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These are a set of diseases whereby the sufferers experience short bouts of muscle weakenss or even total body paralysis, but are completely conscious. It's caused by abnormalities in the ion channels of the muscles.
The triggers for these episodes are:
- carbohydrate-rich meals
The treatment is usually via medications to help stabilize potassium levels, and are often targeted to the specific subtype of Periodic Paralysis based on gene type.
The disease is also hereditary--if a parent has the disease, their kids have a 50% chance of inheriting the condition.
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Ordering that head CT scan is the easy way out.
In a piece from Newsweek (via Bryan Vartabedian), Yale emergency physician Christopher Moore details a common scenario: should he order a CT scan in an asymptomatic 15-year old who was hit in the back of the head while playing soccer?
Dr. Moore encapsulates his thought process: “In a case like this, evidence shows the chance of a life-threatening injury is vanishingly small. [But] since we’re dealing with radiation, a CT scan isn’t harmless: some estimates put the long-term risk of cancer death from a single CT as high as one in 1,000—a risk that’s greater in younger patients who have longer to live.”
Cost doesn’t factor in the decision making process. There is no mention of “rationing.” The doctor is simply weighing the marginal benefit of ordering the scan versus the radiation exposure the teen will receive.
Simply ordering the scan is the path of least resistance. As Dr. Vartabedian notes, “Testing is easy. Exercising the judgment to not perform tests takes insight, experience, and confidence.”
Discussing the pros and cons with patients and their families, and coming to a shared decision – the way it should be – is difficult, and all the incentives within our health system are stacked against going down that route. | <urn:uuid:0eeb57d1-c64d-4c7e-ac88-b4da24e9d05d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/11/decision-test-difficult-choice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951362 | 300 | 2.546875 | 3 |
We've lived in a PV Solar house since 1997.THe panels and system cost only $9750 for a three bedroom house. Solar is pratical NOW! So go solar! . Anyway, if you can't afford the $15,000 start up costs(what it cost in 2007 for our new house) in cash, use a firm that puts the system in, and then lets you have 10 years to pay it off---WHILE NOT PAYING AN ELECTRIC BILL. AFTER a few years you get your energy for free! FIguring the utility bill s I did not have to pay, at our high rates here in Hawaii County, it took just 4 years and 3 months for payback for my household, and that is NOT counting government rebates.
Stop the talk about NUCLEAR WHAT DO YOU THINK IS POWERING MY COMPUTER AS WE SPEAK? Because Halliburton and Chevron are unable to OWN THE SUN, they cannot corner the market and profit from it. So they will be fighting us on this for decades yet. Ignore them. Trust those of us who are veteran SOLAR POWER USERS. Just do it. Yes, there are ways to finance the photovoltaic installation, too. This is not futuristic thinking. SOLAR PANELS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AND THEY WORK. .They are guaranteed for 25 years, and may well last 50 years!
Please note, this discussion has been a magnate for those uclear afficionados who are simply foaming at the mouth because of the widespread application of photo voltaic panels for getting sum power from your own south facing roof. Like Halliburtion, these dudes, A-1, DD, DE, etc are enraged that somehow everyman may be able to slip out from under his obligations to the mega industrial complex. And somehow, they oppose any attempt at going back to American values of pulling your own weight, independence, and self-sufficiency. And oh yes, in our very wet climate, we get more days of rain than days of full sun, so naturally we have a full on rain catchment system with water storage tanks for household and llivestock water supply. Look up, and you may find a long term solution that will even, in a couple of years,charge up your electric car for you during the day, at home or in the downtown parking garage. | <urn:uuid:e850ee27-7655-42a5-8357-a88caafe8c16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topics/solar-power-is-here-use-it?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A119225&page=43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948657 | 493 | 1.84375 | 2 |
This should be too easy. We have on the pic 100 orange colored toy balloons supporting in suspension a man in the air. Each balloon weights 80 grams and contains 1.2 cubic meters of Helium. The weight of air at STP is 1.20 gr/l and the weight of helium 0.18 gr/l. What is the weight of the man? Dont try it at home. | <urn:uuid:4dec6158-6687-4060-b588-6e1f499aefd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://h2oreuse.blogspot.com/2009/05/bouyancy-problem.html?showComment=1242277200000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928231 | 82 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Hagaman children's library just got a little something from a group of prisoners -- a new circulation desk. Convicts at the maximum security McDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield were the designers, architects and carpenters.
And saved the town a good chunk of dough. According to library director Karen Jensen, it would have cost about $100,000 if traditional contractors did the job. The prisoner-made desk rang in at $14,000, which came from library donations. In 2009, McDougall-Walker "guests" built the library a main circulation desk for $30,000, said Jensen, funded by a grant.
“That was just not something that we could afford,” she said.
She said a library board member suggested going through Correctional Enterprises, a state-run program at McDougall-Walker. The project employs inmates to do carpentry, metal sewing and printing for towns and non-profit organizations to prepare them for a life outside of prison, though some will never be freed, said David Brown, director of Correctional Enterprises.
“This gives them something to do, gets them out of their cell block,” said Brown.
Ten to 15 inmates worked on the desks at Hagaman, he said. “They didn't have any blueprints to follow; they had to actually come up with a design and build it,” said Brown.
The desks were delivered in components and Public Service did the assembly, after having visited McDougall-Walker to learn how to do so, said Brown.
Most of the purchase price went for supplies for the desks, said Brown. Inmates were paid about $1 an hour.
“It may not sound like a whole lot, but inside a prison a dollar an hour is a lot of money,” he said. The dollars go into the inmates' prison accounts to be used at the commissary.
“They get self-gratification,” said Brown. And the library gets an ornate, custom-made new desk.
Not only was the deal a real money-saver, but Jensen said she was pleased with every aspect of the production.
“The work is really high quality and it's custom-built just for us, so it's built for our space and our needs,” she said.
The new children's circulation desk is long and low, and wraps around to create a rectangle when pushed up against the wall. It has plenty of storage space and a swinging gate to keep children from wandering behind it.
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Last month, we reported that
Nicolas Cage Members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage had found letters and numbers in the Mona Lisa's eyes, which could only be seen by magnifying high resolution images of the painting.
Now, Italian researcher Silvan Vinceti says he's found a letter "S" in Mona Lisa's left eye, and an "L" in her right eye. He also says he's found a number "72" under the "arched bridge in the backdrop" of the painting.
According to Vinceti, the symbols he found are "very small, painted with a tiny brush and subjected to the wear and tear of time."
So what do these symbols mean?
Vinceti believes the "S" could refer to the woman who ruled Milan during the Sforza dynasty, where Leonardo da Vinci spent time between 1482-1499 and 1506-1507.
As far as the "L" is concerned, Vinceti says it stands for "Leonardo."
With regards to "72," Vinceti claims it's a pertinent symbol from Kabbalah and Christianity. He says the "7" has lots of symbolic associations such as creation of the world, and he says the "2" could refer to the duality of male and female.
Are U aware of this, Dan Brown? You've totally got the beginnings of another Da Vinci Code book here, bb!
What do U think these symbols mean?
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I’m sorry for the lack of pictures in posts of late. Finding good pictures can be really hard, and there are many great excerpts that have no matching pictures. I choose excerpts on a whim (I should probably plan xD sorry!), so sometimes I just don’t feel like hunting for another excerpt that has a readily available picture when I have one in mind that I really want to post. As it is, the last three posts are picture-less D:
Do you guys mind if more posts have no pictures? I’ll try to put out more picture-posts, promise!
The sequel, The Lord of the Rings, much the largest, and I hope also in proportion the best, of the entire cycle, concludes the whole business – an attempt is made to include in it, and wind up, all the elements and motives of what has preceded: elves, dwarves, the Kings of Men, heroic ‘Homeric’ horsemen, orcs and demons, the terrors of the Ring-servants and Necromancy, and the vast horror of the Dark Throne, even in style it is to include the colloquialism and vulgarity of Hobbits, poetry and the highest style of prose. We are to see the overthrow of the last incarnation of Evil, the unmaking of the Ring, the final departure of the Elves, and the return in majesty of the true King, to take over the Dominion of Men, inheriting all that can be transmitted of Elfdom in his high marriage with Arwen daughter of Elrond, as well as the lineal royalty of Númenor. But as the earliest Tales are seen through Elvish eyes, as it were, this last great Tale, coming down from myth and legend to the earth, is seen mainly though the eyes of Hobbits: it thus becomes in fact anthropocentric. But through Hobbits, not Men so-called, because the last Tale is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in ‘world polities’ of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, forgotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
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While his most recent plan to ship water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is dressed up with years of reports, and while Brown’s peripheral canal has changed to a pair of peripheral tunnels, one thing remains the same from his first water project in 1982: His plan won’t add water to the state’s overall supply.
That’s a problem, because that is the real issue. There simply isn’t enough water in the Delta to fulfill demand and leave enough water to sustain some semblance of an ecosystem.
Part of the problem can be traced to when the California Aqueduct and the Delta-Mendota Canal — which ship Delta water to the Central Valley and Southern California — were built.
Contracts to south-of-the-Delta users were handed out with the idea that water would be shipped from the far northern reaches of the state to supplement the water sucked out of the Delta. But those northern rivers were proclaimed off-limits to water exports (and are, not surprisingly, the healthiest rivers in the state).
That left less water to hand out than the contracts called for, one of the reasons that even in a wet year like 2011, those who receive water from the Delta-Mendota Canal get less than 100 percent of their entitlements.
That puts a hefty strain on south valley farmers who have planted orchards or can’t water crops.
Still, the basic math hasn’t swayed some people, who say the only issue is that the pumps near Tracy feeding the aqueducts suck up an endangered fish.
If that were true, moving the intakes away from the fish — as the governor’s proposal envisions — would be a workable solution.
But the presence of those fish, and the environmental protection they enjoy, is one of the few things preventing the Delta from being sucked dry and San Joaquin County agriculture from suffering a body blow.
If the pipeline is built, the governor’s administration says protections would ensure that the north-of-the-Delta pumps wouldn’t run all the time and that standards for water flow in the Delta would be maintained. According to the Department of Water Resources, that would ensure the San Joaquin County portion of the Delta doesn’t dry up.
But it’s easy to imagine, in a drought “emergency” like the one in 2007 to 2009, that political heavy hitters who rely on pumped water would put pressure on the governor to lift those restrictions. In that case, it’s the folks and farmers in the Delta who would be left high and dry.
The only analysis that makes sense is that the peripheral tunnel idea would result in less water for the Delta and more water for users in the Central Valley and SoCal.
You don’t even have to follow the water to figure that out — all you have to do is follow the money.
The biggest backers of this plan are the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and irrigation districts along the western side of the San Joaquin Valley, all of whom take water pumped south out of the Delta.
The only reason for moving the intakes away from where the endangered fish live is so that more water can someday be pumped.
If that’s not the case, there seems little reason to build the pipes in the first place.
The problem isn’t an endangered fish. It’s basic supply and demand.
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Arguably no political principle has been more central than the separation of powers to the evolution of constitutional governance in Western democracies. In the definitive work on the subject, M. J. C. Vile traces the history of the doctrine from its rise during the English Civil War, through its development in the eighteenth century - when it was indispensable to the founders of the American republic - through subsequent political thought and constitution-making in Britain, France, and the United States. The author concludes with an examination of criticisms of the doctrine by both behavioralists and centralizers - and with “A Model of a Theory of Constitutionalism.” The new Liberty Fund second edition includes the entirety of the original 1967 text published by Oxford, a major epilogue entitled “The Separation of Powers and the Administrative State,” and a bibliography.
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PhD student Michael Reuscher has been guest posting from the RV Cape Flattery aboard the Finding Coral Expedition, sponsored by the Living Ocean Society in British Colombia, Canada. He summarizes the cruise accomplishments, and bids farewell below. On behalf of Deep Sea News, let me say this was a job well done. Congratulations, team. This was a remarkable undertaking, and a real success.
The last day of submersible dives lies in the past. The RV Cape Flattery is steaming back to the south. This afternoon we will arrive in Vancouver. The atmosphere of industriousness gave way to an atmosphere of departure. The activities have switched from dive preparations and sample processing to organizing last thoughts and packing up supplies and personal belongings.
During our “Finding Coral” expedition we found around fifteen different coral species – the exact number has to be determined by examination of the gorgonian’s microscopic spicules and the coral’s DNA. Forty two dives brought up more than one terrabyte of video clips. We went down with the Deep Worker at eight different diving sites that ranged from flat, muddy soft sediment to vertical rock walls. Samples from corals, polychaetes, sponges, crustaceans, and brittle stars were taken and remain with the scientists or will be shipped to specialists.
For all the divers, Sheila McKenna, Jennifer Lash, Tom Shirley, Lance Morgan, Greg Workman and me the cruise was certainly a lifetime experience. For some of us -all are certified scuba divers- it was the first time to dive in these depths, for all of us it was the first, and maybe last, time to pilot a submersible.
The science team will start right away to work on the cruise report and publications. For the Nuytco crew, another exciting cruise is dawning: they will accompany NASA scientists who will look for aliens in a lake in British Columbia! | <urn:uuid:f4b86691-df41-4a57-ae73-353c0176270d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/finding-coral-sails-into-the-sunset/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947389 | 395 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Late Breaks - The LearningStation.com
As part of Microsofts Office Online trial program to K-12 education customers, The LearningStation.com will offer Office 2000 to schools over the Internet. Online access to this program will help school districts meet the challenge of deploying and managing software at many, often geographically scattered, locations. Using Office Online, central office IT personnel can ensure access for students, teachers and staff at all schools at once. The pilot is a part of the companies effort to help schools build connected learning communities, enriched educational environments where technology expands opportunities for learning. For more information on this program, visit www.learningstation.com
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Outreach and Continuing Education
Outreach at the School of Nursing is focused on meeting educational and service needs in the community beyond the walls of the School. The School of Nursing is geographically dispersed, and its outreach program connects with many local communities across Pennsylvania. Outreach includes service-learning projects in the community, credit courses, and programs for nursing continuing education.
Practice your clinical skills in the School of Nursing's simulation lab, filled with the latest technologies for nursing education. Gain confidence by practicing on simulated patients and engaging in simulated exercises to help reduce clinical errors. Receive your Act 58 CE requirements.
Learn to bridge the gap between medicine and law with this 12-credit undergraduate certificate program. Professionals in forensic nursing are often the first line of defense for victims of violence, abuse, or neglect when they enter the health care system. Their role goes far beyond medical care to include knowledge of the legal system and injury identification, evaluation, and documentation.
Advanced Role Options Now Offered Totally Online
As part of its M.S.N. program, Penn State now offers two advanced role options—Nurse Administrator and Nurse Educator—totally online through Penn State World Campus. For more information, e-mail Janet Fogg or call 717-531-1340.
Continuing Education Series for RNs and LPNs
Practice your clinical skills in the School of Nursing's simulation lab. These courses allow RNs to obtain required Act 58 hours and gain the most up-to-date health information. Courses are taught in the Penn State School of Nursing state-of-the-art simulation lab, offering the newest technology and hands-on experiences.
Click here to see a list of current courses or to register.
For details, contact:
Outreach Programs Staff Assistant
204 HHD East
University Park, PA 16802
Madeline Fulcher Mattern, M.S., NP-C
Coordinator, Outreach Programs
Penn State School of Nursing
204 HHD East
University Park, PA 16802
Outreach and Continuing Education Online Courses Available
Build your continuing education résumé with courses by RNs for RNs—log onto Penn State School of Nursing’s online continuing education (CE) portal. These courses are offered continuously for online continuing education.
At completion of a CE course and evaluation, students will receive a certificate.
All course materials, quizzes, certificates, and member histories will be available through the site at the click of a mouse. New courses will be added on a regular basis in order to assist Pennsylvania RNs in obtaining their biennial thirty CE hours.
Penn State School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association (PSNA), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
School Nurse Series
The School of Nursing Outreach programs and Penn State Academic Outreach brings to you a variety of courses aimed at keeping you up to date on the current health issues facing school nurses and teachers. New courses are developed each summer with current topics such as Autism and Bullying added Summer, 2011. Earn your ACT 48 credits by enrolling in one of our classes offered at a campus near you.
Certificate in Nursing Informatics
Nurses can give their careers a boost with the Nursing Informatics online certificate program, a 9-credit course series designed to prepare nurses with the knowledge to use informatics tools in technology-rich health care environments.
The curriculum includes key informatics topics such as electronic health records, clinical decision support tools, and data mining to promote safe and efficient care.
Registered nurses who are working toward a B.S. in Nursing at Penn State can apply all 9 credits toward the bachelor's degree. Nurses may also take the courses as a stand-alone series for the purpose of enhancing their career prospects.
Certificate in Geriatric Nursing Education
The School of Nursing offers a graduate certificate in Geriatric Nursing Education in partnership with Penn State World Campus and the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. This program is designed to help those with a master's degree in nursing prepare to become geriatric nursing faculty and educational leaders. Upon completing the certificate, these geriatric education specialists will be positioned to mentor nursing faculty at the associate or bachelor degree level.
Certificate in Nursing Management
Set yourself apart from other registered nurses on the career ladder by gaining the tools needed for nurse manager positions. Enrich your knowledge of basic health care organizations and administration.
Receive your certificate in Nursing Management from the Penn State School of Nursing here at Penn State. Two of the four courses can count as electives in our RN to B.S. in Nursing program.
For information on obtaining the Nursing Management certificate through Continuing Education, please visit www.outreach.psu.edu/cape/nursing-management.
For more information about the online certificate courses via the World Campus, visit the Undergraduate Certificate in Nursing Management Program.
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As part of the Bristoe Campaign, the 105th takes part in a minor skirmish at Catlett's Station. Following the fight, the soldiers are assigned provost duty until October 28.
Again ordered to the front, the 105th quits provost duty and moves in the direction of Kelly's Ford, where the soldiers engage with the Confederates on November 7. For the next three weeks they remain camped in Brandy Station.
The Mine Run Campaign begins.
The 105th fights at the Battle of Payne's Farm.
The regiment fights at the Battle of Mine Run.
The 105th leaves Mine Run, marches to Brandy Station, and lays out its winter quarters near its previous camp.
According to a General Order of the War Department, the regiment is re-enlisted and the men are given a veteran veterans' furlough.
1864 February 21
The soldiers of the 105th return from leave with fifty new recruits and encamp two miles from Brandy Station, Virginia. The new camp is named Camp Bullock.
The corps of the Federal Army is reorganized, and the 105th is placed under Brigadier General Hays as part of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps. The regiment remains at Camp Bullock until May 3.
The 105th leaves Camp Bullock when General Grant begins his Wilderness Campaign.
May 5-June 12
The 105th fights in six battles: Wilderness, Po River, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomoy, and Cold Harbor.
June 15-August 12
The regiment engages in the Petersburg Assaults of June 15-18. The troops take various positions in the Petersburg vicinity and occasionally engage with the Confederates.
Ordered to take part in the fighting at Deep Bottom Run, the regiment ascends the James River and meets the Confederates.
The regiment arrives back near Petersburg and performs fatigue and picket duty until October 1.
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FOR KIDS: New planetary neighbor
Nearest star system has a world that's Earthly in size, but too hot for human visitors
Web edition: November 6, 2012
Astronomers have found that our closest stellar neighbor has an Earth-sized planet orbiting it. This illustration shows what the pair might look like.
For decades, astronomers have been training telescopes all over the sky, looking for alien worlds. In October, they reported finding an Earth-sized planet near a small, next-door star. The discovery naturally raises the question: When can we visit?
Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: New planetary neighbor
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With digital photography more popular than ever, the number of new photo printers on the market now matches that of new personal ink jets. In fact, all the major ink jet printer makers except Lexmark have at least two new sub-$500 models. The printers we tested vary in number of inks used, paper capabilities, direct printing from digital cameras and removable media, and front-panel controls and displays. But they all print photos good enough for everyone but professionals. Unless you're an avid hobbyist with money to spare, however, you'll want a fast everyday printer that's also good for photos. A few years ago, this was a pipe dream; photo printers were single-purpose devices and deadly slow at text and graphics. Today, conventional printers do text and graphics a bit faster than photo printers, and photo printers still do a better job with digital images. The reason? Most personal ink jets use four inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), while most photo printers use six (adding an extra cyan and magenta). We didn't run our cost-per-page analysis on these printers, since our tests aren't intended to quantify the cost of printing photos. But for comparison, vendors cite costs from 25 to 50 cents per page.
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Museum Assistant, The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, home of the historic National Woman’s Party, located on Capitol Hill has openings for part-time Museum Assistants for weekdays and weekends.
Museum Assistants are an important resource at the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum. They serve as public ambassadors, among the first people to directly interact with the visitors. Museum Assistants advance the mission of the Museum and provide workshops and other educational programs for the general public (children, adults, families). A positive attitude, high degree of initiative, and strong work ethic are essential for the position.
- Prepare the House for viewing and carry out all procedures for opening and closing per the established museum checklist.
- Welcome and direct visitors to the exhibition galleries.
- Conduct subject-specific gallery talks and full length group tours for visitors of all ages in a personable and knowledgeable manner and provide accurate information relevant to the major themes in the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum history.
- Articulate the Museum's goals and programs, current restoration activities and future plans.
- Assist in providing security for the Museum and the collections. Ensure the safety of the visiting public and respond calmly and professionally to emergencies. Follow institutional procedures.
- Track the number of visitors who tour the Museum daily and gather additional information on how they heard about the museum.
- Provide feedback by soliciting written and/or verbal comments from visitors.
- Assist with museum shop operations and sales.
- Provide assistance to museum staff, including clerical work and data entry, as needed.
- When there are no visitors, utilize the Florence Bayard Hilles Feminist Library to strengthen knowledge of the National Woman’s Party and the women’s movement in general.
- Participate in training programs and other opportunities in order to expand knowledge of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum and strengthen interpretive skills.
- Have excellent oral communication skills
- Feel comfortable speaking in front of groups and generating visitor participation
- Be interested in women’s history, the suffrage and equal rights movement, and the history of the National Woman’s Party
- Experience or education in history, women’s studies, art, or teaching is preferred but not required
- Have experience working with the public
- Be articulate, enthusiastic, engaging, and willing to learn
- Be willing to become actively involved in the programs of the Museum
- Demonstrate a desire and willingness to conduct programs that engage visitors of diverse backgrounds in exploring challenging issues.
The compensation for the position is $10 per hour. The number of hours of work per week/work schedule may vary. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, from noon until 5:00 p.m. Museum Assistants should have a flexible schedule and must be available to work on weekends, occasional evenings, and federal holidays. Assistants must also be available to attend mandatory monthly training meetings.Openings are also available for Event Assistants. Museum Assistants may also be scheduled as Event Assistants. Please contact the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum for additional information. | <urn:uuid:5733800a-a517-42d2-8cd0-1001584bb24f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://womensorganizations.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285:museum-assistant-the-sewall-belmont-house-a-museum-&catid=14:job-postings&Itemid=8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901674 | 653 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Leadership Perspectives: Insights from General Charles Wald on America’s Response to 9/11
Originally posted September 2011.
As part of our commemoration of the tragic events of the terrorists’ attacks on our country, Tom Captain, vice chairman and U.S. Aerospace & Defense leader, Deloitte LLP and Global Aerospace & Defense leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, sat down with General Charles Wald, USAF retired, Director, Deloitte Services LP, and Leader of Deloitte's Department of Defense Practice, Federal Government Services, to remember our friends, colleagues, and family members impacted by this tragedy.
A retired four-star General, and former deputy commander for U.S. European Command, responsible for the Armed forces of the United States and 93 countries in the African and European continents, General Wald was among the top military leadership responsible for planning and executing Operation Enduring Freedom, our nation’s response to the attacks of 9/11.
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Why Are People Criticizing These Olympic Athletes for Their Looks?
I wish I could say that when I read the article "Fat? We Are Fit. Get Over It, Say Women," published by Reuters UK yesterday, that I was shocked and saddened by the amount of criticism female athletes have faced this week. Unfortunately, I'm not. Saddened, yes. Shocked? Not in the slightest. Recently, a list of top female Olympic athletes including (but not limited to) Australia's Leisel Jones, the U.S.'s Gabby Douglas, and Britain's Jessica Ennis, have faced incredible amounts of scrutiny about their looks or weight.
For example, after Gabby Douglas won two gold medals for Team USA in gymnastics, Twitter was abuzz with the fact that her hair looked "unkempt" and "ratch." Similarly, after appearing in a documentary about women's weightlifting, British weightlifter Zoe Smith was attacked for looking like a "bloke" and a "lesbian" (you can read her response to the criticisms here). Before the Olympic games even began, an Australian newspaper ran a photo of swimmer Leisel Jones suggesting she didn't look as fit as she had in the 2008 games as well as running a poll asking readers if they thought she was fit enough to compete in this year's games.
All three ladies above have not only qualified for the Olympics, but they've also medaled or broken world records this past week. What does this criticism have to do with their abilities or performances? Nothing. It only centers on their looks, which just serves as a depressing indication that no matter what you do or accomplish, nothing is as important as ensuring you fit into society's narrow-minded ideas of what makes a woman "pretty."
Here's a list of other notable female athletes who've faced criticism about their looks or weight recently.
1. Rebecca Adlington: The British swimmer, who has won two bronze medals at London, told the press that she had to stay off social media before she swam because there were so many negative comments about her looks.
2. Hollie Avil: British triathlete, Avil, who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, quit sports for good this May to concentrate on her health after struggling with an eating disorder she says stems from years of a coach calling her fat.
3. Jessica Ennis: A high-ranking British official recently commented that Ennis, who won the heptathlon this weekend, looked like she was carrying too much weight for her body.
4. The entire Brazilian women's soccer team: The coach of Cameroon's women's soccer team said that the Brazilians looked "a bit heavy," before the South American team trounced Cameroon 5-0.
5. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings: The beach volleyball stars have been unstoppable when it comes to performance, but when it comes to their uniforms, they haven't been able to win so far. They've simultaneously been called "cheeky" for deciding to stick with their uniforms of bikinis; later when they pulled on long-sleeved t-shirts to adjust to the 60-degree weather in London, they were criticized for not showing enough skin.
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We were still a half-hour s drive away, but already the landscape was filled with blue. On either side of the highway, in fields stretching from the roadside to the hillsides, agave plants sprouted in every direction, like a sheet of azure weeds that refused to be subdued.
The beautiful fields of agave with their thick, pointed leaves and robust, pineapple-shaped centers are one reason this town of 35,500 is famous. The other is the drink produced in the many factories here.
As destinations go, the beaches of Cancun and Cabo San Lucas outdraw the agave fields and tequila distilleries that offer tours and tastings. But this town, located just west of Guadalajara on the highway to Puerto Vallarta, is dressing itself up in the hope it can entice tourists to spend a few days here rather than just a few hours.
In July, the area s abundant agave fields were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, joining a list of cultural and natural properties considered to have universal value. Tequila tours are plentiful, from the newly built and centrally located Jose Cuervo facility (called Mundo Cuervo), with a distillery that dates to 1873, to smaller factories just a short bus ride away. Some include a stop at an agave field, where a
Most tours last less than a couple of hours, which is one reason Tequila is considered a day trip for Mexicans and foreigners, who can make the drive from Guadalajara in a little more than an hour or simply hop a tour bus in town (the Hilton Hotel offers one for about $33). The Tequila Express, a popular train excursion that includes a tour of the Herradura factory and a two-hour music and dance performance, is another one-day option. In town, sales agents hawk tours from behind small counters in the plaza and zocalo (town square).
Prices range from between about $5 and $7 and although the size of the distillery might range from big to small, the process of turning agave into tequila is similar at each.
The best tours, though, are those that stop at an agave field, where the hearty blue succulents rise five or more feet in height and grow from seven to 10 years before they are harvested.
The 7,500-foot elevation of the Mexican state of Jalisco is said to be best for growing agave, helped by the soil of a now-extinct volcano that rises above the city.
At distilleries, visitors walk through the process of making tequila: placing agave plants known as pinas (Spanish for pineapple) in large kilns for 36 hours or more, then sending them through shredders, where the juice is squeezed from the fibers. The juice is placed in large, stainless-steel vats, mixed with water and left to ferment. Then it undergoes a two-step distillation process to purify it and enhance the alcoholic flavor. Finally, it is aged in wooden barrels for two months or longer, although one type, blanco (clear), is not aged.
