesis will grind to a halt. That's the race - there is only a small window of time in which nucleosynthesis can take place, and the relationship between the expansion rate of the universe (related to the total matter density) and the density of protons and neutrons (the baryonic matter density) determines how much of each of these light elements that are formed in the early universe.
Astronomers can use various techniques to study the amount of these light elements that are present in various distant parts of the universe. The abundances of these isotopes have led cosmologists to believe that in the universe as a whole, baryonic matter is far outmassed by some kind of exotic, non-baryonic matter.
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Posted on Wed, Jan. 09, 2008
last updated: January 09, 2008 07:25:13 PM
WASHINGTON — As President Bush and Congress weigh the need for a stimulus package to ensure that the slowing economy keeps growing, experts warn that there's insufficient evidence the effort is needed and that it could do more harm than good.
No one can yet say with certainty that the U.S. economy is about to enter a recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. And by the time that becomes clear, a stimulus plan could be too late to do much immediate good.
"I just don't see anything useful getting done quickly, and the first half of the year is the critical period," said David Wyss, the chief economist for the rating agency Standard & Poor's in New York.
Driving talk of a stimulus package is last Friday's weak employment data, which showed anemic growth of just 18,000 non-farm payroll jobs, the weakest in four years. If that's followed by similar numbers in the months ahead, it would point to weaker consumption. And since consumer spending drives about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, it could point to a recession.
It's why President Bush admitted Monday that there were new "economic challenges," and it's what has led his aides to confirm that he's weighing a stimulus package. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein earlier had called for targeted measures now to keep the economy out of recession.
Bush's last stimulus package in 2001-2002, amid a recession and after the 9-11 terror attacks, included tax breaks for businesses to spend more on equipment, inventories and hiring. It also extended unemployment benefits, expanded food-stamp programs and provided one-time government checks to about two-thirds of all citizens.
Most of those ideas are under discussion again. The White House is mulling a citizen tax rebate to spur spending and incentives for businesses to spend and hire. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on Bush Tuesday to lower the corporate capital gains tax as he did for individual taxpayers.
For political reasons, a stimulus package seems almost certain. Bush doesn't want to sink his party's election chances with a sluggish economy or, worse yet, one that's in recession.
Yet on strictly economic terms, the case for a stimulus package isn't clear.
For starters, December's employment data may have been an aberration.
James Paulsen, the chief investment strategist for Wells Capital Management, part of the large national bank Wells Fargo, points to an unusually large number of people who fell into the category of "not at work due to Bad Weather" during the Labor Department's recent reporting period. The December figure of 187,000 was about 59,000 people above the historical average for that month.
"I think this suggests that perhaps many reports for December were 'downside' weather distorted," he wrote in a Jan. 4 note to investors.
Paulsen and some other economists believe economic growth during the last three months of 2007 may prove stronger than forecast, perhaps as high as 2 percent. That would mean proof of a recession wouldn't be apparent until at least June. And on the heels of 4.9 percent growth in the third quarter of 2007, it suggests strong tailwinds could lead to slower growth but not a recession.
That view was shared by the National Federation of Independent Businesses. On Tuesday, it released its December survey of economic trends affecting small businesses, which found that its members still plan to add jobs and boost spending.
"Overall, no recession in the data, just slow growth with, unfortunately, higher than desired inflation," wrote William Dunkelberg, the federation's chief economist.
Aides to President Bush said he's not expected to discuss any stimulus plan until the State of the Union address on Jan. 28. Leading Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate confirm that they, too, are crafting a stimulus package.
"Democrats' top priority is addressing the struggles middle-class Americans face every day. We're exploring a number of options designed to strengthen the middle class and solve our broader economic problems," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
But no one is sharing details.
"It's really hard to be optimistic about the process because it is an election year," said Vincent Reinhart, a former top Federal Reserve economist now working for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy research group.
Experts fear that a stimulus could come with a cost to long-term economic well being.
When Bush got a stimulus package through Congress in 2001, he did it with a budget surplus. For the 2007 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30, the federal deficit swelled to $163 billion, a stark number but one not historically high as a percentage of the total economy. Reinhart fears the president and Congress could pile on to the deficit.
"Anytime you start from a hole, digging usually isn't the strategy to get out of it," he said.
That's a concern shared by a GOP deficit hawk, Ohio Sen. George V. Voinovich.
"We should not be attempting to stimulate the economy of today by piling on more debt for our children and grandchildren of tomorrow," he warned in an e-mail.
Robert Greenstein, executive director of the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, urged Congress to keep any stimulus plan narrowly focused.
"We're very worried about the potential of this to become a freight train for other things and get out of hand," he said.
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Historian Devon A. Mihesuah's first novel, The Roads of My Relations, covers two centuries in the lives of a Choctaw family. Mihesuah's previous non-fiction works include American Indians: Realities and Stereotypes (1996), Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary (1998) and Natives and American: Researching and Writing about American Indians, editor (1999). She is the currently the editor of the American Indian Quarterly and Professor of American Indian history at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
The Roads of My Relations takes advantage of Mihesuah's academic and personal knowledge of one woman's family to illustrate a larger society. Even before the novel begins, there is a diagram of the family tree showing the relationships of the family members. While this tree is helpful, it is not really necessary for understanding this book. Actually, The Roads of my Relations seems to be two books.
One book is the story of Billie Watchman, her predecessors, ancestors and extended family. The main narratives are the diaries and journals of various family members from Billie's childhood in Mississippi through the 1830's when the U.S. government forcibly relocated tribes of Seminoles, Cherokee, Choctaw and Crow from the southern United States to Oklahoma. The diaries continue into the 21st century, describing the many locales where the family settles, including Washington, D.C.
Billie is nearly one hundred years old when the novel begins. She paints a vivid portrait of her home in eastern Oklahoma:
…a land of forests and streams. Blues and yellow wildflowers cover hillsides and meadows and dense thickets of oaks grow among taller pecan or cottonwood trees. . . . Every morning I walk my trail to get water for my garden, just as I hauled heavy buckets of river water to our farm in Mississippi.
She tells the story of her life before and after the "removal. " I knew of this experience as the "Trail of Tears. " Mihesuah's novel details many trails, many tears. As the novel progresses, Billie's voice comes from the diaries and journals that she has kept since she was a child. She says, "I've lived in a hurry, the same as other Indians did, like we expected to have only a few years to fit a lifetime into. That is how Indians have to live. "
Mihesuah's scholarly research is evidenced by the details in the various narratives. Her descriptions of life at the mission school are especially telling:
We arrived at the school shortly before lunch. The yard had five buildings and a barn that stood next to the classrooms. We smelled those animals all day, but I didn't mind it except for the pig stink. "Looks like all the teachers are white and the students are all Indians. Again. " I was disappointed. "Won't be doing much learning about Indians here. "
At the school Billie, Survella, and their friend, Clyde Lee, "made the best of a bad situation. " They taught each other at night. "We got an education, good jobs, then we did the teaching. "
Most of the diaries deal with events rather than emotions. The family members do not seem to handle strong emotion well. There are times that this attitude mirrors the mainstream idea of the "stoic" Indians. Billie recognizes her detachment. It is easy to believe that she has no feeling, but she tucks away her problems in a room in her brain. An acquaintance believes Billie has no problems. "What he said about me not having problems pained me because not only did my back hurt all the time, my mind did too. Family that I cared about was dead or gone. Just when I thought I could tuck all that away in one of my brain rooms, someone had to drag it all out again. "
Mihesuah uses the family's racial ambiguity to make important points about the dominant (white) society and the Indain culture. Billie's family is known as half-bloods. Her biological father was white and her mother "was half Choctaw and she looked all Indian. " Billie's siblings are various shades of brown. Some of them go to great lengths to stay as light as possible (even abandoning the family and passing for white), while others want to embrace their Indian identities wholeheartedly. The lighter siblings: Billie, sister Survella, and brother Teague are very interested in the "old ways. "
The "old ways" deal with the time before white men began to marry into the tribe. The second "book" deals with several Choctaw myths. Billie's family has first-hand experiences with ghosts, witches, and shape-shifters. These "non-real" happenings are part of the reality of the family and the culture and are treated with great respect. To comment further on these myths would be like telling the punch line of a joke. You have to tell the joke first. Here, you need to read the book.
The energy that the family members have to use to learn about their heritage and then pass that knowledge on to new generations does not leave a lot of time to deal with what they perceive as emotional baggage. Some of them become embittered by how they are treated, both by other Choctaws and by whites. Billie's family is not white enough to be white, nor "blood" enough to be Indians.
These issues are presented as things you can't do much about, so make the best of what you can. Billie keeps busy to make herself happy. The family members who become successful seem to be happier than the ones who sit around home complaining about how poorly they are treated. The Roads of My Relations does not shy away from contemporary issues in Native American society; it offers a sprawling, yet intimate, portrait of one family's place in that society and in the larger society in which we all live. | <urn:uuid:3646e1d3-1746-41c0-9fbc-16b27970e6e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://voices.cla.umn.edu/essays/fiction/the_roads_of_my_relations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975893 | 1,245 | 2.71875 | 3 |
- Developed in 1885 by inventor and engineer Mason Pearson, the Mason Pearson line of brushes continues to use the original designs created by Mason Pearson, with a few improvements made before 1920. Each brush and comb is hand-crafted and polished to perfection. This results in extremely smooth edges that feel comfortable in the hand and bristles and teeth that won't tug or pull at the hair. Men, women and children alike will love Mason Pearson brushes and combs.
Mason Pearson brushes are more than just styling aides. Brushing helps to distribute sebum, the body's natural oil, from the root along the strand, strengthening and shielding the hair. Mason Pearson brushes are designed to provide therapy to the hair and scalp while offering a stylish take on hair styling.
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“Florida Tomatoes Taste Great When You Don’t Refrigerate”
Treating your tomatoes with a little tender loving care will prevent them from being damaged. The most important thing to remember is to never, ever refrigerate tomatoes. A chilled tomato will not finish ripening as cold halts the ripening process. Cold also kills the flavor of tomatoes, so even when the tomatoes are fully ripe, keep them out of the refrigerator. In fact, place them on your counter where they can ripen and you can enjoy them.
If your Florida tomatoes are not yet ripe, you can ripen them by storing them at room temperature in a dry spot. A day or two at room temperature may be enough, usually no more than five days. Just wait until you can see they are a rich red color. Always store your tomatoes stem end up. Leaving a tomato on its shoulders, even for a few days, is enough to bruise it. | <urn:uuid:dea71584-e8ce-4898-8c4b-a96eb2ec0f00> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.floridatomatoes.org/storage-hints/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953815 | 196 | 1.84375 | 2 |
There are few upsides to the U.S. recession that left people across the country without jobs, and in some cases, homes. But if we had to pick one good thing that emerged from the economic mess, it would be the vacant land that is now being used to create a new urban agriculture revolution. In a new report, PolicyLink highlights the projects and policies around the country that are bringing urban agriculture to lower-income communities of color–and some of the big challenges that they’re dealing with.
When done well, urban agriculture initiatives can offer access to healthy food in areas that formerly had little, provide jobs and skills development, and provide a sense of community. Getting to the point where that’s possible isn’t easy, however. Among the hurdles that nascent urban agriculture projects have to overcome: water access, land use issues, inadequate business training, and insufficient income generation. | <urn:uuid:c138b898-893b-4537-96a4-566363b94342> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/green-city-growers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9475 | 185 | 2.78125 | 3 |
University of Notre Dame alumnus Norbert Wiech founded Lysomics LLC to manage the clinical development needed to bring to market a promising new treatment for people with Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease. FDA support is being sought for early clinical exploration of an approved drug to fight this rare disease that has no cure or treatment.
Lysomics is based on the work of Notre Dame professors of chemistry and biochemistry Olaf Wiest and Paul Helquist, and Frederick Maxfield at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College, to find treatments for NPC. NPC disease is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease that primarily strikes children before and during adolescence.
With support from the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, researchers from Notre Dame and Cornell University have demonstrated the effectiveness of small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) in correcting the NPC phenotype in human patient cells by increasing expression of the NPC1 protein.
The group is focusing on vorinostat, an FDA-approved anti-cancer treatment. Lysomics, which is seeking FDA approval to repurpose vorinostat to treat NPC, will soon submit an Investigational New Drug application. The existing FDA approval of this drug has previously established its safety in humans and means that several expensive steps are not required. Initial clinical trials could start next year. Lysomics is considering clinical collaborations with the National Institutes of Health and other clinical centers for the Phase 1 trials.
NPC, a genetic disease, affects fewer than 100 people in the United States, and an estimated 20-40 who are in the early stage of the disease could benefit from the treatment. Most patients die by the age of 16, and few survive beyond 25. The disorder prevents their bodies from processing cholesterol, which accumulates in the brain. Vorinostat is most effective in the early stages of NPC, although it could improve quality of life for older patients.
The effort will benefit from the 30-year-old Orphan Drug Act, which helps development of treatments for conditions that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. The federal law grants exclusive marketing for seven years after FDA approval, tax credits of 40 percent for clinical research expenses, grants for studies up to $200,000 per year for three years and a waiver of a high filing fee.
“Lysomics from the onset was a not-for-profit operation,” said Wiech, the company’s CEO. “You can’t get a drug approval unless you’re a company. A company has to be structured, so it can handle the data and do all the piles of paperwork that are required to go through this.” After approval, the drug will need no marketing because parents of children with NPC will be eager for access to the treatment, he said.
Contact: Paul Helquist, 574-631-7822, email@example.com
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Stitching a photo-mosaic
This section is a stub.
Definition of photo-mosaic
A photo-mosaic is an image that is stitched together by photographs all taken from different viewpoints. This differs from the panorama where all images are taken from one single viewpoint but with different angles.
The typical case of a photo-mosaic is the linear panorama, where one large subject like a wall, is photographed by taking photos of the wall, each covering a proportion of the wall, and moving the camera parallel to the wall with each shot.
The classical way to stitch these kinds of mosaics was to lay the prints out on a light-table and glue them together. Now with the mosaic-mode in the panotools lens model, it is possible to use the software estimate the camera position including angles, lens distortion etc. and to re-project and stitch the images to a photo-mosaic.
Understanding the mosaic lens model
The panotools lens model has been expanded with addition of three new parameters that describe the camera position in [cartesian coordinates], TrX, TrY, and TrZ
The yaw, pitch and roll angles now apply on the camera around the camera's TrX, TrY and TrZ position in space. Together these six parameters describe where the camera viewpoint is (TrX,TrY,TrZ) and the direction the camera's optical axis point(y,p,r).
Mosaic lens model
In order to generate a photo-mosaic from the individual images, the panotools lens model re-projects the images in the following way.
- Each image is projected onto a plane with the coordinates of (0,0,1). This re-projection is using all the lens model's parameters. The position parameters describe above, as well as FOV, distortion. etc
- The plane is projected onto the panosphere
- The panorama camera, which gives the viewpoint of the photo mosaic, sits in the center of the panosphere and looks straight ahead at the panosphere (and the perpendicular projection plane). This camera gives the FOV of the whole photo-mosaic
To illustrate the model, consider the following picture, which looks straight down at a photo mosaic which consists of three images taken "to the right" of the center.
- The unit-panosphere is drawn in gray.
- "The panorama camera" is centered in Origo, X,Y,Z =0
- Three photos are taken with camera positions 1, 2 and 3 by varying TrX,TrZ and Yaw
- The photos are reprojected to a plane (red) that touches the panosphere in (0,0,1) and then onto the panosphere using the "Panorama camera"
Because the projection plane is a plane and perpendicular to the panorama camera, there will be miss-fit when this assumption is not true for the real-world subject. For example, photos of a flat wall mural could be rendered perfect, while a three dimensional subject would not be. | <urn:uuid:62d76b98-0baf-466f-817b-ac9552a2ede7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wiki.panotools.org/index.php?title=Stitching_a_photo-mosaic&oldid=12347 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906146 | 642 | 3.5625 | 4 |
2007-2011 Progress Report
It began with a dream and a commitment to persevere with our mission in mind, E Ola Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i - The Hawaiian Language Shall Live. Political barriers, financial difficulties, skepticism and stereotypes were overcome so that the vision could be realized. While we celebrate the success of growing the number of students from less than 50 Hawaiian language speakers under the age of 18 to over 10,000 today, we are also mindful that the fulfillment of the vision has only just begun.
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A recent talk by Father Bob Pierson 1 quoted Joseph Ratzinger (as he then was, now Pope Benedict XVI) as saying that the individual conscience must overrule ecclesiastical authority. I was intrigued by Pierson's claim and looked up the original source, which is an early commentary2 on Gaudium et spes, specifically its Article 16. I've put the section quoted by Pierson in italics.
For Newman, conscience represents the inner complement and limit of the Church principle. Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, if necessary even against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. This emphasis on the individual, whose conscience confronts him with a supreme and ultimate tribunal, and one which in the last resort is beyond the claim of external social groups, even of the official Church, also establishes a principle in opposition to increasing totalitarianism. Genuine ecclesiastical obedience is distinguished from any totalitarian claim which cannot accept any ultimate obligation of this kind beyond the reach of its dominating will.
I am finding the final sentence quite difficult to parse. It seems like he is saying that genuine ecclesiastical obedience does accept a controlling role for conscience. But then it sounds like one can simultaneously disobey and "genuinely obey", which is odd. Elsewhere in the text, Ratzinger speaks about natural law and the Golden Rule as standards to diagnose and reshape the "erroneous conscience", and it surprised me that he doesn't also mention the Church there. Overall, I think I am missing something basic which would help me to understand what he means in the passage above.
So: What relationship between conscience and Church authority does the Pope actually envisage?
