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Women of a certain age (18-30ish) seem to fall into a nebulous category best described by pop sensation Britney Spears – not a girl, not yet a woman. As cheesy as that comparison is, it becomes especially relevant when attempting to classify the young women seen on television. I realized this year that I had watched three different TV shows explicitly about the trials and tribulations of “girls” – New Girl (FOX), 2 Broke Girls (CBS), and Girls (HBO). Following in a long line of similarly-named shows (Gossip Girl, Secret Life of a Call Girl, and my favourite, Gilmore Girls), this year’s crop of girl-themed programs have little in common save for a few key features: the main characters of each show are white, they are all dealing with money problems, and they are all between the ages of 22 and 32 (give or take).
I started thinking about this trend when I realized that I could not think of a single television show that mentioned “women” in the title. A quick Internet search revealed only a few recent examples: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998), Bionic Woman (1976-1978), and TLC’s Police Women reality series (2009-present). In comparison, I thought of a few shows about “men” right off the bat: Mad Men, Two and a Half Men, and the now-cancelled Men of a Certain Age. The only recent shows about “boys” were Boy Meets World and My Boys, both of which are off the air now. Aside from these exceptions, current shows about adult men are explicitly titled as such, while women-centred shows usually involve a woman’s name, profession, or, as we saw this year, the word “bitch” (GCB, “Don’t Trust the B* in Apt. 23”).
Legally, the characters on New Girl, 2 Broke Girls and Girls are no longer “girls,” but they don’t exemplify many of the stereotypical traits associated with “grown women” – having children, having a spouse, working a stable job or owning a house. In contrast, their girliness makes them entertaining to watch because of the funny and odd situations in which they find themselves. The funny and quirky girls become separated from the invisible spectre of “serious womanhood,” and the former becomes more appealing to viewers.
However, when the image of the zany-but-still-cute girl is compromised, people get uncomfortable, as can be seen in the flood of opinion unleashed following the release of Lena Dunham’s series Girls in April. Her depictions of sex alone have caused a stir among critics. Frank Bruni of the New York Times writes: “You watch these scenes and other examples of the zeitgeist-y, early-20s heroines of ‘Girls’ engaging in, recoiling from, mulling and mourning sex, and you think: Gloria Steinem went to the barricades for this?” Others have set Dunham up as a beneficiary of nepotism, because both of her parents are successful visual artists. Still others have lambasted the show for being “profoundly bland as it is unstoppably irritating.”
The most widespread and harshest critique of the show has arguably been the lack of diversity among the main characters of the show. This is a valid critique of the show, and one that has been discussed in insightful ways, and it is interesting that this is the one show in recent memory to have sparked such debate over race visibility in popular culture.
It’s hard to say what portion of these critiques are about the show itself, and what portion is a reaction to how hyped the show was in the first place. After all, smart people on the Internet seem to have a visceral reaction towards things that they are “supposed” to like, and everyone is entitled to an opinion. But after a few weeks of nonstop commentary, the general theme is still largely one of personal antagonism towards Dunham that seems to blame her for any and all problems that have arisen on her show.
This is especially true when it comes to the issues of race and casting. Critics have argued that Dunham had a responsibility to introduce marginalized voices into her work, and while holding directors to a high standard is important, this is a systemic problem in the television industry and not something that can be fixed by Dunham alone. In June of last year, Julie Klausner wrote a piece entitled “Don’t Fear the Dowager,” in which she implored women of this age group to avoid the trap of permanent girlhood. She writes: “it’s much harder to bring down a woman, or to call her a moron, when she’s not in pigtails and Ring Pops.”
Klausner is correct in stating that the “girl” label makes it easier for men and women to write off the experiences and opinions of the twenty-something woman, and I see this in the media treatment of Dunham. Profiles of the show and its star focus on her age, the fact that she lives with her parents, and other personal details that enhance her girlish qualities. Dunham’s position as star and showrunner of Girls allows her a certain amount of power not often reserved for women in television, and this appears to be very uncomfortable for a number of critics and producers of media content. [Ed. note: in no way does this mean critiques shouldn’t be used regarding Girls! The argument here is that Dunham is being picked on more than other producers specifically because of her “girlishness.”]
Some commentators appear personally affronted at the audacity of Girls’s characters to be unlikeable, to do “bad” things, and to demand attention without asking first. Specifically in the case of her character Hannah, the scrutiny of Dunham for displaying her body and her anxieties in this “awkward” way represents the unfamiliar presence of women on TV who define, express, and work through their own issues under their own direction.
It doesn’t do viewers any favours to continue to perpetuate the idea that twenty-something “girls” don’t deserve the label of womanhood because of their position in life. This just creates a more rigid divide between “girls” and “women” that shouldn’t exist in the first place, while continuing to dictate how young women should behave. The women of Girls represent more complex characters than the contemporary “girl” archetype permits, and it’s clear from the ongoing discussion around the show that Dunham’s work is not easy to write off as inconsequential fluff.
In an excellent article, Roxane Gay argues that “it is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience,” to be compressed into one TV show or one movie. There is also no magical age at which one stops being a “girl.” Maybe more shows like Gay’s idea of “Grown Women” (see linked article) who occupy this transitional space will help ease my demographic out of perpetual girlhood and to embrace womanhood on our own terms.
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By Maureen Hayden
CNHI Statehouse Bureau
Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising’s push to require the teaching of cursive writing in elementary schools has gotten national attention, including a story last week in the Wall Street Journal.
On Tuesday, that push moved forward as her colleagues in the Senate approved her legislation that would reverse the state Department of Education’s decision to make cursive writing optional.
Now the legislation moves on to the state House, where it died last year.
“People will come up to me and say, ‘Thanks for working on that cursive writing bill,’” said Leising, R-Oldenburg. “And I have to tell them, ‘It’s not a done deal yet.’”
Leising’s legislation to mandate cursive writing instruction passed through the Senate on a 36-13 vote. Among the bill’s supporters is Democrat state Sen. Tim Skinner, a retired schoolteacher from Terre Haute. “Most elementary teachers recognize the importance of this,” Skinner said during discussion on the bill. To bill opponents who said the state shouldn’t be mandating what’s taught in local schools, Skinner said: “If you’re afraid of mandates you probably ought to get out the Legislature.”
State Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, a retired schoolteacher, voted against the bill. “I think we ought to leave decisions about curriculum to those who deal with it daily,” she said.
The Indiana Department of Education dropped its cursive writing requirement in 2011, after the State Board of Education voted to adopt Common Core State Standards. The Common Core standards require elementary school students to be proficient in computer keyboarding, but not in cursive writing.
The state DOE gave local school districts the option of keeping or dropping cursive writing instruction for their students.
Leising’s legislation, Senate Bill 120, restores the cursive requirement.
In advocating for the bill, Leising cited studies that have connected the ability to write in cursive to a child’s cognitive development.
She also pulled out several small posters, created by some fifth-graders in Columbus, that listed reasons why they thought it was important to learn cursive writing. Signing their name on documents was among the reasons they listed.
Leising has earned wide attention for the bill. The national Campaign for Cursive, launched by cursive-writing supporters, called attention to her legislation last month as part of its recognition of National Handwriting Day.
She was also quoted in a Jan. 30 story in the Wall Street Journal about the demise of cursive writing requirements in schools in other states.
Leising told the Wall Street Journal that more than 90 percent of the 1,000 constituents she surveyed in her rural district in southeast Indiana said they favored teaching cursive.
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UK’s AWE turns to Allinea DDT
Allinea DDT provides capability leap for debugging at scale
Berkshire, UK, 2012-10-24, the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) - one of the UK’s most prominent centers of scientific research, are using Allinea Software’s Allinea DDT debugging tool to provide the capability needed for a new generation of science on their powerful Blackthorn and Willow Bull systems.
AWE plays a crucial role in the defense of the United Kingdom, by providing and maintaining the warheads for the country’s nuclear deterrent, Trident. As a center of scientific and technological excellence, they are home to some of the most advanced research, design and production facilities in the world.
Jacques Philouze, Worldwide Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Allinea Software said, “The work AWE does is unique and vital to defending the UK. They have requirements for both capability computing – very large jobs, and capacity computing – many small jobs. Allinea DDT is able to meet all their varying requirements with ease.”
Scientific researchers at AWE carry out many trillions of calculations per second to further the understanding of elemental physics. Their simulations and three-dimensional modeling are of the utmost importance in order to ensure the UK’s nuclear deterrent is safely maintained under the auspices of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans real-life tests.
The company is committed to investing in its infrastructure and facilities to support the science program. This has led to requiring development tools that cope with the size and diversity of the systems and applications in place now - and in the future.
“As the size of jobs we need to do have grown, so have our debugging needs. It was really important to move to a debugger that is extremely fast and stable at any scale”, said Ken Atkinson, AWE’s High Performance Computing Strategy and Procurement Manager. “Allinea DDT was the obvious choice and we have been extremely happy with the product since it was adopted - its user interface makes debugging effective and straightforward for our application developers, even when we are working with large-scale hybrid CPU/GPU applications.” | <urn:uuid:363834f7-60f7-4481-b0c2-a073c0068009> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.allinea.com/news/bid/88254/UK-s-AWE-turns-to-Allinea-DDT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945802 | 459 | 1.992188 | 2 |
On June 30, 1922, a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously endorsed the "Mandate for Palestine," confirming the irrevocable right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine—anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea:
"Favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which should prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected." [italics in the original]
On September 21, 1922, the then President Warren G. Harding signed the joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
Here is how members of congress expressed their support for the creation of a National Home for the Jewish people in Palestine - Eretz-Israel (Selective text read from the floor of the U.S. Congress by the Congressman from New York on June 30, 1922). All quotes included in this document are taken verbatim from the given source.
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE JEWISH PEOPLE
JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360
(Rept. NO. 1172)
Representative Walter M. Chandler from New York - I want to make at this time, Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, my attitude and views upon the Arab question in Palestine very clear and emphatic. I am in favor of carrying out one of the three following policies, to be preferred in the order in which they are named:
(1) That the Arabs shall be permitted to remain in Palestine under Jewish government and domination, and with their civil and religious rights guaranteed to them through the British mandate and under terms of the Balfour declaration.
(2) That if they will not consent to Jewish government and domination, they shall be required to sell their lands at a just valuation and retire into the Arab territory which has been assigned to them by the League of Nations in the general reconstruction of the countries of the east.
(3) That if they will not consent to Jewish government and domination, under conditions of right and justice, or to sell their lands at a just valuation and to retire into their own countries, they shall be driven from Palestine by force.
"Mr. Speaker, I wish to discuss briefly each of these alternatives in order. And first let me read the now celebrated Balfour declaration of date of November 2, 1917, during the progress of the Great War, and afterwards incorporated in the preamble of the British mandate authorized by the League of Nations. The Balfour declaration was in the following language:
His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by the Jews in any other country.
"If this is not a condensed and at the same time a complete bill of rights both for the Arabs of Palestine and for the Jews who intend to remain in their present homelands outside of Palestine, I have never read or seen one. It is conceded by the Arabs themselves that the present government of the country under the British mandate and through the Zionist organization as an administrative agency is infinitely better than the government of the Turks who were chased out of the country by Allenby, the British general. It is probably better than any that the Arabs could create and maintain for themselves.
"I respectfully submit that the Arabs in Palestine should be and would be happy and content under the present government of that country if it were not for Turkish and Arab agitators, who travel around over the land stirring up trouble by making false representations concerning the true character of the Zionist movement, and by preaching a kind of holy war against the immigrant Jews who arrive from day to day. The Arabs are well represented in the personnel of the present Palestine administration, which has recognized their language as one of the official languages of the country, and has given official standing to the Moslem religion.
"In the second place, if the Arabs do not wish to remain in Palestine under Jewish government and domination there is plenty of room outside in purely Arab surroundings. The British Government and her allies made overtures and gave pledges to the Arab people to furnish them lands and protect their freedom in consideration of Arab alliance with the Allies during the World War. That pledge has been kept. The Hedjaz kingdom was established in ancient Arabia, and Hussein, Grand Sheriff of Mecca, was made king and freed from all Turkish influence. The son of King Hussein, Prince Feisal, is now the head of the kingdom of Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Arab predominance in that country has been assured by the Allies to the Arab people.
"Mesopotamia is alone capable of absorbing 30,000,000 people, according to a report submitted to the British Government by the Great English engineer, Sir William Wilcocks. Arab rights are also fully recognized and protected by the French mandate over Syria. There are also several flourishing Arabic cultural and political colonies in Egypt. In short, the Arab-speaking populations of Asia and Africa number about 38,000,000 souls and occupy approximately 2,375,000 square miles, many times larger than the territory of Great Britain. In other words under the reconstruction of the map of the east, the Arabs have been given practical control of Greater Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and parts of Egypt, which gives them an average of 38 acres per person. If the Arabs are compelled to leave Palestine and turn it over entirely to the Jews, it is admitted that the Arab race would still be one of the wealthiest landowning races on the earth. Therefore, I contend that if they will not consent to live peaceably with the Jews, they should be made to sell their lands and retire to places reserved for them somewhere in Arabia [Saudi], Syria, Mesopotamia, or Egypt, that suit them best, and where they can worship Allah, Mahomet [Muhammad], and the Koran to their heart's content. After all is said, the fact remains that the Arabs have more lands than they need, and the Jews have none. I am in favor of a readjustment under the Balfour declaration, without too great regard to nice distinctions in the matter of the question of self-determination. This thought brings me to my third proposal heretofore mentioned, that the Arabs should be driven out of Palestine by the British and Jews, or by somebody else, if they will not listen to the voice of reason and of justice.
"I shall probably be told that, regardless of the question of land and property rights, the Arabs have an interest in the holy places around Jerusalem. Admitting that their claims in this regard are just, there should be no trouble along this line. There is no reason to believe that Jews and Christians would deny them access to the holy places in the pilgrimages that they might desire to make from their Arab countries. But if the rights of the Jews to their ancient homeland are to be made dependent, as a final question, upon Moslem interests in the holy places around Jerusalem, I am willing and prepared to repudiate these rights entirely and to shut the Arabs out altogether." | <urn:uuid:2df2e4e6-d59c-44de-8845-a83e323f22b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?articleID=100 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959256 | 1,566 | 3.09375 | 3 |
I had been reading and hearing a lot about the pour-over method of coffee brewing, and as a lover of all things tasty, I knew it was something I had to try.
I recently discovered Not Just Coffee, a coffee bar in Charlotte that crafts cups of pour-over coffee using freshly roasted Counter Culture beans. This tiny little shop was nestled only a few minutes down the road from me, and just happened to be right across the street from one of my favorite Charlotte landmarks - McGill Rose Garden.
This was easily shaping up to the be the perfect Saturday morning excursion...
Photos from the Not Just Coffee Facebook page
The idea for this morning out was filed away into memory, and last Saturday, Paul and I decided to roll out of bed early and see what the pour-over hype was all about. We were pleasantly greeted by some of the best cups of coffee we've ever sipped.
Pour-over is a method of brewing that is meant to get the absolute best out of the bean. "The difference is that instead of flooding the cone with water and letting the coffee seep and drip, you pour hot water in a thin, continuous steam for one to four minutes," explains Oliver Strand in a New York Times post. "When you control the flow of the water, you control the extraction."
Paul and I each picked our coffee from the menu, settling on the Gemelos from Guatemala and the Konga from Ethiopia. Then we watched the intricate process as our barista ground our selected beans (roasted only a few days before); poured a bit of water into the cone-shaped filter; placed the ground beans in the wet filter to let them "bloom"; and then poured a slow and steady stream of water through the beans, where coffee dripped into our individual cups below.
Each of our cups of coffee was pleasant with annunciated and distinguishable flavors. Mine was lemony and light and Paul's was sweeter with the taste of caramelized sugar and dark fruit. It was some of the best coffee either of us have ever had - truly "not just coffee," but a drink experience.
To really savor the morning, we took our cups of hand-crafted coffee on a stroll through McGill Rose Garden, where we enjoyed the lovely colors of late spring and the distinct aroma of each type of rose. Popping in just after a pruning, we walked through rose-strewn paths, and we were able to collect enough clipped blooms to fill vases around our home with reminders of our morning.
Take some time to stop and smell the roses and savor a sip...
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On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott was joined by St. Petersburg College President William D. Law Jr. and Brad Jenkins, SPC Associate Dean of Engineering Technology & Building Arts, to announce the “Governor’s $10,000 Degree Challenge.”
At the press conference, Dr. Law announced that St. Petersburg College would be the first Florida college to accept Scott’s challenge to create a $10,000 degree program targeted at making higher education more affordable and results-oriented for Florida families.
Scott said, “I am issuing a challenge to our state colleges to find innovative ways to offer a bachelor’s degree at a cost of just $10,000 in fields that will provide graduates with the best opportunity for employment. As I travel the state, families tell me that they care about three things – getting a good job, a quality education and enjoying a low cost of living. As a former community college student myself, I know how important it is for us to keep costs low while working to connect students with degree fields that prepare them for great careers. Working with the Florida Legislature, this ‘$10,000 Degree Challenge’ will help us continue to improve the value of our higher education system for Florida families and we are pleased that St. Petersburg College is the first school to step up to the plate.”
Law said, “St. Petersburg College is once again excited about the opportunity to be part of a statewide college pilot program that lowers the cost of a college education for the citizens we serve. Affordable education always has been at the forefront of the college’s mission. SPC is uniquely positioned to build on its bachelor degree commitments and will be offering its Tech Management Program.”
Deveron Gibbons, Chair of St. Petersburg College’s Board of Trustees, said, “As the first community college in the state to offer four-year degrees, St. Petersburg College is thrilled to be part of a pilot program that lowers the cost of a bachelor’s degree for Florida’s students and their families. As Chairman of the Board at St. Petersburg College, I’d like to express our appreciation to Gov. Scott for choosing St. Petersburg College as one of the pilot project sites and as the location for making this historic announcement. Affordable education has been the goal of St. Petersburg College throughout its 85-year history and we are prepared to work with other colleges in this challenging venture.”
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Do you know that this was Apple Inc’s very first company logo?
The logo featured Isaac Newton sitting under the apple tree where he supposedly discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head. Around the borders went the words “Newton — ‘A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought — Alone.’”
The logo was drawn by then co-founder Ronald Wayne (the guy infamous for giving up his 10% share of the company for $800, and then forfeiting the right to any future claims against Apple for an additional $1,500). According to this June 2010 article (Apple was trading at U$332 per share then), his worth could have been at least U$22 billion ! Apple last traded on 30 Aug 2011 at U$390, I can only feel sorry for Ronald Wayne .
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Technical universities in South Vietnam are on the look out for students as they are increasingly finding it difficult to motivate students to study for any major in their university.
View of the electrical and electronic engineering faculty of the HCMC University of Technology (Photo:vietnamglobalteam.org)
Departments of education and training in the country will complete receiving university application forms for universities by tomorrow and will transfer these forms to universities for the upcoming entrance examinations.
Of the 29,000 applicants in the South representative office of the Ministry of Education and Training, 20,300 students (70 percent) prefer to study economics and technological subjects in universities, while only 3 per cent wish to follow technical programs.
From the 16,000 applicants for the Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry received so far, 20 preferred to study Mechanical Engineering, 35 preferred Heat Engineering and Refrigeration and 30 preferred Garment and Fashion Design while around 500 preferred Accounting and Business Administration.
More worrisome is the fact that even a leading university like Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) is not attracting students. Of the 5,000 applications received only 10 are for Industrial Maintenance, 20 for Garment and Textile courses and 12 for Material Techniques.
Faculties like Industrial Technology and Automation Technology in the University of Technical Education have received less than 10 applications.
The situation is the same in the Nong Lam University (University of Agricultural Engineering) although it is one of the universities in the country receiving many applications. A few students have registered for agricultural engineering and automation engineering here.
Dr. Huynh Thanh Hung, deputy director, said students do not choose these subjects, as they fear hard work while Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, chief of the Training Division, blamed the vocational courses as not being good enough.
However, Hung said students from these faculties easily found jobs after graduation with high salaries.
Meanwhile, the departments of education and training in the North said Option A students (those who opt to take an examination in math’s, chemistry and physics) make up most of the majority. Hanoi received 53.12 percent of Option A students next only to Option D (foreign language, literature and math’s) with 24.13 percent, Option B (math’s, chemistry and biology) with 13.54 percent and Option C (literature, history and geography) with 4.44 percent.
Students coming from the northern mountainous provinces of Bac Kan, Yen Bai, Son la, and Lao Cai preferred to choose Option C.
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Mark Twain, dressed in the white he loved so well, lay there with the nobility of death upon him, while a multitude of those who loved him passed by and looked at his face for the last time. The flowers, of which so many had been sent, were banked around him; but on the casket itself lay a single laurel wreath which Dan Beard and his wife had woven from the laurel which grows on Stormfield hill. He was never more beautiful than as he lay there, and it was an impressive scene to see those thousands file by, regard him for a moment gravely, thoughtfully, and pass on. All sorts were there, rich and poor; some crossed themselves, some saluted, some paused a little to take a closer look; but no one offered even to pick a flower. Howells came, and in his book he says:
I looked a moment at the face I knew so well; and it was patient with the patience I had so often seen in it: something of a puzzle, a great silent dignity, an assent to what must be from the depths of a nature whose tragical seriousness broke in the laughter which the unwise took for the whole of him.
That night we went with him to Elmira, and next day—a somber day of rain—he lay in those stately parlors that had seen his wedding-day, and where Susy had lain, and Mrs. Clemens, and Jean, while Dr. Eastman spoke the words of peace which separate us from our mortal dead. Then in the quiet, steady rain of that Sunday afternoon we laid him beside those others, where he sleeps well, though some have wished that, like De Soto, he might have been laid to rest in the bed of that great river which must always be associated with his name.
MARK TWAIN’S RELIGION
There is such a finality about death; however interesting it may be as an experience, one cannot discuss it afterward with one’s friends. I have thought it a great pity that Mark Twain could not discuss, with Howells say, or with Twichell, the sensations and the particulars of the change, supposing there be a recognizable change, in that transition of which we have speculated so much, with such slender returns. No one ever debated the undiscovered country more than he. In his whimsical, semi-serious fashion he had considered all the possibilities of the future state —orthodox and otherwise—and had drawn picturesquely original conclusions. He had sent Captain Stormfield in a dream to report the aspects of the early Christian heaven. He had examined the scientific aspects of the more subtle philosophies. He had considered spiritualism, transmigration, the various esoteric doctrines, and in the end he had logically made up his mind that death concludes all, while with that less logical hunger which survives in every human heart he had never ceased to expect an existence beyond the grave. His disbelief and his pessimism were identical in their structure. They were of his mind; never of his heart. | <urn:uuid:94088ed7-d183-418f-8b6b-b059f044b221> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/2987/119.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988962 | 634 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Evesham bell tower restoration starts
Work has started to restore a 16th Century Worcestershire bell tower after stonework started to fall off.
Evesham bell tower was last refurbished in 1951 and a detailed survey of the building is expected to be done alongside urgent repair work.
Evesham Parochial Church Council said it planned to launch a public appeal later in the year to raise funds for the project.
Fencing has peen put up around the site to protect people from falling masonry.
The church council said some of the falling pieces were up to six inches (15cm) long, with the structure suffering after recent harsh winters.
It said the initial work to secure the building was being paid for from donations and reserves and was due to be completed by 31 August.
Bell ringing has been suspended to allow the work to be completed. | <urn:uuid:c3cb13f9-7f1a-420b-b959-e46df92591e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-19407675 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981671 | 180 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Find Your Passion: Diabetes Advocate Changes How UA Eats
Lewis, a diabetes advocate, has testified before Congress about the need for more research on the disease. (Photo by Samantha Hernandez)
By Miranda Harbin
Whether or not you have met Dana Lewis, if you are a member of The University of Alabama community, she’s probably changed the way you eat lunch.
It all started with a simple request. Lewis, a University of Alabama senior who has Type 1 diabetes, wanted to administer the right amount of insulin to herself while eating in the dining halls on campus.
To do so, she needed to know how many carbohydrates are in her meals. The information, at that time, was only available through the Bama Dining Web site. Lewis says it was nearly impossible for her to go online and decide what to eat the next day and stick with it. She asked her friends to go online and plan out their meals for the week.
“They failed miserably,” Lewis says. The easiest and most accessible way, she says, for students to view the nutritional information was either inside the dining hall or right before entering the dining hall.
“As a college student, food should be a no-brainer,” she says.
Lewis worked with Bama Dining to place nutrition labels with the entrees in the dining hall. She says she feels this not only helps students with specific dietary confinements and allergies, but also those students who want to avoid the dreaded “Freshmen 15” weight gain. Her simple suggestion to Bama Dining escalated into an internship with their marketing department, which was a perfect fit for Lewis, a public relations major.
A.J. DeFalco, the resident district manager for Bama Dining, says Bama Dining wants to foster a relationship like they have with Dana with all students. Bama Dining, DeFalco says, wants students to feel as if their kitchen is the students’ kitchen.
During the spring of 2008, Bama Dining continued making the data more accessible by placing kiosks containing the nutritional information outside of the dining halls. This works, Lewis said, because students are able to make a decision about their nutrition without having to pay to go into the dining facility or visit a Web site.
Bama Dining was the first Aramark location to have nutritional labels at both the point of service and on their Web site.
Lewis said, “My goal is to make sure that the information is there for those who want and need it.”
Lewis took her advocacy further by creating a class for students with diabetes who are transitioning to college life.
Lewis’ class, which had its debut last semester, centers on healthy living for college students with diabetes. The class is a casual seminar that helps students understand the relationship of diabetes with academic, social, nutrition and emotional changes during their first year of college.
Lewis uses a kiosk to obtain dietary information. (Photo by Samantha Hernandez)
Lewis said she wanted to teach about the transition because there are not any resources available for students with diabetes who are adjusting to college life. The class is primarily about helping people find the resources that are available to them. Lewis teaches the class, along with three UA professors – Drs. Rebecca Kelly, director of health promotions and wellness, Pamela Payne-Foster, deputy director of the Rural Health Institute, and Felicia Wood, associate professor in the Capstone College of Nursing.
“Dana Lewis was the spark behind the fall 2008 Living with Diabetes Course,” says Kelly. “As an innovative student leader, and an individual living each day with Type 1 diabetes, Dana is passionate about educating others about diabetes.”
Lewis’ diabetes advocacy reaches beyond the UA campus. She has testified before Congress at the request of Sen. Ted Kennedy about the need for diabetes research and the needs of people with diabetes. During the summer, she also worked with the American Diabetes Association in Washington, D.C., as an intern. She previously has served as an advocate for youth living with diabetes, traveling nationwide and to Africa, Germany and Hungary to speak on their behalf.
Currently, Lewis is working with Close Concerns, a diabetes consulting firm, as a public relations consultant and social media strategist. She also spoke at the 2008 World Diabetes Day in New York City.
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What is it about music, that wordless art form that is beyond language and logic, that moves us? Why does “Rhapsody in Blue” instantly liven up your day, while Beethoven’s “Emperor Suite” causes almost painful nostalgia? And what could its connection be with poetry, another form of expression that is intensely personal and profound? Artbreak: Strings and Sonnets, a performance at the Johnson Museum that premiered this past Sunday, attempted to answer these questions through both poetry and music.
Though the musical performance was powerful, it was rather baffling as to how it was connected to the poetry, which ranged from the competent to the contrived.
However, Artbreak’s most significant shortcoming was the choice of venue. The Hirsh Lecture Lobby is perfectly suited to small class lectures, but it proves to be rather uncomfortable when filled with 26 string players, 15 poets and 50 to 60 audience members. A larger room would have not only provided all spectators with a seat, but would also have allowed the string players to perform without worrying about elbowing their fellow players in the eye.
It takes courage to perform in front of an audience, courage that can easily warp into anxiety when the audience members spend more time glaring at whoever last left the room rather than focusing on the performance. Another setback was the inadequate sound system; it was hard to comment on the poetry itself, as much of it was inaudible, but the quality seemed to vary widely. Many seemed to have to do with music or sound only superficially, preferring to deal with other subjects such as nature or war. Sounds were briefly mentioned in metaphors and similes, but never were dealt with as subject matter. Clearly, it is unfair to dictate what poets should write about … unless they are meant to read their poetry at an event that was meant to the relationship between poetry and music. The majority of the poems were good, if not great; none really shone either in terms of lyric mastery. One or two seemed to heavily rely on shock value, leading to disconcerted laughter within the audience. Expected performance behavior was a far cry from reality: poetry that was meant to reveal the link between two forms of self-expression merely revealed in itself in some cases, and disgusted and offended in others.