A trip to Tequila also should include a visit to the National Museum of Tequila and the Sauza Family Museum, both near the zocalo and costing about $2 to tour. Each gives a historical perspective on the drink, although the Sauza Museum is essentially a collection of memorabilia, including paintings, old photos and ancient tools, in what was once the family home. The Sauzas sold their operation in 1988, although Guillermo Erickson Sauza, a fifth-generation family member, recently began producing his own brand, Los Abuelos, using traditional techniques.
The Museum of Tequila is a well-designed display of photos, drawings and artifacts in several rooms detailing the history of tequila. One legend holds that the drink was discovered when lightning struck an agave plant, and the resulting sweet smell and taste agreed with the area s indigenous people. Spaniards introduced the distilling process after Hernan Cortes conquest in 1521. Important tequila-producing families are noted throughout the museum, but you ll need to understand Spanish, or have a translator nearby, to fully understand the displays.
Tequila is wrestling with its future, weighing its village ambience against the prospect of being a major tourist destination.
Four years ago, Mexico s tourism office named the city a Pueblo Magico (Magic Town), providing about $544,000 for municipal and social improvements. Although tourism numbers are growing steadily about 93,000 visited in 2005, double the number in 2002, according to the Tequila mayor s office the town seems unaffected by its newfound recognition.
On my recent visit, the town square and plaza were quiet, uncrowded and unhurried. They were filled with families or couples enjoying the mild weather most days and nights. But changes are coming. A plan by the city s mayor, Miguel Marin, to close off one street from traffic, repave the main road and plant trees and flowers in front of some stores has met resistance by some locals, who simply don t want to lose their parking spaces in the name of beautification.
"We need tourism," Marin said. "We need more hotels, more restaurants, more transportation." If visitors stay the night, he said, "they spend more money, they eat breakfast and lunch, they buy souvenirs."
Residents who embrace that thinking still don t want to lose the city s small-town charm.
"If McDonald s or Burger King come here, it s not good," said Juan Francisco Lopez, spokesman for the tourism office and lifetime resident. "This is a Mexican town."
Increased tourism, he said, will bring "more jobs, more opportunities. But, for example, we will have problems with a lot of cars and buses, and our streets are small. Right now, there are no crowds downtown." Tequila is a town where everybody seems to enjoy being outdoors folks gather in the plaza or the zocalo, in church, in stores and on street corners. Everyone knows each other, and although a visitor can t walk through the town center without drawing notice, I never felt unwelcome. It lacks big-city luxuries, but it has enough to serve basic needs. There are no shopping malls or supermarkets, no department stores and no Starbucks (although Guadalajara has one). But you will find a grocery store, a drug store, several small clothing outlets and an electronics store. As well as several ice cream shops.
Tequila also has a number of dining options, from the street vendors who serve up tortillas with meat or pork, or who cook corn on the cob on small grills, to several restaurants offering up classic Mexican cuisine everything from carne asada to tacos and enchiladas. Margaritas are on every menu. (One note: Because Mexicans eat their main meal in the late afternoon, you re not likely to find many restaurants open for an evening or late-night meal.) You can find plenty of liquor stores, including those selling tequila in large plastic bottles with no labels presumably for customers whose palates don t know the good stuff from the swill. If you walk by, expect to be invited inside for a good deal on Cuervo or Sauza. But you re better off buying from the factory, where prices are usually lower.
My advice: If the weather is nice and you ve been tasting tequila all day, buy some ice cream and find a bench on the plaza. You can watch kids playing and people deep in conversation. By 8 or 9, things fall to a low buzz. Getting more from a visit, though, is difficult. The tourism office s Lopez said he hopes the town will develop some eco-tourism or adventure tourism alternatives to attract a wider audience. But right now, the mayor is preoccupied with convincing residents that some trees and flowers will make the streets nicer. Whatever else it does, Tequila may need more than just factory tours to grow as a destination.
"I don t think you can stop progress," said Sergio Gonzalez, who owns a small restaurant in town and is developing his own tequila brand with his family. "There s a lot of good things and bad things that come with tourism, but I ve seen small towns grow and grow because of it. "We need it here. It will be good for us."
IF YOU GO ATTRACTIONS: Mundo Cuervo, 75 Jose Cuervo, is a must-see simply because of the size of the Cuervo tequila operation. Tours are offered every Monday through Saturday, on the hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Information: www.mundocuervo.com (click on Location, then on Tour). If you can finagle a visit to Los Abuelos, a short walk from downtown, it s worth a visit. The brand was started in 1999 by Guillermo Erickson Sauza, a fifth-generation Sauza, who uses traditional tequila-making methods in his small distillery, named La Fortaleza. Contact them by e-mail at abuelo@losabue los.com and ask about a visit. Other recommended stops include the Museo Nacional de Tequila, 34 Ramon Corona, and the Sauza Museum, on the zocalo at 22 Albino Rojas. You can visit both places for about $2. The museum is a collection of photos, artwork, tools and tequila bottles as art. The Sauza Museum has several rooms of photos, art and mementos and is still operated by a family member, although the distillery was sold in 1988.
LODGING: The best thing about the Hotel Plaza Jardin is that it s centrally located in the town square, just a block from the Jose Cuervo factory tour. The next best thing: It s cheap, about $20 a night for one person. The rooms are basic but clean, and the neighborhood is quiet despite its location. Located at 13 Jose Cuervo, www.hotelplazajardin.com.
DINING: Cholula, at 55 Ramon Corona, across the street from the Cuervo factory, and Real Marinero, 92 Benito Juárez, one block off the zocalo, both serve popular Mexican dishes, including tacos, carne asada and ceviche. My favorite breakfast stop was Los Agaves, 13 Jose Cuervo, off the Hotel Plaza Jardin lobby; it serves eggs, bacon, ham and chilaquiles. | <urn:uuid:db63191a-4f3b-4e52-ba95-4eade0ca1eb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greatescapes.com/ci_4638218?source=most_viewed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957186 | 2,219 | 1.617188 | 2 |
April 15, 2010.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has vast knowledge and experience combating sex abuse after it dealt with the abuse crisis in 2001.
Now, to mark National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the conference is offering 10 points to help protect children against clerical sexual abuse.
Teresa Kettelcamp, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretariat for Children and Young People, has published the points on the internet.
Point 1: The victim must be the primary person of concern.
Point 2: No one has the right to be around children without proper screening or without following rules.
Point 3: Boundaries must be clearly stated; one cannot presume people know them.
Point 4: Sexual abuse can be prevented by guardians, background checks, policies, safety training programs and codes of conduct.
Point 5: The residual effect of having been abused can last a lifetime.
Point 6: Relief from hurt and anger often comes from feeling heard.
Point 7: You cannot always predict who will be an abuser.
Point 8: There are behavioral warning signs of child abusers. Some abusers isolate potential victims with lavish gifts or allow them to participate in activities their parents would disapprove of.
Point 9: People can be taught to identify grooming behavior. These are actions taken by abusers to project the image they are kind while their intent is to engage in inappropriate behavior with a minor.
Point 10: Background checks scare off some predators and uncover past actions which should ban an adult from working with children.
Reexamining and publicizing efforts for child protection have been a priority of the Church since 2002, when the U.S. bishops adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, in response to clergy abuse of children.
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Beware: Blogs can be legal minefields
Legal blogs can create ethical gray areas for lawyers. An expert panel discussed some of the problems blogs present and potential solutions in the ABA CLE “Is Your Legal Blog Compliant? Ethical Considerations in the Wake of Hunter v. Virginia State Bar.”
Hunter v. Virginia State Bar (2011) has brought the subject of legal blogs to the forefront. The case is “the first time in which a legal blog has been challenged under the Rules of Professional Conduct in relation to advertising restrictions,” says Micah Buchdahl, president of the law marketing consultancy HTMLawyers.
The lawsuit involves Horace Hunter, of Hunter & Lipton, who maintains a blog on his firm’s website. Hunter blogs about news that is critical to the criminal-justice system and noteworthy cases his firm has won.
Exercise caution with client testimonials. Some states prohibit them; others allow them but require disclosures.
“I received a letter from the ethics counsel of the Virginia State Bar saying that I was advertising cumulative case results, and I needed to have a disclaimer on my blog,” Hunter says. The disclaimer needed to say that “case results depend on a variety of factors unique to each case, and case results do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any further case undertaken by the lawyer.”
Hunter responded by saying that the blog was not an advertisement and that the bar should closely look at its content. “The basis of our argument is simple,” he says. “Despite the fact that there are clear marketing purposes to writing a blog, the problem is that the content of the blog on its face is pure political speech. It’s not commercial speech, and the Virginia State Bar cannot regulate it.” But the bar took the position that his blog is “still self-publicity — you’re still marketing yourself,” Hunter says.
A three-judge panel heard Hunter’s case in the Portsmouth Circuit Court in Virginia and upheld the determination that Hunter violated Virginia State Bar Rule 7.1 and Rule 7.2 regarding communication about a lawyer’s services and advertising by not having a disclaimer. The panel overturned the finding that he violated Rule 1.6, which governs confidentiality of client information, with his blog posts.
“The key to this decision is that the information the lawyer blogged about was publicly available information,” American Bar Association staff counsel Will Hornsby wrote at The Boundaries of Legal Marketing. Hornsby also notes that Virginia’s Rule 1.6 standard varies from ABA’s Model Rule 1.6 — and other states’ counterparts to this rule — which says “a lawyer shall not reveal information relating to the representation of a client” without the client’s informed consent.
“Seemingly, ‘information relating to the representation’ is far broader than ‘secrets and confidences’ in the marketing arena,” Hornsby wrote. “So, folks should be cautious about giving weight to the Hunter outcome. It is quite possible, if not likely, the decision would have been different in a Model Rule state.”
Ultimately, the Hunter case points to the importance of law firms exercising caution with blogs. Before creating a blog, do your homework, says Molly DiBianca, an associate with Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor. “You have to be knowledgeable if you’re going to start a blog,” DiBianca says. “I would not do that until you’ve been reading them fiercely and religiously for months at a clip.”
Remember that a blog is a website, and a website falls under the Rules of Professional Conduct as they refer to advertising and marketing issues, Buchdahl of HTMLawyers says. “States go onto websites and blogs and do keyword searches for no-no words and find every example of those on various pages,” he says. “Look and make sure you’re not utilizing language in a way that violates the rules, using words such as ‘expertise’ or ‘specialization.’”
Unlike Hunter, DiBianca has avoided discussing clients’ cases on her blog. “How do you know what you’re writing is based purely on the case and not what you’ve learned elsewhere? I don’t want to upset my clients,” she says. “My clients don’t want to focus on, highlight or live with the cases against them.
“If you’re going to be as risk-averse as possible, you should not blog about client cases you’ve handled because of the possible risk that you could disclose [sensitive] information.”
Also, use care with client testimonials. “States are all over the map on that,” says Thomas Spahn, a partner with McGuireWoods. “Some prohibit them; some allow them but require disclaimers. Consult your state rules on testimonials.”
The Hunter case will now go to the Virginia Supreme Court, where the issues will again be briefed and argued.
This CLE was sponsored by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division (fomerly known as the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division), the Young Lawyers Division, and the Center for Professional Responsibility.
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Mar. 29, 2002 In an advance that might do for television and computers what the transistor did for electronics, a research team at the University of California in Los Angeles has devised a means of directing the molecular action of crystalline materials with properties of both solids and liquids. It means consumers, in less than a decade, might be able sit back and revel in solid-looking images that literally project out from a television-like device. That’s not to mention the light-driven computer that could work maybe a million times faster or store a billion times more data.
The advance is reported in the March 13 print issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.
The research raises the prospect that information and images revealed by light passing through these crystalline materials could achieve virtually any shape, or a series of shapes one right after another, and very rapidly. Parts of the crystals can be brightened, darkened or change colors nearly instantly, in billionths of a second, in the presence of electric and magnetic fields that control the three-dimensional shaping.
“We realized this could be a technological breakthrough. There are no examples that I know of of solids made to behave in this way,” says project leader Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Ph.D., a professor in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “Although there are many scientists designing novel electro-optic materials, as far as we know, we are the only ones pursuing this line of work. The possible applications could be quite important — and there are probably ones we haven’t thought of.”
In addition to the possibility of 3-D TV, the solid-crystal molecules could act as ultrafast switches in optical computers. Stacked in a cube several inches high, they could provide unprecedented storage potential, perhaps many billion times that of current devices. Speed of access would prove dramatically faster than is possible with current computer designs.
The crystalline materials could be eventually produced in bulk, similar in form to large plastic blocks. As more is learned, researchers expect to reduce costs and improve manufacturing efficiencies. The UCLA team is making rapid progress, Garcia-Garibay says, and holds out the prospect that commercial versions of the crystalline molecules could be available in a few years.
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Ending his April 5th House floor presentation of the largest proposed cutback of government spending in history, Congressman Paul Ryan declared, “It is now up to all of us to keep America exceptional.” It was the third time Ryan invoked American exceptionalism in his speech. The idea of exceptionalism has surfaced with some energy recently. President Obama, for example, was chastised for not thinking of America as exceptional and he seemed later to take pains to claim that he, too, believes it is exceptional. Exceptionalism has (again) become a buzzword. (A conservative columnist even cited my book as proof that a liberal sociologist acknowledges America’s exceptionalism.)
There are at least two different ways the term exceptionalism is used and it is worth sorting those out. Congressman Ryan’s use of the term is quite appropriate and worth close attention. The exceptionalism he means may, however, go deeper than he imagines.
“Exceptional” can mean the very best; we’d love our kids to have teachers describe them as exceptional students. And that is the way some people on the right mean that American is exceptional. When Fox News’s Sean Hannity says, “The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth,” that’s his way of saying it is exceptionally super. This sense of exceptional as meaning superior has led many academics on the left to disparage studies of American exceptionalism. To them it seems like chest-pounding rather than scholarship and they’d like to bury the term.
But that criticism does not apply to serious researchers who have studied American exceptionalism. Eminent social scientists, such as the late, great sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, in his book, American Exceptionalism: The Double Edged Sword, mean exceptional as “unusual” or a “rare instance.” And that the United States is. On many dimensions, it is notably distinct from other western nations. Not all of those sorts of exceptionalisms are, however, “greatest, best.”
Of course, we aren’t exceptional in everything. We are not exceptionally diverse (any more, at least). Other western nations have plenty of “people of color”; for example, the U.S. is about seventh among western nations in the proportion of residents who are immigrants. And we are not exceptionally rich. By one analysis, average Americans’ purchasing power ranks below that of three other countries. And we are not – or at least haven’t been for generations – a more socially mobile society; the chances that a child of working-class parents can grow up to be middle class (or vice-versa) are about the same here as in Europe.
But we are exceptional in strikingly many other ways. For example, compared to other westerners, Americans tend to be highly religious in belief, piety, and behavior. (To be more exact, the United States is up with Italy and Ireland as the most religious western countries. So, for a predominantly Protestant country, it is exceptionally religious.) Americans also tend to be exceptionally familistic – devoted to marriage, high birth rates, strong on “family values” – compared to other westerners.
United States is unfortunately also exceptional among western nations in having high rates of homicides and interpersonal violence. And it is exceptionally unequal economically and has an exceptionally high proportion of children living in poverty. (Some people suggest, in a stage whisper, that American distinctiveness in these regards is due to our minorities. That is incorrect; among whites alone, the United States remains distinctive in these ways.)
For some scholars, American exceptionalism entails being somehow outside of the normal laws of history. Industrialization should, European history suggests, lead to workers’ movements and a fully-developed welfare state. Yet, here, in one of the most industrialized societies in the world, we have an exceptionally weak workers’ movement and a thin welfare state. (See this previous post.)
Indeed, Americans are exceptionally hostile to government action and exceptionally supportive of “free enterprise.” To be sure, Americans have set aside these laissez-faire beliefs when hard circumstances dictated a change. So, we have become firmly attached to Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, and the like, even though these are “welfare state” programs. (Some observers consequently label Americans as philosophically conservative but pragmatically liberal.) Still, Americans’ exceptional ideological stance has its consequences; it, for example, provides some of the wind behind the recent conservative resurgence.
This brings us back to Paul Ryan and to his specific version of American exceptionalism.
Ryan said that his deficit plan “affirms our cherished ideals of individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship and self-reliance. These are the ideals that have cultivated the exceptional American character . . . “ Ryan is essentially right; these are central American ideals. But the exceptionalism goes even deeper.
Americans, more than other westerners (and westerners more than other people), strongly believe that individual will determines the shape of the world and that individuals are the captains of their own fates. (A recent examination of how distinctive this view is can be found here.) Americans exceptionally think that self-determination is how life actually works as well as how it ought to work. What logically follows, then, are the kinds of political positions Ryan espouses – less regulation, less government, less interference in markets — albeit occasionally compromised, as I said before, by circumstances.
This world-view has much to recommend it. People who think they control their fates are likelier to try and do so; they have a “can-do” attitude. But this world-view also leads people to blame themselves if things go wrong and, especially, to blame other people if their lives go wrong. So, for example, Americans are exceptionally likely to say that poor people are poor because of their own faults rather than because of circumstances.
For most historians and social scientists, this hyper emphasis on self-determination, whatever its benefits, is short on reality. The current deep recession shows us, to take a recent example, that young people with skill and will (possessing the same talents and determination as young people of the booming 1990s did) are struggling to find jobs and start careers. The slow start they are getting today will hamper them for decades, a penalty they pay for being born in the wrong year. Similarly, good, hard-working employees have lost their jobs not because of decisions they made, but because of decisions that bankers on Wall Street or factory owners in China made. Many average Americans who have long held to the self-reliance ideology have found this turn of events bewildering.
So, Ryan is right when he describes the ideals that seem to make America exceptional. But they are more than ideals — the wish that everyone could have liberty, opportunity, be entrepreneurs, and be self-reliant. The exceptionalism is also in how Americans understand the way world really works. And when the world that exists is not the world we wish — when, for example, economic as well as natural tsunamis wipe people out; when markets are manipulated; when bad luck strikes — wishing that we were all captains of our fates does not make circumstances go away. And wishing can get in the way of dealing with real problems.
(This column was re-posted on The Berkeley Blog on April 21, 2011.)
Addendum (December 7, 2012)
My colleague at Berkeley, Jerome Karabel, wrote a blog post for the Huffington Post, in which he made these relevant points about American Exceptionalism:
But the concept — if not the term — has deep roots in American history. From John Winthrop’s 1630 oration, in which he referred to the new community he was founding in America as a “city upon a hill,” to Lincoln’s description of the United States, as “the last best hope of earth,” the idea of America as a great nation with a unique mission has resonated widely. But what is new in recent years is that public expressions of belief in “American exceptionalism” — which has come to mean in popular parlance that the United States is not only different from, but superior to, other countries — has become something of a required civic ritual for American politicians. This new definition of American exceptionalism has coincided with an extraordinary increase in public discussion of the term, with references in print media increasing from two in 1980 to a stunning 2,580 this year through November ….
What might be called the “U.S. as Number One” version of “American exceptionalism” enjoys broad popular support among the public. According to a Gallup poll from December 2010, 80 percent of Americans agree that “because of the United States’ history and its Constitution … the United States has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world.” Support for this proposition varied somewhat along party lines, but not by much: 91 percent of Republicans agreed, but so, too, did 73 percent of Democrats. | <urn:uuid:ddaed553-c92c-4a15-a96d-af84f9667b86> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://madeinamericathebook.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/american-exceptionalism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961794 | 1,912 | 2.609375 | 3 |
This seems to be an interesting and ambiguous topic.
On one hand, the collagen as any other protein is cleaved into small-sized chunks (oligopeptides) and single aminoacids before absorption. The chunks of proteins which were not completely digested before absorption are broken up further in the body and cannot be selectively used for collagen re-building in the body. Therefore, there should be no difference between the collagen of different types and, basically, no difference between the supplements containing collagen and just a mixture of aminoacids. This also explains the fact why collagen supplement is in most cases taken in the lysate (pre-cleaved) form.
On the other hand, a quick search in PubMed and I found an interesting article on the topic (source), where the authors claim:
At 6 months, the proportion of clinical responders to the treatment,
according to VAS scores, was significantly higher in the collagen
hydrolysate (CH) group 51.6%, compared to the placebo group 36.5%
This study suggests that collagen hydrolysate 1200 mg/day could
increase the number of clinical responders (i.e. improvement of at
least 20% on the VAS) compared to placebo. More studies are needed to
confirm the clinical interest of this food supplement.
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It’s been humbling to see the hunger – the pure courage – citizens living under repressive regimes have demonstrated to claim the basic right of free and fair elections.
And it’s troubling to contrast that passion with the stilted complacency which sometimes develops, where liberty is taken for granted.
I happen to be a dual-national, entitled to vote in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. campaign cycle seems way too long and far too expensive. But it can generate a sense of excitement, at least in recent elections. Something that seems largely missing in Canada of late.
I keep wondering when and how might that change? Why should Egyptians have all the passion, when we enjoy those rights practically on a silver platter?
“The media” is often part of the problem, treating elections like horse races or simply repeating whatever the candidates say. Regular folks reasonably want to know: Can’t reporters ask harder questions? Blow the whistle on distortions or fabrications? Highlight issues that matter, not just the ones that look sexy or scandalous?
Canada has a Federal election May 2nd, so there isn’t much time to generate more meaningful, dynamic electoral participation between now and then. But there’s a real need for that.
The Toronto Star’s Carol Goar tackles this topic in her op-ed “How Canadian voters became election pawns”
It’s a good read, for either side of the border. First, a few details of the problem here in Canada:
…pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research Associates provided a snapshot of the electorate now, using a survey of 984 randomly selected Canadians, conducted March 15-17.
• Sixty per cent of Canadians believe policy decisions should be based on reasoned debate. Seventeen per cent think they are.
• Sixty-nine per cent agree with the statement: “It really bothers me that hard scientific evidence isn’t shaping public policy to the degree that it should.” Fifty-five per cent think the situation is self-correcting.
• Seventy-five per cent think average citizens should have the most influence in defining Canadian policy. Twenty-six per cent think they do.
His conclusion: A “vivid gap” exists between the public view of how things should work and what actually happens.
I’d guess a survey of U.S. voters might come back with similar dispiriting results. The column goes on to postulate how that could change.
Once Canadians grasp the power they have at their fingertips through the social media, they’ll start linking up with people who share their goals, building coalitions, spreading their message and demanding change, the optimists predicted.
As a Luddite (who doesn’t have a smart phone, Twitter or Facebook account) I’m not crazy about putting all hope in social media. But, however it comes about, I do want to see more engagement, more passion – more appreciation for the blessed, enviable right to shape our own destiny. And I don’t see much of that on display under the status quo.
We can do better. We have to do better. Democracy is too precious to take for granted. Or to be left to politicians and reporters!
Do you have ideas about how to make democracy more meaningful or press coverage more constructive?
Is social media the only new path forward?
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Black Cultrural Center (BCC)
The Black Cultural Center provides purposeful, holistic, scholarly and co-curricular programming designed to enhance the understanding of the African American heritage. It enhances the academic, cultural and social development of the entire Purdue community. The center was established in 1969, as a place where the African American Experience in American could be explored, celebrated and shared. It stands today as a visible representation of the university's commitment to cultural diversity. The nationally recognized center houses a library, an art collection and the BCC ensembles. The performing ensembles include the Black Voices of Inspiration, the Haraka Writers, Jahari Dance Troupe, and the New Directional Players. The BCC sponsors a Cultural Arts Series featuring prominent scholars and performing artists. Educational tours of the facility are also available for students and community members.
Latino Cultural Center (LCC)
The Latino Cultural Center exists to provide the community awareness of the regional diversity of peoples, landscape, and cultures within the Latino Community. The LCC also strives to build a community for Latino/a Boilermakers and alumni to share their ideas and experiences to promote cultural awareness to the Purdue University campus and beyond. The center was established by students in 2003 as a place for them to learn, share and support Latino/Latina Culture. The LCC seeks to promote diversity and awareness through education and programming within its 15 Latino-based organization; through its volunteer program - Embajadores; and within its facility. The Latino based organizations serve as a support network for students while at Purdue and beyond. Embajadores, the LCC service-learning organization, incorporates leadership through its five committees: Recreation and Health; Community Outreach; Culture and Arts; Social Justice; and El Pulso, the student-led newsletter.
Native American Educational and Cultural Center (NAECC)
The Native American Educational and Cultural Center at Purdue University represent the culmination of student, faculty, and administrative staff commitment to fostering a culturally diverse and intellectually inclusive campus environment. As the physical realization of the Tecumseh Project’s specific Native American student recruitment and retention objectives, the newly established NAECC seeks to provide Native American students personal and professional enrichment opportunities in a culturally-appropriate fashion and to serve as a “second home” for current and prospective Native American students. Moreover, the NAECC’s intended inclusion of Native American tribal communities and non-Native Purdue students, faculty, and staff into campus educational, cultural, and research programs will foster an environment of mutual accountability and respect that is vital to crafting cross-cultural relationships and to enhancing campus diversity.
Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Indiana project is a collaboration among of eight universities in the state of Indiana. The goal of the project is to significantly increase the quality and quantity of minority graduates in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines over the ten-years of the project. The over-arching goal is to increase the learning and success of students in STEM disciplines while targeting students that are traditionally underrepresented in these degree areas. Each member of the alliance provides undergraduate research, student success and professional development programs to support student advancement to increase student retention in STEM disciplines.
Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education & Professoriate (AGEP)
Recruiting: Linkages and partnerships with the Indiana LSAMP (based at Purdue), regional undergraduate institutions, and predominantly minority serving institutions nationwide are being developed and enhanced; off- campus visits by AGEP faculty, staff, and students are being organized to disseminate information on graduate school opportunities at Purdue, IU, and Northwestern; and undergraduate summer research programs for graduate school recruitment are being coordinated and expanded.
Retention: Minority student organizations are being utilized to ensure that incoming graduate students have an instant peer network; a network of AGEP professors who are committed to graduating minority Ph.D. students have been developed; selective jump-start summer transition experiences to acclimate new students academically to graduate school are being implemented; and organized group study models have been developed and expanded.
Enrichment: Several student enrichment sessions were organized at the Crossroads Conference, a joint venture between AGEP and the Indiana LSAMP programs; college pedagogy courses and seminars and Preparing Future Faculty programs will be reorganized, marketed, and promoted on each campus; the Midwest Crossroads AGEP will keep current and leverage the faculty preparation activities of GEM and the National Preparing Future Faculty organization to maintain awareness of best practices and innovation in faculty preparation; and postdoctoral partnerships with will be developed with U.S. National Laboratories to provide exposure and prepare graduates for faculty positions.
The Midwest Crossroads AGEP collaboration partners three Midwest Ph.D. granting institutions with six Midwest partner Universities, LSAMP Indiana, and several national institutions serving URM STEM populations. The goal of the project is to triple the number of minority Ph.D. graduates in the Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology disciplines by 2009. The alliance has developed and has started implementation of a strategic plan to increase enrollment, improve retention, and prepare and encourage students to enter the academy. The key programs of the alliance address:
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Similar to the “stop, drop and roll” during a fire drill, Kentuckians are encouraged to “drop, cover and hold on” today as part of a region-wide effort to rehearse what to do in the event of an earthquake.
The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut is an annual earthquake drill organized by the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium, which covers Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, according to the release.
The drill is observed at 11:15 a.m. EST, according to Kentucky Emergency Management. There is not a siren to warn participants, who are instructed to drop to the ground, take cover under a desk and hold on as if an earthquake were occurring.
Today marks the 201st anniversary of the last in a series of major earthquakes in 1811-1812 near the New Madrid fault. The seismic activity devastated much of the central United States, including parts of Kentucky.
Doug Finlay, deputy director of Hardin County Emergency Management, said the drill mainly is directed toward schools. KEM has sent information to all schools in the state encouraging them to participate.
According to the event’s website, 523,275 participants have registered in Kentucky. Of those, 490,968 are affiliated with K-12 schools and districts, which accounts for nearly 94 percent of participants.