I'm looking for answers that draw on his other writings, up to the present day - in particular, sources that illuminate what he personally thinks, as opposed to those which are primarily about what the Church as a whole accepts.
1. Video and transcript here; I'm linking to Daily Kos because they're the only site I can find which provides a text transcript, not because I endorse Pierson, Kos, etc. The original talk was on homosexual civil marriage, but this question is emphatically not; I'm not asking whether he's right or wrong, just using his quotation to ask a different question.
2. Monograph by Joseph Ratzinger collected in Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, volume 5, ed. Herbert Vorgrimler (Herder and Herder, 1969). Translated by W. J. O'Hara from Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil, Dokumente und Kommentare (1968). The quoted text starts on page 134. | <urn:uuid:7085d64f-7e68-44c6-a822-12750c2711c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/8036/how-does-pope-benedict-xvi-reconcile-conscience-and-authority/8039 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954283 | 562 | 2.328125 | 2 |
(2010). Poincaré and complex function theory.
In: Bour, Pierre; Rebuschi, Manuel and Rollet, Laurent eds.
Construction: Festschrift for Gerhard Heinzmann.
London: College Publications, pp. 3–22.
Full text available as:
Poincaré is still well known for the mathematical work that first made his name : his discovery in 1880--1881 of automorphic functions. New documents and insights were added in [Gray and Walter 1999], which can also be consulted for references to the well-known history of his work in this area. He is also remembered for one further theorem that grew out of that early work : the uniformisation theorem, which he sketched a proof of in 1883 and then proved rigorously in 1907, as did Koebe independently. The rest of his numerous contributions
to complex function theory are more scattered and do not seem to have been the focus of much attention. In this paper I survey what he did and argue that they tell an eloquent story not only about the state of the subject
in the years around 1900 but about Poincaré's place in the mathematical community of his day. To understand either of these it is necessary to give a quick summary of the prior development of complex function theory, which was growing rapidly into a central topic in all mathematics, and that will occupy the first half of this paper. The second half will consider Poincaré’s contributions. We will see that although he was actively involved in many aspects of the subject, his influence is scarcely to be noticed in the many
books that were published, and I will investigate why that was and what it may tell us about relationship between research and teaching in the years around 1900.
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I've been playing with some new hardware today....
Check out the performance over .5 km and it's not even on half power!
It was doing a 5GB File transfer whilst watching IPlayer with CCTV going the other way and a Voip call
Wirespeed wireless... Now Im going to try and trunk 4 units to see if I can get 200 Mbps
What wireless devices where you using? Are you using two 802.11n AP's or a true wireless bridge?
Ubiquiti Nanostation M5's using 802.11A/N 5Ghz configured as a true bridge.
I forgot to say that was also running WPA2 as well.
These things are so cool.....
Do you think these would manage 6 miles non Line of Sight if mounted on top of both houses?
I wouldn't think so at 5ghz these are being used in the states for last mile Internet delivery though.
Oh, it's wimax. Does it need a license for that amount of power?
don't think it is.
Originally Posted by DMcCoy
i thought these products were a/g
Hmm, it seems you are right, it's not wimax, they call it Airmax, but it's a bit vague about the transmission power.
Ubiquiti uses the same Atheros based 802.11n chipsets as most all the other point to multipoint manufactures. There is a lot of outdoor wireless bridge equipment in the same class (e.g. Proxim MP8100 series). They have taken advantage of the 802.11n standard and using OFDM and MIMO. The one thing about Ubiquiti is they use some proprietary parts (like cables and antennas).
thanks for the info. what are these products on the market like as far as nLOS applications ? they also seem quite diverse as far as usage applications, is it still mainly building to building bridges or mesh applications because of the LOS ? operating in the unlicensed frequencies seems to make them more convenient as far as deployment and cost.
Originally Posted by AOWireless
It all depends on what your application is and throughput required (my disclaimer). Unlicensed radios take advantage of OFDM and MIMO (basically making multipath an advantage (see my blog on the topic and be sure to Digg it: "Non Line of Sight Point to Point Wireless Backhaul" - Non Line of Sight Point to Point Wireless Backhaul). The disadvantage is the risk of interference. The systems are cheap in costs because of the 802.11n chipsets they use. They work well and we deploy them for clients all the time. They work well for video backhaul. With nLOS you will end up with a lower modulation and lower throughput. I typically do not recommend them for an organizations primary backhaul. If you have LOS I always recommend licensed radios that do true full duplex and are immune to interference. The unlicensed radios use TDD and the throughput is aggregate. They also have a larger packet header due to the 802.11x standard. If you need a simple bridge they are great. If you need carrier grade connectivity go licensed.
Well, 24 Hrs uptime and I have been pushing 100mbps + through it continuously.
The default power output is set by default to 11db "Obey Regulatory Power " but what the heck if you turn this off it'll go to 27db and the signal strenght goes end stop!
Nothing overheating and no aircraft have landed in my back garden yet!
Interestingly the cat has decided to park itself directly in the beam path! I will see if has two heads in the morning.....
These units are 802.11A/N License free 5Ghz but are available in 2.4
I have now got a 1 Watt High Power 2.4Ghz unit from the same manufacturer to test this will be fed into 100 Meters of Leaky Feeder to provide Wifi access in a corridor that is lined in re-enforced concrete and steel where RF just can get in or out that will be interesting. | <urn:uuid:2c238dde-f904-4fc0-b88c-67a7b10f151b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.edugeek.net/forums/wireless-networks/print-55507-wifi-bridge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957348 | 851 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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the Allegheny Wild!
Unless you are a Bush Administration
policy analyst, you likely know that the northeastern United States
receives a tremendous amount of air pollution from the industrialized
Ohio and Tennessee River valleys. Coal-burning power plants and
millions of automobiles daily belch tons of pollutants into the
atmosphere that eventually finds its way here. The forests of the
Allegheny Plateau are severely affected through the loss of essential
elements and the interruption of photosynthetic processes. These
factors are contributing to the decline of a number of tree and
plant species while extractive operations such as logging exacerbate
the situation further.
"Soils on ridge tops in the
unglaciated Allegheny Plateau and the Ridge and Valley Provinces
of Pennsylvania have concentrations of plant available aluminum
detrimental to forest growth...[s]oil acidification is accelerated
by acidic deposition. Soil acidification in many areas of Pennsylvania
has reached the point where trees are stressed and subsequently
die and where leached aluminum has extirpated entire fish populations
from the state's most pristine headwater streams." (The
Effects of Acidic Deposition on Pennsylvania’s Forests: Penn
State University 1999)
The Allegheny National Forest receives
some of the most acidic rain in the country. Rain has been measured
in Kane on the eastern boundary of the Allegheny National Forest
at only a pH of 3.2. This is well over 500 times more acidic than
natural rain. As the rain continues to fall, the soil loses its
ability to buffer the effects of the acidity and the result is the
leaching of essential elements such as magnesium and calcium. As
more elements are leached, trees and other vegetation suffer the
Sugar maple by far has been the most
affected tree species. Some areas have experienced a 60% decline
in sugar maple. Other species are sure to be affected in the future
as the soil continues to lose its buffering capacity. It has been
documented that activities such as logging, road construction and
herbicide spraying add to the deleterious effects of acid precipitation
through erosion and further export of essential elements.
Ground Level Ozone
"...[w]hen conditions are right,
we see widespread leaf injury due to ozone, particularly on sensitive
species like black cherry." (Can Trees Afford to Stay
Outside? Penn State 2000)
Ozone naturally occurs in the stratosphere
where it filters harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun making
life on earth possible. Tropospheric, or ground level, ozone is
produced as a result of incomplete fuel combustion. The Allegheny
Plateau is subjected to very high concentrations of ground level
Our cities are best known for problems
with ground level ozone, where it is more commonly referred to as
smog. However, air is obviously not static and the pollution that
originates in urban areas from industrial development and automobiles
is transported away from its source to other locales.
This is how the Allegheny is impacted,
though there are local sources that contribute to this problem,
such as the refinery in Warren owned by United Refining Company.
How ground level ozone impacts our forests is fairly well documented.
Trees breathe through stomates, pore-like openings in their leaves.
As the tree breathes, it unwittingly takes in our pollution. Impacts
then depend upon the amount and type of pollution to which the tree
Penn State has documented that ground
level ozone greatly impacts black cherry trees. This could explain
why many black cherry trees often have thinning crowns. Stress associated
with ground level ozone would inhibit the growth of the tree, causing
reduced crowns that allow excessive sunlight to penetrate the canopy.
Also, it has been found that seedlings are much more impacted by
ground level ozone than older trees. This is because younger trees
have a higher rate of gas exchange. Essentially, logged forests
are facing increased stress to recover due to ground level ozone,
as well as other pollutants.
The emphasis on resource extraction
in the Allegheny over the past several decades has led to one of
the highest road densities of any national forest. In some areas,
particularly areas of intense oil and gas development, road densities
approach that of small cities - right in the middle of the forest.
This seriously degrades habitat for wildlife dependent upon unfragmented
mature forests. Furthermore, recreation opportunities are severely
impacted in areas such as this, as the Forest Service recently reported:
"In the last few years, the
number of new oil and gas wells being built on an annual basis has
been increasing...The value of the land to provide recreation opportunities
is diminshed in intensively developed oil fields. The land is crisscrossed
with roads, which are confusing to navigate and usually not open
to public travel. The sounds of vehicles, pump engines and heavy
equipment are common and pervasive. Trail systems that traverse
these fields are interrupted by frequent road crossings. Some trails
may be converted to roads when the trail is located in an appropriate
location for road building...Some of the developed oil fields cover
thousands of acres. The inherent character of the landscape is converted
to an industrial atmosphere in the midst of the forest."
(USDA Forest Service: Roads Analysis Report, 2003)
Allegheny Wild! Solutions
The Forest Service must incorporate
goals and objectives that address the impacts to the Allegheny National
Forest from air pollution and resource extraction and set specific
standards and guidelines for protecting and restoring habitats.
Under Allegheny Wild!, ending the commercial
logging program would eliminate a major compounding effect of soil
acidification. This would in essence "buy time" to develop
a strategic plan to restore degraded habitat while protecting other
areas from further impacts. With the commercial logging program
ended, so to would be the widespread use of herbicides and need
for additional road construction. This would further contribute
to the conservation of soils.
It is well documented how logging and
other extractive activities lead to the depletion of soil nutrients
and the degradation of wildlife habitat. The latest issue of Bioscience
listed logging as a factor contributing to the nitrification of
soils in the northeastern United States. Nitrification is the process
by which soils become 'loaded' with nitrogen as other essential
elements are depleted. This also accelerates soil acidification
A plan must be developed to counter
the very real impacts of resource extraction to our forests. Ending
logging, road building and herbicide spraying is the first step.
There also must be a move to significantly reduce the road network
and improve eroded stream banks. Road obliteration and stream restoration
would provide jobs for local residents while reducing the effects
of anthropogenic pollutants.
Allegheny Wild! Restoration
Decline Restoration Areas
These are several scattered areas which have been
most affected by air pollution. Sugar maple (from acid precipitation)
and American beech (beech bark disease) are important native hardwood
species that are declining in large numbers. Black cherry is another
tree species susceptible to air pollution. Efforts in these areas
will focus on the restoration of forest soils as a means towards
protecting tree health.
Extraction Restoration Areas
These areas have been impacted either by logging,
oil and gas drilling, road construction, surface mining or a combination
of these activities. Restoration activities would include road obliteration,
stream restoration, and restoring well-sites and surface mines through
the planting of native species.
Grunder Run Restoration Area
This area has been devastated by rampant oil and
gas drilling and a poorly maintained ATV trail. Pollution related
to the oil and gas drilling has degraded Grunder Run to the point
where it no longer supports healthy populations of wild trout. Restoration
of water quality in Grunder Run, as part of the upper Allegheny
River watershed, is important.
Highland-Sackett Restoration Area
This is the largest oil and gas development in the
Allegheny National Forest. The road density is similar to that of
Warren, the largest city in the Allegheny region (see above photo.)
There has also been extensive logging activity in this area and
there are many years of work to be done to restore this area to
anything that resembles a natural forest ecosystem.
Salmon-Tionesta Restoration Area
This area is on pace to become the next Highland-Sackett
development. There are at least 600 wells within an expanding development
led by Pennsylvania General Energy. The fragmentation of this once
pristine area of the Allegheny is a testimony to the Forest Service’s
irresponsible mismanagement of our forest. The opportunity exists
to cease the current rate of development before more of this valuable
area is lost in a patchwork of new roads and wells. A Pennsylvania
agency has already documented degradation of water quality in Salmon
Creek and its tributaries.
Westline Restoration Area
This is yet another area that has experienced a
sharp increase in oil and gas drilling activity. A cross-country
ski trail has been impacted here and more impacts are sure to occur
unless action is taken to stop the degradation. Several oil and
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James made his way on horseback into the Tennessee town of Fayetteville and with the intensity and focus of any professionally trained warrior, he walked the steps of the courthouse to register with the Tennessee Militia. But this would not be an ordinary day for James Luna or the state of Tennessee, as both would forever be touched by history.
Respected by Tennessee commanders as a well-trained military man, James was enlisted into the militia as an Ensign, an officer given the authority over several troops. Assigned under the command of the fearless Colonel Andrew Jackson, James Luna quickly took control of his men and proceeded to fight the British friendly Creeks in the famous Battle of Talladega: It would soon become known as the Creek War, an historically significant piece of the War of 1812.
On the same day that James Luna walked the steps of the Fayetteville, Tennessee courthouse, another young man took a parallel path and provided his signature to the same military paperwork. Like James, a man well respected by the community, Davy Crockett penned his name to the list of volunteers under the famous Andrew Jackson. But Davy was given the military rank of Sergeant, serving as a subordinate to James Luna throughout his Creek War tour.
Both men fought heroically at Forts Strother and Forts Deposite, withstanding the brutal effects of a war riddled with disease and starvation. The rebellious Creeks were out-manned by Colonial Jackson's troops and the Tennessee Militia's victories provided further motivation for the mighty Andrew Jackson to march troops into the Battle of New Orleans.
At the end of their tour in 1814, James Luna and Davy Crockett were both honorably discharged from the Creek War but each took a different path in history. One returned to his family and plantation in Nashville; the other took a political turn that history has painted as a larger than life legend. But as the history books have described the 'wild frontiersman' Davy Crockett as fighting bears with one hand, the Ensign James Luna quietly settled back into his home, tilling his farm and carving his precious wood pieces with his prized knife.
Finding the heroes within our own family histories is only a short read when searching through military records. All of us hope to find ancestors of great honors, perhaps discoveries previously unknown of great great grandfathers heralded in history books of fortitude and military prowess. But like my ancestor James Luna, history only has room for a few legends and heroes; leaving his heraldry to be discovered by only a few.
As I reflected on last week's meaning of Memorial Day and listened to military 'flybys' over my rooftop, I was reminded that we all have legends and heroes within our family histories. And it is important to remember that although the American Revolution, War of 1812 and the Civil War were significantly great: American heroes have fought in numerous other wars throughout history. Wars that many of us forget to research such as the Creek War, the Mexican War, Spanish-American War, Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Look for your legends and heroes in the 'other wars' at Online Military Indexes, Access Genealogy and Footnote.
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Stephanie Koorey’s piece on Libyan weapon supplies falls short of investigating properly the origin of many of the small arms seen in Libyan rebels’ arsenals. The star of Koorey’s piece – an ‘AK-100 series’ rifle shown in this Al Jazeera video clip – leads her to reasonably ask, ‘where are these from?’ Eastern Europe? South and Central Asia? Perhaps even South America? However, there exist possibilities closer to the conflict, and more to the story.
The gun in question is certainly an AK-103; the muzzle brake design and barrel length are different on the AK-102, AK-104, and AK-105, and the AK-101 and AK-74M are chambered for 5.56x45mm and 5.45x39mm, respectively, and feature correspondingly straighter magazines. The state-controlled Gafat Armament Engineering Complex in Ethiopia has been producing AK-103s for some time now as the ET-97/1 Automatic Rifle. Arms movement between the two countries has been well documented, though it is not extensive.
Another distinct possibility is that the rifles may well have come from within Libya itself.
We know the Libyan government planned to manufacture AK-103s under license, and it is likely that samples were sent over from Russia for assessment purposes. It is even possible that a pre-production run was manufactured within Libya. We’ve certainly seen pro-Qadhafi forces using the AK-103, which lends weight to this theory.
Koorey’s assertion that this “makes the Libyan rebels the first known non-state combatants to have AK-100s” is also untrue. There have been confirmed reports of non-state combatants using AK-100 series weapons in Chechnya (and probably Ingushetia), in Colombia (by FARC rebels, and likely by the ELN and cartels as well) and in other conflict zones. Private security contractors in both Iraq and Afghanistan have made use of Bulgarian 100 series clones. I’d be very surprised if a few examples hadn’t made it into the hands of militants in these or other parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, or in the Caucasus, India or the Balkans.
I have also heard personal accounts of AK-100 series rifles being sighted in the hands of Hezbollah fighters, which may well be connected to Iranian military use of AK-103s. Also, given that certain units in the Yemen Army use AK-104s, it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine a few examples turning up in the hands of Houthi militants or other groups in the region. Bearing in mind production first began in the 1990s, it is not surprising these weapons have been sighted around the world. The fact that countries like Venezuela and India have moved to produce these rifles under license relatively recently only serves to heighten the distribution of the AK-100 series.