But where the poetry was unsuccessful, the music rose to the occasion. While it was difficult to hear the readings, the Cornell Chamber Orchestra’s sound seemed barely contained by the four walls. Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E-flat Major” was exhilarating in its exhausting energy that would suddenly dissipate into a melancholic largo. The sweet arpeggiated tune morphed from an invigorated sound of joy to the most heartbreaking sob from the first violin. The acoustics in the room, however, were unsuited to the highly technical sixteenth-note passages that became a slurry mush in the small space. However, Vivaldi’s “Spring” section from his well-known “Four Seasons” was still as lovely as ever, with its cheery, sunshine-filled opening movement, the rain-drenched “Largo” and the lush and moody “Allegro Pastoral.” The balance between the soloist and the violinists could have been better in the “Largo,” but overall the performance was thoroughly enjoyable. However, Astor Piazzolla’s “Primavere Portena,” a Latinized take on Vivaldi’s work, received quite a lot of applause, and rightly so. The passionate performance from every single one of the players rendered a wonderful piece absolutely magical.
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New submitter Matt Slaybaugh writes "John Foley at InformationWeek has an editorial saying that the missing piece in the new gun control legislation is adequate data management. 'President Obama introduced 23 executive orders on Jan. 16 aimed at reducing gun violence through a combination of tougher regulation and enforcement, research, training, education and attention to mental healthcare. Several of the proposed actions involve better information sharing, including requiring federal agencies to make relevant data available to the FBI's background check system and easing legal barriers that prevent states from contributing data to that system.' But concrete plans are needed now to improve the current poor system of data collection and sharing. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel's Digital Government Strategy, introduced in May, 'defines an IT architecture and processes for sharing digitized content securely, using Web APIs and with attention to protecting privacy. ... Unfortunately, on top of the data quality issues identified by the White House, and the FBI's and ATF's outdated IT systems, there's a lack of transparency about the systems used to enforce federal gun-control laws.'"
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Zothecula writes "A major obstruction to the development of practical 3D microchips is moving data and logic signals from one layer of circuitry to another. This can be done with conventional circuitry, but is quite cumbersome and generates a good deal of heat inside the 3D circuit. Physicists at the University of Cambridge have now developed a spintronic shift register that allows information to be passed between different layers of a 3D microchip. 'To create the microchip, the researchers used an experimental technique called ‘sputtering’. They effectively made a club-sandwich on a silicon chip of cobalt, platinum and ruthenium atoms (abstract). The cobalt and platinum atoms store the digital information in a similar way to how a hard disk drive stores data. The ruthenium atoms act as messengers, communicating that information between neighbouring layers of cobalt and platinum. Each of the layers is only a few atoms thick. They then used a laser technique called MOKE to probe the data content of the different layers. As they switched a magnetic field on and off they saw in the MOKE signal the data climbing layer by layer from the bottom of the chip to the top.'"
Dangerous_Minds writes "On Wednesday, we discussed news that RIANZ convicted its first file-sharer under the New Zealand three strikes law. While the fine totaled $616.57, a New Zealand Herald report points out that in order to get that fine, RIANZ had to spend $250,000. Freezenet makes an interesting point that HADOPI (France's version of the three strikes law) faced similar problems when the Socialist party commented that 12 million euros was a lot of money to pay 60 agents to send out 1 million e-mails. The question raised is whether or not this money pit trend will continue when the Copyright Alert System starts processing strike notices in the United States."
anavictoriasaavedra writes "A unique show is taking place on Kamchatka these days: Four separate but nearby volcanoes are erupting simultaneously on the Russian peninsula. A Moscow film crew has produced an awe-inspiring 360-degree video of the natural fireworks." The video is well worth watching and panning around in. There are also a bunch of high-res still photo panoramas.
chicksdaddy writes "Veracode's blog has an interesting piece that looks at whether 'brogramming' — the testosterone- and booze-fueled coding culture depicted in movies like The Social Network — spells death for the 'engineering' part of 'software engineering.' From the post: 'The Social Network is a great movie. But, let's face it, the kind of "coding" you're doing when you're "wired in"... or drunk... isn't likely to be very careful or – need we say – secure. Whatever else it may have done, [brogramming's] focus on flashy, testosterone-fueled "competitive" coding divorces "writing software" – free form, creative, inspirational – from "software engineering," its older, more thoughtful and reliable cousin.' The article picks up on Leslie Lamport's recent piece in Wired: 'Why we should build software like we build houses' — also worth reading!"
New submitter Zeussy writes "While looking around Thingiverse for something to 3D-print, I found this awesome public domain prosthetic hand designed for a 5-year-old child called Liam, who was born without any fingers on his right hand. The design is based on parts either 3D-printed or bought from your local hardware store. It's body powered via cables and bungees; see it in action in this video. They are currently running a Fundly Fundraiser."
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is running a story about invention and innovation, suggesting that there have been no truly new inventions in a long time. 'Consumers are presented with an "invention illusion," which is really little more than a marketing tool to give the impression of "breakthrough" products. This is a difficult cycle to break, particularly with the media's appetite for sensational stories, and it is hampering opportunities for credible companies without sexy stories. It also means that many entrepreneurs are looking for innovation in the wrong places and pursuing new product design ineffectively.' It leads to the question: what are the most recent things you can think of that have been actual, new inventions? Or has the high-tech revolution just been iterative innovation?"
An anonymous reader writes in with news that IBM's Jeopardy winning supercomputer is going back to school"A modified version of the powerful IBM Watson computer system, able to understand natural spoken language and answer complex questions, will be provided to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, making it the first university to receive such a system. IBM announced Wednesday that the Watson system is intended to enable upstate New York-based RPI to find new uses for Watson and deepen the systems' cognitive computing capabilities - for example by broadening the volume, types, and sources of data Watson can draw upon to answer questions."
wiredmikey writes "The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn't the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, according to Cisco. For example, users clicking on online ads were 182 times more likely to wind up getting infected with malware than if they'd surfed over to an adult content site, Cisco said. The highest concentration of online security targets do not target pornography, pharmaceutical, or gambling sites as much as they affect legitimate sites such as search engines, online retailers, and social media. Users are 21 times more likely to get hit with malware from online shopping sites and 27 more times likely with a search engine than if they'd gone to a counterfeit software site, according to Cisco's report (PDF). There is an overwhelming perception that people get compromised for 'going to dumb sites,' Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at Cisco, told SecurityWeek."
An anonymous reader writes "The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZVB) has sued computer game distributor Valve because it prohibits Steam-gamers from reselling their games. Steam users own the games they purchase and should be able to resell them when they want to, just like owners of traditional card or board games can, said Carola Elbrecht, project manager for consumer rights in the digital world at the VZVB, on Thursday. But while those traditional game owners can resell their games whenever they like, Steam users often cannot, she said."
mikejuk writes "It is reported that Microsoft has sent an email to DirectX/XNA MVPs which informs them that they are no longer needed because XNA and DirectX are no longer evolving. What does this mean? If you don't need MVPs then presumably you anticipate nothing to support in the future."
An anonymous reader writes "Internationally acclaimed architecture firm Foster + Partners built the Hearst Tower, the Millennium Bridge, and the Gherkin here on earth — and now they're setting their sights on outer space with plans to produce a 3D printed building on the moon. Today the firm announced that it has partnered with the European Space Agency to develop a lunar base for four people that can withstand the threat of meteorites, gamma radiation and temperature fluctuations. Since transporting building materials to space is a challenge, the team is considering using on-site 3D printing as a solution."
silverpig writes "It now appears that graphene has reached a point worthy of serious, direct industrial attention. The grant money itself comes from the European Union for the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), but the work will be done by a large non-governmental company with eyes on developing useful real-world applications. Smartphones contain many components with high potential for making use of graphene. From the article: 'Nokia is leading the electronic firms within the Graphene Flagship Consortium, which includes 73 other companies and academic institutions from a number of mediums. The Finnish handset manufacturer has received a grant of $1.35 billion to research and develop graphene for practical applications, with the European Union for the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) providing the grant itself.'"
An anonymous reader writes in about the latest fallout from CNET's parent company, CBS banning Dish Network's hopper from reviews and award lists. "The Consumer Electronics Association has not only today bestowed its Best in Show title upon the same Dish Network product that started this whole mess in the first place — in the same release, the group says it will no longer work with CNET. CES has enjoyed a long and productive partnership with CNET and the Best of CES awards,' said Karen Chupka, the CEA's senior vice president for events and conferences. "However, we are concerned the new review policy will have a negative impact on our brand should we continue the awards relationship as currently constructed. We look forward to receiving new ideas to recognize the 'best of the best' products introduced at the International CES.""
itwbennett writes "Here's a bright spot in Beijing's off-the-chart bad air pollution: The market for mobile apps that monitor air quality is thriving. 'When the pollution went beyond the air quality index, all the social networks in China and media began paying attention to the problem,' said Wang Jun, one of the developers of the China Air Pollution Index app. 'This caused the downloads to increase 30 times.'" Obviously a Spaceballs fan, a Chinese man is even selling fresh air in cans. | <urn:uuid:1fc000c3-3013-4add-b723-92d14e5b0d1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://developers.slashdot.org/index2.pl?section=tag&color=green&index=1&view=stories&duration=-1&startdate=20130201&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942752 | 2,225 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Appendix A: Service and support available
If you require further information and guidance about any matter covered here or about any other employment relations matter:
- call Department of Labour Contact Centre free on 0800 20 90 20; or
- visit our website where you can also find easy-to-read information, publications, and fact sheets on specific employment issues to assist you to create and manage better workplace relationships.
Ask a Labour Inspector
Labour inspectors monitor, investigate and enforce minimum employment conditions set out in various Acts of Parliament. The functions of the inspector involve providing employees and employers with information and education to enable them to become compliant with the law. They also have a role to assist employers implement systems and practices in the workplace that comply with the minimum standards.
If it appears that any of these laws has been breached in a workplace, an inspector may intervene in the workplace to ensure there is compliance with minimum employment standards.
Go to Mediation
Our mediators can, if invited, assist you to deal with workplace problems that arise. They operate informally and formally, can provide you information, visit your workplace, and meet both parties separately or together for one meeting or a series of meetings.
Mediators are based at offices around New Zealand.
Apply to the Employment Relations Authority
If you have not resolved a problem through the options available in mediation services, the Employment Relations Authority is available to formally investigate issues, determine whether mediation could assist, and rule accordingly.
The Authority is based at Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch and will travel to other main centres.
If a party is not happy with the decision of the Employment Relations Authority the Employment Court is available to all parties.
Visit the Employment Relations Authority website for more information.
Other legal obligations
This booklet focuses on matters mostly under the Employment Relations Act, the Holidays Act, the Minimum Wage Act, the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act and the Wages Protection Act. You should also be aware that other legislation impacts on employment relationships. For example, the antidiscrimination provisions of the Human Rights Act and the Equal Pay Act apply to all employment relationships. Also, the Privacy Act and the Accident Compensation Act may well also have an impact.
The Department of Labour’s Contact Centre for workplace enquiries on 0800 20 90 20 will put you in touch with the appropriate source of advice on these matters.
You can get assistance from other Department of Labour services
Health and safety in the workplace is another area where employers and employees need to be able to work effectively together. Often unsatisfactory management of safety issues can eventually result in employment relations problems, as well as unsafe working environments. Information about Health and Safety in Employment (HSE) is available the Department of Labour website. There are offices throughout NZ.
- find out about workplace health and safety law, by visiting the Department of Labour website or call the Department of Labour Contact Centre free on 0800 20 90 20
- get advice on workplace safety and health
- report a workplace accident, injury or illness
- find out how to identify and manage hazards in the workplace or prevent injuries in your workplace.
Get more information about immigration on the Immigration New Zealand website or by calling 0508 55 88 55
- find out about immigration in New Zealand
- get information for new migrants to settle in New Zealand
- get information on how to apply for a visa to work or study in New Zealand.
Assistance from unions and employers’ organisations
You may wish to seek assistance from your union or employers’ organisation. A phone call could help to resolve your problem or avoid costly mistakes. You can get union contact details at www.union.org.nz or employers’ organisation contact details at www.businessnz.org.nz. | <urn:uuid:84bd5201-7296-456b-84fa-5a02a27858d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dol.govt.nz/er/services/mediators/services.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933689 | 771 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Spanish and Latin American Studies
HONOURS SUBJECT AREA
Spanish and Latin American Studies will develop your reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in Spanish. In addition to language studies, the beginners' units contain an introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture, politics and history. Senior language units can be taken together with separate 6 credit point courses which deal with the culture and history of Spain and Latin America in greater depth.
The honours year
The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) year provides students who have qualified for, or been awarded, an undergraduate pass degree in the arts or humanities the opportunity to extend their potential in research. Students may continue to work in the area of their undergraduate study or undertake research in a different area.
The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) focuses on establishing your individual research practise, further equipping you for employment or entry into the Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy programs.
Workload and assessment
Honours in Spanish and Latin American Studies consists of a thesis of 15000-18000 words and 7000-8000 words of written work, or it?s equivalent, for each seminar. Each of the two seminars meets weekly for 2 hours, for one semester. The thesis is worth 60% of the final mark, and each seminar is worth 20%. While you will receive marks for all pieces of assessment, your academic transcripts will record only your final, overall Honours mark.
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Dodging the buffet zone
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:10 p.m.
Q: My family loves to go to the local all-you-can-eat buffet for dinner. But I am really trying to eat better and lose weight. Any tips on how to survive this massive temptation to overeat all the wrong stuff?
— Mary S., Kokomo, In.
A: Congratulations for asking this question — and for realizing that you don't have to get overwhelmed by mountains of fried chicken and chocolate layer cake to have a good time with your family or a good meal.
Many North Americans are going all-out at all-you-can-eat buffets, from endless pancake breakfasts in LA to a Boston eatery with a selection of 125 desserts. But take the advice of one Buffett (Warren), applied to another buffet: "You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
So here are a few right things to keep the buffet experience from going all wrong.
Don't sit facing the buffet — and sit as far away from it as you can. Studies show that twice as many overweight folks face the food as normal-weight patrons, and overweight buffet patrons sit 16 feet closer to the food than normal-weight diners. Really. Sit in a booth, not at a table. It's a form of portion control — you'll be able to get fewer plates on the surface.
Always eat a plate full of vegetables before you eat anything else. Go for a salad with all the radishes, peppers, broccoli, onions, sprouts, olives and chickpeas you want. For dressing, splash on balsamic vinegar and a little olive oil.
Between courses, drink a full glass of water and wait five minutes before getting more food. Then have a second course with cooked veggies, no cheese or sauce. But don't skimp on flavor; add some condiments and spices, such as mustard or rosemary.
Now, the main course. Look for anything that's grilled or oven-roasted, without breading or sauce. If you get chicken, remove the skin before eating. And for dessert: fresh fruit and black coffee.
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Bluestem understands why some policy makers favored No Child Left Behind, especially those who had hoped the law would live up to its name and help provide better opportunities for all learners, including children of color and those from low income families. Teacher accountability in the classroom is also a fine goal.
However, local control is close to my heart, in education as well as zoning, and while I top the charts on standardized tests, I'm not sure that obsessive testing helps children flourish. Thus, Dayton's application for a NCLB waiver for Minnesota is welcomed here.
This poor country blogger isn't alone in this opinion. The New Ulm Journal concludes in NCLB didn’t meet needed expectations:
. . . As we pointed out before the law was enacted, some states seemed to be doing a good job in school reform on their own, without federal meddling. Clearly, Duncan should grant those states waivers - and refrain from substituting equally unproductive new regulations for those contained in NCLB.
At the same time, school administrators and educators should be held accountable. That needs to begin at the local and state levels. There, ways of measuring school effectiveness need to be devised - and school systems need to be held accountable for reform. Replacing NCLB with different, still unhelpful, federal red tape is not the answer.
Sister papers in Austin and Albert Lea agreed that Opting out of NCLB is good:
Minnesota is wise to join many other states in seeking permission to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind law. While the intent of NCLB was good, it has become clear that imposing educational standards at the federal level is not an effective method of improving education nationwide. . . .
We believe it is possible, even likely, that Minnesota can do a better job of educating its children without the help of NCLB, as long as that task does not become mired in political arguments.
Amen to that. And though not a rural editor, Minnesota 2020's John Van Hecke also approves of the move in Discarding "No Child Left Behind," while looking at the political arguments that might mire that task. Go check out his column in the Daily Planet.
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See our complete lineup of events for the third annual Women in the World Summit.
Suma’s Song Kicks Off Women in the World
16 year-old Suma Tharu opened the summit with a poignant song about her time as an indentured servant in Nepal. Tharu is featured in 10x10, a feature film and global girls education campaign, and is now a Room to Read scholar.
Welcome By Tina Brown
Tina Brown welcomes a packed theater at Lincoln Center to the third annual Women in the World summit. She also introduced her 8 outstanding co-hosts who gave voices to those women who could not attend.
Forced Marriage: Are Mothers to Blame?
An inside account of the dramatic rescue of a female British citizen from Islamabad, who has been forced by her family to marry against her will.
The Price of War
Despite bearing the greatest brunt of the devastating horrors of war, women remain the pillars of their families and societies. Former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, shares how women represent the source of strength and become the foundation for recovery.
Sandra Uwiringiyimana survived genocide and is now a spokesperson for the Foundation of Home Ministries. Watch as Sandra recounts the horrific details of her miraculous survival.
Testimony from Angelina Jolie
Actress and Goodwill Abmassador Angelina Jolie takes the stage to highlight the triumphs and trials of Dr. Hawa Abdi.
Day Two Welcome By Tina Brown
Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown kicked off the second day of the summit by giving her favorite quote the summit so far: Madeline Albright’s proclamation that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” Brown also gave a preview of the panels to come, including discussions on how women are changing the minds and attitudes of men in Afghanistan, the dearth of women in U.S. boardrooms and the emergence of women in combat protecting the country at home and abroad.
Holland Taylor as Governor Ann Richards: Ladies You Must Participate!
Broadway star Holland Taylor took the Women in the World stage to perform an excerpt from her one-woman show about former Texas Governor Ann Richards. Watch as Taylor channels the fiery Richards to represent what she would have said if she were here today.
Where Are the Women at the Top?
How has the dawn of feminism changed the importance of professional success? Sheryl Sandberg sat down with a panel of remarkable women who have made it to the top of their industries to discuss the role and importance of women in power.
Firebrand for Peace: Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke to Tina Brown about the power women can have in conflict zones and how she helped bring peace to Liberia. Gbowee also voiced her strong opinions on whether or not men should make decisions about women’s reproductive rights.
Changing the Minds of Men
As Afghanistan looks toward a sovereign future, how can the country advance the rights of women despite that men hold most of the power? Christiane Amanpour hosted a panel on how to keep women's rights in Afghanistan at the forefront in the minds of men.
Security Is Women's Work!
As women take on more national security roles, they bring a unique perspective and skill set to the table. Janet Napolitano, Jane Harman, Cathy Lanier and Atiete Jahjaga discussed how women bring different gifts than men and why that matters when it comes to the increasingly complex challenges of security.
Cracking the Code: Gender Parity, Growth and Jobs
Are women the key to cracking the code to job growth? Absolutely, according to this panel led by ABC's Robin Roberts, which discussed why women are critical for the future employment landscape.
Murder And Machismo: Women In Peril In Latin America
Violence against women in Latin America has surged over the past two decades. Watch as one survivor tells Christopher Dickey her terrifying story.
Hi-Tech Health for Women
One of the best tools against global health challenges is new technology. Here Barbara Bush and Gabi Zedlmayer discuss their ideas for the developing world and how young women leaders can play a crucial role.
China's New Tiger Women: Commerce and Culture
Women in China are breaking barriers as they enter the workforce at lightning speed. Barbara Walters moderates this panel on their role in China's past, present and future.
Women in Combat: Fighting on Two Fronts
Women on the frontlines have exhibited tremendous bravery as they fight to protect their country, but the Pentagon has been slow to recognize their contribution. ABC's Martha Raddatz moderates this panel discussing the role of women in the military, and what happens when they are faced with a culture in which rape and sexual assault is rampant.
A New Threat to Women’s Rights
Social issues have dominated the 2012 political year, particularly when it comes to women’s rights. Celebrating her 25th anniversary in Congress, Nancy Pelosi talks with Pat Mitchell.
Mothers of Invention: The sOccket Rockets
Two young entrepreneurs from Harvard share the story of their incredible “sOccket” invention, which is bringing electricity to impoverished communities around the world.
Russia: Covering A Despot
Russian journalist Masha Gessen talks to Chrystia Freeland about her explosive new book on Vladimir Putin and whether Russia is headed towards another revolution.
The Women’s Economy
How are women fairing after the ‘great recession?’ Amanda Steinberg, Susan Lyne, Candace Browning and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discuss strategies for tackling the challenges that lie head for women in the workforce.
Jobs: Good News for Women?
Mellody Hobson and Valerie Jarrett discuss the role of women in the economic recovery and how women are integral to keeping America competitive in the 21st century.
View From the Crisis Zone: An Interview with Tzipi Livni
Simon Schama interviews Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni. Livni discusses the crisis with Iran, the role of women in resolving the Palestinian conflict, and women’s rights versus cultural tenets.
On the Edge of Revolution: Part 1
Marie Colvin died while reporting from the front lines in Syria. Christopher Dickey pays tribute to the legendary war correspondent before talking to photographer Lynsey Addario about being kidnapped by Gaddafi’s forces.
On the Edge of Revolution: Part 2
Marie Colvin died while reporting from Syria. Christopher Dickey pays tribute to the legendary war correspondent before talking to photographer Lynsey Addario about being kidnapped by Gaddafi’s forces.
The Arab Spring: Have Women Lost?
A year ago, Egypt's women stood alongside the men in Tahrir Square and demanded democratic reform. Now the same women have been attacked, jailed, and marginalized. Andrew Sullivan moderates a panel of women from across the country's political spectrum.
An amazing performance from Anna Netrebko, the world-renowned Russian soprano and star of the Metropolitan Opera.
Day Three Tina Brown Welcome
Newsweek/The Daily Beast Editor in Chief Tina Brown gave a warm welcome to begin the final day of the Women in the World summit. Watch as she gives a preview of what’s to come in the program, including a panel on ending female genital cutting and speeches by Meryl Streep and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Responsibility Project: Right to Play
Liberty Mutual presented a short film on Allyson Felix, an Olympic runner who highlighted how games and sports can help bring peace through the power of play.
Africa: Bagging Hunger
When it comes to changing how the world functions, women offer a unique perspective. Lauren Bush Lauren spoke to Alex Witt about the Feed Projects, which provides school meals to children around the world through the sale of artisan-made bags.
When it comes to ending the practice of female genital cutting, it is crucial to engage the whole community. Molly Melching worked alongside Demba Diawara, a local imam in Senegal, to convince the entire community to change the practice that was once considered a social norm.
Making Justice Real in the World
What happens when women assume authority in the justice pipeline? Kamala D. Harris and Maya L. Harris, sisters with powerful careers, spoke to Cynthia McFadden about creating a more just future.
Women World Leaders: Force Multipliers
Can women breakthrough barriers without holding political office? Absolutely not, according to the women on Andrea Mitchell’s panel, with newswoman agreeing that critical mass in politics is crucial to the advancement of women around the world.
Women in the World on Campus
After the summit come the solutions. Kim Azzarelli, the president of the Women in the World Foundation, introduced a new initiative to engage women on college campuses.
Mothers of Invention: Talia Leman and RamdomKid.org
Are you ever too young to change history? Seventeen-year-old Talia Leman, the CEO and founder of RandomKid.org, opened up about her organization that mentors kids around the world.
The Digital Lives of Girls
How has social media impacted the lives of girls? While it’s made their lives more public, it has also allowed young women to harness the power of innovation. Chelsea Clinton moderated this panel that focused on how young women use the Internet to find and project their voices.
Mothers of Invention: Principal Asenath Andrews and the Catherine Ferguson Academy
Principal Andrews oversees a Detroit school for teenage girls with children—girls who otherwise might not get the same opportunities as their childless peers. Interviewed by NPR’s Renée Montagne, the founder said expectations are high for the mothers to create a future for themselves.
Girls Can Change the World
Educate a girl and change the world. Sarah Brown, Dr. Ida Odinga, and Shelly Esque discussed breaking barriers to education for girls around the world, leading to better lives and stronger communities.
Suma’s Song: Part 1
An education is one possession that can’t be taken away. ABC’s Juju Chang interviewed Richard Robbins, the director of 10x10, which profiled 10 girls from around the world, including Suma Tharu.
Suma’s Song: Part 2
Suma Tharu returned to the stage for another breathtaking performance and opened up about how access to an education has changed her life—now she wants other girls to have the same opportunity, too.
Burma: A Door Opens
What do the upcoming elections mean for women in Burma? Watch Newsweek & The Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown moderate this panel about the Burmese democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
A Tribute by Meryl Streep
The Oscar-winner has played world leaders, and here she introduced one of them. The actress paid tribute to Hillary Clinton, but not before pointing out the parallels between their lives—and their differences: Streep was a cheerleader while Clinton was the student body president.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Perhaps the ultimate Woman in the World, the Secretary of State took the stage to discuss her tireless work on behalf of women’s rights. Clinton closed the summit with a rousing call to arms for guests to continue promoting women’s issue in their lives.
They're starting revolutions, opening schools, and fostering a brave new generation. From Detroit to Kabul, these women are making their voices heard.
Watch the best moments from our third annual Women in the World Summit, from Leymah Gbowee to Amy Chua.
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Mr. Gordon and I, by the good providence of God, got safe to Virginia the last day of March, from whence we went into North Carolina, and addressed ourselves to the president of the council, who received us with all respect and civility.
The country is divided into four large precincts, besides a large tract of land called Pamplico, divided into three precincts more. I am by the president and council appointed to settle in the precinct called Pascotank, and to take what care I can of the adjacent precinct of Caratauk [Curratuck] beside. There is no church in Pascotank; but the people, upon my being ordered among them, have resolved forthwith to build a church and two chapels of ease, the precinct being of too great an extent to meet all at one or two places. I have been twice among the people of Caratauk precinct, but could not call a vestry, some of their leading men being out of the country, and the rest unwilling to go about any church affairs till their return. I cannot propose to make them so frequent visits as the faithful discharge of my duty requires, till the extremity of the heat abates a little, which now keeps me from undertaking long and tedious journeys.
Each precinct, by Act of Assembly, allows a minister that resides among them to the value of £30, in the produce of the country, which is equivalent to £10 or £15 sterling. I found by the pious care of our new president, the posture of affairs, as to matter of religion, in a much better condition than might have been expected in a place so destitute of means. I have preached some preparatory sermons to the Lord's Supper, and find many of the people well inclined to receive the sacrament. I hope to be able to give a better account of the country and people by the London fleet. I could not get my goods to Carolina when I first arrived, but am come up again to Virginia to carry them down, and to set out from hence again (God willing) next morning for Carolina (blessed be God), in very good health; and hope the Almighty will enable me in some measure to answer the pious design of so many good men, which shall be the sincere and faithful endeavor of, sir, | <urn:uuid:15d379ed-fbc1-4a01-b06c-4a73af5899f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr01-0357 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972771 | 477 | 1.59375 | 2 |
New book by Robert Utley claims Apache warrior was neither simply a merciless killer – nor a noble hero
Who was Geronimo? For white Americans, he was the most feared and hated Indian warrior of his time – the epitome of the merciless savage bent on slaughering them and their families.
Later, as the US came to terms with its harsh treatment of Native Americans, the Apache leader would emerge as a different figure: the noble hero fighting to defend his land, people and way of life.
A new book strips away both simple perceptions. The figure who emerges is a complex one: a spiritual warrior, who converted to Christianity before he died, with a deep and abiding hatred of Mexicans rather than Americans, and who was capable of great brutality.
Geronimo is the latest book by Robert Utley, one of the greatest contemporary writers on the American west and author of an acclaimed 1993 biography of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull.