John Wright, spokesman for Hardin County Schools, said policy requires the district to conduct earthquake drills at the beginning of the school year and again in March. According to Wright, HCS is encouraging its principals to participate in today’s drill, which would replace the drill in March.
Finlay and Wright said earthquakes cannot be forecasted, so it is best to be prepared.
“Anything we can do to protect the kids, we’re going to do it,” Wright said.
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The line can be traced back to Sebastian Van Kortrijk whose family was from the Flemish town of Kortrijk on the Lys. He and his family were refuges of the religious upheavals in Europe and in the early 1600s, he left that area and moved to Holland. He took up residence in Leerdam.
There were seventeen provinces in the Netherlands and these contained the present countries of Holland and Belgium. That whole country had been made part of France during the rule of Charlemagne (767-814), but in the fifteenth century it came under Spanish rule. Charles V. became king of Spain in 1516, and finding many adherents to Martin Luther's reformed faith, he became determined to crush out Protestantism. Thus became a time of great religious persecution in the Netherlands. Under Philip, who succeeded his father, Charles in 1555, things became even worse. By the early 1600s, Holland had became an asylum for the persecuted of many lands.
Two sons were born to Sebastian during his time in Leerdam, Jan and Michiel. Family names were the exception among the early Dutch ancestors. Most often the father's first was affixed with sen (meaning son) and used as a surname. So the two became known as Jan and Michiel Bastiensen Van Kortryk.
Michiel, my ancester married and settled at Schoonrewoed, a village about two miles north of Leerdam, in South Holland. There he had four children, Reyer, born in 1653, Metje in 1655, Annetje in 1658 and Bastien in 1662. Another daughter, Alfjie, was born shortly after the family arrived in the New Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Jan had also married had had four children.
With the development of the West India Company, whose main purpose was the expand trade and colonization of America, the Dutch people began to emigrate. The new world promised so much in material gain and religious freedom.
On 16 April 16 1663, Michiel and his brother Jan departed for New Amsterdam, in present day New York, on the "Spotted Cow". Each brought their wife and four children. The Bastiensens came as free men not indebted to the Dutch West India Company for their passage.
Reyer Michielsen/Michelsen was born in 1653 in Leerdam, Holland. He married Jacomia Tiebout on 15 April 1686 in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York. Reyer and Jacomia had eight children, Michiel, Hendrick, Sarah, Tunis, Ryer, Hannah, Mary and Jane. Some of these children followed the Dutch custom and took their father's name with sen attached and became known as Reyersen or Ryerson. Two continued their father's surname and became Michielsen or Michiels. Reyer died in 1733 in Fordham, in what is now New York.
Hendrick Michelsen, my ancestor, was born about 1705 at Fordham Manor in New York. He married Jane and had three sons, John, Hendrick and Michael. He probably lived his entire life there.
John MeKeel was born about 1730. He married Martha Haight about 1749. He was a member of the Westchester County Militia. Joseph and Martha had four children - Joseph, Mary, Nathaniel and John McKeel.
Joseph MeKeel/McKeel was born about 1750. He was a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War, fighting on the side of the English. When the war was over he and his family fled to New Brunswick, Canada. On November 1, 1785 he was granted 200 acres at Long Reach, King's County, New Brunswick, for service to England during the war. He married Anna Burtis and had 6 children, Joseph, John, Isaac, Sarah, James and Mary McKeel.
Joseph McKeel was born about 1800 in New Brunswick, Canada. He married Ann Margaret Lounder on 15 October 1823 in Greenwich, New Brunswick, Canada. They had 7 children, James, Eleanor, Mary, John, Joseph, Sarah and Eliza McKeel.
Eliza Eva McKeel was born on 3 October 1839 and, according to the records of the Greenwich and Westfield Anglican Church, was baptized on 16 March 1840. Eliza had two children born out of wedlock, Melvin and George Byron McKiel, before marrying Jacob VanWart and having 5 more children. Eliza and Jacob's children were Miles, Mahala, Rosie May, Joseph and Frederick VanWart. Eliza died on 6 August 1916 in New Brunswick, Canada.
George Bryon and his brother Melvin
George Byron McKiel was born 31 March 1868 in New Brunswick, Canada. He went by the name of Byron. He married Sarah Jemima Craft on 3 November 1892 in Belyea's Cove, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada. The wedding was noted in the St. John's "Messenger and Visitor". Sarah was known as Sadie. They had 6 children, Alice Maude, Robert Craft, Olive May, Gracie Irene, Harry Redvers and Charles Loran McKiel. Bryon died on 23 November 1925.
Harry Redvers McKiel was born 30 July 1900 in New Brunswick, Canada. He married Elise Marie Robinson on 29 October 1924 in St. John's Parish, St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada.
Harry and Elsie moved from Canada to Albion, Maine. They bought a farm there from Fred Hussey who had married Harry's sister Olive May. There they had a dairy and potato farm. They had five children, four girls and my father.
My dad and his father Harry McKiel
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Obama's economic policies have created a nation of jobless citizens dependent on government handouts
(NaturalNews) It's no secret that the U.S. national debt is poised to increase by more than $6 trillion during President Obama's first four years in office. All of this additional spending, he has often said, was needed to "stimulate the economy", curtail unemployment and get Americans moving forward again.
Only, the oft-tried Keynesian strategy of profligate government spending as a way to spur a capitalist economy has not only failed miserably, which was predictable, but it has created a class of Americans who subsist nearly entirely on government largess.
GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have hit on this as part of their campaign strategy. Romney has said "over the past three years, Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an entitlement society". Gingrich has labeled Obama "the best food-stamp president in American history."
Given, the country was headed down Entitlement Lane long before Obama took office. Social Security is regarded as an untouchable "Fourth Rail" of government; Medicare and Medicaid consume a huge portion of the budget every year, and policies all three line items are expected to gobble up every cent by mid-century.
But there is no doubt that Obama has accelerated the problem, adding more red ink in three years than George W. Bush did in eight and a host of presidents did before those two combined. In particular, under Obama, direct federal payments skyrocketed by 32 percent, or $600 billion, and those payments are expected to rise another $500 billion by 2016. When combined they would account for fully two-thirds of the entire federal budget.
In 1983, less than one-third of Americans were government beneficiaries. When Obama took office, that number had risen to 44 percent; now it's at 49 percent, according to the Census Bureau.
The GOP candidates are making the case that Obama is the "food stamp president." They are right. In 2012, 45 million Americans (fully 15 percent) will have to rely, at least in part, on food stamps in order to make ends meet.
Then there is the issue of continual extensions of unemployment benefits. On the surface that seems like the "humane" thing to do, especially since Obama's policies haven't done much to lower the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate. More and more labor experts are beginning to believe that unemployment, in fact, pays better than having a job, and that endless benefits are actually discouraging millions of Americans from even looking for work.
"Somebody who's been on unemployment for a very extended time, and this is not everybody, if you get on unemployment and get used to it, will say 'I'm not looking for anything right now but will when my benefits are about to run out,'" says Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler. He bases his observation on what labor department managers around the state tell him: that benefit recipients tend to get a bit more enthusiastic about finding a job when their benefits are close to running out.
Such benefits are "supposed to help you get by until you can get a replacement job. Its intent is not to be a replacement income," says Butler.
The worst part about a federal benefit is that once it begins, it's atrociously hard to get rid of - as evidenced by the perpetual congressional renewals of successive unemployment benefits (now 99 weeks or better).
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Classic Audio Gear and Classic Audio Stores
You ask some time ago about our favorite classic gear. This, recently, sparked a discussion between my brother and me regarding our old gear and the stores we bought them from.
We decided that our first step into the modern world was in 1958 or so, when, using our father’s Bell and Howell 8mm projector we bought a 5 minute film of “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.” It was silent with sub-titles, but that showed that we were early adapters of Home Theater.
After WWII (which was way before my time), houses and apartments were wired for not just electricity, but telephones. This caused a new marketing sensation, at least in New York: Appliance stores. There and in the department stores like Macy’s, people bought their music players. Stereo came in about the mid 1950s, and I remember people getting stereo record players and large FM units that often had Short Wave radio in them too. They got records that played, in stereo, ping pong games and trains coming in and out of stations.
Stereo magazines were not “in” yet and everyone we knew used Consumer Reports as their source for good equipment.
We don’t think of Hi Fi stores as appliance store, but they really are specialized ones. I remember them opening in the early 1960s. Most did not have TV or any video stuff in them, although many appliance stores were loaded with TVs.
Buying TV sets then was also buying furniture. Our first was a Dumont TV/Radio/phono combination that came in a big and beautiful finished wooden cabinet. as so many did. They were living room furniture. That lasted throughout the 1950s. Our family had then inexpensive separate radios and an Emerson Record Player that cost $40 in 1963. Stereos has names like “General Electric,” “Westinghouse,” and “RCA.” Sony was beginning to introduce very small TV’s that could be watched playing them on your stomach.
Our first foray into stereo came from a store called Lafayette. Lafayette was store similar to Radio Shack but had its own brands. My brother bought, in 1965 or so, A Lafayette receiver, Criterion speakers and a Gerard 55 (?) Turntable. We think that the needle was a Shure V19 or V91. Lafayette and Radio Shack also sold something we don’t think of anymore, replacement needles for record players. That was a big thing then. Lafayette did a great mail order and we always got their oversized catalog. This was the first time I heard real bass coming from a system, hot socks!
By then Audio stores like Harvey’s and Stereo Exchange began to flourish. As with Lafayette, they offered substantial discounts when you bought a complete system, more on that later.
At Harvey’s in 1969 or so my brother upgraded his system and got a Pioneer 707 (which, as I recall was made in England, not Japan); Dual 1212 Turntable and electrostatic speakers, whose name we forget.
My brother moved out and took his stereo with him!!!! I went to Harvey’s in 1971 and bought a Sansui receiver, a Dual 1215 (?) turntable and ADVENT speakers which were great. The system cost $400.
In the 1970s, NY still had the “fair trade” was passed during the depression. This meant that the manufacturer could set the lowest retail price for an item and there could be no competition. An electronics story, with TVs but no major stereos, opened called JGE (So what’s the story, Jerry?) and tied to defeat this. They offered lower prices, but you needed a union card.
In 1978 or so I wanted a more powerful system, and went to another store, in Brooklyn that was trying to beat this law too. It was a small mid fi place that had just one store, Crazy Eddies. His prices were not yet insane. And he did not yet have video! I bought there a Dynaco Preamp (PAT-5); a Dynaco two channel amp and Electrosomething speakers. The sound was incredible! I kept my turntable, but wanted a 1975 ADC Accutrac 4000 Turntable that, in an era before CD, you could choose your tracks!
Not soon enough to save JGE, the free trade laws were both thrown out and repealed and the competition was on. And stereo stores seemed to thrive, but Lafayette went under. But you could now buy electronics at below the msrp.
Stores offered manuals and guides to buying and setting up stereos. I will try to post one here. If you want one, and I can't post it, please email me and I will; send it to you! I scanned and made it a PDF
Next I will tell the first time a stereo salesman insulted me! And the start of home theater with a Laser Disc player.
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‘The next time we want to import a horse to Russia,’ wrote Laura Brady, Second Secretary in our Moscow embassy, ‘it will be a doddle.’ I quote her story in an anthology of diplomatic writing, The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase, that the BBC’s Andrew Bryson and I have collected for the new book. Miss Brady was giving the Foreign Office an account of her efforts to collect a horse from Moscow’s station. The horse was a present to the Prime Minister, John Major, from the President of Turkmenistan, who had despatched the fierce Akhal-Teke warhorse by train accompanied by a wagon-load of melons to pay the Russian Railways. The point Brady is making is that after a hilarious few days learning her way through a maze of Russian red tape, veterinary bureaucracy and railway obstructivism (and shovelling manure), she now knows the ropes. She smiles that she’ll probably never need the knowledge again.
Well, next time we want to make marriage available to same-sex couples, it will be a doddle. It’s likely that in the year ahead this measure will reach the statute book. But between here and there stretches a painful political road. And it didn’t have to be like this.
In its essentials this legislation could have been so much more painlessly eased into law, with less offence given (and taken) on all sides. We who support the measure should have learned from history. History would teach two things in particular: that words are terribly important to people; and that issues of conscience and party politics don’t mix.
First to conscience. Infinitely the most important piece of homosexual reform legislation was the 1967 Act that decriminalised sex in private between consenting adult males. A Labour home secretary, the late Roy Jenkins, was responsible for the reform.
But Jenkins was canny. This was never government legislation and nor was it formally associated with Labour. Jenkins used the age-old ploy of giving governmental fair wind to a private member’s bill brought in by the late Leo Abse, and a group of supporters from all parties. There was never any question of a whip being applied, and though more support came from Labour, the bill attracted support and opposition in both parties; but passed easily on a free vote of the whole House. Nobody could complain it hadn’t been in their manifesto, or that the government had ‘more important things to do’ than this. Yet Jenkins did get the credit he deserved; and the reform burnished Labour’s reputation as a humane and forward-looking political movement.
We could have learned from this. David Cameron only offered his party a free vote after it became clear they’d take it anyway; it looked like a retreat. In last year’s conference speech when the Tory leader promised this measure, he should have said that he was personally convinced this was a change whose time had come; but it shouldn’t be a party matter, and the government’s role should be restricted to giving the House the chance to decide, by offering time to a private member’s bill — on whose passage he suggested all parties might allow a free vote.
Mr Cameron would still have been seen, as he deserves to be, as the man to thank; the arithmetic of subsequent divisions would scarcely have been affected; and nobody could have complained that the proposal had not been in the Tory manifesto; or wasn’t a priority, or the kind of thing Tories should do.
Now to the other and more serious mistake. As is proved by the obloquy heaped on ‘political correctness’ (the expression can hardly be uttered without a snarl) we’re allergic to being told what we must call things. Any measure that can be smeared as ‘Orwellian’ is off to a bad start. It isn’t in fact true that we’ve all always known what the word ‘marriage’ means; there have been tremendous shifts in its meaning over the centuries, and within modern multi-faith Britain, between the state and the established church, and even between our churches, there are fundamental disagreements about the institution’s demands and bonds. The meanings of words shift all the time, the shifts driven by the way people choose to talk: a sort of cultural democracy. But when politicians try to grab the lexicographic reins, we stop arguing among ourselves and turn on them. Both the pro- and the anti- ‘gay marriage’ brigades have wanted the state to lay down their own preferred definition of the word ‘marriage’, each (correctly) accusing the other of this ambition; and each (correctly) insisting that the other’s definition is unacceptable to many.
And the way through — the way to make it a doddle? Learn from South Africa, where years ago the state decided to withdraw from the dictionary business, leave the old names alone, and give a new title to the civil contract the state offers partners who want civic recognition for their union. South Africa named it civil union, and this is all the civil power offers: to same-sex or heterosexual couples. Of course most South Africans carry on calling it ‘marriage’ as they always have, and an increasing number are becoming easy with the idea that this can apply to same-sex couples too. Churches, meanwhile, remain free to apply their own definitions. Everybody is.
But nobody — not the state nor the church — is commandeering anybody else’s word. That’s surely right. If language is to change, and it will, it will change by a developing informal consensus. I recommended the South African compromise in the Times much earlier last year, to a deafening silence.
I’m unhesitatingly supporting gay marriage now because I know which side I’d rather be with. But I don’t want to force the word on anyone and because of my age and generation I will feel a bit awkward about its new use for the rest of my life. Not so, I predict, the younger generations and those to come.
But that’s up to them. Gay people, many of them, have been earning in their own lives the palpable change in cultural attitudes towards their partnerships. Neither they nor the Church of England should expect the dictionary to do it for them.
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Don't Even Think About Lying
fMRI is poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy. I'm in a lab at Columbia University, where scientists are using the technology to analyze the cognitive differences between truth and lies. By mapping the neural circuits behind deception, researchers are turning fMRI into a new kind of lie detector that's more probing and accurate than the polygraph, the standard lie-detection tool employed by law enforcement and intelligence agencies for nearly a century.
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Observations and Insights from the Geodesign Summit 2012
The first day of the GeoDesign Summit on the Esri campus in Redlands, California produced some pointed remarks about the "process" and "models" that define this evolving discipline. Collaboration seems to be the hallmark of geodesign whereby myriad stakeholders can see and interact with geospatial information and models.
Jack Dangermond, Esri: "At a distance, geodesign will be looked at as an evolutionary step for humans; we will realize the consequence of our human actions. Geodesign will be done by society but all of the information that will be available on the web...What is changing at the same time is technology; we're measuring more resulting in huge volumes of data, some call it big data. We're making this data available; computers are getting connecting; its affecting science and how we approach science. Design is becoming more collaborative and information driven; we're becoming more multidimensional, [more] interactive.
Doug Walker, president of CommunityViz: "A'll of this technology doesn't really matter to city planners unless it helps you to make good decision."
Jeff Volpe Michael R. Ross of Bergmann Associates, in showing a typical, vertical perspective of imagery and maps to a city official was asked by the official: "Who are we trying to impress with this, helicopter pilots?" Ross's recommendations were to:
- Continue to work to position geodesign as an essential way of the working in the initial conceptual design phase of a project
- Smooth the model development pathway
- Enhance the first-person experience with more ground level designs and maps
Carl Steinitz, professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Harvard University School of Design and considered the founder of the geodesign discipline said, "What if it was more true than false that we didn't know what we were doing?" Essentially, Steinitz was advocating a collaborative process and to challenge some of our basic assumptions of how to visualize and model geospatial information.
Braden Allenby, a professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering and Professor of Law, Arizona State University, speaking about the complexity of large systems such as the economy, biodiversity, water and others: "These Earth systems are difficult in themselves, but because they are foundational, they are coupled to each other, and to many others."
Similarly, Doug Olsen, president of O2 Planning + Design, spoke about the geodesign approaches to land use planning and urban watershed management. He is working to develop vulnerability and suitability plans based on inputs such as habitat, terrain, transportation, ecological structure and create a weighted average vulnerability map.
Tamara Manik-Perlman of Azavea discussed an R&D effort by her company to develop ways to offer citizens more input to community development efforts in what she calls "citizen science." She discussed how to develop a social impact score for replacing high density housing with a forest to allow citizens to see the balance of tradeoffs in the decision-making process.
Will McClintock of the University of California, Santa Barbara, discussed SeaSketch, a collaborate application for ocean planning. "We love and use the ocean more than ever; Human use of oceans has increased," said McClintock. "[We] need to engage more stakeholders in the process of how the environment is used ... Sometimes, the government and scientists get together and make decisions. However, they are not the only stakeholders and plans sometimes fail." He discussed how geodesign enables any potential stakeholders to sketch as they go along and learn as they go.
One of my take-aways as a first time attendee to the Summit, was that we don't have an information problem; we have an education problem because people in planning don't necessarily know what is possible with the types of information and technology that we have. The demo of Esri's CityEngine for visualizing and interacting with building models and 3D data was particularly interesting because of the ability to try different scenarios quickly.
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It was a Saturday noon in early March in 1995 in Lawrence, Kansas, when I said: "Let us give a warm welcome to Paul Zindel." At that moment everyone stood up and applauded for 30 or 45 seconds. The man went to the microphone with a very broad smile on his face and began to speak — a speech that lasted 55 minutes. By the time he was finished, the audience experienced a roller coaster ride: sometimes silent, sometimes laughing so hard they had tears in their eyes, but always enthralled with what they were hearing. Paul Zindel had come to the heartland — Lawrence, Kansas — and treated the 300 or so people in attendance as if they were special people. That was the man, Paul Zindel. He didn't need to come to the Conference on Writing and Literature in Lawrence, Kansas, but he did. That was the man, Paul Zindel. His presence commanded respect from all who were present, even those who were nationally known speakers also presenting at the Conference — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Tom Romano, and Sara Holbrook. All were experiencing a warm, thoughtful, and sometimes irreverent talk.
Young and old alike lost a giant of a man and a giant of a writer for young people. He certainly can be given the honor of "one of the founding fathers of young adult literature." To this day, The Pigman (1968) is still offered as curriculum reading in classrooms across the nation, as well as supplemental reading outside the curriculum. His writing left a legacy that will not soon be duplicated.
Paul said, when asked about writing:
I love a good story. I try to feel strongly about what I write. Better yet, I try to write about only those things that make me cry or laugh acutely. I try to be honest. I try to be daring and human. I trust my instincts. I ignore critics, usually. I believe the perfect story is a dream. I believe writing is a complex, problem-solving adventure — a process Nature has given to all of us.
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Vigil, a former district attorney's investigator, thinks the death penalty is a useful tool. In a 2007 case, Jose Luis Rubi-Nava confessed to killing his girlfriend in Douglas County by dragging her behind his car. The threat of the death penalty secured Rubi-Nava's plea, Vigil said."As soon as the death penalty became part of the equation, he pled guilty and got a life sentence," he said.But Vigil also was thinking about moral appeals he had heard, including from Archbishop Charles Chaput, the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in Colorado.Oh how wonderful! I hope Abp. Chaput, comfy and safe in his Episcopal lodgings, doesn't read the papers or doesn't have friends or family living in a less safe environment than his. If he read the Denver Post for example, he might find this intriguing statement demonstrating that imprisonment does not always protect victims from violent predators (thereby rendering capital punishment a morally legitimate punishment):
Attorney General John Suthers and district attorneys say the death penalty is key to discouraging the worst crimes. The threat of death is the only deterrent left for inmates sentenced to life in prison who might kill a guard or another inmate, Suthers said.
"If you don't have a death penalty, those are free murders," Suthers said. "There remains some crimes, some murders, that anything short of the death penalty is an inadequate societal response."
But the Archbishop doesn't have to work in a prison and interact with murderers who have absolutely no incentive not to attack or kill him. Or as a police officer trying to apprehend an escaped murderer. Or as a hospital worker tending to an incarcerated robber. Or perhaps he doesn't enjoy hiking, and so won't have to worry about a paroled murderer shooting him. But perhaps his Grace would like to put himself into the shoes of the least among us, and imagine himself an inmate in prison, accused by his cellmate of stealing the cellmate's breakfast, and then strangled to death for protesting his innocence.
Or Chaput might have bothered to look at just what kind of offenders receive a death sentence in Colorado and gotten back with us on how any of their cases do not reasonably reflect a judgment that incarceration would be insufficient to "render one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm." Unless it's now the American hierachy's position that their judgment on this issue of rendering offenders incapable of harm should be substituted in particular cases for that of the jury's, the trial court, and the appellate courts, who presumably know much more about the facts of the case and the background of the offender.
After all, isn't this the same Abp. Chaput who stated "in Catholic thought, war and capital punishment can be morally legitimate under certain carefully defined circumstances"?
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When a valuable book disappears from the public library, twins Becky and Toby are faced with solving a real life mystery.
Blume, Judy Freckle Juice
Can a magic potion cause freckles to appear?
Bulla, Clyde Robert The Chalk Box Kid
Gregory uses an unusual canvas for his artwork.
Bulla, Clyde Robert Shoeshine Girl
A summer job helps ten-year-old Sarah Ida grow up.
Catling, Patrick Skene The Chocolate Touch
Wouldn't it be wonderful if everything that touched your lips turned to chocolate?
Henry and his dog Ribsy have many exciting adventures.
Clements, Andrew Frindle
When a pen is renamed Frindle, a lesson in word origins becomes more than a one hour English class.
Clifford, Eth Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library
A blizzard traps two girls in the library until morning. Who knows what goes on there during the night?
Erickson, Russell E. A Toad for Tuesday
A toad captured on Thursday has until Tuesday to convince the owl not to eat him.
Estes, Eleanor The Hundred Dresses
Wanda lies about how many dresses she has when her classmates make fun of her.
Howe, James Bunnicula
Harold the dog and Chester the cat are horrified when a vampire bunny joins the family.
Kline, Suzy Herbie Jones
Herbie Jones and his friends experience the ups and downs of third grade.
Beginning of the series.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh
Marty Preston finds a dog that is obviously being abused. Must the animal be returned to its owner?
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Rockwell, Thomas How to Eat Fried Worms
If someone offered to pay you fifty dollars, could you eat fifteen worms?
Whelan, Gloria Next Spring an Oriole
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I am a complete newbie trying to learn this stuff. I actually have two questions;
1) I have been looking through a few of the recent threads and I have noticed some differences to my programming, (I'm using MicroSoft Visual Studio 6.0 by the way).
On this site's programs the header files are:-
On my programming I have to add .h to the header files. Why?Code:#include <iostream> #include <fstream>
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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Donald D. Palmer, Jr. of Ballwin, Missouri was elected Commander-in-Chief at the 130th National Encampment of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) in Reston, Virginia on 13 August 2011. In the 130-year history of the SUVCW, he is the first Missourian to be elected Commander-in-Chief.
Don claimed his right to membership through his great-great grandfather, Sylvester J. Alden, who served as a private in Co. D, 11th Iowa Infantry. He has also researched 14 other members of his family known to have served in the Union forces during the Civil War. Don’s interest in the Civil War began when, as a child, he was shown an old tin-type photo of his great-great grandfather in uniform as well as letters he wrote home to his wife. A number of these letters were written during Sherman’s march to the sea and the subsequent siege of Savannah, Georgia.
Don joined Ulysses S. Grant Camp #68 located in St. Louis, Missouri in December 1997. He served in a number of Camp offices, including Camp Commander in 2000. At the Department level, Don held a number of appointed and elected positions, eventually leading to three terms as Missouri Department Commander from 2001 to 2004. His involvement at the National level began during the 2003-2004 administrative year, serving as chairman of the GAR Post Records Committee. Since then, he has twice served as National Chief of Staff (2004-2005 and 2006-2007), one term as National Secretary (2007-2010), Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief (2010-2011) and most recently being elected as Commander-in-Chief. Don is also a member of the Sons of Veterans Reserve (SVR), holding a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in Co. A, 2nd Missouri Infantry and also serves as a private in the 1st Missouri Engineers. In addition to his activities associated with the SUVCW and SVR, Don is also active in the Allied Orders Central Region Association, having served as Secretary/Treasurer and as chairman of the Central Region By-Laws Committee. He has also served on the Inter-Veterans Memorial Day Committee for Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery and on the Board of Directors for the Missouri Civil War Museum project at Jefferson Barracks.
Don is the youngest child of Don Sr. and Lucy Palmer. He is a graduate of West High School in Waterloo, Iowa and attended college at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he received a B.S. degree in Physics and a M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He later received a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Don’s father, a Marine Corps veteran of World War II, taught him early on to learn and honor the family heritage. During his youth, he learned about the exploits of his 10th great-grandfathers……John Alden, who came to the new world aboard the Mayflower in 1620, and Nicholas Palmer, who was one of the founders of Windsor, the first English settlement in Connecticut in 1636. He would learn about his 5th great grandfather, Israel Alden, a resident of the Berkshires, who served in the Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution. In addition to his membership in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Don is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution (Spirit of St. Louis Chapter), Order of Founders and Patriots of America (Illinois Society) and the Society of Mayflower Descendants (Missouri Society).
Don’s interest in airplanes and space travel led to his pursuing a career in the aerospace industry. He began his career in October 1987, joining The Boeing Company (formerly McDonnell Douglas Corporation) in St. Louis, MO as a Material and Process Engineer. During his career, Don received a commendation from the U.S. Air Force for his work in introducing new technology to reduce maintenance costs associated with aging bomber and tanker aircraft. He was also appointed to a NASA-led committee to investigate new nondestructive testing technologies to evaluate Space Shuttle structures for damage in the wake of the shuttle Columbia accident. Don holds three patents with three pending and has authored over 50 papers published in technical journals and conference proceedings. His string of significant engineering accomplishments was recognized in September 2004 as he was elected a Boeing Fellow. Don also received national recognition, being elected a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in 2010.
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The Lamborghini Miura P400S is a sports car built in Italy by Lamborghini between 1966 and 1973. A mid-engined layout had been used successfully in competition. The Miura was a trendsetter, the one that made the mid-engined layout de rigueur among two-seater high performance supercars. It is named after the Spanish ranch Miura, whose bulls have a proverbial attack instinct.
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Members of the Coyote football team help celebrate Earth Day at Austin Elementary
With spring practice complete, members of the University of South Dakota football team stepped away from gridiron Monday and helped the community of Vermillion and Austin Elementary School be a little more green in celebration of Earth Day.