So how will the presence of AK-103s affect the conflict in Libya? Almost unnoticeably; at this stage we have seen very limited stocks of the weapon. Even should the numbers of 100 series rifles increase, their acknowledged advantages over older AK-family weapons will have very little strategic impact, given the relatively low level of marksmanship training of the combatants involved. Unless the rebel forces can obtain significant numbers of them – and sufficient stockpiles of 7.62x39mm ammunition – we are not going to see this weapons system providing much of an advantage at all.
Image courtesy of The New York Times. Libyan Rebel with AK-103 (March 5th 2011).
Update 21/06/2011: Stephanie Koorey has a reply to this piece up here. I think she may have missed a few of my points, but I intend to get in touch with her and compare thoughts on the small arms situation in Libya.
Update 16/09/2011: It appears the rifles were from Russia, after all. Details here.
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New Study: Americans Pay More for Weather Catastrophes as Insurers Increasingly Shift Costs to Consumers and Taxpayers
For Immediate Release:
For More Information:
Bob Hunter, 703-528-0062, Jack Gillis, 202-737-0766
February 17, 2012
NEW STUDY: AMERICANS PAY MORE FOR WEATHER CATASTROPHES AS INSURERS INCREASINGLY SHIFT COSTS TO CONSUMERS AND TAXPAYERS
--Insurance Commissioners Should Block Unjustified Homeowners’ Insurance Rate Increases--
The Consumer Federation of American (CFA) today released a new study with insurance industry data that found that insurance companies have significantly and methodically decreased their financial responsibility for weather catastrophes like hurricanes, tornados and floods in recent years, shifting much of the risk and costs for these events to consumers and taxpayers. The report is being released as insurers in eleven states have requested large homeowners’ insurance rate increases of 18 percent or more. These states are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia.
“Insurance commissioners should block many of these pending rate increases because they place an unwarranted financial burden on homeowners, many of whom are coping with severe financial difficulties in a bad economy,” said J. Robert Hunter, CFA’s Director of Insurance and former federal insurance administrator and state insurance commissioner. “In the last twenty years, insurers have been so successful at shifting costs to consumers and taxpayers that they are currently overcapitalized and cannot justify higher homeowners’ rates.”
Insurance executives frequently remind the public and regulators of the frequency and severity of catastrophic events. CFA’s study, “The Insurance Industry’s Incredible Disappearing Weather Catastrophe Risk,” found that some of the savings insurers have achieved are legitimate, the result of the use of reinsurance and wise risk diversification strategies.
However, the study found that the bulk of the savings that insurers have realized has been through shifting costs to taxpayers and consumers. Insurers have hollowed out the coverage they offer to homeowners by increasing deductibles and capping the amount they will pay if the home is damaged or destroyed. These coverage reductions expose taxpayers to higher disaster assistance payouts because homeowners have less money available to help themselves. Additionally, insurers have significantly raised rates over the years, sometimes using questionable computer rate “models” developed by other companies. Insurers have also used fine print tricks, such as the “anti-concurrent causation clause,” which allows insurers to refuse to pay for wind losses if any flood damage occurs at about the same time, even if the wind losses occurred first. Finally, insurers have shifted coverage for homes in high-risk areas to state insurance pools.
When insurers do not pay, consumers do. To demonstrate how much more consumers are paying for catastrophe coverage in recent years, the study offered a hypothetical example of how much the owner of a home worth $100,000 with a typical policy would have paid for losses after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, compared to after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Assuming that the home had a $500 deductible under Andrew and a 5 percent deductible during Katrina, if $10,000 in damages occurred, the homeowner would have paid $500 to repair the damage after Andrew, but $5,000 after Katrina. If the homeowner had to upgrade the home’s electrical system, the insurance policy would have fully paid for these costs after Andrew, but paid nothing after Katrina. If some water damage occurred at the same time, the policy would have fully covered the wind claim of $9,500 after Andrew, but paid nothing after Katrina.
The study provided extensive data showing that insurers today are significantly overcapitalized. The traditional measure of adequate financial solidity for property/casualty insurers was whether they carried $1 of surplus for every $2 they made in premiums. Most observers think that the appropriate ratio today, given the risk of catastrophic weather events, should be $1.50 of surplus to $1 in premium. At 78¢ of premium for every dollar of surplus, insurers now have about double the required surplus. Even if insurers had to pay for all of the ten most costly catastrophic events in United States history, the property/casualty industry surplus would still be at an ultra safe ratio of 1.2 to 1. (This would include the cost of the September 11, 2001 attack, the Northridge Earthquake, and the eight most expensive hurricanes, a total of $162 billion in after-tax 2010 dollars.)
“Insurers’ surplus would have risen by $15 billion in 2011 even with the tornadoes and floods that caused huge losses, if they had not paid stockholder dividends,” Hunter said.
The study concludes that the insurance industry has moved from its historic role as a calculated risk-taker to one of a risk-avoider, exposing consumers and taxpayers to much higher costs. Not only have insurers insulated themselves from their historic share of hurricane risk, they have made no serious effort to cover risks associated with floods or terrorism, which are entirely backed by federal taxpayers.
The study recommended that state insurance departments take several actions to stop insurers from unjustifiably shifting costs and risk to consumers and taxpayers, including:
- Carefully examine national data on limited catastrophe losses and excessive surplus before approving any insurer requested rate increases.
- Be on guard against unwarranted attempts by insurers to use catastrophe losses as part of their rationale for jacking up rates.
- Ban use of fine print tricks that unjustifiably deny policyholders coverage when they need it the most, such as anti-concurrent causation clauses.
- Coastal states form an interstate compact to spread risk and lower costs by developing common insurance pools and provide consumers and insurers with consistent requirements. A common approach would also better position states – especially small ones – to resist coercive efforts by insurers to weaken regulatory protections for consumers.
The study offered a number of recommendations for federal taxpayer savings in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and regarding potential taxpayer losses in the event of a terrorist attack:
- Congress should limit the exposure of taxpayers to terrorism risk to only extreme events, such as nuclear, chemical or biological attacks that result in more than $100 billion in losses.
- Congress should amend pending legislation to extend the NFIP to require a study on how the private sector could start covering flood losses, perhaps by requiring insurers that currently service NFIP policies to pick up a small, but increasingly larger, percentage of flood risk. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should also reduce the excessive servicing fees that it pays, which create a windfall for insurance companies at taxpayer expense.
“The fact that insurers do not take financial risk for either flood or terrorism insurance is a huge policy error. Taxpayers are required to pick up huge risks that private insurers are more than capable of identifying and backing,” said Hunter. “The lack of financial involvement by insurers in the flood program tempts them to illegitimately shift hurricane related costs that they should pay to the taxpayer-funded flood program. Taxpayers deserve to have at least some of the financial risk for flood and terrorism losses removed from their shoulders, particularly because so many Americans are under economic stress and lawmakers are searching for ways to cut federal spending.”
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Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. In total it is spoken by over 80 million people. Vietnamese has traditionally been divided into three dialect regions: North, Central, and South.
English is spoken by approximately 375 million people as their first language. English is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However, when combining native and non-native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world.
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This era is listed by Conn as lasting from 1874-1884. Quoting the January 1969 issue of Conn Chord magazine: "The Conn cup mouthpieces display shows that from 1874 until 1884 Conn cup mouthpieces were of a two-piece "spittoon-shape" design." (Copyrighted, 1968, By Conn Corp.).
Rubber rimmed mouthpiece
The Conn company started with the manufacture of a rubber rimmed mouthpiece by its founder, C.G. Conn. The story that is told is that someone hit him in the mouth, splitting his lip. He then designed a mouthpiece that allowed him to play: a rubber rimmed mouthpiece. A patent was filed on December 5, 1874 and granted on 23 February 1875 under patent number 160164. In 1877 another patent was granted under number 190558 for an improved rubber rimmed mouthpiece.
Bode model #26
The only thing I know about this model is what I read in the January 1969 issue of Conn Chord magazine: "During this period [the "Earliest models" period], Conn introduced one of the earliest "name" mouthpieces manufactured to the individual requirements of a leading artist. This was the Bode model #26 made expressly for the requirements of Albert Bode, once premier cornet soloist with the famous Patrick Gilmore Band and later soloist with the renowned John Philip Sousa Band." (CONNchord, Copyrighted, 1968, By Conn Corp.) | <urn:uuid:aa0cce73-fddb-4d1c-8119-34157ffb9750> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cderksen.home.xs4all.nl/ConnMpcEarly.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964292 | 307 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was signed by 119 countries in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in December of 1982. The Law of the Sea Convention came into force on November 16, 1994, and the inaugural session of the International Seabed Authority was held in Kingston in November 1994.
The Headquarters of the Authority is located in Kingston, Jamaica, particulars of which are as follows:
International Seabed Authority
Jamaica Conference Centre
14-20 Port Royal Street
Kingston, Jamaica, W. I.
The Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority is Mr. Nii Allotey Odunton.
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Explore Victoria's social, political & cultural development with original documents and images. These pages provide a glimpse of the variety of historical resources that you can find in the State Library's collections - both onsite & online.
Reconciliation, women's suffrage and a shorter working day are all part of the history of Victoria.
Scandalous stories that shaped the colony, from convicts & alcohol to a founder called Batman.
A young nation rushed to war, eager to prove its worth to the British Empire.
The discovery of gold changed the land and brought half a million people to Victoria.
The threat of war on our doorstep ensured Australia's participation in the Second World War.
From bushrangers to bombers, Glenrowan to Gun Alley, Victoria has a colourful criminal history.
The legends and disasters of early exploration, and how our landscape has changed over time. Now with new pages on Regional Victoria. | <urn:uuid:c553433d-0ac3-438b-8e4f-2f2588b343c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904097 | 238 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Famous Scots feature among thousands of suggestions in the hunt to find a name for the new Forth Replacement Crossing.
The names of figures from Scotland's past and present have been submitted to the "name the bridge" campaign which was launched last month.
More than 3,000 different suggestions have already been made including familiar names from history, sport, film, music and literature. William Wallace, Sir Jackie Stewart, Robert the Bruce, Sir Chris Hoy, Andrew Carnegie, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Jimmy Shand, Mary Queen of Scots and Muriel Spark have all been nominated.
Nominations will remain open until January 31 when a shortlist of suggestions will be drafted. The list will then be put to a public vote.
Transport Minister Keith Brown said: "There have, of course, been countless globally renowned Scots and it is interesting to see the suggested names and comments put forward, by the public in favour of these noteworthy figures, past and present.
"It is great to hear that people would like to honour our most famous sons and daughters by naming the new Forth crossing after them. The advisory panel will consider them and all other suggestions."
The first section forming the central foundation of the bridge was put in place last month. Around 1,200 workers are involved in the building project and the crossing is scheduled to open in 2016. | <urn:uuid:d904a155-806a-4f4b-9b9e-d9d9b2e4d237> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshire-news/scottish-news/2012/12/27/names-suggested-for-forth-crossing-102545-32500202/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963874 | 274 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The youth justice system affects individuals between the ages of 12 and 17 who get into trouble with the law.
Our goal is to ensure a fair and effective youth justice system.
Apply for funding for projects dealing with young offenders
Youth Criminal Justice Act - summary and background
Tools for teaching the Youth Criminal Justice Act
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Unknown TI logic series
pinball at telus.net
Fri Dec 17 12:26:14 CST 2010
Christian Corti wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> we've had a look inside our IME 122 calculator and discovered that it
> is full of SN14xx logic ICs. They are mainly from TI, but there are
> also some from Motorola and others. It seems that they have the same
> function and pinout as the SN74xx parts but there must be a difference
> since the machine has quite a lot of SN1401 (the SN7401 is a quad
> open-collector NAND), but there are no pullup resistors anywhere!
> Some of the types are SN1400, SN1401, SN1474, SN1490; the ALU is made up
> of SN1482 and SN1483.
> Anyone knows this series? BTW the supply voltage is 5V.
TI and others often produced "House Numbers" for companies that wanted
to hide the 'real' part numbers of components. I would assume this is
what you have here. Thus the SN1474 may not be a flip-flop (7474) as a
result...they may well have jumbled the numbers around to make it
difficult to copy the circuit.
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It is known that some dairy farms give cows hormones so they will produce more milk. All I am saying is if this is true, how do we know that by consuming this milk we are not also absorbing some of this chemical that is left over in the cows system? If the hormones get transfered through the cow and into the milk then people drink the milk these hormones could effect humans.
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Although the Medicaid program is a boon to thousands of low-income seniors, it may pose some difficulties for assisted living facility residents to remain where they’ve chosen to live.
Sometimes, residents who began as private pay eventually spend down their funds and can no longer afford to pay for their care out of pocket. In many cases, these people become eligible for Medicaid
However, some assisted living facilities aren’t willing to let the resident transition from private pay to Medicaid, for a couple of reasons.
This could include the fact that Medicaid reimbursement is less lucrative than private pay, and facilities would rather keep their beds open for someone else who can pay the full rate out of pocket, says Eric Carlson, from the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC).
Related to this is an even bigger issue: Medicaid only reimburses facilities for healthcare services, meaning that facilities often lose revenue on each Medicaid resident’s room and board costs.
David Kyllo, the executive director for the National Center for Assisted Living, says that Medicaid funding applies only to nursing facilities, not assisted living facilities, so unless individual states have waivers for the program and designate a certain number of assisted living slots for Medicaid funding, residents are not covered at all.
“The state has to determine whether that person gets one of their slots for Medicaid,” says Kyllo. “The facility could be willing, the resident could be willing, but if the state doesn’t have a slot to give them, they’re out of luck.”
Usually, once all the state-designated beds are taken, the facility will only accept private-pay residents. From this, a dilemma can develop when private-pay residents spend down their funds and become Medicaid eligible, as some assisted living facilities are unwilling to let these residents transition to the government program.
This is within legal rights for facilities who are not Medicaid-certified and have no obligation to accept Medicaid-eligible residents, says Carlson.
In some recent cases, elderly assisted living facility residents who exhausted their funds and needed to go on Medicaid were told to vacate, with the facility saying they wouldn’t accept Medicaid funds.
Although Carlson believes assisted living facilities have a moral responsibility to current residents, there’s not much recourse in these cases when the facilities aren’t Medicaid-certified, he says.
However, for facilities that do have certification, or who used to have it and then opted out, private-pay-turned-Medicaid residents may be able to fight back, as a condition of certification requires facilities to accept Medicaid as payment in full.
Carlson advises residents who are being threatened with eviction to simply stay put.
“The facility would need to force the person out, and the argument from the facility’s side is only that they’re not getting paid,” says Carlson. “However, the resident would have a very strong defense: ‘They’re just not taking the money I’m offering to them.’”
Most judges, says Carlson, would probably rule in favor of the resident, who has a way of paying the facility that isn’t being accepted, rather than refusing, or simply not being able to, pay.
It is conceivable, though, says Carlson, that a facility could win the argument if a state allows a facility to specifically designate a certain number of Medicaid beds, and the facility is at its limit. Even then, says Carlson, what may come of a lawsuit like this is unpredictable.
“Eviction rules and procedures in every state are different,” he says. “It’s an issue of state law.”
While Kyllo maintains assisted living facilities’ rights to deny Medicaid-eligible residents, he recognizes that there needs to be a change.
“If facilities don’t have money to pay their bills, they’re going to get in trouble with the state, or get shut down,” he says. “All that being said, we need to figure out how we’re going to better serve the low-income population in our country.”
Unless Medicaid rules change and funding is available to both nursing and assisted living facilities on a federal level, though, private pay residents in non-certified assisted living facilities who spend down their funds may unfortunately be unable to stay where they’ve chosen to live.
For now, says Carlson, he and his colleagues at the NSCLC are taking a “step-by-step” approach to address this issue.
“We’ve done a lot of research, and I hope over the next couple years we’ll be able to be more impactful on a specific state-by-state level,” he says. “By next year we have more intention to be involved with more states and work on proposals and amendments.”
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Elaine de Kooning died in 1989. Besides developing a long unbroken career as a painter, she was a central figure in New York City’s artistic circles of the 1950s and 1960s, and a major writer on contemporary American art, publishing reviews and monographs (often under a pseudonym), mainly in ARTnews. She was married to one of the most celebrated artists of our time, Willem de Kooning. “Elaine de Kooning searches the limits of visuality to find the visionary, like a water diviner searching ground with her divining rod to find the invisible underground spring,” wrote Rose Slivka in Arts Magazine in 1984.
Born in Brooklyn, de Kooning began drawing at the age of five, inspired by trips to museums. She attended the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in New York City, where she met Willem de Kooning. They were married in 1943. She continued her studies at the American Artists School, where she earned money working as an artist’s model. During the 1940s, she painted portraits of her family, her husband, and many of her literary friends and fellow artists, including the poets Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg and the choreographer Merce Cunningham. Although these portraits are highly regarded today for their freshness and verve, at the time de Kooning considered them to be private efforts. Her most celebrated portrait series was done in 1962–63, when she was invited to paint President John F. Kennedy, on whose image she worked for nearly a year, until the time of his assassination.
After the summer of 1948, which she spent at Black Mountain College, de Kooning painted a dramatic series of sports figures. Their bold, fresh colors and energetic use of an abstract expressionist approach for clearly figurative forms became de Kooning’s signature style. A visit to the Southwest in 1957 inspired a series of paintings on the theme of the bull, which opened de Kooning’s palette to sweeping planes of luminous colors. In the 1970s, she taught at numerous colleges including Yale University, Pratt Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Rice University. From 1976 to 1978, a Bacchus statue in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris, became the subject of an extensive series of paintings and prints that fused de Kooning’s shimmering energy with her mastery of light and color. In 1983 she made several excursions to the Paleolithic caves of France and Spain, where she absorbed ancient drawings of bulls, mammoths, and bison, and reflected them in her final series of paintings and prints. Crown Point Press published etchings titled Torchlight Cave Drawings in 1985.