The new book captures a life full of drama and surprise. Those who associate Geronimo with prowess in fighting may be shocked to learn that his birth name was Goyahkla: One Who Yawns – hardly a moniker that presages a career defined by guerrilla warfare.
But then the Geronimo who emerges from the book is full of contradictions. He was a man who prized family life, yet showed no remorse in killing other people’s families. He was seen as a leader of the Apaches, yet had many Apache enemies and was feared by other Native American tribes.
Geronimo was tireless in resisting the Mexican and US forces, but on his frequent breakouts from the reservation his major achievement was often to run rings around his enemy without actually fighting. Indeed, in the last two years of his freedom, as the US army chased him through the desert mountains of the Mexican province of Sonora, he never actually engaged with his pursuers.
“He ran the US army ragged in Sonora’s Sierra Madre and never even fought a skirmish, much less a battle,” Utley said. “This awareness led to my conclusion that Geronimo’s true greatness as a fighting Apache was not in fighting a war but in avoiding war.”
For those who seek to admire Geronimo as a defender of his way of life, accounts of his brutality will be difficult reading. A review of the book on the Daily Beast website even suggested that Geronimo might have been something like the Osama bin Laden of his day. Certainly he grew up in a culture that celebrated the raiding and murder of non-Apaches – whether whites or Mexicans or other tribes.
“Raid seems inadequate to describe what happened when a town, ranch, freight train or traveller was victimised,” Utley writes. “Besides plunder, raiders butchered people, often in the most brutal fashion. Thirty years of such barbaric slaughter, often involving torture and mutilation, form a major characteristic of Geronimo’s persona.”
But Utley is equally unflinching when describing tragedies that befell Geronimo, who lost his first wife, mother and three children to a brutal massacre by Mexicans. “I had lost all,” Geronimo wrote in his own autobiography. In agony, he vowed revenge on all Mexicans and nursed a virulent hatred of them for the rest of his life.
But he did not spend much of his later life fighting for his people or trying to preserve his lifestyle. Surrendering in 1886, he spent the next 23 years in US custody of one sort or another, under guard even as an old man who had cashed in on his notoriety to earn a living as something akin to a circus attraction. While a prisoner in Arizona, Geronimo carved his name on walking sticks to sell as dollar souvenirs to tourists.
At his last home, in Oklahoma, he appeared regularly in wild west shows and even attended the massive Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 in St Louis. He dressed up in Apache clothing, donned a traditional bonnet, posed for photographs and sold handicrafts.
In 1903, Geronimo was baptised into the Dutch Reformed Church, bringing many other Apaches with him and attending weekly services until he died – though a fondness for drinking and gambling disturbed church officials. He died of pneumonia in 1909 after falling from his horse and lying injured on the ground throughout a freezing night.
Such an ignominious end sums up a life marked by triumphs as much as defeats, acts of generosity as much as acts of cruelty. He was both brutal and brutalised – a loving family man responsible for the murder of many families. He was deeply committed to his native religion, but turned later to Jesus.
So, villain or hero? “The legend is easier to believe than the complex and contradictory character Geronimo really was,” Utley said.
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According to press reports, the Obama administration plans to put forward a budget on Feb. 1 containing significant deficit reduction measures. Some liberal economists are warning that it is grossly premature to implement deficit reduction. Indeed, they believe that additional fiscal stimulus is necessary to prevent a double-dip recession. They argue that there is a danger we will make the same mistake that Franklin Roosevelt made in 1937, which crippled the economy's recovery.It is always reassuring to see that the leaders of today can rise to the occasion and an act as willfully blindly ignorant as any leader in the past. I guess Obama wishes to distinguish himself in this department and prove that he can produce an ever more impressive downturn than FDR was able to pull off in 1937. Obama is a very impressive leader and I have full confidence that he can pull off this masterful blunder with all the aplomb required. His golden tongue oratory will help ease the pain as he throws the American middle class back into the hellish landscape of a full blown recession/depression. I have every confidence in Obama's ability to pull off this kind of monstrous error. He has shown himself adept at pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory time and again. I stand assured that he will demonstrate this mastery yet again.
To evaluate the relevancy of 1937 to current economic and fiscal conditions we first need to review a little history of the Great Depression. First of all, it's important to remember that what we call the Great Depression was not a continuous downturn; it was really two back-to-back recessions. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the first ran from August 1929 to March 1933 and the second from May 1937 to June 1938.
According to current Commerce Department data, real gross domestic product fell sharply in 1930, 1931 and 1932, and modestly in 1933. But GDP rebounded strongly in 1934, growing 10.9% that year, 8.9% in 1935, 13% in 1936 and 5.1% in 1937. But in 1938, real GDP fell 3.4%.
For many years, economists thought this "secondary recession" was inherent in the nature of the business cycle. Today, however, economists generally believe that the only thing that caused the 1937-38 downturn was disastrously bad government policy.
Although right-wingers like to portray FDR as a giddy big spender whose profligate ways made the depression worse, the truth is that he was by nature quite conservative, fiscally. Indeed, when running against Herbert Hoover in 1932 Roosevelt was unsparing in his criticism of Hoover's spending and deficits. As he put it in an Oct. 19, 1932 speech:
"I regard reduction in federal spending as one of the most important issues of this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that government can make to business. In accordance with this fundamental policy it is equally necessary to eliminate from federal budget-making during this emergency all new items except such as relate to direct relief of unemployment."
Roosevelt vowed that every member of his cabinet would be required to support the economic plank of the Democratic Party's 1932 platform, which said, "We advocate an immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance to accomplish a saving of not less than 25% in the cost of the federal government."
While it is true that spending and deficits rose sharply once Roosevelt took office, the fact is that they never rose sufficiently to offset the fall in private spending that was at the heart of the Great Depression. This was proven to the satisfaction of most economists in a 1956 article by economist E. Carey Brown, "Fiscal Policy in the Thirties: A Reappraisal." According to my calculations, the deficits of the 1930s should have been at least five times larger than they were.
In early 1937, Roosevelt was preparing his budget for the next fiscal year, which began on July 1 in those days. Strong growth in the economy and tax increases over the previous three years, especially the institution of a new payroll tax for Social Security, had caused tax receipts to almost double from 2.8% of GDP in 1932 to 5% in 1936. Projections showed that budget balance was within reach with only a modest reduction of spending.
Roosevelt was also concerned about the reemergence of inflation. After falling 24% between 1929 and 1933, the Consumer Price Index rose by a total of 7% over the next three years and signs pointed to even higher prices in 1937. Indeed, the CPI rose 3.6% that year.
Rather than viewing this as a sign of progress, which had caused the stock market to almost double between 1935 and 1936, Roosevelt and the inflation hawks of the day were determined to pop what they viewed as a stock market bubble and nip inflation in the bud. Balancing the budget was an important step in this regard, but so was Federal Reserve policy, which tightened sharply through higher reserve requirements for banks. Between August 1936 and May 1937 reserve requirements doubled.
During 1937, Roosevelt pressed ahead with fiscal tightening despite the obvious downturn in economic activity. The budget deficit fell from 5.5% of GDP in 1936 to 2.5% in 1937 and the budget was virtually balanced in fiscal year 1938, with a deficit of just $89 million.
The result was a huge economic setback, with GDP falling and unemployment rising. For this reason, Obama's economic advisers have been warning for some time that stimulus must be continued until full employment has returned. As Council of Economic Advisers chair Christina Romer wrote in The Economist last June:
"The 1937 episode provides a cautionary tale. The urge to declare victory and get back to normal policy after an economic crisis is strong. That urge needs to be resisted until the economy is again approaching full employment."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Seeing Deja Vu All Over Again
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The projects of German artist, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, flirt with the construction of scientific knowledge, grasping and slipping between the object and subject. Drawing from a background in visual and new media art practice, Meyer-Brandis creates installations, performances, and film that drift from scientific theory into fiction and wonder. Her work draws parallels with fictional and quasi-fiction worlds, those of space cadets and armchair rocket launchers.
Exploring recurring subjects such as gravity, weightlessness and space travel, her work has led to collaborations with scientists and researchers providing access to operations and activities usually restricted to scientific experimentation only. In 2007, while working on a project called Cloud-Core-Scanner she travelled on a zero gravity flight in collaboration with the DLR (German Aerospace Centre) to examine the formation of clouds in a weightless environment. As well as a rigorous scientific approach, her work is often tinged with a playful humour, such as her series of public meteor watching events, where participants are instructed to bring a safety helmet.
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhard) are artist explorers of the natural world, they build installations and moving image with animation and sound drawn from their encounters with prestigious scientific institution such as NASA’s Space Science Laboratories and the Smithsonian Archive as well as journeys to alien places like the Galapagos Islands and Ecuadorian volcanoes.
Two new works drawn from their other worldly travels, Worlds in the Making and Inferno Observatory are now showing at FACT in Liverpool, UK, Peter Merrington talked to the artists about their work.
What is an airport? There are few buildings as strictly controlled, commercially exploited and emotionally embedded in the contemporary word. Junctions of humanity, they are sites of equal boredom and threat. Airports are dynamic spaces, with flows of people and capital yet they are as susceptible to the effects of socio-economic and political changes as they are to extreme weather changes. Filled with ubiquitous surveillance, continual identification and suspicion, what happens when they loose this function and just become buildings again?
Terminal Convention was a contemporary exhibition and symposium housed in the decommissioned terminal building of Cork International Airport in the Republic of Ireland. The old terminal stands in the shadow of its new, bright, open and airy, off-the-shelf 21st century airport successor, and the decommissioned terminal has remained a virtually untouched unknown wonderland for international artists to transform.
What is striking about this particular airport ex-terminal is its friendly persona, at times more akin to a bizarre extended living room than an airport, with its fireplaces and fish tanks in the baggage reclaim area. Striped of its function and control, the space is deadened and immobile without the continuous hums and flows of international travel. The description ‘decommissioned’ implies something more than simply the staff moving out and locking the door – the building has been stripped of all its symbolic authority. The new freedom to roam, unchecked, through the once tightly controlled spaces provides a small thrill, the ‘no entry’ signs remain in place, but are now rendered obsolete.
Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) is an artist fabled for what he has achieved, as the instigator of video art, the pioneer of media art and through his influence on the indebted MTV generation. It's as if his career is almost made for the retrospective exhibition. His work is bound to his legacy, and his influence is hard to encompass. The importance of this legacy asks two parallel questions, how to preserve, present and document but also how to react, trace and respond. Both are targeted through a new joint exhibition of Paik's work at Tate Liverpool and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the first major retrospective of his work since his death in 2006 and the first exhibition of his work in the UK since 1988.
Tate presents a comprehensive chronicle of Paik's movements through the avant-garde, in performance, composition, television and sculpture. There are TV sets, robots and Buddhas, mixed with historical documentation, vitrines filled with exhibition programs, posters and photographs and timelines drawn on walls, which denote his many collaborators and read like a roll call of the most influential artists of the 20th century - John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joseph Beuys and Merce Cunningham.
In contrast to the Tate, where you can look and listen with historical meticulousness, at FACT you are given a remote control. Here you are encouraged to relax, in an archive lounge, and browse a collection of his video works at leisure. Or lie back underneath Laser Cone (1998) and be dazzled.
The latest edition of Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival has jumped across the Northwest UK from Liverpool, where it debuted last year to Manchester. In its second major urban manifestation, after a small rural retreat in the Peak District, the festival followed its previous format and presented exhibitions, performances, cinema screening, talks and workshops across cultural venues in the city. Seeking to agitate, AND’s theme of questioning normality in various forms was represented in Manchester with a focus on identity. | <urn:uuid:7bb48106-9ce0-46ac-88ee-e7e9257a2f11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rhizome.org/profiles/petermerrington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957514 | 1,063 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Biography of Barbara HOGANSouth Africa > Politics : Barbara HOGAN
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Barbara Hogan (b.in 1952), is the South-African Minister of Health since 26 September 2008. She is the member of parliament since 1994. She was appointed by interim president Kgalema Motlanthe, ousting her controversial predecessor Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. AIDS activists and many South Africans are hopeful that this move will signal a shift in the government's HIV/AIDS policies.
Minister Barbara Anne Hogan has had a long and distinguished career in politics. She has a long record of struggle for Human Rights. Well known as an activist, she went to prison for her association with the then outlawed ANC and was released along with Nelson Mandela in 1990. She has served in parliament since democracy in South Africa where she was outspoken against the AIDS denialism.
Barbara Hogan joined the African National Congress shortly after the 1976 Uprisings, once the organisation had been declared illegal and had moved its activities underground. Her responsibilities in this movement were to mobilise the white political left, participation in public political campaigning and supplying the ANC underground in Botswana with information about trade union and community activity in South Africa. Hogan was detained in 1982 for ‘furthering the aims of a banned organisation’ and after being interrogated, ill-treated and held in solitary confinement for one year, she was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to ten years in gaol. Hogan was released in 1990 with the unbanning of outlawed organisations and together with other political prisoners, most notably Nelson Mandela. Upon release Hogan played a pivotal role in restructuring the ANC in her capacity as secretary of the PWV regional office.
She was previously the chair of the finance portfolio committee. Since becoming health minister, she has broken from the former government's stance on HIV/AIDS and has vowed to make AIDS a top priority. This has caused excitement for many South Africans, who are hopeful that Hogan can strengthen the country's fight against HIV/AIDS by taking a more science-based approach to policymaking.
In the past Hogan publicly criticized former President Thabo Mbeki's stance and policies on HIV/AIDS. Roughly 5.7 million people in South Africa are living with HIV and 350,000 people died of the disease last year (almost 1,000 deaths a day). Tshabalala-Msimang has also been blamed for inadequately responding to South Africa's HIV/AIDS problem. The former health minister promoted beetroot, garlic, and other foods as treatment for HIV/AIDS, resulting in the nickname “Dr. Beetroot,” and has been accused of creating confusion about anti-retroviral drugs.
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Here's a true but scary statement: Not all hospitals are created equal.
According to the nonprofit agency The Leapfrog Group, nearly 400 people die every day due to preventable hospital error. In an effort to make improvements and make hospitals more accountable, over 2,600 thousand of them will now receive a letter grade of A, B, C, D, or F in a Hospital Safety Score. Among other standards, hospitals will chiefly be judged on its level of patient safety.
The Hospital Safety Score was put together by The Leapfrog Group with the help of a Blue Ribbon Panel of health and safety experts.
"The Leapfrog Group's goal is to give patients the vital information they need and deserve before even entering a hospital," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. "We hope people will use this score to talk with their doctor, make informed decisions about where to seek care, and take the right precautions during a hospital stay."
The Leapfrog Group says the national grading system is the first of its kind for hospitals, and it will highlight America's best hospitals and point out the worst ones.
The nonprofit group also says that one in four Medicare patients will exit a hospital with a potentially fatal condition they didn't have prior to being hospitalized. In addition, over 180,000 Americans die each year from hospital accidents, errors and infections, according to Leapfrog.
So that patients and their families can feel better and more educated on a particular hospital, Leapfrog has put together the Hospital Safety Score website.
Visitors can look up hospital scores for free, and read information on how to keep themselves and family members safe. Visitors can also access additional information from Leapfrog's sister site, on how to ensure safety in any hospital across the U.S.
Here are some of The Leapfrog Group's key hospital findings:
- Of the 2,652 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score, 729 earned an "A," 679 earned a "B," and 1243 earned a "C" or below.
- Hospitals earning an "A" include academic medical centers Massachusetts General, NYU Langone Medical Center, and University of California San Francisco. Many rural hospitals earned an "A," including Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Iowa and Baptist Health South Florida Homestead Hospital in Florida.
- Hospitals with myriad national accolades, such as Mayo Clinic, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and University of Michigan Medical Center, each earned an "A."
- Less predictable were the "A" scores earned by hospitals serving highly vulnerable, impoverished, and/or health-challenged populations, such as Bellevue Hospital, Montefiore Hospital, and Detroit Receiving Hospital.
- "A" scores were awarded to for-profit hospitals including many in the HCA systems, as well as hundreds of not-for-profit and public hospitals.
- Community hospitals showed excellence as well, such as OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Illinois.
"Developing the Hospital Safety Score was an intensive nine-month process led by a group of patient safety experts from across the country, and we believe it resulted in a fair metric to assess a hospital's performance on patient safety," said Dr. Jha.
"There is an overwhelming amount of information out there that could be useful when we are admitted to the hospital, but very few of us know what it is or where to find it. Everyone deserves the same information to protect their families. We've been glad to guide The Leapfrog Group in developing the Hospital Safety Score to give the public a way to guide their own decisions," he said.
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has posted a new report:
Abortion: Judicial History and Legislative Response (July 9, 2012)
From page 1 of the report:
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy. In Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973), a companion decision, the Court found that a state may not unduly burden the exercise of that fundamental right with regulations that prohibit or substantially limit access to the means of effectuating the decision to have an abortion. Rather than settle the issue, the Court’s rulings since Roe and Doe have continued to generate debate and have precipitated a variety of governmental actions at the national, state, and local levels designed either to nullify the rulings or limit their effect. These governmental regulations have, in turn, spawned further litigation in which resulting judicial refinements in the law have been no more successful in dampening the controversy.
Although the primary focus of this report is legislative action with respect to abortion, discussion of the various legislative proposals necessarily involves an examination of the leading Supreme Court decisions concerning a woman’s right to choose.
Hat tip to DocuTicker.com.
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Transforming the Jangling Discords of Our World into a Beautiful Symphony
March 17, 2008 · By John Cavanagh
Remarks made at the 2008 Take Back America conference session on strategies to end the Iraq War.
Five years ago, the Bush administration launched what may become the greatest foreign policy disaster of this country’s 232 years of history. Today, five years later, we stand on the threshold of the 4,000th American killed, the 30,000th American tragically wounded, the millionth Iraqi dead, and a price tag that Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells us will top $3 trillion.
This folly by our selected leaders stands likely to be an even greater disaster:
- than the U.S. war on Mexico in 1846;
- than the Philippine-American war of a century ago where the United States began the mass use of what became “strategic
- hamleting” in the Vietnam War and what we now call “water boarding” in Iraq;
- than the U.S. war on Vietnam and Indochina some four decades ago.
And yet, as we stand here today in opposition to that American history of reckless war, we stand on the shoulders of those who resisted the earlier wars:
- Henry David Thoreau, who went to jail for war tax resistance after the U.S. war on Mexico and penned his famous “Civil Disobedience.”
- Mark Twain and the anti-imperialists who filled Madison Square Garden against the Philippine-American war.
- The millions who opposed the Vietnam war, including Martin Luther King, who in his 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech made this connection: “I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.”
What makes this country great is not its history of military expansion, of invasion and water boarding and torture. What makes this country great is our long historic tradition of popular resistance, of those who have stood for the ideals of justice that were later emulated around the world. The strand that became the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, the environmental and women’s movements of the 1970s, the anti-apartheid and anti-intervention movements of the 1990s, the global justice movements of the 1990s, and the peace movements of this decade.
To this illegal, immoral, and wrong-headed war of the Bush administration in Iraq, the organized opposition began five months before the first American bomb was dropped.
It began in a conference room less than two miles from here on October 25, 2002, on the day when that great anti-war Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in Minnesota, when 69 groups came together to form the coalition United for Peace and Justice. That coalition would grow to encompass over 1,400 groups today and it is organizing protests around the country this week. Leslie Cagan, coordinator of that coalition is here on this stage today. The next day in October 2002, large membership organizations came together under the banner of “Win Without War” under the leadership of Tom Andrews and Susan Shaer, who join us at this conference as well.
The opposition grew with MoveOn, as it shifted into gear to mobilize tens of millions against this war.
It grew with Damu Smith, as he created Black Voices for Peace.
It grew at my own IPS, which along with Chicago Alderman Joe Moore, created Cities for Peace to work with City Councils across this land to pass resolutions against war.
And it exploded onto the global stage on February 15, 2003, as some 12-15 million people in over 600 cities around the world took over the streets and said “no” to war in the largest mass mobilization against war in world history.
In the years that followed, the resistance spread.
Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans and Col. Ann Wright brought together thousands of women (and many men) to form CodePink.
Charley Richardson and Nancy Lessin brought together Military Families Speak Out to crystallize the voices of thousands of family members of soldiers in Iraq.
Cindy Sheehan and other Gold Star mothers created Camp Casey.
Camilo Mejia and Kelly Dougherty and other veterans created Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Navy Seaman Jonathan Hutto created Appeal for Redress.
Trade unionists created U.S. Labor Against the War.
Tom Mattzie created Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
Tom Swan and others created the new Iraq Recession Campaign, which you are about to hear about.
Today, five years after that illegal and immoral invasion, this peace movement stands in this room to say that we are united in an urgent message to the American people that we must end this war now.
Over the next 45 minutes, you will hear the wise words of leaders of this peace movement about strategies to end this war. You will hear about a vast number of opportunities where you, ordinary Americans, can join in over the next few days and weeks to help end this war. You will hear how the women of CodePink have revived the proud history of war tax resistance. You can get involved at the local level; I want to encourage you to go to www.citiesforpeace.org. If your city isn’t one of the over 300 that has passed a resolution to bring the troops home, then reach out to your local elected officials and become a “city for peace.”
I want to encourage you to elect candidates to office who pledge to end this war. This month, the people of Illinois elected the anti-war Bill Foster to fill Dennis Hastert’s seat. Last month, Democrats in Maryland elected the anti-war Donna Edwards to fill Al Wynn’s seat. In November, the people of Washington State will elect the anti-war Darcy Burner, whom you will hear from in a moment.
We must focus our nation like a laser beam on the folly of the leadership decisions by the Bush administration that put soldiers and Iraqis at risk every minute of every day. We must heed the veterans like Camilo who tell us how impossible the situation is, why the surge won't work, why the soldiers are misused and mistreated, and why we should and must get out now.
I’ll end where Martin Luther King ended his 1967 speech: “Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world…If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.” | <urn:uuid:26c07763-17f9-49ea-84c7-749942eddaeb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/transforming_the_jangling_discords_our_world_into_a_beautiful_symphony | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948762 | 1,409 | 2.28125 | 2 |
What if human waste, what’s left after our bodies extract energy-producing nutrients from our food and drink, could itself be transformed into energy? Four African teenagers went beyond asking this question: they created a generator powered by human urine. The machine, built by 14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello Eniola,was presented in Lagos, Nigeria at the fourth annual Maker Faire Africa this November. The pan-African Maker Faire features and supports inventions that work to address problems like the worldwide need for energy production.
According to the Maker Faire Africa website, the machine turns 1 liter of urine into 6 hours of electricity and works like this: urine goes into an electrolytic cell, which extracts the hydrogen from the pee (specifically from the urea, one of the main compounds of urine). This hydrogen is purified in a water filter, and then pushed into a gas cylinder. There, the gas cylinder pushes the hydrogen into a liquid borax cylinder, where moisture is removed from the hydrogen gas. Finally, the purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator to power it.
As with all new inventions in alternative energy, this generator isn’t a panacea for our global energy problems. NBC’s John Roach offers a “reality check” concerning the pee-powered generator, pointing out that the Maker Faire Africa website does not list the wattage produced, so we don’t know just how much the generator could power. While Roach’s article tempers excitement about the pee generator, it does point to where this technology could be used effectively: wastewater treatment facilities where the pee already flows, ready to be put to use.
Perhaps machines like these could eventually become features of wastewater treatment facilities. Such a resourceful new invention that turns waste into electricity could turn wastewater treatment facilities into places where wastewater is not only treated, but where pee turns into power.
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Finding the sort of exersize or physical activity that you can stick to and enjoy is by far the most important thing.
So if walking and jogging is your thing and weight training doesn't sound too fun or you have had problems sticking to it... some ideas to try...
The only way that you will increase your muscle size and strength is to push your muscle beyond what they are used to. So the point of any change to your routine is to stress muscle groups in ways they are not accustomed to.
Try to add some wrist weights or carry dumb bells while you are jogging.
Find a jogging trail that either has some exersize areas built in, or find a place along your current path where you can do some push ups and pull ups.
Take along a jump rope and work in a few minutes.
Add some sit ups, crunches, and maybe some leg lifts, either along the way or at home.
Push ups will work your chest and by changing the distance between where you put your hands you will be able to work on more areas of your chest, and you will touch on your arms as well.
pull ups will work your upper back and again changing the distance between your grip will change the focus.
the jump rope will replicate some of the results you are getting from jogging, but it will help increase your stamina and help with your calves.
And of course the dreaded sit ups and crunches...but in addition to the obvious, abbs is a core muscle group that will help you develop every other area as well...
And if you haven't done these sorts of exersize since high school gym class... start with one...and work up...they are all pretty hard...
I believe with a little work and imagination you can take any activity and build a whole body workout around it.
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'Just Shut Up?': Speech Limitations, Social Media and Women's Rights
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:49:00 +1100
'There is a belief that is alarmingly wide-spread that you can say what you want on the internet without any consequences, and while I'm an advocate for freedom of expression, I know that's absolutely not the case' (Julie Posetti).
The case of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher has received unprecedented media attention. Many people became aware of her story and were traumatised by its tragic end. In the wake of Jill's death some people turned to social media to express their grief and anger, but after being told their comments could affect the trial people faced the question of what they could and should say online.
With the accused awaiting trial, police expressed concerns that online comments and responses could have a negative effect on the legal proceedings and requested that social media users stop posting comments. Julie Posetti
(University of Canberra) warns: 'we all are very familiar with the term trial by media and it's a real problem. It would be awful to think about the potential consequences including an incapacity to prosecute somebody because of trial by social media'. Not to mention it is a 'criminal offence to publish content that is likely to prejudice a trial and interfere with the court of justice' (Rick Sarre, University of South Australia). Sarre suggests 'everyone should just shut up on twitter'
The problem for Sarre is not that people have expressed their feelings, rather that some have posted defamatory comments and attempted to reconstruct the alleged perpetrator's history - things which could amount to trial by social media. In a society where we are encouraged to speak out and voice our opinions many have taken the opportunity to call for justice online.
There are a number of important issues connected to this case. For one, it brings to our attention the power and potential of social media. People have been so dramatically affected by the case (as evidenced by the Sydney road peace march) that social media acted as a therapeutic space, a way of connecting with concerned others. But it also raises questions about how people should govern themselves online when there are real consequences for their behaviour offline.
Given all the limitations placed around discussing Jill Meagher's case - on and offline - the incentive or suggestion has been to stay quiet or if you're not sure what to say don't say anything. But the silence can become deafening. Like many other women I have grappled with the issue of women's right to safety and freedom of movement in the streets. Surely this is right we can demand and be noisy about. The difficult part in all of this is not to confuse the right of women to discuss and demand a right to safety – with the very real need for justice to be done (and seen to be done) through official channels.
In taking justice into their own hands – on or offline – and assuming or pronouncing guilt outside the right to a free and fair trial, individuals and groups pose problems for what we understand as democracy, especially in digital spaces where groups are easy to mobilise and develop in an accelerated fashion.
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The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France
by Simon Kitson, translated from the French by Catherine Tihanyi
University of Chicago Press, 218 pp., $25.00
At first it sounds implausible. Did Marshal Pétain’s Vichy French government, notoriously ready to collaborate with Nazi Germany, actually arrest and execute Nazi spies? Simon Kitson, a young British scholar at the University of Birmingham, shows that it did. His exhaustive search of French military, police, and judicial archives found that between 1940 and 1942 Vichy police and counterintelligence officers arrested between 1,500 and 2,000 agents working for Nazi Germany. Some 80 percent of them were French nationals. About forty German agents were executed, though none of them appears to have been a German citizen; some German citizens were imprisoned, however. The arrests stopped in November 1942 when the German army overran the unoccupied southern half of France, following the American landing in North Africa.
These facts were not entirely unknown. But no one had looked seriously into this cobwebby corner before Simon Kitson (and a few of his French contemporaries such as Sébastien Laurent) gained access to military and judicial archives concerning French counterintelligence activities for the years 1940–1944, and grasped that the subject was more than a passing curiosity.
German espionage in France, already active before 1939, increased greatly after France was defeated and half-occupied in June 1940. The Germans wanted to know how fully the French were observing the armistice. Having themselves begun clandestine rearmament immediately after 1918, they expected the French to do the same. They employed thousands of people, mostly French nationals, to look for French armistice violations.