"We all had a great time today with all the kids at Austin Elementary," sophomore Tyler Starr said. "It always feels good when you can contribute to making a campus more green."
Starr and the Coyotes helped celebrate the 42nd year of Earth Day, which officially was recognized Sunday, by helping the first-graders at Austin Elementary School plant flowers and other various plants on the school's campus Monday morning. | <urn:uuid:dac58f1c-d49a-48a1-8983-e63b79bbb94b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://plaintalk.net/2012/04/coyotes-help-celebrate-earth-day-at-austin-elementary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957534 | 142 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Maria Catherine McLean Buie
Jefferson County, Mississippi
October 28, 1873
Transcribed by Linda Durr Rudd
Testimony of John B. Bowen
My name is John B. Bowen. My age is 52 years - my residence is Jefferson County Miss at Union Church. And I have resided there 16 or 18 years and I have lived in the county near my presence residence ever since 1855. My occupation that of a local preacher in the Methodist church and farming.
I have known Mrs. Buie the claimant ever since she was a little girl and before her marriage. She was a daughter of Mariah McLean dec’d. I knew Mrs. McLean intimately up to the time of her death which occurred in 1868 as well as the claimant. I lived within a quarter of a mile of both of them during the war. I met with them very often during the war for I was at home within a quarter of a mile of them all the time.
The reason of my being at home during the war was because I was a preacher and exempt by law from conscription and besides I was opposed to the war.
I conversed frequently with Mrs. Mariah McLean during the war about the war and she always expressed herself as being violently opposed to it - that it would result in great loss to every body and that no good could ever come of it. I remember one occasion particularly and that was - she had three sons in the army who had gone into the army to prevent conscription against her will. They were then at home on furlough (at least two of them) and their furlough had expired and were compelled to return to Jackson to prevent being arrested. I volunteered to take them if she woul loan me her mule to put in my buggy - and she then in a most emphatic manner expressed her disappointment of the war especially was opposed to her children taking any part in it and would have ended the war if in her power by refusing and preventing soldiers from entering into it. This conversation was at her house and was before the fall of Vicksburg and Mrs. McLean was a widow and hardly ever went from home and besides it would have been dangerous to show by outward acts on opposition to the war or that she was in favor of the Union - and I warned her to this effect. She was a Union woman and it would have been dangerous to have such sentiments known at the time.
I do not know of anything said or done by her against the Union cause and do not believe she ever did do or say anything against it - and I know she agreed with me in sentiment against the rebellion and in favor of the Union. The most prominent Union men of the neighborhood was Dr. McLean and Sterling Cato and probably some others. Yes I was a Union man and Mrs. McLean must have been aware of it from our conversations - and my opinion is that her daughter Mrs. Mariah C. Buie the claimant always agreed in sentiment with her mother in reference to her union sentiments - although I can not now recollect having talked with her especially on the subject.
Mrs. Mariah McLean to the best of my knowledge left no heir except Mrs. Mariah C. Buie the present claimant and I know now she is at present the only one who would be entitled to her estate.
Southern Claims Case of Maria McLean Buie
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Fast Eddy had a blast this week with field trips painting and more. He is 5 yrs old and will be a Kindergartner this year!
I had him make a design with circle stickers and paint over it. After the paint dries we peeled away the stickers to reveal his design. It is a cave with bears in it, DUH! That is what he told me when I asked what it was.
We played a fun hang man type game to work on out spelling and letter sounds. I would think of a word and write the spaces on the board, so he knew how long the word was. He would one by one ask " Does your word have an E in it, E like ehh" if the letter was not in my word I would draw a feature on the face. Once the face was full, I won!
I had little letter cards, to give him ideas on letters to pick. He liked to be the one to pick the word, and had me trying to figure it out. I think he got more out of it that way too.
He had fun playing this ending sound game at the library. We stop by this awesome library once a week to claim our summer reading prize.
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Where did the English Kearse family come from? What is the English Kearse family crest and coat of arms? When did the Kearse family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Kearse family history?The ancestors of the name Kearse date back to the days of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from their residence in Kersey, a parish in Suffolk. The place-name Kersey is derived from the Old English elements cśrse, which means watercress, and eg, the old English word for island. It was recorded as Cśresige c. 995, and as Careseia in the Domesday Book, compiled in 1086. The name as a total means "island where the watercress grows." The surname is derived from the place-name. In the early Middle Ages, local surnames were often proceeded by the word de or atte, which meant of and at, respectively. This custom was brought to England by the Normans after they conquered the Saxon Nobility at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The surname as a whole, de Kearse, meant "of Kersey." Eventually, the use of de and atte declined, as Old English and Old Norman fused into Old English over the next few centuries. The surname as a whole means "of Kersey," or "dweller on the island where watercress grows."
Kearse has been spelled many different ways, including Before English spelling became standardized over the last few hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Kersey, Kercey, Keresey, Kearsey and others.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Kearse research. Another 131 words(9 lines of text) covering the year 1272 is included under the topic Early Kearse History in all our PDF Extended History products.
Another 49 words(4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Kearse Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.
In an attempt to escape the chaos experienced in England, many English families boarded overcrowded and diseased ships sailing for the shores of North America and other British colonies. Those families hardy enough, and lucky enough, to make the passage intact were rewarded with land and a social environment less prone to religious and political persecution. Many of these families became important contributors to the young colonies in which they settled. Early immigration and passenger lists have documented some of the first Kearses to arrive on North American shores: Thomas Kersey, who came to the Somers Islands in 1673; John Kersey, who settled in Philadelphia in 1731; as well as Thomas Kersey, who settled in Maryland in 1775..
The Kearse Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Kearse Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.
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“There is no other choice but self-determination,” says a lady interviewed in a new documentary about Western Sahara made by 31-year-old English independent film-maker and journalist, Dominic Brown. She is the wife of one of the many activists belonging to Western Sahara’s indigenous population, the Saharawis, who have been imprisoned and tortured for campaigning for independence for Africa’s last colony.
According to the documentary, called La Badil (literally “ no other choice”), the Saharawis have been discriminated and systematically robbed of their resources by Morocco since a Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara in 1975 that was carried out in agreement with the colonial power Spain. Because, as a speak over in the documentary says, “Western Sahara’s abundance of natural resources provides vital revenue to the Moroccan state.”
La Badil is a documentary about the daily life of the indigenous population – the Saharawis – in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. The film focuses on both Gdeim Izik, where Moroccan troops attacked a peaceful protest camp in October 2010, killing several people and detaining and torturing many more, and on the daily lives of the Saharawis.
Through footage filmed undercover from the major towns in occupied Western Sahara, as well as through interviews, the documentary portrays the Saharawis as being virtually under siege in their own country by Moroccan troops, as being beaten up and tortured for even daring to show the Saharawi flag in public, and as being discriminated against by the Moroccan authorities, companies and Moroccan settlers.
“They [the Moroccans] are reaping all the benefits from our country’s riches. The Saharawis get nothing,” as one person says in the film. “They [Moroccan police] storm our houses and kidnap our children. We are really suffering here,” says another.
But while conflicts elsewhere are more or less regularly covered in the Western media, the Western Sahara conflict is all but forgotten. “The media were almost silent when the [Gdeim Izik] uprisings occurred compared to in Libya and Tunisia, because of the blockade the Moroccan authorities imposed” as a young activist points out in the documentary. This media blockade has meant that the Saharawis have begun uploading mobile phone footage to YouTube to try and bring attention to their situation.
And this is exactly the reason why the film was made, Dominic Brown tells me. “I decided to make the film because the situation in Western Sahara is one that very rarely gets the media coverage that it deserves. Especially here in the UK, most people have no idea about what is happening there. More and more people are taking cheap flights on Easyjet to Morocco, but they don’t realise they are contributing in some way to the oppression of the Sahrawi.”
But as the documentary also points out, powerful countries such as the USA and France – and the EU as a whole – are by no means neutral. On the contrary, they are aiding and abetting Morocco in its exploitation of Western Sahara’s population and their resources by e.g. accepting Morocco’s proposal to have Western Sahara remain a Moroccan province, by denying the UN the ability to monitor the human rights situation in Western Sahara, by supplying arms to Morocco, and by illegally dealing in goods and fishing quotas from the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
“I hope that the film will open more peoples eyes to the plight of the Sahrawi, and also show how there are many vested interests involved (eg. France and their trade deals with Morocco), that are preventing the people there getting justice,” says Dominic Brown.
The message from those interviewed in the documentary to the populations and governments in the West is certainly clear: help us achieve independence from Morocco. “We just demand freedom like all people around the world,” says one lady. “We are asking for organisations in Europe to help us, both government and non-government,” pleaded another.
Dominic Brown has previously made an undercover documentary about the independence struggle in West Papua called ‘Forgotten Bird of Paradise’ that was shown on the BBC as well as screened at film festivals in 10 countries. He will be entering La Badil into film festivals as well as approaching broadcasters. In the meantime the film can be purchased here: http://www.dancingturtle.co.uk/shop/labadil.php or seen here: http://www.labadil.com/film/
By Peter Kenworthy, Africa Contact
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C.S.Lewis: “There is something which unites magic and applied science.”
“I have described as a ‘magician’s bargain’ that process whereby man surrenders object after object, and finally himself, to Nature in return for power. And I meant what I said. The fact that the scientist has succeeded where the magician failed has put such a wide contrast between them in popular thought that the real story of the birth of Science is misunderstood. You will even find people who write about the sixteenth century as if Magic were a medieval survival and Science the new thing that came in to sweep it away. Those who have studied the period know better.
There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the wisdom of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious—such as digging up and mutilating the dead.” | <urn:uuid:b4d09714-395e-48f9-9be0-8ac440af18e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/c-s-lewis-there-is-something-which-unites-magic-and-applied-science/ | 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 | 0.974286 | 260 | 2.46875 | 2 |
MARTINEZ — An expert on sudden oak death will discuss ways property owners can protect their trees against the disease in a free public talk at 6 p.m. Thursday at McMahon-Telfer hall, second floor, 604 Ferry St.
Matteo Garbelotto, head of UC Berkeley's forest pathology and mycology laboratory, will speak in a meeting sponsored by the Muir Heritage Land Trust, a conservation group.
Sudden oak death has killed thousands of California oak trees and infected some trees in open space areas that the land trust has acquired between Martinez and Hercules.
For detils, call the land trust at 925-228-5460.
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Breaking News: McCain picks a Woman for VP!
Senator John McCain announced this morning his pick for Vice President, and much to everyone's surprise, he picked a lesser-known candidate: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. If McCain wins, she will be the first female Vice-President in American history!
Governor Palin is very experienced when it comes to the oil industry (because high gas prices are on everyone’s mind right now!) and is known for fighting to make the big oil companies pay more taxes, which means less taxes for the regular people buying the gas. Translation: more trips to the mall!
Palin describes herself as a "hockey mom" and has five kids—she even just had a baby this past April! Her son is also in the Army, so any decision she helps make about Iraq will likely affect her on a personal level.
In case you haven’t heard, Senator McCain is also well known for his military associations: He was a naval aviator during the Vietnam War. During a bombing mission, McCain's plane was shot down and he was captured by the North Vietnamese. They tortured him as a prisoner of war for six years. He was lucky (and strong) enough to survive the experience and returned home as a war hero.
Choosing Governor Sarah Palin was an unexpected move for McCain, and many people think that it was done partly to draw in some of Hillary Clinton's supporters who may still be undecided. However, Governor Palin is very different politically from Senator Clinton. For one thing, she has a strong anti-abortion background, whereas Senator Clinton is pro-choice.
Governor Palin is also a controversial choice for the Republicans because she has no experience in foreign affairs and has little economic background–which are two VERY important issues to the American public right now.
Regardless, this is certainly a significant election for both parties: It will result in either the first African-American man as President or the first woman as Vice President in the history of the United States.
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Journalist by day; writer by night.
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." --B. C. Forbes, 1880-1954, American Publisher
We all need this reminder from time to time! It's a tough journey for writers to become published. We tend to focus on the stories that are anomalies- J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer... Instead, we need to have reality checks from time to time and remember that the worthwhile achievements are never easily attained.Marissa
Well said Marissa.Have a great day.
So true. We must all be persistent or we won't get published.
Great quote. We need to reread it at the beginning of each day; then go to work rewriting.
This reminds me of another personal favorite:"The sweet is never as sweet without the sour."I read about your new YA novel - sounds like a fun read! Good luck! | <urn:uuid:16ef6dbe-3ed7-4553-91ae-e85dc1131f99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.buffyswritezone.blogspot.com/2010/06/quote-of-day_10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96278 | 210 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Earlier today, I had the chance to speak with Shanti Atkins, CEO of ELT, Inc., a San Franscisco firm that specializes in ethics and compliance training. She filled me in on the new frontier of virtual sexual harassment --- that is, sexual harassment done over instant messaging, Facebook, email, smartphones and other technologies.
Cases of virtual harassment are out there. Last month, a 22-year-old female former LA Fitness employee in Oregon filed a lawsuit against former three managers for texting her highly-explicit sexual messages and then firing her after she went over their heads to complain.
In another case, a Florida Hooters waitress is suing her manager for "sexting" her with explicit text messages and photos.
Atkins thinks cases of virtual sexual harassment will only get more common as a younger generation of tech savvy and casually-minded employees enters the workplace. Virtual sexual harassment is "a huge, growing problem because the technologies are developing faster than companies can keep up," Atkins says. ELT has started offering simulation video training around virtual sexual harassment for employees.
The EEOC received 13,867 sexual harassment claims in 2008, but it's not clear how many of them are virtual harassment claims. With so many technologies out there, however, virtual sexual harassment claims aren't going away. Employers will have their training cut out for them on this issue, and employees will have to be careful. "When they're hiding behind a virtual wall, people lose their minds," Atkins says. | <urn:uuid:3b63262b-5e31-40ea-b668-e9893d8bbc2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://workplacediva.blogspot.com/2009/08/sexting-is-growing-workplace-problem.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971889 | 308 | 1.945313 | 2 |
|Moste Potente Potions|
- "She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book."
- —A description of the book.[src]
Moste Potente Potions contained recipes for many dangerous, controversial, and arcane potions, which required advanced skill in potion-making to brew. Gruesome illustrations showed the effects of such potions. The Hogwarts Library accordingly kept its copy of this book in the Restricted Section.
In 1992, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley planned to sneak into the Slytherin common room in order to investigate the mystery of Slytherin's Heir, and needed to make Polyjuice Potion so they could disguise themselves as Slytherin students.
Hermione obtained a permission slip to check Moste Potente Potions out of the Restricted Section from Gilderoy Lockhart, claiming that the book contained information on slow-acting venoms that she thought might help her understand what Lockhart had written on this subject in Gadding with Ghouls.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the book was found in the regular section of the library.
- Also in the book, there is a picture (Figure VII) of a woman with a grotesquely large spider on her head, almost worn like an ornament. Whether or not this is an effect of a potion is unknown. It is possible that it is the side-effect of accidentally imbibing a Polyjuice Potion contaminated by spider hairs, similar as to when Hermione was partially transfigured into a cat when her Polyjuice Potion was contaminated with cat hair.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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For current research on the relationship of scholarly work and student learning, have a look at this white paper from the American Council of Learned Societies. The research suggests that the single most important predictor of whether an undergraduate at any institution will engage in inquiry guided by a faculty member--which correlates with 'deep' learning--is whether the faculty as a group at that institution say having an inquiry experience in the undergraduate years is important.
Would a conversation about assessment spice up your next jog around the neighborhood? Teagle Foundation Podcasts on issues of importance to higher education are available here: Teagle Podcasts | <urn:uuid:8faa6ad6-d6a4-46c7-a533-0c1f27b620cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.augustana.edu/academics/dean/newsletter/09_17_07/reading.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921526 | 157 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Recent research carried out by Iris Consulting found that there are some common traits that make for a successful manager. These four habits will help you become a better public sector leader in tough times.
1. Know your limits
One characteristic of high-performing managers is that they are realistic about what can and cannot be done. They don't promise what they can't deliver. Closely linked to this, we discovered that good managers are effective in ensuring that their service is adequately resourced and funded. They fight to ensure they have enough staff and the budget they need to run, not just an adequate service, but one that has the capacity to deliver excellence and high-performance results.
In today's climate where everybody is having to find savings, often the managers who are perceived as highly effective are those who manage down expectations so that when an adequate service is delivered it is seen as a success.
2. Know your staff
Our research found that another distinctive characteristic of the best managers is that they work as much for the staff below them as they do for the top of the office. This means they are constantly looking to explain issues to the people who work for them and are receptive to problems or questions raised by junior managers and frontline staff.
Knowing your staff also involves finding out about their training and development needs, and making sure they have the time to go on the courses and training necessary to improve them. The best managers don't just rely on their organisation's performance management and appraisal system to deal with this – they go out of their way to encourage staff to take up development opportunities.
3. Know your stuff
One hallmark of top-performing managers is that they are seen to be on top of the detail. They make it their business to know and understand the minutiae of the service they are responsible for running. This means they understand the complexity of the processes in which staff need to operate and the implications of any changes – which tend to be frequent.
4. Know what's coming
Perhaps the most significant feature found in high-performing organisations is that the managers are very good at forward planning. This is especially important in any service subject to frequent changes, which affects virtually the whole of central and local government and NHS at present.
In practice, this means good managers make time to find out what is happening in policy and service delivery. They find the time to read trade journals and attend seminars and conferences to keep themselves abreast of developments. This investment of time means good managers are able to make informed timely assessments of the next round of changes that will affect their service. They then make adjustments and appropriate plans.
One of the most significant benefits associated with this management trait is in the way the best organisations are able to cope with frequent changes in budgets, methods of administration and supporting IT software. They take these in their stride and implement the changes smoothly with no, or little, adverse impact on service delivery – because they have prepared for the change.
If you can model your management or leadership style on these characteristics you will be among the top 10% of performers in local government.
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DESCRIPTION Our classes focus on; safety, strength, balance, coordination and skill. Youth are going to climb and jump; we are here to teach them how to safely perform these movements. Our classes meet weekly and great for any youth’s level. We have certified coaches through Parkour Federation. All of our classes are low and slow and offer a great amount of encouragement for youth.
DESCRIPTION: Learn how to move free without being trapped behind your cubicle or your gym, start by expanding your mind and find out how a sport can also be a fun philosophy. Discover the meaning of moving again with Parkour. Learn about fitness that lets you run jump climb and play, no matter the age or level. Parkour is a fun and amazing way to get and stay fit! No equipment required, no special training required, the only thing required is your mind and body. You will have completely guided training by Parkour Federation Certified Coaches. These classes concentrate on remaining safe and acquisition of basic skills. We work on many progressions and you will come out of each session with more in your arsenal than you know what to do with. This class will get you one step closer to your life long goal of being a ninja. | <urn:uuid:62319cc3-ee7a-442d-8093-2f343b5ea8e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fitandfearless.com/texas-parkour | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9485 | 250 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Jackson-Weiss syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by foot abnormalities and the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull (craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face. more...
Many of the characteristic facial features of Jackson-Weiss syndrome result from the premature fusion of the skull bones. The head is unable to grow normally, which can lead to a misshapen skull, widely spaced eyes, and a bulging forehead. Foot abnormalities are the most consistent characteristic, as not all individuals with Jackson-Weiss syndrome have abnormal skull or facial features. The big toes are enlarged and bend away from the other toes. Hand anomalies are rare. People with Jackson-Weiss syndrome usually have normal intelligence and a normal life span.
Jackson-Weiss syndrome is a rare genetic disorder; its incidence is unknown.
Mutations in the FGFR2 gene cause Jackson-Weiss syndrome. The FGFR2 gene produces a protein called fibroblast growth factor receptor 2. Among its multiple functions, this protein signals immature cells to become bone cells in a developing embryo and fetus. A mutation in a specific part of the FGFR2 gene alters the protein and causes prolonged signaling, which promotes the premature fusion of bones in the skull and feet.
This condition is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.
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In a memorandum to the War Cabinet the Minister of Information raises the question of whether it is necessary to evacuate more towns on the south coast of Britain, as proposed by the War Office:
From the point of view of civilian efficiency and morale there are grave objections to evacuation. It means in the first place complete temporary ruin for large numbers of people In the second place it means dumping upon an already overcrowded district additional numbers of idle and disgruntled strangers. Reluctant hosts are condemned to entertain unwilling guests for an indefinite periods A better seed ground for the growth of rumour, warweariness and defeatism could hardly be imagined.
The South East coast has always been the obvious place for an invading force to land, and for this very reason intelligent invaders have always avoided it. William of Orange landed at Torbay, Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven, Edward IV landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire.
To each one of these astute and successful invaders London was of almost as great importance as it is today and. the distances that divided their various ports of disembarkation from London were greater than they are today because their armies moved more slowly. But relying upon the enormous military value of surprise, they rightly struck where they were least expected.
Is it impossible that the Germans will do likewise? And granting the possibility, is it wise to inflict unnecessary suffering on the civilian population on the assumption that the blow is almost bound to fall within a limited area? Surely what matters most to Germany is to get a large army established on the soil of Britain. The number of miles that divides that army from the capital is a secondary consideration.
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Has nothing of any significance happened to Columbia County or any of its citizens since the 1860s? Since the Civil War, when right prevailed, have there been no Georgian men and women whose valor and honor is worth celebrating?
If so, why, pray tell, is it necessary to locate at the new county courthouse annex a monument honoring the saddest and most enduring indictment against the South? I agree strongly with Keith Moses (letter, Sept. 1) that remembrance of the Confederacy belongs in a museum of history, not on the grounds of a supposedly forward-moving, innovative county that should be leading the way for the rest of Georgias counties.
Not having yet another Confederate memorial seems a very small price to pay to make the bold statement that Columbia County chooses to move beyond the past and not to further contribute to the great racial divide that still exists in this country. Isnt the ridiculous, time-consuming, money-squandering argument over the state flag enough? Arent there more important issues?
Another monument honoring the losers of a revolution, a quasi-government that (bottom line) tried to legitimize slavery, should be offensive to a lot of people - not just black Americans.
For the record, and because it seems to matter, I am white, female, Christian, conservative, Republican and was born and raised in Georgia.
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Back in July, I had hoped to be able to spend lots of time researching 9/11 in time to write a well-researched pamphlet to distribute in the vicinity of this year’s major 9/11 anniversary events sponsored by local 9/11 Truth groups. Alas, I was then swamped with work and other things, so I did not have a chance to do the desired research. So, I’ll just have to write the pamphlet based on what I already know. Here’s my draft of the first half of the pamphlet. (I’ll post the second half later today or tomorrow.)
Why we need a new investigation of 9/11
After 9/11/2001, many people had questions about how and why the attacks were able to succeed. Why did the U.S. government do nothing to stop the attacks?
- Why did the Bush administration ignore warnings?
- Why was there no effective air defense?
- Why were some of the 9/11 hijackers, already known to be terrorists, even allowed into this country?
Bush opposed calls for an investigation into these questions. Eventually the 9/11 Families movement, led by four 9/11 widows known as the “Jersey Girls,” did succeed in pressuring Congress and Bush to create the 9/11 Commission.
But there is lots of evidence of coverups. For example:
- Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, the chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commisstion, have said they were “stonewalled by the C.I.A.” (New York Times, January 2, 2008). They have voiced this complaint despite their widely perceived go-easy attitude.
- Thomas H. Kean has said that NORAD (the North American Aerospace Command) made blatantly false statements “so far from the truth” that the 9/11 Commission considered criminal charges (Washington Post, August 2, 2006).
- Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said that there is evidence of involvement by foreign governments – evidence that remains highly classified. Graham has alleged that the information remains classified not for any genuine national security reason, but merely to avoid embarrassing some people. (PBS interview, July 24, 2003)
Many people regard the 9/11 Commission itself as part of the coverup, for many reasons including the following:
- The 9/11 Commission Report dismisses the question of the financing of the 9/11 attacks as being “of little practical significance” (Chapter 5).
- Quite a few whistleblowers were not interviewed.
- The 9/11 Commission had subpoena power but rarely used it, preferring a gentler approach.
- The 9/11 Commission’s research staff was directed by Philip Zelikow, who had strong ties to the Bush administration (such as having co-authored a book with Condoleeza Rice). Thus the investigation was not truly independent of the Bush administration, as it should have been.
Chapters 5 and 7 of the 9/11 Commission Report, which deal with Al Qaeda and the hijackers, are based largely on CIA reports about interrogations of people who were tortured. Torture is not only a severe violation of human rights, but also results in notoriously unreliable confessions The commissioners were not allowed to interview the detainees themselves, nor were they even allowed to view direct transcripts of interrogations.
It is clear to many people that there have been coverups. But coverups of what? Among people who talk about 9/11, debate is now polarized between people who insist that “9/11 was an inside job” and people who insist that whatever might have been covered up, it couldn’t possibly be anything worse than incompetence. But there are many other possibilities between the extremes of “inside job” and “nothing worse than incompetence.” Other possibilities include criminal negligence, corruption, and treason. Due to the coverups, we simply don’t know all the facts.
Whatever the U.S. government did or didn’t do on or before 9/11, what’s important is that those responsible for its failures be held accountable — even if no one in the U.S. government was guilty of anything worse than incompetence. And it is important to know what really went wrong in terms of counter-terrorism policy, so that we can know what’s really needed to protect us from terrorism, without undue sacrifice of our privacy and civil liberties. (The “PATRIOT act” was probably overkill.) To that end, we need a new, more truly independent follow-up investigation, similar to what the 9/11 Commission was supposed to be. | <urn:uuid:232c1b19-3bef-43ee-bb37-5a256b1135ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://activistnyc.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/draft-of-pamphlet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977988 | 989 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Small vehicle safety depends on visibility, speed, agility and impact-protection. The Aerorider is highly visible. At 1.2m tall it equates to many sports-cars. Furthermore, the futuristic, environmental design causes other road users to notice and look closely. High and low beam headlight, tail lights, indicators and a stop lamp enhance visibility further. Active ventilation and an electric wiper help to keep a clear view. Two adjustable rear view mirrors allow the rider to keep an eye on upcoming traffic.
The high speeds capable in the Aerorider allow the user to move with the flow of traffic. Hydraulic disc brakes on the front wheels and a mechanical roller brake on the rear combined with precise, direct steering to give exceptional agility for avoiding surprises in the traffic. Finally, structural beams in the monocoque chassis and canopy exist to protect the driver should impact occur. | <urn:uuid:53f58185-be18-4295-9f98-4e9ad9455cc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aerorider.com/en/veiligheid.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900276 | 179 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Machinist and CNC machine specialist David Wright has never flown in a small aircraft and never participated in this sort of rescue, but he volunteered his entire day to help. A dog owner himself, he explained how his 200-lb English Mastiff protects his 8-year-old daughter. "My daughter would have loved to see this, she wants to be a veterinarian." he said, proudly.
It's amazing how things come together. The transport coordinator was dealing with issues from a traffic mishap the night before, the rescue agency representative was away from the shelter having to operate an adoption booth at a local PetCo, and the rescue pilot had laryngitis... but somehow everyone managed to take advantage of the flight opportunity and get these puppies to their destination.
Air Traffic controllers at Lakeland Linder airport were in their usual supportive mode, greeting us kindly on approach. Clear skies and calm winds on the ground disguised a squirrely layer of gusty winds during the descent. "I think that just woke up the puppies!" David said, as we recovered from a moderate gust.
"We love rescuing these little guys, but it is a sad reminder of how irresponsible some people can be. This is 100% preventable by simply spaying or neutering your dog." said Eric Peterson of Canine Rescue Flights. "While puppy mills seem to get the headlines, it's actually amateur backyard-breeders that often cause the most damage. They believe they're going to make a fast buck, then quickly find themselves totally unprepared for the work or the cost. One bout of sickness in a litter and these amateur 'breeders' see their profit going down the tubes... so instead of being responsible, they dump the entire litter. It's sad what people are capable of." | <urn:uuid:da0afe79-f2d2-43c1-89da-4282004710a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caninerescueflights.org/content/twelve-more-make-break-freedom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975452 | 365 | 1.664063 | 2 |
7 April 2011
After the suspension of the Libyan corridor from Benghazi, Libya, to Abéché, Chad, WFP had to find another way to transport food to more than one million Sudanese refugees, Chadian IDPs and members of the host population who depend on WFP's assistance in Eastern Chad.
