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In 2006, fiercely-contested presidential elections with an uncertain outcome rattled Mexico’s openness community. The Federal Institute for Access to Information (IFAI), along with journalists, academics and NGOs, worried that advances made after the political transition of 2000 could be seriously jeopardized by a new administration. In response to these concerns, advocates sought to strengthen and consolidate their gains by pushing for a comprehensive reform of the Mexican Constitution, which would guarantee the right to know and establish permanent standards for openness that could not be changed at the whim of a new government.
In March 2007, a comprehensive reform of Article 6 of the Mexican Constitution was passed in the federal Congress, and within three months it was approved by a majority of state legislatures, signaling a major victory for the right to know movement in Mexico.
This reform is, without a doubt, the most important development related to freedom of information in Mexico in the last three years. It establishes principles of transparency and provides minimum standards for access to public information at the federal, state, and municipal level. Article 6 explicitly addresses and settles issues that had become controversial during the firs five years of the federal FOI law in action. These issues include, for example, the principle of maximum disclosure, protection of personal information, and improved access to administrative archives.
On July 20, 2007 the constitutional reform bill was made into a law, giving Federal and state agencies one year after that date to comply with the modifications laid out in the reform’s statutes. Furthermore, the third article of the law obliges municipalities with more than 70,000 inhabitants to make their procedures available electronically, creating an immediate need for technical expertise in access to information.
Constitutional Reform – Article 6
Text of the government decree listing the seven fractions of the reform law of Article 6 of the Mexican constitution, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación on July 20, 2007.
Text in English - Text in Spanish
Alonso Lujambio, AFAI president
Transparency: What's Next? (July 2008)
In this article published in the Enfoque supplement of Reforma newspaper Alonso Lujambio commissioner and President of IFAI offers an in-depth analysis of the constitutional reform and the challenges facing government bodies working to implement the mandatory changes.
Text in English – Text in Spanish
Secrecy Makes a Comeback in Mexico (April 2008)
In this Op-Ed published by the LA Times Fulbright transparency fellow in Mexico City, Zachary Bookman, warns about the threats facing openness advocates in Mexico as the country's recent gains in government transparency are increasingly coming under fire.
Read the full article
Follow-Up Report: The IFAI and Mexico's Culture of Transparency
Follow-up report from the Annenberg School of Communications of the University of Pennsylvania that looks at the successes of the Mexican Federal Institute for Access to Public Information (IFAI) after 5 years in existence. Among the topics discussed in the report is the constitutional reform and how it came about.
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Straight's Rural Road
During his journey Straight thrives for and enjoys the simplicity of life, he is simply on a journey to become in touch with himself, to reconnect with the road. The road to him is familiarity he is not in search of becoming or finding himself but to be reunited with an old comfort of his. The rural road represent comfort for him. With age starting to creap up on him, his physical state starting to slowly deteriorate and his brother being ill he simply wants to once again connect himself with a road that once represented youth. When he stops off of the road in a town and talks with two young men he mentions to them the importance of youth and to be able to appreciate what they have. He uses the road to be one with himself but allows himself to engage with others along the way and express emotion unlike the lead female road in Vagabond who used the road in an attempt to escape past, focusing on not having emotional attachment to those that she comes into contact with.
His becoming represented once again becoming himself a man who spent time traveling and being rebellious and adventurous during his youth. When he tractor breaks go out and he is forced to spend the night at a couple's house they insist to help him reach his destination although he refuses. In order to once again be reconnected with his inner self, his youth he must complete the journey alone with as little help as possible. He knows that he still has strength of mind and heart and that will allow him to complete his journey in reaching his brother. | <urn:uuid:29a627d3-f7f5-4c4c-bfc2-298ecb90e96b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/zitax001/blog3307b/announcements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991025 | 311 | 1.960938 | 2 |
What Is Heresy?
There are not a few
Orthodox who are confused about the place of their Church ln the
20th century and the religious milieu through which She is
passing. Part of their concern (i.e., those who think seriously
about their religion) of the question of what ought to be our
relationship with the non-Orthodox. For such a long time, the
Church was friendly towards but not ever intimate with the
various Christian denominations. But now many Orthodox bishops
and priests are saying and doing things which some of us do not
understand and, some of us, do not wish to hear and see.
No longer are the Orthodox told
that their Church is the true Church the Catholic Church, the
Church of the Prophets, Apostles and Fathers. And indeed, we are
no longer given the advice,
"Keep away from all
heretics and schismatics, neither pray with them nor attend
their religious meetings and services."
There appears to be a
contradiction here. Beliefs which have been held to be true and
unchangeable are now suddenly being challenged by those sworn to
uphold them. New ideas seem to be entering a Church which had
always boasted that She had never added to nor subtracted from
the Apostolic Faith.
In part, our present confusion is
the result of worldly temptations, but more unhappily it is the
consequence of ignorance: the Orthodox do not know what the
Church is nor what Her relationship with non-Orthodox ought to
be. Many of us do not know that the Church the Lord established
is One, because God is One and there is but one Messiah; Her
Faith is one, because Christ did not leave humanity numerous and
conflicting sets of belief; and there is but one Baptism, because
there is but one Church into which a man is incorporated.
Of course, there are those who
insist they are members of the Church of Christ despite the fact
that, if their claim were true, the Church would no longer be
trustworthy nor worthy of obedience. Why obey what cannot be
trusted? Why believe what is doubtful? Why belong to a fellowship
which could mislead us? To be sure, if the teachings of the
Church are wrong, then, why not find "my own truth?"
But Jesus Christ did render His Church incapable of error and He
gave Her the Holy Spirit to that end (John 15: 26). It follows,
then, that all those who disagree with the religious teachings of
Orthodoxy are "heretics" and their false ideas
This language may "turn
off" some people, but it is only because they do not know
what is meant by the terms "heretic" and
"heresy" and the necessity for them. The explanation
above is only partial; perhaps, a few more details will help us
to understand why these words have been in the theological
glossary of the Orthodox Church from the beginning.
A "heretic" is simply
one who maintains a "heretical doctrine." The sincerity
and good will of the "heretic" is not in question.
Nevertheless, "heresy" is evil, because it is a
powerful means by which the Devil seeks to "prevail"
against the Churchsomething he will not do, according to the
Lord's promise (Matt. 16: 18). It must be distinguished from
"splitting" (echiamos), "factions" (eritheiai),
and "disputes" (dichostasai) which occur within
the Church (Gal. 5:20). Heresy, at first, is a
"leaving" or "falling away" from the Church (apostasia)
and eventually hardens into a "sect" (hairesis).
One may also be expelled from the community of believers on
account of false teachings. The Scriptures call
"heretics" "false teachers," "denying
the Master," "deceivers."
Listen to what Saint Ambrose of
Milan says about "heresy" and "heretics":
"Or, like same dread and
monstrous Scylla, divided into many shapes of unbelief,
heresy displays, as a mask to her guile, the pretense of
being a Christian sect, but those wretched men who she finds
tossed to and fro on the waves of her unhallowed strait, amid
the wreckage of their faith, she, girt with beastly monster,
rends them with cruel fang on her blasphemous doctrine"
And St. Cyril of Jerusalem says:
"For men have fallen
away from the right Faith... And formerly the heretics were
manifest, but now the Church is filled with heretics in
disguise, for men have turned from the truth and have itching
ears (II Tim. 4: 3)."
In other words, heretics are
those who cling to false doctrines. They have always existed and
always will (Matt. 17: 7). Some have left the Church and formed a
"sect." The "sect" becomes a historical
entity which propagates itself, standing aa a rival to the
Church. The Church takes names"catholic,"
"orthodox," "true," "apostolic"
etc.in order to dintinguish Herself from them. She generally
gives those "sects" the name of their leader or first
principle (e.g., the Arians after Arlus, the Nestorians after
Nestorius, the Iconoclasts after Iconoclasm, Papists after the
followers of the Pope, Calvinism after John Calvin, Lutheranism
after Martin Luther, etc.) "Protestantism" is the
collective name of those "sects" which emerged from
Papism in the 16th century.
There are, too, heretics who not
as if they were members of the Church, the Orthodox Church, while
in fact they are not. They are wolves in sheep's clothing,"
"tares among the wheat'" heretics in disguise."
These are most common in an age of social, political and
theological turmoil (e.g., during the 4th century merger of the
Church with the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Turkish
domination, the Bolshevik Revolution, post-World War I and II,
etc.). In our own day, we have "ecumenists" who have
denied that the Orthodox Church is the Church of Christ. Although
they masquerade as bishops and priests (and laymen), they are
really no longer members of the Church. They can be recognized by
thelr conduct contrary to the canons and an attitude contrary to
the spirit of the Fathers. They have not departed of been
expelled, because they are deceived and deceiving.
Now that we have learned, in very
general terms, what "heresy" and "heretics"
are what specifically is their crime their Cyprian
compares heretlcs to "the sons of Aaron, who placed strange
fire (heresy) upon the Altar of God," that is,
"despising God's Tradition, seek after strange doctrines and
bring in teachings of human appointment".
Similarly, St. Irenaeus
says that heretics do not follow the Apostolic Tradition,
Christ's teachings "derived from the Apostles" and
delivered "to our time by means of the succession of
bishops". And, indeed, there are no bishops without
that Tradition and no Traditlon without bishops.
What is the Tradition of the
Apostles? It is the religious truth revealed by God to the
Prophets which foretold Jesus Christ; and when He came,
fulfilling the prophetic types and beliefs, the Lord taught the
fullnes of truth to His Apostles. They gave that truth to the
Church. The Fathers witnessed to it, the Councils formulated it,
the Liturgy embodied it for worship the bishops taught it and the
Faithful defended lt. The Apostolic Tradition is, then, "the
faith of Jesus Christ" handed over, continuously and
unchanged, from one generation of Orthodox Christians to another,
the Holy Spirit guiding its transmission and protecting its
contentsdespite the malice of Satan and the weakness of men.
Again, departure from the
Apostolic Tradition is "heresy" and, therefore, along
with the ancient "sects," the Orthodox Church counts
Papists and Protestants as "heretics"the recent
declaration of some Orthodox "ecumenists"
notwithstanding. One need only read the sermons and treatises of
Orthodox theologians from St. Photius to St. Mark of Ephesus.
Likewise, the rejection of Lutheranism by The Three Answers of
Patriarch Jeremiah II (1567) or the condemnation of "all
Western innovations" by the Councils of Jassy (1642) and
Jerusalem (1672). The Orthodox Councils of the 18th and 19th
century make it clear that Protestants and Papists are heretics
as do the encyclicals of the Eastern Patriarchs (1848, 1895). In 1904, the Holy Russian Synod urged
Western Christians to come to the Orthodox Church, "the Ark
of Salvation." Two years before, the famous Joachim II, the
Ecumenical Patriarch declared, "Our desire is that all the
heterodox (heretics) shall come into the bosom of the Orthodox
Church of Christ which alone is able to give them
salvation." Until very recently, the Church has made the
same statements at WCC meetings (e.g., Oberlin).
To summarize, then,
"heresy" is an error in theological teachings, a
turning away from the Apostolic Tradition, and involves a loss of
membership in the Church of Christ whether by "falling
away" or "expulsion. Heretics usually form
"sects" which become historically competitive to the
Church. From these "sects" others may or may not
emerge. "Heresy" must be distinguished from
"schism" or internal disputes, factions or groups
within the Church which have seceded from the lawful government
of the Church. "Heresy" and "heretics" have
existed from the time of the Apostles and exist today whether as
"sects" outside the Church or "heretics in
disguise" within the Church (or so it appears). Yet, to use
the words of St. Ambrose, both "apostates" and
"sectarians'' are veritatis inimici (inimical to the
truth) and impugnatores fides (assailers of the faith).
They are not just those who leave the Church, but those who are
born in heresy long after the first dissenter departed with his
private theological opinions.
St. Nectarios Educational Series No. 63
1. The 4th Commandment of the
Eastern Orthodox Church as stated in The Prayer Book for
Eastern Orthodox Christians, compiled by the Rev. Peter H.
Horton-Billard and the Rev. Vasile Hategan; translated and edited
by the Very Rev. Michael G. H. Gelsinger. New York, 1944, p. 15.
This collection of Orthodox prayers and devotions was distributed
to the Orthodox in the Armed Forces of the United States during
World War II.
2. On "heresy" and
"heretics", see Tit. 3: 10; Gal. 1: 8-9; Heb. 13: 9; II
Peter 2:1; II John 7; Jude 4.
3. On the Christian
Faith, book I, chapter 6, 46.
4. Catech. Lectures XV, 9.
5. On the Unity of the Church,
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The basic facts are undisputed: on 15 April 2004 Ilario Pantano, then a second lieutenant with the US marines, stopped and detained two Iraqi men in a car near Falluja.
The Iraqis were unarmed and the car found to be empty of weapons.Pantano ordered the two men to search the car for a second time and then, with no other US soldiers in view, unloaded a magazine of his M16A4 automatic rifle into them, before reloading and blasting a second magazine at them – some 60 rounds in total.
Over the corpses, he left a placard inscribed with the marine motto: “No better friend, No worse enemy.”
Six years later Pantano is on the verge of a stunning electoral victory that could send him to the US Congress in Washington. He is standing as Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 7th congressional district, which was last represented by his party in 1871.
With the help of the right-wing Tea Party movement, and with the benefit of his image as a war hero acquired from what happened on that fateful day in 2004, he has raised almost $1m (£630,000) in donations and is now level-pegging with his Democratic opponent, Mike McIntyre.
“We are in complete contention. We are certainly neck-and-neck. And we are feeling terrific,” he said at a Tea Party rally outside Wilmington.
Pantano is one of the new breed of hardline Republicans thrown up by the turmoil of the economic meltdown and the ensuing Tea Party explosion. He served in the first Gulf war, then worked for Goldman Sachs before rejoining the marines days after the 9/11 attacks.
A few months after he killed the two unarmed Iraqis, a member of his unit reported him to senior officers and he was charged with premeditated murder. At a pre-trial military hearing, prosecution witnesses testified that the detainees, Hamaady Kareem and Tahah Hanjil, were unthreatening and that their bodies were found in a kneeling position having apparently been shot in the back.
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David Stockman began his career in Washington as a Congressional assistant in 1970, and in 1976 was elected to the House of Representatives for the first of two terms. He served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan from 1981-1985. Stockman was the chief architect of Reagan’s supply-side, or “trickle-down” economic policies, and as Reagan’s budget director he quickly gained a reputation as a tough negotiator and a ruthless cutter of taxes and government spending. In late 1981, however, he was the subject of a controversial profile in the Atlantic magazine, in which he revealed to reporter William Greider that he was critical of the Reagan budget. He asserted in the article, titled “The Education of David Stockman,” that the huge 1981 tax cut he and Reagan had pushed through Congress “was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top [tax] rate.”
Stockman’s candor regarding the Administration’s loyalty to the wealthiest Americans resulted in a public mea culpa after being famously “taken to the woodshed” by the President. He remained at the OMB until 1985, when he left the public sector to begin a career in investment banking and private equity.
As a private citizen, Stockman has continued to speak his mind as he did when he was interviewed by the Atlantic three decades ago. He is the author of a memoir, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed (1986), an inside look at fiscal policy making in the Reagan years. He is currently at work on a new book, tentatively titled “The Triumph of Crony Capitalism,” to be published in January 2013. In the latter Stockman argues that free market capitalism in the United States has been replaced by “crony capitalism,” a system that favors Wall Street at the cost of middle class Americans, and that is built on the backs of taxpayer-funded bailouts. He has established himself in recent years as an outspoken critic of the Republican party’s fiscal policies, writing in the New York Times in 2010 that the party’s attempts to spare the richest Americans from tax increases “made a mockery of traditional party ideals.” | <urn:uuid:65b3b051-71a7-435b-8a67-09f14e6a52f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://billmoyers.com/guest/david-stockman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977622 | 467 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Like water from rivers,can we treat the collected storm water and use for washing even for drinking?.
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Please. We must stop using the word "reuse" when discussing the harvesting and use of stormwater. Stormwater has not been "used" and is generally no different than the water we capture from many of our rivers and lakes in much of the world. When we use the word "reuse," we create the mindset that stormwater is somehow dangerous and its harvesting and use must be scrutinized and heavily regulated beyond the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act (in the U.S.). If we continue to describe stormwater harvesting as "reuse" we will find ourselves regulated to the point of making stormwater harvesting and use projects more costly than seawater desalination for developing local water supplies. Please, let's think about how our choice of words can affect the value of this resource - stormwater. Thanks.
Restored wetlands don't provide drinking water, however stormwater collected during rainy periods is a precious commodity when there is only sparse precipitation.
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|Flesh found by fisherman in 1964 may have been remains of JoeEd Edwards|
Longtime commercial fisherman Milton "Ouddie" Boothe of Harrisonburg recalled the day in 1964 when he "laid a seine close to the bank" of Old River at Deer Park in Concordia Parish.
"It got hung on an ice box," Boothe, 82, told The Sentinel at his home on Sunday afternoon. "I pulled the lid off. Meat came floating up."
Boothe said he knew right away it was human flesh.
Shortly after her father hauled in the rancid catch, Boothe's daughter, Elsie, said she arrived at the Old River boat ramp at Deer Park with a load of ice -- which she did routinely when her dad was fishing -- to cover the day's catch.
"I saw buzzards circling," she said.
Boothe said he pulled the flesh out of the water, put it in a bucket and brought it to Harrisonburg. There, he said he gave it to Catahoula Parish Sheriff J.Y. McGuffee.
Elsie said they heard at the time that the flesh was part of the body of a black man in Concordia who was missing.
Boothe said he later asked the Catahoula sheriff about the remains.
He said McGuffee shrugged and said, "It disappeared."
Boothe didn't know what to make of that but apparently McGuffee or someone else had notified the FBI of Boothe's catch because in 1967, FBI agents asked Boothe to show them the location of the ice box where the human flesh had been concealed.
By September 1967, documents indicate the FBI thought the flesh was that of Joseph "Joe-Ed" Edwards, a black employee of the Shamrock Motel in Vidalia whose 1958 Buick was found abandoned on the Ferriday-Vidalia Hwy. in July 1964. FBI documents also reveal that Edwards' disppearance may have been linked to an event or misunderstanding involving a white woman at the motel during the height of civil unrest involving the Civil Rights movement and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
WHARLEST JACKSON MURDER
The FBI's interest in Edwards' disappearance came after the Feb. 27, 1967, car bomb murder of Wharlest Jackson, 37, of Natchez, who was treasurer of the town's NAACP chapter. The father of five and a Korean War veteran, Jackson had been promoted a month earlier on January 29 to a position of chemical mixer at the Armstrong Tire & Rubber plant.
Armstrong was one of the largest employers in the region, second only to International Paper Company which had 1,400 men on the payroll in the mid-1960s. Built in 1939, Armstrong was enlarged in 1946 and underwent a $5 million expansion in 1960. By 1964, the plant employed 1,100 men.
Jackson's new job as chemical mixer had been held only by white men since the plant had opened. First hired in 1955, Jackson earned the promotion due to seniority over two white men who also applied for the post at a time when new Civil Rights laws mandated equal job opportunities for blacks as well as the integration of public facilities and schools.
Slightly more than an hour after the 8:11 p.m. explosion during a cold February rain, Natchez police detective Charlie Bahin notified the FBI of Jackson's death. Local authorities covered what was left of Jackson's green 1958 half-ton Chevrolet pickup as the FBI prepared to send two of its top crime scene explosive specialists from headquarters in Washington, D.C., to Natchez, along with dozens of agents. The blast, which was heard throughout town, ripped the hood and cab roof from his pickup.
The heavy rain had two devastating effects, according to FBI reports, it washed away evidence immediately after the explosion, and it limited potential witnesses who stayed inside during the afternoon.
Immediately, the FBI gave the investigation the code name "WHARBOM," and FBI lab experts determined within a short time, despite the rains, that "a high-order explosive was detonated under the cab portion of the truck, outside the frame, and directly beneath the driver. Fragments of wire which appear to be wire from an electrical blasting cap were recovered from the scene of the explosion indicating that such a blasting cap may have been connected to and activated by the electrical wiring system of the truck. Portions of the wire to the brake light, taillight, and left rear turn indicator light which was originally located on the inside of the left frame are missing as a result of the explosion."
The FBI quickly began to investigate a link between that bombing and another one outside the plant in August 1965 that seriously injured George Metcalfe, president of the Natchez NAACP and, like Jackson, an Armstrong employee. Metcalfe survived and following a year-long recovery returned to work at Armstrong.
Jackson and Metcalfe routinely rode to work together but on the date of the explosion that killed Jackson their shifts had changed and Metcalfe was at home when Jackson was killed.
New information on the disappearance of Joseph Edwards, the arson/murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris in December 1964, and other arsons, beatings and murders was compiled as a result of WHARBOM. That's because the FBI realized, documents say, that law enforcement in Concordia Parish across the Mississippi River was assisting the Ku Klux Klan in its acts of violence and that one of the leading suspects in the Metcalfe and Jackson bombings lived in Vidalia and was the leader of a militant, violent offshoot of three Klan organizations known as the Silver Dollar Group.
Also of interest were Adams County Klansmen associated with Unit 900 of the United Klans of America in Natchez. Klansmen on both sides of the river, including some of the most violent, were employed at Armstrong and at International Paper.
FBI files on the WHARBOM probe -- totaling 10,000 pages -- recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Syracuse University College of Law Cold Case Justice Initiative, coupled with a two and one-half year investigation by The Sentinel, provide never before printed information on Edwards' disappearance and the Klan/law enforcement connection to his death.
SEARCH FOR SKELETAL REMAINS
A 1967 FBI document notes that commercial fisherman Milton "Ouddie" Boothe, once contacted, volunteered to assist the FBI in a search of the area near the Deer Park landing "for skeletal remains." A short time later the bureau launched a scuba diving operation at Deer Park.
The watery site where Boothe had found human flesh in 1964, Boothe recalled on Sunday, "had turned to ice boxes" by 1967, adding that it appeared to him the place had become a dump site that also contained "foot tubs and barbed wire." He said if any more containers with flesh were found, he never heard about it.
A man named George Fenton, who lived at Deer Park, told FBI agents that in 1963 "he placed 40 refrigerator cabinets in the river in front of his camp to encourage fish to locate in the area. Fenton advised that no cabinets were stolen prior to being sunk." Fenton told the FBI that he "recalled no suspicious activity around that area in July 1964."
Three days after assisting the FBI in the scuba diving operation, Boothe said he received a phone call from Concordia Parish deputy Bill Ogden, who, the FBI later learned had told a Ferriday minister in July 1964 that Ogden and deputy Frank DeLaughter had pulled Edwards' Buick over on the Ferriday-Vidalia Hwy.
Ogden told the preacher that a complaint had been filed against Edwards for disturbing the peace at Haney's Big House, a Ferriday lounge famous for showcasing some of the best blues musicians and singers in the South, including B.B. King and Ray Charles before they were famous. Lounge owner Will Haney told the FBI, however, that since Edwards had not been in his club he could not possibly have created a disturbance.
The preacher said Ogden told him that once Edwards' Buick came to a stop that Edwards jumped out and ran. The two deputies chased Edwards to the top of the Old River levee in the vicinity of the bowling alley near Ferriday, but Edwards got away, although his car remained parked on the highway for two weeks.
Boothe told The Sentinel that Ogden, in the telephone call after the diving operation, asked him what the FBI was looking for. Boothe said he told the deputy that agents were "hunting for ice boxes, I guess. That's all they found."
In an FBI document from 1967 in reference to this call, Boothe told agents that he deliberately "misinformed" Ogden of the "nature and location of the probe." The document says Ogden told Boothe that "he was not worried" about the diving operation since "it was not far enough down the river."
The landing at Deer Park was located about 17 miles south of Vidalia, and five miles south of the Morville Lounge, a gambling and prostitution establishment shut down in January 1967, but the subject of a federal probe which resulted years later in convictions against a number of men, including DeLaughter and Sheriff Noah Cross.
FBI records also reveal that DeLaughter indicated to deputy Raymond Keathley in July 1964 that Edwards had been killed. DeLaughter told Keathley no one would be bothered again by that "nigger who smarted off to the girls at the Shamrock Motel."
While the FBI, documents show, suspected the sheriff's office was involved in Edwards' disappearance, it also suspected auxiliary policeman for the Vidalia police department. The city-owned patrol car was an unmarked white 1964 Olds with two antenna on the trunk and a flashing red light which was spotted by a witness as it pulled Edwards' Buick over in the vicinity of the bowling alley. Minutes later, the white Olds was seen heading to Ferriday at a high rate of speed with "a number of occupants" in the vehicle, while Edwards' unoccupied Buick remained park on the highway.
The father of Edwards' fiancee said he noticed Edwards' Buick parked on the highway and stopped to inspect it. He saw what appeared to be blood on the floor below the driver's seat.
Vidalia Police Chief Johnnie Lee "Bud" Spinks told the FBI in 1967 that the department had four patrolmen, three radio operators, and in 1964 had started an auxiliary police unit to "assist in traffic control during sporting events in Vidalia and also assist in any emergency situation."
One of those four patrolmen, John Henry, provided the FBI a list of the auxiliary force. Four men listed had been identified by the bureau as members of the Silver Dollar Group, one the leading suspect in the Jackson/Metcalfe bombings.
Milton Wisner, a Vidalia police department radio operator in 1964 who was no longer on the force in 1967, told the FBI that the department "had several revolving red lights in a cabinet for use on the dashboards of vehicles belonging to the Vidalia Police Auxiliary."
Milton "Ouddie" Boothe said he never considered contacting the sheriff's office in Concordia Parish about the human flesh he found at Deer Park in 1964 due to a lack of trust.
"Too many bad things were happening there," said his daughter, Elsie.
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Adulthood 101: Budget and manage money more wisely
DetailsHits: 631 Budgeting is an issue that college students deal with daily — facing the decision between saving their money and going out with their newfound friends. College is a learning experience, both academic and practical. Students learn time management and ways to make their dollars count.
“Generally speaking, those who view college as the first four years of true adulthood do much better than those who view college as an opportunity to extend their adolescence for four years prior to entering the ‘real world,’” said David Dumpe, Kent State professor of finance.
For freshman college students, the first year is usually their first time away from family. Because of that, students should be more aware of their funds and try to save while still enjoying the college experience.
“Give yourself a limit as to how much you can spend each month. Any leftover money can rollover to the next month,” Lianne Dunaway, Kent State senior, said. “Use your meal plan as much as you can. Spending money on fast food can really add up, so eat on campus as much as possible.”
It’s easy to get caught up in the college life and forget the amount of funds available. However, Dumpe said it is important for students to maintain their accounts and manage their money wisely.
“Live within a budget. Know how much you will have. Plan to not spend more than that. Small items add up. A $1.80 beverage every weekday amounts to $135.00 over the course of the semester,” Dumpe said.
Students almost always have something going on in their social lives, but it is heavily advised to use the meal plan as much as possible to save money. “I used my meal plan for everything; I bought myself dinner and groceries with it,” said Kaitlyn Hartburg, Kent State sophomore.
Hartburg said the main thing she learned during her freshman year was to save change.
“You’d be surprised how much money you end up with,” Hartburg said.
Leslie Schurman, Kent State junior, said, “Watch the shopping. That bookstore can be tempting, but also expensive.”
Dumpe advised students to track their expenses on top of establishing a budget. If you don’t know where your money is going, it’s hard to control expenditures.
In The Girl’s Guide to Absolutely Everything, Melissa Kirsch recommended selling some unnecessary possessions to make a couple extra dollars. “When I don’t want clothes anymore I sell them on eBay,” Dunaway said. “Some stores won’t buy back a lot of clothes; people on eBay will buy anything that’s in good condition. I’ve gotten over $100 for ten shirts before.” | <urn:uuid:af27751d-a48e-4eb1-a7fe-3e3eac56dc25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kentwired.com/adulthood-101-budget-and-manage-money-more-wisely?option=com_content&Itemid=245&catid=120&id=52529&lang=en&view=article&option=com_content&Itemid=245&catid=120&id=52529&lang=en&view=article&fontstyle=f-smaller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969383 | 609 | 2.84375 | 3 |
16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Wednesday, March 29, 1911: Nothing of importance, not one thing. Ruth gave me a piece of her mind tonight. She wants me to keep my mouth shut, not that I say too much, for I am rather bashful, but I’m to breathe though my mouth instead of through my–Darn it, I don’t mean that, I mean vice versa.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
My son and I visited McEwensville over the week-end. We stopped by the abandoned building that once housed McEwensville High School. Now—just as it did a hundred years ago—the school sits next to a cemetery that is filled with the stories of the past. Each marker has its own story to tell . . .
Earlier in the diary I mentioned that Grandma lived her entire life within a 5 mile radius of the farm her family lived on when she kept this diary. The same probably could be said for her sister Ruth. I find it even more amazing how close together they are buried.
Grandma and Ruth are buried within 50 feet of each other in McEwensville Cemetery–and within a few hundred yards of the school they attended when they were young. Both sisters married men who also attended McEwensville High school (and who are also buried in the same cemetery).
Over the years there were times when Grandma and Ruth were close confidants and other times when they were less close; there were “spats” and reconciliations—but for perpetuity in McEwensville Cemetery they will remain close.
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What is it?
The ureter is a tube between the kidney and bladder. Typically, each child has two ureters—one that connects the right kidney to the bladder and one that connects the left kidney to the bladder. A ureterocele is a swelling of one of the ureters where it connects with the bladder. Large urteroceles may protrude into the urethra (opening to the bladder) which obstructs the flow of urine out of the bladder. The distortion of the bladder also may cause vesicoureteral reflux (PDF). Often there is a duplicate ureter (two ureters connecting one kidney to the bladder). Vesicoureteral Reflux may also occur.
What are the symptoms of ureterocele?
Children with ureterocele often are referred to pediatric urologists because of an abdominal mass or because of multiple urinary tract infections. Certain types of ureterocele can cause incontinence. Other symptoms may include abdominal pain, pelvic pain, or blood in the urine.
How is it treated?
Your child's treatment will depend on the size of the ureteroceles and how well your child's kidney and bladder functions. Larger ureteroceles may need to be removed during surgery. If the ureteroceles has damaged the kidney, the damaged part may need to be removed, too.
About surgery for ureterocele at Children's
The pediatric urology surgery team at Children's provides next-generation care to neonatal infants, newborns, children, and adolescents from throughout the Upper Midwest. The team consistently performs some of the most cutting-edge surgical procedures available, including newborn surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery, when appropriate. Urologic surgery is performed at Children's - Minneapolis, Children's - St. Paul, and Children's West.
- If you are a family member looking for a Children's specialist in urology surgery, please call the Center for Pediatric Urology at 1-800-992-6983.
- If you are a health professional looking for a consultation or referral information, please call Children's Physician Access at 1-866-755-2121 (toll-free).
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Factory Output Rose 0.4 Percent In May; Made Up Most Of April's Loss
There was a 0.4 percent increase in output at U.S. manufacturers last month vs. April, the Federal Reserve just reported. That follows a 0.5 percent decline in April from March.
For the 12 months ending May 31, the Fed says, factory output was up 3.7 percent.
Bloomberg News notes that "manufacturing may pick up in coming months as disruptions of parts supplies ease after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Overseas demand and business spending may also spur sales of U.S.-made equipment and technology."
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Automation Demands Tighter VM Security
Plan to let hypervisors spin up new virtual machines on their own? Then you'd better lock them down.
From a security standpoint, basic server hypervisors have a lot of intrinsic strength. They work at a very low level within a given piece of hardware. They're hardened and task-specific, and the code base is relatively small. And it's a good thing, because the hypervisor enjoys a privileged degree of access to guest operating systems, especially via OS-native virtual machine tools, which allow the hypervisor all sorts of power. Compromising the hypervisor gives complete and total access to all of the data structures that comprise the system itself. But when we asked about hypervisor security, only 64% of respondents to our survey cited concern about this issue. That leaves a staggering 36%--greater than one-third of respondents--who have their heads in the sand. If a system runs code, it can be compromised, and if that code is running everywhere, there's a huge incentive to break it. There have been no fewer than 10 major hypervisor vulnerabilities disclosed this year alone, affecting a variety of platforms. Exploits range from remote code execution vulnerabilities (the most severe) to denial of service, and while VMware has yet to disclose a remote code execution vulnerability, it's only a matter of time. Earlier this year, for example, outdated source code for VMware's ESX hypervisor was posted.