A variety of reasons brought these people—most of them otherwise quite ordinary—into the service of German intelligence. A few were true believers. Suzanne Desseigne, a member of the extreme right-wing Parti Populaire Français, had since the age of fifteen believed that France was sinking under the assaults of Bolshevism, atheism, and the Jewish conspiracy. She welcomed the “great waves of honest, healthy, orderly life” she felt emanating from Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and “proud Catholic Spain, fighting with all its living strength against red barbarism, against the horror of the Communist revolt.”
Some Alsatians and North Africans were persuaded by nationalism to work against France. Others became German agents for profit; they could be paid 1,000 francs for revealing a Jew in hiding, 3,000 francs for a Gaullist or Communist, and between 5,000 and 30,000 francs for revealing a secret cache of French army weapons, according to its size. Some bought their way out of a prisoner-of-war camp by becoming agents, or overcame a compromised position in this way. Oskar Rohr, for example, a German citizen who had played for the Strasbourg soccer team in the 1930s (his 180 goals still make him the best scorer in the history of the club) and who had joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939, needed in 1940 to get right with his country. A few German agents were recruited by a love of adventure or by sexual intrigue.
The German military oversaw the agents at first, giving way …
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Parents yelling at children and the ref are nothing new in sport but sometimes thinking about it from a 10 year old’s perspective might help us all realign our perspective.
Let’s pretend you are a child playing rugby or basketball or soccer on a Saturday or Friday night. Great fun for the most part but when you have a reasonable crowd and some good opposition, you might be a little apprehensive. Add to that damp conditions for rugby and soccer and it can begin to start to look like things are stacking up against you. Just to finish it all off, after two minutes you can hear maybe up to five different voices telling you to do five different things. I tell you right now, it is not a way to promote excellence in skill execution.
If this does not work for you, put yourself in your work life and imagine yourself having five different bosses with five different thoughts as to what you should do. If that does not confuse you, nothing will.
The reality is often there is a lot of conjecture around refereeing which causes parent angst. The problem these days is the ref is a volunteer often not equipped to do the job but just a parent that was the last person asked and so could not say no. So if the person in charge is not qualified to make decisions, how do you expect the game to flow the right way?
The same could be said of the leaders of various countries – if they are not equipped to the job well, what chance do the rest of us have? The people will revolt taking things into their own hands. Let’s hope there are some leaders in Europe and across the world that will stand up quickly. | <urn:uuid:6cb4a06f-9f70-46df-a5cb-9d2b9ca83d4a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sunlive.co.nz/blogs/3107-sideline-parent-antics-could-help-us-find-our-way-again.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967061 | 339 | 1.75 | 2 |
Since being appointed a curator for Korean art at an institution outside of Korea, I have developed the habit of asking non-Koreans about the image they have of Korea—either of the country at the present time, or of its past. The majority, whether they have a connection to art or not, cite the tense political situation between the two Koreas. ¶
The responses of Koreans, by contrast, are interestingly different. Foods (such as kimchi and bibimbap), or taekwondo, or the fine arts are almost invariably listed above current political issues. When questioned about what artwork could stand as the nation’s icon or image, no Korean would hesitate to single out the gilt-bronze Pensive Bodhisattva, made in the late sixth century. The Pensive Bodhisattva, National Treasure no. 78 (the numbering of national treasures, incidentally, does not correspond to how they are ranked), exhibits a supreme harmony between idealism and realism as well as international aesthetics versus Korean identity.
Koreans’ strong attachment to The Pensive Bodhisattva and their high recognition of its place in Korean art explain the complicated, lengthy procedure involved in being granted a loan of this priceless cultural artifact in time to grace the reopening of LACMA’s new Korean galleries. The first step in this complex negotiation—which took almost a year—was to obtain the approval of the National Museum of Korea, which houses this national treasure. The exporting, or overseas loan, of any Korean cultural artifact must be reviewed and approved by the members of the National Cultural Heritage committee. Among the many subdivisions of this organization, committee members specializing in the relevant particular area of traditional fine art gathered to examine the appropriateness of LACMA to temporarily exhibit this important work of art. With the committee’s approval and endorsement, the request of the three institutions—the National Museum of Korea, the National Cultural Heritage Committee, and LACMA itself—was submitted to the Korean cabinet council, before its ultimately successful application for the personal endorsement of the nation’s president.
The Maitreya Pensive Bodhisattva is in the deep meditation at this moment, but, in the distant future—in about 5.6 billion years—he will come to the human world as a Buddha to save us. If we consider this different measurement, or judgment, of time, the long—sometimes painful—preparation and coordination between several institutions for this significant loan seems merely a short, insignificant moment. The Pensive Bodhisattva will remain in LACMA for three months, making this a rare opportunity to appreciate this uniquely beautiful work of art in the short time we have in this world.
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Schwaiger on the History of the 11th Amendment as Foreign Policy to Circumscribe the Treaty Power
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak
Michael T. Schwaiger of the Alaska Public Defender Agency has posted a new article, A Visible Radiation: Interpreting the History of the Eleventh Amendment as Foreign Policy to Circumscribe the Treaty Power. It appeared in the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy (2007). Here's the abstract: In this Essay, I make two arguments. First, I argue that the national government may not use the Treaty Power to abrogate Eleventh Amendment protections. The Eleventh Amendment voided specific provisions of the Treaty of Peace that states feared would grant British creditors actionable claims against them and, by cabining the Treaty Power, additionally prevented the national government from negotiating a new treaty that would have held states accountable for their denials of British claims. Whatever the original meaning of the Treaty Power was at the Framing, the Eleventh Amendment redefined and curtailed it dramatically. In fact, the Framers of the Eleventh Amendment saw the Supremacy Clause, and the policy reasons underlying it, not as grounds to tolerate an expansive Treaty Power, but rather as the very reasons to amend the Constitution. The background of the Eleventh Amendment as a response to the Treaty of Peace must be considered in any complete picture of the constitutional balance between the national and state governments in light of the Treaty Power. Second, I argue that the states ratified the Eleventh Amendment to protect themselves from out-of-state plaintiffs - but only out-of-state plaintiffs - with claims based on diversity or federal question jurisdiction. The states ratified the Eleventh Amendment in reaction to Chisholm v. Georgia but did so more as Chisholm pertained to British creditors than as Chisholm pertained to American, out-of-state creditors. As a domestic policy measure, the Eleventh Amendment protected interests within each state and simultaneously cut short the emergence of a national court that could have held states accountable for practices that were discriminatory, corrupt, or dangerous to national security. As a foreign policy measure, the Eleventh Amendment expressed American outrage over Britain's refusal to evacuate military posts in the Northwest and expressed the American refusal to pay debts to British creditors. To protect states from British creditors, the ratifiers of the Eleventh Amendment had to preclude British merchants from bringing treaty-based claims under either federal question or diversity jurisdiction. They did not have to preclude in-state plaintiffs from bringing federal question claims, because British merchants could not practicably assign their claims to in-state plaintiffs. Competing interpretations of the Eleventh Amendment insufficiently consider its purpose as a foreign policy measure. | <urn:uuid:2eef4ab1-95ef-493f-8279-4d65efce9d27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/schwaiger-on-history-of-11th-amendment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955539 | 561 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Slot cars have been around since 1912, when Lionel made its first slot cars and tracks. Its business did not last very long — Lionel dumped the cars for model trains in 1915. An almost 40-year-drought followed until 1954, when a British slot-car enthusiast club called the Southport Model Engineering Society created a much-copied 60-foot long track for 1:32 scale cars. The modern, collectible-slot-car era had begun.
Not long thereafter, in 1957, a U.K. company called Minimodels introduced its first Scalextric slot cars. Examples of single-passengers roadsters from that year include a C55 Vanwall and a C54 Lotus. In 1963, Scalextric released its first car with lights (an MM/E1 Lister Jaguar) and its first motorcycle (a B1 Typhoon, complete with sidecar).
These cars, along with other models, gave slot-car fans plenty to get excited about. The biggest manufacturer was a U.S. company called Aurora — cars riding on the Aurora Thunder...
By the middle of the 1960s, no self-respecting town in the United States was without a slot-car center, where kids and their parents could bring their cars to race on enormous, banked tracks. But just like Lionel, the operators of these enterprises weren’t in the game for long as the fad quickly faded out. Some of the dedicated core of slot-car fans that remained turned to the companionship of clubs, while others set up increasingly elaborate slot-car layouts in basements across the land.
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|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary|
1:1-8 The Israelites were convinced that the war against the Canaanites was to be continued; but they were in doubt as to the manner in which it was to be carried on after the death of Joshua. In these respects they inquired of the Lord. God appoints service according to the strength he has given. From those who are most able, most work is expected. Judah was first in dignity, and must be first in duty. Judah's service will not avail unless God give success; but God will not give the success, unless Judah applies to the service. Judah was the most considerable of all the tribes, and Simeon the least; yet Judah begs Simeon's friendship, and prays for aid from him. It becomes Israelites to help one another against Canaanites; and all Christians, even those of different tribes, should strengthen one another. Those who thus help one another in love, have reason to hope that God will graciously help both. Adoni-bezek was taken prisoner. This prince had been a severe tyrant. The Israelites, doubtless under the Divine direction, made him suffer what he had done to others; and his own conscience confessed that he was justly treated as he had treated others. Thus the righteous God sometimes, in his providence, makes the punishment answer the sin.
Verse 5. - Bezek. The site of it is unknown; it is thought to be a different place from the Bezek of 1 Samuel 11:8. Adoni-bezek means the lord of Bezek. He was the conqueror of seventy petty kings.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek,.... Who was king of, the place, and whose name signifies lord of Bezek; not that they took him there, for he is afterwards said to make his escape from thence, but here he was when they came against that city, and into which they rushed upon him, and fell upon him as follows:
and they fought against him; entering the city with their forces:
and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites: that were in it, or about it, even to the number of ten thousand, as before related, Judges 1:4.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
5, 6. Bezek—This place lay within the domain of Judah, about twelve miles south of Jerusalem.
found Adoni-bezek—that is, "lord of Bezek"—he was "found," that is, surprised and routed in a pitched battle, whence he fled; but being taken prisoner, he was treated with a severity unusual among the Israelites, for they "cut off his thumbs and great toes." Barbarities of various kinds were commonly practised on prisoners of war in ancient times, and the object of this particular mutilation of the hands and feet was to disable them for military service ever after. The infliction of such a horrid cruelty on this Canaanite chief would have been a foul stain on the character of the Israelites if there were not reason for believing it was done by them as an act of retributive justice, and as such it was regarded by Adoni-bezek himself, whose conscience read his atrocious crimes in their punishment.
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We have been able to get internet service in the air on flights on most major airlines for years now. The ability to get online at 30,000 feet closed one of the few remaining holes where travelers weren’t able to gain access to the internet. JetBlue and ViaSat have announced an agreement that will bring faster web access to passengers.
The agreement will see passengers on JetBlue flights get access to the ViaSat Ka-band satellite technology that allows for more bandwidth and faster speeds than existing in-flight internet access providers. The agreement between the companies is worth about $30 million.
It will see Ka-band terminals installed into the JetBlue fleet hat has 170 aircraft. ViaSat will install the broadband terminals into the Airbus A320 aircraft that JetBlue operates as well as the Embraer E190 jets. JetBlue will be the first to get the Ka-band service and installation in aircraft is expected to start in 2012. | <urn:uuid:0944fdb7-8577-4df4-a849-ad2efe4d1f48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slashgear.com/viasat-and-jetblue-airways-to-bring-ka-band-high-speed-internet-to-flights-12145746/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949424 | 191 | 1.78125 | 2 |
[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for __builtins__
rrr at ronadam.com
Thu Nov 29 06:11:47 CET 2007
Fred Drake wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> +1 for either __root_namespace__ or __root__.
> What is it with nutrient extractors for plants that makes sense here?
Root is a word that takes on a specific meaning depending on the context.
Root as in tooth root, tree root, to root one self as in self
defense, root of all evil, to root out. etc...
In the case of python and name spaces, the context of __root__ would be
suitably narrow so that the meaning would be clear and familiar with use.
Searching for "python __root__" would give good results as well.
In the case of a file or module name where it could be viewed out of
context, it would be less suitable. I think __builtin__ is fine for that.
Or __default_root__, as in the default root module to be placed in the
__root__ name space.
Keeping __root__ relatively short has the benefit of being able to easily
use "__root__.name" in the case where "name" was/is used in the local
scope. I don't see any reason to make it harder. There might even be a
use case for using all explicit __root__ references.
So +1 on __root__ for me for a name space designator.
> The goal is to make it blindingly obvious to someone reading code they
> didn't write (or even that they did) what's going on.
> +1 for __builtin_namespace__.
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The French film WINGED MIGRATION is an extraordinary experience. To call it a mere documentary is misleading because it has everything: drama, adventure, travel, pathos, art, romance, comedy, tragedy and ecstatic beauty that lifts you out of your seat and into the air to fly alongside these unbelievable beings we call birds. Who needs science fiction and digitally created other-worldly creatures when we have such a species living alongside us here on earth and looking down on us from the sky?
Directed by Jacques Perrin, the film took four years to make, using planes, gliders, helicopters and balloons as well as land vehicles and ingenious camera technology to follow the migration of numerous bird species in seven continents and forty countries from the Arctic to the Amazon, flying low over the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, and getting stuck in the oil bogs of industrial wastelands.
There are no special effects and no need for any since those provided by nature are spectacular enough. When the soundtrack is only birds' cries and other mesmerising environmental sounds it's wonderful. But the narrator's heavily French-accented voice is unfortunate, especially since the information he imparts is minimal, and the background music to the birds' odyssey is an equally poor choice. But the quality of the film overrrides any such minor quibbles. There has never been another movie which allows you to fly close-up, beak to beak, with flesh and blood avian angels whose appearance - whether drop-dead gorgeous, awesome or comical - no designer could have imagined. Nor are we accustomed to seeing our world from a bird's-eye view and it's shocking, frightening and breathtakingly stunning. Don't miss this film even if you have to fly for miles to see it. | <urn:uuid:7018d28e-9c50-4548-a9e5-c9cf2f7a684d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogcritics.org/video/article/winged-migration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94732 | 368 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Trelleborg seals are helping ensure smooth lifting operations for the world's largest crane vessel. The crane vessel is Heerema Marine Contractors' Thialf, a huge semi-submersible barge equipped with two super-cranes. Since it entered service in 1986, the Thialf has installed many of the production platforms in the North Sea and elsewhere around the world.
As the industry increasingly develops oil and gas fields in waters too deep for bottom-founded platforms, the vessel is called on to install equipment such as subsea production facilities or moorings for floating platforms directly onto the seabed. Lifting operations can now take place in water depths well in excess of 2,000 metres.
Underwater operations mean that the hook assemblies, the business ends of the cranes, are exposed to seawater. Measuring more than six meters in height, each four-prong hook assembly rotates on a massive roller bearing packed with lubricating grease.
Protection from seawater
Trelleborg's seals are required to protect the bearing from seawater and resulting corrosion and wear to the metal parts, while allowing the smooth rotation of the hook shaft. Any interruption of normal operations can be costly for Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC).
Previous seals proved unsatisfactory for the job, allowing seawater to get in when the hook assemblies were used underwater, according to Jurgen de Jong, HMC's Senior Technical Superintendent for cranes. De Jong's responsibilities include arranging repairs, overhaul and certification of the crane blocks.
"In 1999 HMC and Trelleborg worked together to come up with a better solution," says Ralph van de Grijp, Business Unit Manager, Offshore & Energy, at the Trelleborg Sealing Solutions marketing company in the Netherlands.
"Armed with specifications provided by HMC, we proposed using a double-acting seal to prevent fluid passing in either direction, to stop seawater going into the bearing or grease from the bearing leaking into the external environment."
1.8m ring diameter
The solution chosen was Trelleborg's Turcon Roto Glyd Ring, which is widely used in other industries. An unusually large size was required, with a diameter of 1.8 metres.
Over the next decade the Thialf continued to perform lifts, and the bearings in the hook assemblies functioned satisfactorily, with no sign of problems. When the vessel returned to its home port of Rotterdam for maintenance in 2010, a proper evaluation of the seals' performance was possible. Trelleborg Sealing Solutions was called in to inspect and replace the seals, a job requiring three days for each seal. The results were surprising.
"My colleagues had never seen seals in such good condition after 10 years in a harsh working environment," says van de Grijp. "There was very little deterioration."
De Jong agrees. "The bearing and the internals of the block were in very good condition, which shows that the seals worked effectively," he says.
Still, for HMC it made sense to install new seals.
"Normally when a block is overhauled we renew all seals preventively, so we do not have to take everything apart again for a leaking seal shortly afterward," de Jong says.
But van de Grijp and his colleagues at Trelleborg Sealing Solutions were left with the tantalizing question: How much longer might the originals have continued to function satisfactorily?
The Turcon Roto Glyd Ring PTFE seal is energised by an elastomer O-Ring.
As pressure from liquids such as seawater or oil increases, the pressure with which the O-Ring pushes the PTFE seal onto the counter surface also increases, thus ensuring that the seal remains tight.
The Turcon Roto Glyd Ring is a seal made of Trelleborg's proprietary PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) based material. The characteristics of PTFE have won it wide use in industrial applications, especially in environments where movement is involved. It has a low friction coefficient and is stick-slip-free, thus allowing smooth transition from a stationary state to movement.
In addition, it is a long-lasting material that displays excellent chemical resistance and fluid compatibility.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Treatments for Verbal Communication
Basic & Clinical
This study will examine the relative effectiveness of two communication interventions on the production of speech in 40 preschool children with ASD (3 to 6 years) who are pre-linguistic i.e. produce fewer than 10 different words. The two experimental treatments will be added to whatever interventions the child is receiving the community. The primary aim is to assess the effectiveness of a direct speech-focused treatment versus a naturalistic approach on the production of speech and the adaptive use of verbal communication. The study will also determine the effect of a parent-delivered generalization program on the maintenance of gains of the interventions provided. The two treatments that will be compared are a direct speech-focused treatment, the Rapid Motor Imitation Training, that reinforces motor imitation (and later targets verbal requests and labels) versus a naturalistic approach the Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT), which has been demonstrated to be effective in increasing communicative behavior in young children with various developmental disabilities. At the end of the treatment period, the children will be assessed by the number of spoken words and expressive communication level. Further, in an effort to match child traits to the most appropriate treatment approach, the data will be analyzed to determine which child characteristics prior to the intervention are associated with greater gains in either of the two treatments. What this means for people with autism: This project aims to compare the effectiveness of two established behavioral treatments aimed at improving language and communication abilities in preverbal, preschool children with ASD. It will advance evidence-based practice in the early intervention arena. It will also supply useful information for predicting the best treatment method to use with children who have particular profiles of prelinguistic development, so as to provide the most effective match between child and intervention. | <urn:uuid:d18d4a17-a293-40b2-b4f3-b8659f1a5707> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autismspeaks.org/language-communication/grants/randomized-controlled-trial-two-treatments-verbal-communication | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925398 | 367 | 3.03125 | 3 |
the point in the orbit of a heavenly body where it is farthest from the sun. See also perihelion.
the farthest point in an orbit from the body being orbited.
the farthest point from the moon in a lunar orbit, as that of a spacecraft. Also called apocynthion.
the study of the physical features of the planet Mars.
Archaic. a description of the surface markings of the sun or a planet. —celidographer, n.
the branch of biology that studies life beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as on other planets. —exobiologist, n.
the highest point a planet or other orbiting heavenly body reaches in its orbit. —meridian, meridional, adj.
the process of one heavenly body disappearing behind another as viewed by an observer.
the closest point in an orbit to the body being orbited.
the point in the orbit of a heavenly body where it is nearest the sun. Also called perihelium. See also aphelion.
the closest point to the moon in a lunar orbit, as that of a spacecraft. Also called pericynthion.
1. a representation of the planetary system, particularly one in which the movements of the planets are simulated by projectors.
2. a room or building housing such an apparatus.
Astronomy. any of thousands of small celestial bodies that revolve about the sun in orbits chiefly between those of Mars and Jupiter ranging in diameter from one mile to 480 miles. Also called asteroids, minor planets. —planetoidal, adj.
the study and description of Jupiter. —zenographical, adj.
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I believe that global warming is both a real phenomenon and at least partially a result of human activities such as dumping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In fact I can "prove it"—or can I?—that is the real question.
What is "proof"? In the strict old fashioned frequentist statistical belief system data is direct observations of the hypothesized phenomena—temperature increases in my case—and when you get enough of it to produce frequency distributions you can assign objective probabilities to cause and effect hypotheses. But what if the events cannot be precisely measured, or worse, apply to future events like the warming of the late 21st century? Then a frequentist interpretation of " proof" is impossible in principle before the fact, and we instead become subjectivists—Bayesian updaters as some statisticians like to refer to it. In this case we use frequency data and all other data relevant to components of our analysis to form a "prior"—a belief about likelihood of an event or process. Then as we learn more we update our belief—an "a posteriori probability" as the Bayesians call it—or simply a revised prior.
It is my strong belief that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence to form a subjective prior with high confidence that the earth's surface has warmed over the past century about 0.7 deg C or so and that at least half of the more recent warming is traceable to human pressures. Is this " proof" of anthropogenic (i.e., we did it) warming? Not in the strict sense of a criminal trial with "beyond a reasonable doubt" criterion—say a 99% objective probability. But in the sense of a civil proceeding, where " preponderance of evidence" is the standard and a likelihood much greater than 50% is adequate to have a case, then global warming is indeed already " proved". So as a frequentist I concede I believe it is real without full "proof", but as a subjectivist, my reading of the many lines of evidence puts global warming well over the minimum thresholds of belief to assert it is already "proved". | <urn:uuid:077b3097-4599-45f5-ab75-1ecd3e6e1701> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edge.org/response-detail/10433 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945351 | 430 | 1.804688 | 2 |
ARTSBEAT; Erik Larson to Write About the Lusitania
By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: April 14, 2012
Just as the publishing industry has finished marking the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking with dozens of related books, at least one publisher is looking ahead to another anniversary: the sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat during World War I. Crown Publishers, part of Random House, said on Friday that it had acquired a nonfiction book by Erik Larson, the author of ''The Devil in the White City,'' that will ''offer a fresh take'' on the sinking.
The attack, on May 7, 1915, killed nearly 1,200 people, including more than 100 Americans. It fueled anti-German sentiment in the United States, although America did not enter the war for another two years. The book, tentatively titled ''Sea of Secrets,'' will be published in 2015. Mr. Larson's latest book, ''In the Garden of Beasts,'' was released in May 2011 and has sold more than 900,000 copies.
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This Policy Analysis explains the antecedents of the current global financial crisis and critically examines the reasoning behind the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve’s actions to prop up the financial sector. It argues that recovery from the financial crisis is likely to be slow with or without the government’s bailout actions.
An oil price spike and a wealth shock in housing initiated the financial crisis. Declines in stock values are intensifying that shock, threatening to deepen the current recession as U.S. consumers and investors cut their expenditures. An offsetting wealth injection from additional risk-bearing investors could initiate a quicker recovery. Thus, supporters of government intervention justify the bailout’s debt-financed fund injections — in essence, they want to compel future taxpayers to join the group of today’s riskbearing investors.
However, the bailout is poorly designed and its implementation appears panicky — marked by a knee-jerk trial-and-error process that may have heightened market uncertainty. Worse, current interventions in market processes and institutions could become permanent, to the probable detriment of the nation’s long-term economic prospects. With or without the bailout, the ongoing recession is likely to be deep and long.
From a philosophical perspective, any bailout action provides a host of bad incentives. Moreover, we should be mindful that future generations already face massive debt burdens from entitlement programs. Increasing those burdens by expanding the bailout program or enacting a massive fiscal stimulus will hasten the long-anticipated crisis in entitlement programs. Thus, the ongoing economic crisis could usher in permanently higher taxes, greater government involvement in the private sector, and a prolonged period of slower economic growth. | <urn:uuid:bb25b56e-d1ee-4d9a-9a26-b97ee58dc159> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/financial-crisis-public-policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912183 | 339 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Note well that the entire previous section or two said very little indeed about the role that reason played in the development of the answers to the big questions that are, after all, the subject of this chapter. That is because it was not much of a factor for most of the last million years or so - genetic and memetic co-evolution was the powerful driver for turning monkeys living in the moment into philosophers that are capable of reasoning and value reasoning and can develop systems of reasoning. Such reason as there was was very primitive - a seeking of and naming of primary causes in an inferential associative chain that we lacked the means to systematically analyze.
Lest you think that this is not true, recall the previous observation that induction does not necessarily lead to truths. This is especially true when analyzing observations: ``correlation is not causality''. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy, not a well-reasoned argument. Just because things are correlated does not mean that one is the cause of the other, yet sometimes, of course, it does! In fact, correlations of one sort or another, in the form of systematic observations revealing systematic situational behavior, is the only thing that our human brains have had to work with while working out things like physics, chemistry, biology, and so on.
Let's see, we have correlation, we infer causality. How do we find reason in all of this? Reason is deductive. Without it, on the other hand, how do we make progress organizing our causal hypotheses? Somehow we need both, but they belong in different realms - one a realm of conditional certainty (which isn't certainty at all, as we will see) and the other a real of at best probability (note, not certainty either). Hmmm, a bit of a bootstrapping problem - how can you invent reason - without the help of reason? Through induction?
Fortunately, our brains had help.
The underlying mechanism of evolution provides its own sort of ``reason'' as it picks out solutions that ``work'' (survive) from the sea of ones that ``don't work'', but the function that it optimizes isn't ``truth'' per se but ``superorganismal fitness'' - survival of the social group (and possibly the individual) associated with a given set of memes. There are obvious places where the two are congruent - pretty much all of natural science, for example, where a superior mastery of science and engineering and reasoned warfare has provided overwhelming superorganismal advantages - and equally obvious places where the two are not, as distinct social groups are organized around completely different and conflicting religions that cannot all be ``truth'' and that seem to convey about the same degree of survival advantage.
It is only in the very recent past that reason (in the form of formal philosophy, mathematics, and science) has emerged as a significant factor in the co-evolution of memetic superorganisms. It literally could not emerge until the human brain and human language had co-developed to the point where the language could semantically encode formal reasoning processes, and it did not emerge until a written language had been invented that was capable of precisely preserving symbolically encoded statements for timescales spanning generations1.251.26 .
The very earliest symbolic philosophers immediately noticed that the results of the system that they developed were relevant to the needs of both individuals and the superorganism of which they were members. Doubtless they extended and formalized verbal reasoning processes that had proven fruitful even before being symbolically encoded, but the ability to symbolically encode the arguments and ``save'' them for incremental analysis permitted much longer chains of reasoning to be carried out than one could hold in one's mind alone.
Much of this development was conducted in a sort of memetic competition with the prevailing religious superorganism, which already had developed answers to many of the same questions that were now being systematically addressed with memetic tools that were more powerful than language and cultural mythology alone. Two interesting things occurred almost immediately in the context of this competition. First of all, philosophers armed with symbolic reasoning attempted to tackle once again questions of all sizes, from everyday questions concerning the best way to build things to the super-ultimate why (SUW) question - the why of existence itself, the why of Deity if you consider Deity to be the reason for existence, the limit of the infinite chain of why questions that underlie any analysis of cause1.27.
Second, the very act of asking what could be the cause of Deity and the reopening of many questions that already had memetically prescribed answers within a politico-religious system triggered the defenses of the superorganism that had co-evolved along with the entity itself. These defenses (which will be discussed in detail) can be thought of as very similar to the system of antibodies and immune cells that exist in most organisms - they differentiate between genetic ``self'' and genetic ``other'' and act to preserve the one while terminating the other with extreme prejudice. This is not a reasoned process - it cannot be, as a considerable portion of this work is devoted to making clear.
As it happens, though, reason has proven to be too useful to be eliminated by the allergic reaction of the prevailing religion of any given superorganism, however fervently and passionately that reaction has been pursued. Superorganisms where reason was successfully suppressed in favor of a politico-religious meme set have gradually failed when confronted with similar superorganisms where reason was treated more liberally in a process that continues to this very day. Over the course of time, the progress of reason has advanced so rapidly that it has overtaken the ability of various superorganisms to absorb the changes and retain social identity, leading to strong internal conflicts within those superorganismal cultures. This too is a major focus of this book.