14 February 2011
For hundreds of thousands of Darfuri refugees, WFP's food rations have been essential for preventing hunger and malnutrition. WFP has provided life-saving food assistance to Sudanese refugees in Chad since 2003.
16 September 2010
As harvest time approaches in the Eastern Sahel, rates of malnutrition among children are at critical levels in Chad. A crippling lean season has left many children weak and in of need nutritional support. Two-year old Hassan is one of those now getting this badly needed support. Watch video
31 August 2010
As many as six in ten families are going hungry in the West African country of Chad, where drought and crop failures made for a grim Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. To stem the tide of malnutrition, WFP has launched a major feeding campaign targeting 747,000 people in the worst hit areas.
22 June 2010
Over 60 percent of the population in drought-plagued Chad are at risk of going hungry, according to a WFP food security report. Weak harvests have left small farmers particularly vulnerable as the country enters the summer lean season. WFP is working to help 2.3 million people in the worst affected areas.
28 May 2010
Some 10 million people in the Sahel region of West-Central Africa risk going hungry as the summer lean season arrives on the heels of a long drought. WFP is stepping up operations in four countries of the Sahel, to ease the suffering of those hardest hit.
16 October 2009
"These portraits are the reason why we must not rest in the comfort of our freedom," said Bono after reading the poignant portraits in ‘Fragile: the Human Condition’, the new book by WFP’s Ambassador Against Hunger, Howard G Buffett.
26 May 2009
Every year WFP has to get food to refugees in eastern Chad before the rainy season starts and it becomes impossible. That means taking scores of trucks on a hair-raising, 2,800-km journey through the Libyan desert. It's not for the faint-hearted. Watch video
7 May 2009
In Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, where new fighting has broken out between rebels and government forces, thousands of refugees from Darfur live in a large camp supported by WFP. Among them is 17-year-old Ekhbal, who yearns for a real home where she can be a normal teenager.
22 February 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme is providing a new round of food assistance to 20,000 Chadian refugees in northern Cameroon as they are transferred by the UN refugee agency from a transit site near the border to a camp.
- Sahel food insecurity threatens 10 million people in 2013 Source: Reuters/AlertNet
- Sahel: Malnourished to remain above one million in 2013 Source: IRIN
- At meeting in Rome, UN officials stress link between food security and peace in Sahel Source: UN News Centre
- Building Resilience Key to Restoring Sahel Food Security Source: VOA News
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January 31, 2009 -
For many years, the San Francisco Naval Shipyard has been a source of inspiration for my photographs of New York's industrial edges. As mentioned in an interview with the NY Times, I "grew up in the Mission District of San Francisco, within view of the Navy Yard." The view from my back porch was of the iconic crane in the shipyard, pictured above. This was once the world's largest crane, though for many years, I considered it just another mysterious part of the city's skyline.
In 2006, I began photographing inside the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, documenting the changes it is undergoing. At the same time, I also began documenting the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is undergoing a very similar transformation. Both are former Navy properties that played a large role in World War II. Both have subsequently been sold to their respective cities, and have become a home to both artists and industry. Both are still full of abandoned and unused historic spaces, and are currently undergoing huge redevelopments.
In 2008 San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed Proposal G, allowing the San Francisco Naval Shipyard to be redeveloped by the Lennar Corporation. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the project will "remake the combined 720 acres with homes, retail shops and a green office park ringed by 300 acres of parkland - and possibly build a new stadium for the 49ers..." In the meantime, these photographs document some of the historic spaces that still remain in the shipyard.
In January, 2009, the UnionDocs Gallery curated an exhibit of my photographs titled Abandoned Brooklyn. The photos explored the industrial neighborhoods of Brooklyn, visiting an abandoned airport, deserted train stations and empty powerhouses, and documented a transitional moment in Brooklyn’s history, as it moves from its industrial past towards a future that seems to be dominated by luxury apartment buildings and chain stores.
The opening of Abandoned Brooklyn kicked off a new season of the UnionDocs Documentary Bodega screening series. As part of the opening night, there was a screening of my film Covered Tracks - a short documentary about an abandoned homeless city underneath Manhattan. Also screening was a short documentary about my photographs, directed by Joe Pacheco for the series Caught in the Act: Art in Brooklyn.
Abandoned Brooklyn was featured in a slideshow and interview on Gothamist, which described the work as "accessing areas that normal folks don't usually see." The Greenpoint Gazette agreed, saying the "works intrigue not only for their aesthetic beauty—the beauty of ruin, of decay, of the sad passing of time—but because like the photographs of Jacob Riis, they show us a world we would otherwise never see, a world left behind by the quick waves of gentrification." Brooklyn author Richard Grayson wrote in particular about "a gorgeous photo of an abandoned hangar from Floyd Bennett Field" that evoked memories his childhood, when the airfield was still in use. | <urn:uuid:19ade702-4a9e-4c50-b513-d93625b8071d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kensinger.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96198 | 602 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Let us first discuss few tips before choosing a domain name. Well for many it may sound funny but it an important aspect. From an expert’s point of view, it is recommended to use your sites name as the basis of your domain name, for an example your company is Domain Registration Australia, and then you must opt for a pattern as www.domainregistrationaustralia.com.au
You may select and register a domain name closer to your business segment from competition point of view. This is very effective and pays in long run. A short domain name is more memorable and at customer’s ease, but yes it is true that they are less likely to be available. A longer domain is hard to remember in some cases, but can contain more keywords, strategically which can help to some extend as it has been observed that some of the search engines, use keywords in a domain name as part of the search algorithm. In cases where your preferred domain name is no more available then comes a big question, well in such cases it is worth going for a prefix example for Australian domain: mydomain.com.au or by adding suffix example domains4u.com.au etc. Most of them are not mandatory but to be honest they are industry standards that most companies are following till date. To make it crisper the points that must be considered before registration of domain name are as following:
1. Keep it short and simple
2. Should be easy to spell.
3. Use simple and plain English.
4. Use search engine keywords for future promotions.
5. Only index one domain per website on search engines, if you wish to avoid diluting your search engine ranking.
6. Choose the best domain provider in Australia.
7. Register with best domain name for your market or country. For example .COM for International;
Once you have a domain name registered for your company based in Australia, you will have many options; you can have multiple email address for your company and employees. This allows you to assign different email address name to different divisions, all of them pointing to your actual email address. Hence, for example, for questions related to the sales and services can have an id: - sales@ yourdomain.com.au
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The icon of Pope Benedict XVI is lit inside St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, in Rome,Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013. With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announcing his resignation Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, and leaving the already troubled Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.
VATICAN CITY—A Vatican spokesman says the resigning Pope Benedict XVI will play no role in election of his successor.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi said Tuesday that "the pope will surely say absolutely nothing about the process of the election."
"He will not interfere in any way," Lombardi told reporters at a Vatican briefing.
Benedict announced his resignation Monday, citing frail health. On Feb. 28, he will become the first pontiff to step down in nearly 600 years. | <urn:uuid:715fb710-18d5-4acf-adc5-b61cd6e4a7f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_22571884/vatican-pope-benedict-no-role-conclave?source=pkg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960292 | 195 | 1.867188 | 2 |
LSC-Montgomery: Placement Test - March 6 (AM)
Welcome to Lone Star College - Montgomery, Home of the Mavericks!
The State of Texas requires that all students who attend a public institution of Higher Education to be assessed in the areas of Reading, Writing and Mathematics. The Texas Success Initiative (TSI ) is a state legislated program designed to improve student success in college. The purpose of placement testing is to determine your current level of skills and knowledge in reading, writing and math. This information determines the most appropriate courses for your enrollment. | <urn:uuid:fd91fd89-61d5-460e-820b-30cda39acaae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Testing3613AM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924245 | 114 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The following is a list of ramps that are appropriate for home use. We have also added some information about home-use lifts, for those situations where a ramp simply isn't the best option.
Aluminum ramps are the second-most popular type of ramp. They offer many advantages over other types of ramps. These typically come in standard modules that fit together in configurations that work for most homes. Some manufacturers will alternately custom build a ramp system if you require something unique. Here are some pictures of typical aluminum wheelchair ramps.
Wood ramps are the most popular form of ramp. They can be made from common materials found in any good home improvement store. It is advisable to have someone with experience build your ramp for you. Visit our "Build a Wood Ramp" section for links to plans and advice on construction techniques. Even the best-built wood ramps will need the addition of some type of non-slip surface. The best option is the relatively new non-slip treads. These are made of aluminum, are simple to install and never need replacement.
Here are some pictures of some good (and NOT so good) wood wheelchair ramps, along with some pictures of aluminum stair treads.
Here are some pictures of galvanized steel ramp systems and a close-up view of the decking material. This decking material has an "open" pattern that gives excellent traction and doesn't allow water, snow or dirt to accumulate. It's also VERY hard on bare feet and high-heeled shoes!!
Here are some pictures of concrete deck ramps. These ramps give the feel and walking surface of a poured concrete ramp, but are less expensive to install and a lot less permanent.
There are many different kinds of portable ramps. The most popular and inexpensive are the aluminum portables. They come in many different lengths, surfaces and folding configurations. There are also portables that are made of various plastics and fiberglass, but these tend to be very expensive and have relatively low capacities.
As their name implies, these are made for a very short rise, which would typically occur at a door opening. Some of these areas may not look like much, but a rise of 1 1/2" might as well be a brick wall when you hit it with the tiny front wheels of a wheelchair. These are typically made from either aluminum with a non-skid surface or solid rubber.
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Introducing Trinidad And Tobago
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Trinidad & Tobago Travel Guide
In a few words The tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago are home to picture-perfect beaches, lush tropical jungles, and lively cities. The home of both calypso and the limbo, the sound of steel-pan drums carries through the hot and humid air while travellers from all over the world relax and enjoy the Caribbean paradise.
First inhabited by Arawak and Carbi people from South America and discovered by Christopher Columbus, Trinidad & Tobago are the two southernmost islands in the Caribbean. The islands were passed around by colonialists who built cocoa plantations and imported immigrant labour from Africa, Europe and India, whose descendents make up the diverse population in Trinidad & Tobago today.
The capital city of Port of Spain is perhaps best known for the raucous Carnival celebration held every spring, with music, dancing, parades, and colourful costumes whirling through the streets of the town for five days. Scarborough is less well-known, but a popular port of call for cruises in the Caribbean.
Two days are said to be sufficient to take in the sights (and shops) of the cities, but an eternity isn't long enough to enjoy the blissful relaxation of the seaside resorts in Trinidad & Tobago. Active pursuits like scuba diving, snorkelling, sailing, hiking, golf and bird-watching are popular, as are less strenuous activities such as lazing in a hammock or sunning on the beach.
A holiday in Trinidad & Tobago is a great way to soak up sun and culture in the Caribbean, and perfect for escaping the winter blues of the Northern Hemisphere's coldest months.
Best time to visit Trinidad & Tobago
The winter months of December to April are considered the best time to visit Trinidad & Tobago. The rainy season in Trinidad & Tobago is from June to December, and this is the low season. The climate in Trinidad & Tobago is tropical, with hot and humid conditions all year long. The winter months are slightly cooler than the average maximum temperature of 89F (32C). Read more on Trinidad & Tobago's Climate and Weather.
What to see in Trinidad & Tobago
-Go bird watching at Asa Wright Nature Centre.
-Laze in the sun at Pigeon Point Beach.
-Get a panoramic view of Port of Spain from the Laventille Hills.
-Explore Gasparee Caves.
What to do in Trinidad & Tobago
-Join the wild, colourful party at Carnival.
-Take a romantic sunset boat cruise in Englishman's Bay while on honeymoon.
-Play golf at the PGA-designed Tobago Plantations Golf and Country Club.
Getting to Trinidad & Tobago
Getting to Trinidad & Tobago is fairly easy, as there are direct flights to Trinidad & Tobago from London, landing at Crown Point. Indirect flights to Port of Spain are also available. Direct flights to Trinidad & Tobago from the US are also available on several airlines, from cities like Miami, Fort Lauderdale, New York City and Houston. Get more information on Trinidad & Tobago Airports.
The Dragon Can't Dance by Earl Lovelace
The Hummingbird Tree (1996)
Coconut water and puncheon rum.
Curry chicken and roti.
What to buy
Miniature steel-pan drums.
What to pack
Sunblock and a hat - Trinidad & Tobago are near the equator and the average temperature can reach 88F (31C).
What's on in Trinidad & Tobago
Did you know?
-Tobago was the setting of the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and is also believed to be the place Robert Louis Stevenson had in mind when he wrote Treasure Island.
-The limbo was invented in Trinidad & Tobago.
A final word
A paradise of swaying palm trees and lively parties, a holiday in Trinidad & Tobago is the perfect Caribbean getaway.
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This adaptation of the classic Poe short story takes the challenging, haunting, somewhat oblique tale and casts it in the guise of a fast-moving 1930s detective thriller, all the while maintaining Poes basic story of familial treachery and madness. The play opens with a young man being interrogated by a tough Boston police detective. The young man has been discovered cowering at the scene of a horrible fire which has destroyed the Usher mansion, leaving two unidentifiably charred bodies in its wake. As the plot unravels, we discover how this young man was involved in the collapse of the Usher estate, and we learn the familys horrible secret. The scene shifts back and forth from the police interrogation room to the Usher mansion as the young man recalls and relives the chilling events of the past two weeks.
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In a few minutes an officer who had been in the room during our interview, and from whom the General desired to conceal his benevolent intention toward the men, took his leave. The General turned to me immediately, and, in a voice scarcely audible, said,--"Do not feel so badly, Captain; it shall be all right."
Not daring to trust my voice, I bowed my thanks and left the room, happy in the possession of so agreeable a secret.
The next morning, as I rode out to the spot assigned for the terrible tragedy, and gazed upon the silent, curious crowd that followed, and upon the four men sitting there upon those rough pine coffins, straining their eager eyes for one long last look at the glorious sun whose rising they were never again to see, I doubted if their happiness, when an hour hence they would be returning to the city with joyous anticipations of assured life, would be any more sincere than his,--"the American Haynau's,"--who, in his room at the St. Charles Hotel, rejoiced that he had been able to indulge the inclinations of his heart without detriment to the service.
In justice to others, I ought to add that a strong effort for the pardon of these prisoners was made by a number of the prominent residents of New Orleans.
It was in June of last year, I think, that a German bookseller named Keller was sent by General Butler to Ship Island for two years for exhibiting in his shop-window a human skeleton labelled "Chickahominy," claiming it to be the bones of some gallant soldier of the Union, army who had fallen in one of the disastrous battles in Virginia.
At his examination, Keller protested that he was a Union man, and had been imposed upon by some designing person who had taken advantage of his ignorance to make his shop the medium of displaying contempt and hatred of our cause by the revolting spectacle I have mentioned. It was proved, however, that Keller had said these were the bones of a Yankee. His defence may or may not have been true; but, at all events, he was apparently not an evil-disposed person, and I always believed the General punished the offence rather than the man.
After Keller had been on Ship Island some two or three months, his wife, a very modest, respectable little woman, came to me frequently with a piteous story of the suffering occasioned herself and her children by the prolonged absence of her husband, and begged me to intercede with the General for his pardon. Satisfied that the cause could suffer no injury by the return of the unfortunate man to his home, I promised to do my best to obtain his release. Accordingly, I took advantage of every favorable opportunity to drop a word in the hearing of the General for the benefit of poor Keller, who was pining away in his confinement at a rate that bade fair soon to render him as valuable a subject for anatomical research as the article he had exhibited in his shop-window.
At first my efforts met with very doubtful encouragement; but I was satisfied that the General's obduracy was caused by a conflict between his sense of public duty and his natural tendency toward forgiveness; so, fully assured that a few weeks would produce the desired result, I contented myself with merely recalling the ease to his memory whenever an opportunity offered.
Toward the last of October, being somewhat impatient at my tardy progress, I had just resolved to abandon my previous policy of waiting for time to do its work, and to make a vigorous onslaught upon the General's sympathies, when I learned that he had issued an order for Keller's release; and thus I was confirmed in my opinion that the General's heart was not proof against the claims of the unfortunate erring.
In the case of Mrs. Phillips, who was banished to Ship Island for her ghastly levity over the dead body of the gallant and lamented young De Kay, the General ordered a release after three months of exile, because he learned that her health was suffering in consequence of separation from her friends; and I doubt very much if she would have remained in duress three weeks, if the Rebel newspapers had not taunted the General so much, and threatened an expedition against the island for the purpose of rescuing the fair prisoner.
Mrs. Larue and Mrs. Cowen, the only other women who were imprisoned,--the former for openly distributing treasonable pamphlets in the street, thereby causing a riot, and the latter for publishing in a newspaper a card of defiance against the national authority,--after two weeks of punishment, were pardoned on the first intimation that they were suffering in health or comfort. Indeed, the General never desired the imprisonment of any person a single day beyond the time necessary for his correction, or longer than the requirements of justice demanded. I presume very few persons are aware that one of his last acts in New Orleans was to recommend to General Banks the pardon of all prisoners confined on mere political charges.
* * * * *
On account of the great and increasing pressure on the General's time by the immense and miscellaneous crowd of visitors, it was found necessary to establish an office outside of his, where every unknown caller should state his business to the officer in charge, who would decide whether or not it was essential for the person to see the General.
For a few weeks I had charge of this office, and nearly all my time was occupied in refusing passes outside of our lines. In a majority of instances, the applicants for the privilege of going into the Confederacy--many of them women--told the most sorrowful tales of destitution that could be relieved only by reaching their friends in the enemy's country; others urged, that a husband, a father, or a brother was enjoined by the physician to seek the country as the sole means of securing a return of health; in short, I was plied with every conceivable story of heart-rending woe and misery, related to induce the granting of passes, which the General, in consequence of the fact that in almost every instance where he had yielded to such importunities his confidence had been abused by the carrying of supplies and information to the Rebel army, had ordered me invariably to refuse. Ordinarily I succeeded in steeling my heart against these urgent entreaties; but occasionally some story, peculiarly harrowing in its details, seemed to demand a special effort in behalf of the applicant, and I would go to the General, and, in the desperation of my cause, exclaim,--
"General, you must see some of these people. I know, if you would only hear their stories, you would give them passes."
"You are entirely correct, Captain," he would reply. "I am sure I should; and that is precisely why I want you to see them for me."
And with this very doubtful satisfaction I would return to my desk, convinced that sensibility in a man who was allowed no discretion in its exercise was an entirely useless attribute, and that in future I would set my face as a flint against every appeal to my feelings.
* * * * *
Since my return to the North, I have heard a number of gentlemen--former political associates of General Butler--compare his "marvellous conversion" (here they always look, and apparently mean to be, severely sarcastic) on the slavery-question with that of Saul of Tarsus to Christianity.
If the last two years of our history have failed to educate them up to the meaning of this war, I confess that I think them almost incorrigible; yet I cannot believe that even they, if they had had the experience which has placed not only General Butler, but almost every one of the twenty thousand men composing the old "Army of the Gulf," firmly on the side of freedom to all, of whatever complexion, could longer withstand the dictates of God and humanity.
Let me describe one or two of the scenes I witnessed in New Orleans, that opened our eyes to the true nature of human bondage. The following incident is the same so well told by the General himself to the committee of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, in January last, and which was then reported in full in the New-York "Times." One of my objects in repeating this story is to illustrate my implicit confidence--inspired by my knowledge of his character--in the General's humanity and championship of the weak and down-trodden.
Just previous to the arrival of General Banks in New Orleans I was appointed Deputy-Provost-Marshal of the city, and held the office for some days after he had assumed command. One day, during the last week of our stay in the South, a young woman of about twenty years called upon me to complain that her landlord had ordered her out of her house, because she was unable longer to pay the rent, and she wished me to authorise her to take possession of one of her father's houses that had been confiscated, he being a wealthy Rebel, then in the Confederacy, and actively engaged in the Rebellion.
The girl was a perfect blonde in complexion: her hair was of a very pretty, light shade of brown, and perfectly straight; her eyes a clear, honest gray; and her skin as delicate and fair as a child's. Her manner was modest and ingenuous, and her language indicated much intelligence.
Considering these circumstances, I think I was justified in wheeling around in my chair and indulging in an unequivocal stare of incredulous amazement, when in the course of conversation she dropped a remark about having been born a slave.
"Do you mean to tell me," said I, "that you have negro blood in your veins?" And I was conscious of a feeling of embarrassment at asking a question so apparently preposterous.
"Yes," she replied, and then related the history of her life, which I shall repeat as briefly as possible.
"My father," she commenced, "is Mr. Cox, formerly a judge of one of the courts in this city. He was very rich, and owned a great many houses here. There is one of them over there," she remarked, naively, pointing to a handsome residence opposite my office in Canal Street. "My mother was one of his slaves. When I was sufficiently grown, he placed me at school at the Mechanics' Institute Seminary, on Broadway, New York. I remained there until I was about fifteen years of age, when Mr. Cox came on to New York and took me from the school to a hotel, where he obliged me to live with him as his mistress; and to-day, at the age of twenty-one, I am the mother of a boy five years old who is my father's son. After remaining some time in New York, he took me to Cincinnati and other cities at the North, in all of which I continued to live with him as before. During this sojourn in the Free States, I induced him to give me a deed of manumission; but on our return to New Orleans he obtained it from me, and destroyed it. At this time I tried to break off the unnatural connection, whereupon he caused me to be publicly whipped in the streets of the city, and then obliged me to marry a colored man; and now he has run off, leaving me without the least provision against want or actual starvation, and I ask you to give me one of his houses that I may have a home for myself and three little children."
Strange and improbable as this story appeared, I remembered, as it progressed, that I had heard it from Governor Shepley, who, as well as General Butler, had investigated it, and learned that it was not only true in every particular, but was perfectly familiar to the citizens of New Orleans, by whom Judge Cox had been elected to administer JUSTICE.
The clerks of my office, most of whom were old residents of the city, were well informed in the facts of the case, and attested the truth of the girl's story.
I was exceedingly perplexed, and knew not what to do in the matter; but after some thought I answered her thus:--
"This Department has changed rulers, and I know nothing of the policy of the new commander. If General Butler were still in authority, I should not hesitate a moment to grant your request,--for, even if I should commit an error of judgment, I am perfectly certain he would overlook it, and applaud the humane impulse that prompted the act; but General Banks might be less indulgent, and make very serious trouble with me for taking a step he would perhaps regard as unwarrantable."
I still hesitated, undecided how to act, when suddenly a happy thought struck me, and, turning to the girl, I added,--
"To-day is Thursday; next Tuesday I leave this city with General Butler for a land where, thank God! such wrongs as yours cannot exist; and, as General Banks is deeply engrossed in the immediate business at head-quarters, he will hardly hear of my action before the ship leaves,--so I am going to give you the house."
I am sure the kind-hearted reader will find no fault with me that I took particular pains to select one of the largest of her father's houses, (it contained forty rooms,) when she told me that she wanted to let the apartments as a means of support to herself and her children.
My only regret in the case was that Mr. Cox had not been considerate enough to leave a carriage and pair of bays on my hands, that I might have had the satisfaction of enabling his daughter to disport herself about the city in a style corresponding to her importance as a member of so wealthy and respectable a family.
And this story that I have just told reminds me of another, similar in many respects.
One Sunday morning, late last summer, as I came down-stairs to the breakfast-room, I was surprised to find a large number of persons assembled in the library.
When I reached the door, a member of the Staff took me by the arm, and drew me into the room toward a young and delicate mulatto girl who was standing against the opposite wall, with the meek, patient bearing of her race, so expressive of the system of repression to which they have been so long subjected. | <urn:uuid:ec271648-ef16-48aa-b873-e32ff7f06072> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1863/07/our-general/308754/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987209 | 2,968 | 1.96875 | 2 |
This paper plane is a Czech Airlines Boeing 737-400, this aircraft paper model is designed by Stefino. The scale of the papercraft is 1:250. The Boeing 737-400 was launched in 1985 as a stretched 737-300, primarily for use by charter airlines. Piedmont Airlines was the launch customer with an order for 25 aircraft in 1986. The first 400 entered service in 1988 with Piedmont. The 486th and last delivery of the -400 occurred on February 25, 2000 to CSA Czech Airlines.
The 737-400F was not a model delivered by Boeing but a converted 737-400 to an all cargo aircraft. Alaska Airlines was the first to convert one of its -400s from regular service to an aircraft with the ability to handle 10 pallets. The airline has also converted five more into fixed “combi” aircraft for half passenger and freight. These 737-400 Combi aircraft are now in service.
The Boeing 737 is a short- to medium-range twin-engine narrow-body jet airliner. Originally developed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from Boeing’s 707 and 727, the 737 has developed into a family of nine passenger models with a capacity of 85 to 215 passengers. The 737 is Boeing’s only narrow-body airliner in production, with the -600, -700, -800, and −900ER variants currently being built. A re-engined and redesigned version, the 737 MAX, is set to debut in 2017.
Originally envisioned in 1964, the initial 737-100 flew in 1967 and entered airline service in February 1968. Next the lengthened 737-200 entered service in April 1968. In the 1980s Boeing launched the -300, -400, and -500 models, subsequently referred to as the Boeing 737 Classic series. The 737 Classics added capacity and incorporated CFM56 turbofan engines along with wing improvements. In the 1990s Boeing introduced the 737 Next Generation with multiple changes including a redesigned wing, upgraded cockpit, and new interior. The 737 Next Generation comprises the four -600, -700, -800, and -900ER models, ranging from 102 ft (31.09 m) to 138 ft (42.06 m) in length. Boeing Business Jet versions of the 737 Next Generation are also produced.
The 737 series is the best-selling jet airliner in the history of aviation. The 737 has been continuously manufactured by Boeing since 1967 with 7,251 aircraft delivered and 2,790 orders yet to be fulfilled as of July 2012. 737 assembly is centered at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington. Many 737s serve markets previously filled by 707, 727, 757, DC-9, and MD-80/MD-90 airliners, and the aircraft currently competes primarily with the Airbus A320 family. There are, on average, 1,250 Boeing 737s airborne at any given time, with two departing or landing somewhere every five seconds.
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The Texas Lakes Trail is a 31-county region in North Central Texas that features world renowned museums, historic downtowns, and western culture. Anchored by the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the region has the best of both worlds; rural and urban. As you travel the roadways throughout the region, you will be following the paths others have traveled throughout history. Many of the roadways follow historic trails and early highways such as the Bankhead Highway, Chisholm Trail, Butterfield Trail, Shawnee Trail, and the Great Western Trail. There are museums, brochures, and markers to help tell the stories of the early travelers. The cattle trails have definitely left their mark on this region from the countryside to the city. Communities are proud of their western heritage and you can see it on display in the most urbane areas of the region. When you visit the Lakes Trail, you will have an authentic Texas experience accompanied by hospitality that can’t be beat.
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The history of social, economic and environmental development presented in Chapter 1 demonstrates that African countries have risen to the challenge of environmental degradation. They have developed a collective will to address environmental and related issues, and have created institutions to translate that will into concrete results. Some milestones in this process are recapitulated below.
In addition to the regional and sub-regional initiatives mentioned above, there have also been country level efforts, a summary of which is presented in Annex 1. In their efforts to address environmental degradation, African countries have focused on a range of policy responses. These are examined individually below. Some failures and weaknesses in their implementation are analysed in Annex 2.
Governments use policies to influence the structure and operation of economies, with the aim of attaining goals and targets for development and economic growth. To do this, they use economic, financial, legal and institutional instruments to encourage or to discourage particular types of economic activities at macroeconomic or sectoral levels (Mogaka and others 2001). For example, macroeconomic policies are used throughout Eastern and Southern Africa to manipulate exchange rates, money supply and interest rates in order to achieve economic growth, to stimulate employment and investment, and to generate foreign exchange. Agricultural policies in the sub-regions, on the other hand, have long made use of combinations of subsidies, taxes and credit arrangements to promote the goals of food security, increased export earnings and rural income generation (Mogaka and others 2001).