We still see companies with a long way to go to integrate hypervisor awareness into their overall security mandates. The good news is that vendors have been preparing for this eventuality for some time, as we discuss in our full report. Also, about half of survey respondents (48%) have a hypervisor-aware security product in place. An additional 32% plan to adopt one.
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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at some of the internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
A new device aims to allow millions of people living with conditions like Multiple Scleorosis, Parkinson’s, muscular dystrophy or spinal cord injuries to interact with computers using only their eyes. By tracking a person’s eye movements, the device can tell exactly where a person is looking and allows them to control a cursor on the screen.
Researchers at the Neurotechnology laboratory at the Dept of Bioengineering and the Dept of Comptuing Imperial College demonstrated the device by getting students to play the computer game Pong with only their eyes.
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What the Chirp?
Chirp is a new app that allows users to share information using sound with iPhones ‘singing’ information to each other. RTÉ played the first terrestrial radio broadcast of a Chirp earlier this week, Chirping a photograph and a link to its website.
The app was designed by Animal Systems from University College London and is available for iPhone and iPads but not yet for Android users.
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Rubber bands vs Water Melon:
The Slow Mo Guys have given us another slow motion treat on YouTube, this time pitting the strength of a watermelon against 500 rubber bands.
Gav and Dan have decided to take on the world in slow motion delivering videos that are visually impressive and often just plain funny. Some of their more popular videos involve slicing through a Lynx can with an axe, jumping on a 6ft water balloon and their own version of the infamous Diet Coke and Mentos experiment.
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Live stream of brown bears catching salmon
Alaska’s Katmai National Park has teamed up with explore.org to bring live footage of brown bears hunting salmon at different sites throughout the park directly to your PC or smartphone.
Without having to go there, you’ll be able to watch mature bears compete for salmon at Brook Falls and other sites and cubs tumbling over each other as they play.
It’s just like Big Brother, except it’s great. Get comfortable and watch it here.
Picture by: Al Grillo/AP/Press Association Images
Space time lapse
A new time lapse video with thousands of images from the International Space Station show what it’s like to fly pas earth at nearly 18,000 miles per hour.
Compiled by photographer Knate Myers the video is set to music from the film Sunshine and shows the space station at night.
Get ready for the goosebumps…
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Kingfisher Industrial has demonstrated its ability to provide solutions to problems of wear, due to impacts and sliding abrasion, and to deliver improved efficiency via increased mass flow, on the coal handling plant at Didcot A power station in Oxfordshire.
The combination of Kingfisher’s ceramic, metallic and polymer linings on hoppers, transfer chutes, bunkers, feeders and trifurcator sections, is providing greatly improved wear life from the Didcot coal handling and combustion plant; at the same time reducing maintenance and improving coal throughput.
Didcot A is a tri-fuel power station in Oxfordshire, owned and operated by RWE npower. The station, which began commercial operation in 1970, can generate 2,000MW of electricity - enough power to meet the needs of some 2- million people.
Didcot A was originally designed as a coal-fired station. Three of the four 500MW generating units have now been converted to dual-firing, enabling the station to use natural gas as an alternative to coal. In addition, the station has the capability to use biomass fuels such as sawdust and wood chips on all four units.
Kingfisher’s involvement at Didcot A began upon receipt of the coal, at the coal reception hoppers where the fuel is stored following delivery via train. “If it was just coal that was being handled then it’s relatively easy to manage,” said Kingfisher MD John Connolly. “However, because there are foreign particles – metallic, wood, and debris, mixed in with the coal, protection measures have to be taken to ensure that this contamination doesn’t become a problem throughout the rest of the plant. It’s also important to get the material away very, very quickly in order to reduce the cost of any waiting time associated with the unloading operation thus avoiding demurrage costs.
In order to aid discharge of the coal, we’ve lined the coal reception hoppers with a combination of K-FLOW ferritic stainless steel and also our K-Plas polyethylene lining. We’ve used the various grades of material and various thicknesses to counter both the impact and friction induced abrasion, and the wear associated with discharging the material from the rail wagons.”
Once discharged, the coal is fed onto the conveyor belt; it then goes through a series of transfer chutes. These coal transfer chute are used take coal from the unloading station and it can fed directly up to the station bunkers or it can be stockpiled for storage and reclamed at a later stage. Eventually all product is fed back onto conveyors and discharged onto the tripper conveyor that feeds the bunkers. As the transfer chutes are subject to impact, friction and sliding induced abrasion, Kingfisher has lined these units with its ceramic range of lining materials. This combination of K-ALOX, K-BAS and K-ZAS materials supplied in various thicknesses offers resistance to all the different types of wear encountered and guarantees long term protection (10-12 years-plus) against perforation of the fabrication, and against any discharge onto the floor.
The station coal bunkers, which are fed from the transfer chute, have also been optimised by Kingfisher. Here, the main problem was the amount of discharge that was being achieved into the feeders, as a result of whole combination of different bunker lining materials. Continual discharge into the feeders is very important in guaranteeing that the correct amount of tonnage is fed down to the coal mill to ensure an efficient milling process, and correct distribution up to the burners.
“What Didcot wanted here was to achieve mass flow,” said John Connolly; “so we re-designed some of the internal geometry of the bunkers using radius sections, and then we lined them with our K-FLOW ferritic stainless steel. We applied this material using traditional welding and mechanical fixing, which provided a totally seamless lining inside the bunker. This delivers a high degree of wear protection, due to its true hardness of about 240 Brinell. It also gives them a very low coefficient of friction, as a result of the polished stainless steel finish. In addition, the fact that the lining is fully welded prevents any internal corrosion taking place in the internal steel substrate.”
Also as part of the project of achieving improved mass flow, Kingfisher was tasked with removal of the existing volumetric feeders, and the installation of new units. The feeders weigh and distribute coal at different rates, ensuring that between 30 and 40 tonnes per hour of coal is always discharged into the mill at any one time.
From the gravimetric feeders, the coal is deposited downward into the mills. On top of the mills are three piping ducts. One of these handles coal into the mill itself; the remaining two provide the outlets for coal that has already been milled. As the coal comes down into the mill, it is feed out onto a rotating table, and then ground down. This results in a micron sized powder, which is dried and conveyed with a primary air flow prior to exiting the mill vertically via the two pulverised fuel outlets, which are lined with protecting using a range of ceramic and metallic liners.
The wear protected pipework that initially conveys the pulverised coal vertically, eventually turns through 90 degrees, then conveys the coal horizontally to a trifurcator. The trifurcator is a mass flow device that divides the coal flow equally among three legs. Because of the amount of wear that takes place in these legs, and in the associated pipework itself, all are lined with Kingfisher’s range of K-Alox, K-BAS, K-CAST, K-SIL ceramic and K-HARD metallic materials. These offer the key benefit of countering the different amounts of wear that occur in bend sections, triffucators, non return valves (NRV’s) and likewise within the burners, where abrasion is at its greatest.
Summing up the project, John Connolly said: “What we have demonstrated at Didcot A is that wear protection is one of the key technologies in helping operators meet the requirements for reliable, efficient equipment in the power generation industry. At Kingfisher Industrial we are leading the way by introducing new materials to combat the abrasive effects of both coal and ash; and we are continually increasing the warranty periods offered, based upon the extended lengths of time our existing systems have been operating within the industry. We aim to continue improving what we offer the industry, and feel confident that our portfolio of services will continue to grow and assist power utilities in meeting its key performance targets.”
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Our press makes money by selling intense emotional reactions. These are most commonly achieved through fear, sadness and pity. As a result, it is necessary for our press to keep us in a constant state of fear by dramatizing news stories.
Here’s the latest:
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
COICA is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade. – Tired
The story editorializes before the first word with a headline reading “Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee.”
Yet it’s not a censorship bill. Much like its predecessor, the DMCA, it provides content owners with a simple way of enforcing copyright: if a website receives a non-anonymous, documented complaint or complaints from a reliable source, and the presence of probable copyright materials is validated, it gets shut down.
Right now, that’s done by the ISP. The government wants to do it in the future, probably because enough people bought into ISPs to circumvent the existing DMCA. Furthermore, this bill is going to give our government the ability to filter foreign sites with US copyrighted materials on them. Aha! That’s actually valuable.
I think this new law will detract from censorship on the net, because it returns the focus of enforcement to theft prevention, and gets it away from blocking of “offensive” content.
Not to be a nag, but when someone spends $100m producing a movie — even a really bad movie — and I download it, thus depriving them of a potential viewer/buyer, I’m stealing. Even if I didn’t physically steal something.
If you own a house key, and I make a copy of it, I’ve stolen information that belongs to you — even if you still have the original key. If I then give or sell that key imprint to others, I’m still stealing, especially if each person with the key comes to your house and takes something.
Without law enforcement to prevent theft, we will have trouble having an industry that dumps out $100m blockbusters. While you and I both know that would be a good thing, trying to get to it through piracy is not going to work.
As a good amoralist, I’m not “against” piracy or judging piracy. In some cases, it’s positive. If a famous movie reviewer downloads your latest film and writes up a review that millions see, for example, as a filmmaker your fear isn’t that he didn’t pay — it’s that he didn’t see the best possible copy.
All of the media cases are trying to whip you into a frenzy with this “censorship” bill. They want you to think that big studios are bad, and you are good, even if you’re stealing from them. They want you to think that big corporations and government are censoring you.
The truth is far more prosaic. People are protecting their investments. Having a clear way for them to take down unauthorized content is positive and separates “I want this site down because it steals” from “I want this site down because it’s offensive.” Those of us who fall under the latter benefit from not having thieves use free speech as a defense. | <urn:uuid:54dd83c7-93a5-4263-acb2-08cc35148a96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amerika.org/politics/why-im-not-freaking-out-about-the-latest-drama/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9471 | 835 | 1.703125 | 2 |
General William D. Eckert
Fourth Commissioner of Baseball
General William D. Eckert was elected baseball's fourth Commissioner on November 17, 1965 by a unanimous vote of the 20 major league club owners.
Eckert was born on January 20, 1909 in Freeport, IL and grew up in Madison, IN. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in June 1930. It was there he earned the nickname "Spike" while playing football. He then attended the Air Corps Flying Schools at Brooks and Kelly Fields in San Antonio, TX and graduated in October, 1931.
In 1938 he was selected as one of two officers for advanced education at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and graduated with a Master's Degree in June 1940.
Eckert continued his work in the military until his retirement in 1961. In 1957, at the age of 48, he was commissioned lieutenant general, making him the youngest three-star officer in the United States Armed Forces. On the day of his retirement from the Air Force, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
In the years following his retirement, Eckert worked as a management consultant to the aviation industry. He was serving on the boards of directors of several corporations at the time he was appointed Commissioner.
More than 150 names appeared on the original list of nominees for the commissionership following Ford Frick's retirement. The club owners could not decide if baseball's new leader should come from the ranks of the game, or elsewhere. They finally decided that the new Commissioner should gave a strong business background to deal with the problems then confronting the game.
Eckert's election caught the news media by surprise. Although his corporate experience made him an attractive candidate and his name did appear on the original list of 156 candidates, he was never mentioned publicly.
Although only in office a few years, Eckert is often credited with making baseball a more efficient organization. He developed more effective committee actions, streamlined business methods and helped stabilize franchises with bigger stadiums and long-term leases.
Eckert, like Frick, also worked hard toward promoting the game internationally. His friendly relations with Japanese baseball officials paved the way for the Los Angeles Dodgers to visit Japan after the 1966 season. He also arranged subsequent visits to Japan by other major league teams.
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Buffeted by high taxes, strict regulations and uncertain state budgets, a growing number of California companies are seeking friendlier business environments outside of the Golden State.
And governors around the country, smelling blood in the water, have stepped up their courtship of California companies. Officials in states like Florida, Texas, Arizona and Utah are telling California firms how business-friendly they are in comparison.
Companies are “disinvesting” in California at a rate five times greater than just two years ago, said Joseph Vranich, a business relocation expert based in Irvine. This includes leaving altogether, establishing divisions elsewhere or opting not to set up shop in California.
“There is a feeling that the state is not stable,” Vranich said. “Sacramento can’t get its act together…and that includes the governor, legislators and regulatory agencies that are running wild.”
The state has been ranked by Chief Executive magazine as the worst place to do business for seven years.
“California, once a business friendly state, continues to conduct a war on its own economy,” the magazine wrote.
That is about to change, at least if Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has anything to say about it. Newsom is developing a plan to address the state’s economic Achilles heels, and build on its strengths. It will be unveiled at the end of July.
“California has got to get its act together when it comes to economic development and job creation,” he said.
While not all companies investing elsewhere are doing so for economic reasons, some are shopping around for lower costs, lighter regulations, stable leadership and government assistance and incentives.
The most popular places to go? Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Virginia and North Carolina, said Vranich. All rank in the Top 13 places to do business, according to Chief Executive.
No budget, no pay for California lawmakers
After 15 years in Monterey Country, Calif., Feel Golf relocated its headquarters to Florida earlier this year after it acquired Pro Line Sports, which was based in the Sunshine State.
“The whole state is a bureaucratic Santa Claus,” said Lee Miller, chief executive of the golf equipment company, of his former home. “There’s a very high cost of doing business.”
In Florida, he found a better work pool, lower operating costs and no personal income taxes.
“Overall, it’s just a better environment,” he said.
PayPal opened a new customer services and operations center in Chandler, Ariz., in February, bringing 2,000 jobs to the area. The San Jose, Calif.-based tech firm, along with its parent eBay, also added 1,000 jobs in Austin, Texas, and expanded operations in Utah.
“They have business-friendly environments,” said Kathy Chui, a spokeswoman for eBay.
Other states, which are revving up their job creation efforts in the weak economy, are making sure California firms know the advantages to doing businesses with them.
Utah, for instance, touts its stable government, balanced budget and AAA debt rating, said Todd Brightwell, vice president at the state’s Economic Development Corp.
“We promote predictability,” said Brightwell, whose agency features an online comparison between the states in terms of taxes, real estate costs, utility expenses, cost of living and other metrics.
Over the past 18 months, the state become much more proactive in courting California firms. It now visits there regularly to reach out to target companies. The strategy has been successful. Adobe has expanded operations in Utah, as has Electronic Arts.
California companies are also reaching out to other states. Sandra Watson, chief operating officer of the Arizona Commerce Authority, said she’s seeing a growing number of California firms looking to expand outside the state.
The economic downturn has forced companies to find ways to reduce their costs, she said. Arizona is trying to capitalize on that by promoting its lower workers compensation and unemployment insurance taxes, as well as its aggressive incentive packages.
“There’s a lot of competition out there and companies are re-evaluating their strategies,” she said.
California, however, isn’t sitting idly by. Not only is Newsom meeting with executives to hear their complaints, he’s studying the best practices of other states. Earlier this year, he visited Texas, ranked #1 by Chief Executive, to learn more about its job creation efforts.
Newsom’s plan will focus on California’s premier industries, including biotechnology, agriculture and digital media. It will highlight the state’s strengths in innovation and research and cultivate more manufacturing and exports. It also will examine how to address executives’ concerns about regulation, taxes and layers of bureaucracy.
Later this year, California will set up a new agency that will serve as a focal point for economic development and job creation, he said. Among its goals will be to reverse the perception that California is business-unfriendly.
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The Cook's Oracle
William Kitchiner (1775-1827)
The Cook’s Oracle (New York, E. Duyckinck, G. Long, 1825)
MU Special Collections
TX717 .K6 1825
William Kitchiner was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819 due to his lifelong research in optics, but his eccentric, epicurean dinner parties are his primary claim to fame. Kitchiner takes scientist’s approach to cooking in The Cook’s Oracle. In the preface, he deplores the lack of attention to cooking in the health literature of the time:
Some Medical writers have, in good set terms, warned us against the pernicious effects of improper Diet; but – not One, has been so kind, as to take the trouble to direct us how to prepare Food properly.
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The word Character is defined as, “moral or ethical quality: a man of fine, honorable character.”. Bill Courtney volunteered his time, energy and heart to a community in one of the most down trodden areas of Memphis, Tennessee. Undefeated is the Oscar winning documentary, from Dan Lindsey and TJ Martin, that captures the final season in Bill Courtney’s historic tenure as Manassas High School’s Head Coach. PSD was able to chat with Coach Courtney about the documentary, the high school and most importantly the kids who’s lives he helped impact for the better.
“Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s documentary UNDEFEATED is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.”
Oscar glory was well deserved for this new and dynamic duo and their fantastic team. When I was granted the chance to chat with the “star” of the documentary, Head Coach Bill Courtney, I was most curious about how Dan and TJ had gotten such great access. Coach Courtney talks about how the guys and producer Rich Middlemas fully invested their time, energy and heart into this project.
I asked Coach Courtney what made him grant this much access?
Bill talked about what had initially pushed him to coach at Manassas High School.
In the film we follow the 2009 season an in particular two senior lineman (O.C. Brown and Montrail “Money” Brown) and one junior linebacker (Chavis). I asked Coach what was it that he first noticed in the guys when they were in 7th and 8th grade.
The documentary immediately captures the real fear for these kid’s lives when Coach Courtney is introducing his team to a new season by talking about the kids he’s lost in previous seasons. He’s had kid’ss family members killed, he’s had kids battle their own inner demons and he’s even had players that were killed. The harsh reality was something that Coach wanted to make clear.
Montrail “Money” Brown is a perfect example of the uplifting inspirational figures from the film. His story isn’t about his incredible physical athleticism but rather his heart and character.
There is one moment in the film where Coach Courtney finds out someone wants to help “Money” make it to college.
But Coach had to make certain this incredible offer was legit before he’d dare break the news to Montrail. Bill talked about that phone call.
Another scene in the film where we truly see Coach Courtney cry happened when he had a brief moment with OC.
I ended our talk by asking Coach Courtney for an update of what’s happened for him since and he gave a more in depth response then what the film alludes to in it’s ending.
For more information on this amazingly inspirational and moving documentary click, here.
The film opens today, March 2nd.
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Chorlton cum Hardy Brass Band 1820-1945
by Andrew Simpson
There has been a brass band of sorts here in Chorlton since 1820, the last one only ceasing to exist at the end of the last war.
Chorlton cum Hardy was a small rural community just 4½ miles south of Manchester. In 1851 there were just 761 people many working on the land. It was a place of farms and market gardens, providing food for the growing city.
The first band was formed in the 1820s by a young group of farmers and agricultural labourers many of whom were Methodists. It consisted of "brass instruments, clarinets, and piccolos and it was made up of about 24 members, including William Chessyhre, William Moores, William Gresty, and George Lunt with John Axon as drummer." 1
All five men also played in the Methodist choir and it is possible that other choir members also played in the band. These included James Brundrett who played the flute, Thomas Williamson and Thomas Taylor who played clarinet. William Gresty and George Lunt played bassoon.
There is a delightful story that the drum was made by James Axon the brother of the drummer but was found to be too large to get out of the cottage. Little more is known of the band and it survived for only a few years.
A second band was formed in 1850 as a drum and fife band and this in various forms survived into the middle of the twentieth century.
It was a subscription band and in 1851 three of its leading members raised £28 towards purchasing instruments. Like the earlier band its members were engaged in agriculture. Sadly only three of the founding band members are known. These were Daniel Thomas, Thomas Chesshyre and Thomas Hill, of these Daniel Thomas was a gardener and Thomas Chessyre a market gardener, who had been a Methodist but went on to be the respected Parish Clerk.
During its first year the band relied on a pensioner for instruction but in 1851 it turned to a Mr Kellsall who was the band master of the Stretford band who remained their instructor until a local policeman took over.
By 1860 the band was in need of new instruments and a second appeal for funds was made this time by William Renshaw, James Lunt and James Gresty. The generosity of the township allowed the band to buy a new drum and engage a new bandmaster.
The band was supported by a wealthy businessman called Sam Mendel who advanced a subscription of £20, provided a further £66 for new instruments and paid for a series of bandmasters. These were John Melling, Oliver Gaggs and Harry L Holding. Oliver Gaggs was a musician although at times he also described himself as a musician and provision dealer, for a while ran a pub and by the end of the century was a musician on account, well off enough to employ four servants for the family home.2
But the band may well have encountered financial difficulty when Medal's trading empire collapsed in 1875 and he was forced to sell up.
It did however keep going and so far there are six references to them participating in contests and agricultural shows from 1880 through to 1905. At Stalybridge in October 1880 where they won 3rd prize, Lytham in July 1881, the Primrose League summer meeting at Barlow Hall in Chorlton in August 11,1887, the Failsworth Band Contest August 17 1887 and in local agricultural shows between 1895-1905.3
But it was their appearance at Barlow Hall in 1893 which has proved to be most interesting. There are plenty of photographs recording the event but only one which includes the names of all the bandsmen. It is now possible to track the histories of all but three of the men.
Just as in the past the 1893 band reflects very much the community. So while the earlier bands were made of up farmers and agricultural labourers few in the photograph made their living from the land.
Chorlton had become a suburb of Manchester and much of the land had been sold for housing. These were the "6 shilling a week homes"
of artisans and the "£250 semi detached houses" of the lower middle class.4
And the band reflects this change. Only 40% of the bandsmen earned a living from agriculture or related trades, and instead there are factory workers, warehousemen, and clerks. Only a third had been born in Chorlton and the band now attracted people from the neighbouring areas of Stretford and Withington.
Like many brass bands the core lived very close to each other in a few roads around the old village green.
By 1900 it had become a Silver Band, and during the last war it joined the Home Guard, and enlarged to sixty continued to play as a unit until 1945. But for whatever reason it never reformed and there has not been a band since.
We did have a brief flirtation with temperance. In 1876 the Wesleyan Band of Hope Committee started up a Temperance Band bought £68 worth of instruments but it had folded by 1879.
- Alan Brown
- Census Records 1841-1901
- Ellwood, Thomas, South Manchester Gazette, 1885-1886, Manchester Local History Library
- IBEW- www.ibew.co.uk
- Manchester Guardian 1880-1905
- Alan Jones for the 1893 picture of Chorlton cum Hardy Brass Band, with names of members
- Tony Walker for the 1893 picture of Chorlton cum Hardy Brass Band
- Ellwood Chapter 25, Sick and Burial Societies May 8 1886, South Manchester Gazette
- Census returns, 1871-1901
- Stalybridge, Manchester Guardian October 4 1880, Lytham, Liverpool Mercury August 1st 1881, Primrose summer meeting, Aberdeen Weekly Journal August 13 1887 Failsworth Brass Band Contest, Aberdeen Weekly Journal August 13th 1887, Chorlton cum Hardy Horticultural Show, Manchester Guardian August 12th 1895, Chorlton cum Hardy Agricultural Show, Manchester Guardian Aug 29 1898, Chorlton cum Hardy Agricultural Show, Manchester Guardian Aug 21 1905
- Chorlton-cum-Hardy, History of the Suburbs, Manchester Evening News September 20th 1901
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Facts & Figures on VAW
The Violence against Women Prevalence Data: Surveys by Country [ en | es | fr ] . Compiled by UN Women in 2011, presents data available for 86 countries on the prevalence of physical and sexual violence against women, forced sexual initiation and abuse during pregnancy, mainly drawn from leading international surveys, including: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Reproductive Health Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys, Violence Against Women Surveys and the World Health Organization Multi-Country Study.
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. Based on country data available, up to 70 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence from men in their lifetime — the majority by husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.
Among women aged between 15 and 44, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, violence against women devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.
It takes many forms and occurs in many places — domestic violence in the home, sexual abuse of girls in schools, sexual harassment at work, rape by husbands or strangers, in refugee camps or as a tactic of war.
- In the United States, one-third of women murdered each year are killed by intimate partners.
- In South Africa, a woman is killed every 6 hours by an intimate partner.
- In India, 22 women were killed each day in dowry-related murders in 2007.
- In Guatemala, two women are murdered, on average, each day.
- Women and girls comprise 80 percent of the estimated 800,000 people trafficked annually, with the majority (79 percent) trafficked for sexual exploitation.
Approximately 100 to 140 million girls and women in the world have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting, with more than 3 million girls in Africa annually at risk of the practice.
- More than 60 million girls worldwide are child brides, married before the age of 18, primarily in South Asia (31.1 million and Sub-Saharan Africa (14.1 million).
Sexual Violence against Women and Girls
An estimated 150 million girls under 18 suffered some form of sexual violence in 2002 alone.
- As many as 1 in 4 women experience physical and/or sexual violence during pregnancy which increases the likelihood of having a miscarriage, still birth and abortion.
- Up to 53 percent of women physically abused by their intimate partners are being kicked or punched in the abdomen.
- In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a woman is assaulted every 15 seconds.
- In Ecuador, adolescent girls reporting sexual violence in school identified teachers as the perpetrator in 37 percent of cases.
Rape as a method of warfare
- Approximately 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were raped in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
- In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 200,000 cases of sexual violence, mostly involving women and girls, have been documented since 1996, though the actual numbers are considered to be much higher.
Cost of Violence against Women
Domestic violence alone cost approximately USD 1.16 billion in Canada and USD 5.8 billion in the United States. In Australia, violence against women and children costs an estimated USD 11.38 billion per year.
- Between 40 and 50 percent of women in European Union countries experience unwanted sexual advancements, physical contact or other forms of sexual harassment at their workplace.
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10 business courses we wish they offered in collegeSeptember 10, 2012: 8:37 AM ET
It seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less prepared than ever before.
By Martin Zwilling
FORTUNE -- I'm sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses we should have taken. What's more disconcerting to me is that I can name a few that weren't even offered, and more than a few students who graduate ill-prepared for the real world!
I won't even try to cover here the ones you didn't find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit. But on the business side, here is my list of useful courses that we wish existed, but as far as I know, still aren't generally available:
- Basic Office Politics. Office politics involves the complex network of power and status that exists within every business, large and small. Don't you wish that someone had prepped you on how to read the body language, interpret office gossip, and when to hit the delete key on your email rather than the send key?
- Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The business world expects exactly the opposite. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation.
- Touch-Typing for Dummies. How many hours a day does the average professional and executive today spend hunched over a computer keyboard "hunting and pecking"? Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment.
- Dress for Success. "You are what you wear" works in business, just like it did in high school. But no one tells you the business norms, so Gen-Y'ers come to work in jeans, baseball caps, tattoos, flip-flops and expect to be treated as executives.
- Demystifying Business Logic. Another term for this is how to be a skeptic. Understand the ways people can mislead deliberately or accidentally with numbers, bad logic and rhetoric. There's some untruth hidden in 99% of everything you're told. Can you find it?
- Business Budgets and Benefits. The focus here would be on the actual nuts and bolts of how things get budgeted and financed in business. This will pay big dividends in getting your favorite project funded, or justifying your own salary, or negotiating a bonus.
- Business Sales Techniques. We can find tons of "marketing' courses in colleges and universities but everyone must think that "selling" is intuitively obvious. The art of selling is complex blend of relationships, persuasion techniques, negotiation, and knowledge.
- Root-Cause Problem Analysis. Business professionals need to analyze problems from a big picture perspective. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. That's how unforeseen consequences go unforeseen.
- Minimizing Business Workloads. In the office world there's always way more work than there is time to do it. You need to be able to figure out what not to do, and how to not do it, by organizing and prioritizing, and still impress your boss with your thoroughness.
- Job Hunting Basics. People need realistic expectations about how much effort and time it takes to get just about any job. Atrocious resumes and social network antics will kill your career. The difference between job descriptions and accomplishments seems to elude most people.
The real problem for many of these, I suspect, is finding qualified instructors to teach. Until then, the best alternative I can recommend is to sign up for job internships at every opportunity, while still in school. You might find on-the-job experiences more valuable than all your other courses, or you might change your major.
Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less prepared than ever before. What's another course that you wish you had taken in school, but didn't realize was missing until too late? There's another generation right behind us that needs to know.
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New York Times
POSTED: 02:14 a.m. HST, Apr 01, 2012
The television news feature about eighth grader Ben Heckmann, of Farmington, Minn., was breathless in its praise. “At 14 years old, he has accomplished something many adults can’t achieve,” the reporter said. “Ben is a twice-published author.”
As the camera rolled, Ben described how “the first time I held my own book, it was just this amazing feeling.” Then he shared a lesson for other young people, saying, “You can basically do anything if you put your mind to it.”
But his two “Velvet Black” books, detailing and depicting the antics of a fictional rock band, were not plucked from a pile of manuscripts by an eagle-eyed publisher. They were self-published, at a cost to Ben’s parents of $400 — money they have more than made up by selling 700 copies.
Over the past five years, print-on-demand technology and a growing number of self-publishing companies whose books can be sold online have inspired writers of all ages to bypass the traditional gatekeeping system for determining who could call themselves a “published author.”
They include hundreds of children and teenagers who are now self-publishing books each year — a growing corner of the book world that raises as many questions about parenting as publishing.
The mothers and fathers who foot the bill say they are simply trying to encourage their children, in the same way that other parents buy gear for a promising lacrosse player or ship a Broadway aspirant off to theater camp.
But others see the blurring of the line between publishing and self-publishing as a lost opportunity to teach children about adversity and perseverance.
The young authors themselves, raised in an era of blogging and equal-opportunity Twitter feeds, take the notion of self-publishing in stride.
“The world is changing — it’s possible for people to do almost anything they set their minds to,” said Elizabeth Hines (pen name: E.S. Hines), a high school junior from Annapolis, Md., whose debut novel, “The Last Dove,” was recently released by the self-publishing imprint Xlibris.
She has other projects going, too. “The Black Panther,” part two of what she is calling the Trilogy of Aeir, will be published soon (at a cost to her parents of $2,700 per title). She has also written the first two books in a separate fictional quintet, and begun a work of historical fiction set in 1500s Scotland.
Elizabeth’s parents debated the merits of self-publishing, said her mother, Jacqueline. Would her writing be criticized? Would she “get a little too much of a sense of self?” They finally decided that “self-esteem usually is not a bad thing for kids this age,” Jacqueline Hines said.
Camille Mancuso, 12, of Columbus, Ohio, composed “Through the Eyes of Eak,” about 72-year-old Delphi from the world of Phea, during breaks from playing Jane Banks in the touring production of “Mary Poppins” (by the time her book was published, Camille was on Broadway). Drew Beasley, 10, a New Yorker with an array of acting and voiceover credits to his name, published “Growing UP...With Jack” last year to inspire children to be kind to special-needs kids.
Mac Bowers, 15, self-published the 112-page “Running Scared” through iUniverse in February. It sells for $11.63 on Amazon, where it is described as a suspenseful tale in which “two teenagers embroiled in a dangerous, international web of intrigue have just one goal — to make it out alive.”
Mac’s father, Timothy, a Pennsylvania schools superintendent, said that publishing his daughter’s work seemed a natural way to reward her months of effort.
“What do you do with something you’re proud of?” he said. “You want people to see it.”
Critics say it is wonderful to start writing at a young age, but worry that self-publishing sends the wrong message.
“What’s next?” asked the novelist Tom Robbins. “Kiddie architects, juvenile dentists, 11-year-old rocket scientists?B Any parent who thinks that the crafting of engrossing, meaningful, publishable fiction requires less talent and experience than designing a house, extracting a wisdom tooth, or supervising a lunar probe is, frankly, delusional.”
“There are no prodigies in literature,” Robbins said. “Literature requires experience, in a way that mathematics and music do not.”
Garth Stein, author of the bestseller “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” said he saw how publishing could be great fun for children, but cautioned that “part of writing is living and exploring the world and interacting with the world.”
Alan Rinzler, a publishing-industry veteran who now works with writers as an editorial consultant, suggested that parents hire a professional editor like him to work with their child to tear a manuscript apart and help make it better.
“That sort of puts a reality check on it,” he said.
Ben Heckmann’s father, Ken, said Ben’s aspirations “weren’t to knock Harry Potter off the list,” but “to get that good feeling inside that you’ve done something.”