Before we get there, though, we need to examine reason itself, and try to understand just what sort of beast it is, where it came from, how it has been formulated historically at its deepest levels and where that formulation is or isn't technically correct. We need to understand the Laws of Thought as one of the original codifications of the reasoning process. Ultimately we need to understand the essential role played by axioms in constructing systems of reason that are capable of ``explaining'' anything at all and the strict limitations that a need for axioms places on the conclusions of the process. Since we are talking about knowledge derived from abstract symbolic processes, all of this needs to be done in the context of what it means to ``know'' anything at all.
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August 1, 2006 Ergonomists say that, even in teens, poor body posture and incorrect positioning of the keyboard, screen, and mouse are contributing to the risk of contracting neck and back pains and even carpal tunnel syndrome. A survey of 500 children found that long hours spent at the computer can result in repetitive strain symptoms usually seen only in adults.
NEW YORK -- These days, teenagers use computers for hours every day. But over time, all that logging on may be putting the kind of strains on their bodies that used to only be seen in adults. If your teens are on the computer all the time now, these new techniques may keep them pain-free later in life.
Computers are the name of the game for today's tech-savvy teens. Most of them have been logging on since they were pre-K! Experts say many of these surfers spend too much time on the computer every day, so their bodies are paying the price with symptoms like finger pain and neck cramps.
"Kids who use the computers everyday are twice as likely to have symptoms -- the kind of symptoms that when we see them as adults are warning signs of disability," ergonomist Robin Mary Gillespie, tells DBIS.
She says in a survey of 500 people, ages 12 to 18, the most common complaint of daily computer users was neck and shoulder pain. To avoid pain, the mouse needs to be as close to your body as possible. Put a bridge over the number keypad so the mouse is closer to you.
Also, monitors are often too high for kids, causing neck discomfort from looking up. So, lower the monitor to keep your neck straight, or use a chair where you can adjust the height. Gillespie says laptop users should use an external keyboard and mouse to control the distance between the screen and keyboard.
"The final thing that we look at a lot is the bending of the hands," Gillespie says. "This would be the sort of thing that leads to carpal tunnel syndrome." To avoid this, type with your hands as flat as possible. Don't put up the little feet on the keyboard, and take breaks every 20 minutes.
BACKGROUND: A new study on how kids' body position as they use computers can harm their health is the first to demonstrate a direct connection between computer over-use and pain in the upper body. Office workers have been instructed on proper posture for computer use since the late 1980s, but kids are now beginning to develop similar problems: eye strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and neck stiffness.
WHAT IS ERGONOMICS: This is a branch of science that strives to design the job to fit the worker, rather than the other way around. In the modern office, it most commonly relates to the physical stresses placed on joints, muscles, nerves, tendons, bones, even hearing and eyesight, along with other environmental factors that can adversely affect comfort and health. Ergonomics deals with the interaction of technology and work environments with the human body, and involves anatomy, physiology and psychology in the design of chairs, desks, computer accessories, the design of car controls and instruments -- in short, any kind of product that could help relieve potential repetitive strain from a given job or task.
POTENTIAL FOR INJURY: The most common repetitive strain injury (also known as cumulative trauma disorder) is carpal tunnel syndrome, which affects the hand and wrist. Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome or related repetitive strain include tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers; and loss of strength or coordination in the hands. Tendonitis and many back injuries can also result from repetitive motions.
CONSUMER TIPS: Adults and children need to follow the same basic tips to avoid repetitive stress injuries:
- Raise or lower chairs to avoid typing with your wrists at an odd angle. (For children, it might be wise to buy special kid-sized furniture, mice and keyboards, designed for smaller bodies and hands.)
- Place your keyboard at a level slightly lower than normal desk height.
- Use a footrest to avoid dangling your legs.
- While typing, wrists should not be bent up, down or to the side. The knuckle, wrist and top of the forearm should form a straight line.
- Elbows should form a 90-degree angle while hanging at the sides from the shoulders, and the shoulders should remain relaxed in a lowered position while typing.
- Do not use wrist supports or rests while you are typing, only when pausing to rest.
- Adjust computer monitors to avoid glare.
- Take frequent breaks from repetitive tasks to give your body a rest.
- Use a light touch when typing or holding the mouse.
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.
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Douching Linked to High Risk for Bacterial Vaginosis
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Women who douche regularly are at markedly higher risk for bacterial vagi-nosis than are women who do not douche, according to a study reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers studied 1200 women at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Women who reported douching at least once a month were 40% more likely to have mild bacterial vaginosis, compared with women who did not douche. The researchers suggest that douching may disrupt the normal vaginal microbiology, leading to vulnerability to bacterial vaginosis. Other studies also have linked douching to the risk of acquiring HIV, pelvic inflammatory disease, preterm delivery, and cervical cancer.
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Over the 10 days it took for artist Michael Heizer's 340-ton rock to travel from a Riverside quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, moving an average 5 miles per hour in a specially built, 260-foot-long transporter, over in France, artist Régis Perray moved 340 grams of dust through Nantes. He loaded it into a tiny toy dump truck and pulled it with his fingers. The dust came from Chartres Cathedral, a place "younger than Heizer's rock, but older than the history of the United States," partly built when, in the year 1145, citizens harnessed themselves to carts and pulled building materials to the site in an act... More >>>
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This Is An Arab 1848. But US Hegemony Is Only Dented
With western-backed despots being turfed out politics has changed for ever. So just how far can the revolution spread?
Revolutionary murals on the walls of newly established toilet facilities for protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
The refusal of the people to kiss or ignore the rod that has chastised them for so many decades has opened a new chapter in the history of the Arab nation. The absurd, if much vaunted, neocon notion that Arabs or Muslims were hostile to democracy has disappeared like parchment in fire.
Those who promoted such ideas appear to the most unhappy: Israel and its lobbyists in Euro-America; the arms industry, hurriedly trying to sell as much while it can (the British prime minister acting as a merchant of death at the Abu Dhabi arms fair); and the beleaguered rulers of Saudi Arabia, wondering whether the disease will spread to their tyrannical kingdom. Until now they have provided refuge to many a despot, but when the time comes where will the royal family seek refuge? They must be aware that their patrons will dump them without ceremony and claim they always favoured democracy.
If there is a comparison to be made with Europe it is 1848, when the revolutionary upheavals left only Britain and Spain untouched – even though Queen Victoria, thinking of the Chartists, feared otherwise. Writing to her besieged nephew on the Belgian throne, she expressing sympathy but wondered whether "we will all be slain in our beds". Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown or bejewelled headgear, and has billions stored in foreign banks.
Like Europeans in 1848 the Arab people are fighting against foreign domination (82% of Egyptians, a recent opinion poll revealed, have a "negative view of the US"); against the violation of their democratic rights; against an elite blinded by its own illegitimate wealth – and in favour of economic justice. This is different from the first wave of Arab nationalism, which was concerned principally with driving the remnants of the British empire out of the region. The Egyptians under Nasser nationalised the Suez canal and were invaded by Britain, France and Israel – but that was without Washington's permission, and the three were thus compelled to withdraw.
Cairo was triumphant. The pro-British monarchy was toppled by the 1958 revolution in Iraq, radicals took power in Damascus, a senior Saudi prince attempted a palace coup and fled to Cairo when it failed, armed struggles erupted in Yemen and Oman, and there was much talk of an Arab nation with three concurrent capitals. One side effect was an eccentric coup in Libya that brought a young, semi-literate officer, Muammar Gaddafi, to power. His Saudi enemies have always insisted that the coup was masterminded by British intelligence, just like the one that propelled Idi Amin to power in Uganda. Gaddafi's professed nationalism, modernism and radicalism were all for show, like his ghosted science-fiction short stories.
It never extended to his own people. Despite the oil wealth he refused to educate Libyans, or provide them with a health service or subsidised housing, squandering money on absurdist projects abroad – one of which was to divert a British plane carrying socialist and communist Sudanese oppositionists and handing them over to fellow dictator Gaafar Nimeiry in Sudan to be hanged, thus wrecking the possibility of any radical change in that country, with dire consequences, as we witness every day. At home he maintained a rigid tribal structure, thinking he could divide and buy tribes to stay in power. But no longer.
Israel's 1967 lightning war and victory sounded the death knell of Arab nationalism. Internecine conflicts in Syria and Iraq led to the victory of rightwing Ba'athists blessed by Washington. After Nasser's death and his successor Saadat's pyrrhic victory against Israel in 1973, Egypt's military elite decided to cut its losses, accepted annual billion-dollar subsidies from the US and do a deal with Tel Aviv. In return its dictator was honoured as a statesman by Euro-America, as was Saddam Hussein for a long time. If only they had left him to be removed by his people instead of by an ugly and destructive war and occupation, over a million dead and 5 million orphaned children.
The Arab revolutions, triggered by the economic crisis, have mobilised mass movements, but not every aspect of life has been called into question. Social, political and religious rights are becoming the subject of fierce controversy in Tunisia, but not elsewhere yet. No new political parties have emerged, an indication that the electoral battles to come will be contests between Arab liberalism and conservatism in the shape of the Muslim Brotherhood, modelling itself on Islamists in power in Turkey and Indonesia, and ensconced in the embrace of the US.
American hegemony in the region has been dented but not destroyed. The post-despot regimes are likely to be more independent, with a democratic system that is fresh and subversive and, hopefully, new constitutions enshrining social and political needs. But the military in Egypt and Tunisia will ensure nothing rash happens. The big worry for Euro-America is Bahrain. If its rulers are removed it will be difficult to prevent a democratic upheaval in Saudi Arabia. Can Washington afford to let that happen? Or will it deploy armed force to keep the Wahhabikleptocrats in power?
A few decades ago the great Iraqi poet Mudhafar al-Nawab, angered by a gathering of despots described as an Arab Summit, lost his cool:
… Mubarik, Mubarik,
Wealth and good health
Fax the news to the UN.
Camp after Camp and David,
Father of all your Camps.
Damn your fathers
The stench of your bodies floods your nostrils …
O Make-Believe Summit
May your faces be blackened;
Ugly your drooping bellies
Ugly your fat arses
Why the surprise
That your faces resemble both ...
Summits … summits … summits
Goats and sheep gather,
Farts with a tune
Let the Summit be
Let the Summit not be
Let the Summit decide;
I spit on each and every one of you
Kings … Sheikhs … Lackeys …
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An Eskimo tale:
"Sermerssuaq was so powerful that she could lift a kayak on the tips of three fingers. She could kill a seal merely by drumming on its head with her fists. She could rip asunder a fox or hare. Once she arm-wresteld with Qasordlanguaq, another powerful woman, and beat her so easily that she said: 'Poor qasordlanguaq could not beat one of her own lice at arm-wrestling'. Most men she could beat and then she would tell them: 'Where were you when the testicles were given out?' Sometimes this Sermerssuaq would show off her clitoris. It was so big that the skin of a fox would not fully cover it. Aja, and she was the mother of nine children, too!" | <urn:uuid:c939d787-3fef-4617-93a4-8ced3387dfa5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ashleyb.org/archives/000835.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991083 | 174 | 1.617188 | 2 |
With innovation seen as a key way for businesses to navigate the recession, the Innovating out of Recession workshop at our Annual Conference brought together an interesting mix of speakers and delegates to discuss innovative practices, measuring innovation and how innovation may change the industrial structure of the West Midlands.
Cliff Dennett from thoughtengine, co-author of Innovation in a recession (chapter 7 in the Fit for the Future book ), kicked off a series of presentations covering a range of innovation related topics. Cliff’s presentation focussed on ways in which we can explore cost-cutting but value adding activities.
Brian MacAulay, Director of the Innovation Index at NESTA, presented on Innovation Matters and so does how you measure it… outlining the work that NESTA has been doing in measuring innovation:
Andrew Hermann, who leads the Enterprise and Innovation Team at the Observatory, gave a brief overview of some of the work that the Observatory is doing in measuring innovation in the West Midlands and benchmarking performance against the other regions. Here are Andrew’s slides:
Professor David Bailey from Coventry University Business School gave an overview of Towards a knowledge-intensive, green manufacturing future (Chapter 8 in the Fit for the Future? book co-authored with Lisa De Propris from Birmingham Business School).
He discussed how the region’s manufacturing businesses can build upon their expertise, adopting a more knowledge-intensive approach.
He spoke of how knowledge-intensive manufacturing could help the region out of recession and rebalance the regional economy, which currently relies too much on the service sector.
He also described ways of integrating services with manufacturing as a growing trend with great potential.
Simon Topman, Chair of the West Midlands Chambers of Commerce, gave an entertaining and enlightening talk about how his whistle manufacturing company drives forward innovation. He also provided an excellent insight into how they work closely with some of the region’s universities to continue to develop innovative products.
The presentations raised a number of comments:
What are the future drivers for change? Will enforced carbon reduction be seen as an opportunity to drive innovation?
Why is innovation in some organisations (particularly public sector bodies) seen simply as cost cutting?
Does auditing and monitoring in the public sector promote a culture less receptive to innovation?
Can we teach innovation?
How can we stop businesses in the West Midlands innovating?
In an innovative fashion, delegates were asked to consider the question: “How can we stop businesses in the West Midlands innovating?”
Following a short brainstorming session, delegates were then asked to come up with solutions to ensure these scenarios do not happen.
Points raised during this exercise largely focussed around the themes of leadership, funding, infrastructure and skills. We are currently collating and reviewing the responses and will be continuing the debate very soon.
As well as the scenarios raised during the brainstorming, this interesting question was raised:
Is innovation good if it drives business growth but comes at the cost of employment?
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Katie Martin's research focuses on access to healthy food, and the link between food insecurity and obesity among disadvantaged communities. She received a four-year Career Development award (K award) from the CT Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. For this award, Dr. Martin is currently working with three community agencies (Chrysalis Center, Foodshare and Junior League of Hartford) to help develop and evaluate an innovative new food pantry called Freshplace. Results will help determine if case management within food pantries significantly improves food security compared to traditional food pantries. Recently she has partnered with the CT WIC Program and Head Start Programs to develop and evaluate a formal collaboration between both programs. Dr. Martin also conducted a multi-year research project to evaluate the food environment in Hartford, particularly in corner stores. Dr. Martin teaches a graduate course in the MPH program at UConn titled Food, Health & Politics. She is happily married with two sons. | <urn:uuid:2e3f2b41-bc92-46e7-a845-c9f88833473d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://profiles.uconn.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=91 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960967 | 192 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Addicted to the Cold
Pushing himself - and his gear - to the limit, Mateusz Moskalik has found a home in the harsh, arctic climates of the north. He thrives where others won't tread, and his bags have to be as tough as he is.
He is very patient, spending hours in bitter cold and blending into his surroundings so the local wildlife doesn't feel threatened and allows him to come close. No, he doesn't speak to animals — at least not yet. But he understands them perfectly and can predict their movements. He's in his element, and his fabulous images prove it.
Mateusz spends a lot of his time in extreme conditions. The bags he relies on to keep his gear safe are the Pro Trekker™ 600 AW, Dry Zone™ 200 and Vertex™ 300 AW — bags that are as tough as he is. Click the links to see why.
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An experienced polar researcher, geophysicist and photographer,
Mateusz Moskalik was a doctoral student at the Department of
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"You can fall in love with the Arctic, or you can hate it; but you cannot stand emotionless."
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Once upon a time, there lived a mechanical engineer who pondered a question that has bothered intelligent, curious children for years.
Namely, what qualities would the glass in Cinderella's slippers need to have in order for her to walk and dance comfortably, and hold her weight?
Yes, that was a question answered by one Antariksh Bothale, a BTech and MTech in Mechanical Engineering, on question and answer site Quora this week. "It is delightful to have my masters degree in Mechanical Engineering put to use in resolving age-old engineering problems," wrote Bothale, before giving a thorough mathematical breakdown of the problem.
The question made me smile because it's one I used to ask my parents all the time. After all... the risks seemed huge! What if the glass broke and sliced through her foot? It seemed like such a ridiculous choice of footwear. "They were magic glass slippers," my mother used to say, exasperated by my relentless story hole poking. But that just didn't cut it for me. Bothale's answer, however, does.
"Whenever we design something that needs to bear force, we test for various possible modes of failure and try to ensure that our object is strong against all of them," he writes, before undertaking an analysis of the compressive stress on the slippers arising from Cinderella's weight, which he estimates at around 50kgs.
Bothale starts by assuming Cinderella's weight can be applied uniformly across her shoe, and roughly estimates her foot size and overall foot area at A = 0.015m squared. If 50kgs of weight were to be applied uniformly across this area, he calculates that the compressive stress developed in the material would be:
Turns out it's good news for Cinderella and fairy tale purists alike then, because Bothale writes that the Yield strength of ordinary glass for compressive stress is approximately 50MPa, which is three orders of magnitude more than what Cinderella's weight can produce.
Perfect. Or maybe not quite yet, because Cinderella doesn't just stand there looking pretty in her glass slippers. She actually has to walk around and dance, and that, Bothale points out, could lead to more compressive stress on the shoes every time she takes a step.
For simplicity's sake, Bothale makes a couple of assumptions. He gives Cinderella's heel a diameter of 2cm and a length of 6cm from the tip to the point where it joins the rest of the shoe. He then assumes her stepping angle to be about 30 degrees, which would mean that only half of her weight would act in the normal direction to the heel. Plugging those numbers into his equation, Bothale calculates the maximum bending stress in the heel to a max of 19MPa, which he says is "dangerously close" to the critical stress level of 50MPa.
"Even if we make a few more allowances by making the heel thicker or the stepping angle smaller, we cannot let our little princess veer so dangerously close to disaster," he writes. And so, Bothale recommends using thermal toughened safety glass, with its yield strength of 200MPa and a higher Young's Modulus.
Even when the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella has to hightail it to her pumpkin carriage in those glass heels, increasing the impact force three to five times that of regular walking, Bothale calculates her dress would likely prevent her from making long strides, keeping her stepping angle within safe limits and ensuring the shoes don't shatter. Though he does say the princess-to-be would be "well-advised to develop a toe-first foot strike, which would totally solve the problem."
I don't know about happily ever after, but Bothale's attempt at solving the glass slipper conundrum certainly made my day.
What theoretical fairy tale problems would you like to see solved through engineering? Let us know in the comments section below.
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It is bordered on the north by the Kingdom of Nepal, on the west by Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, south by Jharkhand, and the nort-east by West Bengal. Bihar lies in the very fertile Gangetic plains, and is part of the Hindi-speaking heartland of India.
Bihar has a very rich history. It was called Magadha in ancient days. Its capital Patna, known as Pataliputra during the old days, was the center of the Mauryan empire which ruled the Indian subcontinent between 325-185 BC. Emperor Ashoka was the most famous ruler of this dynasty. Bihar remained an important place of power, culture and education during the next thousand years. Nalanda and Vikramshila Universities were the world class learning centres.
Religions OriginatedBihar is also a birthplace of many religions, including Buddhism and Jainism. The Word "Bihar" has its origin in the word "Vihara" meaning Buddhist Monasteries. Buddha attained the Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, a town located in the modern day district of Gaya. Buddha started spreading his teaching after attaining the Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya. Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, was born in Vaishali, Bihar.
With the advent of the foreign aggression and eventual forein subjugation of India, position of Bihar was also adversly affected. Bakhtiar Khilji captured Bihar in 12th century AD. In between, Bihar saw a brief period of glory for six years during the rule of Sher Shah Suri, who was from Sasaram and built the longest road of the Indian subcontinent, the Grand Trunk Road, which starts from Calcutta and ends at Peshawar, Pakistan. During 1557-1576, Akbar, the Mughal emperor, annexed Bihar and Bengal to his empire and made Bihar a part of Bengal. With the decline of Mughals, Bihar passed under the control of Nawabs of Bengal.
After the Battle of Buxar (1765), East India Company got the diwani rights (rights to administer and collect revenue, or tax administration / collection) for Bihar, Bengal and Orissa. From this point onwards Bihar remained a part the Bengal Presidency of the British Raj till 1912, when Bihar was carved out as a separate province. In 1935, certain portions of Bihar were reorganised into a separate state of Orissa. Again, in 2000, 18 administrative districs of Bihar were separated to form the state of Jharkhand.
After his return from the South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi started the freedom movement in India by his Satyagraha in the Champaran district of Bihar against the British, who were forcing the local farmers to plant indigo which was very harmful to the local soil. This movement by Mahatma Gandhi received a spontaneous support from a cross section of people, including Dr. Rajendra Prasad, who ultimately became the first President of independed India.
- 560 BC - 480 BC - Buddha
- Before 325 BC - Nanda clan in Magadha, Lichchavis in Vaishali
- 325 BC - 185 BC - Maurya Dynasty
- 250 BC - 3rd Buddhist Council
- 185 BC - 80 BC - Sunga Dynasty
- 80 - 240- Regional kings
- 240 - 600 - Gupta Dynasty
- 600 - 650 - Harsha Vardhana
- 750 - 1200 - Pala Dynasty
- 1200 - Muhammad of Ghori's army destroy the universities at Nalanda and Vikramshila
- 1200 - 1250 - Decline of Buddhism
- 1250 - 1526 - Ruled by Delhi Sultanate (Muslim Turks - Tughluqs, Sayyids, Lodis)
- 1526 - 1540 - Babur defeats last Delhi sultan, establishes Mughal empire
- 1540 - 1555 - Suri dynasty captures empire from Mughals (including Shershah Suri who built the Grand Trunk Road)
- 1526 - 1757 - Mughal dynasty resumes
- 1757 - 1857 - British East India Company rule
- 1857 - Revolt of 1857
- 1857 - 1947 - British Raj rule
- 1912 - Province of Bihar and Orissa separated from Bengal
- 1935 - Bihar and Orissa become separate provinces
- 1947 - Indian Independence; Bihar becomes a state
- 2000 - Bihar divided into two states - north part remained Bihar, South became Jharkhand
Geography & climate
Bihar is mainly a vast stretch of very fertile land. It has many rivers including Ganga, Son, Bagmati, Kosi , Budhi Gandak , Falgu , etc. Southern part of Bihar has some small hills. Nepal is to the north of Bihar. To get to the Himalayas one will have to enter Nepal and travel for around 50-100kms.
After the division of the state in 2000, when the industrial and the mineral rich part of the state was carved out as a separate state of Jharkhand, the main economic activity of the state has been agriculture. Bihar is one of the poorest states of India. Blames for this are put on many factors - a historical disfavour from the center of Indian power (be it Calcutta during the British empire or Delhi during the independent India), a deeply polarized and highly politicized society, power hungry and corrupt rulers, lack of social reform movements, etc.
Climate It is mildly cold in the winter (worst it could get is 5-10 degrees Celsius). Winter months are December and January. It is very hot in the summer (40-45 degrees). April, May and first half of June are the hot months. Then comes the monsoon in the months of June, July, August, and September. October, November, February, and March are very pleasant months.
The economy is mainly based on the agricultural activities. The vast swath of the extremely fertile land makes this very easy. Despite a lot of rivers and good soil, irrigation facilities are very poor and the agriculture is mainly dependent upon the vagaries of the nature. There have been some attempts to industrialize the state also - a refinery in Barauni, a scooter plant in Fatuha, and some agriculture based industries like sugar, vegetable oil etc. But Bihar has not seen success in its industrialization.
Government & politics
The state is headed by a Governor, who is appointed by the President of India. However, the real executive power rests with the Chief Minister and the cabinet. The political party or the coalition of political parties having majority in the Legislative Assembly forms the Government.
Transport & travel
Bihar has two airports - Patna and Gaya. Patna airport is a domestic airport connected directly to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Ranchi. Gaya airport is a small international airport connected by Indian airlines to Kolkata and Bangkok.
Bihar is very well connected by rail lines to the rest of India. Most of the towns are interconnected and also directly connected to Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai. Patna and Gaya are the best connected towns.
Roads are not in good condition, so it is better to avoid them if possible.
For Buddhist pilgrims, best option is to go directly to Gaya, either by air or train, and then travel to Bodh Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir, Sarnath, etc.
Places to See
- Buddhist sites - Bodh Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir.
- Jain sites - Vaishali and Pawapuri.
- Sikh sites - Har Mandir Sahib, Patna City, the birth place of Guru Gobind Singh.
- Hindu sites - The Pind-dan at Gaya, Baidyanath Dham, Tara Mandir at Mahisi, etc.
- Muslim sites - Bihar-E-Sharif
- Historic sites - Patna, Gaya, Bodh Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir, Vaishali, Pawapuri, Champaran, Sasaram, etc.
- National parks and wildlife sanctuaries: Valmiki National Park , Kodarma Wildlife Sanctuary , Madampur Sanctuary .
- Chhath, also called Dala Chhath - is a major festival in Bihar, and is celebrated a week after Deepawali. Chhath is the worship of the Sun God. Wherever folks from Bihar have migrated, they have taken with them the tradition of Chhath, and now this festival is not unknown even in metros like Calcutta, New Delhi and Mumbai.
- Apart from Chhath, all major festivals of India are celebrated in Bihar, like Makar Sankranti, Sarasawati Puja, Holi, Ram Nawami, Rath Yatra, Teej, Rakhee, Durga Puja, Deepawali, X'mas, Id, Bakrid, and several other local as well as national festivals.
Folksongs & music
Bihar has a very old tradition of beautiful folk songs, sung during important family occasions, like marriage, birth ceremonies, festivals, etc. They are sung mainly in group settings without the help of any musical instruments.
Bihar also has a tradition of lively Holi songs, filled with fun beats.
During the 19th century, when the condition of Bihar further worsened after the British loot and misrule, a lot of Biharis had to migrate as indentured labourers to West Indian islands, Fiji, and Mauritius. During this time a lot of sad plays and songs became very popular in Bhojpur area and still some dramas on that theme are played in the theaters of Patna.
Main article: Music of Bihar
Language & Literature
Bihar has many local languages, including Hindi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, and Magadhi (Magahi). Bhojpuri, Magahi, and several other local languages like Angika are sometimes collectively referred as Bihari language. Bihari, Hindi and Urdu are spoken and understood by most of the people.
Bihar has produced a number of great Hindi poets and novelists during and immediately after the independence movement. Raja Radhika Raman Singh, Shiva Pujan Sahay, Divakar Prasad Vidyarthy, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Nirala, Ram Briksha Benipuri, and many others wrote important pieces of Hindi literature, both prose as well as poetry.
Devaki Nandan Khatri , who rose to fame at the beginning of the 20th century on account of his novels like Chandrakanta and Chandrakanta Santati, was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
Different local languages also produced some prominent poets and authors. Vidyapati, the most famous of all Bihari poets, was a great Maithili poet.
Bihar has a very well developed cinema industry for the Bhojpuri language, spoken mainly in the central and western Bihar. There is a small Maithili film industry also.
In ancient Bihar, world famous learning centres, universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila, were located. After their destruction in the 13th century, Bihar has not seen any educational centre of world repute.
Presently, like most parts of India, after 10 years of schooling, students can join 2 years of Intermediate course (or +2 courses) in Arts, Science and Commerce. This is followed by 3 years of degree courses. Some students choose to join 3 years diploma courses offered by Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). There are hardly 5 or 6 institutions imparting professional courses.
The educational infrastructure of the state falls short of a growing population. As such, a number of students, after completing schooling, move away to New Delhi, Karnataka, and other parts of India, for perusing higher technical or non-technical studies.
Bihar has a system of district schools (called Zila schools), located at district headquarter of older districts of Bihar. There are a lot of state run Navodaya schools also. In early eighties, the state government took over control and management of most of privately run schools, and accorded them government recognition. There are many such schools throughout the state with different names. Central government also runs a number of Central schools for the wards of its employees. Delhi Public School, a chain of schools, is also opening schools in various towns of Bihar. In bigger cities and towns, some schools are run by convents or by the Jesuits.
Universities & colleges
Bihar has five universities:
- Patna University, Patna
- University of Bhagalpur, Bhagalpur
- Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
- Magadh University, Bodh Gaya
- Bihar University, Muzaffarpur
University of Patna, established in 1917 and the seventh oldest university on the Indian subcontinent, is the most prominent among the above five universities. It has 11 colleges, including famous colleges like Science College ,Patna Women's College, Patna College and Patna Medical College & Hospital . Patna Women's College is one of the leading women's college in Bihar, followed by Magadh Mahila College .