African states have endorsed poverty reduction as a priority goal, the foundation of which is sound macroeconomic policies and strategies, ensuring both sustainable broad-based economic growth and macroeconomic stability. They have also become more outward-looking and have put in place trade liberalization policies, structural reforms in agriculture, and monetary policies that aim at maintaining low inflation, a stable exchange rate, lower interest rates and fully convertible currencies. Collectively, these responses are aimed at making Africa a part of the global village. The perceived benefit of greater globalization is the reduction of poverty in Africa.
Food insecurity is a measure of poverty. Table 5.2 shows that many countries have improved their daily per capita calorie intake, although some sub-Saharan countries have done the opposite. The situation is similar for per capita protein and fat supply, further strengthening the argument for greater attention to poverty reduction.
|Table 5.2 Food security and nutrition|
|Source: UNDP (2000)|
|Box 5.3: Macroeconomic policy impacts on the forest sector in Tanzania-the case of structural adjustment and the agricultural sector|
|Source: Shechambo, 1999|
Industrial sector activity is often accompanied by risks to the environment.
Some macroeconomic policies have had negative effects,
exacerbating poverty instead of reducing it. For example, during the 1980s,
most of the countries of Eastern and Southern Africa faced economic stagnation,
declining growth, and increasing public sector and trade deficits. These worsening
economic conditions, and the economic stabilization and structural adjustment
measures introduced in the 1990s to overcome them, resulted in considerable
contraction of the economy, a decline in rural living standards, and a fall
in income and employment (Mogaka and others 2001). As is often the case, increased
poverty made people more reliant on natural resources to meet their daily needs
or to generate income, and this increased pressure led to overexploitation of
resources. In other words, macroeconomic policies exacerbated poverty in the
two sub-regions and contributed to further environmental degradation. This was
certainly the case in Tanzania, where structural adjustments had a negative
impact on the forest sector (see Box 5.3).
In addition to macroeconomic policies, African states have introduced sectoral policies aimed at stimulating output, employment and income and, hence, poverty reduction. However, using economic instruments to stimulate sectors can be accompanied by risks to the environment. There are incidences of this in Africa, including promotion of the energy sector and urban development, with a risk of overexploitation of forest resources; promotion of the agriculture, mining and infrastructure sectors, leading to woodland and forest clearance; and promotion of industrial and manufacturing sectors, which generate wastes and pollutants that undermine environmental quality. Table 5.3 illustrates sectoral economic policy incentives and disincentives for sustainable forest utilization and management in Zambia.
Economic instruments in support of agricultural policy goals are, arguably, those that have had the most detrimental effect on the environment. Agriculture has long been promoted as a key sector for development and growth in Africa, and for pursuit of national goals of food security, rural income generation and export earnings. The range of economic instruments used in support of the sector is well-documented, and has mostly involved manipulating of fiscal, financial, price and market mechanisms. Examples are: imposition of relatively lower tax rates on agricultural land uses (Barnes and de Jager 1995); subsidies to inputs; government intervention in marketing; preferential credit arrangements; relief on taxes and duties; and high spending on research, extension, development and marketing (Mogaka and others 2001). Use of such mechanisms has led to an artificial inflation of the profitability of agriculture and has often encouraged the spread of farming activities at the expense of the environment (Mogaka and others 2001).
|Table 5.3 Sectoral economic policy incentives and disincentives for sustainable forest utilization and management in Zambia|
|Source: PFAP (1998)|
Use of such mechanisms- subsidies to inputs, perferential credit arrangements, etc.- has led to an artificial inflation of the profitability of agriculture and has often encouraged the spread of farming activities at the expense of the environment.
Therefore, when African states introduce macroeconomic and sectoral policies aimed at reducing poverty, they must take care to ensure that none of the planned improvements in economic growth are at the expense of the environment. This is particularly relevant as African governments embark on the modernization of agriculture as a means of reducing poverty and for overall modernization of their economies.
Apart from macroeconomic and sectoral economic policies, social policies can also have significant consequences for environmental management. For example, the underlying cause of much of Africa's widespread poverty is the high rate of population growth, and it is poverty that forces people to overexploit their natural resources and thus degrade their environment. Social policies that tackle the underlying cause of poverty therefore indirectly support environmental improvement. Family planning and other population growth control strategies have been introduced in some African countries and are beginning to yield positive results (UNDP 2000). Better education can also provide a way out of the poverty trap, and there are efforts in African countries to ensure 'free education' for the young to attain the goal of universal literacy.
In some countries, the health policies introduced have emphasized preventive rather than curative strategies. Figure 5.1 and Figure 5.2 show the impacts of policy responses that improve accessibility to safe water and sanitation services. In both cases, there is a direct inverse relationship between infant mortality and the increasing percentage of the population that has access to safe water and sanitation. Removing unhealthy environmental conditions can therefore contribute to reducing vulnerability to disease (see Chapter 3). | <urn:uuid:5420c1c8-b5e8-4bba-8150-30bfdcb5b132> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.grida.no/aeo/322.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93842 | 1,451 | 3.28125 | 3 |
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Sensory Friendly Movies: Opening the Theater to Children with Disabilities
Going to the movies is one those experiences that everyone should be able to enjoy. You’ve got your popcorn, candy, and an icy Coke. The lights dim, and for the next two hours, you’re in another world. But for some with disabilities, like autism or epilepsy, going to the movies can be almost impossible. Movie theaters all over the country, though, are taking steps to change that. Even here in Murray, the Cheri Theaters have started playing movies that are sensory friendly for children.
GARY PITTS: Movies today are better than ever, at least as far as picture and sound quality are concerned. The days of the old 35mm reel are gone, replaced by Dolby High Definition digital projectors. And the sound is just as crisp and clear as the picture, with Dolby Digital Surround Sound blasting an aural landscape that is…
“…all around you.”
GARY: But for some, all of these advances have done nothing more than push them away from the theater. People who have autism and other disabilities are often extremely sensitive to light and sound. So the more intense it is, the more unbearable it becomes for them. This is especially so for children.
HEATHER PRICE: “There’s many families here who have either never been to a movie since their child was born, or they’ve been to one and they’ve never come back.”
GARY: Heather Price was the President of the National Student Speech, Language, and Hearing Association chapter at Murray State University. She says her group presented the idea of sensory friendly movies to Murray’s Cheri Theaters in April for Autism Awareness month.
PRICE: “It’s a big deal for families to actually get to have that simple life pleasure of coming to a movie theater because they don’t get that anymore.”
GARY: So what does the theater do to make the movie experience more enjoyable for children with sensory sensitivities? Chris Hopkins is the General Manager at Cheri Theaters.
CHRIS HOPKINS: “We leave the house lights up so that the room doesn’t get dark. We lower the volume. A lot of kids are sensitive to sound. We don’t put any previews on, because when they come to see a movie, they want to see that movie and nothing else.”
GARY: And many of the standard movie going rules don’t apply during these showings, including the golden rule.
HOPKINS: “We don’t mind if they talk. We don’t mind if they get up and move around.”
GARY: But the movie experience isn’t limited to just the show itself. The standard fare of popcorn, candy, and a coke, as delicious as it may be, doesn’t always fit the bill for those who have restrictive diets. Children with autism often have food allergies, like gluten. So, on sensory friendly days, they can bring their own snacks as well. Hopkins says at the first showing in April, there were around sixty people who showed up. Among them was Marilyn York.
MARILYN YORK: “People who actually have autism that can talk to you will tell you that sometimes something sounds probably a hundred times louder than what the normal person might hear it.”
GARY: York’s son, who is 14 years old, was diagnosed with autism when he was four. She says he’s sensitive to light and sound, and he does have a restrictive diet. So the sensory friendly showing allows her to bring him to the movies when she otherwise wouldn’t be able to do so. And that’s a big deal.
YORK: “It helps them learn how to act in social settings, and how to be, appropriate behavior around others, and just gets them out.”
GARY: When York and her son came in April, she says it was one of the few times he was able to sit through the entire movie. So with changes made and restrictions lifted, children with disabilities and their families are free to go to the movies. The theater had its second sensory friendly showing this past week, Pirates: Band of Misfits. The atmosphere was relaxed. Everyone sitting back, momentarily free of worry, just enjoying the show.
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Other units of the college include the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Veterinary Education and Technology Services and Office of Curricular and Student Assessment. The college participates in interdisciplinary graduate programs in genetics; molecular, cellular and developmental biology; toxicology; immunobiology; and neuroscience.
Objectives of the Curriculum
The instructional objective of the College of Veterinary Medicine is to enable students to assume vital roles in society as productive health care providers and biomedical scientists. Such an education provides students with general learning, communication, and problem solving abilities; veterinary medical practice and research skills; and professional and ethical values.
The curriculum incorporates basic biomedical and clinical principles, clinical decision making skills, and exceptional clinical experience in small animal medicine and surgery, equine medicine and surgery, food animal medicine and surgery, and production animal medicine. Companion animal medicine and surgery are provided within the regionally recognized referral hospital through the community practice unit and equine field services. The college is located in one of the most intensive livestock producing areas in the United States. Because of this, students engage in extensive food supply veterinary medicine experiences and numerous diagnostic cases.
The professional curriculum is a four-year course of study leading to the doctor of veterinary medicine degree. Each of the first three years of the curriculum consists of two semesters while the fourth year has three semesters. Students are admitted into the professional curriculum after completing a minimum of 60 semester credits of required undergraduate coursework.
A strong and reputable basic science education during the first two years of the professional curriculum prepares veterinary students for a wide range of clinical experience during the last two years of the educational program. Fourth year students may choose to enhance their education by earning clinical elective credits at approved government agencies, research laboratories, veterinary practices and other university hospitals. Outstanding research programs in infectious diseases, food safety, neuroscience, immunoparasitology, evidence-based medicine, and many other areas provide opportunities for qualified students to participate in research.
Concurrent D.V.M./M.S., DVM/Ph.D., D.V.M./M.P.H. programs are available for qualified students who wish to obtain both veterinary and graduate degrees. Students must have a bachelor’s degree or a minimum of 128 semester credits in undergraduate and professional curricula in order to participate in the concurrent DVM/graduate degree program. Admission to the concurrent degree program is subject to the approval of the deans of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Graduate College.
The college is an important recruiting center for employers seeking veterinarians for private practice; industry; educational institutions; international agencies; federal, state and local governments; the armed forces; departments of public health; zoological gardens; and other related fields of professional activity. Graduates are highly sought after and typically have multiple employment offers upon graduation. Career services and an online job board are available for students.
Pre-veterinary Medicine Preparation
The College of Veterinary Medicine seeks students with diverse backgrounds and encourages students to enroll in baccalaureate programs in the college of their choice.
Undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to complete a bachelor’s degree before applying to the College of Veterinary Medicine. Because veterinarians have varied career options, when deciding on an undergraduate major, the student should consider the area of veterinary medicine which interests them. For example, those who desire a career in clinical practice may wish to pursue a degree in biological science, animal science, agricultural economics, business, social science or humanities. Students with an interest in zoo or wildlife veterinary medicine may want to look at animal ecology, environmental studies or zoology. Future researchers may wish to consider genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, or biochemistry. Students who desire a career in public health (USDA, FDA, etc) or government (legislative/policy) may find benefits in any of the biological sciences or in political science. A degree in education may be valuable to those who envision themselves as educators in a College of Veterinary Medicine. These examples are only suggestions and are but a few of the many possibilities.
For the most current information regarding applications and admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine, please refer to the College web site at www.vetmed.iastate.edu/.
Applicants for admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine must have attended an accredited college or university, have completed 40 semester credits prior to the deadline for filing an application for admission, and have completed 60 semester credits prior to the end of the spring term of the year in which the applicant seeks to be admitted to the College of Veterinary Medicine.
All science requirements should be fulfilled by the time of application or scheduled for completion by the end of the fall term in which the applicant applies. However, if necessary, the applicant may complete up to two required science courses during the spring term prior to matriculation.
Any required science courses taken the spring term prior to matriculation requires a grade of B (3.00) or better to fulfill the requirement. Remaining non-science required courses must be completed by the end of spring term prior to matriculation with a grade of C (2.00) or better. Required courses may not be taken during the summer prior to entering the program.
Credits earned must include the following Iowa State semester course offerings or their equivalents:
English Composition: One year of composition or writing emphasis courses. May include business or technical writing.
Engl 150, 250, 302, 309, or 314 6 cr.
Oral Communications: May include public speaking, interpersonal communication, group or organizational communication or speaking emphasis courses.
Sp Cm 212, 223, or 312 or ComSt 214 or
General Chemistry with Laboratory*
Chem 177-177L, 178 7 cr.
Organic Chemistry with Laboratory*
Chem 331, 331L, 332 7 cr.
General Physics with Laboratory*
General Biology with Laboratory*
Mammalian Anatomy or Physiology*
Humanities or Social Sciences 8 cr.
Electives 8 cr.
Total Credits Required 60 cr.
* science requirement
Credits in the previously specified courses will normally be earned on the traditional four-letter grading system with A as the highest grade and D as the lowest passing grade. All required courses must be completed with a grade of C (2.0) or better. It is generally expected that required courses have been completed within the past eight (8) years. AP or CLEP credits must be documented by original scores submitted to the University and MUST meet the University’s minimum requirement in the appropriate subject area. CLEP credits may be accepted only for arts, humanities and social sciences. Credits in the preceding specified courses will not be accepted if earned under the pass-not pass grading system or similar options.
Application and Admission
Applicants must apply using the Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS). The VMCAS application may be found online at the VMCAS website (www.aavmc.org under VMCAS). Those applying through VMCAS also need to complete the ISU Supplementary Application found at the College of Veterinary Medicine website. The deadline for filing the VMCAS application, evaluations and transcripts is October 1. The supplemental application, and processing fee are due to the College of Veterinary Medicine postmarked by October 15.
Any student wishing to use international coursework (including study abroad) to fulfill a preveterinary requirement must provide a transcript from the foreign institution.
A list of courses in progress at the time of submission and/or scheduled for completion by the end of spring term should accompany the supplemental application. Undergraduate college credits must average at least 2.50 on a 4.00 marking system for the application to be accepted. The preceding scholastic requirements are minimum and do not assure admission even though these requirements have been fulfilled.
Admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine is on a competitive and selective basis. Undergraduate GPA, Graduate Record Exam (GRE) general test score (The GRE must be taken prior to October 15 of the year the applicant applies and the scores must be received by October 31.), animal and veterinary experience, essays, recommendations and personal development (leadership, citizenship, etc.) are given consideration in the selection of candidates. An interview will be required for those applying to enter Fall 2008 and later.
Approximately one-half of the positions available are reserved for residents of Iowa. The College of Veterinary Medicine has implemented a Cooperative Program in Veterinary Medicine with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for Nebraska residents and contracts with the states of North Dakota, South Dakota and New Jersey. A number of positions are also available to residents of other states. A few highly qualified international students may be accepted and are considered in the non-resident/non-contract applicant pool. Consideration is given equally to all applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, disability, or age, political beliefs, or marital or familial status.
For further information on these programs and contracts, please visit the College of Veterinary Medicine at www.vetmed.iastate.edu and click on Admissions.
Curriculum in Veterinary Medicine
To be awarded the degree doctor of veterinary medicine, candidates must have passed all required courses in the curriculum in veterinary medicine, have earned at least 4 elective credits on a graded basis of A, B, C, D while enrolled in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and have at least a 2.0 grade-point average in the veterinary medicine curriculum.
Required Courses in the Professional Program
BBMB 420—Physiological Chemistry
BMS 330—Principles of Morphology I
BMS 331—Principles of Morphology II
BMS 333—Biomedical Sciences I
BMS 334—Biomedical Sciences II
BMS/VCS 339—Clinical Foundations I
BMS 345—Case Study I
BMS 346—Case Study II
BMS 354—General Pharmacology
BMS 443—Pharmacology and Therapeutics
VCS 311—Veterinarian in Society I
VCS 312—Veterinarian in Society II
VCS 313—Veterinarian in Society III
VCS 314—Veterinarian in Society IV
VCS 315—Veterinarian in Society V
VCS 391—Clinical Imaging
VCS 393—Principles of Surgery
VCS 394—Principles of Surgery Lab
VCS 395—Small Animal Surgery
VCS 436—Small Animal Internal Medicine
VCS/VDPAM 440—Introduction to Clinics
VCS 444—Small Animal Medicine
VCS 445—Equine Medicine
VCS 448—Diagnostic Imaging and
VCS 449—Junior Surgery Laboratory
VCS/VDPAM 450—Disturbances of
VDPAM/V PTH 426—Veterinary Toxicology
VDPAM 445—Clinical Medicine
V MPM 378—Case Study IV
V MPM 380—Veterinary Immunology
V MPM 386—Veterinary Microbiology
V MPM 387—Veterinary Virology
V MPM 388—Public Health and the role of the Veterinary Profession
V MPM 437—Infectious Diseases and
V PTH 342—Anatomic Pathology I
V PTH 372—Anatomic Pathology II
V PTH 376—Veterinary Parasitology
V PTH 377—Case Study III
V PTH 409—Introduction to Veterinary
V PTH 425—Clinical Pathology
The fourth year of the veterinary medical curriculum is designed to be flexible yet provide a broad based clinical education involving all domestic species of animals. All students participate in rotations that are considered fundamental to any species orientation that the student might choose. In addition, students can participate in rotations focused on small animals, horses, or food animals. Students may obtain clinical elective credits by repeating on-campus rotations or participating in approved off-campus preceptorships at government, private or public agencies; other universities; or private veterinary practices.
Students may choose from the following list of clinical rotations.
Beef Production Medicine
Dairy Production Medicine
Equine Field Services
Food Animal Medicine and Surgery
Food Supply Field Services
Intensive Care/Emergency Medicine
Public Health Laboratory
Small Animal Medicine
Small Ruminant Production Medicine
Soft Tissue Surgery
Swine Production Medicine
Any student who voluntarily withdraws from the College of Veterinary Medicine or who is dismissed from the College of Veterinary Medicine, after having successfully completed one or more semesters forfeits his/her standing and must make written application for reinstatement to this college a minimum of 60 days prior to the opening of the semester for which they seek to re-enter. Any student who voluntarily withdraws from the College of Veterinary Medicine prior to completion of one semester must re-apply for admission to the college in the general applicant pool. | <urn:uuid:a10d3ac6-a51f-452a-ac0a-83d32d54a0c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.public.iastate.edu/~catalog/2009-2011/professional/veterinarymedicine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900466 | 2,699 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Reporting Vince Gerasole
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CHICAGO (CBS) – The face of Facebook — the social network of 800 million people — is changing again, and this time in a very big way.
It’s also making some people nervous.
It will be easier to access posts and pictures from years ago that were once buried and forgotten. Your profile will be called a “Timeline” now. Through it, you can highlight a cover photo, add a close-up face picture, and friends can zero in on a particular year in your life.
If that’s the year of your crazy college formal, you might be concerned.
“When it gets rolled out to everybody, people are going to be crazy mad, ” consultant Cameron Croft says.
He has been testing the new Facebook for over a month, even designing a snazzy new cover picture to welcome clients.
But the social network’s new feature now automatically sorts every picture and post ever associated with Croft, by year. A forgotten and once buried reaction to his nephew’s birth is a click away.
Timeline, not Croft, chose to randomly highlight and enlarge these photos. It’s up to him to change, hide, or delete them. In the past, it would take dozens of clicks to even find the stuff.
“Now you can see every single post with just one click,” Croft says. “That’s really scary.”
Tracy Samantha Schmidt, the Tribune Company’s social media maven, also has been testing the new Facebook along with friends. The young professionals are making time to police, make private or remove their social histories
Even with the high-tech savvy Schmidt, innocent stuff can surface, such as a college friend’s joke about a beer keg.
“Facebook was a college social network. Now it’s used by 800 million people worldwide,” says Schmidt.
Coming are newer and more detailed privacy settings to let you choose just who can see your posts and pictures, depending on whether you classify someone as a friend, family member or acquaintance. But you’ll have to go through each of them to make that decision, and that will take time.
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I was curious if the mythical Peter Pan Manboy we hear so much carping about lately was visible in the data, and since those making the claim are generally elusive on the stats I’ve pulled my own. The data set I chose is the same data set I used to evaluate ever married rates, the US Census Current Population Survey including the Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement. This data set excludes the homeless, those who are institutionalized, and those who are overseas. Note that the figures reported are earnings, not income. For more technical details, see this.
Since the Peter Pan Manboy is by definition unmarried and young, lets look at unmarried men and women in their early 20s. Focusing on unmarrieds allows us to exclude housewives from the data when comparing men and women.
If we were only looking at men it might look like we had just found what we are looking for. 30% of unmarried men in this demographic earned no income in the previous year, and 67% of them earned less than $15k. However, the myth says that these are men who are slacking off while their female peers have their acts together. The women in this category look even worse: 31% of them had no earnings the previous year, and 74% of them earned under 15k!
Don’t be discouraged though, we may still find our mythical manboys. Women tend to marry earlier than men, and as a result there are fewer unmarried women in this age group than men (9,211 vs 10,014). Perhaps the issue isn’t regarding the percentages but overall numbers:
While there are slightly more men than women in the zero earnings group, this can’t be what all of the fuss is about, especially if you look at the other two categories under $15k.
Don’t give up yet. Maybe we are looking too young. Women are more likely than men to go to college, so maybe looking at early 20s is too young. Certainly girlpower and moxie must be in full swing by the time we look at unmarried men and women in their late 20s:
It isn’t there either. Perhaps again this is an issue of raw numbers vs percentages:
Again, the raw numbers aren’t impressive for the late twenties either. But perhaps we need to go yet a bit older:
This is even worse for women, as are the raw numbers:
One thing which is worth noting is that looking at unmarrieds tends to bias this search against men, because low and non earning men are the least desirable marriage prospects. Additionally, men tend to earn more money after marrying than unmarried men with the same level of education and experience do. If we looked at married men and women or simply all men and women, this would make men look better relative to women so it wouldn’t help in our search.
But perhaps this is an issue about race. The writers complaining about the Peter Pan Manboys tend to be white; could this phenomenon be something specific to white men? Nope. It isn’t there either:
In looking at this I ended up making a much larger number of charts than I have included in this post. I’ve created separate pages including these charts for White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, and All Races. Feel free to check them out and make sure I didn’t leave something important out.
While I didn’t find confirmation of the myth, I am astounded at the number of unmarried men and women who earn either nothing or extremely small amounts. Certainly part of this is due to the poor economy. However, I have to wonder if we aren’t seeing men no longer perceiving heading a family as an incentive to work harder, and therefore the real complaint is that single men have started working more like single women.
Either way, there is a serious issue with too many takers and too few makers. Perhaps most striking is the number of unmarried White men and women in their 40s who earn nothing: | <urn:uuid:14e4f0d8-c4c0-46df-81dd-30c3f99c6205> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/in-search-of-the-peter-pan-manboy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976466 | 834 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Important facts about cervical cancer
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 7:14 p.m.
In the U.S. alone this year, almost 13,000 cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed, with more than 4,000 deaths because of this tragic and preventable cancer. An effective HPV vaccination program can greatly reduce the rates of cervical cancer in this country.
In recent months, the news has featured stories about a vaccine called Gardasil that was approved several years ago by the Food and Drug Administration for prevention of disease caused by HPV (clinical name is human papilloma virus). Gardasil is recently approved for boys and girls. The FDA has recently licensed a second vaccine, Cervarix, and both are shown to effectively prevent HPV infection.
Studies have shown that both vaccines are nearly 100 percent effective in protecting females who have not already been exposed to the covered types of HPV. HPV infection is prevalent in the population and is sexually transmitted.
There are many subtypes of HPV, the most common being types 6, 11, 16 and 18. Types 6 and 11 are more commonly associated with genital warts. Types 16 and 18 are responsible for the vast majority of cervical cancers.
Vaccination before the onset of sexual activity most effectively prevents cervical cancer later in life. The Centers for Disease Control recommend that girls age 11 and 12 receive the HPV vaccination, with a catch-up vaccination recommended for girls and women ages 13-26. Girls as young as 9 years old can be safely vaccinated.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports these recommendations. Certainly, girls younger than 12 or 13 might not completely comprehend the facts and recommendations behind the vaccine, but this might also be true for a host of other recommended vaccines.
HPV vaccination is safe. Although any vaccine can pose a risk, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control have extensively studied these vaccines and have concluded that they are both safe and effective. Research by the Institute of Medicine found no links between immunization and some serious conditions that have raised concerns, including diabetes and autism.
The vaccines do not cover every strain of HPV, and patients should still have regular Pap smear screenings.
ACOG represents 56,000 OB-GYNs and partners in women’s health and places women’s health first. Facts are important, especially when debating the health of women and girls.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
3412.0.55.001 - Information Paper: Improving Net Overseas Migration Estimation, Mar 2010
Latest ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 12/03/2010 First Issue
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Estimates of both the resident population (ERP) and NOM for Australia and each of the states and territories are published quarterly in Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0). The improvements outlined in this paper will be introduced from the September 2009 issue of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0), due for release on the 25 March 2010.
Net overseas migration is one component of population change used to estimate the Australian resident population each quarter, as are births and deaths. The ABS bases ERP on the concept of usual residence in Australia. For the purposes of NOM and therefore ERP, a person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or were expected to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more. As such, the ERP includes all people, regardless of nationality, citizenship or legal status, who usually live in Australia, with the exception of foreign diplomatic personnel and their families.
The quarterly peaks and troughs experienced in Australia's population growth are clearly driven by NOM, making it the major contributor to quarterly change in the ERP. In recent years, many factors have presented challenges in accurately estimating NOM, including:
Each year, there are more than 20 million overseas arrivals and departures crossing Australia's borders, but the NOM is only about 1% of this figure. Accuracy in the measurement of NOM is crucial in determining accurate ERP for each of the states and territories each quarter. Currently, NOM accounts for well over half of Australia's population growth (64% for year ended 30 June 2009).
2. CURRENT METHODS FOR ESTIMATING NOM
Conceptually, the term NOM is based on an international traveller's duration of stay being in or out of Australia for 12 months or more. With the introduction in 2007 of the new methods for the estimation of NOM, the key changes were:
For detailed information on the methodology see Information Paper: Improved Methods for Estimating Net Overseas Migration, Australia 2006 (cat. no. 3107.0.55.003) and Information Paper: Statistical Implications of Improved Methods for Estimating Net Overseas Migration, Australia, 2007 (cat. no. 3107.0.55.005) or Chapter 6, Estimating Net Overseas Migration in Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2009 (cat. no. 3228.0.55.001).
It is with the final NOM estimates that the '12/16 month rule' can be fully applied. A traveller's actual duration of stay can only be calculated when data on overseas movements become available for the full 16 months following a reference period. Currently, the final NOM estimates based on the '12/16 month rule' are considered to be of high quality.
Processing the final estimation of NOM provides, for each traveller in the reference quarter, a 'migration adjustment' based on their initial category of travel.
The initial category of travel has a key role in making preliminary estimates of NOM. It is determined by a number of dimensions:
The initial category of travel is also determined at the time of the movement. However, all travellers are assigned to one, and only one, category of travel during a reference quarter. Further information and a list of the ten categories of travel are detailed in the Glossary.
The migration adjustment, created during final NOM processing, is the difference between the traveller's true behaviour (actual duration of stay and its effect on ERP status) as recorded in final NOM and what was deduced from their initial category of travel. In other words, an adjustment is made to correct if they should have initially been counted in or out of the population for the reference quarter. The 'migration adjustment' is not required to determine final NOM estimates, but is essential for estimating future preliminary NOM.
Preliminary estimates of NOM are required within six months after the end of the reference quarter for the production of quarterly ERP of Australia and each of the states and territories. At that time, complete traveller histories for the 16 months following a reference quarter are not available.
To estimate preliminary NOM, the ABS developed a propensity model that uses the migration adjustments derived from final NOM during an earlier period. The migration adjustments are applied to travellers who are grouped according to their initial category of travel, age, country of citizenship and state or territory of usual/intended residence. The adjustment accounts for differences between a traveller's intended duration of stay and their actual duration of stay. The method is applied to each quarter and the preliminary estimate of annual NOM is the sum of the preliminary estimates for each quarter.
Preliminary NOM estimation is therefore modelled on patterns of traveller behaviours observed in final NOM during an earlier period. From September 2006 to June 2008 the migration adjustments used to estimate preliminary NOM were calculated from final NOM from the corresponding quarter two years earlier.