“He can play basketball at home, or he can join a team; here he kind of joined a team,” Heckmann said. “This is Ben’s basketball.”
Ben’s mother, Julie, noted that while Ben has sold hundreds of books, the family could have simply ended up with a stack of Christmas gifts. “You can put your book out there, but it doesn’t mean people are going to like it,” she said.
Ben’s publisher, KidPub Press, which began publishing books by children and teenagers in 2008, said most of its sales were made by the authors’ families, who buy the books wholesale. The founder and publisher, Perry Donham, said it was “pretty unusual” for a KidPub author to sell more than 50 copies on Amazon.
Some self-publishing companies charge upfront fees, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars, for services that include printing, editing, jacket design and distribution. Others, like Lulu, offer to publish books free — though that does not include even a copy for the author’s shelf.
KidPub, which published 140 books last year, charges $250; that includes light copyediting, five printed copies and the promise of distribution on Amazon. “When the kids get the box of books with their name on it and they see their name on Amazon.com, they’re like little rock stars,” Donham said.
Kevin Weiss, president and chief executive of Author Solutions, which owns or manages 13 self-publishing imprints, said the company expected to publish more than 400 works by authors under age 18 this year.
“Today a 14-year-old author has as good a chance of creating a following as a 50-year-old author,” Weiss said. “And maybe a better chance because they understand the nuances of social media, and how you can build a following.”
Often, they do not need social media to spread the word.
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By Bob Shacochis
September 22, 1999
New York: Viking Press, 1999. xxi + 404 pp. $27.95, cloth.
Reviewed by Robert Lawless
Department of Anthropology
Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas 67260-0052, U.S.A.
Shacochis is a terrific writer, and this book is fun to read. I'm not sure, however, how much of it should be taken seriously. It isn't the book of a scholar, and it has no documentation. The story is, of course, more about Shacochis in Haiti than about Haiti itself. Secondarily it is about the Americans in Haiti who came with the September 1994 pseudo-invasion and occupation that were supposed to restore democracy. Haitians themselves appear as a supporting cast-often in mobs, unruly and comic.
A great deal of the book contains the hyperbolic prose and the imagined conversations that can only come from a fiction writer. Those who already know something about Haiti will probably want to skip most of it. It is clearly worth reading, however, for the parts based on Shacochis's time spent with a U.S. Special Forces unit in LimbE9, which begin on page 163.
In general Shacochis's impressions of the American operation in Haiti are correct. In Port-au-Prince, for example, it was obvious that the U.S. military was there 93to protect the well-heeled elites up on the mountainside from the wrath of a million poor people in the slums below, whom the troops had ostensibly come to liberate (p. 134). In the countryside units such as the one in LimbE9 had little idea of what they were supposed to do and little guidance from their rule-driven military superiors.
Clearly -as Shacochis states- the publicly-stated U.S. mission to maintain democracy was frustrated by anti-democratic elements within the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. embassy in Haiti, the CIA, and the U.S. and Haitian military. Particularly upsetting to Shacochis -and to most Haitians- was the U.S. support for FRAPH (Front pour l'Avancement et le Progres d'Haiti) as a legitimate opposition party when it was actually a Haitian-army supported group of thugs who terrorized proponents of democracy.
Shacochis's political analysis is, however, not terribly sophisticated, and, again, I suggest that the book be read as a superbly crafted first-hand, ground-level account of soldiers in a new era of soldiering that the military calls Operations Other Than War.
Robert Lawless Wichita State University
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GENEVA, Sept. 10, 2012 /Christian Newswire
/ -- A public statement applauding steps toward peace talks in Colombia was issued recently by representatives of churches and ecumenical organizations that form the Peace Commission of the Evangelical Council (CEDECOL), the Ecumenical Network in Colombia and the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI).
The statement, released on 28 August and responding to an announcement that the Colombian government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army) were working on a proposal to start peace talks, expressed thankfulness to God and hope for a more peaceful future in the country, which has been wracked by decades of conflict. The peace talks are scheduled to begin 8 October in Norway and may also include the National Liberation Army (ELN).
"The people of Colombia deserve peace with justice," Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), said in response to the ecumenical statement and the potential for peace talks. "As an ecumenical community, we ask all WCC member churches to pray that the process of peace talks will proceed as soon as possible."
"Seeking just peace is deeply rooted in the ecumenical movement," Tveit said, "and it is core to the witness of the church in the world today."
The statement from the ecumenical and church groups in the region said "this announcement gives us hope that it is possible to stop the armed conflict in Colombia that we have been witnessing for about 50 years."
"We see this news as God's answer to our prayers, since for many years we have asked that God's spirit of peace create spaces for dialogue to resolve conflicts through nonviolent means and to enable peace to bring the fruit of justice and respect for human dignity, as announced by the gospel," the statement said.
The conflict in Colombia has torn the nation apart, with thousands of deaths, widespread human rights violations, the internal displacement of millions of people, disappearances, kidnappings and threats to human rights advocates both inside and outside of the church.
Recently the WCC expressed its concern about this situation in a letter addressed to the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, calling on the government to take necessary measures to be effective in protecting the life and physical integrity of all people involved in peace initiatives.
Inspired by the words of Matthew 5:9, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God," the statement issued by the ecumenical movement in Colombia also underlines the importance of the support of the global ecumenical family.
"We ask our confessional partners and the global ecumenical movement to accompany this initiative closely with their prayers and solidarity actions", because the ecumenical movement's "experience in building peace in different parts of the world might help in the peace process announced by the Colombian government and armed groups of the FARC and ELN", the statement read.
The WCC has actively supported important ecumenical responses to the conflict and human rights situation in Colombia, such as the Programme of Ecumenical Accompaniment in Colombia (PEAC), promoted by the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) along with the WCC, ACT Alliance, the Lutheran World Federation and other ecumenical organizations. The PEAC was modeled on the highly successful Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI).
Churches and organizations willing to endorse the statement can do so through miltonmej[at]gmail.com
The statement was signed by Lutheran Bishop Eduardo Martínez, president of the CLAI - Colombia Roundtable, Rev. Antonis de Jesús Calvo, from the Ecumenical Network of Colombia (Red Ecuménica de Colombia), Pablo Moreno, from the Peace Commission of CEDECOL, Jenny Neme, Comisión de Paz de CEDECOL, Bishop Juan Alberto Cardona, from the Colombian Methodist Church, Mennonite Pastor Isdalia Ortega, secretary of the CLAI – Colombia Roundtable, Rev. Nilton Giese, general secretary of the Latin American Council of Churches and Rev. Milton Mejía, from the Observatory of Investigation of Human Rights and Peace of the Corporación Universitária Reformada (CUR).
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the Cheoy Lee Company
The Cheoy Lee Company has been a major builder of ships and all types of
boats for over 100 years. With roots tracing back to 1870 in a building at a
repair yard in Po Tung Point in Shanghai, Cheoy Lee Shipyards has had a colorful and
successful history. Originally producing wooden commercial craft from a shipyard in
Shanghai, Cheoy Lee moved operations to Hong Kong in 1936. Initially specializing in
the production of powered cargo vessels to outrun the Japanese blockade, Cheoy Lee
later diversified into the large scale production of teak sailing and motoryachts.
Most of these were exported to the US. During the 50s trawlers were built for the
United Nation Korean Reconstruction Agency. During the early 1960's, Cheoy Lee made
steady progress in the development, testing and use of fiberglass and by the mid 1960's
wood construction had been phased out. Cheoy Lee became one of the first shipyard
users of fiberglass and in turn became one of the pioneers of GRP/foam sandwich technology
in the marine field. According to David Toombs from Lion Yachts "over 4,500
Cheoy Lee yachts were delivered and he points out that it is interesting that
usually no more than 50 or so are available at any given time on the market".
He also points out that Cheoy Lee has stopped production for all designs under 50' due to
worldwide demand for the larger motorsailers and motoryachts. For the record David
claims to be the original Cheoy Lee Distributor dating from 1960 and made over 70 trips to
Hong Kong spending over a year in the shipyard there monitoring all phases of
construction. He goes on to say that in its over 110 years of family ownership Cheoy
Lee has become a major factor in yacht building, fully Lloyds Approved, with a modern
climate controlled facility. David probably knows more about Cheoy Lees than anyone
else in North America.
Today Cheoy Lee makes everything from ferries to tugboats
and several models of large motor yachts up to 446 tons and 144' in length. The only
sailboats currently produced, as far as I am aware of, are the 53, 63, and the 78'
Motorsailors plus a 77' Pilothouse Cutter.
The following information submitted
by Tom Gilson from Cheoy Lee North America 11/99
A few things you may want to know
about the company. The company's main production facility is
currently located on Lantau Island, which is also
where Hong Kong's new airport recently opened. Cheoy Lee
a new shipyard facility on the Pearl River 60 miles from Hong Kong
on mainland China. (The old facility will be closed in April of 2000
World moves in). This facility is reached via high speed ferry
Kong, with customs and immigrations located next to the yard.
shipyard is at the center of over 20 shipyards. Consequently,
there is a
huge pool of skilled labor in the area with an almost unlimited
expand. A state-of-the-art facility is now in operation,
including a 1,000
ton railway lift, a 150 ton travel lift, dedicated paint sheds and
dormitories that will house up to 400 yard employees. Capable
vessels in excess of 200 feet, the new yard promises to keep Cheoy
the forefront of shipbuilding for generations to come.
This pic looks like masts being worked
email from Larry Kaplan
Hi. I commissioned all the boats that
came to San Francisco (new). The dealer was Raccoon Straits Yacht Sales. Offshore 27's ,31's,41's and the
offshore 50. I had just graduated from college, and had been working on
yachts while in school, was on the sailing team, etc. That was 1968. I (we)
drove a La Paz 33(powerboat) to the freighter anchored in S.F. bay from
which would be offloaded the Cheoy Lee or Cheoy Lees we were to take
possession of and we'd either motor them or tow them to S.F. or Sausalito
and begin whatever it took to get them ready for their owners. On many, the
teak and holly cabin sole hatches were floating in two feet of fresh water (rain
water)...the boats were lashed on deck of the freighter(s) for the trip to S.F.
Sometimes, the boats would simply be covered...I mean COVERED with grease
and tar because the freighter's crew would "LUBE" the ship's rigging on the
trip, and in the sun the petroleum based goo would soften and plop from where
it was meant to be, to the freighter's main deck, only to be intercepted by
the cosmic forces that directed said "GOO" all over these absolutely
gorgeous varnished little yachts. I pioneered the use of linear polyurethane on yachts in 1971...and do
(now) custom fiberglass work and repair on yachts. In spite of what I know
about the Offshore line that Cheoy Lee produced, I have a particularly
special place in my brain for those boats. I happened upon your site ...I
guess by serendipity.
p.s. the rainwater? you don't think that the freighter's crew would have
removed the plug at the keel, do you?
following was submitted by Wayne S.. sailing "Sumatra" a Frisco Flyer, thanks
Wayne for the info, we all appreciate your imput, james...
May I pass along some information on Cheoy Lees? It may be commonly known; I
really don't know. I have heard some of this from various sources, and all of it
from a man who worked in the Cheoy Lee yard in 1963, overseeing the construction of a
large yacht for a wealthy American buyer. Do you know anyone who could give us
any further verification?
With some Cheoy Lees (the glass Frisco Flyers, for instance), the hulls would be built in
one spot in Kowloon and then launched and towed to another location where they would
be finished out with interior, deck, etc. (I doubt the same was true of the wood ones.)
The reason: the boat shops
where the glass hulls were built had to be dehumidified. When the boats were
finished out, the work was done by families who made their living as boat builders, and if
the boat was large enough the family might move aboard until the work was done.
(Most certainly this was NOT done with the little Frisco Flyer hulls, which were built by
a large number of men who would arrive at work in the morning and leave in the evening, at
closing time.) There was no electricity as of 1963 in this second yard, and any milling of
wood, joinery, etc. either had to be done somewhere else or done by hand on site.
Most of the hulls had intricate carvings of dragons in their interiors. The families which
built the boats would make their dragon carvings different in large ways or small to
indicate which family had built that boat.
Since then I have heard this last detail said about boats built in other Kowloon yards--
but I've only had some verification of it for the Cheoy Lee yard.
A famous cruising couple in the fifties and sixties was Al and Marjorie Patterson.
Al Patterson died of cancer some years ago; Marjorie published a book, a great read,
titled "Red Skies at Night," before her death a few years ago. The
book includes a page or so on the Cheoy Lee yard, which was near a yacht club which
they visited. (Not many details.)
Well... hope I am not boring you with things well known--
Pics of Cheoy Lee Yard from old
Teak log pile in Cheoy Lee yard,
one of these logs may be part of your boat...
Couple of old yard
pics submitted by Sunny Soquel
submitted by John Spears aboard "Moon Beam" from the following:
Advertisement in Sea Magazine - 1972
sailors come aboard one of our Cheoy Lee yachts for the first time, they are invariably
amazed at the lavish use of Burma teak, the unsparing attention to detail and the overall
But they are even more amazed when they ask the price, and find it to be unbelievably
lower than expected.
Of course, there is really no inscrutable mystery behind our prices. Just some highly
Cheoy Lees 90-year-old 1500 man shipyard is located on the bustling Hong Kong
waterfront, where it is possible to cut many costs in the construction of fine sailing
yachts, without cutting corners in the overall quality.
The truth is, no one could sell these yachts at these low prices if they were built
(The man-hours on a Cheoy Lee yacht, for example, are about ten times greater than those
spent on comparably-priced American Boats. And while the cost of Burma teak is highly
reasonable to us, it would be highly unreasonable by the time it were shipped to the
States for use on domestic boats.
Cheoy Lee passes these savings on to discriminating sailors in a truly extensive line of
fine sailing yachts, all of moulded fiberglass and built exactingly to Lloyds 100A1
The standard models of all Cheoy Lee yachts are loaded with unexpected standard features
that spell the true difference between a "boat" and a "yacht".
Natural Burma teak (which needs little maintenance and is for all practical
purposes immune to decay and worms; teak neither swells not shrinks to any appreciable
degree and owners should enjoy the teak overlays and joiner work which requires very
little care); hollow noiseless sitka spruce spars; Formica galleys; stainless steel or
chromed bronze deck hardware; Wilcox Crittenden toilets; large seacocks on all thru-hull
fittings; and deluxe instrument panels.
These are only a few of the standard features youll find on Cheoy Le yachts. And
there are many custom features that can be added, again at prices far below what you might
expect to pay.
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On April 6 the organization Sin Barras, which means "without prison bars" in Spanish, held a rally and march to the Santa Cruz County Jail in response to the four recent deaths of individuals while in custody at the facility. Organizers announced they had gotten word that inmates were aware of the demonstration and were excited to hear it from inside. This was confirmed as marchers neared the women's wing of the facility, and individuals inside banged on the walls and flashed lights through the opaque windows.
"Our jail is seen as a model county that a lot of other sheriff's departments are looking at," Tash Nguyen of Sin Barras
stated, pointing to the broader implications of conditions at the facility. According to the Sin Barras press release, those conditions inside the Santa Cruz County Jail amount to "torture."
"We demand that county officials provide real health care for those inside, eliminate pretrial detention, and fund homeless service programs and drug treatment centers outside of jail walls," the press release further stated.
Read More with Videos | Photos | Community Forum on Thursday, April 25
Previous Coverage: Sin Barras Speakout and March on April 6 in Solidarity with Prisoners
In a precedent-setting victory for fracking opponents, a federal judge ruled that the Obama administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County without considering the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing. U.S. Magistrate Paul Grewal of the U.S. District Court in San Jose ruled on March 31 that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sold the leases without properly assessing the threat that fracking could pose to water, fish and wildlife. Some of these leases are within the Salinas River watershed, a habitat for endangered Central Coast steelhead.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the controversial, environmentally destructive process of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground at high pressure in order to release and extract oil or gas. Many Delta advocates believe that the peripheral tunnels proposed under the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) will be used to deliver water to expand fracking operations in Kern County and coastal areas.
The ruling responded to a suit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club that challenged a September 2011 BLM decision to auction off about 2,500 acres of land in southern Monterey County to oil companies. “This important decision recognizes that fracking poses new, unique risks to California’s air, water and wildlife that government agencies can’t ignore,” said Brendan Cummings, senior counsel at the Center, who argued the case for the plaintiffs. “This is a watershed moment — the first court opinion to find a federal lease sale invalid for failing to address the monumental dangers of fracking.”
Steve Pleich writes:
The "revised" needle exchange will be operated by the County of Santa Cruz which can only provide services to county residents. As a practical matter, anyone requesting these services would be required to provide their name, address and some form of identification verifying this information. That's at least three (3) items of personal information which will then be in the hands of a governmental agency. While this information will likely be "confidential", it will not be "anonymous". This raises the question of whether or not law enforcement (which will have some oversight role in the revised program) will be able to access this information should they deem it in the interest of public safety.
Anonymity is fundamental to a successful exchange. Clients need to know and believe that their personal information will not be used for any purpose other than statistical compilation or accountancy. Additionally, although the previous exchange, Street Outreach Supporters (SOS)
, will evidently retain their role with respect to home delivery, those deliveries will be logged by and through County Health Services; creating a further possibility of uses other than statistical. One other concern is that pharmacies may elect to "opt out" of non-prescription syringe sales now permitted by state law. This would have the effect of further reducing opportunities for legal, regulated distribution and exchange.
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Bradley Allen went to the Santa Cruz County Courthouse steps with his camera on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, to cover a demonstration for Santa Cruz Indymedia, part of Indybay, at a time the Occupy movement was at its height. He assumed it would be similar to others he had recently been to, where people had rallied, marched, and picketed banks.
In the back of his mind was a thought—not necessarily bothering him at that moment, but there nonetheless—that one day he might become a target of repression for his reporting, and for his work in helping create Santa Cruz Indymedia, an internet platform for community issues that has not shied away from exposing wrongdoing by the police.
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On March 15
, community members gathered at the plaza in Watsonville to remember people whose lives have been lost to violence. Speakers at the rally included youth, community leaders, and family members of lost loved ones. Artists, including poets, rappers, and painters, shared their skills with those in attendance.
As the sun went down, the event ended with a candlelight vigil and universal prayer. Special guests included City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Karina Cervantes, State Assemblymen Luis Alejo, City Councilmember Felipe Hernandez, City Councilmember Daniel Dodge, Rosa de Ramirez (mother), White Hawk Aztec Dancers, Ghambit, Cambio, Bocafloja, Dementes, DBD Music, DJ Mikey Mike Marquez, and others.
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Motions to dismiss trespass and felony vandalism charges against four individuals charged in association with the 75 River Street bank occupation in Santa Cruz were denied by Judge Timothy Volkmann on March 11. Gabriella Ripley-Phipps, Franklin Alcantara, Brent Adams, and Cameron Laurendau have a trial date set for May, but that date will most likely be changed due to a case conflict with one of the defense attorneys.
Judge Volkmann agreed with the previous ruling by Judge Burdick in January that there was enough evidence to hold the four for trial on trespass charges, stressing there was a, "relatively low threshold for holding an individual over for trial."
"I don't see direct evidence of vandalism," Volkmann stated, but he agreed with Burdick that the four were still to be held accountable for felony vandalism charges under an aiding and abetting legal theory that maintains the damage to the building was a reasonably foreseeable result of the trespass.
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Sep. 2, 1999
Another Postponement of Destruction
Poem: "Another Postponement of Destruction" by Henry Taylor, from Understanding Fiction (Louisiana State University Press).
It's the anniversary of the independence of VIETNAM, in 1945. The region had been a French colony for decades, but during W.W.II Japan conquered the French forces there and took control. In August, 1945, though, when the Allies defeated Japan, there was a sudden power vacuum in Vietnam, and the Communist Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh moved to fill it. He'd fought alongside the U.S. during the war, and on September 2, the day W.W.II officially ended, he appeared in front of a crowd in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square and used lines lifted from our Declaration of Independence and proclaimed Vietnam a free state: He said, "All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights of life, liberty, and happiness..." But the French weren't willing to let Vietnam go that easily. They moved back into the southern part of the country, and war broke out the next year between the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communist army. It ended eight years later, in 1954, with a French defeat and the country's division along the 17th Parallel into South, and Communist North, Vietnam, and then began the American era.
George Gershwin finished his opera PORGY AND BESS on this day in 1935. The opera was based on a true story about a handicapped black man named Goatcart Sammy who'd been arrested in Charleston, South Carolina for attempted murder.
It was on this day in 1901, that Vice-President TEDDY ROOSEVELT came to the Minnesota State Fair and in a speech before several thousand people outlined his view of America's new role in world affairs: he used an old African proverb and said that "AMERICA MUST SPEAK SOFTLY BUT CARRY A BIG STICK."
It's the birthday in St. Louis, 1850 of the journalist and poet EUGENE FIELD, best known for his children's poems, "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod."
It's the anniversary in 1666, of THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON, which began around 1 a.m. in the King's bakery, on Pudding Lane. The buildings in medieval London were nearly all wooden and the fire quickly spread to the wharves on the Thames River, where oil and hemp, hay and timber were stored. There the fire exploded and over the next three days destroyed an area nearly two miles square in central London, though only six persons died. A man named John Evelyn wrote in his diary the next night: "Oh the miserable and calamitous spectacle! The sky was like the top of a burning oven, and the light seen 40 miles round about for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw 10,000 houses all in one flame; the noise and cracking and thunder of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm. London was, but is no more!"
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New Quality Protocol for pulverised fuel ash
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THE Waste Protocol Project, a joint initiative between WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), the Environment Agency and industry, has launched its ninth Quality Protocol (QP) – The Pulverised Fuel Ash Quality Protocol.
By setting end-of-waste criteria for the production and use of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) and furnace bottom ash (FBA) arising from the combustion of coal to be used in bound materials and grout applications, the new QP will help divert away from landfill a significant amount of what is currently the UK’s largest industrial waste stream.
At present, half of all PFA produced in the UK is sold to end markets, with the remainder sent to monofill storage sites.
Until now, those wishing to use these materials in construction and manufacturing had to conform to waste-management regulations and purchase special permits, as PFA and FBA are defined as ‘wastes’ under the EU Waste Framework Directive (2006/12/EC). This will no longer be the case for PFA produced to Quality Protocol standards.
Martin Brocklehurst, head of environment and business partnerships with the Environment Agency, said: ‘The quality protocol standard ensures that both human health and the environment are safeguarded and that this valuable material can be reprocessed into a quality product which can be reused, rather than buried in landfill.’
According to WRAP, an estimated 3,128,000 tonnes of waste will now be diverted from landfill and increased use of this alternative recycled material produced in accordance with the new QP will save an estimated 4,410,000 tonnes of virgin material from being excavated.
Financial impact assessments have forecast a potential benefit to the UK economy of approximately £110 million over the first 10 years.
Dr Mervyn Jones, head of production & procurement with WRAP, said: ‘Conforming to the new Quality Protocol removes the waste stigma associated with PFA and FBA. It enables better regulation, ensures consistent quality and will stimulate market confidence. These factors will all help the industry grow existing markets for this quality recycled material.’
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STD Screening of HIV-Infected MSM in HIV Clinics
May 9, 2011
The researchers undertook the current study to determine whether providers who care for HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are following national guidelines that recommend asymptomatic routine STD screening for patients with HIV.
Medical records were abstracted to evaluate STD screening at eight large HIV clinics in six US cities. The team estimated the number of men who had at least one test for syphilis, chlamydia (urethral and/or rectal) or gonorrhea (urethral, rectal, and/or pharyngeal) in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The urethral testing included nucleic acid amplification tests of both urethral swabs and urine. Positivity rates for syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea were calculated.
The analysis included 1,334 HIV-positive MSM who made 14,659 visits from 2004 to 2006. During this time, the annual screening rate for syphilis ranged from 66 percent to 75.8 percent. Annual screening rates for rectal chlamydia and rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea ranged from 2.3 percent to 8.5 percent, despite moderate to high positivity (3 percent to 9.8 percent) among specimens from asymptomatic patients. Annual urethral chlamydia and gonorrhea screening rates were higher than for nonurethral sites, 13.8 percent to 18.3 percent, but remained suboptimal.
"Most asymptomatic HIV-infected MSM were screened for syphilis, indicating good provider adherence to this screening guideline. Low screening rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia, especially at rectal and pharyngeal sites, suggest that substantial barriers exist for complying with these guidelines," the authors concluded. "The moderate to high prevalence of asymptomatic chlamydial and gonococcal infections underscores the importance of screening. A range of clinical quality improvement interventions are needed to increase screening, including increasing the awareness of nucleic acid amplification tests for nonurethral screening."
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Stay safe and respect others at Hallowe’en
RESIDENTS across the Hucknall and Bulwell district are being given the opportunity to opt out of the seasonal activities through a Nottinghamshire Police initiative.
Hallowe’en can be a fun-filled time of year for families but for many it can spell problems and anxiety.
In a bid to tackle this, police have created a poster that homeowners can display in their windows and doors to politely request not being disturbed.
“We are reacting to the concerns of the residents in our district,” said Insp Nick Butler of Hucknall Police. “Many people can get frightened at this time of year with people knocking on their doors.
“For many people, especially the disabled and the elderly, getting up to answer trick or treaters can be a real nuisance and inconvenience.”
The poster can be downloaded from the Nottinghamshire Police Force website and is a way of letting Hallowe’en pranksters know they don’t wish to take part.
Insp Butler added: “We are asking youngsters who are out and about over Hallowe’en that where
they see the sign displayed they respect the homeowners who probably have very good reasons for displaying it.
“I would also like to advise parents to supervise youngsters at all times whilst trick or treating and only visit houses in neighbourhoods that they are familiar with and stay safe.”
Despite anti-social behaviour and criminal damage rising at this time of the year nationally, locally there has been a fall through initiatives like this.
Police are also running an operation tackling unauthorised bonfires and want to encourage residents to go to organised displays only.
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I'd say it depends on what you mean by AI. Machine learning in general has seen some rapid evolution of tooling, so a number of algorithms for classification, clustering, and other forms of supervised and unsupervised learning, especially with probabilistic graphical models, have been implemented in Python, C#, Ruby, OCaml, and Java, just to name a few.
If you're doing large scale manipulation of data for building things like recommendation engines, collaborative filtering, or other types of unsupervised or supervised learning problems, you may want to take a look at Mahout. It's not really a "programming language" per se, but it's a set of tools for this kind of problem. You can write model code in Java, or other JVM languages like groovy (a dynamic, reasonably expressive language) or clojure (lisp-like).
I'm not sure why you'd consider Lisp dated; it's where most of the "new" language features in other languages (closures, etc.) originated from.
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Australia stingray deaths possible revenge for Steve Irwin
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Following the days since Steve Irwin died of a stingray attack, at least 10 stingrays have been found dead on two Australian beaches, with their tails cut off. While it was reported that fishermen occasionally cut the tails off stingrays they accidentally catch to avoid being stung, however, state fishery official Wayne Sumpton said that this practice was "uncommon".
It is suspected that these killings were done in revenge for Irwin. "That's the last thing Steve would want," said Michael Hornby, a friend of Irwin. However, other sources point out that fans of Irwin would generally not commit such actions.
In general, stingrays are not aggressive and will not attack unless provoked.
Meanwhile, a public memorial service for Irwin is planned next week.
- Ed Johnson. "Australian Stingrays Killed in Possible Irwin Revenge Attacks" — , September 13, 2006
- "Irwin fans 'in revenge attacks'" — , September 12, 2006
- Jessica Marszalek. "Stingray killings may be Irwin revenge" — , September 12, 2006
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In 1996 I narrowly defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue in a match. Then, in 1997, IBM redoubled its efforts -- and doubled Deep Blue's processing power -- and I lost the rematch in an event that made headlines around the world. The result was met with astonishment and grief by those who took it as a symbol of mankind's submission before the almighty computer. Others shrugged their shoulders, surprised that humans could still compete at all against the enormous calculating power that, by 1997, sat on just about every desk in the first world.
It was the specialists -- the chess players and the programmers and the artificial intelligence enthusiasts -- who had a more nuanced appreciation of the result.
Although we still require a strong measure of intuition and logic to play well, humans today are starting to play more like computers.
Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going -- so far as I can tell -- but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think.
When children start to play with real genes, evolution as we know it will change forever.
Like so much else in our technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market. Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both sectors.
For at least one hundred years and probably much longer, modern societies have been built on the assumption that more rationality and more techne (and more capital) are precisely the solutions to the extremely serious problems that beset our world and our human societies. Yet the evidence that this is not the right solution can be found everywhere.
Greenspan and Waxman:
"In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working," Mr. Waxman said. "Absolutely, precisely," Mr. Greenspan replied.
If the children are being instructed in the pink plane, can we teach them to think in the blue plane and live in a pink-plane society?
Lego nomenclature is essential for family Lego building. Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces.
And the words they use (mostly invented by the children, not the adults) are likely to be different every time. But how different? And what sort of words?
Hence, a survey.
We use technology to shape our world, yet we think little about the choices we are making.
The Mindstorms kits, and most other Lego kits, are configured largely to allow customers to build the specific models shown on the boxes. PicoCricket, on the other hand, is about giving kids a chance to build objects out of their imaginations, then program them with interesting behaviors.
The Lego dream has been a persistent favorite among a generation or more of programmers who grew up with those construction toys. Unfortunately, however, software does not work as Legos do.
Postmodernists believe language is a circular self-referential trap, while pragmatists believe it lends insight into what reality is. Steven Pinker's book seems to posit that that is a false dichotomy, not because both claims are false, but because both are fundamentally true.
Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
8:20 am EDT, May 20, 2009
Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular. They could go anywhere with the homes of evildoers: halls of electric fluorescence, palaces carved from corduroy, suburban back yards.
And yet, in spite of this freedom, most videogame designers choose to make a definite connection to familiar – or real-world – architecture. Perhaps they think that the evil lair must emanate evil. There's surely no room for ambiguity with videogame evildoers: the gamer needs to know that it's okay to aim for hi-score vengeance.
We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of mass destruction.
Robert Draper, for GQ:
Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics—his administration peers—are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they’re saying? It isn’t pretty.
Dave Arneson, Co-Creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Dies at 61
8:40 am EDT, Apr 13, 2009
Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 61.
From a year ago:
Gary Gygax, a pioneer of the imagination who transported a fantasy realm of wizards, goblins and elves onto millions of kitchen tables around the world through the game he helped create, Dungeons & Dragons, died Tuesday at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis. He was 69.
From the archive:
Thirty-one years after the invention of Dungeons & Dragons, the original role-playing game remains the most popular and financially successful brand in the adventure gaming industry.
From the economic point of view, this was the year video games overtook music and video, combined. As a rule, economic shifts of this kind take a while to register on the cultural seismometer; and indeed, from the broader cultural point of view, video games barely exist.
There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience. Video games have people who play them, and a wider public for whom they simply don’t exist. Their invisibility is interesting in itself, and also allows interesting things to happen in games under the cultural radar.
A common criticism of video games made by non-gamers is that they are pointless and escapist, but a more valid observation might be that the bulk of games are nowhere near escapist enough.
The trouble with these games – the majority of them – isn’t that they are maladapted to the real world, it’s that they’re all too well adapted. The people who play them move from an education, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, to a work life, much of it spent in front of a computer screen, full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others, and for recreation sit in front of a computer screen and play games full of competitive, repetitive, quantifiable, measured progress towards goals determined by others. Most video games aren’t nearly irresponsible enough.
If I had to name one high-cultural notion that had died in my adult lifetime, it would be the idea that difficulty is artistically desirable.
Bosses complain that after a childhood of being coddled and praised, Net Geners demand far more frequent feedback and an over-precise set of objectives on the path to promotion (rather like the missions that must be completed in a video game).
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If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.
As a prank, students from local high schools have been taking advantage of the county's Speed Camera Program in order to exact revenge on people who they believe have wronged them in the past.
Students duplicate the license plates by printing plate numbers on glossy photo paper, using fonts from certain websites that "mimic" those on Maryland license plates. They tape the duplicate plate over the existing plate on the back of their car and purposefully speed through a speed camera. The victim then receives a citation in the mail days later.
County Council President Phil Andrews said that this could hurt the integrity of the Speed Camera Program.