In Bihar, there are three engineering colleges, under the management and control of the Government of Bihar:
- Bihar College of Engineering , now National Institute of Technology , Patna
- Bhagalpur College of Engineering
- Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology
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What We Know About Toy Story 3
Here's everything we've got on the long-awaited threequel.
Like Empire Strikes Back or The Godfather II, the follow-up to Pixar's first feature-length, CG-animated film, Toy Story, stands among a rather short list of sequels that far and away eclipse their original. But in the spirit of the beloved animation company that Pixar would eventually turn out to be, the creative minds there came together to create an adventure that vastly improved upon an already first-rate, family-friendly movie. Toy Story 2 was every bit as hilarious, exciting and heartwarming as one could hope, and as soon as the credits rolled on the film, children and adults alike were already clamoring for Toy Story 3.
As Pixar went on create a slew of original properties -- The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E -- the second adventure of Woody and Buzz Lightyear seemed like it might be, just perhaps, their last. Rumors persisted, however, throughout much of 2001 and 2002 without any substantial news of a threequel hitting until 2004 when the Hollywood Reporter wrote that Disney was considering the film without Pixar's involvement. The Disney/Pixar relationship was set to expire and Disney chair Michael Eisner had offered up the idea in shareholder meetings more frequently as the clock ticked down.
Shortly thereafter, word began to emerge that Disney had settled on a story for the film, keeping the proposed plot under wraps until early 2005 when the company announced details of the storyline at SIGGRAPH, a popular computer trade show: "After a major malfunction, Buzz Lightyear is recalled to a toy factory in Taiwan. Woody and the gang have to hightail it halfway around the world to save Buzz before he is dissembled forever."
Immediatley, the trouble began. Fox 411 columnist Roger Friedman reported that artists and directors all over town were turning down the opportunity to take the reins on Toy Story 3, citing their respect for Pixar's growing popularity. "My sources in the animation biz tell me that Disney, which will make Toy Story 3 without Pixar, cannot find a director to guide the project….Every single animator of note has turned down the director's job. They don't want to cross Pixar. They've become the only deal in town."
Production meandered on the project until February of 2006, in the aftermath of Disney's acquisition of Pixar, when Disney CEO Robert Iger announced that Pixar would develop the third film in the series based upon an idea of their own design. Nearly a year later, Toy Story 2 co-director Lee Unkrich revealed to TIME Magazine that Pixar had decided on a story for the film, but was keeping it closely under wraps. "We got an idea we thought would be really great…We're just starting to write the story. I wakeup every morning hoping for an 'eureka' moment." Shortly thereafter, an announcement on the future slate of Pixar production revealed a vague release date for the film: 2010.
June 2009 saw a teaser trailer for the film, announcing a more specific date of June 18, 2010.
Production commenced with very little word on the project until the 2009 Comic-Con where Pixar head John Lasseter revealed the film's newest cast member, Barbie's beau Ken. Lasseter showed a very funny "behind-the-scenes" interview with the vain, self-obsessed Ken doll, voiced by Michael Keaton, which had the audience in stitches and left them hungry for more. Jump forward to September 2009 when Disney held their first D23 convention and finally blew the lid off the top-secret premise for Toy Story 3: Andy goes off to college, leaving the toys behind. "It is," said Lasseter, "For parents who've been through it, a very emotional time, but we had to look at it through the point-of-view of the toys themselves." There, Lasseter revealed some new voice talent, including Jeff Garland, Bonnie Hunt, Ned Beatty and Whoopi Goldberg. He did not give away the identities of the new toys that the actors will play with the exception of introducing one new character: Mr. Pricklepants. The stuffed hedgehog, an overbearing thespian, would be voiced by Timothy Dalton.
Finally, Lasseter unveiled the first trailer…Opening in a square, 4:3 aspect ratio, the trailer began with VHS-quality home video footage of Andy at various ages – playing with his toys, being measured by this mother against the wall – suddenly interrupted by a cut to a photograph of Andy, now 18, at his high-school graduation. Shots of the toys discussing Andy's coming departure for college are concluded by Andy walking out the door, leaving Woody to climb up to the top-most shelf and sadly survey the empty, memory-filled room.
The rest of trailer seemed to indicate that the toys are donated to a pre-school where the rampage of young children dismantle the Potato Heads and beat the toys ragged in the most comically horrific of ways. The toys decide to stage an escape, except that Buzz is injured during the attempt, and after being rebooted by his friends returns to life in "Spanish" mode, walking around like an over-proud matador and speaking exclusively in espanol.
Later that weekend, prior to a screening of the Toy Story 3-D double feature, Unkrich appeared to an excited audience to show off a full, five-minute clip from the film. The scene featured Woody trying to rescue his friends from potentially being thrown in the back of the garbage truck after being discarded by an 18 year old Andy. Overall, the sequence was as funny and touching and adventurous as one might expect from a Toy Story film, and hits all the right notes, however small, that define the experience of a child going off to college.
With all that behind us, we move anxiously closer toward the release of the sequel in mid-2010. For now, however, families can check out the double feature hitting theaters this weekend in full 3-D. Who knows? Maybe the Toy Story 3 trailer will make an appearance as well? | <urn:uuid:4eaf2aa7-8d51-4544-b5df-5c5df98af5b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/10/02/what-we-know-about-toy-story-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963735 | 1,275 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, , at sacred-texts.com
num 4:3From (a) thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
(a) The Levites were counted at three times, first at a month old when they were consecrated to the Lord, next at 25 years old when they were appointed to serve in the tabernacle, and 30 years old to bear the burdens of the tabernacle.
num 4:5And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the (b) covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
(b) Which divided the sanctuary from the holiest of holies.
num 4:6And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in (c) the staves thereof.
(c) That is, put them on their shoulders to carry it: for the bars of the ark could never be removed.
num 4:7And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover (d) withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
(d) Meaning, to cover the bread.
num 4:10And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a (e) bar.
(e) The Hebrew word signifies an instrument made of two staves or bars.
num 4:11And upon the golden (f) altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
(f) Which was to burn incense, read (Exo 30:1).
num 4:13And they shall take away the ashes from the (g) altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
(g) Of the burnt offering.
num 4:15And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the (h) sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear [it]: but they shall not (i) touch [any] holy thing, lest they die. These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
(h) That is, in folding up the things of the sanctuary, as the ark, etc.
(i) Before it is covered.
num 4:16And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the (k) daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
(k) Which was offered at morning and evening.
num 4:18(l) Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
(l) Committing by your negligence that the holy things are not well wrapped, causing them to perish by touching it.
num 4:19But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint (m) them every one to his service and to his burden:
(m) Showing what part every man shall bear.
num 4:23From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that (n) enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
(n) Which were received into the company of those who ministered in the tabernacle of the congregation.
num 4:25And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the (o) door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
(o) Which hung between the sanctuary and the court.
num 4:26And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, (p) which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
(p) Which compassed both the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar of burnt offering.
num 4:28This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge [shall be] under the (q) hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
(q) Under the charge and oversight.
num 4:32And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by (r) name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
(r) You shall take inventory of all the things, which you commit to their charge.
num 4:37These [were] they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the (s) hand of Moses.
(s) God appointing Moses to be the minister and executor of it.
num 4:41These [are] they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that (t) might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.
(t) Which were of eligible age to serve in it, that is between 30 and 50.
num 4:47From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do (u) the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
(u) Whoever of the Levites that had any charge in the tabernacle.
num 4:49According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded (x) Moses.
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The Dark Side of the Moon
If today's artists are lucky, they can make a working-class Catholic grandmother cry
Some people say that art--make that Art--has become the secular substitute for religion. It sure acts like a religion: it's produced by high priests revered as conduits of a mystical power--in this case, creativity; it's tended and interpreted by initiates trained in its hidden wisdom; and it's mostly incomprehensible to folks on the outside.
I've been a big fan of visual arts ever since I was an eight-year-old with my parents' big book of Salvador Dali on my lap. But the fact is, more people don't get Art in our generation than in any one before. Art responds to this by ridiculing them.
If a religion did this we'd call it bigoted and exclusive.
Because of trickle-down attitude, you don't have to go to a fancy-pants museum to get insulted. The same tone is available even in popular art and entertainment. Let's take three examples: last summer's "South Park" movie, the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" exhibit, which caused a huge battle with its intentionally repulsive images, and the performance art of Andy Kaufman.
All these are examples of what I call "insider art." You may have heard the term "outsider art," which means art produced by marginalized people--the mentally ill, the visually disabled, people who are consigned to the outskirts of the Art establishment for one reason or another.
"Insider art" is not quite the opposite. It is art that, rather than making a straightforward presentation from artist to audience, tries for a bank shot: offend some people so that their distress can titillate others. These beneficiaries get to feel like "insiders"--people who are sophisticated enough to laugh at outsiders.
The stated theory is that people benefit from art that upsets them--it's a kind of "shock therapy." But, paradoxically, the only winners at the "insider art" game are those who resist being shocked. They're too evolved to need the therapy, perhaps. Toward bizarre or hostile art they cultivate instead an attitude of reverence.
This is partly self-preservation. After all, when the game begins the artist has already declared himself superior to the masses and qualified to administer the therapeutic whack they need. Which end of that stick do you want to be on? | <urn:uuid:ccfc8a31-58f5-46cd-9999-4fa98c568e9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/2000/01/The-Dark-Side-Of-The-Moon.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967557 | 505 | 1.5 | 2 |
Recently, I had some very attractive hardwood floors installed in my bedroom, and as always I took the opportunity to talk to the gentlemen performing such tasks. For a long time now, I have been convinced that our perceptions about education have gotten us on the wrong track in the way we view those who work with their hands.
It seems that whenever we engage in discussions about the value of learning, we rarely give time in reverence to those who have become so important to our societal existence. To many of us who have degrees, it seems to go to the notion that we are more intelligent than the people who do not have degrees; or who simply have chosen to work in occupations that require the wearing of jeans in the outdoors, instead of the wearing of slacks in the office. How often society looks down upon those working in what might be considered the least attractive of occupations.
What brought this to mind was a conversation I overheard in an elevator just before the holiday break. It occurred between two students, both seniors, who were discussing their possibilities for employment after graduation.
The female said she was willing to work anywhere, do anything, as long as she could make some money. The male, a bit strident, said he was not willing to work just “any ole where,” because he was getting his degree, and he expected to make a lot of money sitting behind a desk, and certainly not in an occupation that required him to work with his hands. She wanted to know what was so wrong with engaging in physical labor. “That’s for peasants,” was his reply.
Now, I am not naive by any stretch, but I was taken aback by the quite insensitive and indelicate response by one so young and generally thought to be well-educated. How pleased I would have been to tap him on the shoulder and to ask if he was comfortable or even a little thankful for the clothes he was wearing, or even enjoyed the elevator that was taking him to the ground floor – both, by the way, having been made by strangers of many, many pairs of hands.
I wondered if he had been to a bakery lately, or had his car repaired, or his clothes cleaned, or savored a meal in a fine restaurant? Somewhere, somehow, someone was using those “uneducated” little hands to render him a bearable existence.
I would never have thought to mention such a discussion to Chris and his brother, Allen, who are following in the flooring business that was established by their father some 35 years ago. But speak we must of Chris, who one might say is going against the grain. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering, a master’s in science and he worked in a professional field for 12 years before deciding to return home and to work in the family business. He gave up his shirt and tie to become a professional at laying those marvelous floors. So good are these men that there seems no end to demands for their services.
How fortunate for us that we have yet to discover a means for outsourcing the plumber, the electrician, the garbage collector and the man who cleans the septic. Because of their perceived occupational indignity, there are jobs that people will refuse to do, making our class structure an intricate part of our educational problems.
Character, then, lies not so much in the job to be done but rather in one who has chosen to do it.
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Records of the wild plum date back to the 17th century, when it was used in Oregon by local American Indian tribes as a dried winter fruit. There are 26 sub-varieties of the fruit that differ in season, size, shape, and flavor. The location span of this native fruit is from Maine to Florida in the east, northward from Mexico along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in the west, and along the Great Lakes region. American Plums are not commercially sold, but are found at local farmers markets when they are in season. The fruit is commonly used in jellies, jams, spreads and sauces for wild game.
Established in 1913, Prudom Farms is a family run operation now spanning 6 generations. We work in co-operation with other local farmers to provide a large variety of local, natural grown produce. Our goal is to build the local economy, raise awareness of organic v. natural products, and most importantly raise support and appreciation for local farming no matter where the farm is.
Willow Crossing Farm is an experimental and educational organic family farm. We grow a diversity of nuts, fruit trees, vines, berries, vegetables, medicinal and culinary herbs and teas, sell nursery plants, produce eggs and honey, and host a variety of educational programs. We research, innovate, experiment, evaluate, demonstrate, and educate about new crops, techniques, and value-added products that have the potential to be both profitable and ecologically regenerative.
Prairie Birthday Farm includes heirloom and wild fruit and nut trees and bushes; reconstructed tall grass prairie (as habitat for beneficial insects, amphibians, and birds; soil builder; rainwater capture), honeybees; permanent raised-bed heirloom vegetable gardens; culinary herb and edible flower gardens; as well as bramble/vine gardens. Pastured chickens and ducks share rotation-paddock pastures for two horses and all provide on-farm compost production.
Plum Hill Farm is a 102-acre ecological preserve consisting of woodlands, marshes, & fertile croplands, now protected perpetually in the Land Trust Network of Jefferson Co. Natural sustainable practices have been used on the entire farm exclusively since it's purchase in 1977. Cleanliness, purity, & food safety is our main concern. Compost is made right on the farm, with no municipal compost brought in. No GM seeds are ever used. In 2013, our CSA is in its 19th year.
Owl's Nest Plantation is a Certified Naturally Grown Farm and a full service Organic and Natural Foods Purveyor serving the general public, restaurants, retail and wholesale accounts. We offer a widely diversified selection of the finest and freshest Organic and Natural foods deliverd directly to your home or business. Many of the items that we sell are grown directly on the farm or are procured from other farmers in the local area.
Fresh From Local Family Farms To Your Family's Table!
Every TUESDAY from 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
May through October
787 N. Main St., Oregon, Wisconsin, In front of Bill's Food Center.
*Also at 'The Best of Wisconsin Indoor Farmers' Market' November3rd - December.22nd Saturdays 9 am - 2 pm in the McFarland Municipal Center, 5915 Milwaukee St. McFarland. Featuring:
*Seasonal Local Fresh Vegetables & Fruits
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It is said that one of the first yogic sadhnas that Aurobindo Ghosh did under his guru Lele was to understand the nature of thought packets. By stilling his mind or emptying it of thought waves he could see the thought packets coming from external sources and by actively intervening as they came he could get rid of their effects on his mind. It was as if he could create a filter system similar to that used by the present e-mail programmes to get rid of spam. A similar process was described by Swami Vivekananda who said that when he concentrated on a person or an object, he could see the thought packets connected with them as writings on the blackboard or sky.
The brain is not only a receiver; it is also a transmitter of thought packets. With practice of Sanyam or Yoga we can tune our brains to receive knowledge and thought packets at will and to send them to others. This sending and receiving of thought pac-kets is governed by the strength of concentration. With deep concentration the thought packets can go to great distances via higher dimensions. The distance travelled by mundane thoughts is much less. Sanyam also allows us to get universal knowledge.
How can we perceive thought packets actively? Patanjali says that once the mind is completely calmed, that is, devoid of any thought waves, then it becomes like a pure crystal which takes on the colour from the object which is nearest to it. This calming of the mind by removal or suppression of thought waves should be done carefully under the guidance of a guru because in the absence of a strong will power and wisdom, the empty mind can be controlled by dangerous thoughts.
Human emotions are a product of both the internal working of our brain and external stimulus. Thought packets are a major external input and can make the mind work in a certain manner. When we think about a certain event or a person the internal memory is reinforced by external thought packets. In quite a number of cases our thinking about someone or an event may be triggered by external thought packets received. It stirs memories which sometimes makes us act in a certain manner.
To avoid getting perturbed by external thoughts we need a mechanism to stop them. Though all of us to a lesser or greater degree have the ability to receive thought packets, only evolved people like yogis and highly sensitive people can perceive their source to stop them. This active perception of the sources of thought is called the ability to read somebody's mind.
A simpler process is to think deeply about certain things. Thinking deeply helps in occupying the brain and is like creating a shield for the mind so that it is not affected by external thoughts. This is also the genesis of Karma Yoga where one keeps on doing work without any desire for reward. This helps the mind to focus fully on the work and there is little opportunity for it to be perturbed by any other external influence.
This externality of thought is the genesis of human bonding. The people with whom we have close emotional bonds send their thought packets more frequently. Somehow our brain develops neural pathways which are more conducive to getting these thought packets easily. It develops a mechanism by which it immediately recognises their thought signatures. These packets then make us act in a certain way and are the cause of karma or the human web of love. | <urn:uuid:25c32ff7-1d92-48fe-95ca-b158a9774f6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-02-09/edit-page/27853877_1_packets-brain-waves | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975855 | 672 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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Tennessee employers will pay unemployment insurance premiums at a lower rate for the first time in more than three years.
Unemployment insurance premium rates for state employers decreased because the balance of Tennessee’s Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund on June 30 was more than $568 million, triggering new premium rates.
Employers with workers in Tennessee are responsible for reporting their workers' wages each quarter and paying unemployment insurance premiums on the taxable portion of those wages, the first $9,000 paid to each employee each year.
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testing, staging, deployment processes
lists at kittypee.com
Wed Sep 21 16:07:24 MDT 2011
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, justin <justin at justinhileman.info> wrote:
> A new release should always be tagged. You don't have to cut a release
> branch, but having one is a good in-between step that allows for
> last-minute QA and automated bug detection and resolution... we tend
> to tag immediately before deploying, since tags are immutable.
In SVN, tags are mutable, they are behave the same as a branch. Also, a
branch is fairly expensive in SVN as it requires a complete copy of the
code base. With a large code base and frequent (daily+) releases, these
tags can make your repository become quite unwieldy. This is often why
many agile developers prefer other version control systems. SVN can be
used in agile development, but there are a few drawbacks for sure.
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There are lots of speculations if dates are healthy or not? Calling it healthy or not so healthy depends on whether you should include it in your diet for its health benefits or you can use it as a substitute for sugar incase you are trying to lose weight. Dates are the fruits of the date palm which can be eaten fresh or dried though both the forms are nutritious. It helps in lowering cholesterol and and has anti-oxidation properties that protect the body against free radicals.
Dates are high in fiber which relieves constipation and the high amount of carbohydrates in it provides high calories. The one drawback with dates is that it is high in glycemic index and contains a lot of sugar which can increase blood sugar levels. It is often substituted for sweets, candies or to control sweet craving as it is healthier than processed sugar and carries a lots of minerals and vitamins for the body to nourish with health benefits. But due to its high glycemic properties dates are associated with foods that can result in weight gain.
Dates have an average gylcemic index (GI) of 103, which is very high and not recommended for people on a weight loss program or suffering from high sugar levels. More and more health experts promote food that have low GI as the secret to long-term health reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes and also beneficial for sustainable weight loss.Foods with GI index less than 55 are considered Low Glycemic Index food (GI < 55). Foods with GI index between 55 and 70 are considered intermediate (55< GI <70). High Glycemic Index foods are with GI index more than 70 (GI >70).
Besides its single but important drawback dates have many other health benefits. They are high in potassium which maintains blood pressure and maintains nerves and muscles.The magnesium in dates help relive muscles, fatigue, nerves and reduces tension. Dates are rich in calcium, iron, copper and manganese with B vitamins to better enzyme activity. All the nutrition of the dried fruit promote better health.
You can eat the fruit raw or use yor culinary skills in making delicious combinations with in in your diet. You could include it with milk, fruits, salads or bread. Its sweet and can be eaten when we are overburdened with work and mind seems wandering as it relives stress and anxiety with instant energy. Read more | <urn:uuid:41c8d31c-2243-4761-8e2b-9d678da0850b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fitho.in/tag/drawback-of-dates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961697 | 478 | 2.578125 | 3 |
With limited experience with rail travel, Americans might be unaware that a train station can be a valuable asset when travelling abroad. When considering
A railway station located in an airport is a usual convenience in most European hub cities. Arriving and departing passengers can frequently begin their travels by validating rail passes or purchasing point-to-point tickets without making bus or taxi transfers into the city. It is not only a time saver but an easy way to get your bearings after a long overnight journey.
In most major and medium-sized cities throughout the continent, train stations are located in the heart of town. That means visitors can immediately get their bearings before attempting to conquer new worlds. But that’s only the beginning.
Information is always available in English at a railway station. Just look for a sign with a lower case letter “i” or one that says “Tourist Information.” There you can get city maps, transportation schedules, hotel information (sometimes you can even make reservations), directions, restaurant suggestions, or answers for almost any question.
Note that tourist information is not the same as “Rail Information” which is limited to details about rail schedules, prices, track numbers and the like.
Railway terminals usually have currency exchange and/or ATMs plus a variety of food services, and many feature gift shops, newsstands and sundries. Some even have drug stores, pharmacies or fine dining restaurants.
In fact, Le Train Bleu, in the Gare de Lyon in
When French president Emile Loubet inaugurated Le Train Bleu its vast rooms were filled with sculptures and paintings depicting rail travel and events at the turn of the twentieth century, a stunning display of the styles of the era. While Le Train Bleu is certainly an anomaly, even by today’s standards, it does represent a superb example of how versatile and practical a European railway station can be. For instance, in many villages throughout
For travelers in transit, lockers are available, especially in larger cities. If you don’t have a lot of luggage, a locker can provide a place to store your bags for several hours or a day so you can easily immerse yourself in sightseeing, shopping or other activities before traveling onward. Some railway stations even have shower facilities.
In many cities throughout
Obviously not all railway stations provide a complete selection of all services, but the point is that a European train terminal can become a traveler’s best friend. At the very least visitors will find information, food and currency exchange.
Regardless of how you say it, be it bahnhof, gare, or statzione, a railway station always translates to oasis. Travelers making the transition from the familiarities of home through the learning curves of new environments will quickly discover that railway stations can be an island of consolation in a vast, uncharted sea of uncertainty. For novice travelers a train station can become a vital comfort zone just knowing that help is readily available. A railway terminal is a one-stop bonanza where numerous small tasks can be accomplished, ultimately saving time and energy, allowing more opportunities for exploration.
Best of all, European rail stations are a great place to catch a train.
Peabod is Bob Taylor, owner of Taylored Media Services in Charlotte, NC. Taylor is founder of The Magellan Travel Club, which creates, and escorts customized tours to
Inquiries for groups can be made at Peabod@aol.com Taylored Media has produced marketing videos for British Rail, Rail Europe, Switzerland Tourism, the Swedish Travel & Tourism Council, the Finnish Tourist Board, the Swiss Travel System and Japan Railways Group among others.
As author of The Century Club book, Peabod is now attempting to travel to 100 countries or more during his lifetime. To date he has visited 71 countries. Suggest someplace new for Bob to visit; if you want to know where he has been, check his list on Facebook. Bob plans to write a sequel to his book when he reaches his goal of 100 countries. He also played professional baseball for four years and was a sportscaster for 14 years at WBTV, the CBS affiliate in
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Asia-Pacific fastest growing greenhouse gases source: UN
The fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5), launched ahead of the Rio+20 UN Summit on sustainable development, has assessed 90 of the most important environmental goals and found that significant progress had been made only in the case of four objectives.
The assessment was coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
According to the report, rapid economic growth over the past 20 years, particularly in the larger economies in the Asia-Pacific region, has been accompanied by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases and degradation of natural capital.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov.-elect Jay Inslee has been sworn in as the 23rd governor of Washington state.
Inslee took the helm of the state on Wednesday just days after the start of the 105-day legislative session. He succeeds Gov. Chris Gregoire, who gave her final "state of the state" speech on Tuesday.
In his inaugural address, Inslee said Washington state is poised to develop the next wave of innovations that will change the world, imploring state leaders to act swiftly in order to remain competitive in the global economy.
Inslee cited the state's history of development in aerospace and software during his inaugural speech Wednesday, and he declared that Washington isn't done with that work.
Inslee also said that he would work with the Legislature on a bipartisan transportation plan.
The new governor also touched on the matter of gun violence during his address. Inslee said he doesn't have all the answers on how to prevent massacres like the recent one at an elementary school in Connecticut, but he said one common sense solution would be to focus on keeping guns out of the wrong hands.
Inslee takes office facing a nearly $1 billion deficit for the next two-year budget, not counting money needed to satisfy a court requirement on education funding.
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Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer.
Song of the Flower XXIII
I am a kind word uttered and repeated
By the voice of Nature;
I am a star fallen from the
Blue tent upon the green carpet.
I am the daughter of the elements
With whom Winter conceived;
To whom Spring gave birth; I was
Reared in the lap of Summer and I
Slept in the bed of Autumn.
At dawn I unite with the breeze
To announce the coming of light;
At eventide I join the birds
In bidding the light farewell.
The plains are decorated with
My beautiful colours, and the air
Is scented with my fragrance.
As I embrace Slumber the eyes of
Night watch over me, and as I
Awaken I stare at the sun, which is
The only eye of the day.
I drink dew for wine, and hearken to
The voices of the birds, and dance
To the rhythmic swaying of the grass.
I am the lover’s gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
But I look up high to see only the light,
And never look down to see my shadow.
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A near tragedy involving a Minnesota boy was the result of poor planning, when a laptop fell from a medical helicopter. Such a mistake could have been avoided easily, if the laptop had been mounted using a RAM laptop assembly.
Grayson Peterka was at a family cookout on the evening of Saturday April 17. While playing in the alley behind his Aunt's home, Peterka came within inches of being hit by the falling computer. During a transfer of a patient to St. Cloud Hospital, the laptop was inadvertently left on the helicopter skid.
Thankfully this case turned out well, with no hard feelings between the family and hospital. Members of the hospital staff showed up very quickly to offer their apologies. To prevent future problems such as this the helicopter crew may want to look into sturdy built-in mounts for their electronics.
RAM, a company out of Seattle WA, manufactures many modular mounting options. Some such mounts are designed specifically for laptop applications; in cars, trucks, boats, planes or helicopters. These mounts can be attached using existing seat-bolts or drilling directly into the floorboards. For examples of these and other mounting options check GPS City's RAM webpages.
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- n. An alternative spelling of hummus.
“I've never seen this kind of houmous over here but I just had to comment and say,'no!”
“Cooperative said it was stocking up on pizzas, chicken wings, lamb samosas and dips such as houmous, guacamole and nacho cheese.”
“Back to Green Brain for food (houmous, pita bread, vegetables and dips) and the fund-raising art auction which concludes the evening.”
“This year the food that was laid on wasn't pizza, it was actual dinner-type food - though vegetarians like me were pretty much left with coleslaw and houmous.”
“It could go further - a designated 'packed lunch' storage area, so Seb and Trinny can return to pick up the crustless salmon sarnies and houmous Mum prepared for when they get a tad peckish.”
“And several skewered boars and oven-baked ostriches with stuffed aubergines and pumpkin pie with houmous garnish on a bed of choucroute and canard a-gogo.”
“I bet the pomegranate gives it a lovely crunch - I often sprinke a few seeds on houmous to give it a bit of texture.”
“I've never or even attempted to make any sort of pie either and houmous? wow i love them too especially on toast.”
“Then he'd remember he was standing in the Marks & Spencer's food hall, and the nearest thing to a weapon in his current inventory was a tub of low-fat houmous.”
“He brought her ouzo, followed by dishes of taramas alata and houmous, and juicy black olives, with a platter of fresh bread.”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘houmous’.
Ingredients, variations, folklore, things (and people) to eat it with, etc.
Those sweet, salty, nutty, vegetably, yummy and/or hork-worthy spreadables or munchables that folks will convince you to try.
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Non-Initiation of Force Principle
The Non-Initiation of Force Principle (NIOF) is the idea that no man is allowed by law or moral to initiate the use of force against another. It provides a limitation on the use of force that many other political systems can't meet. A dictatorship, where absolute power is granted to one man, violates this principle because the dictator is permitted to initiate force whenever he wants, which in turn causes the people to revolt. This NIOF Principle is the one of the key differences between the Libertarian Party and other political parties. | <urn:uuid:1ee2bcc5-02df-4638-aa4d-6a52fddcf5bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lpedia.org/Non-Initiation_of_Force_Principle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948665 | 117 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Bessica Medlar Raiche
On September 16, 1910, Bessica Raiche made the first accredited solo flight by a woman in the United States.