Elaine de Kooning’s paintings are in the collections of many major American museums, including the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The estate of Elaine de Kooning is represented by the Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York.
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Community Colleges versus UniversityThe first and most obvious benefit of community colleges is the fact they are in your neighborhood. The university experience depends on a four-year visit to a distant place where large numbers of people come together to share a learning opportunity. And, in this difference, you come to the main points. No matter what you might think of universities, and some of them are very prestigious, they are not for everyone. Some people are less comfortable away from home. It's also a lot more expensive, not just in terms of fees. You have to pay for accommodation, find all your own food and make a life for yourself in a new place. Programs at university colleges also attract large numbers. This creates a very impersonal atmosphere in lectures and classes. When you have more than twenty people in a class, it's very difficult for the professor to learn anything about a student's learning styles or interests. Indeed, many of those who get tenure at the larger university colleges only do so through their ability to publish and not because of their interest in teaching. Many students are left to teach themselves. Finally, the schedule tends to be quite restrictive with quite a heavy workload and time commitments that can make it difficult to hold down a job while working to pay all the bills. Switching to technical and community colleges, the fees for college courses are a fraction those charged by universities and there's a flexible schedule to enable students to work. Perhaps more importantly, with smaller class sizes and a reduced workload, students can explore academic options. Once you commit in a four-year university course, it's very difficult to change. Browsing through majors gives you a chance to decide what might interest you for four years. It's true, of course, you don't get the big-named professors at technical and community colleges. Except you often get dedicated teachers who are interested in their students and go out of their way to offer advice and support. But community colleges do not have faculties full of experts who can offer a high-quality curriculum. In any event, this might be too much of a stretch since many students will have failed to get the grades for university entry. Indeed a proportion of students on college courses are likely to be uninvolved and a source of tension in classes.
Online College Degrees Explained
Online college degrees come in several different forms. This explains the main types and shows the benefits of distance learning for online college degrees.
Online colleges: what is the worst decision you can make?
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Optimistic text from the Situationist International that suggests whilst previous revolts have failed, future ones may not.
As the world of the spectacle extends its reign it approaches the climax of its offensive, provoking new resistances everywhere. These resistances are very little known precisely because the reigning spectacle is designed to present an omnipresent hypnotic image of unanimous submission. But they do exist and are spreading.
An essay on post-1939 Spanish anarchism and its ideological fossilization, with special emphasis on the CNT and the role it played in Spain during the1970s, during the Spanish “Transition”, when it attracted large numbers of workers who sympathized with anarchism—it had over 250,000 members in 1978—but soon lost most of them when it became a trade union indistinguishable from the others except for its revolutionary rhetoric, having been founded by a disparate assortment of people who, according to the author, had only one thing in common: “the desire to build a trade union federation that could contend with the Workers Commissions for preeminence in separate class representation.”
Theoretical Anarchism and Anarchist Ideology – Miguel Amorós
“When reflection, feeling or whatever other form the subjective consciousness may assume, regards the present as vanity, and thinks itself to be beyond it and wiser, it finds itself in emptiness, and, as it has actuality only in the present, it is vanity throughout.” (Hegel, Philosophy of Right)
Published by the Berkley based group Perspectives in 1975 At Dusk was the first extensive critical text released on the Situationist International after its dissolution in 1972. Although there is much to critique in the arguments put forward in the text, it is an important historical document in terms of understanding the critical reception of the Situationists in the United States.
A former member of the Encyclopedie des Nuisances discusses the current reformist environmentalism of capitalism, the fashionable support for "curtailing economic growth", and the growing role of the State and NGOs in enforcing a new framework for the continued survival of capitalist social relations, and concludes that "a libertarian society can only be created by way of a libertarian revolution".
When Capitalism Goes Green – Miguel Amorós
Presentation delivered at La Mistelera (Dènia) and Casa els Flares (Alcoy) on December 28 and 29, 2007.
“Mode d’emploi du détournement” originally appeared in the Belgian surrealist journal Les Lèvres Nues #8 (May 1956). This translation by Ken Knabb is from the Situationist International Anthology (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2006).
A User's Guide to Détournement (1)
This work was written collectively by the Situationist International in the immediate aftermath of May 1968. It comprises their own account of the Situationists' contribution to the Movement of Occupations that took place throughout France during the largest wildcat strike in history.
Enragés et situationnistes dans le mouvement des occupations (Paris: Gallimard, 1968)
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Design in aid of Tohoku
By JEAN SNOW
The design world lends its artistic hand
As Japan struggles with the consequences of the Kanto-Tohoku earthquake, this month's column takes a different format to highlight some of the ways the design community has come together to provide relief and support.
Architect Shigeru Ban is no stranger in bringing his design skills to relief efforts. His innovative and cheap prefab temporary housing solutions have been used in disaster-stricken areas before, and he was quick to announce the design of a special Paper Partition System that can be used to divide large spaces, such as the gymnasiums and school halls that are currently being used as shelters for refugees. Donations to help produce the systems can be made via Ban's website.
Graphic design can play a vital role during disasters, and Good Design Company's Manabu Mizuno has produced a series of pictographs that can be used to clearly identify supplies and aid being distributed to those in need. The series, which is available for anyone to use, can be downloaded as a PDF .
In the art world, though many exhibitions and events had to be canceled or postponed, some galleries have been quick to re-open and begin raising money for aid efforts. Taka Ishii Gallery, for example, has launched a "NOART"show until April 28, which, as the title suggests, has no art on display. Instead, a donation box replaces the artworks, with proceeds going to Japan Red Cross.
As executive director of PechaKucha, I'd like to also highlight our efforts as a global design/art and architecture community. Partnering with the nonprofit organization Architecture for Humanity, we are currently organizing an event involving our close to 400 PechaKucha Night cities to raise funds for reconstruction efforts in northern Japan. See pecha-kucha.org for more information.
Ways to donate and show public support
Donations are, of course, the most direct and convenient way for people to help. However, designers and artists are finding other ways to encourage people to give money.
Several art galleries have been donating sale proceeds and holding charity auctions, including 3331 Arts Chiyoda, whose charity auction takes place on April 2, 3. The Nakamura Keith Haring Collection is also selling tickets online for ¥800, instead of the usual ¥1,000, with all proceeds going to its Tohoku Earthquake HeArt Aid fund to be donated to relief organizations.
Some artists and designers are selling special products and giving the proceeds to disaster relief projects. Below are some of the items that designers — based in Japan and elsewhere — have contributed to help raise funds.
Several posters have been produced; two of the most popular so far are Wieden+Kennedy's Max Erdenberger's "Help Japan" and the "Japan Tsunami Appeal" poster from Daniel Freytag's Editions of 100. Amsterdam-based designer Luis Mendo is also selling editions of his illustrated one-sheet poster-size Tokyo City report.
Tokyo-based designer Ian Lynam has not only decided to donate all proceeds from sales on his Wordshape online store — which sells design/typographic goods — he has also designed a new deck for his OPEN Skateboards company, specifically to raise funds. For more information, visit the OPEN Skateboards site or wordshape.com.
The creators of Art Space Tokyo — a beautifully produced guide to some of Tokyo's best art galleries — are also donating all proceeds from sales until April 3.
Osaka-based T-shirt maker Sweatshop Union was quick to enlist the aid of an international lineup of designers to contribute designs for a special series, with all proceeds going to Japan Red Cross. And, in a similar manner, Tomodachi Calling, a charity web shop created in response to the earthquake and tsunami, has brought together a group of artists, including Alexander Gelman (whose design is featured on the right) to create logos for T-shirts, tote bags, pin badges and more — all proceeds of which are also being donated to Japan Red Cross.
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There’s a special type of radioactivity you see, much more dangerous than the type that everyone’s talking about.
No, really, there is.
In his article on “the confusing world of radiation exposure”, readers’ editor Chris Elliott was right to point out that getting a whole year’s sunshine in an hour would fry him to a crisp (Open door, 4 April). Radiation dose rate is important. What he didn’t say is that “dose density” is important too.
The “sievert”, as Elliott says, is a dose unit for quantifying radiation risk. He did not add that it assumes dose density is uniform. “There are many kinds of radiation”, he says, but he does not mention how they differ. In fact, external sources like cosmic rays and x-rays distribute their energy evenly, like the sun; others, notably alpha-emitters like uranium, are extremely uneven in the way they irradiate body tissue once they have been inhaled or swallowed.
Now it is true that having a piece of uranium lodged in your lungs is different from having a piece sticking to your skin. It’s also true that having a piece of uranium in your lungs presents you with other problems than radiation: it is a heavy metal, after all.
But how different is it?
ICRP has admitted that its model cannot be applied to post-accident situations. Fortunately the European Committee on Radiation Risk employs weighting factors to modify sievert-based doses for internal exposures. This won’t cure the mess in Fukushima but it will mean better public protection.
Hmm, the ECRR eh?
The European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) is an informal committee formed in 1997 following a meeting by the European Green Party at the European Parliament to review the Council of Europe‘s directive 96/29Euratom, issued in May of the previous year.
Ahhh….so we’re supposed to be taking our measurements of how much worse it is from a self appointed group of greens (even Greens) who have already decided that nuclear’s bad, M’Kay?
Y’know, while that actually is how much public policy is made I rather think that’s not how we would like public policy to be made. Better to get the science from scientists rather than ideologues, yes? The latter being all to prone to policy based evidence making. | <urn:uuid:38173620-ec68-4bf8-a092-59d760f729ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://timworstall.com/2011/04/20/yet-more-guardian-numptiness-on-radiation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960047 | 518 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Updated Wednesday, 10:35 a.m. | One question that remained from last summer’s Prospect Park goose slaughter was just how many geese the United States Department of Agriculture rounded up and gassed in an effort to improve air safety.
The answer has arrived: 1,509 citywide, including 368 at Prospect Park and 208 at Alley Pond Park in Queens, and 167 more in western Nassau County. The figures (see also below) were released in November in a report presented for review to the New York City Airports Wildlife Hazard Management Steering Committee. (They were reported then by The Brooklyn Paper, as the author of the article pointed out to us in the comments Wednesday morning. Whoops.)
In June and July 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services observed 1,877 geese in 19 sites across the city and western Nassau and removed 89 percent of them, the report stated.
The largest share — more than 40 percent — were removed from Brooklyn parks, but geese were also taken in the Bronx and Manhattan. Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx had the third most geese killed, 157.
Some 1,235 were removed in 2009, and in sites surveyed both years, a 51 percent decrease in the geese population was observed, according to the report.
The removals, which stirred criticism from animal protection groups and animal lovers, were authorized after the January 2009 ditching of a US Airways jet in the Hudson River, after geese flew into its engines and disabled them.
Concerns over aviation hazards for civilian and military aircraft led to a plan to reduce to 4,000 New York City’s estimated 20,000 to 25,000 geese — a number “five times the amount that most people would find socially acceptable,” according a document prepared earlier last year by several city, state and federal agencies. A larger plan also called for the near halving of the Canada goose population in 17 Eastern states, from 1.1 million to 650,000.
“The Federal Aviation Administration and United States Air Force have established a zero-tolerance policy for Canada geese on and near airports,” the November report read. Birds within seven miles of New York City airports “were targeted to the extent reasonable.” Advocates for the geese pointed out that the lake in Prospect Park is more than nine miles from Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports.
But air safety was not the only consideration. The measures were also taken to protect “water supplies from fecal contamination, public and private property from damage to turf and ornamental plantings, loss of land use to excessive fecal droppings,” the report read.
Geese were also removed from areas where the city recently spent some $27.5 million to restore wetlands.
“Improving safety to the aviation industry and its customers is paramount, but the added value of reducing damage to New York City’s public properties and increasing environmental health should be acknowledged,” the report concluded.
The geese’s numbers rebounded quickly after the roundups — there were more than 100 in Prospect Park again by August, and more than 150 by October. And so the Agriculture Department is gearing up for another round of goose removals this year, using new capturing techniques, focusing on more sites and extending the hunt beyond the molt season. It also plans to increase enforcement of existing no-feeding policies. | <urn:uuid:615564c5-b7e2-4c9f-8d23-157c3e211ca6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/1700-geese-died-for-human-air-travelers-last-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970182 | 716 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Intercultural Competency Across the Curriculum:
nfusing Culture and Language Campus Wide
Hosted by Baldwin Wallace University
The Fall 2009 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) is designed for students, faculty, international education professionals, and campus administrators interested in exploring the use of languages and cultures as a tool for internationalizing the curriculum across all disciplines. Teachers from elementary and secondary schools will also find useful information that can be adapted to their instructional circumstances.
A specific focus of the 4th annual conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum will be on global or intercultural competency across the curriculum. While existing LAC programs at institutions across the country are remarkably diverse in their shape and structure, as a general rule they tend to focus on language use and on the development of content-specific language skills. The 'C' in CLAC represents a new focus on integrating cross-cultural perspectives into Languages Across the Curriculum programs and into courses in all disciplinary areas.
CLAC also offers opportunities for students to strengthen their international research skills (accessing and evaluating information from international sources), critical and comparative analysis abilities, awareness of cultural filters and specificities of knowledge production, and ability to synthesize information from multiple cultural perspectives.
The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators.
As globalization continues to rapidly change the world, our national need for skill in multiple languages and intercultural knowledge is more evident and more urgent than ever. Institutions of higher education have led the way in international education, but their advances in this field are not yet producing sufficient numbers of graduates with these skills.
"CLAC 101: How to Design & Implement a CLAC Program that Works for Your Campus"
October 15, 2009
9:00 am-11:00 am
Workshop facilitated by
Diana K. Davies, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for International Initiatives
The members of the CLAC Consortium are pleased to offer a pre-conference workshop: "CLAC 101: How to design and implement a CLAC program that works for your campus." The workshop will be useful and relevant to representatives from institutions that do not yet have but are considering developing a CLAC program, as well as those from institutions that already have a CLAC program of some variety, who would like to grow or otherwise develop their program or overcome challenges. Faculty (from all disciplines and institutional types) and higher education administrators who want to learn more about the basic elements of CLAC will also benefit from participation.
The workshop will provide participants with an introduction to CLAC philosophy and an overview of the history of CLAC; a survey of existing types of CLAC programs at a variety of U.S. colleges and universities; specific examples of best practices and stories about "what not to do" from three institutions with three different types of CLAC programs; hands-on group exercises that will help participants assess their home institution in order to develop the most appropriate style of CLAC; and information about measuring outcomes and promoting CLAC to faculty, administrators, students and funders/donors. For more information about this workshop, please visit the pre-conference workshop page. | <urn:uuid:e927f5d1-0942-451c-8e67-cb0f6cf72446> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bw.edu/academics/fll/lac/clac2009/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917123 | 670 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Upper Extremity & Hand Rehabilitation
Therapists will evaluate range of motion, coordination, strength, sensation, edema, pain, and the patient's functional ability to use the arm/hand for self-care and/or occupational tasks. Treatment may include custom splinting, exercise, use of modalities such as ultrasound, iontophoresis, fluidotherapy, cryotherapy, electrical stimulation and/or moist heat. Therapists will also incorporate soft tissue mobilization, scar management and joint mobilization into the treatment as indicated.
Therapists will often need to assess the patients work environment to suggest modifications that may be necessary to return the patient to productive employment as soon as possible.
Patients receive extensive education in pain management, home exercise programs, joint protection techniques as well as how to use adaptive equipment to improve their level of independence for work, home and leisure activities.
Occupational therapists work in the local school system providing direct and consultation services. Therapists develop treatment plans for improving fine-motor skills, visual-perceptual skills, self-care skills in addition to addressing adaptive equipment issues. Services are also provided in the home environment for the 0-3 year-old population through Morgan County First Steps by selected certified therapists.
Complete Decongestive Therapy is provided for patients with Primary or Secondary Lymphedema. The treatment consists of manual lymphatic drainage, compressive bandaging, therapeutic exercise and education. Patients are fit for compressive garments when they reach the maintenance stage.
Wound Care and Contracture Management
Occupational Therapy assesses the need for positioning devices and pressure relief products. These products may include wheelchair orthotics, mattress overlays, splints and specialty cushions.
Director: Missy Maristella
Hours: Mon-Friday 8:00-5:00. Saturday appts. scheduled as needed.
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Arab Americans in Public Service and Political Life
The following resources are provided by the Arab American Institute, a 501(c)4 organization based in Washington, DC. AAI makes these resources available to the public, free of charge, and they are not meant to imply any endorsement by or relationship between the ALCPAC and AAI.
Arab American Leadership Council: The ALC is a 527 political organization that supports the actvity of elected and appointed officials, candidates for public office, and party activists of Arab descent. The ALC also hosts party caucuses that conduct Arab American outreach to the Democratic and Republican National Committees, and serve as liaisons between Arab Americans and their state and local party committees. To learn more about the ALC, click here.
Roster of Arab Americans in Political Life: This publication identifies Americans of Arab descent who currently hols elected or appointed office, a political party position, or who are political professionals. Published by the Arab American Institute, it is the only list of its kind. The Roster is available online, and is organized by state and type of office. The Roster also includes an appendix of federal office-holders, state elected officials, and Mayors. You can access the Roster here.
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I realize that there has been a lot of discussion on the Theremax in terms of tuning and also many suggestions for different oscillator coupling mods to get different difference waveforms and have read and I think I understand what I have found.
I finally finished building an enclosure and installing 3/8" supply tubing antennas to the specs posted on the RCA theremin. The theremax is working well in terms of pitch and volume response so I think I basically have it tuned acceptably so now I am ready to start working on its tone.