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Typography is not simply a frou-frou debate over aesthetics orchestrated by a hidden coterie of graphic-design nerds.
There is, however, some reality to the idea that the U.S. is seeking "administrative revenge" against this person for demonstrating that their security is weak.
Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete.
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Front Page Titles (by Subject) 12 - The Book of Job (KJV)
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1 And Job answered and said,
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13∥ With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and ∥ weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and † straiteneth them again.
24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to † stagger like a drunken man.
[† ] Heb. an heart.
[† ] Heb. I fall not lower than you.
[† ] Heb. with whom are not such as these?
[∥ ] Or, life.
[† ] Heb. all flesh of man.
[* ] ch. 34. 3.
[† ] Heb palate.
[∥ ] That is, With God.
[* ] Isai. 22. 22. Rev. 3. 7.
[† ] Heb. upon.
[* ] ch. 32. 9.
[† ] Heb. the lip of the faithful.
[∥ ] Or, looseth the girdle of the strong.
[† ] Heb. leadeth in.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster.
The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 billion and 12 billion years old. The cluster lies about 16,000 light-years from Earth.
This is one of the first images taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), installed aboard Hubble in May 2009, during Servicing Mission 4. The camera can snap sharp images over a broad range of wavelengths.
The photograph showcases the camera's color versatility by revealing a variety of stars in key stages of their life cycles.
The majority of the stars in the image are yellow-white, like our Sun. These are adult stars that are shining by hydrogen fusion. Toward the end of their normal lives, the stars become cooler and larger. These late-life stars are the orange dots in the image.
Even later in their life cycles, the stars continue to cool down and expand in size, becoming red giants. These bright red stars swell to many times larger than our Sun's size and begin to shed their gaseous envelopes.
After ejecting most of their mass and exhausting much of their hydrogen fuel, the stars appear brilliant blue. Only a thin layer of material covers their super-hot cores. These stars are desperately trying to extend their lives by fusing helium in their cores. At this stage, they emit much of their light at ultraviolet wavelengths.
When the helium runs out, the stars reach the end of their lives. Only their burned-out cores remain, and they are called white dwarfs (the faint blue dots in the image). White dwarfs are no longer generating energy through nuclear fusion and have gravitationally contracted to the size of Earth. They will continue to cool and grow dimmer for many billions of years until they become dark cinders.
Other stars that appear in the image are so-called "blue stragglers." They are older stars that acquire a new lease on life when they collide and merge with other stars. The encounters boost the stars' energy-production rate, making them appear bluer.
All of the stars in the image are cozy neighbors. The average distance between any two stars in the cluster's crowded core is only about a third of a light-year, roughly 13 times closer than our Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. Although the stars are close together, WFC3's sharpness can resolve each of them as individual stars. If anyone lived in this globular cluster, they would behold a star-saturated sky that is roughly 100 times brighter than Earth's sky.
Globular clusters were thought to be assemblages of stars that share the same birth date. Evidence suggests, however, that Omega Centauri has at least two populations of stars with different ages. Some astronomers think that the cluster may be the remnant of a small galaxy that was gravitationally disrupted long ago by the Milky Way, losing stars and gas.
Omega Centauri is among the biggest and most massive of some 200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way. It is one of the few globular clusters that can be seen with the unaided eye. Named by Johann Bayer in 1603 as the 24th brightest object in the constellation Centaurus, it resembles a small cloud in the southern sky and might easily be mistaken for a comet.
Hubble observed Omega Centauri on July 15, 2009, in ultraviolet and visible light. These Hubble observations of Omega Centauri are part of the Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations.
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Reflection can actually be fairly tricky because you need information about the surrounding scene before you can render a reflective object. The more accurate you want the reflection to be, the harder it is to implement.
For example, if you just want to reflect the surrounding environment (skybox) you can use environment mapping. Spherical or cube mapping are common (the latter is probably the most common as the cube textures required are much easier to produce; any tool that creates a sky box can be used). These techniques are simple, fast, and can be used on arbitrary geometry. However they will not provide local reflections (that is, reflection of other objects in the scene).
Planar reflective surfaces are another option. These can be done in a variety of fashions -- simply flipping geometry, rendering to a texture and flipping that, stencil buffer techniques, et cetera. This technique is often used to render water, but metallic surfaces can be done just as easily -- in fact easier, since you generally won't bother with the distortion effects also involved in creating water. This technique is also relatively fast, but only works on planar surfaces, as the name implies.
A third option is dynamic cube mapping. This is akin to a combination of parts of both previous techniques -- using a cubic environment map, so arbitrary geometry can be used as the reflective surface, but updating that cube map every frame with the contents of the rest of the scene. Obviously doing so is more expensive. You can find some discussion on this technique here, and a demo here.
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Win a School Garden During National Garden Month
by Charlie Nardozzi
April is National Garden Month, and for the fifth year in a row, National Gardening Association is asking every gardener to participate in and celebrate gardening during this month. Were particularly interested in having more kids learn the joys of gardening.
To celebrate National Garden Month this year NGA has teamed up with Keep America Beautiful and Scotts Miracle-Gro Company to produce the 30 Days of Green calendar and contest. This colorful poster highlights daily gardening activities you can do with kids in your classroom and at home. The activities range from tree planting to growing your state flower to packing a litter-free lunch at school.
There is also a Learning Garden Contest where schools can win an outdoor learning garden, indoor garden, or garden kits. Teachers submit students' essays describing what green space means to them and how they would use a learning garden at their school. One grand-prize-winning classroom will receive an outdoor garden valued at $10,000. Fifteen first-prize-winning classrooms will receive an indoor garden valued at $400. Thirty second-prize-winning classrooms will receive gardening kits valued at $200. The deadline is April 23rd.
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The academic program enables the graduate to:
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Answer: Measure your blood glucose (BG) before each exercise session. If it is within normal limits or only slightly higher, say 120 mg/dl or so, then you may well need some food before exercising. However, if the value exceeds about 180, then you may not need to eat additional food.
A strategy many regular exercisers use is to exercise about 45 to 60 minutes after a meal. BG at this time typically will be in the 150 to 200 range, so an ample supply of glucose is available to the muscle. If the exercise session lasts 30 minutes or less, then insulin reaction would be unlikely to occur. However, if a longer and more strenuous session occurs, then the glucose lowering effect of activity continues for a longer period and the BG may reach a hypoglycemic level. By recording BG before and after exercise each session, you will see a pattern emerge. If your BG is too low in the last portion of exercise or soon after exercise and the activity was performed after a meal, you need to adjust your medication or food intake. You could either reduce the amount of oral medication or insulin that is active at the time of exercise, or you could eat a bit more food. The former is preferable if you are trying to lose weight while the latter would be acceptable for someone who is lean.
Eliminating insulin reaction during exercise is easier than preventing it hours after exercise. After exercise, the muscle and liver glycogen levels are lowered and the metabolic activity of the muscle is increased for several hours. Consequently, glucose enters the muscle and liver at a greater than normal rate. These factors may cause insulin reaction hours after the exercise. Therefore, it becomes necessary to do some additional BG monitoring later in the day. If the exercise was unusually long or vigorous, such as spending a day hiking, working in the yard, etc., then BG should be measured during the day several extra times, before going to sleep, and even in the middle of the night and next day.
While this may seem like a lot of extra BG testing to do, I look on it as a virtue. People with diabetes can be extremely active. Before BG monitoring could be done at home, active people with diabetes pretty much had to adjust their medication and food by feel. Monitoring allows us to be far more precise and prevent reactions during and after physical activity. It is my observation that physically active diabetics tend to do quite a bit more monitoring than others. This is consistent with the recently published results of the DCCT study in which additional monitoring was associated with better BG control and reduced retinopathy, neuropathy, and nephropathy.
In summary, use BG monitoring to study how a given amount and type of exercise affects you. Make adjustments based on the data. Insulin reactions should not frequently occur as a result of exercise. If they do, consult your physician or diabetes educator.
Kris Berg is an Exercise Physiologist and Professor of Exercise Physiology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, as well as the author of the book "Diabetic's Guide to Health and Fitness." He runs daily, lifts weights regularly, and has had type I diabetes for 37 years.
If you have exercise related questions, send them to Kris Berg, c/o DIABETES HEALTH, 3715 Balboa St., San Francisco, CA 94121.
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Diabetes Health is the essential resource for people living with diabetes- both newly diagnosed and experienced as well as the professionals who care for them. We provide balanced expert news and information on living healthfully with diabetes. Each issue includes cutting-edge editorial coverage of new products, research, treatment options, and meaningful lifestyle issues. | <urn:uuid:630c78a0-a5c7-42c9-aa2d-655832916212> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://diabeteshealth.com/read/1994/01/01/166/exercise-and-insulin-reactions-what-to-do-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965131 | 811 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Kristoffer Wanderydz , pp. 61. COM/School of Computing, 2012.
This project focuses on web security. Some of the most famous vulnerabilities, known troubling web applications. Has been collected and analyzed.
Each vulnerability collected in this project, was exploited and secured. Demon- strations from a web application prototype, developed for this project. Brings real examples for each vulnerability, both secured, and insecured. The proto- type ran on a Tomcat web server, and was developed with frameworks such as Web, Spring and Hibernate. Connected to one PostgreSQL data source.
All vulnerabilities was successfully implemented in Spring framework, and they were all exploited. Every vulnerability was also secured, with different tools and methods from earlier mentioned frameworks. As a result, real examples from the prototype is used for demonstration in the project, both in a secure and an insecure state.
The result views Spring as a framework with good security potential. Most of the Spring specific vulnerabilities, are logical design flaws from developers that can be avoided. Vulnerabilities not related to Spring, such as the one collected for this project. Could be prevented by using methods from the Spring framework or intelligent programming.
Which leads to conclusions. Web applications are always exposed to attacks, no matter the framework in use. Creative hackers search to discover new vul- nerabilities, and update old ones all the time. Developers has a responsibility, towards the web applications users. Web applications can not just developed for normal use, but also against possible misuse. Frameworks with good reputation and well processed models, is a good ground for developing a secure application. | <urn:uuid:e7c5b470-7450-4144-b6a4-736c834535d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bth.se/fou/cuppsats.nsf/8a05fd15257c7e58c1256608004f0536/01bb457a282dcd22c1257a3800564e83!OpenDocument | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951641 | 333 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Helaman3, son of Helaman2, was the record keeper and chief judge in the land of Zarahemla for the fourteen years prior to his death in 39 B.C. Little is known of his personal affairs. He was given charge of Nephite historical records by his uncle, Shiblon, in 53 B.C. (Alma 63:11—13), and the book of Helaman in the book of Mormon takes its name from him.
After the assassination of the chief judge Pacumeni in 50 B.C., Helaman was elected by the people to this highest national office. A murder plot against him was subsequently uncovered, and the would-be assassin, Kishkumen, was mortally wounded. The murderous band, led by Gadianton, escaped into the wilderness. Of Gadianton, Mormon wrote "In the end of this book [Book of Mormon] ye shall see that this Gadianton did prove the overthrow . . . of the people of Nephi" (Hel. 2:13; see also Secret Combinations).
During the three-year period 48—46 B.C., a substantial number of people left Zarahemla—because of unspecified dissensions—and "went forth unto the land northward" (Hel. 3:3). So extensive was the migration that only a fraction of its impact could be discussed in Mormon's record (Hel. 3:14). Despite dissension, emigration, and war, "Helaman did fill the judgment-seat with justice and equity; yea, he did observe to keep the statutes, and the judgments, and the commandments of God; and he did do that which was right in the sight of God continually; and he did walk after the ways of his father, insomuch that he did prosper in the land" (3:20). During his tenure, tens of thousands of people were baptized into the church, even to the astonishment of the high priests and teachers (3:24—25). Through the force of his personality, Helaman maintained peace throughout two-thirds of his political career.
When Helaman died, he left the spiritual responsibilities and the sacred records in the hands of his son, Nephi2 (Hel. 3:37; 5:5—14; 16:25).
Moss, James R. "Six Nephite Judges." Ensign 7 (Sept. 1977): 61—65.
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- La. Rules of Cond.
- Historical Background
- ABA Model Rules Preface, Preamble and Scope
- Article 1. Client-Lawyer Relationship
- Rule 1.0. Terminology
- Rule 1.1. Competence
- Rule 1.2. Scope of Representation and Allocation of Authority between Client and Lawyer
- Rule 1.3. Diligence
- Rule 1.4. Communication
- Rule 1.5. Fees
- Rule 1.6. Confidentiality of Information
- Rule 1.7. Conflict of Interest: Current Clients
- Rule 1.8. Conflict of Interest: Current Clients – Specific Rules
- Rule 1.9. Duties to Former Clients
- Rule 1.10. Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule
- Rule 1.11. Special Conflicts of Interest for Former and Current Government Officers and Employees
- Rule 1.12. Former Judge, Arbitrator, Mediator or Other Third-Party Neutral
- Rule 1.13. Organization as Client
- Rule 1.14. Client with Diminished Capacity
- Rule 1.15. Safekeeping Property
- Rule 1.16. Declining or Terminating Representation
- Rule 1.17. Sale of Law Practice [Reserved]
- Rule 1.18. Duties to Prospective Client
- Article 2. Counselor
- Article 3. Advocate
- Rule 3.1. Meritorious Claims and Contentions
- Rule 3.2. Expediting Litigation
- Rule 3.3. Candor Toward the Tribunal
- Rule 3.4. Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel
- Rule 3.5. Impartiality and Decorum of the Tribunal
- Rule 3.6. Trial Publicity
- Rule 3.7. Lawyer as Witness
- Rule 3.8. Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor
- Rule 3.9. Advocate in Nonadjudicative Proceedings
- Article 4. Transactions with Persons Other Than Clients
- Article 5. Law Firms and Associations
- Rule 5.1. Responsibilities of Partners, Managers, and Supervisory Lawyers
- Rule 5.2. Responsibilities of a Subordinate Lawyer
- Rule 5.3. Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistants
- Rule 5.4. Professional Independence of a Lawyer
- Rule 5.5. Unauthorized Practice of Law: Multijurisdictional Practice of Law
- Rule 5.6. Restrictions on Right to Practice
- Rule 5.7. Responsibilities Regarding Law-Related Services [Reserved]
- Article 6. Public Service
- Article 7. Information About Legal Services
- Rule 7.1. General
- Rule 7.2. Communications Concerning a Lawyer’s Services
- Rule 7.3. [Reserved]
- Rule 7.4. Direct Contact With Prospective Clients
- Rule 7.5 Advertisements In The Electronic Media Other Than Computer-Accessed Communications
- Rule 7.6. Computer-Accessed Communication
- Rule 7.7 Evaluation Of Advertisements
- Rule 7.8 Exemptions From The Filing and Review Requirement
- Rule 7.9 Information about a Lawyer’s Services Provided Upon Request
- Rule 7.10 Firm Names and Letterhead
- Article 8. Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession
- Dane S. Ciolino
Rule 5.3. Responsibilities Regarding Nonlawyer Assistants
With respect to a nonlawyer employed or retained by or associated with a lawyer:
(a) a partner, and a lawyer who individually or together with other lawyers possesses comparable managerial authority in a law firm shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the firm has in effect measures giving reasonable assurance that the person’s conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer;
(b) a lawyer having direct supervisory authority over the nonlawyer shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that the person’s conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; and
(c) a lawyer shall be responsible for conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if:
(1) the lawyer orders or, with the knowledge of the specific conduct, ratifies the conduct involved; or
(2) the lawyer is a partner or has comparable managerial authority in the law firm in which the person is employed, or has direct supervisory authority over the person, and knows of the conduct at a time when its consequences can be avoided or mitigated but fails to take reasonable remedial action.
The Louisiana Supreme Court adopted this rule on January 21, 2004. It became effective on March 1, 2004, and has not been amended since. This rule is identical to ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.3 (2002).
In 2002, the ABA revised the corresponding model rule to clarify that it applies to managing lawyers in corporate and government legal departments and legal services organizations, as well as to partners in private law firms. The ABA intended no change in substance. See ABA Ethics 2000 Commission Revision Notes to Model Rule 5.3 (2002).
Comments to ABA Model Rule 5.3
Lawyers generally employ assistants in their practice, including secretaries, investigators, law student interns, and paraprofessionals. Such assistants, whether employees or independent contractors, act for the lawyer in rendition of the lawyer’s professional services. A lawyer must give such assistants appropriate instruction and supervision concerning the ethical aspects of their employment, particularly regarding the obligation not to disclose information relating to representation of the client, and should be responsible for their work product. The measures employed in supervising nonlawyers should take account of the fact that they do not have legal training and are not subject to professional discipline.
Paragraph (a) requires lawyers with managerial authority within a law firm to make reasonable efforts to establish internal policies and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that nonlawyers in the firm will act in a way compatible with the Rules of Professional Conduct. See Comment to Rule 5.1. Paragraph (b) applies to lawyers who have supervisory authority over the work of a nonlawyer. Paragraph (c) specifies the circumstances in which a lawyer is responsible for conduct of a nonlawyer that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer.
A lawyer’s obligation to supervise nonlawyer assistants is very similar to a lawyer’s responsibility to supervise subordinate lawyers. First, the lawyer must exercise reasonable care in overseeing the work of nonlawyers. Thus, a partner must ensure that the firm has in place reasonable measures to ensure that nonlawyers conduct themselves in a manner consistent with these rules–although as a technical manner these rules do not apply to nonlawyers. See La. Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 5.3(a) (2004); In re Wahlder, 728 So. 2d 837 (La. 1999) (holding that a lawyer has ultimate responsibility for actions of nonlawyer staff); see also Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers § 11(4)(a)(i) (2000). Likewise, a supervisory lawyer must ensure that the conduct of nonlawyers whom he or she supervises conforms to these rules. See La. Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 5.3(b) (2004); see also Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers § 11(4)(a)(ii) (2000); In re Shortess, 950 So. 2d 570 (La. 2007) (disciplining lawyer for not adequately supervising a non-lawyer assistant in preparing pleadings); In re Brown, 813 So. 2d 325 (La. 2002) (disciplining lawyer for failure to supervise paralegal who was functioning like a lawyer); In re Wilkinson, 805 So. 2d 142 (La. 2002) (disciplining a lawyer for failure to supervise nonlawyer’s handling of succession matters); see also La. State Bar Ass’n v. Keys, 567 So. 2d 588 (La. 1990); La. State Bar Ass’n v. Edwins, 540 So. 2d 294, 299 (La. 1989). To comply with this rule, a partner or supervisory lawyer should inform all nonlawyer assistants in writing about the fundamental duties owed by lawyers to their clients, particularly the duties of confidentiality, loyalty, competence and diligence. Furthermore, a lawyer should supervise with particular care all staff members entrusted with the handling of client or third-party[*1. In In re Cline, 756 So. 2d 284 (La. 2000), the Louisiana Supreme Court suspended a lawyer for six months for his failure to assure that his (nonlawyer) client properly obtained her prior lawyer's endorsement on settlement checks; see also In re Geiger, 27 So.3d 280 (La. 2010) (disciplining lawyer for not adequately supervising his non-lawyer employee who had access to and may have misappropriated funds from client trust accounts); In re McClanahan (26 So.3d 756 (La. 2010) (disbarring attorney for, among other things, instructing a non-lawyer assistant to cash a check issued from a client's trust account instead of the operating account).*]funds.
Second, a lawyer is subject to discipline if he or she “orders” or knowingly “ratifies” conduct by a nonlawyer that would be unethical if that person were a lawyer. La. Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 5.3(c)(1) (2004); id. Rule 8.4(a); see also Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers § 11(4)(b)(i) (2000). Furthermore, a lawyer is subject to discipline if the lawyer learns of such conduct by a nonlawyer after the fact, but then fails to attempt to avoid or mitigate the consequences of that nonlawyer’s conduct. La. Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 5.3(c)(2) (2004); see also Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers § 11(4)(b)(ii) (2000).
Vicarious Disqualification for Conflict of Nonlawyer Asistant
A lawyer is potentially subject to disqualification if the lawyer’s paralegal possesses information that would be disqualifying if the paralegal were a lawyer. The Louisiana Third Circuit held:
because [the respondent's lawyer] is responsible for the conduct of her employees and because her paralegal has a direct conflict of interest in this case, this conflict disqualifies her from representing respondent.
T.S.L. v. G.L., 976 So.2d 793 (La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2008).
A lawyer who knowingly uses an investigator or other third party to engage in conduct that the rules would forbid the lawyer from engaging in faces the risk of discipline. It is not uncommon for a lawyer to hire an investigator to surreptitiously gather evidence. However, the lawyer must not dispatch the investigator to engage in conduct that would otherwise be unethical for a lawyer. This could occur if the lawyer engages an investigator knowing that the investigator will (1) make a false statement of material fact to a third person, or (2) contact a represented person.
The Kentucky Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a lawyer who, while representing a client in a wrongful termination case, used an investigation firm to interview directly the client’s former employer See Bracher v. Kentucky Bar Ass’n, 290 S.W.3d 648 (Ky. 2009). In that case, the Kentucky lawyer hired Documented Reference Check, a company that contacted the client’s former employer to see what the company had to say about the client. The Kentucky Supreme Court found that in so doing, the lawyer violated Kentucky Rule of Professional Conduct 4.2.
Much the same result could occur in Louisiana. Louisiana Rule 4.1(a) prohibits a lawyer from “knowingly” making “a false statement of material fact or law to a third person.” Louisiana Rule 4.2(a) prohibits a lawyer from communicating “about the subject of the representation with . . . a person the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is authorized to do so by law or a court order.” Louisiana Rule 8.4(a) prohibits a lawyer from violating or attempt to violate the rules . . . through the acts of another.” See also Louisiana Rule 5.3.
Absent aggravating or mitigating circumstances, the following sanctions are generally appropriate in cases involving violations of Rule 5.3: disbarment, when the lawyer knowingly engages in conduct that is a violation of a duty owed to the profession with the intent to obtain a benefit for the lawyer or another, and causes serious or potentially serious injury to a client, the public, or the legal system; suspension, when the lawyer knowingly engages in conduct that is a violation of a duty owed to the profession, and causes injury or potential injury to a client, the public, or the legal system; reprimand, when the lawyer negligently engages in conduct that is a violation of a duty owed to the profession, and causes injury or potential injury to a client, the public, or the legal system; and, admonition, when the lawyer engages in an isolated instance of negligence that is a violation of a duty owed to the profession, and causes little or no actual or potential injury to a client, the public or the legal system. See ABA Stds. for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions stds. 7.0-7.4 (1992).
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Today is the birthday of banjoist, comedian and songwriter Freddy Morgan (1910-1970). He started out in vaudeville in the 1920s as one half of the banjo duo Morgan and Stone. In 1947, he joined the Spike Jones band, becoming one of the most prominent members of his ensemble. As goofy and funny as he is as a comedian, he was also a top-notch musician, and you will find his name entered in the rolls of the Banjo Hall of Fame. He also wrote and perfomed songs. The #12 hit “Hey, Mr. Banjo” was one of his, recorded with the group The Sunnysiders.
Here he is in a hilarious bit on the Spike Jones show:
To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. And don’t miss Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, to be released by Bear Manor Media in 2013. | <urn:uuid:c8887c61-1aa8-401e-8a53-7650a1e0fdc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://travsd.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/freddy-morgan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969303 | 238 | 1.507813 | 2 |
IF YOU ARE THE ‘SENSITIVE’ or ‘DEFENSIVE’ TYPE, I RECOMMEND YOU DON’T READ THIS!
If you will, i would like for you to briefly read over the following definitions:
Agriculture–The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
The former definitions can all be found on dictionary.com in case you do not believe me. I want to tie these terms together in the new Agro-Entreleader movement, starting………RIGHT NOW!
As usual, I read a lot of rather bogus contradictory articles today and they all seem to be talking about the problems tied up around agriculture.
I am so tired of it. I am tired of reading article after article about the things SOMEONE ELSE should do. Get up and do it yourself! Please!
What I see in the agribusiness sector is a lot of the same. A lot of the same companies that have been around for decades. Or at least the same ‘type’ of businesses. We need something new. A lot of new. We need people that have a PASSION for the science or practice of farming with the same mind set as corporate billionaires like Donald Trump. We need Warren Buffet’s of the field. What I notice with these guys is that they go get it. Whatever “it” may be. No one is going to give this industry the funds needed to fix our water, soil, and production issues. As long as the mouths of the powerful officials are full, it just will not happen. So, forget about them! We can make the money on our own to help fix the issues. If those that truly do have a PASSION for the science or practice of farming would come together and mold with two things: Entrepreneurship and Leadership.
How many seed dealers we got with the same seed? How many conventional fertilizer suppliers we got with the same ol’ stuff? How many consultants we got sellin the same consultation?
Hey, I got some good buddy’s and family members that are statistics of the former. I am not picking on anyone. I am being honest and working to initiate POSITIVE CHANGE within the industry I am passionate for. I was once told, “Anybody that says something that means enough to make ya mad has got something real to say, or it wouldn’t have made ya mad.”
Now, farmers are a valid definition of entrepreneurs–organizing a business and taking on financial risk to do so. But what about suppliers, tech companies, consultants, agronomists and the like? Are we really taking big enough risks to implement NEW things or are we filling our wallets on the same OLD things that have lead us to the issues we find ourselves a part of in the industry today. Are we being big enough nerds to solve the problems at hand? Clearly, we are falling short-myself included.
:”Leader” is defined as someone who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. The word Leader is a deep word. Leaders are the heart and soul of anything new and innovative. They are not weak(if they are a good leader). They often times take much criticism. They are courageous. I am a God fearing man, so let me put some talk from the big fella in here. Jesus once told his disciples, “The Good Shepard puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. A hired man is not a real Shepard. The sheep mean nothing to him. He sees a wolf come and runs for it, leaving the sheep to be ravaged and scattered by the wolf. He’s only in it for the money. The sheep don’t matter to him.”
I do not mean to say that producers or consumers are the sheep of Agribusiness leaders. I intend to make the point that what I see going on in the agribusiness world is a lot of hired Shepard’s making money without having the consumer or producer’s best interest in mind, solving nothing. I mean seriously, is it even possible to say that a consultant has a producer’s best interest in mind when recommending 200lbs of N to the acre. Um, excuse me Mr. Consultant Specialist, we got this little thing going on around here called REALLY EXPENSIVE FERTILIZER. Or for that matter, could they possibly have the consumer’s best interest in mind knowing good and well that a nice % of that application won’t be plant available. Um, excuse me Mr. Consultant, “we also have this little water toxin issue going on round here–it’s kind of a big deal. In fact, its causing some people to get methemoglobinemia, which turns their skin blue, and then they think we are still vulnerable to being inbred out here in Kentucky. We really are not that redneck we don’t like those type of stereotypes. Is there something else we can do?”….”Well ya gotta do what ya gotta do, right Mr. Producer?”… “NO! There are better ways now padjo! The new team of Agro-Entreleaders across the street got busy and found real solutions to my needs.” …………………..OOPS. Day dreaming. Sorry about that. Actually, I like that day dream A LOT! I am from Kentucky, so we are allowed to make fun of our own so-called “blue” ancestors, but the methemoglobinemia is no joke. I read about a 3 month old being diagnosed with it just the other day. Guess what caused it? Nitrogen related toxins in his formula.
It is time we make a change with something new. I want to bring three definitions into one type of person and bring as many of those people together to achieve a higher purpose , while engaging in business they are passionate about. I WANT AGRO-ENTRELEADERS. I want them all around. I want them working together to build businesses that SOLVE problems, NOT just profit from them. Profits are just a bonus for AGRO-ENTRELEADERS because we have a higher purpose that we are passionate about. Profits naturally grow as a result of the problems we SOLVE for those that we SERVE, but they are not our focus. We are good Shepard’s. We care more about those that we lead toward healthier pastures than the possessions or profits they could ever offer. We are defined as: people that organize or operate a business or businesses passionate about the science or practice of farming who lead other agricultural individuals and organizations with HONESTY, INTEGRITY, WORK ETHIC & PASSIONATE PROBLEM SOLVING.
If you are interested, or have ever been interested in starting your own innovative, agricultural business I would love to have you on the team. We will help you make it a reality! Any business that has a passionate founder and a higher purpose can succeed to helping achieve that higher purpose with the right tools and support!
I want all my readers to feel free to comment as you please and if you are interested in becoming an Agro-EntreLeader just give me a holler at firstname.lastname@example.org. I’d love to hear from ya.
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If you are looking for guidance on which strawberry varieties will grow well where you live, you have come to the right place. Strawberry Plants .org has numerous resources that will help you find whatever it is that you need, as long as it is related to strawberries or strawberry plants. One of the most common problems a gardener encounters is finding an appropriate strawberry cultivar.
There are numerous strawberry varieties in existence. Finding the right one for your conditions can be difficult. The best place to start is likely to find which varieties are recommended for your state (see the recommended strawberry varieties page). But, if you want to just go with the flow, the varieties listed below are the most popular varieties offered by nurseries selling strawberry plants directly to the public.
Most Popular Strawberry Varieties
These strawberry varieties are the most popular strawberries sold nationwide in the United States. In order for a cultivar to be sold nationwide, it must be a tremendously hardy and adaptable plant. These varieties may not out-perform specific cultivars developed for and especially well-suited for your exact location. However, the chances of one of these top strawberry varieties doing well where you live is very high. The strawberries on this list should be safe bets for most locations. Without further ado, these are the top 10 broadly-adapted strawberry cultivars presently sold nationwide in the United States:
Honeoye strawberries are day-neutral June-bearing strawberries. They are early season producers and set large, firm, bright orange-red to red fruit. Strawberrieis from Honeoye plants tend to be of consistent size throughout the season. It is also one of the heaviest producers, which is why it ranks atop this list. Few, if any, strawberries can out-produce this variety for the average gardener. Honeoye is widely adapted, but its strawberries obtain their best flavor when grown in raised beds or lighter soils. Click here to buy Honeoye strawberry plants.
Earliglow is an aptly named June-bearing strawberry. It sets and ripens its fruit sooner than virtually every other strawberry variety available. It is the standard. The ripening times of other varieties typically are compared to Earliglow as reference (i.e. fruit from variety X ripens “five days after Earliglow”). Berry size is medium to large, although size tends to decrease toward the end of the season. The deep red berries themselves are very symmetrical, conical, and tough. They have excellent, sweet flavor and are a great choice for canning. They are also resistant to many common strawberry diseases. Click here to buy Earliglow strawberry plants.
Allstar is a June-bearing strawberry that looks like the prototypical strawberry. Having an almost perfect strawberry shape, glossy red appearance, and good firmness makes it well-liked by gardeners far and wide. It also produces very large strawberries that only slightly diminish in size toward the end of its season. It is a late mid-season producer. It only takes 10-11 Allstar strawberries to fill a one-quart basket. Its mild but sweet flavor profile makes it ideal for fresh eating or freezing. Plants are vigorous and have good disease resistance. Click here to buy Allstar strawberry plants.
4. Ozark Beauty
Ozark Beauty is the most popular everbearing strawberry. Its popularity stems from its large yields of unusually large strawberries (for an everbearer). The red strawberries are sweet, but the most significant benefit of Ozark Beauty is its production profile. While June-bearers produce one early crop and then are finished, this everbearer produces a large early crop and a second crop later in the season with a few berries produced in between also. Click here to buy Ozark Beauty strawberry plants.
Jewel strawberries are well-known as a good variety for both pick-your-own operations and fresh shipping due to its firmness and abrasion-resistant skin. Jewel strawberries are wide and large wedge-shaped berries. It is well known for its excellent flavor and high-quality. It is also a favorite for fresh markets due to its consumer appeal. It also has longer season yields. Click here to buy Jewel strawberry plants.
Seascape is an everbearing strawberry variety that was initially developed for the California strawberry industry as a variety resistant to viral diseases common there. However, it has proven to be tolerant to early heat, requires less chilling, and even grows well on the East Coast. It is a dependable choice. Its fruit is large and conical to round with an attractive glossy red color. The strawberries are not just red on the outside, however. They are also bright red on the inside as well. It is one of the most reliable producers in the fall, and it even performs well in hot, dry climates. It produces fewer runners than the June-bearers. A drawback of Seascape plants is that it is patented. This means that it is technically illegal to propagate this variety. Click here to buy Seascape strawberry plants.