3. IMPROVEMENTS TO PRELIMINARY NOM ESTIMATION
The legislative changes in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 provided the opportunity for the ABS to publish ERP, for 31 December each year, at a later date. After consultation with major stakeholders in 2009, the ABS will now provide quarterly ERP at the end of each scheduled month of release (March, June, September and December). A new schedule is provided in Table 1.3 later in this paper.
This change has also made possible the use of one additional quarter of travellers movement data allowing the methodology used for preliminary NOM estimation to be improved. Using the additional one quarter of movement data (the quarter after the reference period) has enabled two key changes to the methodology:
Changing from a 'two year ago' to a 'one year ago' propensity model
Under the 12/16 rule, it can take up to 16 months after the reference quarter to determine an individual traveller's ERP status of being counted in or out of Australia's population. Since full movement histories are not available within the required time frame, preliminary NOM estimates are modelled using the migration adjustments from final NOM for an earlier period. Previously, adjustments were made based on the corresponding quarter two years earlier. The final NOM from two years earlier was used as the method needed to allow a full 16 months of data to accumulate before the final NOM could enable production of exact migration adjustments for a corresponding quarter. With the previous release schedule for ERP (prior to 2010), only 12 months of movement data were available. This was insufficient to produce exact migration adjustments for the corresponding quarter one year earlier. To be able to produce an 'exact one year ago' model would require a full 16 months of data to accumulate to be able to calculate final NOM estimates and the migration adjustments necessary for use in the propensity model. Currently it would require an additional four months of movement data post reference period.
However, by using an additional three months (one quarter) of movement data post reference period, 15 months of movement records become available for the propensity model. Analysis showed that 15 months of movement data provide enough information to produce migration adjustments for the corresponding quarter one year earlier. The analysis revealed that using the full 16 months of movement records in an 'exact one year ago' propensity model only very marginally improved results (i.e. less than 1%) when compared to using 15 months of movement data in an 'approximate one year ago' model.
The 'approximate one year ago' propensity model uses a combination of 'one year ago' and 'two year ago' propensities. First, the 15 months of movement data available are used to resolve the ERP status of as many travellers as possible (almost all travellers) for the corresponding quarter one year earlier. Second, the model uses this group of travellers to calculate 'one year ago' propensities that are then used for the majority of travellers with similar characteristics in the current reference quarter. Each quarter there is a small number of travellers whose ERP status remains indeterminate after processing the 'one year ago' propensities. For this small group, a 'two year ago' propensity is calculated and then applied to travellers with similar characteristics in the current reference quarter.
For example, if processing September quarter 2009 (July, August and September 2009), using one additional quarter of movement data (October, November and December 2009) means the ERP status can be resolved for almost all travellers in the corresponding quarter one year earlier (September quarter 2008) using the 12/16 rule. Therefore, final NOM and migration adjustments necessary for the propensity model can be calculated for almost all of these travellers, including all travellers in the first two months in the quarter (e.g. July and August 2008). July 2008 has 16 months of movement records available at November 2009, August 2008 has 16 months of movement records available at December 2009, whereas September 2008 only has 15 months of movement records available at December 2009. However, the ERP status of many travellers in the last month (e.g. September 2008) can also be resolved with only 15 months of movement records available (e.g. as at December 2009). For example, any overseas traveller who has already recorded a duration of stay in Australia for more than 12 months is considered in Australia's population as it would no longer be possible for them to be counted out of the population. Conversely, any overseas traveller who has recorded a duration of stay away from Australia for more than four months is considered out of Australia' population as it would no longer be possible for them to be counted in the population. For those travellers whose ERP status is still unresolved, a 'two year ago' propensity (e.g. from September 2007) is calculated and then used.
With the need to provide timely preliminary NOM estimates, the ABS will now use the 'approximate one year ago' model as there is very little improvement made (i.e. less than 1%) by waiting one additional month to complete the full 16 months to produce exact migration adjustments for the corresponding quarter one year earlier.
Reducing the pool of travellers using the propensity model
Many travellers' ERP status can be determined in a much shorter time frame than the full 16 months. With the availability of this additional one quarter of movement data and applying the conditions of the 12 out of 16 month rule, many of the travellers' ERP statuses can be resolved. For example, if processing the September quarter (July, August and September) using one additional quarter of movement data (October, November and December), then for the months of July and August a minimum of four months extra movement data have become available. July has four extra months of movement data by the end of November; and August has four extra months of data available by the end of December. In essence, any overseas traveller who has reached a recorded duration of stay out of Australia of four months or more is then considered out of Australia's population as it would no longer be possible for them to be in Australia for more than 12 out of 16 months. This reduces by around half, the number of travellers for which the propensity model needs to be applied to when estimating preliminary NOM.
Results of improvements to preliminary NOM estimation
For the purposes of this paper the 'one year ago' model refers to the 'approximate one year ago' propensity model that has been applied to a reduced pool of travellers.
As would be expected, the use of a 'one year ago' model is likely to be more closely aligned with capturing current changes in traveller behaviour than the 'two year ago' model. Investigations undertaken by the ABS have shown that substantial improvements are made in the estimation of preliminary NOM by the use of a 'one year ago' model compared with a 'two year ago' model.
For 2006-07, the difference between the original preliminary NOM estimation based on the 'two years ago' model and final NOM was 55,500 persons. In contrast, the difference between the new preliminary NOM estimation based on the 'one year ago' model and final NOM was 24,900 persons, a 55% improvement on the 'two year ago' model. Although there is fluctuation from quarter to quarter, a substantial improvement was made for each quarter in 2006-07 as is seen in Table 1.1.
Comparing estimates produced by the two models at the state and territory level showed substantial improvements for the larger states when using the 'one year ago' model. For the smaller states and territories, improvements were seen annually but some fluctuations were experienced on a quarterly basis. Much of this fluctuation can be the effect of very small numbers being calculated for the smaller states and territories. For example Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory together represented less than 2% of Australia's total preliminary NOM estimate in 2006-07.
4. CHANGES TO PRELIMINARY AND REVISION TIMETABLES
Following the legislative changes made in 2009 and consultation with major stakeholders, the ABS will now publish quarterly ERP at the end of each scheduled month of release. This will include the quarterly release of preliminary estimates for the three components of population change: net overseas migration (NOM), net interstate migration (NIM), and natural increase (births minus deaths).
Release dates have been changed to allow for the use of additional traveller movement data in the calculation of improved preliminary NOM estimates.
Table 1.3 shows the scheduled release dates for ERP and the components of population change to be published quarterly in Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0).
Six-monthly revision cycle for NOM
The quarterly fluctuations experienced in Australia's population growth and thereby ERP are currently driven by NOM. To help reduce the impact of possible large revisions to population estimates from only revising NOM estimates once a year, as was the previous practice, the ABS has consulted with major stakeholders and will change the current annual revision cycle for publishing final NOM to a six-monthly revision cycle. Table 1.4 shows the expected schedule of release for NOM estimates for the September quarter 2008 to June quarter 2012.
With the implementation of the new six-monthly revision cycle for NOM it also means the annual revision for natural increase can be released six months earlier (reverting to the previous practice) to be published in the March quarter issue released in September each year of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0) (see Table 1.4).
5. IMPLEMENTATION DATE
The improved methods for estimating preliminary NOM based on the 'one year ago' propensity model will be published for the first time in ABS population estimates on 25 March 2010 in Australian Demographic Statistics, September Quarter 2009 (cat. no. 3101.0).
The improved preliminary NOM methods will be applied to estimates from September quarter 2008 onwards. For September quarter 2008 to June quarter 2009, the already published preliminary NOM estimates based on the previous methods using a 'two year ago' propensity model will be replaced with the improved preliminary NOM estimates. September quarter 2009 preliminary NOM estimates will be based on the improved methods and published for the first time.
As part of the previous scheduled annual revision cycle, the September 2009 issue of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0) to be released on the 25 March 2010 will also provide revised estimates for the 2007-08 financial year for births, deaths, natural increase, NOM and ERP.
6. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
The improvements outlined in this information paper are designed to capture some immediate gains to NOM estimation. However, additional investigations are being undertaken to make further gains and build upon the improvements identified in this paper.
The ABS continues to investigate ways to improve the quality of the input data (i.e. overseas arrivals and departures data) used in the calculation of preliminary NOM. By using additional data provided by the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship, improvements may be made to the quality of the 'initial category of travel' variable. It is on the 'initial category of travel' that the propensity model currently bases its migration adjustments to help estimate preliminary NOM. If successful, the ABS plans to implement these changes to further improve preliminary NOM estimation and publish in a future edition of Australian Demographic Statistics (cat. no. 3101.0).
With a longer time series of final NOM estimates now available, the ABS is also undertaking an examination to improve the cross-classified groupings of travellers that are used by the propensity model. Currently, groupings are made by the following variables: initial category of travel, age, country of citizenship and state or territory of usual/intended residence. The effectiveness of additional variables such as visa class will be examined and other areas of research such as the use of time series analysis may be undertaken. However, their use for improving preliminary NOM estimation will depend on the operational feasibility for the ABS to implement.
International migration is a volatile phenomenon caused by a wide range of demographic, social, economic and political determinants and consequences. With the improvements being implemented to estimate preliminary NOM, combined with the impact of the GFC and changes being observed in recent traveller behaviour, the ABS advises users to take care when making future assumptions based on the large upward revisions recently experienced between preliminary and final NOM estimates.
For further information relating to the improved methods for estimating net overseas migration, or the implementation of these methods, please contact:
Migration Analysis and Reporting
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Wonder Valley: June 2012
Page 1: In The Beginning, There Was Heat...
...and the heat poured down from the heartless blue vault of the sky, which abided everlastingly without the least fragment of cloud, and the heat filled up the whole of the land with itself, in the mountains and in the valleys, and held sway, withering and killing all who sought to defy it.
And the heat was upon the land for years uncountable, and all of the land's water was caused to become spirit, and the spirit of the water was moved to quit the land and find itself a home in other places more clement, and the land became as unto dust, and the dust was moved upon the winds, and was risen into the sky.
And that which remained upon the land ceased to give shadows, and there was no respite from the wrathful sun overhead, which burned all things twice, burning them once from above, and then cruelly burning them again from below, and escape from the sun and the heat became impossible and all which could not flee was killed.
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"Dhritarashtra said. 'O Yudhishthira, art thou in peace and happiness, with all thy brothers and the inhabitants of the city and the provinces? Are they that live in dependance on thee also happy? Are they ministers, and servitors, and all thy seniors and preceptors also, happy? Are those also that live in thy dominions free from fear? Dost thou follow the old and traditional conduct of rulers of men? Is thy treasury filled without disregarding the restraints imposed by justice and equity? Dost thou behave as thou shouldst towards foes, neutrals, and allies? Dost thou duly look after the Brahmanas, always making them the first gifts (ordained in sacrifices and religious rites)? What need I say of the citizens, and thy servants, and kinsmen,--are they foes, O chief of Bharata's race, gratified with thy behaviour? Dost thou, O king of kings, adore with devotion the Pitris and the deities? Dost thou worship guests with food and drink, O Bharata? Do the Brahmanas in thy dominions, devoted to the duties of their order, walk along the path of righteousness? Do the Kshatriyas and Vaisyas and Sudras also within thy kingdom, and all thy relatives, observe their respective duties? I hope the women, the children, and the old, among thy subjects, do not grieve (under distress) and do not beg (the necessaries of life). Are the ladies of thy household duly honoured in thy house, O best of men? I hope, O monarch, that this race of royal sages, having obtained thee for their king, have not fallen away from fame and glory.'
"Vaisampayana continued, 'Unto the old king who said so, Yudhishthira, conversant with morality and justice, and well-skilled in acts and speech, spoke as follows, putting some questions about his welfare.'
"Yudhishthira said, 'Doth thy peace, O king, thy self-restraint, thy tranquillity of heart, grow? Is this my mother able to serve thee without fatigue and trouble? Will, O king, her residence in the woods be productive of fruits? I hope this queen, who is my eldest mother, who is emaciated with (exposure to) cold and wind and the toil of walking, and who is now devoted to the practice of severe austerities, no longer gives way, to grief for her children of mighty energy, all of whom, devoted to the duties of the Kshatriya order, have been slain on the field of battle. Does she accuse us, sinful wretches, that are responsible for their slaughter? Where is Vidura, O king? We do not see him here. I hope this Sanjaya, observant of penances, is in peace and happiness.
"Vaisampayana continued, 'Thus addressed, Dhritarashtra answered king Yudhishthira, saying,--'O son. Vidura is well. He is performing austere penances, subsisting on air alone, for he abstains from all other food. He is emaciated and his arteries and nerves have become visible. Sometimes he is seen in this empty forest by Brahmanas.' While Dhritarashtra was saying this Vidura was seen at a distance. He had matted locks on his head, and gravels in his mouth, and was exceedingly emaciated. He was perfectly naked. His body was besmeared all over with filth, and with the dust of various wild flowers. When Kshattri was beheld from a distance, the fact was reported to Yudhishthira. Vidura suddenly stopped, O king, casting his eyes towards the retreat (and seeing it peopled by so many individuals). King Yudhishthira pursued him alone, as he ran and entered the deep forest, sometimes not seen by the pursuer. He said aloud, 'O Vidura, O Vidura, I am king Yudhishthira, thy favourite!'--Exclaiming thus, Yudhishthira, with great exertion, followed Vidura. That foremost of intelligent men, viz., Vidura, having reached a solitary spot in the forest, stood still, leaning against a tree. He was exceedingly emaciated. He retained only the shape of a human being (all his characteristic features having totally disappeared). Yudhishthira of great intelligence recognised him, however, (in spite of such change). Standing before him, Yudhishthira addressed him, saying, 'I am Yudhishthira!' Indeed, worshipping Vidura properly, Yudhishthira said these words in the hearing of Vidura. Meanwhile Vidura eyed the king with a steadfast gaze. Casting his gaze thus on the king, he stood motionless in Yoga. Possessed of great intelligence, he then (by his Yoga-power) entered the body of Yudhishthira, limb by limb. He united his life-breaths with the king's life-breaths, and his senses with the king's senses. Verify, with the aid of Yoga-power, Vidura, blazing with energy, thus entered the body of king Yudhishthira the just. Meanwhile, the body of Vidura continued to lean against the tree, with eyes fixed in a steadfast gaze. The king soon saw that life had fled out of it. At the same time, he felt that he himself had become stronger than before and that he had acquired many additional virtues and accomplishments. Possessed of great learning and energy, O monarch, Pandu's son, king Yudhishthira the just, then recollected his own state before his birth among men. 1 Endued with mighty energy, he had heard of Yoga practice from Vyasa. King Yudhishthira the just, possessed of great learning, became desirous of doing the last rites to the body of Vidura, and wished to cremate it duly. An invisible voice was then heard,--saying,--'O king, this body that belonged to him called Vidura should not be cremated. In him is thy body also. He is the eternal deity of Righteousness. Those regions of felicity which are known by the name of Santanika will be his, O Bharata. He was an observer of the duties of Yatis. Thou shouldst not, O scorcher of foes, grieve for him at all. Thus addressed, king Yudhishthira the just, returned from that spot, and represented everything
unto the royal son of Vichitraviryya. At this, that king of great splendour, all these men, and Bhimasena and others, became filled with wonder. Hearing what had happened, king Dhritarashtra became pleased and then, addressing the son of Dharma. said,--'Do thou accept from me these gifts of water and roots and fruits. It has been said, O king, that one's guest should take that which one takes oneself.' Thus addressed, Dharma's son answered the king, saying,--'So be it.' The mighty-armed king ate the fruits and roots which the monarch gave him. Then they all spread their beds under a tree and passed that night thus, having eaten fruits and roots and drunk the water that the old king had given them."'
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This morning Ed and I were up early picking peas, asparagus, and strawberries before the children woke up. We only got two quart of berries and since there was barely any unripe berries left in the patch, we decided to call the strawberry season over.
We picked 68 quart of berries, the best year we've ever had. It seems a shame to get rid of the patch but it is over five years old and getting weedy. We had started a new patch at another location early this spring. We will till this patch and plant a late patch of beans or corn.
When I had described our patch as "small" in an earlier post, a reader asked how big our patch was. I thought it was 25 feet long but my husband tells me my estimation was off. I got out the measuring tape and discovered it is actually 42 feet long! Maybe you wouldn't consider that so small!
Five or six years ago, we bought 25 plants for about $10.00. We planted one row of berries. After a couple years, the row had grown very wide. We tilled down the center of the row to rejuvenate the patch and form two rows. If the patch had not become weedy (or more accurate thistlely!) We could have again rejuvenated the patch by tilling up the mother plants and allowing the runners to form new rows.
Not every year was as good as this one. Two years, a critter (we guess deer) ate about half the patch in early spring. The plants survived and regrew but did not produce berries that year. Most years we picked about 40 quart. We've never had any damage from disease and have never sprayed the patch. Besides weeding and picking, they have taken very little attention. Last year, when the berries were finished, we actually planted sweet corn over the berry plants. From this spring's results, it sure doesn't seem to have hurt them and it was a great way to maximize our garden space.
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Youths with disabilities experience poorer health and have less access to community- based health promotion activities than the general population. Currently, there are no customized health promotion delivery systems in physical activity for family members who have a child with disability. The challenge is finding cost-efficient, technology-driven innovative solutions that can assist family members in overcoming such barriers as lack of knowledge on how to get their child more physically active, limited access to the built and social environment, and limited or no access to qualified health professionals who understand how to tailor appropriate physical activities for children with disabilities.
The specific aims of the proposed study are: 1) to develop a web-based intelligent individualized Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system designed to promote physical activity specifically in youths with disabilities, referred to as the Personalized Online Weight and Exercise Response System (POWERS); and 2) to conduct a feasibility and efficacy study testing the utility of POWERS in 60 children with a mobility disability.
Phase 1: Usability Testing
Two usability tests will be conducted in Phase I. The first is design- oriented and will work out the design issues before significant development efforts take place. The second is metric-oriented and will be conducted after the majority of development work is completed to formally evaluate the system’s usability through focus groups/interviews using the System Usability Scale. Twelve subjects (4 professionals, 4 parents, 4 kids) each will go through a 60-minute one-on-one session with project staff.
Phase 2: Feasibility and Efficacy
In an 18-week randomized controlled trial of sixty youths with physical disabilities, two Lakeshore Foundation staff will serve as POWERS’ telehealth coaches. After each participant receiving the intervention completes a health appraisal profile (HAP) using POWERS, coaches will meet with each child and parent via GoToMeeting to review the results of HAP and the child’s physical activity and nutrition wellness plan. Objectives and strategies will be finalized with the parent and child that are consistent with the participant’s abilities, interests and availability of community resources. Suggested community-based activities will be tailored to the specific needs and interests of each participant and include specific program and activity adaptations. Through the POWERS Activity Inclusive Mapping System (AIMS), family members will be provided linkages to community resources to help establish contact with the appropriate personnel in charge of a desired program (e.g., swim class). A live chat feature will allow the participants to obtain on-demand answers to their questions as they engage in health promoting behaviors in the preferred activity or environment. A social-media platform will be developed to allow parents and their child to share ideas, pose questions, suggest strategies, and share experiences on an ongoing basis throughout the intervention. The primary outcomes will address changes to the baseline measures used in the baseline Health Appraisal Profile (HAP). | <urn:uuid:63815c48-1a93-47e8-9ef6-302ef1655cd5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rectech.org/inner.php?sheet=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938275 | 591 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The Philippine Archipelago is known for its rich coastlines and beaches. The country is made up of more than 7,000 islands and quite a few of these islands have earned international acclaim. One of those islands is Siargao.
Known as the “Surfing Capital of the Philippines,” this teardrop shaped island is located in the Philippine Sea, around 800 kilometers southeast of the country’s capital city, Manila. The island, which has an approximate land area of 437 square kilometers, is located in the eastern side of the Surigao del Norte province. Its reputation among the local surfers has spread onto the international scene, giving the place more and more tourists each year.
With its beautiful beaches, Siargao is considered as one of the tropical jewels of the country. The island’s east coast is marked by a series of small points, reefs and sandy beaches. Its reef and points, which helps in creating clean and fast waves, are the main factors responsible for turning the island into the Philippine’s wave surfing capital.
The “Cloud 9” is one of the best known surfing waves in the island. Earning a worldwide reputation for its thick hollow tubes, this right-breaking reef wave serves as the annual location for one of the biggest surfing events in the island, the Siargao Cup. This local and international surfing competition is a yearly event sponsored by Surigao del Norte’s provincial government.
Originally, the wave was discovered by a group of travelling surfers way back in the late 1980s. A few years later, the wave received its name from an American photographer known as John S. Callahan. By depicting the island’s scenic beauty in his photos, John Callahan successfully put Siargao on the map. His major feature on the island was published in the March 1993 issue of the US based magazine Surfer.
As a result, Siargao started to draw thousands of surfers and surf enthusiasts all over the world. Aside from the big waves and exotic view, Siargao’s Cloud 9 is also famous for its relatively cheap rates. As compared to other surfing destinations, the place is full of affordable accommodations restaurants and bars. Although the island is known best for its excellent surfing conditions, the island also boasts of a line of positive geographical features.
In addition to the big waves and cheap accommodations in Cloud 9, the entire island also holds Mindanao’s largest mangrove forest reserves. The vast land of mangroves is found within the municipality of Del Carmen.
In terms of geography, Siargao boasts of a seemingly endless stretch of wetlands. This certain geographical feature indicates the island’s potential for commercial seaweed propagation.
Finally, Siargao’s Pacific-facing reefs are located just right at the edge of the famous Philippine Trench. The island’s deep offshore waters, on the other hand, secures the undiluted power of the ocean swells each time they come into contact with the island’s coral and rock reefs.
People who are planning to go to the island of Siargao for the summer should start making early hotel reservations as the small island can get crowded even at the start of the warm season.
-by Mara Tismo-
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Biographies of successful North Central graduates often point to defining moments when they discovered the intellectual excitement and sense of accomplishment that comes with contributing to a field of knowledge or to a profession. When you join the North Central College family, you join a community that fosters independent and collaborative research, giving you opportunities to experience problem solving and project development in ways rarely experienced by undergraduates — and to communicate the results of your work in local, national and international conferences and publications.
Consider these options:
- Group “action” research, where a co-curricular team like the Model United Nations gathers materials to represent Mexico, China, or Morocco in simulations across the country. Need to meet with diplomats in the country under study? Don’t hesitate. Richter Grants can assist you in participating in an Interim Faculty-Student Study Seminar to that region of the world.
- Independent research, where an independent study, honors thesis, or Richter Grant provides the structure for working one-on-one with a supervising professor to, for example, write a book on Stephen King … implement a conflict resolution process in Northern Ireland … present a study of DNA binding proteins to be published in the Journal of Molecular Biology or … write and direct your own play. Feature your work at North Central’s Rall Symposium, an annual event that provides a forum to communicate your findings and where a scholar-host of international prominence will join others in responding to your work.
- Collaborative summer research, where a student and faculty member are funded for activity arising out of the faculty member’s plan to pursue original research. This could range all the way from “synthesis of chiral phosphinoferrocenes” or “plasticity of response in metamorphoses rates of the Eastern Tiger Salamander” to the art exhibition research that might lead you to a position as a museum curator.
Reflecting the range of faculty research interests, opportunities exist within the majors, across fields, and within a global setting. Opportunities for study abroad, partnerships with other research institutions, electronic communication, and information technology resources make a reality out of the notion that, with North Central College as your “hub,” the world is indeed your classroom.
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"I am a grammar "stickler."
I have a "zero tolerance approach" to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.
Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or
Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. If job hopefuls can't
distinguish between "to" and "too," their applications go into the bin.
Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn't make grammar
unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In
blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites,
your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your
physical absence. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can't tell the difference between their, there, and they're.
Good grammar makes good business sense — and not just when it comes
to hiring writers. Writing isn't in the official job description of most
people in our office. Still, we give our grammar test to everybody,
including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers.
On the face of it, my zero tolerance approach to grammar errors might
seem a little unfair. After all, grammar has nothing to do with job
performance, or creativity, or intelligence, right?
Wrong. If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use "it's," then that's not a learning curve I'm comfortable with. So, even in this hyper-competitive market, I will pass on a great programmer who cannot write.
Grammar signifies more than just a person's ability to remember high
school English. I've found that people who make fewer mistakes on a
grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something
completely unrelated to writing — like stocking shelves or labeling
I hire people who care about those details. Applicants who don't
think writing is important are likely to think lots of other (important)
things also aren't important. And I guarantee that even if other
companies aren't issuing grammar tests, they pay attention to sloppy mistakes on résumés. After all, sloppy is as sloppy does.
That's why I grammar test people who walk in the door looking for a
job. Grammar is my litmus test. All applicants say they're
detail-oriented; I just make my employees prove it."
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Jeremiah Chapter 25 (1611 Bible)
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Why does the spelling look unusual?
The word that came to Ieremiah concerning all the people of Iudah, in the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah king of Iudah, that was the first yeere of Nebuchad-rezzar king of Babylon:
The which Ieremiah the prophet spake vnto all the people of Iudah, and to all the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying;
From the thirteenth yere of Iosiah the sonne of Amon king of Iudah, euen vnto this day (that is the three and twentith yeere) the word of the Lord hath come vnto me, and I haue spoken vnto you, rising early and speaking, but yee haue not hearkened.
And the Lord hath sent vnto you all his seruants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but yee haue not hearkened, nor inclined your eare to heare.
They sayd, Turne yee againe now euery one from his euill way, and from the euil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath giuen vnto you, and to your fathers for euer and euer.
And goe not after other Gods to serue them, and to worship them, and prouoke mee not to anger with the workes of your hands, and I will doe you no hurt.
Yet yee haue not hearkened vnto me, saith the Lord, that yee might prouoke me to anger with the workes of your hands, to your owne hurt.
¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Because yee haue not heard my words:
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, saith the Lord, and Nebuchad-rezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will vtterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetuall desolations.
Moreouer, I will take from them the voyce of myrth, and the voice of gladnes, the voice of the bridegrome, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the milstones, & the light of the candle.
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon seuentie yeeres.
¶ And it shall come to passe when seuentie yeeres are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquitie, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetuall desolations.
And I will bring vpon that land all my words which I haue pronounced against it, euen all that is written in this booke, which Ieremiah hath prophecied against all the nations.
For many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the workes of their owne hands.
¶ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel vnto me, Take the wine cup of this furie at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drinke it.
And they shall drinke, and be moued, and be mad, because of the sworde that I will send among them.
Then tooke I the cuppe at the Lords hand, and made all the nations to drinke, vnto whom the Lord had sent me:
To wit Ierusalem, and the cities of Iudah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse (as it is this day:)
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his seruants, and his princes, and all his people:
And all the mingled people, & all the kings of the land of Uz: and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod:
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon:
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the yles which are beyond the sea:
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the vtmost corners:
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert:
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes:
And all the kings of the North, farre and neere, one with another, and all the kingdomes of the world, which are vpon the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drinke after them.
Therefore thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Drinke ye and bee drunken, and spue and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I wil send among you.
And it shall bee, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drinke, then shalt thou say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yee shall certainely drinke.
For loe, I begin to bring euill on the citie, which is called by my name, and should yee be vtterly vnpunished? ye shall not be vnpunished: for I will cal for a sword vpon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
Therefore prophecie thou against them all these wordes, and say vnto them, The Lord shall roare from an high, and vtter his voice from his holy habitation, he shall mightily roare vpon his habitation, hee shall giue a shout, as they that treade the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
A noise shall come euen to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controuersie with the nations: hee will pleade with all flesh, he will giue them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, euill shall goe forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlewinde shall be raised vp from the coasts of the earth.
And the slaine of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth euen vnto the other ende of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried, they shall be doung vpon the ground.
¶ Howle yee shepheards and cry, and wallow your selues in the ashes ye principall of the flocke: for the dayes of your slaughter, and of your dispersions are accomplished, and yee shall fall like a pleasant vessell.
And the shepheards shall haue no way to flee, nor the principall of the flocke to escape.
A voyce of the cry of the shepheards, and an howling of the principall of the flocke shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
And the peaceable habitations are cut downe because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
He hath forsaken his couert, as the Lyon: for their land is desolate, because of the fiercenesse of the oppressour, and because of his fierce anger.