One thing about the current 9505D kit that may have changed from previous kits is all four oscillator NPO caps are 100pF, not a pair of 68 and 100 that I have seen in other posts. I have 68pF NPO caps on order but for now I was successful in preventing major interaction between the pitch and the volume by simply tuning the volume frequency to around 720kHz as opposed to the pitch that I set at 798kHz.
The specific problem I am having right now is the output difference waveform from the pitch mixer is squashed in that it is asymmetric with the “top” appearing to be soft clipped. So the one side (depending on inversion) is wide. I can send a scope picture if that would be helpful. The waveshape appears to be independent of the difference frequency from 100Hz to 5kHz or so so I don't think that oscillator coupling is at play here and I don't want it to be for now. I would like to see an undistorted sine wave without coupling and then experiment with coupling from there.
The oscillator p-p amplitude at the transistor collector is about 350mV. I have seen varying numbers on the expected amplitude. I haven't seen any mods that suggest changing the mixer component values any my LTspice simulation to the extent that it approximates reality does output a sinusoidal looking difference output. I was wondering if I should experiment with the mixer component values or if I should concentrate on the oscillators themselves.
Thanks in advance,
I'm glad that no one tried to answer my question because it turns out that the reference oscillator amplitude is over 13.5 volts and is distorted at the bottom. That might be the cause of the distorted mixer output.
I have posted some pics of the build and scope plots here.
I guess I would like to do the following things:
1) Reduce the reference oscillator amplitudes - maybe reduce the value for
R8 and R13. I need to crack open my old transistor text book and refresh my
memory on biasing...
2) See if I can reduce the reference oscillator coupling - first try moving
the front panel wires around and then maybe put in isolation walls - might
3) Try to reduce the noise on the output waveform. Maybe build a higher
than second order LPF or do something to reduce the noise?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
"I have posted some pics of the build and scope plots here.
Nice build! I can't help you with the oscillator amplitude, but others here almost certainly can.
After a peek at the schematic, I think I'd re-do the supply using three terminal regulators. PAIA tends to cut too many corners IMO. | <urn:uuid:5badd349-5921-4629-93a2-34fd4be91241> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thereminworld.com/Forums/T/28599/theremax-tone---mixer-output?last=True | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951048 | 686 | 1.75 | 2 |
The Indian tiger reserve... where poachers have killed all the tigers
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 5:10 PM on 15th July 2009
As one of India's premier tiger reserves, it should be the ideal place to spot the increasingly elusive creatures.
Only trouble is, the Panna National Park no longer has any tigers.
Officials made the embarrassing admission after a census was conducted in the reserve, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
They knew numbers had been dwindling and became concerned after no tigers had been spotted for some time.
But the results only confirmed their darkest suspicions.
Panna National Park was one of a number of reserves set up to save the Royal Bengal tiger from extinction.
Just a century ago, India had 40,000 of the creatures.
But their numbers have been radically reduced by hunters and poachers.
A seven-member committee which includes conservationists and experts has now been formed to determine where the park's tigers have gone.
Chief conservator HS Pabla told the BBC that tigers from Sanjay National Park could have strayed into adjoining areas, which is now part of the state of Chattisgarh.
But some experts fear the tigers have been poached, despite the country banning hunting of the giant cats.
A conservation scheme known as Project Tiger has also been created to increase the population of the endangered species.
Though the programme was initially successful, the decline in numbers has been negated by an increase in poaching, which is now organised around drug-smuggling.
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Are you tired of shooting lasers at your dog the old fashioned way? I know I am. Thanks to this DIY project called LaserPup, you can annoy your pooch with the power of the iPhone!
The system utilizes a ceiling-mounted laser pointer, an I/O bridge with servo module, two servos, a webcam, an X10 module and a buzzer. When the buzzer sounds, the dog is alerted that it is time to play. Using the iPhone, the user can turn the lights on and off and move the laser around the room for the dog to chase. When you have finished damaging your dog's mind, the buzzer can be sounded a second time to indicate that playtime is over.
LaserPup's creator hopes to develop an app that makes it possible to use the iPhone's accelerometer as the control. He also provided detailed instructions on how to set something like this up for yourself—although, I wouldn't suggest it if you want to prevent a doggie mental disorder. [LaserPup via Make] | <urn:uuid:37a2302f-f3c7-44d9-8942-50f5c8305c2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gizmodo.com/5147352/laserpup-use-the-iphone-to-shoot-lasers-at-your-dog?tag=good-times | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946748 | 218 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A new study from Satmetrix shows that companies are wasting billions on attracting new customers through advertising whilst delivering a poor customer experience that has forced over 10 million consumers to switch suppliers in the last six months alone.
Only 2% of respondents trust advertising the most as a source of information when choosing a product or service. Instead, almost half of consumers (49%) see personal recommendations from friends, family or colleagues as the most trustworthy source of information. And, over seven times as many people (15%) trust consumer opinions posted online than trust advertising.
This report is a clear signal from UK consumers -‘Focus on me and the experience I receive or I’m off.’ But the results show that the cost to a company doesn’t stop with a lost customer. While 2% might trust what they read in an advert, almost two thirds of consumers (64%) look to other consumers to guide their purchase decisions, As a result, the survey shows that a negative experience will lead to a negative recommendation and with it the loss of a new customer.
The survey shows that we live in the Recommendation Generation and that the key to what gets recommended is the experience a customer receives. The companies that understand this and have invested in customer experience programmes are already leaving their competitors in their wake by creating loyal advocates.
Satmetrix’s survey was based on 5100 consumers in the UK. When asked which sources of information they trust the most when choosing products or services, respondents replied:
- 49% Recommendations from friends, family, or colleagues
- 22% Product test reviews
- 15% Consumer opinions posted online
- 6% Media articles (magazine, newspaper, television)
- 2% Advertising
- 2% Direct mail
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Complete, or formulated diets are "balanced" as the bird must eat the nutrients in the ratio intended. MIXED diets (seeds, fruits, and table foods) are much harder to balance, and require the time-consuming use of a supplement. SEED diets are invariably low in calcium and vitamin A and high in fat and phosphorous.
A simple and SAFE way to convert most pets to a better diet is to start by cleaning the cage each evening, and leaving ONLY Tropican in the feeders ( may sprinkle some on the floor or place a small dish on the floor as well). The following day (usually mid morning to start with), add some of the birds regular food on the top of the Tropican. Birds that like fruits and vegetables should have the dry Tropican sprinkled right in with favourite items such as oranges and fresh cut corn. Some birds will start on this moistened form more easily. Sprinkling seed kernel such as shelled sunflower on Tropican will also help some parrots get the idea (ie you don't have to take a shell off all foods!).
Every evening all of the remaining food is removed and fresh Tropican is placed. Seed may be added later on the following day. (As long as seed is provided sooner or later each day safety is maintained). Most birds are powerfully motivated to search for food each morning and sample Tropican within a few days. You can tell when your pet is eating the new food as the dropping will become a paler colour, and Tropican will usually be found in the water dish.
Once your pet is eating the Tropican well, keep seed OUT of the cage. Seed can still be given of course, but as a treat fed by hand. Feeding high water content items such as oranges, fresh corn, green peppers, spinach, broccoli, and berries will not unbalance the Tropican diet significantly as the majority of calories will still be taken in from Tropican.
Your bird is sure to enjoy an improvement in feather quality and overall health on such a modern diet. Just ask your pet retailer or avian veterinarian!
Louise Bauck BSc, DVM, MVSc.
Learn more about Hagen Bird Food
|Great Cage!, 6/5/2009|
|Reviewer: (Kemah, TX)|
I purchased a wingabago for my blue fronted amazon from you a few months ago and haven't been able to use it since out trial test run. The air holes are much higher than her head and there is nothing for her to hold onto when she needs to balance herself in the car. She was flailing all over when we went over speed bumps or turned corners. Do you have any suggestions so I can utilize this cage?
I admit I have not heard of these problems before but a possible solution would be a rope perch. It would give her a better grip.
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21 The Kishon River swept them away-- that ancient river, the Kishon. March on, my soul, with courage!
22 Then the horses' hooves hammered the ground, the galloping, galloping of Sisera's mighty steeds.
23 `Let the people of Meroz be cursed,' said the angel of the LORD. `Let them be utterly cursed because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty warriors.'
24 "Most blessed is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. May she be blessed above all women who live in tents.
25 Sisera asked for water, and Jael gave him milk. In a bowl fit for kings, she brought him yogurt.
26 Then with her left hand she reached for a tent peg, and with her right hand she reached for the workman's hammer. She hit Sisera, crushing his head. She pounded the tent peg through his head, piercing his temples.
27 He sank, he fell, he lay dead at her feet.
28 "From the window Sisera's mother looked out. Through the window she watched for his return, saying, `Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why don't we hear the sound of chariot wheels?'
29 A reply comes from her wise women, and she repeats these words to herself:
30 `They are dividing the captured goods they found-- a woman or two for every man. There are gorgeous robes for Sisera, and colorful, beautifully embroidered robes for me.'
31 "LORD, may all your enemies die as Sisera did! But may those who love you rise like the sun at full strength!" Then there was peace in the land for forty years.
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Kick-Starting a Business of Your Own
As a child,
It's little wonder that today Stubblefield, 46, is satisfying her entrepreneurial drive after decades of working for large corporations. Three years ago, Stubblefield left the relative safety of her job at
She's not alone. In this strained economy, more and more workers are exiting the once secure realm of corporate jobs--many because of layoffs--and starting their own businesses. Last year, more than 600,000 small firms were started in
1. Find a mentor.
Connect with someone in the field you're entering for guidance. Check out StartupNation.com, a site dedicated to small-business groups, or SCORE (www.score.org), a nonprofit that provides education to entrepreneurs. At SCORE, working and retired executives and business owners donate their time and expertise free of charge in person or online.
2. Do the prep work.
You may have to study marketing, finance, and employment law. Sign up for a community college or certification program to get the necessary skills. You can begin by contacting your town's or county's
Stubblefield's move into the wine trade was a combination of inspiration and market research. "I love fine wines, although I'm not a connoisseur, but there wasn't an upscale wine shop near where I live--an upscale, predominantly African-American section of
3. Write a business plan.
There's no strict model to follow, but in general, a simple plan--which you'll have to submit to get a loan or other financing--should be about 20 pages. Here's what you'll need:
-- An executive summary that explains what your company will do, who the customers will be, why you are qualified to run it, how you'll sell your goods and services, and your financial outlook.
-- A detailed description of the business, its location, who your management team is, and what your staffing requirements are. You'll also need to include information about your industry and competition.
-- A market analysis that targets your customers more specifically, including age, gender, and where they live. The analysis also will describe your sales and promotional strategy to reach them.
-- A realistic forecast of start-up outlays--cost of raw materials, equipment, employee salaries, marketing materials, insurance, utilities, and fees for attorneys and accountants--and how much you expect to sell and to earn.
4. Line up sources of funding.
Here are some ways to find the money to get started:
-- Savings: Most start-ups are funded with personal savings. (This is where a severance package comes in handy.) It's advisable to set aside at least six months of fixed living expenses. Try not to dip into your retirement savings: You'll be subject to withdrawal penalties and income taxes and lose the tax-deferred compounding that could serve you well in retirement.
-- Credit cards: Use plastic with care. It's fairly easy to tap into, but this should be a last option. Most cards have double-digit interest rates, a very high cost of capital to carry on your new company's books.
-- Home equity loans: This is an appealing option because the funds are usually taken as a lump sum that you can pay off over time. In this housing market, though, qualifying for such a loan can be tough. If you have equity in your home and a credit score above 700, it's worth exploring. You may also qualify for a tax deduction on the interest on a loan up to
-- Friends and relatives: Money is often lent interest free or at a low rate. Be sure to put the terms in writing so that there are no misunderstandings about interest and repayment. Be forewarned: Money can wreak havoc on relationships should things not work out as planned.
-- Banks and credit unions: A tight lending environment has made borrowing a struggle. A solid business plan and a shiny credit record are prerequisites. You might try a bank that's familiar with you or your industry, or one that is active in small-business lending.
To find a bank that offers SBA-guaranteed loans, check the "Local Resources" section of the agency's website (www.sba.gov). Keep in mind that a lender will still want you to put up collateral, usually in the form of a real estate asset. Plan to have some capital or equity that you personally put into the business. Lenders want you to have some skin in the game, so to speak.
-- Angel investors and venture capital firms: These individuals and firms invest in exchange for equity or partial ownership. But they are typically overwhelmed by requests for financing and are exceedingly cautious with their funding. Some have a mission. San Franciso-based
5. Purchase health insurance.
Some sources to check for availability are eHealthInsurance.com, Coverageforall.org, and the
6. Hire an accountant.
It's critical to know which business expenses are deductible. Careful record keeping is essential, and having a pro to guide you will come in handy. Go to the source to find what's deductible:
7. Don't neglect retirement savings.
You have two basic ways to set aside pretax savings: a simplified employee pension, or SEP IRA, and an individual 401(k). With a SEP IRA, you can contribute up to 25 percent of your net self-employment income, up to a maximum of
8. Accept what you can't have.
"For my birthday, I'm going to ask my husband for an assistant," Stubblefield says. "The business is constantly on my mind. There are no days off." In truth, that's fine with her. Since she opened the wine shop, Stubblefield and her husband have become co-owners of a restaurant, and she's a joint venture partner in
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Let me first give you the context of this post: my team is standing in a straight, horizontal line. Coach Ross stands in front of us. "Pushup position," he orders and we obey. "Down," he says and we all do a push-up."Down...down...down." the speed increases, "Down, down, down, down." The push-ups continue until we reach about 40 of them. "Stand up," says Ross. "Arms straight out."
So my right arm is held straight out to my right and my left is held straight out to my left. After a minute, Ross says, "20 forward". We move our arms in little circles 20 times. After another set of circles, Ross tells us the purpose of this drill- as we're still holding our arms up.
"One of the purposes of this, is to teach you how to shut your mind off. Everyone feels pain, but you can either ignore it or give into it. You have to get into that mindset that will let you shut off the pain. I would expect and athlete like James Anderson to be good at this. In cycling, after the first mile you're already hurting..." he continued on with his speech, while I was lost in my own thought. How do I suffer? I don't shut the pain off. What do I do? I came to the conclusion that when I'm really suffering, I tell myself that pain is temporary and it will go away eventually. When the suffering does end, I'll be so happy, but if I give up, I'll be kicking myself for a long time.
It's a lot like Lance Armstrong's quote:
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
So we suffered on into the evening. We kept on with that pushup/arms out torture for about twenty more minutes. After a short water break, we did several sprints to midfield and back. When I say "several", I probably should say "7 or 8". It was pretty tough, but for the most part, I was almost always the third or fourth best finisher. Right now I am really happy that I actually trained for the soccer season, because the people who didn't train are struggling right now.
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A nation of sissies and fuzzy math
By Mark Trapp
When Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his first term on January 20, 1981, the first item he felt compelled to mention in his inaugural address was the "orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution." He stated that, although this transfer of power from one leader to another was a "commonplace occurrence" in America, "few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle." As usual, he was right. This point is being driven home as I write. America, unlike the vast majority of the rest of the world, has always had orderly transfers of authority. That is, until Al Gore came along.
This past Tuesday, Al Gore lost the Florida presidential election by something like 1,784 votes. That's a tough way to lose such a big election, but a real man is not defined by whether he wins or loses. Then again, Al Gore is not really a man - he's a sissy. Did he take it in stride, keep a stiff upper lip, and congratulate his opponent? No. Instead, Gore has started a campaign designed to steal the election. In the days since the election, Gore has shown his true colors - and he is indisputably a sissy. No, wait. He's not even that - he's a half-a-sissy. By placing himself and his endless quest for power above the interests of the country, he has demonstrated what some of us have known all along - he is not fit to lead our nation.
For example, when Albert Gore, Jr., called George W. Bush back early Wednesday morning, he reportedly said, "we're going to wait this one out." When Bush asked him if he was retracting his concession of the previous hour, Gore responded, "You don't have to get snippy about it." You don't have to get snippy about it? What kind of man uses the word snippy? That single comment by itself should disqualify him from leading our country.
The next day, however, when the results showed that Gore had indeed lost Florida, and thereby the election, did he then decide to act like a man, and concede? No. Having 'waited it out' and still lost, Gore decided that now he would wait for the recount called for by Florida law. However, before the results of this recount were even in, his supporters had already started filing lawsuits and calling for another recount, this one to be done by hand. Furthermore, Gore has only called for this special 'hand recount' to be done in four counties - all predominantly Democratic. Apparently, Gore wants to keep the election officials in Florida counting until he likes their numbers. Perhaps this was what George Bush meant when he referred to Gore's 'fuzzy math' in the debates.
Compare that, taken by Gore and his supporters, designed to avoid the lawful results of the Florida election, with a response Gore gave in the first debate just over a month ago. On October 3, Jim Lehrer asked Gore what America should do about Slobodan Milosevic, who was then holed up in Yugoslavia, contesting the results of the election which he had presumably lost. Gore answered: "Well, Milosevic has lost the election. His opponent, Kostunica, has won the election. I think we should support the people of Serbia and Yugoslavia . . . and put pressure in every way possible to recognize the lawful outcome of the election."
Perhaps Milosevic should have just told Kostunica (and Gore for that matter) that he "was going to wait this one out." Then he should have called for recount after recount, and held press conferences where supporters babbled on and on about how the ballot was confusing, and that while they meant to vote for Milosevic, they had mistakenly voted for Toni Kukoc. I am sure Jesse Jackson would have gone right over there to drum up protesters and to call for a revote. Presumably, Gore would have had no problem with all of this, since he is now doing all of these things himself.