Tristar is a day-neutral strawberry variety that is excellent for both fresh eating and freezing. The berries are firm, red, very sweet, and solid with no hollow cores. They are conical in shape but only medium-sized. A big advantage is their production pattern. They begin producing with a bang early, will produce all summer long as long as conditions are tolerable, and will increase production again in the late summer to fall as they produce maximally at that time. Runners from Tristar plants will flower and fruit even before rooting. They are an excellent choice for hanging baskets. Click here to buy Tristar strawberry plants.
Sparkle strawberries are a classic favorite and have been a popular strawberry variety for over 60 years. It is widely considered the best strawberry variety for making jam. It is an extremely vigorous variety that produces a high number of runners, so the strawberry bed must be monitored to ensure it doesn’t get too thick. Sparkle strawberries are medium-sized and ripen late. Planting Sparkle with other earlier varieties extends the fresh fruit season. Strawberries from Sparkle plants are deep red and have excellent flavor. Click here to buy Sparkle strawberry plants.
Surecrop strawberries are aptly named. They are the surest bet for producing a good yield compared to all other June-bearers. The fruit is medium to large with good firmness that holds up to shipping. It is deeply red throughout, has yellow seeds, and produces irregularly-shaped berries initially which are followed by more uniform, short and round, conical strawberries. They are ideal for canning and are sweet with a bit of tartness. As the name indicates, this variety will do well virtually anywhere, even poor or dry soils. Click here to buy Surecrop strawberry plants.
T10. Fort Laramie
Fort Laramie strawberry plants are everbearers. They produce large to very fruits that are scarlet on the outside and dark pink to scarlet on the inside. This variety will produce blooms, berries, and runners simultaneously and is very cold hardy. Its strawberries have an exceptional aroma and a firm, honey-sweet flesh that makes them a great choice for fresh eating or processing. Fort Laramie is also a very good choice for growing hydroponic strawberries. Click here to buy Fort Laramie strawberry plants.
Most Popular Strawberry Plants: Conclusion
All of the varieties listed here are tried and true producers and hardy little plants to boot. They have an excellent track record of satisfied customers. Otherwise, they would not continue to be sold by nurseries across the U.S.A. Happy gardeners are happy customers. Happy customers make happy businesses. These strawberries make everyone happy. If you want to purchase other cultivars from a nursery you trust, you can do so on the Strawberry Plants for Sale page. Or, if you want to browse or compare prices on specific strawberry varieties, see the Buy Strawberry Plants page. Happy hunting! | <urn:uuid:e33d7885-9f31-4821-8e89-74807454464b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://strawberryplants.org/2011/03/popular-strawberry-varieties/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958756 | 1,638 | 2.296875 | 2 |
New Report from CIHI on care gaps for people with chronic disease
A new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) on March 6, 2012 shows that Canadians report an overall satisfaction with their primary health care, however many people with chronic diseases may not be obtaining the care they need to avoid hospitalization or emergency visits.
The report released by CIHI shows that while most people with selected chronic conditions— including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease—reported having a primary health care provider, twenty per cent had not actually seen their care provider in the past year. As well, one in eight people reported visiting emergency departments for a condition which could have been treated by their primary health care provider.
“Disparities in Primary Health Care Experiences Among Canadians with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions uncovers barriers and challenges that exist, particularly for:
- Lower-income individuals: this group was less likely to be involved in clinical decisions made by their primary health care physician (47 per cent versus 66 per cent of those with higher incomes).
- Women were less likely than men to report receiving all four recommended tests for chronic disease monitoring (46 per cent versus 56 per cent) or to have medication side effects explained (56 per cent versus 65 per cent).
It is estimated that 6.8 million Canadians age 20 to 74 years are affected by chronic conditions. When these conditions are not addressed adequately at the primary care level, they can result in an estimated 95,000 hospitalizations and almost 13,000 deaths annually.
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Guests tag along with the cowboys on 71 Ranch near Deeth.
Photo: Dan Dry -cr- American Quarter Horse Association
Twenty-seven miles east of Elko, a rooster tail of dust rises from the road and sunlight flashes on the bumper of a truck aimed toward the Ruby Mountains.
Travelers determined to know if Nevada’s cowboy culture still exists outside of history books stop short of the mountains, steer toward a clump of green more vivid than sagebrush, bump over a cattle guard, and drive past a cattail pond and barn. Then, they look up a sloping lawn to a white ranch house.
Employees welcome visitors as they arrive at 71 Ranch in Deeth, where you’re likely to see a cowboy teaching a youngster to sling a lasso or a couple riding side by side into a meadow. And any day, guests can see a ranch hand dismount, then push up his sweat-stained Stetson to mop his forehead with a bandanna. He’s probably been on the range since 6 a.m. The 71 blends Western work with ranch vacations on a century-old spread.
“It’s the real deal,” says Tammy Hall, wife of Bill Hall, general manager of Ellison Ranch Company, which owns 71. “Nothing’s staged. If there’s a cattle drive, it’s because cows need to be moved.” Under ranch manager Federico Carlos, each one of the 1,400 black Angus cattle and 45 American quarter horses earns its keep. The Angus are raised for beef and the quarter horses are there to handle them. Raised on the ranch, the horses are trained to cut cattle out of a herd, move cowboys into position for roping, climb steep trails in search of stray calves, and stay sensible when a sage grouse bursts from cover.
Although plenty of traditional ranch work gets done, Lyndon Evans, a manager for Ellison Ranch Company, sees that guests aren’t neglected. Most visitors are eager to job-shadow real cowboys. No matter what the day’s adventure, guests see a variety of high desert wildlife. “Deer, elk, antelope, hawks, chukar, coyotes, and eagles are pretty common,” Hall says.
Being a buckaroo tag-along can include “cowboy school,” which might mean instruction in slinging a lariat, riding a cutting horse to sort cattle, or playing rodeo queen while racing around barrels and poles. The city slicker can take a day off from riding and drop in on a barn dance or pile on a wagon for a hayride.
Because the ranch books no more than 12 guests a night, country quiet is easy to come by, too. Visitors read on the veranda, daydream under trees, and soak in the hot tub before turning in for the night. The 71 offers lodge rooms and separate cabins, most with four-poster beds and patchwork quilts. “The sod house is a favorite,” says Evans, pointing out a cabin with grass growing on its roof. “It’s the coolest in summer and warmest in winter.”
A summer week with meals and ranch activities costs $1,250 for adults, $1,150 for children, and shorter stays can be arranged. Bunk and breakfast overnights are $100 to $130.
In keeping with the atmosphere of times past, guest rooms don’t have phones or television, but a VCR in the lodge features Roy Rogers and Gene Autry videos. Cell phone service is spotty, but the ranch hands will point out sites where determined callers can try their luck. Since the ranch hosts events—from family reunions to “team building” business retreats—there’s a wireless computer connection in the office.
Although the 71 features no formal programs for children, it has a volleyball court, horseshoe pits, and room to roam. “The ranch is amazing,” says Sierra Arroyo, a 12-year-old horse lover from Fernley. “It’s really cool that they let people come out and see what ranch life is like.”
It doesn’t take long for city kids to answer the jangle of a triangle, calling them to meals that are worth the sprint. Jack Hemsing is best known for his country-style cooking—fried chicken, barbecued ribs, and a bottomless cookie jar—but the certified executive chef sets out washtub-sized bowls of fresh fruit, too, and Evans claims Hemsing concocts a mean latte.
Of course lattes didn’t win the West, so Hemsing carries on the tradition that did. Coffee’s perking by 5:30 a.m., and early-risers can carry steaming mugs on a dawn walk, when the loudest greeting they’ll hear is the nicker of a drowsy cow pony. Ten minutes is all it takes to walk back to the cattail pond and watch the sun rise.
But time’s a tricky thing on this Nevada range. Pony Express horses marked this dirt with hoof prints. Emigrant Trail pioneers knelt at that pond for water. Cattle rustlers crouched behind these rocks. And here on 71 Ranch, it doesn’t seem that long ago.
HC 64 Box 6, Deeth
Directions: From Elko, 19 miles east on I-80 to exit 321 (SR 229). 8.5 miles southeast on 229.
WORTH A VISIT
O’Neil Basin, Wells
Remote working ranch operated by the Smith family. Lodging, meals. Most popular events are horse drives and moving cattle on the range.
Hidden Canyon Ranch
2000 Big Wash Canyon Rd., Baker
Located on the eastern slope of Wheeler Peak, 80 miles east of Ely. Camping, log cabins, pool, playground, volleyball, wildlife watching; ATVs OK.
Seven Mile Canyon Ranch
Off Highway 341, Virginia City
B&B accommodations range from teepees to the five-unit Longhorn Lodge with a full kitchen and fireplace. Horses, motorcycles, ATVs welcome.
Soldier Meadows Ranch and Lodge
52 Soldier Meadows Rd., Gerlach
Ranch at northwestern edge of Black Rock Desert. Historic trails, wildlife viewing, rock hounding, hunting. Horses, ATVs OK; small airstrip.
Old Yella Dog Ranch
Remote ranch near the historic Emigrant Trail. Cabins, RV spaces, camping, hunting, star gazing.
Tent Mountain Guest Ranch
Starr Valley (near Deeth)
Located at the base of the East Humboldt Range. Lodge, cabins, RV spaces, camping, snow sports, overnight hikes, fishing.
Monitor Valley (between Austin and Eureka)
Central Nevada ranch. Log and stone cabins, teepee camping, hot-air ballooning, fossil hunting, caving, hiking.
Sandy Valley Ranch
Sandy Valley (45 minutes west of Las Vegas)
Desert ranch on Nevada-California border. Covered-wagon camping, horseback riding, cattle roping, six-gun shooting.
Spur Cross Ranch
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has been written about the luxury and the cut glass chandeliers
on the Titanic, but the majority of the passengers who drowned
were ordinary emigrants there were no princesses or millionaires
among them. Seventy of the victims were Finländers.
became enormously impressed by the courage and mood of the emigrants.
On their arrival in America they hardly knew anything at all
about the country. They could not speak the language and knew
nothing of the state of affairs. They had only a deep confidence
in a better future," wrote Appelsin.
the University in Thunder Bay, Canada, sisters Magda Schleifer
and Violet Edge, together with their 100-year-old mothers
brother took part in a DNA test. Maria Panula was a sister of
Magdas mothers mother. People from other countries
were also tested inasmuch as 6 children under 2 _ years went
down with the Titanic.
heard the grown-ups whisper about the Titanic when I was a child,
but it was a forbidden topic in our family. I think my mother,
who was Juho Panulas second wife, wanted to protect father
because the event was a touchy matter," said Magda Schleifer.
Panula family has been in an American TV documentary. The identification
was great news over the entire world, certainly in Canada, but
also in the US where it was on the front page. The cemetery
in Canada has become a tourist attraction.
the National Archives in Helsingfors, Appelsin found the correspondence
that the bitter Juho Panula carried on with authorities after
the tragedy. He had a clear theory: The Titanic sank because
of a craving for money, competition and greed. His feelings
came through in the obituary he sent to New York Uutiset: "With
great sorrow I announce that I, as a victim of capitalism, lost
my wife Maria Emilia as well as my children
with the shipwreck
of the Titanic
two years after the loss of the ship he campaigned to have some
compensation for the loss of his family. "I have lost the
dearest I have in the world my own family. They should
now be with me if the ship had not been driven so recklessly
Marias pocket was all the money the family had after they
sold all their property, money that would be used in the new
land. Juho got only a nominal compensation because the imperial
senate in Finland had other problems. TheWorld War stood at
Kotkamaa, Suomen Silta No. 1-2004
by June Pelo
article included the wedding picture of Juho and Maria Panula
as well as a photo of Juho and Maria and three of their children,
taken in Ohio in the early 1900s. The family returned to Finland
before their return trip to America. There is also a photo of
Juho (John) Panula with his second wife and three of their children,
taken ca 1928.
child" on the Titanic proved Finnish
- A baby boy who perished in the Titanic disaster 90 years ago
was a Finn named Eino Viljami Panula, Canadian researchers announced
on Wednesday. Helsingin Sanomat. International Edition, Foreign
- Thursday 7.11.2002
'Unknown Child' Identified
..."The remains of the young boy are “most likely
those of an English child, Sidney Leslie Goodwin,” Ryan
Parr, vice president of research and development for Genesis
Genomics Inc. in Ontario, and colleagues write in the June issue
of the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics."...
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Faculty of Information Technology
|Faculty||Faculty of Information Technology|
|Offered||Clayton Second semester 2013 (Day)|
This unit introduces students to a variety of topics outside the curriculum, and provides an opportunity to write programs (or, rarely, to build hardware) in an area of interest to the student and the School. The subject operates in an informal manner, and the programming tasks are designed to be interesting and challenging to advanced students. Students will typically meet with their supervisor on a weekly basis and in addition to demonstrating the results of their project, they will also give an oral presentation.
At the completion of this unit students will:
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Vanilla is a product of Lussumo:Documentation and Support.
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“9/11 is big,” Mr. Milch, 61, said to the unusually large crowd in the room. He was lying on the floor — a bad back is his curse — next to a microphone. He was just getting going. “What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.”He went on like that for a while, then said: “A dying culture, intuiting that it is dying, postulates an alternative reality: The Indians postulated in the ghost dance that they were impervious to technology, that when a bullet hit them, they went up to heaven. Does any of that sound familiar?”
Honestly, after thinking for a bit, I don't know that we'll go into future shock. I think the people that continue adapting technology will fill more specialized roles and break off from society. I've always felt that the progressives eventually win and become conservative, but it seems to me (with NO research, mind you) that the number of people fighting to 'move forward' (subjective term, I know) is decreasing, or that they care less and less about progressing culture as a whole.
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If the user has never used the YouTube app, it will be quickly disabled. This method is more preferable than just stuffing it into a folder with other default apps you don’t use.Users can also find some core iOS features which can be disabled in the menu, including things like Ping, iTunes and the ability to install apps completely.
iOS 5 has many upgraded features which provides more convenience to the users and privacy for the confidential apps. The user can hide many of the Apple default applications and their icons from appearing on the home screen and menu screen of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. By this the user can hide YouTube and iTunes, but also the essentials like Safari and Mail if you are opting to use third party or web apps in their place.The procedure for disabling the icon display is given as below:
- Open the menu and Tap onto “Settings” icon.
- In settings click on “General” and then “Restrictions”
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Figure 1.--This boys dress is quite short, almost like the tunics an older boy might wear with knickers. The tartan patter, a popular material for a boy as it suggested a kilt. The dress has front buttons and a purely ornmental belt which a girl would not have worn. This Daguerotype was probably taken in the 1850s. Notice his wide brimmed hat laying on the table.
Beginning about the 1840s it became more acceptable for younger boys and girls to wear shorter dresses. This affected the pantalettes worn with the dresses. As the century progressed, children continued to wear pantaletts, but the length was shortened to mid-calf and then to just below the hem of the dress.
As it was not considered proper for even young children to have bare legs, both boys and girls comminly wore long white stockings-- often with strap shoes. It was not until the 1860s that young children began to appear with bare legs, often with pantalettes at the hem of their dresses. Older girls continued to wear longer pantalettes.
The style of wearing pantalettes with short dresses continued in vogue through the 1860s, but gradually disappeared after the 1870s. This was in part because pantalettes were becoming less stylish and because dresses began to return to lower hem lines. Some particularly elaborate Fauntleroy suits had pantalette-like lace trim and ruffles at the hem of the velvet kneepants. But this was not the most common style.
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Return to the Main dress page]
[Return to the Main tunic page]
[Return to the Main kilt page]
[Return to the Main Fauntleroy page]
[Return to the Main pantalettes page]
[Introduction] [Chronology] [Clothing styles] [Biographies] [Bibliographies]
[Activities] [Contributions] [Countries] [FAQs]
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From Our 2010 Archives
Children With Epilepsy Feel on Par With Healthy Siblings
Latest Healthy Kids News
MONDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) --Children with epilepsy view their quality of life as being as good as that of their healthy siblings, a new study reveals.
The finding suggests that despite the numerous challenges they face in the form of seizures, cognitive and learning disadvantages, social stigma and the effects of medication, children with epilepsy have a far more positive take on their well-being than their parents have.
The study is the result of research conducted by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, and led by Dr. Christine Bower Baca, a clinical instructor in UCLA's department of neurology.
About 3 million Americans have epilepsy, the study authors wrote, and approximately 45,000 children below the age of 15 develop the condition each year. Causes for childhood epilepsy vary, and can include problems during delivery, quirks in prenatal brain development, head trauma, tumors, genetics, brain infection and prolonged seizures linked to fever.
To gain insight into how the children with epilepsy viewed themselves, the research team interviewed 143 children with epilepsy (matching each one to a sibling without epilepsy) and their parents.
Interviews were conducted eight to nine years following a diagnosis of epilepsy. Among the children with the condition who were assessed, the average age was 12.
In terms of ranking such quality of life variables as behavior, general health, self-esteem and physical function, Baca and her colleagues found that parents rated their child with epilepsy much lower than their healthy child.
Children with epilepsy, in contrast, felt they were on par with their healthy siblings.
"In this regard, parental perception of their epileptic child may be distorted because of their perception that they have a child that is 'sick,'" Baca said in a news release. "Such a distortion could lead to an underestimate of the child's quality of life."
Noting that children and parents may not always share the same concerns, Baca added that children and parents "may draw on different values and perspectives to evaluate quality of life" without realizing it. Getting a handle on these critical differences in perspectives, she said, could be helpful down the road when designing support services for children as they enter adulthood.
Baca and her team reported the findings online in Value in Health.
-- Alan Mozes
Copyright © 2010 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: Value in Health, May 2010, news release.
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USS FRANKLIN was the fifth ESSEX - class aircraft carrier and also the fifth ship in the Navy to bear the name. Badly damaged by a Japanese air strike on March 19, 1945, the FRANKLIN returned to the United States in April 1945 and remained at Brooklyn, NY. Following the end of the war, FRANKLIN was opened to the public for Navy Day celebrations and on February 17, 1947, the ship was placed out of commission at Bayonne, N.J. On May 15, 1959, she was reclassified AVT 8. The FRANKLIN was stricken from the Navy list on October 1, 1964, and was sold for scrapping.
|General Characteristics:||Awarded: 1940|
|Keel laid: December 7, 1942|
|Launched: October 14, 1943|
|Commissioned: January 31, 1944|
|Decommissioned: February 17, 1947|
|Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va.|
|Propulsion system: 8 boilers|
|Aircraft elevators: three|
|Arresting gear cables: four|
|Length: 876 feet (267 meters)|
|Flight Deck Width: 147.6 feet (45 meters)|
|Beam: 93.1 feet (28.4 meters)|
|Draft: 28.5 feet (8.7 meters)|
|Displacement: approx. 36,500 tons full load|
|Speed: 33 knots|
|Planes: 80-100 planes|
|Crew: approx. 3448|
|Armament: 12 5-inch (12.7 cm) 38 caliber guns, 68 40mm guns and 57 20mm guns|
This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS FRANKLIN. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
Accidents aboard USS FRANKLIN:
|October 16, 1944||off the Philippines||USS FRANKLIN is attacked by three enemy planes, one of which scores with a bomb that hits the after outboard corner of the deck edge elevator, killing three and wounding 22.|
|October 30, 1944||1,000 miles off Samar||
USS FRANKLIN is attacked by enemy suicide bombers. Three doggedly pursue FRANKLIN, the first plummeting off her starboard side; the second hitting the flight deck and crashing through to the gallery deck, showering destruction, killing 56 and wounding 60; the third discharging another near miss at FRANKLIN before diving into the flight deck of USS BELLEAU WOOD (CVL 24). Both carriers retire to Ulithi for temporary repairs and FRANKLIN proceeds to Puget Sound Navy Yard arriving November 28, 1944, for battle damage overhaul.|
|March 19, 1945||off Honshu, Japan||
USS FRANKLIN, which had maneuvered closer to the Japanese homeland than any other U.S. carrier, had launched a pre-dawn strike against the island of Honshu as well as a later strike against shipping in Kobe Harbor. Suddenly, a single Japanese plane came through the cloud cover, made a low level run on the ship and dropped two armor-piercing bombs. One struck the flight deck centerline, penetrating to the hangar deck which it devastated. The bomb also ignited fires through the second and third decks and knocked out the combat information center and air plot.|
The second bomb hit aft and tore through two deck, fanning fires which detonated ammunition, bombs and rockets. FRANKLIN, within 50 miles of the Japanese mainland, lay dead in the water, took a 13-degree starboard list, lost all radio communications and was enveloped by fire. Many of the crew were either blown overboard, driven off by fire, or killed or wounded. Remaining were 106 officers and 604 enlisted, who by sheer valor and tenacity, saved the ship. Casualties totaled 724 killed and 265 wounded. FRANKLIN, the most heavily damaged aircraft carrier during the war, remained afloat and after a tow from USS PITTSBURGH (CA 72), proceeded under her own power to Pearl Harbor for emergency repairs.
|June 21, 1945||New York Harbor||USS FRANKLIN suffers a boiler room fire during decoration ceremonies. Damage is slight.|
|May 14, 1946||Brooklyn Naval Shipyard, New York||USS FRANKLIN leaks carbon dioxide fumes while at the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard, killing two.|
History of USS FRANKLIN:
USS FRANKLIN was launched by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., on 14 October 1943; sponsored by Lt. Cmdr. Mildred A. McAfee, USNR, Director of the WAVES; and commissioned on 31 January 1944, with Captain James M. Shoemaker in command.
FRANKLIN cruised to Trinidad for shakedown and soon thereafter departed in Task Group (TG) 27.7 for San Diego to engage in intensive training exercises preliminary to combat duty. In June she sailed via Pearl Harbor for Eniwetok where she joined TG 58.2.
On the last day of June 1944 she sortied for carrier strikes on the Bonins in support of the subsequent Marianas assault. Her planes scored well against aircraft on the ground and in the air as well as against gun installations, airfield and enemy shipping. On 4 July strikes were launched against Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima and Ha Ha Jima with her planes battering the land, sinking a large cargo vessel in the harbor and firing three smaller ships.
On 6 July she began strikes on Guam and Rota to soften up for the invasion forces, and continued until the 21st when she lent direct support to enable safe landing of the first assault waves. Two days of replenishment at Saipan permitted her to steam in Task Force (TF) 58 for photographic reconnaissance and air strikes against the islands of the Palau group. Her planes effected their mission on the 25th and 26th, exacting a heavy toll in enemy planes, ground installations, and shipping. She departed on 28 July en route to Saipan and the following day shifted to TG 68.1.
Although high seas prevented taking on needed bombs and rockets, FRANKLIN steamed for another raid against the Bonins. The 4th of August 1944 bode well, for her fighters launched against Chichi Jima and her dive bombers and torpedo planes against a convoy north of Ototo Jima rained destruction against the radio stations, seaplane base, airstrips and ships.
A period of upkeep and recreation from 9 to 28 August ensued at Eniwetok before she departed in company with carriers USS ENTERPRISE (CV 6), USS BELLEAU WOOD (CVL 24) and USS SAN JACINTO (CVL 30) for neutralization and diversionary attacks aga inst the Bonins. From 31 August to 2 September spirited and productive strikes from FRANKLIN inflicted much ground damage, sank two cargo ships, bagged numerous enemy planes in flight, and accomplished photographic survey.
On 4 September 1944, she onloaded supplies at Saipan and steamed in TG 38.4 for an attack against Yap (3-6 September) which included direct air coverage of the Peleliu invasion on the 16th. The group took on supplies at Manus Island from 21-25 September.
FRANKLIN, as flagship of TG 38.4, returned to the Palau area where she launched daily patrols and night fighters. On 9 October she rendezvoused with carrier groups cooperating in air strikes in support of the coming occupation of Leyte. At twilight on the 13th, the Task Group came under attack by four bombers and FRANKLIN twice was narrowly missed by torpedoes. An enemy plane crashed FRANKLIN's deck abaft the island structure, slid across the deck and into the water on her starboard beam.
Early on October 14, a fighter sweep was made against Aparri, Luzon, following which she steamed to the east of Luzon to neutralize installations to the east prior to invasion landings on Leyte. On the 16th she was attacked by three enemy planes, one of which scored with a bomb that hit the after outboard corner of the deck edge elevator, killing three and wounding 22. The tenacious carrier continued her daily operations hitting hard at Manila Bay on 19 October when her planes sank a number of ships, damaged many, destroyed a floating drydock, and bagged 11 planes.
During the initial landings on Leyte (20 October 1944), her aircraft hit surrounding air strips, and launched search patrols in anticipation of the approach of a reported enemy attack force. On the morning of 24 October her planes sank a destroyer and damaged two others. FRANKLIN, with Task Groups 38.4, 38.3, and 38.2, sped to intercept the advancing Japanese carrier force and attack at dawn. FRANKLIN's four strike groups combined with those from the other carriers in sending to the bottom four Japanese carriers, and battering their screens.
Retiring in her task group to refuel, she returned to the Leyte action on 27 October, her planes concentrating on a heavy cruiser and two destroyers south of Mindoro. She was underway about 1,000 miles off Samar on 30 October when enemy bombers appeared bent on a suicide mission. Three doggedly pursued FRANKLIN, the first plummeting off her starboard side; the second hitting the flight deck and crashing through to the gallery deck, showering destruction, killing 56 and wounding 60; the third discharging another near miss at FRANKLIN before diving into the flight deck of BELLEAU WOOD.
Both carriers retired to Ulithi for temporary repairs and FRANKLIN proceeded to Puget Sound Navy Yard arriving 28 November 1944 for battle damage overhaul.
She departed Bremerton on 2 February 1945 and after training exercises and pilot qualification joined TG 58.2 for strikes on the Japanese homeland in support of the Okinawa landings. On 15 March she rendezvoused with TF 58 units and 3 days later launched sweeps and strikes against Kagoshima and Izumi on southern Kyushu.
Before dawn on 19 March 1945 FRANKLIN who had maneuvered closer to the Japanese mainland than had any other U.S. carrier during the war, launched a fighter sweep against Honshu and later a strike against shipping in Kobe Harbor. Suddenly, a single enemy plane pierced the cloud cover and made a low level run on the gallant ship to drop two semi-armor piercing bombs. One struck the flight deck centerline, penetrating to the hangar deck, effecting destruction and igniting fires through the second and third decks, and knocking out the combat information center and airplot. The second hit aft, tearing through two decks and fanning fires which triggered ammunition, bombs and rockets.
FRANKLIN, within 50 miles of the Japanese mainland, lay dead in the water, took a 13° starboard list, lost all radio communications, and broiled under the heat from enveloping fires. Many of the crew were blown overboard, driven off by fire, killed or wounded, but the 106 officers and 604 enlisted who voluntarily remained saved their ship through sheer valor and tenacity. The casualties totaled 724 killed and 265 wounded, and would have far exceeded this number except for the heroic work of many survivors. Among these were Medal of Honor winners, Lt. Cmdr. Joseph T. O'Callahan, S. J., USNR, the ship's chaplain, who administered the last rites organized and directed firefighting and rescue parties and led men below to wet down magazines that threatened to explode, and Lt. (j.g.) Donald Gary who discovered 300 men trapped in a blackened mess compartment, and finding an exit returned repeatedly to lead groups to safety. USS SANTA FE (CL 60) similarly rendered vital assistance in rescuing crewmen from the sea and closing FRANKLIN to take off the numerous wounded.
FRANKLIN was taken in tow by USS PITTSBURGH (CA 72) until she managed to churn up speed to 14 knots and proceed to Pearl Harbor where a cleanup job permitted her to sail under her own power to Brooklyn, N.Y., arriving on 28 April. Following the end of the war, FRANKLIN was opened to the public for Navy Day celebrations and on 17 February 1947, the ship was placed out of commission at Bayonne, N.J. On 15 May 1959 she was reclassified AVT 8.
FRANKLIN received four battle stars for World War II service.
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VEJER DE LA FRONTERA, Spain — Time was, and not so long ago, when this country's Costa del Sol was an arresting vision of sparkling and sleepy little whitewashed towns along the Mediterranean coast from Malaga to Gibraltar. Alas, time and developers can change just about anything.
Torremolinos, Marbella, Fuengirola and countless other fetching villages right out of Don Quixote have become blighted with high-rise hotels, office buildings and other signposts of progress that have brought dispiriting sighs even from the Spaniards.
But beyond Gibraltar on the Atlantic side, along the Costa de la Luz things have remained relatively stable. Here and in inland Andalusia the white towns remain, to remind us of a Spain free of wall-to-wall tour buses, $200-a-night "golf hotels" and other signs of the late 20th Century.
Vejer is one of these white towns (Los Pueblos Blancos), so beautiful that its name means \o7 paradise \f7 in Arabic. Romans founded the village and it was an important place during the Moorish occupation of Spain from 711 until 1492. Historians say that it was the last completely Arabic town in Spain.
Vejer still rides the crest of its solitary hill as it has for 2,000 years, a pretty and languorous town where you may still see an occasional woman dressed head to foot in the dark robes of Islam, her face perhaps covered with a veil similar to the \o7 letam \f7 still worn by women in Morocco.
To here: Fly Iberia nonstop to Madrid, American and TWA with changes. Aviaco will get you down to Jerez de la Frontera, where it is best to rent a car for the hour's drive on to Vejer.
How long/how much? Give Vejer a full day and night, with another day or so set aside for visiting Los Pueblos Blancos nearby. Accommodations in Vejer are in short supply but the prices are downright cheap. Dining costs are moderate.
A few fast facts: Spain's peseta recently sold for .0086, 116 to the dollar. Spring and fall are the best seasons for a visit, but even midsummer is kept reasonably pleasant by cooling air from the nearby Mediterranean. You won't need a car in town, although the streets and alleys are often hilly.
Getting settled in: Hostal Jose Munos Lobaton (Corredera 55; $18 double) was entering its second month of operation as a small \o7 hostal \f7 during our visit, an absolutely spotless place with glistening marble floors and pots of flowers in the hallways. The lounge has a large window with the best view in town of the valley. Take breakfast and other meals at Restaurant La Posada next door, owned by Lobaton's brother Juan.
Hostal La Janda (Cerro Clarina; $22 double) is another new one and just as simple and neat as the one above. It's at the top of the hill, so the views are also marvelous. Rooms are modest but with bright curtains and bed coverings, one a mini-suite with sitting room for the same price. The two jovial ladies who run La Janda speak no English, but communications don't seem to be a problem. Breakfasts are served in the \o7 hostal, \f7 other meals at a restaurant next door.
Hospederia del Convento de San Francisco (town center; $69 double) is Vejer's very best, a recently restored 17th-Century Franciscan monastery that is exquisite in every respect. Bedrooms have exposed-stone walls, beamed ceilings, some with magnificent stone arches spanning the width of the room. Furnishings are handsome period reproductions, raffia-framed mirrors at dressing tables, baths completely modern.
One of the downstairs salons is lined with choir stalls, new rustic couches and chairs upholstered with colorful contemporary fabrics. Walls of the reception hall and bar-cafeteria have Roman mosaics from the 2nd Century, an impressive sight.
Regional food and drink: Andalusian meals usually start with a \o7 fino\f7 sherry accompanied by a few \o7 tapas\f7 and always plump and juicy olives, which seem to have a different marinade in each restaurant, all delicious. A rather startling sight in some cafes and bars is the bowl of rather pinkish lard used to smear on toast or hard rolls for breakfast.
Vejer is only six miles from the Mediterranean, so seafood is always fresh from the water: swordfish, tuna, clams, squid and \o7 choco\f7 , a tiny cuttlefish much admired around here, are a few of the delectables you'll find on menus.
Like most Spaniards, Andalusians love meat, so plan on seeing plenty of veal, game and beef, all prepared in a simple but hearty manner. Ox or bull's tail is a particular treat, served in a heavy wine sauce with rice from Valencia.
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Religion for Atheists
A Non Believers Guide to the Uses of Religion
written by Alain De Botton
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All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming book, non-believer Alain de Botton both rejects the supernatural claims of religion and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live.
And he suggests that non-believers can learn and steal from them.