Raiche was considered a "new" woman of the 20th century because she drove an automobile and wore bloomers. Besides being an accomplished musician, painter, and linguist, she also participated in such typically masculine activities as swimming and shooting.
While studying music in Paris, she became intrigued by the flying of the Baroness Raymonde de la Roche.
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Bessica Medlar Raiche
While studying in France at the turn of the century, Mineola resident Bessica Medlar Raiche became interested in aviation-so much so that when she and her husband returned to the United States, they built a silk-and-bamboo biplane.
The couple transported the finished aircraft to the Hempstead Plains, and on Sept 26, 1910, Raiche climbed aboard and took off, landing in the history books as the first American woman to make a solo flight-though the flight lasted only a few minutes and ended in a crash. ...more
1910: François & Bessica Raiche
1910: François & Bessica Raiche, Mineola NY. 1911: French-American Aeroplane Co. 1910 = 1pOB; 28-32hp Crout (French) pusher; span: 33'0" length: 28'6". Curtiss-inspired design made of bamboo and silk, built in the home of these newlyweds, and assembled in their front yard. In this Bessie Raiche flew on 9/16/10, with no prior instruction or experience.
Although her flight was short, and only a few feet high, she is generally credited as the first woman in the US to solo an airplane. The couple went on to build and sell two more similar models in their early "cottage industry."
Today, there is a mild disagreement over which woman flew first. Since it was never definitely established whether Scott's first flight was accidental or intentional, some give the credit of the "First Woman Aviator of America" to Bessica Raiche, for her flight on October 13, 1910. Raiche never thought there was any rivalry between them...
"Blanche deserved the recognition, but I got more attention because of my lifestyle. I drove an automobile, was active in sports like shooting and swimming, and I even wore riding pants and knickers. People who did not know me or understand me looked down on this behavior. I was an accomplished musician, painter and linguist, I enjoyed life, and just wanted to be myself."Raiche became interested in aviation when she visited France and saw the Wright brothers fly their airplane. When she and her husband Francois returned to America, they built their first airplane. It was a Wright?type craft, which they innovated with bamboo, piano, wire and silk. They built the pieces in the living room of their home and assembled it in the backyard. ...more | <urn:uuid:a44f7924-51c3-4980-9fbd-ba4ad2592dfd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/raiche.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974634 | 640 | 2.625 | 3 |
Amazon.com says it would be illegal but Arizona legislators are moving ahead with a bill that would require the online retailer to collect sales tax on purchases by state residents.
A bill pushed by brick-and-mortar merchants and unanimously endorsed by a Senate committee Wednesday would classify Seattle-based Amazon as an in-state retailer for tax purposes because a subsidiary has distribution centers in the state.
"The state is effectively subsidizing a discount equal to the sales tax. As a retailer, I just want an equal playing field," said Lance Muzslay, owner of three athletic-shoe stores in Phoenix suburbs.
Amazon contends it doesn't have to collect sales tax on sales to Arizonans because the parent company doesn't have a physical presence in the state, and an Amazon lobbyist told the Senate committee the bill would violate a state constitutional prohibition on bills targeting specific individuals or companies.
"This bill applies to one company and one company alone and should be rejected on that basis," said the lobbyist, Don Isaacson.
Isaacson also urged lawmakers to simply wait for passage of national legislation creating a uniform and simplified system for collecting sales taxes.
On the other side of the issue, Arizona Retailers Associations members support the legislation, including "big box" stores such as Target and Best Buy and smaller merchants.
The bill doesn't identify Amazon by name, and retailers said it's both legal and fair, with thousands of jobs at stake.
"This is about jobs. When retailers sell more goods, they employ more people. It's as simple as that," said Michelle Ahlmer, executive director of the Arizona Retailers Association.
Arizonans are required by law to pay sales tax on online purchases, but few do and there has been no enforcement push until lawmakers last year decided to put a reporting requirement on individuals' income tax return.
Returns filed this spring for 2011 will be the first covered by that reporting requirement, but the bill and a separate bill pending in the House would repeal the requirement.
Amazon said last year that the addition of its fourth "fulfillment center" in the Phoenix area would take its Arizona work force over 3,000.
But Isaacson said Wednesday the company has a permanent Arizona work force of 5,000, with pay starting at $35,000 and providing health benefits and stock options. "These are good jobs," he said.
Amazon recently disclosed in its annual report that the Arizona Department of Revenue has issued the company a bill for $53 million for uncollected sales tax and interest. The company has said it is contesting the assessment.
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West Lothian Council's Energy Conservation Team plays a key role in reducing the consumption and cost of energy resources within buildings throughout West Lothian, particularly educational establishments.
In addition to procuring fuel, monitoring the use of energy and ensuring the efficient operation of computerised heating controls, the team also carries out energy surveys, promotes the efficient use of energy through good housekeeping and installs energy efficient measures.
Schools in West Lothian are particularly keen to participate in energy and environmental initiatives. The following examples highlight the progress currently being made.
Schools Energy Savings
- East Calder Primary School
- Our Lady's Primary School, Stoneyburn
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Lustros Announces Funding for Plant Completion
SANTEE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lustros, Inc. (OTCQB:LSLD) announced today that the Company had secured the final funding needed to complete the copper sulfate processing plant in Puerto Oscuro, Chile. This final funding will complete the crushing plant, leaching pads and the remaining work needed on the Sx/Cr plant. The work is expected to take approximately 50 days to complete with revenues from the sale of copper sulfate produced at the plant expected in the next 90 days.
Copper sulfate (CuSO4) is a value-added product derived from copper ore. Demand is increasing rapidly for its use in farming and agriculture. More than 50% of current global production is made from copper scrap that contains toxins (such as Dioxin), which are no longer recognized as food-grade by Canada, Australia and Brazil, with other important consumer countries expected to soon follow. Lustros produces copper sulfate directly from mineral-rich ore, making it an ideal food-grade copper sulfate for use in agricultural purposes. The completed copper sulfate processing plant is engineered to process 180,000 tons of raw material and yield over 8,000 tons of food-grade copper sulfate per year.
Making the announcement Chairman Zirk Engelbrecht said “We are extremely pleased to have secured the funds needed to complete our first copper sulfate production facility. This has been a long process, but we have created a unique, state-of-the-art facility supplied with raw materials from our own mine. It has taken 24 months to complete, but we have built a plant three times larger than our initial plans and have in the interim secured our first tailings project. With the expected cash flow produced by this first plant upon completion, we will be able to finance the construction of a second processing plant capable of processing 25,000 tons per month which will bring our total capacity to 40,000 tons per month.”
About Lustros, Inc.
Lustros, Inc., through its Chilean subsidiaries, is in the business of copper mining and the manufacturing of food-grade copper sulfate. Lustros has a majority equity position in Sulfatos Chile S.A., which owns the Anica Copper Mines as well as a copper sulfate production project and employs a highly experienced staff of mining professionals. Lustros, Inc.’s subsidiary Mineraltus SA is a Chilean corporation that extracts copper from the tailings (waste products) of expired copper mines to secure the raw materials to manufacture high quality, feed-grade copper sulfate.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on the Company's current expectations as to future events. However, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this press release might not occur, and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements.
Gonzalo Troncoso, CEO
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Learners elucidate themselves by writing up to six entries in different formats. Some formatting choices include a dictionary, encyclopedia, or atlas entry, a magazine article, a newspaper article, and a table of contents. Some structural hints are included for each of the six formats. Consider including some additional formats of your own, too!
Get your class acquainted with nonfiction textbooks with a useful scavenger hunt-like activity. After you review the purposes and locations of book titles, tables of contents, glossaries, and chapter headings, learners navigate the book and complete a worksheet documenting what they found and where. Great for back-to-school to establish effective ways to find information. Search results chart is included.
Scholars compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction text features. They define and identify nonfiction text features such as glossary, table of contents, charts, bold words, and headings. Then they read nonfiction independently to orally share the text feature they found helpful.
Explore text structure in a nonfiction guided reading lesson where readers, over a period of five days, examine the book Mount Everest. Individuals mark examples of nonfiction text structures with Post-it notes, define important vocabulary, take notes on the material, and share how a particular nonfiction text feature helped them to comprehend the text.
It's important for your readers to understand features of informational text such as index and table of contents, so give them this visual worksheet to get started. They read a brief explanation of informational text, then look at an example about pets. They read the table of contents and record pages on which different animals can be found. Then, they look at the same book's index and determine where they might find information about specific pets. They also observe that the index is in alphabetical order.
Investigate rocks and non-fiction reading strategies. The class observes and sorts rocks, and then identifies non-fiction text features in Remarkable Rocks. Given strips of paper labeled with headings from the table of contents, pupils read the book independently and place the labels over corresponding text. They take notes on one book section and share what they learned with the group.
Fourth graders use two separate sources to learn about index, glossary, and table of contents usage. In this library lesson, 4th graders use two books, Learning About Weather with Graphic Organizers, and The World Almanac for Kids, to complete activities focused on using the glossary, index, and table of contents.
Make learning the parts of a book fun by having pupils construct their own glossary entries, table of contents, and title page. Beginning with a review of text features and a hunt for examples, kids use previously written fables to create a title and glossary entry that is then included in a class anthology of fables. A rubric is included.
First graders locate the table of contents in a book and develop one for their own book. In this table of contents activity, 1st graders examine a textbook to find out where the table of contents is located and what it includes. They look at a non-fiction book about tadpoles and frogs to determine how topics and pages are listed. They develop a table of contents for their "All About Me Book." | <urn:uuid:f0401e51-699b-49b7-8fbb-72ab1638fdcd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/table-of-contents | 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 | 0.918857 | 697 | 4.40625 | 4 |
Persuasion in Politics
NBER Working Paper No. 10248
We present a model of the creation of social networks, such as political parties, trade unions, religious coalitions, or political action committees, through discussion and mutual persuasion among their members. The key idea is that people are influenced by those inside their network, but not by those outside. Once created, networks can be rented out' to politicians who seek votes and support for their initiatives and ideas, which may have little to do with network members' core beliefs. In this framework, political competition does not lead to convergence of party platforms to the views of the median voter. Rather, parties separate their messages and try to isolate their members to prevent personal influence from those in the opposition.
Published: Murphy, Kevin M. and Andrei Shleifer. "Persuasion In Politics," American Economic Review, 2004, v94(2,May), 435-439. | <urn:uuid:fca36212-6ba7-4140-ae42-24ea8b2ee786> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nber.org/papers/w10248 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963875 | 190 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 1020-4989
BOSSERT, Thomas; LARRANAGA, Osvaldo and RUIZ MEIR, Fernando. Decentralization of health systems in Latin America. Rev Panam Salud Publica [online]. 2000, vol.8, n.1-2, pp. 84-92. ISSN 1020-4989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1020-49892000000700011.
Decentralization is often a major part of health reform policies. However, there have been few attempts to comparatively study the degree of decentralization and the effects of decentralization on equity of allocations to health, so we do not know how best to implement this reform. This article uses an innovative comparative analysis of the "decision space" that was allowed to local municipalities in the health reforms of Bolivia and Chile, two countries that have had several years of experience in implementing decentralization. The studies found that relatively little decision space was allowed to local authorities over key functions of health care systems. The studies also found that central authorities often reduce the decision space in order to direct more resources to health or to restrict local choice over human resources issues. The studies found that more equitable allocations of health funding were achieved through a common equalization fund for the municipalities in Chile and by forcing the assignment to health of a specific percentage of the central government transfers to municipalities in Bolivia. | <urn:uuid:7638fbcd-60e5-417c-9e93-68ba39ded768> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1020-49892000000700011&lng=en&nrm=iso | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931175 | 313 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Sep 14, 2008
The Mask originated as a comic book series created by Mike Richardson and published by Dark Horse Comics. The series follows events related to a mask-shaped symbiotic relic which imbues any wearer with reality-bending power and physical imperviousness, as well as bypassing any of the wearer's psychological inhibitions, allowing them to accomplish their most desired goals without fear of consequences.
It was later adapted into the 1994 film The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which has spunoff a television cartoon series, and a 2005 film sequel Son of the Mask.
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|'Edge of the Marsh' 6x8 oil on panel ©Karen Margulis|
purchase painting here $125
What is aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective? Aerial or atmospheric interference with visual perception causes loss of contrast, detail and sharp focus. What this means for the painter is that we can create the illusion of distance and space if we understand what happens to how we see things as they recede. There is science behind this concept and if you want to read more about the whys of aerial perspective, I recommend reading John Carlson's book 'Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting'. He has a chapter devoted to aerial perspective. Just knowing what happens and how you might translate this effect in your painting is the key to having a painting that looks three dimensional.
Here are some of the things that happen to objects as they go back in space.
- SIZE OF OBJECTS-smaller objects seem farther away
- OVERLAPPING -by partially covering one object with another it gives an appearance of depth
- TEXTURE-More texture visible in objects that are closer
- SPACING-objects clustered closer together seem farther away
- FOCUS-objects lose detail as they recede into space.
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Originally Posted by Warfish
I have no idea how you could become so wealthy with such an inaccurate understanding of the way Corporations work.
No sir, it's not yours. You have (via stock ownership) a claim on assets ONLY if the Corporation ends, and less their outstanding liabillities. You cannot walk your stock certificate up to IBM and ask them for $100 woth of stuff in exchange for the stock on your demand.
The Corporation, and yourself, are two absolutely disstinct legal entities. You are not, in fact, an "owner" in the way your're claiming simply because you won stock, and the profit is not yours (the Corporation is under no obligation to issue a dividend).
If the system worked as you claim, where their profits are yopur profits, the reverse would also be true, their liabillities would be your liabillities, and when a company went out of business, you (as the supposed owner) would have to pony up your own personal assets to make good any liabillities outstanding at the time of termination......which clearly does not occur.
And income the business makes is not yours in any legal form until such time as they choose to issue a dividend. Then and only then does the money become income for you.
You're not being taxed twice anymore than my paycheck is taxed twice. I am not my employer, and you are not IBM just because you won a few shares.
Actually I have a very good idea how corporations work.
No I can't go up to IBM and get product. Or any other company. But a piece of the ownership IS mine.
If the company ends (bankruptcy), the liabilities outweigh assets and the BONDHOLDERS have first claim, after primary debt holders. Stockholders get 0. Hence risk. And dividends are a partial reward for risk.
Yes, a corporation is set up with various charters to protect individuals. Size has nothing to do with it. Nor the number of owners.
I, along with others, DECIDE who runs my company.
Let's say it's PD Enterprises. Market cap (stock value) of $10mill. on day one. Of that $2 million is my capital - $8mill someone elses. I own 20%.
Profit year one is $1mill. 20% of that is theoretically mine.
The tax on it is @34%. So PAT is $660k. I paid $68k basically.
If there is a dividend from the $660, I and others pay again.
What if the stock was 100% in my hands. Same situation.
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Raring for recognition
D. Caroline Coile, Ph.D.
What do the Cirneco dell'Etna, the Kooikerhondje and the Xoloitzcuintli have in common? Well, yes, your spell check will spit them back every time. But other than that, they're all breeds in the AKC's Foundation Stock Service.
The AKC recognizes 155 breeds out of the hundreds of pure breeds in the world. For many fanciers fo non-AKC breeds, the ultimate goal is to have their breed AKC recognized. Yet it's not an easy road. One of the most daunting roadblocks is the requirement of keeping records of dogs and pedigrees. This task has usually fallen to various breed fanciers, which can be a problem. People get sick, they get sick of dog clubs, the files are lost, nobody as a back up, and generations of breed information is gone for good. Even when the records are safe, arguments arise over claims of fraud or favoritism. In 1195, the AKC launched its Foundation Stock Service to serve as a repository of rare-breed records, including pedigrees and ownership, in their computerized database.
Many rare-breed clubs breathed a sigh of relief and jumped at the change to let someone else (in this case, an organization with more than a century's experience) do all the work. But not all rare-breed clubs were happy. Some clubs saw it as AKC's attempt to hijack their breed's records, making it easier for them to bring their breed into the AKC fold of officially recognized breeds. It's true that the easiest way for a breed to become an official AKC breed is to start in the FSS. But that's what upsets some clubs.
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Communication Science Disorders
The bachelor's degree in Speech and Hearing Science does not prepare students to work professionally, but to go on to graduate school. Most states require that individuals entering the profession have a master's degree.
Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists offer services which include identification, description, evaluation and remediation of all forms of speech, hearing and language problems in children and adults. Services are provided to persons with hearing loss, mental retardation, emotional disorders and language delay as well as those with aphasia, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, shuttering and voice disorders. Speech-Language pathologists and audiologists plan, direct, conduct or participate in habilitation or rehabilitation programs for speech, hearing and language disorders as well as provide counseling and guidance to those with such impairments.
The practice and work of speech-language pathologists and audiologists may take place in various settings: public and private schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing care facilities, community clinics, colleges and universities, private practice offices, state and local health departments, state and federal government agencies, home health agencies (home care) and long-term care facilities.
Admission / Prerequisites
Admission requires an overall 3.2.0 gpa (for students applying in spring 2014.
The requirement for 2013 is a 3.0), and a B or higher in Csdi 2100,
and a C or higher in Biol1050/1051, Phys1050, and Engl 3760.
Although the minimum gpa requirement is currently a 3.0, this does not guarantee a student acceptance because admission to the program is competitive. The program accepts 30-35 students each year. The lowest gpa accepted for Fall 2012 is 3.29.
Applications are due by March 31st each year for the next fall.
Applicants must be close to completing their 42 hours of Foundation Curriculum courses before applying.
Application for the program
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This record group contains academic transcripts (1900-1927), student papers written by Lohrenz (1900-1927), material relating
to McPherson College (1888-1910), material relating to Tabor College (1908-1932), essays, addresses, sermon and lecture notes,
correspondence with a wide variety of persons, particularly other leaders in the Mennonite Brethren Church, material relating
to conscientious objectors in World War I, Lohrenz family genealogical material, and other items relating to the life of Henry
W. Lohrenz. The record groups also contains a small amount of papers from Lohrenz's wife, Anna Friesen Lohrenz
Henry W. Lohrenz was born in Harvey County, Kansas, on 2 February 1878 to Heinrich and Elizabeth Wiens Lohrenz. He joined
the Ebenezer Mennonite Brethren Church in Buhler, Kansas, in 1896. From 1900 to 1908 Lohrenz attended McPherson (Kan.) College,
from where he received an A.B. degree in 1908. While a student at McPherson, the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church near Hillsboro,
Kansas, called Lohrenz to the ministry in 1904. He was ordained there in 1907. In 1908 Lohrenz was called to be president
of the newly-founded Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. He held that position until 1931. During most of those years Lohrenz
was also a professor of biology at Tabor. From 1929 to 1932 he was the Dean of the Tabor College Bible School. Lohrenz received
an A.M. degree from the University of Kansas in 1911 and a D.D. from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1929.
He also briefly attended Columbia University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, and the University of Wichita. In 1932 Lohrenz left Tabor and
became an assistant professor of Biology and Bible at Bethel College in nearby Newton, Kansas. He stayed there only until
1934, when he accepted a position as Bible instructor at Corn Bible Academy in Corn, Oklahoma. He returned to Tabor in 1935
as Dean of the Bible School, a position he held until 1941. From 1941 until 1945 he was a professor of Bible there. H. W.
Lohrenz's service to the Mennonite Brethren Conference was wide ranging. He is perhaps best remembered in that regard as the
chairman of the Board of Foreign Missions from 1919-1936 and Executive Secretary of that board from 1936-1945. His other conference
positions included Conference Moderator (1919-1924, 1927-1930 and 1943-1945), Conference Assistant Moderator (1936-1939),
Conference Secretary (1905-1906), Conference Assistant Secretary (1909-1915), chairman of the Constitution Committee (1930-1936),
Secretary-Treasurer of the Education Committee (1936-1939), Vice Chairman (1936-1939) and Chairman (1943-1945) of the Board
of Reference and Counsel, member of the Christian Education Committee (1924-1927), and member of the Peace Committee (1919-1927). Henry
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Colour is a great way to brighten your home and add a spark of interest without undertaking a major renovation. With that in mind, Style brings you Colour Theory, a feature in which we explore a different shade on the colour wheel each month.
This month's colour is actually off the wheel. According to scientists, it is all colours, while to artists, it is the absence of colour: white.
No matter, for our purposes — decorating — white is the perfect, fresh and modern accent for the home.
"White is clean and contemporary lines are usually very clean," says Amy Latoszek at Edmonton's Dwell Modern.
"You can match it easily with other pieces. Incorporating it into a room gives you a kind of natural canvas to work with."
A gloss finish is particularly popular for white furnishings at Dwell because it gives them a high-end look, she adds.
While the store carries many white accessories — lamps, clocks and wine racks, for example — white also works well in larger pieces of furniture, combined with colourful accent pieces that appear all the more vibrant.
White furnishings also give homeowners more options in bold wall colours, she says.
But too much white can look stark, like a renovation done by the Man from Glad, so white needs to be balanced and softened with other finishes, textures and colours.
Chrome and wood work well with white, like a high-gloss white dining table with chrome legs and oak chairs, says Latoszek.
"I think for the market here, when they're a little bit afraid to go more modern and contemporary, we try to incorporate that wood and that warmth to make it not so powerful in the room."
Amedeo Pagliuso, owner of 29 Armstrong downtown, likes the look of mixing flat, white finishes with more organic materials, like wood and stone. A heavy, wood table is displayed in the store with white, powder-coated aluminum chairs in a modern, geometric design by Magis, an Italian company.
"It's a total juxtaposition," he says. Too often, people mistakenly mix too many warm, earthy materials like woods, stone and natural tile in their decor. "If you've got too much of that, it ends up looking like a Hobbit hole," he says.
White is a nice, safe choice because it's so neutral, Pagliuso adds. "When you don't have enough room for another texture or another colour, it's easy to throw something in a white finish in there because you're not disrupting anything." | <urn:uuid:82b39ef6-e2ea-4439-ac1a-c97cd964b01f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.househunting.ca/northshorenews/sale-and-rent/Work+with+white+your+home/5241328/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954398 | 532 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Zimbabwe is introducing a 100 billion-dollar note so that people can buy, well, stuff. Not that there’s much stuff to buy.
Zimbabwe’s inflation is pegged at somewhere between 2.2 million percent and perhaps 15 million percent – on the low side it means that something that cost 1 Zimbabwean dollar on July 1st will cost 22,000 Zimbabwean dollars next July first – or 150,000 Zimbabwean dollars, depending on which inflation figure you believe. To put it another way, the cost of goods in Zimbabwe is doubling every 21 to 25 days. (That’s not very good for any Zimbabweans hoarding their cash). The Zimbabwean government isn’t yet close to the record for hyperinflation, but by all accounts they certainly seem willing to hunker down and surpass it.
This is not the first time that rampant hyperinflation has gripped a country. The German Weimar Republic of the 1920s is noted for hyperinflation so great that paper money was burned for warmth because it lasted longer than the wood one could purchase with it. Hungary in 1946 and Yugoslavia during its disintegration in the 1990s are more recent examples. I have about 100 cruzeiros of Brazilian money from my days as an exchange student in the 70s; today they are worth about 1 billionth of a penny, due to Brazil’s hyperinflation in the 80s and early 90s.
Those of us old enough to remember the late 1970′s lived through some tough times when the U.S. inflation rate hovered around 15% for three years. Many pensioners lost half their buying power during that brief period. That was pretty bad but nothing compared to what countries like Zimbabwe, Brazil and Yugoslavia went through. Worthless money is money quickly spent. There is no such thing as savings. There is also no such thing as commerce. Zimbabwe suffers from mass shortages of everything.
The Zimbabwean disaster is continuing with no letup in sight. What’s going to happen after 84-year-old Robert Mugabe dies in the near future is anyone’s guess. Hyperinflation and anarchy do not bode well for that country and its people and to date, there is little to indicate that other world powers will come to the country’s aid. Read about current events and expectations here. | <urn:uuid:9924657b-8628-4e34-a00b-8668bf1778d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paulbuckley14059.wordpress.com/category/blogroll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974988 | 485 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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Tornado Recovery Offers Joplin Students New Lessons
Originally published on Mon May 7, 2012 4:34 am
Graduation is supposed to in part be about celebrating the future, but last year in Joplin, Mo., shortly after the high school graduation ceremony, an EF-5 tornado — the highest-strength rating — destroyed one-third of the city and killed 161 people, including one teen who had received his diploma that day.
In addition to the homes, hospital and businesses that were destroyed, the high school itself was in ruins, along with several other school buildings. Even though cash and equipment donations have poured in, students and teachers have contended with displacement, lingering pain and having to adapt to some unusual workarounds.
At the Northpark Mall in Joplin, one entrance stands out from the familiar Sears and Macy's storefronts. Instead of the name of a big department store above the doors, there are the words "Joplin High School." The facility, a former retail space the district renovated in a matter of weeks after the tornado, has come to be known as "the mall school."
Students and teachers there have learned what it means to adapt to change and be flexible.
"It was overwhelming in the beginning. The walls don't touch the ceiling, so you hear everything," says Katie Simpson, a senior at the so-called mall school, which is home to juniors and seniors here. The mall school has a modern design that students love, but there are problems.
"It's loud, it's noisy, and you can barely concentrate. But you get used to it after a while," she says.
Students aren't the only ones adjusting to a noisy environment. Virginia Gormely teaches her English class with soft music in the background as a choral group practices nearby, and she competes for her students' attention with a very loud teacher next door.
"We joke that we have dual-credit classes," Gormely says. "He teaches personal finance and there are many times when my kids actually answer the questions that he's asking his class. If they stumble, they'll answer."
Administrators have tried to give students a sense of normalcy. In spite of the troubles, Joplin High School Principal Kerry Sachetta says he hopes it's been a good year for students.
"We wanted one part of their day to be something that they could remember, especially our seniors," Sachetta says. "We wanted them to be able to say, 'You know what, I was in this club, I was in this organization, I was on this team, I was in this concert.' Not be able to look back and say, 'This tornado not only destroyed our town but it also wiped out everything I can remember about what was important to me growing up.' "
One of the buildings that did get wiped out was Irving Elementary. The students and teachers have been in another district facility this year with some classes being held nearby in trailers. Third-grade teacher Shelly Tarter says it's been a tough year, but she and the students have comforted each other.
"You know, they're always patting me on the back or giving me hugs and just saying, 'It's going to be OK.' I think they need to see how I'm responding to things and letting my emotions show," Tarter says. "I think that's a wonderful lesson for them."
The year has also provided some lessons not found in textbooks. Gormely says students have learned how to accept what has happened and move on.
"And I told them acceptance is a huge part of life," she says. "You're going to plan to be a doctor, and you may not be. It's all about acceptance and that's how you move on. And that's how every day is OK. Because you go, 'This didn't work out; this does.' "
Despite the sometimes emotional moments this year, the school district is looking to the future. In April, voters approved a $62 million bond issue to fund construction of four new schools and storm shelters. Later this month, this year's graduating class will reflect on the difficult year while listening to an unusually high-profile commencement speaker: President Obama.
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SKorea: NKorea Fired 3 Missiles 05/18 14:06
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters
on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles,
but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired three short-range guided
missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It
routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of
tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.
The North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the afternoon,
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said by phone. He said the
North's intent was unclear. His ministry said it is watching North Korea
carefully in case it conducts a provocation against South Korea.
In March, North Korea launched what appeared to be two KN-02 missiles off
its east coast. Experts believe the country is trying to improve the range and
accuracy of its arsenal.
North Korea recently withdrew two mid-range "Musudan" missiles believed to
be capable of reaching Guam after moving them to its east coast earlier this
year, U.S. officials said. The North is banned from testing ballistic missiles
under U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Earlier this year, North Korea threatened nuclear strikes on Seoul and
Washington because of annual U.S.-South Korean military drills and U.N.
sanctions imposed over its third nuclear test in February. The drills ended
late last month. This past month, the U.S. and South Korea ended another round
of naval drills involving a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier off the east
coast. North Korea calls such drills preparation to invade the North.
Analysts say the recent North Korean threats were partly an attempt to push
Washington to agree to disarmament-for-aid talks.