Gore's disgusting campaign to overturn the results of the election stems, I believe, directly from the impeachment of President Clinton. How so, you ask? Easy - the Democrats learned then that if you can confuse the issues and muddy the waters enough, then 'the people' will hold everybody equally culpable, and you can distract attention from your own problems. Surely, if you can convince people that 'sex' isn't 'sex', 'is' isn't 'is', 'alone' isn't 'alone', and that Ken Starr is the moral equivalent of Bill Clinton; you can easily get a couple hundred votes. The Democrats are trying to make the numbers themselves partisan - a majority, to them, depends on how you define 'majority.'
Besides, what are a couple hundred votes when the very world hangs in the balance? The Democrats are not going to let a thing like a mere number stop them. Just watch. They are already arguing that, by applying the Florida election laws in a fair straightforward manner, minorities and senior citizens have been disenfranchised. However, these rules are the only thing that save us from mob rule. For, if a losing side can challenge the results of an election based on what their voters meant to do, rather than what they actually did, every election is up for grabs.
Imagine if in 1992, after the election, voters decided that they didn't really mean to vote for Perot, but only did so because they were confused. After all, that clown captured nineteen percent of the vote. Once his supporters realized that he wasn't going to win, and that it was either Bush or Clinton, how many would have chosen Clinton? I'll wager most would have chosen Bush. However, the very foundation of America rests on the sacredness and finality of the electoral process. If you tamper with that, we might as well be living in Haiti. Thus, like it or not, Clinton won. Likewise, in this recent election, like it or not, Bush won.
It really is, as Ronald Reagan said, a 'miracle' that America has maintained the orderly transfer of authority for all these years. We need to remember that this has only been accomplished by everyone agreeing to the rules established by our Founding Fathers. As George Bush said to Al Gore in the last debate, "there are certain rules in this that we all agree to, but evidently rules don't mean anything." He didn't know then how right he was.
You wouldn't think it possible, but the Democrats will indeed convince many that the electoral college is nothing more than the construction of a bunch of white male slaveowners, designed to keep women and minorities from electing our president. Likewise, the Florida statutes regarding voting will be argued to be unfair or prejudicial, and the ballots too confusing. Al Gore just may steal this election.
If Gore does pull it off, then the real test comes. The people of Yugoslavia refused to accept Milosevic's attempt to avoid the rules. What will the people of America do? If we allow him to get away with it, we deserve to have that half-a-sissy Al Gore for our President.
Mark Trapp was last seen in Enter Stage Right with his piece Of puppy love and gorilla rights.
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The Oregon Environment Council is staging a series of low-impact development workshops in Oregon's growing communities.
The workshops, in partnership with the Oregon State University Extension/Oregon Sea Grant, cover sustainable stormwater management practices to protect watersheds from urban runoff. The workshops target builders, developers, engineers, elected officials and others involved in urban planning and development.
Featuring experts in the fields of building, site planning, engineering and economics, the sessions will include educational materials, technical assistance and the latest on permits and codes.
The programs include discounts for members of the Home Builders Association. Some workshops include afternoon tours of demonstration sites. More information and registration is here.
Larry Coffman, who pioneered stormwater management practices like rain gardens, will lead the sustainable stormwater solutions for the Rogue Valley is at 8:30 a.m-1 p.m. April 2 at the RCC-SOU Higher Education Center, 101 S. Bartlett in Medford. Fee is $20.
Coffman also will speak at the Willamette Valley session, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. April 3 at 500 E. 4th Ave., in Eugene. Fee is $35.
Planning and engineering will be the focus of making low-impact development a reality in the Willamette Valley, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. April 30 at Lane Community College Center for Meeting and Learning, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene. Fee is $35.
The planning and engineering session moves to the Rogue Valley 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. May 1 at the Josephine County Courthouse, 500 NW Sixth St. Dept. 6, Grants Pass. Fee is $20.
The workshops conclude with a session on codes, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. May 28 at Rogue Valley Sewer Services, 138 W. Vilas Road, Central Point.
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Winter Depression Research Clinic
To study the pathophysiology of seasonal mood changes and to develop new more effective and efficient treatments.
What is Winter Depression?
Winter Depression or Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is an illness that affects people's mood and behaviors. The symptoms of SAD usually begin to appear gradually throughout September and October and last through March or April. Research suggests that SAD may affect as many as 11 million people in the United States. Up to four times as many women suffer from SAD as men, and it tends to run in families. Geographic location also plays a role in the likelihood of the occurrence of SAD. Those who live in Canada and the northern United States are up to eight times more likely to suffer from SAD than people living in sunny areas such as Florida and Mexico.
Signs and Symptoms of Winter Depression
Like all illnesses it is associated with specific symptoms. These symptoms are largely absent in the late spring and summer months:
- depressed mood and fatigue
- carbohydrate cravings, especially for sweets and/or starches
- increased appetite and/or weight gain
- oversleeping or difficulty awakening in the morning
- reduced work productivity
- withdrawal from social contacts
Who is eligible?
We are seeking individuals with SAD who wish to participate in clinical trials of new treatments. If you are interested in participating, please contact us after September 15 at the number below.
For more information about the clinic and our research programs, please call 203-785-2088.
Yale-New Haven Hospital
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Without tax breaks, solar future looks cloudy
The blazing mid-morning sun was already pushing up the mercury to the day’s high of 110 degrees when Harry Reid’s black SUV rolled up to one of Nevada’s newest factories.
The Senate majority leader had come to the Costco-sized warehouse in Las Vegas in his home state to start the automated assembly line that now cranks out a mirrored solar panel the size of an 18-wheeler every eight minutes. Strung together over a square mile, about 47,000 panels can collect enough energy to power 120,000 homes.
His message that day was simple: The country needs to use more renewable energy, and companies like solar-panel maker Ausra need tax credits to lure more investment. What the Senate Democratic leader didn’t mention was how hard it’s been to persuade Congress to renew those clean energy tax credits before they expire at the end of the year.
It’s a story hundreds of companies, unions and environmental groups know well after months spent lobbying Congress to renew the tax incentives. Few, if any, lawmakers oppose the credits. What’s frustrating clean energy supporters is the battle over how to pay for them.
Some in the business community argue that Congress should not fund the credits by eliminating or delaying tax benefits for other industries, a move they say would hurt their global competitiveness.
The renewable energy credits are part of a larger tax measure sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and paid for by delaying one tax benefit for multinational corporations and eliminating another for hedge fund managers. Both provisions have drawn criticism from some in the business community.
When considering how, or whether, to pay for the tax credits, supporters are largely agnostic. They just want the break. For the solar industry, that means an eight-year credit worth roughly $180 million a year.
To get there, the industry has done much more than invite Reid to a factory opening. It has showcased dozens of solar projects for lawmakers back home. Each week this year, the industry has averaged one ribbon-cutting event with local lawmakers, said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
“Nothing makes an industry or an issue more real to a member of Congress than an opening of a new factory in their district or their state because, when they’re walking in the parade at the Fourth of July, they’re going to have people from the assembly line waving American flags and cheering for their member or senator because they helped create those jobs,” Resch said.
But it has not been merely show and tell for the industry. The solar association has increased its staff from four to 15 in two years. And in the past year, it increased funding to its political action committee from $20,000 to $200,000, sent 100,000 letters to lawmakers and bought a special Politico advertising insert that it now leaves with lawmakers and staff after lobbying meetings, Resch said.
During the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the group is renting out Coors Field for SunFest, a concert and exhibition of solar projects. In Minneapolis, where the Republicans will be meeting, solar and wind advocates are teaming up to host a post-convention party at a local night club.
And Resch has even opened his mostly solar-powered Washington, D.C., home to several members of Congress to help them better understand the technology.
Every day that goes by without an extension of the clean energy credits, supporters say, means less private money because investors are wary of sinking money into a business built around a tax credit that may disappear. The uncertainty, they say, is endangering 116,000 jobs in the solar and wind industries and $19 billion in clean energy investments. If Congress doesn’t extend the break, Ausra chief executive Robert E. Fishman said the company would build in countries with friendlier policies.
But not all the extension’s supporters have billions riding on the outcome. Environmental groups believe the credits are the best way to bring newer technologies to the market, which would help reduce global warming and lower energy prices.
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Hurricane Dora Weakens in Pacific; Cindy, Bret Lose Strength in Atlantic
Dora, a Category 4 hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast with top winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour, will weaken gradually while tropical storms Bret and Cindy are forecast to lose strength in the Atlantic.
Dora eased from an earlier speed of 155 mph and “slow weakening” is expected tonight, with a more rapid decrease in winds tomorrow, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 8 p.m. New York time. The storm is forecast to remain offshore, the agency said.
The hurricane was about 360 miles south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas and heading northwest at 9 mph. Hurricane-force winds extend up to 50 miles from Dora’s core.
High surf will affect the southwestern Mexico coast for the next few days and start to hit the Baja California Peninsula later tonight, the center said. The Mexican government issued storm watches for the southern peninsula from Agua Blanca to Buenavista, including Cabo San Lucas, according to the center.
In the Atlantic, Cindy was about 995 miles west-northwest of the Azores and moving northeast at 28 mph with top winds at 60 mph, the center said. The storm poses no threat to land and should start to weaken overnight as it hits colder water, the center said.
Bret to Weaken
An area of showers and thunderstorms 650 miles east of the Windward Islands has a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm in the next two days, the center said in a weather outlook at 8 p.m. The system is moving west- northwest at 15 to 20 mph.
A disturbance becomes tropical when it develops a cyclonic rotation, becomes a named storm when sustained winds reach 39 mph and attains hurricane status when winds quicken to 74 mph. A Category 4 hurricane has sustained winds of 131 to 155 mph.
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4.7 quake near LAX is felt across wide area
A 5.0 earthquake struck southeast of Los Angeles International Airport this evening, causing significant shaking across Southern California. [Update: Quake was downgraded to 4.7.]
Updated at 9:50 p.m.: In Hawthorne, firefighters were called to Chadron Avenue, near Crenshaw Boulevard, where a light pole was damaged during the earthquake. One man also suffered a heart attack, but it was unclear whether that was connected. “Luckily, nothing major so far,” said Hawthorne Police Lt. Michael Ishii.
The earthquake was “a bit deep,” said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough – originating 8.4 miles below the surface. “That tends to make it less sharp – less of a jerky, abrupt motion,” Hough said. As a result, most of the region felt the quake largely as a rolling motion, though some closer to the center felt more of a jolt.
Lucy Jones, seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said the earthquake appears to be consistent with a rupture on the Newport-Inglewood fault. (She said the quake was too small to break the surface, so they can't definitively identify faults.) Jones said this fault isn't typically thought to be capable of producing a major quake like the San Andreas fault. But it was responsible for the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, which measured about 6.3 in magnitude. The Long Beach quake was about as big as seismologists expect from this fault, she said.
"There have been numerous magnitude 3s on it over the years, a cluster of them in the 1980s," she said. "In general, it's an active area."
The quake was initially logged as a magnitude 5 by automatic sensors, but as more data came in, seismologists downgraded it to a magnitude 4.7. It also had an aftershock with a magnitude 3.1 about six minutes later. So far, Jones said, 12,000 people have reported feeling the shaking, including some people in San Diego. She was not surprised at the number of people reporting because the quake shook a pretty densely populated area.
Nothing about the quake or its aftershocks looked unusual, she said. "It’s a real garden variety California earthquake so far."
What’s notable about it is location with respect to people.
She said the most similar earthquake to this one was a temblor that shook the Inglewood area in 1920, and that one was classified as a "minor damaging shock."
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UH Manoa's Maternal-Child Health Leadership Training Program Announces Its 2003-2004 GraduatesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
HONOLULU — The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (MCH LEND) program at the Center for Disability Studies at UH Mānoa recently announced its 2003-2004 graduates. Thirteen trainees with backgrounds in the health professions graduated from the program this year:
· Marcel Abad — Nursing
· Christina Bergholz — Psychology
· Conrad Bernisto — Psychology
· Leticia Borja — Pediatrics
· Nancy Faraj — Nutrition
· Yolanda Hayes — Social Work
· Liane Kajioka — Occupational Therapy
· Jill Matro — Social Work
· Aaron Matsumoto — Dental Hygiene
· Dawn Nakanishi — Dental Hygiene
· Dianne Shumay — Psychology
· Megan Tanabe — Social Work
· Rebekah Wheeler — Occupational Therapy
Upon completion of the maternal and child health leadership training program, graduates of the MCH LEND program are expected to take on leadership positions that support and provide services for children with special health care needs, their families, and other individuals with disabilities. The trainees who have completed this training indicate that it has greatly enhanced their professional development, critical thinking, and experiences with working with children with special needs and their families.
Established in 1994 and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA), the MCH LEND program provides leadership education for graduate students and practicing health care professionals in maternal and child health issues related to neurodevelopmental disabilities. The trainees and senior faculty mentors work collaboratively to share their insights and gain valuable field skills in dealing with Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) through active participation, such as analyzing policy for children with developmental disabilities and his/her family. This "Family-Focused" learning experience is a collaborative endeavor between the Center on Disability Studies and the Department of Pediatrics in the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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FGCU Library Art Gallery Presents African Fabrics: The Culture of Cloth
WHO FGCU Department of Art, for the public
WHAT “African Fabrics: The Culture of Cloth” exhibition
WHEN Monday, Oct. 27 through Monday, Dec. 8
Gallery Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE Library art gallery
WHY A survey of West and Central African woven fabric traditions, including bogolan mudcloth from Mali, kente cloth from Ghana, and raffia palm embroidered textiles from Congo. The fabrics on display are on loan from local collections and are accompanied with textual research by FGCU students enrolled in Art History 4520, African Art. The exhibition was curated and produced by art professor Patricia Fay.
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amniocentesis - a test performed to determine chromosomal and genetic disorders and certain birth defects. The test involves inserting a needle through the abdominal and uterine wall into the amniotic sac to retrieve a sample of amniotic fluid.
amniotic sac - a thin-walled sac that surrounds the fetus during pregnancy. The sac is filled with amniotic fluid (liquid made by the fetus) and the amnion (the membrane that covers the fetal side of the placenta), which protects the fetus from injury and helps to regulate the temperature of the fetus.
anemia - a decrease of red blood cells in the blood.
anus - the opening at the end of the anal canal.
Apgar test - A scoring system to evaluate the condition of the newborn immediately after birth.
areola - the pigmented ring around each nipple.
Braxton-Hicks contractions - Painless contractions during pregnancy that help the uterus to grow and to help the blood circulate through the uterus.
breech birth - an abnormal delivery presentation in which the baby's feet, knees, or buttocks come into the birth canal first, before the baby's head.
cervix - the lower part of the uterus that projects into the vagina. Made up of mostly fibrous tissue and muscle, the cervix is circular in shape.
chorionic villus sampling (CVS) - placental tissue that is sometimes retrieved for laboratory analysis. Cells from this tissue can be tested for certain genetic abnormalities and chromosomal disorders.
chromatography - a laboratory test performed on a pregnant woman's urine to detect illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.
colostrum - a fluid in the breasts that nourishes the baby until the breast milk becomes available. Colostrum contains fats, carbohydrates, white blood cells, protein, and antibodies.
ectopic pregnancy - an abnormal pregnancy in which the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus.
EDD - estimated due date.
embryo - the fetus is first called an embryo during the first eight weeks after conception.
episiotomy - an incision through the vaginal wall and the perineum (the area between the thighs, extending from the anus to the vaginal opening) to help deliver the fetus.
fetus - an unborn baby from the eighth week after fertilization until delivery.
folic acid - a nutrient found in some green leafy vegetables, nuts, beans, citrus fruits, fortified breakfast cereals, and some vitamin supplements. Folic acid can help reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain and spinal cord.
fundus - the top of the enlarged uterus.
galactosemia - an inherited disorder in which the baby is unable to metabolize galactose, a milk sugar.
human chorionic gonadotropin - a hormone produced by the placenta about 10 days after fertilization.
IBCLC - International Board of Certified Lactation Consultants
lanugo - fine, downy hair that covers the fetus until shortly before or after birth.
leukorrhea - whitish vaginal discharge during pregnancy.
LMP - last menstrual period.
macrosomia - a condition in which a baby is considerably larger than normal.
menstruation - a monthly process (except during pregnancy) that involves a discharge of bloody fluid from the uterus through the vagina; the discharge contains tissue shed from the endometrium (the lining of a woman's uterus) during the reproductive cycle.
placenta - an organ, shaped like a flat cake, that only grows during pregnancy and provides a metabolic interchange between the fetus and mother. (The fetus takes in oxygen, food, and other substances and eliminates carbon dioxide and other wastes.)
port-wine stain - a flat, pink, red, or purple colored birthmark.
preeclampsia - a condition characterized by pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, protein in the urine, and swelling (edema) due to fluid retention.
premature - a baby born before full term or 37 weeks of gestation.
rooting - when a newborn turns his/her head toward touch near the mouth.
toxoplasmosis - an infection caused by a parasite that can lead to serious illness or death in the fetus.
trimester - a pregnancy is divided into phases, which are about three months each.
ultrasound - a diagnostic imaging technique which uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image of the fetus' body and organs and the surrounding tissues.
umbilical cord - a rope-like cord connecting the fetus to the placenta. The umbilical cord contains two arteries and a vein, which carry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and waste products away from the fetus.
uterine wall - the wall of the uterus.
uterus (Also called the womb.) - the uterus is a hollow, pear-shaped organ located in a woman's lower abdomen, between the bladder and the rectum, that sheds its lining each month during menstruation and in which a fertilized egg (ovum) becomes implanted and the fetus develops.
vagina - the part of the female genitals, behind the bladder and in front of the rectum, that forms a canal extending from the uterus to the vulva.
vernix caseosa (Also called vernix.) - a white substance that covers the skin of the fetus (while inside the uterus) and helps to protect the fetus.