Picking and choosing from the thousands of years of advice assembled by the world's great religions to get practical insights on art, community, love, friendship, work, life and death, Alain de Botton will show us a range of fascinating ideas on topics including relationships, work, culture, love and death – that could be of use to all of us, irrespective of whether we do or don't believe.
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Shifts in Beijing's Afghan Policy: A View From the Ground
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|Citation / Document Symbol||China Brief Volume: 12 Issue: 21|
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In a clear but still gradual shift over the past year, Chinese policymakers have changed their stance on Afghanistan from cultivated disinterest to growing engagement. As the potential security vacuum left by Western withdrawal in 2014 comes into sharper relief, Beijing has come to realize that it will have to play a role in encouraging a more stable and developed future for Afghanistan. As with China's engagement in Central Asia as a whole, Chinese activity in Afghanistan is less a part of a grand strategy for the region and more the sum of number of disparate parts. Nevertheless, the sum of these parts could have major consequences for Afghanistan and the region's trajectory as it signals a growing realization by Beijing of the role it will find itself playing in the future.
The most visible and significant element of China's renewed focus on Afghanistan was marked by the visit in late September of Politburo member and security supremo Zhou Yongkang to Kabul (Xinhua, September 24; China Daily, September 24). This was the first visit by a Politburo-level Chinese official to the country since 1966 when President Liu Shaoqi visited the country just prior to being purged during the Cultural Revolution. It marked, however, the latest in a growing series of high-level visits and meetings marking China's more focused attention on Afghanistan. This attention dates back to February 28, 2012, when Beijing hosted the first Afghanistan-China-Pakistan trilateral dialogue. Held at the level of foreign ministry director-general positions (or rough equivalents), the meeting was given a senior stamp of approval when the group was met by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi a day after the discussions (Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, February 28). Then in June, as China was hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Beijing, President Hu Jintao signed a bilateral "strategic and cooperative partnership" agreement with President Karzai as well as welcoming the country to becoming an official SCO observer (Xinhua, June 8). President Karzai thanked President Hu for helping facilitate the SCO upgrading, saying "without your support, we cannot do this" (Xinhua, June 8). Just over a month later on July 27, this was followed by a further high level meeting between China's Central Military Commission Vice Chairman General Guo Boxiong and Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak. The focus of the meetings was to "enhance strategic communication and strengthen pragmatic cooperation in order to contribute to bilateral strategic cooperation" (Xinhua, July 27). The full impact of relationships established during this visit, however, may have been undermined by Wardak's resignation after a no confidence vote in Kabul just over a week later (Reuters, August 7). Whatever the case, the growing importance China accords to the bilateral relationship would have been emphasized again in late September by Zhou Yongkang's visit.
The importance of Zhou's visit was not only the symbolism of a senior Chinese visitor to Kabul, but also the emphasis that his presence casts on China's interests in Afghanistan. Within the (now outgoing) Politburo, Zhou is responsible for security matters, primarily domestic, something that highlighted China's interest in Afghanistan's potential as a safe haven for militants. With an eye toward the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO combat forces in 2014, China increasingly has expressed concern about the possible spillover of militancy from Afghanistan into China's western Xinjiang province. Notwithstanding its proximity to Kashgara city China is trying to develop into a regional trade hubChina keeps its border with Afghanistan tightly closed, with locals in Xinjiang reporting that authorities encouraged them to help monitor any movements across the border . Afghanistan has asked repeatedly for China to open the Wakhan Corridor that links the two countries, but been rebuffed by Chinese security concerns (China Daily, October 16, 2010). When the authors visited earlier this year, there was little evidence the border was about to be opened.
Chinese security concerns are further visible in announcements made during Zhou's visit about China agreeing to train some 300 Afghan police officers over the next four years ("Zhou Yongkang's Trip Highlights Security Diplomacy," China Brief, October 5). Previously, China has provided training for various Afghan technical personnel and officials with Foreign Minister Yang declaring in July 2010 they had trained some 781 Afghans so far with a further 200 trained that year. In May, China and the United States jointly hosted a two-week training session for a group of some 15 young Afghan diplomats (Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 17; July 21, 2010). China's current willingness to explore training security personnel also highlights the growing importance of this aspect of their relationship.
Judging from the June SCO Summit in Beijing, China clearly is aware of the potential implications of deterioration in Afghan security and the implications for the broader region and within this context. During the summit, Beijing focused heavily on persuading Russia and Central Asian member states to coordinate commitments (at least those within the SCO) toward Afghanistan to some degree, and provide aid to contribute to Afghanistan reconstruction and stabilization. As is usual with SCO endeavors, this looked more like a multilateral vehicle for Chinese bilateral activities. The "strategic partnership" signed was between Beijing and Kabul and the 150 million yuan ($23 million) in aid promised to Afghanistan came from China, not the SCO as an organization (Xinhua, June 8). Nevertheless, Afghanistan will benefit from an increased profile and upgraded role to observer within the SCO. It may be asked to contribute information on militants to the SCO's Regional Antiterrorism Structure (RATS) in Tashkent and presumably also will be able to benefit from others' contributions. Overall, the summit was symbolically important for both China and Afghanistan. Beijing announced it will be engaged in Afghanistan's future and Kabul gained commitments from a regional power to bolster its post-2014 prospects.
To examine Afghanistan from a broader perspective, China's main concern with Central Asia is the importance of the region in helping Xinjiang develop by providing trading partners as well as routes to Russian, European and Middle Eastern markets. Security concerns emanating from Afghanistan are clearly a major potential obstacle to this. Thus, Zhou's visit and China's attention more generally can be said to have both a security and economic dimension that links Xinjiang and the broader region. This economic dimension for Afghanistan in particular was emphasized by the fact that pictures of Zhou's visit showed him being met at his plane by Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Anwar ul-Haq Ahady (Xinhua, September 22). Furthermore, Zhou is a graduate of the Beijing Petroleum Institute and spent most of the 1960s and 1970s working in the oil sector, including a period as General Manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)a company that has made a number of investments in Afghanistan and that has encountered problems in the country as well. It seems probable that these topics would have been on Zhou's agenda in Kabul.
In mid-October, CNPC started extracting oil from its field in Afghanistan's northern Amu Darya basin. At 1,950 barrels per day, the project is a relatively small one, but is being promoted by the Afghan government as a model for how Kabul can raise revenues and wean itself off of foreign aid (Reuters, October 21). Completed at CNPC's signature blistering speed, plans call for the Amu Darya project's oil to be refined across the border in Turkmenistan until the Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) builds a refinery close to the site in two to three years. CNPC won the tender for the project partly due to its very generous terms: 5070 percent of profits will go to the Afghan government together with a 15 percent royalty on top of a 20 percent corporate tax (Reuters, October 21). While Chinese aid to Afghanistan is relatively lowpartly due to domestic intolerance of sending funds abroadprojects such as the oil extraction in the Amu Darya basin appear to be an indirect form of "corporate aid."
The relatively small oil project, however, may well be a foot in the door for access to major natural gas deposits in northern and northwestern Afghanistan. It was CNPC geologists from Turkmenistan with the world's fourth largest natural gas reserves that scouted out the Amu Darya oil project and they have their eye on gas formations that straddle the border . With possible recent major gas finds close by in Tajikistan, CNPC is positioning itself to reap the natural resource benefits of a long-neglected area. In June, it announced plans to run a fourth string of the Central Asia-China pipeline from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang through northern Afghanistan (Eurasia Daily Monitor, June 19). CNPC also reportedly expressed interest in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline at the project's Singapore roadshow event in September .
Whether or not CNPC moves forward with these projects, the prominent Chinese SOE is signaling that they see northern Afghanistan as a stable area going forward (Cnpc.com.cn, June 7). Until a few months ago, militias loyal to Afghan Army Chief of Staff and local warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum harassed Chinese workers in the area, but a deal seems to have been struck where these incidents have ceased (Reuters, June 11). Should CNPC move forward with its announced plans for a natural gas pipeline, it will likely find itself working closely with Dostum and other warlords.
In contrast to the opportunities blossoming in northern Afghanistan, just southeast of Kabul in Logar province the once highly touted Aynak Copper mine project is languishing. Described by President Karzai as "one of the most important economic projects in Afghan history," the project led by Chinese SOEs Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) and Jiangxi Copper was valued at around $4 billion and was the largest investment project in Afghanistan (Xinhua, May 22, 2011). It, however, has been beset by problems, including an archeological dig atop the site, security concerns and now financial troubles at the parent company MCC. One report from late September stated Chinese workers had been spooked by security concerns and had left the country with only a skeleton crew left to watch over equipment (Reuters, September 27). This state of affairs seems to have reinforced skepticism of Beijing's commitment to the projectand possibly even to Afghanistan itselfamong Kabul-based officials and experts .
A final element that has not been sufficiently analyzed are the implications of China's growing relationship with Kabul and its interactions with historical ally Islamabad. Whilst it is clear that China sees the importance of Pakistan in any long-term solution in Afghanistan, it is also increasingly clear that Beijing is concerned about how security in Pakistan continues to deteriorate. It thus seems likely that China's growing focus on Afghanistan is at least in part out of recognition that it can no longer simply abrogate its strategy toward Kabul to Islamabada default setting Beijing previously employed. As the security situation in Afghanistan (and Pakistan) continues to muddle along in a negative direction, Beijing now has realized that it must do more to stabilize its restive neighbor. Zhou Yongkang's visit is merely the culmination of this new focus on Afghanistan that is going to continue to develop as the 2014 deadline approaches. Whether this new attention translates into new policy resources, however, remains to be seen and probably will have to wait until after next March's National People's Congress, when China's leadership transition will be completed.
- The authors visited Tashkurgan, Xinjiang (near the Sino-Afghan border) in May 2012.
- Authors' Interviews in Kabul, May 2012.
- Authors' Interviews in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, September 2012.
- This is a key topic of conversation with interviewees with whom the authors spoke, including local analysts, foreign diplomats, international donors and journalists who all reached similar conclusions. Author Interviews in Kabul, May 2012.
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Flowers are not only beautiful to look at and fun to grow, we can also eat them! Yes, there are some of these glorious plants that add beauty and spice to salads and vinaigrette such as: begonia, carnations, clover, dandelions, day lilies, lavender and mint just to name a few. The library has great databases to help with this adventure of edible flowers. The Culinary Art Collection and the Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection are great ones to use for edible flower information and recipes.
Pick some flowers and enjoy the flavor.
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Woe to the one who lives alone, for if he falls, he has no one to lift him up … The Lord also did not think that the teaching of His word alone was enough, but He wanted to give an example of humility, when, girded with a towel He washed the feet of His disciples. Whose feet do you wash? Whom do you care for? To whom do you make yourself inferior and last of all since you live alone?
—St. Basil the Great
“Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in unity” is chanted every Tuesday at Vespers, but it is chanted more often in the hearts of the Benedictines of Mary. Our life is intensely community oriented.
Since our primary obligation is to the perfection of charity, we have no better subject to practice on than the Sister sitting next to us. Granted, in any collection of fallen mortals, there is bound to be friction arising from our varied temperaments, upbringing and education. But as star differeth from star in glory and virtue from virtue, so we understand that diamonds cannot be cut except by other diamonds.
We seek the unity of the Mystical Body of Christ through the strengthening of the bonds of family love. Thus compassion and encouragement are continuously given and received in living out the charity that “seeketh not its own.”
With God’s help, we look forward to the day when we are reunited to share the Vision of God, Who is Love.
If I were to imagine someone asking Our Lord, “Who are the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles?” I suppose He could answer in a variety of ways.
“Oh, don’t you know? They are the nuns who sew beautiful vestments and linens for priests.” Or perhaps, “It is the community that welcomes priests on retreat — their home-cooked meals are known far and wide.”
He might answer, “These Benedictines are the nuns who are recognized for their industrious farming and gardening. They can fruit from their own orchard and milk their own cows!”
Perhaps He would say, “Why, this community excels beyond all others in its immense intellectual life. There are philosophers, theologians and Latin scholars among their ranks.”
Or maybe, “Haven’t you heard their recordings? They are the Sisters who sing, of course!”
Oh how sad it would be if Our Lord had to respond in any of these ways. As for me, I long for only one answer to come from His lips, and it would be something like this.
“The Benedictines of Mary — they are the ones who built for me a house of love. A house in which each soul prepared for me a worthy dwelling, a sanctuary where I find rest and comfort amidst a world that gives me so much hatred and scorn.
“In that house, charity rules supreme. She is the queen, inspired by the fairest of all queens, my beloved Mother. It is in this place that each of my brides has given Me her heart, whole and entire, and each one spends herself day and night to please Me alone.
“How I love to dwell there, where My Heart, so full of sorrow, finds the pure love and compassion that only my true spouses can give.”
My dear daughters, may this be the answer from Our Dear Lord’s smiling lips when someone asks Him, “Who are the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles?”
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The desire to be thin can be overwhelming. Few people know that better than Kelie Gardner, who started inexplicably losing a lot of weight during high school. She thought it was great until she discovered the reason—she has type 1 diabetes and her body can’t absorb the nutrients it should. After she was diagnosed and started taking insulin, Gardner returned to a healthy weight. Unfortunately, she wasn’t happy with this sign of improvement. “When I was on insulin, my body was able to start functioning normally,” says Gardner, now 26. “I went up to a normal body weight, but I was used to being skinny. I had the fear of, ‘Oh gosh, I’m going to be fat.’”
While learning about diabetes, Gardner read a book about a girl who manipulated her insulin to lose 10 pounds for prom. “That was something that always stuck in my mind,” she says. “If I wanted to lose weight really easily, I could skip my insulin or use less.” A couple of years later, Gardner, who also suffers from bulimia, started cutting back on insulin regularly and lost 10 pounds. “Everyone said, ‘You look so good.’ I started feeding off of those comments. I thought, if they say that about 10 pounds, another 10 or 20 will be even better.”
Although aware of the consequences, Gardner only injected four or five units of insulin a day—she was supposed to take 23. At her lowest point, Gardner isolated herself in a three-day insulin-free binge and purge cycle. Skipping injections for even this short period of time landed her in the ICU and nearly cost Gardner her life.
Gardner’s response may seem extreme, but according to Dr. Richard Hellman, president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, medical studies have been documenting the simultaneous occurrence of type 1 diabetes and eating disorders for 50 to 60 years. What’s new is the idea of combining them under one medical term: diabulimia. “Once someone coined the term [diabulimia], all the doctors who didn’t even consider it started linking the two,” Hellman says. “Bulimia everyone understands; diabetes everyone knows about. But linking the two hadn’t been talked about.” In fact, the word diabulimia only surfaced in the last few years. Because diabetics are “purging” calories through their urine, the disorder is generally accepted as a form of bulimia.
“More than 90 percent of adolescents with type 1 diabetes reported missing at least one shot a month to keep weight down,” Hellman says. Because these people skip insulin only occasionally, their problem is considered milder, but it can still be deadly. Hellman says that around 10 to 15 percent of adolescent diabetics suffer from severe diabulimia.
Grace Shih, a registered dietitian and eating disorder counselor at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, has made it her mission to educate her peers about the affliction. “The medical society knows about conditions of eating disorders and diabetes, but they don’t call it diabulimia,” Shih says. “It’s not yet in medical terminology or medical journals.” And it’s the unknown that is dangerous.
It’s too easy to be true: Avoid injections—an already painful task—and drop 10 pounds like magic. But skipping insulin comes with a deadly risk—no one would inject if he or she didn’t need the stuff to stay healthy. Even if a person is diabulimic for a relatively short time, he or she is at risk for ketoacidosis, the build-up of acids in the bloodstream that can lead to diabetic coma or death.
Essentially, people with diabulimia are keeping themselves sick and letting their diabetes kill them. Even if they manage to control their ketones by skipping only a few injections, the long-term effects of shortchanging their bodies can be devastating, with consequences ranging from nerve damage to kidney failure to death. According to Hellman, people with diabetes who forgo their insulin can suffer from diabetic retinopathy, a condition in which blood vessels in the eyes swell or leak and abnormal vessels grow on the retina. Over time, both eyes can lose vision.
Mary (not her real name), 23, lives in the U.K. and has been diabulimic for almost five years, beginning only three months after being diagnosed with diabetes. “I lost my eyesight completely,” she says. Cataract surgery has since fixed her eyes, but she’s still very far-sighted. “I’m killing myself every day,” Mary says. “I’d be the first person to turn around to anyone [who skipped insulin] and say, ‘Sort yourself out, you bloody idiot! How can you act in such a selfish way?’ But I just can’t stop.”
The Search for Support
Until recently, willfully untreated diabetes wasn’t documented as an eating disorder, making it hard for people with diabulimia to get treatment. Gardner had difficulty finding anyone who understood her specific issues. “When I started doing research on eating disorders and diabetes, there just wasn’t much out there,” she says.
Gardner tried one-on-one therapy but didn’t see results quickly. Finally, she found a program called Quest in Santa Rosa, California, where the director was working on a dissertation on diabulimia. “I felt like that was a miracle,” she says. “This person understood what I was going through.” Gardner admitted herself to the 12-week intensive outpatient program, but she didn’t walk out cured. “I still struggle,” she says. “But I’ve learned that even if I have a bad day, it doesn’t undo all the good days or hard work that I’ve done.”
Mary tried a 15-week group therapy program, but didn’t find it as encouraging. “The group was for anorexics, bulimics, and EDNOS (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified)—no one there had any experience with diabulimia or diabetes,” she says. “My bulimia was the focus, whereas I mainly needed help with my injecting.” In other words, while Mary could get help for her bulimia, she found it hard to find counselors who had experience working with people who regularly skipped insulin.
A Way Out of the Dark
Now that diabulimia is medically acknowledged, doctors and patients hope for a brighter future. Mary dreams of a normal, happy life with a family, but says she can’t have healthy relationships with her disorder. “I’m lying all the time to everyone,” she says. “I lie about being healthy. I lie about the amount of food I’m eating. I can’t have a real relationship with anyone because I don’t have a truthful relationship with myself.” But she doesn’t want sympathy—she wants help for herself and everyone else suffering. “If you’re worried about anyone with diabulimia and they say they’re fine, they’re lying,” she says.
Hellman says a better grasp of the illness will bring the most success. “People need to understand [that diabulimia] is not the mark of a defective personality,” he says. “It signals that you need more understanding and patience.” The medical community continues to expand its knowledge of diabulimia, which will hopefully lead to more successful treatment options and possibilities for sufferers to heal.
Recognize the signs
Here’s what to watch for if you suspect a type 1 diabetic you know could have diabulimia:
Shih believes treatment must be three-fold to be effective.
Essentially, each specialist must have a working knowledge of the other fields. Shih’s Web site, gracenutrition.org, launched in October 2007, can help diabulimics find the help they need.
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|The Character of a Leader|
The Bible foretells that in the prophetic days now breaking upon us, there will arise a certain central theme that you and I would do well to address. It is one of the components that makes the world what it is today, and it will have a telling influence upon what the world will finally become. That component is leadership!
|The Tide of Our Times|
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I've decided that writing is like fishing. No, not that kind of fishing. Not the kind of fishing where you get up really early on Saturday morning and sit around in a boat all day long with your beer and your line dangling in the water. Although it can be like that. The kind of fishing where you just catch one fish at a time.
Most of my middle school writers do that kind of fishing, in fact. There's a few of them that write and share stories with each other all the time. The only problem is that they are the only ones that "get" the stories because they're full of all kinds secret language and stuff. Some of these get turned into me in the creative class, and I have to always say, "this is great but no one else will understand it." And I know, because a few of them have been read in class, and the students not in that group always respond with "I don't get it."
See, they are dangling their lines in the water in their secret fishing hole with their special bait and catching a few fish. One at a time. So, yeah, you can do that kind of fishing, but you'll never be able to do it as more than just a relaxing way to spend a Saturday in your boat if that's your route.
A real fisherman needs a net, and that's where it's like writing, because writing is like weaving a net to catch readers. But writers have to weave their own nets, which I kind of doubt that fishermen have to do anymore, although they did used to have to do it. And the smaller the fish you want to catch, the finer you have to weave your net. Stories have to be that way, too. Woven so as to catch readers.
And, well, size matters.
You have things like Harry Potter that end up being pretty finely woven and catch hordes and hordes of readers. And there are things like Twilight that also catch hordes of readers, a lot of the same kinds of readers, but it's not woven quite as tightly (because, hey, sparkly vampires?), so a lot of potential readers slip through. And, then, you have nets that are built for particular types of readers (like sci-fi or historical fiction or horror) and most everyone else slips through. [And I don't actually know to what degree or if fishing nets differ, but I suppose they must. I'm not looking it up, though.]
But my real point is this (and I've arrived at this mostly because of the discussion around Looper this week): Holes in your net are bad.
Fishermen spend a lot of time repairing their nets. They know having holes is bad. Too many holes, and the fish just swim right on through the net. When your livelihood depends upon catching the fish, you have to weave that net tight and make sure you take care of the holes. And this is the part that is liking writing, because anytime someone says "But why..." or "How come..." or "What...," you've made a hole in your net and some reader has slipped through. If there are enough holes, they pretty much all slip through.
I suppose that's why so many writers like to resort to "magic," and I don't mean actual magic, because anything can be used as "magic." For a long time it was computers. A lot of people are using nanotech as "magic" these days (there's even nano "magic" in Looper, although it's never mentioned in the movie (it was, however, in the writer's head)). If you can't use magic as "magic" because you're not writing fantasy, science as "magic" is the next best thing. At any rate, when a reader says, "But why...," the author can wave his hand and say "magic" and believe that closes the hole in the net. It doesn't always work that way, though, because, readers will only go for that so many times. Of course, different readers have different limits.
The best way to deal with those holes is to make your story as plausible as possible (not as possible as possible, although that's not bad, too, but the story hinges on plausibility, not possibility) and make sure the details are there so that people never have those questions. Basically, if you have the question, someone else is going to have the question, so you better just go ahead and answer it (again, this is from listening to the writer/director of Looper who decided over and over again not bother with the 15 second answers to the questions that even he had (as he said, he didn't think it was worth spending the time to answer those things in the movie)). Never believe that the reader doesn't care or won't notice, because a lot of readers are out there looking for holes or are just good at finding them.
As for myself, I'm not out looking for holes, but I'm a pretty slippery fish, and I ask a lot of questions. All the time. It's in my nature to question, well, everything, so, if you have an unanswered question, there's a good chance I'm gonna find it. I do get that other people aren't quite like that as much, but there are other people out there like me. And worse than me. I mean, you think I'm bad, you should see my wife and the way she treats books and movies. I'm way more accepting of handwavium than she is.
All of that to say: Weave a strong net. Weave a fine net. Weave a large net.
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VRLA Manufacturing Company, which launched its green bike, e-zipp, late last year in Pune, brought it even closer for the people of Pune. VRLA brought e-zipp to Big Bazaar, Pune on the 21st of March, 2011.
When asked about the reason behind this decision, Mr. Dhaval J Chandan, chairman of VRLA said, “Often times, housewives, aged people and even students are reluctant to go to a showroom to buy a bike. The reason behind it is not very clear, but that’s what we have found out. With the coming of e-zipp to Big Bazaar, we are giving people the convenience of vehicle shopping, just like they have it for grocery shopping, buying clothes and other household stuff”
He adds, “We really want people to adopt green technology in a big way, and bringing e-zipp to Big Bazaar is just a small initiative on our part in that direction.”
VRLA Manufacturing is an energy solutions based company which has other green products to its credit like the induction cooker, solar lantern and energy savers. The company has its manufacturing plant in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh and has a work-force of around 170 people helping it develop innovative green technology.
The company celebrated Holi by celebrating green technology and making it more accessible across every age group and gender. In Mr. Chandan’s own words, “We specifically chose a day close to Holi for the Big Bazaar launch of e-zipp because we wanted to celebrate the greener way of life. And as a part of this celebration, we are even giving customers a discount of Rs 1,000 and a free gift for every booking of e-zipp made through Big Bazaar.”
It definitely looks like the company is going all out to promote a greener life, but only time would tell whether the people of Pune are ready to embrace it or not.
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I recieved a motherboard with a bad TSOP. Apparently, the board works with an LCP modchip, but the only one I have around to spare is my old X2.3b Lite. But, this motherboard also has a pinheader. I can install the chip, but not make a good connection to the d0 and ground. I was reading a tutorial, and it mentioned that the D0, when grounded, is what forces the Xbox to boot from the LCP.
So, could I just solder the D0 to the Ground with a wire, not solder anything else, plug the chip into the pinheader, and be good to go?
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The Significance of Holidays
Holidays are cultural rituals. Humans have celebrated rituals since we first huddled together in caves.
The hunters dragged home a mammoth? We celebrated. Time for a newborn to be named and inducted into the clan? We celebrated. The search for a larger, more spacious cave was successful? We celebrated. And each time, we followed the celebratory customs handed down to us by our forebears.
The purpose of ritual is to teach, reinforce and revel in the shared values and beliefs of a society. The benefits of ritual are numerous. We acknowledge our commonality, thereby strengthening our bonds. We elucidate our place in the greater scheme, instilling in each of us a sense of security and purpose. And we simply let loose, blow off steam, rejoice, briefly casting aside our burdens and transcending our mortality.
So celebrating rituals is good for everyone, individuals as well as groups. And chocolate—giving it, sharing it, relishing it—has long been customary in many rituals around the world. | <urn:uuid:71572e4b-9e45-46fe-aba0-6b7918560860> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bernardcallebaut.com/users/folder.asp?FolderID=4675 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933278 | 216 | 2.828125 | 3 |
F-86 Sabre 3D Model for 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Softimage, Blender and other 3D modeling and animation software.
The North American Aviation F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabrejet) was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. The Sabre is best known for its Korean War role where it was pitted against the Soviet MiG-15 and obtained UN air superiority. Although developed in the late 1940s and outdated by the end of the 1950s, the Sabre proved adaptable and continued as a front line fighter in air forces until the last active front line examples were retired by the Bolivian Air Force in 1994. Its success led to an extended production run of over 7,800 aircraft between 1949 and 1956, in the United States, Japan and Italy. It was by far the most-produced Western jet fighter, with total production of all variants at 9,860 units. Variants were built in Canada and Australia. The Canadair Sabre added another 1,815 airframes, and the significantly re-designed CAC Sabre (sometimes known as the Avon Sabre or CAC CA-27), had a production run of 112.
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Submitted to: Popular Publication
Publication Type: Popular Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: February 25, 2010
Publication Date: March 1, 2010
Citation: Soder, K.J. 2010. Hunger May Affect Grazing Behavior. Graze Magazine. 17(3):12-14.
Interpretive Summary: An interpretive summary is not required.
Grazing behavior can be influenced through feeding and grazing management decisions. Research at our USDA-ARS lab showed that ruminal fill, or how ‘hungry’ the cow is, can affect grazing behavior. Cows that had less ruminal fill took a bigger bite that was shallow and wide, compared to a ‘full’ cow that took a deeper, narrower bite from the pasture sward. This was a result of the ‘hungrier’ cow attempting to harvest the greatest nutrient density with each bite. Farm goals can be combined with what is known about grazing behavior to decide when and how to supplement grazing dairy cows. Pasturing cows directly after milking may impact grazing behavior differently than if they’re fed their conserved feeds or concentrates prior to being turned out on pasture. Pasturing cows only at night may impact their grazing behavior due to preference changes throughout the day. If pasture utilization is to be optimized, farmers may need to be flexible in what and when cows are supplemented. | <urn:uuid:e27ddc89-5dbe-4ff6-a226-421ea82e1eba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/Publications.htm?seq_no_115=250456&pf=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945008 | 287 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Relief Society sisters have a glorious heritage. We pray that this volume will be an important resource for preserving that heritage.
~ The First Presidency
In grateful recognition of the blessing of Relief Society in the lives of Church members, the First Presidency has directed the preparation of Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society.
The teachings, stories, and examples in this history book will guide you in establishing priorities and practices in your life that will help increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and seek out and help those in need.
The history of Relief Society teaches the divine identity and infinite worth of daughters of God. It is a Spirit-filled story of strong, faithful, purposeful women who have served with little public recognition.
As you study this history you will see that our Heavenly Father knows His daughters, that He loves them, that He trusts them with sacred responsibilities, and that He guides them as they fulfill those responsibilities.
You are encouraged to share the book with others. Church members of all ages may use the book as a reference in lessons, talks, council meetings, and at home.
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Günther Fritz Kühne
1917 Berlin - 2008 Berlin
As from 1947, Berlin journalist and architecture critic Günther Kühne published works conveying his perception of events in international art and architecture. Having trained in the Berlin architectural office Ernst und Günther Paulus, he then studied art history at the Technical University Berlin and the University of Gießen. As from 1947, Kühne worked as an independent journalist – an activity that gradually developed into his chief profession. Making regular contributions to the specialist magazine “Bauwelt” from 1950 to 1982 and as the Berlin Tagesspiegel’s “voice on architecture”, he made himself an advocate for the protection of monuments and architectural ensembles, in opposition to the zeitgeist. The German National Committee for the Protection of Monuments honoured Kühne for his outstanding commitment with the “Journalist’s Award” in 1976 and the “German Award” in 1981. From 1973 to 1980, Kühne belonged to the competition committee and advisory board of the Senator for Building and Housing in Berlin. In 1983 he became a member of the Advisory Board for Monuments in Berlin.
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With oil prices soaring and gasoline expected to hit the $4 to $5 per gallon mark this spring and summer, it makes sense for companies to continue to explore how best to use natural gas to help fuel the nation's vehicles.
A new partnership announced last week between Chesapeake Energy and General Electric to provide 250 modular "CNG in a Box" stations appears to be a step in the right direction.
CNG stands for compressed natural gas, and currently is used to power more than 12 million vehicles worldwide - 110,000 of which are in the U.S., which leaves plenty of room for growth.
What Chesapeake and GE are planning to do is tap into the nation's vast natural gas reserves, particularly here in the local region with the Marcellus and Utica shales. The companies would make their "CNG in a Box" available to local filling stations by tapping into a nearby natural gas pipeline. The technology allows that raw natural gas to then be compressed on-site so it can be dispensed into a CNG-ready vehicle.
"These products and services will allow customers to enjoy the clear advantages of clean, affordable and abundant American natural gas at about half the cost of gasoline," Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon said.
The availability of CNG fueled vehicles is a problem, as currently there is only one factory-built CNG vehicle available in the U.S. - the Honda Civic. U.S. carmakers are working to address this, as both GM and Chrysler have unveiled CNG-ready pickup trucks that will be available later this year.
While it's good to see that compressed natural gas as an alternative to oil is gaining traction, that could change in an instant if oil prices drop. That has happened several times over the past few years, when alternatives to foreign oil such as gasoline made from coal have started to gain traction. Given the fluctuation of global oil prices, it's imperative for the nation that an alternative be found. | <urn:uuid:efc4c1cd-a2ac-42a0-bb5f-9c6407182c4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/552129/CNG-powered-vehicles-make-economic-sense.html?nav=5003 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963846 | 405 | 2.3125 | 2 |
High angle rescue involves working around and on vertical or near vertical faces where rope systems are essential for safety and often needed for travel. In a typical scenario, the rescuers will rappel to access the patient, and use a mechanical advantage system to raise them to a point of safety. These scenarios frequently require more complicated techniques like tyrolean traverses, high lines, or lead climbing for more efficient patient access.
Low Angle (Scree) Technical Rescue
Low angle rescue involves working in situations where travel by foot is possible, but there is still risk of injury if a fall were to occur. Rope safety systems are used to prevent injury, and to aid in moving the patient. Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council uses specialized equipment such as high strength, lightweight collapsible titanium litters and litter wheels to allow rapid, safe evacuation of ill or injured parties over the rough and varied terrain of the Sandias and other mountains in New Mexico.
Winter Technical Rescue
Technical rescue during winter involves all the complexities of high and low angle rescue, with the added risks and challenges of deep snow, ice and hostile weather conditions. Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council uses the SKED stretcher and other smooth bottom transport devices to allow rapid and safe evacuation over snow, ice, and varied terrain. We can place ice screws or snow anchors, and will use crampons, ice axes, skis or snowshoes when needed for safe and rapid travel.