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Abba,Father,I beg of you,..I cry out to you for mercy on this day of your judgement..,PLEASE be merciful to my loved ones and help to make the scales fall from their eyes so, that they too can CRY OUT ! for mercy...AMEN
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Loving Those Who Drive Us Crazy
by Jill Briscoe
Paul writes, “Love is patient and kind” (1 Cor. 13:4). Most of us find that we can love those who are easy to love, but what about those who are hard to love or those who drive us up the wall?
We have been told to love, for love is not an option. We have been given by the Spirit the ability to love with agape love. Patience is another name for love, for Paul explained that “love is patient.” Therefore, as we work through our difficult relationships, we will need to be patient.
The meaning of the word patience (in Greek, macrothumea) is “longsuffering” or “slow to anger.” Love suffers because it is the nature of love to suffer. Remember what C.S. Lewis said: “Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken!” But there is no alternative. We are not only called to love, we are also commanded to love.
Such love means loving not only when your heart is whole, but loving when your heart is broken. It means loving when the person you are trying to love is continuously hurting you afresh. Long-suffering means that love suffers well. Being inordinately fond of myself, I don’t “do” pain very well. In fact, I don’t do pain at all if I can help it! Do you? Who’s for pain? The whole ethos of our society, as C.S. Lewis said, is to “embrace pleasure and eschew pain.” It takes a radical act of God in our lives to so change our hearts that we are willing to embrace pain and eschew pleasure – to suffer for the sake of love! Yet, if that’s what it takes to love someone, it must be done.
God is very good at loving people who hurt Him and are very hard to love. When Jesus was frustrated with the disciples one time, He said to them, “How long must I suffer you?” (Matt. 17:17). He then went on “suffering” them for a considerable time because He knew that this was God’s will for Him and He willed to do God’s will. Long-suffering means being patient with an insufferable situation or person – even when you are hurting badly yourself – because it is the will of God. It hurts terribly to love at times like that, but that is what agape love does.
How long does your patience last? Does it last 120 years, 120 minutes, or 120 seconds? To have the patience God wants us to have, we need Jesus. Patience loves on to give time for God’s redemptive power to do its work. Love gives us the power to suffer long when we desperately want things to change.
Kindness Is Patience In Action
Paul says that not only is love patient, it is also kind. Kindness is the active part of patience. Patience is being good, while kindness is doing good. Kindness is goodness showing. Love is kind to those who would do it harm. Jesus said that we are to love even our enemies. To do that, we definitely need Him!
Being Kind To Those Who Hurt Us
I think of an incredible example of such kindness in the life experience of Tania Rich, a young mother serving the Lord with her husband in the jungle. Read her story:
January 31, 1993, was “just a regular day in the village.”…Suddenly, Tania heard loud noises, gunshots, and shouting. Guerillas had surrounded the village and had entered each of the three missionaries’ homes. A gunman came into the bedroom where Tania was with her sleeping children. She came out with him, and saw that Mark (her husband) was with two other guerillas who had him face down, his hands tied behind his back. Mark shouted in Spanish for the gunman to leave Tania alone and not harm her. The gunman approached Tania and demanded money, and she complied. Then he asked for coffee and sugar. In recalling the incident, Tania laughed, “When the gunman fumbled with the money and the packages of food, I found myself asking, ‘Would you like a bag for that?’ He just stared at me incredulously!”
Now there you have it! A practical act of love! Love does good to those who would do it harm. Tania found that what was inside of her – the love of Jesus – came out in a terrible time of crisis. She offered something to her husband’s persecutors. (There were three missionary families living in the village, and the guerillas took the three men. Sadly, the men were never found but were declared dead in 2001.) Tania loved the people she and Mark had gone to help find the Lord. When the big test came, she reacted out of that love in an astonishing act of kindness. Love does good to those who do it harm.
Think of Jesus. He healed His enemies (the servant of the high priest whose ear Peter severed in the Garden of Gethsemane) and prayed for the soldiers who were crucifying Him: “Father, forgive these people, because they don’t know what they are doing” (Lk. 23:34).
Being Kind To Those Who Don’t Deserve It
Let’s bring this closer to home. Not too many of us are asked for such displays of endurance and courage. But many of us have teenagers. Those of us who have teenagers or have raised them know what a difficult stage this is.
Our daughter and I got into difficulties when she would not pick up her room. Try as I might to bully, threaten, or cajole, she would not clean it. The issue became a flash point. One day I was asking advice from a wise woman at church. “Just try being kind to her,” she suggested.
“She doesn’t deserve it!” I replied.
She smiled understandingly. “That’s what kindness is for. Anyway, you have tried everything else, why not pick up her room for her and see if that will work?”
I had nothing to lose, so I did. Four days later there was no response, and I was just about to give up. Then my daughter burst into tears and said she was sorry. “What made you say you’re sorry?” I asked. “You’ve been so kind to me, Mom,” she replied.
It might not work for you, but in the face of such resistance to persuasion, being patiently kind when someone doesn’t deserve it may actually get you somewhere. After all, “God’s kindness led you toward repentance” (Rom. 2:4). So the kindness of God through you may lead others to repentance, too!
The Gift Of Frustration
It is important to recognize that any frustrating situation that requires patience is God’s gift to you. A gift that, if received with the right attitude, will present the opportunity to spend some time in God’s waiting room practicing patience. Frustration is often God’s way of driving us to Him.
You win half the battle already when you recognize the problem is a gift. It is a gift because these types of situations enable you to experience the love of God in a special way. People are receptive when they are struggling with frustration. If they are expecting others to act with frustration, they cave in if you exhibit kindness. If you can go beyond sounding kind to being kind and doing an outrageous act of kindness, this speaks louder than a thousand words. It can open people up to hear about the Lord. Think of Mother Teresa and how her practical acts of love on the streets of Calcutta spoke about the love of Christ to the dying and destitute.
Kindness is the active part of patience. Patience is being good and kindness is doing good. The helpful thing about doing good is that you don’t have to wait till you feel like doing good to do it. Try doing it when you don’t feel like it.
Is your love patient and kind? Remember, the Holy Spirit dwells in your hearts to be all the things you are not. Draw on this resource. Love that works, works at love. There is no other way.
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A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus. Hysterectomies are performed for a wide variety of reasons. A hysterectomy is major surgery, but with new technological advances, the discomfort, risk of infection and recovery time has all been decreased.
There are currently three surgical approaches to hysterectomies. These include:
- Open, traditional hysterectomy. This involves a six to twelve inch incision made in the abdominal wall.
- Vaginal Hysterectomy. This involves removing the uterus through the vagina. This approach is better than the open, traditional hysterectomy, but still does not allow the surgeon a full view of the surrounding organs, including the bladder.
- Robotic-Assisted Radical Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy. Using a state-of-the art robotic platform allows the surgeon a full view of the surrounding organs and more precise control over incisions.
• Laparscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy. This is when a portion of the operation (intra-abdominal) is completed with the laparaoscope and the remainder of the operation (vaginal incision, excision of cervical tissues) is completed transvaginally.
• Total Laparscopic Hysterectomy. When the entire operation is performed using the laparoscope and the surgical specimen is removed via the vagina.
Benefits of a Robotic-Assisted Radical Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
da Vinci Hysterectomy offers numerous potential benefits over traditional approaches to vaginal, laparoscopic or open abdominal hysterectomy, particularly when performing more challenging procedures like radical hysterectomy for gynecologic cancer.
Potential benefits include:
- Significantly less pain
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- Fewer complications
- Less scarring
- A shorter hospital stay
- A faster return to normal daily activities
- Decreased risk of infection
Fewer complications, Preserved Functionality for Organs
Robotic-Assisted Hysterectomy also allows your surgeon better visualization of your anatomy, which is especially critical when working around delicate and confined structures like the bladder. This means that surgeons have a distinct advantage when performing a complex, radical hysterectomy involving adhesions from prior pelvic surgery or non-localized cancer, or an abdominal hysterectomy.
Treatment of Uterine Cancer (Endometrial Cancer)
Robotic-Assisted surgery provides the surgeon with a superior surgical tool for dissection and removal of lymph nodes during cancer operations, as compared to traditional open or minimally invasive approaches. At the Johns Hopkins Hospital, our surgeons also perform a pelvic lymphadenectomy with staging during a hysterectomy for suspected or confirmed gynecological cancers. By performing this at the same time as the hysterectomy, our physicians receive real time critical information that may affect the surgery and treatment.
What you should expect from this surgery
Robotic-Assisted Radical Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy usually takes 1-3 hours under general anesthesia. You will be hospitalized for at least one night so your physicians can monitor your healing progress. Most patients return to normal daily activities within one week. Your physician will give you detailed instructions so your recovery is unremarkable.
Choosing Robotic-Assisted Radical Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
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The Dhamma, the truth taught by the Buddha, is uncovered gradually through sustained practice. The Buddha made clear many times that Awakening does not occur like a bolt out of the blue to the untrained and unprepared mind. Rather, it culminates a long journey of many stages:
Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, a gradual inclination, with a sudden drop-off only after a long stretch, in the same way this Doctrine and Discipline (dhamma-vinaya) has a gradual training, a gradual performance, a gradual progression, with a penetration to gnosis only after a long stretch.
— Ud 5.5
Monks, I do not say that the attainment of gnosis is all at once. Rather, the attainment of gnosis is after gradual training, gradual action, gradual practice. And how is there the attainment of gnosis after gradual training, gradual action, gradual practice? There is the case where, when conviction has arisen, one visits [a teacher]. Having visited, one grows close. Having grown close, one lends ear. Having lent ear, one hears the Dhamma. Having heard the Dhamma, one remembers it. Remembering, one penetrates the meaning of the teachings. Penetrating the meaning, one comes to an agreement through pondering the teachings. There being an agreement through pondering the teachings, desire arises. When desire has arisen, one is willing. When one is willing, one contemplates. Having contemplated, one makes an exertion. Having made an exertion, one realizes with the body the ultimate truth and, having penetrated it with discernment, sees it.
— MN 70
The Buddha's teachings are infused with this notion of gradual development. His method of "gradual instruction" (anupubbi-katha), which appears in various forms in countless suttas, always follows the same arc: he guides newcomers from first principles through progressively more advanced teachings, all the way to the fulfillment of the Four Noble Truths and the full realization of nibbana:
Then the Blessed One, having encompassed the awareness of the entire assembly with his awareness, asked himself, "Now who here is capable of understanding the Dhamma?" He saw Suppabuddha the leper sitting in the assembly, and on seeing him the thought occurred to him, "This person here is capable of understanding the Dhamma." So, aiming at Suppabuddha the leper, he gave a step-by-step talk, i.e., a talk on giving, a talk on virtue, a talk on heaven; he declared the drawbacks, degradation, & corruption of sensual passions, and the rewards of renunciation. Then when he saw that Suppabuddha the leper's mind was ready, malleable, free from hindrances, elated, & bright, he then gave the Dhamma-talk peculiar to Awakened Ones, i.e., stress, origination, cessation, & path. And just as a clean cloth, free of stains, would properly absorb a dye, in the same way, as Suppabuddha the leper was sitting in that very seat, the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye arose within him, "Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation."
— Ud 5.3
At each stage of this "gradual training" (anupubbi-sikkha), the practitioner discovers a new and important dimension of the law of cause-and-effect — kamma, the cornerstone of Right View. It is thus a very useful organizing framework with which to view the entirety of the Buddha's teachings.
The gradual training begins with the practice of generosity, which helps begin the long process of weakening the unawakened practitioner's habitual tendencies to cling — to views, to sensuality, and to unskillful modes of thought and behavior. This is followed by the development of virtue, the basic level of sense-restraint that helps the practitioner develop a healthy and trustworthy sense of self. The peace of mind born from this level of self-respect provides the foundation for all further progress along the path. The practitioner now understands that some kinds of happiness are deeper and more dependable than anything that sense-gratification can ever provide; the happiness born of generosity and virtue can even lead to rebirth in heaven — either literal or metaphorical. But eventually the practitioner begins to recognize the intrinsic drawbacks of even this kind of happiness: as good as rebirth in wholesome states may be, the happiness it brings is not a true and lasting one, for it relies on conditions over which he or she ultimately has no control. This marks a crucial turning point in the training, when the practitioner begins to grasp that true happiness will never be found in the realm of the physical and sensual world. The only possible route to an unconditioned happiness lies in renunciation, in turning away from the sensual realm, by trading the familiar, lower forms of happiness for something far more rewarding and noble. Now, at last, the practitioner is ripe to receive the teachings on the Four Noble Truths, which spell out the course of mental training required to realize the highest happiness: nibbana.
Many Westerners first encounter the Buddha's teachings on meditation retreats, which typically begin with instructions in how to develop the skillful qualities of right mindfulness and right concentration. It is worth noting that, as important as these qualities are, the Buddha placed them towards the very end of his gradual course of training. The meaning is clear: to reap the most benefit from meditation practice, to bring to full maturity all the qualities needed for Awakening, the fundamental groundwork must not be overlooked. There is no short-cutting this process.
Here is the Buddha's six-stage gradual training in more detail:
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Measures: 190 × 200 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas
Depository: National Gallery Prague
The Virgins contains multiple flowers, which add to the theme: evolution into womanhood. While sketching for the painting, Klimt wanted his models to make larger than life physical poses. There are five women in the painting (or one woman with four sides to her persona) and all of them seem to be intertwined. The lines are clear and the human themes of love, sexuality and regeneration are obvious in the circular cyclical shape of the work. In painting The Virgins the different life stages are represented by the same woman. Dislocated body parts in outrageous poses move as if under water. The empty shell of a woman's dress at the bottom gives birth to a child (the next generation) via a cascading waterfall of colour. | <urn:uuid:8ed98d0e-ea1e-4193-b21a-f4dda0fd95f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.klimt.com/en/biography/1911---1918/details-klimt-die-jungfrau-1913.dhtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942627 | 173 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Same-sex marriage debate expands around stateST. PAUL — Advocates on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate said they are making progress and will continue to reach out to Minnesotan voters before they cast ballots on the issue this fall.
By: Danielle Nordine, Worthington Daily Globe
ST. PAUL — Advocates on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate said they are making progress and will continue to reach out to Minnesotan voters before they cast ballots on the issue this fall.
A proposed constitutional amendment voters will decide Nov. 6 would define marriage as between a man and a woman, outlawing same-sex marriage. It already is illegal in Minnesota, but putting the provision in the Constitution would make that more difficult to change.
As the election approaches, both sides are ramping up efforts and focusing on communities.
Gov. Mark Dayton told hundreds who oppose the amendment gathered at state Capitol Thursday he thinks the proponents’ campaign will be “destructive,” but said he hoped Minnesotans could come together to be the first state faced with the amendment to defeat it.
“I think Minnesota is better than that,” he said.
Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, encouraged those at the rally to spread their message through conversations and discussions within their communities.
Dibble, who is gay, said those in favor of the amendment are “not interested in civil discussion,” but such efforts would be more likely to sway voters.
Amendment supporters have been taking a similar approach.
Chuck Darrell, spokesman for Minnesota for Marriage, said outreach efforts have been going well so far and the group has been “especially pleased with the enthusiastic response.”
Minnesotans across the spectrum of race, age and religion have joined the group’s efforts, he said.
“In fact, we’re particularly proud of the diverse support we’re receiving,” he said. “A number of Minnesotans are standing up to say marriage needs to be preserved in our Constitution where activist judges and politicians can’t meddle with it.”
The group has been conducting pledge drives, running a call center and traveling around the state to speak in different communities. It also has been producing short videos answering key questions on why supporters back the amendment.
Efforts will only increase as the election approaches, both sides promised.
Sue Anderson of Duluth said she attended Thursday’s rally to “stand in solidarity with young people.”
She said as she gets older, she has noticed the difficulties couples who are not married face and wants to change that. She said those hurdles include owning real estate together, visiting rights in hospitals and handling inheritances.
“It could cost us thousands to deal with those issues and it still wouldn’t guarantee anything,” Anderson said.
Anderson and her partner will celebrate 28 years together on Sunday.
Members of the group Duluth United for All Families have been running phone banks and talking with community members, especially in faith communities, Anderson said. As the election approaches those efforts will increase, she said.
Bruce Ause of the Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays group in Red Wing said he and his wife Kathy joined the group when his daughter came out and have since been “fighting for fairness and equality for all families.”
Speaking before the crowd on the Capitol lawn, he said members of the Red Wing community have been pitching in to fight the amendment, and PFLAG has been recruiting volunteers and holding informational events.
Ause thanked Republican Reps. Tim Kelly of Red Wing and John Kriesel of Cottage Grove for deviating from their party and voting against the amendment when it was before the Legislature last year.
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Selected Works for Orchestra by Uuno Klami
by Kimmo Korhonen :: 2000
Uuno Klami (September 20, 1900 - May 29, 1961) was the youngest of the leading Finnish modernists of the 1920s, and whereas Ernest Pingoud, Väinö Raitio and Aarre Merikanto reverted to a more traditional style in the 1930s, Klami was just reaching the height of his powers.
First and foremost an orchestral composer, Klami was influenced by Maurice Ravel and the Igor Stravinsky of the Russian period, and at more general level by Neoclassicism. He would, at times, also play with elements borrowed from, say, Spanish music or jazz.
Karjalainen rapsodia (Karelian Rhapsody) (1927)
The Karelian Rhapsody was Klami’s breakthrough work, and in it he handles a national Finnish theme in a way that draws on the modernism of Stravinsky. The beginning, shrouded in primeval mist, is evocative of the opening of Stravinsky’s Firebird and looks ahead to the start of Klami’s main orchestral work, the Kalevala Suite. Another striking feature of the Karelian Rhapsody is the boisterous folk dance rhythms, which are handled in the manner of Stravinsky’s Petrushka. The Rhapsody is also seasoned with earthy humour.
Symphonie enfantine (1928)
1. Poco agitato
2. Berceuse (Andante)
3. Molto vivo
Of all the Finnish modernists making their debut in the 1920s, Klami was influenced most by Neoclassicism, often filtered through the music of Ravel. The very subject of the Symphonie enfantine is evocative of Ravel, and especially the delicate Berceuse. This symphony is regarded as Klami’s first Neoclassical work, but the Neoclassicism is most evident in the dancing finale. The idiom of the other movements is more Romantic, though tinged with delicate Impressionistic nuances.
Klami spent his first year studying abroad in Paris (1924-1925), the second in Vienna (1928-1929). In terms of subject the Opernredoute (Opera Ball) for orchestra looks more to Vienna, but the musical influences come from Paris, and above all Ravel. Opernredoute is dance-like music, its closest model being Ravel’s La Valse.
Hommage à Haendel (1931)
2. Andante (Tempo di Gavotte)
3. Recitativo (Largo)
Hommage à Haendel is in Klami’s Neoclassical mode, and specifically that inspired by the Baroque; the very title of the work points to this. Baroque elements are, for example, to be found in the violin solo following the climax of the first movement, the parodic elements of the second, a gavotte, and the weighty sounds of the Largo. On the other hand, the slow movements also have a Romantic lushness to them. The regular beat characteristic of Neoclassicism dominates the brief finale. The work is scored for piano and strings without a double bass.
Merikuvia (Sea Pictures) (1930-1932)
1. Sumuinen aamu
2. Capitain Scrapuchinat
3. Hyljätty kolmimastoinen
4. Nocturno (Vahtimiehen laulu)
5. Scène de ballet
6. 3 Bf
The sea was a particularly close element of Klami’s life from the time he was a child. The orchestral suite Sea Pictures is the greatest manifestation by him of this tie and one of his most popular works. It is restrained and balanced, a harmonious entity ranging in mood from a foggy morning or a delicate Impressionistic sketch of a deserted three-master to the Spanish stylisation of Capitain Scrapuchinat and the friable romanticism of the Nocturno. The closing movement is an obvious reference to Ravel’s Bolero.
Kalevala-sarja (Kalevala Suite) (1933/1943)
1. Maan synty
2. Kevään oras
4. Kehtolaulu Lemminkäiselle
5. Sammon taonta
The Kalevala Suite is Klami’s main work for orchestra. He completed the first, four-movement version in 1933 but in 1943 placed an additional scherzo movement, Terhenniemi, in the middle. The Kalevala Suite is a combination of a national topic with an orchestral technique borrowed mainly from Stravinsky. The opening movement, The Creation of the Earth, growing from a mysterious whisper to a tremendous climax, and the closing movement telling of the Forging of the Sampo are evocative of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in their primitive ecstasy. Terhenniemi is a masterly, airy scherzo. The slow movements, Sprout of Spring and Cradle Song for Lemminkäinen, are more restful in mood and therefore possibly more traditional in style.
Lemminkäisen seikkailut saaressa (The Adventures of Lemminkäinen on the Island of Saari) (1934)
This work was originally intended as the middle movement of the Kalevala Suite, but it turned out to be too big and Klami therefore made it a work on its own. Rich in orchestral and rhythmic colour, it creates a lively picture of the Don Juan-like character from the Finnish national epic. The vivid patterns and fanfare motifs are at times evocative of the closing movement of Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite.
Nummisuutarit-alkusoitto (The Cobblers on the Heath, overture) (1936)
Humour was an integral element of Klami’s range of expression. One of the most piquant examples of this is his overture The Cobblers on the Heath, inspired by the best-known play by the great classic of 19th century Finnish literature, Aleksis Kivi. The music proceeds with a light, airy swing from the very first bars, and some have seen in it traces of both Richard Strauss and Rossini. The middle section in quieter, somewhat sombre mood adds contrast to the work.
Symphony no. 1 (1938)
1. Allegro non troppo
3. Andante molto
4. Allegro maestoso
Klami is felt to have been most at home in free-form orchestral music drawing on fantasy, but he also composed two symphonies. In the first he abandoned the richness of colour of his earlier works of the 1930s in favour of a more direct mode of expression more traditional in style, a kind of softer Neoclassicism. The overall impression of the work is one of light and optimism.
Suomenlinna-alkusoitto (Suomenlinna, overture) (1940)
The name of this overture, written during the Second World War, refers to the sea fortress built in the 18th century, while Finland was still part of Sweden, on a group of islands at the mouth of Helsinki harbour. Although the overture is not programmatic as such, it can easily be thought of as an expression of patriotism. This is further supported by the mood, which captures the tragic emotions aroused by the war. This overture reveals Klami in more traditional vein.
Sérénades espagnoles (1924/1944)
Klami was equally capable of absorbing the brilliant orchestral timbres of Ravel or Stravinsky, archaic primitivism, or the essence of Spain. Sérénades espagnoles is a set of four movements based on piano pieces partly composed while he was a student and orchestrated in 1944. The serenades are something of a kindred spirit to the works of Falla or the Rhapsodie espagnole by Ravel.
Kuningas Lear -alkusoitto (King Lear, overture) (1944?)
Klami was first introduced to King Lear in 1937 while composing some incidental music for this Shakespeare play. The overture was, however, written later and has nothing to do with the stage music. Although Neoclassicism was Klami’s main genre, the King Lear overture is somewhat in the nature of austere late Romanticism, the mood being sombre, gloomy and dramatic.
Symphony no. 2 (1945)
1. Moderato molto
2. Allegro con vivo
3. (En forme d'introduction) Misterioso e lugubre, tempo quasi adagio
4. Allegro assai
Klami had, in his first symphony (1938), already reverted to a more traditional mode of expression and the trend was even more marked in the second symphony composed while the devastating moods of the war years were still fresh in his mind. The Neoclassical strain common in his music has in this symphony been more or less replaced by a style akin to that of Sibelius, Madetoja and even Tchaikovsky. The war is reflected in a reference in the finale to a well-known Finnish military march.
Karjalainen tori (The Karelian Market Place) (1947)
Although The Karelian Market Place depicts a topic with a nationalist flavour, the piece does not (unlike the Karelian Rhapsody of 1927) contain any themes suggestive of folk music. The Karelian Market Place is dominated by a Neoclassic beat cleverly drawn with a light touch and constant movement. The attention is caught by the showy statements on the brass, for example. The work is not all light-hearted, however, and even the closing climax is defiant rather than cheerful.
Aurora borealis (1948?)
Aurora borealis is Klami’s biggest one-movement orchestral work and one of the finest he ever wrote. Although it is for the most part again in the Neoclassical style favoured by him, it has a sharper, more lucid sound than many of his earlier works and in this respect looks ahead to his unfinished ballet Whirls. Aurora borealis operates on the mysterious borders of silence, against which is cast a shimmering scherzo. Despite the photogenic subject, the orchestration is not picturesque, though it is indeed full of spirit and tone colour.
All’ouvertura was commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) for its 25th anniversary and, possibly because of this, shows Klami in his more traditional light. The slow introduction features broad melodic spans interspersed with counterstatements by the winds. The quick main section is light and playful and evocative of Prokofiev. The introduction melody returns at the end, rounding the work off with an imposing outburst on the brass.
Pyörteitä (Whirls) (1957-1960?)
In the late 1950s Klami planned to write a three-act ballet, Whirls, on themes from the national epic, the Kalevala. According to one interview, he did in fact complete it, but only the first two acts have ever been found, and only one of these is the version orchestrated by him. The first act survived only as a piano score; this was orchestrated by Kalevi Aho in 1988. Even as a torso Whirls is one of Klami’s greatest works. To some extent it harks back to the pre-war works, but the idiom is more lucid, sharp-featured and dissonant. The first act, orchestrated by Aho, is compelling and striking, the second more restrained, its orchestration more airy.
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Holy Saints Anargyroi (who received no pay) and Miracle Workers: visit our sicknesses.
Freely you have received, freely give unto us.
These Saints were from Asia (that is, Asia Minor). After the death of
their father, their Christ-loving mother Theodota reared them in piety
and in all manner of virtue, and had them instructed in every science,
especially that of medicine. This became their vocation, and they went
about healing every illness and malady, bestowing healing freely on both
men and beasts alike; because of this, they are called "Unmercenaries."
And thus, having completed the course of their life, they reposed in
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Sainted Unmercenaries and Wonder Workers, regard our infirmities; freely
you have received, freely share with us.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
O glorious, wonderworking physicians, having received the grace of
healing, you reach out and restore health to those in need. But also, by
your visitation you cast down the arrogance of the enemy, healing the
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.:: The Passive-On Project
Passive-On is a completed research and dissemination
project which was funded within the Intelligent Energy for
Europe SAVE programme. The project worked to promote
Passive Houses and the Passivhaus Standard in warm climates.
The last ten years has seen increasing interest
in North and Central Europe in the Passivhaus construction
standard, particularly in Germany. Homes built to the Passivhaus standard are buildings which provide a comfortable
indoor climate in winter without the need for a
conventional heating system.
To permit this, it is essential that the building's
space heat load does not exceed 10 W/m² living
area in order to be able to use a simple air preheater.
Simulations and measurements have shown that for the
typical German climate such a design leads to
an annual demand for space heating of 15 kWh/(m²a).
Passive Houses therefore require roughly 85%
less energy for heating than a house built to
existing German building regulations. The total
primary energy demand, including household electricity,
is limited to 120 kWh/(m²a).
Objectives of Passive-On
The Passive-On project examined how to take the Passive House concept
forward, especially in Southern Europe. In these
regions the problem of household energy use is
one not only one of providing warm houses in winter
but also, and in some cases more importantly,
of providing cool houses in summer. The Passive-On
project has lead to three major outcomes:
- For architects and building designers (particularly
small studios) the project has developed Design
Guidelines and enhanced the PHPP Software
Design Tool for developing cost effective
all season Passive Houses in both heating load
and cooling load climates.
- For Policy makers the project has provided
a set of Policy Proposals,
examining the barriers and the solutions which EU, national
and local governments can adopt to promote the more wide
scale development of Passive Houses.
- More generally, Passive-On has sought
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December 10, 2012
Children & Irish Constitution
In the Irish government’s quest for voters to insert stronger rights for children into the constitution, “a measure designed to make it easier for state agencies to protect children from abuse and for neglected kids to be adopted,” the snag hit by the Irish Supreme Court claiming the government’s information booklet urging a “yes” vote mailed to the millions of Irish households was “not fully accurate and violated referendum laws” was unanticipated. The government has since apologized, but still urged voters to vote yes.
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