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2003 Samstag essay
The Point of Knowing
© Stephanie Radok
Long for something you can't name, the doctor said, and call it Australia.
The Ancestor Game, Alex Miller, 1992
We live in what the Chinese call interesting times. An uncertainty, an instability, an ongoing sense of crisis and manifold unexpected events make it clear that, contrary to all rumours, history never does end, that in some respects anything can happen and that you have to be there to see what will happen. In this twenty-first century world, the practice of art embraces a renewed awareness of its important role as a part of vast movements of thought and practice, and its responsibility to bear witness, to respond, to go on and simply to be.
Artists in Australia engage in global discourses yet Australian art on a world stage still tends to mean Aboriginal art. In the work of the Samstag Class of 2003 many references are made to Western culture, the artists all deal in the currency of 'world' culture. In this way contemporary art appears to be an international language, or is it global? Does using a 'world' language mean that you may not make or attend to the details of local languages? In the future will our artists become more global, or can they become more Australian?
Constructions of nationality are both fixed and fluid. In the case of Australia it is an ongoing and onerous task to define and describe what is one of the most heterogenous societies in the world, as around one hundred and fifty ethnicities meet and mix in relatively spacious and peaceful surroundings. In art practice in particular, the richness thus created continues to open new and unexpected levels of activity. The politics of the moment, involving refugee camps and border control, is a rearguard action compared to the long-term connections that have been, and are being made with Australia, by an immense plurality of people. The example set by Australian indigenous people involves intense concern with the local and the specific, adaptability and flexibility, and the incorporation of the new into existing systems.
Samstag Scholarships provide the opportunity for Australian artists to attend art institutions away from Australia, to mingle, to work and to measure their art practices. Some Samstagers may not return immediately to Australia, all will gain a new understanding of both home and away.
As this amazing opportunity for postgraduate study outside Australia takes hold of these seven artists, the question can be asked what will the Samstag Scholars take with them from Australia, what particular elements from here will travel with them to be joined to narratives elsewhere? There is no unity in the work of the seven beyond professionalism and rigour. In the complex and diverse art practices represented here, many disciplines are crossed and re-crossed - architecture, computer modeling, photography, fetishism, drawing, homelessness, the animal world, family history, design, making-do, eroticism, just like in the rest of the world…
Callum Morton's work has been called 'the archaeological recuperation of interred forms and histories'.1 Part of his art practice involves making two-dimensional digital models and then fabricating these models into three-dimensional scale models. Recent work joins iconic modernist buildings to commercial interests, thus turning the Schroder House in Utrecht into a Toys 'R' Us shop, the Casa Malaparte in Capri into a Spizzico restaurant and the Farnsworth House in Illinois into a 7/11 store.
The global rush of capitalism, to cover the earth with the same products and the same places through franchising, is here seen to work over and around other cultural agendas. The work displays the commercial uptake of modernist ideals in artworks that are strangely compelling.
Morton's research into modernist architecture that once was exclusive and extraordinary but has now become ordinary, even cheap and flimsy, confronts us with the visible movement of history and thus our own passing. Another element included in Morton's three-dimensional works is sound, a device he uses to generate further narrative flows and discontinuities. The computer skills Morton uses for his models are used by both computer game designers and by architects. His work differs from what they do by telling a story against itself, to those able to read it.
Simon Pericich, whose works under discussion here are collaborations with Thea Costantino, is engaged with proving truth through lack of ability, by making something so ordinary it must be real. If only you could see how much I need you (2002) is a life-size caravan fitted out with the casual objects generic to ordinary Australians on holiday.
It is made completely from cardboard, held together with tape and painted to match a scuzzy reality, including shiny Mission Brown woodwork. Though ambitious in its scale and detail, the artwork is not ingenious but poignant. Loving but deliberately clumsy, its homeliness embraces no skills except nostalgia and a kind of black humour.
Some of the objects shown, the willow pattern crockery, the Golden Circle can of tinned fruit, hark back to earlier decades but even in today's cosmopolitan Australia these home items remain pretty much the same. The artwork is embedded with a strong sense of its own mortality and was publicly destroyed as a performance event. It is timely in a global sense that, after all, it is poverty - a fairly uncommon topic for art - that is referenced most strongly in Pericich and Costantino's work, for it is poverty that 'lives' rather than 'stays' in a caravan, and it is homeless people who use cardboard to make shelter.
It is curious then that one body of work by Samantha Small also concerns itself with the making of domestic spaces from cardboard. Small fabricates the rooms but exhibits only her photographs of them. In Room Temperature (2002) five rooms - Dining, Living, Lounge, Spare and Bedroom - reference the formal aspects of interiors painted by Vermeer. They contain pieces of ordinary floral carpet and patterned wallpaper as well as tiny brooms and cardboard boxes. The scale of the patterns on the wallpaper and carpet give away the illusion of these constructions as much as the corrugated cardboard edges visible at the windows. They suggest rental accommodation and somehow even a dusty smell and unloved aura and yet the light that pours in, always from the left, casts an enthralling warmth within them.
The rooms' ambivalent fragility presents us with a homely/unhomely dichotomy, the uneasiness of cardboard, the hopelessness of their nostalgia. The light that shines into Small's rooms is from an arc lamp, but the light does not need to be natural any more than the rooms need to be life-size to be both potent and memorable. Strangely affecting in their self-sufficiency, the rooms are puzzles, chambers of memories and the desire for manageability and control in an uncertain world.
The design work of Anke Kindle draws together the tasks and needs of everyday life with a surreal vision in funky biomorphic furniture with a distinct and animated presence. She is concerned to blur the boundaries between furniture design and sculpture by mixing up methodological approaches and techniques. Furniture is designed around the human form to be functional; sculpture is made in relation to the human body but with no need to be practical. Kindle's work questions the edges of practicality, the limits of utility.
The soft seat sculptures Anton and Effie (2001-2002) lie on the floor like bodies we know from a cartoon. From a distance they appear to be made from plasticine, as if they could easily form themselves into a ball and roll away. Then there are Tulled Lena, Precious March and Quilted Venus (2001-2002), respectively a lipstick mirror, a jewellery storage unit and a clothes stand. Each 1.8 metre object, cast from the same fibreglass mould and respectively ruched with pink tulle, surfaced with smooth shiny aluminium, or quilted with purple satin, is like a large tongue, an organ of extension, friction and potential pleasure. They suggest fetish objects that may have uses other than the ones for which they are signposted.
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Many of the sculptural works made by John Meade share a certain surreal fetishistic ground with the work of Kindle. Meade's indefinable objects for indefinable needs Objects to Live By (2000) are smoothly chromed, a seductive fashionable finish suggesting both industrial and domestic settings. In a later work one of these objects reappears but it has become pink. Named by Meade Emotional motif, this object, a small bollard hung with a ring, is most recently, perhaps finally, manifested in thin dark latex rubber with a ring made from plaited linen thread. The viewer is unlikely to guess it but Emotional motif is a three-dimensional model of Jacques Lacan's line drawing of his theory of the topology of the drive. (In brief what goes up must come down.) The object looks like some obscure erotic tool, a giant nipple, or a dummy for a child with a very large mouth.
By making this intellectual diagram three-dimensional, Meade is approaching theory through the body, pushing at making thought palpable and visible, creating simple forms to signify complex and latent layers of thought. The game of the work is to leave the viewer in a confounded state uneasily unaware of what it is that they have seen.
The photographs of Rebecca Ann Hobbs also border onto the unknown and the unsaid. Suck Roar (2001) is a series of seven self-portraits in which Hobbs pictures herself with a range of creatures from different species. The photographs have been digitally manipulated to intensify their color thus imitating the hand-colouring of another era, and though they are inkjet prints when exhibited they are framed with great formality. Each highly staged photograph sets up a relationship and suggests some communication between a human and another species - birds, possums, a dog, a squid, a stuffed fox, snails and a spider. The relationships become increasingly strange and attenuated.
Hobbs began the series planning to picture herself as a homeless person, but the imagery of cross-species relationships took over with all its metaphoric potential of investigating and depicting hierarchies of eroticism and power. In the title of the series, Suck refers to the feminine element, while Roar refers to the animal element. In each photograph Hobbs appears in the centre wearing carefully chosen old clothes with a certain stylish awkwardness. It is almost as if she has restaged documentary photographs of an isolated weird scientist in the fifties or earlier, caught on a Freudian threshold of misunderstanding.
Maria Kontis makes realistic black and white pastel drawings from photographs and from life. Her work embraces an exact semblance, but at the same time manages to make something unearthly or unstable enter the work and slant its apparently straightforward agenda. One way she does this is by including the blur familiar to us from photography, memory or fading light, thus making the viewer strain to see and by extension to understand.
Kontis has recently made a series of drawings called Photographs that destroyed my life: 1946 -1985 (2002). Included in the series are typical family album images, an adolescent boy, two young men on the beach, two people with a car, a woman, two girls. There is no coherent story which the drawings illustrate; rather, they show moments of suggestive meaning which echo with implied narratives through our experience and memories. When the works were exhibited the artist placed a nineteenth century mahogany table with a worn leather inlay into the room as a private tribute to Jorge Luis Borges. Other works by Kontis depict newspapers and open books of paintings by Vilhelm Hamershoi and Avigdor Arikha. These works contain a surrealistic intensity, they project mysterious auras of contemplation, confounding any direct reading.
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1. Max Delany, 'Raising the dead: an interview with Callum Morton', Like, Number 10, Melbourne, 1999.
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Maharani Gayatri Devi (23 May 1919 – 29 July 2009), often styled as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, was born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Koch Bihar (Cooch Behar). She was the third Maharani of Jaipur from 1939 to 1970 through her marriage to HH. Following India's independence and the subsequent abolition of the princely states, she became an extremely successful politician.
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The visit – organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Food and Drink Manufacturing Group (APPG), and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) – was designed to offer parliamentarians greater insight into food and drink manufacturing - the UK’s largest manufacturing sector.
Mars is one of 11 food and drink manufacturers opening their doors in support of the SIM throughout June. “The initiative aims to help dismiss the poor image of manufacturing and inspire young people to consider careers in sectors such as food and drink,” said the FDF.
Mars’ chocolate supply chain director Dale Creaser said: “We are delighted to welcome the All Party Parliamentary Group to Slough, the home of the Mars bar, to show them around our factory where we have been manufacturing for 80 years.
Champion and nuture
We hope today’s visitors will spread the word that food and drink companies like ours offer progressive, exciting and varied jobs that continue to champion and nurture Britain’s skills.”
John Stevenson, Conservative MP for Carlisle and APPG Chair, said: “I’m proud to showcase the food and drink industry to parliamentarians as part of See Inside Manufacturing to promote the image of this complex and innovative industry.
“The food and drink industry continues to deliver for UK economic growth, as the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, and parliamentarians must continue to play our part to support this growth.”
The urgent need to attract a new generation of recruits into food and drink manufacturing was highlighted at the HR Forum, organised by FoodManufacture.co.uk’s sister title Food Manufacture at Foodex.
Jack Matthews, former chief executive of Improve, the sector skills council, said: “We have 137,000 vacancies to fill over the next five years. When we look at the demography of the sector, too many young people will retire and there are not enough young people to replace them.”
Yesterday's tour followed previous visits to Coca-Cola Enterprises in Edmonton, Britvic in London, General Mills at Uxbridge and other food and drink manufacturers. (See list below).
The SIM initiative is organised by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It aims to offer young people (from secondary school age to 21 year olds) insight into careers within the food and drink, automotive and aerospace companies.
To watch our video interview with Terry Jones, FDF communications director, about plans to raise the industry’s profile with young people, click here .
To watch the Chilli Baby video, designed to attract young people into food manufacturing, click here . The video has now attracted more than 20,000 hits on YouTube.
Meanwhile, Mars Chocolate warned yesterday that urgent action was needed to avert a global supply crisis of cocoa within the next 10 years. To read the full story, click here .
Other SIM visits staged in June
- Apetito ……………………….. Trowbridge
- Ginsters …………….………… Callington
- Adams Foods ………………… Leek
- William Jackson Food Group .. Hull
- United Biscuits ……………….. Manchester
- Warburtons …………………… Bolton
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Effects of air pollution are now at an all time high. The problem is now really menacing and it is high time arrest its growth. The problem of air pollution wasn’t considered very serious until now and in the past decade a lot of facts that tell us how polluted the atmosphere has become. The environment is badly affected by a lot of harmful toxins and chemicals that are released in atmosphere.
Recent reports say that there are a lot of people dying due to air pollution. People living in the cities get badly affected by air pollution when they walk on the streets. Effects of air pollution are vicious and hence there is a need to tackle this problem seriously. We are breathing plenty of grime and smoke right now. About 800 die every year due to air pollution. Right now, air pollution is a bit environmental threat that is eating in to our health now. If this is ignored now, things could get worse in coming years.
Effects of air pollution include diseases. A lot of people are victims of hazardous diseases due to air pollution. Some most common diseases include lung problems, cancer, bronchitis, etc. Air pollution is a very big problem in factories and industries.
Environment is getting affected drastically due to air pollution. There are plenty of non-governmental organizations that are trying to get rid of air pollution. It is really important to spread awareness now. The battle will get easier when people realize how serious the whole issue is. | <urn:uuid:9c5b8859-e740-4c95-b4ea-150714313035> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenliving9.com/effects-of-air-pollution.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972591 | 290 | 2.625 | 3 |
It’s not every day you get a bottle delivered to your house of a new product that has a note from the brand owner telling you that this is the first bottle outside of his own house. So this past Thursday, when exactly that happened, and I found in my hands a bottle of Hammer & Son Old English Gin, I was pretty excited to say the least. I’ve been waiting for the release of this product for several months, ever since Henrik Hammer (of Geranium Gin) mentioned that he had found a 1783 gin recipe in the safe at a distillery and was going to have a go at recreating it, as closely as possible within the confines of modern production techniques and current regulations.
But what exactly is an Old English Gin? Well essentially it’s the original style of gin produced in England, and is somewhere between the sweet rich flavour of Genever, and the dry style of gin we’re used to today. It differs from London Dry in that it is slightly sweetened, a tradition that goes back to a time when poor quality spirits could have some of their impurities masked by the addition of sugar after distillation. The decision not to refer to this new product as an Old Tom Gin, as some might expect, comes from Henrik’s research into the history of gin in the 1700s, and his desire to produce a spirit that would be true to the origins of English Gin. | <urn:uuid:97d77b37-6beb-4a7a-aceb-5657cb9240c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bittersandtwisted.com/category/tags/daisy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981807 | 296 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Healthy Hollywood: Ask Keri Glassman – Is Rose Lower In Calories Than Other Wines?
First Published: June 7, 2012 6:07 PM EDT Credit: Access Hollywood
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Nutritionist Keri Glassman, who regularly shares her expertise on Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live, is answering your nutrition, diet, and health questions.
Want to know which foods to curb sugar cravings? Or, what should you eat before a workout? Ask Keri anything!
Keri will choose one great question a week to be answered Thursday in our Healthy Hollywood column.
To submit questions for Keri, click HERE!
This week’s question — Madeline K. asks, “Rose wine is popping up on summer menus everywhere and I heard it has less calories than red or white…is it true?”
Ahh…wine. There is nothing better after a long, hard day than sipping back a nice, crisp glass of wine. It may be the perfect way to take the edge off, but with so many varieties how can we possibly choose just one? Rose seems like the chic choice, with its bright pink hue that would match your favorite summer dress. But, before you pop that cork, you may want to know exactly what it is and why it is so unique, other than its color.
What’s in a Glass Most people judge rose by its skin, throwing it in the same category as a blush wine, or a white zinfandel, because of its pretty-in-pink color. Not so fast! Rose has its place in the prestigious world of wine. In fact, rose is made with the most serious of dark red grapes, like Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, and Merlot, with the occasional white grape thrown in the stomper. This wine keeps its fancy shade of pink because the skins of these grapes are peeled off shortly after they are thrown in and just before the fermentation happens (i.e. the alcohol is made). This prevents them from taking the color to that dark red/purple shade and gives them that crisp, full-fruit flavor. Wine makers take the liberty of deciding how long the grape skins stay on, which is why some roses are a peachy color and others more of a salmon color.
A Light Hue, A Lighter You! Wine, of all kinds, can be great for our waistline for the simple fact that it doesn’t need a sugary mixer to be enjoyed. You drink it as is! Your average drink — beer, wine, martini, pick your poison — is usually a combination of carbs, sugar, and ethanol (pure alcohol). The carbs and sugar go the traditional digestive route, while ethanol, a toxin, is diverted to the liver. This is when that innocent little drink starts messing with your internal fat incinerator. Ethanol has no nutritional value, so your body burns it off first. That means any remaining calories in your stomach — even if they’re from the fancy schmancy wine pairings such as cheese or bread — will likely be stored as fat. Remember, wine is made from fruit, and all fruits contain sugar. If we run the numbers:
- 5 oz of rose =99 kcal - 5 oz of red=125 kcal - 5 oz of white=121kcal
Bottom line and ounce for ounce, rose saves you at least 20 calories per glass!
Wine and…burgers?! If you thought this “color me pink” shade of wine was for girls only, think again. In Europe, where they do wine big, rosé is enjoyed by everyone. Take a lesson from the French; they like to pair it with bread, cheese, and olives. But don’t feel pressured to do what the Europeans do, as this wine can be paired with a wide range of foods from seafood, to fish, to chicken, to pork…and even a hamburger (remember, it’s got those serious grapes in there)! So, man up and pick up a bottle of rose next time you are headed to a summer BBQ.