While avalanche is not perceived to be a common problem in the mountains of New Mexico, there are many areas in our state where avalanche can and does present a problem. Even the Sandias, Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council members have documented evidence of small avalanches. We have many members who are AIARE level 1 & 2 certified in Avalanche safety. We are equipped with transceivers and other equipment to safely conduct avalanche rescue/recovery or operate in avalanche-prone terrain.
Our technical and medical skills are not helpful unless we can locate the people who need our assistance. Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council is used a variety of techniques to locate search subjects day or night. We use two way radios, GPS units, computer-generated maps, and traditional orienteering skills to navigate in the back county and search efficiently.
Wilderness Medical Care
We are one of a small number of wilderness search and rescue teams that is capable of providing advanced life support (ALS) and higher level emergency care. Under the leadership of Dr Daryl Macias, MD, our medical director, we have specialized protocols and equipment to provide great care to our patients, even under challenging circumstances. We have a large number of EMT’s, paramedics, a consulting pharmacist and several physicians active on our team. | <urn:uuid:3cf59d64-e3b5-4741-89f5-549dbfff48f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abqmountainrescue.org/capabilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93388 | 547 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Still Separate and Unequal, Generations After Brown v. Board
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/National Archives and Records Administration
by Julianne Hing
Today is the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in U.S. public schools unconstitutional. Also today, American schools are more segregated than they were four decades ago.
If eradicating racial segregation in education was the original civil rights battle, it continues to be the most enduring one. A court decision that called “separate but equal” schools unlawful led to a couple hopeful decades of racial integration. But today most U.S. kids go to schools that are both racially and socioeconomically homogenous.
Around 40 percent of black and Latino students in the U.S. are in schools than are over 90 percent black and Latino, according to a 2009 study by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project. The schools that black and Latino kids are concentrated in are very often high-poverty schools, too. The average black student goes to a school where 59 percent of their classmates live in poverty, while the average Latino student goes to a school that’s 57 percent poor.
And it’s not just blacks and Latinos who are racially isolated. White students go to schools that are 77 percent white, and 32 percent poor.
The Obama administration, which is leading an aggressive school reform agenda, knows what’s going on. In a major speech calling for the overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 2009, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan acknowledged in understated terms the re-segregation of U.S. schools, as well as the fatigue with everything that’s been attempted to address it.
“Most minorities were still isolated in their own classrooms,” Duncan said of students growing up in the civil rights era, adding, “Many still are today, and we must work together to change that.”
“We’ve had five decades of reforms, countless studies, watershed reports like ‘A Nation at Risk,’ and repeated affirmations and commitments from the body politic to finally make education a national priority,” Duncan said. “And yet we are still waiting for the day when every child in America has a high quality education that prepares him or her for the future.”
But the Obama administration has been otherwise silent on re-segregation in schools, even as its reform policies have targeted poor communities of color where the lowest-performing schools are located. Twenty-first century racial homogeneity in U.S. schools is a product of decades of regressive court decisions as well as residential segregation.
“There are no significant state or federal programs and little private philanthropy addressing policy to either produce better integrated schools with more racial and economic diversity or to train teachers and students about ways to more effectively run impoverished multiracial schools,” wrote the UCLA study’s author Gary Orfield.
Part of it comes from collective fatigue. The initial, post-Brown push for integrated classrooms gave way over the years to wars over busing and several Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s that forced schools to drop race as a consideration for dealing with school assignments. The Court’s 2007 decision limiting Seattle and Louisville school districts from implementing desegregation policies completed its long slide away from Brown v. Board. Meanwhile, education advocates shifted their calls from demands for integration to calls for equity. Alongside that shift, a numbers and testing obsession was taking hold, catalyzed by the 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report Duncan named. That obsession now dominates education reform.
Integrating schools is still a worthwhile goal. Researchers have found that desegregation, while always thorny politically, is one of the most direct methods for raising the education achievement of students of color, especially those that are poor. Columbia University researchers found that when they controlled for other outside socioeconomic factors, students in schools where black and Latino kids were isolated from kids of other races had fewer math and literacy skills—that their educational development was in effect limited by the racial composition of their schools.
And researchers at the University of Connecticut evaluated new strategies like those popularized by North Carolina’s Wake County school district. There, students in wealthier neighborhoods can attend magnet schools in poorer neighborhoods, while students in poorer neighborhoods attend schools in wealthier neighborhoods. Student achievement improved in the system. As an added bonus, researchers also found that allowing kids of different backgrounds to hang out with each other improved students’ racial attitudes about each other.
Still, courts and tea partier-dominated school boards, have continually hampered integration efforts.
Today, the major thrusts of education reform, echoed and pushed in Obama administration policy, are teacher accountability through testing and charter-school expansion. In this iteration of the school reform saga, race is everywhere—acknowledging the existence of the achievement gap is an uncontroversial statement these days. But actually naming, and addressing, the roots of educational inequities is passé.
As the Economic Policy Institute’s Richard Rothstein told me when I was researching the impacts of the recession on education in communities of color, “Everybody acknowledges differences in achievement but nobody wants to address the inequalities that produce them.”
Indeed, the discourse today is schizophrenic in many ways. Teachers, for instance, are singled out as both the ultimate solutions to and the biggest culprits for our nation’s education woes. Duncan and his colleagues, the celebrity school reformers like Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein, and the big-city mayors who’ve backed their reforms often laud and eviscerate teachers in the same breath.
The Obama administration has made adopting punitive teacher accountability policies that evaluate teachers based on their students’ test scores a requirement for states that want some federal education money. Through Race to the Top, Obama’s marquee education reform project, states have been asked to adopt merit-pay schemes that also tie teachers’ jobs to their students’ performance on standardized tests. States have also been asked to lift caps on charter schools and designate failing schools for takeover by, among other entities, outside charter groups.
States are not, however, rewarded for adopting the integration policies that education researchers have found to create such change.
“What’s missing from the debate is a recognition that teachers and schools alone are not the most important influence on a child’s achievement,” said Rothstein.
A coalition of race-conscious reformers are promoting a plan they’ve dubbed the Bolder, Broader Approach to Education, which pushes for a racially explicit and holistic approach to addressing education inequity. There’s noticeably no mention of teacher accountability schemes in the three-point version of that plan. It instead calls for high quality early education for all kids, starting from birth and going all the way up through pre-kindergarten. It also calls for high-quality and consistent after school and summer programs for kids, and routine and preventative health care for kids.
“Low-income children have 30 percent more absences than middle-class kids just due to health alone,” Rothstein said. The idea is to mimic the supports that middle-class kids have regular access to. “Unless we do something there’s still going to be something that’s much more important influencing kids’ education than the quality of their teachers.”
It’s not simply a matter of misplaced priorities. Where educational inequities are concerned, the diagnosis has always been easier than deciding on the course of treatment. Nearly 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, we’ve yet to resolve the fundamental question of how to deliver high quality public education to kids of all races.
And after decades of wrangling over possible fixes, the de facto re-segregation of American schools is something that the education reform movement, including the Obama administration, have all but given up on addressing. If integrating public schools was once the answer to bringing equity to the classroom, these days, most people are too fatigued and frustrated to even try.
But now more than ever, mustering the energy to address, head-on, the roots of educational inequities is an issue of utmost urgency. Students of color are 44 percent, and growing, of the U.S. public school system. Racial segregation is a legacy we’ve yet to shake off, nowhere more than in American public schools, where students of color are educated in schools that are today both separate and unequal.
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Back in 1997, I was working on a newspaper which supported Tony Blair's election campaign and included colleagues who went on to join Blair's inner circle. The optimism and excitement during election night exploded as it became clear that the young moderniser of Britain's Labour Party had won a landslide victory. These were heady days for all who believed in Blair, the charismatic young leader with a radical new voice. Yet for those of us who weren't caught up in the New Labour love-in, there was something strangely unconvincing about Blair: he had the look, feel and rhetoric of a leader — and a strong and committed following — but something was missing beyond inexperience. It wasn't insincerity, quite, but rather the sense that there were significant gaps in his personality.
Blair's memoir, A Journey, published last week, fills in some of those gaps and offers a fascinating account of his path to leadership. Informally (and frankly, badly) written, Blair opens compelling vistas on his path to leadership: his triumphs (Northern Ireland and Kosovo), his difficulties (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), his challenges (intrigues within his party, especially his successor Gordon Brown), and companions on his journey (including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Queen) between 1997 and 2007.
However, descriptions of what it is like to hold power in your hands, the crackle of intrigue and the sparkle of celebrity fade beside Blair's astonishing contradictions as a man and a leader. He emerges as both flippant and serious, down-to-earth and lofty, crude and intellectual, inconsistent yet with strong convictions, open yet highly political and ruthless but charming. His accounts of handling his team, the political intrigues, and the stage management of international events are compelling for those who want to grasp and hold power. And his formula for staying the course (strong and supportive wife, loving family and a few drinks too many will resonate with many leaders.
Blair has earned his place in history and still acts as an international mediator, but his 'official' story is facing a challenge from another rather more unscripted narrative. This concerns his legacy, as understood and written by his colleagues and the UK public, which Blair cannot edit or erase. And it seems to be troubling Blair at what should have been another moment of personal glory.
In the UK, Blair appears not to be valued for his political legacy — his service to the UK his and international statesmanship — but rather as one of a new breed of self-serving politicians, who literally spun a web of power, duped the public on the grounds for going to war, blindly supported of George W. Bush, left a party in turmoil, and then attained fabulous wealth and faux-celebrity lifestyle after leaving office.
No doubt his book will become a bestseller, but as the days pass, it is becoming apparent that Blair and his publishers are out of step with public perceptions. In his introduction he describes his book as an 'extended letter to the country he loves', but the truth is that the country no longer loves him. Where there was once unquestioning love and support, now there is disdain and hostility. His biographer has even coined the phrase "Blair rage". From angry military families, accusations of treachery, egotism, and denial by the left-wing press and shame by the right, and a hostile reception in Dublin and London, Blair is facing a storm of reactions, from personal threats to a humorous campaign to move his books into inappropriate sections of bookstores.
He may fare better on the international stage (early U.S. reviews have been benign), but the fact remains that Blair, like all leaders, may now have to review his own personal view of his legacy.
So where did it all go wrong — and what might leaders learn from his mistakes?
Presidential rather than cabinet-style of leadership
Blair's charisma was clear from the start and he used this ruthlessly to bring his team into line and lock down dissenting members. This broke with British political tradition, where the PM is expected to act as primus inter pares rather than commander-in-chief.
Strong control and inner circle that led to factions and polarization
Blair's hold on power and reliance on an inner circle (mostly unelected) to help him make key decisions resulted in polarization between him and Gordon Brown, which led to a fracturing among senior MPs and factions within the party.
Over-reliance on rebuttal and spin
From the outset, Blair understood the power of the media and employed advisers to rebut allegations against the Labour Party and then his government and spin their line. Several years into power, the government was judged to be driven by spin alone — a triumph of style over substance.
Agenda that relied on launching too many initiatives and not seeing them through
The Blair and Brown governments shared a deluge of initiatives designed to give the impression of an impressive and energetic government bent on reform. Yet few lasted the course or delivered any real or lasting change.
Breaking a personal pact with the public
Blair admits in his memoirs to being a 'manipulator' and early on he made a pact with the British public: "In order to circumvent the party I had to construct an alliance between myself and the public," he writes. However, this personal bond couldn't withstand the scandals and the decision to go to war on the basis that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Dysfunctional relationships and a compromise too far
One of the key dramas of the Blair years was his bitter and festering relationship with Gordon Brown, his eventual successor. Blair offers a devastating critique on a man he considered to be maddening and with zero emotional intelligence. The feud drew untold energy from both men, their party and the government — and Blair seems to be taking revenge on his successor in his memoir.
Appealing to too many stakeholders
There is no doubt that Blair has charm and personality, but two decades in public life have exposed his chameleon-like qualities. A gifted politician, he was always able to give the impression of agreeing with others and presenting himself in the best possible light.
Back-seat driving after leaving office
The publication of A Journey coincided with the leadership ballot for his party. Blair was unapologetic about claiming the limelight at this sensitive time for the leadership, and endorsed one candidate, much to their embarrassment.
Believing in your own hype
Blair emerges from his memoir as a man who is super-confident, bordering on supreme arrogance. It is a salutary story of how power can inflate the ego, but Blair is unapologetic in his belief that he is a man of courage and destiny. His detractors have a different view and point to his website and foundation as an exercise in hypocrisy and hyperbole.
Profiting from office and living the celebrity lifestyle
For many, this is Blair's most shameless act since leaving office. To his chagrin, commentators continue to highlight his lucrative speaking engagements and need to support a vast property portfolio at the expense of his good works and international diplomacy. His elevation to celebrity status and publicity has, for many, undermined the dignity of his office and he is compared unfavourably with predecessors such as Margaret Thatcher.
So what are your thoughts on Blair and his memoir? How does a leader manage his legacy when he has retired? Should they even try to do so? Do you think Tony Blair offers a progressive model of leadership or a regressive move to self-interest and spin? Your thoughts, views, and insights are valued as always. | <urn:uuid:2808f2e7-b988-4c1e-8354-b9e0bbcd26d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.hbr.org/corkindale/2010/09/why_tony_blairs_leadership_jou.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness%2Fcorkindale+%28Gill+Corkindale+on+HBR.org%29 | 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 | 0.982053 | 1,567 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Randy Seaver says, “It’s Saturday Night – time for our weekly Genealogy Fun!”
John Milton originally said “luck is the residue of design” (and Branch Rickey is often credited with the saying). However, the definition of “luck” is “the chance happening of fortunate or adverse events.”
I saw a post on the Genealogy Insider blog by Diane Haddad about Ways I’m Genealogically Lucky. I thought to myself “old Rand, that would be a good SNGF topic.” Thank you, Diane, for the idea:
Here’s the directions (and would you all please follow the directions? Thankfully, these are easy to follow):
1) When have you had a dose of good genealogy luck? What document or resource did you find just by happenstance or chance? By being in the right place at the right time? By finding a family history treasure in your family’s attic or basement? By finding a helpful document or reference without even looking for it?
2) Tell us about it in Comments to this post, in Comments on Facebook, or in a blog post of your own.
All that said, here is my stab at this week’s Saturday night fun!
Good luck can be a result of diligence, and that is how I had this “stroke”. Papa’s unsourced family tree came to us by way of a cousin. It seems that everyone had a typed copy of the results of this cousin’s research. I started the usual way, verifying each fact as much as I could.
According to the tree, Papa’s great grandparents, John P. Fenton, 1851-1891 and Susie Melissa Burdick, 1856-1931, were the parents of 6, including one adopted daughter, Nellie Fenton, original name “Helen Millard”. I never found much information on Nellie, but she was with the family for some censuses, and she married in Iowa shortly after John P. Fenton’s death.
The roots of both of our families run deep in Wexford County, Michigan, so I undertook to review all the records I could find for that location. On FHL US/Can film Film 966387 item 2, Probate Court index (to packets) v. A 1869- (dates not given) I found a record of the adoption!
I was at the local FHC, and I actually hollered out loud. No one there could believe my luck any more than I could. Here is the transcription:
State of Michigan
County of Wexford}SS
At a session of the Probate Court for the said County held at the Probate office in the Village of Sherman. On the Sixth day of Dec. in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty
Present Alonzo Chubb Judge of Probate. In the matter of the adoption and change of name of Helen M Stackhouse minor. On reading and filing the application duly executed and acknowledged of John Fenton and Susie Fenton his wife declaring that they have adopted Helen M. Stackhouse, a minor child of Sate Stackhouse and intend to make such child their heir at law, and that they desire the name of said child to be changed from Helen M. Stackhouse to Nellie Fenton & on reading and filing the consent in writing to the adoption and change of name of such child as aforesaid of Sate Stackhouse, being the mother and also the consent thereto of said child – she being an orphan and above the age of Seven years and it appearing satisfactory to the Court that such application is made in good faith the persons making the same are suitable and proper persons to have the charge, care & control of said child. It is therefore Ordered that the name of said minor be and the name is hereby changed from Helen M. Stackhouse to Nellie Fenton and that said John Fenton and Susie Fenton his wife to stand in the place of parents to said Nellie Fenton with all the duties, rights and privileges as pertaining to that relationship. And that the said Nellie Fenton be the child and heir at law of said John Fenton and Susie Fenton his wife will all the duties rights & privileges conferred by law. The same as if she was in fact their child Alonzo Chubb Judge of Probate.
STACKHOUSE, SATE M STACKHOUSE, DISMAN,JOSEPH P DISMAN,WEXFORD, 06 JUN 1881,–,–,–,–
I was not sure why the cousin thought Nellie’s name was “Millard”. Wondering about the discrepancy, I searched for the Stackhouse family on the 1880 census of Wexford County, Michigan. I found them as follows:
1880 United States Federal Census (Images on line at http://www.ancestry.com), Year: 1880; Census Place: Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan; Roll: T9_609; Family History Film: 1254609; Page: 535A; Enumeration District: 252; Image: 0799, SD 20 dwelling 225, family 737:
Stackhouse, David, white, male, 51, keeping saloon, born Ohio, both parents born Ohio.
Hellen, white, female, 35, wife, married, keeping house, born Ohio, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Vermont?
Sarah, white, female, 23, daughter, widowed or divorced, at home, born Michigan, father born Ohio, mother born Michigan.
Millard, Hellen, 5, grandchild, single, born Ohio, father born Ohio, mother born Michigan.
Stackhouse, Burthey?, white, female, 11, wife’s daughter, single, at school, born Michigan, both parents born Ohio.
So, there is is, perhaps Nellie’s father’s name was Millard, or perhaps not, but Helen/Nellie went by that name, at least on one census.
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U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Federal Energy Management Program
New On-line Tool Available for Saving Energy at Federal Data Centers
August 28, 2007
Data centers are among the most energy-intensive facilities in the federal sector (as well as among local and state governmental facilities), having energy use and intensity typically orders of magnitude greater than other buildings. Data centers are also becoming increasingly common across numerous agencies, including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, National Institutes of Health, and others, as they cope with the increasing demands of having to handle enormous amounts of data. Previously exempt from Executive Orders for energy reduction, federal data centers now must meet federal requirements under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) for 2 percent energy reductions per year.
As an indication of the importance of public sector computing, many of the top 500 "supercomputer" centers are federal or other public facilities. To meet this challenge, FEMP's Technical Assistance program supported the development of a Web-based guide to assist federal energy managers—and others—in identifying the best solutions for controlling energy use in these facilities. The reality is that in the near term, energy use is likely to increase in these buildings as demands for more computing power increases. Steps taken now can minimize these increases, and help show that facility managers are addressing the goals of EPAct.
Resources such as this new Web-based tool are particularly important for federal agencies, which are mandated under EPAct to measure and report their facility consumption. FEMP offers extensive support for energy management at federal facilities, including many items specifically relevant to data centers.
The Data Center Energy Management Web site allows a user to:
- Diagnose Energy Inefficiencies and Rate a Data Center's "Energy IQ" — by comparing your data center to the benchmarking results for top performers
- Specify State-of-the-art Solutions — using detailed guides to 67 best practices
- Generate Clear Design Intent Documents — using a pre-defined design intent tool "template" for recording data center energy efficiency objectives, strategies
- Evaluate Cost-Effectiveness — by considering both the "straight economics" of energy efficiency improvements, as well as non-energy benefits that are central to making the business case for investing in improved efficiency
- Explore Real World Examples — that show the application of best practices and the magnitude of savings that can result
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- Stay on the Cutting Edge — with information on leading-edge research and new technologies just emerging in the marketplace
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- Learn More — using links to an extensive body of resources from the trade press and research institutions
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The public pins most of the blame for poor college graduation rates on students and their parents and gives a pass to colleges, government officials and others, a new Associated Press-Stanford University poll shows.
All sectors of American higher education received high marks for quality. That extends to for-profit colleges, despite recent criticism of dubious recruiting tactics, high student loan default rates and other problems at some schools.
The belief that students are most at fault for graduation rates is a troubling sign for reformers who have elevated college completion to the forefront of higher education policy debates and pushed colleges to fix the problem, said Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education and business administration at Stanford.
“The message is, ‘Students, you had your shot at college and failed and it’s your fault, not the college,’” Kirst said.
When asked where the blame lies for graduation rates at public four-year colleges, 7 in 10 said students shouldered either a great deal or a lot of it, and 45 percent felt that way about parents.
Others got off relatively easy: Anywhere between 25 percent and 32 percent of those polled blamed college administrators, professors, teachers, unions, state education officials and federal education officials.
“We’re all responsible for our own education, and by the time you get to college you are definitely responsible and mature,” said Deanna Ginn, a mother of 12 from Fairbanks, Alaska.
Taking a closer look at the numbers:
- Republicans are likelier than Democrats to blame federal officials for today’s college graduation rates – 34 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of Democrats point at them.
- There’s a small partisan difference on the student blame question: Seventy-seven percent of Republicans and 68 percent of Democrats fault students heavily.
- Minorities are more prone than whites to blame professors and teachers for college graduation rates, with 40 percent of minorities but just 29 percent of whites doing so.
- Fifty-seven percent of minorities blame parents for college graduation rates, while just 40 percent of whites do.
Sara Goldrick-Rab, assistant professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the results are deeply troubling and mean elite colleges and universities have succeeded in diverting blame from themselves.
“Those supporting the completion agenda need to push back – hard – and emphasize the role colleges play in supporting or undermining student success,” she said.
After long emphasizing access to college, higher education policy debates have shifted only recently to focusing on getting students through. The Obama administration has called for the United States to again lead the world in number of college graduates by 2020.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation and others have directed money and attention to states and colleges to improve completion rates, and several states are taking action.
Stan Jones, president of Complete College America, which championed such efforts, disagreed that the poll spells trouble for reform.
“This will play out like the high school dropout issue,” he said. “The more it becomes a subject of public discussion the more advances we will make on confronting the college dropout problem.”
Just over half of first-time students who entered college in 2003-04 had not earned a degree or credential within six years, the Education Department reported recently. That’s slightly worse than students who started in 1995-96.
Experts caution it is tricky to measure success and compare graduation rates because today’s older, less-traditional college student population takes more time to finish school and is harder to track.
The AP-Stanford poll found most people were happy with the quality of higher education in their states.
Despite severe budget cuts and spiraling tuition at many public four-year colleges, those schools received the highest marks: Seventy-four percent in the poll called them excellent or good.
But others institutions got strong marks, too: Four-year private nonprofit colleges (71 percent), two-year public colleges (69 percent), private for-profit colleges (66 percent) and private for-profit trade schools (57 percent).
That’s a rare glimpse at public opinion about for-profit colleges, which have been fighting proposed regulations that would that would cut off federal aid.
The poll also found overwhelming agreement that there is a link between the nation’s prosperity and the quality of its education system.
Overall, 88 percent say economic prosperity and quality education are closely entwined, a 12-percentage-point increase over a similar poll two years ago. Nearly 80 percent said that having all Americans graduate from a two- or four-year college would help the economy.
Yet most in the poll are unwilling to invest more in the nation’s school systems in order to obtain that economic payoff – just 42 percent favor raising taxes to pay for better education.
The poll was conducted September 23-30 by Abt SRBI Inc. It involved interviews on landline and cellular telephones with 1,001 adults nationwide, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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Water continues to be our most precious commodity; humans can’t survive without it, neither can animals or plants. And while water issues do exist in every corner of the world, urban areas can be some of the most demanding, yet possess the greatest opportunities for efficient water management.
This year on World Water Day, we call attention to the impact of urbanization, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
Approximately half of the global population now resides in urban areas, and according to the United Nations report: World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 Revision, most of the planet’s population growth will be absorbed by such urban areas over the next forty years – increasing the level of urbanization from 50% to 69% in 2050.
As urban areas continue to grow, the demands on local water sources increase and water scarcity becomes a vexing problem, especially to the poorest citizens. When municipalities can’t keep up with demands placed on water treatment facilities, the result is an increase in pollution, both locally and in downstream bodies of water.
“We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking-water, sanitation and basic health care.” – Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General.
While the United Nations continues to do an incredible job of raising awareness, at local, national and global levels, effective solutions will only come about when more individuals – Like You – become aware of these issues and encourage governments, corporations, and fellow citizens to address the critical need for clean water! | <urn:uuid:e6b02db6-2aa5-4ca0-b56b-cd36f58b4879> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://globalpatriot.com/2011/03/22/world-water-day-2011-helping-a-thirsty-planet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90314 | 343 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Thanks to a recent BBC special we recently learned that Sir Jony Ive is now the proud holder of a Blue Peter badge. A segment is now available on YouTube.
The interview, part of which was conducted in Ive’s lab where Apple’s designs are born, has revealed a couple of interesting facts about Apple, and Sir Ive himself.
According to the segment embedded above, Ive also went to the same high-school as David Beckham, the world-famous footballer (or soccer player, for all you Americans out there).
Another interesting thing revealed by Ive is how Apple decides on the names of its products.
Sir Ive says when they’re in a meeting they try not to get stuck on a particular word describing the object in question, as it may hamper creativity.
The company likes to think outside the box (in this particular example, literally):
“If we’re thinking of a lunchbox, we’d be really careful about not having the word ‘box’” says Ive, adding that it might “give you bunch of ideas that could be quite narrow.”
“Because you think of a box being a square and like a cube. And so we’re quite careful with the words we use because those can sort of determine the path that you go down,” he says. | <urn:uuid:b03ad033-961f-4a40-80ee-f7802a9d8413> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-s-Jony-Ive-Was-School-Mates-with-David-Beckham-331162.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965355 | 290 | 1.859375 | 2 |
MakinseySouth Harrison High School, WV, United States
RandiSouth Harrison High School, WV, United States
CarlySouth Harrison High School, WV, United States
ChrisSouth Harrison High School, WV, United States
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Cheri ChenowethSouth Harrison High School, WV, United States
Philosophy, Religion & Mythology > Religions
Ages 9 and up
Online Activity / Game
Teacher Resources (Lesson Plans, Worksheets)
Video / Sound
During the creation of this Web site our group had to overcome a few challenges; to figure the content of each person Web page. Because our Web site content covered 4 B.C. to current times we had to decide what the sites were going to include, and make sure the dates and data was accurate. We worked very well together in order to complete the project. We decided quickly on each person’s role in the group and project was completed with very few problems.
The topic of this project, for the team, was Christianity through the Ages, and it was a very diverse group of people. Our group consisted of someone who knew very little about the religion, and three who go to church regularly and participate in youth groups. For us this project was difficult with the various beliefs and values, but although we had difficulty, the group pulled together and did a Web site as a team. | <urn:uuid:f46899c5-957c-44b8-a798-bd986dbc2c42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/f?p=52300:100:1200245005960108::::P100_TEAM_ID:415510159 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97092 | 295 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Spam Boom Prompts Call for Businesses to Ditch Email
It's become a big part of organizational communications, but could the business world survive without email? A European security agency is pitching that notion following reports that spam is on the rise again on the Web. Progress made last year in fighting junk emails has been lost so far in 2013, with an especially alarming rise in malware-bearing spam putting a focus on the inherent security flaws in email.
Just when we thought the spam scourge was over, it appears it's making a comeback.
After four straight quarters of decline, spam volumes on the Internet rose 92 percent in February, according to security firm Eleven Research Team.
Nasty forms of spam also showed significant increases. Phishing emails jumped 69.8 percent, malware-bearing messages rose 156.9 percent, and virus outbreaks related to emails climbed 49.8 percent.
Given those numbers, it shouldn't be surprising that last week the European Network and Information Security Agency, in what is called a "Flash Note," called for a campaign to stop using email.
Email is insecure, primarily because there's no way to reliably authenticate the author of a message or its true point of origin, the agency said. That makes is extremely hard for whomever receives the message to evaluate its threat potential.
In the short-term, encryption and user authentication frameworks may act as temporary fixes for the problem, the agency noted. In the long run, industry, businesses and governments should explore alternative methods that offer better protection from spoofing or phishing.
Home Brew Weapons?
Security wasn't the focus of the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas last week, but it popped up when Cody R. Wilson, a sort of 3D printing anarchist, announced a new Website, Defcad.
The site would be an unfettered home for 3D printer files -- whether those files produce patent-protected products or not.
Wilson has gained some notoriety by creating firearm components with a 3D printer. That home brew approach to producing guns isn't new, according to Michael Weinberg, vice president of Public Knowledge in Washington, D.C.
"The 3D printer gun folks are actually building on the work of a group of people who have existed for some time who use computer-controlled lathes to make their own guns," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Even before 3D printing, there were people downloading files off the Internet and creating guns at home."
How Likes Can Say More Than You Think
A new study put Facebook in the privacy spotlight last week.
A team of researchers at Cambridge University in the UK discovered they could make accurate assumptions about a person's personal proclivities by studying their Facebook Likes, such as what kind of food they liked, causes they supported or where they shopped.
For example, they found they could predict a person's race in 95 percent of the cases; gender in 93 percent of the cases; sexual orientation for males (88 percent) and females (75 percent), political party in 85 percent of the cases and religion in 82 percent of the cases.
The study illustrates how privacy on the Internet is an issue of control, noted Adi Kamdar, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"You need to be aware of how your information and data is being used," he told TechNewsWorld. "That's why transparency is so important. We don't want information put out there for one person to be used or exploited for other purposes."
The study should be an eye opener for users, observed G.S. Hans, a Plesser Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
"We hope that this study will help users to think more carefully and more critically about their actions online and what the inadvertent consequences could be of those actions," he told TechNewsWorld.
Concerns About Federal Banking Data
The U.S. Treasury Department found itself in a tempest when a report from Reuters said the agency was preparing a plan to open up its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network database to the federal intelligence community.
In its response to the Reuters story, Treasury noted that the intelligence community already has access to FinCEN and that it had no intentions of broadening that access.
FinCEN was created during the Nixon years to better investigate drug dealers when they deposited cash in banks.
All cash deposits of $10,000 or more are reported to FinCEN. Nowadays a lot of that activity comes from retailers making cash deposits after a day's business.
Over the years, the quality of the information in FinCEN has declined, according to J . Bradley Jansen, director of the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights. That's opened up law enforcement agencies to technological hucksters.
"There are private vendors who think they can sell law enforcement on new products that will help them mine that data and come up with statistical profiles that can be used in place of legitimate police work," he told TechNewsWorld.
Data Breach Diary
- March 11. Credit reports for a number of public figures, including First Lady Michelle Obama, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Paris Hilton posted to website in Russia. The information was verified as coming from one of the big three credit agencies -- Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. According to TransUnion, the data thieves had more than enough personal information to login to an agency and obtain a target's credit report.
- March 12. Wired reports that sports apparel retailer Genesco files $13 million lawsuit against Visa and Mastercard for arbitrary and unauthorized levying of penalties on the company for a data breach in which no evidence was found that credit card information had been stolen.
- March 14. National Institute of Standards and Technology acknowledges that its servers, including one hosting the U.S. government's catalog of digital vulnerabilities, have been offline since March 8 when suspicious traffic was observed emanating from the servers. Partial service was restored by March 15.
- March 14. U.S. prosecutors indict Reuters editor Matthew Keys, 26, in California, charging that he fed Tribune Company server logins to the hacktivist collective Anonymous group in 2010, which at least one hacker used to sabotage part of The Los Angeles Times' website.
- Matthew Keys, 26, of Secaucus, N.J., faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on several federal charges related to the security breach of Tribune Company.
Upcoming Security Events
- March 20. Mobile Technology and Its Impact on Analysis and Dissemination of Intelligence. 7-9 a.m. Lockheed Martin Corporation, 13560 Dulles Technology Dr., Herndon, Va.
- March 20. Mitigating the Top Human Risks. 1 p.m. ET. Webinar sponsored by RSA and SANS Institute. Free.
- March 20. Cyberthreats from China, Russia and Iran: Protecting American Critical Infrastructure. 311 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 2 p.m. U.S. House Homeland Security Committee. Public Hearing.
- March 28. Trends in Government Security - Risk Management, Compliance and Technology. 1 p.m. Webinar. Free.
- April 9. Mobile Devices and Identity and Access Control Applications. Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nev. Sponsored by Smart Card Alliance. Registration: US$470-$590.