In response to Saturday's missile test, the U.S. said threats or
provocations will only further isolate North Korea from the rest of the world
and undermine international efforts to bring peace and stability to Northeast
"We continue to urge the North Korean leadership to heed President Obama's
call to choose the path of peace and come into compliance with its
international obligations," said National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin
This past week, Glyn Davies, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea, ended trips
to South Korea, China and Japan. On Friday, an adviser to Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe returned from North Korea but didn't immediately give
details of his talks with officials there.
On Monday, North Korean state media showed that the country's hard-line
defense minister had been replaced by a little-known army general. Outside
analysts said it was part of leader Kim Jong Un's efforts to tighten his grip
on the powerful military after his father Kim Jong Il died in December 2011.
The United States and Japan are participants in six-nation nuclear
disarmament talks along with North and South Korea, Russia and China. North
Korea walked out of the talks in 2009 after the United Nations condemned it for
a long-range rocket launch.
North Korea possesses an array of missiles. U.S. and South Korean officials
do not believe the North's claim that it has developed nuclear warheads small
enough to place on a missile. Last week in Washington, South Korean President
Park Geun-hye and President Barack Obama warned North Korea against further
Tension between the two Koreas remains high after both sides pulled out
their workers from a jointly run factory complex earlier this year. The
countries remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a
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Released: September 24, 2010
One Recession, Two Americas
The Great Recession has divided America into two groups that are roughly the same size but that experienced very different economic downturns.
For a narrow majority of Americans (55%), the Great Recession brought a mix of hardships, usually in combination: a spell of unemployment, missed mortgage or rent payments, shrinking paychecks and shattered household budgets, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends project. But for the other 45% of the country, the recession was largely free of such difficulties.
These two groups differ in their demographic makeup. About seven-in-ten retirees and other older adults largely held their own during the recession, while an equally lopsided majority of 20-somethings did not. Where you live also is associated with how well you fared during hard times: Easterners are significantly more likely than residents of the South, West or Midwest to have better weathered the economic storm. At the same time, suburban and rural residents experienced fewer problems than city dwellers.
Republicans, too, are somewhat disproportionally represented among those who had an easier passage through hard times, while Democrats and political independents are more likely to have lost ground. And as other research has consistently shown, a college diploma is a strong shield against hard times: nearly six-in-10 college graduates count themselves among the 45% who experienced fewer difficulties during the recession, compared with 38% of those whose educational attainment was a high school diploma or less.
This portrait emerges from an analysis of survey data collected from a national representative sample of 2,967 respondents interviewed May 11-31, 2010.1 Using a statistical technique called cluster analysis, the sample was grouped on the basis of how the respondents answered eight questions designed to measure the economic hardships Americans experienced as a result of the Great Recession.2The recession officially began in December 2007 and was recently determined to have ended in June 2009.
The remainder of this report examines the two groups — those who Lost Ground and those who Held their Own — in more detail. The first section examines the different ways the recession affected each group; the second section provides group demographic profiles; the third section looks at how the two groups differ in their experiences on the job; and a final section examines the different ways the groups view the economy.
It is important to understand the limitations of this analysis. Not everyone in each cluster answered each question in exactly the same way. But overall, members of each group are more similar to each other in terms of their responses to the questions than they are to those in the other group. Also, while these two clusters describe these data well, different questions or questions that more precisely measured recession-related harms may have further divided these two major groupings into smaller, even more sharply defined groups. The survey, for example, asked whether an individual owned stocks, bonds or other investments but did not ask for precise estimates of changes in the value of investment holdings. Had such questions been asked, the number, size or the characteristics of the clusters may have been somewhat different.
One final caveat: This analysis is not intended to assert or imply that those in the Held their Own group suffered no economic reversals. In a recession such as this — featuring not just high unemployment but also a bursting of the stock market and housing bubbles — nearly everyone got hurt in one way or another. However, the questions that form the basis of this cluster analysis were designed to measure serious economic hardship. So, for example, someone who saw the value of a home decline but who did not experience the sort of day-to-day financial strains and behavioral changes measured by this survey would wind up in the Held their Own cluster.
About the Survey
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,967 people ages 18 and older living in the continental United States. A combination of landline and cellular random digit dial (RDD) samples was used to represent all adults in the continental United States who have access to either a landline or cellular telephone. A total of 1,893 interviews were completed with respondents contacted by landline telephone and 1,074 with those contacted on their cell phone. The data are weighted to produce a final sample that is representative of the general population of adults in the continental United States.
- Interviews conducted May 11-31, 2010
- 2,967 interviews, including 1,761 respondents in the group that Lost Ground and 1,184 who Held their Own.
- Margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.2 percentage points for results based on the total sample at the 95% confidenence level, 3.3 points for the group that Lost Ground and 4.0 points for those who Held their Own.
- Survey interviews were conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associations International. Interviews were conducted in English or Spanish.
- A total of 22 respondents did not fit into either cluster. These cases were coded as “Not Categorized” and included in the analysis but did not affect the results because they constituted less than one-half of one percent of the weighted sample. ↩
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Hooray, you've finished your taxes! Let's complain about them.
There's no wrong way to whine about the U.S tax code, but some of the most popular fine whines are more intertwined than you might think. Consider a few common refrains:
(1) Poor families should pay more income taxes. (The GOP presidential candidates said this.)
(2) The tax code is too complicated. (Everybody says this.)
(3) Tax breaks privilege the rich. (Liberals say this.)
(4) Tax rates are too high. (Conservatives say this.)
These are separate complaints, but I think they're all part of the same story. And that story is tax spending in the federal income tax code.
You can think of the U.S. tax code as mostly comprising two separate tax buckets. The first bucket is payroll taxes. They tend to account for about 40% of government income. It works like this. Everybody on a payroll -- hence the name -- gives up a bit of money to fund dedicated programs like Social Security and Medicare and unemployment benefits. We don't tinker much with payroll taxes because, after all, they're for dedicated programs. (We did, however, recently cut them to stimulate the economy.)
The other "bucket" is federal income taxes. These also account for about 40% of the government. But they don't really fund specific programs. They pay into a general fund that pays for everything from education to defense. But with this tax bucket, we tinker, tinker, tinker all the time to award and punish behavior. This tinkering is expensive. By choosing not to tax employer contributions to medical insurance, the government gave up $130 billion in 2008. By letting families deduct mortgage interest on their homes, we gave up another $90 billion. By paying families credits for their children, we gave up another $30 billion.
The important takeaway is that the federal government is running a multi-hundred-billion welfare and social policy program through this "second bucket" of our tax code. If you add together all the money we "give up" in the federal income tax bucket, you get a really big number. Bigger than Medicare or defense spending, even. Here's a picture:
This isn't pernicious, exactly. The vast majority of income tax carve-outs go to the rich, because the rich have most of the taxable income to begin with. The top quintile makes 50% the national income, pays 90% of federal income taxes, and receives more than 70% of all tax breaks from exclusions and itemized deductions. That doesn't sound so crazy.
But how do you maintain the progressivity of the tax code if 70% of your carve-outs just make the rich richer? There are two solutions. One is to have higher tax rates to offset larger carve-outs. We have those. The second is to make some tax credits "refundable," which means families can earn a tax credit that exceeds their tax bill -- they can profit from federal income taxes. We have those, too. In fact, about half of U.S. households get a tax "refund" every year in the income tax code. Here's a graph of the growth of refundable credits since 1975. Tweetable fact: Refundable tax credits have increased 1,800% in the last 37 years.
What happens when you run social programs through tax breaks in federal income tax code? Three things happen. First, you have to offset more breaks with higher rates, which makes some people angry. Second, the majority of the benefits accrue to the rich, which also makes people angry. Third, to maintain the progressivity of the tax code, you have to make some tax credits refundable, which wipes out the income tax burden of tens of millions of households, which makes yet more people angry!
The solution to this quandary -- after "ask everybody to stop being angry" -- is to stop shoveling our hard decisions about social policy and welfare into the tax code.*
The irony is that the tax code is complicated because we want it to be complicated. Home owners want to be rewarded for their home ownership. Parents want to get money for their kids. Everybody wants a subsidy for health care. Poor people appreciate the extra cash. Break by break, tax breaks are popular. Hugely popular. Come-and-take-this-from-my-cold-dead-hands popular. But in the aggregate, they make people furious about the tax code. They push up rates, distribute money to the rich, and make it look like people aren't paying their fair share. That's democracy for you.
*The New America Foundation recently released a report that measured how much government invests in entrepreneurship, housing, retirement, savings, and other forms of human capital. What it found won't be surprising in the flow of this article. Tax spending, especially for retirement and housing, turned out to be regressive, so that rich got most of the money. Meanwhile, direct spending on programs like education turned out to be progressive. One implicit conclusion of the report was that human capital investment programs are more likely to progressive if they are spending by government, not "spending" by the tax code. | <urn:uuid:55b628e5-1a91-4b78-a210-346d5e5e8c5b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/the-tax-code-is-a-complicated-horrible-mess-because-we-like-it-that-way/256094/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969396 | 1,088 | 2.09375 | 2 |
GENEVA (21 January 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, will conduct an official fact-finding mission to the United States of America from the 24th of January to the 7th of February, 2011.
“During my visit, I intend to meet with national stakeholders involved in fighting all aspects related to violence against women, with a view to appreciate the phenomenon in the United States,” said the human rights expert, who visits the country at the invitation of the Government.
The Special Rapporteur will travel to Washington D.C., North Carolina, Florida, California, Minnesota and New York City, where she will discuss the issue with government authorities at both the federal and the state levels, and with representatives of civil society.
The Special Rapporteur will also visit shelters and detention centers and she will meet with individual victims of gender-based violence.
A press conference on the initial findings of the visit will be held at the United Nations Information Center in Washington (1775 K ST NW, Suite 400, Washington DC) on Monday February 7 at 13:00 h.
Based on the information obtained during the visit, Ms. Manjoo will present a report with her final findings and recommendations to a forthcoming session of the Human Rights Council.
Ms. Rashida Manjoo (South Africa) was appointed Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences in June 2009 by the UN Human Rights Council, for an initial period of three year. As Special Rapporteur, she is independent from any government or organization and serves in her individual capacity. .Ms. Manjoo is also a Professor at the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town.
For additional information on the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, please visit: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapporteur/index.htm
OHCHR Country Page – United States: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/ENACARegion/Pages/USIndex.aspx
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Pizza is one of the most loved and preferred fast food item in the world. Pizza is basically an Italian dish which is made of flour with various toppings. The main ingredient of any pizza is cheese. It is the most consumed food item after the burgers across the world. Pizza is definitely a tongue smacking food and a perfect food to celebrate any occasion. There are many health adverse of eating too much of pizzas but still this is one of the highest selling food item. There are numerous flavours of a pizza and every country has their own specialized flavours. Pizza flavours can be vegetarian as well as non – vegetarian. Here are the top ten flavours of Pizza, which are most loved and preferred worldwide:
1. Double Cheese Pizza
This is a very popular veg. pizza which has a double thick layer of cheese. The double cheese pizza is very popular because of the lovers of cheese in this world are many. It is indeed one of the best and tasty pizzas among the vegetarian flavours. These are plain pizzas loaded with oodles of extra cheese which makes it delicious and most lip smacking.
This is a unique flavour of vegetarian pizza where the pizza where the spicy vegetarian delight is topped with extremely appealing golden corns, loaded with extra cheese. This pizza is a unique flavour because of the additional toppings like the spread of black olives and the jalapenos. This is an amazing vegetarian recipe which is a delight to have. The Gourmet pizza is a popular flavour and is indeed one of the best.
3. Mexican Green Wave
This is another unique recipe of American pizza which mane is influenced by the Mexican Waves. Mexican Green Wave Pizza is loaded with crunchy onions, crispy capsicum, juicy tomato and jalapeno. This is a spicy flavour which is topped my liberal sprinkling of the exotic Mexican herbs. This is a very popular pizza among the veggies and is a common flavour among those who loves spice pizzas.
4. Peppy Paneer
Paneer is a fresh cheese common in South Asian Cuisine. It is an Indian Origin food item which is a delicious piece of cheese cube made of pure milk. This is a very popular recipe in India as the vegetarian people loves Paneer a lot. The Paneer used in this pizza are barbequed and then few pieces of Paneer is sprinkled over the pizza along with crispy capsicum slices and spicy red pepper. Its yummy taste and is really very appetizing. the Peppy Paneer pizza forms the spicy menu among the vegetarian list of pizzas.
5. Margherita Pizza
Pizza Margherita is a very common and a popular menu in the Asian countries. These pizzas are delicious and are made with single topping of Cheese. The Margherita Pizzas are medium spicy and are actually very pleasant to taste. The pizzas are preferred by the customers who like a simple pizza topping. These Pizzas has no extra toppings and are plain cheese pizzas. | <urn:uuid:5131b2ac-7541-45fe-9b5c-a5ffc42ed1ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://top-10-list.org/tag/ingredients/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956737 | 617 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Public sector workers are set to walk off the job as early as Monday night, an illegal strike that would cripple government services in the province. The action is in response to a Bill which would break up workers' pension schemes.
Strangely from a British point of view, the union the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) seems to be leading the action.
The Canadian Globe and Mail reported:
Sid Ryan, Ontario president of the CUPE, said yesterday that union members at schools could be expected to form picket lines at their buildings. Also affected would be garbage collection, snow removal and access to city hall.
The union is furious over proposed legislation known as Bill 206, under which the province would give control of the $40-billion Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension system to employees and employers. It would also provide for the creation of supplemental pension plans for firefighters, police and emergency workers.
Mr. Ryan said that the bill doesn't ensure pension managers are held accountable and creates an unfair split between different types of public employees. "There is built-in discrimination," he charged.
At Queen's Park, Premier Dalton McGuinty shot back that it should be acknowledged that some jobs are more difficult than others.
"I'm not going to apologise for recognising that police, firefighters and paramedics have particularly strenuous working conditions," he told reporters.
Mr. Ryan has received qualified support from both the Association of Municipalities and Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory, an unlikely ally. They both called on the government to alter Bill 206, but added that they could not accept lawbreaking by union members.
"Not for one minute would I stand here and endorse an illegal or wildcat strike in any instance to solve any problem," Mr. Tory said.
The AOM joined the denunciation of the bill, saying it could mean $380-million in new costs to taxpayers, but also spoke against a strike action. A walkout would be hugely inconvenient to citizens and "pose unacceptable risks to public health and safety," president Roger Anderson said in a statement.
The Ontario Legislature is to begin sitting Monday, and Mr. Ryan said that the union will act the same day the government begins final debate on Bill 206. Strike votes have been held at locations across the province, with results often above 90 per cent in favour.
"The next move is up to the Liberals," Mr. Ryan said as he prepared for a strike vote in Oshawa. "If they bring it in Monday, I will call a strike for midnight. If they bring it in Tuesday, likewise, I will call for a walkout at midnight.
"Let the employers and the unions do what we do for a living, which is negotiate," he added. "There's no need for the government to come in with their own prescription."
The contentious bill could be introduced the same day the legislature begins its compressed sitting, which is half the usual length. Without signalling the schedule for the bill, Mr. McGuinty made a plea for calm. "People should stay grounded on this," he said. | <urn:uuid:ac13b024-bb39-41bb-9e4a-523690592794> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libcom.org/news/article.php/illegal-cupe-strike-canada-100206 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977472 | 636 | 1.671875 | 2 |
November 7th, 2007 11:21 PM
joining two network ports together
i am not sure what you call this
at work we have two ports side by side to plug you computer/laptop into.
if you take one network cable and plug one end into one output and the other end into the other output this crashes the network
is there a way to pick up where this happens or prevent the network from crashing?
the network is dhcp
and uses an proxy prior
(if i have repeted this sorry)
like life, this is a test
November 8th, 2007 03:05 AM
What kind of router / switch is this?
I know what your talking about, as I accidentally plugged the same switch into itself by accident once which brought down all nodes on that switch. However, I cannot think of the term right now. Though loopback does sound plausible.
Depending on the router / switch it might be able to log when this happens, if its a lower end switch, I would imagine that your somewhat out of luck as far as being to catch this electronic wise via logging.
Next question would be, why are you having this probelm in the first place? is anyone allowed to plug / unplug cables into the router switch?
November 8th, 2007 07:16 AM
this does not have to happen at the switch level (these are locked away anyhow)
basically where the network cables come out of the wall if you unplug one
from the wall, unplug the second cable from the back of the other computer and then plug that back in the now empty slot you get network shutdown
do not know if it is logged as i takes ages to go around the site to find where it happens
like life, this is a test
November 9th, 2007 03:22 AM
That does present a bit of a problem.
Is it the same jack / network plate all the time that someone is doing this? Or is someone doing this at random jacks?
November 9th, 2007 05:24 AM
If you use Cisco switches you can use "bdpu guard" to prevent a loop from taking down a network.
November 9th, 2007 08:40 AM
Another way to prevent this of course is to disconnect the premise wiring from the switch at the patch panel. This would also prevent unauthorized workstations from getting on your LAN.
"Somehow saying I told you so just doesn't cover it" Will Smith in I, Robot
November 9th, 2007 10:29 PM
Is there anything similiar to that for HP Procurve managed switches?
Originally Posted by Net2Infinity
November 12th, 2007 06:10 PM
Don't all switches these days use spanning tree protocols?
November 12th, 2007 07:04 PM
That's a loopback alright. I'm sure most modern umanaged switches will detect it and I'm quite sure managed switches support STP..
But STP might be the cause the network is "crashing". Recalculating the tree can take a long time if not configured correctly and the entire network will be down in the mean time.
If the network is anything like I've seen, add a switch here, there.. Few months later another there.. etc.. it might need a major reconfiguration.
Another good thing to do (and boost your security a bit) is to disable all unused ports on your switches. You can stick anything[*] in a disabled port, it won't work.
[*] Not really anything though.. 220 volts does some fecking gawdawful things to a switch
Last edited by SirDice; November 12th, 2007 at 07:15 PM.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
November 12th, 2007 07:20 PM
True I didn't think about multiple switches, different firmware, hardware, stuff like that.
Originally Posted by SirDice
#1 rule of thumb is the locking unused ports. Most of the higher end switches you can configure to allow "registered mac addresses" but that's a whole nother story.
So uh Dice...
Why do I get the feeling that you have first hand knowledge of 220 volts pulsing through a rj 45 port?
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Posted 10 May 2007 - 01:00 AM
i saw the longer version that you were talking about, it wasn't much more informative than this one though. I feel that there is a large problem with this theory but without understanding it in greater detail i cant really condemn it.
His "machine" is very similar to a hypothetical machine that einstien thought up. Einstien's idea was that if you could have a cylindar and spin it at near the speed of light, anything traveling through it could approach the speed of light and use time dilation to move forward without the traveling the fantastic distances necessary to make time dilation usefull in the traditional sense of the word.
The problem that i see with this fellows machine, is that he is forgetting that light is the universal constant, anything approaching its speed is effected relativisticly, because of this, fast(near light) velocities are not additive(90%light+90%light is not = 180%, instead 90%+90% =99.6% or something similar), his plan is to shoot lasers in so they make a coil, some of the energy will be transferred to the space around each beam, accelerating that space to near light speed, then he fires a particle, in the opposite direction also near light speed, and the combination of space moving one direction and particle the other, will create a velocity faster than light, sending the particle back in time. At least thats how i understand his experiment. In effect, he will be sending particles into the future not the past.
in order to travel back in time einstien said you would need to find a closed loop in space, einstien himself said tiem travel backwords is not possible, and so was disturbed that his theory allowed for that possibility.
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The results are in! Thanks to Richard Evershed and Lucy Cramp (University of Bristol, Organic Geochemistry Unit) we now know that the black coating used to embalm PAHMA crocodile mummy 5-513 consists of a mixture of coniferous resin, beeswax, and fat/oil, all common components of Egyptian mummification balms.
Combinations of organic compounds are frequently found in mummification balms. Embalmers may have had both economic and technological motivations for mixing materials. It’s thought that they may have used cheap, readily available animal fat and plant oils as a hydrophobic base to which they added more expensive materials like resins. Both plant resins and beeswax have hydrophobic and antimicrobial properties, making them effective preservative agents. The use of coniferous resin in conjunction with beeswax became widespread during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history, consistent with the purported date of the crocodile mummy.
Recent research by Dr. Evershed and others has revealed that the composition of the balms used to mummify animals is often similar to those used to mummify humans, disputing the notion that animals received cheaper, more perfunctory mummification procedures. In addition to PAHMA 5-513, Dr. Evershed also analyzed balm samples from two other crocodile mummies and a human mummy in the museum’s collection. All contained mixtures of organic compounds.
Dr. Evershed and his colleagues used gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) to identify biomarkers characteristic of these classes of compounds. Small samples of balm or balm-soaked linen were dissolved in organic solvents then analyzed. GC separates components of complex organic mixtures based on differing molecular size. MS then identifies the separated compounds by ionizing them with a beam of high energy electrons, causing them to fragment, and weighing the ionized and fragmented compounds. The resulting mass spectra reveal the molecular structures of compounds present in the sample.
The presence and relative ratios of certain biomarkers derived from the original ingredients indicate what types of compounds were used to create the mummy balm. Sometimes the biomarker molecules are molecules that existed in the original plant or animal source, but often they are derivatives of the original molecules, which have altered over time due to natural deterioration processes or actions taken by the embalmers during preparation of the balm. GC/MS analysis of the crocodile mummy’s black coating detected fatty acids and carboxylic acids characteristic of fat/oil, wax esters, hydrocarbons and alcohols characteristic of beeswax, and degradation products of abietic acid, a component of the diterpenoid resins produced by members of the conifer division (conifers include pine, cedar, fir, juniper and cypress). The absence of certain diterpenoid resin alteration products suggests that the resin was not heated at high temperature. Petroleum bitumen (which is often present in later Egyptian mummy balms in low concentrations) could also be present, but was not analyzed for at this stage due to sample size requirements and other constraints.
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Four North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers have been honored in a ceremony before they deploy for a year to Afghanistan and Qatar.
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) - Four North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers have been honored in a ceremony before they deploy for a year to Afghanistan and Qatar.
The members of the 1919th Contingency Contracting Team are based in Bismarck. The unit specializes in planning, coordinating and issuing contracts for supplies and services needed to support U.S. forces. The four soldiers will be responsible for contracting support with civilian organizations, including american contractors, in-country contractors and other foreign businesses.
Governor Jack Dalyrmple and U.S. Senator John Hoeven spoke at Saturday's ceremony.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Working women who are in charge of running their household are less likely to pursue promotions and types of career advancement, a new study contends.
Men's work goals were unaffected by the level of their household responsibilities, the researchers found in a series of experiments.
"It appears that being in charge of household decisions may bring a semblance of power to women's traditional role, to the point where women may have less desire to push against the obstacles to achieving additional power outside the home," study co-author and University of California, Berkeley psychologist Serena Chen said in a university news release.
The study was scheduled for presentation Friday at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting in New Orleans. Data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Despite improved gender equity in many areas, women still tend to have responsibility for raising children, and household chores and finances, according to the researchers. The researchers said their findings suggest that this has an effect on women's career choices.
"As a result, women may make decisions such as not going after a high-status promotion at work, or not seeking to work full time, without realizing why," study lead author Melissa Williams, an assistant professor of business at Emory University in Atlanta, said in the news release.
It appears that having control over household matters reduces women's interest in power outside of the home, Chen said.
"To realize true gender equality in both the private and public spheres, our results suggest that women may need to at least partially abdicate their role of ultimate household deciders, and men must agree to share such decision making," Chen suggested.
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers advice for working mothers.
SOURCE: University of California, Berkeley, news release, Jan. 18, 2013
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Foods like chocolate, chile, nuts and cheese help you lose weight
May 7, 2012
There is no doubt that the worst of a diet is to deny the foods you love. When will power begins to weaken, chocolate, cheese or a glass of wine will help you lose weight.
According to new research, “Malbec was thought that increased waist size, now could help you lose inches.”
Advances in nutrition research are beginning to show effects of thinning with some foods more ‘sinful’.
Scientists in the U.S. have identified a compound in red wine that could help you slim. Called piceatannol, it appears to slow the growth of fat cells, which means that rather than topping up your calorie total, red wine could be a dieter’s friend. Piceatannol appears to alter the way new fat cells grow.
Normally, it takes ten days for a fat cell to reach maturity, and once it has, it is difficult to shrink with diet and exercise. However, when there’s piceatannol in the blood, fat cells are stopped from maturing. Scientists believe that if they isolate the compound, they may be able to use it in anti-obesity drugs.
You may be able to reap the fat‑busting benefits by having one glass of red wine a day. Any more, however, and you could be adding too much to your daily calorie load — half a bottle of wine is around 250 calories, but at 510 calories, a bottle a day is not only highly calorific, but also damaging to health.
Living off spicy takeaways — including curries — has always been thought of as a surefire route to weight gain, but researchers at Canada’s Laval University have found that a chemical contained in chillies could boost your body’s ability to burn fat and curb your appetite. This is because capsaicin, the chemical that gives chillies, cayenne and paprika their characteristic pungency, stimulates the natural process where some of the food we eat is converted immediately to heat. Called diet-induced thermogenesis, this process is good news for dieters because it means we burn up calories rather than storing them.
Scientists found that chilli can also reduce your appetite. Studies show that when men and women eat chilli-spiked food, they feel less hungry and eat significantly less at subsequent meals. Incorporating chillies into your breakfast has been shown to be effective at encouraging you to opt for a smaller lunch. But if you can’t face the thought of a spiced-up egg-white omelette (51 calories for three eggs), you can get your chilli fix at the end of the day with a hot curry, ideally tandoori, tikka or bhuna as they tend to be made without creamy sauces.
Rather than topping up your calorie total, red wine could be a dieter’s friend
There’s no doubt that nuts are fattening. Or are they? As a snack, nuts pack a heavier calorie punch than crisps (a handful of crisps is around 40 calories, whereas you can easily notch up 300 calories with a fist-full of peanuts). But nutritional experts believe they could be a better choice for dieters. Research shows that people who snack on nuts tend to be slimmer than those who don’t.
A study from Purdue University, Indiana, found that when a group of 15 normal-weight people added about 500 calories’ worth of peanuts to their diet, they consumed less at subsequent meals. The participants also revved up their resting metabolism by 11 per cent, which means they burned more calories — even when relaxing. Researchers from the University of Barcelona say this is because nuts stimulate the hormone serotonin, which boosts happiness, decreases appetite and improves heart health. It takes only 1oz of raw, unpeeled walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts a day to start reducing fat around your abdomen.
Coconut oil has acquired a bad reputation for being high in saturated fat. But research is emerging that indicates this fat might behave differently from other saturated fats. Coconut oil is predominantly made up of short and medium-chain fatty acids. These compounds don’t boost cholesterol levels — in fact, they lower the risk of heart disease and can help weight loss because your body is able to burn them more quickly than other fats.
Use small quantities in cooking or baking instead of butter or unhealthy oils. It remains stable at high temperatures so is great for frying, too.
For long-term dieters one of the most sorely missed foods is often cheese. With its high fat and calorie content (42 cals and 3.5g of fat per 10g slice) it’s all-too often sacrificed in favour of more slimming sandwich fillings and meal toppings. But studies now show cheese can help you lose weight — particularly around your abdomen. Cheese contains protein, which helps us feel fuller more quickly, but scientists also believe the calcium in cheese encourages the body to burn more fat because it helps your body increase the amount of fat it eliminates. The best cheeses are feta or Edam as they are lower in fat per serving, but keep away from rich creamy ones such as Camembert.
Even though chocolate is loaded with calories, dark chocolate contains antioxidants and ingredients such as bioflavonoids that scientists believe may promote weight loss. A study at the University of California found that chocolate-eaters tended to be slimmer than those who didn’t touch the stuff. They were also less likely to get heart disease or suffer strokes. But milk chocolate adds calories and depletes the proportion of essential slimming nutrients. So choose dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa (70 per cent or more) as the crucial nutrients are contained in the cocoa. As an added bonus, its bitter taste may also suppress appetite. | <urn:uuid:264889ad-5b60-4ef7-bfbe-6a7de9401af2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://m24digital.com/en/2012/05/07/foods-like-chocolate-chile-nuts-and-cheese-help-you-lose-weight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951098 | 1,232 | 2.203125 | 2 |