Rose: The Wine of Summer Nothing screams festive summer like a pitcher of Sangria, and because rose has that signature fruit flavor, it can be the go-to-choice for this fruity concoction. Simply add your favorite fruits all sliced up, dump them in a pitcher with about 5 ounces of rose, and let it chill for a few hours in the fridge. Right there you got yourself a refreshing glass of antioxidants.
So, whether we are a white, red, or somewhere in between, we can all pop a cork, and toast to summer and good health…just remember to drink responsibly!
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Non-specific urethritis (NSU) occurs when the tube that carries urine out of the body, the urethra, becomes inflamed and causes pain and a burning sensation during urination. The condition is mostly caused by an infection, but as the name states ďnon-specificĒ urethritis means that the exact cause of the infection is not known. NSU mainly occurs as a side effect of another STI such as chlamydia, mycoplasma or ureaplasma, but can also be caused by damage to the urethra as a result of vigorous sexual intercourse as well as other factors.
NSU is more difficult to diagnose in men than it is in women and is most often asymptomatic. The most common symptoms, if they do occur, include increased urinations and a white cloudy discharge.
Tests and Treatments
There is no individual test for NSU because this condition only occurs alongside other STIs. To test for non-specific urethritis, TestDiagnostics recommend that you take our 7 STI Profile by PCR test, an extensive test for the 7 most common sexually transmitted infections.
A 7 STI Profile by PCR test will detect with accuracy whether any of the 7 most common sexually transmitted infections, including the NSU condition, are present. These include
- Chlamydia trachomatis (PCR)
- Neisseria gonorrhoea (PCR)
- Mycoplasma genitalium (PCR)
- Ureaplasma urealyticum (PCR)
- Trichomonas vaginalis (PCR)
- Gardnerella vaginalis/Bacterial vaginosis (PCR)
- Herpes simplex I/II (DNA)
Both Azithromycin and Doxycycline are effective treatments for non-specific urethritis, as they help to stop the growth and spread of the infection in the urinary tract.
NSU carries with it several risk factors, including recurrent urethritis, epididymo-orchitis and Reiterís Syndrome, all of which can cause long-term damage to your health and/or fertility so itís best to get treatment for this condition as soon as possible.
Non-Specific Urethritis FAQs
- What is non-specific urethritis?
Non-specific urethritis is mainly defined as an inflammation of the urethra caused by an infection transmitted through unprotected sexual contact.
- How is non-specific urethritis contracted?
You can get non-specific urethritis from unprotected sex, from urethral damage as a result of vigorous sexual intercourse, or as a result of a gonorrhoea infection.
- What are the symptoms of non-specific urethritis?
NSU is mostly asymptomatic so itís difficult to know if you have it. The most common symptoms however include burning or pain while urinating or during sex or a cloudy/white discharge.
- How is non-specific urethritis diagnosed?
Non-specific urethritis can be diagnosed through a simple urine test or a swab of the infected area.
- Can it be cured?
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The Snell Knot - Fishing Knots
The Snell Knot
The Snell Knot is a knot used to pre-rig small leaders onto baithooks.
You'll often see 'snelled' hooks for sale in packs of 6 or 8 at the
sporting goods stores. This knot retains almost all of the line strength
of the leader. Here's how to tie your own snelled hooks:
Insert one end of the leader through the hook's eye extending one to
two inches past the eye. Insert the other end of the leader through
the eye in the opposite direction pointing toward the barb of the
hook. Hold the hook and leader ends between thumb and forefinger of
your left hand. Leader will hang below the hook in a large loop.
Take the part of this loop that is closest to the eye and wrap it
over the hook shank and both ends of the leader toward the hook's
Wrap for 7 or 8 turns and hold wraps with left hand. Grip the end of
the leader that is through the eyelet with your right hand and pull
it slowly and steadily. Hold the turns with your left hand if the
knot will unravel. When knot is almost tight, slide it up against the
eye of the hook. Grip the short end lying along the shank of the hook
with a pair of pliers. Pull this end and the standing line at the
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Louis Guilloux (1899-1980) was the author of over 20 works of fiction, theater and nonfiction, as well as a translator of American literature, including Claude McKay's Home to Harlem and John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven. He is best known for Le sang noir, the First World War novel considered his masterpiece, and for Le jeu de patience, which was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1949. In 1967 he received the Grand Prix National des Lettres for his body of work.
Alice Kaplan is the author of French Lessons and The Collaborator, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Her translations include Another November and The Difficulty of Being a Dog by Roger Grenier. | <urn:uuid:31bcf422-0f96-4d3a-8434-41d3a0e649c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/G/L/au5417405.html | 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 | 0.971177 | 162 | 1.859375 | 2 |
November 17, ArtNet.com
Lorraine O'Grady, "Studies: For a Work-in-Progress on Charles Baudelaire, the first Modernist Poet, and his Haitian-born wife Jeanne Duval," Sep 12 - Oct 31, 1998, at Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC. Review published on the internet.
by Franklin Sirmans. 1998
Rescuing and reconstructing lost histories are symptomatic of many artists' projects today, a tendency that is due in part to larger curatorial currents of a more internationalist (or less essentialist) approach. Increasingly, curators are revealing a tendency heretofore minimized by the powers that be to look beyond the traditional centers of production. One recent example is the new book Cream, published by Phaidon Press in London. Another is a new interest in the work of Lorraine O'Grady, who has been working and producing art since the late 1970s, minus a five-year break.
O'Grady's brand of Conceptualist art tackles big themes, namely the canon of Western art history. Her most recent project, a 16-part installation of digital cibachrome diptychs titled "Flowers of Evil and Good," goes literally to the "heart of the matter." The immediate subject is the work and love relationship between Charles Baudelaire ("the West's first modern art critic") and his black common-law wife of 20 years, Jeanne Duval.
Duval, like so many others, has been largely erased
from history. O'Grady has retrieved her image
by creating pictorial equals. Each diptych, three of which were presented at Thomas Erben, features one image of Duval and one of Baudelaire, each on separate panels, with details from Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in the background and text imposed on the foreground. The images of Baudelaire are taken from photographs by Etienne Carjat and Nadar, and coupled with Baudelaire's own words. The images of Duval are mostly drawings by Baudelaire and texts invented by O'Grady, in a fusion of research and novelistic license. Duval's words also tell the story of O'Grady's mother, Lena, who emigrated from Jamaica to Boston in the 1920s, almost 100 years after Duval emigrated from Haiti to Paris in the 1830s.
This juxtaposition fits squarely into O'Grady's practice, which has often linked narratives taken from public accounts of history with those of a more personal and familial history. By splicing a modernist monument like Les Demoiselles with its African influences, and inserting Duval's point of view, O'Grady....
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Eyesight is often one of the first senses affected by aging, and almost everyone's vision deteriorates to some degree.
If you're over 40, you've probably noticed some differences in how well you see. Just like your body, your eyes and vision can change over time.
"Beginning in the early to mid-forties, most adults start to experience problems in seeing clearly at close distances, especially when reading," explained Ophthalmologist Bart Brine, M.D. "This normal aging of the eye's ability to focus, called presbyopia, will progress as the lens loses elasticity and makes it difficult to focus on close-up objects."
Along with presbyopia, other vision problems become more common over 40, including:
Changes in Color Perception: The eye's lens is normally clear and may start to discolor, making it harder to distinguish between certain shades of colors. "The yellowing lens tends to absorb and scatter blue light, making it more difficult to see differences in shades of blue, green, and violet," he added. "Colors may seem duller, and contrasts between colors will be less noticeable. It also may become more difficult to tell where an object ends and its background begins, making it harder to see curbs or steps. Eventually, the underlying process that causes lens yellowing may lead to cataracts."
Pupil Changes: "The most significant age-related changes seem to occur in the lens and the pupil, as the pupil becomes smaller and less responsive to changes in light," Dr. Brine continued. "The pupil controls the amount of light that reaches the retina. As the pupil decreases in diameter, it becomes harder to see well in dim light. The less able the pupil is to adjust to varying light conditions, including glare, the more difficult it is for a person to adapt to darkness or bright light."
Proper illumination can help compensate for many of the changes to the aging pupil. Studies show that for specific tasks, the average 60-year-old needs at least three times the amount of light compared to the average 20-year-old. To reduce glare from the use of brighter lighting, avoid bare bulbs and lights without shades; and cover shiny, polished surfaces in the home or work area. In addition, more time may be needed to adjust to changing levels of illumination, such as going from sunshine into a dimly lit room.
Reduced Tear Production: With age, the tear glands in the eyes produce fewer tears and the eyes may feel dry and irritated. This is particularly true for women after menopause.
Other Vision Problems
Cataracts: By age 65, about half of all Americans have developed some degree of lens clouding, although it may not impair their vision. "As a person ages, the eye's lens becomes less flexible and less transparent," said Dr. Brine. "A cataract occurs when the lens becomes cloudy and light rays cannot easily pass through it. At first, the cloudiness may affect only a small part of the lens and the person may be unaware of any vision loss. As the cataract grows denser, it clouds more of the lens and vision is blurred. Surgical procedures are available for people whose degree of vision impairment due to cataracts is severe enough to interfere with their safety or quality of life."
Glaucoma: "There are various types of glaucoma, which can be caused by high pressure within the eye and damage to the optic nerve," Dr. Brine advised. "Glaucoma is one of the main causes of sight loss and usually affects people over the age of 40."
Macular Degeneration: "The macula is the central part of the retina used for detailed vision," Dr. Brine stated. "As a person's eyes age, the macula can gradually degenerate. Eventually, a 'blind spot' can develop in a person's center of vision, while his or her peripheral or side vision is normally unaffected."
Protect Your Eyes
"Fortunately, there are several ways to lessen the impact of age-related eye changes," Dr. Brine added. "One of the first steps in protecting your eyes is to distinguish between vision changes that are due to normal aging processes and vision changes that may be signs of disease. The internal and external structures of the eyes, which work together to help people see clearly at various distances and under different lighting conditions, begin to wear down as people get older."
Studies show that certain lifestyle habits and dietary choices may help protect the lens of the eye and reduce the risk of certain lens conditions that diminish sight. According to a study published in the American Journal of Nutrition, a diet rich in vitamin C and foods containing plant pigments or carotenoids, may help protect the lens of the eye and reduce the risk of cataracts. A lack of these nutrients appears to speed cross-linking, a process in which proteins in the lens form unwanted links or bonds, making the lens thicker, more rigid, and scattering even more light than it would otherwise. Carotenoid-rich foods include sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, spinach, tomatoes, kale, and mangoes.
In addition to nutritional deficits, other lifestyle choices may speed up cross-linking and put lens' health at risk, such as smoking and excessive exposure to UV rays from the sun.
What's Not a Normal Part of Aging
"As you get older, it is very important to have regular eye examinations," Dr. Brine concluded. "A regular eye test every one to two years is a vital health check and this is especially true once a person reaches 40. Age increases the risk of cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration; but a thorough eye test can help detect these conditions early on. Don't rely on a substitute eye exam like a driver's license vision test or a vision screening to determine if you have a vision problem. Many eye diseases do not have warning symptoms and could be minimized or slowed with proper treatment."
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March 25, 2011 - The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission presented "2010 DWI Enforcement Awards" on March 15 to a father and son for their efforts in getting impaired operators of vehicles and vessels off the streets and waterways.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division Senior Agent Randy Lanoux, 47, of Gonzales, received the award for making 47 driving while under the influence (DWI) cases in 2010. His son, Louisiana State University (LSU) Police Patrol Officer Justin Lanoux, 27, of Gonzales, earned the award for issuing 24 DWI citations. They both made the most DWI arrests for their agencies.
"This was a very special moment for me and my son," said Randy Lanoux. "During the span of my 30-year law enforcement career I have received several awards, however, in this one instance to stand next to your only son and receive recognition from the state, which you love so dearly, is indescribable."
Justin said he made most of his cases around the perimeter of the LSU campus and that he has zero tolerance for impaired drivers. "It is important to protect the LSU students, faculty and staff as well as the citizens of the state of Louisiana from drunk drivers," he said. "Alcohol related traffic crashes are 100% preventable by simply not drinking and driving."
Randy made 44 of his 47 DWI cases in 2010 on the water with most of those coming on the Amite and Blind Rivers. Alcohol is the number one cause of boating crash incidents that lead to fatalities in Louisiana. In 2009, alcohol was ruled the primary cause for six of the 32 fatalities from boating crash incidents.
"For public safety it is imperative that impaired boat operators be located and removed from our state waterways before they can cause harm to themselves or someone else," Randy said. "It's not a question of if something will happen, but a question of when. Eventually there will be a situation where a quick decision needs to be made and an impaired operator simply can't react in the time needed. Alcohol also obstructs their capabilities of reason and judgment and is a recipe for disaster."
The LDWF Enforcement Division has stepped up their DWI enforcement efforts in the last decade. LDWF agents issued 216 DWI citations in 2009 and 158 in 2010, compared to 50 in 2002.
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Legion of Mary marks 90 years since its founding
By RASHAE OPHUS JOHNSON
Knock, knock. Who’s there, distributing religious literature on behalf of their church?
Not Mormons. Not Jehovah’s Witnesses. Catholics.
The Legion of Mary, a Catholic lay organization, deploys its legionaries on door-to-door evangelization every week throughout Anchorage and around the world.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Legion of Mary, founded by Frank Duff, a current candidate for sainthood. It’s the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, operating in nearly every nation with more than three million members, and has been active in Anchorage on varying levels since the 1960s.
“The Legion of Mary is really a pearl of great price that has been a little bit buried and not really understood,” said Kristina Johannes, president of the parish chapter at St. Benedict Church in Anchorage, known as Our Lady of Mercy Praesidium.
Door-to-door evangelization is among the Legion’s most vital, defining missions.
“It’s the most fruitful work there is,” said Therese Syren, who joined the Junior Legion at age 10 and, more than 40 years later, is president of the local Legion of Mary governing council. “Many Catholics don’t realize they have an obligation to evangelization.”
Legion members see their obligation to evangelize in Christ’s final injunction to the apostles: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15)
The Legion of Mary handbook — toted constantly, studied doggedly and cited frequently by faithful Legionaries — states that the Legion must be “obsessed” by that commandment.
“It must, as a first principle, set out to establish a contact of some sort with every soul everywhere,” the handbook instructs — to reach every person with “all-embracing, undiscriminating contact.”
Johannes said Legionaries are not pushy or preachy but rather use a “very soft approach” based on friendship. Local Legionaries visiting door-to-door have introduced nondenominational Christians to the faith, given miraculous medals and rosaries to non-Catholics and returned entire families of inactive Catholics back into communion with the church.
“You try to bring everyone to a more fervent level than where they’re at,” Johannes said. “You’re just meeting them where they are and trying to invite them to a deeper level.”
Frankie Filipowicz, 59, launched a Legion chapter, called a praesidium, in his native New York shortly before moving to Alaska three years ago and joining the Mystical Rose Praesidium at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage. Among his cherished door-to-door encounters, Filipowicz taught a young girl to pray the rosary and practice in a rosary coloring book.
“It’s such a good feeling that I had a hand in this little child’s life. Maybe she’ll be baptized Catholic one day,” he said. “When you find the little ones who don’t know what the inside of a church — any church — looks like, the Blessed Mother urges you to go for it.”
Not all Legionaries approach private homes. The parish priest assigns to each legionary a specific apostolic mission that must be fulfilled every week, ranging from hospital visitation to religious instruction. Then at a mandatory weekly meeting each member presents a progress report, including a “literature count” tallying how many brochures, bulletins and miraculous medals he or she distributed that week. The meetings are timed to never exceed 90 minutes and are uniform across the world. They include a rosary, study of a lesson from the Legion handbook, individual updates and success stories, circulation of the “secret bag” to collect donations for literature and medals and assignment of missions for the upcoming week.
“This organization is about getting things done — not just devotion, but doing things for the Blessed Mother, for the church,” Filipowicz said. “We’re unique because we go out and try to actually perform for the Blessed Mother.”
“To be slaves of Mary,” expounded Sister Immaculata Maria Uwanuanwa, leading the study during a recent meeting of Our Lady of Mercy Praesidium. “We are coming here to draw strength from her, and then we go out to spread her good news.”
Local praesidia are attached to Holy Family, St. Benedict and St. Patrick parishes, as well as some Korean branches and a Junior Legion of Mary chapter for children, based at the cathedral. Prospective members who cannot commit to the mandatory weekly meetings and apostolic duties may become auxiliary members committed to pray on behalf of the Legion.
All local Legionaries and auxiliaries assembled March 26 for the annual Acies, a public consecration ceremony in which legionaries as a body “renew their fealty to Mary, Queen of the Legion, and from her to receive strength and blessing for yet another year’s battle with the forces of evil.”
This year, to further the canonization of Legion founder Frank Duff, Legionaries are striving to promote awareness of his achievements and encourage intercessory prayer to him, as well as challenging themselves to recruit new members and launch new praesidia.
Prospective Legionaries must attend praesidium meetings and undergo a three-month probationary period during which they contemplate whether they are called to join. If they are uncertain, they consider it three additional months and then either become a full-fledged Legionary or auxiliary member, or postpone it indefinitely.
For many like Johannes, who enjoyed participating in many Legion retreats and observed the Acies several times as a spectator before joining the Legion, the decision amounts to finding the time to commit to weekly apostolic work and meetings. When the timing is right, Legionaries are passionate about their devotion to Mary and serving the church through the Legion.
“The first thing I do each day is light the candle in front of my Blessed Mother statue and say, ‘Good morning,’” Filipowicz said.
“You approach Jesus through the Blessed Mother,” he added. “That’s worth telling other people about.”
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