- April 23-24. Black Hat Embedded Security Summit. McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. Registration: Before Feb. 9, $999; Feb. 9-Apr. 18, $1,099; Apr. 19-25, $1,199.
- April 23-25. Infosecurity Europe. Earls Court, London, UK. Registration: By Apr. 19, free; After Apr. 19, Pounds 20.
- June 11. Cybersecurity Brainstorm. 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m.ET. Newseum, Washington, D.C. Registration for non-government attendees: Before March 3, $395; Mar. 3-Jun. 10, $495; Onsite, $595. | <urn:uuid:1386d552-ff8c-4be9-bd5c-a7eeece07037> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77554.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938237 | 1,676 | 2 | 2 |
The Ohio Voters First
campaign for Issue 2 has shined some
light into how Ohio’s district boundaries are redrawn. In a new graph,
the campaign revealed that getting a business added to a district
is sometimes as simple as asking for a favor.
Just a day before the approval of Ohio’s new district maps, Tom Whatman, a Boehner staffer, sent an email to Adam Kincaid, a staffer for the National Republican Congressional Committee, and others in charge of redistricting. In the back-and-forth, Whatman asks for a “small carve out” to include a manufacturing business in the congressional district for Rep. Jim Renacci, a Republican who has received support from the business in the past. Before 13 minutes had passed, Kincaid replied to Whatman, securing the change with no questions asked.
“Thanks guys,” Whatman replied. “Very important to someone important to us all.”
If Issue 2 is approved by voters this November, the redistricting process will be placed in the hands of an independent citizens commission. Under the current system, the state government is tasked with redrawing district boundaries every 10 years. Republicans have controlled the process four out of six times since 1967, which is when the process was first enacted into law. The political party in charge typically redraws districts in a politically favorable manner in a process known as “gerrymandering.”
On Saturday, Rep. Steve Chabot, who represents Cincinnati in the U.S. House of Representatives, told supporters to vote against Issue 2. Chabot is enormously benefiting off the current redistricting process. Cincinnati’s district was redrawn to include Warren County, which has more rural voters that typically vote Republican, and less of Cincinnati, which has more urban voters that typically vote Democrat. The shift to less urban voters is emphasized in this graph by MapGrapher: | <urn:uuid:e7c8c740-9e6d-4143-8737-48d9fea71262> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-26151-boehner_staffer_got_redistricting_request_filed_in_13_minutes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969736 | 401 | 1.742188 | 2 |
To help improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or the "HITECH Act" established programs under Medicare and Medicaid to provide incentive payments for the "meaningful use" of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. The HITECH Act is a part of the federal stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals as they adopt, implement, upgrade or demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology. These incentive programs are designed to support providers in this period of Health IT transition and to encourage their use of EHR.
Two federal agencies, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), are responsible for developing program standards and provider requirements for receiving incentive payments. In July 2010, ONC and CMS published the first set of final rules on EHR incentive programs, including what providers must do to receive incentive payments in 2011 and 2012.
For more information please visit CMS' s and ONC's web site dedicated to the EHR incentive program.
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Mar 9th , 2010
One of the challenges of working in the field of assistive technology is figuring out how various tools can work together to support students with writing disabilities. Written language is an extremely complex and demanding task that assumes that the student has a good foundation in organization, grammar, mechanics, idea, and punctuation. If you are a good writer you take for granted all of the sub-skills that are needed in order to get your ideas down in a coherent fashion. For students that struggle with written language writing an essay or book report can be a frustrating and daunting experience. For many students whom I have worked with, written language is their weakest skill and one of their least liked school activities. So then how can we provide these students with some scaffolding and supports to help them to be more successful when doing their school writing projects? As an assistive technology consultant I am often asked by teachers and schools to help them match the students learning profile, the tasks, and recommend some tools that can support the student in the area of written language. Many students with written language disabilities often have difficulty starting their writing assignments and often need some software applications to help structure the task and help them move through the process.
In my professional experience software tools like Inspiration are wonderful for students who need the opportunity to brainstorm and need a more structured approach to their writing assignment. Inspiration is an ideal tool for brainstorming and freeing up the students to get their ideas down without the need to be concerned about the order or structure of their ideas. Using the RapidFire feature within Inspiration is a great way to engage students in the process of creatively getting their ideas down on the screen before setting off to write. The latest version of Inspiration now supports mind mapping and allows students to create visually appealing mind maps with the flexibility of allowing students to move their ideas around freely in the mind map. Giving students this freedom allows them to work with their ideas and organize them into a more coherent piece.
For students who may need more structure and support Inspiration can provide that as well. Many teachers that I have worked with using Inspiration, have developed their own writing templates which can provide students with the necessary prompts to help engage them in the writing process. In the screenshot provided you can see how one teacher provided a structure for a basic paragraph. Teachers can create frameworks for their students depending on the type of writing assignment that can go a long way in helping students to break down the task as they move through the writing process. Teachers also have access to a rich array of built-in templates that they can draw from and are easily accessible from within Inspiration. For students that need text to speech support that is available within Inspiration and can be easily accessed by students. Once students access the prompts that has been created by their teachers they are ready to get their ideas down. Inspiration is a very flexible tool and students can add their ideas into the mind map or into a more traditional outline. Whichever method they choose, they will be glad to know that their work will be saved and can be transferred to Microsoft Word. Students also have the option to add Sticky Notes and Audio notes to their graphic organizer which are just two other ways for them to get their ideas down before they begin to do more traditional writing. It is important when using Inspiration in the writing process to help the students understand that while it may seem to them like one more step that in the long run when they use this strategy that they will become more proficient and productive writers.
For students who have moved through this process and transferred their written work from Inspiration to Microsoft Word they will immediately see the benefits. Some of the students will have the “Aha” moment when they see how quickly they were able to put a draft together. Working within Microsoft Word the students now have access to a suite of tools and features that will let them flesh out their written work.
For students that need more spelling and grammar support- they can look to Ginger to provide it. Ginger is an easy to use spelling and grammar correction tool that is unique in that it looks at words that are misspelled in the context of the sentence. So unlike typical spelling correction tools that just check for common spelling errors, Ginger helps to support students by looking at the word in the context of the sentence.
With Ginger’s powerful algorithms and text to speech support students can feel confident that what they hand in is correct. With so many wonderful tools out there for students to access to support their written work it is great to know that Inspiration, Microsoft Word, and Ginger can work so fluidly with one another to support the writing process for student with writing disabilities. | <urn:uuid:3ddbe130-bd6e-4647-a1f7-536e02a9a661> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gingersoftware.com/blog/using_inspiration_word_and_ginger_support_writing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97186 | 948 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) have become the cornerstone of a new age in global network communications that support multiple data, voice and video applications on a single network. An IP VPN is a routed link between two or more points across a shared network infrastructure with various degrees of security.
As business needs evolve and bandwidth requirements change, traditional network services such as Frame Relay and ATM are giving way to a more popular technology for connecting multiple sites with Wide Area Network (WAN) links – the Virtual Private Network (VPN). In particular, IP VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology.
MPLS IP VPNs provide a fully integregrated architecture which sharpens site-to-site performance tremendously, while achieving lower costs of ownership. | <urn:uuid:8bf43acb-f0bc-4e96-96af-48149bcefd72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.xwv.net/page.cfm?mypage=IPVPN | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914337 | 265 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Thank you to fellow Waymarker, audreydog, for the following additional information:
"This was built as a Trail of Tears museum in the early 80s. After it closed, the city took it over."
Huntsville is the seat of Madison County, a rural county in the Arkansas Ozarks.
The area which is now Huntsville has been inhabited at least 10,000 years. Early inhabitants lived in the White River lowlands, farming there and building some mound centers; the upland shelters served as storage areas, burial sites, and temporary camps. Artifacts of the Mississippian culture have been found at the Huntsville Mounds, an archaeological site near the town. By the historic period, all of what is now Madison County was part of the Osage hunting grounds. Treaties in 1808 and 1825 ceded Osage interest in these lands to the United States. The signature of Hurachais, the War Eagle,appears on the 1825 treaty; he is commonly thought to have been the Osage leader in the Huntsville area, and a local creek and township are named after him.
Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood
Explorers from Alabama came to what is now Huntsville in 1827. It was named after their hometown, though most local settlers were from Tennessee. Madison County was established in 1836, and it was clear that Huntsville would be the county seat. The first courthouse was built there in 1837, in the central town square. The town was also surveyed in that year by county surveyor Thomas McCuistion (who also served as a schoolmaster at one of the county’s earliest schools just outside Huntsville). John Buchanan, the only postmaster in the region, moved his post office to the town at that time, along with his home. He attempted to change the name of the town to Sevierville, in recognition of Ambrose Sevier, but was not successful. The post office was officially named Huntsville on January 17, 1840.
The Trail of Tears passed through Huntsville, with Native Americans heading from Alabama to Oklahoma in the course of what was then known as Indian Removal.
By the early 1840s, Huntsville had two stores, a blacksmith, and a hotel, and growth continued until the outbreak of the Civil War, at which time there were numerous stores, saloons, blacksmiths, saddlers, mills, stables, lawyers, and a newspaper. Isaac Murphy, later to be the eighth governor of Arkansas, settled in Huntsville in 1854. A girls’ school was opened just south of Huntsville in 1857. Methodist and Presbyterian churches found homes in Huntsville. The town was a center for business and entertainment for the agricultural communities surrounding it, and a convenient stopping point for travelers.
Civil War through Reconstruction
No battles took place in Huntsville, but the Civil War had a profound effect on the town. Several battalions were mustered in Huntsville, and soldiers from both armies were garrisoned there as they passed through. Since the sympathies of the people of Madison County were divided and the area was not under control of either army, guerillas were very active in the region. Many lives were lost, and the town’s economy was essentially destroyed.
One incident, known as “the Huntsville Massacre,” took place in the town on January 10, 1863. The Union army under General Francis J. Herron executed nine prisoners of war. A letter from Colonel C. W. Marsh referred to this as “murder” and “a great outrage.” Most of these men were buried in Huntsville.
The first courthouse, and much of the rest of the town, burned down during the Civil War. Most businesses were closed, the newspaper shut down, and normal life was suspended. Following the war, the remaining residents began to rebuild their lives and businesses. Former slaves remained in the area, with the African-American population growing until the twentieth century.
The first public school district in Madison County was the Huntsville district, established in 1868. A number of newspapers began publication during this period, though none lasted long.
In many ways, life in Huntsville after the Civil War was a matter of rebuilding to the point at which they had been before the war. The timber industry became central to the local economy, but otherwise, subsistence farming of the pioneer variety was the rule. Huntsville continued to be the major town and the business center of the area.
Early Twentieth Century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the railroad took a route through St. Paul, in the southern part of Madison County, rather than through Huntsville. St. Paul was a boom town and, at one point, outgrew Huntsville and petitioned to become the county seat. Huntsville was able to maintain its position by virtue of its history and more central geographic location.
The 1920s were a time of prosperity for Huntsville. A high school (the State Vocational School) was built, electricity became available, and automobiles began to be seen around town. Timber was still a profitable industry, and tomatoes and fruit were important cash crops. Bootlegging was also profitable, and Huntsville developed a reputation for wild living. The town was legally incorporated on July 16, 1925.
The Great Depression hit all of Madison County hard, though. The practices common in the timber industry had led to erosion, and the hilly soil was not suited to row crops such as corn or wheat. Even the small cash crops and subsistence crops that farmers had relied upon failed or became unprofitable. Madison County had cases of rabies, diphtheria, and malaria, as well as malnutrition. The population of the county declined, the railroads were dismantled, and the timber industry collapsed. Without the support of surrounding agriculture, Huntsville had no customers for its businesses.
New Deal work projects built roads and electric lines. The current four-story courthouse was dedicated on November 30, 1939. In 1993, the Art Deco structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places. But there was essentially no industry to support the population.
World War II through the Faubus Era
World War II took able-bodied men from Huntsville and extended the hard times of the Depression. However, as demand for chickens to supplement military rations increased the need for poultry, this variety of farming began to offer hope for local agriculture. Northwest Arkansas entrepreneurs such as the Tyson and George families developed efficient methods and made forays into marketing, increasing consumer demand for poultry. Poultry and then cattle farming became the mainstays of the area’s economy.
The thirty-seventh governor of Arkansas, Orval E. Faubus, lived in Huntsville, where his famous 12,000-square-foot house was built in the late 1960s by renowned architect E. Fay Jones. It is east of town on Governor’s Hill. Faubus holds the distinction of continuously serving longer than any other Arkansas governor. He is buried in Madison County in the Combs Cemetery.
Huntsville continues to be largely agricultural. The main industry in town is the Butterball Turkey Plant. Labarge Electronics is another important employer. Construction is a significant source of employment, as a natural result of the high level of growth in the county. Otherwise, Huntsville continues to provide goods and services for the surrounding agricultural communities.
School consolidations established Huntsville as the center of education in Madison County. New roads have made Huntsville more accessible. Immigrants from Mexico have brought the beginnings of new ethnic diversity to Huntsville, yet Huntsville remains a classic Ozark town.
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Metformin and Surgery or Screening Test Dangers
Knowing the right information about Metformin and Surgery is key because you have to address your doctor the right question(s)…
Metformin is a powerful oral medication for controlling blood sugar. One of the problems with taking Metformin is handling surgery and tests. Even minor outpatient procedures can be a problem if you aren’t aware of the complications.
Healthy blood sugar is balanced: having too little is just as dangerous a having too much. Unfortunately, when you have stop taking in food and liquid by mouth, the source for any blood sugar has been cut off. A number of medical procedures come with an order of NPO. This stands for the Latin phrases Nil Per Os and simply means nothing to be taken by mouth for the specified period.
The order NPO is common for checking things such as cholesterol levels and even blood sugar level. However, when you stop your intake, extra case is needed to handle your diabetes and Metformin. Perhaps the most important is communication.
Assuming every doctor you work with knows about your diagnosis for diabetes isn’t unreasonable. However, it’s not safe to assume this. If a doctor or other health care professional orders a procedure for you, always ask if you must be NPO and if so, for how long. If the answer is yes and you don’t get any more direction, always follow-up with a question like, “What do you recommend for managing my blood sugar during this time?”
Metformin and Surgery
You see, if you continue taking regular doses of Metformin in combination with an NPO order, hypoglycemia is highly likely to occur. Even if you’re more used to worrying about elevated blood sugar levels, a level that is too low can be equally dangerous. Another plan is necessary to manage levels and keep them as even as possible during this time.
Sometimes you’ll have to do a fasting test that is specifically for blood sugar levels. Often a person being tested for blood sugar responses will go at least eight hours without any food or water. At the docto’rs office, a large glucose drink will be administered as part of the test. Then perhaps as often as every 20 minutes your blood sugar levels will be tested.
When other tests and procedures require fasting, medical personnel need to coordinate with you to both help you balance your blood sugar and keep you safe from any negative side effects. One of the things that may be recommended is a snack before bedtime and beginning the fast. Most people need more support than this to handle a procedure with fasting. Still, that balanced glycemic snack may be the first step to being okay at the end of the process. When you’re having procedures or tests that require 4-24 hours without intake, Metformin can be a problem. You can end up with dangerously low blood sugar.
Whether you speak with the provider who gives you the NPO instructions or your other doctor, you need to discuss the situation. You may need to adjust the amount of Metformin you take, avoid taking it, or make other plans to balance blood sugar during this time.
Now that you know the right information on Metformin and Surgery you’re armed with powerful questions to extract the gold nuggets from your doctor! | <urn:uuid:4846e955-4008-4206-9a85-be565f76d6c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metforminsideeffectsblog.com/metformin-and-surgery-screening-test-dangers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941881 | 693 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Figure 1. Summary of surveillance data indicating zoonotic and human transmission of West Nile virus (WNV) in Puerto Rico in 2007. Percentage of anti-WNV immunoglobulin (Ig) M–positive chickens per week from June 4 through December 20. Chickens were bled weekly during the beginning of transmission and monthly starting in September 2007. Sixty chickens were placed in the sentinel surveillance sites as previously described by Barrera et al. (7).
The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above. | <urn:uuid:a8d7104e-85ac-47e1-bae3-e7bc71c801a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/8/09-0333-f1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946807 | 166 | 2.734375 | 3 |
iPhoto Mini BrowserShare
The action is designed to kick off workflows, letting you select the photos other actions will act upon. So the Workflow is active while the window is open.
You could add other actions to the Workflow, but you don’t have to. It was demonstrated on an episode of MacBreak Weekly with a second action to open the selected photos in Preview if you clicked Choose instead of Cancel.
You can open the browser a number of ways. To make it highly accessible you might want to assign a function key to it. You can do that with Xkeys, a freeware application Murphy uses in the screencast.
While playing with Automator you might notice an iPhoto action for reviewing photos. It facilitates simply accepting or rejecting photos, and passing them on to another action. You could dump all the rejects to an album for example. Sure, you could do this in iPhoto with other tools. But this action keeps you on task if you’re easily distracted! Maybe we’ll screencast that another day.Watch Now | Permalink | <urn:uuid:2977be5d-8a20-4d81-9632-d9ac45b58197> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://murphymac.com/iphoto-mini-browser/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906709 | 223 | 1.515625 | 2 |
From the piece:
While it may be true that the web has an infinitely long memory, I'm struggling to figure out where to store pictures and anecdotes from the lives of my children.
Given how quickly fashions change on the web - from MySpace to Facebook to Instagram to Twitter - it's hard to believe that anything, no matter how dominant it is today, will still be around in 20 years, much less two years. For those of us who want to collect memories in a somewhat central place, this is a problem.
With many Nokia-made smartphones we have a great camera with us all the time. Most of us upload a large proportion of our digital output to Twitter, Facebook and SkyDrive, to name but three. Yet all three systems, by default, reduce the quality of our uploads and have no guarantee of permanence, at least not beyond the current decade.
The old-school way of doing things is to have a local copy of all JPGs and MP4 videos on a local hard disk, usually on our PC or Mac. Then do a backup of these folders onto another hard disk or into a cloud disk or onto various numbers of DVD-R. None of these will last for decades, but they're lossless and so we can copy the media onto new storage technologies as they come along.
Then there's really old school, printing off photos and so forth, but perhaps we'd better try and keep things lossless and digital, so let's not go there!
So, the question remains, where should we upload our smartphone-shot memories? How should we preserve them for posterity? I'd welcome your thoughts and comments here. | <urn:uuid:40734992-0cad-4787-89d2-e15d6159c6ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/flow/item/15357_Storing_ones_smartphone-shot_p.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956565 | 344 | 1.84375 | 2 |
As Congress contemplates what kind of bailout to give the American auto industry — or indeed, whether to give one at all — during its lame-duck session beginning today, the Chrysler Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 is sure to be on lawmakers’ minds.
In the late 1970’s, crises in the Middle East had sent fuel prices soaring, and Chrysler was sinking under the weight of a gas-guzzling fleet of models. To stave off bankruptcy, the company received $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from Congress. But as The Detroit Free Press noted this morning, the money came with lots of strings attached:
If the hard-fought Chrysler bailout of 30 years ago is any kind of template, expect shared sacrifices from all of the companies’ stakeholders and significant taxpayer protection. Chrysler, too, was dropped in a government-built fishbowl, forcing it to seek approval on all major decisions.
“It was a tough piece of legislation. There were a lot of conditions, really,” former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, who in 1979 served in Congress, said in an interview with the Free Press.
When Lee Iacocca, the chairman of Chrysler at the time, went to Congress to ask for help, he painted a picture of the situation in the auto industry that, other than the quaintly low dollar amounts, could be a description of today. Here is how Charles Hyde summed up his testimony in his 2003 history of Chrysler, Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation:
Lee Iacocca’s opening testimony on 18 October 1979 before the House Banking Committee, which was considering a loan guarantee bill, laid out Chrysler’s basic argument for passage. Given more breathing room, Chrysler would introduce fuel-efficient cars and return to profitability. Bankruptcy was not an option, nor was a merger with another car company. A Chrysler bankruptcy would result in the loss of more than 500,000 jobs nationally and directly affect over a million people. In the first year alone, bankruptcy would cost federal, state, and local governments $10 billion in welfare and unemployment payments, lost taxes, pension liabilities, and other costs.
The next month, the Carter administration announced its support for aid to the struggling car company, and the deal passed the House and Senate. “This legislation does not violate the principle of letting a competitive free enterprise system in our country function on its own, because Chrysler is unique in its present circumstances,” President Carter said as he put his signature to the act on Jan. 7, 1980.
The gamble seemed to pay off for the government. Chrysler settled its debt by 1983, years ahead of schedule, and the Treasury made a profit of more than $300 million on the loans. But some on the right argued that the company’s resurgence was much less of a success story for government intervention than the conventional wisdom has it.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s highly anticipated U.N. speech can be summed up in one word: erratic.
Although he toned down most of the incendiary language he used in previous years, Ahmadinejad whined about how “the current world order is discriminatory and based on injustice.” To replace it, Ahmadinejad tried to lay out a framework to shape a “new world order” that he claimed would “revive human dignity” and be based upon “peace, lasting security and welfare for all walks of life around the globe.”
Of course, Ahmadinejad still found ample time to attack the United States and Israel, which he refused to mention by name. Instead, he referred to Israel as “the Zionists.” At one point, he even had the audacity to refer to Israel as “uncivilized Zionists,” in reference to his claim that they resort to using military threats and actions against Iran to accomplish their goals.
What about Iran? Last year, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz to achieve its goals. How does that not equate to being a military action?
Ahmandinejad set out a list of hypothetical scenarios, including, “Imagine for a moment [how the world would be] had extremism or terrorism not been used to secure political goals.” How deceitful of him, considering that Iran’s Islamist dictatorship—the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism—has relied heavily on terrorism to seize power, attack foreign enemies, and repress domestic opposition.
Just recently, it was reported that Iran had deployed members of its elite Quds force to help the oppressive Assad regime in Syria defeat the rebel opposition there. Given the fact that the Assad regime has a long record of exporting terrorism that is second only to Iran’s, Ahmandinejad would certainly have a difficult time explaining the weapons that his country is exporting to Syria to aid Assad’s forces.
Ahmadinejad ended his speech on a bizarre note that was based in religious doctrine. After clarifying that he believed that U.S. leadership of the current world order was failing, he tried to illustrate a world that would need to come together and establish a new world order to survive.
As usual, Ahmadinejad took jabs at the U.S. and Israel, except that this time, in his last U.N. speech as Iran’s president, he was much calmer and more subtle in his approach. While the tone of his message changed slightly, his mission remained the same: to spread hatred and mistrust of the U.S., Israel, and the entire current world system.
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The Heavens Declare
Today's entry was written by the BioLogos Editorial Team. You can read more about what BioLogos believes here.
The image above, provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula is located about 166,000 light years away from us. At its center (upper right in the picture) is a starburst region consisting of hundreds of the brightest, most active, and most massive stars in the nearby universe.
Modern astronomy has provided us with countless similar images that capture the beauty and mystery of the cosmos.
"Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory." - Chet Raymo, from Skeptics and True Believers
For more beautiful images of the heavens, as well as insightful quotes about faith and the cosmos, be sure to check out The Hand of God, available from the Templeton Foundation Press. | <urn:uuid:f1acb7b7-39ab-4099-918f-9c020c7b2523> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biologos.org/blog/the-heavens-declare | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939244 | 283 | 3.5 | 4 |
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said her government would not encourage projects affecting people's welfare.
The $2.5 billion China-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines will significantly reduce the cost of China's energy imports.
A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said.
In a complex equation on politics, TAP is in the ascendancy over the Nabucco pipeline to Austria in the face of Russia's $39 bn South Stream plan.
India would lay a pipeline from Jalandhar to Attari and then to Wagah. Post agreement, the project will take at least one-and-half years to complete.
The piped LNG gas would be made available to the Goa households in next two years, as the supply to industries in the state has already begun.
PetroChina, is continuing repairs to a section of gas pipeline that was hit by a blast, but supplies to key nearby cities were not disrupted.
The govt, oil cos and pvt agencies must work together to lay a vast cross-country pipeline network to transport oil, gas and related products in the coming decades.
The issuance of the ordinance had become necessary because a bill to this effect could not be tabled by the government in the budget session of the state legislature earlier this year | <urn:uuid:d4f3bc49-7dcc-41f6-86f9-ae22855c4ce8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Bhatinda-Srinagar-Gas-Pipeline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962411 | 284 | 1.6875 | 2 |
SB 1.3 - The multi forms of the Lord are one
Since there are many different avatāras and Kṛṣṇa Himself has two-armed and four-armed forms, and as well displays ages such as kaumāra and kaiśora, and they are all said to be eternal, still it does not mean there are many Gods. SB 10.40.7 says He is one God manifested as many. The jīva at different times in saṁsāra shows different temporary forms with less or more power, but the one Supreme Lord by His inconceivable energy can simultaneously have infinite eternal forms which are not different from Him. The jīvas show infinite variety simply because there are infinite jīvas. The Lord shows infinite variety of forms by being one person. Thus when the jīva sees the Lord, he perceives the Lord as if there are many Lords, like jīvas.
The Mahā-varāha Purāṇa says that all the forms of the Lord are eternal, appearing constantly within the material world with bodies of Paramātmā, without any destructible elements made of prakṛti. Though the forms are perfect and complete, they are called aṁśa because they display only various degrees of the Lord’s qualities such as sweetness, power and mercy. Real completeness means fully displaying all the powers which takes place in the aṁśī. And SB 3.8.4 also says that Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa meditates upon His Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva. There is nothing contradictory if there are differences between the aṁśī and aṁśa, since the Lord is spiritual substance. There are two types of aṁśas, the expansions of the Lord and the jīvas.
Whoever carefully recites the mysterious appearances of the Lord, with devotion in the morning and in the evening, gets relief from all miseries of life. In the gītā it is said that one who knows the principles of the transcendental birth and activities of the Lord will go back to Godhead after leaving one’s body. Thus the birth and activities of the Lord are not ordinary. Only one who goes deep into the matter by spiritual devotion can understand the mystery of the Lord. | <urn:uuid:b312c0ae-6ac0-42dd-9eaf-e700ce4a0e4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.krishna.com/forums/sb-13-multi-forms-lord-are-one | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955884 | 496 | 2.078125 | 2 |
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876, as the third of seven children. His parents, Irwin M. and Emma Anderson, moved from town to town frequently after the failure of Anderson's father's business. Anderson attended school only intermittently in order to help his family's finances by working a variety of odd jobs including stable boy, house painter, and newsboy. He left school at the age of 14. His father (a former Union soldier) worked as a harness maker and house painter after the family finally settled down in Clyde, Ohio. Anderson moved to Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 17, where he worked in a factory by day and was a business student by night. He joined the National Guard in 1895 at the age of 19 and fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. After his service ended, Anderson returned to Ohio and finished a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College in Springfield.
Anderson moved around Ohio frequently until 1904 when he married Cornelia Lane, a woman of good education and background, and fathered three children. He began to write fiction while working in a manufacturing plant in Elyria. Anderson left Lane and his children and moved back to Chicago after suffering an emotional collapse in 1912, and stayed there working as a copy writer for the Taylor-Critchfield Advertising Company. While in Chicago he also joined the "Chicago Group," which included other writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Carl Sandburg. In 1916, Anderson divorced Lane; he later claimed that she had been unsympathetic to his attempts at writing. He then married sculptor and musician Tennessee Mitchell.
Shortly after his divorce, Anderson wrote his first two novels, Windy McPherson's Son (1916) and Marching Men (1917). In 1919, he began writing what would eventually become his most famous work, Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of related short stories. His short stories were soon successful, and he published additional collections such as The Triumphs of the Egg (1921), Horses and Men (1923), and Death in the Woods (1933). Between 1920 and 1922, he wrote the novel Poor White (1920) and various other works and ended his marriage to Mitchell.
In 1923, Anderson published the novel Many Marriages, which was a moderate success and was praised by other authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anderson married Elizabeth Prall and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1924. It was here that he wrote his best-seller, Dark Laughter (1925). Anderson's third marriage was beginning to break down but was sustained with the help of Eleanor Copenhaver, a social worker who was also his future wife.
Anderson moved to Marion, Virginia, where he built a house and worked on his farm and also edited two newspapers he had purchased in 1927. He also wrote for the newspapers (Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat) under the pen name of Buck Fever and even lectured to earn extra income. Anderson finally separated from Prall in 1929 (officially divorced in 1932) and married Copenhaver in 1933.
Anderson died March 8, 1941, at the age of 64 of peritonitis while on a ship in the Panama area. It was discovered in an autopsy that he had swallowed a toothpick from a martini which perforated his colon. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia.
The Sherwood Anderson Collection contains about 100 letters either from or to Anderson, ranging in date from 1922 to 1945. The material is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. This collection was previously accessible only through a card catalog, but has been recataloged as part of a retrospective conversion project.
The correspondence mainly consists of letters from Anderson to the woodcut artist J. J. Lankes. Also in the collection are correspondence to and from playwright H. S. Kraft, postcards from spouse Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, and several other letters from Anderson to other correspondents. All correspondent names are noted in the Index of Correspondents in this finding aid.
Open for research
Purchases, 1968-1973 (R4498, R5102, R6030)
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Global Social Business Summit
"Only if we imagine a better world, we will ultimately also create it. If we on the other hand develop no imagination, then we cannot change anything."
With these words Prof. Muhammad Yunus opened the Global Social Business Summit at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg from 4-5 November 2010, addressing over 300 decision makers from 47 nations.
Having their vision in mind, they shared their creativity, reflecting and discussing for two days together on social business and a new economic way of thinking. Several formats framed the annual gathering of the social business community: 19 different topic oriented workshops; a public speech of Prof. Yunus and acclaimed author Paulo Coelho; panel discussions with social business pioneers and investors; a marketplace with 20 existing social business initiatives as well as the German film premiere of "To catch a dollar: Muhammad Yunus banks on America" are just a few highlights of this unforgettable event.
Program / Agenda
The Global Social Business Summit 2010 was a 2-day congress with the following agenda:
4 November 2010
with Otto Ferdinand Wachs (Autostadt GmbH),
Hans Reitz (The Grameen Creative Lab GmbH)
and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus
10:45 a.m. – 04:00 p.m.
Social Business Focus Groups are a unique opportunity to use inter-disciplinary dialogue to foster innovative solutions for core issues in social business. Small, theme-specific working groups will mix experts from leading companies with innovative thinkers from top universities, and fresh young talent with experienced practitioners. By switching participants between groups, ideas and people will make new and rewarding connections. The themes of the Focus Groups will reflect the personal interests that participants highlight in their registration documents. The following themes will be on offer:
• Financing social business
• Legal aspects of social business
• Social business and charity
• Healthcare as social business
• Education as social business
• Nutrition as social business
• Drinking water as social business
• Social business in environment and energy
• Application of IT & telecoms in social business
• Social business to address the problems of marginalized groups
• Social business for post-crisis rebuilding
• Road maps for social business in France, Germany, Japan, UK and USA
• Funds and other ways of financing social business
• Social business for the empowerment of women
• Social business in Africa
• Communicating social business
• Microcredit as social business
04:00 p.m. – 07:00 p.m.
The meeting place for specialists: the Social Business Expert Meetings are an excellent occasion to meet other people who share the same background and are involved with social business worldwide – an ideal way to share experiences, know-how, and to make global contacts. Specialized Social Business Expert Meetings are planned for the following participants:
07:30 p.m. – 09:00 p.m.
Prof. Yunus with author and social business ambassador Paulo Coelho
5 November 2010
10:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Social Business Panel 1:
“Social business – A question of leadership?”
12:00 p.m. – 03:00 p.m.
Marketplace of Social Business
guided tour followed by free flow
In the Social Business Marketplace you can find out about innovative ideas, new projects and ground-breaking best practices that ingeniously put the concept of social business into practice. Thanks to a guided tour as well as the „free flow“ event afterwards, you will gain a representative overview of social businesses worldwide and will also have the unique opportunity to meet and discuss with people who are directly involved in these businesses. The Social Business Marketplace will introduce you the following:
• The Grameen joint venture partners
• The „Holistic Social Business Movements“ of Caldas(Colombia), Haiti and Albania
• Social Business @ Universities
• …and many more besides
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